# verses

book: Jer
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The children gather the wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and, just to provoke me, they pour out drink offerings to other gods!


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Therefore, here is what Adonai Elohim says: “My anger and fury will be poured out on this place, on men, animals, trees in the fields and produce growing from the ground; and it will burn without being quenched.”


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Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el: “You may as well eat the meat of your burnt offerings along with that of your sacrifices.


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For I didn’t speak to your ancestors or give them orders concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices when I brought them out of the land of Egypt.


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Rather, what I did order them was this: ‘Pay attention to what I say. Then I will be your God, and you will be my people. In everything, live according to the way that I order you, so that things will go well for you.’


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But they neither listened nor paid attention, but lived according to their own plans, in the stubbornness of their evil hearts, thus going backward and not forward.


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You have done this from the day your ancestors came out of Egypt until today. Even though I sent you all my servants the prophets, sending them time after time,


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they would not listen or pay attention to me, but stiffened their necks; they did worse than their ancestors.


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So tell them all this; but they won’t listen to you; likewise, call to them; but they won’t answer you.


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Therefore, say to them, ‘This is the nation that has not listened to the voice of Adonai their God. They won’t take correction; faithfulness has perished; it has vanished from their mouths.


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Cut off your hair, and throw it away, take up a lament on the bare hills, for Adonai has rejected and abandoned the generation that rouses his anger.’


book: Jer
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“For the people of Y’hudah have done what is evil from my perspective,” says Adonai; “they have set up their detestable things in the house which bears my name, to defile it.


book: Jer
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They have built the high places of Tofet in the Ben-Hinnom Valley, to burn their sons and daughters in the fire, something I never ordered; in fact, such a thing never even entered my mind!


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Therefore, the days are coming,” says Adonai, “when it will no longer be called either Tofet or the Ben-Hinnom Valley, but the Valley of Slaughter — they will put the dead in Tofet, because there will be no space left [anywhere else].


book: Jer
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The corpses of this people will become food for the birds in the air and the wild animals; no one will frighten them away.


book: Jer
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Then in the cities of Y’hudah and the streets of Yerushalayim I will silence the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of bridegroom and bride; because the land will be reduced to ruins.


book: Jer
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“At that time,” says Adonai, “[these enemies] will remove the bones of the kings of Y’hudah, the bones of his princes, the bones of the cohanim, the bones of the prophets and the bones of the inhabitants of Yerushalayim from their graves.


book: Jer
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They will spread them out, exposed to the sun, the moon and the entire army of heaven, whom they loved, served, walked after, sought after and worshipped. The bones will not be collected or reburied but will be left lying on the ground like dung.


book: Jer
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All the survivors of this evil family who remain wherever I have driven them will prefer death to life,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.


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“You are to tell them that Adonai says: ‘If a person falls, doesn’t he get up again? If someone goes astray, doesn’t he turn back?


book: Jer
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Why do these people keep backsliding? Why is their backsliding so persistent? They cling to deceit and refuse to return!


book: Jer
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I listened attentively but they spoke nothing right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done!” Each runs off in his own direction, like a horse plunging headlong into battle.


book: Jer
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Storks in the sky know their seasons; doves, swallows and cranes their migration times; but my people do not know the rulings of Adonai!


book: Jer
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“‘How can you say, “We are wise; Adonai’s Torah is with us,” when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has turned it into falsehood?


book: Jer
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The wise are put to shame, alarmed, entrapped. They have rejected the word of Adonai, so what wisdom do they have?


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“‘Therefore I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who take them over; for from the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gains; prophets and cohanim alike all practice fraud —


book: Jer
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they dress the wound of the daughter of my people, but only superficially, saying, “There is perfect shalom,” when there is no shalom.


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They should be ashamed of their detestable deeds, but they are not ashamed at all, they don’t know how to blush. So when others fall, they too will fall; when I punish them, they will stumble,’ says Adonai.


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“‘I will put an end to them,’ says Adonai. ‘There are no grapes on the vine, and no figs on the fig tree; the leaf has withered; and what I have given them will pass from their possession.’”


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“Why are we sitting still? Assemble! Let’s enter the fortified cities and meet our doom there! For Adonai our God has doomed us; he has given us bitter water to drink, because we have sinned against Adonai.


book: Jer
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When we look for peace, nothing good comes; when we seek a time of healing, instead there is terror.”


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From Dan can be heard the snorting of his horses; when his stallions neigh, the whole land trembles. For they come devouring the land and all in it, the city and those who dwell there.


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“Yes, now I am sending snakes among you, vipers that no one can charm, and they will bite you,” says Adonai.


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Listen to my people’s cry of distress out of a distant land: “Is Adonai no longer in Tziyon? Is her king no longer there?” “Why do they provoke me with their idols and their futile foreign gods?”


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The daughter of my people is broken, and it’s tearing me to pieces; everything looks dark to me, horror seizes me.


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Has Gil‘ad exhausted its healing resin? Is no physician there? If there is, then why is the daughter of my people so slow to recover her health?


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I wish my head were made of water and my eyes were a fountain of tears, so that I could cry day and night over the slain of the daughter of my people!


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I wish I were out in the desert, in some travelers’ lodge — then I could get away from my people and distance myself from them! “Indeed they are all adulterers, a band of traitors is what they are.


book: Jer
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They bend their tongues, their ‘bow’ of falsehood, and hold sway in the land, but not for truth. For they go from evil to evil, and me they do not know,” says Adonai.


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Everyone, be on guard against your neighbor, don’t trust even a brother; for every brother is out to trick you, and every neighbor goes around gossiping.


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Everyone deceives his neighbor, no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongues to lie, they wear themselves out with sinning.


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“Therefore,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot, “I will refine them and test them. What else can I do with the daughter of my people?


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Their tongues are sharpened arrows; with their mouths they speak deceit — they say nice words to their neighbors, while inwardly plotting against them.


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Should I not punish them for these things?” asks Adonai. “Should I not take vengeance on such a nation?”


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I weep and wail for the mountains and lament over the desert pastures, because they have been burned up; no one passes through; they no longer hear the sound of cattle; the birds and wild animals have fled, are gone.


book: Jer
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“I will make Yerushalayim a heap of ruins, turn it into a lair for jackals, and make the cities of Y’hudah desolate, with no one living there.”


book: Jer
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Who is wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of Adonai spoken, so that he can proclaim it? Why has the land perished and been laid waste like a desert, so that no one passes through?


book: Jer
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Adonai answers: “Because they abandoned my Torah, which I set before them, and neither listened to what I said nor lived accordingly,


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but have lived by their own hearts’ stubbornness and by the ba‘alim, as their ancestors taught them —


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therefore,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el: “I will feed this people bitter wormwood and give them poisonous water to drink.


book: Jer
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I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known. I will send the sword after them until I have wiped them out.”


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Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: “Mark this, then summon the mourning women, so that they will come; send for those who are best [at mourning], so that they will come:


book: Jer
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‘Have them hurry and wail for us, so our eyes will be wet from crying, and our eyelids gush with tears.’


book: Jer
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For the sound of wailing is heard from Tziyon: ‘We are utterly ruined, we are completely ashamed, because we have left the land, and our homes have been torn down!’”


book: Jer
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You women, hear the word of Adonai! Let your ears receive the words from his mouth. Teach your daughters how to wail, have each teach her friend how to lament:


book: Jer
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“Death has come up through our windows, it has entered our palaces, it has cut down children in the streets and young people in the public places.”


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Say: “Here is what Adonai says: ‘The corpses of people are scattered like dung in an open field, like sheaves left behind by the reaper with no one to gather them.’”


book: Jer
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Here is what Adonai says: “The wise man should not boast of his wisdom, the powerful should not boast of his power, the wealthy should not boast of his wealth;


book: Jer
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instead, let the boaster boast about this: that he understands and knows me — that I am Adonai, practicing grace, justice and righteousness in the land; for in these things I take pleasure,” says Adonai.


book: Jer
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“The days are coming,” says Adonai, “when I will punish all those who have been circumcised in their uncircumcision —


book: Jer
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Egypt, Y’hudah, Edom, the people of ‘Amon and Mo’av, and all those living in the desert who cut the edges [of their beard]: “For although all the Goyim are uncircumcised, all the house of Isra’el have uncircumcised hearts.”


book: Jer
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Here is what Adonai says: “Don’t learn the way of the Goyim, don’t be frightened by astrological signs, even if the Goyim are afraid of them;


book: Jer
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for the customs of the peoples are nothing. They cut down a tree in the forest; a craftsman works it with his axe;


book: Jer
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Like a scarecrow in a cucumber patch, it cannot speak. It has to be carried, because it cannot walk. Do not be afraid of it — it can do nothing bad; likewise it is unable to do anything good!”


book: Jer
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Who would not fear you, king of the nations? For it is your due! — since among all the wise of the nations and among all their royalty, there is no one like you.


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Silver is beaten into plates, then imported from Tarshish. Gold from Ufaz is worked by a craftsman and shaped by the hands of a goldsmith. They are clothed in blue and purple, all the work of skillful men.


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But Adonai, God, is the true God, the living God, the everlasting king. At his anger, the earth trembles; the nations cannot endure his fury.


book: Jer
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“This is what you must say to them: ‘The gods that did not make heaven and earth will perish from earth and from under heaven.’”


book: Jer
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God made the earth by his power, established the world by his wisdom spread out the sky by his understanding.


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When he thunders, the waters in heaven roar, he raises clouds from the ends of the earth, he makes the lightning flash in the rain and brings the wind out from his storehouses.


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At this, everyone is proved stupid, ignorant, every goldsmith put to shame by his idol! The figures he casts are a fraud; there is no breath in them;


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Ya‘akov’s portion is not like these, for he is the one who formed all things. Isra’el is the tribe he claims as his heritage; Adonai-Tzva’ot is his name.


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for here is what Adonai says: “At this time I am slinging away the inhabitants of the land; I will distress them, so that they will feel it.”


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Woe to me because of my wound! My injury is incurable! I used to say, “It’s only an illness, and I can bear it.”


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But now my tent is ruined, all its cords are severed; my children have left me and are no more; there is no one to set up my tent again, no one to raise its curtains.


book: Jer
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The shepherds have become stupid, they have not consulted Adonai. This is why they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.


book: Jer
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Listen! A noise! It’s coming closer! A great uproar from the land to the north, to make the cities of Y’hudah desolate, a place for jackals to live.


book: Jer
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Adonai, I know that the way of humans is not in their control, humans are not able to direct their steps as they walk.


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Pour out your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you, also on the families that do not call on your name. For they have consumed Ya‘akov — consumed him and finished him off, and laid waste to his home.


book: Jer
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“Listen to the words of this covenant; then speak to the people of Y’hudah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim;


book: Jer
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tell them that Adonai the God of Isra’el says: ‘A curse on anyone who does not pay attention to the words of this covenant,


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which I enjoined on your ancestors at the time that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of that iron-smelter. I said, “Listen to my voice, and carry out all my orders; then you will be my people, and I will be your God;


book: Jer
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so that I can fulfill the oath that I swore to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is today.”’” Then I responded, “Amen, Adonai.”


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Adonai said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Y’hudah and in the streets of Yerushalayim: ‘Listen to the words of this covenant, and obey them.


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For I solemnly warned your ancestors at the time when I brought them out of the land of Egypt; and until this day I have frequently warned them, “Listen to my voice!”


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But they have not listened or paid attention; instead, each one has lived according to the stubbornness of his own evil heart. For this reason I have brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I ordered them to obey, but which they did not obey.’”


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Then Adonai said to me, “The men of Y’hudah and the people living in Yerushalayim have formed a conspiracy.


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They have returned to the sins of their ancestors, who refused to hear my words, and they have gone after other gods to serve them. The house of Isra’el and the house of Y’hudah have broken my covenant which I made with their ancestors.”


book: Jer
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Therefore Adonai says, “I am going to bring on them a disaster which they will not be able to escape; and even if they cry to me, I will not listen to them.


book: Jer
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Then the cities of Y’hudah and the people living in Yerushalayim will go and cry to the gods to whom they are making offerings; but they will not save them at all in their time of trouble.


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For you have as many gods, Y’hudah, as you have towns; and you have erected as many altars for sacrificing to that shameful thing, Ba‘al, as there are streets in Yerushalayim.


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“So you, [Yirmeyahu,] don’t pray for this people! Don’t cry or pray on their behalf, because I won’t listen to them when they cry to me because of their troubles.


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What right does my beloved have to be in my house, when she has behaved so shamelessly with so many? Offerings of consecrated meat can no longer help, because it is when you are doing evil that you are happy.”


book: Jer
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Adonai once called you an olive tree, beautiful, full of leaves and good fruit. Now with the roar of a violent storm, he has set it on fire; and its branches will be consumed.


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For Adonai-Tzva’ot, who planted you, has decreed evil for you. “It is because of the evil which the house of Isra’el and the house of Y’hudah did to themselves, provoking me with their offerings of incense to Ba‘al.”


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But I was like a tame lamb led to be slaughtered; I did not know that they were plotting schemes against me — “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, we’ll cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will be forgotten.”


book: Jer
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Adonai-Tzva’ot, righteous judge, tester of motives and thoughts, I have committed my cause to you; so let me see your vengeance on them.


book: Jer
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Therefore, here is what Adonai says concerning the men from ‘Anatot who seek your life and who tell you, “Stop prophesying in the name of Adonai, or we will kill you ourselves” —


book: Jer
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this is what Adonai-Tzva’ot says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters will die by famine.


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None of them will remain, for I will bring disaster on the men from ‘Anatot when the year comes for them to be punished.”


book: Jer
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Adonai, although you would be in the right if I were to dispute with you, nevertheless I want to discuss some points of justice with you: Why do the wicked prosper? Why do the treacherous all thrive?


book: Jer
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You planted them, and they took root; they grow, and they bear fruit. You are near in their mouths, though far from their hearts.


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But, Adonai, you know me and see me; you test my devotion to you; drag them away like sheep to be slaughtered, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.


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How long must the land mourn and the grass in all the fields wither? The wild animals and birds are consumed because of the wickedness of those who live there; for they say, “He will not see how we end up.”


book: Jer
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If racing men on foot exhausts you, how will you compete against horses? You may feel secure in a land at peace, but how will you do in the Yarden’s thick brush?


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For even your own brothers and your father’s family are betraying you; they are in full cry after you. Despite all their nice speech, don’t believe them.


book: Jer
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“I have abandoned my house, I have rejected my heritage, I have given my heart’s beloved over to the hands of her foes.


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For me, my heritage has become like a lion in the forest — she roared out against me; so now I hate her.


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For me, my heritage is like a speckled bird of prey — other birds of prey surround her and attack her. Go, gather all the wild animals, and bring them to devour her.


book: Jer
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Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trampled my plot of land, they have turned my desirable property into a desert waste.


book: Jer
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Yes, they have made it a waste; wasted, it mourns to me; the whole land is wasted, because nobody really cares.”


book: Jer
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On all the desert’s bare hills plunderers have come; yes, the sword of Adonai devours the land from one end to the other; nothing alive is safe.


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They sowed wheat and reaped thorns, they wore themselves out and gained nothing. So be ashamed of your [tiny] harvest, the result of Adonai’s fierce anger.


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Here is what Adonai says: “As for all my evil neighbors who encroach on the heritage I gave to my people Isra’el as their possession, I will uproot them from their own land, and I will uproot Y’hudah from among them.


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Then, after I have uprooted them, I will take pity on them again and bring them back, each one to his inheritance, each one to his own land.


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Then, if they will carefully learn my people’s ways, swearing by my name, ‘As Adonai lives,’ just as they taught my people to swear by Ba‘al, they will be built up among my people.


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Adonai said to me, “Go, buy yourself a linen loincloth, and wrap it around your body; but don’t soften it in water.”


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“Take the loincloth you bought and are wearing, get up, go to Parah, and hide it there in a hole in the rock.”


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A long time afterwards, Adonai said to me, “Get up, go to Parah, and recover the loincloth I ordered you to hide there.”


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So I went to Parah and dug up the loincloth; but when I took it from the place where I had hidden it, I saw that it was ruined and useless for anything.


book: Jer
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“Here is what Adonai says: ‘This is how I will ruin what makes Y’hudah so proud and Yerushalayim so very proud:


book: Jer
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I will ruin this evil people, who refuse to hear my words and live according to their own stubborn inclinations, who go after other gods to serve and worship them. They will be like this loincloth, which is useless for anything.


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For just as a loincloth clings to a man’s body, I made the whole house of Isra’el and the whole house of Y’hudah cling to me,’ says Adonai, ‘so that they could be my people, building me a name and becoming for me a source of praise and honor. But they would not listen.


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So you are to tell them, “This is what Adonai the God of Isra’el says: ‘Every bottle is filled with wine.’” Then when they ask you, “Don’t we already know that every bottle is filled with wine?”


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you are to answer them, “This is what Adonai says: ‘I am going to fill all the inhabitants of this land — including the kings sitting on the throne of David, the cohanim, the prophets and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim — with drunkenness.


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Then I will smash them one against another, even fathers and sons together,’ says Adonai ‘I will show neither pity nor compassion, but I will destroy them relentlessly.’”’”


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Give glory to Adonai your God before the darkness falls, before your feet stumble on the mountains in the twilight, and, while you are seeking light, he turns it into deathlike shadows and makes it completely dark.


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But if you will not hear this warning, I will weep secretly because of your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly, streaming with tears, because Adonai’s flock is carried away captive.


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Tell the king and the queen mother, “Come down from your thrones, for your magnificent crowns are falling from your heads.”


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The cities of the Negev are besieged, and no one can relieve them; all of Y’hudah is carried into exile, completely swept into exile.


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Raise your eyes, and you will see them coming from the north. Where is the flock once entrusted to you, the sheep that were your pride?


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When he sets over you as rulers those you trained to be allies, what will you say? Won’t pains seize you like those of a woman in labor?


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And if you ask yourself, “Why have these things happened to me?” it is because of your many sins that your skirts are pulled up and you have been violated.


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Can an Ethiopian change his skin? or a leopard its spots? If they can, then you can do good, who are so accustomed to doing evil.


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This is what you get,” says Adonai, “the portion I measure out to you, because you have forgotten me and trusted in the lie.


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On the hills and in the fields, I have seen your abominations — your adulteries, your lustful neighings your shameless prostitution. Woe to you, Yerushalayim! You refuse to be purified! Won’t you ever allow it?”


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“Y’hudah is mourning, her gates are languishing; they sit on the ground in gloom; Yerushalayim sends up a cry of anguish.


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Her nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns but find no water, so they return with empty jars. Ashamed and dismayed, they cover their heads.


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Because of the ground, which is cracked, since it has not rained in the land, the farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.


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The wild donkeys standing on the bare heights gasp for air like jackals; their eyes grow dim from trying to spot any vegetation.”


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Although our crimes witness against us, take action, Adonai, for your name’s sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.


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You, hope of Isra’el, its savior in time of trouble, why should you be like a stranger in the land, like a traveler turning aside for the night?


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Why should you be like a man in shock, like a champion unable to save? You, Adonai, are right here with us; we bear your name — don’t leave us!


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Here is what Adonai says to this people: “They so love to wander, they don’t restrain their feet; so Adonai does not want them. Now he will remember their crimes, and he will punish their sins.”


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When they fast, I will not hear their cry; when they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Rather, I will destroy them with war, famine and disease.”


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Then I said, “Adonai, God! The prophets are telling them, ‘You won’t see war, and you won’t have famine; but I will give you secure peace in this place.’”


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Adonai replied, “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I didn’t send them, order them or speak to them. They are prophesying false visions to you, worthless divinations, the delusions of their own minds.


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Therefore,” Adonai says, “concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, whom I did not send, yet they say, ‘There will be neither war nor famine in this land’ — it will be war and famine that will destroy those prophets.


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And the people to whom they are prophesying will be thrown out into the streets of Yerushalayim because of the famine and war, with no one to bury them — them, or their wives, or their sons, or their daughters — because I will pour their own wickedness out upon them.


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You are to give them this message: ‘Let my eyes stream with tears night and day, unceasingly, because the virgin daughter of my people has been severely broken; she has been dealt a crushing blow.


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If I go out in the field, I see those slain with the sword. If I enter the city, I see the victims of famine. Meanwhile, prophets and cohanim ply their trade in the land, knowing nothing.’”


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Have you rejected Y’hudah completely? Is Tziyon loathsome to you? Why have you struck us irreparably? We looked for peace, but to no avail; for a time of healing, but instead found terror!


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We confess our rebellion, Adonai, also the crimes of our ancestors; yes, we have sinned against you.


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For your name’s sake, do not spurn us; do not dishonor your glorious throne. Remember your covenant with us; do not break it.


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Among the nations’ idols, can any make it rain? Can the skies, of themselves, send showers? Aren’t you the one, Adonai, our God? Don’t we look to you? For you do all these things.


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Then Adonai said to me, “Even if Moshe and Sh’mu’el were standing in front of me, my heart would not turn toward this people! Drive them out of my sight, get them out of here!


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And when they ask you where they should go, tell them that this is what Adonai says: ‘Those destined for death — to death! Those destined for the sword — to the sword! Those destined for famine — to famine! Those destined for captivity — to captivity!’


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“I will assign them four kinds [of scourges],” says Adonai, “the sword to kill, dogs to drag away, birds in the air and wild animals to devour and destroy.


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I will make them an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of M’nasheh the son of Hizkiyahu king of Y’hudah, because of what he did in Yerushalayim.


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“Who will take pity on you, Yerushalayim? Who will grieve for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?


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You have rejected me,” says Adonai. “You are heading backward. So I am stretching out my hand against you; tired of sparing you, I am destroying you.


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With a winnowing fork I am scattering them to the wind at the gates of the land; I am bereaving them, destroying my people, because they will not return from their ways.


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Their widows increase in number more than the sand of the seas; At midday I am bringing the destroyer on the mothers of young men, causing anguish and terror suddenly to fall upon her.


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The mother of seven sons grows faint, panting in despair; her sun has gone down while it’s still daytime; she is left disgraced and bewildered. And the rest of them I will give to the sword, to their enemies,” says Adonai.


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Woe to me, mother, that you gave me birth, a man who is the object of strife and controversy throughout the land! I neither lend nor borrow, yet all of them curse me.


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Adonai said, “I promise to release you for good, I promise to make your enemies appeal to you when calamity and trouble come.


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I will give away your wealth and your treasures as plunder, and you will not be paid for them, because of all your sins throughout your territory;


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and I will make you pass together with your enemies into a land you do not know. For my anger has become a blazing fire, and it will flare up against you.”


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Adonai, you know. Remember me, think of me, and take vengeance for me on my persecutors. Because you are patient, don’t banish me; know that for your sake I suffer insults.


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When I found your words, I devoured them; your words made me glad, they gave me joy; because, Adonai-Tzva’ot, you had me bear your name.


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I have never kept company with merrymakers, I could not celebrate; with your hand on me I sat by myself, for you filled me with indignation.


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Why is my pain unending, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you be for me like a deceptive vadi, which is only sometimes filled with water?


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This is Adonai’s answer: “If you return — if I bring you back — you will stand before me. If you separate the precious from the base, you will be my spokesman. It will then be they who turn to you, not you who turn to them.


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Toward this people I will make you a fortified wall of bronze — they will fight against you but not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and rescue you,” says Adonai.


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For this is what Adonai says concerning the sons and daughters born here, as well as their mothers who gave birth to them and their fathers who conceived them in this land:


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‘They will die terrible deaths without being mourned or buried; they will be left on the ground like dung. They will die by the sword and by famine, and their corpses will be food for the birds in the air and the wild animals.’


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“For here is what Adonai says: ‘Do not enter any house where there is mourning; don’t lament them, and don’t grieve for them; for I have removed my shalom from this people, as well as my grace and compassion,’ says Adonai.


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‘Great and small alike will die in this land; they will not be buried, people will not lament them; nor will they cut their flesh or shave their heads for them.


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No one will prepare a meal for those in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; and no one will give them a cup to drink, to console them for their father or mother.’


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And you are not to go into any house where there is celebrating to sit with them, eating and drinking.


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For here is what Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el, says: ‘In this place, while you are still alive, before your very eyes, I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the voices of bridegroom and bride.’


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“When you tell this people all that I have said, and they ask you, ‘Why has Adonai decreed all this terrible disaster against us? What is our iniquity, what is our sin, that we have committed against Adonai our God?’


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then you are to say to them, ‘It is because your ancestors abandoned me, says Adonai, and went after other gods, serving and worshipping them, but abandoned me and did not keep my Torah.


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And you have done worse than your ancestors, for — look! — each of you lives according to the stubbornness of his own evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.


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Therefore I am thrusting you out of this land into a land you have not known, neither you nor your ancestors; and there you will serve other gods day and night; for I will show you no favor.’


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“‘Therefore,’ says Adonai, ‘the day will come when people will no longer swear, “As Adonai lives, who brought the people of Isra’el out of the land of Egypt,”


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but, “As Adonai lives, who brought the people of Isra’el out of the land to the north and out of all the countries where he drove them”; for I will bring them back to their own land, which I gave to their ancestors.


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“‘Look,’ says Adonai, ‘I will send for many fishermen, and they will fish for them. Afterwards, I will send for many hunters; and they will hunt them from every mountain and hill and out of caves in the rocks.


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First, I will pay them back double for their crimes and sins; because they have defiled the land which is mine; they have filled my heritage with the corpses of their horrors and abominations.’”


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Adonai, my strength, my fortress, my refuge in time of trouble, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, saying, “Our ancestors inherited nothing but lies, futile idols, completely useless.”


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“Therefore, I will make them know, once and for all, I will make them know my power and my might. Then they will know that my name is Adonai.


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“Y’hudah’s sin is written with an iron pen; with a diamond point it is engraved on the tablet of their hearts and on the horns of your altars.


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As they remember their children, so they remember their altars and their sacred poles by the green trees on the high hills.


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My mountain in the field, your wealth and all your treasures will be plundered; because of the sin of your high places throughout your territory.


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You will relinquish your hold on your heritage which I gave you. I will make you serve your enemies in a land you do not know. For you have kindled my fiery anger, and it will burn forever.”


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Here is what Adonai says: “A curse on the person who trusts in humans, who relies on merely human strength, whose heart turns away from Adonai.


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He will be like a tamarisk in the ‘Aravah — when relief comes, it is unaffected; for it lives in the sun-baked desert, in salty, uninhabited land.


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He will be like a tree planted near water; it spreads out its roots by the river; it does not notice when heat comes; and its foliage is luxuriant; it is not anxious in a year of drought but keeps on yielding fruit.


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I, Adonai, search the heart; I test inner motivations; in order to give to everyone what his actions and conduct deserve.”


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A partridge hatches eggs it did not lay; like this are those who get rich unjustly: in the prime of life their wealth will desert them; in the end they will prove to be fools.


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Hope of Isra’el, Adonai! All who abandon you will be ashamed, those who leave you will be inscribed in the dust, because they have abandoned Adonai, the source of living water.


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As for me, I have not run away from being a shepherd who follows you; you know I didn’t want this fatal day; what came from my lips has been clear to you.


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Let my persecutors be ashamed, not me; let them be terrified, not me. Bring on them the day of disaster, destroy them with double destruction.


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Then Adonai said this to me: “Go, and stand at the People’s Gate, where the kings of Y’hudah go in and out, and at all the gates of Yerushalayim;


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and say to them: ‘Kings of Y’hudah, all Y’hudah and all living in Yerushalayim who enter through these gates, hear the word of Adonai!


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Here is what Adonai says: “If you value your lives, don’t carry anything on Shabbat or bring it in through the gates of Yerushalayim;


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don’t carry anything out of your houses on Shabbat; and don’t do any work. Instead, make Shabbat a holy day. I ordered your ancestors to do this,


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but they neither listened nor paid attention; rather, they stiffened their necks, so that they wouldn’t have to hear or receive instruction.


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However, if you will pay careful heed to me,” says Adonai “and carry nothing through the gates of this city on Shabbat, but instead make Shabbat a day which is holy and not for doing work;


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then kings and princes occupying the throne of David will enter through the gates of this city, riding in chariots and on horses. They, their princes, the people of Y’hudah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim will enter; and this city will be inhabited forever.


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They will come from the cities of Y’hudah, from the places surrounding Yerushalayim, from the land of Binyamin, from the Sh’felah, from the hills and from the Negev, bringing burnt offerings, sacrifices, grain offerings, frankincense and thanksgiving sacrifices to the house of Adonai.


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But if you will not obey me and make Shabbat a holy day and not carry loads through the gates of Yerushalayim on Shabbat, then I will set its gates on fire; it will burn up the palaces of Yerushalayim and not be quenched.”’”


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Whenever a pot he made came out imperfect, the potter took the clay and made another pot with it, in whatever shape suited him.


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“House of Isra’el, can’t I deal with you as the potter deals with his clay? — says Adonai. Look! You, house of Isra’el, are the same in my hand as the clay in the potter’s hand.


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but if that nation turns from their evil, which prompted me to speak against it, then I relent concerning the disaster I had planned to inflict on it.


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but if it behaves wickedly from my perspective and doesn’t listen to what I say, then I change my mind and don’t do the good I said I would do that would have helped it.


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“So now, tell the people of Y’hudah and those living in Yerushalayim that this is what Adonai says: ‘I am designing disaster for you, working out my plan against you. Turn, each of you, from his evil ways; improve your conduct and actions.’


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“But they will answer, ‘It’s hopeless! We will stick to our own plans; each of us will stubbornly follow his own evil desires!’


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“Therefore, Adonai says this: ‘Ask among the nations who has heard anything like this. The virgin Isra’el has done a most horrible thing.


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Does the snow of the L’vanon disappear from the mountain crags? Do the cold waters of foreign lands ever run dry?


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No, but my people have forgotten me and offer incense to nothings. This causes them to stumble as they walk the ancient paths; they leave the highway to walk on side-trails.


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Thus they make their land an object of horror and ongoing ridicule. Passers-by shake their heads, appalled, every one.


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Like a strong east wind, I will scatter them before the enemy. I will see their back, not their face, on their day of disaster.’”


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Then they said, “Let’s develop a plan for dealing with Yirmeyahu. Torah won’t be lost from the cohanim, or counsel from the wise, or words from the prophets. So come, let’s destroy him with slander; and meanwhile, we won’t pay attention to anything he says.”


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Is good to be repaid with evil? For they have dug a pit [to trap] me. Remember how I stood before you and spoke well of them, in order to turn your anger away from them?


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Therefore, hand their sons over to famine, hurl them into the power of the sword, let their wives be made childless and widows, let their husbands be slain by disease, let their young men be slain by the sword in battle,


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let screams be heard from their houses when you bring raiders on them without warning. For they have dug a pit to catch me and have laid snares for my feet.


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Nevertheless, Adonai, you know all their plans against me to stop me. Do not forgive their crime, do not blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be made to stumble before you; deal with them when you are angry.


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Adonai then said, “Go; buy a clay jar from the potter; take some of the people’s leaders and some of the leading cohanim;


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and go out into the Ben-Hinnom Valley, by the entry to the Potsherd Gate. There you are to proclaim the words I am about to tell you.


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Say: ‘Hear the word of Adonai, kings of Y’hudah and inhabitants of Yerushalayim! This is what Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el, says: “I am about to bring disaster on this place that will make the ears of whoever hears about it ring.


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This is because they have abandoned me and alienated this place. In it they have offered to other gods that neither they nor their ancestors have known, nor the kings of Y’hudah. They have filled this place with the blood of innocent people.


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They have built the high places of Ba‘al, in order to burn up their children in the fire as burnt offerings to Ba‘al — something I never ordered or said; it never even entered my mind.


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“‘“Therefore the time is coming,” says Adonai, “when this place will no longer be called either Tofet or the Ben-Hinnom Valley, but the Valley of Slaughter.


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I will nullify the plans of Y’hudah and Yerushalayim in this place. I will have them fall by the sword before their enemies and at the hand of those seeking their lives, and I will give their corpses as food for the birds in the air and the wild animals.


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I will make this city an object of horror and ridicule; everyone passing by will be horrified and will ridicule it because of all its wounds.


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I will cause them to eat the flesh of their own sons and daughters; everyone will be eating the flesh of his friends during the siege, because of the shortage imposed on them by their enemies and those set on killing them.”’


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and say to them, ‘Adonai-Tzva’ot says that this is how I will break this people and this city, just as one smashes a potter’s vessel beyond the possibility of repair. The dead will be buried in Tofet, because there will be no space left for burial [anywhere else].


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That is what I will do to this place,’ says Adonai ‘and to its inhabitants; I will make it like Tofet.


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The houses of Yerushalayim and those of the kings of Y’hudah will be defiled like this place Tofet — yes, all the houses on whose roofs they have offered to all the stars in heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods.’”


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Then Yirmeyahu returned from Tofet, where Adonai had sent him to prophesy, stood in the courtyard of Adonai’s house and said to all the people,


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“This is what Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el, says: ‘I am bringing on this city and all its surrounding villages all the disaster I have pronounced against it; because they have stiffened their necks and refused to pay attention to my words.’”


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Now when the cohen Pash’chur son of Immer, chief official in the house of Adonai, heard Yirmeyahu prophesying these things,


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The following morning, when Pash’chur led Yirmeyahu out of the stocks, Yirmeyahu said to him, “Adonai no longer calls you Pash’chur but Magor-Missaviv [terror on every side].


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For this is what Adonai says: ‘I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of their enemies, while you watch. I will hand over all of Y’hudah to the king of Bavel, and he will carry them off captive to Bavel and put them to the sword.


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Moreover, I will hand over everything stored in this city, all its valuables, all its wealth, indeed all the treasures of the kings of Y’hudah, to their enemies, who will plunder them, take them and carry them to Bavel.


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And you, Pash’chur, along with your entire household, will go into captivity; you will go to Bavel, where you will die and be buried — you and all your friends to whom you have prophesied lies.’”


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You fooled me, Adonai; I have been your dupe. You overpowered me, and you have prevailed. All day long I’m a laughingstock; everyone makes fun of me.


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Whenever I speak, I have to cry out; I shout, “Violence!” and “Destruction!” Thus the word of Adonai becomes for me the cause of reproach and derision all day!


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But if I say, “I won’t think about him, I won’t speak in his name any more,” then it seems as though a fire is burning in my heart, imprisoned in my bones; I wear myself out trying to hold it in, but I just can’t do it.


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I have heard many whispering their plot: “‘Terror in every direction’? Denounce him! Let’s denounce him!” Even all my close friends are watching for me to make a false step — “Maybe he can be tricked, then we’ll get the better of him, then we’ll take our revenge on him.”


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But Adonai is with me like a dreaded warrior; so my persecutors will stumble, defeated, greatly ashamed because of their failure; their lasting disgrace will not be forgotten.


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Adonai-Tzva’ot, you who test the righteous and see people’s hearts and thoughts, let me see you take vengeance on them, for I have committed my cause to you.


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A curse on the man who brought the news to my father, “A son has been born to you!” — thus making him very happy.


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Let that man be like the cities Adonai overthrew without mercy! Let him hear cries of alarm in the morning and the sound of battle at noon,


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because God did not put me to death in the womb and let my mother become my grave, her womb forever filled with me.


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This is the word that came to Yirmeyahu from Adonai when King Tzidkiyahu sent to him Pash’chur the son of Malkiyah and Tz’fanyah the son of Ma‘aseiyah with this message:


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“Please consult Adonai for us, because N’vukhadretzar king of Bavel is making war on us. Maybe Adonai will perform a miracle for us and cause him to withdraw.”


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‘This is what Adonai, the God of Isra’el, says: “I will make the weapons of war that you have in your hands ineffectual in your fight against the king of Bavel and the Kasdim who are outside the walls besieging you. Instead, I will gather them inside this city;


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and I myself will fight against you with my hand stretched out and with a strong arm, in anger, rage and great fury.


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I will strike the inhabitants of this city, humans and animals alike, and they will die of a terrible plague.


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Afterwards,” says Adonai “I will hand over Tzidkiyahu king of Y’hudah, his servants, the people, and anyone remaining alive in this city after the plague, war and famine, to N’vukhadretzar king of Bavel and to their enemies, to those who seek their lives; and he will put them to the sword. He will not spare them; he will have no pity, no compassion.”’


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“And here is what you are to tell this people: ‘Adonai says: “Look! I am presenting you with the way of life and the way of death.


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Anyone who stays in this city will die by sword, famine and plague. But he who leaves and surrenders to the Kasdim besieging you will stay alive; his own life will be his only ‘spoils of war.’


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For I have determined absolutely that this city will have evil, not good,” says Adonai. “It is going to be handed over to the king of Bavel, and he will burn it to the ground.”’


