| 19: My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart
maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O
my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. |
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| 20: Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is
spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
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| 21: How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the
trumpet? |
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| 22: For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are
sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do
evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. |
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| 23: I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form,
and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. |
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| 24: I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the
hills moved lightly. |
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| 25: I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the
heavens were fled. |
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| 26: I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and
all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and
by his fierce anger. |
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| 27: For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be
desolate; yet will I not make a full end. |
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| 28: For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be
black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not
repent, neither will I turn back from it. |
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| 29: The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and
bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every
city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein. |
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| 30: And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou
clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments
of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou
make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy
life. |
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| 31: For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the
anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the
daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands,
saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers. |
| 1:Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and
see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find
a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth;
and I will pardon it. |
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| 2: And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear
falsely. |
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| 3:
O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken
them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have
refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a
rock; they have refused to return. |
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| 4: Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for
they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God. |
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| 5: I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them;
for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God:
but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds. |
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| 6: Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf
of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their
cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because
their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
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| 7:
:How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken
me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full,
they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the
harlots' houses. |
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| 8: They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed
after his neighbour's wife. |
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| 9: Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall
not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? |
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| 10: Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full
end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD's. |
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| 11: For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt
very treacherously against me, saith the LORD. |
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| 12: They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither
shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine: |
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| 13: And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in
them: thus shall it be done unto them. |
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| 14: Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak
this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this
people wood, and it shall devour them. |
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| 15: Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of
Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation,
a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what
they say. |
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| 16: Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty
men. |
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| 17: And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy
sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and
thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall
impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
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| 18: Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a
full end with you. |
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| 19: And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth
the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them,
Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so
shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours. |
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| 20: Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah,
saying, |
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| 21: Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding;
which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: |
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| 22: Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my
presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a
perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof
toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can
they not pass over it? |
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| 23: But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they
are revolted and gone. |
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| 24: Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our
God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he
reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest. |
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| 25: Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins
have withholden good things from you. |
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| 26: For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as
he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. |
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| 27: As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full
of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. |
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| 28: They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds
of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless,
yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge. |
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| 29: Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not
my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? |
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| 30: A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
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| 31: The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by
their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in
the end thereof? |
| 1:O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out
of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a
sign of fire in Beth-haccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and
great destruction. |
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| 2: I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate
woman. |
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| 3:
The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they
shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every
one in his place. |
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| 4: Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon.
Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are
stretched out. |
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| 5: Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
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| 6: For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and
cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is
wholly oppression in the midst of her. |
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| 7:
:As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her
wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is
grief and wounds. |
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| 8: Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from
thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. |
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| 9: Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the
remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer
into the baskets. |
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| 10: To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear?
behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the
word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
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| 11: Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with
holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon 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. |
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| 12: And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their
fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the
inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD. |
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| 13: For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them
every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the
priest every one dealeth falsely. |
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| 14: They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people
slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. |
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| 15: Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay,
they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they
shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they
shall be cast down, saith the LORD. |
| 18: Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is
among them. |
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| 19: Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people,
even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto
my words, nor to my law, but rejected it. |
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| 20: To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and
the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not
acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me. |
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| 21: Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay
stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons
together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall
perish. |
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| 22: Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north
country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
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| 23: They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and
have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon
horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.
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| 24: We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish
hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail. |
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| 25: Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the
sword of the enemy and fear is on every side. |
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| 26: O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow
thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter
lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us. |
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| 27: I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people,
that thou mayest know and try their way. |
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| 28: They are all grievous volters, walking with slanders: they
are brass and iron; they are all corrupters. |
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| 29: The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the
founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. |
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| 30: Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath
rejected them. |
| 1:For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have
for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my
face in the flesh; |
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| 2: That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in
love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the
acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
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| 3:
In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
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| 4: And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing
words. |
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| 5: For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the
spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your
faith in Christ. |
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| 6: As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk
ye in him: |
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| 7:
:Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye
have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. |
| 1: I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my
voice; and he gave ear unto me. |
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| 2: In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the
night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. |
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| 3:
I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my
spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. |
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| 4: Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot
speak. |
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| 5: I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
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| 6: I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with
mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search. |
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| 7:
:Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no
more? |
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| 8: Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for
evermore? |
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| 9: Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up
his tender mercies? Selah. |
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| 10: And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the
years of the right hand of the most High. |
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| 11: I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember
thy wonders of old. |
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| 12: I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
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| 13: Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as
our God? |
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| 14: Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy
strength among the people. |
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| 15: Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of
Jacob and Joseph. Selah. |
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| 16: The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were
afraid: the depths also were troubled. |
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| 17: The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound:
thine arrows also went abroad. |
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| 18: The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings
lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. |
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| 19: Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and
thy footsteps are not known. |
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| 20: Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and
Aaron. |
