The Major Prophets

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The books referred to as the Major Prophets are:  Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, five books with four authors.  Jeremiah wrote both Jeremiah and Lamentations.

The basic theme of the major prophets is warnings from God to his people who have a strong tendency to go astray from His ways.  Bad things are predicted for those who fail to take heed.  Lamentations is a very said story about the results of transgression against God.

Ezekiel also sees into the future some.

___Isaiah chapter 1

1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, that he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord has spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

3 The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib, but Israel doesn't know, my people don't consider.

4 Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with sin, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters, they've forsaken the Lord, they've provoked the Holy one of Israel to anger, they've gone away backward.

5 Why should you be stricken any more?  You'll revolt more and more, the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is faint.

6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it, but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores, they haven't been closed, nor bound up, nor mollified with ointment.

7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire, strangers devour your land in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

8 And the daughter of Zion is left like a cottage in a vineyard, like a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, like a besieged city.

9 Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a very small remnant, we would have been like Sodom, and we would have been like Gomorrah.

10 Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.

11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me?,  says the Lord, I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts, and I don't delight in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

12 When you come to appear before me, who has required this from your hands, to tread my courts?

13 Don't bring anymore vain offerings, incense is a dirty thing to me, the new moons and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I can't away with, it is sin, even the solemn meeting.

14 My soul hates your new moons and your appointed feasts, they are a trouble to me, I'm tired of carrying them.

15 And when you spread out your hands, I'll hide my eyes from you, yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear, your hands are full of blood.

16 Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean, put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes, stop doing evil,

17 Learn to do well, seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

18 Come now, and let's reason together, says the Lord, though your sins are like red cloth, they'll be as white as snow, though they're red like crimson, they'll be like wool.

19 If you're willing and obedient, you'll eat the good of the land,

20 But if you refuse and rebel, you'll be devoured by the sword, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.

21 How has the faithful city become a prostitute!  It was full of justice, righteousness lived in it, but now murderers.

22 Your silver has become dross, your wine is diluted with water,

23 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves, everyone loves bribes, and seeks rewards, they don't judge the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.

24 Therefore, says the Lord, the Lord of hosts, the mighty one of Israel, ah, I will ease myself of my adversaries, and avenge myself of my enemies,

25 And I will turn my hand against you, and purely purge away your dross, and take away all your tin,

26 And I'll restore your judges like at the first, and your counselors like at the beginning, afterward you'll be called, the city of righteousness, the faithful city.

27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.

28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed.

29 For they'll be ashamed of the oaks that you've desired, and you'll be confused for the gardens that you've chosen.

30 For you'll be like an oak whose leaf fades, and like a garden that has no water.

31 And the strong shall be like tow, and the maker of it like a spark, and they'll both burn together, and no one shall quench them.

___Isaiah chapter 2

1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

2 And in the last days, the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow to it.

3 And many people shall go and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths," for out of Zion the law shall go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall reprimand many people, and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks, nation shall not lift up sword against nation, nor shall they learn war anymore.

5 O house of Jacob, come, and let's walk in the light of the Lord.

6 Therefore you've forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, because they're replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.

7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, nor is there any end of their treasures, their land is also full of horses, nor is there any end of their chariots,

8 Their land also is full of idols, they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made,

9 And the mean man bows down, and the great man humbles himself, therefore don't forgive them.

10 Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty.

11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted on that day.

12 For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be on everyone that is proud and lofty, and on everyone that is lifted up, and he shall be brought low,

13 And on all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up, and on all the oaks of Bashan,

14 And on all the high mountains, and on all the hills that are lifted up,

15 And on every high tower, and on every fenced wall,

16 And on all the ships of Tarshish, and on all pleasant pictures.

17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low, and the Lord alone shall be exalted on that day.

18 And he shall completely abolish the idols.

19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he arises to terribly shake the earth.

20 On that day, a man shall throw his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, that they each made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats,

21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he arises to terribly shake the earth.

22 Stop from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for how shall he be accounted of?

___Isaiah chapter 3

1 For see, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,

2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,

3 The captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counselor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.

4 And I'll give children to be their princes, and babies shall rule over them.

5 And the people shall be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor, the child shall behave himself proudly against the senior citizen, and the lowly against the honorable.

6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, "You have clothing, you be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand,"

7 In that day he'll swear, saying, "I won't be a healer, for in my house is neither bread nor clothing, don't make me a ruler of the people."

8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah has fallen, because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

9 The show of their facial expression witnesses against them, and they declare their sin like Sodom, they don't hide it.  Woe to their soul!  For they've rewarded evil to themselves.

10 Say to the righteous that it shall be well with them, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

11 Woe to the wicked!  It shall be ill with him, for the reward of his hands shall be given to him.

12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them.  O my people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.

13 The Lord stands up to plead, and stands to judge the people.

14 The Lord will enter into judgment with the senior citizens of his people, and the princes of them, for you have eaten up the vineyard, the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

15 What do you mean that you beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor?  Says the Lord God of hosts.

16 Also the Lord says, because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched out necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet,

17 Therefore the Lord will strike the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion with a scab, and the Lord will uncover their secret parts.

18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments around their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,

19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,

20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,

21 The rings, and nose jewels,

22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,

23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the veils.

24 And instead of sweet smell there'll be stink, and instead of a girdle a torn place, and instead of well set hair baldness, and instead of a stomacher, clothes of sackcloth, and burning instead of beauty.

25 Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war.

26 And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she, being desolate, shall sit on the ground.

___Isaiah chapter 4

1 And on that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, "We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel, only let us be called by your name, to take away our reproach."

2 In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and attractive for those of Israel who've escaped.

3 And he that is left in Zion, and he that remains in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, everyone that is written among the living in Jerusalem,

4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from among it by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

5 And the Lord will create on every dwelling place of Mount Zion, and on her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for on all the glory shall be a defense.

6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covering from storm and from rain.

___Isaiah chapter 5

1 Now I'll sing to my well beloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard.  My well beloved has a vineyard in a very fruitful hill,

2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones from it, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the middle of it, and also made a winepress in it, and he looked for it to produce grapes, and it produced wild grapes.

3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, please judge, between me and my vineyard.

4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I haven't done in it?  So, when I looked for it to produce grapes, why did it produce wild grapes?

5 And now go on, I'll tell you what I'll do to my vineyard, I'll take away the hedge of it, and it shall be eaten up, and break down the wall of it, and it shall be walked on,

6 And I'll lay it waste, it shall not be pruned, nor dug, but briers and thorns shall come up, I'll also command the clouds not to rain on it.

7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant, and he looked for justice, but see, oppression, for righteousness, but see, a cry.

8 Woe to those who join house to house, that lay field to field, 'til there's no place, so they can be placed alone in the middle of the earth!

9 In my ears, said the Lord of hosts, of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even large and fair, without inhabitant.

10 Yes, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.

11 Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, so they can follow strong drink, that continue until night, 'til wine inflames them!

12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts, but they don't regard the work of the Lord, nor consider the operations of his hands.

13 Therefore my people have gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge, and their honorable men are starving, and their multitude dried up by thirst.

14 Therefore hell has enlarged itself, and opened its mouth without limit, and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoices, shall go down into it.

15 And the poor man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled,

16 But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be made holy in righteousness.

17 Then the lambs shall feed like they do, and strangers shall eat the waste places of the fat ones.

18 Woe to those who pull sin with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope,

19 That say, "Let him make speed, and hasten his work, so we can see it, and let the advice of the Holy one of Israel draw near and come, so we can know it!

20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil, that change darkness for light, and light for darkness, that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

22 Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mix strong drink,

23 Who justify the wicked for bribes, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

24 Therefore like the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be like rottenness, and their blossom shall go up like dust, because they've thrown away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy one of Israel.

25 Therefore the anger of the Lord is kindled against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them, and has struck them, and the hills trembled, and their carcasses were torn among the streets.  For all this his anger hasn't turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.

26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss to them from the end of the earth, and see, they'll come swiftly with speed,

27 No one shall be weary nor stumble among them, no one shall slumber nor sleep, nor shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor their shoelaces be broken,

28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind,

29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions, yes, they shall roar, and take hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safely, and no one shall provide deliverance for it.

30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea, and if one looks to the land, see, darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens of it.

___Isaiah chapter 6

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

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

3 And they shouted to each other, and said, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts, the whole earth is full of his glory."

4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

5 Then I said, "Woe is me!  For I am undone, because I'm a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts."

6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, that he had taken with the tongs from off the altar,

7 And he laid it on my mouth, and said, "Lo, this has touched your lips, and your sin has been taken away, and your sin purged."

8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?"  Then I said, "Here I am, send me."

9 And he said, "Go and tell these people, hear indeed, but don't understand, and see indeed, but don't perceive.

10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes, so that they don't see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and be healed."

11 Then I said, "Lord, how long?"  And he answered, "Until the cities are wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land is completely desolate,

12 And the Lord has removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the middle of the land.

13 But still a tenth shall be in it, and it shall return, and shall be eaten, like a teil tree, and like an oak, whose substance is in them, when they shed their leaves, so the holy seed shall be the substance of it.

___Isaiah chapter 7

1 And in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but couldn't prevail against it.

2 And it was told the house of David, saying, "Syria is confederate with Ephraim."  And his heart was moved, and the hearts of his people, like the trees of the wood are moved by the wind.

3 Then the Lord said to Isaiah, "Go out now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field,

4 And say to him, take heed, and be quiet, don't be afraid, nor be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have plotted against you wrongfully, saying,

6 Let's go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a hole in it for us, and set a king in the middle of it, the son of Tabeal,

7 Thus says the Lord God, it shall not stand, nor shall it happen.

8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin, and within sixty five years Ephraim shall be broken, so that it's not a tribe.

9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son.  If you won't believe, surely you won't be established."

10 Also the Lord spoke again to Ahaz, saying,

11 "Ask a sign of the Lord your God, ask it either in the depth, or in the height above."

12 But Ahaz said, "I won't ask, nor will I tempt the Lord."

13 And he said, "Hear now, O house of David, is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also?

14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign, see, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

15 He shall eat butter and honey, so he'll know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that you hate shall be forsaken by both of her kings.

17 The Lord shall bring on you, and on your people, and on your father's house, days that haven't come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah, even the king of Assyria.

18 And in that day the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the farthest part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

19 And they shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and on all thorns, and on all bushes.

20 In the same day the Lord shall shave with a razor that is hired, specifically, by those beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet, and it shall also consume the beard.

21 And in that day, a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep,

22 And for the abundance of milk that they shall give, he shall eat butter, for butter and honey shall everyone eat that is left in the land.

23 And in that day, every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall be for briers and thorns.

24 With arrows and with bows men shall come there, because all the land shall become briers and thorns.

25 And on all hills that shall be dug with the mattock, there won't come there the fear of briers and thorns, but it shall be for the sending out of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle."

___Isaiah chapter 8

1 Also the Lord said to me, "Take a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz."

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

3 And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son.  Then said the Lord to me, "Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.

4 For before the child shall have enough knowledge to shout, my father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away from before the king of Assyria."

5 The Lord also spoke to me again, saying,

6 "Since this people refuses the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son,

7 Now therefore, see, the Lord brings up on them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory, and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks,

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

9 Associate yourselves, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces, and give ear, all you of far countries, dress yourselves, and you'll be broken in pieces, dress yourselves, and you'll be broken in pieces.

10 Take advice together, and it will come to nothing, speak the word, and it won't stand, for God is with us."

11 For the Lord spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I shouldn't walk in the way of this people, saying,

12 "Don't say, a confederacy, to all those to whom this people shall say, a confederacy, and don't be afraid of what they fear, and don't be afraid.

13 Make holy the Lord of hosts himself, and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

14 And he shall be for a sanctuary, but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a trap and for a trap to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be trapped, and be taken.

16 Binding up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

17 And I will wait on the Lord, that hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

18 See, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who lives in Mount Zion.

19 And when they shall say to you, seek to those who have familiar spirits, and to wizards that peep, and that mutter, shouldn't a people seek to their God?  For the living to the dead?

20 To the law and to the testimony, if they don't talk according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry, and when they're hungry, they'll fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

22 And they shall look to the earth, and see trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish, and they'll be driven to darkness."

___Isaiah chapter 9

1 But the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light, the light has shined on those who live in the land of the shadow of death.

3 You've multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy, they rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, and like men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

4 For you've broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, like in the day of Midian.

5 for every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood, but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.

6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government shall be on his shoulders, and his name shall be called wonderful, counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the prince of peace.

7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, on the throne of David, and on his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from from now on and forever.  The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it has landed on Israel.

9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,

10 "The bricks have fallen down, but we'll build with cut stones, the sycamores have been cut down, but we'll change them into cedars.

11 Therefore the Lord shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together,

12 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind, and they shall devour Israel with an open mouth.  For all this, his anger hasn't turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.

13 For the people don't turn to him that strikes them, nor do they seek the Lord of hosts.

14 Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.

15 The ancient and honorable, he is the head, and the prophet that teaches lies, he is the tail.

16 For the leaders of these people cause them to err, and those who are led by them are destroyed.

17 Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, nor shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows, for everyone is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks foolishness.  For all this his anger has not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

18 For wickedness burns like the fire, it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall go up like the rising up of smoke.

19 The land has been darkened through the anger of the Lord of hosts, and the people shall be like the fuel of the fire, no man shall spare his brother.

20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry, and he shall eat on the left hand, and they won't be satisfied, they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm,

21 Manasseh, Ephraim, and Ephraim, Manasseh, and they together shall be against Judah.  For all this, his anger has not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.

___Isaiah chapter 10

1 Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness that they've prescribed,

2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away what's right from the poor of my people, so widows can be their prey, and so they can rob the fatherless!

3 And what will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation that shall come from far?  To whom will you flee for help?  And where will you leave your glory?

4 Without me they'll bow down under the prisoners, and they'll fall under those who are killed.  For all this his anger has not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.

5 O Assyrian, the rod of my anger, and the staff in their hand is my indignation.

6 I'll send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my anger I'll give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the dirt in the streets.

7 But he doesn't mean so, nor does his heart think so, but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off not just a few nations.

8 For he says, "Aren't my princes completely kings?

9 Isn't Calno like Carchemish?  Isn't Hamath like Arpad?  Isn't Samaria like Damascus?

10 Like my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose engraved images excelled those of Jerusalem and of Samaria,

11 Shall I not, like I've done to Samaria and her idols, do also to Jerusalem and her idols?"

12 So when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

13 For he says, "By the strength of my hand I've done it, and by my wisdom, for I'm prudent, and I've removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I've put down the inhabitants like a valiant man,

14 And my hand has found like a nest the riches of the people, and like one gathers eggs that are left, I've gathered all the earth, and there was no one that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped."

15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that cuts with it?  Or shall the saw magnify itself against him that moves it?  As if the rod should shake itself against those who lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it weren't wood.

16 Therefore the Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall send leanness among his fat ones, and under his glory he'll kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.

17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy one for a flame, and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day,

18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body, and they'll be like when a standard bearer faints.

19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child can write them.

20 And the remnant of Israel, and those who've escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay on him that struck them, but shall stay on the Lord, the Holy one of Israel, in truth.

21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

22 For though your people Israel are like the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return, the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

23 For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the middle of all the land.

24 Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts, "O my people that live in Zion, don't be afraid of the Assyrian, he'll strike you with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against you, after the manner of Egypt.

25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall stop, and my anger in their destruction.

26 And the Lord of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb, and like his rod was on the sea, so he'll lift it up after the manner of Egypt.

27 And his burden shall be taken away from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

28 He has come to Aiath, he has passed to Migron, at Michmash he has laid up his baggage,

29 They've gone over the passage, they've taken up their lodging at Geba, Ramah is afraid, Gibeah of Saul has fled.

30 Lift up your voice, O daughter of Gallim, cause it to be heard to Laish, O poor Anathoth.

31 Madmenah is removed, the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.

32 As yet he'll remain at Nob that day, he shall shake his hand against the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

33 See, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror, and the high ones of stature shall be cut down, and the haughty shall be humbled.

34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by someone mighty.

___Isaiah chapter 11

1 And a rod shall come out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots,

2 And the spirit of the Lord shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of advice and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord,

3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord, and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, nor reprove after the hearing of his ears,

4 But he'll judge the poor with righteousness, and reprimand with equity for the meek of the earth, and he'll strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he'll kill the wicked.

5 And righteousness shall be the clothing around his midsection, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

6 The wolf also shall live with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them.

7 And the cow and the bear shall feed, their young ones shall lie down together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.

9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, like the waters cover the sea.

10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, who'll stand for an ensign of the people, the Gentiles shall seek it, and his rest shall be glorious.

11 And in that day, the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, that shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off, Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.

14 But they shall fly on the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west, they shall spoil those of the east together, they shall lay their hand on Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon shall obey them.

15 And the Lord shall completely destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea, and with his mighty wind he'll shake his hand over the river, and shall strike it in the seven streams, and make men pass over dry shod.

16 And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, that shall be left, from Assyria, like it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

___Isaiah chapter 12

1 And in that day you'll say, "O Lord, I'll praise you, though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away, and you comforted me.

2 See, God is my salvation, I will trust, and not be afraid, for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song, he also has become my salvation."

3 Therefore with joy shall you draw water out of the wells of salvation.

4 And in that day you'll say, "Praise the Lord, call on his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.

5 Sing to the Lord, for he has done excellent things, this is known in all the earth.

6 Cry out and shout, you inhabitant of Zion, for great is the Holy one of Israel among you."

___Isaiah chapter 13

1 The burden of Babylon, that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

2 Lift up a banner on the high mountain, exalt the voice to them, shake the hand, so they can go into the gates of the nobles.

3 I've commanded my ones who've been made holy, I've also called my mighty ones for my anger, even those who rejoice in my highness.

4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like of a great people, a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together, the Lord of hosts musters the host of the battle.

5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the Lord, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

6 Howl, for the day of the Lord is at hand, it shall come like a destruction from the Almighty.

7 Therefore all hands shall be faint, and every man's heart shall melt,

8 And they'll be afraid, pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them, they'll be in pain like a woman in childbirth, they'll be amazed at each other, their faces shall be like flames.

9 See, the day of the Lord comes, cruel both with anger and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate, and he'll destroy its sinners out of it.

10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations of it shall not give their light, the sun shall be darkened in its going out, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine.

11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their sin, and I'll cause the arrogance of the proud to stop, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

12 I'll make a man more precious than fine gold, a man more than the golden wedge of Ophir.

13 Therefore I'll shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of its place, in the anger of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

14 And it shall be like the chased roe, and like a sheep that no man takes up, every man shall turn to his own people, and flee everyone into his own land.

15 Everyone that is found shall be thrust through, and everyone that is joined to them shall fall by the sword.

16 Their children also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes, their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives raped.

17 See, I'll stir up the Medes against them, who won't regard silver, and as for gold, they won't delight in it.

18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces, and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb, their eye won't spare children.

19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellence, shall be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

20 It shall never be inhabited, nor shall it be lived in from generation to generation, nor shall the Arabian pitch tents there, nor shall the shepherds make their fold there.

21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there, and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures, and owls shall live there, and satyrs shall dance there.

22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces, and her time is coming close, and her days shall not be prolonged.

___Isaiah chapter 14

1 For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land, and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall stick to the house of Jacob.

2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for servants and handmaids, and they shall take them captives whose captives they were, and they shall rule over their oppressors.

3 And in the day the Lord shall give you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear, and from the hard bondage in which you were made to serve,

4 And you'll take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, how has the oppressor stopped!  The golden city stopped!

5 The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, and the scepter of the rulers.

6 He who struck the people in anger with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and no one hinders.

7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet, they break forth into singing.

8 Yes, the fir trees rejoice at you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, since you've been laid down, no lumberjack has come up against us.

9 Hell from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming, it stirs up the dead for you, even all the main ones of the earth, it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

10 All they shall speak and say to you, have you also become weak like us?  Have you become like us?

11 Your pomp has been brought down to the grave, and the noise of your viols, the worm is spread under you, and the worms cover you.

12 How have you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!  How are you cut down to the ground, who weakened the nations!

13 For you've said in your heart, "I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, I will sit also on the mountain of the congregation, in the sides of the north,

14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the most high."

15 Yet you'll be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

16 Those who see you shall narrowly look at you, and consider you, saying, "Is this the man that made the earth tremble, that shook kingdoms,

17 That made the world like a wilderness, and destroyed the cities of it, that didn't open the house of his prisoners?

18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, everyone in his own house.

19 But you are thrown out of your grave like a dirty branch, and like the clothing of those who are killed, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit, like a carcass trampled under foot.

20 You won't be joined with them in burial, because you've destroyed your land, and killed your people, the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned."

21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the sin of their fathers, so they don't rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

22 "For I'll rise up against them," says the Lord of hosts, "and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew," says the Lord.

23 "I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," says the Lord of hosts.

24 The Lord of hosts has sworn, saying, "Surely as I have thought, so shall it happen, and as I've purposed, so it shall stand,

25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains, then his yoke shall depart from off them, and his burden shall depart from off their shoulders."

26 This is the purpose that has been purposed on the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out on all the nations.

27 For the Lord of hosts has purposed, and who shall annul it?  And his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

28 This burden was in the year that king Ahaz died.

29 Don't rejoice, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that struck you has been broken, for out of the serpent's root shall come out a snake, and its fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety, and I'll kill your root with famine, and he shall kill your remnant.

31 Howl, O gate, cry, O city, you, whole Palestina, are dissolved, for smoke shall come from the north, and no one shall be alone in its appointed times.

32 What shall someone then answer the messengers of the nation?  That the Lord has founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.

___Isaiah chapter 15

1 The burden of Moab.  Because, in the night, Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence, because, in the night, Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence,

2 He has gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep, Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba, baldness shall be on all their heads, and every beard cut off.

3 In their streets they'll gird themselves with sackcloth, on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, everyone shall howl, weeping abundantly.

4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh, their voice shall be heard even to Jahaz, therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out, his life shall be grievous to him.

5 My heart shall cry out for Moab, his fugitives shall flee to Zoar, a heifer of three years old, for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping they'll go up, for in the way of Horonaim they'll raise up a cry of destruction.

6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate, for the hay has withered away, the grass fails, there is no green thing.

7 Therefore the abundance they've gotten, and that which they've laid up, they'll carry away to the brook of the willows.

8 For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab, the howling of it to Eglaim, and the howling of it to Beerelim.

9 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood, for I'll bring more on Dimon, lions on him that escapes of Moab, and on the remnant of the land.

___Isaiah chapter 16

1 Send the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

2 For it shall be, that like a wandering bird thrown out of the nest, so shall be the daughters of Moab, at the fords of Arnon.

3 Take advice, execute judgment, make your shadow like the night in the middle of the noonday, hide the outcasts, don't betray him that wanders.

4 Let my outcasts live with you, Moab, be a covert to them from the face of the spoiler, for the extortionist is at an end, the spoiler stops, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

5 And in mercy shall the throne be established, and he shall sit on it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hurrying righteousness.

6 We've heard of the pride of Moab, he is very proud, even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his anger, but his lies shall not be so.

7 Therefore Moab shall howl for Moab, everyone shall howl, you'll mourn for the foundations of Kirhareseth, surely they're stricken.

8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah, the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants of it, they've even come to Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness, her branches are stretched out, they've gone over the sea.

9 Therefore I'll bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah, I'll water you with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh, for the shouting for your summer fruits, and for your harvest that's fallen.

10 And gladness has been taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field, and in the vineyards there'll be no singing, nor shall there be shouting, the treaders won't tread out wine in their presses, I have made their vintage shouting to stop.

11 So my bowels shall sound like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kirharesh.

12 And when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, he shall come to his sanctuary to pray, but he won't prevail.

13 This is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning Moab since that time.

14 But now the Lord has spoken, saying, within three years, like the years of a hired hand, and the glory of Moab shall be held in contempt, with all that great multitude, and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.

___Isaiah chapter 17

1 The burden of Damascus.  See, Damascus has been taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

2 The cities of Aroer have been forsaken, they'll be for flocks, that shall lie down, and no one shall make them afraid.

3 The fortress also shall stop from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria, they'll be like the glory of the children of Israel, says the Lord of hosts.

4 And in that day the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall grow lean.

5 And it shall be like when the harvestman gathers the corn, and reaps the ears with his arm, and it shall be like he that gathers ears in the valley of Rephaim.

6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches of it, says the Lord God of Israel.

7 At that day a man shall look to his maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy one of Israel.

8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, nor shall respect what his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.

9 In that day his strong cities shall be like a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, that they left because of the children of Israel, and there shall be desolation.

10 Because you've forgotten the God of your salvation, and haven't been mindful of the rock of your strength, therefore you'll plant pleasant plants, and shall set it with strange slips,

11 In the day you'll make your plant to grow, and in the morning you'll make your seed to flourish, but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief, and of desperate sorrow.

12 Woe to the multitude of many people, who make a noise like the noise of the seas, and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!

13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters, but God shall reprimand them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

14 And at evening tide, see, trouble, and before the morning he is not.  This is the portion of those who spoil us, and the lot of those who rob us.

___Isaiah chapter 18

1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, that is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,

2 That sends ambassadors by the sea, even in containers of bulrushes on the waters, saying, "Go, you swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning until now, a nation measured out and walked on down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

3 All you inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see, when he lifts up a flag on the mountains, and when he blows a trumpet, hear."

4 For so the Lord said to me, "I'll take my rest, and I'll consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat on herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."

5 For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

6 They'll be left together to the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth, and the fowls shall summer on them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter on them.

7 In that time, the present shall be brought to the Lord of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning until now, a nation measured out and walked on under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, the Mount Zion.

___Isaiah chapter 19

1 The burden of Egypt.  See, the Lord rides on a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt, and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the middle of it.

2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and everyone shall fight against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor, city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the middle of it, and I will destroy the advice of it, and they'll seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to those who have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

4 And I'll give the Egyptians over into the hand of a cruel lord, and a fierce king shall rule over them, says the Lord, the Lord of hosts.

5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

6 And they'll turn the rivers far away, and the brooks of defense shall be emptied and dried up, the reeds and flags shall wither.

7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and everything planted by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.

8 The fishermen also shall mourn, and all of those who cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and those who spread nets on the waters shall languish.

9 Also those who work in fine flax, and those who weave networks, shall be confused.

10 And they shall be broken in the purposes of it, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.

11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the advice of the wise counselors of Pharaoh has become brutish, how can you say to Pharaoh, "I'm the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?"

12 Where are they?  Where are your wise men?  And let them tell you now, and let them know what the Lord of hosts has purposed for Egypt.

13 The princes of Zoan have become fools, the princes of Noph have been deceived, they've also seduced Egypt, even those who are the stay of the tribes of it.

14 The Lord has mixed a perverse spirit among it, and they've caused Egypt to err in every work of it, like a drunk man staggers in his vomit.

15 Nor shall there be any work for Egypt, that the head or tail, branch or rush, can do.

16 In that day Egypt shall be like women, and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the Lord of hosts, that he shakes over it.

17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror to Egypt, everyone that makes mention of it shall be afraid in himself, because of the advice of the Lord of hosts, that he has determined against it.

18 In that day, five cities in the land of Egypt shall speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the Lord of hosts, one shall be called, the city of destruction.

19 In that day there'll be an altar to the Lord in the middle of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border of it to the Lord.

20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt, for they'll cry to the Lord because of the oppressors, and he'll send them a savior, and a great one, and he'll deliver them.

21 And the Lord shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day, and shall do sacrifice and offering, yes, they'll vow a vow to the Lord, and perform it.

22 And the Lord shall strike Egypt, he shall strike and heal it, and they'll return to the Lord, and he'll be entreated by them, and shall heal them.

23 In that day there'll be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.

24 In that day Israel shall be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land,

25 Whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, "Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance."

___Isaiah chapter 20

1 In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it,

2 At the same time, the Lord spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, "Go and loose the sackcloth off your loins, and put off your shoes from your feet."  And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

3 And the Lord said, "Like my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder on Egypt and on Ethiopia,

4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

6 And the inhabitant of this island shall say in that day, see, such is our expectation, where we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria, and how shall we escape?"

___Isaiah chapter 21

1 The burden of the desert of the sea.  Like whirlwinds in the south pass through, so it comes from the desert, from a terrible land.

2 A grievous vision has been declared to me, the treacherous dealer deals treacherously, and the spoiler spoils.  Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Media, I've made all the sighing of it to stop.

3 Therefore my loins are filled with pain, pangs have taken hold on me, like the pangs of a woman during childbirth, I was bowed down at the hearing of it, I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

4 My heart panted, fearfulness made me afraid, he has turned the night of my pleasure into fear for me.

5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink, arise, you princes, and anoint the shield.

6 For thus has the Lord said to me, "Go, set a watchman, let him tell what he sees."

7 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels, and he listened diligently with much heed,

8 And he shouted, "A lion, my lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights,

9 And see, here comes a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen."  And he answered, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen, and all the engraved images of her gods he has broken to the ground."

10 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor, that which I've heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I've told you.

11 The burden of Dumah.  He calls to me out of Seir, "Watchman, what of the night?  Watchman, what of the night?"

12 The watchman said, "The morning is coming, and also the night, if you want to inquire, inquire, return, come."

13 The burden on Arabia.  In the forest in Arabia you'll lodge, O you traveling companies of Dedanim.

14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they went before him that fled with their bread.

15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

16 For the Lord said this to me, "Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail,

17 And the remainder of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished, for the Lord God of Israel has spoken it."

___Isaiah chapter 22

1 The burden of the valley of vision.  What ails you now, since you've completely gone up to the housetops?

2 You that is full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous city, your slain men weren't killed by the sword, nor dead in battle.

3 All your rulers have fled together, they are bound by the archers, all that are found in you are bound together, who have fled from far.

4 Therefore I said, look away from me, I'll weep bitterly, don't labor to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.

5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord God of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.

6 And Elam carried the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.

7 And your choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.

8 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and you looked in that day to the armor of the house of the forest.

9 You've also seen the holes of the city of David, that they are many, and you gathered the waters of the lower pool together.

10 And you've numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and you've torn down the houses to fortify the wall.

11 You also made a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool, but you haven't looked to the maker of it, nor had respect to him that fashioned it long ago.

12 And in that day the Lord God of hosts called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth,

13 And see, joy and gladness, killing oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we'll die.

14 And it was revealed in my ears by the Lord of hosts, surely this sin won't be purged from you 'til you die, says the Lord God of hosts.

15 Thus says the Lord God of hosts, "Go, get you to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say,

16 What have you here?  And whom have you here, that you've carved yourself out a tomb here, like he that cuts himself out a tomb on high, and that engraves a habitation for himself in a rock?

17 See, the Lord will carry you away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover you.

18 He will surely violently turn and toss you like a ball into a large country, you'll die there, and there the chariots of your glory shall be the shame of your lord's house.

19 And I will drive you from your station, and he shall pull you down from your condition.

20 And in that day I'll call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,

21 And I'll clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your girdle, and I'll commit your government into his hand, and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

22 And I'll lay on his shoulder the key of the house of David, so he shall open, and no one shall shut, and he shall shut, and no one shall open.

23 And I'll fasten him like a nail in a sure place, and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.

24 And they'll hang on him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all containers of small quantity, from the containers of cups, even to all the containers of flagons.

25 In that day, says the Lord of hosts, the nail that is fastened in the sure place shall be removed, and be cut down, and fall, and the burden that was on it shall be cut off, for the Lord has spoken it.

___Isaiah chapter 23

1 The burden of Tyre.  Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in, from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.

2 Be still, you inhabitants of the island, you whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue, and she is a market of nations.

4 Be ashamed, O Zidon, for the sea has spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, "I don't travail, nor bring forth children, nor do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.

5 As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be severely pained at the report of Tyre.

6 Pass over to Tarshish, howl, you inhabitants of the island.

7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days?  Her own feet shall carry her afar off to live there."

8 Who has taken this advice against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?

9 The Lord of hosts has purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

10 Pass through your land like a river, O daughter of Tarshish, there is no more strength.

11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms, the Lord has given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds of it.

12 And he said, "You'll no more rejoice, O you oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon, arise, pass over to Chittim, there also you'll have no rest."

13 See the land of the Chaldeans, these were not a people, 'til the Assyrian founded it for them that live in the wilderness, they set up the towers of it, they raised up the palaces of it, and he brought it to ruin.

14 Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your strength has been laid waste.

15 And in that day, Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king, after the end of seventy years Tyre shall sing like a prostitute.

16 Take a harp, go around the city, you whore that's been forgotten, make sweet melody, sing many songs, so you'll be remembered.

17 And after the end of seventy years, the Lord will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.

18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the Lord, it shall not be treasured nor laid up, for her merchandise shall be for those who live before the Lord, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

___Isaiah chapter 24

1 See, the Lord makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants of it.

2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest, as with the servant, so with his master, as with the maid, so with her mistress, as with the buyer, so with the seller, as with the lender, so with the borrower, as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.

3 The land shall be completely emptied, and completely spoiled, for the Lord has spoken this word.

4 The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the haughty people of the earth languish.

5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants of it, because they've transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

6 Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who live in it are desolate, therefore the inhabitants of the earth have been burned, and few men left.

7 The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted sigh.

8 The mirth of tabrets stops, the noise of those who rejoice ends, the joy of the harp stops.

9 They shall not drink wine with a song, strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it.

10 The city of confusion has been broken down, every house is shut up, so that no man can come in.

11 There is a crying for wine in the streets, all joy has been darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

12 Desolation is left in the city, and the gate has been struck with destruction.

13 When it shall be like this among the land among the people, there shall be like the shaking of an olive tree, and like the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.

14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the Lord, they shall cry out loud from the sea.

15 So glorify the Lord in the fires, even the name of the Lord God of Israel in the islands of the sea.

16 From the farthest part of the earth we've heard songs, even glory to the righteous.  But I said, "My leanness, my leanness, woe to me!  The treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously, yes, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.

17 Fear, and the pit, and the trap, are on you, O inhabitant of the earth."

18 And he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit, and he that comes up out of the middle of the pit shall be taken in the trap, for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth shake.

19 The earth has been completely broken down, the earth is completely dissolved, the earth is moved very much.

20 The earth shall reel back and forth like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage, and the transgression of it shall be heavy on it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.

21 And in that day, the Lord shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.

22 And they shall be gathered together, like prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days they'll be visited.

23 Then the moon shall be confused, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall rule in Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

___Isaiah chapter 25

1 O Lord, you're my God, I will exalt you, I will praise your name, for you've done wonderful things, your advice of old is faithfulness and truth.

2 For you've made of a city a heap, of a defenced city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city, it shall never be built.

3 Therefore the strong people shall glorify you, the city of the terrible nations shall fear you.

4 For you've been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is like a storm against the wall.

5 You'll bring down the noise of strangers, like the heat in a dry place, even the heat with the shadow of a cloud, the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.

6 And in this mountain the Lord of hosts shall make to all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.

7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering thrown over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations.

8 He will swallow up death in victory, and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces, and the reprimand of his people he'll take away from off all the earth, for the Lord has spoken it.

9 And it shall be said in that day, "Lo, this is our God, we have waited for him, and he will save us, this is the Lord, we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation."

10 For in this mountain the hand of the Lord shall rest, and Moab shall be walked on under him, even like straw is walked on for the manure pile.

11 And he shall spread out his hands in the middle of them, like he that swims spreads out his hands to swim, and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

12 And he'll bring down the fortress of the high fort of your walls, lay it low, and bring it to the ground, even to the dust.

___Isaiah chapter 26

1 In that day this song shall be sung in the land of Judah, we have a strong city, God will appoint salvation for walls and bulwarks.

2 Open the gates, so the righteous nation that keeps the truth can enter in.

3 You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.

4 Trust in the Lord forever, for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength,

5 For he brings down those who live on high, the lofty city, he lays it low, he lays it low, even to the ground, he brings it even to the dust.

6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.

7 The way of the just is uprightness, you, most upright, do weigh the path of the just.

8 Yes, in the way of your judgments, O Lord, we've waited for you, the desire of our soul is to your name, and to the remembrance of you.

9 With my soul I've desired you in the night, yes, with my spirit inside me I'll seek you early, for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

10 Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he won't learn righteousness, in the land of uprightness he'll deal unjustly, and won't see the majesty of the Lord.

11 Lord, when your hand is lifted up, they won't see, but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people, yes, the fire of your enemies shall devour them.

12 Lord, you'll ordain peace for us, for you've also made all our works in us.

13 O Lord our God, other lords beside you have had dominion over us, but by you only we'll make mention of your name.

14 They are dead, they shall not live, they are deceased, they shall not rise, therefore you've visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

15 You have increased the nation, O Lord, you've increased the nation, you are glorified, you've removed it far to all the ends of the earth.

16 Lord, they've visited you in trouble, they poured out a prayer when your punishment was on them.

17 Like a woman with child, that draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and cries out in her pangs, so we have been in your sight, O Lord.

18 We have been with child, we've been in pain, we have brought forth wind as it were, we haven't made any deliverance in the earth, nor have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

19 Your dead men shall live, together with my dead body they'll arise.  Awake and sing, you that live in dust, for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth shall throw out the dead.

20 Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors around you, hide yourself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

21 For see, the Lord comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their sin, the earth also shall reveal its blood, and shall no more conceal its slain.

___Isaiah chapter 27

1 In that day, the Lord with his very and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan, the piercing serpent, even leviathan, that crooked serpent, and he shall kill the dragon that is in the sea.

2 In that day sing to her, a vineyard of red wine.

3 I the Lord keep it, I will water it every moment, so that no one hurts it, I will keep it night and day.

4 Fury is not in me, who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle?  I would go through them, I would burn them together.

5 Or let him take hold of my strength, so he can make peace with me, and he shall make peace with me.

6 He shall cause those who come of Jacob to take root, Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

7 Has he struck him, as he struck those that struck him?  Or has he been killed according to the slaughter of those who've been killed by him?

8 In measure, when it shoots forth, you'll debate with it, he stays his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

9 By this therefore the sin of Jacob shall be purged, and this is all the fruit to take away his sin, when he makes all the stones of the altar like chalkstones that are beaten in pieces, the groves and images shall not stand up.

10 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness, the calf shall feed there, and he'll lie down there, and consume the branches of it.

11 When the boughs of it are withered, they'll be broken off, the women come and set them on fire, for they are people of no understanding, therefore he that made them won't have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.

12 And in that day, the Lord shall beat off from the channel of the river to the stream of Egypt, and you'll be gathered one by one, O you children of Israel.

13 And in that day, the great trumpet shall be blown, and those who were ready to die in the land of Assyria will come, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

___Isaiah chapter 28

1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, that are on the head of the fat valleys of those who are overcome by wine!

2 See, the Lord has a mighty and strong one, who, like a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, like a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall throw down to the earth with the hand.

3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be walked on under foot,

4 And the glorious beauty, that is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and like the hasty fruit before the summer, which when he that looks at it sees, while it is yet in his hand he eats it up.

5 In that day the Lord of hosts shall be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, to the remainder of his people,

6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sits in judgment, and for strength to those who turn the battle to the gate.

7 But they've also erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way, the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they've been swallowed up by wine, they are out of the way through strong drink, they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.

9 To whom shall he teach knowledge?  And to whom shall he make understand doctrine?  Those who are weaned from the milk, and pulled away from the breasts.

10 For precept must be on precept, precept on precept, line on line, line on line, here a little, and there a little,

11 For with stammering lips and another tongue he'll speak to these people.

12 To whom he said, "This is the rest with which you can cause the weary to rest, and this is the refreshing," yet they wouldn't hear.

13 But the word of the Lord was to them precept on precept, precept on precept, line on line, line on line, here a little, and there a little, so they could go, and fall backward, and be broken, and trapped, and taken.

14 So hear the word of the Lord, you scornful men, that rule these people that are in Jerusalem.

15 Because you've said, we've made a covenant with death, and we're in agreement with hell, when the overflowing scourge passes through, it won't come to us, for we've made lies our refuge, and we've hidden ourselves under falsehood,

16 Therefore thus says the Lord God, "See, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation, he that believes shall not make haste.

17 Judgment also I'll lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet, and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

18 And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with hell won't stand, when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you'll be trampled down by it.

19 From the time that it goes out it shall take you, for morning by morning it shall pass over, by day and by night, and it shall be a vexation just to understand the report.

20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it, and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

21 For the Lord shall rise up like in Mount Perazim, he shall be angry like in the valley of Gibeon, so he can do his work, his strange work, and make happen his act, his strange act.

22 Now therefore don't be mockers, so that your bands won't be made strong, for I've heard from the Lord God of hosts a consumption, even determined against the whole earth.

23 Give ear, and hear my voice, listen, and hear my speech.

24 Does the plowman plow all day to plant?  Does he open and break the clods of his ground?

25 When he has made plain the face of it, doesn't he throw around the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and throw in the main wheat and the appointed barley and the rye in their place?

26 For his God instructs him to discretion, and teaches him.

27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, nor is a cart wheel turned around on the cummin, but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

28 Bread corn is bruised, because he won't ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.

29 This also comes out from the Lord of hosts, who is wonderful in advice, and excellent in working.

___Isaiah chapter 29

1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David lived!  Add year to year, let them kill sacrifices.

2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow, and it shall be to me like Ariel.

3 And I will camp against you all around, and will lay siege against you with a mount, and I'll raise forts against you.

4 And you'll be brought down, and shall speak out of the ground, and your speech shall be low out of the dust, and your voice shall be, like from someone that has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.

5 Also the multitude of your strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be like chaff that passes away, yes, it shall be at an instant, suddenly.

6 You'll be visited from the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.

7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be like a dream of a night vision.

8 It shall even be like when a hungry man dreams, and see, he eats, but he wakes up, and his soul is empty, or like when a thirsty man dreams, and see, he drinks, but he wakes up, and see, he is faint, and his soul has appetite, so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against Mount Zion.

9 Stay yourselves, and wonder, cry out, and cry, they are drunken, but not with wine, they stagger, but not with strong drink.

10 For the Lord has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets and your rulers, the seers he has covered.

11 And the vision of all has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men hand to someone that is learned, saying, "Read this, please," and he says, "I can't, for it's sealed,"

12 And the book is handed to him that is not learned, saying, "Read this, please, and he says, "I'm not learned."

13 So the Lord said, "Since this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men,

14 Therefore, see, I'll proceed to do a marvelous work among these people, even a marvelous work and a wonder, for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden."

15 Woe to those who seek deep to hide their plans from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, "Who sees us?  And who knows us?"

16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed like the potter's clay, for shall the work say about him that made it, he didn't make me?"  Or shall the thing framed say about him that framed it, "He had no understanding?"

17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed to be a forest?

18 And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.

19 The meek also shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy one of Israel.

20 For the terrible one has been brought to nothing, and the scorner has been consumed, and all that watch for sin are cut off,

21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a trap for him that reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nothing.

22 Therefore thus says the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, "Jacob shall not now be ashamed, nor shall his face now grow pale.

23 But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, among him, they shall my name make holy, and make holy the Holy one of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.

24 Also those that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and those who murmured shall learn doctrine.

___Isaiah chapter 30

1 "Woe to the rebellious children," says the Lord, "that get advice, but not from me, and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, so they can add sin to sin,

2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and haven't asked at my mouth, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!

3 Therefore the strength of Pharaoh shall be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.

5 They were all ashamed of a people that couldn't profit them, nor be a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach."

6 The burden of the beasts of the south, into the land of trouble and anguish, from where the young and old lion come, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they'll carry their riches on the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that won't profit them.

7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose, therefore I've shouted concerning this, their strength is to sit still.

8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, so it will be for the time to come forever and always,

9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that won't listen to the law of the Lord,

10 Who say to the seers, don't see, and to the prophets, don't prophesy to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits,

11 Get out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy one of Israel to stop from before us.

12 So thus says the Holy one of Israel, "Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay on it,

13 Therefore this sin shall be to you like a broken wall ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly at an instant.

14 And he shall break it like the breaking of the potters' container that is broken in pieces, he shall not spare, so that there won't be found in the bursting of it a shard to take fire from the hearth, or to take water with it out of the pit."

15 For thus says the Lord God, the Holy one of Israel, "In returning and rest shall you be saved, in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength, and you weren't willing.

16 But you said, No, for we'll flee on horses, therefore you'll flee, and, we'll ride on the swift, therefore those who pursue you shall be swift.