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house of David, this is what Adonai says: “Judge fairly every morning, rescue the wronged from their oppressors; or my fury will lash out like fire, burning so hot that no one can quench it, because of how evil your actions are.”


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Adonai says, “I am against you, [Yerushalayim,] situated in a valley like a rock on a plain. You who say, ‘Who can come down against us? Who can enter our lairs?’ —


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I will punish you,” says Adonai, “as your deeds deserve. I will set its forest on fire, and it will devour everything around it.”’”


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‘King of Y’hudah occupying David’s throne, hear the word of Adonai — you, your servants and your people who enter through these gates.


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This is what Adonai says: “Do what is right and just; rescue the wronged from their oppressors; do nothing wrong or violent to the stranger, orphan or widow; don’t shed innocent blood in this place.


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“‘“If you are careful to do this, then future kings occupying David’s throne will enter these palace gates riding in chariots and on horses — he, his servants and his people.


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But if you will not pay attention to these words, then I swear by myself,” says Adonai, “that this palace will become a ruin.”’


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“For here is what Adonai says concerning the palace of the king of Y’hudah: ‘You are like Gil‘ad to me, like the peak of the L’vanon; yet I will turn you into a desert, uninhabited cities.


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I will designate men to destroy you, each one with his weapons; they will chop down your choice cedars and throw them in the fire.’


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“Many nations will pass by this city, and they will say to one another, ‘Why has Adonai done such a thing to this great city?’


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The answer will be, ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of Adonai their God and worshipped other gods, serving them.’”


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Do not weep for [the king] who has died, do not mourn for him [Yoshiyahu]. But weep for him who departs [to Egypt], for he will never return or see his native land again.


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For this is what Adonai says about Shalum the son of Yoshiyahu, king of Y’hudah, who succeeded Yoshiyahu his father as king: “He has left this place, never to return;


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“Woe to him who builds his palace unfairly, its upper rooms by injustice; who makes his neighbor work for free and will not give him his wages;


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who says, ‘I will build me a spacious palace with airy upper rooms,’ then makes windows and cedar panels painted with vermilion!


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Your cedar may be excellent, but that doesn’t make you a better king. True, your father ate and drank, but he also did what was right and just, so things went well with him.


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He upheld the cause of the poor and the weak, so everything went well. Isn’t that what knowing me is all about?” says Adonai.


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“In contrast, your eyes and heart are controlled entirely by your greed, your desire for shedding innocent blood, oppressing and extorting.”


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Therefore here is what Adonai says concerning Y’hoyakim the son of Yoshiyahu, king of Y’hudah: “There will be no one to mourn for him, ‘Oh! My brother!’ or ‘Oh! My sister!’ There will be no one to mourn for him, ‘Oh! My master!’ or ‘Oh! His glory!’


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He will be given a donkey’s ‘burial’ — dragged out the gates of Yerushalayim and thrown away [to rot].


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Climb up to the L’vanon and cry out, raise your voice in Bashan, cry out from ‘Avarim, for all your lovers are broken.


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I spoke to you in your times of prosperity, but you said, ‘I won’t listen.’ This has been your pattern since you were young — you pay no attention to what I say.


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The wind will shepherd all your shepherds away, and your lovers will go into captivity. Then you will be ashamed and disgraced for all your wicked deeds.


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You who live in the L’vanon, nesting in the cedars, how gracious will you be when pains come on you like a woman in labor?


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“As I live,” says Adonai, “even if Koniyahu the son of Y’hoyakim king of Y’hudah were the signet ring on my right hand, I would pull you off


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and hand you over to those who seek your life, to those you fear, N’vukhadretzar king of Bavel and the Kasdim.


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I will hurl you and the mother who gave birth to you into a country different from the one you were born in, and you will die there.


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Is this man Koniyahu a despised, broken pot, an instrument nobody wants? Why are they being thrown out? Why are he and his offspring thrown out into a country they do not know?


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This what Adonai says: “List this man as childless; he is a lifetime failure — none of his offspring will succeed, none will sit on David’s throne or rule again in Y’hudah.”


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Therefore this is what Adonai, the God of Isra’el, says against the shepherds who shepherd my people: “You have scattered my flock, driven them away and not taken care of them. So I will ‘take care of’ you because of your evil deeds,” says Adonai.


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“I myself will gather what remains of my flock from all the countries where I have driven them and bring them back to their homes, and they will be fruitful and increase their numbers.


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I will appoint shepherds over them who will shepherd them; then they will no longer be afraid or disgraced; and none will be missing,” says Adonai.


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“The days are coming,” says Adonai when I will raise a righteous Branch for David. He will reign as king and succeed, he will do what is just and right in the land.


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In his days Y’hudah will be saved, Isra’el will live in safety, and the name given to him will be Adonai Tzidkenu [Adonai our righteousness].


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“Therefore,” says Adonai, “the day will come when people no longer swear, ‘As Adonai lives, who brought the people of Isra’el out of the land of Egypt,’


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but, ‘As Adonai lives, who brought the descendants of the house of Isra’el up from the land to the north’ and from all the countries where I drove them. Then they will live in their own land.”


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Concerning the prophets: My heart within me is broken, all my bones are shaking; I am like a drunk, like a man overcome by wine, because of Adonai, because of his holy words.


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For the land is full of adulterers; because of a curse the land is in mourning — the desert pastures have dried up. Their course is evil, their power misused.


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“Therefore their way will be slippery for them; they will be driven into darkness and fall there. For I will bring disaster upon them, their year of punishment,” says Adonai.


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“I have seen inappropriate conduct in the prophets of Shomron — they prophesied by Ba‘al and led my people Isra’el astray.


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But in the prophets of Yerushalayim I have seen a horrible thing — they commit adultery, live in lies, so encouraging evildoers that none returns from his sin. For me they have all become like S’dom, its inhabitants like ‘Amora.”


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Therefore, this is what Adonai-Tzva’ot says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them bitter wormwood and make them drink poisonous water, for ungodliness has spread through all the land from the prophets of Yerushalayim.”


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Adonai-Tzva’ot says: “Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you. They are making you act foolishly, telling you visions from their own minds and not from the mouth of Adonai.


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They keep reassuring those who despise me, ‘Adonai says you will be safe and secure,’ and saying to all living by their own stubborn hearts, ‘Nothing bad will happen to you.’


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But which of them has been present at the council of Adonai to see and hear his word? Who has paid attention to his word enough to hear it?”


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Look! The storm of Adonai, bursting out in fury, a whirling storm, whirling down upon the heads of the wicked!


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Adonai’s anger will not abate till he fully accomplishes the purpose in his heart. In the acharit-hayamim, you will understand everything.


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If they have been present at my council, they should let my people hear my words and turn them from their evil way and the evil of their actions.


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Can anyone hide in a place so secret that I won’t see him?” asks Adonai. Adonai says, “Do I not fill heaven and earth?


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“I have heard what these prophets prophesying lies in my name are saying: ‘I’ve had a dream! I’ve had a dream!’


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How long will this go on? Is [my word] in the hearts of prophets who are prophesying lies, who are prophesying the deceit of their own minds?


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With their dreams that they keep telling each other, they hope to cause my people to forget my name; just as their ancestors forgot my name when they worshipped Ba‘al.


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“If a prophet has a dream, let him tell it as a dream. But someone who has my word should speak my word faithfully. What do chaff and wheat have in common?” asks Adonai.


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“I am against those who concoct prophecies out of fake dreams,” says Adonai. “They tell them, and by their lies and arrogance they lead my people astray. I didn’t send them, I didn’t commission them, and they don’t do this people any good at all,” says Adonai.


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“When [someone from] this people, a prophet or a cohen asks you, ‘What is the burden of Adonai?’ you are to answer them, ‘What burden? I am throwing you off,’ says Adonai.


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As for a prophet, cohen or [someone else from] this people who speaks about ‘the burden of Adonai,’ I will punish him and his household.”


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So, when you speak with your neighbor or brother, ask, “What answer has Adonai given?” or “What has Adonai said?”


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Don’t use the expression, “burden of Adonai” any more; for every person’s own word will be his burden. Must you twist the words of the living God, of Adonai-Tzva’ot, our God?


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But if you talk about “the burden of Adonai,” then here is what Adonai says: “Because you use this expression, ‘the burden of Adonai,’ after I have already sent you the order not to say, ‘the burden of Adonai,’


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I will lift you up, burden that you are, and throw you off, away from my presence — you and the city I gave you and your ancestors.


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It was after N’vukhadretzar king of Bavel had carried Y’khanyahu the son of Y’hoyakim, king of Y’hudah, along with the leaders of Y’hudah, the artisans and the skilled workers into exile from Yerushalayim and brought them to Bavel, that Adonai gave me a vision. There, in front of the temple of Adonai, two baskets of figs were placed.


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One of the baskets had in it very good figs, like those that ripen first; while the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they were inedible.


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Then Adonai asked me, “Yirmeyahu, what do you see?” I answered, “Figs — the good figs are very good; but the bad ones are very bad, so bad they are inedible.”


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“Here is what Adonai the God of Isra’el says: ‘I will regard the exiles from Y’hudah, whom I sent away from this place to the land of the Kasdim, as good, just as I do these good figs.


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“‘I will look after them for their good, I will bring them back to this land; I will build them up and not tear them down, plant them and not pull them up.


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I will give them a heart to know me that I am Adonai. They will be my people, and I will be their God; for they will return to me with all their heart.’


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“But concerning the bad figs that are so bad as to be inedible, Adonai says: ‘I will make Tzidkiyahu the king of Y’hudah and his leaders resemble them, likewise the rest of Yerushalayim remaining in this land and those living in the land of Egypt.


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Everywhere I drive them I will make them an object of horror, repulsive to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace, a byword, a laughingstock and a curse;


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and I will send sword, famine and plague among them until they have disappeared from the land I gave them and their ancestors.’”


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This is the word that came to Yirmeyahu concerning all the people of Y’hudah in the fourth year of Y’hoyakim the son of Yoshiyahu, king of Y’hudah; this was also the first year of N’vukhadretzar king of Bavel.


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Yirmeyahu the prophet proclaimed it before all the people of Y’hudah and all the inhabitants of Yerushalayim:


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“For twenty-three years, since the thirteenth year of Yoshiyahu the son of Amon, king of Y’hudah, until today, the word of Adonai has come to me; and I have proclaimed it to you on numerous occasions; but you haven’t listened.


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Moreover, Adonai sent you all his servants the prophets — again, on numerous occasions — but you didn’t listen or pay attention.


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The message was always: ‘Every one of you, turn back from his evil way, from the evil of your actions. Then you will live in the land Adonai gave you and your ancestors forever and ever.


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Don’t follow other gods by serving and worshipping them. “Don’t provoke my anger with things your own hands have made; then I will do you no harm.


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But you wouldn’t listen to me,” says Adonai, “so that you could provoke me with the products of your hands, to your own harm.”


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“Therefore, here is what Adonai-Tzva’ot says: ‘Because you haven’t paid attention to what I’ve been saying,


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I’m going to send for all the families of the north,’ says Adonai, ‘and for my servant N’vukhadretzar the king of Bavel, and bring them against this land, against its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy them, making them an object of horror and ridicule, a perpetual ruin.


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Moreover, I will silence among them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bridegroom and bride, the grinding of millstones and the light of lamps.


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This entire land will become a ruin, a waste; and these nations will serve the king of Bavel for seventy years.


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But when the seventy years are over, I will punish the king of Bavel and that nation for their sin,’ says Adonai, ‘and I will turn the land of the Kasdim into everlasting ruins.


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I will inflict on that land all my words that I have decreed against it, everything written in this book, in which Yirmeyahu has prophesied against all the nations.


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For they too will become slaves to many nations and to powerful kings; I will pay them back according to their deeds and the work of their own hands.’


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“For here is what Adonai the God of Isra’el says to me: ‘Take this cup of the wine of fury from my hand, and make all the nations where I am sending you drink it.


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They will drink, stagger to and fro and behave like crazy people because of the sword that I will send among them.’”


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Yerushalayim and the cities of Y’hudah, along with their kings and leaders, to make them a ruin and an object of horror, ridicule and cursing, as it is today;


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and foreign; all the kings of the land of ‘Utz; all the kings of the land of the P’lishtim, Ashkelon, ‘Azah, ‘Ekron and those remaining in Ashdod;


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and all the kings of the north, far and near, one after another — indeed, all the kingdoms of the world that there are on the surface of the earth. And the king of Sheshakh will drink last of all.


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“You are to say to them, ‘Here is what Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el, says: Drink until you’re so drunk that you throw up, fall down, and never get up again, because of the sword I am sending among you!’


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If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink it, then say to them, ‘Here is what Adonai-Tzva’ot says: You must drink!


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For, look! — if I am bringing disaster on the city that bears my own name, do you expect to go unpunished? Yes, I will summon a sword for all the inhabitants of the earth,’ says Adonai.


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“As for you, [Yirmeyahu,] prophesy all these words against them; say to them, ‘Adonai is roaring from on high, raising his voice from his holy dwelling, roaring with might against his own habitation, shouting out loud, like those who tread grapes, against everyone living on earth.


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The sound resounds to the ends of the earth, for Adonai is indicting the nations, about to pass judgment on all humankind; the wicked he has handed over to the sword,’ says Adonai.”


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Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: “Disaster is spreading from nation to nation, a mighty tempest is being unleashed from the farthest ends of the earth.”


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On that day, those killed by Adonai will be strewn from one end of the earth to the other; they will not be mourned or gathered or buried, but will lie on the ground like dung.


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“Wail, shepherds! Cry! Wallow in the dust, you lords of the flock! For the days for your slaughter have come. I will break you in pieces, and like a prized vase you will fall.”


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Hear the cry of the shepherds, the wails of the lords of the flock! For Adonai is destroying their pasture,


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Like a lion, he has abandoned his lair; for their land has become desolate because of the oppressor’s fierce sword and because of Adonai’s fierce anger.


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At the beginning of the reign of Y’hoyakim the son of Yoshiyahu, king of Y’hudah, this word came from Adonai:


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“Adonai says: ‘Stand in the courtyard of Adonai’s house and speak to the people from all the cities in Y’hudah who come to worship at Adonai’s house; say everything I order you to say to them, and don’t leave out a word.


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Maybe they will listen, and each of them turn from his evil way; then I will be able to relent from the disaster I intend to bring on them because of how evil their deeds are.


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So tell them that this is what Adonai says: “If you will not pay attention to me and live according to my Torah, which I have given you,


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and listen to what my servants the prophets, whom I send to you, say — I have sent them frequently, but you haven’t listened —


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then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city an object of cursing for all the nations of the earth.”’”


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The cohanim, the prophets and all the people heard Yirmeyahu speaking these words in the house of Adonai.


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When Yirmeyahu had finished saying everything Adonai had ordered him to say to all the people, the cohanim, prophets and all the people seized him, shouting, “You will die for this!


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Why have you prophesied in the name of Adonai, ‘This house will become like Shiloh,’ and, ‘This city will become uninhabited ruins’?” The people all crowded in on Yirmeyahu in Adonai’s house.


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When the officials of Y’hudah heard about it, they came up from the king’s palace to Adonai’s house and sat at the entrance to the New Gate of Adonai’s house.


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The cohanim and prophets said to the officials and all the people, “This man deserves a death sentence, because he has prophesied against this city; you have heard it with your own ears.”


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Then Yirmeyahu said to the officials and all the people, “Adonai sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words you have heard.


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Therefore now, improve your ways and your doings; and listen to the voice of Adonai your God; then Adonai will relent from the disaster he has decreed against you.


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Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city and on its inhabitants; because the fact is that Adonai sent me to you to speak all these words, so that you could hear them.”


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The officials and all the people then said to the cohanim and prophets, “This man does not deserve a death sentence, because he has spoken to us in the name of Adonai our God.”


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“Back in the time of Hizkiyahu king of Y’hudah, Mikhah from Moreshet was a prophet. He told all the people of Y’hudah, ‘Adonai-Tzva’ot says, “Tziyon will be plowed under like a field, Yerushalayim will become heaps of ruins, and the mountain of the house like a forested height.”’


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“Did Hizkiyahu king of Y’hudah and all Y’hudah put him to death? Not at all. Rather, he feared Adonai, and prayed for Adonai’s favor; and Adonai relented from the disaster he had pronounced against them. So [if we put Yirmeyahu to death,] we might bring great disaster on ourselves.”


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On the other hand, there was also a man who prophesied in the name of Adonai, Uriyahu the son of Sh’ma‘yahu from Kiryat-Ye‘arim, who prophesied against this city and against this land exactly what Yirmeyahu is saying.


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When Y’hoyakim the king, with all his military men and other officials, heard what he was saying, the king wanted to have him killed. On hearing of this, Uriyahu became frightened, fled and went to Egypt.


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They brought Uriyahu back from Egypt and took him to Y’hoyakim the king, who put him to the sword and threw his corpse into the burial-ground of the common people.


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But in this situation concerning Yirmeyahu, Achikam the son of Shafan used his influence to help him, so that he was not handed over to the people to be put to death.


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At the beginning of the reign of Y’hoyakim the son of Yoshiyahu, king of Y’hudah, this word came to Yirmeyahu from Adonai:


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Send [similar yokes] to the kings of Edom, of Mo’av, of the people of ‘Amon, of Tzor, and of Tzidon by means of the envoys they send to Yerushalayim, and to Tzidkiyahu king of Y’hudah.


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Give them this message for their masters by telling their envoys that Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el, says for them to tell their masters:


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“‘“I made the earth, humankind, and the animals on the earth by my great power and my outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it seems right to me.


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For now, I have given over all these lands to my servant N’vukhadnetzar the king of Bavel; I have also given him the wild animals to serve him.


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All the nations will serve him, his son and his grandson, until his own country gets its turn — at which time many nations and great kings will make him their slave.


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The nation and kingdom that refuses to serve this N’vukhadnetzar king of Bavel, that will not put their necks under the yoke of the king of Bavel, I will punish,” says Adonai “with sword, famine and plague, until I have put an end to them through him.


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“‘“You, therefore, don’t listen to your prophets, diviners, dreamers, magicians or sorcerers, when they tell you that you won’t be subject to the king of Bavel;


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for they are prophesying lies to you that will result in your being removed far from your land, with my driving you out, so that you perish.


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But the nation that puts its neck under the yoke of the king of Bavel and serves him, that nation I will allow to remain on their own soil,” says Adonai. “They will farm it and live there.”’”


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Then I spoke to Tzidkiyahu king of Y’hudah in just the same way: “Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Bavel, serve him and his people, and you will live.


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Why would you want to die, you and your people, by sword, famine and plague — which is what Adonai has decreed for the nation that will not serve the king of Bavel?


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Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who say to you, ‘You will not serve the king of Bavel’; because they are prophesying lies to you.


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‘For I have not sent them,’ says Adonai, ‘and they are prophesying falsely in my name, with the result that I will drive you out, and you will perish — you and the prophets prophesying to you.’”


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I also spoke to the cohanim and to all this people; I said, “This is what Adonai says: ‘Don’t listen to the words of the prophets prophesying to you that the articles from Adonai’s house will soon be returned from Bavel; because they are prophesying lies to you.


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But if they are in fact prophets, and if the word of Adonai is with them, then let them now intercede with Adonai-Tzva’ot that the articles still remaining in the house of Adonai and in the palace of the king of Y’hudah will not go off to Bavel.


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For this is what Adonai-Tzva’ot says concerning the columns, the Sea, the bases and the rest of the articles still here in this city,


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that N’vukhadnetzar, king of Bavel did not seize when he carried off captive Y’khanyahu the son of Y’hoyakim, king of Y’hudah, from Yerushalayim to Bavel, along with all the leading men of Y’hudah and Yerushalayim —


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yes, this is what Adonai Shaddai, the God of Isra’el, says about the things remaining in the house of Adonai, in the palace of the king of Y’hudah and in Yerushalayim:


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‘They will be carried to Bavel; and there they will stay until the day I remember them, bring them back and restore them to this place,’ says Adonai.”


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That same year, at the beginning of the reign of Tzidkiyahu king of Y’hudah, in the fifth month of the fourth year, Hananyah the son of ‘Azur the prophet, from Giv‘on, spoke to me in Adonai’s house in front of the cohanim and all the people, saying,


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“This is what Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el, says: ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Bavel.


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Within two years I will restore to this place all the articles from Adonai’s house that N’vukhadnetzar king of Bavel removed from this place and carried to Bavel.


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Also I will bring back here Y’khanyah the son of Y’hoyakim, king of Y’hudah, along with all those from Y’hudah who were taken captive to Bavel,’ says Adonai, ‘for I will break the yoke of the king of Bavel.’”


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Then the prophet Yirmeyahu said to the prophet Hananyah in front of the cohanim and all the people standing in Adonai’s house —


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the prophet Yirmeyahu said, “Amen! May Adonai do it! May Adonai fulfill the words you have prophesied and bring back from Bavel to this place the articles from Adonai’s house and all the people who were carried away captive!


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Nevertheless, listen now to this word that I am speaking for you to hear and for all the people to hear.


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The prophets who were here before me and before you prophesied in times past against many countries and against great kingdoms about war, disaster and plagues.


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As for a prophet who prophesies peace — when the word of that prophet is fulfilled, it will be evident concerning that prophet that Adonai indeed did send him.”


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Then Hananyah, in front of all the people, said, “Thus says Adonai: ‘In just this way will I break off the yoke of N’vukhadnetzar king of Bavel from the necks of all the nations within two years.’” The prophet Yirmeyahu left them;


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but then this word of Adonai came to Yirmeyahu, after Hananyah the prophet had broken off the crossbar from the neck of the prophet Yirmeyahu:


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“Go and tell Hananyah that Adonai:says, ‘You have broken the crossbars of wood, but you will make in their place crossbars of iron.


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For here is what Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el, says: “I have put a yoke of iron on the necks of all these nations, so that they can serve N’vukhadnetzar king of Bavel; and they will serve him; and I have given him the wild animals too.”’”


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Then the prophet Yirmeyahu said to Hananyah the prophet, “Listen here, Hananyah! Adonai has not sent you! You are making these people trust in a lie!


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Therefore, here is what Adonai says: ‘I am about to send you away from the face of the earth — this year you will die, because you have preached rebellion against Adonai.’”


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Following is the text of the letter Yirmeyahu the prophet sent from Yerushalayim to the leaders remaining in exile, as well as to the cohanim, the prophets and all the people N’vukhadnetzar had carried off captive from Yerushalayim to Bavel.


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This was after Y’khanyah the king, the queen mother, the officers, the leaders of Y’hudah and Yerushalayim, and the artisans and skilled workers had left Yerushalayim.


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The letter was entrusted to El‘asah the son of Shafan and G’maryah the son of Hilkiyah; Tzidkiyah king of Y’hudah sent them to Bavel, to N’vukhadnetzar king of Bavel. The letter said:


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“Here is what Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el, says to all those in exile, whom I have caused to be carried off captive from Yerushalayim to Bavel:


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Choose women to marry, and have sons and daughters. Choose wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage to men, so that they can have sons and daughters — increase your numbers there, don’t decrease.


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Seek the welfare of the city to which I have caused you to go in exile, and pray to Adonai on its behalf; for your welfare is bound up in its welfare.’


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For this is what Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el, says: ‘Don’t let your prophets who are living among you and your diviners deceive you, and don’t pay attention to the dreams you urge them to dream.


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“For here is what Adonai says: ‘After Bavel’s seventy years are over, I will remember you and fulfill my good promise to you by bringing you back to this place.


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For I know what plans I have in mind for you,’ says Adonai,‘plans for well-being, not for bad things; so that you can have hope and a future.


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and I will let you find me,’ says Adonai. ‘Then I will reverse your exile. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have driven you,’ says Adonai, ‘and bring you back to the place from which I exiled you.’


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But here is what Adonai says about the king occupying David’s throne and about all the people living in this city, your kinsmen who did not go into exile with you —


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thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: ‘I will attack them with sword, famine and plague; I will make them like bad figs, so bad they are inedible.


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I will pursue them with sword, famine and plague and make them an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth; and they will bring on themselves cursing, astonishment, ridicule and reproach among all the nations where I have driven them;


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because they have not paid attention to my words,’ says Adonai, ‘which I sent to them through my servants the prophets. I sent them frequently, but you refused to listen,’ says Adonai.


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“So pay attention now to the word of Adonai, all of you in exile, whom I sent away from Yerushalayim to Bavel.


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Here is what Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el, says about Ach’av the son of Kolayah and Tzidkiyahu the son of Ma‘aseiyah, who prophesy lies to you in my name: ‘I will hand them over to N’vukhadretzar king of Bavel, and he will put them to death before your eyes.


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In fact, all those exiled from Y’hudah who are in Bavel will take up this formula for cursing: “May Adonai make you like Tzidkiyahu and Ach’av, whom the king of Bavel roasted in the fire!”


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because they have done vile things in Isra’el, committing adultery with their neighbors’ wives and speaking words in my name, falsely, which I did not order them to say. For I am he who knows; I am witness to this,’ says Adonai.


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‘This is a word from Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el, because of the letters you sent in your own name to all the people in Yerushalayim, including Tz’fanyah the son of Ma‘aseiyah the cohen and all the cohanim.


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Your letter said, “Adonai has made you cohen in place of Y’hoyada the cohen, in order to have officials in Adonai’s house who will arrest any crazy person who makes himself out to be a prophet, so that you can restrain him in stocks and collar.


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He even sends word to us in Bavel saying that the exile will last a long time; so build houses and live in them, plant gardens and eat what they produce.”


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instructing him to send to all those in exile this message: “Here is what Adonai says about Sh’ma‘yah the Nechelami: ‘This Sh’ma‘yah has prophesied to you, even though I did not send him, and has caused you to put your trust in a lie.


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Because of this,’ Adonai says, ‘I will punish Sh’ma‘yah the Nechelami and his offspring. He will not have a man to live among this people, and he will not see the good I am planning to do for my people,’ says Adonai, ‘because he has preached rebellion against Adonai.’”’”


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“This is what Adonai the God of Isra’el says: ‘Write all the words I have spoken to you in a scroll.


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For the day is coming,’ says Adonai, ‘when I will reverse the exile of my people Isra’el and Y’hudah,’ says Adonai. ‘I will cause them to return to the land I gave their ancestors, and they will take possession of it.’”


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Ask now and see: can men give birth to children? Why, then, do I see all the men with their hands on their stomachs like women in labor, with every face turned pale?


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How dreadful that day will be! — there has never been one like it: a time of trouble for Ya‘akov, but out of it he will be saved.


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“On that day,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot, “I will break his yoke from off your neck, I will snap your chains. Foreigners will no longer enslave him.


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“So don’t be afraid, Ya‘akov my servant,” says Adonai, “or be alarmed, Isra’el; for I will return you from far away and your offspring from their country of exile. Ya‘akov will again be quiet, at rest; and no one will make him afraid.


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“For I am with you to save you,” says Adonai, “I will finish off all the nations where I have scattered you. However, you I will not finish off, but will discipline only as you deserve; I will not completely destroy you.”


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All your friends have forgotten you, they no longer seek you out. I have struck you down as an enemy would, punished as a cruel man would, because of your great wickedness, because of your many sins.


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Why cry that your wound and pain are past healing? I have done these things to you because of your great wickedness, because of your many sins.


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“But all who devour you will be devoured, all your enemies will go into exile, those who plunder you will be plundered, those who pillage you will be pillaged.


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For I will restore your health, I will heal you of your wounds,” says Adonai, “because they called you an outcast, Tziyon, with no one who cares about her.”


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Thus says Adonai: “I will return Ya‘akov’s captives to their tents; I will take pity on his dwellings. Cities will be rebuilt on their own tels, with palaces where they’re supposed to be.


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From them will come thanksgiving and the sound of people celebrating. I will increase them; they will not be decreased; I will honor them; they will not be despised.


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Their children will be as they used to be, their community confirmed in my presence; and I will punish everyone who oppresses them.


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Their leader will be one of their own, their ruler will come from among them. I will cause him to come close and let him approach me; for, otherwise, who would guarantee his heart enough to approach me?” says Adonai.


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Look! The storm of Adonai, bursting out in fury, a sweeping storm, whirling down upon the heads of the wicked!


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Adonai’s fierce anger will not abate till he accomplishes the purpose in his heart. In the acharit-hayamim, you will understand.


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“When that time comes,” says Adonai, “I will be God of all the clans of Isra’el, and they will be my people.”


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Here is what Adonai says: “The people escaping the sword found favor in the desert — I have brought Isra’el to its rest.”


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From a distance Adonai appeared to me, [saying,] “I love you with an everlasting love; this is why in my grace I draw you to me.


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Once again, I will build you; you will be rebuilt, virgin of Isra’el. Once again, equipped with your tambourines, you will go out and dance with the merrymakers.


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Once again, you will plant vineyards on the hills of Shomron, and those doing the planting will have the use of its fruit.


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For a day will come when the watchmen on Mount Efrayim will call, ‘Come, let’s go up to Tziyon, to Adonai our God.’”


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For here is what Adonai says: “Sing with joy for Ya‘akov! shout for the chief of the nations! Proclaim your praise, and say: ‘Adonai! You have saved your people, the remnant of Isra’el!’


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Look! I am bringing them from the land in the north, gathering them from the far ends of the earth; among them are the blind and lame, women with children, women in labor, all together, a vast throng returning here.


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They will come weeping and praying as I bring them back. I will lead them by streams of water on smooth paths, so that they won’t stumble. For I am a father to Isra’el, and Efrayim is my firstborn son.”


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Nations, hear the word of Adonai! Proclaim it in the coastlands far away. Say: “He who scattered Isra’el is gathering him, guarding him like a shepherd his flock.”


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They will come and sing on the heights of Tziyon, streaming to the goodness of Adonai, to the grain, the wine, the olive oil, and the young of the flock and the herd. They themselves will be like a well-watered garden, never to languish again.


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“Then the virgin will dance for joy, young men and old men together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, comfort and gladden them after their sorrow.


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I will give the cohanim their fill of rich food, and my people will be satisfied with my bounty,” says Adonai.


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This is what Adonai says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamenting and bitter weeping. It is Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted for her children, because they are no longer alive.”


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This is what Adonai says: “Stop your weeping, and dry your eyes, for your work will be rewarded,” says Adonai. “They will return from the enemy’s land;


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“I hear Efrayim bemoaning himself: ‘You disciplined me, and I took your discipline like a young ox not used to a yoke. Let me return, and I will return, for you are Adonai, my God.


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Yes, I turned away; but later I repented. When I had been made to understand, I struck my thigh in shame and remorse, bearing the weight of the disgrace acquired when I was young.’


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“Isn’t Efrayim my very dear son, a child who delights me so? I speak about him all the time, I can’t help but recall him to mind. In sum, I deeply yearn for him; I will surely show him favor,” says Adonai.


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Set up road signs, erect guideposts, pay attention to the highway, the path on which you traveled. Come back, virgin Isra’el, come back to these cities of yours!


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How long will you hesitate, you unruly daughter? For Adonai has created something new on earth: a woman with the strengths of a man.


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Here is what Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el, says: “This expression will be used again in the land of Y’hudah and its cities after I have returned their exiles: ‘May Adonai bless you, home of justice, holy mountain!’


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“Here, the days are coming,” says Adonai, when I will sow the house of Isra’el and the house of Y’hudah with the seed of humans and the seed of animals.


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At that time, just as I used to watch over them with the intent to uproot, break down, overthrow, destroy and do harm; so then I will watch over them to build and plant,” says Adonai.


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“When those days come they will no longer say, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’


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Rather, each will die for his own sin; every one who eats sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge.


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“Here, the days are coming,” says Adonai, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Isra’el and with the house of Y’hudah.


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It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers on the day I took them by their hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt; because they, for their part, violated my covenant, even though I, for my part, was a husband to them,” says Adonai.


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“For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Isra’el after those days,” says Adonai: “I will put my Torah within them and write it on their hearts; I will be their God, and they will be my people.


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No longer will any of them teach his fellow community member or his brother, ‘Know Adonai’; for all will know me, from the least of them to the greatest; because I will forgive their wickednesses and remember their sins no more.”


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This is what Adonai says, who gives the sun as light for the day, who ordained the laws for the moon and stars to provide light for the night, who stirs up the sea until its waves roar — Adonai-Tzva’ot is his name:


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“If these laws leave my presence,” says Adonai, “then the offspring of Isra’el will stop being a nation in my presence forever.”


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This is what Adonai says: “If the sky above can be measured and the foundations of the earth be fathomed, then I will reject all the offspring of Isra’el for all that they have done,” says Adonai.


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“Look, the days are coming,” says Adonai, “when the city will be rebuilt for Adonai from the Tower of Hanan’el to the Corner Gate.


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The whole valley of corpses and ashes, including all the fields as far as Vadi Kidron, and on to the corner of the Horse Gate to the east, will be separated out for Adonai; it will never be uprooted or destroyed again.”


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This is the word that came to Yirmeyahu from Adonai in the tenth year of Tzidkiyahu king of Y’hudah, which was the eighteenth year of N’vukhadretzar.


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At that time the army of the king of Bavel was besieging Yerushalayim; and Yirmeyahu the prophet was imprisoned in the guards’ quarters attached to the king of Y’hudah’s palace,


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where Tzidkiyahu king of Y’hudah had imprisoned him after demanding, “How dare you prophesy that Adonai says, ‘I will hand this city over to the king of Bavel, and he will capture it;


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Tzidkiyahu king of Y’hudah will not escape from the Kasdim but will certainly be handed over to the king of Bavel, who will address him face to face, with their eyes meeting;


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and he will lead Tzidkiyahu to Bavel, where he will stay until I remember him,’ says Adonai, ‘and even if you fight the Kasdim, you will fail’?”


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‘Hanam’el, the son of your uncle Shalum, will approach you and say, “Buy my field at ‘Anatot; you have next-of-kin’s right to redeem it; so buy it.”’”


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As Adonai had said, my cousin Hanam’el came to me in the guards’ quarters and said, “Please buy my field at ‘Anatot, in the territory of Binyamin; because you will inherit it, and you have next-of-kin’s right to redeem it, so buy it for yourself.” Then I was certain that this was Adonai’s word.


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So I bought the field at ‘Anatot which belonged to my cousin Hanam’el and weighed out the money for him, seven ounces of silver shekels.


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I signed on the purchase contract, sealed it, called witnesses and weighed out the money for him on a balance scale.


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I took the purchase contract, both the sealed copy with the terms and conditions, and the unsealed copy,


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and gave the purchase contract to Barukh the son of Neriyah, the son of Machseyah, in the presence of my cousin Hanam’el, the witnesses who had signed the purchase contract and the people from Y’hudah sitting by the guards’ quarters.


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“Here is what Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el, says: ‘Take these contracts, both the sealed and unsealed copies, and place them in a clay jar, so that they can be preserved for a long time.’


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For Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el, says that one day homes, fields and vineyards will again be bought in this land.”


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“Adonai, God! You made heaven and earth by your great power and outstretched arm; nothing is too hard for you.


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You display your grace to thousands but also repay the guilt of the fathers into the lap of their children who follow them. Great, powerful God, whose name is Adonai-Tzva’ot,


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great in counsel, mighty in deed! Your eyes are open to all the ways of human beings in order to repay each one according to his ways, according to the consequences of what he does.


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You gave signs and performed miracles in the land of Egypt which continue to this day, also in Isra’el and among other people; thus you made yourself the reputation you have today.


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You brought your people of Isra’el out of the land of Egypt with signs and miracles, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm and with great terror.


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Then you gave them this land, which you had sworn to their ancestors that you would give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.


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They entered and took possession of it; but they did not pay attention to your voice, did not live according to your Torah, and did nothing of all you ordered them to do. Therefore you made this complete disaster befall them —


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the siege-works are already there; they have come to the city to capture it; and the city, by means of sword, famine and plague, is being handed over to the Kasdim fighting against it. What you foretold is being fulfilled; here, you see it, yourself.


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Yet you, Adonai, God, have said to me, ‘Buy the field for money, and call witnesses; even as the city is being turned over to the Kasdim!’”


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Therefore, here is what Adonai says: ‘I will hand this city over to the Kasdim and to N’vukhadretzar king of Bavel; and he will capture it.


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The Kasdim who are fighting against this city will enter and set this city on fire; they will burn it down, including its houses, on whose roofs they offered to Ba‘al and poured out drink offerings to other gods, in order to make me angry.


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For from their youth, the people of Isra’el and the people of Y’hudah have done only what is evil from my perspective; the people of Isra’el have done nothing but provoke me with what their hands make,’ says Adonai.


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‘This city has so provoked my anger and fury from the day they built it to this day that I ought to remove it from my presence,


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because of all the evil that the people of Isra’el and the people of Y’hudah have done in order to make me angry — they, their kings, their leaders, their cohanim, their prophets, the men of Y’hudah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim.


