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nkjv@Isaiah:1:1 @ The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:2 @ Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth! For the LORD has spoken: "I have nourished and brought up children, And they have rebelled against Me;

nkjv@Isaiah:1:3 @ The ox knows its owner And the donkey its master's crib; But Israel does not know, My people do not consider."

nkjv@Isaiah:1:4 @ Alas, sinful nation, A people laden with iniquity, A brood of evildoers, Children who are corrupters! They have forsaken the LORD, They have provoked to anger The Holy One of Israel, They have turned away backward.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:5 @ Why should you be stricken again? You will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faints.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:6 @ From the sole of the foot even to the head, There is no soundness in it, But wounds and bruises and putrefying sores; They have not been closed or bound up, Or soothed with ointment.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:8 @ So the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, As a hut in a garden of cucumbers, As a besieged city.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:9 @ Unless the LORD of hosts Had left to us a very small remnant, We would have become like Sodom, We would have been made like Gomorrah.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:10 @ Hear the word of the LORD, You rulers of Sodom; Give ear to the law of our God, You people of Gomorrah:

nkjv@Isaiah:1:11 @ "To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me?" Says the LORD. "I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams And the fat of fed cattle. I do not delight in the blood of bulls, Or of lambs or goats.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:13 @ Bring no more futile sacrifices; Incense is an abomination to Me. The New Moons, the Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies-- I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:14 @ Your New Moons and your appointed feasts My soul hates; They are a trouble to Me, I am weary of bearing them.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:16 @ "Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil,

nkjv@Isaiah:1:17 @ Learn to do good; Seek justice, Rebuke the oppressor; Defend the fatherless, Plead for the widow.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:18 @ "Come now, and let us reason together," Says the LORD, "Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:19 @ If you are willing and obedient, You shall eat the good of the land;

nkjv@Isaiah:1:20 @ But if you refuse and rebel, You shall be devoured by the sword"; For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:21 @ How the faithful city has become a harlot! It was full of justice; Righteousness lodged in it, But now murderers.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:23 @ Your princes are rebellious, And companions of thieves; Everyone loves bribes, And follows after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, Nor does the cause of the widow come before them.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:24 @ Therefore the Lord says, The LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, "Ah, I will rid Myself of My adversaries, And take vengeance on My enemies.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:26 @ I will restore your judges as at the first, And your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city."

nkjv@Isaiah:1:28 @ The destruction of transgressors and of sinners shall be together, And those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:29 @ For they shall be ashamed of the terebinth trees Which you have desired; And you shall be embarrassed because of the gardens Which you have chosen.

nkjv@Isaiah:1:31 @ The strong shall be as tinder, And the work of it as a spark; Both will burn together, And no one shall quench them.

nkjv@Isaiah:2:1 @ The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

nkjv@Isaiah:2:2 @ Now it shall come to pass in the latter days That the mountain of the LORD's house Shall be established on the top of the mountains, And shall be exalted above the hills; And all nations shall flow to it.

nkjv@Isaiah:2:3 @ Many people shall come and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, And we shall walk in His paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law, And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

nkjv@Isaiah:2:4 @ He shall judge between the nations, And rebuke many people; They shall beat their swords into plowshares, And their spears into pruning hooks; Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, Neither shall they learn war anymore.

nkjv@Isaiah:2:5 @ O house of Jacob, come and let us walk In the light of the LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:2:6 @ For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with eastern ways; They are soothsayers like the Philistines, And they are pleased with the children of foreigners.

nkjv@Isaiah:2:7 @ Their land is also full of silver and gold, And there is no end to their treasures; Their land is also full of horses, And there is no end to their chariots.

nkjv@Isaiah:2:8 @ Their land is also full of idols; They worship the work of their own hands, That which their own fingers have made.

nkjv@Isaiah:2:9 @ People bow down, And each man humbles himself; Therefore do not forgive them.

nkjv@Isaiah:2:10 @ Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, From the terror of the LORD And the glory of His majesty.

nkjv@Isaiah:2:11 @ The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, The haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, And the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

nkjv@Isaiah:2:12 @ For the day of the LORD of hosts Shall come upon everything proud and lofty, Upon everything lifted up-- And it shall be brought low--

nkjv@Isaiah:2:13 @ Upon all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up, And upon all the oaks of Bashan;

nkjv@Isaiah:2:14 @ Upon all the high mountains, And upon all the hills that are lifted up;

nkjv@Isaiah:2:16 @ Upon all the ships of Tarshish, And upon all the beautiful sloops.

nkjv@Isaiah:2:17 @ The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; The LORD alone will be exalted in that day,

nkjv@Isaiah:2:18 @ But the idols He shall utterly abolish.

nkjv@Isaiah:2:19 @ They shall go into the holes of the rocks, And into the caves of the earth, From the terror of the LORD And the glory of His majesty, When He arises to shake the earth mightily.

nkjv@Isaiah:2:20 @ In that day a man will cast away his idols of silver And his idols of gold, Which they made, each for himself to worship, To the moles and bats,

nkjv@Isaiah:2:21 @ To go into the clefts of the rocks, And into the crags of the rugged rocks, From the terror of the LORD And the glory of His majesty, When He arises to shake the earth mightily.

nkjv@Isaiah:3:1 @ For behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, Takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah The stock and the store, The whole supply of bread and the whole supply of water;

nkjv@Isaiah:3:2 @ The mighty man and the man of war, The judge and the prophet, And the diviner and the elder;

nkjv@Isaiah:3:3 @ The captain of fifty and the honorable man, The counselor and the skillful artisan, And the expert enchanter.

nkjv@Isaiah:3:4 @ "I will give children to be their princes, And babes shall rule over them.

nkjv@Isaiah:3:5 @ The people will be oppressed, Every one by another and every one by his neighbor; The child will be insolent toward the elder, And the base toward the honorable."

nkjv@Isaiah:3:6 @ When a man takes hold of his brother In the house of his father, saying, "You have clothing; You be our ruler, And let these ruins be under your power,"

nkjv@Isaiah:3:7 @ In that day he will protest, saying, "I cannot cure your ills, For in my house is neither food nor clothing; Do not make me a ruler of the people."

nkjv@Isaiah:3:8 @ For Jerusalem stumbled, And Judah is fallen, Because their tongue and their doings Are against the LORD, To provoke the eyes of His glory.

nkjv@Isaiah:3:9 @ The look on their countenance witnesses against them, And they declare their sin as Sodom; They do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought evil upon themselves.

nkjv@Isaiah:3:10 @ "Say to the righteous that it shall be well with them, For they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

nkjv@Isaiah:3:11 @ Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, For the reward of his hands shall be given him.

nkjv@Isaiah:3:12 @ As for My people, children are their oppressors, And women rule over them. O My people! Those who lead you cause you to err, And destroy the way of your paths."

nkjv@Isaiah:3:13 @ The LORD stands up to plead, And stands to judge the people.

nkjv@Isaiah:3:14 @ The LORD will enter into judgment With the elders of His people And His princes: "For you have eaten up the vineyard; The plunder of the poor is in your houses.

nkjv@Isaiah:3:15 @ What do you mean by crushing My people And grinding the faces of the poor?" Says the Lord GOD of hosts.

nkjv@Isaiah:3:16 @ Moreover the LORD says: "Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, And walk with outstretched necks And wanton eyes, Walking and mincing as they go, Making a jingling with their feet,

nkjv@Isaiah:3:17 @ Therefore the Lord will strike with a scab The crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, And the LORD will uncover their secret parts."

nkjv@Isaiah:3:18 @ In that day the Lord will take away the finery: The jingling anklets, the scarves, and the crescents;

nkjv@Isaiah:3:19 @ The pendants, the bracelets, and the veils;

nkjv@Isaiah:3:20 @ The headdresses, the leg ornaments, and the headbands; The perfume boxes, the charms, The nose jewels, The outer garments, the purses, The fine linen, the turbans, and the robes.

nkjv@Isaiah:3:21 @ and the rings; The nose jewels,

nkjv@Isaiah:3:22 @ the festal apparel, and the mantles; The outer garments, the purses,

nkjv@Isaiah:3:23 @ and the mirrors; The fine linen, the turbans, and the robes.

nkjv@Isaiah:3:24 @ And so it shall be: Instead of a sweet smell there will be a stench; Instead of a sash, a rope; Instead of well-set hair, baldness; Instead of a rich robe, a girding of sackcloth; And branding instead of beauty. and the rings; The nose jewels,

nkjv@Isaiah:3:25 @ Your men shall fall by the sword, And your mighty in the war.

nkjv@Isaiah:3:26 @ Her gates shall lament and mourn, And she being desolate shall sit on the ground.

nkjv@Isaiah:4:2 @ In that day the Branch of the LORD shall be beautiful and glorious; And the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and appealing For those of Israel who have escaped.

nkjv@Isaiah:4:3 @ And it shall come to pass that he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy--everyone who is recorded among the living in Jerusalem.

nkjv@Isaiah:4:4 @ When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and purged the blood of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning,

nkjv@Isaiah:4:5 @ then the LORD will create above every dwelling place of Mount Zion, and above her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a covering.

nkjv@Isaiah:4:6 @ And there will be a tabernacle for shade in the daytime from the heat, for a place of refuge, and for a shelter from storm and rain.

nkjv@Isaiah:5:2 @ He dug it up and cleared out its stones, And planted it with the choicest vine. He built a tower in its midst, And also made a winepress in it; So He expected it to bring forth good grapes, But it brought forth wild grapes.

nkjv@Isaiah:5:4 @ What more could have been done to My vineyard That I have not done in it? Why then, when I expected it to bring forth good grapes, Did it bring forth wild grapes?

nkjv@Isaiah:5:6 @ I will lay it waste; It shall not be pruned or dug, But there shall come up briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds That they rain no rain on it."

nkjv@Isaiah:5:7 @ For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, And the men of Judah are His pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression; For righteousness, but behold, a cry for help.

nkjv@Isaiah:5:8 @ Woe to those who join house to house; They add field to field, Till there is no place Where they may dwell alone in the midst of the land!

nkjv@Isaiah:5:9 @ In my hearing the LORD of hosts said, "Truly, many houses shall be desolate, Great and beautiful ones, without inhabitant.

nkjv@Isaiah:5:11 @ Woe to those who rise early in the morning, That they may follow intoxicating drink; Who continue until night, till wine inflames them!

nkjv@Isaiah:5:12 @ The harp and the strings, The tambourine and flute, And wine are in their feasts; But they do not regard the work of the LORD, Nor consider the operation of His hands.

nkjv@Isaiah:5:13 @ Therefore my people have gone into captivity, Because they have no knowledge; Their honorable men are famished, And their multitude dried up with thirst.

nkjv@Isaiah:5:14 @ Therefore Sheol has enlarged itself And opened its mouth beyond measure; Their glory and their multitude and their pomp, And he who is jubilant, shall descend into it.

nkjv@Isaiah:5:15 @ People shall be brought down, Each man shall be humbled, And the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled.

nkjv@Isaiah:5:16 @ But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, And God who is holy shall be hallowed in righteousness.

nkjv@Isaiah:5:17 @ Then the lambs shall feed in their pasture, And in the waste places of the fat ones strangers shall eat.

nkjv@Isaiah:5:19 @ That say, "Let Him make speed and hasten His work, That we may see it; And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, That we may know it."

nkjv@Isaiah:5:21 @ Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, And prudent in their own sight!

nkjv@Isaiah:5:23 @ Who justify the wicked for a bribe, And take away justice from the righteous man!

nkjv@Isaiah:5:24 @ Therefore, as the fire devours the stubble, And the flame consumes the chaff, So their root will be as rottenness, And their blossom will ascend like dust; Because they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts, And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

nkjv@Isaiah:5:25 @ Therefore the anger of the LORD is aroused against His people; He has stretched out His hand against them And stricken them, And the hills trembled. Their carcasses were as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this His anger is not turned away, But His hand is stretched out still.

nkjv@Isaiah:5:26 @ He will lift up a banner to the nations from afar, And will whistle to them from the end of the earth; Surely they shall come with speed, swiftly.

nkjv@Isaiah:5:27 @ No one will be weary or stumble among them, No one will slumber or sleep; Nor will the belt on their loins be loosed, Nor the strap of their sandals be broken;

nkjv@Isaiah:5:28 @ Whose arrows are sharp, And all their bows bent; Their horses' hooves will seem like flint, And their wheels like a whirlwind.

nkjv@Isaiah:5:29 @ Their roaring will be like a lion, They will roar like young lions; Yes, they will roar And lay hold of the prey; They will carry it away safely, And no one will deliver.

nkjv@Isaiah:5:30 @ In that day they will roar against them Like the roaring of the sea. And if one looks to the land, Behold, darkness and sorrow; And the light is darkened by the clouds.

nkjv@Isaiah:6:1 @ In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple.

nkjv@Isaiah:6:3 @ And one cried to another and said: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory!"

nkjv@Isaiah:6:4 @ And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke.

nkjv@Isaiah:6:5 @ So I said: "Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, The LORD of hosts."

nkjv@Isaiah:6:6 @ Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from the altar.

nkjv@Isaiah:6:8 @ Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: "Whom shall I send, And who will go for Us?" Then I said, "Here am I! Send me."

nkjv@Isaiah:6:10 @ "Make the heart of this people dull, And their ears heavy, And shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And return and be healed."

nkjv@Isaiah:6:11 @ Then I said, "Lord, how long?" And He answered: "Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant, The houses are without a man, The land is utterly desolate,

nkjv@Isaiah:6:12 @ The LORD has removed men far away, And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

nkjv@Isaiah:6:13 @ But yet a tenth will be in it, And will return and be for consuming, As a terebinth tree or as an oak, Whose stump remains when it is cut down. So the holy seed shall be its stump."

nkjv@Isaiah:7:1 @ Now it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to make war against it, but could not prevail against it.

nkjv@Isaiah:7:2 @ And it was told to the house of David, saying, "Syria's forces are deployed in Ephraim." So his heart and the heart of his people were moved as the trees of the woods are moved with the wind.

nkjv@Isaiah:7:3 @ Then the LORD said to Isaiah, "Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-Jashub your son, at the end of the aqueduct from the upper pool, on the highway to the Fuller's Field,

nkjv@Isaiah:7:4 @ and say to him: "Take heed, and be quiet; do not fear or be fainthearted for these two stubs of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and the son of Remaliah.

nkjv@Isaiah:7:5 @ Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah have plotted evil against you, saying,

nkjv@Isaiah:7:6 @ "Let us go up against Judah and trouble it, and let us make a gap in its wall for ourselves, and set a king over them, the son of Tabel"--

nkjv@Isaiah:7:7 @ thus says the Lord GOD: "It shall not stand, Nor shall it come to pass.

nkjv@Isaiah:7:8 @ For the head of Syria is Damascus, And the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be broken, So that it will not be a people.

nkjv@Isaiah:7:9 @ The head of Ephraim is Samaria, And the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If you will not believe, Surely you shall not be established.""'

nkjv@Isaiah:7:10 @ Moreover the LORD spoke again to Ahaz, saying,

nkjv@Isaiah:7:11 @ "Ask a sign for yourself from the LORD your God; ask it either in the depth or in the height above."

nkjv@Isaiah:7:12 @ But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, nor will I test the LORD!"

nkjv@Isaiah:7:13 @ Then he said, "Hear now, O house of David! Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also?

nkjv@Isaiah:7:14 @ Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.

nkjv@Isaiah:7:15 @ Curds and honey He shall eat, that He may know to refuse the evil and choose the good.

nkjv@Isaiah:7:16 @ For before the Child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that you dread will be forsaken by both her kings.

nkjv@Isaiah:7:17 @ The LORD will bring the king of Assyria upon you and your people and your father's house--days that have not come since the day that Ephraim departed from Judah."

nkjv@Isaiah:7:18 @ And it shall come to pass in that day That the LORD will whistle for the fly That is in the farthest part of the rivers of Egypt, And for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

nkjv@Isaiah:7:19 @ They will come, and all of them will rest In the desolate valleys and in the clefts of the rocks, And on all thorns and in all pastures.

nkjv@Isaiah:7:20 @ In the same day the Lord will shave with a hired razor, With those from beyond the River, with the king of Assyria, The head and the hair of the legs, And will also remove the beard.

nkjv@Isaiah:7:22 @ So it shall be, from the abundance of milk they give, That he will eat curds; For curds and honey everyone will eat who is left in the land.

nkjv@Isaiah:7:23 @ It shall happen in that day, That wherever there could be a thousand vines Worth a thousand shekels of silver, It will be for briers and thorns.

nkjv@Isaiah:7:24 @ With arrows and bows men will come there, Because all the land will become briers and thorns.

nkjv@Isaiah:7:25 @ And to any hill which could be dug with the hoe, You will not go there for fear of briers and thorns; But it will become a range for oxen And a place for sheep to roam.

nkjv@Isaiah:8:1 @ Moreover the LORD said to me, "Take a large scroll, and write on it with a man's pen concerning Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.

nkjv@Isaiah:8:2 @ And I will take for Myself faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah."

nkjv@Isaiah:8:3 @ Then I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the LORD said to me, "Call his name Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz;

nkjv@Isaiah:8:4 @ for before the child shall have knowledge to cry "My father' and "My mother,' the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be taken away before the king of Assyria."

nkjv@Isaiah:8:5 @ The LORD also spoke to me again, saying:

nkjv@Isaiah:8:6 @ "Inasmuch as these people refused The waters of Shiloah that flow softly, And rejoice in Rezin and in Remaliah's son;

nkjv@Isaiah:8:7 @ Now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up over them The waters of the River, strong and mighty-- The king of Assyria and all his glory; He will go up over all his channels And go over all his banks.

nkjv@Isaiah:8:8 @ He will pass through Judah, He will overflow and pass over, He will reach up to the neck; And the stretching out of his wings Will fill the breadth of Your land, O Immanuel.

nkjv@Isaiah:8:10 @ Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing; Speak the word, but it will not stand, For God is with us."

nkjv@Isaiah:8:11 @ For the LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying:

nkjv@Isaiah:8:12 @ "Do not say, "A conspiracy,' Concerning all that this people call a conspiracy, Nor be afraid of their threats, nor be troubled.

nkjv@Isaiah:8:13 @ The LORD of hosts, Him you shall hallow; Let Him be your fear, And let Him be your dread.

nkjv@Isaiah:8:14 @ He will be as a sanctuary, But a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense To both the houses of Israel, As a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

nkjv@Isaiah:8:15 @ And many among them shall stumble; They shall fall and be broken, Be snared and taken."

nkjv@Isaiah:8:16 @ Bind up the testimony, Seal the law among my disciples.

nkjv@Isaiah:8:17 @ And I will wait on the LORD, Who hides His face from the house of Jacob; And I will hope in Him.

nkjv@Isaiah:8:18 @ Here am I and the children whom the LORD has given me! We are for signs and wonders in Israel From the LORD of hosts, Who dwells in Mount Zion.

nkjv@Isaiah:8:19 @ And when they say to you, "Seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter," should not a people seek their God? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living?

nkjv@Isaiah:8:20 @ To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

nkjv@Isaiah:8:21 @ They will pass through it hard-pressed and hungry; and it shall happen, when they are hungry, that they will be enraged and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

nkjv@Isaiah:8:22 @ Then they will look to the earth, and see trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish; and they will be driven into darkness.

nkjv@Isaiah:9:1 @ Nevertheless the gloom will not be upon her who is distressed, As when at first He lightly esteemed The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, And afterward more heavily oppressed her, By the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, In Galilee of the Gentiles.

nkjv@Isaiah:9:2 @ The people who walked in darkness Have seen a great light; Those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, Upon them a light has shined.

nkjv@Isaiah:9:3 @ You have multiplied the nation And increased its joy; They rejoice before You According to the joy of harvest, As men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

nkjv@Isaiah:9:4 @ For You have broken the yoke of his burden And the staff of his shoulder, The rod of his oppressor, As in the day of Midian.

nkjv@Isaiah:9:5 @ For every warrior's sandal from the noisy battle, And garments rolled in blood, Will be used for burning and fuel of fire.

nkjv@Isaiah:9:6 @ For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

nkjv@Isaiah:9:7 @ Of the increase of His government and peace There will be no end, Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, To order it and establish it with judgment and justice From that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

nkjv@Isaiah:9:8 @ The LORD sent a word against Jacob, And it has fallen on Israel.

nkjv@Isaiah:9:9 @ All the people will know-- Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria-- Who say in pride and arrogance of heart:

nkjv@Isaiah:9:10 @ "The bricks have fallen down, But we will rebuild with hewn stones; The sycamores are cut down, But we will replace them with cedars."

nkjv@Isaiah:9:11 @ Therefore the LORD shall set up The adversaries of Rezin against him, And spur his enemies on,

nkjv@Isaiah:9:12 @ The Syrians before and the Philistines behind; And they shall devour Israel with an open mouth. For all this His anger is not turned away, But His hand is stretched out still.

nkjv@Isaiah:9:13 @ For the people do not turn to Him who strikes them, Nor do they seek the LORD of hosts.

nkjv@Isaiah:9:14 @ Therefore the LORD will cut off head and tail from Israel, Palm branch and bulrush in one day.

nkjv@Isaiah:9:15 @ The elder and honorable, he is the head; The prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.

nkjv@Isaiah:9:16 @ For the leaders of this people cause them to err, And those who are led by them are destroyed.

nkjv@Isaiah:9:17 @ Therefore the Lord will have no joy in their young men, Nor have mercy on their fatherless and widows; For everyone is a hypocrite and an evildoer, And every mouth speaks folly. For all this His anger is not turned away, But His hand is stretched out still.

