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The garden had hangings of white and blue linen, fastened with cords of white linen and purple material to silver rings on marble pillars. There were couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl and other costly stones.


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Wine was served in goblets of gold, each one different from the other, and the royal wine was abundant, in keeping with the king’s liberality.


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By the king’s command each guest was allowed to drink in his own way, for the king instructed all the wine stewards to serve each man what he wished.


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On the seventh day, when King Xerxes was in high spirits from wine, he commanded the seven eunuchs who served him—Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar and Carcas—


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to bring before him Queen Vashti, wearing her royal crown, in order to display her beauty to the people and nobles, for she was lovely to look at.


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But when the attendants delivered the king’s command, Queen Vashti refused to come. Then the king became furious and burned with anger.


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Since it was customary for the king to consult experts in matters of law and justice, he spoke with the wise men who understood the times


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and were closest to the king—Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena and Memucan, the seven nobles of Persia and Media who had special access to the king and were highest in the kingdom.


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“According to law, what must be done to Queen Vashti?” he asked. “She has not obeyed the command of King Xerxes that the eunuchs have taken to her.”


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Then Memucan replied in the presence of the king and the nobles, “Queen Vashti has done wrong, not only against the king but also against all the nobles and the peoples of all the provinces of King Xerxes.


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For the queen’s conduct will become known to all the women, and so they will despise their husbands and say, ‘King Xerxes commanded Queen Vashti to be brought before him, but she would not come.’


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This very day the Persian and Median women of the nobility who have heard about the queen’s conduct will respond to all the king’s nobles in the same way. There will be no end of disrespect and discord.


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“Therefore, if it pleases the king, let him issue a royal decree and let it be written in the laws of Persia and Media, which cannot be repealed, that Vashti is never again to enter the presence of King Xerxes. Also let the king give her royal position to someone else who is better than she.


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Then when the king’s edict is proclaimed throughout all his vast realm, all the women will respect their husbands, from the least to the greatest.”


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He sent dispatches to all parts of the kingdom, to each province in its own script and to each people in its own language, proclaiming in each people’s tongue that every man should be ruler over his own household.


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Esther Made Queen Later when the anger of King Xerxes had subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what he had decreed about her.


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Then the king’s personal attendants proposed, “Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king.


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Let the king appoint commissioners in every province of his realm to bring all these beautiful girls into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king’s eunuch, who is in charge of the women; and let beauty treatments be given to them.


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Then let the girl who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” This advice appealed to the king, and he followed it.


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Now there was in the citadel of Susa a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin, named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish,


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who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jehoiachin king of Judah.


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Mordecai had a cousin named Hadassah, whom he had brought up because she had neither father nor mother. This girl, who was also known as Esther, was lovely in form and features, and Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter when her father and mother died.


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When the king’s order and edict had been proclaimed, many girls were brought to the citadel of Susa and put under the care of Hegai. Esther also was taken to the king’s palace and entrusted to Hegai, who had charge of the harem.


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The girl pleased him and won his favor. Immediately he provided her with her beauty treatments and special food. He assigned to her seven maids selected from the king’s palace and moved her and her maids into the best place in the harem.


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Esther had not revealed her nationality and family background, because Mordecai had forbidden her to do so.


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Every day he walked back and forth near the courtyard of the harem to find out how Esther was and what was happening to her.


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Before a girl’s turn came to go in to King Xerxes, she had to complete twelve months of beauty treatments prescribed for the women, six months with oil of myrrh and six with perfumes and cosmetics.


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And this is how she would go to the king: Anything she wanted was given her to take with her from the harem to the king’s palace.


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In the evening she would go there and in the morning return to another part of the harem to the care of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch who was in charge of the concubines. She would not return to the king unless he was pleased with her and summoned her by name.


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When the turn came for Esther (the girl Mordecai had adopted, the daughter of his uncle Abihail) to go to the king, she asked for nothing other than what Hegai, the king’s eunuch who was in charge of the harem, suggested. And Esther won the favor of everyone who saw her.


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She was taken to King Xerxes in the royal residence in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.


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Now the king was attracted to Esther more than to any of the other women, and she won his favor and approval more than any of the other virgins. So he set a royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.


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And the king gave a great banquet, Esther’s banquet, for all his nobles and officials. He proclaimed a holiday throughout the provinces and distributed gifts with royal liberality.


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Mordecai Uncovers a Conspiracy When the virgins were assembled a second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate.


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But Esther had kept secret her family background and nationality just as Mordecai had told her to do, for she continued to follow Mordecai’s instructions as she had done when he was bringing her up.


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During the time Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s officers who guarded the doorway, became angry and conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.


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But Mordecai found out about the plot and told Queen Esther, who in turn reported it to the king, giving credit to Mordecai.


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And when the report was investigated and found to be true, the two officials were hanged on a gallows. All this was recorded in the book of the annals in the presence of the king.


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Haman’s Plot to Destroy the Jews After these events, King Xerxes honored Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him and giving him a seat of honor higher than that of all the other nobles.


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All the royal officials at the king’s gate knelt down and paid honor to Haman, for the king had commanded this concerning him. But Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor.


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Then the royal officials at the king’s gate asked Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the king’s command?”


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Day after day they spoke to him but he refused to comply. Therefore they told Haman about it to see whether Mordecai’s behavior would be tolerated, for he had told them he was a Jew.


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Yet having learned who Mordecai’s people were, he scorned the idea of killing only Mordecai. Instead Haman looked for a way to destroy all Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the whole kingdom of Xerxes.


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In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, they cast the pur (that is, the lot) in the presence of Haman to select a day and month. And the lot fell on the twelfth month, the month of Adar.


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Then Haman said to King Xerxes, “There is a certain people dispersed and scattered among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom whose customs are different from those of all other people and who do not obey the king’s laws; it is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.


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If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will put ten thousand talents of silver into the royal treasury for the men who carry out this business.”


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So the king took his signet ring from his finger and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.


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Then on the thirteenth day of the first month the royal secretaries were summoned. They wrote out in the script of each province and in the language of each people all Haman’s orders to the king’s satraps, the governors of the various provinces and the nobles of the various peoples. These were written in the name of King Xerxes himself and sealed with his own ring.


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Dispatches were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces with the order to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and little children—on a single day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.


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A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued as law in every province and made known to the people of every nationality so they would be ready for that day.


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Spurred on by the king’s command, the couriers went out, and the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was bewildered.


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Mordecai Persuades Esther to Help When Mordecai learned of all that had been done, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the city, wailing loudly and bitterly.


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But he went only as far as the king’s gate, because no one clothed in sackcloth was allowed to enter it.


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In every province to which the edict and order of the king came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping and wailing. Many lay in sackcloth and ashes.


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When Esther’s maids and eunuchs came and told her about Mordecai, she was in great distress. She sent clothes for him to put on instead of his sackcloth, but he would not accept them.


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Then Esther summoned Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs assigned to attend her, and ordered him to find out what was troubling Mordecai and why.


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Mordecai told him everything that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury for the destruction of the Jews.


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He also gave him a copy of the text of the edict for their annihilation, which had been published in Susa, to show to Esther and explain it to her, and he told him to urge her to go into the king’s presence to beg for mercy and plead with him for her people.


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“All the king’s officials and the people of the royal provinces know that for any man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned the king has but one law: that he be put to death. The only exception to this is for the king to extend the gold scepter to him and spare his life. But thirty days have passed since I was called to go to the king.”


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he sent back this answer: “Do not think that because you are in the king’s house you alone of all the Jews will escape.


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For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?”


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“Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.”


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Esther’s Request to the King On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the palace, in front of the king’s hall. The king was sitting on his royal throne in the hall, facing the entrance.


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When he saw Queen Esther standing in the court, he was pleased with her and held out to her the gold scepter that was in his hand. So Esther approached and touched the tip of the scepter.


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Then the king asked, “What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be given you.”


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“If it pleases the king,” replied Esther, “let the king, together with Haman, come today to a banquet I have prepared for him.”


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“Bring Haman at once,” the king said, “so that we may do what Esther asks.” So the king and Haman went to the banquet Esther had prepared.


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As they were drinking wine, the king again asked Esther, “Now what is your petition? It will be given you. And what is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be granted.”


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If the king regards me with favor and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, let the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet I will prepare for them. Then I will answer the king’s question.”


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Haman’s Rage Against Mordecai Haman went out that day happy and in high spirits. But when he saw Mordecai at the king’s gate and observed that he neither rose nor showed fear in his presence, he was filled with rage against Mordecai.


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Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home. Calling together his friends and Zeresh, his wife,


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Haman boasted to them about his vast wealth, his many sons, and all the ways the king had honored him and how he had elevated him above the other nobles and officials.


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“And that’s not all,” Haman added. “I’m the only person Queen Esther invited to accompany the king to the banquet she gave. And she has invited me along with the king tomorrow.


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But all this gives me no satisfaction as long as I see that Jew Mordecai sitting at the king’s gate.”


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His wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Have a gallows built, seventy-five feet high, and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai hanged on it. Then go with the king to the dinner and be happy.” This suggestion delighted Haman, and he had the gallows built.


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Mordecai Honored That night the king could not sleep; so he ordered the book of the chronicles, the record of his reign, to be brought in and read to him.


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It was found recorded there that Mordecai had exposed Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s officers who guarded the doorway, who had conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.


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“What honor and recognition has Mordecai received for this?” the king asked. “Nothing has been done for him,” his attendants answered.


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The king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the palace to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows he had erected for him.


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When Haman entered, the king asked him, “What should be done for the man the king delights to honor?” Now Haman thought to himself, “Who is there that the king would rather honor than me?”


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have them bring a royal robe the king has worn and a horse the king has ridden, one with a royal crest placed on its head.


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Then let the robe and horse be entrusted to one of the king’s most noble princes. Let them robe the man the king delights to honor, and lead him on the horse through the city streets, proclaiming before him, ‘This is what is done for the man the king delights to honor!’”


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“Go at once,” the king commanded Haman. “Get the robe and the horse and do just as you have suggested for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king’s gate. Do not neglect anything you have recommended.”


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So Haman got the robe and the horse. He robed Mordecai, and led him on horseback through the city streets, proclaiming before him, “This is what is done for the man the king delights to honor!”


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Afterward Mordecai returned to the king’s gate. But Haman rushed home, with his head covered in grief,


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and told Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has started, is of Jewish origin, you cannot stand against him—you will surely come to ruin!”


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While they were still talking with him, the king’s eunuchs arrived and hurried Haman away to the banquet Esther had prepared.


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and as they were drinking wine on that second day, the king again asked, “Queen Esther, what is your petition? It will be given you. What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be granted.”


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Then Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor with you, O king, and if it pleases your majesty, grant me my life—this is my petition. And spare my people—this is my request.


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For I and my people have been sold for destruction and slaughter and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept quiet, because no such distress would justify disturbing the king.”


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Esther said, “The adversary and enemy is this vile Haman.” Then Haman was terrified before the king and queen.


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The king got up in a rage, left his wine and went out into the palace garden. But Haman, realizing that the king had already decided his fate, stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life.


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Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Will he even molest the queen while she is with me in the house?” As soon as the word left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.


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Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said, “A gallows seventy-five feet high stands by Haman’s house. He had it made for Mordecai, who spoke up to help the king.” The king said, “Hang him on it!”


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The King’s Edict in Behalf of the Jews That same day King Xerxes gave Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came into the presence of the king, for Esther had told how he was related to her.


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The king took off his signet ring, which he had reclaimed from Haman, and presented it to Mordecai. And Esther appointed him over Haman’s estate.


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Esther again pleaded with the king, falling at his feet and weeping. She begged him to put an end to the evil plan of Haman the Agagite, which he had devised against the Jews.


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“If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if he regards me with favor and thinks it the right thing to do, and if he is pleased with me, let an order be written overruling the dispatches that Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, devised and wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.


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For how can I bear to see disaster fall on my people? How can I bear to see the destruction of my family?”


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King Xerxes replied to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Because Haman attacked the Jews, I have given his estate to Esther, and they have hanged him on the gallows.


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Now write another decree in the king’s name in behalf of the Jews as seems best to you, and seal it with the king’s signet ring—for no document written in the king’s name and sealed with his ring can be revoked.”


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At once the royal secretaries were summoned—on the twenty-third day of the third month, the month of Sivan. They wrote out all Mordecai’s orders to the Jews, and to the satraps, governors and nobles of the 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush. These orders were written in the script of each province and the language of each people and also to the Jews in their own script and language.


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Mordecai wrote in the name of King Xerxes, sealed the dispatches with the king’s signet ring, and sent them by mounted couriers, who rode fast horses especially bred for the king.


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The king’s edict granted the Jews in every city the right to assemble and protect themselves; to destroy, kill and annihilate any armed force of any nationality or province that might attack them and their women and children; and to plunder the property of their enemies.


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The day appointed for the Jews to do this in all the provinces of King Xerxes was the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar.


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A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued as law in every province and made known to the people of every nationality so that the Jews would be ready on that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.


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The couriers, riding the royal horses, raced out, spurred on by the king’s command. And the edict was also issued in the citadel of Susa.


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Mordecai left the king’s presence wearing royal garments of blue and white, a large crown of gold and a purple robe of fine linen. And the city of Susa held a joyous celebration.


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In every province and in every city, wherever the edict of the king went, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many people of other nationalities became Jews because fear of the Jews had seized them.


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Triumph of the Jews On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the edict commanded by the king was to be carried out. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but now the tables were turned and the Jews got the upper hand over those who hated them.


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The Jews assembled in their cities in all the provinces of King Xerxes to attack those seeking their destruction. No one could stand against them, because the people of all the other nationalities were afraid of them.


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And all the nobles of the provinces, the satraps, the governors and the king’s administrators helped the Jews, because fear of Mordecai had seized them.


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Mordecai was prominent in the palace; his reputation spread throughout the provinces, and he became more and more powerful.


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The Jews struck down all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying them, and they did what they pleased to those who hated them.


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the ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews. But they did not lay their hands on the plunder.


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The king said to Queen Esther, “The Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men and the ten sons of Haman in the citadel of Susa. What have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces? Now what is your petition? It will be given you. What is your request? It will also be granted.”


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“If it pleases the king,” Esther answered, “give the Jews in Susa permission to carry out this day’s edict tomorrow also, and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged on gallows.”


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So the king commanded that this be done. An edict was issued in Susa, and they hanged the ten sons of Haman.


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The Jews in Susa came together on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and they put to death in Susa three hundred men, but they did not lay their hands on the plunder.


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Meanwhile, the remainder of the Jews who were in the king’s provinces also assembled to protect themselves and get relief from their enemies. They killed seventy-five thousand of them but did not lay their hands on the plunder.


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This happened on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth they rested and made it a day of feasting and joy.


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Purim Celebrated The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and fourteenth, and then on the fifteenth they rested and made it a day of feasting and joy.


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That is why rural Jews—those living in villages—observe the fourteenth of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting, a day for giving presents to each other.


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Mordecai recorded these events, and he sent letters to all the Jews throughout the provinces of King Xerxes, near and far,


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as the time when the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month when their sorrow was turned into joy and their mourning into a day of celebration. He wrote them to observe the days as days of feasting and joy and giving presents of food to one another and gifts to the poor.


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So the Jews agreed to continue the celebration they had begun, doing what Mordecai had written to them.


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For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the pur (that is, the lot) for their ruin and destruction.


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But when the plot came to the king’s attention, he issued written orders that the evil scheme Haman had devised against the Jews should come back onto his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.


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(Therefore these days were called Purim, from the word pur.) Because of everything written in this letter and because of what they had seen and what had happened to them,


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the Jews took it upon themselves to establish the custom that they and their descendants and all who join them should without fail observe these two days every year, in the way prescribed and at the time appointed.


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These days should be remembered and observed in every generation by every family, and in every province and in every city. And these days of Purim should never cease to be celebrated by the Jews, nor should the memory of them die out among their descendants.


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So Queen Esther, daughter of Abihail, along with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter concerning Purim.


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And Mordecai sent letters to all the Jews in the 127 provinces of the kingdom of Xerxes—words of goodwill and assurance—


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to establish these days of Purim at their designated times, as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had decreed for them, and as they had established for themselves and their descendants in regard to their times of fasting and lamentation.


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And all his acts of power and might, together with a full account of the greatness of Mordecai to which the king had raised him, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Media and Persia?


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Mordecai the Jew was second in rank to King Xerxes, preeminent among the Jews, and held in high esteem by his many fellow Jews, because he worked for the good of his people and spoke up for the welfare of all the Jews.


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Prologue In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.


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and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East.


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His sons used to take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.


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When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would send and have them purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular custom.


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Job’s First Test One day the angels came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came with them.


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The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the Lord, “From roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it.”


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Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.”


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“Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land.


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The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your hands, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.


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One day when Job’s sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother’s house,


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and the Sabeans attacked and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”


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While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, “The fire of God fell from the sky and burned up the sheep and the servants, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”


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While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three raiding parties and swept down on your camels and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”


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While he was still speaking, yet another messenger came and said, “Your sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother’s house,


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when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on them and they are dead, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”


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and said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.”


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Job’s Second Test On another day the angels came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came with them to present himself before him.


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And the Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the Lord, “From roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it.”


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Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still maintains his integrity, though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason.”


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But stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face.”


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So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.


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He replied, “You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.


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Job’s Three Friends When Job’s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.


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When they saw him from a distance, they could hardly recognize him; they began to weep aloud, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads.


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Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him, because they saw how great his suffering was.


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May darkness and deep shadow claim it once more; may a cloud settle over it; may blackness overwhelm its light.


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That night—may thick darkness seize it; may it not be included among the days of the year nor be entered in any of the months.


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May its morning stars become dark; may it wait for daylight in vain and not see the first rays of dawn,


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Or why was I not hidden in the ground like a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of day?


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It stopped, but I could not tell what it was. A form stood before my eyes, and I heard a hushed voice:


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how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed more readily than a moth!


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The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from among thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.


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For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.


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You will know that your tent is secure; you will take stock of your property and find nothing missing.


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The arrows of the Almighty are in me, my spirit drinks in their poison; God’s terrors are marshaled against me.


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Then I would still have this consolation— my joy in unrelenting pain— that I had not denied the words of the Holy One.


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“A despairing man should have the devotion of his friends, even though he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.


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“Therefore I will not keep silent; I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit, I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.


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If I have sinned, what have I done to you, O watcher of men? Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you?


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Why do you not pardon my offenses and forgive my sins? For I will soon lie down in the dust; you will search for me, but I will be no more.”


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if you are pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself on your behalf and restore you to your rightful place.


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Even if I were innocent, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would pronounce me guilty.


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When a land falls into the hands of the wicked, he blindfolds its judges. If it is not he, then who is it?


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“I loathe my very life; therefore I will give free rein to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.


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Does it please you to oppress me, to spurn the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?


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If I am guilty—woe to me! Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head, for I am full of shame and drowned in my affliction.


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You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger toward me; your forces come against me wave upon wave.


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and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.


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They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than the depths of the grave—what can you know?


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But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; their hope will become a dying gasp.”


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“I have become a laughingstock to my friends, though I called upon God and he answered— a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!


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The tents of marauders are undisturbed, and those who provoke God are secure— those who carry their god in their hands.


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He deprives the leaders of the earth of their reason; he sends them wandering through a trackless waste.


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You fasten my feet in shackles; you keep close watch on all my paths by putting marks on the soles of my feet.


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Man’s days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.


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“At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.


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so man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, men will not awake or be roused from their sleep.


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“If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If only you would set me a time and then remember me!


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If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come.


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He will no longer be rich and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.


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He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.


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For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of those who love bribes.


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I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine speeches against you and shake my head at you.


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God assails me and tears me in his anger and gnashes his teeth at me; my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes.


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All was well with me, but he shattered me; he seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;his archers surround me. Without pity, he pierces my kidneys and spills my gall on the ground.


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You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, is the earth to be abandoned for your sake? Or must the rocks be moved from their place?


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you should fear the sword yourselves; for wrath will bring punishment by the sword, and then you will know that there is judgment.”


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In the midst of his plenty, distress will overtake him; the full force of misery will come upon him.


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When he has filled his belly, God will vent his burning anger against him and rain down his blows upon him.


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;total darkness lies in wait for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.


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“Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out? How often does calamity come upon them, the fate God allots in his anger?


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It is said, ‘God stores up a man’s punishment for his sons.’ Let him repay the man himself, so that he will know it!


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The soil in the valley is sweet to him; all men follow after him, and a countless throng goes before him.


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What pleasure would it give the Almighty if you were righteous? What would he gain if your ways were blameless?


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You demanded security from your brothers for no reason; you stripped men of their clothing, leaving them naked.


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Yet it was he who filled their houses with good things, so I stand aloof from the counsel of the wicked.


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He will deliver even one who is not innocent, who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”


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There an upright man could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.


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When he is at work in the north, I do not see him; when he turns to the south, I catch no glimpse of him.


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I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread.


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“Why does the Almighty not set times for judgment? Why must those who know him look in vain for such days?


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Like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go about their labor of foraging food; the wasteland provides food for their children.


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The groans of the dying rise from the city, and the souls of the wounded cry out for help. But God charges no one with wrongdoing.


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When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up and kills the poor and needy; in the night he steals forth like a thief.


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The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk; he thinks, ‘No eye will see me,’ and he keeps his face concealed.


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In the dark, men break into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they want nothing to do with the light.


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“Yet they are foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one goes to the vineyards.


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The womb forgets them, the worm feasts on them; evil men are no longer remembered but are broken like a tree.


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But God drags away the mighty by his power; though they become established, they have no assurance of life.


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For a little while they are exalted, and then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.


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And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”


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“As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made me taste bitterness of soul,


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I will maintain my righteousness and never let go of it; my conscience will not reproach me as long as I live.


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Man puts an end to the darkness; he searches the farthest recesses for ore in the blackest darkness.


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Far from where people dwell he cuts a shaft, in places forgotten by the foot of man; far from men he dangles and sways.


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I chose the way for them and sat as their chief; I dwelt as a king among his troops; I was like one who comforts mourners.


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“But now they mock me, men younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.


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On my right the tribe attacks; they lay snares for my feet, they build their siege ramps against me.


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if my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has been led by my eyes, or if my hands have been defiled,


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because I so feared the crowd and so dreaded the contempt of the clans that I kept silent and would not go outside—


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(“Oh, that I had someone to hear me! I sign now my defense—let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser put his indictment in writing.


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But Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became very angry with Job for justifying himself rather than God.


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He was also angry with the three friends, because they had found no way to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.


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So Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite said: “I am young in years, and you are old; that is why I was fearful, not daring to tell you what I know.


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I gave you my full attention. But not one of you has proved Job wrong; none of you has answered his arguments.


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“Yet if there is an angel on his side as a mediator, one out of a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,


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to be gracious to him and say, ‘Spare him from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom for him’—


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He prays to God and finds favor with him, he sees God’s face and shouts for joy; he is restored by God to his righteous state.


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Then he comes to men and says, ‘I sinned, and perverted what was right, but I did not get what I deserved.


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Although I am right, I am considered a liar; although I am guiltless, his arrow inflicts an incurable wound.’


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“So listen to me, you men of understanding. Far be it from God to do evil, from the Almighty to do wrong.


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who shows no partiality to princes and does not favor the rich over the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?


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They die in an instant, in the middle of the night; the people are shaken and they pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.


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But if he remains silent, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, who can see him? Yet he is over man and nation alike,


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Should God then reward you on your terms, when you refuse to repent? You must decide, not I; so tell me what you know.


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To his sin he adds rebellion; scornfully he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.”


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who teaches more to us than to the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’


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How much less, then, will he listen when you say that you do not see him, that your case is before him and you must wait for him,


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If they obey and serve him, they will spend the rest of their days in prosperity and their years in contentment.


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“He is wooing you from the jaws of distress to a spacious place free from restriction, to the comfort of your table laden with choice food.


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But now you are laden with the judgment due the wicked; judgment and justice have taken hold of you.


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After that comes the sound of his roar; he thunders with his majestic voice. When his voice resounds, he holds nothing back.


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At his direction they swirl around over the face of the whole earth to do whatever he commands them.


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The Almighty is beyond our reach and exalted in power; in his justice and great righteousness, he does not oppress.


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What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed, or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?


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“The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but they cannot compare with the pinions and feathers of the stork.


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At the blast of the trumpet he snorts, ‘Aha!’ He catches the scent of battle from afar, the shout of commanders and the battle cry.


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When the river rages, he is not alarmed; he is secure, though the Jordan should surge against his mouth.


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You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.


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Epilogue After the Lord had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.


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So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.”


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So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite did what the Lord told them; and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.


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After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had before.


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All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the Lord had brought upon him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.


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The Lord blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the first. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys.


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Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.


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After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.


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BOOK I Psalms 1–41 Psalm 1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.


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He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.


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The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against his Anointed One.


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I will proclaim the decree of the Lord: He said to me, “You are my Son; today I have become your Father.


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Kiss the Son, lest he be angry and you be destroyed in your way, for his wrath can flare up in a moment. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.


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Psalm 3 A psalm of David. When he fled from his son Absalom. O Lord, how many are my foes! How many rise up against me!


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Arise, O Lord! Deliver me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.


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Psalm 4 For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A psalm of David. Answer me when I call to you, O my righteous God. Give me relief from my distress; be merciful to me and hear my prayer.


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How long, O men, will you turn my glory into shame? How long will you love delusions and seek false gods? Selah


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Psalm 5 For the director of music. For flutes. A psalm of David. Give ear to my words, O Lord, consider my sighing.


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In the morning, O Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation.


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But I, by your great mercy, will come into your house; in reverence will I bow down toward your holy temple.


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Not a word from their mouth can be trusted; their heart is filled with destruction. Their throat is an open grave; with their tongue they speak deceit.