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They have turned their backs on me, not their faces; and although I taught them, taught them frequently, they have not listened so as to receive instruction.


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and they built the high places for Ba‘al which are in the Ben-Hinnom Valley, to burn alive their sons and daughters to Molekh — something I did not order them to do, it never even entered my mind that they would do such an abominable thing — and thus they caused Y’hudah to sin.’


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“Therefore, thus says Adonai the God of Isra’el concerning this city, of which you say that it is handed over to the king of Bavel by sword, famine and plague:


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‘I will gather them out of all the countries where I drove them in my anger, fury and great wrath; and I will bring them back to this place and have them live here in safety.


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I will give them singleness of heart and singleness of purpose, so that they will fear me forever — this will be for their own good and for the good of their children after them.


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I will make with them an everlasting covenant not to turn away from them, but to do them good; I will put fear of me in their hearts, so that they will not leave me.


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I will take joy in them, so as to do them good. I will plant them in this land truly, with my whole heart and being.’


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For here is what Adonai says: ‘Just as I have brought this complete disaster on this people, so likewise I will bring on them all the good I have promised them.


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Fields will be bought in this land, even though you say about it that it is desolate, devoid of human beings or animals, and given over to the Kasdim.


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Yes, people will buy fields for money, sign the purchase contracts, seal them and call witnesses, in the territory of Binyamin, in the areas around Yerushalayim, in the cities of Y’hudah, in the cities of the hill-country, in the cities of the Sh’felah and in the cities of the Negev. For I will cause their exiles to return,’ says Adonai.”


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The word of Adonai came to Yirmeyahu a second time while he was still imprisoned in the guards’ quarters:


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“Thus says Adonai the maker, Adonai who formed [the universe] so as to keep directing it — Adonai is his name:


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‘Call out to me, and I will answer you — I will tell you great things, hidden things of which you are unaware.’”


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For here is what Adonai the God of Isra’el says concerning the houses of this city and the palaces of the kings of Y’hudah which are about to be destroyed and used as siege-works and ramparts,


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where they will come to fight the Kasdim: “These places will eventually be filled with the corpses of people whom I am striking down in my anger and fury, everyone whose wickedness has caused me to hide my face from this city.


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However, I will bring it health and healing; I will heal them and reveal to them peace and truth in plenty.


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I will cause the captives of Y’hudah and the captives of Isra’el to return; and I will build them up as I did at first.


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I will cleanse them from all their sins, through which they offended me; and I will pardon all their sins, through which they offended and rebelled against me.


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Then the name of this city will bring me joy, praise and glory before all the nations of the earth that hear about all the good I am doing for them; they will be overcome with fear and trembling at all the good and peace I am securing for it.”


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Here is what Adonai says: “You say that this place is a wasteland, with neither people nor animals in the cities of Y’hudah, and that the streets of Yerushalayim are desolate, without people or animals — no inhabitants. Yet there will again be heard here


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the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of bridegroom and bride, the voices of those who sing, ‘Give thanks to Adonai-Tzva’ot, for Adonai is good, for his grace continues forever,’ as they bring offerings of thanksgiving into the house of Adonai. For I will cause those captured from the land to return, as before,” says Adonai.


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Adonai-Tzva’ot says, “In this place, which is a wasteland without people or animals, and in all its cities, there will once again be pasture-lands where shepherds can let their flocks rest.


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In the cities of the hill-country, in the cities of the Sh’felah, in the cities of the Negev, in the territory of Binyamin, in the areas around Yerushalayim and in the cities of Y’hudah flocks will again pass under the hands of the one who counts them,” says Adonai.


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“Here, the days are coming,” says Adonai, “when I will fulfill this good promise which I have proclaimed for the house of Isra’el and the house of Y’hudah.


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When those days come, at that time, I will cause to spring up for David a Branch of Righteousness. He will do what is just and right in the land.


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When those days come, Y’hudah will be saved, Yerushalayim will live in safety, and the name given to her will be Adonai Tzidkenu [Adonai our Righteousness].”


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For this is what Adonai says: “There will never be cut off from David a man to occupy the throne of the house of Isra’el.


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Nor will there ever be cut off from the cohanim who are L’vi’im a man before me to offer burnt offerings, burn grain offerings and offer sacrifices every day.”


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“Here is what Adonai says: ‘If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that daytime and nighttime no longer come when they are supposed to,


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then my covenant with my servant David also can be broken, so that he will not have a descendant to reign from his throne or L’vi’im who are cohanim to minister to me.


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To the degree that the armies of heaven are past counting and the sand by the sea past measuring, I will increase the descendants of my servant David and the L’vi’im ministering to me.’”


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“Haven’t you noticed that these people are saying, ‘Adonai has rejected the two families he chose’? Hence they despise my people and no longer look at them as a nation.


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Here is what Adonai says: ‘If I have not established my covenant with day and night and fixed the laws for sky and earth,


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then I will also reject the descendants of Ya‘akov and of my servant David, not choosing from his descendants people to rule over the descendants of Avraham, Yis’chak and Ya‘akov. For I will cause their captives to come back, and I will show them compassion.’”


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This word came to Yirmeyahu from Adonai when N’vukhadretzar king of Bavel, his whole army, all his vassal kingdoms and all the peoples fought against Yerushalayim and all its cities:


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“Adonai the God of Isra’el says to go and speak to Tzidkiyahu king of Y’hudah. Tell him that Adonai says: ‘I am going to hand this city over to the king of Bavel, and he will burn it to the ground.


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You will not escape but will surely be captured and handed over to him; your eyes will see the eyes of the king of Bavel, he will speak with you face to face, and you will go to Bavel.’


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Nevertheless, Tzidkiyahu king of Y’hudah, hear the word of Adonai. Adonai says this about you: ‘You will not be put to the sword


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but will die peacefully; and just as they burned spices for your ancestors, the earlier kings who preceded you, so they will burn spices for you and mourn you, “Oh! Master!” For I have spoken the word,’ says Adonai.”


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at the time when the king of Bavel’s army was fighting against Yerushalayim and against all the cities of Y’hudah that were left — that is, against Lakhish and ‘Azekah, since only these remained of the fortified cities of Y’hudah.


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This word came to Yirmeyahu from Adonai after King Tzidkiyahu had made a covenant with all the people in Yerushalayim to emancipate them.


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Everyone who had a male or female slave who was Hebrew was to let him go free; none was to keep as his slave a fellow Jew.


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All the leaders and all the people listened who had entered into the covenant, wherein everyone was to free his male and female slaves and not keep them in bondage any longer. They listened, and they let them go.


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But afterwards, they changed their minds; they made the male and female slaves, whom they had freed, return; and they brought them back into subjection as slaves.


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“Here is what Adonai the God of Isra’el says: ‘When I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, where they lived as slaves, I made this covenant with them:


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“At the end of seven years every one of you is to set free his brother Hebrew who has been sold to you and has served you six years. You are to let him go free from you.” But your ancestors did not listen to me or pay any attention.


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Now you repented, you did what is right from my viewpoint when each of you proclaimed freedom to his fellow; and you made a covenant before me in the house bearing my name.


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But then you changed your minds. You profaned my name when each of you took back his male and female slaves, whom you had set free to live as they wished, and brought them back into subjection as your slaves.’


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Therefore here is what Adonai says: ‘You did not heed me and proclaim freedom, each to his brother and each to his neighbor; so now I proclaim for you a freedom,’ says Adonai, ‘for sword, plague and famine. I will make you an object of horror to all the kingdoms on earth.


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As for the men who violated my covenant by not living up to the conditions of the covenant which they made in my presence when they cut the calf in two and passed between its parts —


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the leaders of Y’hudah, the leaders of Yerushalayim, the officials, the cohanim and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf;


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I will hand them over to their enemies, hand them over to those who seek their lives; and their corpses will become food for birds in the air and wild animals.


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Tzidkiyahu king of Y’hudah and his officials I will hand over to their enemies, to those who seek their lives and to the army of the king of Bavel, which has withdrawn.


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I will give the order,’ says Adonai, ‘and cause them to return to this city. They will attack it, capture it and burn it to the ground; and I will make the cities of Y’hudah desolate and uninhabited.’”


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This word came to Yirmeyahu from Adonai during the time of Y’hoyakim the son of Yoshiyahu, king of Y’hudah:


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“Go to the Rekhavim, speak to them, bring them to one of the rooms in the house of Adonai, and give them some wine to drink.”


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So I took Ya’azanyah the son of Yirmeyahu, the son of Havatzinyah, and his brothers, all his sons and all the Rekhavim,


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and took them into the house of Adonai, to the room of the sons of Hanan the son of Yigdalyahu, a man of God. It was by the room of the officials, which was above the room of Ma‘aseiyah the son of Shalum, the gatekeeper.


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There I set in front of the members of the clan of the Rekhavim pitchers full of wine and cups, and said to them, “Drink some wine.”


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But they said, “We will not drink any wine; because Yonadav the son of Rekhav, our ancestor, gave us this order: ‘You are not to drink wine, neither you nor your descendants, forever.


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Also you are not to build houses, sow seed, or plant or own vineyards. Rather, you are always to live in tents; so that you may live a long time in the land, in which you are not citizens.’


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We have heeded the words of Yonadav the son of Rekhav, our ancestor, in all that he instructed us to do: not to drink wine as long as we live — we, our wives, our sons and our daughters;


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We have lived in tents, and we have heeded Yonadav our ancestor and done everything he ordered us to do.


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But when N’vukhadretzar king of Bavel came up to attack the land, we said, ‘Come, let’s go up to Yerushalayim,’ because we were afraid of the army of the Kasdim and the army of Aram; hence we are living in Yerushalayim.”


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“Adonai-Tzva’ot the God of Isra’el says to go to the men of Y’hudah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim and say: ‘Won’t you ever learn to listen to my words?’ says Adonai.


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‘The words of Yonadav the son of Rekhav which he ordered his offspring, not to drink wine, are obeyed; so to this day they don’t drink any; because they heed their ancestor’s order. But I have spoken to you, spoken frequently, and you have not listened to me.


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I have also sent you all my servants the prophets, sent them frequently, with the message, “Every one of you should turn back now from his evil way, improve your actions and not follow other gods in order to serve them. Then you will live in the land I gave you and your ancestors. But you have not paid attention or listened to me.


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Because the descendants of Yonadav the son of Rekhav have obeyed the order of their ancestor, which he ordered them; but this people has not listened to me;


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therefore — ” here is what Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el, says: “I will inflict on Y’hudah and all the inhabitants of Yerushalayim all the disaster I have decreed against them; because I have spoken to them, but they have not listened; and I have called out to them, but they have not answered.”’”


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Then to the clan of the Rekhavim Yirmeyahu said, “Here is what Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el, says: ‘Because you have heeded the order of Yonadav your ancestor, observed all his commands and done what he ordered you to do;


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therefore Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el, says this: “Yonadav the son of Rekhav will never lack a descendant to stand before me.”’”


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In the fourth year of Y’hoyakim the son of Yoshiyahu, king of Y’hudah, this word came to Yirmeyahu from Adonai:


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“Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you against Isra’el, Y’hudah and all the other nations, from the day I started speaking to you, back in the time of Yoshiyahu, until today.


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Perhaps the house of Y’hudah will listen to all the disaster I intend to bring on them, and turn back, each person from his evil way; then I will forgive their wickedness and sin.”


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So Yirmeyahu summoned Barukh the son of Neriyah; and Barukh wrote down on a scroll, at Yirmeyahu’s dictation, all the words that Adonai had said to him.


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Therefore, you take the scroll which you wrote at my dictation, go into the house of Adonai on a fast-day, and read from it the words of Adonai in the hearing of the people; also read them to all Y’hudah as they exit their cities.


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Perhaps they will turn to Adonai in prayer and will return, each one, from his evil way. For the anger and fury which Adonai has decreed against this people is great.”


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Barukh the son of Neriyah obeyed everything Yirmeyahu the prophet ordered him to do, reading the words of Adonai from the scroll in Adonai’s house.


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A fast was proclaimed in the ninth month of the fifth year of Y’hoyakim the son of Yoshiyahu, king of Y’hudah, for all the people in Yerushalayim and all the people who came from the cities of Y’hudah to Yerushalayim.


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It was then that Barukh read from the scroll the words of Yirmeyahu in the house of Adonai, in the chamber of G’maryahu the son of Shafan the secretary, in the upper courtyard, at the entry to the New Gate of Adonai’s house, for all the people to hear.


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When Mikhay’hu the son of G’maryahu, the son of Shafan, had heard from the scroll all the words of Adonai,


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he went down to the king’s palace, into the secretary’s room. All the officials were there — Elishama the secretary, D’layahu the son of Sh’ma‘yahu, Elnatan the son of ‘Akhbor, G’maryah the son of Shafan, Tzidkiyahu the son of Hananyahu and all the [other] officials.


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whereupon all the officials sent Y’hudi the son of N’tanyahu, the son of Shelemyahu, the son of Kushi, to Barukh to say, “Take in your hand the scroll from which you read in the hearing of the people, and come.” So Barukh the son of Neriyah took the scroll in his hand and went to them.


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After they had heard all the words, they turned in fear to each other and said to Barukh, “We will certainly tell the king about all these words.”


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Barukh answered them, “He said all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the scroll.”


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At this, the officials said to Barukh, “Go and hide yourselves, you and Yirmeyahu; don’t let anyone know where you are.”


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After depositing the scroll in the room of Elishama the secretary, they went in to the courtyard and told everything to the king.


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The king sent Y’hudi to bring the scroll, and he took it from the room of Elishama the secretary. Y’hudi read it to the king and all the officials standing near the king.


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The king was sitting in his winter house; and since it was the ninth month, he had a fire burning in the stove in front of him.


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After Y’hudi had read three or four columns from the scroll, he would cut off that portion with a knife and throw it into the fire that was burning in the stove, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire in the stove.


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But even though they heard all these words, neither the king nor any of his servants grew afraid or tore their clothes.


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Elnatan, D’layahu and G’maryahu had begged the king not to burn the scroll; but he wouldn’t listen to them.


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Then the king ordered Yerachme’el the king’s son, S’rayahu the son of ‘Azri’el and Shelemyahu the son of ‘Avde’el to arrest Barukh the scribe and Yirmeyahu the prophet; but Adonai hid them.


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Then this word of Adonai came to Yirmeyahu after the king had burned the scroll with the words Barukh had written at Yirmeyahu’s dictation:


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“Take another scroll, and write on it all the words that were on the first scroll, which Y’hoyakim the king of Y’hudah burned up.


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And as far as Y’hoyakim king of Y’hudah is concerned, you are to say that Adonai says, ‘You burned this scroll, asking, “Why did you write in it that the king of Bavel will certainly come and destroy this land and leave it without either humans or animals?”


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Therefore Adonai says this about Y’hoyakim king of Y’hudah: “He will have no one to occupy David’s throne; and his dead body will be thrown out to lie in the heat by day and in the frost by night.


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Moreover, I will punish him, his offspring and his officials for their wickedness; and I will bring on them, the inhabitants of Yerushalayim and the people of Y’hudah all the disaster I have decreed against them, to which they have paid no attention.”’”


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Then Yirmeyahu took another scroll and gave it to Barukh the scribe, the son of Neriyah. At Yirmeyahu’s dictation he wrote in it all the words of the scroll which Y’hoyakim king of Y’hudah had burned up in the fire, and to those he added many similar words.


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Tzidkiyahu the son of Yoshiyahu became king, succeeding Koniyahu the son of Y’hoyakim, whom N’vukhadretzar king of Bavel had made king over the land of Y’hudah.


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But neither he, his servants nor the people of the land paid attention to the words of Adonai, which he spoke through the prophet Yirmeyahu.


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Tzidkiyahu the king sent Y’hukhal the son of Shelemyahu and Tz’fanyahu the son of Ma‘aseiyah, the cohen, to the prophet Yirmeyahu with the message, “Please pray to Adonai our God for us.”


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At that time Yirmeyahu was mixing freely with the people, because they had not yet put him in prison.


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At the same time Pharaoh’s army marched out of Egypt; and when the Kasdim besieging Yerushalayim heard about them, they lifted the siege from Yerushalayim.


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“Adonai the God of Isra’el says to tell the king of Y’hudah, who sent you to me to consult me: ‘Pharaoh’s army has marched out to assist you; but they will return to Egypt, to their own country.


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Here is what Adonai says: ‘Don’t deceive yourselves by thinking that the Kasdim must withdraw from you, because they will not withdraw.


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Even if you were to strike the entire army of the Kasdim fighting against you, to the degree that only their wounded were left, they would still rise up every man from his tent and burn this city to the ground.’”


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Then, at the time when the army of the Kasdim had lifted the siege of Yerushalayim out of fear of Pharaoh’s army,


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Yirmeyahu left Yerushalayim to go to the territory of Binyamin to receive his share of an inheritance there. He was passing through the crowds


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and had reached the gate leading toward Binyamin when a guard commander there named Yir’iyah the son of Shelemyah, the son of Hananyah, seized Yirmeyahu the prophet, shouting, “You’re deserting to the Kasdim!”


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Yirmeyahu answered, “That is a lie! I am not deserting to the Kasdim”; but Yir’iyah wouldn’t listen to him. So he arrested Yirmeyahu and brought him to the officials.


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The officials, furious with Yirmeyahu, had him beaten and jailed in the house of Y’honatan the secretary, which had been made over into a prison.


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The cistern had been made into a dungeon, and Yirmeyahu was put in one of its cells; there he remained for a long time.


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Then Tzidkiyahu the king sent and had him brought; and the king asked him secretly, in his palace, “Is there any word from Adonai?” “There is,” Yirmeyahu said. “You will be handed over to the king of Bavel.”


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Yirmeyahu asked King Tzidkiyahu, “In what way have I sinned against you or against your officials or against this people, that has caused you to put me in prison?


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Where are your prophets now, the ones who prophesied to you that the king of Bavel wouldn’t attack you or this land?


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So now, please listen, my lord king! I beg you, approve my request — don’t make me return to the house of Y’honatan the secretary, or I will die there.”


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At that, Tzidkiyahu the king gave the order, at which they committed Yirmeyahu to the guards’ quarters and gave him daily a loaf of bread from the Bakers’ Street, until all the bread in the city had been used up. Thus Yirmeyahu remained in the guards’ quarters.


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But Sh’fatyah the son of Mattan, G’dalyahu the son of Pash’chur, Yukhal the son of Shelemyahu and Pash’chur the son of Malkiyah heard these words which Yirmeyahu had said to all the people,


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“Here is what Adonai says: whoever remains in this city will die by sword, famine and plague; but whoever leaves and surrenders to the Kasdim will stay alive; his own life will be his only ‘spoils of war,’ but he will stay alive.


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Adonai says that this city will certainly be handed over to the army of the king of Bavel, and he will capture it.”


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The leaders said to the king, “Please let this man be put to death; because by speaking such words to the soldiers left in this city and to all the people, he is demoralizing them. This man is seeking not to benefit this people, but to harm them.”


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Tzidkiyahu the king said, “All right, he is in your hands; for the king can’t prevent you from doing as you please.”


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Then they took Yirmeyahu and threw him into the cistern of Malkiyahu the king’s son, which was in the guards’ quarters; they let down Yirmeyahu into it with ropes. In the pit there was no water, but there was mud; and Yirmeyahu sank into the mud.


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‘Eved-Melekh the Ethiopian, an officer in the king’s house, heard that they had put Yirmeyahu in the cistern. When the king was sitting at the gate leading toward Binyamin,


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“My lord, king! What these men have done to Yirmeyahu the prophet is evil. They have thrown him into the cistern; and he is likely to die there where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more food in the city.”


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Then the king ordered ‘Eved-Melekh the Ethiopian, “Take thirty men with you from here, and bring Yirmeyahu the prophet up out of the cistern before he dies.”


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So ‘Eved-Melekh took the men with him and entered a storeroom under the treasury in the king’s palace, from which he took some old clothes and rags. These he let down with ropes to Yirmeyahu in the cistern.


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‘Eved-Melekh the Ethiopian then said to Yirmeyahu, “Use these old clothes and rags as padding between your armpits and the ropes.” After Yirmeyahu had done this,


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they pulled Yirmeyahu up with the ropes and took him out of the cistern. Yirmeyahu remained in the guards’ quarters.


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Tzidkiyahu summoned and had Yirmeyahu brought to him through the third entry in the house of Adonai. Then the king said to Yirmeyahu, “I want to ask you something; don’t hide anything from me.”


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Yirmeyahu said to Tzidkiyahu, “If I do say it to you, won’t you have me put to death? And if I give you counsel, you won’t listen to me.”


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So Tzidkiyahu swore secretly to Yirmeyahu, “As Adonai lives, who gave us our lives, I will not put you to death; nor will I hand you over to these men who want you put to death.”


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Then Yirmeyahu said to Tzidkiyahu, “Here is what Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el, says: ‘If you will go out and surrender to the king of Bavel’s officers, then you will stay alive — this city will not be burned down; and you and your family will live.


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But if you will not go out to the king of Bavel’s officers, then this city will be handed over to the Kasdim; they will burn it to the ground; and you will not escape from them.’”


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Tzidkiyahu the king said to Yirmeyahu, “I am afraid of the Judeans who deserted to the Kasdim. The Kasdim might hand me over to them, and they would mistreat me.”


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Yirmeyahu answered, “They won’t hand you over. I beg you, listen to the voice of Adonai concerning what I’m telling you about; then it will go well with you, and you will live.


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all the women remaining in the king of Y’hudah’s palace will be brought out to the king of Bavel’s officers, and those women will taunt you: ‘Your own close friends misled you and took advantage of you. Now that your feet are stuck in the mud, they have abandoned you.’


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They will bring all your women and children out to the Kasdim, and you will not escape from them. Rather, you will be captured by the king of Bavel, and you will cause this city to be burned to the ground.”


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If the officials hear that I have talked with you, and they come to you and say, ‘Tell us now what you said to the king; don’t hide it from us, or we will put you to death, and also what the king said to you,’


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then tell them, ‘I presented my request to the king that he would not make me return to Y’honatan’s house, to die there.’”


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All the officials did come to Yirmeyahu and asked him, and he told them everything the king had ordered him to say. So they stopped speaking with him, since the matter had not been reported.


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Yirmeyahu remained in the guards’ quarters until the day Yerushalayim was captured; he was there when Yerushalayim was captured.


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In the ninth year of Tzidkiyahu king of Y’hudah, in the tenth month, N’vukhadretzar king of Bavel marched against Yerushalayim with his entire army and began to lay siege against it.


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On the ninth day of the fourth month of the eleventh year of Tzidkiyahu, they broke through into the city.


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All the officers of the king of Bavel entered and sat at the Middle Gate — Nergal-Sar’etzer, Samgar-N’vo, Sars’khim the Rav-Saris, Nergal-Sar’etzer the Rav-Mag and all the other officers of the king of Bavel.


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When Tzidkiyahu the king of Y’hudah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled, leaving the city by night through the king’s garden, exiting from the gate between the two walls, and continuing out by the route through the ‘Aravah.


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But the army of the Kasdim went in pursuit of them and overtook Tzidkiyahu on the plains near Yericho. Upon capturing him, they brought him up to N’vukhadretzar king of Bavel at Rivlah, in the land of Hamat, where he passed judgment on him.


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The king of Bavel slaughtered the sons of Tzidkiyahu before his eyes in Rivlah; the king of Bavel also slaughtered all the leading men of Y’hudah.


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The Kasdim burned down the royal palace and the people’s houses, and they broke down the walls of Yerushalayim.


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N’vuzar’adan commander of the guard then deported to Bavel the remaining population of the city, the deserters who had defected to him, and the rest of the people remaining.


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But N’vuzar’adan the commander of the guard left behind in the territory of Y’hudah some of the poor people, those who had nothing, and at the same time gave them vineyards and fields.


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Concerning Yirmeyahu, N’vukhadretzar king of Bavel gave N’vuzar’adan the commander of the guard this order:


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So N’vuzar’adan the commander of the guard, N’vushazban the Rav-Saris, Nergal-Sar’etzer the Rav-Mag, and all the chief officers of the king of Bavel


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sent to have Yirmeyahu taken out of the guards’ quarters; they committed him to the care of G’dalyahu the son of Achikam, the son of Shafan, to be brought home. There he lived among the people.


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“Go and tell ‘Eved-Melekh the Ethiopian that Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el, says: ‘“I am about to fulfill my words about this city for disaster, not for good; when the day arrives, they will come true before your eyes.


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But at that time I will rescue you,” says Adonai, “and I will not hand you over to the men you fear.


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Yes, I will keep you safe; you will not fall by the sword, but you will escape with your life, because you have put your trust in me,” says Adonai.’”


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This word came to Yirmeyahu from Adonai after N’vuzar’adan the commander of the guard had let him leave Ramah, after having taken him, bound in chains, with all the captives from Yerushalayim and Y’hudah that had been carried off to Bavel.


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The commander of the guard took Yirmeyahu and said to him, “Adonai your God decreed this disaster for this place,


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and Adonai has brought it about; he has done what he said he would do, because you people sinned against Adonai and did not listen to what he said; that is why this has come upon you.


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Now, today, I am freeing you from the chains on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me to Bavel, come; and I will look after you well. But if it seems not good to you to come with me to Bavel, then don’t — the entire land is in front of you: wherever it seems good and right for you to go, go there.”


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Before Yirmeyahu could answer, [N’vuzar’adan said,] “Go back then to G’dalyahu the son of Achikam, the son of Shafan, whom the king of Bavel has made governor over the cities of Y’hudah, and live with him among the people; or go wherever it seems right for you to go.” The commander of the guard gave him provisions and a gift, and dismissed him.


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Yirmeyahu then went to G’dalyahu the son of Achikam in Mitzpah and lived with him among the people who were left in the land.


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Now when all the field force commanders and their men heard that the king of Bavel had made G’dalyahu the son of Achikam governor in the land and had committed to his care men, women, children and some of the poorest people in the land of those who had not been carried captive to Bavel;


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they approached G’dalyahu in Mitzpah — in particular, Yishma‘el the son of N’tanyahu, Yochanan and Yonatan the sons of Kareach, S’rayah the son of Tanchumet, the sons of ‘Efai the N’tofati and Y’zanyahu the son of the Ma‘akhati, they and their men.


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G’dalyahu the son of Achikam, the son of Shafan, swore to them and their men, “Don’t be afraid to serve the Kasdim. Live in the land, serve the king of Bavel; and things will go well with you.


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As for me, I will live in Mitzpah and be responsible to the Kasdim who come to us. But you — harvest wine, summer fruits and olive oil; put them in your containers; and live in your cities that you have taken over.”


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Likewise, when all the Judeans who were in Mo’av, in Edom, among the people of ‘Amon, and in all the other countries heard that the king of Bavel had left a remnant in Y’hudah and had appointed G’dalyahu the son of Achikam, the son of Shafan, to govern them;


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then all the Judeans returned from all the places where they had been driven and came to the land of Y’hudah, to G’dalyahu in Mitzpah, and harvested wine and summer fruit in great abundance.


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and said to him, “Are you aware that Ba‘alis the king of the people of ‘Amon has sent Yishma‘el the son of N’tanyahu to take your life?” But G’dalyahu the son of Achikam did not believe them.


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Then Yochanan the son of Kareach spoke privately with G’dalyahu in Mitzpah: “Please, let me go, and I will kill Yishma‘el the son of N’tanyahu; no one will know. Why let him assassinate you? Moreover, if he does, all the Judeans gathered around you will scatter; and the remnant of Y’hudah will perish.”


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But G’dalyahu the son of Achikam said to Yochanan the son of Kareach, “Don’t do it. What you are saying about Yishma‘el is not true.”


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In the seventh month Yishma‘el the son of N’tanyahu, the son of Elishama, of royal blood and one of the chief officials of the king, came with ten men to G’dalyahu in Mitzpah. While eating a meal together there in Mitzpah,


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Yishma‘el and the ten men with him rose and attacked G’dalyahu the son of Achikam, the son of Shafan, struck him with their swords, and assassinated the man whom the king of Bavel had appointed governor of the land.


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Yishma‘el also murdered all the Judeans who were with G’dalyahu at Mitzpah, as well as the Kasdim soldiers they found there.


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eighty men from Sh’khem, Shiloh and Shomron came with beards shaved off, clothes torn and gashes on their bodies; they had grain offerings and frankincense with them to present in the house of Adonai.


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Yishma‘el the son of N’tanyahu went out from Mitzpah to meet them, weeping all along the way; on meeting them, he said to them, “Come to G’dalyahu the son of Achikam.”


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But once they were inside the city, Yishma‘el the son of N’tanyahu and the men with him slaughtered them and threw them into the cistern.


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However, ten of them said to Yishma‘el, “Don’t kill us, for we have stores of wheat, barley, olive oil and honey hidden in the field.” So he relented, and did not kill them along with their comrades.


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The cistern in which Yishma‘el threw the corpses of the men he had murdered with G’dalyahu was the one Asa the king had made in fear of Ba‘asha king of Isra’el; it was this cistern that Yishma‘el the son of N’tanyahu filled with the slaughtered men.


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Then Yishma‘el carried off captive the rest of the people in Mitzpah — the king’s daughters and all the people left in Mitzpah, whom N’vuzar’adan the commander of the guard had committed to the care of G’dalyahu the son of Achikam. Yishma‘el the son of N’tanyahu carried them off captive and left to cross over to the people of ‘Amon.


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When Yochanan the son of Kareach and all the military commanders with him heard of all the crimes committed by Yishma‘el the son of N’tanyahu,


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they took all the men and went to attack Yishma‘el the son of N’tanyahu. They found him by the big pool in Giv‘on.


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When all Yishma‘el’s captives saw Yochanan the son of Kareach and all the military commanders with him, they were overjoyed.


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So all the people Yishma‘el had carried off captive from Mitzpah turned and joined Yochanan the son of Kareach.


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But Yishma‘el the son of N’tanyahu escaped from Yochanan with eight men and went on to the people of ‘Amon.


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Yochanan the son of Kareach and the military commanders with him then took all the rest of the people he had freed from Yishma‘el the son of N’tanyahu, those Yishma‘el had taken from Mitzpah after assassinating G’dalyahu the son of Achikam — the heroes, the soldiers, the women, the children and the officers he had brought back from Giv‘on —


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and thus escape the Kasdim. They were afraid of them, because Yishma‘el the son of N’tanyahu had murdered G’dalyahu the son of Achikam, whom the king of Bavel had appointed governor of the land.


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Then all the military commanders, Yochanan the son of Kareach, Y’zanyah the son of Hosha‘yah and all the people, from the least to the greatest, approached


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and said to Yirmeyahu the prophet, “I beg you, approve our request: pray for us to Adonai your God for all of this remnant. For, while once we were numerous, only a few of us are left, as you can see.


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Yirmeyahu the prophet said to them: “I hear you. All right, I will pray to Adonai your God, as you have asked. And whatever Adonai answers you, I will tell you; I will withhold nothing from you.”


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They said to Yirmeyahu, “May Adonai be a true and faithful witness against us if we fail to do any part of what Adonai your God gives you to tell us.


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Whether it be good or bad, we will listen to what Adonai our God says. We are dispatching you to him so that things will go well with us, as we heed what Adonai our God says.”


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So he called Yochanan the son of Kareach, all the military commanders with him and all the people, from the least to the greatest,


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and said to them, “You sent me to present your request to Adonai the God of Isra’el. This is what he says:


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‘If you will stay in this land, then I will build you up, not pull you down; I will plant you and not uproot you; for I am relenting from the calamity I inflicted on you.


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Don’t be afraid of the king of Bavel — of whom you are afraid. Don’t be afraid of him,’ says Adonai, ‘for I am with you to save you and to rescue you from his power.


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“But if you say, ‘We will not stay in this land,’ thereby not heeding what Adonai your God is saying,


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and instead say, ‘No, we will go to the land of Egypt; because there we will not see war or hear the shofar sounding its alarm or be short of food; so we’ll stay there’;


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then hear what Adonai says, remnant of Y’hudah — this is what Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el, says: ‘If you are determined to go to Egypt and stay there,


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the sword, of which you are afraid, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, of which you are afraid, will pursue you relentlessly there in Egypt; and there you will die.


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This is how it will be for all the people determined to go to Egypt and stay there — they will die by sword, famine and plague; none of them will remain or escape the disaster that I will bring upon them.’


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For here is what Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el, says: ‘Just as my anger and fury were poured out on the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, so likewise my fury will be poured out on you if you go to Egypt; so that you will become an object of condemnation, astonishment, cursing and reproach; and you will see this place no more.’


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“Adonai has spoken concerning you, remnant of Y’hudah! Don’t go to Egypt! You know for a fact that I have given you fair warning today.


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For you have been behaving deceitfully, against your own interests. You sent me to Adonai your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to Adonai our God; tell us everything Adonai our God says, and we will do it.’


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Today I have told it to you, but you haven’t heeded any part of what Adonai your God gave me to tell you.


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Therefore, know for a fact that you will die by sword, famine and plague in the place where you want to go and live.”


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When Yirmeyahu had finished telling all the people everything Adonai their God had said, which Adonai their God had sent him to tell them, the entire speech cited above,


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then ‘Azaryah the son of Hosha‘yah, Yochanan the son of Kareach and all the men with him had the effrontery to say to Yirmeyahu, “You are lying! Adonai our God did not send you to say, ‘Don’t go to Egypt and live there’!


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Rather, Barukh the son of Neriyah is inciting you against us, so that we can be handed over to the Kasdim to be put to death or carried off as captives to Bavel.”


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So Yochanan the son of Kareach, all the military commanders and all the people did not heed what Adonai said, to live in the land of Y’hudah.


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Instead, Yochanan the son of Kareach and all the military commanders took all the remnant of Y’hudah who had returned from all the nations where they had been driven to live in the land of Y’hudah —


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the men, the women, the children, the king’s daughters, everyone N’vuzar’adan the commander of the guard had committed to G’dalyahu the son of Achikam, the son of Shafan, and Yirmeyahu the prophet and Barukh the son of Neriyah —


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and went to the land of Egypt; for they did not heed what Adonai had said; and they arrived in Tachpanches.


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“With the men of Y’hudah watching, take some big stones, and set them with mortar in the pavement at the entry to Pharaoh’s palace in Tachpanches.


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Tell them: ‘This is what Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el, says: “I will summon N’vukhadretzar the king of Bavel, my servant, take him and set his throne on these stones I laid here; he will come and spread his royal canopy over them.


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He will come and attack the land of Egypt. Those destined for death — to death! Those destined for captivity — to captivity! Those destined for the sword — to the sword!


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I will light a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he will burn [those gods] or take them captive. He will fold up the land of Egypt like a shepherd folding up his cloak, and leave there victorious.


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He will also break the standing-stones of the temple of the sun in the land of Egypt and burn to the ground the temples of the gods of Egypt.”’”


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This word came to Yirmeyahu concerning all the people from Y’hudah living in the land of Egypt — in Migdol, Tachpanches, Nof and the land of Patros:


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“Here is what Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el, says: ‘You have seen all the disaster I inflicted on Yerushalayim and all the cities of Y’hudah; there they are today, ruined, with no one living in them.


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It came about because of the wicked things they did to make me angry — sacrificing to and serving other gods, whom they did not know, neither they, nor you nor your ancestors.


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I had sent you all my servants the prophets, sent them frequently, with the message, “Don’t do this horrible thing which I hate!”


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But they neither listened nor obeyed, so as to turn from their wickedness and stop offering to other gods.


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Hence my fury and anger were poured out and ignited in the cities of Y’hudah and the streets of Yerushalayim; so that they became waste and desolate, as they are today.’


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“Therefore now, Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el, says this: ‘Why are you committing this great sin against yourselves? The result can only be to cut you off from Y’hudah — men, women, children and babies — so that none of you remain.


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For you continue provoking me with the products of your own hands, offering to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to live as aliens. It will lead only to your destruction and becoming an object of curses and reproaches among all the nations of the earth.


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Have you forgotten the wicked deeds of your ancestors, the wicked deeds of the kings of Y’hudah, the wicked deeds of their wives, your own wicked deeds, and the wicked deeds of your wives, which they committed in the land of Y’hudah and in the streets of Yerushalayim?


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To this day they remain unhumbled; they have not been afraid, and they have not lived according to my Torah or my regulations that I presented to you and your ancestors.’


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“Therefore here is what Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el, says: ‘I will decree disaster for you and destroy all of Y’hudah.


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I will take the remnant of Y’hudah, who determined to go to Egypt and live there as aliens, and they will all perish — in the land of Egypt they will fall and perish by sword and famine. They will die, from the least to the greatest, by sword and famine; and they will become an object of condemnation, astonishment, cursing and reproach.