nkjv@Isaiah:9:18 @ For wickedness burns as the fire; It shall devour the briers and thorns, And kindle in the thickets of the forest; They shall mount up like rising smoke.

nkjv@Isaiah:9:19 @ Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts The land is burned up, And the people shall be as fuel for the fire; No man shall spare his brother.

nkjv@Isaiah:9:20 @ And he shall snatch on the right hand And be hungry; He shall devour on the left hand And not be satisfied; Every man shall eat the flesh of his own arm.

nkjv@Isaiah:9:21 @ Manasseh shall devour Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh; Together they shall be against Judah. For all this His anger is not turned away, But His hand is stretched out still.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:1 @ "Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, Who write misfortune, Which they have prescribed

nkjv@Isaiah:10:2 @ To rob the needy of justice, And to take what is right from the poor of My people, That widows may be their prey, And that they may rob the fatherless.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:3 @ What will you do in the day of punishment, And in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where will you leave your glory?

nkjv@Isaiah:10:4 @ Without Me they shall bow down among the prisoners, And they shall fall among the slain." For all this His anger is not turned away, But His hand is stretched out still.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:5 @ "Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger And the staff in whose hand is My indignation.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:6 @ I will send him against an ungodly nation, And against the people of My wrath I will give him charge, To seize the spoil, to take the prey, And to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:8 @ For he says, "Are not my princes altogether kings?

nkjv@Isaiah:10:10 @ As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, Whose carved images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria,

nkjv@Isaiah:10:12 @ Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Lord has performed all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, that He will say, "I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his haughty looks."

nkjv@Isaiah:10:13 @ For he says: "By the strength of my hand I have done it, And by my wisdom, for I am prudent; Also I have removed the boundaries of the people, And have robbed their treasuries; So I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:14 @ My hand has found like a nest the riches of the people, And as one gathers eggs that are left, I have gathered all the earth; And there was no one who moved his wing, Nor opened his mouth with even a peep."

nkjv@Isaiah:10:15 @ Shall the ax boast itself against him who chops with it? Or shall the saw exalt itself against him who saws with it? As if a rod could wield itself against those who lift it up, Or as if a staff could lift up, as if it were not wood!

nkjv@Isaiah:10:16 @ Therefore the Lord, the Lord of hosts, Will send leanness among his fat ones; And under his glory He will kindle a burning Like the burning of a fire.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:17 @ So the Light of Israel will be for a fire, And his Holy One for a flame; It will burn and devour His thorns and his briers in one day.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:18 @ And it will consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, Both soul and body; And they will be as when a sick man wastes away.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:19 @ Then the rest of the trees of his forest Will be so few in number That a child may write them.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:20 @ And it shall come to pass in that day That the remnant of Israel, And such as have escaped of the house of Jacob, Will never again depend on him who defeated them, But will depend on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:21 @ The remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, To the Mighty God.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:22 @ For though your people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea, A remnant of them will return; The destruction decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:23 @ For the Lord GOD of hosts Will make a determined end In the midst of all the land.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:24 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD of hosts: "O My people, who dwell in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrian. He shall strike you with a rod and lift up his staff against you, in the manner of Egypt.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:25 @ For yet a very little while and the indignation will cease, as will My anger in their destruction."

nkjv@Isaiah:10:26 @ And the LORD of hosts will stir up a scourge for him like the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb; as His rod was on the sea, so will He lift it up in the manner of Egypt.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:27 @ It shall come to pass in that day That his burden will be taken away from your shoulder, And his yoke from your neck, And the yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing oil.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:29 @ They have gone along the ridge, They have taken up lodging at Geba. Ramah is afraid, Gibeah of Saul has fled.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:31 @ Madmenah has fled, The inhabitants of Gebim seek refuge.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:32 @ As yet he will remain at Nob that day; He will shake his fist at the mount of the daughter of Zion, The hill of Jerusalem.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:33 @ Behold, the Lord, The LORD of hosts, Will lop off the bough with terror; Those of high stature will be hewn down, And the haughty will be humbled.

nkjv@Isaiah:10:34 @ He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, And Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.

nkjv@Isaiah:11:1 @ There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse, And a Branch shall grow out of his roots.

nkjv@Isaiah:11:2 @ The Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him, The Spirit of wisdom and understanding, The Spirit of counsel and might, The Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:11:3 @ His delight is in the fear of the LORD, And He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, Nor decide by the hearing of His ears;

nkjv@Isaiah:11:4 @ But with righteousness He shall judge the poor, And decide with equity for the meek of the earth; He shall strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, And with the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked.

nkjv@Isaiah:11:5 @ Righteousness shall be the belt of His loins, And faithfulness the belt of His waist.

nkjv@Isaiah:11:6 @ "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, The leopard shall lie down with the young goat, The calf and the young lion and the fatling together; And a little child shall lead them.

nkjv@Isaiah:11:7 @ The cow and the bear shall graze; Their young ones shall lie down together; And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

nkjv@Isaiah:11:8 @ The nursing child shall play by the cobra's hole, And the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper's den.

nkjv@Isaiah:11:9 @ They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD As the waters cover the sea.

nkjv@Isaiah:11:10 @ "And in that day there shall be a Root of Jesse, Who shall stand as a banner to the people; For the Gentiles shall seek Him, And His resting place shall be glorious."

nkjv@Isaiah:11:11 @ It shall come to pass in that day That the Lord shall set His hand again the second time To recover the remnant of His people who are left, From Assyria and Egypt, From Pathros and Cush, From Elam and Shinar, From Hamath and the islands of the sea.

nkjv@Isaiah:11:12 @ He will set up a banner for the nations, And will assemble the outcasts of Israel, And gather together the dispersed of Judah From the four corners of the earth.

nkjv@Isaiah:11:13 @ Also the envy of Ephraim shall depart, And the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not envy Judah, And Judah shall not harass Ephraim.

nkjv@Isaiah:11:14 @ But they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines toward the west; Together they shall plunder the people of the East; They shall lay their hand on Edom and Moab; And the people of Ammon shall obey them.

nkjv@Isaiah:11:15 @ The LORD will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt; With His mighty wind He will shake His fist over the River, And strike it in the seven streams, And make men cross over dryshod.

nkjv@Isaiah:11:16 @ There will be a highway for the remnant of His people Who will be left from Assyria, As it was for Israel In the day that he came up from the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Isaiah:12:2 @ Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; "For YAH, the LORD, is my strength and song; He also has become my salvation."'

nkjv@Isaiah:12:3 @ Therefore with joy you will draw water From the wells of salvation.

nkjv@Isaiah:12:4 @ And in that day you will say: "Praise the LORD, call upon His name; Declare His deeds among the peoples, Make mention that His name is exalted.

nkjv@Isaiah:12:5 @ Sing to the LORD, For He has done excellent things; This is known in all the earth.

nkjv@Isaiah:12:6 @ Cry out and shout, O inhabitant of Zion, For great is the Holy One of Israel in your midst!"

nkjv@Isaiah:13:1 @ The burden against Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:2 @ "Lift up a banner on the high mountain, Raise your voice to them; Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:4 @ The noise of a multitude in the mountains, Like that of many people! A tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together! The LORD of hosts musters The army for battle.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:5 @ They come from a far country, From the end of heaven-- The LORD and His weapons of indignation, To destroy the whole land.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:6 @ Wail, for the day of the LORD is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:7 @ Therefore all hands will be limp, Every man's heart will melt,

nkjv@Isaiah:13:8 @ And they will be afraid. Pangs and sorrows will take hold of them; They will be in pain as a woman in childbirth; They will be amazed at one another; Their faces will be like flames.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:9 @ Behold, the day of the LORD comes, Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger, To lay the land desolate; And He will destroy its sinners from it.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:10 @ For the stars of heaven and their constellations Will not give their light; The sun will be darkened in its going forth, And the moon will not cause its light to shine.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:11 @ "I will punish the world for its evil, And the wicked for their iniquity; I will halt the arrogance of the proud, And will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:12 @ I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold, A man more than the golden wedge of Ophir.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:13 @ Therefore I will shake the heavens, And the earth will move out of her place, In the wrath of the LORD of hosts And in the day of His fierce anger.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:14 @ It shall be as the hunted gazelle, And as a sheep that no man takes up; Every man will turn to his own people, And everyone will flee to his own land.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:15 @ Everyone who is found will be thrust through, And everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:16 @ Their children also will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; Their houses will be plundered And their wives ravished.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:17 @ "Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, Who will not regard silver; And as for gold, they will not delight in it.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:18 @ Also their bows will dash the young men to pieces, And they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb; Their eye will not spare children.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:19 @ And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, The beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:20 @ It will never be inhabited, Nor will it be settled from generation to generation; Nor will the Arabian pitch tents there, Nor will the shepherds make their sheepfolds there.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:21 @ But wild beasts of the desert will lie there, And their houses will be full of owls; Ostriches will dwell there, And wild goats will caper there.

nkjv@Isaiah:13:22 @ The hyenas will howl in their citadels, And jackals in their pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, And her days will not be prolonged."

nkjv@Isaiah:14:1 @ For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will still choose Israel, and settle them in their own land. The strangers will be joined with them, and they will cling to the house of Jacob.

nkjv@Isaiah:14:2 @ Then people will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them for servants and maids in the land of the LORD; they will take them captive whose captives they were, and rule over their oppressors.

nkjv@Isaiah:14:3 @ It shall come to pass in the day the LORD gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear and the hard bondage in which you were made to serve,

nkjv@Isaiah:14:4 @ that you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say: "How the oppressor has ceased, The golden city ceased!

nkjv@Isaiah:14:5 @ The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, The scepter of the rulers;

nkjv@Isaiah:14:6 @ He who struck the people in wrath with a continual stroke, He who ruled the nations in anger, Is persecuted and no one hinders.

nkjv@Isaiah:14:7 @ The whole earth is at rest and quiet; They break forth into singing.

nkjv@Isaiah:14:8 @ Indeed the cypress trees rejoice over you, And the cedars of Lebanon, Saying, "Since you were cut down, No woodsman has come up against us.'

nkjv@Isaiah:14:9 @ "Hell from beneath is excited about you, To meet you at your coming; It stirs up the dead for you, All the chief ones of the earth; It has raised up from their thrones All the kings of the nations.

nkjv@Isaiah:14:10 @ They all shall speak and say to you: "Have you also become as weak as we? Have you become like us?

nkjv@Isaiah:14:11 @ Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, And the sound of your stringed instruments; The maggot is spread under you, And worms cover you.'

nkjv@Isaiah:14:12 @ "How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations!

nkjv@Isaiah:14:13 @ For you have said in your heart: "I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north;

nkjv@Isaiah:14:14 @ I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.'

nkjv@Isaiah:14:15 @ Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, To the lowest depths of the Pit.

nkjv@Isaiah:14:16 @ "Those who see you will gaze at you, And consider you, saying: "Is this the man who made the earth tremble, Who shook kingdoms,

nkjv@Isaiah:14:17 @ Who made the world as a wilderness And destroyed its cities, Who did not open the house of his prisoners?'

nkjv@Isaiah:14:18 @ "All the kings of the nations, All of them, sleep in glory, Everyone in his own house;

nkjv@Isaiah:14:19 @ But you are cast out of your grave Like an abominable branch, Like the garment of those who are slain, Thrust through with a sword, Who go down to the stones of the pit, Like a corpse trodden underfoot.

nkjv@Isaiah:14:20 @ You will not be joined with them in burial, Because you have destroyed your land And slain your people. The brood of evildoers shall never be named.

nkjv@Isaiah:14:21 @ Prepare slaughter for his children Because of the iniquity of their fathers, Lest they rise up and possess the land, And fill the face of the world with cities."

nkjv@Isaiah:14:22 @ "For I will rise up against them," says the LORD of hosts, "And cut off from Babylon the name and remnant, And offspring and posterity," says the LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:14:23 @ "I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, And marshes of muddy water; I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," says the LORD of hosts.

nkjv@Isaiah:14:24 @ The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, "Surely, as I have thought, so it shall come to pass, And as I have purposed, so it shall stand:

nkjv@Isaiah:14:25 @ That I will break the Assyrian in My land, And on My mountains tread him underfoot. Then his yoke shall be removed from them, And his burden removed from their shoulders.

nkjv@Isaiah:14:26 @ This is the purpose that is purposed against the whole earth, And this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.

nkjv@Isaiah:14:27 @ For the LORD of hosts has purposed, And who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, And who will turn it back?"

nkjv@Isaiah:14:28 @ This is the burden which came in the year that King Ahaz died.

nkjv@Isaiah:14:29 @ "Do not rejoice, all you of Philistia, Because the rod that struck you is broken; For out of the serpent's roots will come forth a viper, And its offspring will be a fiery flying serpent.

nkjv@Isaiah:14:30 @ The firstborn of the poor will feed, And the needy will lie down in safety; I will kill your roots with famine, And it will slay your remnant.

nkjv@Isaiah:14:31 @ Wail, O gate! Cry, O city! All you of Philistia are dissolved; For smoke will come from the north, And no one will be alone in his appointed times."

nkjv@Isaiah:14:32 @ What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD has founded Zion, And the poor of His people shall take refuge in it.

nkjv@Isaiah:15:1 @ The burden against Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste And destroyed, Because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste And destroyed,

nkjv@Isaiah:15:2 @ He has gone up to the temple and Dibon, To the high places to weep. Moab will wail over Nebo and over Medeba; On all their heads will be baldness, And every beard cut off.

nkjv@Isaiah:15:3 @ In their streets they will clothe themselves with sackcloth; On the tops of their houses And in their streets Everyone will wail, weeping bitterly.

nkjv@Isaiah:15:4 @ Heshbon and Elealeh will cry out, Their voice shall be heard as far as Jahaz; Therefore the armed soldiers of Moab will cry out; His life will be burdensome to him.

nkjv@Isaiah:15:5 @ "My heart will cry out for Moab; His fugitives shall flee to Zoar, Like a three-year-old heifer. For by the Ascent of Luhith They will go up with weeping; For in the way of Horonaim They will raise up a cry of destruction,

nkjv@Isaiah:15:6 @ For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate, For the green grass has withered away; The grass fails, there is nothing green.

nkjv@Isaiah:15:7 @ Therefore the abundance they have gained, And what they have laid up, They will carry away to the Brook of the Willows.

nkjv@Isaiah:15:8 @ For the cry has gone all around the borders of Moab, Its wailing to Eglaim And its wailing to Beer Elim.

nkjv@Isaiah:15:9 @ For the waters of Dimon will be full of blood; Because I will bring more upon Dimon, Lions upon him who escapes from Moab, And on the remnant of the land."

nkjv@Isaiah:16:1 @ Send the lamb to the ruler of the land, From Sela to the wilderness, To the mount of the daughter of Zion.

nkjv@Isaiah:16:2 @ For it shall be as a wandering bird thrown out of the nest; So shall be the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon.

nkjv@Isaiah:16:3 @ "Take counsel, execute judgment; Make your shadow like the night in the middle of the day; Hide the outcasts, Do not betray him who escapes.

nkjv@Isaiah:16:4 @ Let My outcasts dwell with you, O Moab; Be a shelter to them from the face of the spoiler. For the extortioner is at an end, Devastation ceases, The oppressors are consumed out of the land.

nkjv@Isaiah:16:5 @ In mercy the throne will be established; And One will sit on it in truth, in the tabernacle of David, Judging and seeking justice and hastening righteousness."

nkjv@Isaiah:16:6 @ We have heard of the pride of Moab-- He is very proud-- Of his haughtiness and his pride and his wrath; But his lies shall not be so.

nkjv@Isaiah:16:7 @ Therefore Moab shall wail for Moab; Everyone shall wail. For the foundations of Kir Hareseth you shall mourn; Surely they are stricken.

nkjv@Isaiah:16:8 @ For the fields of Heshbon languish, And the vine of Sibmah; The lords of the nations have broken down its choice plants, Which have reached to Jazer And wandered through the wilderness. Her branches are stretched out, They are gone over the sea.

nkjv@Isaiah:16:9 @ Therefore I will bewail the vine of Sibmah, With the weeping of Jazer; I will drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh; For battle cries have fallen Over your summer fruits and your harvest.

nkjv@Isaiah:16:10 @ Gladness is taken away, And joy from the plentiful field; In the vineyards there will be no singing, Nor will there be shouting; No treaders will tread out wine in the presses; I have made their shouting cease.

nkjv@Isaiah:16:11 @ Therefore my heart shall resound like a harp for Moab, And my inner being for Kir Heres.

nkjv@Isaiah:16:12 @ And it shall come to pass, When it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, That he will come to his sanctuary to pray; But he will not prevail.

nkjv@Isaiah:16:13 @ This is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning Moab since that time.

nkjv@Isaiah:16:14 @ But now the LORD has spoken, saying, "Within three years, as the years of a hired man, the glory of Moab will be despised with all that great multitude, and the remnant will be very small and feeble."

nkjv@Isaiah:17:1 @ The burden against Damascus. "Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city, And it will be a ruinous heap.

nkjv@Isaiah:17:2 @ The cities of Aroer are forsaken; They will be for flocks Which lie down, and no one will make them afraid.

nkjv@Isaiah:17:3 @ The fortress also will cease from Ephraim, The kingdom from Damascus, And the remnant of Syria; They will be as the glory of the children of Israel," Says the LORD of hosts.

nkjv@Isaiah:17:4 @ "In that day it shall come to pass That the glory of Jacob will wane, And the fatness of his flesh grow lean.

nkjv@Isaiah:17:5 @ It shall be as when the harvester gathers the grain, And reaps the heads with his arm; It shall be as he who gathers heads of grain In the Valley of Rephaim.

nkjv@Isaiah:17:6 @ Yet gleaning grapes will be left in it, Like the shaking of an olive tree, Two or three olives at the top of the uppermost bough, Four or five in its most fruitful branches," Says the LORD God of Israel.

nkjv@Isaiah:17:7 @ In that day a man will look to his Maker, And his eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.

nkjv@Isaiah:17:8 @ He will not look to the altars, The work of his hands; He will not respect what his fingers have made, Nor the wooden images nor the incense altars.

nkjv@Isaiah:17:9 @ In that day his strong cities will be as a forsaken bough And an uppermost branch, Which they left because of the children of Israel; And there will be desolation.

nkjv@Isaiah:17:10 @ Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, And have not been mindful of the Rock of your stronghold, Therefore you will plant pleasant plants And set out foreign seedlings;

nkjv@Isaiah:17:11 @ In the day you will make your plant to grow, And in the morning you will make your seed to flourish; But the harvest will be a heap of ruins In the day of grief and desperate sorrow.

nkjv@Isaiah:17:12 @ Woe to the multitude of many people Who make a noise like the roar of the seas, And to the rushing of nations That make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!

nkjv@Isaiah:17:13 @ The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters; But God will rebuke them and they will flee far away, And be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, Like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

nkjv@Isaiah:17:14 @ Then behold, at eventide, trouble! And before the morning, he is no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, And the lot of those who rob us.

nkjv@Isaiah:18:1 @ Woe to the land shadowed with buzzing wings, Which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,

nkjv@Isaiah:18:2 @ Which sends ambassadors by sea, Even in vessels of reed on the waters, saying, "Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth of skin, To a people terrible from their beginning onward, A nation powerful and treading down, Whose land the rivers divide."

nkjv@Isaiah:18:3 @ All inhabitants of the world and dwellers on the earth: When he lifts up a banner on the mountains, you see it; And when he blows a trumpet, you hear it.

nkjv@Isaiah:18:4 @ For so the LORD said to me, "I will take My rest, And I will look from My dwelling place Like clear heat in sunshine, Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."

nkjv@Isaiah:18:5 @ For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect And the sour grape is ripening in the flower, He will both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks And take away and cut down the branches.

nkjv@Isaiah:18:6 @ They will be left together for the mountain birds of prey And for the beasts of the earth; The birds of prey will summer on them, And all the beasts of the earth will winter on them.

nkjv@Isaiah:18:7 @ In that time a present will be brought to the LORD of hosts From a people tall and smooth of skin, And from a people terrible from their beginning onward, A nation powerful and treading down, Whose land the rivers divide-- To the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, To Mount Zion.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:1 @ The burden against Egypt. Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud, And will come into Egypt; The idols of Egypt will totter at His presence, And the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:2 @ "I will set Egyptians against Egyptians; Everyone will fight against his brother, And everyone against his neighbor, City against city, kingdom against kingdom.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:3 @ The spirit of Egypt will fail in its midst; I will destroy their counsel, And they will consult the idols and the charmers, The mediums and the sorcerers.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:4 @ And the Egyptians I will give Into the hand of a cruel master, And a fierce king will rule over them," Says the Lord, the LORD of hosts.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:5 @ The waters will fail from the sea, And the river will be wasted and dried up.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:6 @ The rivers will turn foul; The brooks of defense will be emptied and dried up; The reeds and rushes will wither.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:7 @ The papyrus reeds by the River, by the mouth of the River, And everything sown by the River, Will wither, be driven away, and be no more.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:8 @ The fishermen also will mourn; All those will lament who cast hooks into the River, And they will languish who spread nets on the waters.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:11 @ Surely the princes of Zoan are fools; Pharaoh's wise counselors give foolish counsel. How do you say to Pharaoh, "I am the son of the wise, The son of ancient kings?"