17 One thousand shall flee at the reprimand

of one, at the reprimand of five you'll flee, 'til you're left like a beacon on the top of a mountain, and like a flag on a hill."

18 And therefore will the Lord wait, so he can be gracious to you, and therefore he'll be exalted, so he can have mercy on you, for the Lord is a God of justice, blessed are all of those who wait for him.

19 For the people shall live in Zion at Jerusalem, you'll weep no more, he will be very gracious to you at the voice of your cry, when he shall hear it, he will answer you.

20 And though the Lord gives you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won't be removed into a corner anymore, but your eyes shall see your teachers,

21 And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, "This is the way, walk in it," when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left.

22 You shall defile also the covering of your engraved images of silver, and the ornament of your cast in foundry images of gold, you shall throw them away like a menstruous cloth, you'll say to it, "Get away from here."

23 Then he'll give the rain of your seed, that you'll plant the ground with, and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous, in that day your cattle shall feed in large pastures.

24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

25 And there shall be on every high mountain, and on every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

26 Also the light of the moon shall be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, like the light of seven days, in the day that the Lord binds up the breach of his people, and heals the stroke of their wound.

27 See, the name of the Lord comes from far, burning with his anger, and the burden of it is heavy, his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue like a devouring fire,

28 And his breath, like an overflowing stream, shall reach to the middle of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity, and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.

29 You'll have a song, like in the night when a holy solemnity is kept, and gladness of heart, like when someone goes with a pipe to come into the mountain of the Lord, to the mighty one of Israel.

30 And the Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.

31 For through the voice of the Lord the Assyrian shall be beaten down, who struck with a rod.

32 And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the Lord shall lay on him, it shall be with tabrets and harps, and in battles of shaking he'll fight with it.

33 For Tophet is ordained of old, yes, for the king it is prepared, he has made it deep and large, the pile of it is fire and much wood, the breath of the Lord, like a stream of sulphur, kindles it.

___Isaiah chapter 31

1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many, and in horsemen, because they are very strong, but they don't look to the Holy one of Israel, nor seek the Lord!

2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and won't call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who sin.

3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God, and their horses flesh, and not spirit.  When the Lord shall stretch out his hand, both he that helps shall fall, and he that is helped shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.

4 For thus has the Lord spoken to me, like the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called out against him, he won't be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them, so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight for Mount Zion, and for the hill of it.

5 Like birds flying, so the Lord of hosts will defend Jerusalem, defending also he'll deliver it, and passing over he'll preserve it.

6 Turn to him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

7 For in that day every man shall throw away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, that your own hands have made to you for a sin.

8 Then the Assyrian shall fall by the sword, not of a mighty man, and the sword, not of a lowly man, shall devour him, but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be struck.

9 And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the flag, says the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

___Isaiah chapter 32

1 See, a king shall rule in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.

2 And a man shall be like a hiding place from the wind, and a shelter from the tempest, like rivers of water in a dry place, like the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

3 And the eyes of those who see shall not be dim, and the ears of those who hear shall listen.

4 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

5 The filthy person shall no more be called liberal, nor the churl said to be abundant.

6 For the filthy person will speak villainy, and his heart will work sin, to practice hypocrisy, and to speak error against the Lord, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

7 The instruments also of the churl are evil, he devises wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

8 But the liberal devises liberal things, and by liberal things he'll stand.

9 Rise up, you women that are at ease, hear my voice, you careless daughters, give ear to my speech.

10 You'll be troubled for many days and years, you careless women, for the vintage shall fail, the gathering won't come.

11 Tremble, you women that are at ease, be troubled, you careless ones, strip yourselves, and make youselves bare, and clothe your midsections with sackcloth.

12 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

13 On the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers, yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city,

14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken, the multitude of the city shall be left, the forts and towers shall be for dens forever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks,

15 Until the spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness is a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.

16 Then judgment shall live in the wilderness, and righteousness shall remain in the fruitful field.

17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace, and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance forever.

18 And my people shall live in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places,

19 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest, and the city shall be low in a low place.

20 Blessed are you that plant beside all waters, that send out there the feet of the ox and the ass.

___Isaiah chapter 33

1 Woe to you that spoil, and you were not spoiled, and deal treacherously, and they didn't deal treacherously with you!  When you stop spoiling, you'll be spoiled, and when you stop dealing treacherously, they'll deal treacherously with you.

2 O Lord, be gracious to us, we have waited for you, be their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

3 At the noise of the tumult the people fled, at the lifting up of yourself, the nations were scattered.

4 And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar, like the running back and forth of locusts shall he run at them.

5 The Lord is exalted, for he dwells on high, he has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times, and strength of salvation, the fear of the Lord is his treasure.

7 See, their valiant ones shall cry outside, the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.

8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man stops, he has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities, he regards no man.

9 The earth mourns and languishes, Lebanon is ashamed and cut down, Sharon is like a wilderness, and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.

10 Now I'll rise, says the Lord, now I'll be exalted, now I'll lift up myself.

11 You shall conceive chaff, you shall produce stubble, your breath, like fire, shall devour you.

12 And the people shall be like the burnings of lime, like thorns cut up they'll be burned in the fire.

13 Hear what I've done, you that are far off, and, you that are near, acknowledge my might.

14 The sinners in Zion are afraid, fearfulness has surprised the hypocrites.  Who among us shall live with the devouring fire?  Who among us shall live with everlasting burnings?

15 He that walks righteously, and speaks uprightly, he that despises the gain of oppressions, that stops his hands from holding bribes, that stops his ears from hearing of blood shedding, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil,

16 He shall live on high, his place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks, bread shall be given to him, his waters shall be sure.

17 Your eyes shall see the king in his beauty, they shall see the land that is very far off.

18 Your heart shall meditate terror.  Where is the scribe?  Where is the receiver?  Where is he that counted the towers?

19 You won't see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than you can perceive, of a stammering tongue, that you can't understand.

20 Look at Zion, the city of our solemnities, your eyes shall see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that won't be taken down, not one of the stakes of it shall ever be removed, nor shall any of the cords of it be broken.

21 But there, the glorious Lord will be to us a place of broad rivers and streams, in which shall go no galley with oars, nor shall gallant ships pass by there.

22 For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king, he will save us.

23 Your tacklings are loosed, they couldn't well strengthen their mast, they couldn't spread the sail, then is the prey of a great spoil divided, the lame take the prey.

24 And the inhabitant shall not say, "I am sick," the people that live in it shall be forgiven their sins.

___Isaiah chapter 34

1 Come near to hear, you nations, and listen, you people, let the earth hear, and all that is in it, the world, and all things that come from it.

2 For the indignation of the Lord is on all nations, and his fury on all their armies, he has completely destroyed them, he has delivered them to the slaughter.

3 Their slain also shall be thrown out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcasses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together like a scroll, and all their host shall fall down, like the leaf falls off of the vine, and like a falling fig from the fig tree.

5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven, see, it shall come down on Idumea, and on the people of my curse, for judgment.

6 The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams, for the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.

7 And the wild bulls shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls, and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust shall be made fat with fatness.

8 For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, and the year of repayments for the controversy of Zion.

9 And the streams of it shall be turned into pitch, and the dust of it into sulphur, and the land of it shall become burning pitch.

10 It shall not be quenched night nor day, the smoke of it shall go up forever, from generation to generation it shall lie waste, no one shall pass through it forever and always.

11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it, the owl also and the raven shall live in it, and he shall stretch out on it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.

12 They shall call the nobles of it to the kingdom, but no one shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.

13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses of it, and it shall be a habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.

14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow, the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.

15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow, there shall the vultures also be gathered, everyone with her mate.

16 Seek out of the book of the Lord, and read, not one of these shall fail, no one shall want her mate, for my mouth has commanded, and his spirit has gathered them.

17 And he has drawn straws for them, and his hand has divided it to them by line, they shall possess it forever, from generation to generation they'll live in it.

___Isaiah chapter 35

1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them, and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom like the rose.

2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing, the glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon, they'll see the glory of the Lord, and the excellence of our God.

3 Strengthen the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.

4 Say to those who are of a fearful heart, be strong, don't be afraid, see, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a repayment, he will come and save you.

5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.

6 Then the lame man shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing, for in the wilderness waters shall break out, and streams in the desert.

7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water, in the habitation of dragons, where each lies, shall be grass with bamboo and rushes.

8 And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called the way of holiness, the unclean shall not pass over it, but it shall be for those, the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err in it.

9 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up on it, it won't be found there, but the redeemed shall walk there,

10 And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy on their heads, they'll obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

___Isaiah chapter 36

1 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.

2 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a great army.  And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.

3 Then came out to him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder.

4 And 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?

5 I say that you say, (but they are but vain words) I have advice and strength for war, now on whom do you trust, that you rebel against me?

6 See, you trust in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand, and pierce it, that's what Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.

7 But if you say to me, we trust in the Lord our God, isn't it he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, you shall worship before this altar?

8 Now therefore give security deposits, please, to my master the king of Assyria, and I'll give you two thousand horses, if you're able as your part to set riders on them.

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

10 And 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."

11 Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language, for we understand it, and don't speak to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall."

12 But Rabshakeh said, "Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words?  Hasn't he sent me to the men that sit on the wall, so they can eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?"

13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and shouted with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, "Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.

14 Thus says the king, don't let Hezekiah deceive you, for he won't be able to deliver you.

15 And don't let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, the Lord will surely deliver us, this city won't be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

16 Don't listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria, make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and eat everyone from his vine, and everyone from his fig tree, and drink everyone the waters of his own well,

17 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

18 Beware so that Hezekiah doesn't persuade you, saying, the Lord will deliver us.  Have any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad?  Where are the gods of Sepharvaim?  And have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

20 Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?"

21 But they were silent, and didn't answer him a word, for the king's commandment was, saying, "Don't answer him."

22 Then Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

___Isaiah chapter 37

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

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

3 And they said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, this day is a day of trouble, and of reprimand, and of blasphemy, for the children have come to the birth, and there isn't enough strength to give birth.

4 It may be the Lord your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the living God, and will reprimand the words that the Lord your God has heard, so lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left."

5 So the servants of king Hezekiah went to Isaiah.

6 And Isaiah said to them, "Thus shall you say to your master, thus says the Lord, don't be afraid of the words that you've heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

7 See, I will send a blast against him, and he'll hear a rumor, and return to his own land, and I'll cause him to fall by the sword in his own land."

8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.

9 And he heard concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia that he has come out to make war with you.  And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

10 "Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, don't let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

11 See, you've heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them completely, and shall you be delivered?

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

13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?"

14 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.

15 And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord, saying,

16 "O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, that lives between the cherubims, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth, you have made heaven and earth.

17 Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear, open your eyes, O Lord, and see, and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to reproach the living God.

18 Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,

19 And have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone, therefore they've destroyed them.

20 Now therefore, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you are the Lord, even you only."

21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says the Lord God of Israel, whereas you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,

22 This is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him, the virgin, the daughter of Zion, has despised you, and laughed at you scornfully, the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

23 Whom have you reproached and blasphemed?  And against whom have you exalted your voice, and lifted up your eyes on high?  Even against the Holy one of Israel.

24 By your servants you've reproached the Lord, and have said, by the multitude of my chariots I've come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and I'll cut down the tall cedars of it, and the choice fir trees of it, and I'll enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.

25 I've dug, and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I've dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.

26 Haven't you heard long ago, how I have done it, and of ancient times, that I have formed it?  Now I've made it happen that you would lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.

27 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confused, they were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like corn blasted before it's grown up.

28 But I know where you live, and your going out, and your coming in, and your rage against me.

29 Because your rage against me, and your tumult, has come up into my ears, therefore I'll put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I'll turn you around to the way that you came.

30 And this shall be a sign to you, you'll eat this year such as grows of itself, and the second year that which springs of the same, and in the third year plant, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits of them.

31 And the remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward,

32 For from Jerusalem shall go out a remnant, and those who escape out of Mount Zion, the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.

33 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, he won't come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor build a mound against it.

34 By the way that he came, by the same he'll return, and shall not come into this city, says the Lord.

35 For I will defend this city to save it for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake."

36 Then the angel of the Lord went out, and struck one hundred eighty five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians, and when they got up early in the morning, see, they were all dead corpses.

37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.

38 And as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword, and they escaped into the land of Armenia, and Esarhaddon his son ruled instead of him.

___Isaiah chapter 38

1 In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death.  And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, "Thus says the Lord, set your house in order, for you'll die, and not live."

2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the Lord,

3 And said, "Remember now, O Lord, I beg of you, how I've walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done what is good in your sight."  And Hezekiah cried a lot.

4 Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying,

5 "Go, and say to Hezekiah, thus says the Lord, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears, see, I'll add to your life fifteen years.

6 And I'll deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I'll defend this city.

7 And this shall be a sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that he has spoken,

8 See, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, that has gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward."  So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it had gone down.

9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and had recovered from his sickness,

10 "I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave, I'm deprived of the remainder of my years.

11 I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the living, I shall see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

12 My age has departed, and is removed from me like a shepherd's tent, I have cut off my life like a weaver, he will cut me off with pining sickness, from day even until night you'll make an end of me.

13 I reckoned 'til morning, that, like a lion, so he'll break all my bones, from day even 'til night you'll make an end of me.

14 I chattered like a crane or a swallow, I mourned like a dove, my eyes fail by looking upward, O Lord, I'm oppressed, undertake for me.

15 What shall I say?  He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it, I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

16 O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit, so you'll recover me, and make me live.

17 See, for peace I had great bitterness, but you have in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption, for you've thrown all my sins behind your back.

18 For the grave can't praise you, death can't celebrate you, those who go down into the pit can't hope for your truth.

19 The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day, the father to the children shall make known your truth.

20 The Lord was ready to save me, therefore we will sing my songs accoompanied by the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the Lord."

21 For Isaiah had said, "Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaster on the boil, and he'll recover."

22 Hezekiah also had said, "What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?"

___Isaiah chapter 39

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

2 And Hezekiah was glad about them, and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures, there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn't show them.

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

4 Then he said, "What have they seen in your house?"  And Hezekiah answered, "They've see all that is in my house, there is nothing among my treasures that I haven't shown them."

5 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of the Lord of hosts,

6 See, the days come, that all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon, nothing shall be left, says the Lord.

7 And of your sons that shall issue from you, that you'll father, they'll take away, and they'll be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

8 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, the word of the Lord that you've spoken is good.  He also said, for there shall be peace and truth in my days."

___Isaiah chapter 40

1 "Comfort you, comfort you my people," says your God.

2 "Speak comfortably to Jerusalem, and shout to her, that her warfare has been accomplished, that her sin is pardoned, for she has received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins."

3 "The voice of him that cries in the wilderness, prepare the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain,

5 And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it."

6 The voice said, "Shout."  And he said, "What shall I shout?"  "All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness of it is like the flower of the field,

7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because the spirit of the Lord blows on it, surely the people are grass.

8 The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God shall stand forever."

9 O Zion, that brings good news, get up into the high mountain, O Jerusalem, that brings good news, lift up your voice with strength, lift it up, don't be afraid, say to the cities of Judah, "See your God!"

10 See, the Lord God will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him, see, his reward is with him, and his work before him.

11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd, he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those who are with young.

12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and measured out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

13 Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counselor has taught him?

14 From whom did he get advice, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?

15 See, the nations are like a drop of a bucket, and are counted like the small dust of the balance, see, he takes up the islands like a very little thing.

16 And Lebanon is not enough to burn, nor the beasts of it sufficient for a burnt offering.

17 All nations before him are like nothing, and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

18 To whom then will you liken God?  Or what likeness will you compare to him?

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

20 He that is so impoverished that he has no offering chooses a tree that won't rot, he seeks for himself a cunning workman to prepare an engraved image that won't be moved.

21 Haven't you known?  Haven't you heard?  Hasn't it been told you from the beginning?  Haven't you understood from the foundations of the earth?

22 It is he that sits on the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants of it are like grasshoppers, that stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to live in,

23 That brings the princes to nothing, he makes the judges of the earth like vanity.

24 Yes, they won't be planted, yes, they won't be planted, yes, their stock won't take root in the earth, and he shall also blow on them, and they'll wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away like stubble.

25 "To whom then will you liken me, or shall I be equal?", says the Holy one.

26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these things, that brings out their host by number, he calls them all by names by the greatness of his might, because he is strong in power, not one fails.

27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the Lord, and my judgment had passed over from my God?"

28 Haven't you known?  Haven't you heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth, doesn't faint, nor gets weary?  There is no searching of his understanding.

29 He gives power to the faint, and to those who have no might, he increases strength.

30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall completely fall,

31 But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength, they'll mount up with wings like eagles, they'll run, and not be weary, and they'll walk, and not faint.

___Isaiah chapter 41

1 Keep silence before me, O islands, and let the people renew their strength, let them come near, then let them speak, let us come near together to judgment.

2 Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings?  He gave them like the dust to his sword, and like wind blown stubble to his bow.

3 He pursued them, and passed safely, even by the way that he had not gone with his feet.

4 Who has made and done it, calling the generations from the beginning?  I the Lord, the first, and with the last, I am he.

5 The islands saw it, and feared, the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.

6 Everyone helped his neighbor, and everyone said to his brother, "Be of good courage."

7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smoothes with the hammer him that struck the anvil, saying, "It is ready for the soldering," and he fastened it with nails, so it wouldn't move.

8 But you, Israel, are my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.

9 You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called you from the chief men of it, and said to you, "You're my servant, I've chosen you, and not thrown you away.

10 Don't be afraid, for I am with you, don't be dismayed, for I am your God, I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you, yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

11 See, all of those who were incensed against you shall be ashamed and confused, they'll be as nothing, and those who strive with you shall die.

12 You'll seek them, and won't find them, even those who contended with you, those who war against you shall be like nothing, and a thing that is nothing.

13 For I the Lord your God will hold your right hand, saying to you, fear not, I will help you.

14 Fear not, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel, I will help you, says the Lord, and your redeemer, the Holy one of Israel.

15 See, I will make you a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth, you'll thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills like chaff.

16 You'll fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them, and you'll rejoice in the Lord, and shall glory in the Holy one of Israel.

17 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue fails for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel won't forsake them.

18 I'll open rivers in high places, and fountains among the valleys, I'll make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

19 I'll plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree, I'll set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together,

20 So they can see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord has done this, and the Holy one of Israel has created it.

21 Produce your cause, says the Lord, bring out your strong reasons, says the King of Jacob.

22 Let them bring them out, and show us what shall happen, let them show the previous things, what they are, so we can consider them, and know the latter end of them, or tell us things that will come in the future.

23 Show the things that are to come hereafter, so we can know that you are gods, yes, do good, or do evil, so we can be astonished, and see it together.

24 See, you're of nothing, and your work is of nothing, a dirty thing is he that chooses you.

25 I have raised up someone from the north, and he shall come, from the rising of the sun shall he call on my name, and he shall come agaist princes like against mortar, and like the potter walks on clay.

26 Who has declared from the beginning, so we can know?  And previously, so we can say, he is righteous?  Yes, there is no one that shows, yes, there is no one that declares, yes, there is no one that hears your words.

27 The first shall say to Zion, see, see them, and I will give to Jerusalem someone that brings good news.

28 For I looked, and there was no man, even among them, and there was no counselor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.

29 See, they're all vanity, their works are nothing, their images that have been cast in the foundry are wind and confusion.

___Isaiah chapter 42

1 See my servant, whom I uphold, my elect, in whom my soul delights, I've put my spirit on him, he shall bring forth justice for the Gentiles.

2 He won't shout, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.

3 He won't break a bruised reed, and he won't quench the smoking flax, he shall bring forth judgment to truth.

4 He shall not fail nor be discouraged, 'til he has set justice in the earth, and the islands shall wait for his law.

5 Thus says God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out, he that spread forth the earth, and that which comes out of it, he that gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to those who walk in it,

6 "I the Lord have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and give you for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles,

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

8 I am the Lord, that is my name, and I won't give my glory to someone else, nor my praise to engraved images.

9 See, the former things have happened, and I declare new things, before they happen I tell you about them."

10 Sing to the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, you that go down to the sea, and all that is in it, the islands, and the inhabitants of it.

11 Let the wilderness and the cities of it lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar inhabits, let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.

12 Let them give glory to the Lord, and declare his praise in the islands.

13 The Lord shall go forth like a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war, he shall cry, yes, roar, he shall prevail against his enemies.

14 I've been quiet for a long time, I've been still, and refrained myself, now I'll cry like a woman during childbirth, I'll destroy and devour at once.

15 I'll make mountains and hills waste, and dry up all their herbs, and I'll make the rivers islands, and I'll dry up the pools.

16 And I'll bring the blind by a way that they didn't know, I'll lead them in paths that they haven't known, I'll make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight.  I'll do these things to them, and not forsake them.

17 They'll be turned back, they'll be greatly ashamed, that trust in engraved images, that say to the images that are cast in the foundry, you are our gods.

18 Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, so you can see.

19 Who is blind, but my servant?  Or deaf, like my messenger that I sent?  Who is blind like he that is perfect, and blind like the Lord's servant?

20 Seeing many things, but you don't observe, opening the ears, but he doesn't hear.

21 The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness' sake, he will magnify the law, and make it honorable.

22 But these people are robbed and spoiled, they are all trapped in holes, and they are hidden in prison houses, they are for a prey, and no one provides deliverance, for a spoil, and no one says, "Restore."

23 Who among you will give ear to this?  Who will listen and hear for the time to come?

24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers?  Didn't the Lord, he against whom we've sinned?  For they wouldn't walk in his ways, nor were they obedient to his law.

25 Therefore he has poured on him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle, and it has set him on fire all around, yet he didn't know, and it burned him, yet he didn't take it seriously.

___Isaiah chapter 43

1 But now thus says the Lord that created you, O Jacob, and he that formed you, O Israel, "Don't be afraid, for I've redeemed you, I have called you by your name, you're mine.

2 When you pass through the waters, I'll be with you, and through the rivers, they won't overflow you, when you walk through the fire, you won't be burned, nor shall the flame kindle on you.

3 For I am the Lord your God, the Holy one of Israel, your Savior, I gave Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for you.

4 Since you were precious in my sight, you've been honorable, and I have loved you, therefore I'll give men for you, and people for your life.

5 Fear not, for I am with you, I'll bring your descendants from the east, and gather you from the west,

6 I will say to the north, give up, and to the south, don't hold back, bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth,

7 Even everyone that is called by my name, for I've created him for my glory, I've formed him, yes, I've made him.

8 Bring out the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.

9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled, who among them can declare this, and show us former things?  Let them bring out their witnesses, so they can be justified, or let them hear, and say, "It is truth."

10 "You are my witnesses," says the Lord, "and my servant whom I have chosen, so you'll know and believe me, and understand that I am he, before me there was no God formed, nor shall there be after me.

11 I, even I, am the Lord, and beside me there is no savior.

12 I've declared, and have saved, and I've shown, when there was no strange god among you, therefore you are my witnesses, says the Lord, that I am God.

13 Yes, before the day was I am he, and there is no one that can deliver out of my hand, I will work, and who shall hinder it?

14 Thus says the Lord, your redeemer, the Holy one of Israel, for your sake I've sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose shout is in the ships.

15 I am the Lord, your Holy one, the creator of Israel, your King.

16 Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters,

17 Who brings out the chariot and horse, the army and the power, they shall lie down together, they won't rise, they are extinct, they are quenched like straw.

18 Don't remember the former things, nor consider the things of old.

19 See, I'll do a new thing, now it shall spring forth, shall you not know it?  I'll even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

20 The beast of the field shall honor me, the dragons and the owls, because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.

21 I've formed these people for myself, they shall show forth my praise.

22 But you haven't called on me, O Jacob, but you've been weary of me, O Israel.

23 You haven't brought me the small cattle of your burnt offerings, nor have you honored me with your sacrifices.  I haven't caused you to serve with an offering, nor wearied you with incense.

24 You've bought me no sweet cane with money, nor have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices, but you've made me to serve with your sins, you've wearied me with your sins.

25 I, even I, am he that blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and won't remember your sins.

26 Remind me, let us plead together, declare so that you'll be justified.

27 Your first father has sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.

28 Therefore I've profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.

___Isaiah chapter 44

1 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen,

2 Thus says the Lord that made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you, don't be afraid, O Jacob, my servant, and you, Jesurun, whom I've chosen.

3 For I will pour water on him that is thirsty, and floods on the dry ground, I will pour my spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring,

4 And they shall spring up like among the grass, like willows by the water courses.

5 Someone shall say, I am the Lord's, and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob, and another shall subscribe with his hand to the Lord, and surname himself by the name of Israel.

6 Thus says the Lord the King of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts, I am the first, and I am the last, and beside me there is no God.

7 And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people?  And the things that are coming, and shall come, let them show to them.

8 Don't fear, nor be afraid, haven't I told you from that time, and have declared it?  You are my witnesses.  Is there a God beside me?  No, there is no God, I don't know any.

9 Those who make a engraved image are all of them vanity, and their delectable things shall not profit, and they are their own witnesses, they don't see, nor know, so that they'll be ashamed.

10 Who has formed a god, or cast in the foundry an engraved image that is profitable for nothing?

11 See, all his fellows shall be ashamed, and the workmen, they are of men, let them all be gathered together, let them stand up, yet they'll be afraid, and they'll be ashamed together.

12 The smith with the tongs works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with the strength of his arms, yes, he is hungry, and his strength fails, he drinks no water, and is faint.

13 The carpenter stretches out his rule, he marks it out with a line, he fits it with planes, and he marks it out with the circle, and makes it like the form of a man, according to the beauty of a man, so it will remain in the house.

14 He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, that he strengthens for himself among the trees of the forest, he plants an ash, and the rain nourishes it.

15 Then shall it be for a man to burn, for he will take of it, and warm himself, yes, he kindles it, and bakes bread, yes, he makes a god, and worships it, he makes it a engraved image, and falls down to it.

16 He burns part of it in the fire, with part of it he eats flesh, he roasts some roast, and is satisfied, yes, he warms himself, and says, "Aha, I'm warm, I have seen the fire,"

17 And the remainder of it he makes a god, even his engraved image, he falls down to it, and worships it, and prays to it, and says, deliver me, for you're my god.

18 They have not known nor understood, for he has shut their eyes, so they can't see, and their hearts, so they can't understand.

19 And no one considers in his heart, nor is there knowledge nor understanding to say, "I've burned part of it in the fire, yes, also I've baked bread on the coals of it, I've roasted flesh, and eaten it, and shall I make the remainder of it a dirty thing?  Shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?"

20 He feeds on ashes, a deceived heart has turned him aside, so he can't deliver his soul, nor say, is there not a lie in my right hand?

21 Remember these, O Jacob and Israel, for you're my servant, I've formed you, you're my servant, O Israel, you won't be forgotten by me.

22 I have blotted out, like a thick cloud, your transgressions, and like a cloud, your sins, return to me, for I've redeemed you.

23 Sing, O you heavens, for the Lord has done it, shout, you lower parts of the earth, break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, and every tree in it, for the Lord has redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.

24 Thus says the Lord, your redeemer, and he that formed you from the womb, I am the Lord that makes all things, that stretches out the heavens alone, that spreads abroad the earth by myself,

25 That frustrates the tokens of the liars, and makes diviners crazy, that turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish,

26 That confirms the word of his servant, and performs the advice of his messengers, that says to Jerusalem, "You shall be inhabited," and to the cities of Judah, "You shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places of it,"

27 That says to the deep, "Be dry, and I will dry up your rivers,"

28 That says of Cyrus, "He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure," even saying to Jerusalem, "You shall be built, and to the temple, your foundation shall be laid."

___Isaiah chapter 45

1 Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates, and the gates shall not be shut,

2 "I will go before you, and make the crooked places straight, I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in pieces the bars of iron,

3 And I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, so you'll know that I, the Lord, who calls you by your name, am the God of Israel."

4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel my elect, I have even called you by your name, I have surnamed you, though you haven't known me.

5 I am the Lord, and there is no one else, there is no God beside me, I clothed you, though you haven't known me,

6 So they'll know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is no one beside me.  I am the Lord, and there is no one else.

7 I form the light, and create darkness, I make peace, and create evil, I the Lord do all these things.

8 Drop down, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness, let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together, I the Lord have created it.

9 Woe to him that strives with his maker!  Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth.  Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, "What are you making?"  Or your work, "He has no hands?"

10 Woe to him that says to his father, "What do you father?"  Or to the woman, "What have you brought forth?"

11 Thus says the Lord, the Holy one of Israel, and his maker, "Ask me about things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command me.

12 I have made the earth, and created man on it, I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and I've commanded all their host.

13 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I'll direct all his ways, he shall build my city, and he'll let my captives go, not for price nor reward, says the Lord of hosts."

14 Thus says the Lord, "The labor of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you, and they'll be yours, they shall come after you, in chains they'll come over, and they'll fall down to you, they shall make supplication to you, saying, surely God is in you, and there is no one else, there is no God."

15 Truly you're a God that hides yourself, O God of Israel, the Savior.

16 They shall be ashamed, and also confused, all of them, they'll go to confusion together that are makers of idols.

17 But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation, you won't be ashamed nor confused world without end.

18 For thus says the Lord that created the heavens, God himself that formed the earth and made it, "He has established it, he didn't create it in vain, he formed it to be inhabited, I am the Lord, and there is no one else.

19 I haven't spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth, I didn't say to the descendants of Jacob, seek me in vain, I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

20 Assemble yourselves and come, draw near together, you that have escaped from the nations, they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can't save.

21 Tell, and bring them near, yes, let them get advice together, who has declared this from ancient time?  Who has told it from that time?  Haven't  I the Lord?  And there is no God else beside me, a just God and a Savior, there is no one beside me.

22 Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is no one else.

23 I've sworn by myself, the word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.

24 Surely, shall one say, "In the Lord I have righteousness and strength," men shall come to him, and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.

25 In the Lord all the seed of Israel shall be justified, and shall glory.

___Isaiah chapter 46

1 Bel bows down, Nebo stoops, their idols were on the animals, and on the cattle, your baggage was heavily loaded, they are a burden to the weary beast.

2 They stoop, they bow down together, they couldn't deliver the burden, but themselves are have into captivity.

3 Listen to me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, who are carried by me from the belly, who are carried from the womb,

4 And even to your old age I am he, and even to hoar hairs will I carry you, I have made, and I will carry, even I will carry, and will give you deliverance.

5 To whom will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, so we'll be alike?

6 They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god, they fall down, yes, they worship.

7 They carry him on the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he stands, he won't move from his place, yes, someone shall cry to him, yet he can't answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

8 Remember this, and show yourselves men, bring it again to mind, O you transgressors.

9 Remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is no one else, I am God, and there is no one like me,

10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, "My advice shall stand, and I'll do all my pleasure,

11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executes my advice from a far country, yes, I have spoken it, I will also make it happen, I have purposed it, I'll also do it.

12 Listen to me, you stouthearted, that are far from righteousness,

13 I bring near my righteousness, it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not wait, and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

___Isaiah chapter 47

1 Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground, there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans, for you'll no more be called tender and delicate.

2 Take the millstones, and grind meal, uncover your locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame shall be seen, I'll take vengeance, and I won't meet you like a man.

4 As for our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy one of Israel.

5 Sit silent, and get into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans, for you shall no more be called, the lady of kingdoms.

6 I was angry with my people, I've polluted my inheritance, and given them into your hand, you showed them no mercy, on the ancient you've very heavily laid your yoke.

7 And you said, "I shall be a lady forever," so that you didn't lay these things to heart, nor did remember the latter end of it.

8 Therefore hear now this, you that's given to pleasures, that lives carelessly, that says in your heart, "I am, and no one else beside me, I shall not sit like a widow, nor shall I know the loss of children,"

9 But these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood, they shall come on you in their perfection for the multitude of your sorceries, and for the great abundance of your enchantments.

10 For you've trusted in your wickedness, you've said, "No one sees me."  Your wisdom and your knowledge have perverted you, and you've said in your heart, "I am, and no one else beside me."

11 Therefore evil shall come on you, you won't know from where it rises, and mischief shall fall on you, you won't be able to put it off, and desolation shall come on you suddenly, that you won't know.

12 Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you've labored from your youth, if perhaps you'll be able to profit, if perhaps you'll prevail.

13 You're wearied in the multitude of your counsels.  Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save you from these things that shall come against you.

14 See, they shall be like stubble, the fire shall burn them, they won't deliver themselves from the power of the flame, there won't be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before.

15 Thus shall they be to you with whom you have labored, even your merchants, from your youth, they shall wander everyone to his quarter, no one shall save you.

___Isaiah chapter 48

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

2 For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel, the Lord of hosts is his name.

3 I've declared the former things from the beginning, and they went out of my mouth, and I showed them, I did them suddenly, and they happened.

4 Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron tendon, and your brow brass,

5 I have even from the beginning declared it to you, before it happened I showed it you, so you wouldn't say, my idol has done them, and my engraved image, and my image that was cast in the foundry, has commanded them.

6 You've heard, see all this, and won't you declare it?  I've shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, and you didn't know them.

7 They are created now, and not from the beginning, even before the day when you hadn't heard them, so you wouldn't say, "See, I knew them."

8 Yes, you didn't hear, yes, you didn't know, yes, from that time that your ear was not opened, for I knew that you would deal very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.

9 For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise I'll refrain for you, so I don't cut you off.

10 See, I've refined you, but not with silver, I've chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

11 For my own sake, even for my own sake, I'll do it, for how should my name be polluted?  And I won't give my glory to someone else.

12 Listen to me, O Jacob and Israel, my called, I am he, I am the first, I also am the last.

13 My hand also has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spanned the heavens, when I call to them, they stand up together.

14 All of you, assemble yourselves, and hear, who among them has declared these things?  The Lord has loved him, he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.

15 I, even I, have spoken, yes, I've called him, I've brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.

16 Come near to me, hear this, I haven't spoken in secret from the beginning, from the time that it was, there I am, and now the Lord God, and his Spirit, has sent me.

17 Thus says the Lord, your redeemer, the Holy one of Israel, I am the Lord your God who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

18 O that you had listened to my commandments!  Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea,

19 Your descendants also would have been like the sand, and the offspring of your bowels like the gravel of it, his name wouldn't have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

20 Go out of Babylon, flee from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing, declare, tell this, speak it even to the end of the earth, say, the Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob.

21 And they weren't thirsty when he led them through the deserts, he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them, he split the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

22 There is no peace, says the Lord, to the wicked.

___Isaiah chapter 49

1 Listen to me, O islands, and listen, you people, from far, the Lord has called me from the womb, from the bowels of my mother he has made mention of my name.

2 And he has made my mouth like a sharp sword, in the shadow of his hand he has hidden me, and made me a polished shaft, in his quiver he has hidden me,

3 And said to me, "You're my servant, O Israel, in whom I'll be glorified."

4 Then I said, "I've labored in vain, I've spent my strength for nothing, and in vain, yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God."

5 "And now," says the Lord that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, though Israel isn't  gathered, "yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my strength."

6 And he said, "It is a light thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel, I will also give you for a light to the Gentiles, so that you'll be my salvation to the end of the earth."

7 Thus says the Lord, the redeemer of Israel, and his Holy one, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation hates, to a servant of rulers, "Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the Lord that is faithful, and the Holy one of Israel, and he shall choose you."

8 Thus says the Lord, "In an acceptable time I've heard you, and in a day of salvation I've helped you, and I'll preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages,

9 So you can to the prisoners, go forth, to those who are in darkness, show yourselves.  They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.

10 They shall not hunger nor thirst, nor shall the heat nor sun strike them, for he that has mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water he'll guide them.

11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.

12 See, these shall come from far, and, see, these from the north and from the west, and these from the land of Sinim.

13 Sing, O heavens, and be joyful, O earth, and break forth into singing, O mountains, for the Lord has comforted his people, and will have mercy on his afflicted."

14 But Zion said, "The Lord has forsaken me, and my Lord has forgotten me."

15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?  Yes, they might forget, yet I won't forget you.

16 See, I've engraved you on the palms of my hands, your walls are continually before me.

17 Your children shall make haste, your destroyers and those who made you waste shall go out of you.

18 Lift up yours eyes all around, and see, all these gather themselves together, and come to you.  As I live, says the Lord, you'll surely clothe yourself with them all, like with an ornament, and tie them on you, like a bride does.

19 For your waste and your desolate places, and the land of your destruction, shall even now be too narrow because of the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up shall be far away.

20 The children that you'll have, after you've lost the other, shall say again in your ears, "The place is too small for me, give place to me so I can live."

21 Then you'll say in your heart, "Who has begotten me these, seeing I've lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and relocating back and forth?  And who has brought up these?  See, I was left alone, these, where have they been?"

22 Thus says the Lord God, "See, I'll lift up my hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people, and they'll bring your sons in their arms, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.

23 And kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers, they'll bow down to you with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of your feet, and you'll know that I am the Lord, for they won't be ashamed that wait for me.

24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?

25 But thus says the Lord, even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered, for I will contend with him that contends with you, and I will save your children.

26 And I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh, and they shall be drunken with their own blood, like with sweet wine, and all flesh shall know that I the Lord am your Savior and your redeemer, the mighty one of Jacob."

___Isaiah chapter 50

1 Thus says the Lord, "Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, whom I've put away?  Or which of my creditors is it to whom I've sold you?  See, for your sins you've sold yourselves, and for your transgressions your mother has been divorced.

2 So, when I came, was there no man?  When I called, was there no one to answer?  Is my hand shortened at all, so that it can't redeem?  Or do I have no power to deliver?  See, at my reprimand I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness, their fish stink, because there's no water, and die for thirst.

3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

4 The Lord God has given me the tongue of the learned, so that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary, he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear like the learned.

5 The Lord God has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, nor did I backslide.

6 I gave my back to the strikers, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair, I didn't hide my face from shame and spitting.

7 For the Lord God will help me, therefore I won't be confused, therefore I've set my face like a flint, and I know that I won't be ashamed.

8 He is near that justifies me, who will contend with me?  Let us stand together, who is my adversary?  Let him come near to me.

9 See, the Lord God will help me, who is he that shall condemn me?  See, they'll all grow old like a garment, the moth shall eat them up.

10 Who is among you that fears the Lord, that obeys the voice of his servant, that walks in darkness, and has no light?  Let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay on his God.

11 See, all you that kindle a fire, that circle yourselves around with sparks, walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that you've kindled.  You'll have this from my hand, you'll lie down in sorrow."

___Isaiah chapter 51

1 Listen to me, you that follow after righteousness, you that seek the Lord, look to the rock from which you've been cut, and to the hole of the pit from which you've been dug.

2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah that bore you, for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

3 For the Lord shall comfort Zion, he will comfort all her waste places, and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord, joy and gladness shall be found in it, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

4 Listen to me, my people, and give ear to me, O my nation, for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.

5 My righteousness is near, my salvation has gone forth, and my arms shall judge the people, the islands shall wait on me, and they'll trust on my arm.

6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath, for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall grow old like a garment, and those who live in it shall die similarly, but my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

7 Listen to me, you that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law, don't fear the reproach of men, nor be afraid of their revilings.

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

9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord, wake up, like in the ancient days, in the generations of old.  Aren't you the one that has cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?

10 Aren't you the one that has dried the sea, the waters of the great deep, that has made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?

11 Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing to Zion, and everlasting joy shall be on their head, they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

12 I, even I, am he that comforts you, who are you, that you should be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made like grass,

13 And forget the Lord your maker, that has stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth, and have feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy?  And where is the fury of the oppressor?

14 The captive exile hastens so he can be loosed, and so he won't die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.

15 But I am the Lord your God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared, the Lord of hosts is his name.

16 And I've put my words in your mouth, and I've covered you in the shadow of my hand, so I can plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, you are my people.

17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, who have drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury, you've drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.

18 There is no one to guide her among all the sons whom she has produced, nor is there anyone that takes her by the hand of all the sons that she has brought up.

19 These two things have come to you, who shall be sorry for you?  Desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword, by whom shall I comfort you?

20 Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, like a wild bull in a net, they're full of the fury of the Lord, the reprimand of your God.

21 Therefore, now hear this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine,

22 Thus says your Lord the Lord, and your God that pleads the cause of his people, see, I've taken out of your hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury, you'll no more drink it again,

23 But I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who've said to your soul, bow down, so we can go over, and you've laid your body like the ground, and like the street, to those who went over.

___Isaiah chapter 52

1 Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion, put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city, for from now on, there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.

2 Shake yourself from the dust, arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem, loose yourself from the bands of your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

3 For thus says the Lord, you've sold yourselves for nothing, and you'll be redeemed without money.

4 For thus says the Lord God, my people went down before into Egypt to visit there, and the Assyrian oppressed them without a reason.

5 Now therefore, what do I have, says the Lord, that my people are taken away for nothing?  Those who rule over them make them howl, says the Lord, and my name is blasphemed continually every day.

6 Therefore my people shall know my name, therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that speaks, see, it is I.

7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him that brings good news, that publishes peace, that brings good news of good, that publishes salvation, that says to Zion, your God rules!

8 Your watchmen shall lift up the voice, with the voice together they'll sing, for they'll see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring again Zion.

9 Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem, for the Lord has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.

10 The Lord has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

11 Depart, depart, go out from there, don't touch any unclean thing, go out from among her, be clean, who carry the containers of the Lord.

12 For you won't go out with haste, nor go by flight, for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

13 See, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.

14 As many were astonished at you, his face was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men,

15 So he shall sprinkle many nations, the kings shall shut their mouths at him, for they'll see that which had not been told them, and they'll consider that which they hadn't heard.

___Isaiah chapter 53

1 Who has believed our report?  And to whom has the arm of the Lord revealed?

2 For he shall grow up before him like a tender plant, and like a root out of a dry ground, he has no form nor attractiveness, and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

3 He is despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, and we hid, as it were, our faces from him, he was despised, and we didn't esteemed him.

4 Surely he has carried our griefs, and carried our sorrows, yet we esteemed him stricken, struck by God, and afflicted.

5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement of our peace was on him, and by his stripes we are healed.

6 All of us like sheep have gone astray, we have turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord has laid on him the sin of us all.

7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he didn't open his mouth, he is brought like a lamb to the slaughter, and like a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he doesn't open his mouth.

8 He was taken from prison and from justice, and who shall declare his generation?  For he was cut off out of the land of the living, for the transgression of my people he was stricken.

9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, because he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him, he has put him to grief, when you shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied, by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many, for he shall carry their sins.

12 Therefore I'll divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he has poured out his soul to death, and he was numbered with the transgressors, and he carried the sins of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

___Isaiah chapter 54

1 "Sing, O barren, who didn't give birth, break forth into singing, and cry out loud, you that didn't travail with child, for the children of the desolate are more than the children of the married wife," says the Lord.

2 Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your habitations, don't spare, lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes,

3 For you shall break out on the right hand and on the left, and your descendants shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

4 Don't be afraid, for you won't be ashamed, and don't be confused, for you won't be put to shame, for you'll forget the shame of your youth, and won't remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore.

5 For your maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name, and your redeemer the Holy one of Israel, he shall be called the God of the whole earth.

6 For the Lord has called you like a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when you were refused, says your God.

7 I've forsaken you for a small moment, but I'll gather you with great mercies.

8 In a little anger I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I'll have mercy on you, says the Lord your redeemer.

9 For this is like the waters of Noah to me, for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah would no more go over the earth, so I've sworn that I won't  be angry with you, nor reprimand you.

10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills shall be removed, but my kindness won't depart from you, nor shall the covenant of my peace be removed, says the Lord that has mercy on you.

11 O you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, see, I'll lay your stones with fair colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.

12 And I'll make your windows of agates, and your gates of carbuncles, and all your borders of pleasant stones.

13 And all your children shall be taught by the Lord, and the peace of your children shall be great.

14 You'll be established in righteousness, you'll be far from oppression, for you won't fear, and from terror, for it won't come near you.

15 See, they'll surely gather together, but not by me, whoever shall gather together against you shall fall for your sake.

16 See, I have created the smith that blows the coals in the fire, and that brings out an instrument for his work, and I've created the waster to destroy.

17 No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you'll condemn.  This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, says the Lord.