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Yes, I will punish those living in the land of Egypt, as I punished Yerushalayim, by sword, famine and plague;


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so that none of the remnant of Y’hudah who went into the land of Egypt to live as aliens will escape or remain, to be able to return to the land of Y’hudah. They long to return and live there, but none will return except a few refugees.’”


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Then all the men who knew that their wives were offering incense to other gods, along with all the women standing by, a huge crowd, all the people living in Patros in the land of Egypt, answered Yirmeyahu:


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Instead, we will certainly continue to fulfill every word our mouths have spoken: we will offer incense to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our ancestors, our kings and our leaders, in the cities of Y’hudah and the streets of Yerushalayim. For then we had plenty of food; everything was fine, we didn’t experience anything unpleasant.


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But since we stopped offering to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything, and we have been destroyed by sword and famine.”


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[Then the wives added,] “Are we the ones who offer incense to the queen of heaven? Do we pour out drink offerings to her? And did we make cakes marked with her image for her and pour out drink offerings to her without our husbands’ consent?”


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Then Yirmeyahu said to all the people — to the men, the women, and all the people who had answered him back:


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“The incense you offered in the cities of Y’hudah and in the streets of Yerushalayim — you, your ancestors, your kings, your leaders and the people of the land — Adonai kept remembering and taking note of this [insult],


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until Adonai could no longer bear it, so evil and so detestable were your deeds. This is why your land has become a wasteland, an object for astonishment and cursing, uninhabited, as it is today.


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It is because you offered incense, sinned against Adonai, didn’t listen to what Adonai said, and didn’t live by his Torah, regulations and instructions that this disaster has befallen you, as it is today.”


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In addition, Yirmeyahu said to all the people, but especially the women: “Hear the word of Adonai, all Y’hudah who are in the land of Egypt;


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this is what Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el, says: ‘You and your wives stated your intentions with your mouths and performed them with your hands — you said, “We will certainly fulfill our vows that we made to offer incense to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her.”’ Without doubt, you will indeed fulfill every point of your vows.


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Therefore hear the word of Adonai, all Y’hudah living in the land of Egypt: ‘I swear by my own great name,’ says Adonai, ‘that no man of Y’hudah will speak my name again in the land of Egypt, swearing, “As Adonai, God, lives.”


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I am watching over them for harm, not for good. All the men of Y’hudah in the land of Egypt will be destroyed by sword and famine, until none of them is left.


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Those who escape the sword will return from the land of Egypt to the land of Y’hudah few in number; and all the remnant of Y’hudah who went into the land of Egypt to live will know whose word will stand — mine or theirs!


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Moreover, here is a sign for you,’ says Adonai, ‘that I will punish you in this place, so that you can know that my threats of disaster against you will come true.’


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Adonai says, ‘I will hand over Pharaoh Hofra king of Egypt to his enemies, to those seeking his life — just as I handed Tzidkiyahu king of Y’hudah over to N’vukhadretzar king of Bavel, his enemy, who sought his life.’”


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Here is what Yirmeyahu said to Barukh the son of Neriyah when he wrote these words in a book at Yirmeyahu’s dictation, in the fourth year of Y’hoyakim the son of Yoshiyahu, king of Y’hudah:


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‘Woe to me now! Adonai has compounded my pain with sorrow, I am weary from groaning, and I can find no relief!’


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“Tell him that Adonai says: ‘I will tear down what I built up, I will uproot what I planted, and this throughout the land.


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Are you seeking great things for yourself? Don’t! For I am bringing disaster on everything living,’ says Adonai. ‘But wherever you go, you will escape with your life.’”


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Concerning Egypt, against the army of Pharaoh N’kho, king of Egypt, stationed by the Euphrates River in Kark’mish, which N’vukhadretzar king of Bavel attacked in the fourth year of Y’hoyakim son of Yoshiyahu, king of Y’hudah:


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Harness the horses! Riders, mount! [Troops,] fall in! Helmets in place! Polish the spears! Coats of mail on!


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“Why do I see them retreating in panic, their heroes routed, fleeing headlong, not looking back, terror all around?” asks Adonai.


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“The swift cannot flee, nor the heroes escape. In the north, by the Euphrates River, they have stumbled and fallen.”


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It is Egypt, rising up like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge out in flood, saying, “I will surge out and cover the earth, destroying the city along with its people.”


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Charge, horses! Full speed ahead, chariots! Let the warriors attack! — Kush and Put, bearing their shields, and the Ludim, strung bows in hand.


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For on that day Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot will have a day of vengeance for avenging himself on his enemies. The sword will destroy, have its fill, be made drunk on their blood. Yes, Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot decrees slaughter in the land to the north by the Euphrates River.


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Go up to Gil‘ad for its healing resin, virgin daughter of Egypt. You try many medicines, all in vain; for you there is no cure.


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The nations have heard about your disgrace; your shrieks fill the earth as warrior trips over warrior, both falling down together.


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This word Adonai spoke to Yirmeyahu the prophet concerning how N’vukhadretzar king of Bavel would come and attack the land of Egypt:


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“Proclaim in Egypt, announce in Migdol, announce in Nof and Tachpanches; say: ‘Take your stand! Get ready! For all around you the sword is destroying.


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He caused many to trip; yes, they fell all over each other.’” Then they said, “Let’s get up, let’s return to our own people, back to the land where we were born, away from the sword that destroys.”


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They cried there, “Pharaoh king of Egypt makes noise, but he lets the right time [for action] slip by.”


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“As I live,” says the king, whose name is Adonai-Tzva’ot, “when he comes, he will be [as mighty] as Tavor among the mountains, as Karmel next to the sea.


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“Daughter living in Egypt, prepare what you need for exile; for Nof will become a ruin, laid waste, without inhabitant.


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Her mercenaries too, that she had with her, were like well-fed calves in a stable; but they too have withdrawn in retreat, they all ran away without standing their ground. For their day of disaster has come over them, the time for them to be punished.


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Egypt hisses like a snake, as the enemy’s army marches ahead, attacking her with their axes like lumbermen chopping trees.


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They cut down her forest,” says Adonai, “for they cannot be numbered; yes, there are more of them than locusts, far too many to count.


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Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el, says: “I will punish Amon from No, Pharaoh, and Egypt with her gods and kings — that is, Pharaoh and those who trust in him;


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I will hand them over to those who seek their lives, to N’vukhadretzar king of Bavel and to his servants. But afterwards, Egypt will be inhabited, as in the past,” says Adonai.


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“Yet don’t be afraid, Ya‘akov my servant; don’t be distressed, Isra’el. For I will save you from faraway places, and your offspring from the lands where they are held captive. Ya‘akov will return and be at peace, quiet, with no one to make him afraid.


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Don’t be afraid, Ya‘akov my servant,” says Adonai, “for I am with you. I will finish off all the nations where I have scattered you. However, you I will not finish off, I will discipline you as you deserve, but not completely destroy you.”


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This word of Adonai came to Yirmeyahu the prophet concerning the P’lishtim before Pharaoh attacked ‘Azah:


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“Here is what Adonai says: ‘Water is rising out of the north; it will become a flooding stream, flooding the land and all that is in it, the city and its inhabitants. The people are crying out in alarm, everyone in the land is weeping


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at the thunderous pound of his stallions’ hoofs, at his rattling chariots’ rumbling wheels. Fathers fail to turn back for their children; instead, their hands hang limp,


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because the day has come for destroying all the P’lishtim, for cutting off from Tzor and Tzidon the last of their allies; for Adonai is destroying the P’lishtim, the remnant from the island of Kaftor.


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‘Azah is shaved bald, Ashkelon reduced to silence. Those of you who remain in their valley, how long will you go on gashing yourselves?’”


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Oh, sword of Adonai, how long till you can be quiet? Put yourself back in your scabbard! Stop! Be still!


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But how can you be still? For Adonai has given it orders against Ashkelon, against the seacoast; he has assigned it its task there.


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Concerning Mo’av, this is what Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el, says: “Woe to N’vo, for it is ravaged; Kiryatayim disgraced and captured. Misgav is put to shame, distressed.


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“In Mo’av, nothing is left to praise. At Heshbon they plotted her downfall: ‘Come, we’ll cut her off as a nation.’ You too, Madmein, will be silenced; the sword pursues behind you.


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as they ascend the slopes of Luchit, weeping bitterly as they climb. On the road down to Horonayim shrieks of destruction ring out.”


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Because you trust in your deeds and your wealth, you too will be captured. Together with his priests and princes, K’mosh will go into exile.


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A destroyer will descend on every city, no city will escape. The valley too will perish, the plain will be laid waste, as Adonai as said.


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Give Mo’av wings, so it can fly and get away. Its cities will become ruins, with no one to live in them.


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A curse on him who does the work of Adonai carelessly! A curse on him who withholds his sword from blood!


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Mo’av has lived at ease from his youth; he is [wine] settled on its dregs, not decanted from jar to jar — he has not gone into exile. Therefore it retains its own [bad] taste, its aroma remains unchanged.


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“So the days are coming,” says Adonai, “when I will send people to tilt him; they will tilt his jars, emptying them and shattering the wine-flasks to pieces.


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Mo’av will be disappointed by K’mosh then, just as the house of Isra’el was disappointed by Beit-El, a god in whom they had put their trust.


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They are ravaging Mo’av, attacking its cities; its best young men go down to be slaughtered,” says the king, whose name is Adonai-Tzva’ot.


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Pity him, all of you who are near him, all of you who know his name; say, “How the mighty scepter is shattered, that splendid staff!”


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Descend from your glory, and sit in thirst, daughter living in Divon; for Mo’av’s destroyer advances on you; he has destroyed your strongholds.


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Stand by the road and watch, inhabitant of ‘Aro‘er; ask the man fleeing and the woman escaping, “What is going on?”


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Mo’av is disgraced, indeed, destroyed. Wail aloud! Shriek! Proclaim it by the Arnon that Mo’av has been laid waste.


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Because Mo’av boasted against Adonai, make him so drunk that he wallows in his own vomit and becomes a laughingstock.


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After all, Isra’el was a laughingstock for you. He didn’t associate with thieves; nevertheless, whenever you spoke of him, you shook your head.


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You who live in Mo’av, leave the cities, and live on the rocks; be like the dove who makes her nest in a hole in the rock at the mouth of a cave.


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We have heard of the pride of Mo’av: so very proud he is! — presumptuous, proud, conceited; so haughty his heart!


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“I know what meager ground he has for his arrogance,” says Adonai. “His boasting has nothing behind it, and it hasn’t accomplished a thing.”


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I will weep for you, vineyard of Sivmah, more than I wept for Ya‘zer. Your branches spread to the sea, reaching as far as the sea of Ya‘zer. On your summer fruits and on your vintage the destroyer has fallen.


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Gladness and joy have been removed from productive fields and the land of Mo’av. “I have stopped the flow of wine from the vats and the shouts of those who tread the grapes — those shouts of joy are stilled.”


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The cries from Heshbon to El‘aleh are heard as far away as Yachatz; those from Tzo‘ar to Horonayim are heard in ‘Eglat-Shlishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim have become a desolate waste.


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“Moreover,” says Adonai, “in Mo’av I will put an end to anyone sacrificing on a high place or offering incense to his gods.”


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This is why my heart is moaning for Mo’av like funeral flutes, why my heart moans for the men of Kir-Heres like funeral flutes; for the wealth they produced has vanished.


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Every head has been shaved bald, every beard has been clipped short, gashes are on every hand, sackcloth around every waist.


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On all the housetops of Mo’av and in its open places — lamentation everywhere! “For I have broken Mo’av like a pot that nobody wants,” says Adonai.


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Wail, “How shattered is Mo’av! How shamefully in retreat!” Thus will Mo’av become an object of ridicule and distress to all its neighbors.


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For here is what Adonai says: “Look! Down he swoops like a vulture, spreading his wings against Mo’av —


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the cities are captured, the strongholds are seized. On that day the hearts of Mo’av’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman in labor.


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“Whoever flees from the terror will fall into the pit; and he who climbs up out of the pit will be caught in the trap. For I will bring on her, on Mo’av, the year for her punishment,” says Adonai.


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“In the shadow of Heshbon the fugitives stop, exhausted. For fire breaks out from Heshbon, a flame from inside Sichon, consuming the sides and tops of the heads of Mo’av’s noisy boasters.


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Woe to you, Mo’av! K’mosh’s people are doomed! For your sons have been taken captive, and your daughters led into captivity.


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Concerning the people of ‘Amon, here is what Adonai says: “Has Isra’el no sons? Has he no heir? Then why has Malkam inherited Gad, with his people settled in its cities?


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Therefore,” says Adonai, “the days are coming when I will sound the battle alarm against Rabbah and the people of ‘Amon; it will become a tel of ruins, her villages burned to the ground. Then Isra’el will inherit from them who disinherited him,” says Adonai.


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“Wail, Heshbon, for ‘Ai is doomed! Cry out, daughters of Rabbah! Wear sackcloth and mourn, running here and there among the sheep pens. For Malkam will go into exile, together with his priests and officers.


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Why do you take such pride in the valleys, your well-watered valleys, rebellious daughter? You trusted in your riches and thought, ‘Who can attack me?’


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I am bringing terror on you,” says Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot, “from every side. Each of you will be driven out headlong, with no one to gather the fugitives.


book: Jer
contenido:
Concerning Edom, this is what Adonai-Tzva’ot says: “Is there no wisdom left in Teman? Have her wise men forgotten how to counsel? Has their wisdom vanished?


book: Jer
contenido:
Flee! Turn back! Hide yourselves well, you who live in D’dan; for I am bringing calamity on ‘Esav, when the time for me to punish him comes.


book: Jer
contenido:
If grape-pickers came to you, they would leave no grapes for gleaning. If thieves came at night, they would destroy until they were satisfied.


book: Jer
contenido:
So I, for my part, have stripped ‘Esav bare, I have exposed his hiding-places; he will not be able to hide himself. He is doomed — sons, brothers and neighbors — so that he is no more.


book: Jer
contenido:
For this is what Adonai says: “Those who do not deserve to drink from this cup will have to drink it anyway, so should you go unpunished? No, you will not go unpunished; you will certainly drink it.


book: Jer
contenido:
For I have sworn by myself,” says Adonai, “that Botzrah will become a ruin and an object of astonishment, reproach and cursing; all its cities will be ruins forever.”


book: Jer
contenido:
I have heard a message from Adonai: “A messenger is sent among the nations, saying: ‘Gather together, and march against her! Prepare for battle!’


book: Jer
contenido:
Your capacity to terrorize has deceived you and made you arrogant. You make your home in the rocky crags and seize the top of the mountain; but even if you build your nest high as an eagle’s, from there I will drag you down,” says Adonai.


book: Jer
contenido:
Edom will become an object of horror; everyone passing by will whistle in astonishment at all its disasters.


book: Jer
contenido:
It will be like the overthrow of S’dom, ‘Amora and their neighboring towns,” says Adonai. “No one will settle there any more, no human being will live there again.


book: Jer
contenido:
It will be like a lion coming up from the thickets of the Yarden against a strong settlement: in an instant I will chase him away and appoint over it whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who can call me to account? What shepherd can stand up to me?”


book: Jer
contenido:
So hear the plan of Adonai that he has devised against Edom, and his purpose that he will accomplish against those who live in Teman: the least of the flock will drag them away; their own pasture will be in shock at them.


book: Jer
contenido:
Like a vulture he will soar, swoop down and spread out his wings against Botzrah. On that day the hearts of Edom’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman in labor.


book: Jer
contenido:
Concerning Dammesek: “Hamat and Arpad are confused; having heard bad news, they dissolve in fear, like the churning sea, which cannot calm itself.


book: Jer
contenido:
Dammesek, weakened, turns to flee; trembling has seized her; anguish and pain take hold of her like the pains of a woman in labor.


book: Jer
contenido:
Therefore her young men will fall in her squares, and all her warriors be silenced on that day,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.


book: Jer
contenido:
Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hatzor, which N’vukhadretzar king of Bavel struck, Adonai says: “Set out! March against Kedar! Plunder the people of the east!


book: Jer
contenido:
They will seize their tents and their flocks, their tent curtains and all their equipment; their camels too they will take for themselves and shout at them, ‘Terror in every direction!’


book: Jer
contenido:
Flee! Leave your homes! Hide yourselves well, you who live in Hatzor,” says Adonai; “for N’vukhadretzar king of Bavel has devised a plan against you; he has formed a scheme against you.


book: Jer
contenido:
Get up! March on a nation at ease, that lives secure,” says Adonai. “They have neither gates nor bars; they live in isolation.


book: Jer
contenido:
Their camels will be booty, their many cattle a spoil. I will scatter to the winds those who shave the sides of their heads; From every direction I will bring their disaster on them,” says Adonai.


book: Jer
contenido:
“Hatzor will be a place for jackals to live, desolate forever; no one will settle there any more, no human being will live there again.”


book: Jer
contenido:
This is the word of Adonai that came to Yirmeyahu the prophet concerning ‘Eilam at the beginning of the reign of Tzidkiyahu king of Y’hudah:


book: Jer
contenido:
I will bring against ‘Eilam the four winds from the four quarters of the sky and scatter them to all those winds. There will not be one nation to which the dispersed of ‘Eilam will not come.


book: Jer
contenido:
I will break ‘Eilam before their foes, before those who seek their lives; I will bring disaster on them, my burning anger,’ says Adonai. ‘I will send the sword to pursue them until I have finished them off.


book: Jer
contenido:
This is the word which Adonai spoke concerning Bavel, concerning the land of the Kasdim, through Yirmeyahu the prophet:


book: Jer
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“Declare it among the nations, proclaim it! Hoist a banner, proclaim it, don’t hide it! Say: ‘Bavel is captured. Bel is shamed, M’rodakh disgraced, her images shamed, her idols disgraced.’


book: Jer
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For from the north a nation is marching against her that will desolate her land. No one will live there — both humans and animals have fled and gone.


book: Jer
contenido:
In those days, at that time,” says Adonai, “the people of Isra’el will come, together with the people of Y’hudah. They will weep as they go their way, seeking Adonai their God.


book: Jer
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They will ask the way to Tziyon; and, turning their faces toward it, will say, ‘Come, join yourselves to Adonai by an everlasting covenant never to be forgotten.’


book: Jer
contenido:
My people have been lost sheep. My shepherds made them go astray, turning them loose in the mountains. As they wandered from mountain to hill, they lost track of where their home is.


book: Jer
contenido:
Everyone finding them ate them up. Their enemies said, ‘We aren’t guilty; for they sinned against Adonai, the resting place of justice; yes, against Adonai, their ancestors’ hope.’


book: Jer
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for I will stir up and bring against Bavel an alliance of great nations from the country to the north. They will array themselves against her; from there she will be captured. Their arrows are like those of a death-dealing warrior; none will return in vain.


book: Jer
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“Because you are glad, because you exult, you plunderers of my heritage; because you frisk like a calf in the grass and neigh like stallions;


book: Jer
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your mother will be utterly shamed, she who bore you will be disgraced. Here she is! — last among the nations, a desert, parched and barren.


book: Jer
contenido:
Because of the anger of Adonai, no one will live there any more; all of it will be desolate. Everyone passing Bavel will whistle in shock at all her plagues.


book: Jer
contenido:
“Take your positions surrounding Bavel, all you whose bows are strung; shoot at her, spare no arrows; because she sinned against Adonai.


book: Jer
contenido:
From all sides raise the war cry against her! Now she surrenders! Her buttresses fall, her walls are thrown down, for this is the vengeance of Adonai. Avenge yourself on her! As she has done, do to her!


book: Jer
contenido:
Cut off the sower from Bavel and the reaper with sickle at harvest-time. For fear of the destroying sword everyone returns to his own people, each one flees to his own land.


book: Jer
contenido:
“Isra’el is a stray lamb, driven away by lions. First to devour him was Ashur’s king; and the last to break his bones is this N’vukhadretzar king of Bavel.”


book: Jer
contenido:
Therefore Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el, says: “I will punish the king of Bavel and his land as I punished the king of Ashur.


book: Jer
contenido:
I will bring Isra’el back to his pasture, to graze on the Karmel and the Bashan, on the hills of Efrayim and in Gil‘ad until he has his fill.


book: Jer
contenido:
In those days, at that time,” says Adonai, “Isra’el’s guilt will be sought, but there will be none, and Y’hudah’s sins, but they won’t be found; for I will pardon the remnant I leave.


book: Jer
contenido:
“Attack the land of Meratayim; attack it and those living in P’kod. Waste them, utterly destroy them; do all I have ordered you,” says Adonai.


book: Jer
contenido:
How the hammer of the whole earth lies hacked apart and shattered! What an object of horror among the nations Bavel has become!


book: Jer
contenido:
I set a trap and caught you, Bavel, before you knew it. You were discovered and seized, because you challenged Adonai.


book: Jer
contenido:
Adonai has opened his store of arms and brought out the weapons of his wrath; for Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot has work to do in the land of the Kasdim.


book: Jer
contenido:
Attack her from every direction! Open her stores of grain! Pile her up like heaps of grain; destroy her completely; leave nothing!


book: Jer
contenido:
Kill all her bulls! let them go down to be slaughtered! Woe to them! for their day has come, the time for them to be punished.”


book: Jer
contenido:
Hear the sound of the fugitives, of those escaping from Bavel, coming to proclaim in Tziyon the vengeance of Adonai our God, vengeance over his temple.


book: Jer
contenido:
“Call up archers against Bavel, all whose bows are strung. Besiege her from every side, let no one escape. Repay her for her deeds; as she has done, do to her. For she insulted Adonai, the Holy One of Isra’el.


book: Jer
contenido:
This is why her young men will fall in her open places, why all her warriors will be silenced on that day,” says Adonai.


book: Jer
contenido:
“I am against you, arrogant [nation],” says Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot. “For your day has come, the time for you to be punished.


book: Jer
contenido:
The arrogant [nation] will stumble and fall, and no one will lift him up again. I will set his cities on fire, and it will devour everything around him.”


book: Jer
contenido:
Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: “The people of Isra’el are oppressed, and so are the people of Y’hudah. Those who took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go.


book: Jer
contenido:
But their redeemer is strong; Adonai-Tzva’ot is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, so that he can give rest to the land but unrest to those who live in Bavel.


book: Jer
contenido:
Adonai says, “A sword hangs over the Kasdim, and over those who live in Bavel, over her leaders and over her sages.


book: Jer
contenido:
A sword hangs over the lying diviners; they will become fools. A sword hangs over her warriors; they will be disgraced.


book: Jer
contenido:
A sword hangs over their horses, also over their chariots, also over the foreigners within her; they will become like women. A sword hangs over her treasures; they will be robbed.


book: Jer
contenido:
A drought hangs over her waters; they will be dried up. For this is a land of idols; they go mad over these horrors of theirs.


book: Jer
contenido:
“Therefore wildcats and jackals will live there, and ostriches will settle there. It will never again be peopled, it will be uninhabited age after age;


book: Jer
contenido:
as when God overthrew S’dom, ‘Amora and their neighboring towns,” says Adonai. “No one will settle there any more, no human being will live there again.


book: Jer
contenido:
“Look! A people is coming from the north; a great nation and many kings are being stirred up from the ends of the earth.


book: Jer
contenido:
They are armed with bow and spear; they are cruel, without compassion; their sound is like the roaring sea, as they ride forth on horses. Their men take their battle positions against you, daughter of Bavel.


book: Jer
contenido:
The king of Bavel has heard news of them; his hands droop, helpless. Anguish seizes hold of him and pain, like a woman in labor.


book: Jer
contenido:
“It will be like a lion coming up from the thickets of the Yarden against a strong settlement; in an instant I will chase him away and appoint over it whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who can call me to account? What shepherd can stand up to me?”


book: Jer
contenido:
So hear the plan of Adonai that he has devised against Bavel, and his goals that he will accomplish against the land of the Kasdim: the least of the flock will drag them away; their own pasture will be in shock at them.


book: Jer
contenido:
Against Bavel I will send foreigners to winnow her and leave her land empty. They will besiege her from every side on the day of disaster.


book: Jer
contenido:
Let the archer draw his bow, let him flaunt his coat of mail; do not spare her young men, completely destroy her whole army.


book: Jer
contenido:
Isra’el and Y’hudah are not left widowed of their God, Adonai-Tzva’ot; but the land of [the Kasdim] is full of guilt before the Holy One of Isra’el.”


book: Jer
contenido:
Flee from Bavel, let each one save his life! Don’t perish because of her guilt. For the time has come for the vengeance of Adonai; he will repay her what she deserves.


book: Jer
contenido:
Bavel was a gold cup in the hands of Adonai; it made the whole earth drunk — the nations drank her wine; this is why the nations have lost their senses.


book: Jer
contenido:
Bavel has suddenly fallen. She is broken; wail for her. Bring healing ointment for her wounds; perhaps she can be healed.


book: Jer
contenido:
“We tried to heal Bavel, but she cannot be healed. So leave her alone, and each of us will return to his own country.” For the judgment against her rises to the skies and reaches even the clouds.


book: Jer
contenido:
Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! Adonai roused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because he plans to destroy Bavel. This is the vengeance of Adonai vengeance over his temple.


book: Jer
contenido:
Raise a standard against the walls of Bavel! Strengthen the guard! Post the sentries! Prepare ambushes! For Adonai has both planned and accomplished what he promised to do to those living in Bavel.


book: Jer
contenido:
You who live near plenty of water, so rich in treasure — your end has come, your time for being cut off!


book: Jer
contenido:
Adonai-Tzva’ot has sworn by himself, “I will fill you with men as numerous as grasshoppers; they will raise over you a shout of triumph.”


book: Jer
contenido:
He made the earth by his power, established the world by his wisdom spread out the sky by his understanding.


book: Jer
contenido:
At this, everyone is proved stupid, ignorant, every goldsmith put to shame by his idol! The figures he casts are a fraud, there is no breath in them,


book: Jer
contenido:
Ya‘akov’s portion is not like these, for he is the one who formed all things, including the tribe he claims as his heritage. Adonai-Tzva’ot is his name.


book: Jer
contenido:
“[Bavel] you are my war club and weapons of war — with you I shatter nations; with you I destroy kingdoms;


book: Jer
contenido:
with you I shatter husbands and wives; with you I shatter old and young; with you I shatter young men and virgins;


book: Jer
contenido:
with you I shatter shepherds and their flocks; with you I shatter farmers and their teams; with you I shatter governors and deputies.


book: Jer
contenido:
“But I will repay Bavel and all living in the land of the Kasdim for all the evil they did in Tziyon,” says Adonai, “before your eyes [, Y’hudah].”


book: Jer
contenido:
“I am against you, destructive mountain, destroying all the earth,” says Adonai. “I will stretch out my hand against you, to send you tumbling down from the crags and make you a burned-out mountain.


book: Jer
contenido:
No one will make cornerstones or foundation-stones from you again; but you will be desolate forever,” says Adonai.


book: Jer
contenido:
Raise up a banner in the land, blow the shofar among the nations. Prepare the nations for war against her. Summon kingdoms against her — Ararat, Minni and Ashkenaz. Appoint an officer against her; bring up horses like bristling grasshoppers.


book: Jer
contenido:
Prepare the nations against her, the kings of the Medes, his governors and deputies, and all the land he controls.


book: Jer
contenido:
The earth quakes and writhes, as Adonai’s designs against Bavel are fulfilled, to make the land of Bavel a ruin, with no one living there.


book: Jer
contenido:
Bavel’s warriors have given up fighting; they remain in their fortresses; their courage has failed; they are now like women. Her homes are on fire, her gate-bars broken.


book: Jer
contenido:
One runner runs to meet another, messenger to meet messenger, to report to the king of Bavel that every part of his city is taken,


book: Jer
contenido:
the fords have been occupied, and the swamp thickets set on fire, while the warriors are seized with panic.


book: Jer
contenido:
For here is what Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Isra’el, says: “The daughter of Bavel is like a threshing-floor at treading-time. Just a little while longer, and the time for harvesting her will come.”


book: Jer
contenido:
N’vukhadretzar king of Bavel has devoured me, crushed me. He left me like an empty pot. Like a monster, he swallowed me whole. With my delicacies he stuffed his belly; then he rinsed me out.


book: Jer
contenido:
But one who lives in Tziyon will say, “May my torn flesh be avenged on Bavel”; and Yerushalayim will say, “May my blood be avenged on the Kasdim.”


book: Jer
contenido:
Therefore here is what Adonai says: “I will plead your cause. I will take vengeance for you. I will dry up her river and make her water sources dry.


book: Jer
contenido:
Bavel will become a heap of ruins, a place for jackals to live, an object of horror and hissing, with no one living there.


book: Jer
contenido:
When they are hot with desire, I will prepare them a drink. I will make them so drunk they will have convulsions, sleep forever and never wake up,” says Adonai.


book: Jer
contenido:
Sheshakh has been captured, the pride of the whole earth seized! Bavel has become an object of horror throughout the nations!


book: Jer
contenido:
Her cities have become desolate — parched, arid land, a land where no one lives; nobody even passes through.


book: Jer
contenido:
“I will punish Bel in Bavel and make him disgorge what he swallowed. The nations will no longer flow to him. Bavel’s wall will fall.


book: Jer
contenido:
Don’t be fainthearted, don’t be afraid of the rumors spreading abroad in the land. One year one rumor comes, the next year another one, rumors of violence in the land and rulers fighting rulers.


book: Jer
contenido:
Therefore, listen! The days are coming when I will pass judgment on Bavel’s idols. Her whole land will be put to shame, as all her slain fall on home soil.


book: Jer
contenido:
Then heaven and earth and all that is in them will sing for joy over Bavel; for the plunderers from the north are coming to her,” says Adonai.


book: Jer
contenido:
You who escaped the sword, go! Don’t stand still! Remember Adonai from afar, let Yerushalayim come into your minds.


book: Jer
contenido:
“The reproaches we have heard have put us to shame, disgrace covers our faces; because foreigners have entered the sanctuaries of Adonai’s house.”


book: Jer
contenido:
“Therefore,” says Adonai, “the days are coming when I will pass judgment on her idols, and the wounded will groan throughout her land.


book: Jer
contenido:
Even if Bavel scales the heavens or reinforces her lofty stronghold, plunderers will come to her from me,” says Adonai.


book: Jer
contenido:
For Adonai is plundering Bavel and silencing her noisy din — their waves roar like the raging ocean, their clamor sounds and resounds.


book: Jer
contenido:
Yes, the plunderer has fallen upon her, fallen on Bavel. Her warriors are captured, their bows are broken. For Adonai is a God of retribution; he will surely repay.


book: Jer
contenido:
“I will intoxicate her leaders and sages, her governors, deputies and warriors. They will sleep forever and never wake up,” says the king, whose name is Adonai-Tzva’ot.


book: Jer
contenido:
Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: “The wide walls of Bavel will be razed to the ground, her lofty gates will be set on fire. The peoples are toiling for nothing, the nation’s labor goes up in flames, and everyone is exhausted.”


book: Jer
contenido:
This is the order which Yirmeyahu the prophet gave to S’rayah the son of Neriyah, the son of Machseyah, when he went to Bavel with Tzidkiyahu the king of Y’hudah in the fourth year of his reign. S’rayah was quartermaster.


book: Jer
contenido:
Yirmeyahu had written on a separate scroll all the above words describing the disaster that was to befall Bavel.


book: Jer
contenido:
Yirmeyahu said to S’rayah, “See to it that when you arrive in Bavel you read all these words aloud. Then say,


book: Jer
contenido:
‘Adonai, you have promised to destroy this place, that no one will live here, neither human nor animal, but that it will be desolate forever.’


book: Jer
contenido:
and say, ‘Like this, Bavel will sink, never to rise again, because of the disaster I am bringing on her; and they will grow weary.’” (Up to here, these have been the words of Yirmeyahu.)


book: Jer
contenido:
He did what was evil from Adonai’s perspective, following the example of everything Y’hoyakim had done.


book: Jer
contenido:
so in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, N’vukhadretzar king of Bavel marched against Yerushalayim with his entire army. He set up camp against it and built siege towers against it on every side.


book: Jer
contenido:
On the ninth day of the fourth month, when the famine in the city was so severe that there was no food for the people of the land,


book: Jer
contenido:
they broke through into the city. All the soldiers fled and left the city by night through the gate between the two walls, near the king’s garden. Because the Kasdim were surrounding the city, they took the route through the ‘Aravah.


book: Jer
contenido:
But the army of the Kasdim went in pursuit of the king and overtook Tzidkiyahu on the plains near Yericho; all his troops deserted him.


book: Jer
contenido:
Then they took the king and brought him up to the king of Bavel in Rivlah, in the land of Hamat, where he passed judgment on him.


book: Jer
contenido:
The king of Bavel slaughtered his sons before his eyes; he also slaughtered all the leading men of Y’hudah in Rivlah.


book: Jer
contenido:
Then the king of Bavel put out Tzidkiyahu’s eyes, bound him in chains, carried him off to Bavel and kept him in prison until the day of his death.


book: Jer
contenido:
In the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, which was also the nineteenth year of King N’vukhadretzar, king of Bavel, N’vuzar’adan, the commander of the guard and a close associate of the king of Bavel, entered Yerushalayim.


book: Jer
contenido:
The whole army of the Kasdim, who were with the commander of the guard, broke down all the walls of Yerushalayim on every side.


book: Jer
contenido:
N’vuzar’adan the commander of the guard then deported some of the poor people, the remaining population of the city, the deserters who had defected to the king of Bavel and the rest of the common people.


book: Jer
contenido:
But N’vuzar’adan the commander of the guard left behind some of the poor people of the land to be vineyard-workers and farmers.


book: Jer
contenido:
The Kasdim smashed the bronze columns of the house of Adonai, also the trolleys and bronze Sea that were in the house of Adonai, and carried their bronze to Bavel.


book: Jer
contenido:
They also took away the pots, shovels, snuffers, basins, pans, and all the bronze articles they had used in worship.


book: Jer
contenido:
The commander of the guard took the cups, censers, sprinkling bowls, pots, menorahs, pans and bowls — everything made of gold and everything made of silver.


book: Jer
contenido:
The bronze in the two columns, the one Sea, and the twelve bronze bulls under the bases, all of which Shlomo had made for the house of Adonai, was more than could be weighed.


book: Jer
contenido:
As for the columns, the height of one column was thirty-one-and-a-half feet; it took a twenty-one-foot measuring line to go around it; and its thickness was four fingers — it was hollow.


book: Jer
contenido:
On it was a capital of brass eight-and-three quarters feet high, with netting and pomegranates all around the capital, all of bronze; the second column was similar, also with pomegranates.


book: Jer
contenido:
There were ninety-six pomegranates on the outside; while the total number of pomegranates in the netting was one hundred.


book: Jer
contenido:
The commander of the guard took [prisoner] S’rayah the chief cohen, Tz’fanyah the second-ranking cohen, and three doorkeepers.


book: Jer
contenido:
From the city he took an official in charge of the soldiers, seven close associates of the king who had been found in the city, the army commander’s secretary in charge of military conscription, and sixty of the common people found inside the city.


book: Jer
contenido:
The numbers of people deported by N’vukhadretzar were as follows: in the seventh year, 3,023 persons from Y’hudah;


book: Jer
contenido:
and in the twenty-third year of N’vukhadretzar, N’vuzar’adan the commander of the guard deported 745 persons from Y’hudah; the total comes to 4,600 persons.


book: Jer
contenido:
In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Y’hoyakhin king of Y’hudah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Eveel-M’rodakh began his reign as king of Bavel; and in his first year, he commuted the sentence of Y’hoyakhin king of Y’hudah and released him from prison.


book: Jer
contenido:
So Y’hoyakhin no longer had to wear prison clothes; moreover, he was provided with food as long as he lived,


book: Jer
contenido:
and he was granted a daily allowance by the king of Bavel to spend on his other needs for as long as he lived, until the day of his death.


book: Ezek
contenido:
In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles by the K’var River, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.


book: Ezek
contenido:
the word of Adonai came to the cohen Yechezk’el son of Buzi, in the land of the Kasdim by the K’var River; there the hand of Adonai was on him.


book: Ezek
contenido:
I looked and saw a windy storm approaching from the north and a huge cloud with flashing fire, glowing brightly all around with the color of gleaming amber from within the fire.


book: Ezek
contenido:
Beneath their wings they had human hands on their four sides. The four of them had faces and wings as follows:


book: Ezek
contenido:
they touched one another with their wings; they did not turn when they moved, but each one moved straight forward;


book: Ezek
contenido:
as for the appearance of their faces, they had human faces [in front], each of the four had a lion’s face on the right, each of the four had a bull’s face on the left, and each of the four had an eagle’s face [toward the rear] —


book: Ezek
contenido:
thus their faces. As for their wings, each had two that stretched upward and joined those of others, and two more that covered their bodies.


book: Ezek
contenido:
Each [living creature] moved in the direction of any of its faces; in whichever direction the spirit wanted to go, they went, without turning as they moved —


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thus the appearance of the living creatures. With them was something that looked like fiery coals burning the way torches do, with the fire flashing here and there between the living creatures; the fire had a brilliance, and out of the fire went lightning.