nkjv@Isaiah:19:12 @ Where are they? Where are your wise men? Let them tell you now, And let them know what the LORD of hosts has purposed against Egypt.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:13 @ The princes of Zoan have become fools; The princes of Noph are deceived; They have also deluded Egypt, Those who are the mainstay of its tribes.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:14 @ The LORD has mingled a perverse spirit in her midst; And they have caused Egypt to err in all her work, As a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:15 @ Neither will there be any work for Egypt, Which the head or tail, Palm branch or bulrush, may do.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:16 @ In that day Egypt will be like women, and will be afraid and fear because of the waving of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which He waves over it.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:17 @ And the land of Judah will be a terror to Egypt; everyone who makes mention of it will be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts which He has determined against it.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:18 @ In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear by the LORD of hosts; one will be called the City of Destruction.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:19 @ In that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the LORD at its border.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:20 @ And it will be for a sign and for a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to the LORD because of the oppressors, and He will send them a Savior and a Mighty One, and He will deliver them.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:21 @ Then the LORD will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know the LORD in that day, and will make sacrifice and offering; yes, they will make a vow to the LORD and perform it.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:22 @ And the LORD will strike Egypt, He will strike and heal it; they will return to the LORD, and He will be entreated by them and heal them.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:23 @ In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian will come into Egypt and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians will serve with the Assyrians.

nkjv@Isaiah:19:24 @ In that day Israel will be one of three with Egypt and Assyria--a blessing in the midst of the land,

nkjv@Isaiah:19:25 @ whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, "Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance."

nkjv@Isaiah:20:1 @ In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it,

nkjv@Isaiah:20:2 @ at the same time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, "Go, and remove the sackcloth from your body, and take your sandals off your feet." And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

nkjv@Isaiah:20:3 @ Then the LORD said, "Just as My servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder against Egypt and Ethiopia,

nkjv@Isaiah:20:4 @ so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians as prisoners and the Ethiopians as captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

nkjv@Isaiah:20:5 @ Then they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation and Egypt their glory.

nkjv@Isaiah:20:6 @ And the inhabitant of this territory will say in that day, "Surely such is our expectation, wherever we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and how shall we escape?"'

nkjv@Isaiah:21:1 @ The burden against the Wilderness of the Sea. As whirlwinds in the South pass through, So it comes from the desert, from a terrible land.

nkjv@Isaiah:21:2 @ A distressing vision is declared to me; The treacherous dealer deals treacherously, And the plunderer plunders. Go up, O Elam! Besiege, O Media! All its sighing I have made to cease.

nkjv@Isaiah:21:3 @ Therefore my loins are filled with pain; Pangs have taken hold of me, like the pangs of a woman in labor. I was distressed when I heard it; I was dismayed when I saw it.

nkjv@Isaiah:21:4 @ My heart wavered, fearfulness frightened me; The night for which I longed He turned into fear for me.

nkjv@Isaiah:21:5 @ Prepare the table, Set a watchman in the tower, Eat and drink. Arise, you princes, Anoint the shield!

nkjv@Isaiah:21:6 @ For thus has the Lord said to me: "Go, set a watchman, Let him declare what he sees."

nkjv@Isaiah:21:8 @ Then he cried, "A lion, my Lord! I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime; I have sat at my post every night.

nkjv@Isaiah:21:9 @ And look, here comes a chariot of men with a pair of horsemen!" Then he answered and said, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen! And all the carved images of her gods He has broken to the ground."

nkjv@Isaiah:21:10 @ Oh, my threshing and the grain of my floor! That which I have heard from the LORD of hosts, The God of Israel, I have declared to you.

nkjv@Isaiah:21:11 @ The burden against Dumah. He calls to me out of Seir, "Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?"

nkjv@Isaiah:21:12 @ The watchman said, "The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire; Return! Come back!"

nkjv@Isaiah:21:13 @ The burden against Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, O you traveling companies of Dedanites.

nkjv@Isaiah:21:14 @ O inhabitants of the land of Tema, Bring water to him who is thirsty; With their bread they met him who fled.

nkjv@Isaiah:21:15 @ For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, From the bent bow, and from the distress of war.

nkjv@Isaiah:21:16 @ For thus the LORD has said to me: "Within a year, according to the year of a hired man, all the glory of Kedar will fail;

nkjv@Isaiah:21:17 @ and the remainder of the number of archers, the mighty men of the people of Kedar, will be diminished; for the LORD God of Israel has spoken it."

nkjv@Isaiah:22:1 @ The burden against the Valley of Vision. What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops,

nkjv@Isaiah:22:2 @ You who are full of noise, A tumultuous city, a joyous city? Your slain men are not slain with the sword, Nor dead in battle.

nkjv@Isaiah:22:3 @ All your rulers have fled together; They are captured by the archers. All who are found in you are bound together; They have fled from afar.

nkjv@Isaiah:22:4 @ Therefore I said, "Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; Do not labor to comfort me Because of the plundering of the daughter of my people."

nkjv@Isaiah:22:5 @ For it is a day of trouble and treading down and perplexity By the Lord GOD of hosts In the Valley of Vision-- Breaking down the walls And of crying to the mountain.

nkjv@Isaiah:22:6 @ Elam bore the quiver With chariots of men and horsemen, And Kir uncovered the shield.

nkjv@Isaiah:22:7 @ It shall come to pass that your choicest valleys Shall be full of chariots, And the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.

nkjv@Isaiah:22:8 @ He removed the protection of Judah. You looked in that day to the armor of the House of the Forest;

nkjv@Isaiah:22:9 @ You also saw the damage to the city of David, That it was great; And you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

nkjv@Isaiah:22:10 @ You numbered the houses of Jerusalem, And the houses you broke down To fortify the wall.

nkjv@Isaiah:22:11 @ You also made a reservoir between the two walls For the water of the old pool. But you did not look to its Maker, Nor did you have respect for Him who fashioned it long ago.

nkjv@Isaiah:22:12 @ And in that day the Lord GOD of hosts Called for weeping and for mourning, For baldness and for girding with sackcloth.

nkjv@Isaiah:22:14 @ Then it was revealed in my hearing by the LORD of hosts, "Surely for this iniquity there will be no atonement for you, Even to your death," says the Lord GOD of hosts.

nkjv@Isaiah:22:15 @ Thus says the Lord GOD of hosts: "Go, proceed to this steward, To Shebna, who is over the house, and say:

nkjv@Isaiah:22:17 @ Indeed, the LORD will throw you away violently, O mighty man, And will surely seize you.

nkjv@Isaiah:22:18 @ He will surely turn violently and toss you like a ball Into a large country; There you shall die, and there your glorious chariots Shall be the shame of your master's house.

nkjv@Isaiah:22:20 @ "Then it shall be in that day, That I will call My servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah;

nkjv@Isaiah:22:21 @ I will clothe him with your robe And strengthen him with your belt; I will commit your responsibility into his hand. He shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem And to the house of Judah.

nkjv@Isaiah:22:22 @ The key of the house of David I will lay on his shoulder; So he shall open, and no one shall shut; And he shall shut, and no one shall open.

nkjv@Isaiah:22:23 @ I will fasten him as a peg in a secure place, And he will become a glorious throne to his father's house.

nkjv@Isaiah:22:24 @ "They will hang on him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the posterity, all vessels of small quantity, from the cups to all the pitchers.

nkjv@Isaiah:22:25 @ In that day,' says the LORD of hosts, "the peg that is fastened in the secure place will be removed and be cut down and fall, and the burden that was on it will be cut off; for the LORD has spoken."'

nkjv@Isaiah:23:1 @ The burden against Tyre. Wail, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, So that there is no house, no harbor; From the land of Cyprus it is revealed to them.

nkjv@Isaiah:23:2 @ Be still, you inhabitants of the coastland, You merchants of Sidon, Whom those who cross the sea have filled.

nkjv@Isaiah:23:3 @ And on great waters the grain of Shihor, The harvest of the River, is her revenue; And she is a marketplace for the nations.

nkjv@Isaiah:23:4 @ Be ashamed, O Sidon; For the sea has spoken, The strength of the sea, saying, "I do not labor, nor bring forth children; Neither do I rear young men, Nor bring up virgins."

nkjv@Isaiah:23:5 @ When the report reaches Egypt, They also will be in agony at the report of Tyre.

nkjv@Isaiah:23:6 @ Cross over to Tarshish; Wail, you inhabitants of the coastland!

nkjv@Isaiah:23:8 @ Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, Whose merchants are princes, Whose traders are the honorable of the earth?

nkjv@Isaiah:23:9 @ The LORD of hosts has purposed it, To bring to dishonor the pride of all glory, To bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

nkjv@Isaiah:23:10 @ Overflow through your land like the River, O daughter of Tarshish; There is no more strength.

nkjv@Isaiah:23:11 @ He stretched out His hand over the sea, He shook the kingdoms; The LORD has given a commandment against Canaan To destroy its strongholds.

nkjv@Isaiah:23:12 @ And He said, "You will rejoice no more, O you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, cross over to Cyprus; There also you will have no rest."

nkjv@Isaiah:23:13 @ Behold, the land of the Chaldeans, This people which was not; Assyria founded it for wild beasts of the desert. They set up its towers, They raised up its palaces, And brought it to ruin.

nkjv@Isaiah:23:15 @ Now it shall come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:

nkjv@Isaiah:23:16 @ "Take a harp, go about the city, You forgotten harlot; Make sweet melody, sing many songs, That you may be remembered."

nkjv@Isaiah:23:17 @ And it shall be, at the end of seventy years, that the LORD will deal with Tyre. She will return to her hire, and commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.

nkjv@Isaiah:23:18 @ Her gain and her pay will be set apart for the LORD; it will not be treasured nor laid up, for her gain will be for those who dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for fine clothing.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:1 @ Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty and makes it waste, Distorts its surface And scatters abroad its inhabitants.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:2 @ And it shall be: As with the people, so with the priest; As with the servant, so with his master; As with the maid, so with her mistress; As with the buyer, so with the seller; As with the lender, so with the borrower; As with the creditor, so with the debtor.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:3 @ The land shall be entirely emptied and utterly plundered, For the LORD has spoken this word.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:4 @ The earth mourns and fades away, The world languishes and fades away; The haughty people of the earth languish.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:5 @ The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed the laws, Changed the ordinance, Broken the everlasting covenant.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:6 @ Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, And those who dwell in it are desolate. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, And few men are left.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:7 @ The new wine fails, the vine languishes, All the merry-hearted sigh.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:8 @ The mirth of the tambourine ceases, The noise of the jubilant ends, The joy of the harp ceases.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:9 @ They shall not drink wine with a song; Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:10 @ The city of confusion is broken down; Every house is shut up, so that none may go in.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:11 @ There is a cry for wine in the streets, All joy is darkened, The mirth of the land is gone.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:12 @ In the city desolation is left, And the gate is stricken with destruction.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:13 @ When it shall be thus in the midst of the land among the people, It shall be like the shaking of an olive tree, Like the gleaning of grapes when the vintage is done.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:14 @ They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing; For the majesty of the LORD They shall cry aloud from the sea.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:15 @ Therefore glorify the LORD in the dawning light, The name of the LORD God of Israel in the coastlands of the sea.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:16 @ From the ends of the earth we have heard songs: "Glory to the righteous!" But I said, "I am ruined, ruined! Woe to me! The treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously, Indeed, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously."

nkjv@Isaiah:24:17 @ Fear and the pit and the snare Are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:18 @ And it shall be That he who flees from the noise of the fear Shall fall into the pit, And he who comes up from the midst of the pit Shall be caught in the snare; For the windows from on high are open, And the foundations of the earth are shaken.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:19 @ The earth is violently broken, The earth is split open, The earth is shaken exceedingly.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:20 @ The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, And shall totter like a hut; Its transgression shall be heavy upon it, And it will fall, and not rise again.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:21 @ It shall come to pass in that day That the LORD will punish on high the host of exalted ones, And on the earth the kings of the earth.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:22 @ They will be gathered together, As prisoners are gathered in the pit, And will be shut up in the prison; After many days they will be punished.

nkjv@Isaiah:24:23 @ Then the moon will be disgraced And the sun ashamed; For the LORD of hosts will reign On Mount Zion and in Jerusalem And before His elders, gloriously.

nkjv@Isaiah:25:3 @ Therefore the strong people will glorify You; The city of the terrible nations will fear You.

nkjv@Isaiah:25:4 @ For You have been a strength to the poor, A strength to the needy in his distress, A refuge from the storm, A shade from the heat; For the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

nkjv@Isaiah:25:5 @ You will reduce the noise of aliens, As heat in a dry place; As heat in the shadow of a cloud, The song of the terrible ones will be diminished.

nkjv@Isaiah:25:6 @ And in this mountain The LORD of hosts will make for all people A feast of choice pieces, A feast of wines on the lees, Of fat things full of marrow, Of well-refined wines on the lees.

nkjv@Isaiah:25:7 @ And He will destroy on this mountain The surface of the covering cast over all people, And the veil that is spread over all nations.

nkjv@Isaiah:25:8 @ He will swallow up death forever, And the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces; The rebuke of His people He will take away from all the earth; For the LORD has spoken.

nkjv@Isaiah:25:9 @ And it will be said in that day: "Behold, this is our God; We have waited for Him, and He will save us. This is the LORD; We have waited for Him; We will be glad and rejoice in His salvation."

nkjv@Isaiah:25:10 @ For on this mountain the hand of the LORD will rest, And Moab shall be trampled down under Him, As straw is trampled down for the refuse heap.

nkjv@Isaiah:25:11 @ And He will spread out His hands in their midst As a swimmer reaches out to swim, And He will bring down their pride Together with the trickery of their hands.

nkjv@Isaiah:25:12 @ The fortress of the high fort of your walls He will bring down, lay low, And bring to the ground, down to the dust.

nkjv@Isaiah:26:1 @ In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city; God will appoint salvation for walls and bulwarks.

nkjv@Isaiah:26:2 @ Open the gates, That the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in.

nkjv@Isaiah:26:4 @ Trust in the LORD forever, For in Yah, the LORD, is everlasting strength.

nkjv@Isaiah:26:5 @ For He brings down those who dwell on high, The lofty city; He lays it low, He lays it low to the ground, He brings it down to the dust.

nkjv@Isaiah:26:6 @ The foot shall tread it down-- The feet of the poor And the steps of the needy."

nkjv@Isaiah:26:7 @ The way of the just is uprightness; O Most Upright, You weigh the path of the just.

nkjv@Isaiah:26:8 @ Yes, in the way of Your judgments, O LORD, we have waited for You; The desire of our soul is for Your name And for the remembrance of You.

nkjv@Isaiah:26:9 @ With my soul I have desired You in the night, Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early; For when Your judgments are in the earth, The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

nkjv@Isaiah:26:10 @ Let grace be shown to the wicked, Yet he will not learn righteousness; In the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly, And will not behold the majesty of the LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:26:11 @ LORD, when Your hand is lifted up, they will not see. But they will see and be ashamed For their envy of people; Yes, the fire of Your enemies shall devour them.

nkjv@Isaiah:26:14 @ They are dead, they will not live; They are deceased, they will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, And made all their memory to perish.

nkjv@Isaiah:26:15 @ You have increased the nation, O LORD, You have increased the nation; You are glorified; You have expanded all the borders of the land.

nkjv@Isaiah:26:16 @ LORD, in trouble they have visited You, They poured out a prayer when Your chastening was upon them.

nkjv@Isaiah:26:17 @ As a woman with child Is in pain and cries out in her pangs, When she draws near the time of her delivery, So have we been in Your sight, O LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:26:18 @ We have been with child, we have been in pain; We have, as it were, brought forth wind; We have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth, Nor have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

nkjv@Isaiah:26:19 @ Your dead shall live; Together with my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust; For your dew is like the dew of herbs, And the earth shall cast out the dead.

nkjv@Isaiah:26:20 @ Come, my people, enter your chambers, And shut your doors behind you; Hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment, Until the indignation is past.

nkjv@Isaiah:26:21 @ For behold, the LORD comes out of His place To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; The earth will also disclose her blood, And will no more cover her slain.

nkjv@Isaiah:27:1 @ In that day the LORD with His severe sword, great and strong, Will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan that twisted serpent; And He will slay the reptile that is in the sea.

nkjv@Isaiah:27:3 @ I, the LORD, keep it, I water it every moment; Lest any hurt it, I keep it night and day.

nkjv@Isaiah:27:4 @ Fury is not in Me. Who would set briers and thorns Against Me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

nkjv@Isaiah:27:6 @ Those who come He shall cause to take root in Jacob; Israel shall blossom and bud, And fill the face of the world with fruit.

nkjv@Isaiah:27:7 @ Has He struck Israel as He struck those who struck him? Or has He been slain according to the slaughter of those who were slain by Him?

nkjv@Isaiah:27:8 @ In measure, by sending it away, You contended with it. He removes it by His rough wind In the day of the east wind.

nkjv@Isaiah:27:9 @ Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be covered; And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: When he makes all the stones of the altar Like chalkstones that are beaten to dust, Wooden images and incense altars shall not stand.

nkjv@Isaiah:27:10 @ Yet the fortified city will be desolate, The habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness; There the calf will feed, and there it will lie down And consume its branches.

nkjv@Isaiah:27:11 @ When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off; The women come and set them on fire. For it is a people of no understanding; Therefore He who made them will not have mercy on them, And He who formed them will show them no favor.

nkjv@Isaiah:27:12 @ And it shall come to pass in that day That the LORD will thresh, From the channel of the River to the Brook of Egypt; And you will be gathered one by one, O you children of Israel.

nkjv@Isaiah:27:13 @ So it shall be in that day: The great trumpet will be blown; They will come, who are about to perish in the land of Assyria, And they who are outcasts in the land of Egypt, And shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

nkjv@Isaiah:28:1 @ Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, Whose glorious beauty is a fading flower Which is at the head of the verdant valleys, To those who are overcome with wine!

nkjv@Isaiah:28:2 @ Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one, Like a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, Like a flood of mighty waters overflowing, Who will bring them down to the earth with His hand.

nkjv@Isaiah:28:3 @ The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, Will be trampled underfoot;

nkjv@Isaiah:28:4 @ And the glorious beauty is a fading flower Which is at the head of the verdant valley, Like the first fruit before the summer, Which an observer sees; He eats it up while it is still in his hand.

nkjv@Isaiah:28:5 @ In that day the LORD of hosts will be For a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty To the remnant of His people,

nkjv@Isaiah:28:6 @ For a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, And for strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

nkjv@Isaiah:28:7 @ But they also have erred through wine, And through intoxicating drink are out of the way; The priest and the prophet have erred through intoxicating drink, They are swallowed up by wine, They are out of the way through intoxicating drink; They err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

nkjv@Isaiah:28:9 @ "Whom will he teach knowledge? And whom will he make to understand the message? Those just weaned from milk? Those just drawn from the breasts?

nkjv@Isaiah:28:10 @ For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, Line upon line, line upon line, Here a little, there a little."

nkjv@Isaiah:28:11 @ For with stammering lips and another tongue He will speak to this people,

nkjv@Isaiah:28:12 @ To whom He said, "This is the rest with which You may cause the weary to rest," And, "This is the refreshing"; Yet they would not hear.

nkjv@Isaiah:28:13 @ But the word of the LORD was to them, "Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, Line upon line, line upon line, Here a little, there a little," That they might go and fall backward, and be broken And snared and caught.

nkjv@Isaiah:28:14 @ Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,

nkjv@Isaiah:28:15 @ Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we are in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, It will not come to us, For we have made lies our refuge, And under falsehood we have hidden ourselves."

nkjv@Isaiah:28:16 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation, A tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; Whoever believes will not act hastily.

nkjv@Isaiah:28:17 @ Also I will make justice the measuring line, And righteousness the plummet; The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, And the waters will overflow the hiding place.

nkjv@Isaiah:28:18 @ Your covenant with death will be annulled, And your agreement with Sheol will not stand; When the overflowing scourge passes through, Then you will be trampled down by it.

nkjv@Isaiah:28:19 @ As often as it goes out it will take you; For morning by morning it will pass over, And by day and by night; It will be a terror just to understand the report."

nkjv@Isaiah:28:20 @ For the bed is too short to stretch out on, And the covering so narrow that one cannot wrap himself in it.

nkjv@Isaiah:28:21 @ For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim, He will be angry as in the Valley of Gibeon-- That He may do His work, His awesome work, And bring to pass His act, His unusual act.

nkjv@Isaiah:28:22 @ Now therefore, do not be mockers, Lest your bonds be made strong; For I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts, A destruction determined even upon the whole earth.

nkjv@Isaiah:28:24 @ Does the plowman keep plowing all day to sow? Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods?

nkjv@Isaiah:28:25 @ When he has leveled its surface, Does he not sow the black cummin And scatter the cummin, Plant the wheat in rows, The barley in the appointed place, And the spelt in its place?

nkjv@Isaiah:28:27 @ For the black cummin is not threshed with a threshing sledge, Nor is a cartwheel rolled over the cummin; But the black cummin is beaten out with a stick, And the cummin with a rod.

nkjv@Isaiah:28:28 @ Bread flour must be ground; Therefore he does not thresh it forever, Break it with his cartwheel, Or crush it with his horsemen.

nkjv@Isaiah:28:29 @ This also comes from the LORD of hosts, Who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in guidance.

nkjv@Isaiah:29:1 @ "Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! Add year to year; Let feasts come around.

nkjv@Isaiah:29:2 @ Yet I will distress Ariel; There shall be heaviness and sorrow, And it shall be to Me as Ariel.

nkjv@Isaiah:29:4 @ You shall be brought down, You shall speak out of the ground; Your speech shall be low, out of the dust; Your voice shall be like a medium's, out of the ground; And your speech shall whisper out of the dust.

nkjv@Isaiah:29:5 @ "Moreover the multitude of your foes Shall be like fine dust, And the multitude of the terrible ones Like chaff that passes away; Yes, it shall be in an instant, suddenly.

nkjv@Isaiah:29:6 @ You will be punished by the LORD of hosts With thunder and earthquake and great noise, With storm and tempest And the flame of devouring fire.