___Isaiah chapter 55

1 Ho, everyone that thirsts, come to the waters, and he that has no money, come, buy, and eat, yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

2 Why do you spend money for what is not bread?  And your labor for what doesn't satisfy?  Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

3 Incline your ear, and come to me, hear, and your soul shall live, and I'll make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

4 See, I've given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.

5 See, you'll call a nation that you don't know, and nations that didn't know you shall run to you because of the Lord your God, and for the Holy one of Israel, for he has glorified you.

6 Seek the Lord while he can be found, call on him while he is near,

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

8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord.

9 For like the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

10 For like the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and doesn't return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, so it will give seed to the planter, and bread to the eater,

11 So shall my word be that goes out of my mouth, it won't return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

12 For you'll go out with joy, and be led forth with peace, the mountains and the hills shall break out before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree, and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

___Isaiah chapter 56

1 Thus says the Lord, "Keep judgment, and do justice, for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

2 Blessed is the man that does this, and the son of man that lays hold on it, that keeps the Sabbath from polluting it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.

3 Neither let the son of the stranger, that has joined himself to the Lord, speak, saying, the Lord has completely separated me from his people, nor let the eunuch say, see, I'm a dry tree."

4 For thus says the Lord to the eunuchs that keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant,

5 "Even to them I'll give in my house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters, I'll give them an everlasting name, that won't be cut off.

6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, everyone that keeps the Sabbath from polluting it, and takes hold of my covenant,

7 I'll bring them to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer, their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted on my altar, for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all people."

8 The Lord God who gathers the outcasts of Israel says, "Yet I'll gather others to him, beside those that have been gathered to him."

9 All you beasts of the field, come to devour, yes, all you beasts in the forest.

10 His watchmen are blind, they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they can't bark, sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

11 Yes, they are greedy dogs that can never have enough, and they are shepherds that can't understand, they all look to their own way, everyone for his gain, from his quarter.

12 "Come," they say, "I'll fetch wine, and we'll fill ourselves with strong drink, and tomorrow shall be like this day, and much more abundant."

___Isaiah chapter 57

1 The righteous die, and no man lays it to heart, and merciful men are taken away, no one considering that the righteous are taken away from the evil that's coming.

2 He shall enter into peace, they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.

3 But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the descendants of the adulterer and the whore.

4 Against whom do you sport yourselves?  Against whom make you a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue?  Aren't you children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, killing the children in the valleys under the cliffs of the rocks?

6 Your portion is among the smooth stones of the stream, they are what belongs to you, you have poured a drink offering to them, you have offered a meat offering.  Should I receive comfort in these?

7 On a lofty and high mountain you've set your bed, you went up there to offer sacrifice.

8 Behind the doors also and the posts you've set up your remembrance, for you've discovered yourself to someone else beside me, and have gone up, you've enlarged your bed, and made yourself a covenant with them, you loved their bed where you saw it.

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

10 You are wearied in the greatness of your way, yet you didn't say, there is no hope, you have found the life of your hand, therefore you weren't grieved.

11 And of whom have you been afraid or feared, causing you to lie, and haven't remembered me, nor laid it to your heart?  Haven't I been silent even of old, and you don't fear me?

12 I will declare your righteousness, and your works, for they won't profit you.

13 When you cry, let your companies deliver you, but the wind shall carry them all away, vanity shall take them, but he that puts his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain,

14 And shall say, "Cast up, cast up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling block out of the way of my people."

15 For thus says the high and lofty one that inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, I live in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

16 For I won't contend forever, nor will I be always angry, for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls that I've made.

17 For the sin of his covetousness I was angry, and struck him, I hid myself, and was angry, and he went on perversely in the way of his heart.

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

19 "I create the fruit of the lips, peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near," says the Lord, "and I will heal him."

20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it can't rest, whose waters throw up mire and dirt.

21 There is no peace, says my God, to the wicked.

___Isaiah chapter 58

1 Cry out loud, don't spare, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, like a nation that did righteousness, and didn't forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me the ordinances of justice, they take delight in approaching to God.

3 Why have we fasted, they say, and you don't see?  Why have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge?  See, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exact all your labors.

4 See, you fast for strife and debate, and to strike with the fist of wickedness, you shall not fast like you do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.

5 Is it such a fast that I've chosen?  A day for a man to afflict his soul?  Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?  Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?

6 Isn't this the fast that I've chosen?  To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

7 Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are thrown out to your house?  When you see the naked, that you cover him, and that you don't hide yourself from your own flesh?

8 Then shall your light break forth like the morning, and your health shall spring forth speedily, and your righteousness shall go before you, the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.

9 Then you'll call, and the Lord shall answer, you'll cry, and he'll say, here I am.  If you take away from among you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity,

10 And if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light shall rise in obscurity, and your darkness be like the noonday,

11 And the Lord shall guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought, and make fat your bones, and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don't fail.

12 And those who shall be of you shall build the old waste places, you shall raise up the foundations of many generations, and you'll be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to live in.

13 If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable, and shall honor him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,

14 Then you'll delight yourself in the Lord, and I'll cause you to ride on the high places of the earth, and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.

___Isaiah chapter 59

1 See, the Lord's hand is not shortened so that it can't save, nor his ear heavy so it can't hear,

2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, so that he won't hear.

3 For your hands have been defiled with blood, and your fingers with sin, your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.

4 No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth, they trust in vanity, and speak lies, they conceive mischief, and bring forth sin.

5 They hatch snake's eggs, and weave the spider's web, he that eats of their eggs dies, and that which has been crushed breaks out into a viper.

6 Their webs shall not become garments, nor shall they cover themselves with their works, their works are works of sin, and the act of violence is in their hands.

7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood, their thoughts are thoughts of sin, wasting and destruction are in their paths.

8 The way of peace they didn't know, and there is no justice in their goings, they have made themselves crooked paths, whoever goes in it shall not know peace.

9 Therefore judgment is far from us, nor does justice overtake us, we wait for light, but see obscurity, for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

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

11 We all roar like bears, and mourn severely like doves, we look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.

12 For our transgressions have been multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us, for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them,

13 In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and speaking from the heart words of falsehood.

14 And judgment has been turned away backward, and justice stands afar off, for truth has fallen in the street, and equity can't enter.

15 Yes, truth fails, and he that departs from evil makes himself a prey, and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor, therefore his arm brought salvation to him, and his righteousness sustained him.

17 For he put on righteousness like a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head, and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal like a cloak.

18 According to their deeds, accordingly he'll repay, fury to his adversaries, repayment to his enemies, to the islands he will repay recompence.

19 So they'll fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun.  When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.

20 And the redeemer shall come to Zion, and to those who turn from transgression in Jacob, says the Lord.

21 "As for me, this is my covenant with them," says the Lord, "my spirit that is on you, and my words that I've put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your descendants, nor out of the mouth of your descendants', says the Lord, from from now on and forever.

___Isaiah chapter 60

1 Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen on you.

2 For see, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people, but the Lord shall arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.

3 And the Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.

4 Lift up your eyes all around, and see, all of them gather themselves together, they come to you, your sons shall come from far, and your daughters shall be nursed at your side.

5 Then you'll see, and flow together, and your heart shall fear, and be enlarged, because the abundance of the sea shall be converted to you, the forces of the Gentiles shall come to you.

6 The multitude of camels shall cover you, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah, all of those from Sheba shall come, they shall bring gold and incense, and they shall show forth the praises of the Lord.

7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to you, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you, they shall come up with acceptance on my altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.

8 Who are these that fly like a cloud, and like the doves to their windows?

9 Surely the islands shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, to the name of the Lord your God, and to the Holy one of Israel, because he has glorified you.

10 And the sons of strangers shall build up your walls, and their kings shall minister to you, for in my anger I struck you, but in my favor I've had mercy on you.

11 Therefore your gates shall be open continually, they shall not be shut day nor night, so that men can bring to you the forces of the Gentiles, and so that their kings can be brought.

12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall be destroyed, yes, those nations shall be completely wasted.

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

14 The sons also of those who afflicted you shall come bending to you, and all of those who despised you shall bow themselves down at the soles of your feet, and they shall call you, "The city of the Lord," "the Zion of the Holy one of Israel."

15 Although you've been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through you, I will make you an eternal excellence, a joy of many generations.

16 You'll also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shall suck the breast of kings, and you'll know that I the Lord am your Savior and your redeemer, the mighty one of Jacob.

17 For brass I'll bring gold, and for iron I'll bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron, I'll also make your officers peace, and your exactors righteousness.

18 Violence shall no more be heard in your land, wasting nor destruction within your borders, but you'll call your walls salvation, and your gates praise.

19 The sun shall no more be your light by day, nor shall the moon give light to you for brightness, but the Lord shall be to you an everlasting light, and your God your glory.

20 Your sun shall no more go down, nor shall your moon withdraw itself, for the Lord shall be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning shall be ended.

21 Your people also shall all be righteous, they'll inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, so I'll be glorified.

22 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation, I the Lord will hasten it in his time.

___Isaiah chapter 61

1 The Spirit of the Lord God is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the meek, he has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound,

2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,

3 To appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of the spirit of heaviness, so that they'll be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, so he'll be glorified.

4 And they'll build the old wastes, they'll raise up the former desolations, and they'll repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vine dressers.

6 But you'll be named the priests of the Lord, men shall call you the ministers of our God, you'll eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory you'll boast yourselves.

7 For your shame you'll have double, and for confusion they'll rejoice in their portion, therefore in their land they'll possess the double, everlasting joy shall be to them.

8 For I the Lord love justice, I hate robbery for burnt offering, and I'll direct their work in truth, and I'll make an everlasting covenant with them.

9 And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people, all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed that the Lord has blessed.

10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, like a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and like a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

11 For as the earth brings forth its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are planted in it to spring up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

___Isaiah chapter 62

1 For Zion's sake I won't be silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I won't rest, until the righteousness of it goes forth like brightness, and the salvation of it like a lamp that burns.

2 And the Gentiles shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory, and you'll be called by a new name, that the mouth of the Lord shall name.

3 You'll also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

4 You shall no more be called forsaken, nor shall your land anymore be called desolate, but you'll be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah, for the Lord delights in you, and your land shall be married.

5 For like a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you, and like the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.

6 I've set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem, that shall never hold their peace day nor night, you that make mention of the Lord, don't keep silence,

7 And give him no rest, 'til he establishes, and 'til he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

8 The Lord has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, surely I will no more give your corn to be food for your enemies, and the sons of the stranger shall not drink your wine, for which you've labored,

9 But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the Lord, and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.

10 Go through, go through the gates, prepare the way of the people, cast up, cast up the highway, gather out the stones, lift up a standard for the people.

11 See, the Lord has proclaimed to the end of the world, say to the daughter of Zion, "See, your salvation comes, see, his reward is with him, and his work before him."

12 And they shall call them, "The holy people," "The redeemed of the Lord," and you'll be called, "Sought out," "A city not forsaken."

___Isaiah chapter 63

1 Who is this that comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah?  This that is glorious in his clothing, traveling in the greatness of his strength?  I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.

2 Why is your clothing red, and your garments like him that treads in the wine vat?

3 I have walked on the winepress alone, and of the people there was no one with me, for I will tread them in my anger, and trample them in my fury, and their blood shall be sprinkled on my garments, and I will stain all my clothing.

4 For the day of vengeance is in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come.

5 And I looked, and there was no one to help, and I wondered that there was no one to uphold, therefore my own arm brought salvation to me, and my fury upheld me.

6 And I will tread down the people in my anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.

7 I will mention the loving kindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, that he has bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

8 For he said, "Surely they are my people, children that won't," so he was their Savior.

9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them, in his love and in his pity he redeemed them, and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit, therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.

11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, "Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock?  Where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?

12 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?

13 That led them through the deep, like a horse in the wilderness, so they wouldn't stumble?

14 Like an animal goes down into the valley, the Spirit of the Lord caused him to rest, so you led your people, to make yourself a glorious name.

15 Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory, where is your zeal and your strength, the sounding of your bowels and of your mercies toward me?  Are they restrained?

16 Doubtless you are our father, though Abraham is ignorant of us, and Israel doesn't acknowledge us, you, O Lord, are our father, our redeemer, your name is from everlasting.

17 O Lord, why have you made us to err from your ways, and hardened our heart from your fear?  Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance.

18 The people of your holiness have possessed it but a little while, our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary.

19 We are yours, you never bore rule over them, they weren't called by your name.

___Isaiah chapter 64

1 Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might flow down at your presence,

2 As when the melting fire burns, the fire causes the waters to boil, to make your name known to your adversaries, so the nations will tremble at your presence!

3 When you did terrible things that we didn't look for, you came down, the mountains flowed down at your presence.

4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen, O God, beside you, what he has prepared for him that waits for him.

5 You meet him that rejoices and works righteousness, those that remember you in your ways, see, you're angry, for we have sinned, in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.

6 But we are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags, and we all fade like a leaf, and our sins, like the wind, have taken us away.

7 And there is no one that calls on your name, that stirs up himself to take hold of you, for you've hidden your face from us, and have consumed us, because of our sins.

8 But now, O Lord, you are our father, we are the clay, and you our potter, and we all are the work of your hand.

9 Don't be severely angry, O Lord, nor remember sin forever, see, we beg of you, we are all your people.

10 Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, has been burned up by fire, and all our pleasant things have been laid waste.

12 Will you refrain yourself for these things, O Lord?  Will you hold your peace, and afflict us severely?

___Isaiah chapter 65

1 I am sought by those who didn't ask for me, I am found by those who didn't seek me, I said, "See me, see me," to a nation that was not called by my name.

2 I've spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, that walks in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts,

3 A people that provokes me to anger continually to my face, that sacrifices in gardens, and burns incense on altars of brick,

4 Who remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, who eat pigs flesh, and broth of dirty things is in their containers,

5 Who say, "Stand by yourself, don't come near to me, for I am holier than you."  These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.

6 See, it is written before me, I will not keep silence, but will repay, even repay into their bosom,

7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, says the Lord, who've burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills, therefore I'll measure their former work into their bosom.

8 Thus says the Lord, "Like the new wine is found in the cluster, and someone says, don't destroy it, for a blessing is in it, I will do so for my servants' sakes, so that I don't destroy them all.

9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains, and my elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall live there.

10 And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.

11 But you are those who forsake the Lord, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that battalion, and that furnish the drink offering to that number.

12 Therefore I'll number you to the sword, and you'll all bow down to the slaughter, because when I called, you didn't answer, when I spoke, you didn't hear, but did evil before my eyes, and chose that in which I didn't delighted.

13 Therefore thus says the Lord God, see, my servants shall eat, but you'll be hungry, see, my servants shall drink, but you'll be thirsty, see, my servants shall rejoice, but you'll be ashamed,

14 See, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you'll cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.

15 And you'll leave your name for a curse to my chosen, for the Lord God shall kill you, and call his servants by a different name,

16 So that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth, and he that swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth, because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hidden from my eyes.

17 For see, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

18 But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create, for see, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people, and the voice of weeping shall no more be heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

20 There shall no more be there an infant of days, nor an old man that has not filled his days, for the child shall die a hundred years old, but the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.

21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

22 They shall not build, and someone else inhabit, they shall not plant, and someone else eat, for the days of my people are like the days of a tree, and my elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

23 They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for trouble, for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them.

24 And before they call, I'll answer, and while they are still speaking, I'll hear.

25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock, and the serpent's food shall be dust.  They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, says the Lord.

___Isaiah chapter 66

1 Thus says the Lord, "The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool, where is the house that you build to me?  And where is the place of my rest?

2 For all those things has my hand made, and all those things have been, says the Lord, but I will look to this man, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembles at my word.

3 He that kills an ox is as if he killed a man, he that sacrifices a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck, he that offers an offering, as if he offered pigs blood, he that burns incense, as if he blessed an idol.  Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their dirty things.

4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them, because when I called, no one answered, when I spoke, they didn't listen, but they did evil before my eyes, and chose that in which I didn't delight.

5 Hear the word of the Lord, you that tremble at his word, your brothers that hated you, that threw you out for my name's sake, said, let the Lord be glorified, but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed."

6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord that renders repayment to his enemies.

7 Before she travailed, she brought forth, before her pain came, she received deliverance from a man child.

8 Who has heard such a thing?  Who has seen such things?  Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day?  Or shall a nation be born at once?  For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.

9 "Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth?"  Says the Lord, "Shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb?"  Says your God.

10 Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you that love her, rejoice for joy with her, all you that mourn for her,

11 So you can suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations, that you may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.

12 For thus says the Lord, "See, I'll extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream, then you'll suck, you'll be carried on her sides, and be dangled on her knees.

13 Like one whom his mother comforts, so I'll comfort you, and you'll be comforted in Jerusalem.

14 And when you see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like a herb, and the hand of the Lord shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.

15 For see, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his reprimand with flames of fire.

16 For by fire and by his sword the Lord will plead with all flesh, and the slain by the Lord shall be many.

17 "Those who make themselves holy, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the middle, eating pigs flesh, and the dirty thing, and the mouse, shall be consumed together," says the Lord.

18 For I know their works and their thoughts.  It shall come that I'll gather all nations and languages, and they'll come, and see my glory.

19 And I'll set a sign among them, and I'll send those that escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the islands far off, that haven't heard my fame, nor have seen my glory, and they'll declare my glory among the Gentiles.

20 And they'll bring all your brothers for an offering to the Lord out of all nations on horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and on mules, and on swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the Lord, like the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean container into the house of the Lord.

21 And I will also take some of them for priests and for Levites, says the Lord.

22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, that I will make, shall remain before me, says the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain.

23 And from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, all flesh shall come to worship before me, says the Lord.

24 And they shall go forth, and look at the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me, for their worm shall not die, nor shall their fire be quenched, and they shall be despised by all flesh.

___Jeremiah chapter 1

1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,

2 To whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his rule.

3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, to the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, to the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.

4 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

5 "Before I formed you in the belly I knew you, and before you came out of the womb I made you holy, and I ordained you a prophet to the nations."

6 Then I said, "Ah, Lord God!  See, I can't speak, for I am a child."

7 But the Lord said to me, "Say not, I am a child, for you'll go to all that I shall send you to, and whatever I command you, you'll speak.

8 Don't be afraid of their faces, for I am with you to deliver you," says the Lord.

9 Then the Lord put out his hand, and touched my mouth.  And the Lord said to me, "See, I have put my words in your mouth.

10 See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to uproot, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant."

11 Also the word of the Lord came to me, saying, "Jeremiah, what do you see?"  And I said, "I see a rod of an almond tree."

12 Then the Lord said to me, "You've seen well, for I'll hasten my word to perform it."

13 And the word of the Lord came to me the second time, saying, "What do you see?"  And I said, "I see a seething pot, and the face of it is toward the north."

14 Then the Lord said to me, "Out of the north an evil shall break forth on all the inhabitants of the land.

15 For see, I'll call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says the Lord, and they'll come, and each of them shall set his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls of it all around, and against all the cities of Judah.

16 And I will speak my judgments against them concerning all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

17 Therefore, put on your pants, and get up, and speak to them all that I command you, don't be dismayed at their faces, so that I don't confuse you before them.

18 For see, today, I've made you a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brass walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes of it, against the priests of it, and against the people of the land.

19 And they'll fight against you, but they won't prevail against you, for I am with you, says the Lord, to give you deliverance."

___Jeremiah chapter 2

1 Also the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

2 "Go and shout in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, thus says the Lord, I remember you, the kindness of your youth, the love of your espousals, when you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not planted.

3 Israel was holiness to the Lord, and the first fruits of his increase, all that devour him shall offend, evil shall come against them, says the Lord.

4 Hear you the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel,

5 Thus says the Lord, what iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?

6 Neither did they say, where is the Lord that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man lived?

7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit of it and the goodness of it, but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage a dirty thing.

8 The priests didn't say, where is the Lord?  And those who handle the law didn't know me, the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that don't profit.

9 So I'll yet plead with you, says the Lord, and with your children's children I'll plead.

10 For pass over the islands of Chittim, and see, and send to Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there's such a thing.

11 Has a nation changed their gods, which are not gods?  But my people have changed their glory for what doesn't profit.

12 Be astonished at this, O you heavens, and be horribly afraid, be very desolate, says the Lord.

13 For my people have committed two evils, they've forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and cut themselves out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can't hold any water.

14 Is Israel a servant?  Is he a home born slave?  Why has he been spoiled?

15 The young lions roared at him, and yelled, and they made his land waste, his cities are burned without inhabitant.

16 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of your head.

17 Haven't you procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken the Lord your God, when he led you by the way?

18 And now what have you to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor?  Or what have you to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?

19 Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you, know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that you've forsaken the Lord your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord God of hosts.

20 For of old time I've broken your yoke, and broken your bands, and you said, I won't transgress, when on every high hill and under every green tree you wander, playing the prostitute.

21 Yet I had planted you a noble vine, completely a right seed, how then have you turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine to me?

22 For though you wash yourself with nitre, and use a lot of soap, yet your sin is marked before me, says the Lord God.

23 How can you say, I am not polluted, I haven't gone after Baalim?  See your way in the valley, know what you have done, you're a swift dromedary traversing her ways,

24 A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind at her pleasure, in her occasion who can turn her away?  All those who seek her will not weary themselves, in her month they'll find her.

25 Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst, but you said, there is no hope, no, for I've loved strangers, and I'll go after them.

26 Like the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed, they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,

27 Saying to a stock, you're my father, and to a stone, you've brought me forth, for they've turned their back to me, and not their face, but in the time of their trouble they'll say, arise and save us.

28 But where are your gods that you've made for yourselves?  Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble, for according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah.

29 So will you plead with me?  You've all transgressed against me, says the Lord.

30 I've struck your children in vain, they didn't received any correction, your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

31 O generation, see the word of the Lord.  Have I been a wilderness to Israel?  A land of darkness?  My people say, we are lords, we will come no more to you?

32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire?  Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

33 Why do you trim your way to seek love?  Therefore have you also taught the wicked ones your ways.

34 Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents, I haven't found it by secret search, but on all these.

35 Yet you say, because I'm innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me.  See, I'll plead with you, because you say, I haven't sinned.

36 Why gaddest thou about so much to change your way?  You also shall be ashamed of Egypt, like you were ashamed of Assyria.

37 Yes, you shall go forth from him, and your hands on your head, for the Lord has rejected your confidences, and you won't prosper in them.

___Jeremiah chapter 3

1 They say, if a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man's, shall he return to her again?  Won't that land be greatly polluted?  But you've played the harlot with many lovers, yet return again to me, says the Lord.

2 Lift up your eyes to the high places, and see where you haven't been lain with.  On the roads you've sat for them, like the Arabian in the wilderness, and you've polluted the land with your whoredoms and with your wickedness.

3 Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain, and you had a whore's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.

4 Won't you from this time cry to me, my father, you are the guide of my youth?

5 Will he reserve his anger forever?  Will he keep it to the end? See, you've spoken and done evil things as you were able.

6 The Lord said also to me in the days of Josiah the king, have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done?  She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and has played the harlot there.

7 And I said, after she had done all these things, turn to me.  But she didn't return.  And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

8 And I saw, when for all the causes by which backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce, yet her treacherous sister Judah didn't fear, but went and played the harlot also.

9 And through the lightness of her whoredom, she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to me with her whole heart, but in pretence, says the Lord.

11 And the Lord said to me, the backsliding Israel has justified herself more than treacherous Judah.

12 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, return, backsliding Israel, says the Lord, and I won't cause my anger to fall on you, for I am merciful, says the Lord, and I won't keep anger forever.

13 Only acknowledge your sin, that you've transgressed against the Lord your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you haven't obeyed my voice, says the Lord.

14 Turn, O backsliding children, says the Lord, for I am married to you, and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion,

15 And I will give you pastors according to my heart, who'll feed you with knowledge and understanding.

16 And when you're multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, says the Lord, they won't anymore say, the ark of the covenant of the Lord, nor shall it come to mind, nor shall they remember it, nor shall they visit it, nor shall that be done anymore.

17 At that time they'll call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord, and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem, nor shall they walk anymore after the imagination of their evil heart.

18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance to your fathers.

19 But I said, how shall I put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations?  And I said, you shall call me, my father, and shall not turn away from me.

20 Surely like a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you've dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, says the Lord.

21 A voice was heard on the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel, for they've perverted their way, and they've forgotten the Lord their God.

22 Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings.  See, we come to you, for you are the Lord our God.

23 Truly in vain salvation is hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains, truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.

24 For shame has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covers us, for we've sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and haven't obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.

___Jeremiah chapter 4

1 If you'll return, O Israel, says the Lord, return to me, and if you'll put away your dirty things out of my sight, then you won't have to change where you live.

2 And you'll swear, the Lord lives, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness, and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and they'll glory in him.

3 For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, break up your fallow ground, and don't plant among thorns.

4 Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that my fury doesn't come forth like fire, and burn such that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

5 Declare in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem, and say, blow the trumpet in the land, shout, gather together, and say, assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.

6 Set up the standard toward Zion, retire, don't stay, for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

7 The lion has come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way, he has gone forth from his place to make your land desolate, and your cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

8 Gird yourselves with sackcloth for this, lament and howl, for the fierce anger of the Lord has not turned back from us.

9 And at that day, says the Lord, the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes, and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.

10 Then I said, ah, Lord God!  Surely you've greatly deceived these people and Jerusalem, saying, you'll have peace, whereas the sword reaches to the soul.

11 At that time, it shall be said to this people and to Jerusalem, a dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,

12 But a full wind from those places shall come to me, now also I'll I give sentence against them.

13 See, he'll come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be like a whirlwind, his horses are swifter than eagles.  Woe to us!  For we are spoiled.

14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, so you can  be saved.  How long shall your vain thoughts remain inside you?

15 For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes affliction from Mount Ephraim.

16 Make mention to the nations, see, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.

17 Like keepers of a field, they're against her all around, because she's been rebellious against me, says the Lord.

18 Your way and your doings have procured these things to you, this is your wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reaches to your heart.

19 My bowels, my bowels!  I'm pained at my very heart, my heart makes a noise in me, I can't be quiet, because you've heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

20 Destruction on destruction is shouted, for the whole land is spoiled, suddenly my tents are spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.

21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

22 For my people are foolish, they haven't known me, they're drunken children, and they have no understanding, they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

23 I saw the earth, and see, it was without form, and void, and the heavens, and they had no light.

24 I saw the mountains, and see, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.

25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.

26 I saw, and see, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities of it were broken down at the presence of the Lord, and by his fierce anger.

27 For thus has the Lord said, the whole land shall be desolate, yet will I not make a full end.

28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black, because I've spoken it, I've purposed it, and will not change my mind, nor will I turn back from it.

29 The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen, they'll go into thickets, and climb up on the rocks, every city shall be forsaken, and not a man will live in them.

30 And when you're spoiled, what will you do?  Though you clothe yourself with crimson, though you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, though you apply makeup to your face, you'll make yourself fair in vain, your lovers will despise you, they will seek to kill you.

31 For I've heard a voice like a woman during childbirth, and the anguish as of her that brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewails herself, that spreads her hands, saying, woe is me now!  For my soul is wearied because of murderers.

___Jeremiah chapter 5

1 Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if you can find a man, if there's anyone that executes judgment, that seeks the truth, and I'll pardon it.

2 And though they say, "The Lord lives, surely they swear falsely."

3 O Lord, aren't your eyes on the truth?  You've struck them, but they haven't grieved, you've consumed them, but they've refused to receive correction, they've made their faces harder than a rock, they've refused to return.

4 Therefore I said, "Surely these are poor, they are foolish, for they don't know the way of the Lord, nor the judgment of their God.

5 I will go to the great men, and will speak to them, for they've known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of their God, but these have completely broken the yoke, and burst the bonds."

6 So a lion out of the forest shall kill them, and a wolf of the evening shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities, everyone that goes out of there shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings have increased.

7 How shall I pardon you for this?  Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by those who are no gods, when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by platoons in the whore houses.

8 They were like fed horses in the morning, everyone neighed for his neighbor's wife.

9 Shall I not visit for these things?  Says the Lord, and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

10 Go up on her walls, and destroy, but don't make a full end, take away her battlements, for they are not the Lord's.

11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, says the Lord.

12 They've belied the Lord, and said, it is not he, nor shall evil come on us, nor shall we see sword or famine,

13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them, thus shall it be done to them.

14 So thus says the Lord God of hosts, because you speak this word, see, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and these people wood, and it shall devour them.

15 See, I'll bring a nation against you from far, O house of Israel, says the Lord, it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don't know, and don't understand what they say.

16 Their quiver is as like open tomb, they are all mighty men.

17 And they'll eat up your harvest, and your bread, that your sons and your daughters should eat, they'll eat up your flocks and your herds, they'll eat up your vines and your fig trees, they'll impoverish your fenced cities, in which you trusted, with the sword.

18 But in those days, says the Lord, I won't make a full end of you.

19 And when you say, why does the Lord our God do all these things to us?  Then you'll answer them, like you've forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so you'll serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,

21 "Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding, who have eyes, and don't see, who have ears, and don't hear,

22 Don't you fear me?  Says the Lord, won't you tremble at my presence, who has placed the sand for the boundary of the sea by a perpetual decree, so it can't pass it, and though the waves of it toss themselves, yet they can't prevail, though they roar, yet they can't pass over it?

23 But these people have a revolting and a rebellious heart, they've revolted and gone.

24 Nor do they say in their heart, "Let us now fear the Lord our God, that gives rain, both the former and the latter, in his season, he reserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest."

25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good things from you.

26 For wicked men are found among my people, they lay wait like he that sets traps, they set a trap, they catch men.

27 Like a cage is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit, therefore they've become great, and have grown rich.

28 They've grown fat, they shine, yes, they overpass the deeds of the wicked, they don't judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper, and they don't judge the right of the needy.

29 Shall I not visit for these things?  Says the Lord, shall my soul not be avenged against such a nation as this?

30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land,

31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means, and my people love to have it so, and what will you do in the end of it?

___Jeremiah chapter 6

1 O you children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem, for evil appears out of the north, and great destruction.

2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to an attractive and delicate woman.

3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her, they shall pitch their tents against her all around, everyone shall feed in his place.

4 Prepare war against her, arise, and let us go up at noon.  Woe to us!  For the day goes away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

5 Arise, and let's go by night, and let's destroy her palaces.

6 For thus has the Lord of hosts said, "Cut down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem, this is the city to be visited, she is completely oppression in the middle of her.

7 As a fountain throws out its waters, so she throws out her wickedness, violence and spoil is heard in her, continually before me is grief and wounds.

8 Be instructed, O Jerusalem, so that my soul doesn't depart from you, so that I don't make you desolate, a land not inhabited."

9 Thus says the Lord of hosts, "They'll thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel like a vine, turn back your hand like a grape gatherer into the baskets.

10 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, so they can hear?  See, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can't listen, see, the word of the Lord is to them a reproach, they have no delight in it.

11 Therefore I'm full of the fury of the Lord, I'm weary with holding in, I'll pour it out on the children abroad, and on the assembly of young men together, for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.

12 And their houses shall be given to others, with their fields and wives together, for I'll stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land, says the Lord.

13 For from the least of them even to the greatest of them everyone is given to covetousness, and from the prophet to the priest everyone deals falsely.

14 They've healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, "Peace, peace," when there is no peace.

15 Were they ashamed when they had committed a dirty thing?  No, they were not at all ashamed, noer could they blush, therefore they'll fall among those who fall, at the time that I visit them they'll be thrown down, says the Lord.

16 Thus says the Lord, "Stand on the roads, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk in it, and you'll find rest for your souls."  But they said, "We won't walk in it."

17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, "Listen to the sound of the trumpet."  But they said, "We will not listen."

18 Therefore hear, you nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.

19 Hear, O earth, see, I'll bring evil against these people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they haven't listened to my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

20 To what purpose does there come to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country?  Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor are your sacrifices sweet to me.

21 Therefore thus says the Lord, "See, I'll lay stumbling blocks before these people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall on them, the neighbor and his friend shall perish."

22 Thus says the Lord, "See, people come from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.

23 They'll take hold of bow and spear, they're cruel, and have no mercy, their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, set in array like men for war against you, O daughter of Zion.

24 We have heard the fame of it, our hands grow feeble, anguish has taken hold of us, and pain, like a woman in child birth.

25 Don't go out into the field, nor walk by the way, for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.

26 O daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow yourself in ashes, make mourning, like for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the spoiler shall suddenly come on us.

27 I have set you for a tower and a fortress among my people, so you'll know and test their way.

28 They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders, they are brass and iron, they are all corrupters.

29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed by the fire, the foundry worker melts in vain, for the wicked are not plucked away.

30 Men shall call them reprobate silver, because the Lord has rejected them.

___Jeremiah chapter 7

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

2 "Stand in the gate of the Lord's house, and proclaim this word there, and say, hear the word of the Lord, all you of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the Lord.

3 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to live in this place.

4 Don't trust in lying words, saying, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, are these.

5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor,

6 If you don't oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your hurt,

7 Then I'll cause you to live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, forever and always.

8 See, you trust in lying words that can't profit.

9 Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you don't know,

10 And come and stand before me in this house, that is called by my name, and say, we are delivered to do all these dirty things?

11 Has this house, that is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes?  See, even I have seen it, says the Lord.

12 But go now to my place that was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

13 And now, because you've done all these works, says the Lord, and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you wouldn't listen, and I called you, but you didn't answer,

14 Therefore I'll do to this house, that is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place that I gave to you and to your fathers, like I have done to Shiloh.

15 And I'll throw you out of my sight, like I've thrown out all your brothers, even the whole tribe of Ephraim.

16 Therefore don't pray for this people, nor lift up cry nor prayer for them, nor make intercession to me, for I won't listen to you.

17 Don't you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, so they can provoke me to anger.

19 Do they provoke me to anger?  Says the Lord, don't they provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

20 Therefore thus says the Lord God, see, my anger and my fury shall be poured out on this place, on man, and on animals, and on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground, and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

21 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, put your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat flesh.

22 For I didn't speak to your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices,

23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, "Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people, and walk you in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it will be well to you."

24 But they wouldn't listen, and didn't incline their ear, but walked in the advice and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

25 Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt 'til this day I've sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them,

26 Yet they didn't listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck, they did worse than their fathers.

27 Therefore you shall speak all these words to them, but they won't listen to you, you shall also call to them, but they won't answer you.

28 But you shall say to them, "This is a nation that doesn't obey the voice of the Lord their God, nor receives correction, truth has died, and is cut off from their mouth.

29 Cut off your hair, O Jerusalem, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on high places, for the Lord has rejected and forsaken the generation of his anger.

30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, says the Lord, they've set their dirty things in the house that is called by my name, to pollute it.

31 And they've built the high places of Tophet, that is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I didn't command them to do, nor did it come into my heart.

32 Therefore see, the days come, says the Lord, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter, for they shall bury in Tophet, 'til there's no room.

33 And the carcasses of these people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth, and no one shall chase them away.

34 Then I'll cause to stop from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, for the land shall be desolate."

___Jeremiah chapter 8

1 "At that time, says the Lord, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves,

2 And they'll spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they've loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they've sought, and whom they've worshipped, they won't be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for manure on the face of the earth.

3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the remainder of those who remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places where I've driven them," says the Lord of hosts.

4 "Also you shall say to them, thus says the Lord, shall they fall, and not get up?  Shall he turn away, and not return?

5 Why then have these people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding?  They hold tightly to deceit, they refuse to return.

6 I listened and heard, but they didn't talk right, no man repented of his wickedness, saying, what have I done?  Everyone turned to his course, like the horse rushes into the battle.

7 Yes, the stork in the heaven knows her appointed times, and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming, but my people don't know the judgment of the Lord.

8 How do you say, we are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us?  See, he certainly made it in vain made, the pen of the scribes is in vain.

9 The wise men are ashamed, they're dismayed and taken, see, they've rejected the word of the Lord, and what wisdom is in them?

10 Therefore I'll give their wives to others, and their fields to those who'll  inherit them, for everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

11 For they've healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, "Peace, peace," when there is no peace.

12 Were they ashamed when they had committed a dirty thing?  No, they were not at all ashamed, nor could they blush, therefore shall they'll among those who fall, in the time of their visitation they'll be thrown down, says the Lord.

13 I'll surely consume them, says the Lord, there'll be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade, and the things that I've given them shall pass away from them.

14 Why do we sit still?  Assemble yourselves, and let's enter into the defenced cities, and let's be silent there, for the Lord our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we've sinned against the Lord.

15 We looked for peace, but no good came, and for a time of health, and see, trouble!

16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan, the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones, for they've come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it, the city, and those who live in it.

17 For see, I'll send snakes, cockatrices, among you, that won't be charmed, and they'll bite you, says the Lord.

18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

19 See the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of those who live in a far country, isn't the Lord in Zion?  Isn't her king in her?  Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with strange vanities?

20 The harvest is past, the summer has ended, and we're not saved.

21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people I'm hurt, I'm black, astonishment has taken hold of me.

22 Is there no balm in Gilead, is there no physician there?  Why then hasn't  the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

___Jeremiah chapter 9

1 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I could weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, so Icould leave my people, and go from them!  For they're all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies, but they're not valiant for the truth on the earth, for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says the Lord.

4 Be careful everyone about his neighbor, and don't in any brother, for every brother will completely replace you, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.

5 And everyone will deceive his neighbor, and won't speak the truth, they've taught their tongue to speak lies, and make themselves tired to commit sin.

6 Your habitation is among deceit, through deceit they refuse to know me, says the Lord.

7 Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, "See, I'll melt them, and test them, for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out, it speaks deceit, one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in heart he lays his wait.

9 Shall I not visit them for these things?  Says the Lord, shall not my soul be avenged against such a nation as this?

10 For the mountains I'll take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they're burned up, so that no one can pass through them, nor can men hear the voice of the cattle, both the fowl of the heavens and the beast have fled, they're gone.

11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons, and I'll make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

12 Who is the wise man, that can understand this?  And who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord has spoken, so he can declare it, for which the land is destroyed and is burned up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?

13 And the Lord says, because they've forsaken my law that I set before them, and haven't obeyed my voice, nor walked in it,

14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them,

15 Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, see, I'll feed them, even these people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

16 I'll scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, and I'll send a sword after them, 'til I've consumed them.

17 Thus says the Lord of hosts, consider, and call for the mourning women, so they can come, and send for cunning women, so they can come,

18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, so our eyes can run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, how are we spoiled!  We are greatly confused, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have thrown us out.

20 Yet hear the word of the Lord, O you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation.

21 For death has come up into our windows, and has entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.

22 Speak, "Thus says the Lord, even the carcasses of men shall fall like manure on the open field, and like the handful after the harvestman, and no one shall gather them."

23 Thus says the Lord, "Don't let the wise man glory in his wisdom, nor let the mighty man glory in his might, let the rich man not glory in his riches,

24 But let him that glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who exercise loving kindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth, for I delight in these things, says the Lord.

25 See, the days come, says the Lord, that I'll punish all of those who are circumcised with the uncircumcised,

26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the farthest corners, that live in the wilderness, for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

___Jeremiah chapter 10

1 Hear the word that the Lord speaks to you, O house of Israel,

2 Thus says the Lord, "Don't learn the way of the heathen, and don't be swayed by the signs of heaven, for the heathen are swayed by them.

3 For the customs of the people are vain, for one person cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

4 They deck it with silver and with gold, they fasten it with nails and with hammers, so that it doesn't move.

5 They are upright like the palm tree, but don't not, they have to be carried, because they can't go.  Don't be afraid of them, for they can't do evil, nor also is it in them to do good.

6 Since there is no one like to you, O Lord, you are great, and your name is great in might.

7 Who would not fear you, O King of nations?  For to you does it pertain, since among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like you.

8 But they are completely brutish and foolish, the stock is a doctrine of vanities.

9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the foundry worker, blue and purple is their clothing, they're all the work of skillful men.

10 But the Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king, at his anger, the earth shall tremble, and the nations won't be able to survive his indignation.

11 Thus shall you say to them, the gods that haven't made the heavens and the earth, they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.

12 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens by his discretion.

13 When he speaks his voice, there's a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth, he makes lightnings with rain, and brings the wind out of his treasures.

14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge, every foundry worker is confused by the engraved image, for his image that is cast in foundry is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

15 They are vanity, and the work of errors, in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

16 The portion of Jacob is not like them, for he is the former of all things, and Israel is the rod of his inheritance, the Lord of hosts is his name.

17 Gather up your wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.

18 For thus says the Lord, see, I'll sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, so that they'll find it so.

19 Woe is me for my hurt!  My wound is grievous, but I said, truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.

20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken, my children are gone away of me, and they are not, there is no one to stretch out my tent anymore, and to set up my curtains.

21 For the pastors have become brutish, and haven't sought the Lord, therefore they won't prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.

22 See, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.

23 O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself, it is not in man that walks to direct his steps.

24 O Lord, correct me, but with judgment, not in your anger, so that you don't make me become nothing.

25 Pour out your fury on the heathen that don't know not, and on the families that don't call on your name, for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate."

___Jeremiah chapter 11

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

2 "Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

3 And say you to them, thus says the Lord God of Israel, cursed is the man that doesn't obeys the words of this covenant,

4 That I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, obey my voice, and do them, according to everything that I command you, so shall you be my people, and I'll be your God,

5 So I can perform the oath that I've sworn to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day."  Then I answered, and said, "So be it, O Lord."

6 Then the Lord said to me, "Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, hear you the words of this covenant, and do them.

7 For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even 'til this day, rising early and protesting, saying, obey my voice.

8 Yet they didn't obey, nor inclined their ear, but everyone walked in the imagination of their evil heart, therefore I'll bring on them all the words of this covenant, that I commanded them to do, but they didn't do them."

9 And the Lord said to me, "A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem."

10 They've turned back to the sins of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words, and they went after other gods to serve them, the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant that I made with their fathers.

11 Therefore thus says the Lord, see, I'll bring evil on them, that they won't be able to escape, and though they' cry to me, I won't listen to them.

12 Then the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem shall go, and cry to the gods to whom they offer incense, but they won't save them at all in the time of their trouble.

13 For according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Judah, and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem you've set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.

14 Therefore don't pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them, for I won't hear them in the time that they cry to me for their trouble.

15 What has my beloved to do in my house, seeing she has done lewdness with many, and the holy flesh has passed from you?  When you do evil, then you rejoice.

16 The Lord called your name, a green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit, with the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire on it, and the branches of it are broken.

17 For the Lord of hosts, that planted you, has pronounced evil against you, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, that they've done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense to Baal.

18 And the Lord has given me knowledge of it, and I know it, then you showed me their doings.

19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter, and I didn't know that they'd devised devices against me, saying, let us destroy the tree with the fruit of it, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will no more be remembered.

20 But, O Lord of hosts, who judges righteously, that tries the reins and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them, for I've revealed my cause to you.

21 Therefore thus says the Lord about the men of Anathoth, that seek your life, saying, don't prophesy in the name of the Lord, do you don't die by our hand,

22 Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, see, I will punish them, the young men shall die by the sword, their sons and their daughters shall die by famine,

23 And none of them shall remain, for I'll bring evil on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.

___Jeremiah chapter 12

1 You are righteous, O Lord, when I plead with you, yet let me talk with you about your judgments, why does the way of the wicked prosper?  Why are they all happy that deal very treacherously?

2 You've planted them, yes, they've taken root, they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit, you are near in their mouth, and far from their reins.

3 But you know me, O Lord, you've seen me, and tested my heart toward you, pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of those who live in it?  The animals are consumed, and the birds, because they said, he won't see our last end.

5 If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses?  And if in the land of peace, in which you trusted, they wearied you, then how will you do in the swelling of Jordan?

6 For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you, yes, they've called a multitude after you, don't believe them, though they speak fair words to you.

7 I've forsaken my house, I've left my heritage, I've given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

8 My heritage is to me like a lion in the forest, it cries out against me, therefore I've hated it.

9 My heritage is to me like a speckled bird, the birds all around are against her, come, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.

10 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they've trampled my portion under foot, they've made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

11 They've made it desolate, and being desolate it mourns to me, the whole land has been made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.

12 The spoilers have come on all high places through the wilderness, for the sword of the Lord shall devour from one end of the land even to the other end of the land, no flesh shall have peace.

13 They've planted wheat, but shall reap thorns, they've put themselves to pain, but shall not profit, and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

14 Thus says the Lord against all my evil neighbors, that touch the inheritance that I have caused my people Israel to inherit, see, I'll pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.

15 And after I've plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.

16 And if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, the Lord lives, as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they'll be built among my people.