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As I gazed at the living creatures, I saw wheels on the ground, one next to each of the four-faced living creatures.


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All four wheels looked the same: their inner parts gleamed like beryl, and their structure seemed to be that of a wheel inside a wheel.


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When the living creatures moved, the wheels moved along with them; and when the creatures were lifted off the ground, the wheels went with them.


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Wherever the spirit was to go, they went, in the direction the spirit wanted to go. The wheels were lifted up next to them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.


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When [the living creatures] moved, [the wheels] moved; when the former stood still, the latter stood still; and when the former were lifted off the ground, the wheels were lifted up next to them; because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.


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Over the heads of the living creatures was what appeared to be a dome glittering like ice; it was awesome, spread out over their heads, above them.


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Under the dome each had a pair of wings spread out straight toward those of others, and each had a pair which covered his body.


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I heard the sound of their wings when they moved; it was like the sound of rushing water, like the voice of Shaddai, like the noise of a tumultuous crowd or army. When they stopped, they lowered their wings.


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Whenever there was a sound from above the dome over their heads, they stopped and lowered their wings.


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Above the dome that was over their heads was something like a throne that looked like a sapphire. On it, above it, was what appeared to be a person.


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I saw what looked like gleaming, amber-colored fire radiating from what appeared to be his waist upward. Downward from what appeared to be his waist, I saw what looked like fire, giving a brilliant light all around him.


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This brilliance around him looked like a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day. This was how the appearance of the glory of Adonai looked. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard the voice of someone speaking.


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As he spoke to me, a spirit entered me and put me on my feet, and I heard him who was speaking to me.


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He said, “Human being! I am sending you to the people of Isra’el, that nation of rebels who have rebelled against me — they and their ancestors have been transgressing against me to this very day.


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Because they are defiant, hardhearted children, I am sending you; and you are to tell them, ‘Here is what Adonai Elohim says.’


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Whether they listen or not, this rebellious house will still know that a prophet has been among them!


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“As for you, human being, don’t be afraid of them or their words, even if briars and thorns surround you, and you sit among scorpions. Don’t be afraid of their words or be upset by their looks, for they are a rebellious house.


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But you, human being, hear what I am telling you: don’t you be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth, and eat what I am about to give you.”


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He spread it out in front of me, and it was covered with writing front and back. Written on it were laments, dirges and woes.


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He said to me, “Human being, eat what you see in front of you; eat this scroll. Then go and speak to the house of Isra’el.”


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as he said, “Human being, eat this scroll I am giving you; fill your insides with it.” When I ate it, it tasted as sweet as honey.


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For you are not being sent to a people with a difficult language and unintelligible speech, but to the house of Isra’el —


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not to many peoples with difficult languages and unintelligible speech, whose words you can’t understand when you hear them. Without doubt, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.


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But the house of Isra’el will not be willing to listen to you, because they aren’t willing to listen to me; since all the house of Isra’el are obstinate and hardhearted.


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Yes, I am making your resoluteness harder than flint, as hard as a diamond. So don’t be afraid of them or depressed by how they look at you, because they are a rebellious house.”


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Then he said to me, “Human being, receive in your heart and hear with your ears all my words that I speak to you.


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Then go to the exiles, to your countrymen; and speak to them. Tell them, ‘Here is what Adonai Elohim, says,’ whether they listen or not.”


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A spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me a very loud sound — blessed be the glory of Adonai from his place!


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It was the sound of the wings of the living creatures as they beat against each other, and the sound of the wheels next to them, a very loud sound.


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So a spirit lifted me up and took me away. I went in bitterness and the heat of my spirit, with the hand of Adonai strong on me.


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I went to the exiles who were living in Tel-Aviv, by the K’var River and stayed with them there in a stupefied state for seven days.


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“Human being, I have appointed you to be a watchman for the house of Isra’el. When you hear a word from my mouth, you are to warn them for me.


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If I say to a wicked person, ‘You will certainly die’; and you fail to warn him, to speak and warn the wicked person to leave his wicked way and save his life; then that wicked person will die guilty; and I will hold you responsible for his death.


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On the other hand, if you warn the wicked person, and he doesn’t turn from his wickedness or his wicked way, then he will still die guilty; but you will have saved your own life.


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Similarly, when a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and commits wickedness, I will place a stumblingblock before him — he will die; because you failed to warn him, he will die in his sin; his righteous acts which he did will not be remembered; and I will hold you responsible for his death.


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But if you warn the righteous person that a righteous person should not sin, and he doesn’t sin; then he will certainly live, because he took the warning; and you too will have saved your life.”


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The hand of Adonai came on me there, and he said to me, “Get up, go out to the valley, and I will speak with you there.”


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So I got up and went out to the valley. The glory of Adonai was there, like the glory I had seen by the K’var River; and I fell on my face.


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A spirit entered me and put me on my feet. Then he spoke with me and said to me, “Go, shut yourself inside your house.


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I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, so that you will be mute, unable to reprove them; for they are a rebellious house.


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But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth; and you will say to them, ‘This is what Adonai Elohim says.’ Whoever is inclined to listen will listen, and whoever is inclined to refuse will refuse, because they are a rebellious house.


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“As for you, human being, take a clay slab, lay it down in front of you, and draw on it the city of Yerushalayim.


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Show it under siege — build towers against it, raise earthworks against it, set up camps against it, and surround it with battering rams.


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Then take an iron griddle and put it in place as a wall of iron between yourself and the city, and fix your gaze on it — the city is under siege, and you are the one besieging it. This will be a sign for the house of Isra’el.


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“Next, you are to lie on your left side, and have it bear the guilt of the house of Isra’el — for as many days as you lie on your side, you will bear their guilt.


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For I am assigning you one day for each year of their guilt; thus you are to bear the guilt of the house of Isra’el for 390 days.


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Then, when you have finished that, you are to lie on your right side and bear the guilt of the house of Y’hudah for forty days, each day corresponding to a year; this is what I am assigning you.


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You are to fix your gaze on the siege of Yerushalayim, and, with your arm bared, prophesy against it.


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I am tying you down with ropes, and you are not to turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege.


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“Take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and buckwheat; put them together in one bowl; and make bread from it. For as long as you lie on your side, 390 days, this is what you are to eat.


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Each day the food you eat must weigh only three-quarters of a pound; you may eat it from time to time [during the day].


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You are also to drink a limited amount of water, two-thirds of a quart; you may drink it from time to time [during the day].


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[The bread] you eat is to be baked like barley cakes; you are to bake it before their eyes, using human dung as fuel.”


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Adonai said, “This is how the people of Isra’el will eat their food — unclean — in the nations where I am driving them.”


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I objected: “No, Adonai Elohim! I have never defiled myself — from my youth until now I have never eaten anything that died by itself or was killed by wild animals; no such disgusting food has ever entered my mouth.”


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He answered, “All right, I will give you cow dung to use instead of human dung, and you can prepare your bread on it.”


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He then said to me, “Human being, I am going to cut off the supply of bread in Yerushalayim, so that they will anxiously weigh out bread to eat, and, horrified, ration water to drink.


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Finally, due to lack of bread and water, they will stare at each other in shock, wasting away because of their guilt.”


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“Now you, human being, take a sharp sword; and use it like a barber’s razor to shave your head and beard. Then weigh the hair on a balance-scale, and divide it up.


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A third of it you are to burn in the city when the days of the siege are over. Take another third, and hit it with your sword all around the city. Scatter the last third to the wind, and I will pursue them with drawn sword.


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Again, of these take some; throw them in the fire, and burn them up; from there a fire will come out against the entire house of Isra’el.


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“Here is what Adonai Elohim, says: ‘This is Yerushalayim! I have placed her in the middle of the nations; countries can be found all around her.


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But she has rebelled against my rulings and committed wickedness more than the nations, against my laws more than the countries around her; because they have rejected my rulings and not lived according to my laws.’


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“Therefore here is what Adonai Elohim, says: ‘Because you have outdone the nations around you by not living according to my laws or following my rulings or even following the rules of the nations around you,’


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therefore here is what Adonai Elohim, says: ‘I too am against you, yes, I; and I will execute judgments among you while all the nations look on.


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Moreover, because of all your disgusting practices, I will do things to you that I have never done before; and I will never do such things again.


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Parents among you will eat their children, and children will eat their parents! I will execute judgments among you and scatter to all the winds those of you who remain.


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For, as I live,’ says Adonai Elohim, ‘because you defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and disgusting practices, therefore I swear that I will cut you off — my eye will not spare, I will have no pity.


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A third of you will die from plague or be consumed by famine inside [Yerushalayim]; a third will fall by the sword all around [Yerushalayim]; and a third I will scatter to all the winds and pursue with the sword.’


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In this way my anger will spend itself, my fury against them will die down, and I will be satisfied. Then, when I have spent my fury on them, they will know that I, Adonai, have spoken out of my zeal.


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‘I will make you a ruin and an object of reproach among the nations around you, in the sight of all passing by.


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When I execute judgments and furious punishments among you in anger and fury, [Yerushalayim] will be an object of reproach, derision and horror, and a lesson to warn the nations around you. I, Adonai, have announced it.


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I will send upon them the deadly, destructive arrows of famine, which I will send to destroy you. I will make the famine worse for you by cutting off your food supply.


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Yes, I will send famine and savage beasts upon you to leave you without children; plague and bloodshed will sweep through you; and I will bring the sword upon you. I, Adonai, have spoken it.’”


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‘Mountains of Isra’el, hear the word of Adonai Elohim: here is what Adonai Elohim says about the mountains, hills, ravines and valleys: “I myself will bring a sword against you and destroy your high places.


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Your altars will be wrecked and your pillars for sun-worship broken, and I will throw down your slain ones in front of your idols.


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I will lay the corpses of the people of Isra’el in front of their idols and scatter your bones all around your altars.


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Everywhere you live, the cities will be destroyed and the high places wrecked; so that your altars can be destroyed and wrecked, your idols broken and abolished, your pillars for sun-worship cut down and the things you have made wiped out.


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“‘“Nevertheless, I will leave a remnant, some who will escape the sword among the nations, when you have been scattered throughout the countries.


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Those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they have been exiled. How broken I have been over their whoring hearts that left me, and over their eyes that went whoring after their idols! They are going to loathe themselves for all the evils they committed in their disgusting practices.


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Then they will know that I am Adonai; it isn’t for nothing that I said I would bring this calamity upon them.”’


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“Here is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘Strike with your hand, and stamp with your foot, and bemoan all the terrible disgusting practices of the house of Isra’el. For they will fall by sword, famine and plague.


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Those far away will die from the plague, those nearby will fall by the sword, and whoever stays and is besieged will die from famine. This is how I will spend my fury on them.


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You will know that I am Adonai when their slain men are lying among their idols around their altars on every high hill, on every mountaintop, under every green tree, under every thick pistachio tree, wherever they offered sweet-smelling sacrifices to appease their idols.


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I will stretch out my hand over them and make the land wherever they live into a desolate waste worse than the Divlah Desert. Then they will know that I am Adonai.’”


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“As for you, human being, here is what Adonai Elohim says about the land of Isra’el: ‘The end! The end is coming to the four corners of the land!


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Now the end is upon you! I will send my anger upon you, I will judge you according to your ways. I will bring on you all your disgusting practices.


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My eye will not spare you, I will have no pity, but I will bring your ways upon you, and your disgusting practices will be done among you. Then you will know that I am Adonai.’


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Doom has come to you, you who live in the land! The time has come, the day is near, for tumult, not joyful shouts on the mountains.


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Now, soon, I will pour out my fury on you, I will spend my anger on you; I will judge you according to your ways I will bring on you all your disgusting practices.


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My eye will not spare you, I will have no pity; but will bring upon you what your ways deserve; and your disgusting practices will be among you. Then you will know it is I, Adonai, striking you.


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Violence has grown into a rod of wickedness. Nothing is left of them, nothing of their crowds, nothing of their wealth — there is nothing of importance in them.


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The time has come, the day has arrived; let neither buyer rejoice nor seller regret; for wrath is coming to all her many people.


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For the seller will not return to what he sold, even if he is still alive; for though the vision was brought to all her many people, nobody repented. Each kept living his own wicked life; they weren’t strong enough [to repent].


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The shofar has sounded, everything is ready, but no one goes out to the battle, for my wrath is coming to all her many people.


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“‘Outside is the sword, inside plague and famine. Those in the country will die by the sword. And as for those in the city, plague and famine will eat them up.


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But if any of them manage to escape, they will head for the mountains like doves from the valleys, all of them moaning, each for his sin.


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They will put on sackcloth; horror will cover them; every face will be ashamed, every head shaved bald.


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They will throw their silver into the streets; their gold will be like something unclean. On the day of Adonai’s wrath their silver and gold won’t be able to rescue them. These things won’t satisfy their hunger, these things won’t fill their stomachs, because these are what caused them to sin.


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From their beautiful jewellery, in which they took such pride, they made their abominable idols and their other detestable things; therefore, for them I have caused it to be like something unclean.


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I will hand it over to foreigners as booty, to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will profane it.


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I will turn my face away from them; then [Bavel] will profane my secret place, robbers will enter and profane it.


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Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations to take possession of their homes; I will end the arrogance of the strong; and their holy places will be profaned.


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Calamity will follow calamity, rumor will follow rumor; they will seek a vision from the prophet, but Torah will perish from the cohen and advice from the leaders.


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The king will go into mourning, the prince will be clothed with fright, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble in terror. I will treat them as their way of life deserves and judge them as they have judged others. Then they will know that I am Adonai.’”


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On the fifth day of the sixth month of the sixth year, as I was sitting in my house, and the leaders of Y’hudah were sitting there with me, the hand of Adonai Elohim fell on me.


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I looked and saw what seemed like a man made of fire. From what appeared to be his waist downward was fire, and from his waist upward was what appeared to be a gleaming amber-colored brilliance.


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The form of a hand was put out, which took me by a lock of my hair; and a spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and brought me, in these visions from God, to Yerushalayim, to the entrance of the inner [courtyard] gate that faces north. There stood the idol that [arouses God’s] jealousy and provokes [his] zealous indignation.


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Then he said to me, “Human being, raise your eyes toward the north.” I raised my eyes toward the north and saw, north of the Altar Gate, this image that [arouses God’s] jealousy in the entryway.


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He asked me, “Human being, do you see what they are doing, the horribly disgusting practices that the house of Isra’el is committing here, so that I must distance myself from my own sanctuary? But you will see even worse abominations.”


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So I went in and looked, and there, carved on the walls all around, were every kind of reptile and repulsive animal, along with all the idols of the house of Isra’el.


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Standing in front of them were seventy of the leading men of the house of Isra’el — in the center stood Ya’azanyahu the son of Shafan. Each man had his incense-burner in his hand, and a thick cloud of incense went up.


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Then he said to me, “Human being, did you see what the leaders of the house of Isra’el are doing in the dark, each one in the room of his own carved image, because they say, ‘Adonai can’t see us; Adonai has left the land.’?”


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He brought me to the entrance of the north gate to Adonai’s house; and there before me were women weeping for Tammuz.


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“Human being,” he asked me, “have you seen this? You will see practices even more disgusting than these.”


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He brought me into the inner courtyard of Adonai’s house; and there, at the entrance to the temple of Adonai, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs toward the temple of Adonai and their faces toward the east; and they were worshipping the sun toward the east.


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He asked me, “Human being, have you seen this? Does the house of Y’hudah consider it a casual matter that they commit the disgusting practices they are committing here, thus filling the land with violence, provoking me still more? Look! They are even putting the branch to their nose!


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Therefore I will act in fury, my eye will not spare, I will have no pity. Even if they cry loudly right in my ears, I will not listen to them.”


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Then he cried loudly right in my ears: “Summon the commanders of the city, each holding his weapon of destruction.”


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At once, six men approached on the path from the upper gate, to the north, each man holding his weapon of destruction. Among them was a man clothed in linen, with a scribe’s writing equipment at his waist. They entered and stood by the bronze altar.


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Then the glory of the God of Isra’el was made to go up from over the keruv, where it had been, to the threshold of the house. He called to the man clothed in linen, who had the scribe’s writing equipment at his waist.


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Adonai said to him, “Go throughout the city, through all Yerushalayim, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who are sighing and crying over all the disgusting practices that are being committed in it.”


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To the others I heard him say, “Go through the city after him and strike! Don’t let your eye spare; have no pity!


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Kill old men, young men, girls, little children, women — slaughter them all! But don’t go near anyone with the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.” They began with the leaders in front of the house.


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Then he said to them, “Defile the house! Fill the courtyards with corpses! Get going!” So they went out, spreading death in the city.


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While the killing was going on, I was left alone. I fell on my face, cried, and said, “Oh, Adonai Elohim! In pouring out your fury on Yerushalayim, are you going to destroy everyone left in Isra’el?”


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Then he said to me, “The wickedness of the house of Isra’el and Y’hudah is enormous, the land is full of blood, and the city is full of justice denied; because they say, ‘Adonai has left the land, Adonai doesn’t see.’


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But as far as I am concerned, my eye will not spare, and I will have no pity, but I will bring [the consequences of] their ways on their own heads.”


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At this point the man clothed in linen with the writing equipment at his waist returned and reported, “I have done everything you ordered me to do.”


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Then I looked, and suddenly, on the dome over the heads of the k’ruvim, there appeared above them something like sapphire that seemed to take the form of a throne.


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He spoke to the man clothed in linen; he said, “Go in between the wheels under the k’ruvim, fill both your hands with fiery coals from between the k’ruvim, and throw them on the city.” As I watched, he went.


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Now the k’ruvim were standing to the right of the house when the man entered, and the cloud filled the inner courtyard.


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The glory of Adonai rose from above the keruv to the threshold of the house, leaving the house filled with the cloud and the courtyard full of the brilliance of Adonai’s glory.


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The sound of the wings of the k’ruvim could be heard even in the outer courtyard sounding like the voice of God, Shaddai, when he speaks.


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When he ordered the man clothed in linen to take fire from between the wheels, from between the k’ruvim, he went in and stood next to a wheel;


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and a keruv put out his hand from between the k’ruvim into the fire between the k’ruvim, took some of it, and put it in the hands of the one clothed in linen, who took it and went out.


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I looked and saw four wheels next to the k’ruvim, one wheel next to one keruv and another wheel next to another keruv: the wheels had the color of beryl.


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When they moved, they could go in any of the four directions without turning as they moved; rather, wherever the head looked, they followed without turning as they moved.


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Their whole bodies, including their backs, hands and wings, and also the wheels, were full of eyes all around — even the wheels of the four k’ruvim.


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Every one [of the k’ruvim] had four faces: the first face was the face of a keruv, the second face was the face of a man, the third the face of a lion and the fourth the face of an eagle.


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When the k’ruvim moved, the wheels went with them; and when the k’ruvim lifted their wings to rise off the ground, these wheels did not stop going with them.


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When [the k’ruvim] stood still, [the wheels] stood still; and when the former rose, the latter rose with them; because the spirit of the living creatures was in them.


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The k’ruvim lifted their wings and rose off the earth — I was watching as they went off with the wheels next to them. They paused at the entrance to the east gate of Adonai’s house, with the glory of the God of Isra’el over them, from above.


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This was the living creature I had seen beneath the God of Isra’el by the K’var River, so I knew they were k’ruvim.


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Each of the four had four faces, and each had four wings, and what looked like a man’s hands was under their wings.


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As for how their faces looked, they were the faces I had seen by the K’var River, identical in appearance. Each one moved straight ahead.


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Then a spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of Adonai’s house, the gate that faces eastward. At the entrance of the gate I saw twenty-five men; among them were Ya’azanyah the son of ‘Azur and P’latyahu the son of B’nayahu, leaders of the people.


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He said to me, “Human being, these are the men who make evil plans and give wicked advice in this city.


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The Spirit of Adonai fell on me, and he said to me, “Say, ‘Here is what Adonai says: “What you are saying is correct, house of Isra’el; because I know how your minds work.


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Therefore Adonai Elohim says this: “Those you have killed and strewn all over it, they are the meat; and this city is indeed the cooking pot; but you will be removed from it.


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You will die by the sword; I will judge you at the border of Isra’el; and you will know that I am Adonai.


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This city will not be your cooking pot, but you will be the meat in it — I will judge you at Isra’el’s frontier;


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and you will know that I am Adonai. For you have not lived by my laws or obeyed my rulings but have acted according to the rules of the nations surrounding you.”’”


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As I was prophesying, P’latyahu the son of B’nayah died. I fell down on my face and cried out, “Oh, Adonai Elohim! Are you going to destroy completely those of Isra’el who are left?”


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“Human being, it is to your kinsmen — your brothers, your relatives and the whole house of Isra’el — that the people living in Yerushalayim have said, ‘Get away from Adonai! This land has been given to us to possess!’


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Therefore, say that Adonai Elohim says this: ‘True, I removed them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries; nevertheless, I have been a little sanctuary for them in the countries to which they have gone.’


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Therefore, say that Adonai Elohim says this: ‘“I will gather you from the peoples and collect you from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give the land of Isra’el to you.”


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and I will give them unity of heart. “I will put a new spirit among you.” I will remove from their bodies the hearts of stone and give them hearts of flesh;


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so that they will live by my regulations, obey my rulings and act by them. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.


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But as for those whose hearts go after the heart of their loathsome things and disgusting practices, I will bring [the consequences of] their ways on their own heads,’ says Adonai Elohim.”


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The k’ruvim lifted their wings, and the wheels were next to them, with the glory of the God of Isra’el over them, above.


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Next, the glory of Adonai rose from within the city and stood over the mountain which is on the east side of the city.


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Then a spirit lifted me up and brought me, in the vision, by the Spirit of God, to the exiles in the land of the Kasdim; after which the vision I had seen left me.


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“Human being, you are living among a rebellious people. They have eyes that can see, but they don’t take notice; and they have ears that can hear, but they don’t pay attention; because they are a rebellious people.


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So you, human being, prepare supplies for exile; and during the daytime, as they watch, go away as if you were going into exile — leave your place, and go somewhere else as they watch. Perhaps they will take notice, even though they are a rebellious house.


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Bring out your belongings during the day while they watch, as supplies for exile; and you yourself, while they watch, are to leave as people do who are going into exile.


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While they watch, you are to shoulder your pack and carry it out into the dark, with your face covered, so that you can’t see the ground; for I am making you a sign for the house of Isra’el.”


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So I did as I had been ordered — I brought out my belongings during the day as supplies for exile, and in the evening I dug a hole through the wall with my hand; then I carried my pack out on my shoulder in the dark as they watched.


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Tell them that Adonai Elohim says this prophecy concerns the prince in Yerushalayim and all the house of Isra’el there.


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Say: ‘I am a sign for you. As I have done, so will it be done to them — they will go into exile, into captivity.


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The prince who is with them will shoulder his pack and leave in the dark. They will dig holes through the wall to carry out their supplies. He will cover his face, so that he won’t be able to see the ground with his eyes.


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I will spread my net over him, and he will be caught in my snare. Then I will bring him to Bavel, to the land of the Kasdim. But he will not see it, even though he is going to die there.


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I will scatter to every wind all who are in attendance on him to help him, along with all his troops; and I will pursue them with the sword.


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They will know that I am Adonai when I scatter them among the nations and disperse them among the countries.


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But I will spare a few of them from sword, famine and plague; so that they can tell about all their disgusting practices among the nations where they go; thus they too will know that I am Adonai.’”


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and say to the people of the land, ‘Here is what Adonai Elohim says concerning those living in Yerushalayim in the land of Isra’el: “They will eat their bread in anxiety and drink their water in horror; because the land will be desolated from everything that fills it, due to the violence of those living there.


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The inhabited cities will be laid waste, the land will be desolate, and you will know that I am Adonai.”’”


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“Human being, don’t you have this proverb in the land of Isra’el, ‘Time keeps passing, and none of the visions are fulfilled’?


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Therefore tell them that Adonai Elohim says, ‘I will put an end to that proverb; never again will they use it as a proverb in Isra’el.’ Tell them, ‘The time has come for the fulfillment of every vision.


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because I am Adonai. I will speak; and whatever statement I make, it will be accomplished. It will no longer be delayed; for in your days, you rebellious house, I will speak the word and accomplish it,’ says Adonai Elohim.”


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“Human being, look! People from the house of Isra’el are saying, ‘The vision he sees concerns the distant future; he is prophesying about a time far off.’


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Therefore, say to them that Adonai Elohim says, ‘None of my words will be delayed any more, but the word that I speak will be accomplished,’ says Adonai Elohim.”


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“Human being, prophesy against the prophets of Isra’el who prophesy. Tell those prophesying out of their own thoughts, ‘Listen to what Adonai says!


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Adonai Elohim says: “Woe to the vile prophets who follow their own spirits and things which they have not seen!


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You [prophets] have not gone up to the breaks in the barricade or repaired it for the house of Isra’el, so that they can stand fast in battle on the day of Adonai.


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Their visions are futile and their divination is false; they say, ‘Adonai says,’ when Adonai has not sent them; yet they hope that the word will be confirmed.


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Haven’t you had a futile vision and spoken a false divination when you say, ‘Adonai says,’ and I have not spoken?


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Therefore here is what Adonai Elohim does say: ‘Because you have spoken futilities and seen falsehoods, therefore I am against you,’ says Adonai Elohim.


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“‘“My hand will be against the prophets who have futile visions and produce false divinations; they will not be allowed into the council of my people, or be written in the register of the house of Isra’el, or enter the land of Isra’el. Then you will know that I am Adonai Elohim.


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They deserve this, because they have led my people astray by saying there is peace when there is no peace. If someone builds a wall without mortar, they ‘plaster’ it with whitewash [to make it appear strong].


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and the wall will fall down. Then people will ask you, ‘Where is the whitewash you used to “plaster” it?’”


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Therefore Adonai Elohim says: “In my rage I will cause gale-force winds to break out, and in my anger there will come a cloudburst, with huge hailstones to consume it in fury.


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This is how I will break down the wall you covered with whitewash — I will smash it to the ground, so that its foundation will be revealed. The wall will fall down, and you will be consumed with it. Then you will know that I am Adonai.


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In this way I will spend my fury on the wall and on those who covered it with whitewash; and I will say to you, ‘The wall is gone, and so are those who “plastered” it,’


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that is, the prophets of Isra’el who prophesy about Yerushalayim and see visions of peace for her when there is no peace,” says Adonai Elohim.’


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“You, human being, turn your face against the daughters of your people who prophesy out of their own thoughts. Prophesy against them;


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tell them that Adonai Elohim says, ‘Woe to the women who sew magic pads for all arm joints and put veils over people of all sizes, in order to hunt human lives! Will you hunt down the lives of my people while you keep your own lives safe?


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You dishonor me before my people for a few handfuls of barley and crumbs of bread, killing people who should not die and sparing those who should not live, by your lying to my people, who love hearing lies.’


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Therefore here is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘I am against your pads, with which you hunt human lives like birds; I will tear them from your arms and let the lives go, yes, the human lives that you hunt like birds.


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I will also tear your veils and rescue my people from your clutches, so that they will no longer be in your power for you to hunt. Then you will know that I am Adonai.


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Because you have disheartened the righteous with your lies when I was not trying to cause them pain and have encouraged the wicked not to turn from their wicked ways and thus be saved,


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therefore you will have no more futile visions, and you will produce no more divinations. I will rescue my people from your clutches, and you will know that I am Adonai.’”


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“Human being, these men have taken their idols into their hearts, thus setting in front of themselves the stumblingblock that leads to sin. Should I let them consult me at all?


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Therefore speak to them, and tell them that Adonai Elohim says, ‘Everyone in the house of Isra’el who takes his idols into his heart, thus setting in front of himself the stumblingblock that leads to sin, and then comes to the prophet, I myself, Adonai, will answer him in a manner suited to his many idols,


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in order to grab hold of the house of Isra’el in their hearts; since, through their idols, they have all fallen away from me.’


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“Therefore say to the house of Isra’el that Adonai Elohim says, ‘Repent! Turn yourselves away from your idols, turn your faces away from all your disgusting practices!


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For everyone, whether from the house of Isra’el or a foreigner living in Isra’el, who separates himself from me and takes his idols into his heart, thus setting in front of himself the stumblingblock that leads to sin, and then comes to the prophet, asking him to consult me for him, I myself, Adonai, will answer him.


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I will set my face against that person, make him a warning sign and an example, and cut him off from my people. Then you will know that I am Adonai.


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“‘Now, whenever a prophet is enticed into speaking a word, it will be I, Adonai, who will have enticed that prophet. I will stretch out my hand over him and destroy him from among my people Isra’el.


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The prophets will bear the guilt for their sins — the sin of the prophet will be the same as the sin of the inquirer —


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so that the house of Isra’el will no longer wander away from me or defile themselves with all their crimes; rather, they will be my people and I will be their God,’ says Adonai Elohim.”


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“Human being, when a land sins against me by dealing treacherously with me, so that I stretch out my hand over it and break off its food supply, sending it famine and eliminating both its humans and its animals;


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even if these three men were in it — Noach, Dani’el and Iyov — they would by their righteousness save only themselves,” says Adonai Elohim.


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“If I unleash wild beasts on the land, and they kill its children and desolate it, so that no one can pass through because of the animals;


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even if these three men were in it, as I live,” says Adonai Elohim, “they would save neither sons nor daughters; only they themselves would be saved, and the land would remain barren.


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“Or if I bring the sword down on that land, saying, ‘Let the sword pass through the land,’ so that I eliminate both its humans and its animals;


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even if these three men were in it, as I live,” says Adonai Elohim, “they would save neither sons nor daughters; only they themselves would be saved.


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“Or if I bring a plague into that land and pour out my fury on it in bloodshed, so that I eliminate both its humans and its animals;


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even if Noach, Dani’el and Iyov were in it, as I live,” says Adonai Elohim, “they would save neither a son nor a daughter; they would save only themselves by their righteousness.”


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For here is what Adonai Elohim says: “Even if I inflict my four dreadful judgments on Yerushalayim — sword, famine, wild animals and plagues — to eliminate both its humans and its animals;


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there will still be left a remnant in it to be brought out, including both sons and daughters. When they come out to you, and you see their way of life and how they act, then you will be consoled over the calamity I have brought upon Yerushalayim, over everything I have done to it.


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Yes, they will console you when you see their way of life and how they act; and you will understand that it was not without good reason that I did what I did in [Yerushalayim],” says Adonai Elohim.


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“Human being, why should wood from a grapevine be better than some other kind of wood, than some branch that one might find among the trees of the forest?


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So now it is thrown in the fire as fuel, the fire consumes both ends of it, and the middle of it is singed — is it useful now for making something?


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When it was whole, it was good for nothing; so how much less, when the fire has consumed it, and it is singed, will it be useful for making something!


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“So Adonai Elohim says this: ‘Like wood from the vine among the trees of the forest, which I consign to the fire as fuel, so I give those living in Yerushalayim.


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I will set my face against them — they may have escaped one fire, but the fire will consume them yet. When I set my face against them, you will know that I am Adonai.


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Say that Adonai Elohim is telling Yerushalayim, ‘By origin and birth you are of the land of the Kena‘ani — your father was an Emori, and your mother was a Hitti.


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As for your birth — on the day you were born nobody cut your umbilical cord, washed you in water to clean you off, rubbed salt on you or wrapped you in cloth.


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No one seeing you had enough pity on you to do any of these things for you — no one had any compassion on you. Instead, you were thrown into an open field in your own filth on the day you were born.


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“‘I passed by and saw you there, wallowing in your own blood; and as you lay in your blood I said to you, “Live!” Yes, I said to you, as you lay in your blood, “Live!


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I will increase your numbers just like plants growing in the field.” And you did increase, you developed, you reached puberty, your breasts appeared, and your hair grew long; but you were naked and exposed.


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“‘Again I passed by you, looked at you and saw that your time had come, the time for love. So I spread my cloak over you to cover your private parts and entered into a covenant with you,’ says Adonai Elohim, ‘and you became mine.


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I also clothed you with an embroidered gown, gave you fine leather sandals to wear, put a fine linen headband on your head and covered you with silk.


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Thus you were decked out in gold and silver; your clothing was of fine linen, silk and richly embroidered cloth; you ate the finest flour, honey and olive oil. You grew increasingly beautiful — you were fit to be queen.


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Your fame spread among the nations because of your beauty, because it was perfect, due to my having bestowed my own splendor on you’ says Adonai Elohim.


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“‘But you put your trust in your own beauty and began prostituting yourself because of your fame, soliciting everyone passing by and accepting all comers.


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You took your clothes and used them to decorate with bright colors the high places you made for yourself, and there you continued prostituting yourself. Such things shouldn’t happen, and in the future they won’t.


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You also took your beautiful jewels made of my gold and my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images, with which you continued to prostitute yourself.


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You took your embroidered clothing and covered them; you set my olive oil and my incense in front of them;


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and you took my food, which I had given you — my fine flour, olive oil and honey, that I had given you to eat — and set it in front of them to give a pleasant aroma. That is how it was,’ says Adonai Elohim.


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“‘Moreover, your sons and daughters, whom you bore me, you took and sacrificed for them to devour. Were these fornications of yours a casual matter? —


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In all your disgusting practices and fornications you never remembered the condition you were in when you were young — naked, exposed and wallowing in your own blood.


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You built your high places at every streetcorner, turning your beauty into an abomination, spreading your legs for every passer-by, and multiplying your acts of fornication.


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You had sex with your big-membered Egyptian neighbors and engaged in fornication over and over, just to provoke me.


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So now I have stretched out my hand over you, diminished your ration of food and put you at the mercy of those who hate you, the daughters of the P’lishtim, who find your lewd behavior revolting.


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“‘Still unsatisfied, you acted like a whore also with the people of Ashur; yes, you fornicated with them and were still not satisfied.


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You multiplied your acts of fornication with the land of traders, the Kasdim, and still weren’t satisfied.


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“‘You are so weak-willed!’ says Adonai Elohim. ‘You do all these things, behaving like a shameless whore,


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building your platforms on every streetcorner, making your high places in every open space — and yet you aren’t like a whore, because you scorn getting paid.


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but also instead of receiving gifts like every other prostitute, you give gifts to all your lovers, you bribe them to come to you from all over the place and have sex with you!


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You are the opposite of other women — you solicit the fornication, you aren’t solicited; and you pay them, they don’t pay you — you’re the opposite!


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Adonai Elohim says: ‘Because your filth has been poured out and your privates exposed through your acts of fornication with your lovers, and because of all the idols of your disgusting practices, and because of the blood of your children, which you gave them,


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therefore, look! I am going to gather all your lovers, to whom you have been so very nice, all the ones you hate right along with all the ones you love — I will gather them against you from all over the place and expose your private parts to them, so that they will see you completely naked.


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I will pronounce on you the sentence that applies to women who commit adultery and murder; I will bring on you the death [decreed for] furious jealousy.


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Yes, I will hand you over to them; and they will make a ruin of your platforms, tear down your high places, strip you of your clothes, take away your jewels, and leave you naked and exposed.


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They will also bring up a mob against you, who will stone you to death and hack you to pieces with their swords.


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They will burn your houses to the ground and execute judgments against you in the presence of many women. I will make you stop fornicating, and you will never again pay for a lover.


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“‘Yes, I will satisfy my fury against you. But after that, my jealousy will leave you; and I will calm down and no longer be angry.


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“‘Because you didn’t remember the condition you were in when you were young, but enraged me with all these things, therefore I will bring [the consequences of] your ways on your own head’ says Adonai Elohim. “‘You committed these obscenities in addition to all your other disgusting practices!


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Yes, you are your mother’s daughter, who despises her husband and children; you are the sister of your sisters, who despise their husbands and children; your mother was a Hitti and your father an Emori.


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Moreover, your older sister is Shomron, who lives at your left, she and her daughters; and your younger sister, living at your right, is S’dom with her daughters.


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You didn’t merely live by their ways and act according to their disgusting practices, but in a very short time you acted more corruptly than they in all your ways.


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“‘As I live’ says Adonai Elohim, ‘your sister S’dom has not done, neither she nor her daughters, [as much evil] as you have done, you and your daughters.


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The crimes of your sister S’dom were pride and gluttony; she and her daughters were careless and complacent, so that they did nothing to help the poor and needy.


