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Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach.

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For the Lord will not cast off forever.

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For though he cause grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

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For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.

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To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

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To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

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To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.

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Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?

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Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

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Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

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Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.

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Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

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We have transgressed and have rebelled; you have not pardoned.

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You have covered with anger and pursued us; you have killed, you have not pitied.

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You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

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You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

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All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

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Fear and the pit are come on us, devastation and destruction.

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My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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My eye pours down, and doesn’t cease, without any intermission,

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Until Yahweh look down, and see from heaven.

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My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

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They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

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They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.

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Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.

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I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.

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You heard my voice; don’t hide your ear at my breathing, at my cry.

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You drew near in the day that I called on you; you said, Don’t be afraid.

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Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.

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Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.

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You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.

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You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their devices against me,

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The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

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You see their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.

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You will render to them a recompense, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands.

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You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.

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You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.

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How is the gold become dim! [how] is the most pure gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.

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The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

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Even the jackals draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: The daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

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The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to them.

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Those who did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

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For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were laid on her.

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Her nobles were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk; They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was as of sapphire.

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Their appearance is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin clings to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

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Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.

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The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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Yahweh has accomplished his wrath, he has poured out his fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured its foundations.

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The kings of the earth didn’t believe, neither all the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.

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[It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.

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They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men can’t touch their garments.

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Depart! they cried to them, Unclean! depart, depart, don’t touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall no more live [here].

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The anger of Yahweh has scattered them; he will no more regard them: They didn’t respect the persons of the priests, they didn’t favor the elders.

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Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

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They hunt our steps, so that we can’t go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

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Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

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The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.

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Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land of Uz: The cup shall pass through to you also; you shall be drunken, and shall make yourself naked.

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The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of Zion; he will no more carry you away into captivity: He will visit your iniquity, daughter of Edom; he will uncover your sins.

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Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.

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Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.

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We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

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We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.

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Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

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We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

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Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities.

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Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

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We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

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Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

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They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

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Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.

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The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.

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The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.

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The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.

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The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.

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For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;

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For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on it.

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You, Yahweh, remain forever; Your throne is from generation to generation.

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Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long time?

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Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we shall be turned. Renew our days as of old.

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But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us.

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Now it happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

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In the fifth [day] of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,

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the word of Yahweh came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of Yahweh was there on him.

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I looked, and behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a brightness around it, and out of its midst as it were glowing metal, out of the midst of the fire.

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Out of its midst came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.

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Everyone had four faces, and each one of them had four wings.

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Their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot; and they sparkled like burnished brass.

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They had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and the four of them had their faces and their wings [thus]:

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their wings were joined one to another; they didn’t turn when they went; each one went straight forward.

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As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man; and the four of them had the face of a lion on the right side; and the four of them had the face of an ox on the left side; the four of them also had the face of an eagle.

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Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above. Two wings of each one touched another, and two covered their bodies.

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Each one went straight forward: where the spirit was to go, they went; they didn’t turn when they went.

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As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches: [the fire] went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.

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The living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.

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Now as I saw the living creatures, behold, one wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four faces of it.

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The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl: and the four of them had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.

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When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn’t turn when they went.

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As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and the four of them had their rims full of eyes all around.

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When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.