17 But if they won't obey, I'll completely pluck up and destroy that nation, says the Lord.

___Jeremiah chapter 13

1 Thus says the Lord to me, "Go and get yourself a linen girdle, and put it on your midsection, and don't put it in water."

2 So I got a girdle according to the word of the Lord, and put it on my loins.

3 And the word of the Lord came to me the second time, saying,

4 "Take the girdle that you have, that is on your loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock."

5 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, like the Lord commanded me.

6 And after many days, the Lord said to me, "Get up, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from there, that I commanded you to hide there."

7 Then I went to Euphrates, and dug, and took the girdle from the place where I had hidden it, and see, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.

8 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

9 "Thus says the Lord, after this manner I'll mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.

10 These evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be like this girdle, that is good for nothing.

11 For as the girdle sticks to the loins of a man, so I've caused to stick to me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, says the Lord, so they'll be to me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory, but they wouldn't hear.

12 Therefore you shall speak to them this word, thus says the Lord God of Israel, every bottle shall be filled with wine, and they shall say to you, do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?

13 Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the Lord, behold, I'll fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.

14 And I'll dash them against each other, even the fathers and the sons together, says the Lord, I won't pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.

15 Hear, and give ear, don't not proud, for the Lord has spoken.

16 Give glory to the Lord your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

17 But if you won't hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride, and my eye shall weep severely, and run down with tears, because the Lord's flock has been carried away captive.

18 Say to the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down, for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.

19 The cities of the south shall be shut up, and no one shall open them, Judah shall be carried away captive, all of it, it shall be completely carried away captive.

20 Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the north, where is the flock that was given to you, your beautiful flock?

21 What will you say when he shall punish you?  For you've taught them to be captains, and as chief over you, shall sorrows not take you, lie a woman in child birth?

22 And if you say in your heart, Why do these things come on me?  For the greatness of your sin are your skirts discovered, and your heels made bare.

23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?  Then might you also do good, who are accustomed to doing evil.

24 Therefore I'll scatter them like the stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness.

25 This is your lot, the portion of your measures from me, says the Lord, because you've forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.

26 Therefore I'll discover your skirts on thy face, so your shame will appear.

27 I have seen your adulteries, and your neighings, the lewdness of your whoredom, and your abominations on the hills in the fields.  Woe to you, O Jerusalem!  Won't you be made clean?  When shall it once be?

___Jeremiah chapter 14

1 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.

2 Judah mourns, and the gates of it languish, they are black to the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.

3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters, they came to the pits, and found no water, they returned with their containers empty, they were ashamed and confused, and covered their heads.

4 Because the ground is chapped, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

5 Yes, the deer also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.

6 And the wild asses stood in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons, their eyes failed, because there was no grass.

7 O Lord, though our sins testify against us, do it for your name's sake, for our backslidings are many, we've sinned against you.

8 O the hope of Israel, the savior of it in time of trouble, why should you be like a stranger in the land, and like a wayfaring man that turns aside to wait for a night?

9 Why should you be like a man astonished, like a mighty man that can't save?  Yet you, O Lord, are among us, and we are called by your name, don't leave us.

10 Thus says the Lord to this people, "Thus have they loved to wander, they haven't refrained their feet, therefore the Lord doesn't accept them, he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins."

11 Then the Lord said to me, "Don't pray for this people for their good.

12 When they fast, I won't hear their cry, and when they offer burnt offering and an offering, I won't accept them, but I'll consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence."

13 Then I said, "Ah, Lord God!  See, the prophets say to them, you won't see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place."

14 Then the Lord said to me, "The prophets prophesy lies in my name, I didn't send them, nor have I commanded them, nor spoke to them, they prophesy to you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their heart."

15 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I didn't send them, "Yet they say, sword and famine shall not be in this land, by sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.

16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be thrown out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword, and they shall have no one to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters, for I will pour their wickedness on them.

17 Therefore you shall say this word to them, let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not stop, for the virgin daughter of my people has been broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.

18 If I go forth into the field, then see, the slain by the sword!  And if I enter into the city, then see, those who are sick with famine!  Yes, both the prophet and the priest go around into a land that they don't know."

19 Have you completely rejected Judah?  Has your soul hated Zion?  Why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us?  We looked for peace, and there is no good, and for the time of healing, and see trouble!

20 We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against you.

21 Don't hate us, for your name's sake, don't disgrace the throne of your glory, remember, don't break your covenant with us.

22 Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain?  Or can the heavens give showers?  Aren't you he, O Lord our God?  Therefore we'll wait on you, for you've made all these things.

___Jeremiah chapter 15

1 Then the Lord said to me, though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people, throw them out of my sight, and let them go away.

2 And if they say to you, where shall we go?  Then you shall tell them, "Thus says the Lord, such as are for death, to death, and such as are for the sword, to the sword, and such as are for the famine, to the famine, and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.

3 And I will appoint over them four kinds," says the Lord, "the sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.

4 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.

5 For who shall have pity on you, O Jerusalem?  Or who shall mourn for you?  Or who shall go aside to ask how you're doing?

6 You've forsaken me, says the Lord, you're gone backward, therefore I'll stretch out my hand against you, and destroy you, I'm tired of repenting.

7 And I'll fan them with a fan in the gates of the land, I'll bereave them of children, I'll destroy my people, since they don't return from their ways.

8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas, I've brought on them against the mother of the young men, a spoiler at noonday, I've caused him to fall on it suddenly, and terrors on the city.

9 She that has given birth to seven languishes, she has given up the ghost, her sun has gone down while it was yet day, she has been ashamed and confused, and the remainder of them I'll deliver to the sword before their enemies," says the Lord.

10 Woe is me, my mother, that you've given birth to me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth!  I've neither lent on interest, nor have men lent to me on interest, yet every one of them curse me.

11 The Lord said, "Truly it shall be well with your remnant, truly I will cause the enemy to treat you well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

12 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?

13 I'll give your substance and your treasures to the spoil without price, and that because of all your sins, even in all your borders.

14 And I'll make you to pass with your enemies into a land that you don't know, for a fire is kindled in my anger, that shall burn against you.

15 O Lord, you know, remember me, and visit me, and avenge me against my persecutors, don't take me away in your patience, know that for your sake I've suffered reprimand.

16 Your words were found, and I ate them, and your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart, for I'm called by your name, O Lord God of hosts.

17 I didn't sit in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced, I sat alone because of your hand, for you've filled me with indignation.

18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, that refuses to be healed?  Will you entirely be to me like a liar, and like waters that fail?

19 Therefore thus says the Lord, "If you return, then I'll bring you back, and you'll stand before me, and if you take out the precious from the filthy, you'll be like my mouth, let them return to you, but don't you return you to them.

20 And I will make you a fenced brass wall to these people, and they'll fight against you, but they won't prevail against you, for I am with you to save you and to give you deliverance, says the Lord.

21 And I'll deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I'll redeem you out of the hand of the terrible."

___Jeremiah chapter 16

1 The word of the Lord came also to me, saying,

2 "You shall not take for yourself a wife, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place.

3 For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bore them, and concerning their fathers that fathered them in this land,

4 They'll die of grievous deaths, they won't be lamented, nor shall they be buried, but they shall be like manure on the face of the earth, and they'll be consumed by the sword, and by famine, and their carcasses shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

5 For thus says the Lord, don't enter into the house of mourning, nor go to lament nor bemoan them, for I've taken away my peace from these people, says the Lord, even loving kindness and mercies.

6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land, they won't be buried, nor shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them,

7 Nor shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead, nor shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

8 You shall also not go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

9 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, see, I'll cause to stop in this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.

10 And when you shall show these people all these words, and they say to you, why has the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us?  Or what is our iniquity?  Or what is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?

11 Then you shall say to them, because your fathers have forsaken me, says the Lord, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and haven't kept my law,

12 And you've done worse than your fathers, for see, you walk everyone after the imagination of his evil heart, so that they won't listen to me,

13 Therefore I'll throw you out of this land into a land that you don't know, neither you nor your fathers, and there you'll serve other gods day and night, where I won't show you favor.

14 Therefore, see, the days come, says the Lord, that it shall no more be said, the Lord lives, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt,

15 But, the Lord lives, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands where he had driven them, and I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers.

16 See, I will send for many fishers, says the Lord, and they shall fish them, and afterward I'll send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

17 For my eyes are on all their ways, they are not hidden from my face, nor is their sin hidden from my eyes.

18 And first I'll repay their iniquity and their sin double, because they've defiled my land, they've filled my inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and dirty things.

19 O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come to you from the ends of the earth, and shall say, surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things in which there is no profit.

20 Shall a man make gods to himself, and they are no gods?

21 Therefore, see, I will this once cause them to know, I'll cause them to know my hand and my might, and they'll know that my name is the Lord."

___Jeremiah chapter 17

1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond, it is engraved on the table of their heart, and on the horns of your altars,

2 While their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees on the high hills.

3 O my mountain in the field, I'll give your substance and all your treasures for spoil, and your high places for sin, throughout all your borders.

4 And you, even you yourself, shall discontinue from your heritage that I gave you, and I'll cause you to serve your enemies in the land that you don't know not, for you've kindled a fire in my anger, that shall burn forever.

5 Thus says the Lord, cursed is the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the Lord.

6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

7 Blessed is the man that trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.

8 For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, and that spreads out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat comes, but her leaf shall be green, and shall not be careful in the year of drought, nor shall stop yielding fruit.

9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, who can know it?

10 I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

11 Like the partridge sits on eggs, and doesn't hatch them, so he that gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the middle of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

12 A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.

13 O Lord, the hope of Israel, all that forsake you shall be ashamed, and those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they've forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters.

14 Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed, save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise.

15 See, they say to me, where is the word of the Lord?  Let it come now.

16 As for me, I haven't hastened from being a pastor to follow you, nor have I desired the woeful day, you know, that which came out of my lips was right before you.

17 Don't be not a terror to me, you are my hope in the day of evil.

18 Let them be confused that persecute me, but don't let me be confused, let them be dismayed, but don't let me be dismayed, bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

19 Thus the Lord said to me, go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, by which the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem,

20 And say to them, hear the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates,

21 Thus says the Lord, take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem,

22 Nor carry out a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day, nor do any work, but hallow the Sabbath day, like I commanded your fathers.

23 But they didn't obey, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, so that they wouldn't hear, nor receive instruction.

24 And if you diligently listen to me, says the Lord, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work in it,

25 Then there shall enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and this city shall remain forever.

26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places around Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, to the house of the Lord.

27 But if you won't listen to me to hallow the Sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I'll kindle a fire in the gates of it, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

___Jeremiah chapter 18

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

2 "Get up and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause you to hear my words."

3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and, see, he made a work on the wheels.

4 And the container that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter, so he made it again a different container, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

5 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

6 "O house of Israel, can't I do with you like this potter?"  Says the Lord.  "See, like the clay is in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.

7 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it,

8 If that nation, against whom I've pronounced, turns from their evil, I'll repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.

9 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it,

10 If it does evil in my sight, sothat it doesn't obey my voice, then I'll repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.

11 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, thus says the Lord, see, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you, return now everyone from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good."

12 And they said, "There is no hope, but we will walk after our own devices, and we will everyone do the imagination of his evil heart."

13 Therefore thus says the Lord, "Ask now among the heathen, who has heard such things, the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.

14 Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon that comes from the rock of the field?  Or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?

15 Because my people have forgotten me, they've burned incense to vanity, and they've caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up,

16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing, everyone that passes by it shall be astonished, and wag his head.

17 I will scatter them like with an east wind before the enemy, I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

18 Then they said, come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor advice from the wise, nor the word from the prophet.  Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.

19 Pay attention to me, O Lord, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.

20 Shall evil be repaid for good?  For they've dug a pit for my soul.  Remember that I stood before you to speak good for them, and to turn away your anger from them.

21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword, and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows, and let their men be put to death, let their young men be killed by the sword in battle.

22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly against them, for they've dug a pit to take me, and hidden traps for my feet.

23 Yet Lord, you know all their plans against me to kill me, don't forgive their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from your sight, but let them be overthrown before you, deal thus with them in the time of your anger.

___Jeremiah chapter 19

1 Thus says the Lord, "Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take some of the seniors of the people, and of the seniors of the priests,

2 And go forth to the valley of the son of Hinnom, that is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I'll tell you,

3 And say, hear you the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, see, I'll bring evil on this place, which, whoever hears, his ears shall tingle.

4 Because they've forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

5 They've also built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I didn't command, nor spoke it, nor did it come into my mind,

6 Therefore, see, the days come, says the Lord, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter.

7 And I'll make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I'll cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of those who seek their lives, and I'll give their carcasses to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

8 And I'll make this city desolate, and a hissing, everyone that passes by it shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues of it.

9 And I'll cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and restriction with which their enemies, and those who seek their lives, shall restrict them.

10 Then you'll break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with you,

11 And shall say to them, thus says the Lord of hosts, even so will I break this people and this city, like someone breaks a potter's container, that can't be mended again, and they'll bury them in Tophet, 'til there's no place to bury.

12 Thus will I do to this place, says the Lord, and to the inhabitants of it, and make this city like Tophet,

13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled like the place of Tophet, because of all the houses on whose roofs they've burned incense to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods."

14 Then Jeremiah came from Tophet, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of the Lord's house, and said to all the people,

15 "Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, see, I'll bring on this city and on all her towns all the evil that I've spoken against it, because they've hardened their necks, so they won't hear my words."

___Jeremiah chapter 20

1 Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also the top governor in the house of the Lord, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.

2 Then Pashur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the Lord.

3 And on the next day Pashur brought Jeremiah out of the stocks.  Then Jeremiah said to him, "The Lord hasn't called your name Pashur, but Magormissabib.

4 For thus says the Lord, see, I'll make you a terror to yourself, and to all your friends, and they'll fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall see it, and I'll give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall kill them with the sword.

5 Also I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labors of it, and all the precious things of it, and I'll give all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hands of their enemies, who'll spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.

6 And you, Pashur, and all that live in your house shall go into captivity, and you'll go to Babylon, and there you'll die, and shall be buried there, you, and all your friends, to whom you've prophesied lies."

7 O Lord, you've deceived me, and I was deceived, you are stronger than I am, and have prevailed, I am in derision daily, everyone mocks me.

8 For since I spoke, I shouted out, I shouted violence and spoil, because the word of the Lord was made a reproach to me, and a derision, daily.

9 Then I said, I won't make mention of him, nor speak anymore in his name.  But his word was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was tired of not speaking, and I couldn't continue.

10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side.  "Report," they say, "and we'll report it."  All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, "Perhaps he will be enticed, and we'll prevail against him, and we'll take our revenge against him."

11 But the Lord is with me like a mighty terrible one, therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they won't prevail, they'll be greatly ashamed, for they won't prosper, their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.

12 But, O Lord of hosts, that tests the righteous, and see the reins and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them, for I've opened my cause to you.

13 Sing to the Lord, praise the Lord, for he has delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.

14 Cursed be the day in which I was born, let not the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.

15 Cursed be the man who brought news to my father, saying, "A man child is born to you, making him very glad."

16 And let that man be like the cities that the Lord overthrew, and didn't repented, and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noon,

17 Because he didn't kill me from the womb, or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always large with me.

18 Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, so that my days should be consumed with shame?

___Jeremiah chapter 21

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when king Zedekiah sent him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,

2 "Please inquire of the Lord for us, for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon is making war against us, if so be that the Lord will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he will go away from us."

3 Then Jeremiah said to them, "Thus shall you say to Zedekiah,

4 Thus says the Lord God of Israel, see, I'll turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, who besiege you outside the walls, and I'll assemble them into the midddle of this city.

5 And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great anger.

6 And I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast, they'll die of a great pestilence.

7 And afterward, says the Lord, I'll deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life, and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword, he shall not spare them, nor have pity, nor have mercy."

8 And to this people you shall say, "Thus says the Lord, see, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.

9 He that abides in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence, but he that goes out, and falls to the Chaldeans that besiege you shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey.

10 For I'e set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, says the Lord, it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire."

11 And concerning the house of the king of Judah, say, "Hear the word of the Lord,

12 O house of David, thus says the Lord, execute justice in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, so that my fury doesn't go out like fire, and burn such that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

13 See, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, says the Lord, who say, who shall come down against us?  Or who shall enter into our habitations?

14 But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says the Lord, and I will kindle a fire in the forest of it, and it shall devour everything around it.

___Jeremiah chapter 22

1 Thus says the Lord, "Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak this word there,

2 And say, hear the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, that sits on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people that enter in by these gates,

3 Thus says the Lord, execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

4 For if you do this thing indeed, then kings shall enter in by the gates of this house, sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.

5 But if you won't listen to these words, I swear by myself, says the Lord, that this house shall become a desolation.

6 For thus says the Lord to the king's house of Judah, you are Gilead to me, and the head of Lebanon, yet surely I'll make you a wilderness, and cities that aren't inhabited.

7 And I'll prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons, and they'll cut down your choice cedars, and throw them into the fire.

8 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they'll say every man to his neighbor, why has the Lord done thus to this great city?

9 Then they shall answer, because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.

10 Don't weep for the dead, nor bemoan him, but weep severely for him that goes away, for he'll return no more, nor see his native country.

11 For thus says the Lord concerning Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, who ruled instead of Josiah his father, who went forth out of this place, he shall not return here anymore,

12 But he'll die in the place where they've led him captive, and shall see this land no more.

13 Woe to him that builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by wrong, that uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him anything for his work,

14 That says, I'll build me a wide house and large rooms, and cuts out windows for himself, and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

15 Shall you rule, because you enclose yourself in cedar?  Didn't your father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?

16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy, then it was well with him, was not this to know me?  Says the Lord.

17 But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

18 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, they shall not lament for him, saying, ah my brother!  Or, ah sister!  They shall not lament for him, saying, ah lord!  Or, ah his glory!

19 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and thrown out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

20 Go up to Lebanon, and cry, and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages, for all your lovers have been destroyed.

21 I spoke to you in your prosperity, but you said, I won't listen.  This has been your manner from your youth, that you didn't obey my voice.

22 The wind shall eat up all your pastors, and your lovers shall go into captivity, surely you'll then be ashamed and confused for all your wickedness.

23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makes your nest in the cedars, how gracious shall you be when pangs come on you, the pain as of a woman in child birth!

24 As I live, says the Lord, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, yet would I pluck you from there,

25 And I'll give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of those whose face you fear, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

26 And I will throw you out, and your mother that bore you, into another country, where you were not born, and you'll die there.

27 But to the land to which they desire to return, they won't return there.

28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol?  Is he a container in which is no pleasure?  So they're thrown out, he and his seed, and are thrown into a land that they don't know?

29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord.

30 Thus says the Lord, write this man childless, a man that won't prosper in his days, for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting on the throne of David, and ruling anymore in Judah."

___Jeremiah chapter 23

1 Woe be to the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!  Says the Lord.

2 Therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people, you've scattered my flock, and driven them away, and haven't visited them, see, I'll visit on you the evil of your doings, says the Lord.

3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries where I've driven them, and will bring them again to their folds, and they'll be fruitful and increase.

4 And I'll set up shepherds over them who'll feed them, and they'll fear no more, nor be dismayed, nor shall they be lacking, says the Lord.

5 See, the days come, says the Lord, that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and a King shall rule and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.

6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall live safely, and this is his name by which he shall be called, The Lord Our Righteousness.

7 Therefore, see, the days come, says the Lord, that they shall no more say, the Lord lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt,

8 But, the Lord lives, who brought up and who led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries where I had driven them, and they shall live in their own land.

9 My heart inside me is broken because of the prophets, all my bones shake, I'm like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of the Lord, and because of the words of his holiness.

10 For the land is full of adulterers, for because of swearing the land mourns, the pleasant places of the wilderness have been dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.

11 For both prophet and priest are profane, yes, in my house I've found their wickedness, says the Lord.

12 So their way shall be to them like slippery ways in the darkness, they'll be driven on, and fall in it, for I'll bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation, says the Lord.

13 And I've seen foolishness in the prophets of Samaria, they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

14 I've seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem a horrible thing, they commit adultery, and walk in lies, they also strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one returns from his wickedness, all of them to me are like Sodom, and the inhabitants of it like Gomorrah.

15 Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets, see, I'll feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall, for from the prophets of Jerusalem profaneness has gone forth into all the land.

16 Thus says the Lord of hosts, don't listen to the words of the prophets that prophesy to you, they make you vain, they speak a vision from their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord.

17 They still say to those who despise me, "The Lord has said, you shall have peace," and they say to everyone that walks after the imagination of his own heart, "No evil shall come on you."

18 For who has stood in the counsel of the Lord, and has perceived and heard his word?  Who has marked his word, and heard it?

19 See, a whirlwind of the Lord has gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind, it shall fall grievously on the head of the wicked.

20 The anger of the Lord shall not return, until he's executed, and 'til he's performed the thoughts of his heart, in the latter days you shall consider it perfectly.

21 I haven't sent these prophets, yet they ran, I haven't spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

23 "Am I a God at hand, says the Lord, and not a God afar off?

24 Can anyone hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him?"  Says the Lord.  "Don't I fill heaven and earth?"  Says the Lord.

25 I've heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, "I have dreamed, I have dreamed."

26 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies?  Yes, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart,

27 Who think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams that they tell every man to his neighbor, like their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.

28 "The prophet that has a dream, let him tell a dream, and he that has my word, let him speak my word faithfully.  What is the chaff to the wheat?"  Says the Lord.

29 Isn't my word like as a fire?  Says the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

30 Therefore, see, I am against the prophets, says the Lord, that steal my words everyone from his neighbor.

31 See, I am against the prophets, says the Lord, that use their tongues, and say, "He says."

32 See, I'm against those who prophesy false dreams, says the Lord, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness, yet I didn't sent them, nor commanded them, therefore they shall not profit these people at all, says the Lord.

33 And when these people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying, "What is the burden of the Lord?  You shall then say to them, what burden?  I will even forsake you, says the Lord."

34 And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, "The burden of the Lord, I will punish that man and his house."

35 Thus shall everyone say to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, "What has the Lord answered?  And, what has the Lord spoken?"

36 And "The burden of the Lord" you shall mention no more, for every man's word shall be his burden, for you've perverted the words of the living God, of the Lord of hosts our God.

37 You shall say thus to the prophet, "What has the Lord answered you?  And, what has the Lord spoken?"

38 But since you say, the burden of the Lord, therefore thus says the Lord, because you say this word, "The burden of the Lord," and I have sent to you, saying, you shall not say, "The burden of the Lord,"

39 Therefore, see, I, even I, will completely forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and throw you out of my presence,

40 And I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, that won't be forgotten.

___Jeremiah chapter 24

1 The Lord showed me, and see, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the Lord, after Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

2 One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe, and the other basket had very naughty figs, that couldn't be eaten, they were so bad.

3 Then the Lord said to me, "What do you see, Jeremiah?"  And I said, "Figs, the good figs, very good, and the evil, very bad, that can't be eaten, they're so bad."

4 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

5 "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, like these good figs, so I'll acknowledge those who've been carried away captive from Judah, whom I've sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good.

6 For I'll set my eyes on them for good, and I'll bring them again to this land, and I'll build them, and not pull them down, and I'll plant them, and not pluck them up.

7 And I'll give them an heart to know me, that I am the Lord, and they shall be my people, and I'll be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart.

8 And as the evil figs, that can't be eaten, they are so evil, surely thus says the Lord, so I'll give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the remainder of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and those who live in the land of Egypt,

9 And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.

10 And I'll send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, 'til they're consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.

___Jeremiah chapter 25

1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,

2 Which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,

3 "From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, until this day, that is the twenty third year, the word of the Lord has come to me, and I've spoken to you, rising early and speaking, but you haven't listened.

4 And the Lord has sent you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, but you haven't listened, nor inclined your ear to hear.

5 They said, turn back now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and live in the land that the Lord has given to you and to your fathers forever and always,

6 And don't go after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and don't provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, and I'll do you no hurt.

7 Yet you haven't listened to me, says the Lord, so you could provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.

8 Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, because you haven't heard my words,

9 See, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all these nations all around, and will completely destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

10 Also I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.

11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

12 And when seventy years have been accomplished, I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation for their sin, says the Lord, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.

13 And I will bring against that land all my words that I've spoken against it, even all that is written in this book, that Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.

14 For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also, and I will repay them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.

15 For thus says the Lord God of Israel to me, take the wine cup of this fury from my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.

16 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be crazy, because of the sword that I'll send among them.

17 Then I took I the cup from the Lord's hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom the Lord had sent me,

18 Which are: Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings of it, and the princes of it, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day,

19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people,

20 And all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,

21 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,

22 And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the islands that are beyond the sea,

23 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the farthest corners,

24 And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed people that live in the desert,

25 And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,

26 And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, that are on the face of the earth, and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them."

27 Therefore you shall say to them, "Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, drink, and be drunken, and vomit, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword that I'll send among you."

28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, "Thus says the Lord of hosts, you shall certainly drink.

29 For see, I begin to bring evil on the city that is called by my name, and should you be completely unpunished?  You shall not be unpunished, for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says the Lord of hosts."

30 Therefore prophesy against them all these words, and say to them, "The Lord shall roar from on high, and speak with his voice from his holy habitation, he shall mightily roar against his habitation, he shall give a shout, like those who tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.

31 A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth, for the Lord has a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh, he will give those who are wicked to the sword," says the Lord.

32 Thus says the Lord of hosts, "See, evil shall go out from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

33 And the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth, they shall not be lamented, nor gathered, nor buried, they shall be manure on the ground.

34 Howl, you shepherds, and cry, and wallow yourselves in the ashes, you principal of the flock, for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions have been accomplished, and you'll fall like a pleasant container.

35 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.

36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the principal of the flock shall be heard, for the Lord has spoiled their pasture.

37 And the peaceable habitations have been cut down because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

38 He has forsaken his shelter, like the lion, for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.

___Jeremiah chapter 26

1 In the beginning of the rule of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah this word came from the Lord, saying,

2 "Thus says the Lord, stand in the court of the Lord's house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, that come to worship in the Lord's house, all the words that I command you to speak to them, diminish not a word,

3 If they'll perhaps listen, and turn every man from his evil way, so I can change my mind about the evil that I purpose to do to them because of the evil of their doings."

4 And you shall say to them, "Thus says the Lord, if you won't listen to me, to walk in my law, that I've set before you,

5 To listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent to you, both rising up early, and sending them, but you haven't listened,

6 Then I'll make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth."

7 So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the Lord.

8 Now when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, "You shall surely die.

9 Why have you prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, this house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant?"  And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.

10 When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king's house to the house of the Lord, and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the Lord's house.

11 Then the priests and the prophets spoke to the princes and to all the people, saying, "This man is worthy to die, for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears."

12 Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and to all the people, saying, "The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you've heard.

13 Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the Lord your God, and the Lord will repent of the evil that he has pronounced against you.

14 As for me, see, I'm in your hand, do with me as seems good and meet to you.

15 But know for certain, that if you put me to death, you'll surely bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city, and on the inhabitants of it, for of a truth the Lord has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears."

16 Then said the princes and all the people to the priests and to the prophets, "This man is not worthy to die, for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God."

17 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,

18 "Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, thus says the Lord of hosts, Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death?  Did he not fear the Lord, and besought the Lord, and the Lord repented of the evil which he had pronounced against them?  Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.

20 And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the Lord, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah,

21 And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death, but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt,

22 And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, specifically, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him into Egypt.

23 And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword, and threw his dead body into the graves of the common people.

24 But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that they would not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

___Jeremiah chapter 27

1 In the beginning of the rule of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

2 "Thus says the Lord to me, make bonds and yokes, and put them on your neck,

3 And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers that come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah,

4 And command them to say to their masters, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, thus shall you say to your masters,

5 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are on the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it to whom it seemed appropriate to me.

6 And now I've given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and the beasts of the field I've given him also to serve him.

7 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his land comes, and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.

8 And the nation and kingdom that won't serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that won't put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I'll punish that nation, says the Lord, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I've consumed them by his hand.

9 Therefore don't listen to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, that speak to you, saying, you shall not serve the king of Babylon,

10 For they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, and so that I should drive you out, and you should perish.

11 But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, I'll let those remain still in their own land, says the Lord, and they'll till it, and live in it.

12 I spoke also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.

13 Why do you want to die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the Lord has spoken against the nation that won't serve the king of Babylon?

14 Therefore don't listen to the words of the prophets that speak to you, saying, you shall not serve the king of Babylon, for they prophesy a lie to you.

15 For I haven't sent them, says the Lord, yet they prophesy a lie in my name, so that I would drive you out, and so that you'll die, you, and the prophets that prophesy to you.

16 Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, thus says the Lord, don't listen to the words of your prophets that prophesy to you, saying, see, the containers of the Lord's house shall now shortly be brought back from Babylon, for they prophesy a lie to you.

17 Don't listen not to them, serve the king of Babylon, and live, why should this city be destroyed?

18 But if they're prophets, and if the word of the Lord be with them, let them now make intercession to the Lord of hosts, that the containers that are left in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, won't go to Babylon.

19 For thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the remainder of the containers that remain in this city,

20 That Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon didn't take, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem,

21 Yes, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the containers that remain in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem,

22 They shall be carried to Babylon, and they'll be there until the day that I visit them, says the Lord, then I'll bring them up, and restore them to this place.

___Jeremiah chapter 28

1 And the same year, in the beginning of the rule of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in the fifth month, Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, who was of Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the Lord, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,

2 "Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I've broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

3 Within two full years I'll bring back to this place all the containers of the Lord's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon,

4 And I'll bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that went into Babylon, says the Lord, for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon."

5 Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house of the Lord,

6 The prophet Jeremiah said, "Amen, the Lord do so, the Lord perform your words that you have prophesied, to bring again the containers of the Lord's house, and all that's been carried away captive, from Babylon into this place.

7 But hear you now this word that I speak in your ears, and in the ears of all the people,

8 The prophets that have been before me and before you of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.

9 The prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet happens, then shall the prophet be known, that the Lord has truly sent him."

10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and broke it.

11 And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, thus says the Lord, like that, I'll break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years.  And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.

12 Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, after Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,

13 "Go and tell Hananiah, saying, thus says the Lord, you've broken the yokes of wood, but you'll make for them yokes of iron.

14 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I've put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, so they'll serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they'll serve him, and I've given him the beasts of the field also."

15 Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, hear now, Hananiah, the Lord has not sent you, but you make these people trust in a lie.

16 Therefore thus says the Lord, "See, I'll throw you from off the face of the earth, this year you'll die, because you've taught rebellion against the Lord.

17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

___Jeremiah chapter 29

1 Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the remainder of the elders who were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon,

2 (After Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, had departed from Jerusalem,)

3 By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying,

4 "Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all that are carried away captives, whom I've caused to be carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon,

5 Build yourselves houses, and live in them, and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them,

6 Take yourselves wives, and father sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, so they can bear sons and daughters, so you'll be increased there, and not diminished.

7 And seek the peace of the city where I've caused you to be carried away captives, and pray to the Lord for it, for in the peace of it you'll you have peace.

8 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, don't let your prophets and your diviners that are among you, deceive you, nor listen to your dreams that you cause to be dreamed.

9 For they prophesy falsely to you in my name, I haven't sent them, says the Lord.

10 For thus says the Lord, after seventy years are accomplished at Babylon I'll visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

12 Then you'll call on me, and you'll go and pray to me, and I'll listen to you.

13 And you'll seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.

14 And I'll be found by you, says the Lord, and I'll turn away your captivity, and I'll gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I've driven you, says the Lord, and I'll bring you again into the place from which I caused you to be carried away captive.

15 Because you've said, the Lord has raised us up prophets in Babylon,

16 Know that thus says the Lord about the king that sits on the throne of David, and of all the people that live in this city, and of your brothers that haven't gone forth with you into captivity,

17 Thus says the Lord of hosts, see, I'll send against them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like filthy figs, that can't be eaten, they are so evil.

18 And I'll persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations where I have driven them,

19 Because they haven't listened to my words, says the Lord, that I sent to them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, but you wouldn't listen, says the Lord.

20 Hear you therefore the word of the Lord, all you of the captivity, whom I've sent from Jerusalem to Babylon,

21 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, about Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in my name, see, I'll deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall kill them before your eyes,

22 And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, the Lord make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,

23 Because they've committed villainy in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, that I haven't commanded them, even I know, and am a witness, says the Lord."

24 Thus shall you also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying,

25 Thus speaks the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, because you've sent letters in your name to all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,

26 The Lord has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, that you should be officers in the house of the Lord, for every man that is crazy, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in prison, and in the stocks.

27 Now therefore why haven't you reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you?

28 For therefore he sent to us in Babylon, saying, this captivity is long, build yourseves houses, and live in them, and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

29 And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.

30 Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,

31 "Send to all of those of the captivity, saying, thus says the Lord concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite, because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I didn't send him, and he caused you to trust in a lie,

32 Therefore thus says the Lord, see, I'll punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed, he won't have a man to live among this people, nor shall he see the good that I will do for my people, says the Lord, because he has taught rebellion against the Lord.

___Jeremiah chapter 30

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

2 "Thus speaks the Lord God of Israel, saying, write all the words that I've spoken to you in a book.

3 For see, the days come, says the Lord, that I'll undo the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, says the Lord, and I'll cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they'll possess it."

4 And these are the words that the Lord spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.

5 For thus says the Lord, "We've heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

6 Ask now, and see whether a man travails with child?  Why do I see every man with his hands on his loins, like a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

7 Alas!  For that day is great, so that none is like it, it is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.

8 For in that day, says the Lord of hosts, I'll break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves by him,

9 But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.

10 Therefore don't be afraid, O my servant Jacob, says the Lord, nor be dismayed, O Israel, for see, I'll save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity, and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and no one shall make him afraid.

11 For I am with you, says the Lord, to save you, though I make a full end of all nations where I've scattered you, yet I won't make a full end of you, but I will correct you in measure, and will not leave you completely unpunished.

12 For thus says the Lord, your bruise is incurable, and your wound is grievous.

13 There is no one to plead your cause, so you'll be bound up, you have no healing medicines.

14 All your lovers have forgotten you, they don't seek you, for I've wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of someone cruel, for the multitude of your iniquity, because your sins were increased.

15 Why do you cry for your affliction?  Your sorrow is incurable for the multitude of your iniquity, because your sins were increased, I've done these things to you.

16 Therefore all of those who devour you shall be devoured, and all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity, and those who spoil you shall be a spoil, and all of those who on you I'll give for a prey.

17 For I'll restore health to you, and I'll heal you of your wounds, says the Lord, because they called you an outcast, saying, this is Zion, whom no man seeks after.

18 Thus says the Lord, see, I'll undo the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwelling places, and the city shall be built on its own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner of it.

19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry, and I will multiply them, and they won't be few, I will also glorify them, and they won't be small.

20 Their children also shall be like previously, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.

21 And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from among them, and I'll cause him to draw near, and he shall approach me, for who is this that engaged his heart to approach to me?  Says the Lord.

22 And you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

23 See, the whirlwind of the Lord goes out with fury, a continuing whirlwind, it shall fall with pain on the head of the wicked.

24 The fierce anger of the Lord shall not return, until he's done it, and until he has performed the intents of his heart, in the latter days you shall consider it."

___Jeremiah chapter 31

1 "At the same time," says the Lord, "I'll be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people."

2 Thus says the Lord, "The people who were left by the sword found grace in the wilderness, even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.

3 The Lord has appeared of old to me, saying, yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love, therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.

4 Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel, you shall again be adorned with your tabrets, and shall go out in the dances of those who make merry.

5 You shall yet plant vines on the mountains of Samaria, the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.

6 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen on the Mount Ephraim shall shout, arise, and let's go up to Zion to the Lord our God.

7 For thus says the Lord, sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations, publish, praise, and say, O Lord, save your people, the remnant of Israel.

8 See, I'll bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travails with child together, a large crowd shall return there.

9 They'll come with weeping, and I'll lead them with supplications, I'll cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, in which they won't stumble, for I'm a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

10 Hear the word of the Lord, O you nations, and declare it in the islands afar off, and say, he that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, like a shepherd does his flock.

11 For the Lord has redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.

12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the Lord, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd, and their soul shall be like a watered garden, and they won't be sorrowful anymore at all.

13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together, for I'll turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

14 And I will saturate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says the Lord.

15 Thus says the Lord, a voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.

16 Thus says the Lord, refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears, for your work shall be rewarded, says the Lord, and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.

17 And there is hope in your end, says the Lord, that your children shall come again to their own border.

18 I've surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, you have chastised me, and I was chastised, like a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke, turn me, and I'll be turned, for you are the Lord my God.

19 Surely after I was turned, I repented, and after I was instructed, I struck on my thigh, I was ashamed, yes, even confused, because I carried the reproach of my youth.

20 Is Ephraim my dear son?  Is he a pleasant child?  For since I spoke against him, I do earnestly remember him still, therefore my bowels are troubled for him, I'll surely have mercy on him, says the Lord.

21 Set up waymarks, make high heaps, set your heart toward the highway, even the way that you went, turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities.

22 How long will you go around, O backsliding daughter?  For the Lord has created a new thing in the earth, a woman shall encompass a man.

23 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, as yet they'll use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities of it, when I shall undo their captivity, the Lord bless you, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.

24 And farmers shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities of it together, and those who go out with flocks.

25 For I have saturated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul."

26 On this I awoke, and saw, and my sleep was sweet to me.

27 "See, the days come," says the Lord, "that I will plant the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of animals.

28 And like I've watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict, so I'll watch over them, to build, and to plant, says the Lord.

29 In those days they shall no more say, the fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

30 But every one shall die for his own sin, every man that eats the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

31 See, the days come, says the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah,

32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, which covenant they broke, although I was a husband to them, says the Lord,

33 But this shall be the covenant that I'll make with the house of Israel, after those days, says the Lord, I'll put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts, and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

34 And they shall no longer teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, know the Lord, for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord, for I'll forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

35 Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who divides the sea when the waves of it roar, the Lord of hosts is his name,

36 If those ordinances depart from before me, says the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall stop from being a nation before me for ever.

37 Thus says the Lord, if heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I'll also throw off all the seed of Israel for all that they've done, says the Lord.

38 See, the days come, says the Lord, that the city shall be built to the Lord from the tower of Hananeel to the gate of the corner.

39 And the measuring line shall yet go forth opposite it on the hill Gareb, and shall circle around to Goath.

40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook of Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy to the Lord, it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more forever.

___Jeremiah chapter 32

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.

2 For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.

3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, "Why do you prophesy, and say, thus says the Lord, see, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it,

4 And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall see his eyes,

5 And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and he'll be there until I visit him, says the Lord, though you fight with the Chaldeans, you won't prosper."

6 And Jeremiah said, "The word of the Lord came to me, saying,

7 See, Hanameel the son of Shallum your uncle shall come to you, saying, buy you my field that is in Anathoth, for the right of redemption is yours to buy it."

8 So Hanameel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the Lord, and said to me, "Please buy my field, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin, for the right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption is yours, buy it for yourself."  Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord.

9 And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, seventeen shekels of silver.

10 And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.

11 So I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open,

12 And I gave the evidence of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel my uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.

13 And I commanded Baruch before them, saying,

14 "Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence which is open, and put them in an earthen container, so they'll continue many days.

15 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.

16 Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to the Lord, saying,

17 "Ah Lord God!  See, you've made the heaven and the earth by your great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for you,

18 You showed loving kindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them, the great, the mighty God, the Lord of hosts, is his name,

19 Great in counsel, and mighty in work, for your eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings,

20 Who has set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to this day, and in Israel, and among other men, and have made you a name, as at this day,

21 And have brought forth your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror,

22 And have given them this land, that you promised to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey,

23 And they came in, and possessed it, but they didn't obey your voice, nor walked in your law, they've done nothing of all that you commanded them to do, therefore you've caused all this evil to come on them,

24 See the mounts, they've come to the city to take it, and the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence, and what you have spoken has happened, and see, you see it.

25 And you've said to me, O Lord God, buy the field for money, and take witnesses, for the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

26 Then came the word of the Lord to Jeremiah, saying,

27 "See, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh, is there any thing too hard for me?

28 Therefore thus says the Lord, see, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it,

29 And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set this city on fire, and burn it with the houses, on whose roofs they've offered incense to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.

30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth, for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, says the Lord.

31 For this city has been to me like a provocation of my anger and of my fury from the day that they built it until this day, so that I should remove it from before my face,

32 Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, that they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

33 And they've turned to me the back, and not the face, though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they haven't listened to receive instruction.

34 But they set their dirty things in the house that is called by my name, to defile it.

35 And they built the high places of Baal, that are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech, which I didn't command them, nor did it come into my mind, that they should do this dirty thing, to cause Judah to sin.

36 And now therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning this city, about which you say, it shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence,

37 See, I will gather them out of all countries, where I have driven them in my anger, and in my fury, and in great anger, and I will bring them again to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely,

38 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God,

39 And I will give them one heart, and one way, so that they'll fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after them,

40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good, but I will put my fear in their hearts, so that they won't depart from me.

41 Yes, I'll rejoice over them to do them good, and I'll plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.

42 For thus says the Lord, like I have brought all this great evil on this people, so I'll I bring on them all the good that I've promised them.

43 And fields shall be bought in this land, about which you say, it is desolate without man or beast, it has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

44 Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places around Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south, for I'll cause their captivity to be undone, says the Lord.

___Jeremiah chapter 33

1 Also, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

2 "Thus says the Lord, the maker of it, the Lord that formed it, to establish it, the Lord is his name,

3 Call to me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, that you don't know.

4 For thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, that have been thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword,

5 They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I've killed in my anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I've hidden my face from this city.

6 See, I will bring it health and cure, and I'll cure them, and will reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.

7 And I'll cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to be undone, and will build them, like at the first.

8 And I'll cleanse them from all their iniquity, by which they have sinned against me, and I will pardon all their iniquities, by which they have sinned, and by which they have transgressed against me.

9 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honor before all the nations of the earth, who shall hear all the good that I do to them, and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure to it.

10 Thus says the Lord, again there shall be heard in this place, that you say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without animal,

11 The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who'll say, praise the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good, for his mercy endures forever, and of those who'll bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord.  For I'll cause to the captivity of the land to be undone, as at the first, says the Lord.

12 Thus says the Lord of hosts, again in this place, that is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities of it, shall be a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.

13 In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places around Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flocks shall pass again under the hands of him that counts them, says the Lord.

14 See, the days come, says the Lord, that I'll perform that good thing that I've promised to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.

15 In those days, and at that time, I'll I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up to David, and he'll execute judgment and righteousness in the land.

16 In those days Judah shall be saved, and Jerusalem shall live safely, and this is the name with which she shall be called, the Lord our righteousness.

17 For thus says the Lord, David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel,

18 Nor shall the priests the Levites lack a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually."

19 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,

20 "Thus says the Lord, if you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season,

21 Then also might my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to rule on his throne, and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.

22 Like the host of heaven can't be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so I'll multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister to me."

23 Also the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,

24 "Don't consider what these people have spoken, saying, the two families that the Lord has chosen, he has thrown them away?  Thus they have despised my people, that they should no more be a nation before them."

25 Thus says the Lord, "If my covenant is not with day and night, and if I haven't appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth,

26 Then I'll cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I won't take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, for I'll cause their captivity to be undone, and have mercy on them."

___Jeremiah chapter 34

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of it, saying,

2 "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, thus says the Lord, see, I'll give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he'll burn it with fire,

3 And you won't escape out of his hand, but shall surely be taken, and delivered into his hand, and your eyes shall see the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he'll speak with you mouth to mouth, and you shall go to Babylon.

4 Yet hear the word of the Lord, O Zedekiah king of Judah, thus says the Lord of you, you won't die by the sword,

5 But you shall die in peace, and with the burnings of your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so they'll burn odors for you, and they will lament you, saying, ah lord!  For I have spoken the word, says the Lord.

6 Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,

7 When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah, for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah.

8 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people that were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them,

9 That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, who was a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free, that no one should serve himself of them, that is, of a Jew his brother."

10 Now when all the princes, and all the people, who had entered into the covenant, heard that everyone should let his manservant, and everyone his maidservant, go free, that no one should serve themselves of them anymore, then they obeyed, and let them go.

11 But afterward they turned back, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

12 Therefore the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

13 "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,

14 At the end of seven years let go every man his brother an Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and when he has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you, but your fathers didn't listen to me, nor inclined their ear.