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Declare them guilty, O God! Let their intrigues be their downfall. Banish them for their many sins, for they have rebelled against you.


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But let all who take refuge in you be glad; let them ever sing for joy. Spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may rejoice in you.


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Psalm 6 For the director of music. With stringed instruments. According to sheminith. A psalm of David. O Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.


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I am worn out from groaning; all night long I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.


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Psalm 7 A shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning Cush, a Benjamite. O Lord my God, I take refuge in you; save and deliver me from all who pursue me,


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then let my enemy pursue and overtake me; let him trample my life to the ground and make me sleep in the dust. Selah


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Arise, O Lord, in your anger; rise up against the rage of my enemies. Awake, my God; decree justice.


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;let the Lord judge the peoples. Judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, according to my integrity, O Most High.


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O righteous God, who searches minds and hearts, bring to an end the violence of the wicked and make the righteous secure.


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I will give thanks to the Lord because of his righteousness and will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High.


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Psalm 8 For the director of music. According to gittith. A psalm of David. O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.


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From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.


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When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,


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Psalm 9 For the director of music. To the tune of “The Death of the Son.” A psalm of David. I will praise you, O Lord, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonders.


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You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked; you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.


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Endless ruin has overtaken the enemy, you have uprooted their cities; even the memory of them has perished.


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that I may declare your praises in the gates of the Daughter of Zion and there rejoice in your salvation.


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The nations have fallen into the pit they have dug; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.


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The Lord is known by his justice; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion. Selah


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His ways are always prosperous; he is haughty and your laws are far from him; he sneers at all his enemies.


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He lies in wait near the villages; from ambush he murders the innocent, watching in secret for his victims.


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He lies in wait like a lion in cover; he lies in wait to catch the helpless; he catches the helpless and drags them off in his net.


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But you, O God, do see trouble and grief; you consider it to take it in hand. The victim commits himself to you; you are the helper of the fatherless.


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Break the arm of the wicked and evil man; call him to account for his wickedness that would not be found out.


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defending the fatherless and the oppressed, in order that man, who is of the earth, may terrify no more.


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Psalm 11 For the director of music. Of David. In the Lord I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain.


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For look, the wicked bend their bows; they set their arrows against the strings to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.


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The Lord is in his holy temple; the Lord is on his heavenly throne. He observes the sons of men; his eyes examine them.


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Psalm 12 For the director of music. According to sheminith. A psalm of David. Help, Lord, for the godly are no more; the faithful have vanished from among men.


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“Because of the oppression of the weak and the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the Lord. “I will protect them from those who malign them.”


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And the words of the Lord are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace of clay, purified seven times.


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Psalm 13 For the director of music. A psalm of David. How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?


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How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and every day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me?


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Psalm 14 For the director of music. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good.


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The Lord looks down from heaven on the sons of men to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.


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All have turned aside, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.


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Will evildoers never learn— those who devour my people as men eat bread and who do not call on the Lord?


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Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When the Lord restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and has no slander on his tongue, who does his neighbor no wrong and casts no slur on his fellowman,


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who lends his money without usury and does not accept a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.


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The sorrows of those will increase who run after other gods. I will not pour out their libations of blood or take up their names on my lips.


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You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.


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Psalm 17 A prayer of David. Hear, O Lord, my righteous plea; listen to my cry. Give ear to my prayer— it does not rise from deceitful lips.


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Though you probe my heart and examine me at night, though you test me, you will find nothing; I have resolved that my mouth will not sin.


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Show the wonder of your great love, you who save by your right hand those who take refuge in you from their foes.


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O Lord, by your hand save me from such men, from men of this world whose reward is in this life. You still the hunger of those you cherish; their sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.


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And I—in righteousness I will see your face; when I awake, I will be satisfied with seeing your likeness.


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Psalm 18 For the director of music. Of David the servant of the Lord. He sang to the Lord the words of this song when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love you, O Lord, my strength.


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The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge. He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.


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In my distress I called to the Lord; I cried to my God for help. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came before him, into his ears.


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The earth trembled and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains shook; they trembled because he was angry.


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The valleys of the sea were exposed and the foundations of the earth laid bare at your rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of breath from your nostrils.


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The Lord has dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he has rewarded me.


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The Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.


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As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the Lord is flawless. He is a shield for all who take refuge in him.


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You give me your shield of victory, and your right hand sustains me; you stoop down to make me great.


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You have delivered me from the attacks of the people; you have made me the head of nations; people I did not know are subject to me.


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;who saves me from my enemies. You exalted me above my foes; from violent men you rescued me.


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He gives his king great victories; he shows unfailing kindness to his anointed, to David and his descendants forever.


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Psalm 19 For the director of music. A psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.


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Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens he has pitched a tent for the sun,


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;which is like a bridegroom coming forth from his pavilion, like a champion rejoicing to run his course.


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It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other; nothing is hidden from its heat.


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The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul. The statutes of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple.


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The precepts of the Lord are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes.


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The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever. The ordinances of the Lord are sure and altogether righteous.


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They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.


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Keep your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then will I be blameless, innocent of great transgression.


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May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.


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Psalm 20 For the director of music. A psalm of David. May the Lord answer you when you are in distress; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.


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We will shout for joy when you are victorious and will lift up our banners in the name of our God. May the Lord grant all your requests.


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Now I know that the Lord saves his anointed; he answers him from his holy heaven with the saving power of his right hand.


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Psalm 21 For the director of music. A psalm of David. O Lord, the king rejoices in your strength. How great is his joy in the victories you give!


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At the time of your appearing you will make them like a fiery furnace. In his wrath the Lord will swallow them up, and his fire will consume them.


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Psalm 22 For the director of music. To the tune of “The Doe of the Morning.” A psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from the words of my groaning?


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I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted away within me.


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My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death.


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Dogs have surrounded me; a band of evil men has encircled me, they have pierced my hands and my feet.


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You who fear the Lord, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, honor him! Revere him, all you descendants of Israel!


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For he has not despised or disdained the suffering of the afflicted one; he has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help.


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From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly; before those who fear you will I fulfill my vows.


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The poor will eat and be satisfied; they who seek the Lord will praise him— may your hearts live forever!


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All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations will bow down before him,


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All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before him— those who cannot keep themselves alive.


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;he restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.


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Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.


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You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.


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Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.


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Psalm 24 Of David. A psalm. The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it;


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He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear by what is false.


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Lift up your heads, O you gates; be lifted up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.


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Lift up your heads, O you gates; lift them up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;in you I trust, O my God. Do not let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me.


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No one whose hope is in you will ever be put to shame, but they will be put to shame who are treacherous without excuse.


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Remember not the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you are good, O Lord.


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Psalm 26 Of David. Vindicate me, O Lord, for I have led a blameless life; I have trusted in the Lord without wavering.


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Psalm 27 Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life— of whom shall I be afraid?


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When evil men advance against me to devour my flesh, when my enemies and my foes attack me, they will stumble and fall.


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Though an army besiege me, my heart will not fear; though war break out against me, even then will I be confident.


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One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.


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For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling; he will hide me in the shelter of his tabernacle and set me high upon a rock.


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Then my head will be exalted above the enemies who surround me; at his tabernacle will I sacrifice with shouts of joy; I will sing and make music to the Lord.


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Do not hide your face from me, do not turn your servant away in anger; you have been my helper. Do not reject me or forsake me, O God my Savior.


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Do not turn me over to the desire of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.


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Psalm 28 Of David. To you I call, O Lord my Rock; do not turn a deaf ear to me. For if you remain silent, I will be like those who have gone down to the pit.


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Do not drag me away with the wicked, with those who do evil, who speak cordially with their neighbors but harbor malice in their hearts.


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Repay them for their deeds and for their evil work; repay them for what their hands have done and bring back upon them what they deserve.


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Since they show no regard for the works of the Lord and what his hands have done, he will tear them down and never build them up again.


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The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song.


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Psalm 29 A psalm of David. Ascribe to the Lord, O mighty ones, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.


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The voice of the Lord is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the Lord thunders over the mighty waters.


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The voice of the Lord twists the oaks and strips the forests bare. And in his temple all cry, “Glory!”


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Psalm 30 A psalm. A song. For the dedication of the temple. Of David. I will exalt you, O Lord, for you lifted me out of the depths and did not let my enemies gloat over me.


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For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.


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O Lord, when you favored me, you made my mountain stand firm; but when you hid your face, I was dismayed.


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“What gain is there in my destruction, in my going down into the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it proclaim your faithfulness?


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Psalm 31 For the director of music. A psalm of David. In you, O Lord, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; deliver me in your righteousness.


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Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and my body with grief.


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My life is consumed by anguish and my years by groaning; my strength fails because of my affliction, and my bones grow weak.


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Because of all my enemies, I am the utter contempt of my neighbors; I am a dread to my friends— those who see me on the street flee from me.


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For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side; they conspire against me and plot to take my life.


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Let me not be put to shame, O Lord, for I have cried out to you; but let the wicked be put to shame and lie silent in the grave.


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Let their lying lips be silenced, for with pride and contempt they speak arrogantly against the righteous.


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How great is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you, which you bestow in the sight of men on those who take refuge in you.


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In the shelter of your presence you hide them from the intrigues of men; in your dwelling you keep them safe from accusing tongues.


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In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from your sight!” Yet you heard my cry for mercy when I called to you for help.


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Psalm 32 Of David. A maskil. Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.


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For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer. Selah


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Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord”— and you forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah


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Therefore let everyone who is godly pray to you while you may be found; surely when the mighty waters rise, they will not reach him.


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You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah


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Do not be like the horse or the mule, which have no understanding but must be controlled by bit and bridle or they will not come to you.


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Psalm 34 Of David. When he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he left. I will extol the Lord at all times; his praise will always be on my lips.


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Psalm 35 Of David. Contend, O Lord, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me.


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May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to shame; may those who plot my ruin be turned back in dismay.


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may ruin overtake them by surprise— may the net they hid entangle them, may they fall into the pit, to their ruin.


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My whole being will exclaim, “Who is like you, O Lord? You rescue the poor from those too strong for them, the poor and needy from those who rob them.”


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Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth and humbled myself with fasting. When my prayers returned to me unanswered,


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I went about mourning as though for my friend or brother. I bowed my head in grief as though weeping for my mother.


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But when I stumbled, they gathered in glee; attackers gathered against me when I was unaware. They slandered me without ceasing.


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O Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my life from their ravages, my precious life from these lions.


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Let not those gloat over me who are my enemies without cause; let not those who hate me without reason maliciously wink the eye.


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They do not speak peaceably, but devise false accusations against those who live quietly in the land.


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May all who gloat over my distress be put to shame and confusion; may all who exalt themselves over me be clothed with shame and disgrace.


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May those who delight in my vindication shout for joy and gladness; may they always say, “The Lord be exalted, who delights in the well-being of his servant.”


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Psalm 36 For the director of music. Of David the servant of the Lord. An oracle is within my heart concerning the sinfulness of the wicked: There is no fear of God before his eyes.


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Even on his bed he plots evil; he commits himself to a sinful course and does not reject what is wrong.


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Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the great deep. O Lord, you preserve both man and beast.


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;How priceless is your unfailing love! Both high and low among men find refuge in the shadow of your wings.


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He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.


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Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.


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The wicked draw the sword and bend the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.


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But the wicked will perish: The Lord’s enemies will be like the beauty of the fields, they will vanish—vanish like smoke.


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I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread.


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For the Lord loves the just and will not forsake his faithful ones. They will be protected forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off;


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Wait for the Lord and keep his way. He will exalt you to inherit the land; when the wicked are cut off, you will see it.


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The Lord helps them and delivers them; he delivers them from the wicked and saves them, because they take refuge in him.


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Psalm 38 A psalm of David. A petition. O Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.


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Those who seek my life set their traps, those who would harm me talk of my ruin; all day long they plot deception.


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Psalm 39 For the director of music. For Jeduthun. A psalm of David. I said, “I will watch my ways and keep my tongue from sin; I will put a muzzle on my mouth as long as the wicked are in my presence.”


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You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you. Each man’s life is but a breath. Selah


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Man is a mere phantom as he goes to and fro: He bustles about, but only in vain; he heaps up wealth, not knowing who will get it.


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You rebuke and discipline men for their sin; you consume their wealth like a moth— each man is but a breath. Selah


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“Hear my prayer, O Lord, listen to my cry for help; be not deaf to my weeping. For I dwell with you as an alien, a stranger, as all my fathers were.


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Psalm 40 For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry.


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He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.


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He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the Lord.


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Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, who does not look to the proud, to those who turn aside to false gods.


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Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders you have done. The things you planned for us no one can recount to you; were I to speak and tell of them, they would be too many to declare.


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Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but my ears you have pierced; burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require.


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I do not hide your righteousness in my heart; I speak of your faithfulness and salvation. I do not conceal your love and your truth from the great assembly.


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For troubles without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, and I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails within me.


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May all who seek to take my life be put to shame and confusion; may all who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.


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But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation always say, “The Lord be exalted!”


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Yet I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my help and my deliverer; O my God, do not delay.


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Psalm 41 For the director of music. A psalm of David. Blessed is he who has regard for the weak; the Lord delivers him in times of trouble.


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The Lord will protect him and preserve his life; he will bless him in the land and not surrender him to the desire of his foes.


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Whenever one comes to see me, he speaks falsely, while his heart gathers slander; then he goes out and spreads it abroad.


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BOOK II Psalms 42–72 Psalm 42 For the director of music. A maskil of the Sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God.


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These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God, with shouts of joy and thanksgiving among the festive throng.


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Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and


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my God. My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar.


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I say to God my Rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?”


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Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.


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Psalm 43 Vindicate me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; rescue me from deceitful and wicked men.


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You are God my stronghold. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?


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Send forth your light and your truth, let them guide me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell.


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Then will I go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight. I will praise you with the harp, O God, my God.


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Psalm 44 For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A maskil. We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us what you did in their days, in days long ago.


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With your hand you drove out the nations and planted our fathers; you crushed the peoples and made our fathers flourish.


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It was not by their sword that they won the land, nor did their arm bring them victory; it was your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, for you loved them.


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Psalm 45 For the director of music. To the tune of “Lilies.” Of the Sons of Korah. A maskil. A wedding song. My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite my verses for the king; my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.


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You are the most excellent of men and your lips have been anointed with grace, since God has blessed you forever.


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In your majesty ride forth victoriously in behalf of truth, humility and righteousness; let your right hand display awesome deeds.


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Let your sharp arrows pierce the hearts of the king’s enemies; let the nations fall beneath your feet.


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Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever; a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom.


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You love righteousness and hate wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy.


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All your robes are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia; from palaces adorned with ivory the music of the strings makes you glad.


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Daughters of kings are among your honored women; at your right hand is the royal bride in gold of Ophir.


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In embroidered garments she is led to the king; her virgin companions follow her and are brought to you.


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I will perpetuate your memory through all generations; therefore the nations will praise you for ever and ever.


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Psalm 46 For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. According to alamoth. A song. God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.


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Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,


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There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.


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He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear, he burns the shields with fire.


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“Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”


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Psalm 47 For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm. Clap your hands, all you nations; shout to God with cries of joy.


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The nobles of the nations assemble as the people of the God of Abraham, for the kings of the earth belong to God; he is greatly exalted.


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Psalm 48 A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah. Great is the Lord, and most worthy of praise, in the city of our God, his holy mountain.


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It is beautiful in its loftiness, the joy of the whole earth. Like the utmost heights of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the Great King.


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As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord Almighty, in the city of our God: God makes her secure forever. Selah


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Like your name, O God, your praise reaches to the ends of the earth; your right hand is filled with righteousness.


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Psalm 49 For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm. Hear this, all you peoples; listen, all who live in this world,


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For all can see that wise men die; the foolish and the senseless alike perish and leave their wealth to others.


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Their tombs will remain their houses forever, their dwellings for endless generations, though they had named lands after themselves.


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This is the fate of those who trust in themselves, and of their followers, who approve their sayings. Selah


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Like sheep they are destined for the grave, and death will feed on them. The upright will rule over them in the morning; their forms will decay in the grave, far from their princely mansions.


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Psalm 50 A psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God, the Lord, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to the place where it sets.


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But to the wicked, God says: “What right have you to recite my laws or take my covenant on your lips?


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These things you have done and I kept silent; you thought I was altogether like you. But I will rebuke you and accuse you to your face.


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He who sacrifices thank offerings honors me, and he prepares the way so that I may show him the salvation of God.”


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Psalm 51 For the director of music. A psalm of David. When the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions.


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Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are proved right when you speak and justified when you judge.


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Save me from bloodguilt, O God, the God who saves me, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.


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The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.


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Then there will be righteous sacrifices, whole burnt offerings to delight you; then bulls will be offered on your altar.


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Psalm 52 For the director of music. A maskil of David. When Doeg the Edomite had gone to Saul and told him: “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast of evil, you mighty man? Why do you boast all day long, you who are a disgrace in the eyes of God?


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Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin: He will snatch you up and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah


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“Here now is the man who did not make God his stronghold but trusted in his great wealth and grew strong by destroying others!”


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But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in God’s unfailing love for ever and ever.


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I will praise you forever for what you have done; in your name I will hope, for your name is good. I will praise you in the presence of your saints.


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Psalm 53 For the director of music. According to mahalath. A maskil of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and their ways are vile; there is no one who does good.


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God looks down from heaven on the sons of men to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.


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Everyone has turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.


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Will the evildoers never learn— those who devour my people as men eat bread and who do not call on God?


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There they were, overwhelmed with dread, where there was nothing to dread. God scattered the bones of those who attacked you; you put them to shame, for God despised them.


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Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When God restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!


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Psalm 54 For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A maskil of David. When the Ziphites had gone to Saul and said, “Is not David hiding among us?” Save me, O God, by your name; vindicate me by your might.


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Psalm 55 For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A maskil of David. Listen to my prayer, O God, do not ignore my plea;


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;at the voice of the enemy, at the stares of the wicked; for they bring down suffering upon me and revile me in their anger.


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If an enemy were insulting me, I could endure it; if a foe were raising himself against me, I could hide from him.


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Let death take my enemies by surprise; let them go down alive to the grave, for evil finds lodging among them.


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God, who is enthroned forever, will hear them and afflict them— Selah men who never change their ways and have no fear of God.


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His speech is smooth as butter, yet war is in his heart; his words are more soothing than oil, yet they are drawn swords.


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But you, O God, will bring down the wicked into the pit of corruption; bloodthirsty and deceitful men will not live out half their days. But as for me, I trust in you.


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Psalm 56 For the director of music. To the tune of “A Dove on Distant Oaks.” Of David. A miktam. When the Philistines had seized him in Gath. Be merciful to me, O God, for men hotly pursue me; all day long they press their attack.


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For you have delivered me from death and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.


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Psalm 57 For the director of music. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” Of David. A miktam. When he had fled from Saul into the cave. Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me, for in you my soul takes refuge. I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings until the disaster has passed.


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He sends from heaven and saves me, rebuking those who hotly pursue me; Selah God sends his love and his faithfulness.


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I am in the midst of lions; I lie among ravenous beasts— men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.


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They spread a net for my feet— I was bowed down in distress. They dug a pit in my path— but they have fallen into it themselves. Selah


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Psalm 58 For the director of music. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” Of David. A miktam. Do you rulers indeed speak justly? Do you judge uprightly among men?


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Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns— whether they be green or dry—the wicked will be swept away.


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The righteous will be glad when they are avenged, when they bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.


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Then men will say, “Surely the righteous still are rewarded; surely there is a God who judges the earth.”


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Psalm 59 For the director of music. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” Of David. A miktam. When Saul had sent men to watch David’s house in order to kill him. Deliver me from my enemies, O God; protect me from those who rise up against me.


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See how they lie in wait for me! Fierce men conspire against me for no offense or sin of mine, O Lord.


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O Lord God Almighty, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish all the nations; show no mercy to wicked traitors. Selah


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See what they spew from their mouths— they spew out swords from their lips, and they say, “Who can hear us?”


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But do not kill them, O Lord our shield, or my people will forget. In your might make them wander about, and bring them down.


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For the sins of their mouths, for the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride. For the curses and lies they utter,


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;consume them in wrath, consume them till they are no more. Then it will be known to the ends of the earth that God rules over Jacob. Selah


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But I will sing of your strength, in the morning I will sing of your love; for you are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble.


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Psalm 60 For the director of music. To the tune of “The Lily of the Covenant.” A miktam of David. For teaching. When he fought Aram Naharaim and Aram Zobah, and when Joab returned and struck down twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt. You have rejected us, O God, and burst forth upon us; you have been angry—now restore us!


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God has spoken from his sanctuary: “In triumph I will parcel out Shechem and measure off the Valley of Succoth.


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Psalm 61 For the director of music. With stringed instruments. Of David. Hear my cry, O God; listen to my prayer.


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From the ends of the earth I call to you, I call as my heart grows faint; lead me to the rock that is higher than I.


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Psalm 62 For the director of music. For Jeduthun. A psalm of David. My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him.


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How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down— this leaning wall, this tottering fence?


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They fully intend to topple him from his lofty place; they take delight in lies. With their mouths they bless, but in their hearts they curse. Selah


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Lowborn men are but a breath, the highborn are but a lie; if weighed on a balance, they are nothing; together they are only a breath.


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Do not trust in extortion or take pride in stolen goods; though your riches increase, do not set your heart on them.


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and that you, O Lord, are loving. Surely you will reward each person according to what he has done.


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Psalm 63 A psalm of David. When he was in the Desert of Judah. O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water.


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But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by God’s name will praise him, while the mouths of liars will be silenced.


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Psalm 64 For the director of music. A psalm of David. Hear me, O God, as I voice my complaint; protect my life from the threat of the enemy.


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They encourage each other in evil plans, they talk about hiding their snares; they say, “Who will see them?”


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They plot injustice and say, “We have devised a perfect plan!” Surely the mind and heart of man are cunning.


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He will turn their own tongues against them and bring them to ruin; all who see them will shake their heads in scorn.


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Let the righteous rejoice in the Lord and take refuge in him; let all the upright in heart praise him!


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Psalm 65 For the director of music. A psalm of David. A song. Praise awaits you, O God, in Zion; to you our vows will be fulfilled.


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Blessed are those you choose and bring near to live in your courts! We are filled with the good things of your house, of your holy temple.


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You answer us with awesome deeds of righteousness, O God our Savior, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas,


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Those living far away fear your wonders; where morning dawns and evening fades you call forth songs of joy.


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You care for the land and water it; you enrich it abundantly. The streams of God are filled with water to provide the people with grain, for so you have ordained it.


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The meadows are covered with flocks and the valleys are mantled with grain; they shout for joy and sing.


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Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds! So great is your power that your enemies cringe before you.


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He turned the sea into dry land, they passed through the waters on foot— come, let us rejoice in him.


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He rules forever by his power, his eyes watch the nations— let not the rebellious rise up against him. Selah


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You let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and water, but you brought us to a place of abundance.


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Psalm 67 For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A psalm. A song. May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face shine upon us, Selah


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May the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you rule the peoples justly and guide the nations of the earth. Selah


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Psalm 68 For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. A song. May God arise, may his enemies be scattered; may his foes flee before him.


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As smoke is blown away by the wind, may you blow them away; as wax melts before the fire, may the wicked perish before God.


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Sing to God, sing praise to his name, extol him who rides on the clouds— his name is the Lord— and rejoice before him.


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God sets the lonely in families, he leads forth the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.


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the earth shook, the heavens poured down rain, before God, the One of Sinai, before God, the God of Israel.


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Even while you sleep among the campfires, the wings of my dove are sheathed with silver, its feathers with shining gold.”


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Why gaze in envy, O rugged mountains, at the mountain where God chooses to reign, where the Lord himself will dwell forever?


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The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands; the Lord has come from Sinai into his sanctuary.


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When you ascended on high, you led captives in your train; you received gifts from men, even from the rebellious— that you, O Lord God, might dwell there.


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that you may plunge your feet in the blood of your foes, while the tongues of your dogs have their share.”


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There is the little tribe of Benjamin, leading them, there the great throng of Judah’s princes, and there the princes of Zebulun and of Naphtali.


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Rebuke the beast among the reeds, the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations. Humbled, may it bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in war.


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You are awesome, O God, in your sanctuary; the God of Israel gives power and strength to his people. Praise be to God!


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Psalm 69 For the director of music. To the tune of “Lilies.” Of David. Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck.


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I sink in the miry depths, where there is no foothold. I have come into the deep waters; the floods engulf me.


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Those who hate me without reason outnumber the hairs of my head; many are my enemies without cause, those who seek to destroy me. I am forced to restore what I did not steal.


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May those who hope in you not be disgraced because of me, O Lord, the Lord Almighty; may those who seek you not be put to shame because of me, O God of Israel.


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But I pray to you, O Lord, in the time of your favor; in your great love, O God, answer me with your sure salvation.


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Rescue me from the mire, do not let me sink; deliver me from those who hate me, from the deep waters.


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Do not let the floodwaters engulf me or the depths swallow me up or the pit close its mouth over me.


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Scorn has broken my heart and has left me helpless; I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found none.


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for God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah. Then people will settle there and possess it;


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the children of his servants will inherit it, and those who love his name will dwell there.


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Psalm 70 For the director of music. Of David. A petition. Hasten, O God, to save me; O Lord, come quickly to help me.


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May those who seek my life be put to shame and confusion; may all who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.


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But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation always say, “Let God be exalted!”


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Yet I am poor and needy; come quickly to me, O God. You are my help and my deliverer; O Lord, do not delay.


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Be my rock of refuge, to which I can always go; give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.


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From birth I have relied on you; you brought me forth from my mother’s womb. I will ever praise you.


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My mouth will tell of your righteousness, of your salvation all day long, though I know not its measure.