nkjv@Isaiah:29:7 @ The multitude of all the nations who fight against Ariel, Even all who fight against her and her fortress, And distress her, Shall be as a dream of a night vision.

nkjv@Isaiah:29:8 @ It shall even be as when a hungry man dreams, And look--he eats; But he awakes, and his soul is still empty; Or as when a thirsty man dreams, And look--he drinks; But he awakes, and indeed he is faint, And his soul still craves: So the multitude of all the nations shall be, Who fight against Mount Zion."

nkjv@Isaiah:29:9 @ Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunk, but not with wine; They stagger, but not with intoxicating drink.

nkjv@Isaiah:29:10 @ For the LORD has poured out on you The spirit of deep sleep, And has closed your eyes, namely, the prophets; And He has covered your heads, namely, the seers.

nkjv@Isaiah:29:11 @ The whole vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is literate, saying, "Read this, please." And he says, "I cannot, for it is sealed."

nkjv@Isaiah:29:12 @ Then the book is delivered to one who is illiterate, saying, "Read this, please." And he says, "I am not literate."

nkjv@Isaiah:29:13 @ Therefore the Lord said: "Inasmuch as these people draw near with their mouths And honor Me with their lips, But have removed their hearts far from Me, And their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men,

nkjv@Isaiah:29:14 @ Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvelous work Among this people, A marvelous work and a wonder; For the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, And the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden."

nkjv@Isaiah:29:15 @ Woe to those who seek deep to hide their counsel far from the LORD, And their works are in the dark; They say, "Who sees us?" and, "Who knows us?"

nkjv@Isaiah:29:16 @ Surely you have things turned around! Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay; For shall the thing made say of him who made it, "He did not make me"? Or shall the thing formed say of him who formed it, "He has no understanding"?

nkjv@Isaiah:29:17 @ Is it not yet a very little while Till Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, And the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest?

nkjv@Isaiah:29:18 @ In that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, And the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

nkjv@Isaiah:29:19 @ The humble also shall increase their joy in the LORD, And the poor among men shall rejoice In the Holy One of Israel.

nkjv@Isaiah:29:20 @ For the terrible one is brought to nothing, The scornful one is consumed, And all who watch for iniquity are cut off--

nkjv@Isaiah:29:21 @ Who make a man an offender by a word, And lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, And turn aside the just by empty words.

nkjv@Isaiah:29:22 @ Therefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: "Jacob shall not now be ashamed, Nor shall his face now grow pale;

nkjv@Isaiah:29:23 @ But when he sees his children, The work of My hands, in his midst, They will hallow My name, And hallow the Holy One of Jacob, And fear the God of Israel.

nkjv@Isaiah:29:24 @ These also who erred in spirit will come to understanding, And those who complained will learn doctrine."

nkjv@Isaiah:30:1 @ "Woe to the rebellious children," says the LORD, "Who take counsel, but not of Me, And who devise plans, but not of My Spirit, That they may add sin to sin;

nkjv@Isaiah:30:2 @ Who walk to go down to Egypt, And have not asked My advice, To strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, And to trust in the shadow of Egypt!

nkjv@Isaiah:30:3 @ Therefore the strength of Pharaoh Shall be your shame, And trust in the shadow of Egypt Shall be your humiliation.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:5 @ They were all ashamed of a people who could not benefit them, Or be help or benefit, But a shame and also a reproach."

nkjv@Isaiah:30:6 @ The burden against the beasts of the South. Through a land of trouble and anguish, From which came the lioness and lion, The viper and fiery flying serpent, They will carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys, And their treasures on the humps of camels, To a people who shall not profit;

nkjv@Isaiah:30:7 @ For the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose. Therefore I have called her Rahab-Hem-Shebeth.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:8 @ Now go, write it before them on a tablet, And note it on a scroll, That it may be for time to come, Forever and ever:

nkjv@Isaiah:30:9 @ That this is a rebellious people, Lying children, Children who will not hear the law of the LORD;

nkjv@Isaiah:30:10 @ Who say to the seers, "Do not see," And to the prophets, "Do not prophesy to us right things; Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:11 @ Get out of the way, Turn aside from the path, Cause the Holy One of Israel To cease from before us."

nkjv@Isaiah:30:12 @ Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel: "Because you despise this word, And trust in oppression and perversity, And rely on them,

nkjv@Isaiah:30:13 @ Therefore this iniquity shall be to you Like a breach ready to fall, A bulge in a high wall, Whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:14 @ And He shall break it like the breaking of the potter's vessel, Which is broken in pieces; He shall not spare. So there shall not be found among its fragments A shard to take fire from the hearth, Or to take water from the cistern."

nkjv@Isaiah:30:15 @ For thus says the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel: "In returning and rest you shall be saved; In quietness and confidence shall be your strength." But you would not,

nkjv@Isaiah:30:16 @ And you said, "No, for we will flee on horses"-- Therefore you shall flee! And, "We will ride on swift horses"-- Therefore those who pursue you shall be swift!

nkjv@Isaiah:30:17 @ One thousand shall flee at the threat of one, At the threat of five you shall flee, Till you are left as a pole on top of a mountain And as a banner on a hill.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:18 @ Therefore the LORD will wait, that He may be gracious to you; And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For the LORD is a God of justice; Blessed are all those who wait for Him.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:19 @ For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; You shall weep no more. He will be very gracious to you at the sound of your cry; When He hears it, He will answer you.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:20 @ And though the Lord gives you The bread of adversity and the water of affliction, Yet your teachers will not be moved into a corner anymore, But your eyes shall see your teachers.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:21 @ Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, "This is the way, walk in it," Whenever you turn to the right hand Or whenever you turn to the left.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:22 @ You will also defile the covering of your images of silver, And the ornament of your molded images of gold. You will throw them away as an unclean thing; You will say to them, "Get away!"

nkjv@Isaiah:30:23 @ Then He will give the rain for your seed With which you sow the ground, And bread of the increase of the earth; It will be fat and plentiful. In that day your cattle will feed In large pastures.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:24 @ Likewise the oxen and the young donkeys that work the ground Will eat cured fodder, Which has been winnowed with the shovel and fan.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:25 @ There will be on every high mountain And on every high hill Rivers and streams of waters, In the day of the great slaughter, When the towers fall.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:26 @ Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, And the light of the sun will be sevenfold, As the light of seven days, In the day that the LORD binds up the bruise of His people And heals the stroke of their wound.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:27 @ Behold, the name of the LORD comes from afar, Burning with His anger, And His burden is heavy; His lips are full of indignation, And His tongue like a devouring fire.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:28 @ His breath is like an overflowing stream, Which reaches up to the neck, To sift the nations with the sieve of futility; And there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, Causing them to err.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:29 @ You shall have a song As in the night when a holy festival is kept, And gladness of heart as when one goes with a flute, To come into the mountain of the LORD, To the Mighty One of Israel.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:30 @ The LORD will cause His glorious voice to be heard, And show the descent of His arm, With the indignation of His anger And the flame of a devouring fire, With scattering, tempest, and hailstones.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:31 @ For through the voice of the LORD Assyria will be beaten down, As He strikes with the rod.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:32 @ And in every place where the staff of punishment passes, Which the LORD lays on him, It will be with tambourines and harps; And in battles of brandishing He will fight with it.

nkjv@Isaiah:30:33 @ For Tophet was established of old, Yes, for the king it is prepared. He has made it deep and large; Its pyre is fire with much wood; The breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, Kindles it.

nkjv@Isaiah:31:1 @ Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, And rely on horses, Who trust in chariots because they are many, And in horsemen because they are very strong, But who do not look to the Holy One of Israel, Nor seek the LORD!

nkjv@Isaiah:31:2 @ Yet He also is wise and will bring disaster, And will not call back His words, But will arise against the house of evildoers, And against the help of those who work iniquity.

nkjv@Isaiah:31:3 @ Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; And their horses are flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, Both he who helps will fall, And he who is helped will fall down; They all will perish together.

nkjv@Isaiah:31:4 @ For thus the LORD has spoken to me: "As a lion roars, And a young lion over his prey (When a multitude of shepherds is summoned against him, He will not be afraid of their voice Nor be disturbed by their noise), So the LORD of hosts will come down To fight for Mount Zion and for its hill.

nkjv@Isaiah:31:5 @ Like birds flying about, So will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem. Defending, He will also deliver it; Passing over, He will preserve it."

nkjv@Isaiah:31:6 @ Return to Him against whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

nkjv@Isaiah:31:8 @ "Then Assyria shall fall by a sword not of man, And a sword not of mankind shall devour him. But he shall flee from the sword, And his young men shall become forced labor.

nkjv@Isaiah:31:9 @ He shall cross over to his stronghold for fear, And his princes shall be afraid of the banner," Says the LORD, Whose fire is in Zion And whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

nkjv@Isaiah:32:2 @ A man will be as a hiding place from the wind, And a cover from the tempest, As rivers of water in a dry place, As the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

nkjv@Isaiah:32:3 @ The eyes of those who see will not be dim, And the ears of those who hear will listen.

nkjv@Isaiah:32:4 @ Also the heart of the rash will understand knowledge, And the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly.

nkjv@Isaiah:32:5 @ The foolish person will no longer be called generous, Nor the miser said to be bountiful;

nkjv@Isaiah:32:6 @ For the foolish person will speak foolishness, And his heart will work iniquity: To practice ungodliness, To utter error against the LORD, To keep the hungry unsatisfied, And he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

nkjv@Isaiah:32:7 @ Also the schemes of the schemer are evil; He devises wicked plans To destroy the poor with lying words, Even when the needy speaks justice.

nkjv@Isaiah:32:10 @ In a year and some days You will be troubled, you complacent women; For the vintage will fail, The gathering will not come.

nkjv@Isaiah:32:12 @ People shall mourn upon their breasts For the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

nkjv@Isaiah:32:13 @ On the land of my people will come up thorns and briers, Yes, on all the happy homes in the joyous city;

nkjv@Isaiah:32:14 @ Because the palaces will be forsaken, The bustling city will be deserted. The forts and towers will become lairs forever, A joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks--

nkjv@Isaiah:32:15 @ Until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, And the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, And the fruitful field is counted as a forest.

nkjv@Isaiah:32:16 @ Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, And righteousness remain in the fruitful field.

nkjv@Isaiah:32:17 @ The work of righteousness will be peace, And the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever.

nkjv@Isaiah:32:19 @ Though hail comes down on the forest, And the city is brought low in humiliation.

nkjv@Isaiah:32:20 @ Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, Who send out freely the feet of the ox and the donkey.

nkjv@Isaiah:33:1 @ Woe to you who plunder, though you have not been plundered; And you who deal treacherously, though they have not dealt treacherously with you! When you cease plundering, You will be plundered; When you make an end of dealing treacherously, They will deal treacherously with you.

nkjv@Isaiah:33:2 @ O LORD, be gracious to us; We have waited for You. Be their arm every morning, Our salvation also in the time of trouble.

nkjv@Isaiah:33:3 @ At the noise of the tumult the people shall flee; When You lift Yourself up, the nations shall be scattered;

nkjv@Isaiah:33:4 @ And Your plunder shall be gathered Like the gathering of the caterpillar; As the running to and fro of locusts, He shall run upon them.

nkjv@Isaiah:33:5 @ The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

nkjv@Isaiah:33:6 @ Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times, And the strength of salvation; The fear of the LORD is His treasure.

nkjv@Isaiah:33:7 @ Surely their valiant ones shall cry outside, The ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.

nkjv@Isaiah:33:8 @ The highways lie waste, The traveling man ceases. He has broken the covenant, He has despised the cities, He regards no man.

nkjv@Isaiah:33:9 @ The earth mourns and languishes, Lebanon is shamed and shriveled; Sharon is like a wilderness, And Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.

nkjv@Isaiah:33:10 @ "Now I will rise," says the LORD; "Now I will be exalted, Now I will lift Myself up.

nkjv@Isaiah:33:12 @ And the people shall be like the burnings of lime; Like thorns cut up they shall be burned in the fire.

nkjv@Isaiah:33:14 @ The sinners in Zion are afraid; Fearfulness has seized the hypocrites: "Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?"

nkjv@Isaiah:33:15 @ He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, He who despises the gain of oppressions, Who gestures with his hands, refusing bribes, Who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, And shuts his eyes from seeing evil:

nkjv@Isaiah:33:16 @ He will dwell on high; His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks; Bread will be given him, His water will be sure.

nkjv@Isaiah:33:17 @ Your eyes will see the King in His beauty; They will see the land that is very far off.

nkjv@Isaiah:33:18 @ Your heart will meditate on terror: "Where is the scribe? Where is he who weighs? Where is he who counts the towers?"

nkjv@Isaiah:33:20 @ Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts; Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet home, A tabernacle that will not be taken down; Not one of its stakes will ever be removed, Nor will any of its cords be broken.

nkjv@Isaiah:33:21 @ But there the majestic LORD will be for us A place of broad rivers and streams, In which no galley with oars will sail, Nor majestic ships pass by

nkjv@Isaiah:33:22 @ (For the LORD is our Judge, The LORD is our Lawgiver, The LORD is our King; He will save us);

nkjv@Isaiah:33:23 @ Your tackle is loosed, They could not strengthen their mast, They could not spread the sail. Then the prey of great plunder is divided; The lame take the prey.

nkjv@Isaiah:33:24 @ And the inhabitant will not say, "I am sick"; The people who dwell in it will be forgiven their iniquity.

nkjv@Isaiah:34:1 @ Come near, you nations, to hear; And heed, you people! Let the earth hear, and all that is in it, The world and all things that come forth from it.

nkjv@Isaiah:34:2 @ For the indignation of the LORD is against all nations, And His fury against all their armies; He has utterly destroyed them, He has given them over to the slaughter.

nkjv@Isaiah:34:3 @ Also their slain shall be thrown out; Their stench shall rise from their corpses, And the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

nkjv@Isaiah:34:4 @ All the host of heaven shall be dissolved, And the heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll; All their host shall fall down As the leaf falls from the vine, And as fruit falling from a fig tree.

nkjv@Isaiah:34:5 @ "For My sword shall be bathed in heaven; Indeed it shall come down on Edom, And on the people of My curse, for judgment.

nkjv@Isaiah:34:6 @ The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, It is made overflowing with fatness, With the blood of lambs and goats, With the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

nkjv@Isaiah:34:7 @ The wild oxen shall come down with them, And the young bulls with the mighty bulls; Their land shall be soaked with blood, And their dust saturated with fatness."

nkjv@Isaiah:34:8 @ For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, The year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

nkjv@Isaiah:34:11 @ But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it, Also the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. And He shall stretch out over it The line of confusion and the stones of emptiness.

nkjv@Isaiah:34:12 @ They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, But none shall be there, and all its princes shall be nothing.

nkjv@Isaiah:34:14 @ The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the jackals, And the wild goat shall bleat to its companion; Also the night creature shall rest there, And find for herself a place of rest.

nkjv@Isaiah:34:15 @ There the arrow snake shall make her nest and lay eggs And hatch, and gather them under her shadow; There also shall the hawks be gathered, Every one with her mate.

nkjv@Isaiah:34:16 @ "Search from the book of the LORD, and read: Not one of these shall fail; Not one shall lack her mate. For My mouth has commanded it, and His Spirit has gathered them.

nkjv@Isaiah:34:17 @ He has cast the lot for them, And His hand has divided it among them with a measuring line. They shall possess it forever; From generation to generation they shall dwell in it."

nkjv@Isaiah:35:1 @ The wilderness and the wasteland shall be glad for them, And the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose;

nkjv@Isaiah:35:2 @ It shall blossom abundantly and rejoice, Even with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, The excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of the LORD, The excellency of our God.

nkjv@Isaiah:35:3 @ Strengthen the weak hands, And make firm the feeble knees.

nkjv@Isaiah:35:4 @ Say to those who are fearful-hearted, "Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, With the recompense of God; He will come and save you."

nkjv@Isaiah:35:5 @ Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, And the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.

nkjv@Isaiah:35:6 @ Then the lame shall leap like a deer, And the tongue of the dumb sing. For waters shall burst forth in the wilderness, And streams in the desert.

nkjv@Isaiah:35:7 @ The parched ground shall become a pool, And the thirsty land springs of water; In the habitation of jackals, where each lay, There shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

nkjv@Isaiah:35:8 @ A highway shall be there, and a road, And it shall be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it, But it shall be for others. Whoever walks the road, although a fool, Shall not go astray.

nkjv@Isaiah:35:9 @ No lion shall be there, Nor shall any ravenous beast go up on it; It shall not be found there. But the redeemed shall walk there,

nkjv@Isaiah:35:10 @ And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, And come to Zion with singing, With everlasting joy on their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness, And sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

nkjv@Isaiah:36:1 @ Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.

nkjv@Isaiah:36:2 @ Then the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And he stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool, on the highway to the Fuller's Field.

nkjv@Isaiah:36:3 @ And Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to him.

nkjv@Isaiah:36:4 @ Then the Rabshakeh said to them, "Say now to Hezekiah, "Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: "What confidence is this in which you trust?

nkjv@Isaiah:36:5 @ I say you speak of having plans and power for war; but they are mere words. Now in whom do you trust, that you rebel against me?

nkjv@Isaiah:36:6 @ Look! You are trusting in the staff of this broken reed, Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

nkjv@Isaiah:36:7 @ "But if you say to me, "We trust in the LORD our God,' is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah and Jerusalem, "You shall worship before this altar'?"'

nkjv@Isaiah:36:8 @ Now therefore, I urge you, give a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses--if you are able on your part to put riders on them!

nkjv@Isaiah:36:9 @ How then will you repel one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

nkjv@Isaiah:36:10 @ Have I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? The LORD said to me, "Go up against this land, and destroy it."'

nkjv@Isaiah:36:11 @ Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people who are on the wall."

nkjv@Isaiah:36:12 @ But the Rabshakeh said, "Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat and drink their own waste with you?"

nkjv@Isaiah:36:13 @ Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out with a loud voice in Hebrew, and said, "Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!

nkjv@Isaiah:36:14 @ Thus says the king: "Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you;

nkjv@Isaiah:36:15 @ nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, "The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."'

nkjv@Isaiah:36:16 @ Do not listen to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria: "Make peace with me by a present and come out to me; and every one of you eat from his own vine and every one from his own fig tree, and every one of you drink the waters of his own cistern;

nkjv@Isaiah:36:18 @ Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, "The LORD will deliver us." Has any one of the gods of the nations delivered its land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

nkjv@Isaiah:36:19 @ Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Indeed, have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

nkjv@Isaiah:36:20 @ Who among all the gods of these lands have delivered their countries from my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem from my hand?"'

nkjv@Isaiah:36:21 @ But they held their peace and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, "Do not answer him."

nkjv@Isaiah:36:22 @ Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:1 @ And so it was, when King Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:2 @ Then he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:3 @ And they said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah: "This day is a day of trouble and rebuke and blasphemy; for the children have come to birth, but there is no strength to bring them forth.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:4 @ It may be that the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left."'

nkjv@Isaiah:37:5 @ So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:6 @ And Isaiah said to them, "Thus you shall say to your master, "Thus says the LORD: "Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:7 @ Surely I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.""'

nkjv@Isaiah:37:8 @ Then the Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he heard that he had departed from Lachish.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:9 @ And the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, "He has come out to make war with you." So when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

nkjv@Isaiah:37:10 @ "Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying: "Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, "Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."

nkjv@Isaiah:37:11 @ Look! You have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by utterly destroying them; and shall you be delivered?

nkjv@Isaiah:37:12 @ Have the gods of the nations delivered those whom my fathers have destroyed, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?

nkjv@Isaiah:37:13 @ Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?"'

nkjv@Isaiah:37:14 @ And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:15 @ Then Hezekiah prayed to the LORD, saying:

nkjv@Isaiah:37:16 @ "O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, the One who dwells between the cherubim, You are God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:17 @ Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the living God.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:18 @ Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands,

nkjv@Isaiah:37:19 @ and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were not gods, but the work of men's hands--wood and stone. Therefore they destroyed them.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:20 @ Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are the LORD, You alone."

nkjv@Isaiah:37:21 @ Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel, "Because you have prayed to Me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,

nkjv@Isaiah:37:22 @ this is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning him: "The virgin, the daughter of Zion, Has despised you, laughed you to scorn; The daughter of Jerusalem Has shaken her head behind your back!

nkjv@Isaiah:37:23 @ "Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice, And lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:24 @ By your servants you have reproached the Lord, And said, "By the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, To the limits of Lebanon; I will cut down its tall cedars And its choice cypress trees; I will enter its farthest height, To its fruitful forest.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:25 @ I have dug and drunk water, And with the soles of my feet I have dried up All the brooks of defense.'

nkjv@Isaiah:37:27 @ Therefore their inhabitants had little power; They were dismayed and confounded; They were as the grass of the field And the green herb, As the grass on the housetops And grain blighted before it is grown.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:29 @ Because your rage against Me and your tumult Have come up to My ears, Therefore I will put My hook in your nose And My bridle in your lips, And I will turn you back By the way which you came."'

nkjv@Isaiah:37:30 @ "This shall be a sign to you: You shall eat this year such as grows of itself, And the second year what springs from the same; Also in the third year sow and reap, Plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:31 @ And the remnant who have escaped of the house of Judah Shall again take root downward, And bear fruit upward.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:32 @ For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, And those who escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:33 @ "Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: "He shall not come into this city, Nor shoot an arrow there, Nor come before it with shield, Nor build a siege mound against it.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:34 @ By the way that he came, By the same shall he return; And he shall not come into this city,' Says the LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:36 @ Then the angel of the LORD went out, and killed in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when people arose early in the morning, there were the corpses--all dead.

nkjv@Isaiah:37:38 @ Now it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Then Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.

nkjv@Isaiah:38:1 @ In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said to him, "Thus says the LORD: "Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live."'