15 And you had now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor, and you had made a covenant before me in the house that is called by my name,

16 But you turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.

17 Therefore thus says the Lord, you haven't listened to me, in proclaiming liberty, everyone to his brother, and every man to his neighbor, see, I proclaim a liberty for you, says the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine, and I'll make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

18 And I'll give the men that have transgressed my covenant, who haven't performed the words of the covenant that they'd made before me, when they cut the calf in two, and passed between the parts of it,

19 The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, who passed between the parts of the calf,

20 I'll give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life, and their dead bodies shall be for meat to the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.

21 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes I'll give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, who have gone up from you.

22 See, I'll command, says the Lord, and cause them to return to this city, and they'll fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire, and I'll make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.

___Jeremiah chapter 35

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,

2 "Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak to them, and bring them into the house of the Lord, into one of the rooms, and give them wine to drink."

3 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah, and his brothers, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites,

4 And I brought them into the house of the Lord, into the room of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, who was by the room of the princes, that was above the room of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door,

5 And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said to them, "Drink wine."

6 But they said, "We'll drink no wine, for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, you shall drink no wine, neither you, nor your sons forever,

7 Nor shall you build house, nor plant seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any, but all your days you shall live in tents, so that you'll live many days in the land where you're strangers.

8 Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he has charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters,

9 Nor to build houses for us to live in, nor do we have vineyard, nor field, nor seed,

10 But we've lived in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

11 But when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, we said, come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians, so we live in Jerusalem."

12 Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,

13 "Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, won't you receive instruction and listen to my words?  Says the Lord.

14 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, have been performed, for to this day they don't drink any, but obey their father's commandment, but I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, but you didn't listen to me.

15 I've sent also to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, return now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and don't go after other gods to serve them, and you'll live in the land that I've given to you and to your fathers, but you haven't inclined your ear, nor listened to me.

16 Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father, that he commanded them, but these people haven't listened to me,

17 Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, see, I'll bring on Judah and on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I've spoken against them, because I've spoken to them, but they haven't heard, and I've called to them, but they haven't answered."

18 And Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, "Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, because you've obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according to all that he has commanded you,

19 Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not lack a man to stand before me forever."

___Jeremiah chapter 36

1 And in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

2 "Take a roll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, until this day.

3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil that I intend to do to them, so that they'll return every man from his evil way, so that I'll forgive their iniquity and their sin."

4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord, that he had spoken to him, on a roll of a book.

5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, "I'm in jail, I can't go into the house of the Lord,

6 Therefore you go, and read in the roll that you've written from my mouth, the words of the Lord in the ears of the people in the Lord's house on the fasting day, and also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.

7 Maybe they'll present their supplication before the Lord, and will return everyone from his evil way, for great is the anger and the fury that the Lord has spoken against these people."

8 And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading from the book the words of the Lord in the Lord's house.

9 And in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, they proclaimed a fast before the Lord to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem.

10 Then Baruch read in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the Lord, in the room of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the Lord's house, in the ears of all the people.

11 When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the Lord,

12 Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's room, and see, all the princes sat there, Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.

13 Then Michaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.

14 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, "Take in your hand the roll from which you've read in the ears of the people, and come."  So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came to them.

15 And they said to him, "Sit down now, and read it in our hearing."  So Baruch read it in their hearing.

16 Now when they had heard all the words, they were all afraid, and said to Baruch, "We will surely tell the king about all these words."

17 And they asked Baruch, "Well us now, how did you write all these words at his mouth?"

18 Then Baruch answered them, he spoke all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book."

19 Then the princes said to Baruch, "Go and hide, you and Jeremiah, and let no man know where you are."

20 And they went to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the room of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king.

21 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll, and he took it out of Elishama the scribe's room.  And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes who stood beside the king.

22 Now the king sat in the winter house in the ninth month, and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.

23 And when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with a small knife, and threw it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.

24 Yet they weren't afraid, nor tore their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.

25 But Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll, but he wouldn't listen to them.

26 But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet, but the Lord hid them.

27 Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, after the king had burned the roll, and the words that Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,

28 "Take again another roll, and write in it all the previous words that were in the first roll, that Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.

29 And you shall say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, thus says the Lord, you've burned this roll, saying, why have you written in it, saying, the king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to stop from there man and beast?

30 Therefore thus says the Lord of Jehoiakim king of Judah, he shall have no one to sit on the throne of David, and his dead body shall be thrown out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.

31 And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their sin, and I will bring on them, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the evil that I have spoken against them, but they didn't listen."

32 Then Jeremiah took another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote in it from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire, and there were added to them many like words besides.

___Jeremiah chapter 37

1 And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah ruled instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.

2 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, listened to the words of the Lord, that he spoke by the prophet Jeremiah.

3 And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, "Pray now to the Lord our God for us."

4 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people, for they had not put him into prison.

5 Then Pharaoh's army came out of Egypt, and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem got news of them, they departed from Jerusalem.

6 Then the word of the Lord came to the prophet Jeremiah, saying,

7 "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, thus shall you say to the king of Judah, that sent you to me to inquire of me, see, Pharaoh's army, that has come out to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land.

8 And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.

9 Thus says the Lord, don't deceive yourselves, saying, the Chaldeans shall surely depart from us, for they won't depart.

10 For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet they would rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.

11 And when the army of the Chaldeans had broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,

12 Then Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to separate himself there among the people.

13 And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, and he arrested Jeremiah the prophet, saying, "You fall away to the Chaldeans."

14 Then said Jeremiah, "It is false, I'm not falling away to the Chaldeans.  But he didn't listen to him, so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.

15 So the princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for they had made that the prison.

16 When Jeremiah had entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days,

17 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out, and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, "Is there any word from the Lord?"  And Jeremiah said, "There is, he said, for you'll be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon."

18 Also Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, "What is my offense against you, or against your servants, or against these people, that you've put me in prison?

19 Where are now your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, the king of Babylon won't come against you, nor against this land?

20 Therefore hear now, please, O my lord the king, please let my supplication, be accepted before you, so that you don't cause me to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, so I don't die there.

21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him a piece of bread out of the bakers' street every day, until all the bread in the city was used up.  Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

___Jeremiah chapter 38

1 Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken to all the people, saying,

2 "Thus says the Lord, he that remains in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, but he that goes out to the Chaldeans shall live, for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.

3 Thus says the Lord, this city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, who'll take it."

4 Therefore the princes said to the king, we beg of you, "Let this man be put to death, for thus he weakens the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them, for this man doesn't seek the welfare of this people, but the hurt."

5 Then Zedekiah the king said, "See, he is in your hand, for the king is not he that can do anything against you."

6 Then took they Jeremiah, and threw him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison, and they let down Jeremiah with cords.  And there was no water in the dungeon, but mire, so Jeremiah sank in the mire.

7 Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs who was in the king's house, heard that they'd put Jeremiah in the dungeon, the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin,

8 Ebedmelech went out of the king's house, and spoke to the king, saying,

9 "My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they've done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they've cast into the dungeon, and he is likely to die from hunger in the place where he is, for there is no more bread in the city."

10 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, "Take from from here thirty men with you, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he dies."

11 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took with him old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.

12 And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, "Now put these old cast clouts and rotten rags under your armpits under the cords."  And Jeremiah did.

13 So they pulled up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon, and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

14 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet to himself into the third entry that is in the house of the Lord, and the king said to Jeremiah, "I will ask you something, hide nothing from me."

15 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "If I tell it to you, will you not surely put me to death?  And if I give you advice, won't you fail to listen to me?"

16 So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, "As the Lord lives, that made us this soul, I won't put you to death, nor will I give you into the hand of these men that seek your life."

17 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "Thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, if you'll assuredly go out to the king of Babylon's princes, then your soul shall live, and this city won't be burned with fire, and you'll live, and your house,

18 But if you won't go out to the king of Babylon's princes, then this city shall be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they'll burn it with fire, and you won't escape out of their hand."

19 And Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, "I'm afraid of the Jews that have fallen to the Chaldeans, so that they don't deliver me into their hand, and they mock me."

20 But Jeremiah said, "They won't do that.  Obey, I beg of you, the voice of the Lord, that I speak to you, so it shall be well to you, and your soul shall live.

21 But if you refuse to go out, this is the word that the Lord has showed me,

22 And see, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought out to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, your friends have set you on, and have prevailed against you, your feet have sunk in the mire, and they're turned away back.

23 So they shall bring out all your wives and your children to the Chaldeans, and you won't escape out of their hand, but shall be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon, and you'll cause this city to be burned with fire."

24 Then said Zedekiah to Jeremiah, "Let no man know of these words, and you won't not die.

25 But if the princes hear that I've talked with you, and they come to you, and say to you, tell us now what you said to the king, don't hide it from us, and we won't put you to death, also what the king said to you,"

26 Then you shall say to them, "I presented my petition to the king, that he wouldn't cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to die there.

27 Then came all the princes to Jeremiah, and asked him, and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded.  So they left off speaking with him, for the matter was not perceived.

28 So Jeremiah lived in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken, and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.

___Jeremiah chapter 39

1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.

2 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.

3 And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, even Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.

4 And when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went out of the city at night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate beteen the two walls, and he went out the way of the plain.

5 But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment on him.

6 Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes, the king of Babylon also killed all the nobles of Judah.

7 Also he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with chains, to transport him to Babylon.

8 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

9 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the rest of the people that remained in the city, and those who fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people that remained.

10 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, who had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.

11 Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave orders concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying,

12 "Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm, but do to him like he tells you."

13 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushasban, Rabsaris, and Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, and all the king of Babylon's princes,

14 They sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, so he would carry him home, so he lived among the people.

15 Now the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

16 "Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, see, I'll bring my words on this city for evil, and not for good, and they'll be accomplished on that day in front of you.

17 But I will deliver you in that day, says the Lord, and you won't be given into the hand of the men of whom you're afraid.

18 For I will surely deliver you, and you won't fall by the sword, but your life shall be for a prey to you, because you've put your trust in me, says the Lord."

___Jeremiah chapter 40

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away captive to Babylon.

2 And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said to him, "The Lord your God has pronounced this evil on this place.

3 Now the Lord has brought it, and has done according as he has said, because you've sinned against the Lord, and haven't obeyed his voice, therefore this thing has come on you.

4 And now, see, I loose you this day from the chains that were on your hands.  If it seems good to you to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will look well to you, but if it seems ill to you to come with me into Babylon, then don't, see, all the land is before you, where it seems good and convenient for you to go, go there.

5 Now while he had not yet gone back, he said, go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made governor over the cities of Judah, and live with him among the people, or go wherever it seems convenient to you to go.  So the captain of the guard gave him food and some money, and let him go.

6 Then went Jeremiah to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah, and lived with him among the people that were left in the land.

7 Now when all the captains of the forces that were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed to him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of those who were not carried away captive to Babylon,

8 Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.

9 And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore to them and to their men, saying, "Don't be afraid to serve the Chaldeans, live in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.

10 As for me, see, I will live at Mizpah to serve the Chaldeans, who will come to us, but you, gather wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in your containers, and live in your cities that you've taken."

11 Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan,

12 All the Jews returned out of all places where they'd beendriven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.

13 Also Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,

14 And said to him, "Do you certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to kill you?"  But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam didn't believe them.

15 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, "Let me go, please, and I'll kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it, why should he kill you, so that all the Jews who've gathered to you should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah die?"

16 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, "You shall not do this thing, for you speak falsely about Ishmael."

___Jeremiah chapter 41

1 Now in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the royal descendants, and the princes of the king, even ten men with him, came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah, and there they ate bread together in Mizpah.

2 Then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah got up, and the ten men that were with him, and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and killed him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.

3 Ishmael also killed all the Jews that were with him, with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were there, and the men of war.

4 And the second day after he had killed Gedaliah, and no man knew it,

5 There came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved, and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the Lord.

6 And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went, as he met them he said to them, "Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam."

7 And it was so, when they came into the middle of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, and threw them into the middle of the pit, he, and the men that were with him.

8 But ten men were found among them that said to Ishmael, don't kill us, for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey.  So he didn't, and didn't killed them among their brothers.

9 Now the pit in which Ishmael had thrown all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had killed because of Gedaliah, was that which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel, and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with those who were killed.

10 Then Ishmael carried away captive all the remainder of the people that were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites.

11 But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,

12 Then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon.

13 Now when all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, then they were glad.

14 So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah turned around came back, and went to Johanan the son of Kareah.

15 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the Ammonites.

16 Then Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, took all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after he had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, even mighty men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon,

17 And they departed, and lived in the habitation of Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt,

18 Because of the Chaldeans, for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land.

___Jeremiah chapter 42

1 Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least to the greatest, came near,

2 And said to Jeremiah the prophet, "Please let our supplication be accepted before you, and pray for us to the Lord your God, for all this remnant, (for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes do see us,)

3 That the Lord your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the thing that we should do."

4 Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, "I've heard you, see, I'll pray to the Lord your God according to your words, and whatever thing the Lord shall answer you, I'll tell you, I won't keep anything back from you."

5 Then they said to Jeremiah, "The Lord be a true and faithful witness between us, if we don't do according to all things for which the Lord your God shall send you to us.

6 Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we send you, so it will be well with us, when we obey the voice of the Lord our God.

7 And after ten days, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah.

8 Then he called Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, and all the people from the least to the greatest,

9 And said to them, "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your supplication before him,

10 If you'll still live in this land, then I'll build you, and not pull you down, and I'll plant you, and not pluck you up, for I repent of the evil that I've done to you.

11 Don't be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you're afraid, don't be afraid of him, says the Lord, for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.

12 And I will show mercies to you, so that he'll have mercy on you, and cause you to return to your own land.

13 But if you say, we won't live in this land, nor obey the voice of the Lord your God,

14 Saying, no, but we'll go into the land of Egypt, where we won't see war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread, and we'll live there,

15 And now therefore hear the word of the Lord, you remnant of Judah, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, if you completely set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to live there,

16 Then the sword, that you feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, of which you were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt, and you'll die there.

17 So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to live there, they'll die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring on them.

18 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, as my anger and my fury has been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my fury be poured out on you, when you enter into Egypt, and you'll be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach, and you'll see this place no more.

19 The Lord has said concerning you, O you remnant of Judah, don't go into Egypt, know certainly that I've reprimanded you this day.

20 For you pretended in your hearts, when you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, pray for us to the Lord our God, and according to all that the Lord our God shall say, tell us, and we'll do it.

21 And now I have this day told you, but you haven't obeyed the voice of the Lord your God, nor anything for which he has sent me to you.

22 Now therefore know certainly that you'll die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place where you desire to go and to live."

___Jeremiah chapter 43

1 And when Jeremiah had finished speaking to all the people all the words of the Lord their God, for which the Lord their God had sent him to them, even all these words,

2 Then Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, spoke, saying to Jeremiah, "You speak falsely, the Lord our God has not sent you to say, don't go into Egypt to visit there,

3 But Baruch the son of Neriah sets you on against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, so they can put us to death, and carry us away captives into Babylon.

4 So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, didn't obey the voice of the Lord, to live in the land of Judah.

5 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that had returned from all nations, where they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah,

6 Even men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.

7 So they came into the land of Egypt, for they didn't obey the voice of the Lord, thus came they to Tahpanhes.

8 Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,

9 "Take great stones in your hand, and hide them in the clay in the brick kiln, that is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah,

10 And say to them, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, see, I'll send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne on these stones that I've hidden, and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.

11 And when he comes, he'll strike the land of Egypt, and deliver such as are for death to death, and such as are for captivity to captivity, and such as are for the sword to the sword.

12 And I'll kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt, and he'll burn them, and carry them away captives, and he'll array himself with the land of Egypt, like a shepherd puts on his garment, and he shall go out from there in peace.

13 He'll also break the images of Bethshemesh, that is in the land of Egypt, and he'll burn with fire the houses of the gods of the Egyptians.

___Jeremiah chapter 44

1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who live in the land of Egypt, who live at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,

2 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, you've seen all the evil that I've brought on Jerusalem, and on all the cities of Judah, and see, this day they are a desolation, and no man lives in it,

3 Because of their wickedness that they've committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, whom they didn't know, neither they, you, nor your fathers.

4 But I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, oh, don't do this dirty thing that I hate.

5 But they didn't listen, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods.

6 So my fury and my anger was poured out, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.

7 Therefore now thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, why do you commit this great evil against your souls, to cut off from yourselves man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you no one to remain,

8 In that you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you've gone to live, so that you can cut yourselves off, and so you can be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

9 Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they've committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

10 They're not humbled even to this day, nor have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.

11 Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, see, I'll set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.

12 And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to live there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt, they shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, they shall die, from the least to the greatest, by the sword and by the famine, and they'll be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.

13 For I will punish those who live in the land of Egypt, like I've punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence,

14 So that none of the remnant of Judah, who've gone into the land of Egypt to live there, shall escape or remain, so that they should return into the land of Judah, to which they desire to return to live there, for none shall return but such as shall escape."

15 Then all the men who knew that their wives had burned incense to other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that lived in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,

16 "As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we won't listen to you.

17 But we will certainly do whatever thing goes forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, for then we had plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.

18 But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, we've lacked all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.

19 And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her, without our men?"

20 Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people who had given him that answer, saying,

21 "The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, didn't the Lord remember them, and didn't it come into his mind?

22 So that the Lord could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the dirty things that you've committed, therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.

23 Because you've burned incense, and because you've sinned against the Lord, and haven't obeyed the voice of the Lord, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies, therefore this evil has happened to you, as at this day."

24 Also Jeremiah said to all the people, and to all the women, "Hear the word of the Lord, all Judah that are in the land of Egypt,

25 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, you and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, we will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, you will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.

26 Therefore hear you the word of the Lord, all Judah that live in the land of Egypt, see, I've sworn by my great name, says the Lord, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, the Lord God lives.

27 See, I'll watch over them for evil, and not for good, and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there's an end of them.

28 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that have gone into the land of Egypt to live there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.

29 And this shall be a sign to you, says the Lord, that I'll punish you in this place, so you'll know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil,

30 Thus says the Lord, see, I'll give Pharaohhophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who seek his life, like I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and who sought his life.

___Jeremiah chapter 45

1 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,

2 "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, to you, O Baruch,

3 You said say, woe is me now!  For the Lord has added grief to my sorrow, I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

4 Thus shall you say to him, the Lord says thus, see, that which I've built I'll break down, and that which I have planted I'll pluck up, even this whole land.

5 And do you seek great things for yourself?  Don't seek them, for see, I'll bring evil on all flesh, says the Lord, but I'll give you your life for a prey in all places that you go to."

___Jeremiah chapter 46

1 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles,

2 Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, that was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.

3 "Order the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

4 Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets, furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.

5 Why have I seen them put to shame and turned away back?  And their mighty have been are beaten down, and have fled apace, and don't look back, for fear was all around, says the Lord.

6 Let the swift not flee away, nor the mighty men escape, they'll stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.

7 Who is this that comes up like a flood, whose waters are moved like the rivers?

8 Egypt rises up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers, and he says, I'll go up, and will cover the earth, I'll destroy the city and the inhabitants of it.

9 Come up, you horses, and rage, you chariots, and let the mighty men come out, the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield, and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.

10 For this is the day of the Lord God of hosts, a day of vengeance, so he can avenge himself against his adversaries, and the sword shall devour, and it shall be saturated and made drunk with their blood, for the Lord God of hosts has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt, you'll use many medicines in vain, for you won't be cured.

12 The nations have heard of your shame, and your cry has filled the land, for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, and they've both fallen together."

13 The word that the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon would come and strike the land of Egypt.

14 "Declare in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes, say stand fast, and prepare, for the sword shall devour all around you.

15 Why are your valiant men swept away?  They didn't stand, because the Lord drove them.

16 He made many fall, yes, one fell on another, and they said, arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.

17 They shouted there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise, he is a has-been.

18 As I live, says the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts, surely like Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so he shall come.

19 O daughter living in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity, for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.

20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction comes, it comes out of the north.

21 Also her hired men are among her like fatted bullocks, for they also are turned back, and are fled away together, they did not stand, because the day of their calamity has come against them, and the time of their visitation.

22 The voice of it shall go like a serpent, for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, like cutters of wood.

23 They shall cut down her forest, says the Lord, though it can't be searched, because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.

24 The daughter of Egypt shall be confused, she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.

25 The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, says, see, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings, even Pharaoh, and all os those who trust in him,

26 And I'll deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants, and afterward it shall be inhabited, like in the days of old, says the Lord.

27 But don't be afraid, O my servant Jacob, and don't be dismayed, O Israel, for see, I'll save you from afar off, and your seed from the land of their captivity, and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and no one shall make him afraid.

28 Don't be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says the Lord, for I am with you, for I'll make a full end of all the nations where I've driven you, but I won't make a full end of you, but correct you in measure, yet I won't leave you completely unpunished."

___Jeremiah chapter 47

1 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck Gaza.

2 "Thus says the Lord, see, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is in it, the city, and those who live in it, then the men shall shout, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.

3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands,

4 Because of the day that comes to ruin all the Philistines, and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remains, for the Lord will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.

5 Baldness has come on Gaza, Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley, how long will you cut yourself?

6 O sword of the Lord, how long will it be before you're quiet?  Put up yourself into your scabbard, rest, and be still.

7 How can it be quiet, seeing the Lord has given it a command against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore?  He has appointed it there."

___Jeremiah chapter 48

1 Against Moab thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, "Woe to Nebo!  For it is spoiled, Kiriathaim is confused and taken, Misgab is confused and dismayed.

2 There shall be no more praise of Moab, in Heshbon they've devised evil against it, come, and let's cut it off from being a nation.  Also you'll be cut down, O Madmen, the sword shall pursue you.

3 A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.

4 Moab is destroyed, her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.

5 For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up, for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.

6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.

7 Because you've trusted in your works and in your treasures, you'll also be taken, and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together.

8 And the spoiler shall come on every city, and no city shall escape, the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, like the Lord has spoken.

9 Give wings to Moab, so that it will flee and get away, for the cities of it shall be desolate, without anyone to live in them.

10 Cursed be he that does the work of the Lord deceitfully, and cursed be he that keeps back his sword from blood.

11 Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from container to container, nor has he gone into captivity, therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.

12 Therefore, see, the days come, says the Lord, that I'll send him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his containers, and break their bottles.

13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, like the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.

14 How is it that you say, we are mighty and strong men for the war?

15 Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter, says the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

16 The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hurries fast.

17 All you that are around him bemoan him, and all you that know his name, say, how has the strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod!

18 You daughter that inhabits Dibon, come down from your glory, and sit in thirst, for the spoiler of Moab shall come against you, and he shall destroy your strong holds.

19 O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and spy, ask him that flees, and her that escapes, and say, what's happening?

20 Moab is confused, for it's broken down, howl and cry, tell it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,

21 And judgment has come on the plain country, on Holon, and on Jahazah, and on Mephaath,

22 And on Dibon, and on Nebo, and on Bethdiblathaim,

23 And on Kiriathaim, and on Bethgamul, and on Bethmeon,

24 And on Kerioth, and on Bozrah, and on all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.

25 The horn of Moab has been cut off, and his arm is broken, says the Lord.

26 Make him drunk, for he magnified himself against the Lord, Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.

27 For wasn't Israel a derision to you?  Was he found among thieves?  For since you spoke of him, you skipped for joy.

28 O you that live in Moab, leave the cities, and live in the rock, and be like the dove that makes her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth.

29 We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is very proud) his loftiness, and his arrogance, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.

30 I know his anger, says the Lord, but it shall not be so, his lies shall not so effect it.

31 Therefore I'll howl for Moab, and I'll cry out for all Moab, my heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.

32 O vine of Sibmah, I'll weep for you with the weeping of Jazer, your plants have gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer, the spoiler has fallen on your summer fruits and on your vintage.

33 And joy and gladness has been taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab, and I've caused wine to fail from the winepresses, no one shall tread with shouting, their shouting shall be no shouting.

34 From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, and even to Jahaz, they've raised their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, like a heifer of three years old, for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.

35 Also I'll cause to stop in Moab, says the Lord, him that offers in the high places, and him that burns incense to his gods.

36 Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and my heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres, because the riches that they've gotten have perished.

37 For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped, on all the hands shall be cuttings, and on the loins sackcloth.

38 There shall be lamentation generally on all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets of it, for I've broken Moab like a container in which is no pleasure, says the Lord.

39 They shall howl, saying, how has it broken down!  How has Moab turned the back with shame!  So shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all of those around him.

40 For thus says the Lord, see, he'll fly like an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.

41 Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be like the heart of a woman in her pangs.

42 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against the Lord.

43 Fear, and the pit, and the trap, shall be on you, O inhabitant of Moab, says the Lord.

44 He that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit, and he that gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the trap, for I'll bring on it, even on Moab, the year of their visitation, says the Lord.

45 Those who fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force, but a fire shall come out of Heshbon, and a flame from among Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.

46 Woe to you, O Moab!  The people of Chemosh perish, for your sons have been taken captive, and your daughters captives.

47 Yet will I undo the captivity of Moab in the latter days, says the Lord.  Thus far is the judgment of Moab."

___Jeremiah chapter 49

1 Concerning the Ammonites, thus says the Lord, "Does Israel have no sons?  Has he no heir?  Why then does their king inherit Gad, and his people live in his cities?

2 Therefore see, the days come, says the Lord, that I'll cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites, and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire, then shall Israel be heir to those who were his heirs, says the Lord.

3 Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled, cry, you daughters of Rabbah, gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament, and run back and forth by the hedges, for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.

4 Why glory in the valleys, your flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? That trusted in her treasures, saying, who shall come to me?

5 See, I'll bring a fear against you, says the Lord God of hosts, from all of those who are around you, and you'll be driven out every man straight forth, and no one shall gather up him that wanders.

6 And afterward I'll undo the captivity of the children of Ammon, says the Lord.

7 Concerning Edom, thus says the Lord of hosts, is wisdom no more in Teman?  Has advice perished from the prudent?  Has their wisdom vanished?

8 Flee, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan, for I'll bring the calamity of Esau on him, the time that I will visit him.

9 If grape gatherers come to you, wouldn't they leave some gleaning grapes?  If thieves by night, they'll destroy 'til they have enough.

10 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he won't be able to hide himself, his seed is spoiled, and his brothers, and his neighbors, and he is not.

11 Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive, and let your widows trust in me.

12 For thus says the Lord, see, those whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken, and are you he that shall completely go unpunished?  You won't go unpunished, but you'll surely drink of it.

13 For I have sworn by myself, says the Lord, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse, and all the cities of it shall be perpetual wastes.

14 I've heard a rumor from the Lord, and an ambassador is sent to the heathen, saying, gather together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.

15 For see, I'll make you small among the heathen, and despised among men.

16 Your terribleness has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, O you that lives in the clefts of the rock, that holds the height of the hill, though you would make your nest as high as the eagle, I'll bring you down from there, says the Lord.

17 Also Edom shall be a desolation, everyone that goes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues of it.

18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says the Lord, no man shall remain there, nor shall a son of man live in it.

19 See, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong, but I'll suddenly make him run away from her, and who is a chosen man, that I can appoint over her?  For who is like me?  And who will appoint me the time?  And who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

20 Therefore hear the advice of the Lord, that he has taken against Edom, and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman, surely the least of the flock shall draw them out, surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.

21 The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise of it was heard in the red sea.

22 See, he shall come up and fly like the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah, and at that day the heart of the mighty men of Edom shall be like the heart of a woman in her pangs.

23 Concerning Damascus.  Hamath is confused, and Arpad, for they've heard evil news, they are fainthearted, there is sorrow on the sea, it can't be quiet.

24 Damascus has grown feeble, and turns herself to flee, and fear has seized on her, anguish and sorrows have taken her, like a woman in travail.

25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!

26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, says the Lord of hosts.

27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.

28 Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall strike, thus says the Lord, arise, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east.

29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take away, they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their containers, and their camels, and they shall cry to them, fear is on every side.

30 Flee, get far off, dwell deep, O you inhabitants of Hazor, says the Lord, for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you, and has conceived a purpose against you.

31 Arise, get up to the wealthy nation, that lives without care, says the Lord, who have neither gates nor bars, who live alone.

32 And their camels shall be a spoil, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil, and I will scatter into all winds those who are in the farthest corners, and I'll bring their calamity from all sides of it, says the Lord.

33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation forever, there no man shall abide there, nor any son of man live in it."

34 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the rule of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,

35 "Thus says the Lord of hosts, see, I'll break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.

36 And on Elam I'll bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds, and there shall be no nation where the outcasts of Elam won't come.

37 For I'll cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before those who seek their life, and I'll bring evil on them, even my fierce anger, says the Lord, and I will send the sword after them, 'til I've consumed them,

38 And I'll set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from there the king and the princes, says the Lord.

39 But in the latter days, I'll undo the captivity of Elam, says the Lord."

___Jeremiah chapter 50

1 The word that the Lord spoke against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.

2 "Declare among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard, publish, and don't conceal, say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confused, Merodach is broken in pieces, her idols are confused, her images are broken in pieces.

3 For out of the north a nation comes up against her, that will make her land desolate, and no one shall live in it, they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.

4 In those days, and in that time, says the Lord, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping, they shall go, and seek the Lord their God.

5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces toward there, saying, come, and let us join ourselves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.

6 My people have been lost sheep, their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they've turned them away on the mountains, they've gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place.

7 All that found them have devoured them, and their adversaries said, we offend not, because they have sinned against the Lord, the habitation of justice, even the Lord, the hope of their fathers.

8 Get out from Babylon, and go out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be like the he goats before the flocks.

9 For see, I'll raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country, and they'll set themselves in array against her, from there she'll be taken, their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man, no one shall return in vain.

10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil, all that spoil her shall be satisfied, says the Lord.

11 Because you were glad, because you rejoiced, O you destroyers of my heritage, because you've grown fat like the heifer at grass, and bellow like bulls,

12 Your mother shall be very confused, she that bore you shall be ashamed, see, the hindmost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

13 Because of the anger of the Lord it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be completely desolate, everyone that goes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

14 Put yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you that bend the bow, shoot at her, don't by stingy with arrows, for she has sinned against the Lord.

15 Shout against her all around, she has given her hand, her foundations have fallen, her walls have been thrown down, for it is the vengeance of the Lord, take vengeance against her, like she has done, do to her.

16 Cut off the planter from Babylon, and him that handles the sickle in the time of harvest, for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn everyone to his people, and they shall flee everyone to his own land.

17 Israel is a scattered sheep, the lions have driven him away, first the king of Assyria has devoured him, and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.

18 Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, see, I'll punish the king of Babylon and his land, like I've punished the king of Assyria.

19 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied on Mount Ephraim and Gilead.

20 In those days, and in that time, says the Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none, and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found, for I will pardon them whom I reserve.

21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod, waste and completely destroy after them, says the Lord, and do according to all that I've commanded you.

22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

23 How has the hammer of the whole earth been cut in pieces and broken!  How has Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

24 I've laid a trap for you, and you're also taken, O Babylon, and you were not aware, you're found, and also caught, because you've striven against the Lord.

25 The Lord has opened his armory, and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation, for this is the work of the Lord God of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.

26 Come against her from the farthest border, open her storehouses, throw her up like heaps, and destroy her completely, let nothing of her be left.

27 Kill all her bullocks, let them go down to the slaughter, woe to them!  For their day has come, the time of their visitation.

28 The voice of those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, the vengeance of his temple.

29 Call together the archers against Babylon, all of you that bend the bow, camp against it all around, let no one of it escape, repay her according to her work, according to all that she has done, do to her, for she has been proud against the Lord, against the Holy one of Israel.

30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, says the Lord.

31 See, I'm against you, O you most proud, says the Lord God of hosts, for your day has come, the time that I'll visit you.

32 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up, and I'll kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all around him.

33 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together, and all that took them captives held them tightly, they refused to let them go.

34 Their redeemer is strong, the Lord of hosts is his name, he shall thoroughly plead their cause, so he can give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

35 A sword is on the Chaldeans, says the Lord, and on the inhabitants of Babylon, and on her princes, and on her wise men.

36 A sword is on the liars, and they'll dote, a sword is on her mighty men, and they'll be dismayed.

37 A sword is on their horses, and on their chariots, and on all the mixed people that are in the midst of her, and they shall become like women, a sword is on her treasures, and they shall be robbed.

38 A drought is on her waters, and they'll be dried up, for it is the land of engraved images, and they're crazy on their idols.

39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell in it, and it shall be no more inhabited forever, nor shall it be lived in from generation to generation.

40 Like God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, says the Lord, so shall no man live there, nor shall any son of man dwell in it.

41 See, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

42 They shall hold the bow and the lance, they are cruel, and will not show mercy, their voice shall roar like the sea, and they'll ride on horses, everyone put in array, like a man to the battle, against you, O daughter of Babylon.

43 The king of Babylon has heard the report of them, and his hands grew feeble, anguish took hold of him, and pangs like of a woman in travail.

44 See, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan to the habitation of the strong, but I'll make them suddenly run away from her, and who is a chosen man, that I can appoint over her?  For who is like me?  And who will appoint me the time?  And who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

45 Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord, that he has taken against Babylon, and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans, surely the least of the flock shall draw them out, surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.

46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations."

___Jeremiah chapter 51

1 Thus says the Lord, "See, I'll raise up against Babylon, and against those who live among those who rise up against me, a destroying wind,

2 And will send to Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land, for in the day of trouble they'll be against her all around.

3 Against him that bends let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifts himself up in his brigandine, and don't spare her young men, completely destroy all her host.

4 Thus the killed shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and those who are thrust through in her streets.

5 For Israel has not been forsaken, nor Judah by his God, by the Lord of hosts, though their land was filled with sin against the Holy one of Israel.

6 Flee out of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul, don't be cut off in her iniquity, for this is the time of the Lord's vengeance, he will render to her a repayment.

7 Babylon has been a golden cup in the Lord's hand, that made all the earth drunken, the nations have drunk of her wine, therefore the nations are crazy.

8 Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed, howl for her, take balm for her pain, if perhaps she can be healed.

9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed, forsake her, and let's go everyone into his own country, for her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

10 The Lord has brought forth our righteousness, come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the Lord our God.

11 Make the arrows bright, gather the shields, the Lord has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple.

12 Set up the standard on the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes, for the Lord has both devised and done that which he spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.

13 O you that dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, and the measure of your covetousness.

14 The Lord of hosts has sworn by himself, saying, surely I'll fill you with men, like with caterpillars, and they'll lift up a shout against you.

15 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and has stretched out the heaven by his understanding.

16 When he utters his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth, he makes lightnings with rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasures.

17 Every man is brutish by his knowledge, every foundry worker is confused by the engraved image, for his image that has been cast in the foundry image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

18 They are vanity, the work of errors, in the time of their visitation they'll die.

19 The portion of Jacob is not like them, for he is the former of all things, and Israel is the rod of his inheritance, the Lord of hosts is his name.

20 You are my battle axe and weapons of war, for with you I'll break in pieces the nations, and with you I'll destroy kingdoms,

21 And with you, I'll break in pieces the horse and his rider, and with you, I'll break in pieces the chariot and his rider,

22 With you also I,ll break in pieces man and woman, and with you I'll break in pieces old and young, and with you I'll I break in pieces the young man and the maid,

23 I will also break in pieces with you the shepherd and his flock, and with you I'll break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen, and with you I'll break in pieces captains and rulers.

24 And I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they've done in Zion in your sight, says the Lord.

25 See, I am against you, O destroying mountain, says the Lord, that destroys all the earth, and I'll stretch out my hand on you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain.

26 And they won't take from you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations, but you'll be desolate forever, says the Lord.

27 Set up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz, appoint a captain against her, cause the horses to come up like the rough caterpillars.

28 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains of it, and all the rulers of it, and all the land of his dominion.

29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow, for every purpose of the Lord shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.

30 The mighty men of Babylon have not gone to fight, they've remained in their holds, their might has failed, they became like women, they've burned her dwelling places, her bars are broken.

31 One town crier shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,

32 And that the passages are stopped, and they've burned the reeds with fire, and the men of war are afraid.

33 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, the daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor, it is time to thresh her, yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.

34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty container, he has swallowed me up like a dragon, he has filled his belly with my delicates, he has thrown me out.

35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say, and my blood on the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.

36 Therefore thus says the Lord, see, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you, and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.

38 They shall roar together like lions, they shall yell as lions' whelps.

39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunk, so they can rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the Lord.

40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.

41 How is Sheshach taken!  And how is the praise of the whole earth surprised!  How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

42 The sea has come up on Babylon, she is covered with the multitude of the waves of it.

43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land in which no man dwells, nor does any son of man pass by it.

44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up, and the nations shall not flow together anymore to him, yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

45 My people, go out of her, and deliver every man his soul from the fierce anger of the Lord.

46 And so that your heart doesn't faint, and you fear for the rumor that shall be heard in the land, a rumor shall both come one year, and after that in another year a rumor shall come, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

47 Therefore, see, the days come, that I will do judgment on the engraved images of Babylon, and her whole land shall be confused, and all her slain shall fall among her.

48 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is in it, shall sing for Babylon, for the spoilers shall come to her from the north, says the Lord.

49 Like Babylon has caused the killed of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.

50 You that have escaped the sword, go away, don't stand still, remember the Lord afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

51 We are confused, because we've heard reproach, shame has covered our faces, for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of the Lord's house.

52 So see, the days come, says the Lord, that I will do judgment against her engraved images, and through all her land the wounded shall groan.

53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me spoilers shall come to her, says the Lord.

54 A sound of a cry comes from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans,

55 Because the Lord has spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice, when her waves roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered,

56 Because the spoiler has come on her, even on Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, everyone of their bows is broken, for the Lord God of repayments shall surely requite.

57 And I will make her princes drunk, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men, and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

58 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the broad walls of Babylon shall be completely broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire, and the people shall labor in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary."

59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his rule.  And this Seraiah was a quiet prince.

60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that would come on Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.

61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, "When you come to Babylon, and shall see, and shall read all these words,

62 Then you shall say, O Lord, you have spoken against this place, to cut it off, so that no one shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate forever.

63 And it shall be, when you have made an end of reading this book, that you shall tie a stone to it, and throw it into the middle of Euphrates,

64 And you shall say, thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring on her, and they shall be weary.  Thus far are the words of Jeremiah."

___Jeremiah chapter 52

1 Zedekiah was twenty one years old when he began to rule, and he ruled eleven years in Jerusalem.  And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

2 And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

3 For through the anger of the Lord it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, 'til he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

4 And in the ninth year of his rule, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it all around.

5 So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden, (now the Chaldeans were by the city all around,) and they went by the way of the plain.

8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him.

9 Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment on him.

10 And the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, he killed also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison 'til the day of his death.

12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, who served the king of Babylon, came into Jerusalem,

13 And burned the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, he burned with fire,

14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around.

15 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the remainder of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.

16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for farmers.

17 Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the brass sea that was in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.

18 The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the containers of brass with which they ministered, they took away.

19 And the basins, and the fire pans, and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups, that which was of gold in gold, and that which was of silver in silver, the captain of the guard took away.

20 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brass bulls that were under the bases, that king Solomon had made in the house of the Lord, the brass of all these containers was without weight.

21 And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a fillet of twelve cubits did circle it, and the thickness of it was four fingers, it was hollow.

22 And a chapiter of brass was on it, and the height of one chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates on the chapiters all around, all of brass.  The second pillar also and the pomegranates were like these.

23 And there were ninety six pomegranates on a side, and all the pomegranates on the network were a hundred all around.

24 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door,

25 He took also out of the city a eunuch who was in charge of the men of war, and seven men of those who were near the king's person, who were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land, that were found in the the city.

26 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

27 And the king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath.  Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.

28 These are the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive, in the seventh year three thousand twenty three Jews,

29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty two persons,

30 In the twenty third year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty five persons, all the persons were four thousand six hundred.

31 And in the thirty seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty fifth day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the first year of his rule lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him out of prison,

32 And spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,

33 And changed his prison garments, and he continually ate bread before him all the days of his life.

34 And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him from the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

___Lamentations chapter 1

1 How the city sits solitary that was full of people!  How she has become like a widow!  She that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how she has become tributary!

2 She weeps severely in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks, among all her lovers, she has no one to comfort her, all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they've become her enemies.

3 Judah has gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude, she lives among the heathen, she finds no rest, all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.

4 The ways of Zion mourn, because no one comes to the solemn feasts, all her gates are desolate, her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

5 Her adversaries are on top, her enemies prosper, for the Lord has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions, her children have gone into captivity before the enemy.

6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty has departed, her princes have become like deer that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.

7 Jerusalem remembered all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, in the days of her affliction and of her miseries, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and no one helped her, the adversaries saw her and mocked at her Sabbaths.

8 Jerusalem has grievously sinned, therefore she's been removed, all that honored her despise her, because they've seen her nakedness, yes, she sighs, and turns backward.

9 Her filthiness is in her skirts, she doesn't remember her last end, therefore she came down wonderfully, she had no comforter.  O Lord, see my affliction, for the enemy has magnified himself.

10 The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things, for she has seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom you commanded not to enter into your congregation.

11 All her people sigh, they seek for bread, they've given their pleasant things for food to relieve the soul, see O Lord, and consider, for I've become filthy.

12 Is it nothing to you, all you that pass by?  Look and see if there's any sorrow like my sorrow that has been done to me, with which the Lord has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

13 He's sent fire from above into my bones, and it prevails against them, he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back, he has made me desolate and faint all day long.

14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand, they're wreathed, and come up on my neck, he's made my strength to fall, the Lord has delivered me into their hands, from whom I'm not able to rise up.

15 The Lord has trampled under foot all my mighty men that were among me, he has called an assembly against me to crush my young men, the Lord trampled the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as if in a winepress.

16 I weep for these things, my eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter that ought to relieve my soul is far from me, my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

17 Zion spreads out her hands, and there is no one to comfort her, the Lord has commanded concerning Jacob that those around him should be his adversaries, Jerusalem is like a menstruous woman among them.

18 The Lord is righteous, for I've rebelled against his commandment, hear please, all people, and see my sorrow, my virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me, my priests and my elders died in the city, while they sought their food to relieve their souls.

20 See, O Lord, for I'm in distress, my bowels are troubled, my heart has turned inside me, for I've grievously rebelled, the sword bereaves abroad, at home there is like death.

21 They've heard that I sigh, there's no one to comfort me, all my enemies have heard of my trouble, they're glad that you've done it, you'll bring the day that you've called for, and they'll be like me.

22 Let all their wickedness come before you, and do to them like you've done to me for all my transgressions, for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

___Lamentations chapter 2

1 How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and thrown down from heaven to the ground the beauty of Israel, and not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger!

2 The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hasn't pitied, in his anger, he has thrown down the strong holds of the daughter of Judah, he has brought them down to the ground, he has polluted the kingdom and the princes of it.

3 He has cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel, he has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire that devours all around.

4 He has bent his bow like an enemy, he stood with his right hand like an adversary, and killed all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion, he poured out his fury like fire.

5 The Lord was like an enemy, he has swallowed up Israel, he has swallowed up all her palaces, he has destroyed his strong holds, and has increased mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.

6 And he has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were for a garden, he has destroyed his places of the assembly, the Lord has caused the solemn feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and in the indignation of his anger has despised the king and the priest.

7 The Lord has thrown away his altar, he has hated his sanctuary, he has surrendered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy, they've made a noise in the house of the Lord, like in the day of a solemn feast.

8 The Lord has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion, he has stretched out a line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying, therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament, they languished together.

9 Her gates have sunk into the ground, he has destroyed and broken the bars of her gates, her king and her princes are among the Gentiles, there's no more law, her prophets also find no vision from the Lord.

10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, and keep silence, they've thrown up dust on their heads, they've girded themselves with sackcloth, the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

11 My eyes fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver has been poured on the earth for the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

12 They say to their mothers, "Where's corn and wine?"  When they fainted like the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.

13 What thing shall I take to witness for you?  What thing shall I liken to you, O daughter of Jerusalem?  What shall I equal to you, so I can comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion?  For your breach is great like the sea, who can heal you?

14 Your prophets have seen vain and foolish things for you, and they haven't discovered your sin, to turn away your captivity, but have seen false burdens and causes of banishment for you.

15 All that pass by clap their hands at you, they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, "Is this the city that men call the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?"