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I will come and proclaim your mighty acts, O Sovereign Lord; I will proclaim your righteousness, yours alone.


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Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, till I declare your power to the next generation, your might to all who are to come.


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Your righteousness reaches to the skies, O God, you who have done great things. Who, O God, is like you?


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Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again; from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up.


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I will praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praise to you with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.


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My tongue will tell of your righteous acts all day long, for those who wanted to harm me have been put to shame and confusion.


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Psalm 72 Of Solomon. Endow the king with your justice, O God, the royal son with your righteousness.


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He will defend the afflicted among the people and save the children of the needy; he will crush the oppressor.


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The kings of Tarshish and of distant shores will bring tribute to him; the kings of Sheba and Seba will present him gifts.


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Long may he live! May gold from Sheba be given him. May people ever pray for him and bless him all day long.


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Let grain abound throughout the land; on the tops of the hills may it sway. Let its fruit flourish like Lebanon; let it thrive like the grass of the field.


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May his name endure forever; may it continue as long as the sun. All nations will be blessed through him, and they will call him blessed.


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Praise be to his glorious name forever; may the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and Amen.


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BOOK III Psalms 73–89 Psalm 73 A psalm of Asaph. Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.


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But as for me, it is good to be near God. I have made the Sovereign Lord my refuge; I will tell of all your deeds.


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Psalm 74 A maskil of Asaph. Why have you rejected us forever, O God? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?


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Remember the people you purchased of old, the tribe of your inheritance, whom you redeemed— Mount Zion, where you dwelt.


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Turn your steps toward these everlasting ruins, all this destruction the enemy has brought on the sanctuary.


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They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely!” They burned every place where God was worshiped in the land.


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Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand? Take it from the folds of your garment and destroy them!


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Do not hand over the life of your dove to wild beasts; do not forget the lives of your afflicted people forever.


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Psalm 75 For the director of music. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A psalm of Asaph. A song. We give thanks to you, O God, we give thanks, for your Name is near; men tell of your wonderful deeds.


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In the hand of the Lord is a cup full of foaming wine mixed with spices; he pours it out, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to its very dregs.


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Psalm 76 For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A psalm of Asaph. A song. In Judah God is known; his name is great in Israel.


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Make vows to the Lord your God and fulfill them; let all the neighboring lands bring gifts to the One to be feared.


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Psalm 77 For the director of music. For Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A psalm. I cried out to God for help; I cried out to God to hear me.


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When I was in distress, I sought the Lord; at night I stretched out untiring hands and my soul refused to be comforted.


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Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind, your lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.


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Your path led through the sea, your way through the mighty waters, though your footprints were not seen.


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We will not hide them from their children; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord, his power, and the wonders he has done.


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He decreed statutes for Jacob and established the law in Israel, which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children,


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so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children.


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They would not be like their forefathers— a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal to God, whose spirits were not faithful to him.


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When he struck the rock, water gushed out, and streams flowed abundantly. But can he also give us food? Can he supply meat for his people?”


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When the Lord heard them, he was very angry; his fire broke out against Jacob, and his wrath rose against Israel,


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God’s anger rose against them; he put to death the sturdiest among them, cutting down the young men of Israel.


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Yet he was merciful; he forgave their iniquities and did not destroy them. Time after time he restrained his anger and did not stir up his full wrath.


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He unleashed against them his hot anger, his wrath, indignation and hostility— a band of destroying angels.


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He prepared a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death but gave them over to the plague.


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He drove out nations before them and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance; he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.


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from tending the sheep he brought him to be the shepherd of his people Jacob, of Israel his inheritance.


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Psalm 79 A psalm of Asaph. O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple, they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble.


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They have given the dead bodies of your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth.


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Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge you, on the kingdoms that do not call on your name;


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Do not hold against us the sins of the fathers; may your mercy come quickly to meet us, for we are in desperate need.


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Help us, O God our Savior, for the glory of your name; deliver us and forgive our sins for your name’s sake.


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Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations that you avenge the outpoured blood of your servants.


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May the groans of the prisoners come before you; by the strength of your arm preserve those condemned to die.


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Then we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will praise you forever; from generation to generation we will recount your praise.


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Psalm 80 For the director of music. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” Of Asaph. A psalm. Hear us, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock; you who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the root your right hand has planted, the son you have raised up for yourself.


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Psalm 81 For the director of music. According to gittith. Of Asaph. Sing for joy to God our strength; shout aloud to the God of Jacob!


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He established it as a statute for Joseph when he went out against Egypt, where we heard a language we did not understand.


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In your distress you called and I rescued you, I answered you out of a thundercloud; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah


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“They know nothing, they understand nothing. They walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.


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Let them know that you, whose name is the Lord— that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.


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Psalm 84 For the director of music. According to gittith. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm. How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord Almighty!


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My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.


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Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young— a place near your altar, O Lord Almighty, my King and my God.


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As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; the autumn rains also cover it with pools.


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Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.


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For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless.


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Psalm 85 For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm. You showed favor to your land, O Lord; you restored the fortunes of Jacob.


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I will listen to what God the Lord will say; he promises peace to his people, his saints— but let them not return to folly.


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All the nations you have made will come and worship before you, O Lord; they will bring glory to your name.


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Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.


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The arrogant are attacking me, O God; a band of ruthless men seeks my life— men without regard for you.


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But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.


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Turn to me and have mercy on me; grant your strength to your servant and save the son of your maidservant.


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Give me a sign of your goodness, that my enemies may see it and be put to shame, for you, O Lord, have helped me and comforted me.


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“I will record Rahab and Babylon among those who acknowledge me— Philistia too, and Tyre, along with Cush— and will say, ‘This one was born in Zion.’”


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Indeed, of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one were born in her, and the Most High himself will establish her.”


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Psalm 88 A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah. For the director of music. According to mahalath leannoth. A maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. O Lord, the God who saves me, day and night I cry out before you.


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I am set apart with the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, who are cut off from your care.


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You have taken from me my closest friends and have made me repulsive to them. I am confined and cannot escape;


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;my eyes are dim with grief. I call to you, O Lord, every day; I spread out my hands to you.


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From my youth I have been afflicted and close to death; I have suffered your terrors and am in despair.


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Psalm 89 A maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the Lord’s great love forever; with my mouth I will make your faithfulness known through all generations.


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I will declare that your love stands firm forever, that you established your faithfulness in heaven itself.


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For who in the skies above can compare with the Lord? Who is like the Lord among the heavenly beings?


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In the council of the holy ones God is greatly feared; he is more awesome than all who surround him.


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Once you spoke in a vision, to your faithful people you said: “I have bestowed strength on a warrior; I have exalted a young man from among the people.


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Remember, Lord, how your servant has been mocked, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the nations,


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the taunts with which your enemies have mocked, O Lord, with which they have mocked every step of your anointed one.


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BOOK IV Psalms 90–106 Psalm 90 A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations.


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Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.


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For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.


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The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.


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Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.


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May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish the work of our hands for us— yes, establish the work of our hands.


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He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.


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“Because he loves me,” says the Lord, “I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.


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He will call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him.


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Psalm 92 A psalm. A song. For the Sabbath day. It is good to praise the Lord and make music to your name, O Most High,


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that though the wicked spring up like grass and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.


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Psalm 93 The Lord reigns, he is robed in majesty; the Lord is robed in majesty and is armed with strength. The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.


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The seas have lifted up, O Lord, the seas have lifted up their voice; the seas have lifted up their pounding waves.


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Mightier than the thunder of the great waters, mightier than the breakers of the sea— the Lord on high is mighty.


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He will repay them for their sins and destroy them for their wickedness; the Lord our God will destroy them.


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for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care. Today, if you hear his voice,


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, as you did that day at Massah in the desert,


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For forty years I was angry with that generation; I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways.”


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Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns.” The world is firmly established, it cannot be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity.


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them. Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy;


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;they will sing before the Lord, for he comes, he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in his truth.


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Let those who love the Lord hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.


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Psalm 98 A psalm. Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things; his right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.


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He has remembered his love and his faithfulness to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.


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let them sing before the Lord, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples with equity.


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Psalm 99 The Lord reigns, let the nations tremble; he sits enthroned between the cherubim, let the earth shake.


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The King is mighty, he loves justice— you have established equity; in Jacob you have done what is just and right.


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Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel was among those who called on his name; they called on the Lord and he answered them.


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O Lord our God, you answered them; you were to Israel a forgiving God, though you punished their misdeeds.


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Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.


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Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.


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For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.


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Psalm 101 Of David. A psalm. I will sing of your love and justice; to you, O Lord, I will sing praise.


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I will be careful to lead a blameless life— when will you come to me? I will walk in my house with blameless heart.


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I will set before my eyes no vile thing. The deeds of faithless men I hate; they will not cling to me.


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Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, him will I put to silence; whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart, him will I not endure.


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My eyes will be on the faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me; he whose walk is blameless will minister to me.


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No one who practices deceit will dwell in my house; no one who speaks falsely will stand in my presence.


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Every morning I will put to silence all the wicked in the land; I will cut off every evildoer from the city of the Lord.


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Psalm 102 A prayer of an afflicted man. When he is faint and pours out his lament before the Lord. Hear my prayer, O Lord; let my cry for help come to you.


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Do not hide your face from me when I am in distress. Turn your ear to me; when I call, answer me quickly.


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You will arise and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show favor to her; the appointed time has come.


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So I said: “Do not take me away, O my God, in the midst of my days; your years go on through all generations.


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They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing you will change them and they will be discarded.


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The children of your servants will live in your presence; their descendants will be established before you.”


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But from everlasting to everlasting the Lord’s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children—


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Psalm 104 Praise the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, you are very great; you are clothed with splendor and majesty.


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and lays the beams of his upper chambers on their waters. He makes the clouds his chariot and rides on the wings of the wind.


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they flowed over the mountains, they went down into the valleys, to the place you assigned for them.


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He makes grass grow for the cattle, and plants for man to cultivate— bringing forth food from the earth:


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There is the sea, vast and spacious, teeming with creatures beyond number— living things both large and small.


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When you give it to them, they gather it up; when you open your hand, they are satisfied with good things.


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When you hide your face, they are terrified; when you take away their breath, they die and return to the dust.


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But may sinners vanish from the earth and the wicked be no more. Praise the Lord, O my soul. Praise the Lord.


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that I may enjoy the prosperity of your chosen ones, that I may share in the joy of your nation and join your inheritance in giving praise.


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When our fathers were in Egypt, they gave no thought to your miracles; they did not remember your many kindnesses, and they rebelled by the sea, the Red Sea.


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So he said he would destroy them— had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him to keep his wrath from destroying them.


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They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was desecrated by their blood.


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Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise.


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Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, “Amen!” Praise the Lord.


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Some became fools through their rebellious ways and suffered affliction because of their iniquities.


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They mounted up to the heavens and went down to the depths; in their peril their courage melted away.


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Psalm 108 A song. A psalm of David. My heart is steadfast, O God; I will sing and make music with all my soul.


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for wicked and deceitful men have opened their mouths against me; they have spoken against me with lying tongues.


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May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord; may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.


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May their sins always remain before the Lord, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.


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For he never thought of doing a kindness, but hounded to death the poor and the needy and the brokenhearted.


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He loved to pronounce a curse— may it come on him; he found no pleasure in blessing— may it be far from him.


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But you, O Sovereign Lord, deal well with me for your name’s sake; out of the goodness of your love, deliver me.


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They may curse, but you will bless; when they attack they will be put to shame, but your servant will rejoice.


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Psalm 110 Of David. A psalm. The Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”


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Your troops will be willing on your day of battle. Arrayed in holy majesty, from the womb of the dawn you will receive the dew of your youth.


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The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.”


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Psalm 111 Praise the Lord. I will extol the Lord with all my heart in the council of the upright and in the assembly.


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He provided redemption for his people; he ordained his covenant forever— holy and awesome is his name.


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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. To him belongs eternal praise.


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Psalm 112 Praise the Lord. Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who finds great delight in his commands.


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He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor, his righteousness endures forever; his horn will be lifted high in honor.


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The wicked man will see and be vexed, he will gnash his teeth and waste away; the longings of the wicked will come to nothing.


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Psalm 115 Not to us, O Lord, not to us but to your name be the glory, because of your love and faithfulness.


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they have hands, but cannot feel, feet, but they cannot walk; nor can they utter a sound with their throats.


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The Lord remembers us and will bless us: He will bless the house of Israel, he will bless the house of Aaron,


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The cords of death entangled me, the anguish of the grave came upon me; I was overcome by trouble and sorrow.


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O Lord, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of your maidservant; you have freed me from my chains.


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They swarmed around me like bees, but they died out as quickly as burning thorns; in the name of the Lord I cut them off.


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Shouts of joy and victory resound in the tents of the righteous: “The Lord’s right hand has done mighty things!


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Lord’s right hand is lifted high; the Lord’s right hand has done mighty things!”


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The Lord is God, and he has made his light shine upon us. With boughs in hand, join in the festal procession up to the horns of the altar.


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Psalm 119 א Aleph Blessed are they whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the Lord.


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May the arrogant be put to shame for wronging me without cause; but I will meditate on your precepts.


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Psalm 122 A song of ascents. Of David. I rejoiced with those who said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord.”


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That is where the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, to praise the name of the Lord according to the statute given to Israel.


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As the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord our God, till he shows us his mercy.


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We have escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare; the snare has been broken, and we have escaped.


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Psalm 125 A song of ascents. Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be shaken but endures forever.


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The scepter of the wicked will not remain over the land allotted to the righteous, for then the righteous might use their hands to do evil.


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Psalm 126 A song of ascents. When the Lord brought back the captives to Zion, we were like men who dreamed.


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Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.”


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He who goes out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with him.


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Psalm 127 A song of ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain.


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In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat— for he grants sleep to those he loves.


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Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their enemies in the gate.


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Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your sons will be like olive shoots around your table.


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May the Lord bless you from Zion all the days of your life; may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem,


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May those who pass by not say, “The blessing of the Lord be upon you; we bless you in the name of the Lord.”


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My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning.


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O Israel, put your hope in the Lord, for with the Lord is unfailing love and with him is full redemption.


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Psalm 131 A song of ascents. Of David. My heart is not proud, O Lord, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me.


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But I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.


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The Lord swore an oath to David, a sure oath that he will not revoke: “One of your own descendants I will place on your throne—


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if your sons keep my covenant and the statutes I teach them, then their sons will sit on your throne for ever and ever.”


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Psalm 133 A song of ascents. Of David. How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity!


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It is like precious oil poured on the head, running down on the beard, running down on Aaron’s beard, down upon the collar of his robes.


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It is as if the dew of Hermon were falling on Mount Zion. For there the Lord bestows his blessing, even life forevermore.


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Psalm 134 A song of ascents. Praise the Lord, all you servants of the Lord who minister by night in the house of the Lord.


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The Lord does whatever pleases him, in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and all their depths.


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He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth; he sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.


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for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”


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May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.


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Remember, O Lord, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. “Tear it down,” they cried, “tear it down to its foundations!”


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O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us—


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Psalm 138 Of David. I will praise you, O Lord, with all my heart; before the “gods” I will sing your praise.


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I will bow down toward your holy temple and will praise your name for your love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and your word.


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Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life; you stretch out your hand against the anger of my foes, with your right hand you save me.


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The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your love, O Lord, endures forever— do not abandon the works of your hands.


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Psalm 139 For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. O Lord, you have searched me and you know me.


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even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.


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I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.


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My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.


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Psalm 140 For the director of music. A psalm of David. Rescue me, O Lord, from evil men; protect me from men of violence,


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Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked; protect me from men of violence who plan to trip my feet.


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Proud men have hidden a snare for me; they have spread out the cords of their net and have set traps for me along my path. Selah


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do not grant the wicked their desires, O Lord; do not let their plans succeed, or they will become proud. Selah


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Psalm 141 A psalm of David. O Lord, I call to you; come quickly to me. Hear my voice when I call to you.


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May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.


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Let not my heart be drawn to what is evil, to take part in wicked deeds with men who are evildoers; let me not eat of their delicacies.


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Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness; let him rebuke me—it is oil on my head. My head will not refuse it. Yet my prayer is ever against the deeds of evildoers;


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;their rulers will be thrown down from the cliffs, and the wicked will learn that my words were well spoken.


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They will say, “As one plows and breaks up the earth, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave.”


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Psalm 142 A maskil of David. When he was in the cave. A prayer. I cry aloud to the Lord; I lift up my voice to the Lord for mercy.


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When my spirit grows faint within me, it is you who know my way. In the path where I walk men have hidden a snare for me.


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Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need; rescue me from those who pursue me, for they are too strong for me.


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Set me free from my prison, that I may praise your name. Then the righteous will gather about me because of your goodness to me.


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Psalm 143 A psalm of David. O Lord, hear my prayer, listen to my cry for mercy; in your faithfulness and righteousness come to my relief.


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The enemy pursues me, he crushes me to the ground; he makes me dwell in darkness like those long dead.


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I remember the days of long ago; I meditate on all your works and consider what your hands have done.


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Answer me quickly, O Lord; my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me or I will be like those who go down to the pit.


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Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.


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Psalm 144 Of David. Praise be to the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.


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He is my loving God and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.


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Reach down your hand from on high; deliver me and rescue me from the mighty waters, from the hands of foreigners


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Deliver me and rescue me from the hands of foreigners whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful.


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Then our sons in their youth will be like well-nurtured plants, and our daughters will be like pillars carved to adorn a palace.


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Our barns will be filled with every kind of provision. Our sheep will increase by thousands, by tens of thousands in our fields;


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;our oxen will draw heavy loads. There will be no breaching of walls, no going into captivity, no cry of distress in our streets.


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Psalm 145 A psalm of praise. Of David. I will exalt you, my God the King; I will praise your name for ever and ever.


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They will speak of the glorious splendor of your majesty, and I will meditate on your wonderful works.


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Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures through all generations. The Lord is faithful to all his promises and loving toward all he has made.


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My mouth will speak in praise of the Lord. Let every creature praise his holy name for ever and ever.


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I will praise the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.


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the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them— the Lord, who remains faithful forever.


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the Lord gives sight to the blind, the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down, the Lord loves the righteous.


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The Lord watches over the alien and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.


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Psalm 147 Praise the Lord. How good it is to sing praises to our God, how pleasant and fitting to praise him!


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Let them praise the name of the Lord, for his name alone is exalted; his splendor is above the earth and the heavens.


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He has raised up for his people a horn, the praise of all his saints, of Israel, the people close to his heart. Praise the Lord.


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to carry out the sentence written against them. This is the glory of all his saints. Praise the Lord.


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Exhortations to Embrace Wisdom Warning Against Enticement Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.


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If they say, “Come along with us; let’s lie in wait for someone’s blood, let’s waylay some harmless soul;


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Warning Against Rejecting Wisdom Wisdom calls aloud in the street, she raises her voice in the public squares;


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“How long will you simple ones love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?


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If you had responded to my rebuke, I would have poured out my heart to you and made my thoughts known to you.


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when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you.


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Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.


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Do not say to your neighbor, “Come back later; I’ll give it tomorrow”— when you now have it with you.


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he taught me and said, “Lay hold of my words with all your heart; keep my commands and you will live.


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The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining ever brighter till the full light of day.


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A loving doe, a graceful deer— may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be captivated by her love.


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Warnings Against Folly My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge for another,


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then do this, my son, to free yourself, since you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands: Go and humble yourself; press your plea with your neighbor!


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Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil,


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.


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Warning Against Adultery My son, keep your father’s commands and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.


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When you walk, they will guide you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.


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For these commands are a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the corrections of discipline are the way to life,


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;till an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare, little knowing it will cost him his life.


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I was there when he set the heavens in place, when he marked out the horizon on the face of the deep,


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when he gave the sea its boundary so the waters would not overstep his command, and when he marked out the foundations of the earth.


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Then I was the craftsman at his side. I was filled with delight day after day, rejoicing always in his presence,


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Instruct a wise man and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man and he will add to his learning.


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Proverbs of Solomon The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother.


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He who gathers crops in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.


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The righteousness of the blameless makes a straight way for them, but the wicked are brought down by their own wickedness.


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Through the blessing of the upright a city is exalted, but by the mouth of the wicked it is destroyed.


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He who puts up security for another will surely suffer, but whoever refuses to strike hands in pledge is safe.


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He who brings trouble on his family will inherit only wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise.


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A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones.


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From the fruit of his lips a man is filled with good things as surely as the work of his hands rewards him.


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From the fruit of his lips a man enjoys good things, but the unfaithful have a craving for violence.


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A good man leaves an inheritance for his children’s children, but a sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous.


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Where there are no oxen, the manger is empty, but from the strength of an ox comes an abundant harvest.


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He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.


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The house of the righteous contains great treasure, but the income of the wicked brings them trouble.


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A wise servant will rule over a disgraceful son, and will share the inheritance as one of the brothers.


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He who mocks the poor shows contempt for their Maker; whoever gloats over disaster will not go unpunished.


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He who covers over an offense promotes love, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.


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An offended brother is more unyielding than a fortified city, and disputes are like the barred gates of a citadel.


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From the fruit of his mouth a man’s stomach is filled; with the harvest from his lips he is satisfied.


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A poor man is shunned by all his relatives— how much more do his friends avoid him! Though he pursues them with pleading, they are nowhere to be found.


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Flog a mocker, and the simple will learn prudence; rebuke a discerning man, and he will gain knowledge.


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Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger; hold it in pledge if he does it for a wayward woman.


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When a mocker is punished, the simple gain wisdom; when a wise man is instructed, he gets knowledge.


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He who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth and he who gives gifts to the rich—both come to poverty.


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Sayings of the Wise Pay attention and listen to the sayings of the wise; apply your heart to what I teach,


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Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve before kings; he will not serve before obscure men.


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Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.


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for he is the kind of man who is always thinking about the cost. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.


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Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?


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“They hit me,” you will say, “but I’m not hurt! They beat me, but I don’t feel it! When will I wake up so I can find another drink?”


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If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay each person according to what he has done?


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Know also that wisdom is sweet to your soul; if you find it, there is a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.


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for though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again, but the wicked are brought down by calamity.


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Further Sayings of the Wise These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judging is not good:


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More Proverbs of Solomon These are more proverbs of Solomon, copied by the men of Hezekiah king of Judah:


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remove the wicked from the king’s presence, and his throne will be established through righteousness.


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it is better for him to say to you, “Come up here,” than for him to humiliate you before a nobleman. What you have seen with your eyes


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;do not bring hastily to court, for what will you do in the end if your neighbor puts you to shame?


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Like the coolness of snow at harvest time is a trustworthy messenger to those who send him; he refreshes the spirit of his masters.


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Like one who takes away a garment on a cold day, or like vinegar poured on soda, is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.


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Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of one’s friend springs from his earnest counsel.


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Do not forsake your friend and the friend of your father, and do not go to your brother’s house when disaster strikes you— better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.


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Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding him like grain with a pestle, you will not remove his folly from him.


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When a country is rebellious, it has many rulers, but a man of understanding and knowledge maintains order.


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He who increases his wealth by exorbitant interest amasses it for another, who will be kind to the poor.


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He who leads the upright along an evil path will fall into his own trap, but the blameless will receive a good inheritance.


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When the righteous triumph, there is great elation; but when the wicked rise to power, men go into hiding.


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He who works his land will have abundant food, but the one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.


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He who gives to the poor will lack nothing, but he who closes his eyes to them receives many curses.


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When the wicked rise to power, people go into hiding; but when the wicked perish, the righteous thrive.


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A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.


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Sayings of Agur The sayings of Agur son of Jakeh—an oracle: This man declared to Ithiel, to Ithiel and to Ucal:


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Who has gone up to heaven and come down? Who has gathered up the wind in the hollow of his hands? Who has wrapped up the waters in his cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and the name of his son? Tell me if you know!


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Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread.


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Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, ‘Who is the Lord?’ Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.


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those whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are set with knives to devour the poor from the earth, the needy from among mankind.


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“The leech has two daughters. ‘Give! Give!’ they cry. “There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, ‘Enough!’:


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the grave, the barren womb, land, which is never satisfied with water, and fire, which never says, ‘Enough!’


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“The eye that mocks a father, that scorns obedience to a mother, will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley, will be eaten by the vultures.


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the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a maiden.


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“This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I’ve done nothing wrong.’


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“If you have played the fool and exalted yourself, or if you have planned evil, clap your hand over your mouth!


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For as churning the milk produces butter, and as twisting the nose produces blood, so stirring up anger produces strife.”


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Epilogue: The Wife of Noble Character A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies.


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She gets up while it is still dark; she provides food for her family and portions for her servant girls.


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The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course.


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All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again.


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All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.


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What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.


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Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.


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There is no remembrance of men of old, and even those who are yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow.


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I devoted myself to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid on men!


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I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.


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I thought to myself, “Look, I have grown and increased in wisdom more than anyone who has ruled over Jerusalem before me; I have experienced much of wisdom and knowledge.”


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Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.


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Pleasures Are Meaningless I thought in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure to find out what is good.” But that also proved to be meaningless.


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I tried cheering myself with wine, and embracing folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom. I wanted to see what was worthwhile for men to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.


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I bought male and female slaves and had other slaves who were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me.


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I amassed silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and provinces. I acquired men and women singers, and a harem as well—the delights of the heart of man.


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I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor.


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Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.


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Wisdom and Folly Are Meaningless Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom, and also madness and folly. What more can the king’s successor do than what has already been done?


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The wise man has eyes in his head, while the fool walks in the darkness; but I came to realize that the same fate overtakes them both.


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Then I thought in my heart, “The fate of the fool will overtake me also. What then do I gain by being wise?” I said in my heart, “This too is meaningless.”


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For the wise man, like the fool, will not be long remembered; in days to come both will be forgotten. Like the fool, the wise man too must die!