nkjv@Isaiah:38:2 @ Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the LORD,

nkjv@Isaiah:38:4 @ And the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying,

nkjv@Isaiah:38:5 @ "Go and tell Hezekiah, "Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: "I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will add to your days fifteen years.

nkjv@Isaiah:38:6 @ I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city."'

nkjv@Isaiah:38:7 @ And this is the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing which He has spoken:

nkjv@Isaiah:38:8 @ Behold, I will bring the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down with the sun on the sundial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward." So the sun returned ten degrees on the dial by which it had gone down.

nkjv@Isaiah:38:9 @ This is the writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:

nkjv@Isaiah:38:10 @ I said, "In the prime of my life I shall go to the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the remainder of my years."

nkjv@Isaiah:38:11 @ I said, "I shall not see Yah, The LORD in the land of the living; I shall observe man no more among the inhabitants of the world.

nkjv@Isaiah:38:12 @ My life span is gone, Taken from me like a shepherd's tent; I have cut off my life like a weaver. He cuts me off from the loom; From day until night You make an end of me.

nkjv@Isaiah:38:15 @ "What shall I say? He has both spoken to me, And He Himself has done it. I shall walk carefully all my years In the bitterness of my soul.

nkjv@Isaiah:38:16 @ O Lord, by these things men live; And in all these things is the life of my spirit; So You will restore me and make me live.

nkjv@Isaiah:38:17 @ Indeed it was for my own peace That I had great bitterness; But You have lovingly delivered my soul from the pit of corruption, For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

nkjv@Isaiah:38:18 @ For Sheol cannot thank You, Death cannot praise You; Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your truth.

nkjv@Isaiah:38:19 @ The living, the living man, he shall praise You, As I do this day; The father shall make known Your truth to the children.

nkjv@Isaiah:38:20 @ "The LORD was ready to save me; Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments All the days of our life, in the house of the LORD."

nkjv@Isaiah:38:21 @ Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a lump of figs, and apply it as a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover."

nkjv@Isaiah:38:22 @ And Hezekiah had said, "What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?"

nkjv@Isaiah:39:1 @ At that time Merodach-Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered.

nkjv@Isaiah:39:2 @ And Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house of his treasures--the silver and gold, the spices and precious ointment, and all his armory--all that was found among his treasures. There was nothing in his house or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.

nkjv@Isaiah:39:3 @ Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah, and said to him, "What did these men say, and from where did they come to you?" So Hezekiah said, "They came to me from a far country, from Babylon."

nkjv@Isaiah:39:4 @ And he said, "What have they seen in your house?" So Hezekiah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them."

nkjv@Isaiah:39:5 @ Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of the LORD of hosts:

nkjv@Isaiah:39:6 @ "Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and what your fathers have accumulated until this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left,' says the LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:39:7 @ "And they shall take away some of your sons who will descend from you, whom you will beget; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon."'

nkjv@Isaiah:39:8 @ So Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The word of the LORD which you have spoken is good!" For he said, "At least there will be peace and truth in my days."

nkjv@Isaiah:40:2 @ "Speak comfort to Jerusalem, and cry out to her, That her warfare is ended, That her iniquity is pardoned; For she has received from the LORD's hand Double for all her sins."

nkjv@Isaiah:40:3 @ The voice of one crying in the wilderness: "Prepare the way of the LORD; Make straight in the desert A highway for our God.

nkjv@Isaiah:40:4 @ Every valley shall be exalted And every mountain and hill brought low; The crooked places shall be made straight And the rough places smooth;

nkjv@Isaiah:40:5 @ The glory of the LORD shall be revealed, And all flesh shall see it together; For the mouth of the LORD has spoken."

nkjv@Isaiah:40:6 @ The voice said, "Cry out!" And he said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh is grass, And all its loveliness is like the flower of the field.

nkjv@Isaiah:40:7 @ The grass withers, the flower fades, Because the breath of the LORD blows upon it; Surely the people are grass.

nkjv@Isaiah:40:8 @ The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever."

nkjv@Isaiah:40:9 @ O Zion, You who bring good tidings, Get up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, You who bring good tidings, Lift up your voice with strength, Lift it up, be not afraid; Say to the cities of Judah, "Behold your God!"

nkjv@Isaiah:40:10 @ Behold, the Lord GOD shall come with a strong hand, And His arm shall rule for Him; Behold, His reward is with Him, And His work before Him.

nkjv@Isaiah:40:11 @ He will feed His flock like a shepherd; He will gather the lambs with His arm, And carry them in His bosom, And gently lead those who are with young.

nkjv@Isaiah:40:12 @ Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, Measured heaven with a span And calculated the dust of the earth in a measure? Weighed the mountains in scales And the hills in a balance?

nkjv@Isaiah:40:13 @ Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, Or as His counselor has taught Him?

nkjv@Isaiah:40:14 @ With whom did He take counsel, and who instructed Him, And taught Him in the path of justice? Who taught Him knowledge, And showed Him the way of understanding?

nkjv@Isaiah:40:15 @ Behold, the nations are as a drop in a bucket, And are counted as the small dust on the scales; Look, He lifts up the isles as a very little thing.

nkjv@Isaiah:40:17 @ All nations before Him are as nothing, And they are counted by Him less than nothing and worthless.

nkjv@Isaiah:40:18 @ To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to Him?

nkjv@Isaiah:40:19 @ The workman molds an image, The goldsmith overspreads it with gold, And the silversmith casts silver chains.

nkjv@Isaiah:40:21 @ Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

nkjv@Isaiah:40:22 @ It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

nkjv@Isaiah:40:23 @ He brings the princes to nothing; He makes the judges of the earth useless.

nkjv@Isaiah:40:24 @ Scarcely shall they be planted, Scarcely shall they be sown, Scarcely shall their stock take root in the earth, When He will also blow on them, And they will wither, And the whirlwind will take them away like stubble.

nkjv@Isaiah:40:25 @ "To whom then will you liken Me, Or to whom shall I be equal?" says the Holy One.

nkjv@Isaiah:40:26 @ Lift up your eyes on high, And see who has created these things, Who brings out their host by number; He calls them all by name, By the greatness of His might And the strength of His power; Not one is missing.

nkjv@Isaiah:40:27 @ Why do you say, O Jacob, And speak, O Israel: "My way is hidden from the LORD, And my just claim is passed over by my God"?

nkjv@Isaiah:40:28 @ Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the LORD, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

nkjv@Isaiah:40:29 @ He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases strength.

nkjv@Isaiah:40:30 @ Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall,

nkjv@Isaiah:40:31 @ But those who wait on the LORD Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:1 @ "Keep silence before Me, O coastlands, And let the people renew their strength! Let them come near, then let them speak; Let us come near together for judgment.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:2 @ "Who raised up one from the east? Who in righteousness called him to His feet? Who gave the nations before him, And made him rule over kings? Who gave them as the dust to his sword, As driven stubble to his bow?

nkjv@Isaiah:41:3 @ Who pursued them, and passed safely By the way that he had not gone with his feet?

nkjv@Isaiah:41:4 @ Who has performed and done it, Calling the generations from the beginning? "I, the LORD, am the first; And with the last I am He."'

nkjv@Isaiah:41:5 @ The coastlands saw it and feared, The ends of the earth were afraid; They drew near and came.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:6 @ Everyone helped his neighbor, And said to his brother, "Be of good courage!"

nkjv@Isaiah:41:7 @ So the craftsman encouraged the goldsmith; He who smooths with the hammer inspired him who strikes the anvil, Saying, "It is ready for the soldering"; Then he fastened it with pegs, That it might not totter.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:8 @ "But you, Israel, are My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, The descendants of Abraham My friend.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:9 @ You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, And called from its farthest regions, And said to you, "You are My servant, I have chosen you and have not cast you away:

nkjv@Isaiah:41:10 @ Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.'

nkjv@Isaiah:41:11 @ "Behold, all those who were incensed against you Shall be ashamed and disgraced; They shall be as nothing, And those who strive with you shall perish.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:12 @ You shall seek them and not find them-- Those who contended with you. Those who war against you Shall be as nothing, As a nonexistent thing.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:13 @ For I, the LORD your God, will hold your right hand, Saying to you, "Fear not, I will help you.'

nkjv@Isaiah:41:14 @ "Fear not, you worm Jacob, You men of Israel! I will help you," says the LORD And your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:15 @ "Behold, I will make you into a new threshing sledge with sharp teeth; You shall thresh the mountains and beat them small, And make the hills like chaff.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:16 @ You shall winnow them, the wind shall carry them away, And the whirlwind shall scatter them; You shall rejoice in the LORD, And glory in the Holy One of Israel.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:17 @ "The poor and needy seek water, but there is none, Their tongues fail for thirst. I, the LORD, will hear them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:18 @ I will open rivers in desolate heights, And fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, And the dry land springs of water.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:19 @ I will plant in the wilderness the cedar and the acacia tree, The myrtle and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the cypress tree and the pine And the box tree together,

nkjv@Isaiah:41:20 @ That they may see and know, And consider and understand together, That the hand of the LORD has done this, And the Holy One of Israel has created it.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:21 @ "Present your case," says the LORD. "Bring forth your strong reasons," says the King of Jacob.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:22 @ "Let them bring forth and show us what will happen; Let them show the former things, what they were, That we may consider them, And know the latter end of them; Or declare to us things to come.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:23 @ Show the things that are to come hereafter, That we may know that you are gods; Yes, do good or do evil, That we may be dismayed and see it together.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:25 @ "I have raised up one from the north, And he shall come; From the rising of the sun he shall call on My name; And he shall come against princes as though mortar, As the potter treads clay.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:26 @ Who has declared from the beginning, that we may know? And former times, that we may say, "He is righteous'? Surely there is no one who shows, Surely there is no one who declares, Surely there is no one who hears your words.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:27 @ The first time I said to Zion, "Look, there they are!' And I will give to Jerusalem one who brings good tidings.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:28 @ For I looked, and there was no man; I looked among them, but there was no counselor, Who, when I asked of them, could answer a word.

nkjv@Isaiah:41:29 @ Indeed they are all worthless; Their works are nothing; Their molded images are wind and confusion.

nkjv@Isaiah:42:1 @ "Behold! My Servant whom I uphold, My Elect One in whom My soul delights! I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.

nkjv@Isaiah:42:2 @ He will not cry out, nor raise His voice, Nor cause His voice to be heard in the street.

nkjv@Isaiah:42:4 @ He will not fail nor be discouraged, Till He has established justice in the earth; And the coastlands shall wait for His law."

nkjv@Isaiah:42:5 @ Thus says God the LORD, Who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it, Who gives breath to the people on it, And spirit to those who walk on it:

nkjv@Isaiah:42:6 @ "I, the LORD, have called You in righteousness, And will hold Your hand; I will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people, As a light to the Gentiles,

nkjv@Isaiah:42:7 @ To open blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the prison, Those who sit in darkness from the prison house.

nkjv@Isaiah:42:8 @ I am the LORD, that is My name; And My glory I will not give to another, Nor My praise to carved images.

nkjv@Isaiah:42:9 @ Behold, the former things have come to pass, And new things I declare; Before they spring forth I tell you of them."

nkjv@Isaiah:42:10 @ Sing to the LORD a new song, And His praise from the ends of the earth, You who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, You coastlands and you inhabitants of them!

nkjv@Isaiah:42:11 @ Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voice, The villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing, Let them shout from the top of the mountains.

nkjv@Isaiah:42:12 @ Let them give glory to the LORD, And declare His praise in the coastlands.

nkjv@Isaiah:42:13 @ The LORD shall go forth like a mighty man; He shall stir up His zeal like a man of war. He shall cry out, yes, shout aloud; He shall prevail against His enemies.

nkjv@Isaiah:42:15 @ I will lay waste the mountains and hills, And dry up all their vegetation; I will make the rivers coastlands, And I will dry up the pools.

nkjv@Isaiah:42:16 @ I will bring the blind by a way they did not know; I will lead them in paths they have not known. I will make darkness light before them, And crooked places straight. These things I will do for them, And not forsake them.

nkjv@Isaiah:42:17 @ They shall be turned back, They shall be greatly ashamed, Who trust in carved images, Who say to the molded images, "You are our gods.'

nkjv@Isaiah:42:19 @ Who is blind but My servant, Or deaf as My messenger whom I send? Who is blind as he who is perfect, And blind as the LORD's servant?

nkjv@Isaiah:42:20 @ Seeing many things, but you do not observe; Opening the ears, but he does not hear."

nkjv@Isaiah:42:21 @ The LORD is well pleased for His righteousness' sake; He will exalt the law and make it honorable.

nkjv@Isaiah:42:22 @ But this is a people robbed and plundered; All of them are snared in holes, And they are hidden in prison houses; They are for prey, and no one delivers; For plunder, and no one says, "Restore!"

nkjv@Isaiah:42:23 @ Who among you will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come?

nkjv@Isaiah:42:24 @ Who gave Jacob for plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Was it not the LORD, He against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in His ways, Nor were they obedient to His law.

nkjv@Isaiah:42:25 @ Therefore He has poured on him the fury of His anger And the strength of battle; It has set him on fire all around, Yet he did not know; And it burned him, Yet he did not take it to heart.

nkjv@Isaiah:43:1 @ But now, thus says the LORD, who created you, O Jacob, And He who formed you, O Israel: "Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; You are Mine.

nkjv@Isaiah:43:2 @ When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, Nor shall the flame scorch you.

nkjv@Isaiah:43:3 @ For I am the LORD your God, The Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I gave Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.

nkjv@Isaiah:43:4 @ Since you were precious in My sight, You have been honored, And I have loved you; Therefore I will give men for you, And people for your life.

nkjv@Isaiah:43:5 @ Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your descendants from the east, And gather you from the west;

nkjv@Isaiah:43:6 @ I will say to the north, "Give them up!' And to the south, "Do not keep them back!' Bring My sons from afar, And My daughters from the ends of the earth--

nkjv@Isaiah:43:8 @ Bring out the blind people who have eyes, And the deaf who have ears.

nkjv@Isaiah:43:9 @ Let all the nations be gathered together, And let the people be assembled. Who among them can declare this, And show us former things? Let them bring out their witnesses, that they may be justified; Or let them hear and say, "It is truth."

nkjv@Isaiah:43:10 @ "You are My witnesses," says the LORD, "And My servant whom I have chosen, That you may know and believe Me, And understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, Nor shall there be after Me.

nkjv@Isaiah:43:11 @ I, even I, am the LORD, And besides Me there is no savior.

nkjv@Isaiah:43:12 @ I have declared and saved, I have proclaimed, And there was no foreign god among you; Therefore you are My witnesses," Says the LORD, "that I am God.

nkjv@Isaiah:43:13 @ Indeed before the day was, I am He; And there is no one who can deliver out of My hand; I work, and who will reverse it?"

nkjv@Isaiah:43:14 @ Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel: "For your sake I will send to Babylon, And bring them all down as fugitives-- The Chaldeans, who rejoice in their ships.

nkjv@Isaiah:43:15 @ I am the LORD, your Holy One, The Creator of Israel, your King."

nkjv@Isaiah:43:16 @ Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea And a path through the mighty waters,

nkjv@Isaiah:43:17 @ Who brings forth the chariot and horse, The army and the power (They shall lie down together, they shall not rise; They are extinguished, they are quenched like a wick):

nkjv@Isaiah:43:18 @ "Do not remember the former things, Nor consider the things of old.

nkjv@Isaiah:43:19 @ Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness And rivers in the desert.

nkjv@Isaiah:43:20 @ The beast of the field will honor Me, The jackals and the ostriches, Because I give waters in the wilderness And rivers in the desert, To give drink to My people, My chosen.

nkjv@Isaiah:43:21 @ This people I have formed for Myself; They shall declare My praise.

nkjv@Isaiah:43:23 @ You have not brought Me the sheep for your burnt offerings, Nor have you honored Me with your sacrifices. I have not caused you to serve with grain offerings, Nor wearied you with incense.

nkjv@Isaiah:43:24 @ You have bought Me no sweet cane with money, Nor have you satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices; But you have burdened Me with your sins, You have wearied Me with your iniquities.

nkjv@Isaiah:43:26 @ Put Me in remembrance; Let us contend together; State your case, that you may be acquitted.

nkjv@Isaiah:43:27 @ Your first father sinned, And your mediators have transgressed against Me.

nkjv@Isaiah:43:28 @ Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; I will give Jacob to the curse, And Israel to reproaches.

nkjv@Isaiah:44:2 @ Thus says the LORD who made you And formed you from the womb, who will help you: "Fear not, O Jacob My servant; And you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

nkjv@Isaiah:44:3 @ For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, And floods on the dry ground; I will pour My Spirit on your descendants, And My blessing on your offspring;

nkjv@Isaiah:44:4 @ They will spring up among the grass Like willows by the watercourses.'

nkjv@Isaiah:44:5 @ One will say, "I am the LORD's'; Another will call himself by the name of Jacob; Another will write with his hand, "The LORD's,' And name himself by the name of Israel.

nkjv@Isaiah:44:6 @ "Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel, And his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: "I am the First and I am the Last; Besides Me there is no God.

nkjv@Isaiah:44:7 @ And who can proclaim as I do? Then let him declare it and set it in order for Me, Since I appointed the ancient people. And the things that are coming and shall come, Let them show these to them.

nkjv@Isaiah:44:8 @ Do not fear, nor be afraid; Have I not told you from that time, and declared it? You are My witnesses. Is there a God besides Me? Indeed there is no other Rock; I know not one."'

nkjv@Isaiah:44:9 @ Those who make an image, all of them are useless, And their precious things shall not profit; They are their own witnesses; They neither see nor know, that they may be ashamed.

nkjv@Isaiah:44:11 @ Surely all his companions would be ashamed; And the workmen, they are mere men. Let them all be gathered together, Let them stand up; Yet they shall fear, They shall be ashamed together.

nkjv@Isaiah:44:12 @ The blacksmith with the tongs works one in the coals, Fashions it with hammers, And works it with the strength of his arms. Even so, he is hungry, and his strength fails; He drinks no water and is faint.

nkjv@Isaiah:44:13 @ The craftsman stretches out his rule, He marks one out with chalk; He fashions it with a plane, He marks it out with the compass, And makes it like the figure of a man, According to the beauty of a man, that it may remain in the house.

nkjv@Isaiah:44:14 @ He cuts down cedars for himself, And takes the cypress and the oak; He secures it for himself among the trees of the forest. He plants a pine, and the rain nourishes it.

nkjv@Isaiah:44:15 @ Then it shall be for a man to burn, For he will take some of it and warm himself; Yes, he kindles it and bakes bread; Indeed he makes a god and worships it; He makes it a carved image, and falls down to it.

nkjv@Isaiah:44:16 @ He burns half of it in the fire; With this half he eats meat; He roasts a roast, and is satisfied. He even warms himself and says, "Ah! I am warm, I have seen the fire."

nkjv@Isaiah:44:17 @ And the rest of it he makes into a god, His carved image. He falls down before it and worships it, Prays to it and says, "Deliver me, for you are my god!"

nkjv@Isaiah:44:18 @ They do not know nor understand; For He has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, And their hearts, so that they cannot understand.

nkjv@Isaiah:44:19 @ And no one considers in his heart, Nor is there knowledge nor understanding to say, "I have burned half of it in the fire, Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals; I have roasted meat and eaten it; And shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?"

nkjv@Isaiah:44:20 @ He feeds on ashes; A deceived heart has turned him aside; And he cannot deliver his soul, Nor say, "Is there not a lie in my right hand?"

nkjv@Isaiah:44:21 @ "Remember these, O Jacob, And Israel, for you are My servant; I have formed you, you are My servant; O Israel, you will not be forgotten by Me!

nkjv@Isaiah:44:23 @ Sing, O heavens, for the LORD has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth; Break forth into singing, you mountains, O forest, and every tree in it! For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, And glorified Himself in Israel.

nkjv@Isaiah:44:24 @ Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, And He who formed you from the womb: "I am the LORD, who makes all things, Who stretches out the heavens all alone, Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself;

nkjv@Isaiah:44:25 @ Who frustrates the signs of the babblers, And drives diviners mad; Who turns wise men backward, And makes their knowledge foolishness;

nkjv@Isaiah:44:26 @ Who confirms the word of His servant, And performs the counsel of His messengers; Who says to Jerusalem, "You shall be inhabited,' To the cities of Judah, "You shall be built,' And I will raise up her waste places;

nkjv@Isaiah:44:27 @ Who says to the deep, "Be dry! And I will dry up your rivers';

nkjv@Isaiah:44:28 @ Who says of Cyrus, "He is My shepherd, And he shall perform all My pleasure, Saying to Jerusalem, "You shall be built," And to the temple, "Your foundation shall be laid."'

nkjv@Isaiah:45:1 @ "Thus says the LORD to His anointed, To Cyrus, whose right hand I have held-- To subdue nations before him And loose the armor of kings, To open before him the double doors, So that the gates will not be shut:

nkjv@Isaiah:45:2 @ "I will go before you And make the crooked places straight; I will break in pieces the gates of bronze And cut the bars of iron.

nkjv@Isaiah:45:3 @ I will give you the treasures of darkness And hidden riches of secret places, That you may know that I, the LORD, Who call you by your name, Am the God of Israel.

nkjv@Isaiah:45:5 @ I am the LORD, and there is no other; There is no God besides Me. I will gird you, though you have not known Me,

nkjv@Isaiah:45:6 @ That they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting That there is none besides Me. I am the LORD, and there is no other;

nkjv@Isaiah:45:7 @ I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity; I, the LORD, do all these things.'

nkjv@Isaiah:45:8 @ "Rain down, you heavens, from above, And let the skies pour down righteousness; Let the earth open, let them bring forth salvation, And let righteousness spring up together. I, the LORD, have created it.