16 All your enemies have opened their mouth against you, they hiss and gnash the teeth, they say, "We've swallowed her up, certainly this is the day that we looked for, we have found, we have seen it."

17 The Lord has done what he had devised, he has fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old, he has thrown down, and has not pitied, and he has caused your enemy to rejoice over you, he has set up the horn of your adversaries.

18 Their heart shouted to the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night, give yourself no rest, don't let the apple of your eye stop.

19 Get up, cry out in the night, in the beginning of the watches pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord, lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children that faint for hunger at the top of every street.

20 See, O Lord, and consider to whom you've done this.  Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long?  Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

21 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets, my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword, you've killed them in the day of your anger, you've killed, and haven't pitied.

22 You've called my terrors all around like on a solemn day, so that on the day of the Lord's anger, no one escaped nor remained, those that I've swaddled and brought up, my enemy has consumed.

___Lamentations chapter 3

1 I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his anger.

2 He has led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

3 Surely he has turned against me, he turns his hand against me all day long.

4 He has made my flesh and my skin old, he has broken my bones.

5 He has built against me, and surrounded me with gall and travail.

6 He has set me in dark places, like those who are long dead.

7 He has hedged me in so that I can't get out, he has made my chain heavy.

8 Also when I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.

9 He has enclosed my ways with cut stone, he has made my paths crooked.

10 He was to me like a bear lying in ambush, and like a lion in secret places.

11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces, he has made me desolate.

12 He has bent his bow, and set me like a target for arrows.

13 He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

14 I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

15 He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunken with wormwood.

16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he has covered me with ashes.

17 And you've removed my soul far off from peace, I've forgotten prosperity.

18 And I said, my strength and my hope has perished from the Lord,

19 Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

20 My soul still remembers them, and is humbled in me.

21 I recall this to mind, therefore have I hope.

22 It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions don't fail.

23 They are new every morning, great is your faithfulness.

24 The Lord is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will hope in him.

25 The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.

26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.

27 It is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth.

28 He sits alone and keeps silence, because he has carried it on himself.

29 He puts his mouth in the dust, if there might be hope.

30 He gives his cheek to him that strikes him, he is filled full with reproach.

31 For the Lord won't throw off forever,

32 But though he causes grief, yet he'll have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

33 For he doesn't afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

34 To crush all the prisoners of the earth under his feet,

35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most high,

36 The Lord doesn't approve subverting a man in his cause.

37 Who is he that speaks and then it happens, if the Lord doesn't command it?

38 Doesn't evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the most high?

39 Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

40 Let us search and test our ways, and turn again to the Lord.

41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

42 We've transgressed and have rebelled, you haven't pardoned.

43 You've covered us with anger, and persecuted us, you've killed, you haven't pitied.

44 You've covered yourself with a cloud, so that our prayer won't pass through.

45 You've made us like the off-scouring and refuse among the people.

46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

47 Fear and a trap has come on us, desolation and destruction.

48 My eye runs down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

49 My eye trickles down, and doesn't stop, without any intermission,

50 'Til the Lord looks down, and sees from heaven.

51 My eye affects my heart because of all the daughters of my city.

52 My enemies hunted me down like a bird, without a reason.

53 They've cut off my life in the dungeon, and thrown stones at me.

54 Waters flowed over my head, then I said, "I'm cut off."

55 I called on your name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon.

56 You've heard my voice, don't hide your ear at my breathing, at my cry.

57 You came near on the day that I called on you, you said don't be afraid.

58 O Lord, you've pleaded the causes of my soul, you've redeemed my life.

59 O Lord, you've seen my wrong, judge my cause.

60 You've seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.

61 You've heard their reproach, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me,

62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

63 See their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their music.

64 Give them a repayment, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.

65 Give them sorrow of heart, your curse to them.

66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the Lord.

___Lamentations chapter 4

1 How has the gold become dim!  How has the most fine gold changed!  The stones of the sanctuary have been poured out at the top of every street.

2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how have they become esteemed like clay pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

3 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones, the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

4 The tongue of the sucking child sticks to the roof of his mouth for thirst, the young children ask for bread, and no man breaks it to them.

5 Those who ate delicately are desolate in the streets, those who were brought up in red cloth embrace manure piles.

6 For the punishment of the sin of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.

7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire,

8 Their face is blacker than a coal, they're not known in the streets, their skin sticks to their bones, it is withered, it has become like a stick.

9 Those who are killed by the sword are better than those who are killed by hunger, for these pine away, stricken through for lack of the fruits of the field.

10 The hands of the pitiful women have marinated their own children, they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

11 The Lord has accomplished his fury, he has poured out his fierce anger, and has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has devoured the foundations of it.

12 The kings of the earth and all the inhabitants of the world wouldn't have believed that the adversary and the enemy would have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.

13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the righteous among her,

14 They've wandered like blind men in the streets, they've polluted themselves with blood, so that men couldn't touch their garments.

15 They shouted to them, "Depart, it is unclean, depart, depart, don't touch," when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, "They shall visit there no more."

16 The anger of the Lord has divided them, he will no longer regard them, they didn't respect the persons of the priests, they didn't favor the elders.

17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our nonexistent help, in our watching, we've looked for a nation that couldn't save us.

18 They hunt our steps, so that we can't go into our streets, our end is near, our days have been fulfilled, for our end has come.

19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven, they pursued us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.

21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, who lives in the land of Uz, the cup also shall pass through to you, you shall be drunken and shall make yourself naked.

22 The punishment of your iniquity has been accomplished, O daughter of Zion, he will no more carry you away into captivity, he will visit your iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he will discover your sins.

___Lamentations chapter 5

1 Remember O Lord, what has come on us, consider, and see our reproach.

2 Our inheritance has gone to strangers, our houses to aliens.

3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are like widows.

4 We've drunken our water for money, we have to pay for our wood.

5 Our necks are under persecution, we labor and have no rest.

6 We've given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

7 Our fathers have sinned, and are no more, and we've carried their sins.

8 Servants have ruled over us, there is no one that delivers us out of their hand.

9 We got our bread by endangering our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

11 They raped the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

12 Princes are hung up by their hand, the faces of elders were not honored.

13 They took the young men to do grinding, and the children fell under the wood.

14 The elders have stopped from the gate, the young men from their music.

15 The joy of our heart has stopped, our dance has turned into mourning.

16 The crown has fallen from our head, woe to us, that we have sinned!

17 Because of this our heart is faint, our eyes are dim for these things.

18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk on it.

19 You, O Lord, remain forever, your throne from generation to generation.

20 So do you forget us forever, and forsake us such a long time?

21 Turn us toward you, O Lord, and we shall be turned, renew our days like in old times.

22 But you've completely rejected us, you're very angry against us.

___Ezekiel chapter 1

1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

2 In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,

3 The word of the Lord came specifically to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar, and the hand of the Lord was on him there.

4 And I looked, and, see, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire enfolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst of it as the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire.

5 Also out of the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures.  And this was their appearance, they had the likeness of a man.

6 And everyone had four faces, and everyone had four wings.

7 And their feet were straight feet, and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot, and they sparkled like the color of burnished brass.

8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides, and they four had their faces and their wings.

9 Their wings were joined to each other, they didn't turn when they went, everyone went straight forward.

10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side, and they four had the face of an ox on the left side, they four also had the face of an eagle.

11 Thus were their faces, and their wings were stretched upward, two wings of everyone were joined to each other, and two covered their bodies.

12 And everyone went straight forward, where the spirit was to go, they went, and they didn't turn when they went.

13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps, it went up and down among the living creatures, and the fire was bright, and lightning went out of the fire.

14 And the living creatures ran and returned like the appearance of a flash of lightning.

15 Now as I watched the living creatures, see one wheel on the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.

16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like to the color of a beryl, and all four had one likeness, and their appearance and their work was like a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

17 When they went, they went on their four sides, and they didn't turn when they went.

18 As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful, and their rings were full of eyes all around the four of them.

19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them, and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.

20 Wherever the spirit was to go, they went, there was their spirit to go, and the wheels were lifted up opposite them, for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

21 When those went, these went, and when those stood, these stood, and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up opposite them, for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

22 And the likeness of the firmament on the heads of the living creature was like the color of the terrible crystal, stretched out over their heads above.

23 And under the firmament their wings were straight, the one toward the other, everyone had two, that covered their bodies on this side, and everyone had two, that covered their bodies on that side.

24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, like the noise of an army, when they stood, they let down their wings.

25 And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings.

26 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, like the appearance of a sapphire stone, and on the likeness of the throne was the likeness like the appearance of a man above on it.

27 And I saw like the color of amber, like the appearance of fire all around inside it, from the appearance of his midsection upward, and from the appearance of his midsesction downward, I saw like the appearance of fire, and it had brightness all around.

28 Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the brightness all around.  This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord.  And when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of someone who spoke.

___Ezekiel chapter 2

1 And he said to me, "Son of man, stand on your feet, and I'll speak to you."

2 And the spirit entered into me when he spoke to me, and set me on my feet, so I heard him that spoke to me.

3 And he said to me, "Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me, they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even to this very day.

4 For they are impudent children and stiff hearted.  I send you to them, and you shall say to them, thus says the Lord God.

5 And they, whether they will listen, or whether they won't, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet they'll know that there has been a prophet among them.

6 And you, son of man, don't be afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you live among scorpions, be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they're a rebellious house.

7 And you shall speak my words to them, whether they will listen, or whether they won't, for they are most rebellious.

8 But you, son of man, hear what I say to you, don't you be rebellious like that rebellious house, open your mouth, and eat what I give you."

9 And when I looked, see, a hand was sent to me, and see, a roll of a book was in it,

10 And he spread it before me, and it was written inside and outside, and there were written in it lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

___Ezekiel chapter 3

1 Also he said to me, "Son of man, eat what you find, eat this roll, and go speak to the house of Israel."

2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.

3 And he said to me, "Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this roll that I give you."  Then I ate it, and it was in my mouth like honey for sweetness.

4 And he said to me, "Son of man, go, get to the house of Israel, and speak with my words to them.

5 For you aren't sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel,

6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can't understand.  Surely, if I'd sent you to them, they would have listened to you.

7 But the house of Israel won't listen to you, for they won't listen to me, for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.

8 See, I've made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads.

9 I've made your forehead like an adamant, harder than flint, don't be afraid of them, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they're a rebellious house.

10 Also he said to me, Son of man, receive in your heart all my words that I shall speak to you, and hear with your ears.

11 And go, get you to those of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, thus says the Lord God, whether they will listen, or whether they won't listen."

12 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, saying, "Blessed be the glory of the Lord from his place."

13 I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched each other, and the noise of the wheels opposite them, and a noise of a great rushing.

14 So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit, but the hand of the Lord was strong on me.

15 Then I came to those of the captivity at Telabib, that lived by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.

16 And at the end of seven days, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

17 "Son of man, I've made you a watchman to the house of Israel, therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

18 When I say to the wicked, you'll surely die, and you don't give him warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, the same wicked man shall die in his sin, but his blood will I require at your hand.

19 Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn't turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his sin, but you've delivered your soul.

20 Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits sin, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he'll die, because you haven't given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness that he has done won't be remembered, but I'll require his blood at your hand.

21 But if you warn the righteous man not to sin, and he doesn't sin, he shall surely live, because he's been warned, also you've delivered your soul."

22 And the hand of the Lord was there on me, and he said to me, "Get up, go out into the plain, and I'll talk with you there."

23 Then I got up, and went out into the plain, and, see, the glory of the Lord stood there, like the glory that I saw by the river of Chebar, and I fell on my face.

24 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me on my feet, and spoke with me, and said to me, "Go, shut yourself inside your house.

25 But you, O son of man, see, they shall put bands on you, and shall bind you with them, and you shall not go out among them,

26 And I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, so that you'll be dumb, and won't be to them a reprover, for they are a rebellious house.

27 But when I speak with you, I'll open your mouth, and you'll say to them, thus says the Lord God, he that listens, let him listen, and he that doesn't listen, let him not listen, for they are a rebellious house."

___Ezekiel chapter 4

1 "You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before you, and draw on it the city, Jerusalem,

2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and throw a mount against it, set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it all around.

3 Also take yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city, and set your face against it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it.  This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

4 Lie also on your left side, and lay the sin of the house of Israel on it, according to the number of the days that you shall lie on it you'll bear their sin.

5 For I've laid on you the years of their sin, according to the number of the days, three hundred ninety days, so you'll bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

6 And when you've accomplished them, lie again on your right side, and you'll bear the sin of the house of Judah forty days, I've appointed you each day for a year.

7 Therefore you'll set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and your arm shall be uncovered, and you'll prophesy against it.

8 And see, I'll lay bands on you, and you won't turn yourself from one side to another, 'til you've ended the days of your siege.

9 Take yourself wheat also, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one container, and make yourself bread from of, according to the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, three hundred ninety days shall you eat of it.

10 And your food that you'll eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day, from time to time shall you eat it.

11 You shall drink also water by measure, one sixth of a hin, from time to time shall you drink.

12 And you shall eat it like barley cakes, and you shall bake it with feces that comes out of man, in their sight."

13 And the Lord said, "Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I'll drive them."

14 Then I said, "Ah Lord God!  See, my soul has not been polluted, for from my youth up even 'til now I haven't eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn in pieces, nor has dirty flesh come into my mouth."

15 Then he said to me, "See, I've given you cow's dung instead of man's feces, and you'll prepare your bread with that."

16 Also he said to me, "Son of man, see, I'll break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they'll eat bread by weight, and with care, and they'll drink water by measure, and with astonishment,

17 So they'll lack bread and water, and be astonished with each other, and be consumed away for their sin."

___Ezekiel chapter 5

1 "And you, son of man, take a sharp knife, take yourself a barber's razor, and cause it to pass on your head and on your beard, then take balances to weigh, and divide the hair.

2 You shall burn one third of it with fire in the middle of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled, and you shall take one third, and strike around it with a knife, and one third you shall scatter in the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.

3 You shall also take from it a few in number, and tie them in your skirts.

4 Then take of them again, and throw them into the fire, and burn them in the fire, for of it a fire shall come forth into all the house of Israel.

5 Thus says the Lord God, this is Jerusalem, I've set it among the nations and countries that are around her.

6 And she has changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are around her, for they've refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

7 Therefore thus says the Lord God, because you multiplied more than the nations that are around you, and haven't walked in my statutes, nor have kept my judgments, nor have done according to the judgments of the nations that are around you,

8 Therefore thus says the Lord God, see, I, even I, am against you, and will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.

9 And I will do in you that which I haven't done, and what I won't do anymore like it, because of all your dirty things.

10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons among you, and the sons shall eat their fathers, and I'll execute judgments in you, and I'll scatter the whole remnant of you into all the winds.

11 So, as I live, says the Lord God, surely, because you've defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your dirty things, therefore I'll also diminish you, nor shall my eye spare, nor will I have any pity.

12 A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, and they'll be consumed by famine among you, and a third part shall fall by the sword all around you, and I'll scatter a third part into all the winds, and I'll draw out a sword after them.

13 Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I'll cause my fury to rest on them, and I'll be comforted, and they'll know that I the Lord have spoken it in my zeal, when I've accomplished my fury in them.

14 Also I'll make you waste, and a reproach among the nations that are all around you, in the sight of all that pass by.

15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment to the nations that are around you, when I shall execute judgments in you in anger and in fury and in furious reprimands.  I the Lord have spoken it.

16 When I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine, that shall be for their destruction, and which I'll send to destroy you, and I'll increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread,

17 So I'll send on you famine and evil beasts, and they'll bereave you, and pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword against you.  I the Lord have spoken it."

___Ezekiel chapter 6

1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

2 "Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,

3 And say, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God, thus says the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, see, I, even I, will bring a sword on you, and I will destroy your high places.

4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken, and I will throw down your killed men before your idols.

5 And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

6 In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate, so that your altars will be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols broken and stop, and your images will be cut down, and your works will be abolished.

7 And the killed shall fall among you, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

8 Yet I'll leave a remnant, so you can have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when you'll be scattered through the countries.

9 And those who escape of you shall remember me among the nations where they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, that has departed from me, and with their eyes, that go a whoring after their idols, and they shall hate themselves for the evils that they've committed in all their dirty things.

10 And they shall know that I am the Lord, and that I haven't said in vain that I would do this evil to them.

11 Thus says the Lord God, strike with your hand, and stamp with your foot, and say, alas for all the evil dirty things of the house of Israel!  For they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.

12 He that is far off shall die from the pestilence, and he that is near shall fall by the sword, and he that remains and is besieged shall die by the famine, thus I'll accomplish my fury on them.

13 Then you'll know that I am the Lord, when their slain men shall be among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they offered sweet odors to all their idols.

14 So I'll stretch out my hand on them, and make the land desolate, yes, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations, and they shall know that I am the Lord."

___Ezekiel chapter 7

1 Also the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

2 "Also, you son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel, an end, the end is come on the four corners of the land.

3 Now the end has come on you, and I'll send my anger on you, and will judge you according to your ways, and will repay on you all your dirty things.

4 And my eye shall not spare you, nor will I have pity, but I will repay your ways on you, and your dirty things shall be among you, and you'll know that I am the Lord.

5 Thus says the Lord God, an evil, an only evil, see, has come.

6 An end has come, the end has come, it watches for you, see, it has come.

7 The morning has come to you, O you that live in the land, the time has come, the day of trouble is near, and not the echoing from the mountains.

8 I'll now shortly pour out my fury on you, and accomplish my anger on you, and I will judge you according to your ways, and will repay you for all your dirty things.

9 And mine eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity, I will repay you according to your ways and your dirty things that are among you, and you'll know that I am the Lord that strikes.

10 See the day, see, it has come, the morning has gone forth, the rod has blossomed, pride has budded.

11 Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness, none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs, nor shall there be wailing for them.

12 The time has come, the day draws near, let the buyer not rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for anger is on all the multitude of them.

13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive, for the vision is concerning the whole multitude of it, which shall not return, nor shall any strengthen himself in the sin of his life.

14 They've blown the trumpet, even to make all ready, but no one goes to the battle, for my anger is on all the multitude of it.

15 The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine inside, he that is in the field shall die by the sword, and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.

16 But those who escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, everyone for his sin.

17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak like water.

18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them, and shame shall be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.

19 They shall throw their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed, their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the anger of the Lord, they won't satisfy their souls, nor fill their bowels, because it is the stumbling block of their sin.

20 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty, but they made the images of their dirty things and of their detestable things in it, therefore I've set it far from them.

21 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil, and they shall pollute it.

22 I'll turn my face also from them, and they'll pollute my secret place, for the robbers shall enter into it, and make it polluted.

23 Make a chain, for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

24 So I'll bring the worst of the heathen, and they'll possess their houses, I will also make the pomp of the strong to stop, and their holy places shall be defiled.

25 Destruction comes, and they'll seek peace, and there shall be none.

26 Mischief shall come on mischief, and rumor shall be on rumor, then shall they seek a vision of the prophet, but the law shall perish from the priest, and advice from the seniors.

27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled, I'll do to them after their way, and according to what they deserve I’ll judge them, and they shall know that I am the Lord."

___Ezekiel chapter 8

1 And in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, the hand of the Lord God fell there on me.

2 Then I looked, and see, a likeness as the appearance of fire, from the appearance of his midsection downward, fire, and from his midsection upward, like the appearance of brightness, like the color of amber.

3 And he put forth the shape of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head, and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looks toward the north, where was the seat of the image of jealousy, that provokes to jealousy.

4 And see, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.

5 Then he said to me, "Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way toward the north."  So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north, and see northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.

6 He said furthermore to me, "Son of man, do you see what they do? Even the great dirty things that the house of Israel commits here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary?  But turn yet again, and you'll see worse dirty things."

7 And he brought me to the door of the court, and when I looked, see a hole in the wall.

8 Then he said to me, "Son of man, dig now in the wall," and when I had dug in the wall, see, a door.

9 And he said to me, "Go in, and see the wicked dirty things that they do here."

10 So I went in and saw, and see, every form of creeping things, and dirty beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed on the wall all around.

11 And seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel stood before them, and Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan stood among them, with every man his censer in his hand, and a thick cloud of incense went up.

12 Then he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the seniors of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the rooms of his imagery?  For they say, the Lord doesn't see us, the Lord has forsaken the earth.

13 He said also to me, turn yet again, and you'll see worse dirty things that they do."

14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord's house that was toward the north, and, see, women were sitting and weeping for Tammuz.

15 Then he said to me, "Have you seen this, O son of man?  Turn yet again, and you'll see worse dirty things than these."

16 And he brought me into the inner court of the Lord's house, and see, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty five men, with their backs toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east, and they worshipped the sun toward the east.

17 Then he said to me, "Have you seen this, O son of man?  Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the dirty things that they commit here?  For they've filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger, and see, they put the branch to their nose.

18 Therefore I'll also deal in fury, my eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity, and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I won't hear them."

___Ezekiel chapter 9

1 He cried also in my ears with a loud voice, saying, "Cause those who have charge over the city to come near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand."

2 And see, six men came from the way of the higher gate, that lies toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand, and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side, and they went in, and stood beside the brass altar.

3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, on which he was, to the threshold of the house.  And he called to the man clothed with linen, who had the writer's inkhorn by his side,

4 And the Lord said to him, "Go through the city, through Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the dirty things that are done in it."

5 And to the others he said in my hearing, "Go after him through the city, and strike, let your eye not spare, and don't have pity,

6 Completely kill old and young, both maids, and little children, and women, but don't come near any man on whom is the mark, and begin at my sanctuary."  Then they began at the old men who were before the house.

7 And he said to them, "Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain, go forth."  And they went forth, and killed in the city.

8 And while they were killing them, and I was left, I fell on my face, and shouted, and said, ah Lord God!  Will you destroy all the remainder of Israel in your pouring out of your fury on Jerusalem?"

9 Then he said to me, the sin of the house of Israel and Judah is very large, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness, for they say, the Lord has forsaken the earth, and the Lord doesn't see.

10 And as for me also, my eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity, but I will repay their way on their head."

11 And see, the man clothed with linen, who had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, "I've done as you've commanded me."

___Ezekiel chapter 10

1 Then I looked, and see, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them like a sapphire stone, like the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

2 And he spoke to the man clothed with linen, and said, "Go in between the wheels, under the cherub, and fill your hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city."  And he went in in my sight.

3 Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in, and the cloud filled the inner court.

4 Then the glory of the Lord went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house, and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the Lord's glory.

5 And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the outer court, like the voice of the Almighty God when he speaks.

6 And when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, "Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubims," then he went in, and stood beside the wheels.

7 And one cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubims to the fire that was between the cherubims, and took of it, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen, who took it, and went out.

8 And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man's hand under their wings.

9 And when I looked, see the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub, and the appearance of the wheels was as the color of a beryl stone.

10 And as for their appearances, the four of them had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the middle of a wheel.

11 When they went, they went on their four sides, they didn't turn as they went, but to the place that the head looked they followed it, they didn't turn as they went.

12 And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes all around, even the wheels that the four of them had.

13 As for the wheels, it was shouted to them in my hearing, "O wheel."

14 And everyone had four faces, the first face was the face of an angel, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third, the face of a lion, and the fourth, the face of an eagle.

15 And the cherubims were lifted up.  This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.

16 And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them, and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also didn't turn from beside them.

17 When they stood, these stood, and when they were lifted up, these lifted up themselves also, for the spirit of the living creature was in them.

18 Then the glory of the Lord departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims.

19 And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight, when they went out, the wheels also were beside them, and everyone stood at the door of the east gate of the Lord's house, and the glory of the God of Israel was over them, above.

20 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar, and I knew that they were the cherubims.

21 Everyone had four faces apiece, and everyone four wings, and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.

22 And the likeness of their faces was the same likeness that I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves, they went everyone straight forward.

___Ezekiel chapter 11

1 Also the spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of the Lord's house, that looks eastward, and see, at the door of the gate, twenty five men, among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.

2 Then he said to me, "Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked advice in this city,

3 Who say, it is not near, let us build houses, this city is the caldron, and we're the flesh.

4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man."

5 And the Spirit of the Lord fell on me, and said to me, "Speak, thus says the Lord, thus have you said, O house of Israel, for I know the things that come into your mind, everyone of them.

6 You've multiplied your slain in this city, and you've filled the streets of it with the slain.

7 Therefore thus says the Lord God, your slain whom you've laid in the middle of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron, but I'll bring you out of the middle of it.

8 You've feared the sword, and I'll bring a sword on you, says the Lord God.

9 And I'll bring you out from among it, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.

10 You'll fall by the sword, I'll judge you in the border of Israel, and you'll know that I am the Lord.

11 This city shall not be your caldron, nor shall you be the flesh among it, but I'll judge you in the border of Israel,

12 And you'll know that I am the Lord, for you haven't walked in my statutes, nor executed my judgments, but have done after the manner of the heathen that are around you."

13 And when I prophesied, Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died.  Then fell I down on my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, "Ah Lord God!  Will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?"

14 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

15 "Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your kindred, and all the house of Israel completely, are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, get you far from the Lord, to us is this land given in possession.

16 Therefore say, thus says the Lord God, although I've cast them far off among the heathen, and although I've scattered them among the countries, yet I'll be to them like a little sanctuary in the countries where they'll go.

17 Therefore say, thus says the Lord God, I'll even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where you've been scattered, and I'll give you the land of Israel.

18 And they'll come there, and they'll take away all the detestable things of it all the dirty things of it from there.

19 And I'll give them one heart, and I'll put a new spirit within you, and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh,

20 So they'll walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them, and they shall be my people, and I'll be their God.

21 But as for those whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable things and their dirty things, I'll repay their way on their own heads, says the Lord God."

22 Then the cherubims lifted up their wings, and the wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel was over them, above.

23 And the glory of the Lord went up from the city, and stood on the mountain that is on the east side of the city.

24 Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to those of the captivity.  So the vision that I had seen went up from me.

25 Then I told those of the captivity all the things that the Lord had showed me.

___Ezekiel chapter 12

1 The word of the Lord also came to me, saying,

2 "Son of man, you dwell among a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don't see, they have ears to hear, and don't hear, for they are a rebellious house.

3 Therefore, son of man, prepare stuff for moving, and move by day in their sight, and you'll move from your place to another place in their sight, it may be they will consider, though they're a rebellious house.

4 Then shall you bring out your stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for moving, and you'll go forth at evening in their sight, like those who go forth into captivity.

5 Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry out through the hole.

6 In their sight shall you carry it on your shoulders, and carry it out in the twilight, you shall cover your face, so you don't see the ground, for I've set you for a sign to the house of Israel."

7 And I did as I was commanded, I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for captivity, and in the evening I dug through the wall with my hand, I brought it forth in the twilight, and I carried it on my shoulder in their sight.

8 And in the morning the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

9 "Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, what are you doing?

10 Say you to them, thus says the Lord God, this burden concerns the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that are among them.

11 Say, I am your sign, like I've done, so shall it be done to them, they shall remove and go into captivity.

12 And the prince that is among them shall carry on his shoulder in the twilight, and shall go out, they shall dig through the wall to carry out through the hole, he shall cover his face, so he doesn't see not the ground with his eyes.

13 I'll also spread my net on him, and he'll be taken in my trap, and I'll bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans, yet he won't see it, though he'll die there.

14 And I will scatter toward every wind all that are around him to help him, and all his bands, and I will draw out the sword after them.

15 And they'll know that I am the Lord, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.

16 But I'll leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence, so they can tell all their dirty things among the heathen where they go, and they'll know that I am the Lord."

17 Also the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

18 "Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with carefulness,

19 And say to the people of the land, thus says the Lord God of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel, they shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, so that her land will be desolate from all that is in it, because of the violence of all of those who live in it.

20 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate, and you'll know that I am the Lord."

21 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

22 "Son of man, what is that proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, the days are prolonged, and every vision fails?

23 Tell them therefore, thus says the Lord God, I will stop this proverb, and they'll no more use it as a proverb in Israel, but say to them, the days are at hand, and the effect of every vision.

24 For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.

25 For I am the Lord, I'll speak, and the word that I shall speak shall happen, it shall be no more prolonged, for in your days, O rebellious house, I'll say the word, and will perform it, says the Lord God."

26 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

27 "Son of man, see, those of the house of Israel say, the vision that he sees is for many days to come, and he prophesies of the times that are far off.

28 Therefore say to them, thus says the Lord God, none of my words shall be prolonged anymore, but the word that I've spoken shall be done, says the Lord God."

___Ezekiel chapter 13

1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

2 "Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say to those who prophesy out of their own hearts, hear the word of the Lord,

3 Thus says the Lord God, woe to the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

4 O Israel, your prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.

5 You haven't gone up into the gaps, nor made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the Lord.

6 They've seen vanity and lying divination, saying, the Lord says, and the Lord has not sent them, and they've made others hope that they would confirm the word.

7 Haven't you seen a vain vision, and haven't you spoken a lying divination, whereas you say, the Lord says it, but I have not spoken?

8 Therefore thus says the Lord God, because you have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, see, I am against you, says the Lord God.

9 And my hand shall be on the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies, they won't be in the assembly of my people, nor shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter into the land of Israel, and you'll know that I'm the Lord God.

10 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, peace, and there was no peace, and someone built up a wall, and see, others daubed it with untempered mortar,

11 Say to those who daub it with untempered mortar, that it shall fall, there shall be an overflowing shower, and you, O great hailstones, shall fall, and a stormy wind shall tear it.

12 See, when the wall has fallen, won't it be said to you, where is the daubing with which you've daubed it?

13 Therefore thus says the Lord God, I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my fury, and there shall be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.

14 So I'll break down the wall that you've daubed with untempered mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation of it shall be uncovered, and it shall fall, and you'll be consumed in the middle of it, and you'll know that I am the Lord.

15 Thus will I accomplish my anger on the wall, and on those who've daubed it with untempered mortar, and will say to you, the wall is no more, nor those who daubed it,

16 Specifically:  the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, says the Lord God.

17 Likewise, you son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart, and prophesy against them,

18 And say, thus says the Lord God, woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make handkerchiefs on the head of every stature to hunt souls!  Will you hunt the souls of my people, and will you save the souls alive that come to you?

19 And will you pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?

20 So thus says the Lord God, see, I'm against your pillows, with which you hunt there the souls to make them fly, and I'll tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that you hunt to make them fly.

21 I'll also tear your handkerchiefs, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they'll no longer be in your hand to be hunted, and you'll know that I am the Lord.

22 Because you have made the heart of the righteous sad with lies, whom I have not made sad, and strengthened the hands of the wicked, so that he wouldn't return from his wicked way, by promising him life,

23 Therefore you'll see no more vanity, nor divine divinations, for I will deliver my people out of your hand, and you'll know that I am the Lord."

___Ezekiel chapter 14

1 Then certain of the elders of Israel came to me, and sat before me.

2 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

3 "Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumbling block of their sin before their face, should I be inquired of at all by them?

4 Therefore speak to them, and say to them, thus says the Lord God, every man of the house of Israel that sets up his idols in his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his sin before his face, and comes to the prophet, I the Lord will answer him that comes according to the multitude of his idols,

5 So I can take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they're all estranged from me through their idols.

6 Therefore say to the house of Israel, thus says the Lord God, repent, and turn yourselves from your idols, and turn away your faces from all your dirty things.

7 For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that visits in Israel, who separates himself from me, and sets up his idols in his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his sin before his face, and comes to a prophet to inquire of him concerning me, I the Lord will answer him by myself,

8 And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from among my people, and you'll know that I am the Lord.

9 And if the prophet is deceived when he has spoken a thing, I the Lord have deceived that prophet, and I'll stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from among my people Israel.

10 And they shall bear the punishment of their sin, the punishment of the prophet shall be even like the punishment of him that seeks to him,

11 So that the house of Israel will no more go astray from me, nor be polluted anymore with all their transgressions, but so they'll be my people, and I will be their God, says the Lord God."

12 The word of the Lord came again to me, saying,

13 "Son of man, when the land sins against me by trespassing grievously, then I'll stretch out my hand on it, and will break the staff of the bread of it, and will send famine on it, and will cut off man and beast from it,

14 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, says the Lord God.

15 If I cause vicious beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it's desolate, so that no man can pass through because of the beasts,

16 Though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord God, they'll deliver neither sons nor daughters, they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate.

17 Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, sword, go through the land, so that I cut off man and beast from it,

18 Though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord God, they'll deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves.

19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury on it in blood, to cut off man and beast from it,

20 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, says the Lord God, they'll deliver neither son nor daughter, they'll only deliver their own souls by their righteousness.

21 For thus says the Lord God, how much more when I send my four severe judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the vicious beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?

22 Yet see, a remnant shall be left in it that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters, see, they'll come forth to you, and you'll see their way and their doings, and you'll be comforted concerning the evil that I've brought on Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought on it.

23 And they'll comfort you, when you see their ways and their doings, and you'll know that I haven't done without cause all that I've done in it, says the Lord God."

___Ezekiel chapter 15

1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

2 "Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch that is among the trees of the forest?

3 Shall wood be taken from it to do any work?  Or will men take a pin of it to hang any container on it?

4 See, it's thrown into the fire for fuel, the fire devours both the ends of it, and the middle of it is burned.  Is it appropriate for any work?

5 See, when it was whole, it was meet for no work, how much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire has devoured it, and it is burned?

6 Therefore thus says the Lord God, as the vine tree among the trees of the forest, that I've given to the fire for fuel, so I'll give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

7 And I'll set my face against them, they'll go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them, and you'll know that I'm the Lord, when I set my face against them.

8 And I'll make the land desolate, because they've committed a trespass, says the Lord God."

___Ezekiel chapter 16

1 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

2 "Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her dirty things,

3 And say, thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem, your birth and your nativity is of the land of Canaan, your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite.

4 And as for your nativity, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, nor were you washed in water to supple you, you weren't salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these to you, to have compassion on you, but you were thrown out in the open field, to the hating of your person, in the day that you were born.

6 And when I passed by you, and saw you polluted in your own blood, I said to you when you were in your blood, live, yes, I said to you when you were in your blood, live.

7 I've caused you to multiply like the bud of the field, and you've increased and grown great, and you've come to excellent ornaments, your breasts are fashioned, and your hair has grown, whereas you were naked and bare.

8 Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, see, your time was the time of love, and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness, yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord God, and you became mine.

9 Then washed I you with water, yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil.

10 I clothed you also with embroidered work, and shod you with badgers' skin, and I clothed you with fine linen, and I covered you with silk.

11 I decked you also with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands, and a chain on your neck.

12 And I put a jewel on your forehead, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.

13 Thus you were decked with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered work, you ate fine flour, and honey, and oil, and you were very beautiful, and you prospered into a kingdom.

14 And your renown went forth among the heathen for your beauty, for it was perfect through my attractiveness, that I had put on you, says the Lord God.

15 But you trusted in your own beauty, and played the harlot because of your renown, and poured out your fornications on everyone that passed by, his it was.

16 And you took from your garments and decked your high places with various colors, and played the harlot on them, the like things shall not come, nor shall it be so.

17 You've also taken your fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, that I had given you, and made to yourself images of men, and committed whoredom with them,

18 And took your embroidered garments, and covered them, and you've set my oil and my incense before them.

19 My meat also that I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you've set it before them for a sweet savor, and thus it was, says the Lord God.

20 Also you've taken your sons and your daughters, whom you've carried to me, and these you've sacrificed to them to be devoured.  Is this of your whoredoms a small matter,

21 That you've killed my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?

22 And in all your dirty things and your whoredoms you haven't remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were polluted in your blood.

23 And after all your wickedness, (woe, woe to you!  Says the Lord God,)

24 You've also built for yourself an eminent place, and have made yourself a high place in every street.

25 You have built your high place at every head of the way, and have made your beauty to be abhorred, and have opened your feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied your whoredoms.

26 You've also committed fornication with the Egyptians your neighbors, great of flesh, and have increased your whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.

27 See, therefore I've stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your ordinary food, and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.

28 You've played the whore also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable, yes, you've played the prostitute with them, and yet couldn't be satisfied.

29 You've also multiplied your fornication in the land of Canaan to Chaldea, and yet you were not satisfied with this.

30 How weak is your heart, says the Lord God, seeing you do all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman,

31 In that you build your eminent place in the head of every way, and make your high place in every street, and haven't been like a harlot, in that you scorn hire,

32 But like a wife that commits adultery, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

33 They give gifts to all whores, but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and hire them, so they'll to you on every side for your whoredom.

34 And the contrary is in you from other women in your whoredoms, whereas no one follows you to commit whoredoms, and in that you give a reward, and no reward is given to you, therefore you're contrary.

35 So, O whore, hear the word of the Lord,

36 Thus says the Lord God, because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness discovered through your whoredoms with your lovers, and with all the idols of your dirty things, and by the blood of your children, who you gave to them,

37 See, therefore I'll gather all your lovers, with whom you've taken pleasure, and all of those that you've loved, with all of those that you've hated, I'll gather them all around against you, and will uncover your nakedness to them, so that they'll see all your nakedness.

38 And I will judge you, like women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged, and I'll give you blood in fury and jealousy.

39 And I'll also give you into their hand, and they'll throw down your eminent place, and shall break down your high places, they'll strip you also of your clothes, and shall take your fair jewels, and leave you naked and bare.

40 They'll also bring up a company against you, and they'll stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.

41 And they shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women, and I'll cause you to stop from playing the whore, and you also shall give no wages anymore.

42 So I'll make my fury toward you to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from you, and I'll be quiet, and will no more be angry.

43 Because you haven't remembered the days of your youth, but have fretted me in all these things, see, therefore I also will repay your way on your head, says the Lord God, and you won't commit this lewdness above all your dirty things.

44 See, everyone that uses proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, as is the mother, so is her daughter.

45 You are your mother's daughter, that hates her husband and her children, and you are the sister of your sisters, who hated their husbands and their children, your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

46 And your elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at your left hand, and your younger sister, that dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

47 Yet you haven't walked after their ways, nor done after their dirty things, but, as if that were a very little thing, you were corrupted more than they in all your ways.

48 As I live, says the Lord God, Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you've done, you and your daughters.

49 See, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, nor did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

50 And they were haughty, and committed dirty things before me, therefore I took them away as seemed good to me.

51 Nor has Samaria committed half of your sins, but you've multiplied your dirty things more than they, and have justified your sisters in all your dirty things that you've done.

52 You also, who has have judged your sisters, bear your own shame for your sins that you've committed more dirty than they, they are more righteous than you, yes, you be confused also, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters.

53 When I shall undo their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then I'll undo the captivity of your captives in the middle of them,

54 So that you'll bear your own shame, and will be confused in all that you've done, in that you're a comfort to them.

55 When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then you and your daughters shall return to your former estate.

56 For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride,

57 Before your wickedness was discovered, as at the time of your reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are around her, the daughters of the Philistines, who despise you all around.

58 You've carried your lewdness and your dirty things, says the Lord.

59 For thus says the Lord God, I'll deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

60 But I'll remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.

61 Then you'll remember your ways, and be ashamed, when you shall receive your sisters, your elder and your younger, and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant.

62 And I will establish my covenant with you, and you'll know that I am the Lord,

63 That you may remember, and be confused, and never open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I am pacified toward you for all that you've done, says the Lord God."

___Ezekiel chapter 17

1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

2 "Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel,

3 And say, thus says the Lord God, a great eagle with great wings, long winged, full of feathers, that had various colors, came to Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar,

4 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffic, he set it in a city of merchants.

5 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field, he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.

6 And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots from it were under him, so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.

7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers, and see, this vine bent her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, so he could might water it by the furrows of her plantation.

8 It was planted in good soil by great waters, so it would bring forth branches, and so it would bear fruit, so it would be a good vine.

9 Then say, thus says the Lord God, shall it prosper?  Shall he not pull up the roots of it, and cut off the fruit of it, so it withers?  It shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots of it.

10 Yes see, being planted, shall it prosper?  Shall it not completely wither, when the east wind touches it?  It shall wither in the furrows where it grew."

11 Also the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

12 "Say now to the rebellious house, don't you know what these things mean?  Tell them, see, the king of Babylon has come to Jerusalem, and has taken the king of it, and the princes of it, and led them with him to Babylon,

13 And has taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and has taken an oath of him, he has also taken the mighty of the land,

14 So that the kingdom would be low, so it wouldn't lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it would stand.

15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, so they'd give him horses and many people.  Shall he prosper?  Shall he escape that does such things?  Or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?

16 As I live, says the Lord God, surely in the place where the king dwells that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the middle of Babylon he'll die.

17 Nor shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by throwing up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons,

18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, see, he had given his hand, and has done all these things, he shall not escape.

19 Therefore thus says the Lord God, as I live, surely my oath that he has despised, and my covenant that he has broken, I will repay it on his own head.

20 And I will spread my net on him, and he'll be taken in my trap, and I'll bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me.

21 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and those who that remain shall be scattered toward all winds, and you'll know that I the Lord have spoken it.

22 Thus says the Lord God, I'll also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it, I'll crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it on an high mountain and eminent,

23 In the mountain of the height of Israel I'll plant it, and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar, and under it shall dwell all fowl of every kind, in the shadow of the branches of it they'll live.

24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the Lord have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish, I the Lord have spoken and have done it."

___Ezekiel chapter 18

1 The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,

2 "What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, the fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?

3 As I live, says the Lord God, you shall not have occasion anymore to use this proverb in Israel.

4 See, all souls are mine, as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine, the soul that sins, it shall die.

5 But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,

6 And has not eaten on the mountains, nor has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, nor has defiled his neighbor's wife, nor has come near a menstruous woman,

7 And has not oppressed any, but has restored to the debtor his security deposit, has spoiled no one by violence, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,

8 He that hasn't loaned at interest, nor has taken any increase, that has withdrawn his hand from sin, has executed true judgment between man and man,

9 Has walked in my statutes, and has kept my judgments, to deal truly, he is just, he shall surely live, says the Lord God.

10 If he fathers a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that does the like to any one of these things,

11 And that doesn't do any of those duties, but has eaten on the mountains, and defiled his neighbor's wife,

12 Has oppressed the poor and needy, has spoiled by violence, has not restored the security deposit, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed dirty things,

13 Has loaned at interest, and has taken increase, shall he then live?  He shall not live, he has done all these dirty things, he shall surely die, his blood shall be on him.

14 Now see, if he fathers a son, that sees all his father's sins that he has done, and considers, and doesn't do like that,

15 That has not eaten on the mountains, nor has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled his neighbor's wife,

16 Nor has oppressed any, has not withheld the security deposit, nor has spoiled by violence, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,

17 That has taken off his hand from the poor, that has not received interest nor increase, has executed my judgments, has walked in my statutes, he shall not die for the sin of his father, he shall surely live.

18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, see, he shall die in his sin.

19 Yet say you, why?  Doesn't son bear the sin of the father?  When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.

20 The soul that sins shall die.  The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, nor shall the father bear the iniquity of the son, the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he has committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

22 All his transgressions that he has committed, they shall not be mentioned to him, in his righteousness that he has done he shall live.

23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?  Says the Lord God, and not that he should return from his ways, and live?

24 But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits sin, and does according to all the dirty things that the wicked man does, shall he live?  All his righteousness that he's done shall not be mentioned, in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he'll he die.

25 Yet you say, the way of the Lord is not equal.  Hear now, O house of Israel, is not my way equal?  Are not your ways inequal?

26 When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits sin, and dies in them, for his sin that he has done shall he die.

27 Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.

28 Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

29 Yet the house of Israel says, the way of the Lord is not equal.  O house of Israel, are not my ways equal?  Are not your ways inequal?

30 Therefore I'll judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, says the Lord God.  Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions, so iniquity shall not be your ruin.

31 Throw away from you all your transgressions, by which you've transgressed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit, for why so you want to die, O house of Israel?

32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dies, says the Lord God, so turn yourselves, and live."

___Ezekiel chapter 19

1 Also take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

2 And say, "What is your mother?  A lioness, she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

3 And she brought up one of her whelps, it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey, it devoured men.

4 The nations also heard of him, he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains to the land of Egypt.

5 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.

6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.

7 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities, and the land was desolate, and the fullness of it, by the noise of his roaring.

8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him, he was taken in their pit.

9 And they put him in prison in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon, they brought him into holds, so his voice would no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.

10 Your mother is like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters, she was fruitful and full of branches because of many waters.

11 And she had strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.

12 But she was plucked up in fury, she was thrown down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit, her strong rods were broken and withered, the fire consumed them.