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Toil Is Meaningless So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.


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I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me.


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And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have control over all the work into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless.


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For a man may do his work with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then he must leave all he owns to someone who has not worked for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune.


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All his days his work is pain and grief; even at night his mind does not rest. This too is meaningless.


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A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work. This too, I see, is from the hand of God,


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To the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain,


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away,


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He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.


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I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that men will revere him.


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Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account.


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And I saw something else under the sun: In the place of judgment—wickedness was there, in the place of justice—wickedness was there.


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I thought in my heart, “God will bring to judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time for every deed.”


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Man’s fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; man has no advantage over the animal. Everything is meaningless.


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Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?”


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So I saw that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work, because that is his lot. For who can bring him to see what will happen after him?


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Oppression, Toil, Friendlessness Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun: I saw the tears of the oppressed— and they have no comforter; power was on the side of their oppressors— and they have no comforter.


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And I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive.


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But better than both is he who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.


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And I saw that all labor and all achievement spring from man’s envy of his neighbor. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.


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There was a man all alone; he had neither son nor brother. There was no end to his toil, yet his eyes were not content with his wealth. “For whom am I toiling,” he asked, “and why am I depriving myself of enjoyment?” This too is meaningless— a miserable business!


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If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up!


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Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.


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Advancement Is Meaningless Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take warning.


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The youth may have come from prison to the kingship, or he may have been born in poverty within his kingdom.


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There was no end to all the people who were before them. But those who came later were not pleased with the successor. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.


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Stand in Awe of God Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.


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Do not be quick with your mouth, do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God. God is in heaven and you are on earth, so let your words be few.


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When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it. He has no pleasure in fools; fulfill your vow.


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Do not let your mouth lead you into sin. And do not protest to the temple messenger, “My vow was a mistake.” Why should God be angry at what you say and destroy the work of your hands?


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Riches Are Meaningless If you see the poor oppressed in a district, and justice and rights denied, do not be surprised at such things; for one official is eyed by a higher one, and over them both are others higher still.


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Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income. This too is meaningless.


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As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owner except to feast his eyes on them?


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The sleep of a laborer is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of a rich man permits him no sleep.


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;or wealth lost through some misfortune, so that when he has a son there is nothing left for him.


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Naked a man comes from his mother’s womb, and as he comes, so he departs. He takes nothing from his labor that he can carry in his hand.


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This too is a grievous evil: As a man comes, so he departs, and what does he gain, since he toils for the wind?


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Then I realized that it is good and proper for a man to eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in his toilsome labor under the sun during the few days of life God has given him—for this is his lot.


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Moreover, when God gives any man wealth and possessions, and enables him to enjoy them, to accept his lot and be happy in his work—this is a gift of God.


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God gives a man wealth, possessions and honor, so that he lacks nothing his heart desires, but God does not enable him to enjoy them, and a stranger enjoys them instead. This is meaningless, a grievous evil.


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A man may have a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy his prosperity and does not receive proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.


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even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?


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What advantage has a wise man over a fool? What does a poor man gain by knowing how to conduct himself before others?


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Better what the eye sees than the roving of the appetite. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.


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Whatever exists has already been named, and what man is has been known; no man can contend with one who is stronger than he.


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For who knows what is good for a man in life, during the few and meaningless days he passes through like a shadow? Who can tell him what will happen under the sun after he is gone?


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It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of every man; the living should take this to heart.


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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.


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Wisdom is a shelter as money is a shelter, but the advantage of knowledge is this: that wisdom preserves the life of its possessor.


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When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider: God has made the one as well as the other. Therefore, a man cannot discover anything about his future.


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In this meaningless life of mine I have seen both of these: a righteous man perishing in his righteousness, and a wicked man living long in his wickedness.


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It is good to grasp the one and not let go of the other. The man who fears God will avoid all extremes.


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So I turned my mind to understand, to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the madness of folly.


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I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner she will ensnare.


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“Look,” says the Teacher, “this is what I have discovered: “Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things—


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;while I was still searching but not finding— I found one upright man among a thousand, but not one upright woman among them all.


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Who is like the wise man? Who knows the explanation of things? Wisdom brightens a man’s face and changes its hard appearance.


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Do not be in a hurry to leave the king’s presence. Do not stand up for a bad cause, for he will do whatever he pleases.


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Whoever obeys his command will come to no harm, and the wise heart will know the proper time and procedure.


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For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him.


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No man has power over the wind to contain it; so no one has power over the day of his death. As no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.


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All this I saw, as I applied my mind to everything done under the sun. There is a time when a man lords it over others to his own hurt.


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Then too, I saw the wicked buried—those who used to come and go from the holy place and receive praise in the city where they did this. This too is meaningless.


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When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, the hearts of the people are filled with schemes to do wrong.


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Although a wicked man commits a hundred crimes and still lives a long time, I know that it will go better with God-fearing men, who are reverent before God.


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Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.


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There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth: righteous men who get what the wicked deserve, and wicked men who get what the righteous deserve. This too, I say, is meaningless.


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So I commend the enjoyment of life, because nothing is better for a man under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany him in his work all the days of the life God has given him under the sun.


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When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe man’s labor on earth—his eyes not seeing sleep day or night—


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then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all his efforts to search it out, man cannot discover its meaning. Even if a wise man claims he knows, he cannot really comprehend it.


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A Common Destiny for All So I reflected on all this and concluded that the righteous and the wise and what they do are in God’s hands, but no man knows whether love or hate awaits him.


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All share a common destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. As it is with the good man, so with the sinner; as it is with those who take oaths, so with those who are afraid to take them.


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This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all. The hearts of men, moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterward they join the dead.


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For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten.


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Their love, their hate and their jealousy have long since vanished; never again will they have a part in anything that happens under the sun.


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Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for it is now that God favors what you do.


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Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun—all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun.


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Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.


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I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.


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Moreover, no man knows when his hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so men are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them.


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There was once a small city with only a few people in it. And a powerful king came against it, surrounded it and built huge siegeworks against it.


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Now there lived in that city a man poor but wise, and he saved the city by his wisdom. But nobody remembered that poor man.


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So I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” But the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are no longer heeded.


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If a ruler’s anger rises against you, do not leave your post; calmness can lay great errors to rest.


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming— who can tell him what will happen after him?


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Blessed are you, O land whose king is of noble birth and whose princes eat at a proper time— for strength and not for drunkenness.


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Do not revile the king even in your thoughts, or curse the rich in your bedroom, because a bird of the air may carry your words, and a bird on the wing may report what you say.


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If clouds are full of water, they pour rain upon the earth. Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there will it lie.


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As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.


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Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let not your hands be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well.


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However many years a man may live, let him enjoy them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything to come is meaningless.


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Be happy, young man, while you are young, and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth. Follow the ways of your heart and whatever your eyes see, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment.


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So then, banish anxiety from your heart and cast off the troubles of your body, for youth and vigor are meaningless.


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Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, “I find no pleasure in them”—


book: Eccl
contenido:
before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds return after the rain;


book: Eccl
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when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men stoop, when the grinders cease because they are few, and those looking through the windows grow dim;


book: Eccl
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when the doors to the street are closed and the sound of grinding fades; when men rise up at the sound of birds, but all their songs grow faint;


book: Eccl
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when men are afraid of heights and of dangers in the streets; when the almond tree blossoms and the grasshopper drags himself along and desire no longer is stirred. Then man goes to his eternal home and mourners go about the streets.


book: Eccl
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Remember him—before the silver cord is severed, or the golden bowl is broken; before the pitcher is shattered at the spring, or the wheel broken at the well,


book: Eccl
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The Conclusion of the Matter Not only was the Teacher wise, but also he imparted knowledge to the people. He pondered and searched out and set in order many proverbs.


book: Eccl
contenido:
The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails—given by one Shepherd.


book: Eccl
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Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them. Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.


book: Eccl
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Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.


book: Eccl
contenido:
For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.


book: Song
contenido:
Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the maidens love you!


book: Song
contenido:
Take me away with you—let us hurry! Let the king bring me into his chambers. Friends We rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. Beloved How right they are to adore you!


book: Song
contenido:
Dark am I, yet lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Kedar, like the tent curtains of Solomon.


book: Song
contenido:
Do not stare at me because I am dark, because I am darkened by the sun. My mother’s sons were angry with me and made me take care of the vineyards; my own vineyard I have neglected.


book: Song
contenido:
Tell me, you whom I love, where you graze your flock and where you rest your sheep at midday. Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your friends?


book: Song
contenido:
Friends If you do not know, most beautiful of women, follow the tracks of the sheep and graze your young goats by the tents of the shepherds.


book: Song
contenido:
Beloved Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my lover among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.


book: Song
contenido:
Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.


book: Song
contenido:
My lover is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look! There he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.


book: Song
contenido:
Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land.


book: Song
contenido:
The fig tree forms its early fruit; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come, my darling; my beautiful one, come with me.”


book: Song
contenido:
Lover My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places on the mountainside, show me your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.


book: Song
contenido:
Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, turn, my lover, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the rugged hills.


book: Song
contenido:
All night long on my bed I looked for the one my heart loves; I looked for him but did not find him.


book: Song
contenido:
I will get up now and go about the city, through its streets and squares; I will search for the one my heart loves. So I looked for him but did not find him.


book: Song
contenido:
The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city. “Have you seen the one my heart loves?”


book: Song
contenido:
Scarcely had I passed them when I found the one my heart loves. I held him and would not let him go till I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the room of the one who conceived me.


book: Song
contenido:
Who is this coming up from the desert like a column of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and incense made from all the spices of the merchant?


book: Song
contenido:
all of them wearing the sword, all experienced in battle, each with his sword at his side, prepared for the terrors of the night.


book: Song
contenido:
Its posts he made of silver, its base of gold. Its seat was upholstered with purple, its interior lovingly inlaid by the daughters of Jerusalem.


book: Song
contenido:
Come out, you daughters of Zion, and look at King Solomon wearing the crown, the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, the day his heart rejoiced.


book: Song
contenido:
Lover How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes behind your veil are doves. Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from Mount Gilead.


book: Song
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Your teeth are like a flock of sheep just shorn, coming up from the washing. Each has its twin; not one of them is alone.


book: Song
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Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon; your mouth is lovely. Your temples behind your veil are like the halves of a pomegranate.


book: Song
contenido:
Your neck is like the tower of David, built with elegance; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors.


book: Song
contenido:
Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, I will go to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of incense.


book: Song
contenido:
Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon. Descend from the crest of Amana, from the top of Senir, the summit of Hermon, from the lions’ dens and the mountain haunts of the leopards.


book: Song
contenido:
You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.


book: Song
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How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much more pleasing is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than any spice!


book: Song
contenido:
Your lips drop sweetness as the honeycomb, my bride; milk and honey are under your tongue. The fragrance of your garments is like that of Lebanon.


book: Song
contenido:
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree, with myrrh and aloes and all the finest spices.


book: Song
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Beloved Awake, north wind, and come, south wind! Blow on my garden, that its fragrance may spread abroad. Let my lover come into his garden and taste its choice fruits.


book: Song
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Lover I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice. I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey; I have drunk my wine and my milk. Friends Eat, O friends, and drink; drink your fill, O lovers.


book: Song
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Beloved I slept but my heart was awake. Listen! My lover is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”


book: Song
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I arose to open for my lover, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh, on the handles of the lock.


book: Song
contenido:
I opened for my lover, but my lover had left; he was gone. My heart sank at his departure. I looked for him but did not find him. I called him but he did not answer.


book: Song
contenido:
The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city. They beat me, they bruised me; they took away my cloak, those watchmen of the walls!


book: Song
contenido:
O daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you— if you find my lover, what will you tell him? Tell him I am faint with love.


book: Song
contenido:
Friends How is your beloved better than others, most beautiful of women? How is your beloved better than others, that you charge us so?


book: Song
contenido:
His arms are rods of gold set with chrysolite. His body is like polished ivory decorated with sapphires.


book: Song
contenido:
His legs are pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as its cedars.


book: Song
contenido:
His mouth is sweetness itself; he is altogether lovely. This is my lover, this my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.


book: Song
contenido:
Friends Where has your lover gone, most beautiful of women? Which way did your lover turn, that we may look for him with you?


book: Song
contenido:
Beloved My lover has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to browse in the gardens and to gather lilies.


book: Song
contenido:
Lover You are beautiful, my darling, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, majestic as troops with banners.


book: Song
contenido:
Turn your eyes from me; they overwhelm me. Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from Gilead.


book: Song
contenido:
Your teeth are like a flock of sheep coming up from the washing. Each has its twin, not one of them is alone.


book: Song
contenido:
but my dove, my perfect one, is unique, the only daughter of her mother, the favorite of the one who bore her. The maidens saw her and called her blessed; the queens and concubines praised her.


book: Song
contenido:
Friends Who is this that appears like the dawn, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, majestic as the stars in procession?


book: Song
contenido:
Lover I went down to the grove of nut trees to look at the new growth in the valley, to see if the vines had budded or the pomegranates were in bloom.


book: Song
contenido:
Friends Come back, come back, O Shulammite; come back, come back, that we may gaze on you! Lover Why would you gaze on the Shulammite as on the dance of Mahanaim?


book: Song
contenido:
How beautiful your sandaled feet, O prince’s daughter! Your graceful legs are like jewels, the work of a craftsman’s hands.


book: Song
contenido:
Your navel is a rounded goblet that never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by lilies.


book: Song
contenido:
Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon looking toward Damascus.


book: Song
contenido:
Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel. Your hair is like royal tapestry; the king is held captive by its tresses.


book: Song
contenido:
I said, “I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit.” May your breasts be like the clusters of the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples,


book: Song
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and your mouth like the best wine. Beloved May the wine go straight to my lover, flowing gently over lips and teeth.


book: Song
contenido:
Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vines have budded, if their blossoms have opened, and if the pomegranates are in bloom— there I will give you my love.


book: Song
contenido:
The mandrakes send out their fragrance, and at our door is every delicacy, both new and old, that I have stored up for you, my lover.


book: Song
contenido:
If only you were to me like a brother, who was nursed at my mother’s breasts! Then, if I found you outside, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me.


book: Song
contenido:
I would lead you and bring you to my mother’s house— she who has taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.


book: Song
contenido:
Friends Who is this coming up from the desert leaning on her lover? Beloved Under the apple tree I roused you; there your mother conceived you, there she who was in labor gave you birth.


book: Song
contenido:
Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame.


book: Song
contenido:
Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away. If one were to give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be utterly scorned.


book: Song
contenido:
Friends We have a young sister, and her breasts are not yet grown. What shall we do for our sister for the day she is spoken for?


book: Song
contenido:
If she is a wall, we will build towers of silver on her. If she is a door, we will enclose her with panels of cedar.


book: Song
contenido:
Beloved I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. Thus I have become in his eyes like one bringing contentment.


book: Song
contenido:
Solomon had a vineyard in Baal Hamon; he let out his vineyard to tenants. Each was to bring for its fruit a thousand shekels of silver.


book: Song
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But my own vineyard is mine to give; the thousand shekels are for you, O Solomon, and two hundred are for those who tend its fruit.


book: Song
contenido:
Beloved Come away, my lover, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the spice-laden mountains.


book: Isa
contenido:
The vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.


book: Isa
contenido:
A Rebellious Nation Hear, O heavens! Listen, O earth! For the Lord has spoken: “I reared children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me.


book: Isa
contenido:
The ox knows his master, the donkey his owner’s manger, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.”


book: Isa
contenido:
Ah, sinful nation, a people loaded with guilt, a brood of evildoers, children given to corruption! They have forsaken the Lord; they have spurned the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on him.


book: Isa
contenido:
Why should you be beaten anymore? Why do you persist in rebellion? Your whole head is injured, your whole heart afflicted.


book: Isa
contenido:
From the sole of your foot to the top of your head there is no soundness— only wounds and welts and open sores, not cleansed or bandaged or soothed with oil.


book: Isa
contenido:
Your country is desolate, your cities burned with fire; your fields are being stripped by foreigners right before you, laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.


book: Isa
contenido:
The Daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a city under siege.


book: Isa
contenido:
Unless the Lord Almighty had left us some survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.


book: Isa
contenido:
Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!


book: Isa
contenido:
“The multitude of your sacrifices— what are they to me?” says the Lord. “I have more than enough of burnt offerings, of rams and the fat of fattened animals; I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.


book: Isa
contenido:
Stop bringing meaningless offerings! Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations— I cannot bear your evil assemblies.


book: Isa
contenido:
Your New Moon festivals and your appointed feasts my soul hates. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.


book: Isa
contenido:
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide my eyes from you; even if you offer many prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood;


book: Isa
contenido:
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight! Stop doing wrong,


book: Isa
contenido:
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.


book: Isa
contenido:
“Come now, let us reason together,” says the Lord. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.


book: Isa
contenido:
but if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.


book: Isa
contenido:
See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness used to dwell in her— but now murderers!


book: Isa
contenido:
Your rulers are rebels, companions of thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow’s case does not come before them.


book: Isa
contenido:
Therefore the Lord, the Lord Almighty, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: “Ah, I will get relief from my foes and avenge myself on my enemies.


book: Isa
contenido:
I will turn my hand against you; I will thoroughly purge away your dross and remove all your impurities.


book: Isa
contenido:
I will restore your judges as in days of old, your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.”


book: Isa
contenido:
“You will be ashamed because of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be disgraced because of the gardens that you have chosen.


book: Isa
contenido:
The mighty man will become tinder and his work a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the fire.”


book: Isa
contenido:
In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established as chief among the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.


book: Isa
contenido:
Many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.” The law will go out from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.


book: Isa
contenido:
He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.


book: Isa
contenido:
The Day of the Lord You have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob. They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and clasp hands with pagans.


book: Isa
contenido:
Their land is full of silver and gold; there is no end to their treasures. Their land is full of horses; there is no end to their chariots.


book: Isa
contenido:
Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.


book: Isa
contenido:
The eyes of the arrogant man will be humbled and the pride of men brought low; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.


book: Isa
contenido:
The Lord Almighty has a day in store for all the proud and lofty, for all that is exalted (and they will be humbled),


book: Isa
contenido:
The arrogance of man will be brought low and the pride of men humbled; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day,


book: Isa
contenido:
Men will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the ground from dread of the Lord and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth.


book: Isa
contenido:
In that day men will throw away to the rodents and bats their idols of silver and idols of gold, which they made to worship.


book: Isa
contenido:
They will flee to caverns in the rocks and to the overhanging crags from dread of the Lord and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth.


book: Isa
contenido:
Judgment on Jerusalem and Judah See now, the Lord, the Lord Almighty, is about to take from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: all supplies of food and all supplies of water,


book: Isa
contenido:
People will oppress each other— man against man, neighbor against neighbor. The young will rise up against the old, the base against the honorable.


book: Isa
contenido:
A man will seize one of his brothers at his father’s home, and say, “You have a cloak, you be our leader; take charge of this heap of ruins!”


book: Isa
contenido:
But in that day he will cry out, “I have no remedy. I have no food or clothing in my house; do not make me the leader of the people.”


book: Isa
contenido:
Jerusalem staggers, Judah is falling; their words and deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence.


book: Isa
contenido:
The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.


book: Isa
contenido:
Youths oppress my people, women rule over them. O my people, your guides lead you astray; they turn you from the path.


book: Isa
contenido:
The Lord enters into judgment against the elders and leaders of his people: “It is you who have ruined my vineyard; the plunder from the poor is in your houses.


book: Isa
contenido:
What do you mean by crushing my people and grinding the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.


book: Isa
contenido:
The Lord says, “The women of Zion are haughty, walking along with outstretched necks, flirting with their eyes, tripping along with mincing steps, with ornaments jingling on their ankles.


book: Isa
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Therefore the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the women of Zion; the Lord will make their scalps bald.”


book: Isa
contenido:
In that day the Lord will snatch away their finery: the bangles and headbands and crescent necklaces,


book: Isa
contenido:
Instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a sash, a rope; instead of well-dressed hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, branding.


book: Isa
contenido:
In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, “We will eat our own food and provide our own clothes; only let us be called by your name. Take away our disgrace!”


book: Isa
contenido:
The Branch of the Lord In that day the Branch of the Lord will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of the survivors in Israel.


book: Isa
contenido:
Those who are left in Zion, who remain in Jerusalem, will be called holy, all who are recorded among the living in Jerusalem.


book: Isa
contenido:
The Lord will wash away the filth of the women of Zion; he will cleanse the bloodstains from Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.


book: Isa
contenido:
Then the Lord will create over all of Mount Zion and over those who assemble there a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of flaming fire by night; over all the glory will be a canopy.


book: Isa
contenido:
It will be a shelter and shade from the heat of the day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and rain.


book: Isa
contenido:
The Song of the Vineyard I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard: My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hillside.


book: Isa
contenido:
He dug it up and cleared it of stones and planted it with the choicest vines. He built a watchtower in it and cut out a winepress as well. Then he looked for a crop of good grapes, but it yielded only bad fruit.


book: Isa
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What more could have been done for my vineyard than I have done for it? When I looked for good grapes, why did it yield only bad?


book: Isa
contenido:
Now I will tell you what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be destroyed; I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled.


book: Isa
contenido:
I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will command the clouds not to rain on it.”


book: Isa
contenido:
The vineyard of the Lord Almighty is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the garden of his delight. And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress.


book: Isa
contenido:
Woes and Judgments Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field till no space is left and you live alone in the land.


book: Isa
contenido:
The Lord Almighty has declared in my hearing: “Surely the great houses will become desolate, the fine mansions left without occupants.


book: Isa
contenido:
Woe to those who rise early in the morning to run after their drinks, who stay up late at night till they are inflamed with wine.


book: Isa
contenido:
They have harps and lyres at their banquets, tambourines and flutes and wine, but they have no regard for the deeds of the Lord, no respect for the work of his hands.


book: Isa
contenido:
Therefore my people will go into exile for lack of understanding; their men of rank will die of hunger and their masses will be parched with thirst.


book: Isa
contenido:
Therefore the grave enlarges its appetite and opens its mouth without limit; into it will descend their nobles and masses with all their brawlers and revelers.


book: Isa
contenido:
But the Lord Almighty will be exalted by his justice, and the holy God will show himself holy by his righteousness.


book: Isa
contenido:
to those who say, “Let God hurry, let him hasten his work so we may see it. Let it approach, let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come, so we may know it.”


book: Isa
contenido:
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.


book: Isa
contenido:
Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.


book: Isa
contenido:
Therefore the Lord’s anger burns against his people; his hand is raised and he strikes them down. The mountains shake, and the dead bodies are like refuse in the streets. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.


book: Isa
contenido:
He lifts up a banner for the distant nations, he whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Here they come, swiftly and speedily!


book: Isa
contenido:
Not one of them grows tired or stumbles, not one slumbers or sleeps; not a belt is loosened at the waist, not a sandal thong is broken.


book: Isa
contenido:
Their arrows are sharp, all their bows are strung; their horses’ hoofs seem like flint, their chariot wheels like a whirlwind.


book: Isa
contenido:
Their roar is like that of the lion, they roar like young lions; they growl as they seize their prey and carry it off with no one to rescue.


book: Isa
contenido:
In that day they will roar over it like the roaring of the sea. And if one looks at the land, he will see darkness and distress; even the light will be darkened by the clouds.


book: Isa
contenido:
Isaiah’s Commission In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple.


book: Isa
contenido:
Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying.


book: Isa
contenido:
And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.”


book: Isa
contenido:
At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.


book: Isa
contenido:
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”


book: Isa
contenido:
Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar.


book: Isa
contenido:
With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”


book: Isa
contenido:
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”


book: Isa
contenido:
He said, “Go and tell this people: “‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’


book: Isa
contenido:
Make the heart of this people calloused; make their ears dull and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”


book: Isa
contenido:
Then I said, “For how long, O Lord?” And he answered: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left deserted and the fields ruined and ravaged,


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And though a tenth remains in the land, it will again be laid waste. But as the terebinth and oak leave stumps when they are cut down, so the holy seed will be the stump in the land.”


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The Sign of Immanuel When Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, King Rezin of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel marched up to fight against Jerusalem, but they could not overpower it.


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Now the house of David was told, “Aram has allied itself with Ephraim”; so the hearts of Ahaz and his people were shaken, as the trees of the forest are shaken by the wind.


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Then the Lord said to Isaiah, “Go out, you and your son Shear-Jashub, to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Washerman’s Field.


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Say to him, ‘Be careful, keep calm and don’t be afraid. Do not lose heart because of these two smoldering stubs of firewood—because of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah.


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“Let us invade Judah; let us tear it apart and divide it among ourselves, and make the son of Tabeel king over it.”


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for the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is only Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people.


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The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is only Remaliah’s son. If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all.’”


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Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, you house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of men? Will you try the patience of my God also?


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Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.


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But before the boy knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.


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The Lord will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since Ephraim broke away from Judah—he will bring the king of Assyria.”


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In that day the Lord will whistle for flies from the distant streams of Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.


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They will all come and settle in the steep ravines and in the crevices in the rocks, on all the thornbushes and at all the water holes.


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In that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the River—the king of Assyria—to shave your head and the hair of your legs, and to take off your beards also.


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And because of the abundance of the milk they give, he will have curds to eat. All who remain in the land will eat curds and honey.


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In that day, in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, there will be only briers and thorns.


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As for all the hills once cultivated by the hoe, you will no longer go there for fear of the briers and thorns; they will become places where cattle are turned loose and where sheep run.


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Assyria, the Lord’s Instrument The Lord said to me, “Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary pen: Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.


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Then I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. And the Lord said to me, “Name him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.


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Before the boy knows how to say ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.”


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“Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoices over Rezin and the son of Remaliah,


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therefore the Lord is about to bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the River— the king of Assyria with all his pomp. It will overflow all its channels, run over all its banks


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and sweep on into Judah, swirling over it, passing through it and reaching up to the neck. Its outspread wings will cover the breadth of your land, O Immanuel!”


