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Your holy people possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.

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We have become as they over whom you never bear rule, as those who were not called by your name.

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Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence,

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as when fire kindles the brushwood, [and] the fire causes the waters to boil; to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!

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When you did awesome things which we didn’t look for, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.

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For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.

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You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time; and shall we be saved?

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For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

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There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

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But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.

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Don’t be furious, Yahweh, neither remember iniquity forever: see, look, we beg you, we are all your people.

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Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

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Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.

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Will you refrain yourself for these things, Yahweh? Will you hold your peace, and afflict us very severely?

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“I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask; I am found by those who didn’t seek me: I said, See me, see me, to a nation that was not called by my name.

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I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

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a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;

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who sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; who eat pig’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

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who say, Stand by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all the day.

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“Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, yes, I will recompense into their bosom,

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your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together,” says Yahweh, “who have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills; therefore will I first measure their work into their bosom.”

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Thus says Yahweh, “As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for a blessing is in it:’ so will I do for my servants’ sake, that I may not destroy them all.

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I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains; and my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.

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Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people who have sought me.

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“But you who forsake Yahweh, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny;

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I will destine you to the sword, and you shall all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not hear; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”

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Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be disappointed;

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behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for anguish of spirit.

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You shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you; and he will call his servants by another name:

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so that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hidden from my eyes.

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“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

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But be you glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

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I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people; and there shall be heard in her no more the voice of weeping and the voice of crying.

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“There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child shall die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.

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They shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

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They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

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They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity; for they are the seed of the blessed of Yahweh, and their offspring with them.

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It shall happen that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

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The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent’s food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,” says Yahweh.

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Thus says Yahweh, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what kind of house will you build to me? and what place shall be my rest?

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For all these things has my hand made, and [so] all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

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He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog’s neck; he who offers an offering, [as he who offers] pig’s blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:

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I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”

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Hear the word of Yahweh, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed.

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A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of Yahweh that renders recompense to his enemies.

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“Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she delivered a son.

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Who has heard such a thing? who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? shall a nation be brought forth at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.

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Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth?” says Yahweh: “shall I who cause to bring forth shut [the womb]?” says your God.

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“Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her: rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her;

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that you may nurse and be satisfied at the comforting breasts; that you may drink deeply, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.”

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For thus says Yahweh, “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream: and you will nurse. You will be carried on her side, and will be dandled on her knees.

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As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.”

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You will see [it], and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like the tender grass: and the hand of Yahweh shall be known toward his servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies.

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For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

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For by fire will Yahweh execute judgment, and by his sword, on all flesh; and the slain of Yahweh shall be many.

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“Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves [to go] to the gardens, behind one in the midst, eating pig’s flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, they shall come to an end together,” says Yahweh.

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“For I [know] their works and their thoughts: [the time] comes, that I will gather all nations and languages; and they shall come, and shall see my glory.

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“I will set a sign among them, and I will send such as escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the islands afar off, who have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.

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They shall bring all your brothers out of all the nations for an offering to Yahweh, on horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and on mules, and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says Yahweh, as the children of Israel bring their offering in a clean vessel into the house of Yahweh.

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Of them also will I take for priests [and] for Levites,” says Yahweh.

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“For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me,” says Yahweh, “so your seed and your name shall remain.

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It shall happen, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me,” says Yahweh.

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“They shall go forth, and look on the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”

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The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:

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to whom the word of Yahweh came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

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It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.

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Now the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

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“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came forth out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

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Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, I don’t know how to speak; for I am a child.”

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But Yahweh said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I am a child;’ for to whoever I shall send you, you shall go, and whatever I shall command you, you shall speak.

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Don’t be afraid because of them; for I am with you to deliver you,” says Yahweh.

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Then Yahweh put forth his hand, and touched my mouth; and Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.

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Behold, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”

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Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” I said, “I see a branch of an almond tree.”

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Then Yahweh said to me, “You have seen well; for I watch over my word to perform it.”

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The word of Yahweh came to me the second time, saying, “What do you see?” I said, “I see a boiling caldron; and it is tipping away from the north.”

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Then Yahweh said to me, “Out of the north evil will break out on all the inhabitants of the land.

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For, behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north,” says Yahweh; “and they shall come, and they shall each set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its walls all around, and against all the cities of Judah.

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I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.

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“You therefore put your belt on your waist, arise, and speak to them all that I command you. Don’t be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.

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For, behold, I have made you this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and bronze walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

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They will fight against you; but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you,” says Yahweh, “to deliver you.”

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The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

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“Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

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Israel [was] holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him shall be held guilty. Evil shall come on them,”‘ says Yahweh.”

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Hear the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel!

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Thus says Yahweh, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

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Neither did they say, ‘Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man lived?’

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I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.

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The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

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“Therefore I will yet contend with you,” says Yahweh, “and I will contend with your children’s children.

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For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there has been such a thing.

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Has a nation changed [its] gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

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“Be astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid. Be very desolate,” says Yahweh.

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“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

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Is Israel a servant? Is he a native-born [slave]? Why has he become a prey?

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The young lions have roared at him, and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

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The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.

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“Haven’t you procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?

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Now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?