13 And now she's planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.

14 And fire has gone out of a rod of her branches, that has devoured her fruit, so that she has no strong rod to be a scepter to rule.  This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

___Ezekiel chapter 20

1 And in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the Lord, and sat before me.

2 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

3 "Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say to them, thus says the Lord God, have you come to inquire of me?  As I live, says the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you.

4 Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them?  Cause them to know the dirty things of their fathers,

5 And say to them, thus says the Lord God, in the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up my hand to the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up my hand to them, saying, I am the Lord your God,

6 In the day that I lifted up my hand to them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had spied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands,

7 Then I said to them, throw away every man the dirty things of his eyes, and don't pollute yourselves with the idols of Egypt, I am the Lord your God.

8 But they rebelled against me, and wouldn't listen to me, they didn't every man cast away the dirty things of their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt, then I said, I'll pour out my fury on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the middle of the land of Egypt.

9 But I did for my name's sake, so it wouldn't be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

10 So I caused them to go out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.

11 And I gave them my statutes, and showed them my judgments, which if a man does, he'll live in them.

12 Also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, so they'd know that I am the Lord that makes them holy.

13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness, they didn't walk in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man does, he shall live in them, and they greatly polluted my Sabbaths, then I said, I would pour out my fury on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

14 But I did for my name's sake, so it wouldn't be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.

15 Yet also I lifted up my hand to them in the wilderness, so I wouldn't bring them into the land that I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands,

16 Because they despised my judgments, and didn't walk in my statutes, but polluted my Sabbaths, for their heart went after their idols.

17 But my mine eye spared them from destroying them, nor did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

18 But I said to their children in the wilderness, don't walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols,

19 I am the Lord your God, walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them,

20 And hallow my Sabbaths, and they'll be a sign between me and you, so that you'll know that I am the Lord your God.

21 But the children rebelled against me, they didn't walk in my statutes, nor kept my judgments to do them, which if a man does, he'll live in them, they polluted my Sabbaths, then I said, I would pour out my fury on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

22 But I withdrew my hand, and made for my name's sake, so it wouldn't be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.

23 I lifted up my hand to them also in the wilderness, so that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries,

24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.

25 So I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments by which they should not live,

26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that opens the womb, so that I would make them desolate, to the end that they would know that I am the Lord.

27 Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and say to them, thus says the Lord God, yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they've committed a trespass against me.

28 For when I had brought them into the land, for which I lifted up my hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering, there also they made their sweet savor, and poured out there their drink offerings.

29 Then I said to them, what is the high place to which you go?  And the name of it is called Bamah to this day.

30 So say to the house of Israel, thus says the Lord God, are you polluted after the manner of your fathers?  And do you commit whoredom after their dirty things?

31 For when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons to pass through the fire, you pollute yourselves with all your idols, even to this day, and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel?  As I live, says the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you.

32 And that which comes into your mind shall not be at all, that you say, we will be like the heathen, like the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.

33 As I live, says the Lord God, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, I'll rule over you,

34 And I'll bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries in which you are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.

35 And I'll bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.

36 Like I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, says the Lord God.

37 And I'll cause you to pass under the rod, and I'll bring you into the bond of the covenant,

38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and those who transgress against me, I'll bring them out of the country where they visit, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel, and you'll know that I am the Lord.

39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord God, go, serve every one his idols, and hereafter also, if you won't listen to me, but don't pollute my holy name anymore with your gifts, and with your idols.

40 For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, says the Lord God, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me, there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the first fruits of your offerings, with all your holy things.

41 I will accept you with your sweet savor, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries in which you have been scattered, and I will be made holy in you before the heathen.

42 And you'll know that I am the Lord, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers.

43 And there shall you remember your ways, and all your doings, in which you have been defiled, and you'll hate yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you've committed.

44 And you'll know that I am the Lord, when I have worked with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O you house of Israel, says the Lord God."

45 Also the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

46 "Son of man, set your face toward the south, and drop your word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field,

47 And say to the forest of the south, hear the word of the Lord, thus says the Lord God, see, I'll kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree, the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned in it.

48 And all flesh shall see that I the Lord have kindled it, it shall not be quenched."

49 Then I said, "Ah Lord God!  They say about me, doesn't he speak parables?"

___Ezekiel chapter 21

1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

2 "Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop your word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,

3 And say to the land of Israel, thus says the Lord, see, I am against you, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.

4 Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north,

5 So that all flesh will know that I the Lord have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath, it shall not return anymore.

6 Sigh therefore, you son of man, with the breaking of your loins, and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.

7 And it shall be, when they say to you, why do you sigh?  That you shall answer, for the news, because it comes, and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak like water, see, it comes, and shall be made to happen, says the Lord God."

8 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

9 "Son of man, prophesy, and say, thus says the Lord, say, a sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished,

10 It is sharpened to make a severe slaughter, it is furbished so it will may glitter, should we then make jokes?  It holds in contempt the rod of my son, like every tree.

11 And he has given it to be furbished, so it will be handled, this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the killer.

12 Cry and howl, son of man, for it shall be on my people, it shall be on all the princes of Israel, terrors by reason of the sword shall be on my people, strike therefore on your thigh.

13 Because it is a trial, and what if the sword holds in contempt even the rod?  It shall be no more, says the Lord God.

14 You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the killed, it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which enters into their private rooms.

15 I've set the point of the sword against all their gates, so that their hearts will faint, and their ruins be multiplied, ah!  It is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.

16 Go one way or the other, either on the right hand, or on the left, wherever your face is set.

17 I will also strike my hands together, and I'll cause my fury to rest, I the Lord have said it."

18 The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,

19 "Also, you son of man, appoint two ways, so the sword of the king of Babylon can come, the two shall come forth out of one land, and choose a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.

20 Appoint a way, so the sword can come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.

21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination, he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.

22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.

23 And it shall be to them like a false divination in their sight, to those who've sworn oaths, but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, so they'll may be taken.

24 Therefore thus says the Lord God, because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear, because, I say, that you've come to remembrance, you'll be taken with the hand.

25 And you, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come, when iniquity shall have an end,

26 Thus says the Lord God, remove the diadem, and take off the crown, this shall not be the same, exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.

27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it, and it shall be no more, until he comes whose right it is, and I will give it to him.

28 And you, son of man, prophesy and say, thus says the Lord God concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach, even say, the sword, the sword is drawn, for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering,

29 While they see vanity to you, while they divine a lie to you, to bring you on the necks of those who are killed, of the wicked, whose day has come, when their iniquity shall have an end.

30 Shall I cause it to return into its sheath?  I will judge you in the place where you were created, in the land of your nativity.

31 And I will pour out my indignation on you, I will blow against you in the fire of my anger, and deliver you into the hand of brutish men, and skillful to destroy.

32 You'll be for fuel to the fire, your blood shall be in the middle of the land, you'll be remembered no more, for I the Lord have spoken it."

___Ezekiel chapter 22

1 Also the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

2 "Now, you son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city?  Yes, you shall show her all her dirty things.

3 Then say, thus says the Lord God, the city sheds blood in the middle of it, that her time may come, and makes idols against herself to defile herself.

4 You've become guilty in your blood that you've shed, and have defiled yourself in your idols that you've made, and you've caused your days to draw near, and have come even to your years, therefore have I made you a reproach to the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.

5 Those who are near, and those that are far from you, shall mock you, who is infamous and much vexed.

6 See, the princes of Israel, every one were in you to their power to shed blood.

7 In you they've set light by father and mother, among you they've dealt by oppression with the stranger, in you they've vexed the fatherless and the widow.

8 You've despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

9 Men that carry tales to shed blood are in you, and in you they eat on the mountains, among you they commit lewdness.

10 In you they've discovered their fathers' nakedness, in you they've humbled her that was set apart for pollution.

11 And one has committed a dirty thing with his neighbor's wife, and another has lewdly defiled his daughter in law, and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

12 In you they've taken bribes to shed blood, you've taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten me, says the Lord God.

13 See, therefore I've struck my hand at your dishonest gain that you've gotten, and at your blood that's been among you.

14 Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you?  I the Lord have spoken it, and will do it.

15 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and disperse you in the countries, and will consume your filthiness out of you.

16 And you shall take your inheritance in yourself in the sight of the heathen, and you shall know that I am the Lord."

17 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

18 "Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me, they're all brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the middle of the furnace, they are the dross of silver.

19 Therefore thus says the Lord God, because you've all become dross, see, therefore I'll gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

20 Like they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it, so I'll gather you in my anger and in my fury, and I'll leave you there, and melt you.

21 Yes, I'll gather you, and blow on you in the fire of my anger, and you'll be melted among it.

22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall you be melted in the midst of it, and you'll know that I the Lord have poured out my fury on you."

23 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

24 "Son of man, say to her, you're the land that is not cleansed, nor rained on in the day of indignation.

25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets among it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey, they have devoured souls, they have taken the treasure and precious things, they have made her many widows in the midst of it.

26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned my holy things, they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

27 Her princes in the midst of it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing vanity, and divining lies to them, saying, thus says the Lord God, when the Lord has not spoken.

29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy, yes, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, so I wouldn't destroy it, but I found none.

31 Therefore I've I poured out my indignation on them, I've consumed them with the fire of my anger, I've repaid their own way on their heads, says the Lord God."

___Ezekiel chapter 23

1 The word of the Lord came again to me, saying,

2 "Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother,

3 And they committed whoredoms in Egypt, they committed whoredoms in their youth, their breasts were pressed there, and they bruised the teats of their virginity there.

4 And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister, and they were mine, and they bore sons and daughters.  Thus were their names, Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.

5 And Aholah played the whore when she was mine, and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,

6 Who were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.

7 Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all those who were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself.

8 Nor did she leave her whoredoms brought from Egypt, for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom on her.

9 So I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.

10 These uncovered her nakedness, they took her sons and her daughters, and killed her with the sword, and she became famous among women, for they had executed judgment on her.

11 And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.

12 She doted on the Assyrians her neighbors, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.

13 Then I saw that she was defiled, that they both took one way,

14 And that she increased her whoredoms, for when she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

15 Girded with girdles on their loins, exceeding in dyed attire on their heads, all of them princes to look at, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity,

16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted on them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.

17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.

18 So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness, then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.

19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the whore in the land of Egypt.

20 For she doted on their paramours, whose flesh is like the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

21 Thus you remembered the lewdness of your youth, in bruising your teats by the Egyptians for the nipples of your youth.

22 Therefore, O Aholibah, thus says the Lord God, see, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your mind is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side,

23 The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding on horses.

24 And they shall come against you with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, that shall set against you buckler and shield and helmet all around, and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.

25 And I will set my jealousy against you, and they shall deal furiously with you, they shall take away your nose and your ears, and your remnant shall fall by the sword, they shall take your sons and your daughters, and your remainder shall be devoured by the fire.

26 They shall also strip you out of your clothes, and take away your fair jewels.

27 Thus will I make your lewdness to stop from you, and your whoredom brought from the land of Egypt, so that you won't lift up your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt anymore.

28 For thus says the Lord God, see, I will deliver you into the hand of those whom you hate, into the hand of those from whom your mind is alienated,

29 And they shall deal with you hatefully, and shall take away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare, and the nakedness of your whoredoms shall be uncovered, both your lewdness and your whoredoms.

30 I will do these things to you, because you have gone a whoring after the heathen, and because you're polluted with their idols.

31 You have walked in the way of your sister, therefore will I give her cup into your hand.

32 Thus says the Lord God, you shall drink of your sister's cup deep and large, you shall be laughed to scorn and had in derision, it contains much.

33 You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria.

34 You shall even drink it and suck it out, and you shall break the shards of it, and pluck off your own breasts, for I have spoken it, says the Lord God.

35 Therefore thus says the Lord God, because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore bear you also your lewdness and your whoredoms."

36 The Lord said also to me, "Son of man, will you judge Aholah and Aholibah?  Yes, declare to them their dirty things,

37 That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.

38 Also this they have done to me, they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

39 For when they had sacrificed their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it, and see, thus have they done in the middle of my house.

40 And furthermore, that you have sent for men to come from far, to whom a messenger was sent, and see, they came, for whom you did wash yourself, painted your eyes, and decked yourself with ornaments,

41 And sat on a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, on which you have set my incense and my oil.

42 And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her, and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, who put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads.

43 Then I said to her that was old in adulteries, will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?

44 Yet they went in to her, as they go in to a woman that plays the whore, so went they in to Aholah and to Aholibah, the lewd women.

45 And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

46 For thus says the Lord God, I will bring up a company on them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.

47 And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords, they shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

48 Thus I'll cause lewdness to stop out of the land, so that all women will be taught not to do according to your lewdness.

49 And they shall repay your lewdness on you, and you shall bear the sins of your idols, and you shall know that I am the Lord God."

___Ezekiel chapter 24

1 Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

2 "Son of man, write the name of the day, even of this same day, the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day.

3 And speak a parable to the rebellious house, and say to them, thus says the Lord God, set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it,

4 Gather the pieces of it into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder, fill it with the choice bones.

5 Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe its bones in it.

6 So thus says the Lord God, woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is in it, and whose scum hasn't gone out of it!  Bring it out piece by piece, let no lot fall on it.

7 For her blood is among her, she set it on the top of a rock, she didn't pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust,

8 So that it would cause fury to come up to take vengeance, I have set her blood on the top of a rock, so it wouldn't be covered.

9 Therefore thus says the Lord God, woe to the bloody city!  I will even make the pile for fire great.

10 Heap up wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.

11 Then set it empty on the coals of it, so the brass of it will be hot, and will burn, and that the filthiness of it will be cast in the foundry in it, so that the scum of it will be consumed.

12 She has wearied herself with lies, and her great scum didn't go out of her, her scum shall be in the fire.

13 In your filthiness is lewdness, because I have purged you, and you were not purged, you shall not be purged from your filthiness anymore, 'til I have caused my fury to rest on you.

14 I the Lord have spoken it, it shall happen, and I will do it, I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent, according to your ways, and according to your doings, shall they judge you, says the Lord God."

15 Also the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

16 "Son of man, see, I take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke, yet neither shall you mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.

17 Refrain from crying, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of your head on you, and put on your shoes on your feet, and don't cover your lips, and don't eat the bread of men."

18 So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died, and I did in the morning as I was commanded.

19 "And the people said to me, will you not tell us what these things are to us, since you do so?"

20 Then I answered them, "The word of the Lord came to me, saying,

21 Speak to the house of Israel, thus says the Lord God, see, I'll profane my sanctuary, the excellence of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities, and your sons and your daughters whom you have left shall fall by the sword.

22 And you'll do as I have done, you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

23 And your tires shall be on your heads, and your shoes on your feet, you shall not mourn nor weep, but you'll pine away for your iniquities, and mourn toward each other.

24 Thus Ezekiel is to you a sign, according to all that he has done shall you do, and when this happens, you shall know that I am the Lord God.

25 Also, you son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that on which they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,

26 That he that escapes in that day shall come to you, to cause you to hear it with your ears?

27 In that day shall your mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and you shall speak, and be no more dumb, and you shall be a sign to them, and they shall know that I am the Lord."

___Ezekiel chapter 25

1 The word of the Lord came again to me, saying,

2 "Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them,

3 And say to the Ammonites, hear the word of the Lord God, thus says the Lord God, because you said, aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned, and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate, and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity,

4 See, therefore I will deliver you to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in you, and make their dwellings in you, they shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk.

5 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couching place for flocks, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

6 For thus says the Lord God, because you have clapped yours hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all your despite against the land of Israel,

7 See, therefore I will stretch out my hand on you, and will deliver you for a spoil to the heathen, and I will cut you off from the people, and I will cause you to perish out of the countries, I will destroy you, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

8 Thus says the Lord God, because Moab and Seir do say, see, the house of Judah is like all the heathen,

9 Therefore, see, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim,

10 To the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, so that the Ammonites won't be remembered among the nations.

11 And I will execute judgments on Moab, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

12 Thus says the Lord God, because Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and avenged himself on them,

13 Therefore thus says the Lord God, I will also stretch out my hand on Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it, and I will make it desolate from Teman, and those of Dedan shall fall by the sword.

14 And I will lay my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my fury, and they shall know my vengeance, says the Lord God.

15 Thus says the Lord God, because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred,

16 Therefore thus says the Lord God, see, I will stretch out my hand on the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.

17 And I will execute great vengeance on them with furious reprimands, and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance on them."

___Ezekiel chapter 26

1 And in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

2 "Son of man, because Tyrus has said against Jerusalem, aha, she has been broken that was the gates of the people, she has turned to me, I shall be replenished, now she has been laid waste,

3 Therefore thus says the Lord God, see, I am against you, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against you, like the sea causes his waves to come up.

4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers, I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.

5 It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the middle of the sea, for I have spoken it, says the Lord God, and it shall become a spoil to the nations.

6 And her daughters that are in the field shall be killed by the sword, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

7 For thus says the Lord God, see, I will bring on Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people.

8 He shall kill with the sword your daughters in the field, and he shall make a fort against you, and cast a mount against you, and lift up the buckler against you.

9 And he shall set engines of war against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.

10 By reason of the abundance of his horses, their dust shall cover you, your walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into your gates, like men enter into a city in which the wall has a hole.

11 With the hoofs of his horses he'll tread down all your streets, he shall kill your people by the sword, and your strong garrisons shall go down to the ground.

12 And they shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise, and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses, and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the middle of the water.

13 And I will cause the noise of your songs to stop, and the sound of your harps shall no more be heard.

14 And I will make you like the top of a rock, you shall be a place to spread nets on, you shall be built no more, for I the Lord have spoken it, says the Lord God.

15 Thus says the Lord God to Tyrus, shall not the islands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made among you?

16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their embroidered garments, they shall clothe themselves with trembling, they shall sit on the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at you.

17 And they shall take up a lamentation for you, and say to you, how have you been destroyed, that was inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, that was were strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, that caused their terror to be on all that haunt it!

18 Now shall the islands tremble in the day of your fall, yes, the islands that are in the sea shall be troubled at your departure.

19 For thus says the Lord God, when I shall make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited, when I shall bring up the deep on you, and great waters shall cover you,

20 When I shall bring you down with those who go down into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set you in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, so you're not inhabited, and I shall set glory in the land of the living,

21 I will make you a terror, and you shall be no more, though you're sought for, yet shall you never be found again, says the Lord God."

___Ezekiel chapter 27

1 The word of the Lord came again to me, saying,

2 "Now, you son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus,

3 And say to Tyrus, O you who that is situated at the entry of the sea, that is a merchant of the people for many islands, thus says the Lord God, O Tyrus, you have said, I am of perfect beauty.

4 Your borders are among the seas, your builders have perfected your beauty.

5 They have made all your ship boards of fir trees of Senir, they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for you.

6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made your oars, the company of the Ashurites have made your benches of ivory, brought out of the islands of Chittim.

7 Fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was that which you spread out to be your sail, blue and purple from the islands of Elishah was that which covered you.

8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were your mariners, your wise men, O Tyrus, that were in you, were your pilots.

9 The ancients of Gebal and the wise men of it were in you your caulkers, all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to occupy your merchandise.

10 Those of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in your army, your men of war, they hung the shield and helmet in you, they set forth your attractiveness.

11 The men of Arvad with your army were on your walls all around, and the Gammadims were in your towers, they hung their shields on your walls all around, they have made your beauty perfect.

12 Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches, with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in your fairs.

13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your merchants, they traded the persons of men and containers of brass in your market.

14 They of the house of Togarmah traded in your fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.

15 The men of Dedan were your merchants, many islands were the merchandise of your hand, they brought you horns of ivory and ebony for a present.

16 Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of your making, they occupied in your fairs with emeralds, purple, and embroidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.

17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were your merchants, they traded in your market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.

18 Damascus was your merchant in the multitude of the wares of your making, for the multitude of all riches, in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.

19 Dan also and Javan going back and forth occupied in your fairs, bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in your market.

20 Dedan was your merchant in precious clothes for chariots.

21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with you in lambs, and rams, and goats, in these were they your merchants.

22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were your merchants, they occupied in your fairs with all the main spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.

23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were your merchants.

24 These were your merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and embroidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among your merchandise.

25 The ships of Tarshish sang of you in your market, and you were replenished, and made very glorious among the seas.

26 Your rowers have brought you into great waters, the east wind has broken you among the seas.

27 Your riches, and your fairs, your merchandise, your mariners, and your pilots, your caulkers, and the occupiers of your merchandise, and all your men of war, that are in you, and in all your company which among you, shall fall into the middle of the seas in the day of your ruin.

28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of your pilots.

29 And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand on the land,

30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes,

31 And they shall make themselves completely bald for you, and gird themselves with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.

32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, saying, what city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the middle of the sea?

33 When your wares went out of the seas, you filled many people, you enriched the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise.

34 In the time when you shall be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and all your company among you shall fall.

35 All the inhabitants of the islands shall be astonished at you, and their kings shall be very afraid, they shall be troubled in their facial expressions.

36 The merchants among the people shall hiss at you, you shall be a terror, and never shall be anymore."

___Ezekiel chapter 28

1 The word of the Lord came again to me, saying,

2 "Son of man, say to the prince of Tyrus, thus says the Lord God, because yours heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, among the seas, yet you're a man, and not God, though you set your heart like the heart of God,

3 See, you're wiser than Daniel, there is no secret that they can hide from you,

4 With your wisdom and with your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures,

5 By your great wisdom and by your traffic you've increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches,

6 Therefore thus says the Lord God, because you have set your heart as the heart of God,

7 See, therefore I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations, and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness.

8 They shall bring you down to the pit, and you shall die the deaths of those who are killed among the seas.

9 Will you yet say before him that kills you, I am God?  But you shall be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that kills you.

10 You shall die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers, for I have spoken it, says the Lord God."

11 Also the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

12 "Son of man, take up a lamentation on the king of Tyrus, and say to him, thus says the Lord God, you seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

13 You have been in Eden, the garden of God, every precious stone was your covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold, the workmanship of your tabrets and of your pipes was prepared in you in the day that you were created.

14 You are the anointed cherub that covers, and I have set you so, you were on the holy mountain of God, you have walked up and down among the stones of fire.

15 You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, 'til iniquity was found in you.

16 By the multitude of your merchandise they have filled the middle of you with violence, and you have sinned, therefore I will cast you as profane out of the mountain of God, and I will destroy you, O covering cherub, from among the stones of fire.

17 Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty, you have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness, I will cast you to the ground, I will lay you before kings, so they can see you.

18 You have defiled your sanctuaries by the multitude of your iniquities, by the iniquity of your traffic, therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of you, it shall devour you, and I will bring you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you.

19 All of those who know you among the people shall be astonished at you, you shall be a terror, and never shall you be anymore."

20 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

21 "Son of man, set your face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,

22 And say, thus says the Lord God, see, I am against you, O Zidon, and I will be glorified among you, and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be made holy in her.

23 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets, and the wounded shall be judged among her by the sword on her on every side, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are all around them, that despised them, and they shall know that I am the Lord God.

25 Thus says the Lord God, when I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be made holy in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.

26 And they shall dwell safely in it, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards, yes, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments on all those that despise them all around them, and they shall know that I am the Lord their God."

___Ezekiel chapter 29

1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

2 "Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt,

3 Speak, and say, thus says the Lord God, see, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies among his rivers, who has said, my river is my own, and I have made it for myself.

4 But I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales, and I will bring you up out of the middle of your rivers, and all the fish of your rivers shall stick to your scales.

5 And I will leave you thrown into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers, you shall fall on the open fields, you shall not be brought together, nor gathered, I have given you for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.

6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

7 When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke, and tear all their shoulder, and when they leaned on you, you broke, and made all their loins to be at a stand.

8 Therefore thus says the Lord God, see, I will bring a sword on you, and cut off man and beast out of you.

9 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste, and they shall know that I am the Lord, because he has said, the river is mine, and I have made it.

10 See, I am therefore against you, and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt completely waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene to the border of Ethiopia.

11 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.

12 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate among the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years, and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

13 Yet thus says the Lord God, at the end of forty years I'll gather the Egyptians from the people where they were scattered,

14 And I will undo the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation, and they shall be a base kingdom there.

15 It shall be the basest of the kingdoms, neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations, for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.

16 And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, which brings their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after them, but they shall know that I am the Lord God."

17 And in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

18 "Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus, every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled, yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it,

19 Therefore thus says the Lord God, see, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey, and it shall be the wages for his army.

20 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labor with which he served against it, because they worked for me, says the Lord God.

21 In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give you the opening of the mouth among them, and they shall know that I am the Lord."

___Ezekiel chapter 30

1 The word of the Lord came again to me, saying,

2 "Son of man, prophesy and say, thus says the Lord God, howl, woe worth the day!

3 For the day is near, even the day of the Lord is near, a cloudy day, it shall be the time of the heathen.

4 And the sword shall come on Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the killed shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.

5 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mixed people, and Chub, and the men of the land that are in league, shall fall with them by the sword.

6 Thus says the Lord, they also that uphold Egypt shall fall, and the pride of her power shall come down, from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, says the Lord God.

7 And they shall be desolate among the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be among the cities that are wasted.

8 And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.

9 In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come on them, like in the day of Egypt, for see, it comes.

10 Thus says the Lord God, I will also make the multitude of Egypt to stop by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.

11 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land, and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the dead.

12 And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked, and I will make the land waste, and all that is in it, by the hand of strangers, I the Lord have spoken it.

13 Thus says the Lord God, I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to stop out of Noph, and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt, and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.

14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.

15 And I will pour my fury on Sin, the strength of Egypt, and I will cut off the multitude of No.

16 And I will set fire in Egypt, Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be torn in pieces, and Noph shall have distresses daily.

17 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword, and these cities shall go into captivity.

18 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt, and the pomp of her strength shall stop in her, as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.

19 Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt, and they shall know that I am the Lord."

20 And in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

21 "Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and see, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.

22 Therefore thus says the Lord God, see, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken, and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

23 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

24 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand, but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.

25 But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down, and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out on the land of Egypt.

26 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries, and they shall know that I am the Lord."

___Ezekiel chapter 31

1 And in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

2 "Son of man, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude, whom are you like in your greatness?

3 See, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature, and his top was among the thick boughs.

4 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running all around his plants, and sent out her little rivers to all the trees of the field.

5 Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.

6 All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and all the beasts of the field brought forth their young under his branches, and under his shadow lived all great nations.

7 Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches, for his root was by great waters.

8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him, the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches, nor any tree in the garden of God was like him in his beauty.

9 I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.

10 Therefore thus says the Lord God, because you have lifted up yourself in height, and he has shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart has been lifted up in his height,

11 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen, he shall surely deal with him, I have driven him out for his wickedness.

12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him, on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land, and all the people of the earth have gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

13 On his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be on his branches,

14 To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water, for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, among the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.

15 Thus says the Lord God, in the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning, I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods of it, and the great waters were stopped, and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with those who go down into the pit, and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the lower parts of the earth.

17 They also went down into hell with him to those who've been killed by the sword, and those who were his arm, that lived under his shadow among the heathen.

18 To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden?  Yet shall you be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth, you shall lie among the uncircumcised with those who've been killed by the sword.  This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord God."

___Ezekiel chapter 32

1 And in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

2 "Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, you are like a young lion of the nations, and you are like a whale in the seas, and you came forth with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.

3 Thus says the Lord God, I will therefore spread out my net over you with a company of many people, and they shall bring you up in my net.

4 Then will I leave you on the land, I will cast you out on the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain on you, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with you.

5 And I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height.

6 I will also water with your blood the land in which you swim, even to the mountains, and the rivers shall be full of you.

7 And when I shall put you out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars of it dark, I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.

8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over you, and set darkness on your land, says the Lord God.

9 I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries that you haven't known.

10 Yes, I will make many people amazed at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall brandish my sword before them, and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.

11 For thus says the Lord God, the sword of the king of Babylon shall come against you.

12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause your multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them, and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude of it shall be destroyed.

13 I will destroy also all the beasts of it from beside the great waters, neither shall the foot of man trouble them anymore, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.

14 Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the Lord God.

15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that with which it was full, when I shall strike all of those who live in it, then shall they know that I am the Lord.

16 This is the lamentation with which they shall lament her, the daughters of the nations shall lament her, they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, says the Lord God."

17 Also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

18 "Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit.

19 Whom do you pass in beauty?  Go down, and lie with the uncircumcised.

20 They shall fall among those who are killed by the sword, she is given to the sword, draw her and all her multitudes.

21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the middle of hell with those who help him, they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, killed by the sword.

22 Asshur is there and all her company, his graves are around him, all of them killed, fallen by the sword,

23 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is all around her grave, all of them killed, fallen by the sword, that caused terror in the land of the living.

24 There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave, all of them killed, fallen by the sword, who've gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living, yet have they carried their shame with them that go down to the pit.

25 They have set her a bed among the slain with all her multitude, her graves are all around him, all of them uncircumcised, killed by the sword, though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they carried their shame with them that go down to the pit, he has been put among those who are slain.

26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude, her graves are all around him, all of them uncircumcised, killed by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.

27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that have fallen from the uncircumcised, who have gone down to hell with their weapons of war, and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be on their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

28 Yes, you shall be broken among the uncircumcised, and shall lie with those who've been slain by the sword.

29 There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, who with their might are laid by them that were killed by the sword, they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with those who go down to the pit.

30 There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, who've gone down with the killed, with their terror they are ashamed of their might, and they lie uncircumcised with those who've been slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.

31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army killed by the sword, says the Lord God.

32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living, and he shall be laid among the uncircumcised with those who've been slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord God."

___Ezekiel chapter 33

1 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

2 "Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and say to them, when I bring the sword on a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman,

3 If when he sees the sword come on the land, he blow the trumpet, and warns the people,

4 Then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn't take warning, if the sword comes, and take him away, his blood shall be on his own head.

5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and didn't take warning, his blood shall be on him.  But he that takes warning shall deliver his soul.

6 But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn't blow the trumpet, and the people aren't warned, if the sword comes, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.

7 So you, O son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel, therefore you shall hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.

8 When I say to the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, if you don't speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at yours hand.

9 But, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, if he doesn't turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul.

10 Therefore, O you son of man, speak to the house of Israel, thus you speak, saying, if our transgressions and our sins be are us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?

11 Say to them, as I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turns from his way and live, turn, turn you from your evil ways, for why would you want to die, O house of Israel?

12 Therefore, you son of man, say to the children of your people, the righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression, as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it in the day that he turns from his wickedness, neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sins.

13 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live, if he trusts in his own righteousness, and commits iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered, but for his iniquity that he has committed, he shall die for it.

14 Again, when I say to the wicked, you shall surely die, if he turns from his sin, and does that which is lawful and right,

15 If the wicked restores the security deposit, gives back what he had stolen, walks in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

16 None of his sins that he has committed shall be mentioned to him, he has done that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live.

17 Yet the children of your people say, the way of the Lord is not equal, but as for them, their way is not equal.

18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, that will cause his death.

19 But if the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, that will cause him to live.

20 Yet you say, the way of the Lord is not equal.  O you house of Israel, I will judge you everyone according to ways."

21 And in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, someone who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, the city has been struck.

22 Now the hand of the Lord was on me in the evening, before he that had escaped came, and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning, and my mouth was opened, and I was not dumb anymore.

23 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

24 "Son of man, those who inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land, but we are many, the land is given to us as an inheritance.

25 So say to them, thus says the Lord God, you eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood, and shall you possess the land?

26 You stand on your sword, you do dirty things, and you defile everyone his neighbor's wife, and shall you possess the land?

27 Say thus to them, thus says the Lord God, as I live, surely those who are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and he that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and those who are in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.

28 For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall stop, and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, so that no one shall pass through.

29 Then shall they know that I am the Lord, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their dirty things that they have committed.

30 Also, you son of man, the children of your people still are talking against you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak to each other, everyone to his brother, saying, come, please, and hear what the word is that comes forth from the Lord.

31 And they come to you like the people come, and they sit before you like my people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them, for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their covetousness.

32 And see, you are to them like a very lovely song of someone that has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument, for they hear your words, but they don't do them.

33 And when this happens, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet has been among them."

___Ezekiel chapter 34

1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

2 "Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say to them, thus says the Lord God to the shepherds, woe be to the shepherds of Israel that feed themselves!  Should not the shepherds feed the flocks?

3 You eat the fat, and you clothe yourselves with the wool, you kill those that are fed, but you don't feed the flock.

4 The you haven’t strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought again that which was driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost, but with force and with cruelty have you ruled them.

5 And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd, and they became food to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.

6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill, yes, my flock was scattered on all the face of the earth, and no one did search or seek after them.

7 Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord,

8 As I live, says the Lord God, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became food to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn't feed my flock,

9 Therefore, O you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord,

10 Thus says the Lord God, see, I am against the shepherds, and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to stop from feeding the flock, neither shall the shepherds feed themselves anymore, for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, so they won't be food for them.

11 For thus says the Lord God, see, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.

12 Like a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

13 And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them on the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.

14 I will feed them in a good pasture, and on the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be, there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed on the mountains of Israel.

15 I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, says the Lord God.

16 I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick, but I will destroy the fat and the strong, I will feed them with judgment.

17 And as for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord God, see, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.

18 Does it seem to be a small thing to you to have eaten up the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the remainder of your pastures?  And to have drunk of the deep waters, but you must foul the remainder with your feet?

19 And as for my flock, they eat that which you have walked on with your feet, and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.

20 Therefore thus says the Lord God to them, see, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.

21 Because you have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till you have scattered them abroad,

22 Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey, and I will judge between cattle and cattle.

23 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David, he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.

24 And I the Lord will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them, I the Lord have spoken it.

25 And I will make a covenant of peace with them, and will cause the evil beasts to stop out of the land, and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

26 And I will make them and the places all around my hill a blessing, and I will cause the showers to come down in their season, there shall be showers of blessing.

27 And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the Lord, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.

28 And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour them, but they shall dwell safely, and no one shall make them afraid.

29 And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed by hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen anymore.

30 Thus shall they know that I the Lord their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord God.

31 And you my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, says the Lord God."

___Ezekiel chapter 35

1 Also the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

2 "Son of man, set your face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

3 And say to it, thus says the Lord God, see, O mount Seir, I am against you, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you most desolate.

4 I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

5 Because you have had a perpetual hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end,

6 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, I will prepare you to blood, and blood shall pursue you, since you have not hated blood, even blood shall pursue you.

7 Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passes out and him that returns.

8 And I will fill his mountains with his slain men, in your hills, and in your valleys, and in all your rivers, shall they fall that are killed by the sword.

9 I will make you perpetual desolations, and your cities shall not return, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

10 Because you have said, these two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it, whereas the Lord was there,

11 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, I will even do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have used out of your hatred against them, and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged you.

12 And you shall know that I am the Lord, and that I have heard all your blasphemies that you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, they are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.

13 Thus with your mouth you have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me, I have heard them.

14 Thus says the Lord God, when the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

15 As you rejoiced at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to you, you shall be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it, and they shall know that I am the Lord."

___Ezekiel chapter 36

1 "Also, you son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord,

2 Thus says the Lord God, because the enemy has said against you, aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession,

3 Therefore prophesy and say, thus says the Lord God, because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, so you'd be a possession to the remainder of the heathen, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people,

4 Therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God, thus says the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the remainder of the heathen that are all around,

5 Therefore thus says the Lord God, surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the remainder of the heathen, and against all Idumea, who have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.

6 Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, thus says the Lord God, see, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because you have carried the shame of the heathen,

7 Therefore thus says the Lord God, I have lifted up my hand, surely the heathen that are around you, they shall bear their shame.

8 But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel, for they are at hand to come.

9 For see, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and planted,

10 And I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, even all of it, and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be built,

11 And I will multiply on you man and beast, and they shall increase and bring fruit, and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better to you than at your beginnings, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

12 Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, even my people Israel, and they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no more from now on bereave them of men.

13 Thus says the Lord God, because they say to you, you, land devour up men, and have bereaved your nations,

14 Therefore you shall devour men no more, neither bereave your nations any more, says the Lord God.

15 Neither will I cause men to hear in you the shame of the heathen anymore, neither shall you bear the reproach of the people anymore, neither shall you cause your nations to fall anymore, says the Lord God.

16 Also the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

17 Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings, their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.

18 So I poured my fury on them for the blood that they had shed on the land, and for their idols with which they had polluted it,

19 And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries, according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.

20 And when they entered to the heathen, where they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, these are the people of the Lord, and are gone forth out of his land.

21 But I had pity for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, where they went.

22 Therefore say to the house of Israel, thus says the Lord God, I don't do this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for my holy name's sake, that you've profaned among the heathen, whither you went.

23 And I will make holy my great name, that was profaned among the heathen, which you have profaned among them, and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, says the Lord God, when I shall be made holy in you before their eyes.

24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.

25 Then will I sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean, from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put inside you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my judgments, and do them.

28 And you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

29 I will also save you from all your uncleannesses, and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine on you.

30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, so that you shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.

31 Then shall you remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall hate yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your dirty things.

32 Not for your sakes do I so this, says the Lord God, be it known to you, be ashamed and confused for your own ways, O house of Israel.

33 Thus says the Lord God, in the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be built.

34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.

35 And they shall say, this land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden, and the waste and desolate and ruined cities have become fenced, and are inhabited.

36 Then the heathen that are left all around you shall know that I the Lord build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate, I the Lord have spoken it, and I will do it.

37 Thus says the Lord God, I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them, I will increase them with men like a flock.

38 As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men, and they shall know that I am the Lord."

___Ezekiel chapter 37

1 The hand of the Lord was on me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the middle of the valley that was full of bones,

2 And caused me to pass by them all around, and, see, there were very many in the open valley, and see, they were very dry.

3 And he said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?"  And I answered, "O Lord God, you know."

4 Again he said to me, "Prophesy about these bones, and say to them, O you dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.

5 Thus says the Lord God to these bones, see, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live,

6 And I will lay tendons on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the Lord."

7 So I prophesied as I was commanded, and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and see a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.

8 And when I looked, see, the tendons and the flesh came up on them, and the skin covered them above, but there was no breath in them.

9 Then he said to me, "Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, thus says the Lord God, come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, so they'll live."

10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, a very large army.

11 Then he said to me, "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel, see, they say, our bones are dried, and our hope is lost, we are cut off for our parts.

12 Therefore prophesy and say to them, thus says the Lord God, see, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.

13 And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,

14 And shall put my spirit in you, and you shall live, and I shall place you in your own land, then shall you know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, says the Lord."

15 The word of the Lord came again to me, saying,

16 "Also, you son of man, take one stick, and write on it, for Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions, then take another stick, and write on it, for Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions,

17 And join them to each other into one stick, and they shall become one in your hand.

18 And when the children of your people shall speak to you, saying, will you not show us what you mean by these?

19 Say to them, thus says the Lord God, see, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand.

20 And the sticks on which you write shall be in your hand before their eyes.

21 And say to them, thus says the Lord God, see, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, where they've gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land,

22 And I will make them one nation in the land on the mountains of Israel, and one king shall be king to them all, and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all,

23 Neither shall they defile themselves anymore with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions, but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them, so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.

24 And David my servant shall be king over them, and they all shall have one shepherd, they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.

25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers have lived, and they shall dwell in it, even they, and their children, and their children's children forever, and my servant David shall be their prince forever.

26 Also I will make a covenant of peace with them, it shall be an everlasting covenant with them, and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary among them forever.

27 My tabernacle shall also be with them, yes, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

28 And the heathen shall know that I the Lord make Israel holy, when my sanctuary shall be among them forever."

___Ezekiel chapter 38

1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

2 "Son of man, set your face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,

3 And say, thus says the Lord God, see, I am against you, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal,

4 And I will turn you back, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you forth, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all kinds of armor, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords,

5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them, all of them with shield and helmet,

6 Gomer, and all his bands, the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands, and many people with you.

7 Be prepared, and prepare for yourself, you, and all your company that are assembled to you, and be a guard to them.

8 After many days you shall be visited, in the latter years you shall come into the land that has been brought back from the sword, and has been gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, that have always been waste, but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.

9 You shall ascend and come like a storm, you shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your bands, and many people with you.

10 Thus says the Lord God, it shall also occur that at the same time shall things come into your mind, and you shall think an evil thought,

11 And you shall say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages, I will go to those who are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,

12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey, to turn your hand on the desolate places that are now inhabited, and on the people that are gathered out of the nations, that have gotten cattle and goods, that live in the land.

13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions of it, shall say to you, have you come to take a spoil?  Have you gathered your company to take a prey?  To carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?

14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog, thus says the Lord God, in that day when my people of Israel live safely, shall you not know it?

15 And you shall come from your place out of the north parts, you, and many people with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company, and a mighty army,

16 And you shall come up against my people of Israel, like a cloud to cover the land, it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring you against my land, so that the heathen will know me, when I shall be made holy in you, O Gog, before their eyes.

17 Thus says the Lord God, are you he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days many years that I would bring you against them?

18 And at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, says the Lord God, my fury shall come up in my face.

19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my anger I've spoken, surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel,

20 So that the fish of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep on the earth, and all the men that are on the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.

21 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, says the Lord God, every man's sword shall be against his brother.

22 And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood, and I will rain on him, and on his bands, and on the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and sulphur.

23 Thus I'll magnify myself, and make myself holy, and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord."

___Ezekiel chapter 39

1 "Therefore, you son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, thus says the Lord God, see, I am against you, O Gog, the top prince of Meshech and Tubal,

2 And I will turn you back, and leave but one sixth of you, and will cause you to come up from the north parts, and will bring you on the mountains of Israel,

3 And I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand.

4 You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your bands, and the people that are with you, I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.

5 You shall fall on the open field, for I have spoken it, says the Lord God.

6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and among those who live carelessly in the islands, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

7 So will I make my holy name known among my people Israel, and I will not let them pollute my holy name anymore, and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy one in Israel.

8 See, it has come, and it's done, says the Lord God, this is the day about which I have spoken.

9 And those who live in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the hand staves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire for seven years,

10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests, for they shall burn the weapons with fire, and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, says the Lord God.

11 And in that day, I will give Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the travelers on the east of the sea, and it shall make a stink in the noses of the travelers, and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude, and they shall call it the valley of Hamongog.

12 And for seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, so they can cleanse the land.

13 Yes, all the people of the land shall bury them, and it shall be to them a renown, the day that I shall be glorified, says the Lord God.

14 And they shall separate out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the travelers those that remain on the face of the earth, to cleanse it, after the end of seven months they'll search.

15 And the travelers that pass through the land, when any sees a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, 'til the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.

16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah.  Thus shall they cleanse the land.

17 And, you son of man, thus says the Lord God, speak to every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, assemble yourselves, and come, gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, so you can eat flesh, and drink blood.

18 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

19 And you shall eat fat 'til you're full, and drink blood 'til you're drunk, of my sacrifice that I will have sacrificed for you.

20 Thus you shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, says the Lord God.

21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.

22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day and forward.

23 And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies, so they all fell by the sword.

24 According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done to them, and hid my face from them.

25 Therefore thus says the Lord God, now will I undo the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name,

26 After they have carried their shame, and all their trespasses by which they have trespassed against me, when they lived safely in their land, and no one made them afraid.

27 When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am made holy in them in the sight of many nations,

28 Then they'll know that I am the Lord their God, who caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen, but I have gathered them to their own land, and have left none of them there anymore.

29 Neither will I hide my face any more from them, for I have poured out my spirit on the house of Israel, says the Lord God."

___Ezekiel chapter 40

1 In the twenty fifth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was struck, in the same day, the hand of the Lord was on me, and brought me there.

2 In the visions of God he brought me into the land of Israel, and set me on a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south.

3 And he brought me there, and see, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed, and he stood in the gate.

4 And the man said to me, "Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall show you, you've been brought here so I can show them to you, declare all that you see to the house of Israel."

5 And see, a wall on the outside of the house all around, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and a hand breadth, so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed, and the height, one reed.

6 Then he came to the gate that looks toward the east, and went up the stairs of it, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad, and the other threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad.

7 And every little room was one reed long, and one reed broad, and between the little rooms were five cubits, and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate inside was one reed.

8 He measured also the porch of the gate inside, one reed.

9 Then he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits, and the posts of it, two cubits, and the porch of the gate was inward.

10 And the little rooms of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side, they three were of one measure, and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.

11 And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits, and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

12 The space also before the little rooms was one cubit on this side, and the space was one cubit on that side, and the little rooms were six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.