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Raise the war cry, you nations, and be shattered! Listen, all you distant lands. Prepare for battle, and be shattered! Prepare for battle, and be shattered!


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Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted; propose your plan, but it will not stand, for God is with us.


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Fear God The Lord spoke to me with his strong hand upon me, warning me not to follow the way of this people. He said:


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“Do not call conspiracy everything that these people call conspiracy; do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it.


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The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy, he is the one you are to fear, he is the one you are to dread,


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and he will be a sanctuary; but for both houses of Israel he will be a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall. And for the people of Jerusalem he will be a trap and a snare.


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I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in him.


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Here am I, and the children the Lord has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from the Lord Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.


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When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists, who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?


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To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.


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Distressed and hungry, they will roam through the land; when they are famished, they will become enraged and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God.


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Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.


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To Us a Child Is Born Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future he will honor Galilee of the Gentiles, by the way of the sea, along the Jordan—


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The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.


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You have enlarged the nation and increased their joy; they rejoice before you as people rejoice at the harvest, as men rejoice when dividing the plunder.


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For as in the day of Midian’s defeat, you have shattered the yoke that burdens them, the bar across their shoulders, the rod of their oppressor.


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Every warrior’s boot used in battle and every garment rolled in blood will be destined for burning, will be fuel for the fire.


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For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.


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Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David’s throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.


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All the people will know it— Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria— who say with pride and arrogance of heart,


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“The bricks have fallen down, but we will rebuild with dressed stone; the fig trees have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”


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Arameans from the east and Philistines from the west have devoured Israel with open mouth. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.


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Therefore the Lord will take no pleasure in the young men, nor will he pity the fatherless and widows, for everyone is ungodly and wicked, every mouth speaks vileness. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.


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Surely wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns, it sets the forest thickets ablaze, so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.


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By the wrath of the Lord Almighty the land will be scorched and the people will be fuel for the fire; no one will spare his brother.


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On the right they will devour, but still be hungry; on the left they will eat, but not be satisfied. Each will feed on the flesh of his own offspring:


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Manasseh will feed on Ephraim, and Ephraim on Manasseh; together they will turn against Judah. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.


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to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.


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What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?


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Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives or fall among the slain. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.


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God’s Judgment on Assyria “Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of my anger, in whose hand is the club of my wrath!


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I send him against a godless nation, I dispatch him against a people who anger me, to seize loot and snatch plunder, and to trample them down like mud in the streets.


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But this is not what he intends, this is not what he has in mind; his purpose is to destroy, to put an end to many nations.


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;‘Has not Calno fared like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad, and Samaria like Damascus?


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As my hand seized the kingdoms of the idols, kingdoms whose images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria—


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When the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the willful pride of his heart and the haughty look in his eyes.


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For he says: “‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, because I have understanding. I removed the boundaries of nations, I plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their kings.


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As one reaches into a nest, so my hand reached for the wealth of the nations; as men gather abandoned eggs, so I gathered all the countries; not one flapped a wing, or opened its mouth to chirp.’”


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Does the ax raise itself above him who swings it, or the saw boast against him who uses it? As if a rod were to wield him who lifts it up, or a club brandish him who is not wood!


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Therefore, the Lord, the Lord Almighty, will send a wasting disease upon his sturdy warriors; under his pomp a fire will be kindled like a blazing flame.


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The Light of Israel will become a fire, their Holy One a flame; in a single day it will burn and consume his thorns and his briers.


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The splendor of his forests and fertile fields it will completely destroy, as when a sick man wastes away.


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The Remnant of Israel In that day the remnant of Israel, the survivors of the house of Jacob, will no longer rely on him who struck them down but will truly rely on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.


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Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand by the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overwhelming and righteous.


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Therefore, this is what the Lord, the Lord Almighty, says: “O my people who live in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrians, who beat you with a rod and lift up a club against you, as Egypt did.


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The Lord Almighty will lash them with a whip, as when he struck down Midian at the rock of Oreb; and he will raise his staff over the waters, as he did in Egypt.


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In that day their burden will be lifted from your shoulders, their yoke from your neck; the yoke will be broken because you have grown so fat.


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They go over the pass, and say, “We will camp overnight at Geba.” Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul flees.


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This day they will halt at Nob; they will shake their fist at the mount of the Daughter of Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.


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See, the Lord, the Lord Almighty, will lop off the boughs with great power. The lofty trees will be felled, the tall ones will be brought low.


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The Branch From Jesse A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.


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The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him— the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of power, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord—


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and he will delight in the fear of the Lord. He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes, or decide by what he hears with his ears;


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but with righteousness he will judge the needy, with justice he will give decisions for the poor of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked.


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The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them.


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The cow will feed with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.


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The infant will play near the hole of the cobra, and the young child put his hand into the viper’s nest.


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They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.


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In that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations will rally to him, and his place of rest will be glorious.


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In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, from Cush, from Elam, from Babylonia, from Hamath and from the islands of the sea.


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He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; he will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four quarters of the earth.


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Ephraim’s jealousy will vanish, and Judah’s enemies will be cut off; Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah, nor Judah hostile toward Ephraim.


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They will swoop down on the slopes of Philistia to the west; together they will plunder the people to the east. They will lay hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.


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The Lord will dry up the gulf of the Egyptian sea; with a scorching wind he will sweep his hand over the Euphrates River. He will break it up into seven streams so that men can cross over in sandals.


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There will be a highway for the remnant of his people that is left from Assyria, as there was for Israel when they came up from Egypt.


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Songs of Praise In that day you will say: “I will praise you, O Lord. Although you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you have comforted me.


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Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The Lord, the Lord, is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.”


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In that day you will say: “Give thanks to the Lord, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done, and proclaim that his name is exalted.


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I have commanded my holy ones; I have summoned my warriors to carry out my wrath— those who rejoice in my triumph.


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Listen, a noise on the mountains, like that of a great multitude! Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms, like nations massing together! The Lord Almighty is mustering an army for war.


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They come from faraway lands, from the ends of the heavens— the Lord and the weapons of his wrath— to destroy the whole country.


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Terror will seize them, pain and anguish will grip them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look aghast at each other, their faces aflame.


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See, the day of the Lord is coming —a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger— to make the land desolate and destroy the sinners within it.


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The stars of heaven and their constellations will not show their light. The rising sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light.


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I will punish the world for its evil, the wicked for their sins. I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty and will humble the pride of the ruthless.


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Therefore I will make the heavens tremble; and the earth will shake from its place at the wrath of the Lord Almighty, in the day of his burning anger.


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Like a hunted gazelle, like sheep without a shepherd, each will return to his own people, each will flee to his native land.


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Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be looted and their wives ravished.


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Their bows will strike down the young men; they will have no mercy on infants nor will they look with compassion on children.


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Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms, the glory of the Babylonians’ pride, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.


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She will never be inhabited or lived in through all generations; no Arab will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flocks there.


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But desert creatures will lie there, jackals will fill her houses; there the owls will dwell, and there the wild goats will leap about.


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Hyenas will howl in her strongholds, jackals in her luxurious palaces. Her time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.


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The Lord will have compassion on Jacob; once again he will choose Israel and will settle them in their own land. Aliens will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.


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Nations will take them and bring them to their own place. And the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the Lord’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.


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you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has come to an end! How his fury has ended!


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which in anger struck down peoples with unceasing blows, and in fury subdued nations with relentless aggression.


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Even the pine trees and the cedars of Lebanon exult over you and say, “Now that you have been laid low, no woodsman comes to cut us down.”


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The grave below is all astir to meet you at your coming; it rouses the spirits of the departed to greet you— all those who were leaders in the world; it makes them rise from their thrones— all those who were kings over the nations.


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They will all respond, they will say to you, “You also have become weak, as we are; you have become like us.”


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All your pomp has been brought down to the grave, along with the noise of your harps; maggots are spread out beneath you and worms cover you.


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How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!


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You said in your heart, “I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain.


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Those who see you stare at you, they ponder your fate: “Is this the man who shook the earth and made kingdoms tremble,


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the man who made the world a desert, who overthrew its cities and would not let his captives go home?”


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But you are cast out of your tomb like a rejected branch; you are covered with the slain, with those pierced by the sword, those who descend to the stones of the pit. Like a corpse trampled underfoot,


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;you will not join them in burial, for you have destroyed your land and killed your people. The offspring of the wicked will never be mentioned again.


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Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the sins of their forefathers; they are not to rise to inherit the land and cover the earth with their cities.


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“I will rise up against them,” declares the Lord Almighty. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and survivors, her offspring and descendants,” declares the Lord.


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“I will turn her into a place for owls and into swampland; I will sweep her with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord Almighty.


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A Prophecy Against Assyria The Lord Almighty has sworn, “Surely, as I have planned, so it will be, and as I have purposed, so it will stand.


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I will crush the Assyrian in my land; on my mountains I will trample him down. His yoke will be taken from my people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.”


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For the Lord Almighty has purposed, and who can thwart him? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?


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Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken; from the root of that snake will spring up a viper, its fruit will be a darting, venomous serpent.


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The poorest of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety. But your root I will destroy by famine; it will slay your survivors.


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Wail, O gate! Howl, O city! Melt away, all you Philistines! A cloud of smoke comes from the north, and there is not a straggler in its ranks.


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What answer shall be given to the envoys of that nation? “The Lord has established Zion, and in her his afflicted people will find refuge.”


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A Prophecy Against Moab An oracle concerning Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night!


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Dibon goes up to its temple, to its high places to weep; Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba. Every head is shaved and every beard cut off.


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In the streets they wear sackcloth; on the roofs and in the public squares they all wail, prostrate with weeping.


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Heshbon and Elealeh cry out, their voices are heard all the way to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out, and their hearts are faint.


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My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath Shelishiyah. They go up the way to Luhith, weeping as they go; on the road to Horonaim they lament their destruction.


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The waters of Nimrim are dried up and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone and nothing green is left.


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Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab; their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim, their lamentation as far as Beer Elim.


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Dimon’s waters are full of blood, but I will bring still more upon Dimon— a lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon those who remain in the land.


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Send lambs as tribute to the ruler of the land, from Sela, across the desert, to the mount of the Daughter of Zion.


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“Give us counsel, render a decision. Make your shadow like night— at high noon. Hide the fugitives, do not betray the refugees.


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Let the Moabite fugitives stay with you; be their shelter from the destroyer.” The oppressor will come to an end, and destruction will cease; the aggressor will vanish from the land.


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In love a throne will be established; in faithfulness a man will sit on it— one from the house of David— one who in judging seeks justice and speeds the cause of righteousness.


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We have heard of Moab’s pride— her overweening pride and conceit, her pride and her insolence— but her boasts are empty.


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Therefore the Moabites wail, they wail together for Moab. Lament and grieve for the men of Kir Hareseth.


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The fields of Heshbon wither, the vines of Sibmah also. The rulers of the nations have trampled down the choicest vines, which once reached Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots spread out and went as far as the sea.


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So I weep, as Jazer weeps, for the vines of Sibmah. O Heshbon, O Elealeh, I drench you with tears! The shouts of joy over your ripened fruit and over your harvests have been stilled.


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Joy and gladness are taken away from the orchards; no one sings or shouts in the vineyards; no one treads out wine at the presses, for I have put an end to the shouting.


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When Moab appears at her high place, she only wears herself out; when she goes to her shrine to pray, it is to no avail.


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But now the Lord says: “Within three years, as a servant bound by contract would count them, Moab’s splendor and all her many people will be despised, and her survivors will be very few and feeble.”


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An Oracle Against Damascus An oracle concerning Damascus: “See, Damascus will no longer be a city but will become a heap of ruins.


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The cities of Aroer will be deserted and left to flocks, which will lie down, with no one to make them afraid.


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The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim, and royal power from Damascus; the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the Israelites,” declares the Lord Almighty.


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It will be as when a reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the grain with his arm— as when a man gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.


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Yet some gleanings will remain, as when an olive tree is beaten, leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches, four or five on the fruitful boughs,” declares the Lord, the God of Israel.


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They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands, and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles and the incense altars their fingers have made.


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In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth. And all will be desolation.


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You have forgotten God your Savior; you have not remembered the Rock, your fortress. Therefore, though you set out the finest plants and plant imported vines,


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though on the day you set them out, you make them grow, and on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud, yet the harvest will be as nothing in the day of disease and incurable pain.


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Oh, the raging of many nations— they rage like the raging sea! Oh, the uproar of the peoples— they roar like the roaring of great waters!


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Although the peoples roar like the roar of surging waters, when he rebukes them they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweed before a gale.


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In the evening, sudden terror! Before the morning, they are gone! This is the portion of those who loot us, the lot of those who plunder us.


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which sends envoys by sea in papyrus boats over the water. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.


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All you people of the world, you who live on the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will see it, and when a trumpet sounds, you will hear it.


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This is what the Lord says to me: “I will remain quiet and will look on from my dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”


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For, before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the shoots with pruning knives, and cut down and take away the spreading branches.


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They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey and to the wild animals; the birds will feed on them all summer, the wild animals all winter.


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At that time gifts will be brought to the Lord Almighty from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers— the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the Lord Almighty.


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A Prophecy About Egypt An oracle concerning Egypt: See, the Lord rides on a swift cloud and is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt tremble before him, and the hearts of the Egyptians melt within them.


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“I will stir up Egyptian against Egyptian— brother will fight against brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom.


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The Egyptians will lose heart, and I will bring their plans to nothing; they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead, the mediums and the spiritists.


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I will hand the Egyptians over to the power of a cruel master, and a fierce king will rule over them,” declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.


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The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up. The reeds and rushes will wither,


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;also the plants along the Nile, at the mouth of the river. Every sown field along the Nile will become parched, will blow away and be no more.


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The fishermen will groan and lament, all who cast hooks into the Nile; those who throw nets on the water will pine away.


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The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools; the wise counselors of Pharaoh give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the wise men, a disciple of the ancient kings”?


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Where are your wise men now? Let them show you and make known what the Lord Almighty has planned against Egypt.


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The officials of Zoan have become fools, the leaders of Memphis are deceived; the cornerstones of her peoples have led Egypt astray.


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The Lord has poured into them a spirit of dizziness; they make Egypt stagger in all that she does, as a drunkard staggers around in his vomit.


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In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will shudder with fear at the uplifted hand that the Lord Almighty raises against them.


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And the land of Judah will bring terror to the Egyptians; everyone to whom Judah is mentioned will be terrified, because of what the Lord Almighty is planning against them.


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In that day five cities in Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the Lord Almighty. One of them will be called the City of Destruction.


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In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the heart of Egypt, and a monument to the Lord at its border.


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It will be a sign and witness to the Lord Almighty in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the Lord because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior and defender, and he will rescue them.


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So the Lord will make himself known to the Egyptians, and in that day they will acknowledge the Lord. They will worship with sacrifices and grain offerings; they will make vows to the Lord and keep them.


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The Lord will strike Egypt with a plague; he will strike them and heal them. They will turn to the Lord, and he will respond to their pleas and heal them.


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In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will go to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together.


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The Lord Almighty will bless them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria my handiwork, and Israel my inheritance.”


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A Prophecy Against Egypt and Cush In the year that the supreme commander, sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and attacked and captured it—


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at that time the Lord spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz. He said to him, “Take off the sackcloth from your body and the sandals from your feet.” And he did so, going around stripped and barefoot.


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Then the Lord said, “Just as my servant Isaiah has gone stripped and barefoot for three years, as a sign and portent against Egypt and Cush,


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so the king of Assyria will lead away stripped and barefoot the Egyptian captives and Cushite exiles, young and old, with buttocks bared—to Egypt’s shame.


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In that day the people who live on this coast will say, ‘See what has happened to those we relied on, those we fled to for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?’”


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A Prophecy Against Babylon An oracle concerning the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the southland, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror.


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A dire vision has been shown to me: The traitor betrays, the looter takes loot. Elam, attack! Media, lay siege! I will bring to an end all the groaning she caused.


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At this my body is racked with pain, pangs seize me, like those of a woman in labor; I am staggered by what I hear, I am bewildered by what I see.


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They set the tables, they spread the rugs, they eat, they drink! Get up, you officers, oil the shields!


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When he sees chariots with teams of horses, riders on donkeys or riders on camels, let him be alert, fully alert.”


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And the lookout shouted, “Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower; every night I stay at my post.


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Look, here comes a man in a chariot with a team of horses. And he gives back the answer: ‘Babylon has fallen, has fallen! All the images of its gods lie shattered on the ground!’”


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O my people, crushed on the threshing floor, I tell you what I have heard from the Lord Almighty, from the God of Israel.


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A Prophecy Against Edom An oracle concerning Dumah: Someone calls to me from Seir, “Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?”


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The watchman replies, “Morning is coming, but also the night. If you would ask, then ask; and come back yet again.”


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A Prophecy Against Arabia An oracle concerning Arabia: You caravans of Dedanites, who camp in the thickets of Arabia,


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;bring water for the thirsty; you who live in Tema, bring food for the fugitives.


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This is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a servant bound by contract would count it, all the pomp of Kedar will come to an end.


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The survivors of the bowmen, the warriors of Kedar, will be few.” The Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.


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A Prophecy About Jerusalem An oracle concerning the Valley of Vision: What troubles you now, that you have all gone up on the roofs,


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O town full of commotion, O city of tumult and revelry? Your slain were not killed by the sword, nor did they die in battle.


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All your leaders have fled together; they have been captured without using the bow. All you who were caught were taken prisoner together, having fled while the enemy was still far away.


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Therefore I said, “Turn away from me; let me weep bitterly. Do not try to console me over the destruction of my people.”


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The Lord, the Lord Almighty, has a day of tumult and trampling and terror in the Valley of Vision, a day of battering down walls and of crying out to the mountains.


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the defenses of Judah are stripped away. And you looked in that day to the weapons in the Palace of the Forest;


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you saw that the City of David had many breaches in its defenses; you stored up water in the Lower Pool.


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You built a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the Old Pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or have regard for the One who planned it long ago.


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The Lord, the Lord Almighty, called you on that day to weep and to wail, to tear out your hair and put on sackcloth.


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But see, there is joy and revelry, slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine! “Let us eat and drink,” you say, “for tomorrow we die!”


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The Lord Almighty has revealed this in my hearing: “Till your dying day this sin will not be atoned for,” says the Lord, the Lord Almighty.


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This is what the Lord, the Lord Almighty, says: “Go, say to this steward, to Shebna, who is in charge of the palace:


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What are you doing here and who gave you permission to cut out a grave for yourself here, hewing your grave on the height and chiseling your resting place in the rock?


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He will roll you up tightly like a ball and throw you into a large country. There you will die and there your splendid chariots will remain— you disgrace to your master’s house!


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I will clothe him with your robe and fasten your sash around him and hand your authority over to him. He will be a father to those who live in Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.


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I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David; what he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.


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I will drive him like a peg into a firm place; he will be a seat of honor for the house of his father.


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All the glory of his family will hang on him: its offspring and offshoots—all its lesser vessels, from the bowls to all the jars.


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“In that day,” declares the Lord Almighty, “the peg driven into the firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and will fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut down.” The Lord has spoken.


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A Prophecy About Tyre An oracle concerning Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish! For Tyre is destroyed and left without house or harbor. From the land of Cyprus word has come to them.


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On the great waters came the grain of the Shihor; the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre, and she became the marketplace of the nations.


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Be ashamed, O Sidon, and you, O fortress of the sea, for the sea has spoken: “I have neither been in labor nor given birth; I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters.”


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Is this your city of revelry, the old, old city, whose feet have taken her to settle in far-off lands?


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Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are renowned in the earth?


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The Lord Almighty planned it, to bring low the pride of all glory and to humble all who are renowned on the earth.


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The Lord has stretched out his hand over the sea and made its kingdoms tremble. He has given an order concerning Phoenicia that her fortresses be destroyed.


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He said, “No more of your reveling, O Virgin Daughter of Sidon, now crushed! “Up, cross over to Cyprus; even there you will find no rest.”


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Look at the land of the Babylonians, this people that is now of no account! The Assyrians have made it a place for desert creatures; they raised up their siege towers, they stripped its fortresses bare and turned it into a ruin.


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At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the span of a king’s life. But at the end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:


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“Take up a harp, walk through the city, O prostitute forgotten; play the harp well, sing many a song, so that you will be remembered.”


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At the end of seventy years, the Lord will deal with Tyre. She will return to her hire as a prostitute and will ply her trade with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.


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Yet her profit and her earnings will be set apart for the Lord; they will not be stored up or hoarded. Her profits will go to those who live before the Lord, for abundant food and fine clothes.


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The Lord’s Devastation of the Earth See, the Lord is going to lay waste the earth and devastate it; he will ruin its face and scatter its inhabitants—


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it will be the same for priest as for people, for master as for servant, for mistress as for maid, for seller as for buyer, for borrower as for lender, for debtor as for creditor.


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The earth dries up and withers, the world languishes and withers, the exalted of the earth languish.


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The earth is defiled by its people; they have disobeyed the laws, violated the statutes and broken the everlasting covenant.


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Therefore a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt. Therefore earth’s inhabitants are burned up, and very few are left.


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The gaiety of the tambourines is stilled, the noise of the revelers has stopped, the joyful harp is silent.


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In the streets they cry out for wine; all joy turns to gloom, all gaiety is banished from the earth.


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So will it be on the earth and among the nations, as when an olive tree is beaten, or as when gleanings are left after the grape harvest.


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Therefore in the east give glory to the Lord; exalt the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea.


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From the ends of the earth we hear singing: “Glory to the Righteous One.” But I said, “I waste away, I waste away! Woe to me! The treacherous betray! With treachery the treacherous betray!”


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Whoever flees at the sound of terror will fall into a pit; whoever climbs out of the pit will be caught in a snare. The floodgates of the heavens are opened, the foundations of the earth shake.


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The earth reels like a drunkard, it sways like a hut in the wind; so heavy upon it is the guilt of its rebellion that it falls—never to rise again.


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They will be herded together like prisoners bound in a dungeon; they will be shut up in prison and be punished after many days.


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The moon will be abashed, the sun ashamed; for the Lord Almighty will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before its elders, gloriously.


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Praise to the Lord O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you and praise your name, for in perfect faithfulness you have done marvelous things, things planned long ago.


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You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin, the foreigners’ stronghold a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.


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You have been a refuge for the poor, a refuge for the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like a storm driving against a wall


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and like the heat of the desert. You silence the uproar of foreigners; as heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless is stilled.


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On this mountain the Lord Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine— the best of meats and the finest of wines.


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On this mountain he will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations;


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;he will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from all faces; he will remove the disgrace of his people from all the earth. The Lord has spoken.


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In that day they will say, “Surely this is our God; we trusted in him, and he saved us. This is the Lord, we trusted in him; let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation.”


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The hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain; but Moab will be trampled under him as straw is trampled down in the manure.


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They will spread out their hands in it, as a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim. God will bring down their pride despite the cleverness of their hands.


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He will bring down your high fortified walls and lay them low; he will bring them down to the ground, to the very dust.


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A Song of Praise In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; God makes salvation its walls and ramparts.


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He humbles those who dwell on high, he lays the lofty city low; he levels it to the ground and casts it down to the dust.


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Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts.


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My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you. When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.


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Though grace is shown to the wicked, they do not learn righteousness; even in a land of uprightness they go on doing evil and regard not the majesty of the Lord.


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O Lord, your hand is lifted high, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame; let the fire reserved for your enemies consume them.


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They are now dead, they live no more; those departed spirits do not rise. You punished them and brought them to ruin; you wiped out all memory of them.


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You have enlarged the nation, O Lord; you have enlarged the nation. You have gained glory for yourself; you have extended all the borders of the land.


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Lord, they came to you in their distress; when you disciplined them, they could barely whisper a prayer.


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As a woman with child and about to give birth writhes and cries out in her pain, so were we in your presence, O Lord.


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We were with child, we writhed in pain, but we gave birth to wind. We have not brought salvation to the earth; we have not given birth to people of the world.


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But your dead will live; their bodies will rise. You who dwell in the dust, wake up and shout for joy. Your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead.


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Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until his wrath has passed by.


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See, the Lord is coming out of his dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The earth will disclose the blood shed upon her; she will conceal her slain no longer.


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Deliverance of Israel In that day, the Lord will punish with his sword, his fierce, great and powerful sword, Leviathan the gliding serpent, Leviathan the coiling serpent; he will slay the monster of the sea.


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I, the Lord, watch over it; I water it continually. I guard it day and night so that no one may harm it.


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I am not angry. If only there were briers and thorns confronting me! I would march against them in battle; I would set them all on fire.


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Or else let them come to me for refuge; let them make peace with me, yes, let them make peace with me.”


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In days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill all the world with fruit.


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Has the Lord struck her as he struck down those who struck her? Has she been killed as those were killed who killed her?


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By warfare and exile you contend with her— with his fierce blast he drives her out, as on a day the east wind blows.


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By this, then, will Jacob’s guilt be atoned for, and this will be the full fruitage of the removal of his sin: When he makes all the altar stones to be like chalk stones crushed to pieces, no Asherah poles or incense altars will be left standing.


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The fortified city stands desolate, an abandoned settlement, forsaken like the desert; there the calves graze, there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.


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When its twigs are dry, they are broken off and women come and make fires with them. For this is a people without understanding; so their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.


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In that day the Lord will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, O Israelites, will be gathered up one by one.


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And in that day a great trumpet will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled in Egypt will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.


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Woe to Ephraim Woe to that wreath, the pride of Ephraim’s drunkards, to the fading flower, his glorious beauty, set on the head of a fertile valley— to that city, the pride of those laid low by wine!


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See, the Lord has one who is powerful and strong. Like a hailstorm and a destructive wind, like a driving rain and a flooding downpour, he will throw it forcefully to the ground.