nkjv@Isaiah:45:9 @ "Woe to him who strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him who forms it, "What are you making?' Or shall your handiwork say, "He has no hands'?

nkjv@Isaiah:45:10 @ Woe to him who says to his father, "What are you begetting?' Or to the woman, "What have you brought forth?"'

nkjv@Isaiah:45:11 @ Thus says the LORD, The Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: "Ask Me of things to come concerning My sons; And concerning the work of My hands, you command Me.

nkjv@Isaiah:45:12 @ I have made the earth, And created man on it. I--My hands--stretched out the heavens, And all their host I have commanded.

nkjv@Isaiah:45:13 @ I have raised him up in righteousness, And I will direct all his ways; He shall build My city And let My exiles go free, Not for price nor reward," Says the LORD of hosts.

nkjv@Isaiah:45:14 @ Thus says the LORD: "The labor of Egypt and merchandise of Cush And of the Sabeans, men of stature, Shall come over to you, and they shall be yours; They shall walk behind you, They shall come over in chains; And they shall bow down to you. They will make supplication to you, saying, "Surely God is in you, And there is no other; There is no other God."'

nkjv@Isaiah:45:15 @ Truly You are God, who hide Yourself, O God of Israel, the Savior!

nkjv@Isaiah:45:16 @ They shall be ashamed And also disgraced, all of them; They shall go in confusion together, Who are makers of idols.

nkjv@Isaiah:45:17 @ But Israel shall be saved by the LORD With an everlasting salvation; You shall not be ashamed or disgraced Forever and ever.

nkjv@Isaiah:45:18 @ For thus says the LORD, Who created the heavens, Who is God, Who formed the earth and made it, Who has established it, Who did not create it in vain, Who formed it to be inhabited: "I am the LORD, and there is no other.

nkjv@Isaiah:45:19 @ I have not spoken in secret, In a dark place of the earth; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, "Seek Me in vain'; I, the LORD, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

nkjv@Isaiah:45:20 @ "Assemble yourselves and come; Draw near together, You who have escaped from the nations. They have no knowledge, Who carry the wood of their carved image, And pray to a god that cannot save.

nkjv@Isaiah:45:21 @ Tell and bring forth your case; Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has declared this from ancient time? Who has told it from that time? Have not I, the LORD? And there is no other God besides Me, A just God and a Savior; There is none besides Me.

nkjv@Isaiah:45:22 @ "Look to Me, and be saved, All you ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.

nkjv@Isaiah:45:23 @ I have sworn by Myself; The word has gone out of My mouth in righteousness, And shall not return, That to Me every knee shall bow, Every tongue shall take an oath.

nkjv@Isaiah:45:24 @ He shall say, "Surely in the LORD I have righteousness and strength. To Him men shall come, And all shall be ashamed Who are incensed against Him.

nkjv@Isaiah:45:25 @ In the LORD all the descendants of Israel Shall be justified, and shall glory."'

nkjv@Isaiah:46:1 @ Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; Their idols were on the beasts and on the cattle. Your carriages were heavily loaded, A burden to the weary beast.

nkjv@Isaiah:46:2 @ They stoop, they bow down together; They could not deliver the burden, But have themselves gone into captivity.

nkjv@Isaiah:46:3 @ "Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, And all the remnant of the house of Israel, Who have been upheld by Me from birth, Who have been carried from the womb:

nkjv@Isaiah:46:6 @ They lavish gold out of the bag, And weigh silver on the scales; They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god; They prostrate themselves, yes, they worship.

nkjv@Isaiah:46:7 @ They bear it on the shoulder, they carry it And set it in its place, and it stands; From its place it shall not move. Though one cries out to it, yet it cannot answer Nor save him out of his trouble.

nkjv@Isaiah:46:9 @ Remember the former things of old, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me,

nkjv@Isaiah:46:10 @ Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things that are not yet done, Saying, "My counsel shall stand, And I will do all My pleasure,'

nkjv@Isaiah:46:11 @ Calling a bird of prey from the east, The man who executes My counsel, from a far country. Indeed I have spoken it; I will also bring it to pass. I have purposed it; I will also do it.

nkjv@Isaiah:47:1 @ "Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; Sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called Tender and delicate.

nkjv@Isaiah:47:2 @ Take the millstones and grind meal. Remove your veil, Take off the skirt, Uncover the thigh, Pass through the rivers.

nkjv@Isaiah:47:4 @ As for our Redeemer, the LORD of hosts is His name, The Holy One of Israel.

nkjv@Isaiah:47:5 @ "Sit in silence, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; For you shall no longer be called The Lady of Kingdoms.

nkjv@Isaiah:47:6 @ I was angry with My people; I have profaned My inheritance, And given them into your hand. You showed them no mercy; On the elderly you laid your yoke very heavily.

nkjv@Isaiah:47:7 @ And you said, "I shall be a lady forever,' So that you did not take these things to heart, Nor remember the latter end of them.

nkjv@Isaiah:47:8 @ "Therefore hear this now, you who are given to pleasures, Who dwell securely, Who say in your heart, "I am, and there is no one else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, Nor shall I know the loss of children';

nkjv@Isaiah:47:9 @ But these two things shall come to you In a moment, in one day: The loss of children, and widowhood. They shall come upon you in their fullness Because of the multitude of your sorceries, For the great abundance of your enchantments.

nkjv@Isaiah:47:10 @ "For you have trusted in your wickedness; You have said, "No one sees me'; Your wisdom and your knowledge have warped you; And you have said in your heart, "I am, and there is no one else besides me.'

nkjv@Isaiah:47:11 @ Therefore evil shall come upon you; You shall not know from where it arises. And trouble shall fall upon you; You will not be able to put it off. And desolation shall come upon you suddenly, Which you shall not know.

nkjv@Isaiah:47:12 @ "Stand now with your enchantments And the multitude of your sorceries, In which you have labored from your youth-- Perhaps you will be able to profit, Perhaps you will prevail.

nkjv@Isaiah:47:13 @ You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels; Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, And the monthly prognosticators Stand up and save you From what shall come upon you.

nkjv@Isaiah:47:14 @ Behold, they shall be as stubble, The fire shall burn them; They shall not deliver themselves From the power of the flame; It shall not be a coal to be warmed by, Nor a fire to sit before!

nkjv@Isaiah:47:15 @ Thus shall they be to you With whom you have labored, Your merchants from your youth; They shall wander each one to his quarter. No one shall save you.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:1 @ "Hear this, O house of Jacob, Who are called by the name of Israel, And have come forth from the wellsprings of Judah; Who swear by the name of the LORD, And make mention of the God of Israel, But not in truth or in righteousness;

nkjv@Isaiah:48:2 @ For they call themselves after the holy city, And lean on the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is His name:

nkjv@Isaiah:48:3 @ "I have declared the former things from the beginning; They went forth from My mouth, and I caused them to hear it. Suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:5 @ Even from the beginning I have declared it to you; Before it came to pass I proclaimed it to you, Lest you should say, "My idol has done them, And my carved image and my molded image Have commanded them.'

nkjv@Isaiah:48:6 @ "You have heard; See all this. And will you not declare it? I have made you hear new things from this time, Even hidden things, and you did not know them.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:7 @ They are created now and not from the beginning; And before this day you have not heard them, Lest you should say, "Of course I knew them.'

nkjv@Isaiah:48:8 @ Surely you did not hear, Surely you did not know; Surely from long ago your ear was not opened. For I knew that you would deal very treacherously, And were called a transgressor from the womb.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:10 @ Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:11 @ For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do it; For how should My name be profaned? And I will not give My glory to another.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:12 @ "Listen to Me, O Jacob, And Israel, My called: I am He, I am the First, I am also the Last.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:13 @ Indeed My hand has laid the foundation of the earth, And My right hand has stretched out the heavens; When I call to them, They stand up together.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:14 @ "All of you, assemble yourselves, and hear! Who among them has declared these things? The LORD loves him; He shall do His pleasure on Babylon, And His arm shall be against the Chaldeans.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:16 @ "Come near to Me, hear this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; From the time that it was, I was there. And now the Lord GOD and His Spirit Have sent Me."

nkjv@Isaiah:48:17 @ Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel: "I am the LORD your God, Who teaches you to profit, Who leads you by the way you should go.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:18 @ Oh, that you had heeded My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:19 @ Your descendants also would have been like the sand, And the offspring of your body like the grains of sand; His name would not have been cut off Nor destroyed from before Me."

nkjv@Isaiah:48:20 @ Go forth from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With a voice of singing, Declare, proclaim this, Utter it to the end of the earth; Say, "The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob!"

nkjv@Isaiah:48:21 @ And they did not thirst When He led them through the deserts; He caused the waters to flow from the rock for them; He also split the rock, and the waters gushed out.

nkjv@Isaiah:48:22 @ "There is no peace," says the LORD, "for the wicked."

nkjv@Isaiah:49:1 @ "Listen, O coastlands, to Me, And take heed, you peoples from afar! The LORD has called Me from the womb; From the matrix of My mother He has made mention of My name.

nkjv@Isaiah:49:2 @ And He has made My mouth like a sharp sword; In the shadow of His hand He has hidden Me, And made Me a polished shaft; In His quiver He has hidden Me."

nkjv@Isaiah:49:4 @ Then I said, "I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and in vain; Yet surely my just reward is with the LORD, And my work with my God."'

nkjv@Isaiah:49:5 @ "And now the LORD says, Who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, To bring Jacob back to Him, So that Israel is gathered to Him (For I shall be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, And My God shall be My strength),

nkjv@Isaiah:49:6 @ Indeed He says, "It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give You as a light to the Gentiles, That You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth."'

nkjv@Isaiah:49:7 @ Thus says the LORD, The Redeemer of Israel, their Holy One, To Him whom man despises, To Him whom the nation abhors, To the Servant of rulers: "Kings shall see and arise, Princes also shall worship, Because of the LORD who is faithful, The Holy One of Israel; And He has chosen You."

nkjv@Isaiah:49:8 @ Thus says the LORD: "In an acceptable time I have heard You, And in the day of salvation I have helped You; I will preserve You and give You As a covenant to the people, To restore the earth, To cause them to inherit the desolate heritages;

nkjv@Isaiah:49:9 @ That You may say to the prisoners, "Go forth,' To those who are in darkness, "Show yourselves.' "They shall feed along the roads, And their pastures shall be on all desolate heights.

nkjv@Isaiah:49:10 @ They shall neither hunger nor thirst, Neither heat nor sun shall strike them; For He who has mercy on them will lead them, Even by the springs of water He will guide them.

nkjv@Isaiah:49:12 @ Surely these shall come from afar; Look! Those from the north and the west, And these from the land of Sinim."

nkjv@Isaiah:49:13 @ Sing, O heavens! Be joyful, O earth! And break out in singing, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, And will have mercy on His afflicted.

nkjv@Isaiah:49:14 @ But Zion said, "The LORD has forsaken me, And my Lord has forgotten me."

nkjv@Isaiah:49:15 @ "Can a woman forget her nursing child, And not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, Yet I will not forget you.

nkjv@Isaiah:49:16 @ See, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; Your walls are continually before Me.

nkjv@Isaiah:49:18 @ Lift up your eyes, look around and see; All these gather together and come to you. As I live," says the LORD, "You shall surely clothe yourselves with them all as an ornament, And bind them on you as a bride does.

nkjv@Isaiah:49:19 @ "For your waste and desolate places, And the land of your destruction, Will even now be too small for the inhabitants; And those who swallowed you up will be far away.

nkjv@Isaiah:49:20 @ The children you will have, After you have lost the others, Will say again in your ears, "The place is too small for me; Give me a place where I may dwell.'

nkjv@Isaiah:49:21 @ Then you will say in your heart, "Who has begotten these for me, Since I have lost my children and am desolate, A captive, and wandering to and fro? And who has brought these up? There I was, left alone; But these, where were they?"'

nkjv@Isaiah:49:22 @ Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I will lift My hand in an oath to the nations, And set up My standard for the peoples; They shall bring your sons in their arms, And your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders;

nkjv@Isaiah:49:23 @ Kings shall be your foster fathers, And their queens your nursing mothers; They shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth, And lick up the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD, For they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me."

nkjv@Isaiah:49:24 @ Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, Or the captives of the righteous be delivered?

nkjv@Isaiah:49:25 @ But thus says the LORD: "Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, And the prey of the terrible be delivered; For I will contend with him who contends with you, And I will save your children.

nkjv@Isaiah:49:26 @ I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh, And they shall be drunk with their own blood as with sweet wine. All flesh shall know That I, the LORD, am your Savior, And your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob."

nkjv@Isaiah:50:1 @ Thus says the LORD: "Where is the certificate of your mother's divorce, Whom I have put away? Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you? For your iniquities you have sold yourselves, And for your transgressions your mother has been put away.

nkjv@Isaiah:50:2 @ Why, when I came, was there no man? Why, when I called, was there none to answer? Is My hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Indeed with My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; Their fish stink because there is no water, And die of thirst.

nkjv@Isaiah:50:3 @ I clothe the heavens with blackness, And I make sackcloth their covering."

nkjv@Isaiah:50:4 @ "The Lord GOD has given Me The tongue of the learned, That I should know how to speak A word in season to him who is weary. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear To hear as the learned.

nkjv@Isaiah:50:5 @ The Lord GOD has opened My ear; And I was not rebellious, Nor did I turn away.

nkjv@Isaiah:50:6 @ I gave My back to those who struck Me, And My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting.

nkjv@Isaiah:50:7 @ "For the Lord GOD will help Me; Therefore I will not be disgraced; Therefore I have set My face like a flint, And I know that I will not be ashamed.

nkjv@Isaiah:50:8 @ He is near who justifies Me; Who will contend with Me? Let us stand together. Who is My adversary? Let him come near Me.

nkjv@Isaiah:50:9 @ Surely the Lord GOD will help Me; Who is he who will condemn Me? Indeed they will all grow old like a garment; The moth will eat them up.

nkjv@Isaiah:50:10 @ "Who among you fears the LORD? Who obeys the voice of His Servant? Who walks in darkness And has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD And rely upon his God.

nkjv@Isaiah:50:11 @ Look, all you who kindle a fire, Who encircle yourselves with sparks: Walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks you have kindled-- This you shall have from My hand: You shall lie down in torment.

nkjv@Isaiah:51:1 @ "Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, You who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were hewn, And to the hole of the pit from which you were dug.

nkjv@Isaiah:51:2 @ Look to Abraham your father, And to Sarah who bore you; For I called him alone, And blessed him and increased him."

nkjv@Isaiah:51:3 @ For the LORD will comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste places; He will make her wilderness like Eden, And her desert like the garden of the LORD; Joy and gladness will be found in it, Thanksgiving and the voice of melody.

nkjv@Isaiah:51:4 @ "Listen to Me, My people; And give ear to Me, O My nation: For law will proceed from Me, And I will make My justice rest As a light of the peoples.

nkjv@Isaiah:51:5 @ My righteousness is near, My salvation has gone forth, And My arms will judge the peoples; The coastlands will wait upon Me, And on My arm they will trust.

nkjv@Isaiah:51:6 @ Lift up your eyes to the heavens, And look on the earth beneath. For the heavens will vanish away like smoke, The earth will grow old like a garment, And those who dwell in it will die in like manner; But My salvation will be forever, And My righteousness will not be abolished.

nkjv@Isaiah:51:7 @ "Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, You people in whose heart is My law: Do not fear the reproach of men, Nor be afraid of their insults.

nkjv@Isaiah:51:8 @ For the moth will eat them up like a garment, And the worm will eat them like wool; But My righteousness will be forever, And My salvation from generation to generation."

nkjv@Isaiah:51:9 @ Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD! Awake as in the ancient days, In the generations of old. Are You not the arm that cut Rahab apart, And wounded the serpent?

nkjv@Isaiah:51:10 @ Are You not the One who dried up the sea, The waters of the great deep; That made the depths of the sea a road For the redeemed to cross over?

nkjv@Isaiah:51:11 @ So the ransomed of the LORD shall return, And come to Zion with singing, With everlasting joy on their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness; Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

nkjv@Isaiah:51:12 @ "I, even I, am He who comforts you. Who are you that you should be afraid Of a man who will die, And of the son of a man who will be made like grass?

nkjv@Isaiah:51:13 @ And you forget the LORD your Maker, Who stretched out the heavens And laid the foundations of the earth; You have feared continually every day Because of the fury of the oppressor, When he has prepared to destroy. And where is the fury of the oppressor?

nkjv@Isaiah:51:14 @ The captive exile hastens, that he may be loosed, That he should not die in the pit, And that his bread should not fail.

nkjv@Isaiah:51:15 @ But I am the LORD your God, Who divided the sea whose waves roared-- The LORD of hosts is His name.

nkjv@Isaiah:51:16 @ And I have put My words in your mouth; I have covered you with the shadow of My hand, That I may plant the heavens, Lay the foundations of the earth, And say to Zion, "You are My people."'

nkjv@Isaiah:51:17 @ Awake, awake! Stand up, O Jerusalem, You who have drunk at the hand of the LORD The cup of His fury; You have drunk the dregs of the cup of trembling, And drained it out.

nkjv@Isaiah:51:18 @ There is no one to guide her Among all the sons she has brought forth; Nor is there any who takes her by the hand Among all the sons she has brought up.

nkjv@Isaiah:51:19 @ These two things have come to you; Who will be sorry for you?-- Desolation and destruction, famine and sword-- By whom will I comfort you?

nkjv@Isaiah:51:20 @ Your sons have fainted, They lie at the head of all the streets, Like an antelope in a net; They are full of the fury of the LORD, The rebuke of your God.

nkjv@Isaiah:51:21 @ Therefore please hear this, you afflicted, And drunk but not with wine.

nkjv@Isaiah:51:22 @ Thus says your Lord, The LORD and your God, Who pleads the cause of His people: "See, I have taken out of your hand The cup of trembling, The dregs of the cup of My fury; You shall no longer drink it.

nkjv@Isaiah:51:23 @ But I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, Who have said to you, "Lie down, that we may walk over you.' And you have laid your body like the ground, And as the street, for those who walk over."

nkjv@Isaiah:52:1 @ Awake, awake! Put on your strength, O Zion; Put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city! For the uncircumcised and the unclean Shall no longer come to you.

nkjv@Isaiah:52:2 @ Shake yourself from the dust, arise; Sit down, O Jerusalem! Loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, O captive daughter of Zion!

nkjv@Isaiah:52:3 @ For thus says the LORD: "You have sold yourselves for nothing, And you shall be redeemed without money."

nkjv@Isaiah:52:4 @ For thus says the Lord GOD: "My people went down at first Into Egypt to dwell there; Then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

nkjv@Isaiah:52:5 @ Now therefore, what have I here," says the LORD, "That My people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them Make them wail," says the LORD, "And My name is blasphemed continually every day.

nkjv@Isaiah:52:6 @ Therefore My people shall know My name; Therefore they shall know in that day That I am He who speaks: "Behold, it is I."'

nkjv@Isaiah:52:7 @ How beautiful upon the mountains Are the feet of him who brings good news, Who proclaims peace, Who brings glad tidings of good things, Who proclaims salvation, Who says to Zion, "Your God reigns!"

nkjv@Isaiah:52:8 @ Your watchmen shall lift up their voices, With their voices they shall sing together; For they shall see eye to eye When the LORD brings back Zion.

nkjv@Isaiah:52:9 @ Break forth into joy, sing together, You waste places of Jerusalem! For the LORD has comforted His people, He has redeemed Jerusalem.

nkjv@Isaiah:52:10 @ The LORD has made bare His holy arm In the eyes of all the nations; And all the ends of the earth shall see The salvation of our God.

nkjv@Isaiah:52:11 @ Depart! Depart! Go out from there, Touch no unclean thing; Go out from the midst of her, Be clean, You who bear the vessels of the LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:52:12 @ For you shall not go out with haste, Nor go by flight; For the LORD will go before you, And the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

nkjv@Isaiah:52:14 @ Just as many were astonished at you, So His visage was marred more than any man, And His form more than the sons of men;

nkjv@Isaiah:52:15 @ So shall He sprinkle many nations. Kings shall shut their mouths at Him; For what had not been told them they shall see, And what they had not heard they shall consider.

nkjv@Isaiah:53:1 @ Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

nkjv@Isaiah:53:2 @ For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him.

nkjv@Isaiah:53:5 @ But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.

nkjv@Isaiah:53:6 @ All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

nkjv@Isaiah:53:7 @ He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth.

nkjv@Isaiah:53:8 @ He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.

nkjv@Isaiah:53:9 @ And they made His grave with the wicked-- But with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth.

nkjv@Isaiah:53:10 @ Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand.

nkjv@Isaiah:53:11 @ He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities.

nkjv@Isaiah:53:12 @ Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, And He shall divide the spoil with the strong, Because He poured out His soul unto death, And He was numbered with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors.

nkjv@Isaiah:54:1 @ "Sing, O barren, You who have not borne! Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, You who have not labored with child! For more are the children of the desolate Than the children of the married woman," says the LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:54:2 @ "Enlarge the place of your tent, And let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings; Do not spare; Lengthen your cords, And strengthen your stakes.

nkjv@Isaiah:54:3 @ For you shall expand to the right and to the left, And your descendants will inherit the nations, And make the desolate cities inhabited.

nkjv@Isaiah:54:4 @ "Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed; Neither be disgraced, for you will not be put to shame; For you will forget the shame of your youth, And will not remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore.

nkjv@Isaiah:54:5 @ For your Maker is your husband, The LORD of hosts is His name; And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel; He is called the God of the whole earth.

nkjv@Isaiah:54:6 @ For the LORD has called you Like a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, Like a youthful wife when you were refused," Says your God.