13 He measured then the gate from the roof of one little room to the roof of another, the breadth was twenty five cubits, door against door.

14 He made also posts of sixty cubits, even to the post of the court around the gate.

15 And from the face of the gate of the entrance to the face of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.

16 And there were narrow windows to the little rooms, and to their posts inside the gate all around, and likewise to the arches, and windows were round about inward, and on each post were palm trees.

17 Then he brought me into the outward court, and see, there were rooms, and a pavement made for the court all around, thirty rooms were on the pavement.

18 And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of the gates was the lower pavement.

19 Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront of the inner court outside, a hundred cubits eastward and northward.

20 And the gate of the outward court that looked toward the north, he measured the length of it, and the breadth of it.

21 And the little rooms of it were three on this side and three on that side, and the posts of it and the arches of it were after the measure of the first gate, the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty five cubits.

22 And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were after the measure of the gate that looks toward the east, and they went up to it by seven steps, and the arches of it were before them.

23 And the gate of the inner court was opposite the gate toward the north, and toward the east, and he measured from gate to gate a hundred cubits.

24 After that he brought me toward the south, and see, a gate toward the south, and he measured the posts of it and the arches of it according to these measures.

25 And there were windows in it and in the arches of it all around, like those windows, the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty five cubits.

26 And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches of it were before them, and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, on the posts of it.

27 And there was a gate in the inner court toward the south, and he measured from gate to gate toward the south a hundred cubits.

28 And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate, and he measured the south gate according to these measures,

29 And the little rooms of it, and the posts of it, and the arches of it, according to these measures, and there were windows in it and in the arches of it all around, it was fifty cubits long, and twenty five cubits broad.

30 And the arches all around were twenty five cubits long, and five cubits broad.

31 And the arches of it were toward the farthest court, and palm trees were on the posts of it, and the going up to it had eight steps.

32 And he brought me into the inner court toward the east, and he measured the gate according to these measures.

33 And the little rooms of it, and the posts of it, and the arches of it, were according to these measures, and there were windows in it and in the arches of it all around, it was fifty cubits long, and twenty five cubits broad.

34 And the arches of it were toward the outward court, and palm trees were on the posts of it, on this side, and on that side, and the going up to it had eight steps.

35 And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according to these measures,

36 The little rooms of it, the posts of it, and the arches of it, and the windows to it all around, the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty five cubits.

37 And the posts of it were toward the farthest court, and palm trees were on the posts of it, on this side, and on that side, and the going up to it had eight steps.

38 And the rooms and the entries of it were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.

39 And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to kill on them the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering.

40 And at the side outside, as one goes up to the entry of the north gate, were two tables, and on the other side, which was at the porch of the gate, were two tables.

41 Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate, eight tables, on which they killed their sacrifices.

42 And the four tables were of cut stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high, on which also they laid the instruments with which they killed the burnt offering and the sacrifice.

43 And inside were hooks, a hand broad, fastened all around, and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.

44 And outside the inner gate were the rooms of the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate, and their prospect was toward the south, one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north.

45 And he said to me, "This room, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house.

46 And the room whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar, these are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, who come near to the Lord to minister to him.

47 So he measured the court, a hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits broad, foursquare, and the altar that was before the house.

48 And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side, and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.

49 The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits, and he brought me by the steps by which they went up to it, and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side."

___Ezekiel chapter 41

1 Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle.

2 And the breadth of the door was ten cubits, and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side, and he measured the length of it, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits.

3 Then he went inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits, and the door, six cubits, and the breadth of the door, seven cubits.

4 So he measured the length of it, twenty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple, and he said to me, this is the most holy place.

5 After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits, and the breadth of every side room, four cubits, all around the house on every side.

6 And the side rooms were three, one over another, and thirty in order, and they entered into the wall that was of the house for the side rooms all around, so they would be fastened, but they didn't have hold in the wall of the house.

7 And there was an enlarging, and a winding around still upward to the side rooms, for the winding around of the house went still upward all around the house, therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest room to the highest by the middle.

8 I saw also the height of the house all around, the foundations of the side rooms were a full reed of six great cubits.

9 The thickness of the wall, that was for the side room outside, was five cubits, and that which was left was the place of the side rooms that were inside.

10 And between the rooms was the wideness of twenty cubits all around the house on every side.

11 And the doors of the side rooms were toward the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south, and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits all around.

12 Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and the length of it ninety cubits.

13 So he measured the house, a hundred cubits long, and the separate place, and the building, with the walls of it, a hundred cubits long,

14 Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, a hundred cubits.

15 And he measured the length of the building opposite the separate place that was behind it, and the galleries of it on the one side and on the other side, a hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court,

16 The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries all around on their three stories, opposite the door, ceiled with wood all around, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered,

17 To that above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall all around inside and outside, by measure.

18 And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub, and every cherub had two faces,

19 So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side, it was made through all the house all around.

20 From the ground to above the door were cherubims and palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple.

21 The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary, the appearance of the one like the appearance of the other.

22 The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length of it two cubits, and the corners of it, and the length of it, and the walls of it, were of wood, and he said to me, "This is the table that is before the Lord."

23 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.

24 And the doors had two leaves each, two turning leaves, two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door.

25 And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims and palm trees, like were made on the walls, and there were thick planks on the face of the porch outside.

26 And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and on the side rooms of the house, and thick planks.

___Ezekiel chapter 42

1 Then he brought me out into the farthest court, the way toward the north, and he brought me into the room that was opposite the separate place, and which was before the building toward the north.

2 Before the length of a hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.

3 Opposite the twenty cubits that were for the inner court, and opposite the pavement that was for the complete court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.

4 And before the rooms was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit, and their doors toward the north.

5 Now the upper rooms were shorter, for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.

6 For they were in three stories, but didn't have pillars like the pillars of the courts, therefore the building was restricted more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.

7 And the wall that was outside opposite the rooms, toward the farthest court on the forepart of the rooms, the length of it was fifty cubits.

8 For the length of the rooms that were in the farthest court was fifty cubits, and see, before the temple were one hundred cubits.

9 And from under these rooms was the entry on the east side, as one goes into them from the complete court.

10 The rooms were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, opposite the separate place, and opposite the building.

11 And the way before them was like the appearance of the rooms that were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they, and all their goings out were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.

12 And according to the doors of the rooms that were toward the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one enters into them.

13 Then he said to me, "The north rooms and the south rooms, that are before the separate place, they are holy rooms, where the priests that approach to the Lord shall eat the most holy things, there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering, for the place is holy.

14 When the priests enter in it, then they won't go out of the holy place into the farthest court, but there they shall lay their garments in which they minister, for they are holy, and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to the things that are for the people.

15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it all around.

16 He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed all around.

17 He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed all around.

18 He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.

19 He turned around to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

20 He measured it by the four sides, it had a wall all around, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.

___Ezekiel chapter 43

1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looks toward the east,

2 And see, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east, and his voice was like a noise of many waters, and the earth shined with his glory.

3 And it was according to the appearance of the vision that I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city, and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar, and I fell on my face.

4 And the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.

5 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court, and see, the glory of the Lord filled the house.

6 And I heard him speaking to me out of the house, and the man stood by me.

7 And he said to me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will live among the children of Israel forever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcasses of their kings in their high places.

8 In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their dirty things that they have committed, so I have consumed them in my anger.

9 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcasses of their kings, far from me, and I will live among them forever.

10 You son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, so they'll be ashamed of their iniquities, and let them measure the pattern.

11 And if they're ashamed of all that they have done, show them the form

of the house, and the fashion of it, and the goings out of it, and the comings in of it, and all the forms of it, and all the ordinances of it, and all the forms of it, and all the laws of it, and write it in their sight, so they can keep the whole form of it, and all the ordinances of it, and do them.

12 This is the law of the house, on the top of the mountain the whole limit of it all around shall be most holy.  See, this is the law of the house.

13 And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits, the cubit is a cubit and a hand breadth, even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border of it by the edge of it all around shall be a span, and this shall be the higher place of the altar.

14 And from the bottom on the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit, and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit.

15 So the altar shall be four cubits, and from the altar and upward shall be four horns.

16 And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares of it.

17 And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares of it, and the border around it shall be half a cubit, and the bottom of it shall be a cubit around, and its stairs shall look toward the east.

18 And he said to me, "Son of man, thus says the Lord God, these are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings on it, and to sprinkle blood on it.

19 And you shall give to the priests the Levites that are of the seed of Zadok, that approach to me, to minister to me, says the Lord God, a young bullock for a sin offering.

20 And you shall take of the blood of it, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and on the border all around, thus shall you cleanse and purge it.

21 You shall take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, outside the sanctuary.

22 And on the second day you shall offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering, and they shall cleanse the altar, like they cleansed it with the bullock.

23 When you have made an end of cleansing it, you shall offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.

24 And you shall offer them before the Lord, and the priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to the Lord.

25 Seven days shall you prepare every day a goat for a sin offering, they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.

26 Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it, and they shall consecrate themselves.

27 And when these days have expired, it shall be, that on the eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings on the altar, and your peace offerings, and I will accept you, says the Lord God."

___Ezekiel chapter 44

1 Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary that looks toward the east, and it was shut.

2 Then said the Lord to me, "This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it, because the Lord, the God of Israel, has entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.

3 It is for the prince, the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before the Lord, he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same."

4 Then he brought me the way of the north gate before the house, and I looked, and, see, the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord, and I fell on my face.

5 And the Lord said to me, "Son of man, mark well, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I say to you concerning all the ordinances of the house of the Lord, and all the laws of it, and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary.

6 And you shall say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, thus says the Lord God, O you house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your dirty things,

7 In that you have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your dirty things.

8 And you have not kept the charge of my holy things, but you have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

9 Thus says the Lord God, No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.

10 And the Levites that have gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray away from me after their idols, they shall even bear their sin.

11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house, they shall kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.

12 Because they ministered to them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity, therefore I've lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord God, and they shall bear their iniquity.

13 And they shall not come near to me, to do the office of a priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place, but they shall bear their shame, and their dirty things that they have committed.

14 But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service of it, and for all that shall be done in it.

15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister to me, and they shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord God,

16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge.

17 And when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments, and no wool shall come on them, while they minister in the gates of the inner court, and inside.

18 They shall have linen bonnets on their heads, and shall have linen pants on their loins, they shall not gird themselves with anything that causes sweat.

19 And when they go forth into the farthest court, even into the farthest court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they ministered, and lay them in the holy rooms, and they shall put on other garments, and they shall not make holy the people with their garments.

20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks to grow long, they shall only poll their heads.

21 Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away, but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.

23 And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

24 And in controversy they shall stand in judgment, and they shall judge it according to my judgments, and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my assemblies, and they shall hallow my Sabbaths.

25 And they shall come near no dead person to defile themselves, but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that has had no husband, they may defile themselves.

26 And after he has been cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days.

27 And in the day that he goes into the sanctuary, to the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, says the Lord God.

28 And it shall be to them for an inheritance, I am their inheritance, and you shall give them no possession in Israel, I am their possession.

29 They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering, and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.

30 And the first of all the first fruits of all things, and every offering of all, of every sort of your offerings, shall be the priest's, you shall also give to the priest the first of your dough, so he can cause the blessing to rest in your house.

31 The priests shall not eat of anything that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it's fowl or animal."

___Ezekiel chapter 45

1 Also, when you shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer an offering to the Lord, a holy portion of the land, the length shall be the length of twenty five thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand.  This shall be holy in all the borders of it all around.

2 Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square all around, and fifty cubits all around for the suburbs of it.

3 And of this measure shall you measure the length of twenty five thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand, and in it shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place.

4 The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary, that shall come near to minister to the Lord, and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place for the sanctuary.

5 And the twenty five thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty rooms.

6 And you shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and twenty five thousand long, opposite the offering of the holy portion, it shall be for the whole house of Israel.

7 And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other side of the offering of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city, before the offering of the holy portion, and before the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from the east side eastward, and the length shall be opposite one of the portions, from the west border to the east border.

8 In the land shall be his possession in Israel, and my princes shall no more oppress my people, and the rest of the land shall they give to the house of Israel according to their tribes.

9 Thus says the Lord God, let it suffice you, O princes of Israel, remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, says the Lord God.

10 You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, so that the bath will contain one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer, the measure of it shall be after the homer.

12 And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs, twenty shekels, twenty five shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.

13 This is the offering that you shall offer, the one sixth of an ephah of a homer of wheat, and you shall give one sixth of an ephah of a homer of barley,

14 Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, you shall offer one tenth of a bath out of the cor, which is a homer of ten baths, for ten baths are a homer,

15 And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel, for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, says the Lord God.

16 All the people of the land shall give this offering for the prince in Israel.

17 And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the Sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel, he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel.

18 Thus says the Lord God, in the first month, in the first day of the month, you shall take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary,

19 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it on the posts of the house, and on the four corners of the settle of the altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner court.

20 And so you shall do the seventh day of the month for everyone that errs, and for him that is simple, so shall you reconcile the house.

21 In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days, unleavened bread shall be eaten.

22 And on that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering.

23 And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the Lord, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days, and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering.

24 And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil for an ephah.

25 In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil."

___Ezekiel chapter 46

1 Thus says the Lord God, the gate of the inner court that looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days, but on the Sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

2 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate outside, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate, then he shall go forth, but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.

3 Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the Lord in the Sabbaths and in the new moons.

4 And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer to the Lord in the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish.

5 And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.

6 And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram, they shall be without blemish.

7 And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain to, and a hin of oil to an ephah.

8 And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of that gate, and he shall go forth by the way of it.

9 But when the people of the land shall come before the Lord in the solemn feasts, he that enters in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate, and he that enters by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate, he shall not return by the way of the gate by which he came in, but shall go forth opposite it.

10 And the prince among them, when they go in, shall go in, and when they go forth, shall go forth.

11 And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.

12 Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily to the Lord, someone shall then open for him the gate that looks toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did on the Sabbath day, then he shall go forth, and after his going forth someone shall shut the gate.

13 You shall daily prepare a burnt offering to the Lord of a lamb of the first year without blemish, you shall prepare it every morning.

14 And you shall prepare a meat offering for it every morning, one sixth of an ephah, and one third of a hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour, a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance to the Lord.

15 Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil, every morning for a continual burnt offering.

16 Thus says the Lord God, if the prince gives a gift to any of his sons, the inheritance of it shall be his sons', it shall be their possession by inheritance.

17 But if he gives a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty, afterward it shall return to the prince, but his inheritance shall be his sons' for them.

18 Also the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession, but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession, so that my people are not scattered every man from his possession.

19 After he brought me through the entry, that was at the side of the gate, into the holy rooms of the priests, that looked toward the north, and, see, there was a place on the two sides westward.

20 Then he said to me, this is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat offering, so they don't carry them out into the farthest court, to make the people holy.

21 Then he brought me forth into the farthest court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court, and, see, in every corner of the court there was a court.

22 In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad, these four corners were of one measure.

23 And there was a row of building all around in them, all around them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows all around.

24 Then he said to me, these are the places of those who boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people."

___Ezekiel chapter 47

1 Afterward he brought me again to the door of the house, and, see, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward, for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.

2 Then he brought me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me around the way outside to the complete gate by the way that looks eastward, and see, waters ran out on the right side.

3 And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters, the waters were to the ankles.

4 Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters, the waters were to the knees.  Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through, the waters were to the midsection.

5 Afterward he measured a thousand, and it was a river that I could not pass over, for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over.

6 And he said to me, "Son of man, have you seen this?"  Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river.

7 Now when I had returned, see, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.

8 Then he said to me, "These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea, which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.

9 And every thing that lives, which moves, wherever the rivers shall come, shall live, and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come there, for they shall be healed, and everything shall live where the river comes.

10 And the fishermen shall stand on it from Engedi even to Eneglaim, they shall be a place to spread forth nets, their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, very many.

11 But the miry places of it and the marshes of it shall not be healed, they shall be given to salt.

12 And by the river on the bank of it, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit of it be consumed, it shall bring forth new fruit according to its months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary, and the fruit of it shall be for food, and the leaf of it for medicine.

13 Thus says the Lord God, this shall be the border, by which you shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel, Joseph shall have two portions.

14 And you shall inherit it, one as well as another, concerning which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers, and this land shall fall to you for inheritance.

15 And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad,

16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath, Hazarhatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran.

17 And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath.  And this is the north side.

18 And the east side you shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border to the east sea.  And this is the east side.

19 And the south side southward, from Tamar to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea.  And this is the south side southward.

20 The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, 'til a man comes opposite Hamath.  This is the west side.

21 So shall you divide this land to you according to the tribes of Israel.

22 And you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you, and to the strangers that visit among you, who shall father children among you, and they shall be to you like born in the country among the children of Israel, they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

23 And in what tribe the stranger visits, there shall you give him his inheritance, says the Lord God."

___Ezekiel chapter 48

1 Now these are the names of the tribes.  From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goes to Hamath, Hazarenan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath, for these are his sides east and west, a portion for Dan.

2 And by the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side, a portion for Asher.

3 And by the border of Asher, from the east side even to the west side, a portion for Naphtali.

4 And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, a portion for Manasseh.

5 And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, a portion for Ephraim.

6 And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the west side, a portion for Reuben.

7 And by the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side, a portion for Judah.

8 And by the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the offering that you shall offer of twenty five thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts, from the east side to the west side, and the sanctuary shall be in the middle of it.

9 The offering that you shall offer to the Lord shall be of twenty five thousand in length, and of ten thousand in breadth.

10 And for them, even for the priests, shall be this holy offering, toward the north twenty five thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south twenty five thousand in length, and the sanctuary of the Lord shall be in the middle of it.

11 It shall be for the priests that are made holy of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my charge, who didn't go astray when the children of Israel went astray, like the Levites went astray.

12 And this offering of the land that is offered shall be to them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.

13 And opposite the border of the priests the Levites shall have twenty five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth, all the length shall be twenty five thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.

14 And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the first fruits of the land, for it is holy to the Lord.

15 And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth opposite the twenty five thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs, and the city shall be in the middle of it.

16 And these shall be the measures of it, the north side four thousand five hundred, and the south side four thousand five hundred, and on the east side four thousand five hundred, and the west side four thousand five hundred.

17 And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred fifty, and toward the south two hundred fifty, and toward the east two hundred fifty, and toward the west two hundred fifty.

18 And the remainder in length opposite the offering of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward, and it shall be opposite the offering of the holy portion, and the increase of it shall be for food for those who serve the city.

19 And those who serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel.

20 All the offering shall be twenty five thousand by twenty five thousand, you shall offer the holy offering foursquare, with the possession of the city.

21 And the remainder shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy offering, and of the possession of the city, opposite the twenty five thousand of the offering toward the east border, and westward opposite the twenty five thousand toward the west border, opposite the portions for the prince, and it shall be the holy offering, and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the middle of it.

22 Also from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the middle of that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince.

23 As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side to the west side, Benjamin shall have a portion.

24 And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, Simeon shall have a portion.

25 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, Issachar a portion.

26 And by the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, Zebulun a portion.

27 And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad a portion.

28 And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be from Tamar to the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea.

29 This is the land that you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, says the Lord God.

30 And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand five hundred measures.

31 And the gates of the city shall be according to the names of the tribes of Israel, three gates northward, one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.

32 And at the east side four thousand five hundred, and three gates, and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan.

33 And at the south side four thousand five hundred measures, and three gates, one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.

34 At the west side four thousand five hundred, with their three gates, one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali.

35 It was all around eighteen thousand measures, and the name of the city from that day shall be, the Lord is there.

___Daniel chapter 1

1 In the third year of the rule of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Jerusalem, and besieged it.

2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the containers of the house of God, that he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god, and he brought the containers into the treasure house of his god.

3 And the king spoke to Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king's seed, and of the princes,

4 Children in whom there was no blemish, but well favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they could teach the learning and the language of the Chaldeans.

5 And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat, and of the wine that he drank, so nourishing them three years, that at the end of it they could stand before the king.

6 Now among these were of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,

7 To whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names, for he gave to Daniel the name of Belteshazzar, and to Hananiah, of Shadrach, and to Mishael, of Meshach, and to Azariah, of Abednego.

8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine that he drank, therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself.

9 Now God had brought Daniel into favor and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs.

10 And the prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, "I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your meat and your drink, for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children who are of your sort?  Then shall you make me endanger my head to the king."

11 Then Daniel said to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,

12 "Please test your servants for ten days, and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.

13 Then let our faces be looked at before you, and the faces of the children that eat of the portion of the king's meat, and as you see, deal with your servants."

14 So he consented to them in this matter, and tested them ten days.

15 And at the end of ten days their faces appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children who ate the portion of the king's meat.

16 Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they would drink, and gave them pulse.

17 As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

18 Now at the end of the days that the king had said he would bring them in, then the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.

19 And the king communed with them, and among them all was found no one like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, therefore stood they before the king.

20 And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.

21 And Daniel continued until the first year of king Cyrus.

___Daniel chapter 2

1 And in the second year of the rule of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, because of which his spirit was troubled, and his sleep broke from him.

2 Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, to show the king his dreams.  So they came and stood before the king.

3 And the king said to them, "I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream."

4 Then spoke the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, "O king, live forever, tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation."

5 The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, "The thing has gone from me, if you won't make known to me the dream, with the interpretation of it, you shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a manure pile.

6 But if you show the dream, and the interpretation of it, you shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honor, therefore show me the dream, and the interpretation of it."

7 They answered again and said, "Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation of it."

8 The king answered and said, "I know of certainty that you would gain the time, because you see the thing is gone from me.

9 But if you will not make known to me the dream, there is but one decree for you, for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, 'til the time be changed, therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can show me the interpretation of it."

10 The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, "There is not a man on the earth that can show the king's matter, therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.

11 And it is a rare thing that the king requires, and there is no one that can show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh."

12 For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

13 And the decree went forth that the wise men should be killed, and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be killed.

14 Then Daniel answered with advice and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king's guard, who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon,

15 He answered and said to Arioch the king's captain, "Why is the decree so hasty from the king?"  Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.

16 Then Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would give him time, and that he would show the king the interpretation.

17 Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions,

18 That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret, that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

19 Then was the secret revealed to Daniel in a night vision.  Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.

20 Daniel answered and said, "Blessed be the name of God forever and always, for wisdom and might are his,

21 And he changes the times and the seasons, he removes kings, and sets up kings, he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who know understanding,

22 He reveals the deep and secret things, he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

23 I thank you, and praise you, O God of my fathers, who have given me wisdom and might, and have made known to me now what we desired of you, for you have now made known to us the king's matter."

24 Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon, he went and said thus to him, "Don't destroy the wise men of Babylon, bring me in before the king, and I will show to the king the interpretation."

25 Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus to him, "I have found a man of the captives of Judah, that will make known to the king the interpretation."

26 The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, "Are you able to make known to me the dream that I have seen, and the interpretation of it?"

27 Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, "The secret that the king has demanded the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, can't show to the king,

28 But there is a God in heaven that reveals secrets, and makes known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days.  Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these,

29 As for you, O king, your thoughts came into your mind on your bed, what would occur hereafter, and he that reveals secrets makes known to you what shall happen.

30 But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and so you'll know the thoughts of your heart.

31 You, O king, saw, and see, a great image.  This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before you, and the form of it was terrible.

32 This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,

33 His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.

34 You saw 'til a stone was cut out without hands, that struck the image on his feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them to pieces.

35 Then the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, was broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors, and the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them, and the stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

36 This is the dream, and we will tell the interpretation of it before the king.

37 You, O king, are a king of kings, for the God of heaven has given you a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.

38 And wherever the children of men live, he has given the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven into your hand, and has made you ruler over them all.  You are this head of gold.

39 And after you shall arise another kingdom inferior to you, and another third kingdom of brass, that shall bear rule over all the earth.

40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, since iron breaks in pieces and subdues all things, and like iron that breaks all these, it will break in pieces and bruise.

41 And whereas you saw the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided, but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, since you saw the iron mixed with miry clay.

42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.

43 And whereas you saw iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mix themselves with the seed of men, but they shall not stick to each other, just as iron doesn't mix with clay.

44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, that shall never be destroyed, and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.

45 Since you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold, the great God has made known to the king what shall occur hereafter, and the dream is certain, and the interpretation of it sure."

46 Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an offering and sweet odors to him.

47 The king answered Daniel, and said, "Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing you could reveal this secret."

48 Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.

49 Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon, but Daniel sat in the gate of the king.

___Daniel chapter 3

1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and the breadth of it six cubits, he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

2 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

3 Then the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up, and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

4 Then an announcer cried out loud, "To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages,

5 That at what time you hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up,

6 And whoever doesn't fall down and worship shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

7 Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of music, all the people, the nations, and the languages, they fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

8 So at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews.

9 They spoke and said to king Nebuchadnezzar, "O king, live forever.

10 You, O king, have made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image,

11 And whoever doesn't fall down and worship, that he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

12 There are certain Jews whom you have set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, these men, O king, have not regarded you, they don't serve your gods, nor worship the golden image that you have set up."

13 Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.  Then they brought these men before the king.

14 Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said to them, "Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, don't you serve my gods, nor worship the golden image that I have set up?

15 Now if you're ready that at what time you hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the image that I have made, well, but if you don't worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace, and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?"

16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer you in this matter.

17 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

18 But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods, nor worship the golden image that you have set up."

19 Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the form of his facial expression was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, therefore he spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times as hot as is usually was.

20 And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to tie Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.

21 Then these men were bound in their coats, their stockings, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

22 Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace was exceptionally hot, the flame of the fire killed those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

23 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

24 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste, and spoke, and said to his counselors, "Didn't we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?"  They answered and said to the king, "True, O king."

25 He answered and said, "See, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God."

26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spoke, and said, "Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you servants of the most high God, come out, and come here."  Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came out of the midst of the fire.

27 And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, on whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was a hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor did the smell of fire stick to them.

28 Then Nebuchadnezzar spoke, and said, "Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, so that they wouldn't  serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

29 Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a manure pile, because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort."

30 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, in the province of Babylon.

___Daniel chapter 4

1 "Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth, peace be multiplied to you.

2 I thought it good to show the signs and wonders that the high God has made toward me.

3 How great are his signs!  And how mighty are his wonders!  His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.

4 I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace,

5 I saw a dream that made me afraid, and the thoughts on my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.

6 Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, so they could make known to me the interpretation of the dream.

7 Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers, and I told the dream before them, but they did not make known to me the interpretation of it.

8 But at last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods, and before him I told the dream, saying,

9 O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and no secret troubles you, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation of it.

10 Thus were the visions of my head in my bed, I saw, and see a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height of it was great.

11 The tree grew, and was strong, and the height of it reached to heaven, and the sight of it to the end of all the earth,

12 The leaves of it were fair, and the fruit of it much, and in it was food for all, the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven lived in the boughs of it, and all flesh was fed by it.

13 I saw in the visions of my head on my bed, and, see, a watcher and a holy one came down from heaven,

14 He cried out loud, and said thus, Cut down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit, let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches,

15 But leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth,

16 Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be given to him, and let seven times pass over him.

17 This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones, to the intent that the living will know that the most high rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the basest of men.

18 This dream I king Nebuchadnezzar have seen.  Now you, O Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation of it, since as all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation, but you are able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in you."

19 Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonished for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him.  The king spoke, and said, "Belteshazzar, don't let the dream, or the interpretation of it, trouble you."  Belteshazzar answered, "My lord, the dream be to them that hate you, and the interpretation of it to your enemies.

20 The tree that you saw, that grew, and was strong, whose height reached to the heaven, and the sight of it to all the earth,

21 Whose leaves were fair, and the fruit of it much, and in it was food for all, under which the beasts of the field lived, and on whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation,

22 It is you, O king, that has grown and become strong, for your greatness has grown, and reaches to heaven, and your dominion to the end of the earth.

23 And whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, cut the tree down, and destroy it, yet leave the stump of the roots of it in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, 'til seven times pass over him,

24 This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most high, that has come on my lord the king,

25 That they shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make you eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet you with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over you, 'til you know that the most high rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.

26 And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots, your kingdom shall be sure to you, after that you shall have known that the heavens rule.

27 So, O king, let my advice be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, if it may be a lengthening of your peace."

28 All this came on the king Nebuchadnezzar.

29 At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.

30 The king spoke, and said, "Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?"

31 While the word was in the king's mouth, a voice fell from heaven, saying, "O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken, the kingdom has departed from you.

32 And they shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, they shall make you eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the most high rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will."

33 The same hour was the thing fulfilled on Nebuchadnezzar, and he was driven from men, and ate grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, 'til his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.

34 "And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up my eyes to heaven, and mine understanding returned to me, and I blessed the most high, and I praised and honored him that lives forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation,

35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing, and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth, and no one can stay his hand, or say to him, what do you?

36 At the same time my reason returned to me, and for the glory of my kingdom, my honor and brightness returned to me, and my counselors and my lords sought to me, and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added to me.

37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment, and those that walk in pride he is able to abase."

___Daniel chapter 5

1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

2 Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver containers that his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, so that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, could drink from them.

3 Then they brought the golden containers that were taken out of the temple of the house of God that was at Jerusalem, and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank from them.

4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

5 In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote opposite the candlestick on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

6 Then the king's facial expression was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees struck against each other.

7 The king shouted out loud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers.  And the king spoke, and said to the wise men of Babylon, "Whoever shall read this writing, and show me the interpretation of it, shall be clothed with red cloth, and have a chain of gold around his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.

8 Then came in all the king's wise men, but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation of it.

9 Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his facial expression was changed in him, and his lords were astonished.

10 Now the queen, by reason of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banquet house, and the queen spoke and said, "O king, live forever, don't let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your countenance be changed,

11 There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods, and in the days of your father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him, whom the king Nebuchadnezzar your father, the king, I say, your father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers,

12 Since an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and showing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar, now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation."

13 Then Daniel was brought in before the king.  And the king spoke and said to Daniel, "Are you that Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry?

14 I have even heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in you.

15 And now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known to me the interpretation of it, but they could not show the interpretation of the thing,

16 And I have heard of you, that you can make interpretations, and dissolve doubts, now if you can read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation of it, you shall be clothed with red cloth, and have a chain of gold around your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom."

17 Then Daniel answered and said before the king, "Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to someone else, yet I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.

18 O you king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honor,

19 And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him.  Whom he would he killed, and whom he would he kept alive, and whom he would he set up, and whom he would he put down.

20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him,

21 And he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses, they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, 'til he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appoints over it whomever he will.

22 And you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,

23 But have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven, and they have brought the containers of his house before you, and you, and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine in them, and you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, that don't see not, nor hear, nor know, and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you haven't glorified,

24 Then was the part of the hand sent from him, and this writing was written.

25 And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.

26 This is the interpretation of the thing, MENE, God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it.

27 TEKEL, you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

28 PERES, your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians."

29 Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with red cloth, and put a chain of gold around his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he was the third ruler in the kingdom.

30 In that night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was killed.

31 And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about sixty two years old.

___Daniel chapter 6

1 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred twenty princes, who were be over the whole kingdom,

2 And over these, three presidents, of whom Daniel was first, so that the princes would give account to them, and so the king would have no loss.

3 Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him, and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

4 Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom, but they could find no occasion nor fault, since he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.

5 Then said these men, "We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God."

6 Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus to him, "King Darius, live forever.

7 All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counselors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be thrown into the den of lions.

8 Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, so it won't be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, that doesn't change."

9 So king Darius signed the writing and the decree.

10 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house, and his windows being open in his room toward Jerusalem, he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, like he did previously.

11 Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God.

12 Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king's decree, "Haven't you signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, except from you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?"  The king answered and said, "The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, that doesn't change."

13 Then they answered and said before the king, "That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, doesn't regard you, O king, nor the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day."

14 Then the king, when he heard these words, was very displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him, and he labored 'til the going down of the sun to deliver him.

15 Then these men assembled to the king, and said to the king, "Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, that no decree nor statute that the king establishes can be changed."

16 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions.  Now the king spoke and said to Daniel, "Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you."

17 And a stone was brought, and laid on the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords, so that the purpose wouldn't be changed concerning Daniel.

18 Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting, neither were instruments of music brought before him, and his sleep went from him.

19 Then the king got up very early in the morning, and went in haste to the den of lions.

20 And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice to Daniel, and the king spoke and said to Daniel, "O Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?"

21 Then said Daniel to the king, "O king, live forever.

22 My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions' mouths, so that they have not hurt me, since before him innocence was found in me, and also before you, O king, I've done no hurt."

23 Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den.  So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of hurt was found on him, because he believed in his God.

24 And the king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives, and the lions had the mastery of them, and broke all their bones in pieces before they ever hit bottom of the den.

25 Then king Darius wrote to all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth, "Peace be multiplied to you.

26 I make a decree, that in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel, for he is the living God, and steady forever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even to the end.

27 He delivers and rescues, and he works signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions."

28 So this Daniel prospered in the rule of Darius, and in the rule of Cyrus the Persian.

___Daniel chapter 7

1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head on his bed, then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.

2 Daniel spoke and said, "I saw in my vision by night, and see, the four winds of the heaven fought on the great sea.

3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, different from each other.

4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings, I beheld 'til the wings of it were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand on the feet like a man, and a man's heart was given to it.

5 And see another beast, a second, like a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it, and they said thus to it, Arise, devour much flesh.

6 After this I beheld, and see another, like a leopard, who had on the back of it four wings of a fowl, the beast had also four heads, and dominion was given to it.

7 After this I saw in the night visions, and see a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and very strong, and it had great iron teeth, it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the remainder with the feet of it, and it was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.

8 I considered the horns, and see, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots, and see, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.

9 I beheld 'til the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days sat, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool, his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels like burning fire.

10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him, thousand thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him, the judgment was set, and the books were opened.

11 I beheld then because of the voice of the great words that the horn spoke, I beheld even 'til the beast was killed, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.

12 As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away, yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.

13 I saw in the night visions, and see, someone like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

14 And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, so that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him, his dominion is an everlasting dominion, that won't pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

15 I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the middle of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.

16 I came near to one of those who stood by, and asked him the truth of all this.  So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.

17 These great beasts, who are four, are four kings, that shall arise out of the earth.

18 But the saints of the most high shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and always.

19 Then I wanted to know the truth of the fourth beast, that was different from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass, who devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the remainder with his feet,

20 And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other that came up, and before whom three fell, even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spoke very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.

21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them,

22 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most high, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.

23 Thus he said, the fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom on earth, that shall be different from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.

24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise, and another shall rise after them, and he shall be different from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.

25 And he shall speak great words against the most high, and shall wear out the saints of the most high, and think to change times and laws, and they shall be given into his hand until a time, and times, and the dividing of time.

26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it to the end.

27 And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most high, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.

28 Until now is the end of the matter.  As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my facial expression changed on me, but I kept the matter in my heart."

___Daniel chapter 8

1 "In the third year of the rule of king Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, even to me Daniel, after the one that appeared to me at the first.

2 And I saw in a vision, and it occurred, when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam, and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai.

3 Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, see, there stood before the river a ram that had two horns, and the two horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.

4 I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward, so that no beasts could stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand, but he did according to his will, and became great.

5 And as I was considering, see, a he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and didn't touch the ground, and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.

6 And he came to the ram that had two horns, that I had seen standing before the river, and ran to him in the fury of his power.

7 And I saw him come close to the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and struck the ram, and broke his two horns, and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped on him, and there was no one that could deliver the ram out of his hand.

8 Therefore the he goat grew very great, and when he was strong, the great horn was broken, and instead of it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.

9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which grew exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land.

10 And it grew great, even to the host of heaven, and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped on them.

11 Yes, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.

12 And a host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground, and it practiced, and prospered.

13 Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said to that certain saint which spoke, How long shall the vision be concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be walked on under foot?

14 And he said to me, Until two thousand and three hundred days, then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

15 And it occurred, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then see, there stood before me like the appearance of a man.

16 And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, that called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.

17 So he came near where I stood, and when he came, I was afraid, and fell on my face, but he said to me, understand, O son of man, for at the time of the end shall be the vision.

18 Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground, but he touched me, and set me upright.

19 And he said, see, I will make you know what shall be in the last end of the indignation, for at the time appointed the end shall be.

20 The ram that you saw having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia.

21 And the rough goat is the king of Greece, and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.

22 Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power.

23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king of fierce facial expression, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.

24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power, and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practice, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.

25 And through his policy also, he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand, and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many, he shall also stand up against the prince of princes, but he shall be broken without hand.

26 And the vision of the evening and the morning that was told is true, so shut up the vision, for it shall be for many days.

27 And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days, afterward I rose up, and did the king's business, and I was astonished at the vision, but no one understood it."

___Daniel chapter 9

1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans,

2 In the first year of his rule, I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, from the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

3 And I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes,

4 And I prayed to the Lord my God, and made my confession, and said, "O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to those who love him, and to those who keep his commandments,

5 We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from your precepts and from your judgments,

6 Neither have we listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

7 O Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of faces, as at this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.

8 O Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.

9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him,

10 Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, that he set before us by his servants the prophets.

11 Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, even by departing, so that they wouldn't obey your voice, therefore the curse has been poured on us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.

12 And he has confirmed his words, that he spoke against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing on us a great evil, for under the whole heaven has not been done as has been done on Jerusalem.

13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us, yet we didn't make our prayer before the Lord our God, so that we would turn from our iniquities, and understand your truth.

14 Therefore has the Lord watched on the evil, and brought it on us, for the Lord our God is righteous in all his works that he does, for we didn't obey his voice.

15 And now, O Lord our God, that has brought your people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten yourself renown, as at this day, we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

16 O Lord, according to all your righteousness, I beg of you, let your anger and your fury be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain, because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all that are around us.

17 Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of your servant, and his supplications, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.

18 O my God, incline your ear, and hear, open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city that is called by your name, for we do not present our supplications before you for our righteousnesses, but for your great mercies.

19 O Lord, hear, O Lord, forgive, O Lord, listen and do, don't defer, for your own sake, O my God, for your city and your people are called by your name."

20 And while I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God,

21 Yes, while I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering.

22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, "O Daniel, I've now come forth to give you skill and understanding.

23 At the beginning of your supplications the commandment came forth, and I've come to show you, for you've greatly beloved, therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.

24 Seventy weeks are determined on your people and on your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Messiah the prince shall be seven weeks, and sixty two weeks, the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

26 And after sixty two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself, and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary, and the end of it shall be with a flood, and until the end of the war, desolations are determined.

27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week, and in the middle of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to stop, and for the overspreading of dirty things he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured on the desolate."

___Daniel chapter 10

1 In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar, and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long, and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.

2 In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.

3 I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, 'til three whole weeks were fulfilled.

4 And in the twenty fourth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel,

5 Then I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and see a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz,

6 His body also was like the beryl, and his face like the appearance of lightning, and his eyes like lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet in color like polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.

7 And I Daniel alone saw the vision, for the men that were with me didn't see the vision, but a great quaking fell on them, so that they fled to hide themselves.

8 Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me, for my attractiveness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength.

9 Yet I heard the voice of his words, and when I heard the voice of his words, then I was in a deep sleep on my face, and my face toward the ground.

10 And see, a hand touched me, that set me on my knees and on the palms of my hands.

11 And he said to me, "O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright, for to you am I now sent."  And when he had spoken this word to me, I stood trembling.

12 Then said he to me, "Don't be afraid, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to punish yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I've come because of your words.

13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty one days, but see, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, and I remained there with the kings of Persia.

14 Now I've come to make you understand what shall happen your people in the latter days, for yet the vision is for many days."

15 And when he had spoken such words to me, I set my face toward the ground, and I became dumb.

16 And see, someone with the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips, then I opened my mouth, and spoke, and said to him that stood before me, "O my lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned on me, and I have retained no strength.

17 For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord?  For as for me, immediately there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me."

18 Then someone like the appearance of a man came again and touched me, and he strengthened me,

19 And said, "O man greatly beloved, fear not, peace be to you, be strong, yes, be strong."  And when he had spoken to me, I was strengthened, and said, "Let my lord speak, for you have strengthened me."

20 Then said he, "Do you know why I come to you?  And now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia, and when I've gone forth, see, the prince of Greece shall come.

21 But I will show you that which is noted in the scripture of truth, and there is no one that holds with me in these things, but Michael your prince."

___Daniel chapter 11

1 "Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him.

2 And now I'll show you the truth.  See, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia, and the fourth shall be far richer than they all, and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Greece.

3 And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.

4 And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven, and not to his descendants, nor according to his dominion which he ruled, for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those.

5 And the king of the south shall be strong, and one of his princes, and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion, his dominion shall be a great dominion.

6 And at the end of years they shall join themselves together, for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement, but she shall not retain the power of the arm, neither shall he stand, nor his arm, but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that fathered her, and he that strengthened her in these times.

7 But out of a branch of her roots shall someone stand up in his estate, that shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail,

8 And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their princes, and with their precious containers of silver and of gold, and he shall continue more years than the king of the north.

9 So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land.

10 But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces, and someone shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through, then shall he return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress.

11 And the king of the south shall be moved with choler, and shall come forth and fight with him, even with the king of the north, and he shall set forth a great multitude, but the multitude shall be given into his hand.

12 And when he has taken away the multitude, his heart shall be lifted up, and he shall cast down many tens of thousands, but he shall not be strengthened by it.

13 For the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than the previous multitude, and shall certainly come after certain years with a great army and with much riches.

14 And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south, also the robbers of your people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision, but they shall fall.

15 So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities, and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand.

16 But he that comes against him shall do according to his own will, and no one shall stand before him, and he shall stand in the glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed.

17 He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him, thus shall he do, and he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting her, but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him.

18 After this shall he turn his face to the islands, and shall take many, but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to stop, without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn on him.

19 Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land, but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found.

20 Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom, but within a few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.

21 And in his estate shall stand up a filthy person, to whom they shall not give the honor of the kingdom, but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.

22 And with the arms of a flood they'll be overflowed from before him, and shall be broken, yes, also the prince of the covenant.

23 And after the league made with him, he shall work deceitfully, for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.

24 He shall enter peaceably even on the fattest places of the province, and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers, he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches, yes, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

25 And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army, and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army, but he shall not stand, for they shall forecast devices against him.

26 Yes, those who feed of the portion of his food shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow, and many shall fall down slain.

27 And both these kings' hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table, but it shall not prosper, for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.

28 Then shall he return into his land with great riches, and his heart shall be against the holy covenant, and he shall do exploits, and return to his own land.

29 At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the south, but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter.

30 For the ships of Chittim shall come against him, therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant, so shall he do, he shall even return, and have intelligence with those who forsake the holy covenant.

31 And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the dirty thing that makes desolate.

32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries, but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.

33 And those who understand among the people shall instruct many, yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.

34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help, but many shall stick to them with flatteries.

35 And some of those of understanding shall fall, to test them, and to purge, and to make them white, even until the time of the end, because it is yet for a time appointed.

36 And the king shall do according to his will, and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper 'til the indignation is accomplished, for what has been determined shall be done.

37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god, for he shall magnify himself above all.

38 But in his estate shall he honor the God of forces, and a god whom his fathers didn't know shall he honor with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.

39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory, and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.

40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him, and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships, and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown, but these shall escape out of his hand:  Edom, and Moab, and the main part of the children of Ammon.

42 He shall stretch forth his hand also on the countries, and the land of Egypt shall not escape.

43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt, and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

44 But news out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him, therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and completely to make away many.

45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain, yet he shall come to his end, and no one shall help him.

___Daniel chapter 12

1 And at that time Michael shall stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people, and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation until that same time, and at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone that shall be found written in the book.

2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

3 And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and always.

4 But you, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even until the time of the end, many shall run back and forth, and knowledge shall be increased."

5 Then I Daniel looked, and see, there stood two others, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river.

6 And one said to the man clothed in linen, who was on the waters of the river, "How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?"

7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was on the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him that lives forever that it shall be for a time, times, and a half, and when he shall have accomplished the scattering of the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished."

8 And I heard, but I didn't understand, then I said, "O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?"

9 And he said, "Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed ‘til the time of the end.

10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried, but the wicked shall do wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand.

11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the dirty thing that makes desolate set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred ninety days.

12 Blessed is he that waits, and comes to the thousand three hundred thirty five days.

13 But go you your way 'til the end is, for you shall rest, and stand in your lot at the end of the days.