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That fading flower, his glorious beauty, set on the head of a fertile valley, will be like a fig ripe before harvest— as soon as someone sees it and takes it in his hand, he swallows it.


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In that day the Lord Almighty will be a glorious crown, a beautiful wreath for the remnant of his people.


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He will be a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, a source of strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.


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And these also stagger from wine and reel from beer: Priests and prophets stagger from beer and are befuddled with wine; they reel from beer, they stagger when seeing visions, they stumble when rendering decisions.


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“Who is it he is trying to teach? To whom is he explaining his message? To children weaned from their milk, to those just taken from the breast?


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to whom he said, “This is the resting place, let the weary rest”; and, “This is the place of repose”— but they would not listen.


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So then, the word of the Lord to them will become: Do and do, do and do, rule on rule, rule on rule; a little here, a little there— so that they will go and fall backward, be injured and snared and captured.


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You boast, “We have entered into a covenant with death, with the grave we have made an agreement. When an overwhelming scourge sweeps by, it cannot touch us, for we have made a lie our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”


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So this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who trusts will never be dismayed.


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I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plumb line; hail will sweep away your refuge, the lie, and water will overflow your hiding place.


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Your covenant with death will be annulled; your agreement with the grave will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge sweeps by, you will be beaten down by it.


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As often as it comes it will carry you away; morning after morning, by day and by night, it will sweep through.” The understanding of this message will bring sheer terror.


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The Lord will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim, he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon— to do his work, his strange work, and perform his task, his alien task.


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Now stop your mocking, or your chains will become heavier; the Lord, the Lord Almighty, has told me of the destruction decreed against the whole land.


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When a farmer plows for planting, does he plow continually? Does he keep on breaking up and harrowing the soil?


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When he has leveled the surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cummin? Does he not plant wheat in its place, barley in its plot, and spelt in its field?


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Caraway is not threshed with a sledge, nor is a cartwheel rolled over cummin; caraway is beaten out with a rod, and cummin with a stick.


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Grain must be ground to make bread; so one does not go on threshing it forever. Though he drives the wheels of his threshing cart over it, his horses do not grind it.


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Woe to David’s City Woe to you, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David settled! Add year to year and let your cycle of festivals go on.


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I will encamp against you all around; I will encircle you with towers and set up my siege works against you.


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Brought low, you will speak from the ground; your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will come ghostlike from the earth; out of the dust your speech will whisper.


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But your many enemies will become like fine dust, the ruthless hordes like blown chaff. Suddenly, in an instant,


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the Lord Almighty will come with thunder and earthquake and great noise, with windstorm and tempest and flames of a devouring fire.


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Then the hordes of all the nations that fight against Ariel, that attack her and her fortress and besiege her, will be as it is with a dream, with a vision in the night—


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as when a hungry man dreams that he is eating, but he awakens, and his hunger remains; as when a thirsty man dreams that he is drinking, but he awakens faint, with his thirst unquenched. So will it be with the hordes of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion.


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Be stunned and amazed, blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not from wine, stagger, but not from beer.


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The Lord has brought over you a deep sleep: He has sealed your eyes (the prophets); he has covered your heads (the seers).


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For you this whole vision is nothing but words sealed in a scroll. And if you give the scroll to someone who can read, and say to him, “Read this, please,” he will answer, “I can’t; it is sealed.”


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Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, “Read this, please,” he will answer, “I don’t know how to read.”


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The Lord says: “These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men.


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Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.”


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Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the Lord, who do their work in darkness and think, “Who sees us? Who will know?”


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You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not make me”? Can the pot say of the potter, “He knows nothing”?


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In a very short time, will not Lebanon be turned into a fertile field and the fertile field seem like a forest?


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In that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see.


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The ruthless will vanish, the mockers will disappear, and all who have an eye for evil will be cut down—


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those who with a word make a man out to be guilty, who ensnare the defender in court and with false testimony deprive the innocent of justice.


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Therefore this is what the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, says to the house of Jacob: “No longer will Jacob be ashamed; no longer will their faces grow pale.


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When they see among them their children, the work of my hands, they will keep my name holy; they will acknowledge the holiness of the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.


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Those who are wayward in spirit will gain understanding; those who complain will accept instruction.”


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Woe to the Obstinate Nation “Woe to the obstinate children,” declares the Lord, “to those who carry out plans that are not mine, forming an alliance, but not by my Spirit, heaping sin upon sin;


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who go down to Egypt without consulting me; who look for help to Pharaoh’s protection, to Egypt’s shade for refuge.


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everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them, who bring neither help nor advantage, but only shame and disgrace.”


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An oracle concerning the animals of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lions and lionesses, of adders and darting snakes, the envoys carry their riches on donkeys’ backs, their treasures on the humps of camels, to that unprofitable nation,


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;to Egypt, whose help is utterly useless. Therefore I call her Rahab the Do-Nothing.


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Go now, write it on a tablet for them, inscribe it on a scroll, that for the days to come it may be an everlasting witness.


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These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to listen to the Lord’s instruction.


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They say to the seers, “See no more visions!” and to the prophets, “Give us no more visions of what is right! Tell us pleasant things, prophesy illusions.


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Therefore, this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, relied on oppression and depended on deceit,


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this sin will become for you like a high wall, cracked and bulging, that collapses suddenly, in an instant.


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It will break in pieces like pottery, shattered so mercilessly that among its pieces not a fragment will be found for taking coals from a hearth or scooping water out of a cistern.”


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This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says: “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it.


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You said, ‘No, we will flee on horses.’ Therefore you will flee! You said, ‘We will ride off on swift horses.’ Therefore your pursuers will be swift!


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A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee away, till you are left like a flagstaff on a mountaintop, like a banner on a hill.”


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Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; he rises to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!


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O people of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you.


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Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them.


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Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”


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Then you will defile your idols overlaid with silver and your images covered with gold; you will throw them away like a menstrual cloth and say to them, “Away with you!”


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He will also send you rain for the seed you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the land will be rich and plentiful. In that day your cattle will graze in broad meadows.


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In the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall, streams of water will flow on every high mountain and every lofty hill.


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The moon will shine like the sun, and the sunlight will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven full days, when the Lord binds up the bruises of his people and heals the wounds he inflicted.


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See, the Name of the Lord comes from afar, with burning anger and dense clouds of smoke; his lips are full of wrath, and his tongue is a consuming fire.


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His breath is like a rushing torrent, rising up to the neck. He shakes the nations in the sieve of destruction; he places in the jaws of the peoples a bit that leads them astray.


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And you will sing as on the night you celebrate a holy festival; your hearts will rejoice as when people go up with flutes to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.


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The Lord will cause men to hear his majestic voice and will make them see his arm coming down with raging anger and consuming fire, with cloudburst, thunderstorm and hail.


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Every stroke the Lord lays on them with his punishing rod will be to the music of tambourines and harps, as he fights them in battle with the blows of his arm.


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Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its fire pit has been made deep and wide, with an abundance of fire and wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.


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Woe to Those Who Rely on Egypt Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in the multitude of their chariots and in the great strength of their horsemen, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel, or seek help from the Lord.


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Yet he too is wise and can bring disaster; he does not take back his words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked, against those who help evildoers.


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But the Egyptians are men and not God; their horses are flesh and not spirit. When the Lord stretches out his hand, he who helps will stumble, he who is helped will fall; both will perish together.


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This is what the Lord says to me: “As a lion growls, a great lion over his prey— and though a whole band of shepherds is called together against him, he is not frightened by their shouts or disturbed by their clamor— so the Lord Almighty will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and on its heights.


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Like birds hovering overhead, the Lord Almighty will shield Jerusalem; he will shield it and deliver it, he will ‘pass over’ it and will rescue it.”


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For in that day every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold your sinful hands have made.


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“Assyria will fall by a sword that is not of man; a sword, not of mortals, will devour them. They will flee before the sword and their young men will be put to forced labor.


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Their stronghold will fall because of terror; at sight of the battle standard their commanders will panic,” declares the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, whose furnace is in Jerusalem.


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The Kingdom of Righteousness See, a king will reign in righteousness and rulers will rule with justice.


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Each man will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in the desert and the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land.


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Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen.


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For the fool speaks folly, his mind is busy with evil: He practices ungodliness and spreads error concerning the Lord; the hungry he leaves empty and from the thirsty he withholds water.


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The scoundrel’s methods are wicked, he makes up evil schemes to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.


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The Women of Jerusalem You women who are so complacent, rise up and listen to me; you daughters who feel secure, hear what I have to say!


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In little more than a year you who feel secure will tremble; the grape harvest will fail, and the harvest of fruit will not come.


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Tremble, you complacent women; shudder, you daughters who feel secure! Strip off your clothes, put sackcloth around your waists.


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and for the land of my people, a land overgrown with thorns and briers— yes, mourn for all houses of merriment and for this city of revelry.


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The fortress will be abandoned, the noisy city deserted; citadel and watchtower will become a wasteland forever, the delight of donkeys, a pasture for flocks,


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till the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the desert becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field seems like a forest.


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The fruit of righteousness will be peace; the effect of righteousness will be quietness and confidence forever.


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how blessed you will be, sowing your seed by every stream, and letting your cattle and donkeys range free.


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Distress and Help Woe to you, O destroyer, you who have not been destroyed! Woe to you, O traitor, you who have not been betrayed! When you stop destroying, you will be destroyed; when you stop betraying, you will be betrayed.


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O Lord, be gracious to us; we long for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of distress.


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Your plunder, O nations, is harvested as by young locusts; like a swarm of locusts men pounce on it.


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He will be the sure foundation for your times, a rich store of salvation and wisdom and knowledge; the fear of the Lord is the key to this treasure.


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The highways are deserted, no travelers are on the roads. The treaty is broken, its witnesses are despised, no one is respected.


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The land mourns and wastes away, Lebanon is ashamed and withers; Sharon is like the Arabah, and Bashan and Carmel drop their leaves.


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The sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling grips the godless: “Who of us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting burning?”


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He who walks righteously and speaks what is right, who rejects gain from extortion and keeps his hand from accepting bribes, who stops his ears against plots of murder and shuts his eyes against contemplating evil—


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this is the man who will dwell on the heights, whose refuge will be the mountain fortress. His bread will be supplied, and water will not fail him.


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In your thoughts you will ponder the former terror: “Where is that chief officer? Where is the one who took the revenue? Where is the officer in charge of the towers?”


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You will see those arrogant people no more, those people of an obscure speech, with their strange, incomprehensible tongue.


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Look upon Zion, the city of our festivals; your eyes will see Jerusalem, a peaceful abode, a tent that will not be moved; its stakes will never be pulled up, nor any of its ropes broken.


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There the Lord will be our Mighty One. It will be like a place of broad rivers and streams. No galley with oars will ride them, no mighty ship will sail them.


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For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; it is he who will save us.


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Your rigging hangs loose: The mast is not held secure, the sail is not spread. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided and even the lame will carry off plunder.


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Judgment Against the Nations Come near, you nations, and listen; pay attention, you peoples! Let the earth hear, and all that is in it, the world, and all that comes out of it!


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The Lord is angry with all nations; his wrath is upon all their armies. He will totally destroy them, he will give them over to slaughter.


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Their slain will be thrown out, their dead bodies will send up a stench; the mountains will be soaked with their blood.


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All the stars of the heavens will be dissolved and the sky rolled up like a scroll; all the starry host will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like shriveled figs from the fig tree.


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My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; see, it descends in judgment on Edom, the people I have totally destroyed.


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The sword of the Lord is bathed in blood, it is covered with fat— the blood of lambs and goats, fat from the kidneys of rams. For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah and a great slaughter in Edom.


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And the wild oxen will fall with them, the bull calves and the great bulls. Their land will be drenched with blood, and the dust will be soaked with fat.


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Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch, her dust into burning sulfur; her land will become blazing pitch!


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It will not be quenched night and day; its smoke will rise forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever pass through it again.


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The desert owl and screech owl will possess it; the great owl and the raven will nest there. God will stretch out over Edom the measuring line of chaos and the plumb line of desolation.


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Thorns will overrun her citadels, nettles and brambles her strongholds. She will become a haunt for jackals, a home for owls.


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Desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and wild goats will bleat to each other; there the night creatures will also repose and find for themselves places of rest.


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The owl will nest there and lay eggs, she will hatch them, and care for her young under the shadow of her wings; there also the falcons will gather, each with its mate.


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Look in the scroll of the Lord and read: None of these will be missing, not one will lack her mate. For it is his mouth that has given the order, and his Spirit will gather them together.


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He allots their portions; his hand distributes them by measure. They will possess it forever and dwell there from generation to generation.


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Joy of the Redeemed The desert and the parched land will be glad; the wilderness will rejoice and blossom. Like the crocus,


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it will burst into bloom; it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon; they will see the glory of the Lord, the splendor of our God.


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say to those with fearful hearts, “Be strong, do not fear; your God will come, he will come with vengeance; with divine retribution he will come to save you.”


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Then will the lame leap like a deer, and the mute tongue shout for joy. Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert.


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The burning sand will become a pool, the thirsty ground bubbling springs. In the haunts where jackals once lay, grass and reeds and papyrus will grow.


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And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not journey on it; it will be for those who walk in that Way; wicked fools will not go about on it.


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No lion will be there, nor will any ferocious beast get up on it; they will not be found there. But only the redeemed will walk there,


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and the ransomed of the Lord will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.


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Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.


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Then the king of Assyria sent his field commander with a large army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. When the commander stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Washerman’s Field,


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Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to him.


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The field commander said to them, “Tell Hezekiah, “‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours?


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And if you say to me, “We are depending on the Lord our God”—isn’t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, “You must worship before this altar”?


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How then can you repulse one officer of the least of my master’s officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?


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Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this land without the Lord? The Lord himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.’”


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Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”


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Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!


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until I come and take you to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.


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“Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, ‘The Lord will deliver us.’ Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?


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Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they rescued Samaria from my hand?


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Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went to Hezekiah, with their clothes torn, and told him what the field commander had said.


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He sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.


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It may be that the Lord your God will hear the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule the living God, and that he will rebuke him for the words the Lord your God has heard. Therefore pray for the remnant that still survives.”


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Listen! I am going to put a spirit in him so that when he hears a certain report, he will return to his own country, and there I will have him cut down with the sword.’”


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Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the Cushite king of Egypt, was marching out to fight against him. When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word:


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Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my forefathers deliver them—the gods of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Tel Assar?


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“O Lord Almighty, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.


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Give ear, O Lord, and hear; open your eyes, O Lord, and see; listen to all the words Sennacherib has sent to insult the living God.


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They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands.


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Sennacherib’s Fall Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria,


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this is the word the Lord has spoken against him: “The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises and mocks you. The Daughter of Jerusalem tosses her head as you flee.


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By your messengers you have heaped insults on the Lord. And you have said, ‘With my many chariots I have ascended the heights of the mountains, the utmost heights of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the choicest of its pines. I have reached its remotest heights, the finest of its forests.


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I have dug wells in foreign lands and drunk the water there. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.’


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“Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it. In days of old I planned it; now I have brought it to pass, that you have turned fortified cities into piles of stone.


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Because you rage against me and because your insolence has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will make you return by the way you came.


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Then the angel of the Lord went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!


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“Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life.


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I will make the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.’” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had gone down.


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I said, “In the prime of my life must I go through the gates of death and be robbed of the rest of my years?”


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I said, “I will not again see the Lord, the Lord, in the land of the living; no longer will I look on mankind, or be with those who now dwell in this world.


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Like a shepherd’s tent my house has been pulled down and taken from me. Like a weaver I have rolled up my life, and he has cut me off from the loom; day and night you made an end of me.


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I waited patiently till dawn, but like a lion he broke all my bones; day and night you made an end of me.


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I cried like a swift or thrush, I moaned like a mourning dove. My eyes grew weak as I looked to the heavens. I am troubled; O Lord, come to my aid!”


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But what can I say? He has spoken to me, and he himself has done this. I will walk humbly all my years because of this anguish of my soul.


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Lord, by such things men live; and my spirit finds life in them too. You restored me to health and let me live.


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Surely it was for my benefit that I suffered such anguish. In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction; you have put all my sins behind your back.


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For the grave cannot praise you, death cannot sing your praise; those who go down to the pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.


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The living, the living—they praise you, as I am doing today; fathers tell their children about your faithfulness.


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The Lord will save me, and we will sing with stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the temple of the Lord.


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Envoys From Babylon At that time Merodach-Baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent Hezekiah letters and a gift, because he had heard of his illness and recovery.


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Hezekiah received the envoys gladly and showed them what was in his storehouses—the silver, the gold, the spices, the fine oil, his entire armory and everything found among his treasures. There was nothing in his palace or in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them.


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Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah and asked, “What did those men say, and where did they come from?” “From a distant land,” Hezekiah replied. “They came to me from Babylon.”


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And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”


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“The word of the Lord you have spoken is good,” Hezekiah replied. For he thought, “There will be peace and security in my lifetime.”


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Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.


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A voice of one calling: “In the desert prepare the way for the Lord; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God.


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Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain.


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And the glory of the Lord will be revealed, and all mankind together will see it. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”


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A voice says, “Cry out.” And I said, “What shall I cry?” “All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field.


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The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the Lord blows on them. Surely the people are grass.


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You who bring good tidings to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who bring good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with a shout, lift it up, do not be afraid; say to the towns of Judah, “Here is your God!”


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See, the Sovereign Lord comes with power, and his arm rules for him. See, his reward is with him, and his recompense accompanies him.


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He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young.


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Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance?


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Whom did the Lord consult to enlighten him, and who taught him the right way? Who was it that taught him knowledge or showed him the path of understanding?


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Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales; he weighs the islands as though they were fine dust.


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Before him all the nations are as nothing; they are regarded by him as worthless and less than nothing.


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As for an idol, a craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and fashions silver chains for it.


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A man too poor to present such an offering selects wood that will not rot. He looks for a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple.


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Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the earth was founded?


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He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.


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No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take root in the ground, than he blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.


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Lift your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them each by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.


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Why do you say, O Jacob, and complain, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the Lord; my cause is disregarded by my God”?


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Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.


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but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.


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The Helper of Israel “Be silent before me, you islands! Let the nations renew their strength! Let them come forward and speak; let us meet together at the place of judgment.


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“Who has stirred up one from the east, calling him in righteousness to his service? He hands nations over to him and subdues kings before him. He turns them to dust with his sword, to windblown chaff with his bow.


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Who has done this and carried it through, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord—with the first of them and with the last—I am he.”


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The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and he who smooths with the hammer spurs on him who strikes the anvil. He says of the welding, “It is good.” He nails down the idol so it will not topple.


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I took you from the ends of the earth, from its farthest corners I called you. I said, ‘You are my servant’; I have chosen you and have not rejected you.


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So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.


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“All who rage against you will surely be ashamed and disgraced; those who oppose you will be as nothing and perish.


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Though you search for your enemies, you will not find them. Those who wage war against you will be as nothing at all.


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For I am the Lord, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.


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Do not be afraid, O worm Jacob, O little Israel, for I myself will help you,” declares the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.


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“See, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.


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You will winnow them, the wind will pick them up, and a gale will blow them away. But you will rejoice in the Lord and glory in the Holy One of Israel.


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“The poor and needy search for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. But I the Lord will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.


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I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs.


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I will put in the desert the cedar and the acacia, the myrtle and the olive. I will set pines in the wasteland, the fir and the cypress together,


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so that people may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the Lord has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has created it.


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“Bring in your idols to tell us what is going to happen. Tell us what the former things were, so that we may consider them and know their final outcome. Or declare to us the things to come,


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;tell us what the future holds, so we may know that you are gods. Do something, whether good or bad, so that we will be dismayed and filled with fear.


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But you are less than nothing and your works are utterly worthless; he who chooses you is detestable.


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“I have stirred up one from the north, and he comes— one from the rising sun who calls on my name. He treads on rulers as if they were mortar, as if he were a potter treading the clay.


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Who told of this from the beginning, so we could know, or beforehand, so we could say, ‘He was right’? No one told of this, no one foretold it, no one heard any words from you.


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I was the first to tell Zion, ‘Look, here they are!’ I gave to Jerusalem a messenger of good tidings.


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I look but there is no one— no one among them to give counsel, no one to give answer when I ask them.


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The Servant of the Lord “Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom I delight; I will put my Spirit on him and he will bring justice to the nations.


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A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out. In faithfulness he will bring forth justice;


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;he will not falter or be discouraged till he establishes justice on earth. In his law the islands will put their hope.”


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This is what God the Lord says— he who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and all that comes out of it, who gives breath to its people, and life to those who walk on it:


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“I, the Lord, have called you in righteousness; I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles,


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to open eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness.


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See, the former things have taken place, and new things I declare; before they spring into being I announce them to you.”


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Song of Praise to the Lord Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise from the ends of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, you islands, and all who live in them.


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Let the desert and its towns raise their voices; let the settlements where Kedar lives rejoice. Let the people of Sela sing for joy; let them shout from the mountaintops.


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The Lord will march out like a mighty man, like a warrior he will stir up his zeal; with a shout he will raise the battle cry and will triumph over his enemies.


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“For a long time I have kept silent, I have been quiet and held myself back. But now, like a woman in childbirth, I cry out, I gasp and pant.


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I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation; I will turn rivers into islands and dry up the pools.


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I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.


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But those who trust in idols, who say to images, ‘You are our gods,’ will be turned back in utter shame.


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Who is blind but my servant, and deaf like the messenger I send? Who is blind like the one committed to me, blind like the servant of the Lord?


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But this is a people plundered and looted, all of them trapped in pits or hidden away in prisons. They have become plunder, with no one to rescue them; they have been made loot, with no one to say, “Send them back.”


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Who handed Jacob over to become loot, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned? For they would not follow his ways; they did not obey his law.


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So he poured out on them his burning anger, the violence of war. It enveloped them in flames, yet they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.


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Israel’s Only Savior But now, this is what the Lord says— he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.


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When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.


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For I am the Lord, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I give Egypt for your ransom, Cush and Seba in your stead.


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Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you, and people in exchange for your life.


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Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your children from the east and gather you from the west.


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I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back.’ Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth—


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All the nations gather together and the peoples assemble. Which of them foretold this and proclaimed to us the former things? Let them bring in their witnesses to prove they were right, so that others may hear and say, “It is true.”


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“You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me.


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I have revealed and saved and proclaimed— I, and not some foreign god among you. You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “that I am God.


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Yes, and from ancient days I am he. No one can deliver out of my hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”


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God’s Mercy and Israel’s Unfaithfulness This is what the Lord says— your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “For your sake I will send to Babylon and bring down as fugitives all the Babylonians, in the ships in which they took pride.


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who drew out the chariots and horses, the army and reinforcements together, and they lay there, never to rise again, extinguished, snuffed out like a wick:


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See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.


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The wild animals honor me, the jackals and the owls, because I provide water in the desert and streams in the wasteland, to give drink to my people, my chosen,


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You have not brought me sheep for burnt offerings, nor honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with grain offerings nor wearied you with demands for incense.


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You have not bought any fragrant calamus for me, or lavished on me the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins and wearied me with your offenses.


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“I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.


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So I will disgrace the dignitaries of your temple, and I will consign Jacob to destruction and Israel to scorn.


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This is what the Lord says— he who made you, who formed you in the womb, and who will help you: Do not be afraid, O Jacob, my servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.


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For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants.


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One will say, ‘I belong to the Lord’; another will call himself by the name of Jacob; still another will write on his hand, ‘The Lord’s,’ and will take the name Israel.


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The Lord, Not Idols “This is what the Lord says— Israel’s King and Redeemer, the Lord Almighty: I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God.


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Who then is like me? Let him proclaim it. Let him declare and lay out before me what has happened since I established my ancient people, and what is yet to come— yes, let him foretell what will come.


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Do not tremble, do not be afraid. Did I not proclaim this and foretell it long ago? You are my witnesses. Is there any God besides me? No, there is no other Rock; I know not one.”


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All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Those who would speak up for them are blind; they are ignorant, to their own shame.


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He and his kind will be put to shame; craftsmen are nothing but men. Let them all come together and take their stand; they will be brought down to terror and infamy.


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The blacksmith takes a tool and works with it in the coals; he shapes an idol with hammers, he forges it with the might of his arm. He gets hungry and loses his strength; he drinks no water and grows faint.


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The carpenter measures with a line and makes an outline with a marker; he roughs it out with chisels and marks it with compasses. He shapes it in the form of man, of man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a shrine.


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He cut down cedars, or perhaps took a cypress or oak. He let it grow among the trees of the forest, or planted a pine, and the rain made it grow.


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It is man’s fuel for burning; some of it he takes and warms himself, he kindles a fire and bakes bread. But he also fashions a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it.


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Half of the wood he burns in the fire; over it he prepares his meal, he roasts his meat and eats his fill. He also warms himself and says, “Ah! I am warm; I see the fire.”


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From the rest he makes a god, his idol; he bows down to it and worships. He prays to it and says, “Save me; you are my god.”


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They know nothing, they understand nothing; their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see, and their minds closed so they cannot understand.


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No one stops to think, no one has the knowledge or understanding to say, “Half of it I used for fuel; I even baked bread over its coals, I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make a detestable thing from what is left? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”


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He feeds on ashes, a deluded heart misleads him; he cannot save himself, or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”


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“Remember these things, O Jacob, for you are my servant, O Israel. I have made you, you are my servant; O Israel, I will not forget you.


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I have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.”


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Sing for joy, O heavens, for the Lord has done this; shout aloud, O earth beneath. Burst into song, you mountains, you forests and all your trees, for the Lord has redeemed Jacob, he displays his glory in Israel.