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They were arrogant and committed disgusting acts before me; so that when I saw it, I swept them away.


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Shomron did not commit even half as many sins as you did. You committed many more disgusting acts than your sisters; in fact, in comparison with all the disgusting acts you have committed, they seem innocent!


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But you too must bear your disgrace; for by your passing judgment that your sisters were innocent, through your having committed sins worse than theirs, they are shown to be more righteous than you. So be ashamed, and bear the disgrace you deserve for making your [guilty] sisters seem innocent!


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“‘I will end their exile — the exile of S’dom and her daughters, the exile of Shomron and her daughters, and the exile of your captives there among them;


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so that you can bear your own shame and experience the disgrace you deserve for all you have done to shield them from feeling their own guilt.


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Your sisters, S’dom with her daughters and Shomron with her daughters, will return to their previous condition; and you with your daughters will return to your previous condition.


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before your own wickedness was exposed. But now the daughters of Aram mock you, as do her neighbors; and the daughters of the P’lishtim on every side are repulsed by you.


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“For here is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘I will do to you as you have done — you treated the oath with contempt by breaking the covenant.


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Nevertheless, I will remember the covenant I made with you when you were a girl and will establish an everlasting covenant with you.


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Then you will remember your behavior and be ashamed of it as you receive your older and younger sisters and make them your daughters, even though the covenant with you does not cover that;


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so that you will remember and be so ashamed that you will never open your mouth again, so ashamed will you be when I have forgiven you all that you have done,’ says Adonai Elohim.”


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say that Adonai Elohim says this: ‘A big eagle having great wings and long pinions full of varicolored feathers came to the L’vanon and took over the top of the cedar.


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He cropped off the topmost of its young twigs, carried them to a land of traders and set them down in a city of merchants.


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He also took some of the seed in the land and planted it in fertile soil, placing it where there was abundant water, as one would a willow.


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It grew to become a fruitful vine sprawling over the ground; its branches turned toward him, and its roots were under him — thus it became a vine, sprouting branches and putting forth shoots.


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“‘There was another big eagle with great wings and many feathers; and the vine bent its roots toward him and put forth its branches toward him, so that he might water it more than in the bed where it was planted.


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It had been planted in good soil, near plenty of water, so that it would produce branches, bear fruit and become a noble vine.’


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“Say that Adonai Elohim asks: ‘Will it succeed? Won’t he pull it up by the roots and cut off its fruit; so that it dries up; and all its sprouting leaves wither? There will be no great power and few people there when it is plucked up by the roots.


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Will it thrive just because it was planted? Won’t it wither altogether when the east wind strikes it? Yes, it will wither right there in the beds where it was growing.’”


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“Say to the rebellious house: ‘Don’t you know what these things mean?’ Tell them: ‘Here, the king of Bavel came to Yerushalayim, took its king and princes and brought them to himself in Bavel.


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Then he took a member of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. He removed the powerful leaders of the land,


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so that this kingdom of his would stay humble and not develop aspirations of its own; rather, it would keep his covenant and live accordingly.


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But this man rebelled and sent representatives to Egypt, in order to obtain horses and a sizeable army. Can he succeed? Can someone who does such things escape punishment? Can he break the covenant and still escape punishment?


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“‘As I live,’ says Adonai Elohim, ‘in the place where the king who gave him his throne lives, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke, there with him in Bavel I swear that he will die.


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Pharaoh with his mighty army and numerous troops will give him no help in the war, when they raise siege-works and build fortified towers to destroy many people;


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because he despised the oath by breaking the covenant to which he had sworn allegiance; having done all these things, he will not escape unpunished.’


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Therefore Adonai Elohim says: ‘As I live, I swear that it is my oath he has despised and my covenant he has broken, and I will bring this on his own head.


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I will spread my net over him, and he will be caught in my snare; I will bring him to Bavel and bring him to judgment there for breaking faith with me.


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The elite troops among his forces will die by the sword, and those who survive will be scattered to every wind. Then you will know that I, Adonai, said it.’


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“Adonai Elohim says, ‘From the top of this tall cedar, from its highest branch, I will take a shoot and plant it myself on a high and prominent mountain.


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I will plant it on the highest mountain in Isra’el, where it will put out branches, bear fruit, and become a noble cedar. Under it will live all kinds of birds; winged creatures of every description will live there in the shadow of its branches.


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Then all the trees of the field will know that I, Adonai, bring down the tall tree and raise up the low tree, wither the green tree and make the withered tree bear fruit. I, Adonai, have spoken; and I will do it.’”


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“What does it mean, that you keep quoting this proverb in the land of Isra’el — ‘When parents eat sour grapes, their children’s teeth are set on edge’?


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Look, all lives belong to me — both the parent’s life and the child’s life are equally mine — so it is the person who sins, himself, who must die.


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He doesn’t eat on the mountains or raise his eyes toward the idols of the house of Isra’el; he doesn’t defile his neighbor’s wife or touch a woman during her time of menstrual impurity;


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he doesn’t wrong anyone; he returns any pledged property a debtor has given as collateral for a loan; he takes nothing by robbery, but gives his food to the hungry and clothing to those who need it;


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he neither demands nor accepts interest on a loan; he refrains from what is evil; and he judges honestly between one person and another.


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In short, he lives according to my laws and observes my rulings, so as to act faithfully. Such a person is righteous, and he will certainly live,” says Adonai Elohim.


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“Now suppose he is the father of a son who is a robber, a murderer, or who does any of these things to a brother —


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whereas the father himself does none of them. He eats on the mountains, defiles his neighbor’s wife,


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wrongs the poor and needy, takes by robbery, doesn’t restore pledged property, raises his eyes toward the idols, engages in disgusting practices,


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demands and accepts interest. Should he live? He will not live, because he has engaged in all these disgusting practices — he must be put to death; his blood is on him.


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“But now suppose he has a son who sees all the sins his father committed, thinks about them, and behaves differently.


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He doesn’t eat on the mountains, raise his eyes to the idols of the house of Isra’el, defile his neighbor’s wife,


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wrong others, keep pledged property or take by robbery, but gives his food to the hungry and clothing to those in need of it;


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he refrains from oppressing the poor; and he neither demands nor accepts interest. He obeys my rulings and lives according to my laws. So he will not die for his father’s sins but will certainly live.


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Yet his father, because he oppressed so cruelly, committed robbery against his brother and never did anything good among his people — he will die for his sins.


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“You ask, ‘Why doesn’t the son bear his father’s guilt?’ When the son has done what is lawful and right, has kept all my laws and obeyed them, he will certainly live.


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The person who sins is the one that will die — a son is not to bear his father’s guilt with him, nor is the father to bear his son’s guilt with him; but the righteousness of the righteous will be his own, and the wickedness of the wicked will be his own.


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“However, if the wicked person repents of all the sins he committed, keeps my laws and does what is lawful and right; then he will certainly live, he will not die.


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None of the transgressions he has committed will be remembered against him; for the righteousness that he has done, he will live.


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Do I take any pleasure at all in having the wicked person die?” asks Adonai Elohim. “Wouldn’t I prefer that he turn from his ways and live?


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“On the other hand, when the righteous person turns away from his righteousness and commits wickedness by acting in accordance with all the disgusting practices that the wicked person does, will he live? None of the righteous deeds he has done will be remembered; for the trespasses and sins he has committed, he will die.


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“So now you say, ‘Adonai’s way isn’t fair.’ Listen, house of Isra’el! Is it my way that is unfair? or your ways that are unfair?


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When the righteous person turns away from his righteousness and commits wickedness, he will die for it — for the wickedness he commits he will die.


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And when the wicked person turns away from all the wickedness he has committed and does what is lawful and right, he will save his life.


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Because he thinks it over and repents of all the transgressions he committed, he will certainly live, not die.


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Yet the house of Isra’el says, ‘Adonai’s way isn’t fair.’ House of Isra’el, is it my ways that are unfair, or your ways that are unfair?


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Therefore, house of Isra’el, I will judge each of you according to his ways,” says Adonai Elohim. “Repent, and turn yourselves away from all your transgressions, so that they will not be a stumblingblock that brings guilt upon you.


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Throw far away from yourselves all your crimes that you committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit; for why should you die, house of Isra’el?


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I take no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies,” says Adonai Elohim, “so turn yourselves around, and live!


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say: ‘What a mother you had — a lioness among lions! She lay down among young lions and reared her cubs.


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One of her cubs she singled out: he became a young lion, he learned to seize his prey, he became a man-eater.


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The nations sounded an alarm against him; and he was caught in their pit. With hooks they dragged him off to the land of Egypt.


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When she saw that she had been thwarted, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made a young lion of him.


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He prowled among the lions, grew to be a young lion, learned to seize his prey and became a man-eater.


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He raped their widows and destroyed their cities; the land and all in it were appalled at the sound of his roaring.


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The nations set a snare for him from the provinces all around, they spread their net over him, and he was caught in their pit.


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With hooks they put him in a cage and brought him to the king of Bavel to imprison him in a fortress, so that his roar would be heard no more on the mountains of Isra’el.


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“‘Your mother was like a strong grapevine planted by the water. It was fruitful and luxuriant because of the abundant water.


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It had strong branches to be used as scepters by rulers; besides having thick foliage, it grew taller and taller, until its height was noticed, with its mass of branches.


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But it was torn up in fury and flung on the ground. An east wind withered her fruit, her strong branches were broken off; they dried up; and fire consumed the vine.


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Fire has gone out from its own branches, burning up its fruit, so that now it has no strong branch to be a ruler’s scepter.’” This lamentation became very well known.


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On the tenth day of the fifth month of the seventh year, some of Isra’el’s leaders came to consult Adonai and sat with me;


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“Human being, speak to Isra’el’s leaders; tell them that Adonai Elohim asks, ‘Have you come to consult me? As I live,’ says Adonai Elohim, ‘I swear that I will not let you consult me.’


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“Are you going to judge them? Human being, are you going to judge them? Then have them realize how disgusting their ancestors’ practices were.


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Tell them that Adonai Elohim says this: ‘Back on the day when I chose Isra’el, I raised my hand to the descendants of the house of Ya‘akov. I revealed myself to them in the land of Egypt when I raised my hand to them and said, “I am Adonai your God.”


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On the day I raised my hand to them, pledging to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land I had reconnoitered for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands,


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I told them, “Each of you is to throw away the detestable things that draw your eyes. Do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am Adonai your God.”


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“‘But they rebelled against me and wouldn’t listen to me; they did not, each of them, throw away the detestable things that drew their eyes; and they did not abandon the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my fury on them and spend my anger on them there in the land of Egypt.


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But concern for my own reputation kept me from letting it be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they were living, in the sight of whom I had made myself known to them, in order to bring them out of the land of Egypt.


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I gave them my laws and showed them my rulings; if a person obeys them, he will have life through them.


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I gave them my shabbats as a sign between me and them, so that they would know that I, Adonai, am the one who makes them holy.


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“‘But the house of Isra’el rebelled against me in the desert. They did not live by my laws; and they rejected my rulings, which, if a person does, he will have life through them; moreover, they greatly profaned my shabbats. Then I said I would pour out my fury on them in the desert, in order to destroy them.


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But concern for my own reputation kept me from letting it be profaned in the sight of the nations who had seen when I brought them out.


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Yet I also raised my hand and swore to them in the desert that I would not bring them into the land I was giving them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands;


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because they had rejected my rulings, did not live by my laws and profaned my shabbats; since their hearts went after their idols.


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However, I spared them from complete destruction; I did not completely finish them off in the desert.


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“‘I said to their children in the desert, “Don’t live by the laws of your fathers, observe their rulings or defile yourselves with their idols.


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and keep my shabbats holy; and they will be a sign between me and you, so that you will know that I am Adonai your God.”


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“‘But the children too rebelled against me. They did not live by my laws or observe my rulings, to obey them, which, if a person does, he will have life by them; and they profaned my shabbats. Then I said I would pour out my fury on them and spend my anger on them in the desert.


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Nevertheless, I withdrew my hand and allowed concern for my own reputation to keep me from letting it be profaned in the sight of the nations who had seen when I brought them out.


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“‘I also raised my hand and swore to them in the desert that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries;


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because they hadn’t obeyed my rulings but had rejected my laws and profaned my shabbats, and their eyes had turned toward their fathers’ idols.


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and I let them become defiled by their own gifts, in that they offered up their firstborn sons, so that I could fill them with revulsion, so that they would [finally] realize that I am Adonai.’


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“Therefore, human being, speak to the house of Isra’el; tell them that Adonai Elohim says, ‘Moreover, your ancestors blasphemed me by breaking faith with me in still another way:


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for after I had brought them into the land, which I had raised my hand in pledge to give them, they noted all its high hills and leafy trees and offered there their sacrifices; there they made offerings that provoked my anger, there they set out their sweet aromas, and there they poured out their drink offerings.


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When I asked them, “This high place where you go, what is the meaning of it?” they gave it the name Bamah* which it retains to this day.’


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“So tell the house of Isra’el that Adonai Elohim says, ‘You are defiling yourselves in the same way as your ancestors, following their abominations and fornicating with them;


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and when offering your gifts, you make your children pass through the fire and defile yourselves with all your idols — to this day. So, am I supposed to allow you to consult me, house of Isra’el? As I live,’ says Adonai Elohim, ‘I swear that I won’t have you consult me,


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and that what you have in mind when you say, “We will be like the Goyim, like the families of the other countries, serving wood and stone,” will certainly not happen.


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As I live,’ says Adonai Elohim, ‘I swear that surely with a mighty hand, with a stretched-out arm and with poured-out fury I myself will be king over you.


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I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you were scattered, with a mighty hand, with a stretched-out arm and with poured-out fury;


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Just as I judged your ancestors in the desert of the land of Egypt, so will I judge you,’ says Adonai Elohim.


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I will rid you of the rebels who are in revolt against me — I will bring them out from the land where they are living, but they will not enter the land of Isra’el; then you will know that I am Adonai.’


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“As for you, house of Isra’el, here is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘Go on serving your idols, every one of you! But afterwards, [I swear that] you will listen to me, and you will no longer profane my holy name with your gifts and with your idols.


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For on my holy mountain, the high mountain of Isra’el,’ says Adonai Elohim, ‘the whole house of Isra’el, all of them, will serve me in the land. I will accept them there, and there I will require your contributions, your best gifts and all your consecrated things.


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I will accept you with your sweet aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you were scattered; and through you I will manifest my holiness in the sight of the nations.


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“‘You will know that I am Adonai when I bring you into the land of Isra’el, into the country which I pledged, by raising my hand, to give to your ancestors.


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There you will remember your behavior and all the things you did by which you defiled yourselves, and you will loathe yourselves for all the evils you committed.


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You will know that I am Adonai when I have dealt with you in a manner that preserves my reputation, and not according to your evil ways and corrupt actions, house of Isra’el’ says Adonai Elohim.”


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“Human being, turn your face southward, preach to the south and prophesy to the scrublands of the Negev;


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say to the Negev forest: ‘Hear the word of Adonai. Adonai Elohim says, “I will light a fire in you; it will devour every tree in you, green and dry alike; a blazing, unquenchable flame that will scorch every face from the Negev to the north.


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“Human being, turn your face toward Yerushalayim, preach to the sanctuaries and prophesy to the land of Isra’el;


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tell the land of Isra’el that Adonai Elohim says, ‘I am against you. I will draw my sword from its scabbard and cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.


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Since I am going to rid you of both righteous and evildoers, my sword will also go out of its scabbard against everyone, from the Negev to the north.


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Everyone alive will know that I, Adonai, drew my sword from its scabbard; it will not be sheathed again.’


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Then, when they ask you, ‘Why are you groaning?’ you will answer, ‘Because of the news, because it’s coming. All hearts will melt, all hands hang limp, all spirits faint and all knees turn to water; here, it’s coming, it will happen,’ says Adonai Elohim.”


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“Human being, prophesy. Say that Adonai Elohim says to say this: ‘A sword, a sword has been sharpened and polished,


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sharpened in order to slaughter and slaughter, polished to flash like lightning. But how can we rejoice? My son rejects the rod and every other stick.


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The sword was given to be polished, so that it could be wielded; it was sharpened and polished to be placed in the slaughterer’s hand.’


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“Shout and wail, human being, because it’s coming upon my people, upon all the leaders of Isra’el — they will be victims of the sword along with my people. Strike your thigh in remorse!


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For a test is coming, and what if he rejects the rod again then? He will cease to exist,” says Adonai Elohim.


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“Therefore, human being, prophesy and clap your hands together. Then the sword will strike twice, three times, the sword for victims, the sword for a great slaughter, coming from every direction.


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So that their hearts will melt, and many will stumble and fall, I have posted the point of the sword at every one of their gates. See how it flashes, sharpened for the kill!


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“Now, human being, designate two roads for the sword of the king of Bavel to follow, both coming out of one country. Put up a signpost at the start of the road leading to the city.


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Make a road, so that the sword can come to Rabbah of the people of ‘Amon and to Y’hudah in fortified Yerushalayim.


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For the king of Bavel is standing at the fork in the road, where the two roads separate, about to use divination — he is shaking the arrows, consulting the household gods, examining the liver.


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Into his right hand comes the lot for Yerushalayim, to set up battering rams, give the order for slaughter, raise a shout, set battering rams against the gates, build siege ramps and erect watchtowers.


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The inhabitants will believe this is a false divination because of the oaths upon oaths [that their false prophets have sworn to the contrary]. But it will cause [God] to remember their guilt and thus insure their capture.


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“Therefore this is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘Because you have caused your guilt to be remembered, with your misdeeds revealed and the sins in all your actions evident — since you have been remembered, you will be captured.’


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As for you, you wicked prince of Isra’el, due to be killed, whose day has come, at the time of final punishment,


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here is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘Remove the turban, take off the crown! Everything is being changed. What was low will be raised up, and what was high will be brought down.


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Ruin! Ruin! I will leave it a ruin such as there has never been, and it will stay that way until the rightful ruler comes, and I give it to him.’


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“You, human being, prophesy! Say that Adonai Elohim says this about the people of ‘Amon and their insults: ‘A sword, a sword, is drawn for slaughter, polished to the utmost, to flash like lightning —


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while [your prophets] produce false visions for you, while they divine lies for you — to lay you out upon the necks of the wicked who are to be killed, whose day has come, at the time of final punishment.


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Cause it to return to its scabbard! I will judge you in the place where you were created, in the land of your origin.


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I will pour my fury out on you, breathe on you with the fire of my rage, and hand you over to barbarous men highly skilled in destruction.


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You will be fuel for the fire, your blood will flow through the land, you will be remembered no more; for I, Adonai, have spoken.’”


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“Now, human being, are you prepared to judge? Are you prepared to judge the city drenched in blood? Then make her realize how disgusting all her practices are!


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Say that Adonai Elohim says, ‘City that sheds blood within yourself, thus speeding your own doom, and that makes idols for yourself that defile you:


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you are guilty because of the blood you have shed, you are defiled by your idols that you have made. You have shortened your days, you have completed your years; therefore I have made you an object of scorn for the nations and a laughingstock for every country.


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Those close by and those far off will taunt you, you who have such a defiled reputation and such great disorder.


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In you, they make light of fathers and mothers, they oppress foreigners, they wrong orphans and widows.


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In you, people gossip to the point of inciting bloodshed; in you are those who go to eat on the mountains; in you, they commit lewd acts;


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In you, one commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another commits some lewd act defiling his daughter-in-law; still another humbles his sister, his own father’s daughter.


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In you, people take bribes to shed blood; you demand and accept interest on loans; in greed you make profits off your neighbors by extorting them; and you have forgotten me,’ says Adonai Elohim.


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“‘Therefore, I am clapping my hands together because of your ill-gotten gains and the blood shed in you.


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Can your courage last, can your strength continue during the days when I deal with you? I, Adonai, have spoken it; and I will do it.


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I will scatter you among the Goyim and disperse you throughout the countries; thus I will remove your defilement from you,


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and you will cause yourselves to be profaned in full view of the Goyim. Then you will know that I am Adonai.’”


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“Human being, the house of Isra’el has become an alloy of base metals for me; they are all copper, tin, iron and lead mixed together in the crucible, the dross left over from the silver.


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Therefore Adonai Elohim says this: ‘Because you have all become dross, I will collect all of you inside Yerushalayim.


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Then, just as they collect silver, copper, iron, lead and tin into a crucible and blow fire on it to melt it down; so likewise I will collect you in my anger and fury, throw you in there, and melt you down.


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Yes, I will collect you and blow on you with the fire of my rage, and you will be melted down in it.


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As silver is melted down in a crucible, so will you be melted down in [Yerushalayim]. Then you will know that it is I, Adonai, who have poured out my fury on you.’”


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“Human being, tell her this: ‘You are a land that is neither cleansed nor rained on in the day of fury.


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There is a conspiracy of prophets in it like a roaring lion tearing up the prey; they have devoured people, seized wealth and valuables, and widowed many in it.


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Her cohanim have done violence to my Torah, profaned my holy things, made no difference between the holy and the common, not distinguished between unclean and clean, hidden their eyes from my shabbats, and profaned me among themselves.


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Her leaders in it are like wolves tearing up the prey to shed blood and destroy people, in order to benefit unjustly.


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Her prophets have “plastered” for them with whitewash, seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, “Thus says Adonai Elohim,” when Adonai has not spoken.


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The people of the land have extorted, robbed, wronged the poor and needy and unjustly oppressed foreigners.


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“‘I sought for a man among them who could build a barricade or stand in the break to oppose me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.


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Therefore I am pouring out my fury on them, consuming them with the fire of my rage, bringing their own ways on their own heads,’ says Adonai Elohim.”


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who were whores in Egypt — even as young girls they were whores. There they let their breasts be caressed, and there their virgin nipples were fondled.


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Their names were Oholah, the older one, and Oholivah, her sister. They belonged to me, and they gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their names, Shomron is Oholah, and Yerushalayim is Oholivah.


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“Even when she belonged to me, Oholah prostituted herself; she lusted after her lovers from Ashur — warriors


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She gave herself as a whore to them, all of them the elite of Ashur; and she defiled herself with all the idols of everyone she lusted after.


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She did not give up the whoring she had begun in Egypt, where men had sex with her, fondled her virgin nipples and flooded her with their fornication.


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They exposed her private parts, took her sons and daughters, and put her to death with the sword; so that she became notorious among women for the judgments executed against her.


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“Her sister Oholivah saw this; nevertheless she was worse than her sister in lusting and likewise in whoring.


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She lusted after the men from Ashur, governors and rulers, warriors dressed to perfection, skilled horsemen, all of them good-looking young men.


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She prostituted herself more than ever; because she saw wall-carvings of men, depicting the Kasdim in vermilion,


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with sashes wrapped around their waists and flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like military men, the very image of men of Bavel born in the land of the Kasdim.


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The moment she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in the land of the Kasdim;


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and the men of Bavel climbed into her “love bed” and defiled her with their lust. She was defiled by them, and then filled with revulsion at them.


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Thus did she reveal her fornication and expose her private parts. When this happened, I was filled with revulsion at her, just as I had been filled with revulsion at her sister.


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Still she kept increasing her whoring, remembering the days when she was young, fornicating in the land of Egypt.


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Yes, she lusted after their male prostitutes, whose members are like those of donkeys and who ejaculate like stallions.


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You yearned for the lewdness of your girlhood, when the Egyptians used to fondle your nipples and caress your young breasts.


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“Therefore, Oholivah, here is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘I will raise up your lovers against you, the ones who fill you with revulsion, and bring them against you from every side —


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the men of Bavel and all the Kasdim, P’kod, Shoa and Koa, and with them all the men of Ashur, good-looking young men, all of them governors and rulers, commanders and officers, all on horseback.


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They will advance on you armed with chariots, wagons and with an army drawn from many peoples; they will array themselves against you from every side with breastplates, shields and helmets. I will give them the authority to judge, and they will judge you as they see fit.


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I will direct my jealousy against you, so that they will deal with you in fury — they will cut off your nose and ears, and what is left of you will die by the sword; they will seize your sons and daughters, and those who remain of you will be consumed by the fire.


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Thus I will put an end to your lewdness and your fornication brought from the land of Egypt, so that you will no longer raise your eyes toward them or remember Egypt any more.’


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For this is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘I am about to hand you over to those you hate, to those who fill you with revulsion;


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and they will deal with you in hatred, seize everything you have worked for, and leave you naked and exposed — the full shame of your whoring will be exposed, your lewdness and your fornicating.


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These things will be done to you because you have gone fornicating with the Goyim, and because you are defiled with their idols.


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Adonai Elohim says: ‘You will drink from your sister’s cup, a cup both deep and wide, full right up to the brim with scorn and derision,


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filling you with drunkenness and sorrow, a cup of horror and devastation — the cup of your sister Shomron.


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You will drink it, you will drain it, and then you will gnaw it to shreds and tear out your own breasts! For I have spoken it’ says Adonai Elohim.


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“Therefore this is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘Because you forgot me and flung me behind your back, you will bear the guilt of your lewdness and whoring.’”


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Then Adonai said to me, “Human being, are you ready to judge Oholah and Oholivah? Then confront them with their disgusting practices.


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For they committed adultery, and their hands are dripping with blood. They committed adultery with their idols; and they offered their sons, whom they bore to me, for these idols to eat.


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Moreover, they have done this to me as well: they defiled my sanctuary on the same day, and they profaned my shabbats.


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For after killing their children for their idols, they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; this they did in my house.


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“Worse still, you sent a messenger summoning men to come from a distance; and they came. For them you washed yourself, painted your eyes, decked yourself with your finery,


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and sat on a sumptuous bed, with a table arranged before it, on which you put my incense and my olive oil.


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The noise of a carefree crowd could be heard there; many of the men were brought in drunk from the desert. They put bracelets on their hands and magnificent crowns on their heads.


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I thought, ‘That woman! She’s worn out from all her adulteries, but they still go to fornicate with her!’


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For every one went in to her; just as men go in to a prostitute, so they went in to Oholah and Oholivah, those debauched women.


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Nevertheless, there are righteous men who will judge them as adulterers and murderers are supposed to be judged; because they are adulterers, and blood is dripping from their hands.


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For here is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘Summon an assembly to punish them; give them over to terror and plunder.


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Let the assembly stone them to death, dispatch them with their swords, kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses to the ground.


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“‘Thus I will put an end to lewdness in the land, so that all women may be taught not to imitate your lewdness.


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You will receive the punishment your lewdness deserves, and you will pay the penalty for your idolatries. Then you will know that I am Adonai Elohim.’”


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“Human being, write down today’s date; because on this very day the king of Bavel has begun his attack on Yerushalayim.


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And tell this allegory to these rebels; say that Adonai Elohim says: ‘Put a pot on the fire; put it there, pour water in it;


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Put in it pieces of meat, all the best parts — the thigh, the shoulder; fill it with the choicest cuts,


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taken from the pick of the flock, and pile the bones underneath. Bring it to a rolling boil, till it’s all cooked, even the bones.’


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“Therefore Adonai Elohim says: ‘Woe to the city drenched with blood, to the pot whose scum is in it, and whose scum has not been removed. Empty it piece by piece, without troubling to draw lots.


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For her blood is still in her; she poured it on bare rock; she did not pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.


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So in order to rouse my fury and excite my vengeance, I have fixed her blood there on the bare rock, where it will not be covered.’


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“Therefore Adonai Elohim says this: ‘Woe to the city drenched with blood! I myself will make a huge bonfire,


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Put the empty pot on the coals, heat it till its copper bottom glows, till its impurity melts inside it, and its scum is burned away.


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Because of your filthy lewdness, because you refused to be purified when I wanted to purify you; now you will not be purified from your filth until I have satisfied my fury on you.


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“‘I, Adonai, have spoken it, and it will happen. I will do it, I will not turn back, I will not refrain or spare or relent. They will judge you as your ways and deeds deserve,’ says Adonai Elohim.”


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“Human being, with a single blow I am about to deprive you of the delight of your eyes. But you are not to lament, weep or let your tears run down.


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Sigh silently, don’t observe mourning for the dead, bind your turban on your head, put your sandals on your feet, don’t cover your upper lip, and don’t eat the food people prepare for mourners.”


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I spoke to the people in the morning, and that evening my wife died. So I did the following morning as I had been ordered.


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to speak to the house of Isra’el and say that this is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘I am about to profane my sanctuary, the pride of your strength, the delight of your eyes and your heart’s desire. Your sons and daughters whom you have left behind will die by the sword.


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But you are to do as I have done — not cover your upper lips, not eat the food people prepare for mourners,


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put your turbans on your heads and your sandals on your feet, and neither observe mourning nor cry. Rather, because of your crimes you will pine away and groan to one another.


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Thus Yechezk’el will be a sign for you; you will do just what he has done; and when this happens, you will know that I am Adonai Elohim.’


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“As for you, human being, on the day when I take away from them their stronghold, their crowning joy, the delight of their eyes, their heart’s desire, their sons and daughters —


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and on that day your mouth will be opened for you to speak to the survivor and no longer be silent. In this way you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am Adonai.”


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say to the people of ‘Amon, ‘Hear the word of Adonai Elohim. Adonai Elohim says, “Because you gloated when my sanctuary was profaned, when the land of Isra’el was laid waste, and when the house of Y’hudah went into exile;


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I will let the people from the east take possession of you. They will set up camps and build their homes among you; they will eat your fruit and drink your milk.


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I will turn Rabbah into a camel pasture and ‘Amon into a sheep-yard. Then you will know that I am Adonai.”


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For here is what Adonai Elohim says: “Because you clapped your hands and stamped your feet, full of malicious joy over the land of Isra’el;


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I am going to stretch out my hand over you and deliver you as plunder to the nations; I will cut you off from being a people and cause you to cease from being a nation; I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am Adonai.’”


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“Adonai Elohim says: ‘Because Mo’av and Se‘ir say, “The house of Y’hudah is like all the other nations,”


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I will expose the flank of Mo’av, with all its cities — that is, all the cities on its frontier, the glory of the land, Beit-Yeshimot, Ba‘al-M‘on and Kiryatayim —


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together with the people of ‘Amon, to the people from the east, whom I will let take possession of them. Thus the people of ‘Amon will not be remembered as being one of the nations;


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“Adonai Elohim says: ‘Because Edom has taken severe vengeance against the house of Y’hudah, incurring much guilt by its acts of vengeance against them,


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therefore,’ Adonai Elohim says, ‘I will stretch my hand out over Edom and eliminate both its humans and its animals. I will make it a ruin; from Teman to D’dan they will die by the sword.


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Moreover, I will lay my vengeance on Edom through my people Isra’el; they will treat Edom in accordance with my anger and my fury; and they will know my vengeance’ says Adonai Elohim.


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“Adonai Elohim says, ‘Because the P’lishtim have acted out of vengeance, taking revenge and destroying with malice of heart, due to their long-standing hatred;


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therefore,’ Adonai Elohim says, ‘I will stretch out my hand over the P’lishtim, eliminate the K’reti and destroy the rest of the seacoast peoples.


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I will execute great vengeance on them with furious punishments; and they will know that I am Adonai when I lay my vengeance on them.’”


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“Human being, since Tzor has said against Yerushalayim, ‘Ha! She is shattered, the gateway of the peoples. Now that she is ruined, her riches will be mine’;


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therefore, Adonai Elohim says, ‘Look, Tzor! I am against you. Just as the sea churns up its waves, I will churn up many nations against you.


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They will destroy the walls of Tzor, they will demolish her towers. I will scrape its soil from her and reduce her to bare rock.


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With the sea all around her, she will be a place for drying fish nets and a plunder for the nations. I have spoken,’ says Adonai Elohim.


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‘Her daughters on the mainland will be put to death with the sword; then they will know that I am Adonai.’


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“For here is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘I will bring upon Tzor, from the north, N’vukhadretzar king of Bavel, king of kings, with horses, chariots, cavalry, and a great and powerful army.


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“ ‘Your daughters on the mainland he will put to death with the sword. He will build siege-towers against you, he will build a ramp against you and raise a screen of shields against you.


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His horses are so many that their dust will cover you. The thunder of cavalry, wagons and chariots will shake your walls, as he enters your gates, like men storming a city through a breach.


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With the hoofs of his horses he will trample your streets. He will put your people to the sword and pull to the ground your massive standing-stones.


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They will seize your wealth, loot your wares, break down your walls, destroy your fine houses; then they will throw your stones and timber and even your dust into the sea.


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I will reduce you to bare rock, you will be a place for drying fish nets, you will never be built again, for I, Adonai, have spoken,’ says Adonai Elohim.”


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To Tzor Adonai Elohim says: “How the coastlands will shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter takes place in you!


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Then all the princes of the sea will step down from their thrones; they will put aside their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on the ground, trembling all the time, appalled at your condition.


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Then they will raise this lament for you: “‘How you have been destroyed, you who were peopled from the seas, city so renowned, once so strong at sea, you and your inhabitants, who used to spread terror over all [the mainland’s] inhabitants!


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Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your downfall, and the islands in the sea are in shock at your end.’


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“For here is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘When I make you a ruined city, like other uninhabited cities; when I bring the deep sea over you, and its mighty waters cover you;


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then I will bring you down with those who descend to the pit, to the people of long ago, and make you live in underworld places like those who were ruined long ago, with those who descend to the pit, so that you will be uninhabited when I give glory to the land of the living.


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I will make you horrible; you will cease to exist. People will seek you but never more find you,’ says Adonai Elohim.”


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say to Tzor, located at the gateways to the sea, merchant for peoples to many coastlands, that Adonai Elohim says: ‘Tzor, you have said, “My beauty is perfect.”


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They used cypress logs from S’nir to fashion all your planking. They took cedars from the L’vanon to make masts for you.


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Out of oaks from Bashan they made your oars. Your deck they made of ivory inlaid in larch from the coasts of Kittim.


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Richly woven linen from Egypt was used for your sail, which was also your banner. Blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah was used to cover your deck-tent.


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The people of Tzidon and Arvad served as your oarsmen. Your own skilled men, Tzor, were there as your pilots.


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The leaders and craftsmen of G’val sealed the cracks between your boards. “‘Every seagoing ship and its crew came to you to trade in your wares.


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Men from Paras, Lud and Put were [mercenaries] in your army; hanging shield and helmet on you, they showed off your splendor.


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Men from Arvad and your own army were posted around on your walls. The Gamadim were in your towers; they hung their shields all around your walls, making your beauty perfect.


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“‘Tarshish did business with you because of the quantity and variety of your resources; they exchanged silver, iron, tin and lead for your goods.


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The men of D’dan traded with you. Many coastlands were your customers, giving you ivory tusks and ebony in payment.


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Aram traded with you, because you were so wealthy; for your goods they exchanged green feldspar, purple stuff, embroidery, fine linen, coral and rubies.


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Y’hudah and the land of Isra’el also traded with you, exchanging for your goods wheat from Minnit, millet, honey, olive oil and resin for healing.


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Because you were so wealthy, with such a variety of valuable merchandise, Dammesek traded wine from Helbon and white wool with you.


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Arabia and all the princes of K’dar were your customers; for your goods they traded lambs, rams and goats.


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The traders of Sh’va and Ra‘mah exchanged the best quality spices, all kinds of precious stones and gold for your goods.


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brought you in exchange for your goods rich clothes, cloaks made of blue material and embroidery, and cedar-lined chests filled with multicolored clothing and bound with cords.


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“Tarshish” ships transported your imports and exports. “‘So you were full, loaded down, surrounded by the sea.


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Your oarsmen brought you through heavy seas. But the east wind will break you surrounded by the sea.


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Your riches, your goods, your merchandise, your crew, your pilots, your ship-sealers, your traders, all your warriors aboard, and all the others in the ship with you will sink surrounded by the sea on the day of your shipwreck.


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shaving their heads bald for you, wrapping themselves in sackcloth, with heartfelt bitterness weeping for you in bitter lamentation.


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Wailing, they will raise a lament for you; this will be their lament for you: “‘“Who anywhere in the sea has ever been silenced like Tzor?


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When your wares came forth from the seas, you satisfied many peoples; with your vast wealth and variety of goods you enriched the kings of the earth.


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But now you have been wrecked by the waves, sunk in the watery depths; your merchandise and all your people have gone down with you.


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All who live along the coasts are aghast at you; their kings are horribly afraid, their faces are convulsed;


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the merchants among the peoples are gasping at your fate; you are an object of terror, and you will cease to exist.”’”


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“Human being, tell the prince of Tzor that Adonai Elohim says: ‘Because you are so proud and have said, “I am a god; I sit on the throne of God, surrounded by the sea”; yet you are a man, not God, even though you think that you think like God.


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By your wisdom and discernment you have acquired wealth, you have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries.