nkjv@Isaiah:54:7 @ "For a mere moment I have forsaken you, But with great mercies I will gather you.

nkjv@Isaiah:54:8 @ With a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment; But with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on you," Says the LORD, your Redeemer.

nkjv@Isaiah:54:9 @ "For this is like the waters of Noah to Me; For as I have sworn That the waters of Noah would no longer cover the earth, So have I sworn That I would not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.

nkjv@Isaiah:54:10 @ For the mountains shall depart And the hills be removed, But My kindness shall not depart from you, Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed," Says the LORD, who has mercy on you.

nkjv@Isaiah:54:13 @ All your children shall be taught by the LORD, And great shall be the peace of your children.

nkjv@Isaiah:54:15 @ Indeed they shall surely assemble, but not because of Me. Whoever assembles against you shall fall for your sake.

nkjv@Isaiah:54:16 @ "Behold, I have created the blacksmith Who blows the coals in the fire, Who brings forth an instrument for his work; And I have created the spoiler to destroy.

nkjv@Isaiah:54:17 @ No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, And their righteousness is from Me," Says the LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:55:1 @ "Ho! Everyone who thirsts, Come to the waters; And you who have no money, Come, buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk Without money and without price.

nkjv@Isaiah:55:3 @ Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, and your soul shall live; And I will make an everlasting covenant with you-- The sure mercies of David.

nkjv@Isaiah:55:4 @ Indeed I have given him as a witness to the people, A leader and commander for the people.

nkjv@Isaiah:55:5 @ Surely you shall call a nation you do not know, And nations who do not know you shall run to you, Because of the LORD your God, And the Holy One of Israel; For He has glorified you."

nkjv@Isaiah:55:6 @ Seek the LORD while He may be found, Call upon Him while He is near.

nkjv@Isaiah:55:7 @ Let the wicked forsake his way, And the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to the LORD, And He will have mercy on him; And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon.

nkjv@Isaiah:55:8 @ "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," says the LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:55:9 @ "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.

nkjv@Isaiah:55:10 @ "For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, And do not return there, But water the earth, And make it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower And bread to the eater,

nkjv@Isaiah:55:11 @ So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

nkjv@Isaiah:55:12 @ "For you shall go out with joy, And be led out with peace; The mountains and the hills Shall break forth into singing before you, And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

nkjv@Isaiah:55:13 @ Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress tree, And instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree; And it shall be to the LORD for a name, For an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off."

nkjv@Isaiah:56:1 @ Thus says the LORD: "Keep justice, and do righteousness, For My salvation is about to come, And My righteousness to be revealed.

nkjv@Isaiah:56:2 @ Blessed is the man who does this, And the son of man who lays hold on it; Who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, And keeps his hand from doing any evil."

nkjv@Isaiah:56:3 @ Do not let the son of the foreigner Who has joined himself to the LORD Speak, saying, "The LORD has utterly separated me from His people"; Nor let the eunuch say, "Here I am, a dry tree."

nkjv@Isaiah:56:4 @ For thus says the LORD: "To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, And choose what pleases Me, And hold fast My covenant,

nkjv@Isaiah:56:5 @ Even to them I will give in My house And within My walls a place and a name Better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name That shall not be cut off.

nkjv@Isaiah:56:6 @ "Also the sons of the foreigner Who join themselves to the LORD, to serve Him, And to love the name of the LORD, to be His servants-- Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, And holds fast My covenant--

nkjv@Isaiah:56:7 @ Even them I will bring to My holy mountain, And make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices Will be accepted on My altar; For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations."

nkjv@Isaiah:56:8 @ The Lord GOD, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, "Yet I will gather to him Others besides those who are gathered to him."

nkjv@Isaiah:56:9 @ All you beasts of the field, come to devour, All you beasts in the forest.

nkjv@Isaiah:56:10 @ His watchmen are blind, They are all ignorant; They are all dumb dogs, They cannot bark; Sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

nkjv@Isaiah:56:11 @ Yes, they are greedy dogs Which never have enough. And they are shepherds Who cannot understand; They all look to their own way, Every one for his own gain, From his own territory.

nkjv@Isaiah:57:1 @ The righteous perishes, And no man takes it to heart; Merciful men are taken away, While no one considers That the righteous is taken away from evil.

nkjv@Isaiah:57:2 @ He shall enter into peace; They shall rest in their beds, Each one walking in his uprightness.

nkjv@Isaiah:57:3 @ "But come here, You sons of the sorceress, You offspring of the adulterer and the harlot!

nkjv@Isaiah:57:4 @ Whom do you ridicule? Against whom do you make a wide mouth And stick out the tongue? Are you not children of transgression, Offspring of falsehood,

nkjv@Isaiah:57:5 @ Inflaming yourselves with gods under every green tree, Slaying the children in the valleys, Under the clefts of the rocks?

nkjv@Isaiah:57:6 @ Among the smooth stones of the stream Is your portion; They, they, are your lot! Even to them you have poured a drink offering, You have offered a grain offering. Should I receive comfort in these?

nkjv@Isaiah:57:7 @ "On a lofty and high mountain You have set your bed; Even there you went up To offer sacrifice.

nkjv@Isaiah:57:8 @ Also behind the doors and their posts You have set up your remembrance; For you have uncovered yourself to those other than Me, And have gone up to them; You have enlarged your bed And made a covenant with them; You have loved their bed, Where you saw their nudity.

nkjv@Isaiah:57:9 @ You went to the king with ointment, And increased your perfumes; You sent your messengers far off, And even descended to Sheol.

nkjv@Isaiah:57:10 @ You are wearied in the length of your way; Yet you did not say, "There is no hope.' You have found the life of your hand; Therefore you were not grieved.

nkjv@Isaiah:57:12 @ I will declare your righteousness And your works, For they will not profit you.

nkjv@Isaiah:57:13 @ When you cry out, Let your collection of idols deliver you. But the wind will carry them all away, A breath will take them. But he who puts his trust in Me shall possess the land, And shall inherit My holy mountain."

nkjv@Isaiah:57:14 @ And one shall say, "Heap it up! Heap it up! Prepare the way, Take the stumbling block out of the way of My people."

nkjv@Isaiah:57:15 @ For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, With him who has a contrite and humble spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

nkjv@Isaiah:57:16 @ For I will not contend forever, Nor will I always be angry; For the spirit would fail before Me, And the souls which I have made.

nkjv@Isaiah:57:17 @ For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry and struck him; I hid and was angry, And he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

nkjv@Isaiah:57:19 @ "I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace to him who is far off and to him who is near," Says the LORD, "And I will heal him."

nkjv@Isaiah:57:20 @ But the wicked are like the troubled sea, When it cannot rest, Whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

nkjv@Isaiah:57:21 @ "There is no peace," Says my God, "for the wicked."

nkjv@Isaiah:58:1 @ "Cry aloud, spare not; Lift up your voice like a trumpet; Tell My people their transgression, And the house of Jacob their sins.

nkjv@Isaiah:58:2 @ Yet they seek Me daily, And delight to know My ways, As a nation that did righteousness, And did not forsake the ordinance of their God. They ask of Me the ordinances of justice; They take delight in approaching God.

nkjv@Isaiah:58:3 @ "Why have we fasted,' they say, "and You have not seen? Why have we afflicted our souls, and You take no notice?' "In fact, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, And exploit all your laborers.

nkjv@Isaiah:58:4 @ Indeed you fast for strife and debate, And to strike with the fist of wickedness. You will not fast as you do this day, To make your voice heard on high.

nkjv@Isaiah:58:5 @ Is it a fast that I have chosen, A day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, And to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Would you call this a fast, And an acceptable day to the LORD?

nkjv@Isaiah:58:6 @ "Is this not the fast that I have chosen: To loose the bonds of wickedness, To undo the heavy burdens, To let the oppressed go free, And that you break every yoke?

nkjv@Isaiah:58:7 @ Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, And that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out; When you see the naked, that you cover him, And not hide yourself from your own flesh?

nkjv@Isaiah:58:8 @ Then your light shall break forth like the morning, Your healing shall spring forth speedily, And your righteousness shall go before you; The glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.

nkjv@Isaiah:58:9 @ Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; You shall cry, and He will say, "Here I am.' "If you take away the yoke from your midst, The pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness,

nkjv@Isaiah:58:10 @ If you extend your soul to the hungry And satisfy the afflicted soul, Then your light shall dawn in the darkness, And your darkness shall be as the noonday.

nkjv@Isaiah:58:11 @ The LORD will guide you continually, And satisfy your soul in drought, And strengthen your bones; You shall be like a watered garden, And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.

nkjv@Isaiah:58:12 @ Those from among you Shall build the old waste places; You shall raise up the foundations of many generations; And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach, The Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.

nkjv@Isaiah:58:13 @ "If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, From doing your pleasure on My holy day, And call the Sabbath a delight, The holy day of the LORD honorable, And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, Nor finding your own pleasure, Nor speaking your own words,

nkjv@Isaiah:58:14 @ Then you shall delight yourself in the LORD; And I will cause you to ride on the high hills of the earth, And feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father. The mouth of the LORD has spoken."

nkjv@Isaiah:59:1 @ Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, That it cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear.

nkjv@Isaiah:59:4 @ No one calls for justice, Nor does any plead for truth. They trust in empty words and speak lies; They conceive evil and bring forth iniquity.

nkjv@Isaiah:59:5 @ They hatch vipers' eggs and weave the spider's web; He who eats of their eggs dies, And from that which is crushed a viper breaks out.

nkjv@Isaiah:59:6 @ Their webs will not become garments, Nor will they cover themselves with their works; Their works are works of iniquity, And the act of violence is in their hands.

nkjv@Isaiah:59:7 @ Their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; Wasting and destruction are in their paths.

nkjv@Isaiah:59:8 @ The way of peace they have not known, And there is no justice in their ways; They have made themselves crooked paths; Whoever takes that way shall not know peace.

nkjv@Isaiah:59:9 @ Therefore justice is far from us, Nor does righteousness overtake us; We look for light, but there is darkness! For brightness, but we walk in blackness!

nkjv@Isaiah:59:10 @ We grope for the wall like the blind, And we grope as if we had no eyes; We stumble at noonday as at twilight; We are as dead men in desolate places.

nkjv@Isaiah:59:11 @ We all growl like bears, And moan sadly like doves; We look for justice, but there is none; For salvation, but it is far from us.

nkjv@Isaiah:59:12 @ For our transgressions are multiplied before You, And our sins testify against us; For our transgressions are with us, And as for our iniquities, we know them:

nkjv@Isaiah:59:13 @ In transgressing and lying against the LORD, And departing from our God, Speaking oppression and revolt, Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

nkjv@Isaiah:59:14 @ Justice is turned back, And righteousness stands afar off; For truth is fallen in the street, And equity cannot enter.

nkjv@Isaiah:59:15 @ So truth fails, And he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Then the LORD saw it, and it displeased Him That there was no justice.

nkjv@Isaiah:59:16 @ He saw that there was no man, And wondered that there was no intercessor; Therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him; And His own righteousness, it sustained Him.

nkjv@Isaiah:59:17 @ For He put on righteousness as a breastplate, And a helmet of salvation on His head; He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, And was clad with zeal as a cloak.

nkjv@Isaiah:59:18 @ According to their deeds, accordingly He will repay, Fury to His adversaries, Recompense to His enemies; The coastlands He will fully repay.

nkjv@Isaiah:59:19 @ So shall they fear The name of the LORD from the west, And His glory from the rising of the sun; When the enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of the LORD will lift up a standard against him.

nkjv@Isaiah:59:20 @ "The Redeemer will come to Zion, And to those who turn from transgression in Jacob," Says the LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:59:21 @ "As for Me," says the LORD, "this is My covenant with them: My Spirit who is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants' descendants," says the LORD, "from this time and forevermore."

nkjv@Isaiah:60:1 @ Arise, shine; For your light has come! And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:2 @ For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, And deep darkness the people; But the LORD will arise over you, And His glory will be seen upon you.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:3 @ The Gentiles shall come to your light, And kings to the brightness of your rising.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:4 @ "Lift up your eyes all around, and see: They all gather together, they come to you; Your sons shall come from afar, And your daughters shall be nursed at your side.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:5 @ Then you shall see and become radiant, And your heart shall swell with joy; Because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, The wealth of the Gentiles shall come to you.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:6 @ The multitude of camels shall cover your land, The dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; All those from Sheba shall come; They shall bring gold and incense, And they shall proclaim the praises of the LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:7 @ All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to you, The rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you; They shall ascend with acceptance on My altar, And I will glorify the house of My glory.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:8 @ "Who are these who fly like a cloud, And like doves to their roosts?

nkjv@Isaiah:60:9 @ Surely the coastlands shall wait for Me; And the ships of Tarshish will come first, To bring your sons from afar, Their silver and their gold with them, To the name of the LORD your God, And to the Holy One of Israel, Because He has glorified you.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:10 @ "The sons of foreigners shall build up your walls, And their kings shall minister to you; For in My wrath I struck you, But in My favor I have had mercy on you.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:11 @ Therefore your gates shall be open continually; They shall not be shut day or night, That men may bring to you the wealth of the Gentiles, And their kings in procession.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:12 @ For the nation and kingdom which will not serve you shall perish, And those nations shall be utterly ruined.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:13 @ "The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, The cypress, the pine, and the box tree together, To beautify the place of My sanctuary; And I will make the place of My feet glorious.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:14 @ Also the sons of those who afflicted you Shall come bowing to you, And all those who despised you shall fall prostrate at the soles of your feet; And they shall call you The City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:16 @ You shall drink the milk of the Gentiles, And milk the breast of kings; You shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior And your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:18 @ Violence shall no longer be heard in your land, Neither wasting nor destruction within your borders; But you shall call your walls Salvation, And your gates Praise.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:19 @ "The sun shall no longer be your light by day, Nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you; But the LORD will be to you an everlasting light, And your God your glory.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:20 @ Your sun shall no longer go down, Nor shall your moon withdraw itself; For the LORD will be your everlasting light, And the days of your mourning shall be ended.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:21 @ Also your people shall all be righteous; They shall inherit the land forever, The branch of My planting, The work of My hands, That I may be glorified.

nkjv@Isaiah:60:22 @ A little one shall become a thousand, And a small one a strong nation. I, the LORD, will hasten it in its time."

nkjv@Isaiah:61:1 @ "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me, Because the LORD has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

nkjv@Isaiah:61:2 @ To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, And the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all who mourn,

nkjv@Isaiah:61:3 @ To console those who mourn in Zion, To give them beauty for ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they may be called trees of righteousness, The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified."

nkjv@Isaiah:61:4 @ And they shall rebuild the old ruins, They shall raise up the former desolations, And they shall repair the ruined cities, The desolations of many generations.

nkjv@Isaiah:61:5 @ Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, And the sons of the foreigner Shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

nkjv@Isaiah:61:6 @ But you shall be named the priests of the LORD, They shall call you the servants of our God. You shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, And in their glory you shall boast.

nkjv@Isaiah:61:7 @ Instead of your shame you shall have double honor, And instead of confusion they shall rejoice in their portion. Therefore in their land they shall possess double; Everlasting joy shall be theirs.

nkjv@Isaiah:61:8 @ "For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery for burnt offering; I will direct their work in truth, And will make with them an everlasting covenant.

nkjv@Isaiah:61:9 @ Their descendants shall be known among the Gentiles, And their offspring among the people. All who see them shall acknowledge them, That they are the posterity whom the LORD has blessed."

nkjv@Isaiah:61:10 @ I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, My soul shall be joyful in my God; For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

nkjv@Isaiah:61:11 @ For as the earth brings forth its bud, As the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth, So the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

nkjv@Isaiah:62:2 @ The Gentiles shall see your righteousness, And all kings your glory. You shall be called by a new name, Which the mouth of the LORD will name.

nkjv@Isaiah:62:3 @ You shall also be a crown of glory In the hand of the LORD, And a royal diadem In the hand of your God.

nkjv@Isaiah:62:4 @ You shall no longer be termed Forsaken, Nor shall your land any more be termed Desolate; But you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; For the LORD delights in you, And your land shall be married.

nkjv@Isaiah:62:5 @ For as a young man marries a virgin, So shall your sons marry you; And as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, So shall your God rejoice over you.

nkjv@Isaiah:62:6 @ I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; They shall never hold their peace day or night. You who make mention of the LORD, do not keep silent,

nkjv@Isaiah:62:7 @ And give Him no rest till He establishes And till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

nkjv@Isaiah:62:8 @ The LORD has sworn by His right hand And by the arm of His strength: "Surely I will no longer give your grain As food for your enemies; And the sons of the foreigner shall not drink your new wine, For which you have labored.

nkjv@Isaiah:62:9 @ But those who have gathered it shall eat it, And praise the LORD; Those who have brought it together shall drink it in My holy courts."

nkjv@Isaiah:62:10 @ Go through, Go through the gates! Prepare the way for the people; Build up, Build up the highway! Take out the stones, Lift up a banner for the peoples!

nkjv@Isaiah:62:11 @ Indeed the LORD has proclaimed To the end of the world: "Say to the daughter of Zion, "Surely your salvation is coming; Behold, His reward is with Him, And His work before Him."'

nkjv@Isaiah:62:12 @ And they shall call them The Holy People, The Redeemed of the LORD; And you shall be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.

nkjv@Isaiah:63:1 @ Who is this who comes from Edom, With dyed garments from Bozrah, This One who is glorious in His apparel, Traveling in the greatness of His strength?-- "I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save."

nkjv@Isaiah:63:2 @ Why is Your apparel red, And Your garments like one who treads in the winepress?

nkjv@Isaiah:63:3 @ "I have trodden the winepress alone, And from the peoples no one was with Me. For I have trodden them in My anger, And trampled them in My fury; Their blood is sprinkled upon My garments, And I have stained all My robes.

nkjv@Isaiah:63:4 @ For the day of vengeance is in My heart, And the year of My redeemed has come.

nkjv@Isaiah:63:5 @ I looked, but there was no one to help, And I wondered That there was no one to uphold; Therefore My own arm brought salvation for Me; And My own fury, it sustained Me.

nkjv@Isaiah:63:6 @ I have trodden down the peoples in My anger, Made them drunk in My fury, And brought down their strength to the earth."

nkjv@Isaiah:63:7 @ I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD And the praises of the LORD, According to all that the LORD has bestowed on us, And the great goodness toward the house of Israel, Which He has bestowed on them according to His mercies, According to the multitude of His lovingkindnesses.

nkjv@Isaiah:63:8 @ For He said, "Surely they are My people, Children who will not lie." So He became their Savior.

nkjv@Isaiah:63:9 @ In all their affliction He was afflicted, And the Angel of His Presence saved them; In His love and in His pity He redeemed them; And He bore them and carried them All the days of old.

nkjv@Isaiah:63:10 @ But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit; So He turned Himself against them as an enemy, And He fought against them.

nkjv@Isaiah:63:11 @ Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying: "Where is He who brought them up out of the sea With the shepherd of His flock? Where is He who put His Holy Spirit within them,

nkjv@Isaiah:63:12 @ Who led them by the right hand of Moses, With His glorious arm, Dividing the water before them To make for Himself an everlasting name,

nkjv@Isaiah:63:13 @ Who led them through the deep, As a horse in the wilderness, That they might not stumble?"

nkjv@Isaiah:63:14 @ As a beast goes down into the valley, And the Spirit of the LORD causes him to rest, So You lead Your people, To make Yourself a glorious name.

nkjv@Isaiah:63:15 @ Look down from heaven, And see from Your habitation, holy and glorious. Where are Your zeal and Your strength, The yearning of Your heart and Your mercies toward me? Are they restrained?

nkjv@Isaiah:63:16 @ Doubtless You are our Father, Though Abraham was ignorant of us, And Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; Our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.

nkjv@Isaiah:63:17 @ O LORD, why have You made us stray from Your ways, And hardened our heart from Your fear? Return for Your servants' sake, The tribes of Your inheritance.

nkjv@Isaiah:64:1 @ Oh, that You would rend the heavens! That You would come down! That the mountains might shake at Your presence--

nkjv@Isaiah:64:2 @ As fire burns brushwood, As fire causes water to boil-- To make Your name known to Your adversaries, That the nations may tremble at Your presence!

nkjv@Isaiah:64:3 @ When You did awesome things for which we did not look, You came down, The mountains shook at Your presence.

nkjv@Isaiah:64:4 @ For since the beginning of the world Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, Nor has the eye seen any God besides You, Who acts for the one who waits for Him.

nkjv@Isaiah:64:5 @ You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, Who remembers You in Your ways. You are indeed angry, for we have sinned-- In these ways we continue; And we need to be saved.

nkjv@Isaiah:64:6 @ But we are all like an unclean thing, And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; We all fade as a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, Have taken us away.

nkjv@Isaiah:64:7 @ And there is no one who calls on Your name, Who stirs himself up to take hold of You; For You have hidden Your face from us, And have consumed us because of our iniquities.

nkjv@Isaiah:64:8 @ But now, O LORD, You are our Father; We are the clay, and You our potter; And all we are the work of Your hand.

nkjv@Isaiah:64:11 @ Our holy and beautiful temple, Where our fathers praised You, Is burned up with fire; And all our pleasant things are laid waste.

nkjv@Isaiah:64:12 @ Will You restrain Yourself because of these things, O LORD? Will You hold Your peace, and afflict us very severely?

nkjv@Isaiah:65:2 @ I have stretched out My hands all day long to a rebellious people, Who walk in a way that is not good, According to their own thoughts;

nkjv@Isaiah:65:4 @ Who sit among the graves, And spend the night in the tombs; Who eat swine's flesh, And the broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

nkjv@Isaiah:65:5 @ Who say, "Keep to yourself, Do not come near me, For I am holier than you!' These are smoke in My nostrils, A fire that burns all the day.