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Jerusalem to Be Inhabited “This is what the Lord says— your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb: I am the Lord, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself,


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who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who overthrows the learning of the wise and turns it into nonsense,


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who carries out the words of his servants and fulfills the predictions of his messengers, who says of Jerusalem, ‘It shall be inhabited,’ of the towns of Judah, ‘They shall be built,’ and of their ruins, ‘I will restore them,’


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who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd and will accomplish all that I please; he will say of Jerusalem, “Let it be rebuilt,” and of the temple, “Let its foundations be laid.”’


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“This is what the Lord says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I take hold of to subdue nations before him and to strip kings of their armor, to open doors before him so that gates will not be shut:


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I will go before you and will level the mountains; I will break down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron.


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I will give you the treasures of darkness, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the Lord, the God of Israel, who summons you by name.


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For the sake of Jacob my servant, of Israel my chosen, I summon you by name and bestow on you a title of honor, though you do not acknowledge me.


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I am the Lord, and there is no other; apart from me there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not acknowledged me,


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so that from the rising of the sun to the place of its setting men may know there is none besides me. I am the Lord, and there is no other.


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I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things.


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“You heavens above, rain down righteousness; let the clouds shower it down. Let the earth open wide, let salvation spring up, let righteousness grow with it; I, the Lord, have created it.


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“Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker, to him who is but a potsherd among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?


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Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What have you begotten?’ or to his mother, ‘What have you brought to birth?’


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“This is what the Lord says— the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: Concerning things to come, do you question me about my children, or give me orders about the work of my hands?


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It is I who made the earth and created mankind upon it. My own hands stretched out the heavens; I marshaled their starry hosts.


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I will raise up Cyrus in my righteousness: I will make all his ways straight. He will rebuild my city and set my exiles free, but not for a price or reward, says the Lord Almighty.”


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This is what the Lord says: “The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, and those tall Sabeans— they will come over to you and will be yours; they will trudge behind you, coming over to you in chains. They will bow down before you and plead with you, saying, ‘Surely God is with you, and there is no other; there is no other god.’”


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All the makers of idols will be put to shame and disgraced; they will go off into disgrace together.


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But Israel will be saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation; you will never be put to shame or disgraced, to ages everlasting.


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For this is what the Lord says— he who created the heavens, he is God; he who fashioned and made the earth, he founded it; he did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited— he says: “I am the Lord, and there is no other.


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I have not spoken in secret, from somewhere in a land of darkness; I have not said to Jacob’s descendants, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, the Lord, speak the truth; I declare what is right.


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“Gather together and come; assemble, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry about idols of wood, who pray to gods that cannot save.


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Declare what is to be, present it— let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago, who declared it from the distant past? Was it not I, the Lord? And there is no God apart from me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none but me.


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By myself I have sworn, my mouth has uttered in all integrity a word that will not be revoked: Before me every knee will bow; by me every tongue will swear.


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They will say of me, ‘In the Lord alone are righteousness and strength.’” All who have raged against him will come to him and be put to shame.


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Gods of Babylon Bel bows down, Nebo stoops low; their idols are borne by beasts of burden. The images that are carried about are burdensome, a burden for the weary.


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They stoop and bow down together; unable to rescue the burden, they themselves go off into captivity.


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“Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all you who remain of the house of Israel, you whom I have upheld since you were conceived, and have carried since your birth.


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Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.


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Some pour out gold from their bags and weigh out silver on the scales; they hire a goldsmith to make it into a god, and they bow down and worship it.


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They lift it to their shoulders and carry it; they set it up in its place, and there it stands. From that spot it cannot move. Though one cries out to it, it does not answer; it cannot save him from his troubles.


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Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me.


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I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.


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From the east I summon a bird of prey; from a far-off land, a man to fulfill my purpose. What I have said, that will I bring about; what I have planned, that will I do.


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I am bringing my righteousness near, it is not far away; and my salvation will not be delayed. I will grant salvation to Zion, my splendor to Israel.


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The Fall of Babylon “Go down, sit in the dust, Virgin Daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, Daughter of the Babylonians. No more will you be called tender or delicate.


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Take millstones and grind flour; take off your veil. Lift up your skirts, bare your legs, and wade through the streams.


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Your nakedness will be exposed and your shame uncovered. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.”


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“Sit in silence, go into darkness, Daughter of the Babylonians; no more will you be called queen of kingdoms.


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I was angry with my people and desecrated my inheritance; I gave them into your hand, and you showed them no mercy. Even on the aged you laid a very heavy yoke.


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You said, ‘I will continue forever— the eternal queen!’ But you did not consider these things or reflect on what might happen.


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“Now then, listen, you wanton creature, lounging in your security and saying to yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or suffer the loss of children.’


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Both of these will overtake you in a moment, on a single day: loss of children and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and all your potent spells.


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You have trusted in your wickedness and have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you when you say to yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’


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Disaster will come upon you, and you will not know how to conjure it away. A calamity will fall upon you that you cannot ward off with a ransom; a catastrophe you cannot foresee will suddenly come upon you.


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“Keep on, then, with your magic spells and with your many sorceries, which you have labored at since childhood. Perhaps you will succeed, perhaps you will cause terror.


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All the counsel you have received has only worn you out! Let your astrologers come forward, those stargazers who make predictions month by month, let them save you from what is coming upon you.


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Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot even save themselves from the power of the flame. Here are no coals to warm anyone; here is no fire to sit by.


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That is all they can do for you— these you have labored with and trafficked with since childhood. Each of them goes on in his error; there is not one that can save you.


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Stubborn Israel “Listen to this, O house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel and come from the line of Judah, you who take oaths in the name of the Lord and invoke the God of Israel— but not in truth or righteousness—


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you who call yourselves citizens of the holy city and rely on the God of Israel— the Lord Almighty is his name:


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I foretold the former things long ago, my mouth announced them and I made them known; then suddenly I acted, and they came to pass.


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Therefore I told you these things long ago; before they happened I announced them to you so that you could not say, ‘My idols did them; my wooden image and metal god ordained them.’


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You have heard these things; look at them all. Will you not admit them? “From now on I will tell you of new things, of hidden things unknown to you.


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They are created now, and not long ago; you have not heard of them before today. So you cannot say, ‘Yes, I knew of them.’


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You have neither heard nor understood; from of old your ear has not been open. Well do I know how treacherous you are; you were called a rebel from birth.


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For my own name’s sake I delay my wrath; for the sake of my praise I hold it back from you, so as not to cut you off.


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For my own sake, for my own sake, I do this. How can I let myself be defamed? I will not yield my glory to another.


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Israel Freed “Listen to me, O Jacob, Israel, whom I have called: I am he; I am the first and I am the last.


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My own hand laid the foundations of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I summon them, they all stand up together.


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“Come together, all of you, and listen: Which of the idols has foretold these things? The Lord’s chosen ally will carry out his purpose against Babylon; his arm will be against the Babylonians.


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I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have called him. I will bring him, and he will succeed in his mission.


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“Come near me and listen to this: “From the first announcement I have not spoken in secret; at the time it happens, I am there.” And now the Sovereign Lord has sent me, with his Spirit.


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This is what the Lord says— your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go.


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If only you had paid attention to my commands, your peace would have been like a river, your righteousness like the waves of the sea.


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Your descendants would have been like the sand, your children like its numberless grains; their name would never be cut off nor destroyed from before me.”


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Leave Babylon, flee from the Babylonians! Announce this with shouts of joy and proclaim it. Send it out to the ends of the earth; say, “The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob.”


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They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts; he made water flow for them from the rock; he split the rock and water gushed out.


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The Servant of the Lord Listen to me, you islands; hear this, you distant nations: Before I was born the Lord called me; from my birth he has made mention of my name.


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He made my mouth like a sharpened sword, in the shadow of his hand he hid me; he made me into a polished arrow and concealed me in his quiver.


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But I said, “I have labored to no purpose; I have spent my strength in vain and for nothing. Yet what is due me is in the Lord’s hand, and my reward is with my God.”


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And now the Lord says— he who formed me in the womb to be his servant to bring Jacob back to him and gather Israel to himself, for I am honored in the eyes of the Lord and my God has been my strength—


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he says: “It is too small a thing for you to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept. I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring my salvation to the ends of the earth.”


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This is what the Lord says— the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel— to him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the servant of rulers: “Kings will see you and rise up, princes will see and bow down, because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”


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Restoration of Israel This is what the Lord says: “In the time of my favor I will answer you, and in the day of salvation I will help you; I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land and to reassign its desolate inheritances,


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to say to the captives, ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Be free!’ “They will feed beside the roads and find pasture on every barren hill.


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They will neither hunger nor thirst, nor will the desert heat or the sun beat upon them. He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.


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See, they will come from afar— some from the north, some from the west, some from the region of Aswan.”


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Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; burst into song, O mountains! For the Lord comforts his people and will have compassion on his afflicted ones.


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“Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!


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Lift up your eyes and look around; all your sons gather and come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the Lord, “you will wear them all as ornaments; you will put them on, like a bride.


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“Though you were ruined and made desolate and your land laid waste, now you will be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.


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The children born during your bereavement will yet say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; give us more space to live in.’


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Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who bore me these? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. Who brought these up? I was left all alone, but these—where have they come from?’”


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This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “See, I will beckon to the Gentiles, I will lift up my banner to the peoples; they will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their shoulders.


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Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down before you with their faces to the ground; they will lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who hope in me will not be disappointed.”


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But this is what the Lord says: “Yes, captives will be taken from warriors, and plunder retrieved from the fierce; I will contend with those who contend with you, and your children I will save.


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I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the Lord, am your Savior, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”


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Israel’s Sin and the Servant’s Obedience This is what the Lord says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Because of your sins you were sold; because of your transgressions your mother was sent away.


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When I came, why was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Was my arm too short to ransom you? Do I lack the strength to rescue you? By a mere rebuke I dry up the sea, I turn rivers into a desert; their fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.


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The Sovereign Lord has given me an instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being taught.


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I offered my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard; I did not hide my face from mocking and spitting.


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Because the Sovereign Lord helps me, I will not be disgraced. Therefore have I set my face like flint, and I know I will not be put to shame.


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He who vindicates me is near. Who then will bring charges against me? Let us face each other! Who is my accuser? Let him confront me!


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It is the Sovereign Lord who helps me. Who is he that will condemn me? They will all wear out like a garment; the moths will eat them up.


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Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the word of his servant? Let him who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God.


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But now, all you who light fires and provide yourselves with flaming torches, go, walk in the light of your fires and of the torches you have set ablaze. This is what you shall receive from my hand: You will lie down in torment.


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Everlasting Salvation for Zion “Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek the Lord: Look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn;


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look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth. When I called him he was but one, and I blessed him and made him many.


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The Lord will surely comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; he will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of singing.


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“Listen to me, my people; hear me, my nation: The law will go out from me; my justice will become a light to the nations.


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My righteousness draws near speedily, my salvation is on the way, and my arm will bring justice to the nations. The islands will look to me and wait in hope for my arm.


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Lift up your eyes to the heavens, look at the earth beneath; the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment and its inhabitants die like flies. But my salvation will last forever, my righteousness will never fail.


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“Hear me, you who know what is right, you people who have my law in your hearts: Do not fear the reproach of men or be terrified by their insults.


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For the moth will eat them up like a garment; the worm will devour them like wool. But my righteousness will last forever, my salvation through all generations.”


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Awake, awake! Clothe yourself with strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in days gone by, as in generations of old. Was it not you who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced that monster through?


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Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea so that the redeemed might cross over?


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The ransomed of the Lord will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.


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“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you that you fear mortal men, the sons of men, who are but grass,


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that you forget the Lord your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, that you live in constant terror every day because of the wrath of the oppressor, who is bent on destruction? For where is the wrath of the oppressor?


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The cowering prisoners will soon be set free; they will not die in their dungeon, nor will they lack bread.


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For I am the Lord your God, who churns up the sea so that its waves roar— the Lord Almighty is his name.


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I have put my words in your mouth and covered you with the shadow of my hand— I who set the heavens in place, who laid the foundations of the earth, and who say to Zion, ‘You are my people.’”


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The Cup of the Lord’s Wrath Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath, you who have drained to its dregs the goblet that makes men stagger.


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Of all the sons she bore there was none to guide her; of all the sons she reared there was none to take her by the hand.


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These double calamities have come upon you— who can comfort you?— ruin and destruction, famine and sword— who can console you?


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Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street, like antelope caught in a net. They are filled with the wrath of the Lord and the rebuke of your God.


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This is what your Sovereign Lord says, your God, who defends his people: “See, I have taken out of your hand the cup that made you stagger; from that cup, the goblet of my wrath, you will never drink again.


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I will put it into the hands of your tormentors, who said to you, ‘Fall prostrate that we may walk over you.’ And you made your back like the ground, like a street to be walked over.”


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Awake, awake, O Zion, clothe yourself with strength. Put on your garments of splendor, O Jerusalem, the holy city. The uncircumcised and defiled will not enter you again.


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Shake off your dust; rise up, sit enthroned, O Jerusalem. Free yourself from the chains on your neck, O captive Daughter of Zion.


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For this is what the Lord says: “You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.”


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For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “At first my people went down to Egypt to live; lately, Assyria has oppressed them.


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“And now what do I have here?” declares the Lord. “For my people have been taken away for nothing, and those who rule them mock,” declares the Lord. “And all day long my name is constantly blasphemed.


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Therefore my people will know my name; therefore in that day they will know that it is I who foretold it. Yes, it is I.”


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How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”


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Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices; together they shout for joy. When the Lord returns to Zion, they will see it with their own eyes.


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Burst into songs of joy together, you ruins of Jerusalem, for the Lord has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.


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The Lord will lay bare his holy arm in the sight of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.


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Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing! Come out from it and be pure, you who carry the vessels of the Lord.


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But you will not leave in haste or go in flight; for the Lord will go before you, the God of Israel will be your rear guard.


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The Suffering and Glory of the Servant See, my servant will act wisely; he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted.


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Just as there were many who were appalled at him— his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any man and his form marred beyond human likeness—


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so will he sprinkle many nations, and kings will shut their mouths because of him. For what they were not told, they will see, and what they have not heard, they will understand.


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He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.


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He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.


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Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted.


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But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.


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We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.


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He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.


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By oppression and judgment he was taken away. And who can speak of his descendants? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was stricken.


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He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.


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Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes his life a guilt offering, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.


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After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light of life and be satisfied; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.


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Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.


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The Future Glory of Zion “Sing, O barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the Lord.


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“Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes.


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For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your descendants will dispossess nations and settle in their desolate cities.


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“Do not be afraid; you will not suffer shame. Do not fear disgrace; you will not be humiliated. You will forget the shame of your youth and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.


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For your Maker is your husband— the Lord Almighty is his name— the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of all the earth.


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The Lord will call you back as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit— a wife who married young, only to be rejected,” says your God.


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In a surge of anger I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the Lord your Redeemer.


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“To me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So now I have sworn not to be angry with you, never to rebuke you again.


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Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.


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“O afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted, I will build you with stones of turquoise, your foundations with sapphires.


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I will make your battlements of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones.


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In righteousness you will be established: Tyranny will be far from you; you will have nothing to fear. Terror will be far removed; it will not come near you.


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“See, it is I who created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its work. And it is I who have created the destroyer to work havoc;


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;no weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this is their vindication from me,” declares the Lord.


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Invitation to the Thirsty “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.


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Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.


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Give ear and come to me; hear me, that your soul may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David.


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Surely you will summon nations you know not, and nations that do not know you will hasten to you, because of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has endowed you with splendor.”


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Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.


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“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.


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As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,


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so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.


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You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.


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Instead of the thornbush will grow the pine tree, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow. This will be for the Lord’s renown, for an everlasting sign, which will not be destroyed.”


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Salvation for Others This is what the Lord says: “Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is close at hand and my righteousness will soon be revealed.


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Blessed is the man who does this, the man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”


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Let no foreigner who has bound himself to the Lord say, “The Lord will surely exclude me from his people.” And let not any eunuch complain, “I am only a dry tree.”


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For this is what the Lord says: “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose what pleases me and hold fast to my covenant—


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to them I will give within my temple and its walls a memorial and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.


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And foreigners who bind themselves to the Lord to serve him, to love the name of the Lord, and to worship him, all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold fast to my covenant—


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these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.”


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The Sovereign Lord declares— he who gathers the exiles of Israel: “I will gather still others to them besides those already gathered.”


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God’s Accusation Against the Wicked Come, all you beasts of the field, come and devour, all you beasts of the forest!


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Israel’s watchmen are blind, they all lack knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they lie around and dream, they love to sleep.


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They are dogs with mighty appetites; they never have enough. They are shepherds who lack understanding; they all turn to their own way, each seeks his own gain.


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“Come,” each one cries, “let me get wine! Let us drink our fill of beer! And tomorrow will be like today, or even far better.”


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The righteous perish, and no one ponders it in his heart; devout men are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil.


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Whom are you mocking? At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue? Are you not a brood of rebels, the offspring of liars?


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You burn with lust among the oaks and under every spreading tree; you sacrifice your children in the ravines and under the overhanging crags.


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The idols among the smooth stones of the ravines are your portion; they, they are your lot. Yes, to them you have poured out drink offerings and offered grain offerings. In the light of these things, should I relent?


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Behind your doors and your doorposts you have put your pagan symbols. Forsaking me, you uncovered your bed, you climbed into it and opened it wide; you made a pact with those whose beds you love, and you looked on their nakedness.


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You went to Molech with olive oil and increased your perfumes. You sent your ambassadors far away; you descended to the grave itself!


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You were wearied by all your ways, but you would not say, ‘It is hopeless.’ You found renewal of your strength, and so you did not faint.


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“Whom have you so dreaded and feared that you have been false to me, and have neither remembered me nor pondered this in your hearts? Is it not because I have long been silent that you do not fear me?


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When you cry out for help, let your collection of idols save you! The wind will carry all of them off, a mere breath will blow them away. But the man who makes me his refuge will inherit the land and possess my holy mountain.”


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Comfort for the Contrite And it will be said: “Build up, build up, prepare the road! Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people.”


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For this is what the high and lofty One says— he who lives forever, whose name is holy: “I live in a high and holy place, but also with him who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.


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I will not accuse forever, nor will I always be angry, for then the spirit of man would grow faint before me— the breath of man that I have created.


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I was enraged by his sinful greed; I punished him, and hid my face in anger, yet he kept on in his willful ways.


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;creating praise on the lips of the mourners in Israel. Peace, peace, to those far and near,” says the Lord. “And I will heal them.”


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True Fasting “Shout it aloud, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet. Declare to my people their rebellion and to the house of Jacob their sins.


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For day after day they seek me out; they seem eager to know my ways, as if they were a nation that does what is right and has not forsaken the commands of its God. They ask me for just decisions and seem eager for God to come near them.


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‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you have not seen it? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you have not noticed?’ “Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit all your workers.


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Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife, and in striking each other with wicked fists. You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high.


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Is this the kind of fast I have chosen, only a day for a man to humble himself? Is it only for bowing one’s head like a reed and for lying on sackcloth and ashes? Is that what you call a fast, a day acceptable to the Lord?


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“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?


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Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter— when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?


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Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.


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Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I. “If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk,


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and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.


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The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.


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Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins and will raise up the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls, Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.


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“If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the Lord’s holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words,


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then you will find your joy in the Lord, and I will cause you to ride on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob.” The mouth of the Lord has spoken.


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Sin, Confession and Redemption Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear.


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But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.


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For your hands are stained with blood, your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters wicked things.


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No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case with integrity. They rely on empty arguments and speak lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to evil.


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They hatch the eggs of vipers and spin a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die, and when one is broken, an adder is hatched.


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Their cobwebs are useless for clothing; they cannot cover themselves with what they make. Their deeds are evil deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands.


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Their feet rush into sin; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are evil thoughts; ruin and destruction mark their ways.


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The way of peace they do not know; there is no justice in their paths. They have turned them into crooked roads; no one who walks in them will know peace.


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So justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We look for light, but all is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows.


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Like the blind we grope along the wall, feeling our way like men without eyes. At midday we stumble as if it were twilight; among the strong, we are like the dead.


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We all growl like bears; we moan mournfully like doves. We look for justice, but find none; for deliverance, but it is far away.


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For our offenses are many in your sight, and our sins testify against us. Our offenses are ever with us, and we acknowledge our iniquities:


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rebellion and treachery against the Lord, turning our backs on our God, fomenting oppression and revolt, uttering lies our hearts have conceived.


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So justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance; truth has stumbled in the streets, honesty cannot enter.


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Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey. The Lord looked and was displeased that there was no justice.


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He saw that there was no one, he was appalled that there was no one to intervene; so his own arm worked salvation for him, and his own righteousness sustained him.


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He put on righteousness as his breastplate, and the helmet of salvation on his head; he put on the garments of vengeance and wrapped himself in zeal as in a cloak.


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According to what they have done, so will he repay wrath to his enemies and retribution to his foes; he will repay the islands their due.


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From the west, men will fear the name of the Lord, and from the rising of the sun, they will revere his glory. For he will come like a pent-up flood that the breath of the Lord drives along.


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“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the Lord. “My Spirit, who is on you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth, or from the mouths of your children, or from the mouths of their descendants from this time on and forever,” says the Lord.


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See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord rises upon you and his glory appears over you.


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“Lift up your eyes and look about you: All assemble and come to you; your sons come from afar, and your daughters are carried on the arm.


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Then you will look and be radiant, your heart will throb and swell with joy; the wealth on the seas will be brought to you, to you the riches of the nations will come.


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Herds of camels will cover your land, young camels of Midian and Ephah. And all from Sheba will come, bearing gold and incense and proclaiming the praise of the Lord.


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All Kedar’s flocks will be gathered to you, the rams of Nebaioth will serve you; they will be accepted as offerings on my altar, and I will adorn my glorious temple.


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Surely the islands look to me; in the lead are the ships of Tarshish, bringing your sons from afar, with their silver and gold, to the honor of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has endowed you with splendor.


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“Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you. Though in anger I struck you, in favor I will show you compassion.


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Your gates will always stand open, they will never be shut, day or night, so that men may bring you the wealth of the nations— their kings led in triumphal procession.


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“The glory of Lebanon will come to you, the pine, the fir and the cypress together, to adorn the place of my sanctuary; and I will glorify the place of my feet.


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The sons of your oppressors will come bowing before you; all who despise you will bow down at your feet and will call you the City of the Lord, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.


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“Although you have been forsaken and hated, with no one traveling through, I will make you the everlasting pride and the joy of all generations.


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You will drink the milk of nations and be nursed at royal breasts. Then you will know that I, the Lord, am your Savior, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.


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Instead of bronze I will bring you gold, and silver in place of iron. Instead of wood I will bring you bronze, and iron in place of stones. I will make peace your governor and righteousness your ruler.


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No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders, but you will call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.


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The sun will no more be your light by day, nor will the brightness of the moon shine on you, for the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.


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Your sun will never set again, and your moon will wane no more; the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your days of sorrow will end.


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Then will all your people be righteous and they will possess the land forever. They are the shoot I have planted, the work of my hands, for the display of my splendor.


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The least of you will become a thousand, the smallest a mighty nation. I am the Lord; in its time I will do this swiftly.”


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The Year of the Lord’s Favor The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners,


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to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and provide for those who grieve in Zion— to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor.


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They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations.


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And you will be called priests of the Lord, you will be named ministers of our God. You will feed on the wealth of nations, and in their riches you will boast.


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Instead of their shame my people will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace they will rejoice in their inheritance; and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be theirs.


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“For I, the Lord, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity. In my faithfulness I will reward them and make an everlasting covenant with them.


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Their descendants will be known among the nations and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge that they are a people the Lord has blessed.”


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I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.


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For as the soil makes the sprout come up and a garden causes seeds to grow, so the Sovereign Lord will make righteousness and praise spring up before all nations.


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Zion’s New Name For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, for Jerusalem’s sake I will not remain quiet, till her righteousness shines out like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch.


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The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory; you will be called by a new name that the mouth of the Lord will bestow.


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No longer will they call you Deserted, or name your land Desolate. But you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the Lord will take delight in you, and your land will be married.


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As a young man marries a maiden, so will your sons marry you; as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you.


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I have posted watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the Lord, give yourselves no rest,


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The Lord has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain as food for your enemies, and never again will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled;


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but those who harvest it will eat it and praise the Lord, and those who gather the grapes will drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.”


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Pass through, pass through the gates! Prepare the way for the people. Build up, build up the highway! Remove the stones. Raise a banner for the nations.


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The Lord has made proclamation to the ends of the earth: “Say to the Daughter of Zion, ‘See, your Savior comes! See, his reward is with him, and his recompense accompanies him.’”


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They will be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of the Lord; and you will be called Sought After, the City No Longer Deserted.


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God’s Day of Vengeance and Redemption Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah, with his garments stained crimson? Who is this, robed in splendor, striding forward in the greatness of his strength? “It is I, speaking in righteousness, mighty to save.”


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“I have trodden the winepress alone; from the nations no one was with me. I trampled them in my anger and trod them down in my wrath; their blood spattered my garments, and I stained all my clothing.


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I looked, but there was no one to help, I was appalled that no one gave support; so my own arm worked salvation for me, and my own wrath sustained me.


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I trampled the nations in my anger; in my wrath I made them drunk and poured their blood on the ground.”


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Praise and Prayer I will tell of the kindnesses of the Lord, the deeds for which he is to be praised, according to all the Lord has done for us— yes, the many good things he has done for the house of Israel, according to his compassion and many kindnesses.


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He said, “Surely they are my people, sons who will not be false to me”; and so he became their Savior.


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In all their distress he too was distressed, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and mercy he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.


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Yet they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. So he turned and became their enemy and he himself fought against them.