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By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, and it is because of your wealth that you have become so proud.


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I will bring foreigners against you, the most barbarous of the nations, to draw their swords against your fine wisdom and defile your splendor.


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Will you still say, “I am God,” to them who are about to kill you? You are a man, you are not God, in the hands of those who defile you.


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You will die the deaths of the uncircumcised at the hands of foreigners. For I have spoken,’ says Adonai Elohim.”


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“Human being, raise a lament for the king of Tzor, and tell him that Adonai Elohim says: ‘You put the seal on perfection; you were full of wisdom and perfect in beauty;


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you were in ‘Eden, the garden of God; covered with all kinds of precious stones — carnelians, topaz, diamonds, beryl, onyx, jasper, sapphires, green feldspar, emeralds; your pendants and jewels were made of gold, prepared the day you were created.


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You were a keruv, protecting a large region; I placed you on God’s holy mountain. You walked back and forth among stones of fire.


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You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you.


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“‘When your commerce grew, you became filled with violence; and in this way you sinned. Therefore I have thrown you out, defiled, from the mountain of God; I have destroyed you, protecting keruv, from among the stones of fire.


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Your heart grew proud because of your beauty, you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. But I have thrown you on the ground; before kings I have made you a spectacle.


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By your many crimes in dishonest trading, you have profaned your sanctuaries; therefore I brought forth fire from within you, and it has devoured you; I reduced you into ashes on the ground in the sight of all who can see you.


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All who know you among the peoples will be aghast at you. You are an object of terror, and you will cease to exist.’”


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Say that Adonai Elohim says: ‘I am against you, Tzidon; but I will be glorified in you. They will know that I am Adonai, once I execute judgments in her and show my holiness in her.


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For I will send plagues into her, and blood will flow in her streets; attacked from all sides by the sword, the wounded will fall within her. Then they will know that I am Adonai.


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“‘The house of Isra’el will no longer have a briar pricking away at them, no longer will any of its contemptuous neighbors be a thorn to stab them. Then they will know that I am Adonai Elohim.’


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“Adonai Elohim says, ‘Once I have gathered the house of Isra’el from the peoples among whom they are scattered, once I have shown my holiness in them as the Goyim watch, then they will live in their own land, which I gave to my servant Ya‘akov.


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They will have security when they live there, building houses and planting vineyards; yes, they will live in safety, once I have executed judgments against all their contemptuous neighbors. Then they will know that I am Adonai their God.’”


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“Human being, turn your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt; prophesy against him and against all Egypt;


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speak out; and say that Adonai Elohim says: ‘I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, you big crocodile lying in the streams of the Nile! You say, “My Nile is mine; I made it for myself.”


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But I will put hooks in your jaws and make your Nile fish stick to your scales. Yes, I will bring you up from your Nile, with all your Nile fish sticking to your scales,


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and leave you in the desert, you and all your Nile fish. You will fall in the open field and not be gathered or buried; but I will give you as food to wild animals and birds.


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Then all who live in Egypt will know that I am Adonai, because they have been a support made of straw for the house of Isra’el.


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When they grasped you in hand, you splintered and threw all their shoulders out of joint; when they leaned on you, you broke and made them all wrench their backs.’


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“Therefore Adonai Elohim says, ‘I will bring the sword against you and eliminate both your people and your animals.


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The land of Egypt will become a desolate waste, and they will know that I am Adonai; because he said, “The Nile is mine; I made it.”


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So I am against you and your Nile; and I will make the land of Egypt a totally desolate waste from Migdol to S’venah, all the way to the border of Ethiopia.


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No human foot will pass through it, and no animal foot will pass through it; it will be uninhabited for forty years.


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Yes, I will make the land of Egypt desolate, even when compared with other desolate countries, likewise her cities in comparison with other ruined cities; they will be desolate forty years. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them through the countries.’


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“For this is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were scattered —


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I will restore the fortunes of Egypt and cause them to return to the land of their origin, Patros. But there they will be a humble kingdom,


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the humblest of kingdoms. It will never again dominate other nations; I will reduce them, so that they never again rule other nations.


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Moreover, they will no longer be a source of confidence for Isra’el to turn to; rather, it will only bring to mind their guilt in having turned to them before. Then they will know that I am Adonai Elohim.’”


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“Human being, N’vukhadretzar king of Bavel had his army mount a massive expedition against Tzor; [the loads of dirt they carried] made every head bald and every shoulder raw; yet neither he nor his army derived any benefit from Tzor out of this expedition against it.


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Therefore Adonai Elohim says, ‘I will give the land of Egypt to N’vukhadretzar king of Bavel. He will carry off its riches, take its spoil and its prey; and these will be the wages for his army.


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I am giving him the land of Egypt as his wages for which he worked, because they were working for me,’ says Adonai Elohim.


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‘When that day comes I will cause power to return to the house of Isra’el, and I will enable you [Yechezk’el] to open your mouth among them. Then they will know that I am Adonai.’”


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The sword will come against Egypt, and Ethiopia will be in anguish, when the slain fall in Egypt, when they take away her wealth, and her foundations are torn down.


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Ethiopia, Put and Lud, all the mixed population and Kuv, and the people of allied lands will die by the sword with them.’


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“Adonai says this: ‘Those supporting Egypt will fall; its arrogant power will be brought down; from Migdol to S’venah they will die by the sword,’ says Adonai Elohim.


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“They will be desolate even when compared with other desolate countries, likewise her cities in comparison with other ruined cities.


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When that day comes, I will send out messengers in ships to terrify the unsuspecting Ethiopians; and anguish will overcome them on the day of Egypt. Yes, here it comes!


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He and his people, the most barbarous of the nations, will be brought in to ravage the land. They will unsheathe their swords against Egypt and fill the land with corpses.


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I will dry up the streams of the Nile and sell the land to the wicked. Through the power of foreigners I will make the land and all that is in it desolate. I, Adonai, have spoken.’


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“Here is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘I will destroy the idols, make the false gods in Nof cease to exist. No longer will there be a prince from the land of Egypt; I will put fear in the land of Egypt,


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Yes, I will set fire to Egypt; Seen will writhe in anguish; No will be torn apart; enemies will attack Nof in broad daylight.


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The young men of On and Pi-Veset will die by the sword, while the cities themselves will go into captivity.


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At T’chafn’ches the day will grow dark when I break the yokes of Egypt there, and the pride she takes in her power ceases. A cloud will cover her, and her daughters will go into captivity.


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“Human being, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; it has not been bound up with dressings and bandages, so that it can heal and become strong enough again to wield the sword.


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Therefore Adonai Elohim says this: ‘I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt. I will break his arms, both the sound one and the broken one, and I will make the sword fall from his hand.


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I will strengthen the arms of the king of Bavel and put my sword in his hand; but I will break the arms of Pharaoh; he will groan like a man mortally wounded.


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Yes, I will hold up the arms of the king of Bavel; but the arms of Pharaoh will droop. They will know that I am Adonai when I put my sword in the hand of the king of Bavel, and he stretches it out over the land of Egypt.


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Yes, I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries; and they will know that I am Adonai.’”


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Like Ashur, a cedar in the L’vanon. It had beautiful branches, dense foliage, its tall crown surrounded by leafy boughs.


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The water nourished it; the deep made it grow, sending its rivers round the place where it was planted, sending its streams to all the trees in the fields.


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So it grew taller than any other tree, its branches grew in number and spread far and wide, for it had plenty of water to make them grow.


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In its boughs all the birds of the air had their nests, beneath its branches all the wild animals gave birth to their young, and all great nations lived in its shade.


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It was beautiful in its greatness and the length of its branches, because its roots went down to plenty of water.


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No cedar in God’s garden was like it, no cypress tree could compare with its boughs, no chestnut tree could rival its branches, no tree in God’s garden could match its beauty.


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“Therefore here is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘Because you are so tall, because he has lifted his crown above the leafy boughs, because he has grown so arrogant about his height,


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I am handing him over to the mightiest of the nations, who will certainly deal with him as his wickedness deserves; I reject him.


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Foreigners, the most barbarous of the nations, will destroy him and leave him lying where he is. His branches will lie fallen on the mountains and in the valleys, his boughs will lie broken in all the rivers of the land, and all the peoples of the earth will withdraw from his shade and leave him.


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This is to warn all the trees growing near water not to grow so tall, not to lift their crowns above the leafy boughs, and all that take up water not to reach up in their height. For they are all given over to death, to the depths of the underworld, along with human beings, with those who descend to the pit.’


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“Here is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘On the day he descended to Sh’ol, I caused the abyss to mourn and cover itself for him; I held back its rivers, so that its deep waters were stopped. I made the L’vanon mourn for him, and all the field trees withered because of him.


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At the sound of his fall I made the nations shake, when I hurled him down to Sh’ol with those who descend to the pit. All the trees of ‘Eden, the pick of the best in the L’vanon, all that take up water, were consoled in the underworld.


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They descended with him to Sh’ol to those who were killed by the sword, to those who were his fighting arm, those among the nations who lived in his shade.


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Which of the trees of ‘Eden was your equal in glory or size? Yet you will be brought down to the underworld along with the trees of ‘Eden. You will lie there among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword. This is Pharaoh and his hordes,’ says Adonai Elohim.”


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“Human being, raise a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt; say to him, ‘You compared yourself to a lion among the nations; In fact, you are more like a crocodile in the lakes. You burst out of your streams, churn the water with your feet and foul their streams.’


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“So here is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘With many nations assembled, I will spread my net over you, and they will haul you up in my dragnet.


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Then I will throw you on the shore, hurl you into an open field, make all the birds in the air settle on you and let the animals of the whole earth eat their fill of you.


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I will drench the land in which you swim with your blood, as far as the mountains; the waterways will be full of you.


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When I extinguish you, I will cover the sky and make its stars black; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.


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All the shining lights in the sky I will darken above you; I will spread darkness over your land,’ says Adonai Elohim.


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“‘I will anger many peoples when I bring your destroyed ones in among the nations, into countries you have not known.


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I will make many peoples aghast at you; their kings will shudder in horror over you when I brandish my sword before them. On the day of your downfall they will tremble continuously, each man in fear of his life.’


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With the swords of the warriors I will cause your hordes to fall. They are all the most barbarous of the nations, and they will shatter the glory of Egypt — all its hordes will be destroyed.


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I will destroy all her cattle beside her plentiful waters. No human foot will trouble them again, nor the hoof of any animal.


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‘When I make the land of Egypt a ruined waste, a land stripped of all that filled it; when I strike all those who live there; they will know that I am Adonai.


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This is the lament that they will raise; the daughters of the nations will use it to mourn; they will chant it for Egypt and all its hordes,’ says Adonai Elohim.”


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“Human being, wail for the hordes of Egypt; send them with the daughters of mighty nations down to the underworld, with those who descend to the pit.


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They will fall among those killed by the sword; she is given to the sword; pull her down with her hordes.


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From the depths of Sh’ol the mightiest warriors will speak of him with those who helped him. They went down; they lie still, the uncircumcised, killed by the sword.


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“Ashur is there with her hordes; their graves are all around them, all of them slain, killed by the sword.


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Their graves are in the deepest parts of the pit, her hordes are all around her grave, all of them slain, killed by the sword, those who terrorized the land of the living.


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“‘Eilam is there, with her hordes around her grave, all of them slain, killed by the sword, descended uncircumcised to the underworld, those who terrorized the land of the living; they bear their shame together with those who descended to the pit.


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They have given her a bed among the slain with her hordes; her graves are all around them, all of them uncircumcised, killed by the sword, because they terrorized the land of the living; they bear their shame with those who descended to the pit; they are put among those who were slain.


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“Meshekh and Tuval with her horde is there, her graves are all around them, all of them uncircumcised, killed by the sword, because they terrorized the land of the living.


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They do not lie with the fallen warriors of the uncircumcised who descended to Sh’ol with their weapons of war, their swords laid under their heads, and their crimes upon their bones; because these warriors terrorized the land of the living.


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“There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, who, despite all their power, are laid with those who were killed by the sword, with the uncircumcised, with those who descended to the pit.


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“There are all the princes of the north, all of them, and the Tzidoni, who descended with the slain, ashamed of all the terror they caused by their power; they lie uncircumcised with those killed by the sword, bearing their shame with those who descended to the pit.


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“All of these Pharaoh will see, and he will be consoled about his hordes, Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword,” says Adonai Elohim.


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“For I have put my terror in the land of the living, and he will lie among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword, Pharaoh and all his hordes,” says Adonai Elohim.


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“Human being, speak to your people; say to them, ‘Suppose I bring the sword on a country, and the people of that country take one of their men and appoint him their watchman.


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Now if, upon seeing the sword coming against that country, he blows the shofar and warns the people;


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then, if the sword comes and takes away someone who heard the sound of the shofar but paid no attention to it, the responsibility for that person’s death will be his own —


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he heard the shofar but paid no attention, so the responsibility for his death is his own; whereas if he had paid attention, he would have saved his life.


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But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the shofar, so that the people are not warned; and then the sword comes and takes any one of them, that one is indeed taken away in his guilt, but I will hold the watchman responsible for his death.’


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“Likewise you, human being — I have appointed you as watchman for the house of Isra’el. Therefore, when you hear the word from my mouth, warn them for me.


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When I tell the wicked person, ‘Wicked person, you will certainly die’; and you fail to speak and warn the wicked person to leave his way; then that wicked person will die guilty; and I will hold you responsible for his death.


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On the other hand, if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he doesn’t turn from his way; then he will still die guilty, but you will have saved your own life.


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“Therefore, you, human being, say to the house of Isra’el: ‘You say, “Our crimes and sins are weighing us down, we’re pining away because of them, how can we even stay alive?”’


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Say to them, ‘As I live,’ swears Adonai Elohim, ‘I take no pleasure in having the wicked person die, but in having the wicked person turn from his way and live. So repent! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, house of Isra’el?’


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“Next, you, human being, say to your people: ‘The righteousness of the righteous person will not save him, once he starts committing crimes; and likewise, the wickedness of the wicked person will not cause him to fall, once he turns from his wickedness. No, the righteous person cannot live by virtue of [his former righteousness], once he starts sinning.


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So if, after I tell the righteous person that he will surely live, he begins trusting in his own [former] righteousness and starts committing crimes; then none of his [former] righteous actions will be remembered; on the contrary, he will die for the evil deeds he has committed.


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Likewise, if, after I tell the wicked person, “You must die,” he turns from his sin and does what is lawful and right —


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if the wicked person restores pledged property and returns what he stole, so that he lives by the laws that give life and does not commit evil deeds; then he will live, he will not die.


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None of the sins he committed will be remembered against him; he has done what is lawful and right; he will surely live.’


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When the righteous person turns away from his righteousness and commits wickedness, he will die because of it.


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And when the wicked person turns from his wickedness and does what is lawful and right, he will live because of it.


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Yet you say, ‘Adonai’s way isn’t fair!’ House of Isra’el, I will judge each of you according to his ways.”


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In the twelfth year of our exile, on the fifth day of the tenth month, a fugitive from Yerushalayim came to me with the news, “The city has been struck.”


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Now the hand of Adonai had been on me that evening, before the fugitive arrived — he had opened my mouth prior to his coming to me in the morning, so my mouth was open, and I was no longer mute.


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“Human being, those living in the desolate parts of the land of Isra’el are saying, ‘Avraham was only one, and he inherited the land. But we are many, so [how much more] is the land given to us to inherit!’


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Therefore, tell them that Adonai Elohim says, ‘You eat [flesh] with the blood, you raise your eyes to your idols, and you shed blood — and you still expect to possess the land?


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You depend on your swords, you commit disgusting practices, and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife — and you still expect to possess the land?’


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Tell them that Adonai Elohim swears, ‘As I live, those living in the ruins will fall by the sword, those in the countryside I will give to the wild animals to eat, and those in the fortresses and caves will die of the plague.


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Moreover, I will utterly desolate the land; it will cease taking pride in its power; and the mountains of Isra’el will be so desolate that no one will pass through.’


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Then they will know that I am Adonai, when I have made the land utterly desolate, because of all the disgusting practices they have committed.


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“Now you, human being, your people are gathering and talking about you by the walls and in the doorways of houses. They’re saying to each other, each one telling his brother, ‘Come, let’s go and hear the latest word coming from Adonai.’


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So then they come to you, as people do, sit in front of you as my people, and hear your words; but they don’t act on them. For with their mouths they flatter you, but their hearts are set on their own self-interest;


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so for them you are like a love-song sung by someone with a nice voice who can play an instrument well — they hear your words, but they don’t act on them.


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So when all this comes true, then, at last, they will realize that a prophet has been there with them.”


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“Human being, prophesy against the shepherds of Isra’el. Prophesy! Tell them, the shepherds, that Adonai Elohim says this: ‘Woe to the shepherds of Isra’el who feed themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed the sheep?


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You eat the choice meat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, and you slaughter the best of the herd; but you don’t feed the sheep!


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You don’t strengthen the weak, heal the sick, bandage the broken, bring back the outcasts or seek the lost; on the contrary, you tyrannize them with crushing force.


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So they were scattered, without a shepherd, and became food for every wild animal — they were scattered.


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My sheep wandered around aimlessly on every mountain and hill; yes, my sheep were scattered all over the land, with no one to search for them or look after them.


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“As I live,” Adonai Elohim swears, “because my sheep have become prey, my sheep have become food for every wild animal, since there was no shepherd, since my shepherds didn’t look for my sheep, and instead my shepherds fed themselves but not my sheep,”


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Adonai Elohim says, “I am against the shepherds. I demand that they hand my sheep back to me. I will not allow them to feed the sheep, and they won’t feed themselves either. I will rescue my sheep from their mouths; they will be food for them no longer.”


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“‘For here is what Adonai Elohim says: “I am taking over! I will search for my sheep and look after them, myself.


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Just as a shepherd looks after his flock when he finds himself among his scattered sheep, so I will look after my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered when it was cloudy and dark.


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I will bring them back from those peoples, gather them from those countries and return them to their own land. Then I will let them feed on the mountains of Isra’el, by the streams and in all the livable places of the land.


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I will have them feed in good pastures; their grazing ground will be on the high mountains of Isra’el. They will rest in good grazing grounds and feed in rich pastures on Isra’el’s mountains.


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“I will seek the lost, bring back the outcasts, bandage the broken, and strengthen the sick. But the fat and the strong I will destroy — I will feed them with judgment.”


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“‘As for you, my flock,’ Adonai Elohim says this: ‘I will judge between sheep and other sheep, between rams and billy-goats.


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Wasn’t it enough for you to feed on the best pasture and drink from the clearest water? Did you have to trample the rest of the pasture and foul the remaining water with your feet?


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Therefore here is what Adonai Elohim says to them: ‘I will judge between the fat sheep and the thin sheep.


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Because you push them with your flanks and shoulders and butt all the weak ones with your horns, till you scatter them in every direction;


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therefore I will save my flock; they will no longer be prey; and I will judge between sheep and other sheep.


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“‘I will raise up one shepherd to be in charge of them, and he will let them feed — my servant David. He will pasture them and be their shepherd.


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I, Adonai, will be their God; and my servant David will be prince among them. I, Adonai, have spoken.


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I will make a covenant of peace with them; I will rid the land of wild animals; and they will live securely in the desert and sleep in the forests.


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I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing, and I will cause the rain to fall when it should — there will be showers of blessing.


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The trees in the field will bear their fruit and the soil its produce, and they will be secure in their land. Then they will know that I am Adonai, when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the power of those who turned them into slaves.


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No longer will they be prey for the Goyim, nor will the wild animals devour them; but they will live securely, with no one to make them afraid.


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I will make the productivity of their crops famous, and they will no longer be consumed by hunger in the land or bear the shame of the Goyim any more.


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They will know that I, Adonai their God, am with them, and that they, the house of Isra’el, are my people,’ says Adonai Elohim.


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and say that Adonai Elohim says, ‘I am against you, Mount Se‘ir. I will stretch out my hand against you and make you utterly desolate.


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Because of your long-standing hatred, you put the people of Isra’el to the sword at their time of calamity, at the time of final iniquity.


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Therefore, as I live,’ Adonai Elohim swears, ‘I will prepare you for blood. Blood will pursue you. You intensely hate your own blood [relatives]; therefore blood will pursue you.


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Yes, I will make Mount Se‘ir utterly desolate, cutting off from it anyone passing through or returning.


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I will fill his mountains with his slain; in your hills and valleys and in all your ravines will fall those slain by the sword.


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I will turn you into perpetual ruins; your cities will not return; and you will know that I am Adonai.


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“‘Because you say, “These two nations, these two countries, will be mine; we will take possession of them,” even though Adonai is there;


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therefore, as I live,’ swears Adonai Elohim, ‘I will deal with you as your anger and envy arising from your hatred deserve; and I will make myself known among them when I judge you.


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You will know that I, Adonai, have heard all your blasphemous talk against the mountains of Isra’el, such as, “They are desolated, they are given to us to devour.”


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Moreover, you have boasted against me with your mouths, speaking more and more against me — I have heard it.’


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Since you rejoiced over possessing the house of Isra’el, because it was desolate, that is what I will do to you — you will be desolate, Mount Se‘ir and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am Adonai.’


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“Now you, human being, prophesy to the mountains of Isra’el. Say: ‘Mountains of Isra’el, hear the message from Adonai.


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Adonai Elohim says: “The enemy is boasting over you, ‘Ha! Even the ancient high places are ours now!’ ” ’


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Therefore prophesy, and say that Adonai Elohim says, ‘Because they desolated you and swallowed you up from every side, so that the other nations could take possession of you; and now people are gossiping about you and slandering you;


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therefore, mountains of Isra’el, hear the message of Adonai Elohim — this is what Adonai Elohim says to the mountains and hills, the streams and valleys, the desolate wastes and the abandoned cities, now preyed on and derided by the other surrounding nations —


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therefore this is what Adonai Elohim says: “In the heat of my jealousy I speak against the other nations and all of Edom, since, rejoicing with all their heart, they have arrogated my land to themselves as a possession and, with utter contempt, seized it as prey.”’


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“Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Isra’el, and say to the mountains, the hills, the streams and the valleys that Adonai Elohim says this: ‘I speak in my jealousy and fury, because you have endured being shamed by the nations.


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Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim: “I have raised my hand and sworn that the nations surrounding you will bear their shame.


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But you, mountains of Isra’el, you will sprout your branches and bear your fruit for my people Isra’el, who will soon return.


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and I will multiply your population, all the house of Isra’el, all of it. The cities will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.


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I will multiply both the human and animal populations, they will increase and be productive; and I will cause you to be inhabited as you were before — indeed, I will do you more good than before; and you will know that I am Adonai.


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I will cause people to walk on you, my people Isra’el; they will possess you, and you will be their inheritance; never again will you make them childless.”


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Adonai Elohim says, “Because they say to you, ‘Land, you devour people and make your nations childless,’


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therefore you will no longer devour people, and you will not make your nations childless any more,” says Adonai Elohim.


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“I will not permit the nations to shame you, or the peoples to reproach you any longer; and you will no more cause your nations to stumble,” says Adonai Elohim.’”


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“Human being, when the house of Isra’el lived in their own land, they defiled it by their manner of life and their actions; their way before me was like the uncleanness of niddah.


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Therefore I poured out my fury on them, because of the blood they had shed in the land and because they defiled it with their idols.


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I scattered them among the nations and dispersed them throughout the countries; I judged them in keeping with their manner of life and actions.


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When they came to the nations they were going to, they profaned my holy name; so that people said of them, ‘These are Adonai’s people, who have been exiled from his land.’


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But I am concerned about my holy name, which the house of Isra’el is profaning among the nations where they have gone.


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“Therefore tell the house of Isra’el that Adonai Elohim says this: ‘I am not going to do this for your sake, house of Isra’el, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have been profaning among the nations where you went.


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I will set apart my great name to be regarded as holy, since it has been profaned in the nations — you profaned it among them. The nations will know that I am Adonai,’ says Adonai Elohim, ‘when, before their eyes, I am set apart through you to be regarded as holy.


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For I will take you from among the nations, gather you from all the countries, and return you to your own soil.


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Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your uncleanness and from all your idols.


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I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit inside you; I will take the stony heart out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.


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I will save you from all your uncleanliness. I will summon the grain and increase it, and not send famine against you.


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I will multiply the yield of fruit from the trees and increase production in the fields, so that you never again suffer the reproach of famine among the nations.


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Then you will remember your evil ways and your actions that were not good; as you look at yourselves, you will loathe yourselves for your guilt and disgusting practices.


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Understand,’ says Adonai Elohim, ‘that I am not doing this for your sake. Instead, be ashamed and dismayed for your ways, house of Isra’el.’


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“Adonai Elohim says, ‘When the day comes for me to cleanse you from all your guilt, I will cause the cities to be inhabited and the ruins to be rebuilt.


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The land that was desolate will be tilled, whereas formerly it lay desolate for all passing by to see.


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Then they will say, “The land that used to be desolate has become like Gan-‘Eden, and the cities formerly ruined, abandoned and wasted have been fortified and are inhabited!”


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Then the nations around you that remain will know that I, Adonai, have rebuilt the ruins and replanted what was abandoned. I, Adonai, have spoken; and I will do it.’


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“Adonai Elohim says, ‘In addition, I will let the house of Isra’el pray to me to do this for them: to increase their numbers like sheep —


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like flocks of sheep for sacrifices, like the flocks of sheep in Yerushalayim at its designated times, in this degree will the ruined cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am Adonai.’”


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With the hand of Adonai upon me, Adonai carried me out by his Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley, and it was full of bones.


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He had me pass by all around them — there were so many bones lying in the valley, and they were so dry!


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Then he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones! Say to them, ‘Dry bones! Hear what Adonai has to say!


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I will attach ligaments to you, make flesh grow on you, cover you with skin and put breath in you. You will live, and you will know that I am Adonai.”’”


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So I prophesied as ordered; and while I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound; it was the bones coming together, each bone in its proper place.


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As I watched, ligaments grew on them, flesh appeared and skin covered them; but there was no breath in them.


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Next he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath! Prophesy, human being! Say to the breath that Adonai Elohim says, ‘Come from the four winds, breath; and breathe on these slain, so that they can live.’”


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So I prophesied as ordered, and the breath came into them, and they were alive! They stood up on their feet, a huge army!


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Then he said to me, “Human being! These bones are the whole house of Isra’el; and they are saying, ‘Our bones have dried up, our hope is gone, and we are completely cut off.’


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Therefore prophesy; say to them that Adonai Elohim says, ‘My people! I will open your graves and make you get up out of your graves, and I will bring you into the land of Isra’el.


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Then you will know that I am Adonai — when I have opened your graves and made you get up out of your graves, my people!


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I will put my Spirit in you; and you will be alive. Then I will place you in your own land; and you will know that I, Adonai, have spoken, and that I have done it,’ says Adonai.”


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“You, human being, take one stick and write on it, ‘For Y’hudah and those joined with him [among] the people of Isra’el.’ Next, take another stick and write on it, ‘For Yosef, the stick of Efrayim, and all the house of Isra’el who are joined with him.’


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tell them that Adonai Elohim says this: ‘I will take the stick of Yosef, which is in the hand of Efrayim, together with the tribes of Isra’el who are joined with him, and put them together with the stick of Y’hudah and make them a single stick, so that they become one in my hand.’


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Then say to them that Adonai Elohim says: ‘I will take the people of Isra’el from among the nations where they have gone and gather them from every side and bring them back to their own land.


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I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Isra’el; and one king will be king for all of them. They will no longer be two nations, and they will never again be divided into two kingdoms.


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“‘They will never again defile themselves with their idols, their detestable things, or any of their transgressions; but I will save them from all the places where they have been living and sinning; and I will cleanse them, so that they will be my people, and I will be their God.


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My servant David will be king over them, and all of them will have one shepherd; they will live by my rulings and keep and observe my regulations.


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They will live in the land I gave to Ya‘akov my servant, where your ancestors lived; they will live there — they, their children, and their grandchildren, forever; and David my servant will be their leader forever.


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I will make a covenant of peace with them, an everlasting covenant. I will give to them, increase their numbers, and set my sanctuary among them forever.


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The nations will know that I am Adonai, who sets Isra’el apart as holy, when my sanctuary is with them forever.’”


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“Human being, turn your face toward Gog (of the land of Magog), chief prince of Meshekh and Tuval; and prophesy against him.


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I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with all your army, horses and horsemen, all completely equipped, a great horde with breastplates and shields, all wielding swords.


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Gomer with all its troops; the house of Togarmah in the far reaches of the north, with all its troops — many peoples are with you.


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After many days have passed, you will be mustered for service; in later years you will invade the land which has been brought back from the sword, gathered out of many peoples, the mountains of Isra’el. They had been lying in ruins for a long time, but now Isra’el has been extracted from the peoples and all of them are living there securely.


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You will come up like a storm, you will be like a cloud covering the land — you and all your troops, and many other peoples with you.’


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“Adonai Elohim says: ‘When that day comes, thoughts will well up in your mind, and you will devise a sinister scheme.


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You will say, “I am going to invade this land of unwalled villages; I will take by surprise these people who are at peace, living securely, all in places without walls, bars or gates.


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I will seize the spoil and take the plunder.” You will attack the former ruins that are now inhabited and come against the people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and other wealth and are living in the central parts of the land.


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Sh’va, D’dan and all the leading merchants of Tarshish will ask you, “Have you come to seize spoil? Have you assembled your hordes to loot; to carry off silver, gold, livestock and other wealth; to take much plunder?”’


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“Therefore, human being, prophesy! Tell Gog that Adonai Elohim says this: ‘Won’t you be aware of it when my people Isra’el are living in security?


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You will choose just that time to come from your place in the far reaches of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them on horseback, a huge horde, a mighty army;


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and you will invade my people Isra’el like a cloud covering the land. This will be in the acharit-hayamim; and I will bring you against my land, so that the Goyim will know me when, before their eyes, I am set apart as holy through you, Gog.’


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“Adonai Elohim says: ‘I spoke of you long ago through my servants the prophets of Isra’el. Back then, they prophesied for many years that I would have you invade them.


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When that day comes, when Gog invades the land of Isra’el,’ says Adonai Elohim, ‘my furious anger will boil up.


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In my jealousy, in my heated fury I speak: when that day comes there will be a great earthquake in the land of Isra’el;


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so that the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the wild beasts, all the reptiles creeping on the ground and every human being there in the land will tremble before me. Mountains will fall, cliffs crumble and every wall crash to the ground.


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I will summon a sword against him throughout all my mountains,’ says Adonai Elohim; ‘every man will wield his sword against his brother.


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I will judge him with plague and with blood. I will cause torrential rain to fall on him, his troops and the many peoples with him, along with huge hailstones, fire and sulfur.


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I will show my greatness and holiness, making myself known in the sight of many nations; then they will know that I am Adonai.’


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“So you, human being, prophesy against Gog; say that Adonai Elohim says: ‘I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshekh and Tuval.


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I will turn you around, lead you on and bring you from the far reaches of the north against the mountains of Isra’el.


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But then I will knock your bow out of your left hand and make your arrows drop from your right hand.


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You will fall on the mountains of Isra’el, you, your troops and all the peoples with you; I will give you to be eaten up by all kinds of birds of prey and by wild animals.


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“‘I will also send fire against Magog and against those living securely in the coastlands; then they will know that I am Adonai.


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I will make my holy name known among my people Isra’el; I will not allow my holy name to be profaned any longer. Then the Goyim will know that I am Adonai, the Holy One in Isra’el.


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Yes, this is coming, and it will be done,’ says Adonai Elohim; ‘this is the day about which I have spoken.


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“‘Those living in Isra’el’s cities will go out and set fire to the weapons, to use as fuel — the shields, breastplates, bows, arrows, clubs and spears; they will use them for fire seven years;


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so that they will not need to gather wood from the fields or cut down any from the forests; because they will use the weapons for fire. Thus they will plunder those who plundered them and rob those who robbed them,’ says Adonai Elohim.


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“‘When that day comes, I will give Gog a place there in Isra’el for graves, the Travelers’ Valley, east of the sea; and it will block the travelers’ passage. There they will bury Gog and all his horde, and they will rename it the Valley of Hamon-Gog [horde of Gog].


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Yes, all the people of the land will be burying them; they will become famous for it. It will be a day for me to be glorified,’ says Adonai Elohim.


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‘They will then pick men for the continual duty of going through the land and burying with the travelers the corpses still lying out on the ground, in order to cleanse it; they will begin their search after the seven months.


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As they go through the land, if anyone sees a human bone, he will put a marker next to it until the gravediggers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-Gog.


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“As for you, human, Adonai Elohim says that you are to speak to all kinds of birds and to every wild animal as follows: ‘Assemble yourselves and come, gather yourselves from all around for the sacrifice I am preparing for you, a great sacrifice on the mountains of Isra’el, where you can eat flesh and drink blood!


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You will eat the flesh of heroes and drink the blood of the earth’s princes — rams, lambs, goats and bulls, fattened in Bashan, all of them.


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You will eat fat till you are gorged and drink blood till you are drunk at the sacrifice I have prepared for you.


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At my table you will be satiated with horses, horsemen, heroes and every kind of warrior,’ says Adonai Elohim.


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“‘Thus will I display my glory among the nations, so that all the nations will see my judgment when I execute it and my hand when I lay it on them.


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while the Goyim will know that the house of Isra’el went into exile because of their guilt, because they broke faith with me; so that I hid my face from them and handed them over to their adversaries; and they fell by the sword, all of them.


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“Therefore Adonai Elohim says this: ‘Now I will restore the fortunes of Ya‘akov and have compassion on the entire house of Isra’el, and I will be jealous for my holy name.


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They will bear their shame and all their [guilt from] breaking faith with me, once they are living securely in their land, with no one to make them afraid.


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This will be after I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, thereby being consecrated through them in the sight of many nations.


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Then they will know that I am Adonai their God, since it was I who caused them to go into exile among the nations, and it was I who regathered them to their own land. I will leave none of them there any more,


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and I will no longer hide my face from them, for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Isra’el,’ says Adonai Elohim.”


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In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month — this was the fourteenth year after the city [of Yerushalayim] was struck — it was on that very day that the hand of Adonai was on me, and he took me there.


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In visions God brought me into the land of Isra’el and put me down on a very high mountain; on it, toward the south, it seemed that a city was being built.


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That is where he took me, and there in front of me was a man whose appearance was like bronze. He had a flax cord and a measuring rod in his hand, and he stood in the gateway.


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The man said to me, “Human being, look with your eyes, hear with your ears, and pay attention to all the things I am showing you; because the reason you were brought here is so that I could show them to you. Tell everything you see to the house of Isra’el.”


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There was a wall surrounding the house. The man had in his hand a measuring rod six cubits long [ten-and-a-half feet], each cubit [twenty-one inches] being a normal cubit [eighteen inches] plus a handbreadth [three inches]. He measured the wall’s width at ten-and-a-half feet and its height ten-and-a-half feet.


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He went to the east gate, climbed its steps and measured one of the gate’s doorposts at ten-and-a-half feet wide and the other one the same.


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There were guardrooms, each ten-and-a-half feet square; the distance between the guardrooms was eight-and-three-quarters feet. The threshold of the gate adjoining the gate’s entranceway facing the house measured ten-and-a-half feet.


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Then he measured the gate’s entranceway itself, fourteen feet, and its supports, three-and-a-half feet; the gate’s entranceway was on the side facing the house.


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There were three guardrooms on each side of the east gate, all the same size; and on each side the supports [between the guardrooms] were also all the same size.


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He measured the width of the opening to the gateway at seventeen-and-a-half feet and the width of the passage through the gateway at twenty-two-and-three-quarters feet.


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There was a partition in front of the guardrooms [on one side] twenty-one inches [wide] and a partition on the other side twenty-one inches [wide], with the guardrooms themselves being ten-and-a-half feet square.


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He measured [inside] the gate from the back wall of one guardroom to the back wall of the other a distance of forty-three-and-three-quarters feet, the openings [to the guardrooms] being opposite each other.


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The distance along the passage from the outer opening of the gateway to the far side of the entranceway at the inner end of the gateway was eighty-seven-and-a-half feet.


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There were narrow windows to the guardrooms and to their supports facing inward all along the gate; also the vestibules had windows all around facing inward. On each side support were [carvings of] palm trees.


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Then he brought me into the outer courtyard. There I saw rooms and paved mosaic flooring made for the courtyard all around its perimeter, and thirty rooms facing the flooring.


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The flooring was alongside the gates and corresponded to the length of the gates [from outside to inside], this lower flooring.


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He measured at 175 feet the distance from inside this lower gate that faced east to the outside of the inner courtyard, and he did the same for the gate that faced north.


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It had three guardrooms on each side, and its supports and vestibule were the same size as those at the first gate; its length was eighty-seven-and-a-half feet and its width forty-three-and-three-quarters feet.


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Its windows, vestibule and palm trees were the same size as those at the east gate. Seven steps led up to it [from the outside], while its vestibule was toward the inside.


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There were gates to the inner courtyard across from the gates to the north and east; he measured 175 feet from each outer gate to its corresponding inner gate.


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He led me toward the south, and there I saw a gate that faced south. He measured its supports and vestibule; they were the same size as the others.


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There were windows in it and all around its vestibule like the other windows; the length was eighty-seven-and-a-half feet and the width forty-three-and-three-quarters feet.


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Seven steps led up to it [from the outside], while its vestibule was toward the inside. It had palm trees, one on each side, on its supports.


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The inner courtyard had a gate on the south; he measured from gate to gate toward the south 175 feet.


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He brought me to the inner courtyard through its south gate. He measured this south gate as being the same size;


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its guardrooms, supports and vestibule were the same size; it had windows and a vestibule surrounding it; it was eighty-seven-and-a-half feet long and forty-three-and-three-quarters feet wide.


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There was a vestibule around it forty-three-and-three-quarters feet long and eight-and-three-quarters feet wide;


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this vestibule faced the outer courtyard, palm trees were on its supports, and it had eight steps leading up to it.


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He brought me into the inner courtyard, went toward the east and measured that gate as being the same size;


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Its vestibule faced the outer courtyard, palm trees were on its supports, both on the one side and on the other; and it had eight steps leading up to it.


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it had guardrooms, supports and a vestibule with windows all around; the length was eighty-seven-and-a-half feet and the width forty-three-and-three-quarters feet.


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Its supports faced the outer courtyard; palm trees were on its supports, both on the one side and on the other; and it had eight steps leading up to it.


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In the entranceway to the gate were two tables on the one side and two on the other, on which to slaughter the burnt offerings, sin offerings and guilt offerings.


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On the outside, as one goes up to the entry of the north gate, were two tables; and on the other side of the entranceway to the gate were two tables.


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So there were four tables on the one side and four on the other side, by the gate — eight tables on which to slaughter sacrifices.


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There were four tables of cut stone for the burnt offering, thirty-one-and-a-half inches square and twenty-one inches high, on which to lay the instruments for slaughtering the burnt offerings and other sacrifices.


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Hooks a handbreadth long were fastened all around the inside of the room; the flesh of the offerings was to be placed on the tables.


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Outside the inner gate, in the inner courtyard, were rooms for the singers, one facing south alongside the north gate, and one facing north alongside the east gate.


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while the room facing north is for the cohanim in charge of the altar; these are the descendants of Tzadok, who are the descendants of Levi designated to approach Adonai and serve him.”


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Then he measured the courtyard at 175 feet long and 175 feet wide — it was square. The altar was in front of the house.


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He brought me to the vestibule of the house and measured at eight-and-three-quarters feet the thickness of the walls on either side of its entrance. On each side, these walls extended five-and-a-quarter feet from the side-walls of the vestibule.


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The length of the vestibule was thirty-five feet and the width nineteen-and-a-quarter feet; steps led up to it. There were columns on each side of the entrance.


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He brought me to the sanctuary and measured at ten-and-a-half feet the thickness of the walls on either side of its entrance, which was [also] the thickness of [the walls surrounding] the “tent” [that is, the sanctuary together with the Especially Holy Place].


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The width of the entrance was seventeen-and-a-half feet. The sides of the entrance were eight-and-three-quarters feet on the one side and the same on the other. He measured its length at seventy feet and its width at thirty-five feet.


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Next, he went farther in [to the entranceway leading to the Especially Holy Place] and measured at three-and-a-half feet [the thickness of] each entrance support. He measured at ten-and-a-half feet the total thickness of the walls on either side of the entrance; and he measured at twelve-and-a-quarter feet the width of the entrance.


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[Continuing into the inner room,] he said to me, “This is the Especially Holy Place.” He measured its length at thirty-five feet and its width at thirty-five feet along the wall nearest the sanctuary.


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[On his way out,] he measured the thickness of the wall of the house at ten-and-a-half feet [at ground level], and the width of all the side-rooms surrounding the house, seven feet [at ground level].


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There were three floors of side-rooms, thirty on each floor; and the wall around the house was terraced, so that the side-rooms rested on the terraces and were not supported on [the vertical parts of] the wall.


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The higher side-rooms surrounding the house were wider than the lower ones, as were the passageways next to the side-rooms on each floor; thus the width of the side-rooms plus that of the passageways increased as one went up from floor to floor. The ascent from the lowest floor to the highest was [by a ramp] through the middle floor.


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I saw that the house had a raised pavement all around it which extended outward a full rod of ten-and-a-half feet from where the foundations of the side-rooms joined it.


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The outer wall of the side-rooms was eight-and-three-quarters feet thick [at ground level], likewise the empty space left [between] the structure containing the side-rooms [and the house itself also measured eight-and-three quarters feet wide].


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On all sides around the house itself was a space thirty-five feet wide between it and the [block of] rooms [for the cohanim].


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The doors of the side-rooms opened toward an empty space, one door facing north and the other facing south; the empty space was eight-and-three-quarters feet [wide] all around.


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The building on the west facing the separated yard had a[n interior] width of 122 1/2 feet, a[n interior] length of 157 1/2 feet and exterior walls eight-and-three-quarters feet thick all the way around.


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He measured the length of the house at 175 feet; then a distance that included [the width of] the separated yard, [the interior width of] the building and [the thickness of] its [front and back exterior] walls, at 175 feet.


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The distance along the facade of the house on the east through the separated yard[s to the north and south] was 175 feet.


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He measured the length of the building facing the separated yard behind [the house], together with its galleries on both sides, at 175 feet. The sanctuary, the inner place and the vestibules [leading from the house] to the courtyard,


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as well as the thresholds, narrow windows and galleries around these three, had wood panelling around them as far as the thresholds and from the ground up to the windows; and the windows were covered.


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From the area above the entrance to the interior of the house, as well as outside, and on the entire wall all the way around, both inside and outside, was a pattern


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consisting of k’ruvim and palm trees, with a palm tree between every two k’ruvim. Every keruv had two faces;


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so that there was the face of a man toward the palm tree on its one side and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on its other side — this was the pattern all the way around the house.


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The k’ruvim and palm trees ran from the ground to above the door, and likewise on the wall of the sanctuary.


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As for the sanctuary, the door-frames were squared, and the appearance of the [Especially] Holy Place was like the appearance [I saw at the K’var River].


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The altar was of wood, five-and-a-quarter feet high and three-and-a-half feet long; its length and walls were also of wood. He said to me, “This is the table which is in the presence of Adonai.”


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had two doors. The doors had two swinging leaves each — two leaves for the one door and two for the other.


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On them, that is, on the doors of the sanctuary, were carved k’ruvim and palm trees like those on the walls; and on the exterior facade of the outside entrance were thick beams of wood.


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There were narrow windows flanked by palm trees on both sides of the entrance; the side-rooms of the house and the thick beams also [had palm trees].


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Then he led me into the outer courtyard — the route went north — and brought me to the [block of] rooms opposite the separated yard and opposite the building to the north.


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The length of the front was 175 feet on the north side, where the door was; the width was eighty-seven-and-a-half feet.


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It was located between the inner courtyard, which was thirty-five feet wide, and the flooring of the outer courtyard. It had galleries, one above the other, on three floors.


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In front of the [block of] rooms was a walkway seventeen-and-a-half feet wide and a path twenty-one inches [wide]; their doors faced north.


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The upper rooms were shorter, because the galleries took up some of their space, more than from the [rooms on the] lower and middle [floors] of the building.


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For the rooms were on three floors, and they didn’t have columns like those in the courtyards; therefore space was taken away from the [rooms on the] lower and middle [floors], in comparison with the ground.


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The length of the wall outside, next to the rooms, toward the outer courtyard in front of the rooms, was eighty-seven-and-a-half feet.


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For the length of the rooms toward the outer courtyard was eighty-seven-and-a-half feet, whereas [the length of] the side facing the sanctuary was 175 feet.


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In the width of the courtyard wall on the east, facing the separated yard and facing the building, there were rooms,


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with a passageway in front of them, similar to the rooms on the north. They were the same length and width and had similarly made exits and entrances.


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By the entrances of the rooms on the south there was an entrance at the end of the passage, the passageway right in front of the wall, toward the eastern entrances.


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Then he said to me, “The north and south [blocks of] rooms in front of the separated yard are the holy rooms where the cohanim who approach Adonai will eat the especially holy things. This is where they will put the especially holy things — the grain offerings, sin offerings and guilt offerings; for the place is holy.


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When the cohanim come, they will not go out of the [Especially] Holy Place into the outer courtyard; rather, they will leave [in these rooms] the clothes they use when ministering, because they are holy. They will put on other clothes and only then approach the areas permitted to the people.”


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After he had finished measuring the inner house, he brought me out by way of the gate facing east and measured the whole area.


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He measured its four sides; it had a wall around it; and it was 875 [feet] long and 875 [feet] wide. Thus a division was made between what was holy and what was common.


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There I saw the glory of the God of Isra’el approaching from the east. His voice was like the sound of rushing water, and the earth shone with his glory.


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The vision seemed like the vision I had seen when I came to destroy the city; also the visions were like the vision I had seen by the K’var River; and I fell on my face.


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Next, a spirit took me up and brought me into the inner courtyard, and I saw Adonai’s glory fill the house.


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He said, “Human being, this is the place for my throne, the place for the soles of my feet, where I will live among the people of Isra’el forever. The house of Isra’el, both they and their kings, will never again defile my holy name by their prostitution, by [burying] the corpses of their kings [on] their high places,


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or by placing their threshold next to my threshold and their door-frames next to my door-frames, with only a common wall between me and them. Yes, they defiled my holy name by the disgusting practices they committed; which is why I destroyed them in my anger.


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So now, they should put their prostitution at a distance and the corpses of their kings far away from me; then I will live among them forever.


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“You, human being, describe this house to the house of Isra’el, so that they will be ashamed of their crimes. And let them measure accurately.


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If they become ashamed of all they have done, show them the elevation and plan of the house, its exits and entrances, all its details and decorations, and all its specifications, its design and its Torah. Sketch it for them to see, so that they can observe the entire design with its specifications, and carry them out.


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This is Torah for the house: the whole surrounding area on the mountaintop will be especially holy. This is Torah for the house.”


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These are the measurements of the altar in cubits (a cubit here is defined as a normal cubit [eighteen inches] plus a handbreadth [three inches]): the base, one cubit [twenty-one inches] deep and one cubit wide; with the molding surrounding it at its rim about a hand-span [nine inches] in width. The height of the altar is thus:


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from the base on the ground to the lower ledge, three-and-a-half feet, with the width twenty-one inches; from the lower ledge to the upper ledge, seven feet, with the width again twenty-one inches.


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The ledge measures a square twenty-four-and-a-half feet on each of its four sides; the molding around it ten-and-a-half inches [across]; and its base twenty-one inches [larger than the rest, all the way] around. Its steps face east.


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He said to me, “Human being, Adonai Elohim says, ‘These are the regulations for the altar when the time comes to construct it, offer burnt offerings on it and splash the blood against it:


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you are to give to the cohanim, who are L’vi’im descended from Tzadok and who approach to serve me,’ says Adonai Elohim, ‘a young bull as a sin offering.


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You are to take its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge and on the molding all the way around; this is how you will purify it and make atonement for it.


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You are also to take the bull which is the sin offering and have it burned up at the designated place [on the grounds] of the house, outside the sanctuary.


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On the second day you are to offer a male goat without defect as a sin offering, and they are to purify the altar as they purified it with the bull.


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When you have finished purifying it, you are to offer a young bull without defect and a ram from the flock without defect.


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You are to present them before Adonai, and the cohanim will throw salt on them and offer them as a burnt offering to Adonai.


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Every day, for seven days, you are to prepare a goat as a sin offering; they are also to prepare a young bull and a ram from the flock without defect.


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For seven days, they are to make atonement for the altar and cleanse it; in this way they are to consecrate it.


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When these days are over, then, on the eighth day and afterwards, the cohanim will present your burnt offerings on the altar and your peace offerings; and I will accept you,’ says Adonai Elohim.”


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Then he brought me back by way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, the one facing east; and it was shut.


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Adonai said to me, “This gate will remain shut; it will not be opened, and no one will go through it; because Adonai, the God of Isra’el, has gone through it. Therefore, it is to be kept shut.


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Only the prince, since he is a prince, is to sit there to eat his meal before Adonai; he is to enter through the vestibule of the gate and leave the same way.”


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Then he brought me through the north gate to the front of the house. I looked, saw Adonai’s glory filling the house of Adonai, and fell on my face.


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Adonai said to me, “Human being, pay attention; see with your eyes and hear with your ears everything I tell you about all the regulations of Adonai’s house and about all its Torah; pay attention to who can enter the house and who must be excluded from the sanctuary.


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You are to tell the rebels, the house of Isra’el, that this is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘House of Isra’el, enough of all your disgusting practices!


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You brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in both heart and flesh, to be in my sanctuary and profane it — yes, my house — when you offered my food, the fat and the blood; thus in addition to all your disgusting practices, they broke my covenant.


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Instead of taking care of my holy things yourselves, you have put these people in charge of my sanctuary.’


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Here is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘No foreigner, uncircumcised in both heart and flesh, is to enter my sanctuary — no foreigner living among the people of Isra’el.


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“‘Rather, the L’vi’im, who went far away from me when Isra’el went astray, going astray after their idols — they will bear the consequences of their guilt,


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but they are to serve in my sanctuary. They will have charge of the gates of the house and of serving in the house; they will slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people; and they will attend and serve them.


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Because they served them in the presence of their idols and became an occasion of sin for the house of Isra’el, I am raising my hand against them,’ says Adonai Elohim, ‘and they will bear the consequences of their guilt.


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They will not approach me to serve me in the office of cohen or approach any of the holy things or the especially holy things; but they will bear their shame for the disgusting practices they committed.


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“‘However, the cohanim, who are L’vi’im and descendants of Tzadok, who took care of my sanctuary when the people of Isra’el went astray from me — they are the ones who will approach me and serve me; it is they who will attend me and offer me the fat and the blood,’ says Adonai Elohim.


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“‘Once they enter the gates of the inner courtyard, they are to wear linen clothing; they are not to wear any wool while serving at the gates of the inner courtyard or inside it.


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They are to wear linen turbans on their heads and linen underclothes on their bodies, and they are not to wear anything that makes them sweat.


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Before going out to the people in the outer courtyard, they are to remove the clothes in which they minister, lay them in the holy rooms, and put on other clothes; so that they won’t transmit holiness to the people by means of their clothing.


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They are not to shave their heads or let their hair grow long, but must keep their hair carefully trimmed.


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They may not marry a widow or a divorcee but must marry virgins descended from the house of Isra’el or a widow whose deceased husband was a cohen.


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“‘They are to teach my people the difference between holy and common and enable them to distinguish between clean and unclean.


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They are to be judges in controversies, and they are to render decisions in keeping with my rulings. At all my designated festivals they are to keep my laws and regulations, and they are to keep my shabbats holy.


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They are not to come to any dead person, because this would make them unclean; however, for father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister who has had no husband they may make themselves unclean.


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Then, on the day he enters the sanctuary, when he goes into the inner courtyard to minister in the sanctuary, he is to offer his sin offering,’ says Adonai Elohim.


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“‘Their inheritance is to be this: I myself am their inheritance. You are not to grant them any possession in Isra’el — I myself am their possession.


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They are to eat the grain offerings, sin offerings and guilt offerings; and everything in Isra’el devoted [to God] will be theirs.


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The first of all the firstfruits of everything, and every voluntary contribution of everything, from all your offerings, will be for the cohanim. You are also to give the cohen the first of your dough, so that a blessing will rest on your house.


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“‘When you divide the land by lot for inheritance, you are to set aside an offering for Adonai, a holy portion of the land. Its length is to be 25,000 [cubits, that is, eight miles] and its width 10,000 [three miles]; this entire region is to be holy.


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Of this there is to be reserved for the holy place an area 875 [feet] square, with eighty-seven-and-a-half feet for open land around it.


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Alongside this region you are to measure a length of eight [miles] and a width of three [miles]; in it is to be the sanctuary, which will be especially holy.


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It is a holy portion of the land; it is for the cohanim who serve in the sanctuary, who approach to minister to Adonai; there will be a place for their houses and a place set aside for the sanctuary.


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A portion eight by three [miles] will be owned by the L’vi’im who serve in the house; it will also have twenty [gatekeepers’] rooms.


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You are to give the city possession of an area, alongside the offering of the holy portion, one-and-a-half by eight [miles]; it will be for the whole house of Isra’el.


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“‘The prince is to have the territory on both sides of the holy offering and the city’s holding; it will extend westward to the western border of the land and eastward to its eastern border; and the length [from the far side of one] of its two parts [to the far side of the other] will be the same as the length of one of the [tribal] portions.


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His possession in Isra’el will be limited to this, and henceforth my princes will not wrong my people but will give the land to the house of Isra’el according to their tribes.’


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Adonai Elohim says this: ‘Princes of Isra’el, that should be enough for you! Get rid of violence and looting, do what is right and just, and stop evicting my people from their land!’ says Adonai Elohim.


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“‘You are to have honest balance-scales, an honest eifah [a one-bushel dry-measure] and an honest bat [a five-gallon liquid-measure].


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The eifah and the bat are to contain the same volume — the bat is to contain one-tenth of a homer, and the eifah is to contain one-tenth of a homer; the homer is to set the standard for measurement.


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Also the shekel is to be twenty gerahs; your maneh will be the sum of a twenty-shekel piece, a twenty-five-shekel piece and a fifteen-shekel piece.


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“‘This is the offering you are to make: one-sixth of a bushel from every ten bushels of wheat, and you are to give one-sixth of a bushel from every ten bushels of barley.


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The law for olive oil is to be half a gallon from every fifty gallons, which is the same as ten bats or one homer, since ten bats equal a homer.


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From the flock, take one sheep from every two hundred being pastured in Isra’el; [all these are to be used] for grain offerings, burnt offerings and peace offerings, to make atonement for them,’ says Adonai Elohim.


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The prince’s obligation will be to present the burnt offerings, grain offerings and drink offerings at the feasts, on Rosh-Hodesh, and on Shabbat — at all the designated times of the house of Isra’el. He is to prepare the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings and peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Isra’el.’


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“Adonai Elohim says this: ‘On the first day of the first month you are to take a young bull without defect and purify the sanctuary.


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The cohen will take some of the blood from the sin offering and put it on the door-frames of the house, on the four corners of the altar’s ledge and on the supports of the gate of the inner courtyard.


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You are also to do this on the seventh day of the month for everyone who has sinned inadvertently or through ignorance. Thus you will make atonement for the house.


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“‘On the fourteenth day of the first month you are to have the Pesach, a feast seven days long; matzah will be eaten.


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On that day the prince will provide, for himself and for all the people of the land, a young bull as a sin offering.


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On the seven days of the feast he is to provide a burnt offering for Adonai, seven young bulls and seven rams without defect daily for the seven days, and a male goat daily as a sin offering.


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He is to provide as a grain offering a bushel [of grain] for a young bull and a bushel for a ram, and for each bushel [of grain] a gallon of olive oil.


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“‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, during the feast [of Sukkot] he is to do the same thing for those seven days in regard to the sin offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings and olive oil.’


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“This is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘The east gate of the inner courtyard is to be shut on the six working days, but on Shabbat it is to be opened, and on Rosh-Hodesh it is to be opened.


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The prince is to enter by way of the outer vestibule of the gate and stand by the support of the gate. The cohanim are to prepare his burnt offering and peace offerings. Then he is to prostrate himself in worship at the threshold of the gate, after which he is to leave; but the gate is not to be shut until evening.


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The people of the land are also to prostrate themselves in worship before Adonai at the entrance to that gate on Shabbat and on Rosh-Hodesh.


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“‘The burnt offering the prince is to offer Adonai on Shabbat is to consist of six lambs without defect and a ram without defect.


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The grain offering is to be a bushel for the ram, while for the lambs it can be as much as he wants to give; with a gallon of olive oil per eifah.


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He is to prepare a grain offering consisting of a bushel for the bull, a bushel for the ram, and for the lambs as his means allow; with a gallon of olive oil per bushel.


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“‘When the prince enters, he is to go in by way of the vestibule of the gate, and he is to leave the same way.


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But when the people of the land come before Adonai at the designated times, whoever comes in to worship by way of the north gate is to leave by way of the south gate, and whoever comes in by way of the south gate is to leave by way of the north gate; he is not to go back out through the gate by which he entered but is to exit straight ahead of him.


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[On these occasions,] the prince is to be among them when they enter; and when they leave, they are to leave together.


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“‘At the festivals and at designated times, the grain offering is to be a bushel for a young bull and a bushel for a ram, while for the lambs it can be as much as he wants to give, with a gallon of olive oil per bushel.


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“‘When the prince provides a voluntary offering, whether it is a burnt offering or peace offerings that he offers voluntarily to Adonai, someone is to open the east gate for him; and he is to provide his burnt offering and peace offerings as he does on Shabbat. Then he will leave; and after he leaves, the gate is to be shut.


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“‘You are to provide a lamb in its first year that has no defect for a daily burnt offering to Adonai; do this each morning.


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Also each morning, provide with it a grain offering, one-sixth of a bushel, and one-third of a gallon of olive oil to moisten the fine flour; this is the ongoing grain offering for Adonai, by a permanent regulation.


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“Adonai Elohim says this: ‘If the prince turns over part of his hereditary property to one of his sons, it is his inheritance; it will belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance.


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But if he gives part of his hereditary property to one of his slaves, it will be his until the year of freedom, at which time it will revert to the prince, so that the prince’s heritage will go to his sons.


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The prince is not to take over any of the people’s inheritance, thereby evicting them wrongfully from their property; he is to give his sons an inheritance out of his own property, so that none of my people will be driven off their property.’”


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Next, he brought me through the entry at the side of the gate into the holy rooms facing north that were for the cohanim. At their far west end I saw a place


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about which he said to me, “This is the place where the cohanim will boil the guilt offerings and sin offerings and bake the grain offerings. In this way they won’t have to bring them into the outer courtyard and risk transmitting holiness to the people.”


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He took me into the outer courtyard and had me pass by the four corners of the courtyard, and there in each corner of the courtyard was another courtyard —


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in the four corners of the courtyard were enclosed courtyards seventy feet long and fifty-two-and-a-half feet; the four courtyards in the corners were the same size.


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He said to me, “These are the stoves where those serving in the house will boil the people’s sacrifices.”


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Then he brought me back to the entrance of the house, and I saw water flowing eastward from under the threshold of the house, for the house faced east. The water flowed down from under the right side of the house, south of the altar.


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Next he led me out through the north gate and took me around outside to the outer gate, by way of the east gate, where I saw water trickling from the south side.


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With a line in his hand the man went out toward the east and measured a thousand cubits [one-third of a mile] and had me wade across the stream; the water came up to my ankles.


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He measured another thousand and had me wade through the water, which reached my knees. He measured another thousand and had me wade through water up to my waist.


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Finally he measured a thousand, and it was a river I couldn’t cross on foot, because the water was so deep one would have to swim across; it was a river that could not be waded through.


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After being returned, I saw on the bank of the river a great number of trees on the one side and on the other.


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He said to me, “This water flows toward the eastern region and continues down to the ‘Aravah. When it enters the sea, the sea of stagnant water, [the Dead Sea,] its water will become fresh.


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When this happens, swarms of all kinds of living creatures will be able to live in it wherever the streams flow; so that there will be a vast number of fish; for this water is flowing there, so that, wherever the river goes, everything will be restored and able to live.


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Then fishermen will stand on its shores spreading their nets all the way from ‘Ein-Gedi to ‘Ein-‘Eglayim. There will be as many kinds of fish there as in the Great Sea, [the Mediterranean,] a great variety.


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On both riverbanks will grow all kinds of trees for food; their leaves will not dry up, nor will their fruit fail. There will be a different kind of fruit each month, because the water flows from the sanctuary, so that this fruit will be edible, and the leaves will have healing properties.”


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“Adonai Elohim says this: ‘These are the borders of the land you are to distribute for inheritance by the twelve tribes of Isra’el, with Yosef receiving two portions.


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For inheritance you will each have equal shares. I swore to your ancestors that I would give them this land, and now it falls to you to inherit it.


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“‘The borders of the land will be as follows: on the north, from the Great Sea through Hetlon to the entrance of Tz’dad,


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Hamat, Berotah, Sibrayim (which is between the border of Dammesek and the border of Hamat), Hatzer-Hatikhon (which is toward the border of Havran).


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The border from the sea will be Hatzar-‘Einon (at the border of Dammesek); while on the north, northward, is the border of Hamat. This is the north side.


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“‘On the east side, measure between Havran and Dammesek, Gil‘ad and the land of Isra’el by the Yarden, from the border to the eastern sea. This is the east side.


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“‘On the side of the Negev toward the south it will be from Tamar as far as the waters of M’rivot-Kadesh, then to the Vadi [of Egypt] and on to the Great Sea. This is the south side toward the Negev.


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“‘The west side will be the Great Sea, as far as across from the entrance to Hamat. This is the west side.


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You are to divide it by lot as an inheritance both to you and to the foreigners living among you who give birth to children living among you; for you they are to be no different from the native-born among the people of Isra’el — they are to have an inheritance with you among the tribes of Isra’el.


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You are to give the foreigner an inheritance in the territory of the tribe with whom he is living,’ says Adonai Elohim.


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“‘Following is the list of tribes: “‘This is Dan’s territory: from the north end, through Hetlon to the entrance of Hamat, Hatzar-‘Einan (at the border of Dammesek), northward, next to Hamat; and they will have their sides east and west.


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“‘Alongside the territory of Y’hudah, from east to west, will be the offering you are to set aside, 25,000 [cubits] wide [eight miles], and in length equal to distance between the east and west boundaries of one of the portions, with the sanctuary inside it.


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This holy offering will be for the cohanim; it will be eight [miles] in length along its north and south sides and three in width along its west and east sides; Adonai’s sanctuary will be inside it.


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The portion set aside as holy will be for the cohanim who are descendants of Tzadok that remained faithful to my commission and did not go astray when the people of Isra’el and the L’vi’im went astray.


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It is to be an especially holy portion set apart for them and taken from the offering of the land, next to the border of the L’vi’im.


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“ ‘Alongside the territory for the cohanim, the L’vi’im are to have a portion eight [miles] long and three wide — its total length will be eight and its width three.


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“‘The 5,000 [cubits, that is, the one-and-a-half miles] that are left of the width is to be for the common use of the city, for housing and for open fields. The city will be inside it.


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and will measure 4,500 cubits [just under one-and-a-half miles] along each of its sides — north, south, east and west.


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The city is to have outside it a border of land 440 feet wide on each side — north, south, east and west.


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A strip next to the holy offering extending three [miles] to the east and three to the west is to be left. This area by the holy offering is to be used to grow food for those serving the city.


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“‘What remains will be for the prince — the land on the two sides of the holy offering and section for the city, that is, the portion eastward from the eight [miles] of the offering’s eastern border to the land’s eastern border and the portion westward from the eight [miles] of the offering’s western border to the land’s western border — this land adjacent to the [tribal] portions will be for the prince, with the holy offering and the sanctuary of the house inside it.


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Thus the land belonging to the L’vi’im and the section for the city will be inside that which belongs to the prince. “‘The territory belonging to the prince will be between the territory of Y’hudah and the territory of Binyamin —


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“‘Alongside the territory of Gad, from the Negev southward, the border will run from Tamar to the water at M’rivat-Kadesh, then to the Vadi [of Egypt], and on to the Great Sea.


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This is the land you are to distribute by lot to the tribes of Isra’el for inheritance, and these are their portions,’ says Adonai Elohim.


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“‘These are the city exits; they are to be named after the tribes of Isra’el, three gates on each of the four sides; the four sides each measure just under one-and-a-half [miles]: on the north, gates named after Re’uven, Y’hudah and Levi; on the east, gates named after Yosef, Binyamin and Dan; on the south, gates named after Shim‘on, Yissakhar and Z’vulun; and on the west, gates named after Gad, Asher and Naftali.


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“‘The perimeter of [the city] will be just under six [miles] long. And from that day on the name of the city will be Adonai Shamah [Adonai is there].’”


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This is the word of Adonai that came to Hoshea the son of Be’eri during the reigns of ‘Uziyah, Yotam, Achaz and Y’chizkiyah, kings of Y’hudah, and during the reign of Yarov‘am the son of Yo’ash, king of Isra’el.


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Adonai’s opening words in speaking to Hoshea were to instruct Hoshea, “Go, marry a whore, and have children with this whore; for the land is engaged in flagrant whoring, whoring away from Adonai.”


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Adonai said to him, “Call him Yizre‘el, because in only a short time I will punish the house of Yehu for having shed blood at Yizre‘el; I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Isra’el.


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She conceived again and bore a daughter. Adonai said to him, “Name her Lo-Ruchamah [unpitied], for I will no longer have pity on the house of Isra’el. By no means will I forgive them.


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But I will pity the house of Y’hudah; I will save them not by bow, sword, battle, horses or cavalry, but by Adonai their God.”


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Adonai said, “Name him Lo-‘Ammi [not-my-people], because you are not my people, and I will not be your [God].


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“Nevertheless, the people of Isra’el will number as many as the grains of sand by the sea, which cannot be measured or counted; so that the time will come when, instead of being told, ‘You are not my people,’ it will be said to them, ‘You are the children of the living God.’


book: Hos
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Then the people of Y’hudah and the people of Isra’el will be gathered together; they will appoint for themselves one leader; and they will go up out of the land; for that will be a great day, [the day] of Yizre‘el.


book: Hos
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Rebuke your mother, rebuke her; for she isn’t my wife, and I’m not her husband. She must remove her whoring from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts.


book: Hos
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Otherwise, I will strip her naked and place her as she was the day she was born, make her like a desert, place her like a dry land and kill her with thirst.


book: Hos
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their mother prostituted herself, she who conceived them behaved shamelessly; she said, ‘I will pursue my lovers, who give me my food and water, wool, flax, olive oil and wine.’


book: Hos
contenido:
She will pursue her lovers but not catch them. She will seek them but won’t find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband; because things were better for me then than they are now.’


book: Hos
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For she doesn’t know it was I who gave her the grain, the wine and the oil; I who increased her silver and gold, which they used for Ba‘al.


book: Hos
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So I will take back my grain at harvest-time and my wine in its season; I will snatch away my wool and flax, given to cover her naked body.


book: Hos
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I will ravage her vines and fig trees, of which she says, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me.’ But I will turn them into a forest, and wild animals will eat them.


book: Hos
contenido:
I will punish her for offering incense on the feast days of the ba‘alim, when she decked herself with her earrings and jewels, pursuing her lovers and forgetting me,” says Adonai.


book: Hos
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I will give her her vineyards from there and the Akhor Valley as a gateway to hope. She will respond there as she did when young, as she did when she came up from Egypt.


book: Hos
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“On that day,” says Adonai “you will call me Ishi [My Husband]; you will no longer call me Ba‘ali [My Master].


book: Hos
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For I will remove the names of the ba‘alim from her mouth; they will never again be mentioned by name.


book: Hos
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When that day comes, I will make a covenant for them with the wild animals, the birds in the air and the creeping things of the earth. I will break bow and sword, sweep battle from the land, and make them lie down securely.


book: Hos
contenido:
I will betroth you to me forever; yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in grace and in compassion;


book: Hos
contenido:
When that day comes, I will answer,” says Adonai “I will answer the sky, and it will answer the earth;


book: Hos
contenido:
I will sow her for me in the land. I will have pity on Lo-Ruchamah [Unpitied]; I will say to Lo-‘Ammi [Not-My-People], ‘You are my people’; and they will say, ‘You are my God.’”


book: Hos
contenido:
Adonai said to me, “Go once more, and show love to [this] wife [of yours] who has been loved by her boyfriend, to this adulteress — just as Adonai loves the people of Isra’el, even though they turn to other gods and love the raisin cakes [offered to them].”


book: Hos
contenido:
Then I told her, “You are to remain in seclusion for a long time and be mine. You are not to be a prostitute, and you are not to be with any other man; and I won’t come in to have sex with you either.”


book: Hos
contenido:
For the people of Isra’el are going to be in seclusion for a long time without a king, prince, sacrifice, standing-stone, ritual vest or household gods.


book: Hos
contenido:
Afterwards, the people of Isra’el will repent and seek Adonai their God and David their king; they will come trembling to Adonai and his goodness in the acharit-hayamim.


book: Hos
contenido:
Hear the word of Adonai, people of Isra’el! For Adonai has a grievance against the inhabitants of the land: there is no truth, no faithful love or knowledge of God in the land;


book: Hos
contenido:
only swearing and lying, killing and stealing and committing adultery! They break all bounds, with one blood crime following another.


book: Hos
contenido:
Therefore the land mourns, and everyone living there languishes, wild animals too, and the birds in the air; even the fish in the sea are removed.


book: Hos
contenido:
Therefore you will stumble by day, and the prophet will stumble with you at night. “I will destroy your mother.


book: Hos
contenido:
My people are destroyed for want of knowledge. Because you rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as cohen for me. Because you forgot the Torah of your God, I will also forget your children.


book: Hos
contenido:
The more they increased in number, the more they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.


book: Hos
contenido:
But the cohen will fare no better than the people; I will punish him for his ways and pay him back for his deeds.


book: Hos
contenido:
They will eat but not have enough and consort with whores but have no children, because they stopped listening to Adonai.


book: Hos
contenido:
My people consult their piece of wood, their diviner’s wand speaks to them; for the spirit of whoring makes them err, they go off whoring, deserting their God.


book: Hos
contenido:
They sacrifice on the mountain peaks and offer incense on the hills under oaks, poplars and pistachio trees; because they give good shade. Therefore your daughters behave like whores, And your daughters-in-law commit adultery.


book: Hos
contenido:
I won’t punish your daughters when they act like whores, or your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery; because the men are themselves going off with whores and sacrificing with prostitutes. Yes, a people without understanding will come to ruin.”


book: Hos
contenido:
If you, Isra’el, prostitute yourself, still Y’hudah has no need to incur such guilt. Don’t go to Gilgal or up to Beit-Aven, and don’t swear, “As Adonai lives.”


book: Hos
contenido:
“Hear this, cohanim! Pay attention, house of Isra’el! Listen, house of the king! For judgment is coming to you. You have become a snare for Mitzpah and a net spread on Tavor.


book: Hos
contenido:
“I know Efrayim; Isra’el is not hidden from me; for now, Efrayim, you are a whore; Isra’el is defiled.”


book: Hos
contenido:
Their deeds will not allow them to return to their God, for the spirit of whoring is in them, and they don’t know Adonai.


book: Hos
contenido:
Isra’el’s arrogance will testify in his face; Isra’el and Efrayim will stumble in their crimes; Y’hudah too will stumble with them.


book: Hos
contenido:
With their flocks and herds they will go in search of Adonai. But they won’t find him; he has withdrawn from them.


book: Hos
contenido:
They have betrayed Adonai, by fathering foreign children. Now within the month the invaders will devour their lands.


book: Hos
contenido:
“Blow the shofar in Giv‘ah, a trumpet at Ramah; sound an alarm at Beit-Aven: ‘Behind you, Binyamin!’


book: Hos
contenido:
Efrayim will be laid waste when the day for punishment comes; I am announcing to the tribes of Isra’el what will surely happen.


book: Hos
contenido:
The leaders of Y’hudah are like men who move boundary stones; I will pour my fury out upon them like water.


book: Hos
contenido:
When Efrayim saw his sickness and Y’hudah his wound, Efrayim went to Ashur and sent envoys to a warring king; but he can’t heal you or cure your wound.


book: Hos
contenido:
For to Efrayim I will be like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Y’hudah — I will tear them up and go away; I will carry them off, and no one will rescue.


book: Hos
contenido:
I will go and return to my place, till they admit their guilt and search for me, seeking me eagerly in their distress.”


book: Hos
contenido:
Come, let us return to Adonai; for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has struck, and he will bind our wounds.


book: Hos
contenido:
After two days, he will revive us; on the third day, he will raise us up; and we will live in his presence.


book: Hos
contenido:
Let us know, let us strive to know Adonai. That he will come is as certain as morning; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rains that water the earth.


book: Hos
contenido:
“Efrayim, what should I do to you? Y’hudah, what should I do to you? For your ‘faithful love’ is like a morning cloud, like dew that disappears quickly.