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Then his people recalled the days of old, the days of Moses and his people— where is he who brought them through the sea, with the shepherd of his flock? Where is he who set his Holy Spirit among them,


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who sent his glorious arm of power to be at Moses’ right hand, who divided the waters before them, to gain for himself everlasting renown,


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like cattle that go down to the plain, they were given rest by the Spirit of the Lord. This is how you guided your people to make for yourself a glorious name.


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Look down from heaven and see from your lofty throne, holy and glorious. Where are your zeal and your might? Your tenderness and compassion are withheld from us.


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But you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us or Israel acknowledge us; you, O Lord, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name.


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Why, O Lord, do you make us wander from your ways and harden our hearts so we do not revere you? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes that are your inheritance.


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For a little while your people possessed your holy place, but now our enemies have trampled down your sanctuary.


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As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil, come down to make your name known to your enemies and cause the nations to quake before you!


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For when you did awesome things that we did not expect, you came down, and the mountains trembled before you.


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Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.


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You come to the help of those who gladly do right, who remember your ways. But when we continued to sin against them, you were angry. How then can we be saved?


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All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away.


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No one calls on your name or strives to lay hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us and made us waste away because of our sins.


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Yet, O Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.


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Do not be angry beyond measure, O Lord; do not remember our sins forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray, for we are all your people.


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Our holy and glorious temple, where our fathers praised you, has been burned with fire, and all that we treasured lies in ruins.


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After all this, O Lord, will you hold yourself back? Will you keep silent and punish us beyond measure?


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Judgment and Salvation “I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me; I was found by those who did not seek me. To a nation that did not call on my name, I said, ‘Here am I, here am I.’


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All day long I have held out my hands to an obstinate people, who walk in ways not good, pursuing their own imaginations—


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a people who continually provoke me to my very face, offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on altars of brick;


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who sit among the graves and spend their nights keeping secret vigil; who eat the flesh of pigs, and whose pots hold broth of unclean meat;


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who say, ‘Keep away; don’t come near me, for I am too sacred for you!’ Such people are smoke in my nostrils, a fire that keeps burning all day.


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“See, it stands written before me: I will not keep silent but will pay back in full; I will pay it back into their laps—


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both your sins and the sins of your fathers,” says the Lord. “Because they burned sacrifices on the mountains and defied me on the hills, I will measure into their laps the full payment for their former deeds.”


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This is what the Lord says: “As when juice is still found in a cluster of grapes and men say, ‘Don’t destroy it, there is yet some good in it,’ so will I do in behalf of my servants; I will not destroy them all.


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I will bring forth descendants from Jacob, and from Judah those who will possess my mountains; my chosen people will inherit them, and there will my servants live.


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Sharon will become a pasture for flocks, and the Valley of Achor a resting place for herds, for my people who seek me.


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“But as for you who forsake the Lord and forget my holy mountain, who spread a table for Fortune and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,


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I will destine you for the sword, and you will all bend down for the slaughter; for I called but you did not answer, I spoke but you did not listen. You did evil in my sight and chose what displeases me.”


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Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “My servants will eat, but you will go hungry; my servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; my servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.


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My servants will sing out of the joy of their hearts, but you will cry out from anguish of heart and wail in brokenness of spirit.


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You will leave your name to my chosen ones as a curse; the Sovereign Lord will put you to death, but to his servants he will give another name.


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Whoever invokes a blessing in the land will do so by the God of truth; he who takes an oath in the land will swear by the God of truth. For the past troubles will be forgotten and hidden from my eyes.


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New Heavens and a New Earth “Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.


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But be glad and rejoice forever in what I will create, for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight and its people a joy.


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I will rejoice over Jerusalem and take delight in my people; the sound of weeping and of crying will be heard in it no more.


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“Never again will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his years; he who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere youth; he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.


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No longer will they build houses and others live in them, or plant and others eat. For as the days of a tree, so will be the days of my people; my chosen ones will long enjoy the works of their hands.


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They will not toil in vain or bear children doomed to misfortune; for they will be a people blessed by the Lord, they and their descendants with them.


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The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but dust will be the serpent’s food. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain,” says the Lord.


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Judgment and Hope This is what the Lord says: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be?


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Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being?” declares the Lord. “This is the one I esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at my word.


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But whoever sacrifices a bull is like one who kills a man, and whoever offers a lamb, like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever makes a grain offering is like one who presents pig’s blood, and whoever burns memorial incense, like one who worships an idol. They have chosen their own ways, and their souls delight in their abominations;


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so I also will choose harsh treatment for them and will bring upon them what they dread. For when I called, no one answered, when I spoke, no one listened. They did evil in my sight and chose what displeases me.”


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Hear the word of the Lord, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you, and exclude you because of my name, have said, ‘Let the Lord be glorified, that we may see your joy!’ Yet they will be put to shame.


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Hear that uproar from the city, hear that noise from the temple! It is the sound of the Lord repaying his enemies all they deserve.


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Who has ever heard of such a thing? Who has ever seen such things? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a moment? Yet no sooner is Zion in labor than she gives birth to her children.


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Do I bring to the moment of birth and not give delivery?” says the Lord. “Do I close up the womb when I bring to delivery?” says your God.


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“Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her, all you who love her; rejoice greatly with her, all you who mourn over her.


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For you will nurse and be satisfied at her comforting breasts; you will drink deeply and delight in her overflowing abundance.”


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For this is what the Lord says: “I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm and dandled on her knees.


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When you see this, your heart will rejoice and you will flourish like grass; the hand of the Lord will be made known to his servants, but his fury will be shown to his foes.


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See, the Lord is coming with fire, and his chariots are like a whirlwind; he will bring down his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.


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For with fire and with his sword the Lord will execute judgment upon all men, and many will be those slain by the Lord.


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“Those who consecrate and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following the one in the midst of those who eat the flesh of pigs and rats and other abominable things—they will meet their end together,” declares the Lord.


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“And I, because of their actions and their imaginations, am about to come and gather all nations and tongues, and they will come and see my glory.


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“I will set a sign among them, and I will send some of those who survive to the nations—to Tarshish, to the Libyans and Lydians (famous as archers), to Tubal and Greece, and to the distant islands that have not heard of my fame or seen my glory. They will proclaim my glory among the nations.


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And they will bring all your brothers, from all the nations, to my holy mountain in Jerusalem as an offering to the Lord—on horses, in chariots and wagons, and on mules and camels,” says the Lord. “They will bring them, as the Israelites bring their grain offerings, to the temple of the Lord in ceremonially clean vessels.


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“As the new heavens and the new earth that I make will endure before me,” declares the Lord, “so will your name and descendants endure.


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From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come and bow down before me,” says the Lord.


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“And they will go out and look upon the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”


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The word of the Lord came to him in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah,


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and through the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, down to the fifth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, when the people of Jerusalem went into exile.


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“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”


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But the Lord said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am only a child.’ You must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you.


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Then the Lord reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, “Now, I have put my words in your mouth.


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See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.”


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The word of the Lord came to me: “What do you see, Jeremiah?” “I see the branch of an almond tree,” I replied.


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The word of the Lord came to me again: “What do you see?” “I see a boiling pot, tilting away from the north,” I answered.


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I am about to summon all the peoples of the northern kingdoms,” declares the Lord. “Their kings will come and set up their thrones in the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem; they will come against all her surrounding walls and against all the towns of Judah.


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I will pronounce my judgments on my people because of their wickedness in forsaking me, in burning incense to other gods and in worshiping what their hands have made.


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“Get yourself ready! Stand up and say to them whatever I command you. Do not be terrified by them, or I will terrify you before them.


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Today I have made you a fortified city, an iron pillar and a bronze wall to stand against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests and the people of the land.


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They will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you and will rescue you,” declares the Lord.


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“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: “‘I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the desert, through a land not sown.


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Israel was holy to the Lord, the firstfruits of his harvest; all who devoured her were held guilty, and disaster overtook them,’” declares the Lord.


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This is what the Lord says: “What fault did your fathers find in me, that they strayed so far from me? They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves.


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They did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of Egypt and led us through the barren wilderness, through a land of deserts and rifts, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’


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I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and rich produce. But you came and defiled my land and made my inheritance detestable.


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The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord?’ Those who deal with the law did not know me; the leaders rebelled against me. The prophets prophesied by Baal, following worthless idols.


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“Therefore I bring charges against you again,” declares the Lord. “And I will bring charges against your children’s children.


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Cross over to the coasts of Kittim and look, send to Kedar and observe closely; see if there has ever been anything like this:


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Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But my people have exchanged their Glory for worthless idols.


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“My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.


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Lions have roared; they have growled at him. They have laid waste his land; his towns are burned and deserted.


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Now why go to Egypt to drink water from the Shihor? And why go to Assyria to drink water from the River?


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Your wickedness will punish you; your backsliding will rebuke you. Consider then and realize how evil and bitter it is for you when you forsake the Lord your God and have no awe of me,” declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.


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“Long ago you broke off your yoke and tore off your bonds; you said, ‘I will not serve you!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every spreading tree you lay down as a prostitute.


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I had planted you like a choice vine of sound and reliable stock. How then did you turn against me into a corrupt, wild vine?


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Although you wash yourself with soda and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me,” declares the Sovereign Lord.


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“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? See how you behaved in the valley; consider what you have done. You are a swift she-camel running here and there,


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a wild donkey accustomed to the desert, sniffing the wind in her craving— in her heat who can restrain her? Any males that pursue her need not tire themselves; at mating time they will find her.


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Do not run until your feet are bare and your throat is dry. But you said, ‘It’s no use! I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’


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“As a thief is disgraced when he is caught, so the house of Israel is disgraced— they, their kings and their officials, their priests and their prophets.


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They say to wood, ‘You are my father,’ and to stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ They have turned their backs to me and not their faces; yet when they are in trouble, they say, ‘Come and save us!’


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Where then are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them come if they can save you when you are in trouble! For you have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah.


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“In vain I punished your people; they did not respond to correction. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.


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“You of this generation, consider the word of the Lord: “Have I been a desert to Israel or a land of great darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to you no more’?


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Does a maiden forget her jewelry, a bride her wedding ornaments? Yet my people have forgotten me, days without number.


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On your clothes men find the lifeblood of the innocent poor, though you did not catch them breaking in. Yet in spite of all this


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;you say, ‘I am innocent; he is not angry with me.’ But I will pass judgment on you because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’


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Why do you go about so much, changing your ways? You will be disappointed by Egypt as you were by Assyria.


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You will also leave that place with your hands on your head, for the Lord has rejected those you trust; you will not be helped by them.


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“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, should he return to her again? Would not the land be completely defiled? But you have lived as a prostitute with many lovers— would you now return to me?” declares the Lord.


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“Look up to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been ravished? By the roadside you sat waiting for lovers, sat like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.


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Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to blush with shame.


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will you always be angry? Will your wrath continue forever?’ This is how you talk, but you do all the evil you can.”


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Unfaithful Israel During the reign of King Josiah, the Lord said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has committed adultery there.


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I thought that after she had done all this she would return to me but she did not, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.


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I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and committed adultery.


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Because Israel’s immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.


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In spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the Lord.


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Go, proclaim this message toward the north: “‘Return, faithless Israel,’ declares the Lord, ‘I will frown on you no longer, for I am merciful,’ declares the Lord, ‘I will not be angry forever.


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Only acknowledge your guilt— you have rebelled against the Lord your God, you have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every spreading tree, and have not obeyed me,’” declares the Lord.


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“Return, faithless people,” declares the Lord, “for I am your husband. I will choose you—one from a town and two from a clan—and bring you to Zion.


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Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will lead you with knowledge and understanding.


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In those days, when your numbers have increased greatly in the land,” declares the Lord, “men will no longer say, ‘The ark of the covenant of the Lord.’ It will never enter their minds or be remembered; it will not be missed, nor will another one be made.


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At that time they will call Jerusalem The Throne of the Lord, and all nations will gather in Jerusalem to honor the name of the Lord. No longer will they follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts.


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In those days the house of Judah will join the house of Israel, and together they will come from a northern land to the land I gave your forefathers as an inheritance.


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“I myself said, “‘How gladly would I treat you like sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of any nation.’ I thought you would call me ‘Father’ and not turn away from following me.


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But like a woman unfaithful to her husband, so you have been unfaithful to me, O house of Israel,” declares the Lord.


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A cry is heard on the barren heights, the weeping and pleading of the people of Israel, because they have perverted their ways and have forgotten the Lord their God.


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“Return, faithless people; I will cure you of backsliding.” “Yes, we will come to you, for you are the Lord our God.


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Surely the idolatrous commotion on the hills and mountains is a deception; surely in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.


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From our youth shameful gods have consumed the fruits of our fathers’ labor— their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.


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Let us lie down in our shame, and let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the Lord our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth till this day we have not obeyed the Lord our God.”


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“If you will return, O Israel, return to me,” declares the Lord. “If you put your detestable idols out of my sight and no longer go astray,


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and if in a truthful, just and righteous way you swear, ‘As surely as the Lord lives,’ then the nations will be blessed by him and in him they will glory.”


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This is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground and do not sow among thorns.


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Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, circumcise your hearts, you men of Judah and people of Jerusalem, or my wrath will break out and burn like fire because of the evil you have done— burn with no one to quench it.


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Disaster From the North “Announce in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem and say: ‘Sound the trumpet throughout the land!’ Cry aloud and say: ‘Gather together! Let us flee to the fortified cities!’


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Raise the signal to go to Zion! Flee for safety without delay! For I am bringing disaster from the north, even terrible destruction.”


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A lion has come out of his lair; a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his place to lay waste your land. Your towns will lie in ruins without inhabitant.


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“In that day,” declares the Lord, “the king and the officials will lose heart, the priests will be horrified, and the prophets will be appalled.”


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Then I said, “Ah, Sovereign Lord, how completely you have deceived this people and Jerusalem by saying, ‘You will have peace,’ when the sword is at our throats.”


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At that time this people and Jerusalem will be told, “A scorching wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward my people, but not to winnow or cleanse;


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Look! He advances like the clouds, his chariots come like a whirlwind, his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! We are ruined!


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“Tell this to the nations, proclaim it to Jerusalem: ‘A besieging army is coming from a distant land, raising a war cry against the cities of Judah.


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They surround her like men guarding a field, because she has rebelled against me,’” declares the Lord.


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“Your own conduct and actions have brought this upon you. This is your punishment. How bitter it is! How it pierces to the heart!”


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Oh, my anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain. Oh, the agony of my heart! My heart pounds within me, I cannot keep silent. For I have heard the sound of the trumpet; I have heard the battle cry.


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Disaster follows disaster; the whole land lies in ruins. In an instant my tents are destroyed, my shelter in a moment.


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“My people are fools; they do not know me. They are senseless children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil; they know not how to do good.”


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I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert; all its towns lay in ruins before the Lord, before his fierce anger.


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This is what the Lord says: “The whole land will be ruined, though I will not destroy it completely.


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Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above grow dark, because I have spoken and will not relent, I have decided and will not turn back.”


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At the sound of horsemen and archers every town takes to flight. Some go into the thickets; some climb up among the rocks. All the towns are deserted; no one lives in them.


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What are you doing, O devastated one? Why dress yourself in scarlet and put on jewels of gold? Why shade your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain. Your lovers despise you; they seek your life.


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I hear a cry as of a woman in labor, a groan as of one bearing her first child— the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands and saying, “Alas! I am fainting; my life is given over to murderers.”


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Not One Is Upright “Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem, look around and consider, search through her squares. If you can find but one person who deals honestly and seeks the truth, I will forgive this city.


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O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain; you crushed them, but they refused correction. They made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.


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I thought, “These are only the poor; they are foolish, for they do not know the way of the Lord, the requirements of their God.


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So I will go to the leaders and speak to them; surely they know the way of the Lord, the requirements of their God.” But with one accord they too had broken off the yoke and torn off the bonds.


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Therefore a lion from the forest will attack them, a wolf from the desert will ravage them, a leopard will lie in wait near their towns to tear to pieces any who venture out, for their rebellion is great and their backslidings many.


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“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I supplied all their needs, yet they committed adultery and thronged to the houses of prostitutes.


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Should I not punish them for this?” declares the Lord. “Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?


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“Go through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not destroy them completely. Strip off her branches, for these people do not belong to the Lord.


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They have lied about the Lord; they said, “He will do nothing! No harm will come to us; we will never see sword or famine.


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Therefore this is what the Lord God Almighty says: “Because the people have spoken these words, I will make my words in your mouth a fire and these people the wood it consumes.


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O house of Israel,” declares the Lord, “I am bringing a distant nation against you— an ancient and enduring nation, a people whose language you do not know, whose speech you do not understand.


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They will devour your harvests and food, devour your sons and daughters; they will devour your flocks and herds, devour your vines and fig trees. With the sword they will destroy the fortified cities in which you trust.


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And when the people ask, ‘Why has the Lord our God done all this to us?’ you will tell them, ‘As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your own land, so now you will serve foreigners in a land not your own.’


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Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear:


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Should you not fear me?” declares the Lord. “Should you not tremble in my presence? I made the sand a boundary for the sea, an everlasting barrier it cannot cross. The waves may roll, but they cannot prevail; they may roar, but they cannot cross it.


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They do not say to themselves, ‘Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives autumn and spring rains in season, who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest.’


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“Among my people are wicked men who lie in wait like men who snare birds and like those who set traps to catch men.


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and have grown fat and sleek. Their evil deeds have no limit; they do not plead the case of the fatherless to win it, they do not defend the rights of the poor.


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The prophets prophesy lies, the priests rule by their own authority, and my people love it this way. But what will you do in the end?


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Jerusalem Under Siege “Flee for safety, people of Benjamin! Flee from Jerusalem! Sound the trumpet in Tekoa! Raise the signal over Beth Hakkerem! For disaster looms out of the north, even terrible destruction.


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Shepherds with their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents around her, each tending his own portion.”


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“Prepare for battle against her! Arise, let us attack at noon! But, alas, the daylight is fading, and the shadows of evening grow long.


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This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Cut down the trees and build siege ramps against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; it is filled with oppression.


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As a well pours out its water, so she pours out her wickedness. Violence and destruction resound in her; her sickness and wounds are ever before me.


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Take warning, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you and make your land desolate so no one can live in it.”


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This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Let them glean the remnant of Israel as thoroughly as a vine; pass your hand over the branches again, like one gathering grapes.”


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To whom can I speak and give warning? Who will listen to me? Their ears are closed so they cannot hear. The word of the Lord is offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.


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But I am full of the wrath of the Lord, and I cannot hold it in. “Pour it out on the children in the street and on the young men gathered together; both husband and wife will be caught in it, and the old, those weighed down with years.


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Their houses will be turned over to others, together with their fields and their wives, when I stretch out my hand against those who live in the land,” declares the Lord.


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“From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.


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They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. ‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when there is no peace.


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Are they ashamed of their loathsome conduct? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; they will be brought down when I punish them,” says the Lord.


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This is what the Lord says: “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.’


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I appointed watchmen over you and said, ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’ But you said, ‘We will not listen.’


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Hear, O earth: I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their schemes, because they have not listened to my words and have rejected my law.


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What do I care about incense from Sheba or sweet calamus from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; your sacrifices do not please me.”


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Therefore this is what the Lord says: “I will put obstacles before this people. Fathers and sons alike will stumble over them; neighbors and friends will perish.”


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This is what the Lord says: “Look, an army is coming from the land of the north; a great nation is being stirred up from the ends of the earth.


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They are armed with bow and spear; they are cruel and show no mercy. They sound like the roaring sea as they ride on their horses; they come like men in battle formation to attack you, O Daughter of Zion.”


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We have heard reports about them, and our hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped us, pain like that of a woman in labor.


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Do not go out to the fields or walk on the roads, for the enemy has a sword, and there is terror on every side.


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O my people, put on sackcloth and roll in ashes; mourn with bitter wailing as for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.


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“I have made you a tester of metals and my people the ore, that you may observe and test their ways.


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They are all hardened rebels, going about to slander. They are bronze and iron; they all act corruptly.


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The bellows blow fiercely to burn away the lead with fire, but the refining goes on in vain; the wicked are not purged out.


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“Stand at the gate of the Lord’s house and there proclaim this message: “‘Hear the word of the Lord, all you people of Judah who come through these gates to worship the Lord.


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This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Reform your ways and your actions, and I will let you live in this place.


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Do not trust in deceptive words and say, “This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord!”


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if you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm,


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“‘Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known,


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and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my Name, and say, “We are safe”—safe to do all these detestable things?


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Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the Lord.


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“‘Go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for my Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel.


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While you were doing all these things, declares the Lord, I spoke to you again and again, but you did not listen; I called you, but you did not answer.


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Therefore, what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears my Name, the temple you trust in, the place I gave to you and your fathers.


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“So do not pray for this people nor offer any plea or petition for them; do not plead with me, for I will not listen to you.


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The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough and make cakes of bread for the Queen of Heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke me to anger.


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But am I the one they are provoking? declares the Lord. Are they not rather harming themselves, to their own shame?


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“‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: My anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground, and it will burn and not be quenched.


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“‘This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Go ahead, add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves!


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For when I brought your forefathers out of Egypt and spoke to them, I did not just give them commands about burnt offerings and sacrifices,


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but I gave them this command: Obey me, and I will be your God and you will be my people. Walk in all the ways I command you, that it may go well with you.


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But they did not listen or pay attention; instead, they followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.


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From the time your forefathers left Egypt until now, day after day, again and again I sent you my servants the prophets.


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But they did not listen to me or pay attention. They were stiff-necked and did more evil than their forefathers.’


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“When you tell them all this, they will not listen to you; when you call to them, they will not answer.


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Therefore say to them, ‘This is the nation that has not obeyed the Lord its God or responded to correction. Truth has perished; it has vanished from their lips.


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Cut off your hair and throw it away; take up a lament on the barren heights, for the Lord has rejected and abandoned this generation that is under his wrath.


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The Valley of Slaughter “‘The people of Judah have done evil in my eyes, declares the Lord. They have set up their detestable idols in the house that bears my Name and have defiled it.


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They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I did not command, nor did it enter my mind.


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So beware, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when people will no longer call it Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter, for they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.


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Then the carcasses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.


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I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride and bridegroom in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, for the land will become desolate.


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“‘At that time, declares the Lord, the bones of the kings and officials of Judah, the bones of the priests and prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves.


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They will be exposed to the sun and the moon and all the stars of the heavens, which they have loved and served and which they have followed and consulted and worshiped. They will not be gathered up or buried, but will be like refuse lying on the ground.


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Wherever I banish them, all the survivors of this evil nation will prefer death to life, declares the Lord Almighty.’


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Sin and Punishment “Say to them, ‘This is what the Lord says: “‘When men fall down, do they not get up? When a man turns away, does he not return?


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Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.


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I have listened attentively, but they do not say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Each pursues his own course like a horse charging into battle.


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Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons, and the dove, the swift and the thrush observe the time of their migration. But my people do not know the requirements of the Lord.


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“‘How can you say, “We are wise, for we have the law of the Lord,” when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely?


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The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the Lord, what kind of wisdom do they have?


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Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.


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They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. “Peace, peace,” they say, when there is no peace.


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Are they ashamed of their loathsome conduct? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; they will be brought down when they are punished, says the Lord.


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“‘I will take away their harvest, declares the Lord. There will be no grapes on the vine. There will be no figs on the tree, and their leaves will wither. What I have given them will be taken from them.’”


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“Why are we sitting here? Gather together! Let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there! For the Lord our God has doomed us to perish and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against him.


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The snorting of the enemy’s horses is heard from Dan; at the neighing of their stallions the whole land trembles. They have come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who live there.”


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“See, I will send venomous snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the Lord.


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Listen to the cry of my people from a land far away: “Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked me to anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?”


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Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is there no healing for the wound of my people?


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Oh, that my head were a spring of water and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night for the slain of my people.


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Oh, that I had in the desert a lodging place for travelers, so that I might leave my people and go away from them; for they are all adulterers, a crowd of unfaithful people.


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“They make ready their tongue like a bow, to shoot lies; it is not by truth that they triumph in the land. They go from one sin to another; they do not acknowledge me,” declares the Lord.


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“Beware of your friends; do not trust your brothers. For every brother is a deceiver, and every friend a slanderer.


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Friend deceives friend, and no one speaks the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they weary themselves with sinning.


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You live in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me,” declares the Lord.


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Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty says: “See, I will refine and test them, for what else can I do because of the sin of my people?


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Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks with deceit. With his mouth each speaks cordially to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.


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Should I not punish them for this?” declares the Lord. “Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?”


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I will weep and wail for the mountains and take up a lament concerning the desert pastures. They are desolate and untraveled, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. The birds of the air have fled and the animals are gone.


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“I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals; and I will lay waste the towns of Judah so no one can live there.”


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What man is wise enough to understand this? Who has been instructed by the Lord and can explain it? Why has the land been ruined and laid waste like a desert that no one can cross?


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The Lord said, “It is because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them; they have not obeyed me or followed my law.


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Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts; they have followed the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”


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Therefore, this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “See, I will make this people eat bitter food and drink poisoned water.


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I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will pursue them with the sword until I have destroyed them.”


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This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Consider now! Call for the wailing women to come; send for the most skillful of them.


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Let them come quickly and wail over us till our eyes overflow with tears and water streams from our eyelids.


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The sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How ruined we are! How great is our shame! We must leave our land because our houses are in ruins.’”


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Now, O women, hear the word of the Lord; open your ears to the words of his mouth. Teach your daughters how to wail; teach one another a lament.


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Death has climbed in through our windows and has entered our fortresses; it has cut off the children from the streets and the young men from the public squares.


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Say, “This is what the Lord declares: “‘The dead bodies of men will lie like refuse on the open field, like cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather them.’”


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This is what the Lord says: “Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches,


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but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight,” declares the Lord.


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“The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh—


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Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab and all who live in the desert in distant places. For all these nations are really uncircumcised, and even the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.”