nkjv@Isaiah:65:6 @ "Behold, it is written before Me: I will not keep silence, but will repay-- Even repay into their bosom--

nkjv@Isaiah:65:7 @ Your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together," Says the LORD, "Who have burned incense on the mountains And blasphemed Me on the hills; Therefore I will measure their former work into their bosom."

nkjv@Isaiah:65:8 @ Thus says the LORD: "As the new wine is found in the cluster, And one says, "Do not destroy it, For a blessing is in it,' So will I do for My servants' sake, That I may not destroy them all.

nkjv@Isaiah:65:9 @ I will bring forth descendants from Jacob, And from Judah an heir of My mountains; My elect shall inherit it, And My servants shall dwell there.

nkjv@Isaiah:65:10 @ Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, And the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down, For My people who have sought Me.

nkjv@Isaiah:65:11 @ "But you are those who forsake the LORD, Who forget My holy mountain, Who prepare a table for Gad, And who furnish a drink offering for Meni.

nkjv@Isaiah:65:12 @ Therefore I will number you for 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 did evil before My eyes, And chose that in which I do not delight."

nkjv@Isaiah:65:13 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "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 ashamed;

nkjv@Isaiah:65:15 @ You shall leave your name as a curse to My chosen; For the Lord GOD will slay you, And call His servants by another name;

nkjv@Isaiah:65:16 @ 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.

nkjv@Isaiah:65:17 @ "For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; And the former shall not be remembered or come to mind.

nkjv@Isaiah:65:19 @ I will rejoice in Jerusalem, And joy in My people; The voice of weeping shall no longer be heard in her, Nor the voice of crying.

nkjv@Isaiah:65:20 @ "No more shall an infant from there live but a few days, Nor an old man who has not fulfilled his days; For the child shall die one hundred years old, But the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.

nkjv@Isaiah:65:21 @ They shall build houses and inhabit them; They shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

nkjv@Isaiah:65:22 @ They shall not build and another inhabit; They shall not plant and another eat; For as the days of a tree, so shall be the days of My people, And My elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

nkjv@Isaiah:65:23 @ They shall not labor in vain, Nor bring forth children for trouble; For they shall be the descendants of the blessed of the LORD, And their offspring with them.

nkjv@Isaiah:65:24 @ "It shall come to pass That before they call, I will answer; And while they are still speaking, I will hear.

nkjv@Isaiah:65:25 @ The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, 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 the LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:66:1 @ Thus says the LORD: "Heaven is My throne, And earth is My footstool. Where is the house that you will build Me? And where is the place of My rest?

nkjv@Isaiah:66:2 @ For all those things My hand has made, And all those things exist," Says the LORD. "But on this one will I look: On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, And who trembles at My word.

nkjv@Isaiah:66:3 @ "He who kills a bull is as if he slays a man; He who sacrifices a lamb, as if he breaks a dog's neck; He who offers a grain offering, as if he offers swine's blood; He who burns incense, as if he blesses an idol. Just as they have chosen their own ways, And their soul delights in their abominations,

nkjv@Isaiah:66:4 @ So will I choose their delusions, And bring their fears on them; Because, when I called, no one answered, When I spoke they did not hear; But they did evil before My eyes, And chose that in which I do not delight."

nkjv@Isaiah:66:5 @ Hear the word of the LORD, You who tremble at His word: "Your brethren who hated you, Who cast you out for My name's sake, said, "Let the LORD be glorified, That we may see your joy.' But they shall be ashamed."

nkjv@Isaiah:66:6 @ The sound of noise from the city! A voice from the temple! The voice of the LORD, Who fully repays His enemies!

nkjv@Isaiah:66:8 @ Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day? Or shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion was in labor, She gave birth to her children.

nkjv@Isaiah:66:9 @ Shall I bring to the time of birth, and not cause delivery?" says the LORD. "Shall I who cause delivery shut up the womb?" says your God.

nkjv@Isaiah:66:11 @ That you may feed and be satisfied With the consolation of her bosom, That you may drink deeply and be delighted With the abundance of her glory."

nkjv@Isaiah:66:12 @ For thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, And the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream. Then you shall feed; On her sides shall you be carried, And be dandled on her knees.

nkjv@Isaiah:66:13 @ As one whom his mother comforts, So I will comfort you; And you shall be comforted in Jerusalem."

nkjv@Isaiah:66:14 @ When you see this, your heart shall rejoice, And your bones shall flourish like grass; The hand of the LORD shall be known to His servants, And His indignation to His enemies.

nkjv@Isaiah:66:15 @ For behold, the LORD will come with fire And with His chariots, like a whirlwind, To render His anger with fury, And His rebuke with flames of fire.

nkjv@Isaiah:66:16 @ For by fire and by His sword The LORD will judge all flesh; And the slain of the LORD shall be many.

nkjv@Isaiah:66:17 @ "Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves, To go to the gardens After an idol in the midst, Eating swine's flesh and the abomination and the mouse, Shall be consumed together," says the LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:66:18 @ "For I know their works and their thoughts. It shall be that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come and see My glory.

nkjv@Isaiah:66:19 @ I will set a sign among them; and those among them who escape I will send to the nations: to Tarshish and Pul and Lud, who draw the bow, and Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off who have not heard My fame nor seen My glory. And they shall declare My glory among the Gentiles.

nkjv@Isaiah:66:20 @ Then they shall bring all your brethren for an offering to the LORD out of all nations, on horses and in chariots and in litters, on mules and on camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem," says the LORD, "as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:66:21 @ And I will also take some of them for priests and Levites," says the LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:66:22 @ "For as the new heavens and the new earth Which I will make shall remain before Me," says the LORD, "So shall your descendants and your name remain.

nkjv@Isaiah:66:23 @ And it shall come to pass That from one New Moon to another, And from one Sabbath to another, All flesh shall come to worship before Me," says the LORD.

nkjv@Isaiah:66:24 @ "And they shall go forth and look Upon the corpses of the men Who have transgressed against Me. For their worm does not die, And their fire is not quenched. They shall be an abhorrence to all flesh."

nkjv@Jeremiah:1:1 @ The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,

nkjv@Jeremiah:1:2 @ to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

nkjv@Jeremiah:1:3 @ It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.

nkjv@Jeremiah:1:4 @ Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

nkjv@Jeremiah:1:5 @ "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations."

nkjv@Jeremiah:1:6 @ Then said I: "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I cannot speak, for I am a youth."

nkjv@Jeremiah:1:7 @ But the LORD said to me: "Do not say, "I am a youth,' For you shall go to all to whom I send you, And whatever I command you, you shall speak.

nkjv@Jeremiah:1:8 @ Do not be afraid of their faces, For I am with you to deliver you," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:1:9 @ Then the LORD put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and the LORD said to me: "Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.

nkjv@Jeremiah:1:10 @ See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, To root out and to pull down, To destroy and to throw down, To build and to plant."

nkjv@Jeremiah:1:11 @ Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, "Jeremiah, what do you see?" And I said, "I see a branch of an almond tree."

nkjv@Jeremiah:1:12 @ Then the LORD said to me, "You have seen well, for I am ready to perform My word."

nkjv@Jeremiah:1:13 @ And the word of the LORD came to me the second time, saying, "What do you see?" And I said, "I see a boiling pot, and it is facing away from the north."

nkjv@Jeremiah:1:14 @ Then the LORD said to me: "Out of the north calamity shall break forth On all the inhabitants of the land.

nkjv@Jeremiah:1:15 @ For behold, I am calling All the families of the kingdoms of the north," says the LORD; "They shall come and each one set his throne At the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, Against all its walls all around, And against all the cities of Judah.

nkjv@Jeremiah:1:16 @ I will utter My judgments Against them concerning all their wickedness, Because they have forsaken Me, Burned incense to other gods, And worshiped the works of their own hands.

nkjv@Jeremiah:1:17 @ "Therefore prepare yourself and arise, And speak to them all that I command you. Do not be dismayed before their faces, Lest I dismay you before them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:1:18 @ 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.

nkjv@Jeremiah:1:19 @ They will fight against you, But they shall not prevail against you. For I am with you," says the LORD, "to deliver you."

nkjv@Jeremiah:2:1 @ Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:2:2 @ "Go and cry in the hearing of Jerusalem, saying, "Thus says the LORD: "I remember you, The kindness of your youth, The love of your betrothal, When you went after Me in the wilderness, In a land not sown.

nkjv@Jeremiah:2:3 @ Israel was holiness to the LORD, The firstfruits of His increase. All that devour him will offend; Disaster will come upon them," says the LORD."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:2:4 @ Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob and all the families of the house of Israel.

nkjv@Jeremiah:2:5 @ Thus says the LORD: "What injustice have your fathers found in Me, That they have gone far from Me, Have followed idols, And have become idolaters?

nkjv@Jeremiah:2:6 @ Neither did they say, "Where is the LORD, Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, Who led us through the wilderness, Through a land of deserts and pits, Through a land of drought and the shadow of death, Through a land that no one crossed And where no one dwelt?'

nkjv@Jeremiah:2:8 @ The priests did not say, "Where is the LORD?' And those who handle the law did not know Me; The rulers also transgressed against Me; The prophets prophesied by Baal, And walked after things that do not profit.

nkjv@Jeremiah:2:9 @ "Therefore I will yet bring charges against you," says the LORD, "And against your children's children I will bring charges.

nkjv@Jeremiah:2:10 @ For pass beyond the coasts of Cyprus and see, Send to Kedar and consider diligently, And see if there has been such a thing.

nkjv@Jeremiah:2:11 @ Has a nation changed its gods, Which are not gods? But My people have changed their Glory For what does not profit.

nkjv@Jeremiah:2:12 @ Be astonished, O heavens, at this, And be horribly afraid; Be very desolate," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:2:13 @ "For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, And hewn themselves cisterns--broken cisterns that can hold no water.

nkjv@Jeremiah:2:15 @ The young lions roared at him, and growled; They made his land waste; His cities are burned, without inhabitant.

nkjv@Jeremiah:2:16 @ Also the people of Noph and Tahpanhes Have broken the crown of your head.

nkjv@Jeremiah:2:17 @ Have you not brought this on yourself, In that you have forsaken the LORD your God When He led you in the way?

nkjv@Jeremiah:2:18 @ And now why take the road to Egypt, To drink the waters of Sihor? Or why take the road to Assyria, To drink the waters of the River?

nkjv@Jeremiah:2:19 @ Your own wickedness will correct you, And your backslidings will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing That you have forsaken the LORD your God, And the fear of Me is not in you," Says the Lord GOD of hosts.

nkjv@Jeremiah:2:20 @ "For of old I have broken your yoke and burst your bonds; And you said, "I will not transgress,' When on every high hill and under every green tree You lay down, playing the harlot.

nkjv@Jeremiah:2:21 @ Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a seed of highest quality. How then have you turned before Me Into the degenerate plant of an alien vine?

nkjv@Jeremiah:2:22 @ For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, Yet your iniquity is marked before Me," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:2:23 @ "How can you say, "I am not polluted, I have not gone after the Baals'? See your way in the valley; Know what you have done: You are a swift dromedary breaking loose in her ways,

nkjv@Jeremiah:2:24 @ A wild donkey used to the wilderness, That sniffs at the wind in her desire; In her time of mating, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves; In her month they will find her.

nkjv@Jeremiah:2:25 @ Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst. But you said, "There is no hope. No! For I have loved aliens, and after them I will go.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:2:26 @ "As the thief is ashamed when he is found out, So is the house of Israel ashamed; They and their kings and their princes, and their priests and their prophets,

nkjv@Jeremiah:2:27 @ Saying to a tree, "You are my father,' And to a stone, "You gave birth to me.' For they have turned their back to Me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble They will say, "Arise and save us.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:2:28 @ But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, If they can save you in the time of your trouble; For according to the number of your cities Are your gods, O Judah.

nkjv@Jeremiah:2:29 @ "Why will you plead with Me? You all have transgressed against Me," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:2:30 @ "In vain I have chastened your children; They received no correction. Your sword has devoured your prophets Like a destroying lion.

nkjv@Jeremiah:2:31 @ "O generation, see the word of the LORD! Have I been a wilderness to Israel, Or a land of darkness? Why do My people say, "We are lords; We will come no more to You'?

nkjv@Jeremiah:2:33 @ "Why do you beautify your way to seek love? Therefore you have also taught The wicked women your ways.

nkjv@Jeremiah:2:34 @ Also on your skirts is found The blood of the lives of the poor innocents. I have not found it by secret search, But plainly on all these things.

nkjv@Jeremiah:2:37 @ Indeed you will go forth from him With your hands on your head; For the LORD has rejected your trusted allies, And you will not prosper by them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:3:1 @ "They say, "If a man divorces his wife, And she goes from him And becomes another man's, May he return to her again?' Would not that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the harlot with many lovers; Yet return to Me," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:3:2 @ "Lift up your eyes to the desolate heights and see: Where have you not lain with men? By the road you have sat for them Like an Arabian in the wilderness; And you have polluted the land With your harlotries and your wickedness.

nkjv@Jeremiah:3:3 @ Therefore the showers have been withheld, And there has been no latter rain. You have had a harlot's forehead; You refuse to be ashamed.

nkjv@Jeremiah:3:4 @ Will you not from this time cry to Me, "My Father, You are the guide of my youth?

nkjv@Jeremiah:3:5 @ Will He remain angry forever? Will He keep it to the end?' Behold, you have spoken and done evil things, As you were able."

nkjv@Jeremiah:3:6 @ The LORD said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: "Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there played the harlot.

nkjv@Jeremiah:3:7 @ And I said, after she had done all these things, "Return to Me.' But she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

nkjv@Jeremiah:3:8 @ Then I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.

nkjv@Jeremiah:3:9 @ So it came to pass, through her casual harlotry, that she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.

nkjv@Jeremiah:3:10 @ And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart, but in pretense," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:3:11 @ Then the LORD said to me, "Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

nkjv@Jeremiah:3:12 @ Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say: "Return, backsliding Israel,' says the LORD; "I will not cause My anger to fall on you. For I am merciful,' says the LORD; "I will not remain angry forever.

nkjv@Jeremiah:3:13 @ Only acknowledge your iniquity, That you have transgressed against the LORD your God, And have scattered your charms To alien deities under every green tree, And you have not obeyed My voice,' says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:3:14 @ "Return, O backsliding children," says the LORD; "for I am married to you. I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

nkjv@Jeremiah:3:16 @ "Then it shall come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land in those days," says the LORD, "that they will say no more, "The ark of the covenant of the LORD.' It shall not come to mind, nor shall they remember it, nor shall they visit it, nor shall it be made anymore.

nkjv@Jeremiah:3:17 @ "At that time Jerusalem shall be called The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem. No more shall they follow the dictates of their evil hearts.

nkjv@Jeremiah:3:18 @ "In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given as an inheritance to your fathers.

nkjv@Jeremiah:3:19 @ "But I said: "How can I put you among the children And give you a pleasant land, A beautiful heritage of the hosts of nations?' "And I said: "You shall call Me, "My Father," And not turn away from Me.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:3:20 @ Surely, as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, So have you dealt treacherously with Me, O house of Israel," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:3:21 @ A voice was heard on the desolate heights, Weeping and supplications of the children of Israel. For they have perverted their way; They have forgotten the LORD their God.

nkjv@Jeremiah:3:22 @ "Return, you backsliding children, And I will heal your backslidings." "Indeed we do come to You, For You are the LORD our God.

nkjv@Jeremiah:3:23 @ Truly, in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, And from the multitude of mountains; Truly, in the LORD our God Is the salvation of Israel.

nkjv@Jeremiah:3:24 @ For shame has devoured The labor of our fathers from our youth-- Their flocks and their herds, Their sons and their daughters.

nkjv@Jeremiah:3:25 @ We lie down in our shame, And our reproach covers us. For we have sinned against the LORD our God, We and our fathers, From our youth even to this day, And have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God."

nkjv@Jeremiah:4:1 @ "If you will return, O Israel," says the LORD, "Return to Me; And if you will put away your abominations out of My sight, Then you shall not be moved.

nkjv@Jeremiah:4:2 @ And you shall swear, "The LORD lives,' In truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; The nations shall bless themselves in Him, And in Him they shall glory."

nkjv@Jeremiah:4:3 @ For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: "Break up your fallow ground, And do not sow among thorns.

nkjv@Jeremiah:4:4 @ Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, And take away the foreskins of your hearts, You men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, Lest My fury come forth like fire, And burn so that no one can quench it, Because of the evil of your doings."

nkjv@Jeremiah:4:5 @ Declare in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say: "Blow the trumpet in the land; Cry, "Gather together,' And say, "Assemble yourselves, And let us go into the fortified cities.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:4:6 @ Set up the standard toward Zion. Take refuge! Do not delay! For I will bring disaster from the north, And great destruction."

nkjv@Jeremiah:4:7 @ The lion has come up from his thicket, And the destroyer of nations is on his way. He has gone forth from his place To make your land desolate. Your cities will be laid waste, Without inhabitant.

nkjv@Jeremiah:4:8 @ For this, clothe yourself with sackcloth, Lament and wail. For the fierce anger of the LORD Has not turned back from us.

nkjv@Jeremiah:4:9 @ "And it shall come to pass in that day," says the LORD, "That the heart of the king shall perish, And the heart of the princes; The priests shall be astonished, And the prophets shall wonder."

nkjv@Jeremiah:4:10 @ Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Surely You have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, Saying, "You shall have peace,' Whereas the sword reaches to the heart."

nkjv@Jeremiah:4:11 @ At that time it will be said To this people and to Jerusalem, "A dry wind of the desolate heights blows in the wilderness Toward the daughter of My people-- Not to fan or to cleanse--

nkjv@Jeremiah:4:12 @ A wind too strong for these will come for Me; Now I will also speak judgment against them."

nkjv@Jeremiah:4:16 @ "Make mention to the nations, Yes, proclaim against Jerusalem, That watchers come from a far country And raise their voice against the cities of Judah.

nkjv@Jeremiah:4:17 @ Like keepers of a field they are against her all around, Because she has been rebellious against Me," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:4:18 @ "Your ways and your doings Have procured these things for you. This is your wickedness, Because it is bitter, Because it reaches to your heart."

nkjv@Jeremiah:4:19 @ O my soul, my soul! I am pained in my very heart! My heart makes a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, Because you have heard, O my soul, The sound of the trumpet, The alarm of war.

nkjv@Jeremiah:4:20 @ Destruction upon destruction is cried, For the whole land is plundered. Suddenly my tents are plundered, And my curtains in a moment.

nkjv@Jeremiah:4:21 @ How long will I see the standard, And hear the sound of the trumpet?

nkjv@Jeremiah:4:22 @ "For My people are foolish, They have not known Me. They are silly children, And they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, But to do good they have no knowledge."

nkjv@Jeremiah:4:23 @ I beheld the earth, and indeed it was without form, and void; And the heavens, they had no light.

nkjv@Jeremiah:4:24 @ I beheld the mountains, and indeed they trembled, And all the hills moved back and forth.

nkjv@Jeremiah:4:25 @ I beheld, and indeed there was no man, And all the birds of the heavens had fled.

nkjv@Jeremiah:4:26 @ I beheld, and indeed the fruitful land was a wilderness, And all its cities were broken down At the presence of the LORD, By His fierce anger.

nkjv@Jeremiah:4:27 @ For thus says the LORD: "The whole land shall be desolate; Yet I will not make a full end.

nkjv@Jeremiah:4:28 @ For this shall the earth mourn, And the heavens above be black, Because I have spoken. I have purposed and will not relent, Nor will I turn back from it.

nkjv@Jeremiah:4:29 @ The whole city shall flee from the noise of the horsemen and bowmen. They shall go into thickets and climb up on the rocks. Every city shall be forsaken, And not a man shall dwell in it.

nkjv@Jeremiah:4:30 @ "And when you are plundered, What will you do? Though you clothe yourself with crimson, Though you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold, Though you enlarge your eyes with paint, In vain you will make yourself fair; Your lovers will despise you; They will seek your life.

nkjv@Jeremiah:4:31 @ "For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labor, The anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, The voice of the daughter of Zion bewailing herself; She spreads her hands, saying, "Woe is me now, for my soul is weary Because of murderers!'

nkjv@Jeremiah:5:1 @ "Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem; See now and know; And seek in her open places If you can find a man, If there is anyone who executes judgment, Who seeks the truth, And I will pardon her.

nkjv@Jeremiah:5:2 @ Though they say, "As the LORD lives,' Surely they swear falsely."

nkjv@Jeremiah:5:3 @ O LORD, are not Your eyes on the truth? You have stricken them, But they have not grieved; You have consumed them, But they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; They have refused to return.

nkjv@Jeremiah:5:4 @ Therefore I said, "Surely these are poor. They are foolish; For they do not know the way of the LORD, The judgment of their God.

nkjv@Jeremiah:5:5 @ I will go to the great men and speak to them, For they have known the way of the LORD, The judgment of their God." But these have altogether broken the yoke And burst the bonds.

nkjv@Jeremiah:5:6 @ Therefore a lion from the forest shall slay them, A wolf of the deserts shall destroy them; A leopard will watch over their cities. Everyone who goes out from there shall be torn in pieces, Because their transgressions are many; Their backslidings have increased.

nkjv@Jeremiah:5:7 @ "How shall I pardon you for this? Your children have forsaken Me And sworn by those that are not gods. When I had fed them to the full, Then they committed adultery And assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

nkjv@Jeremiah:5:8 @ They were like well-fed lusty stallions; Every one neighed after his neighbor's wife.

nkjv@Jeremiah:5:9 @ Shall I not punish them for these things?" says the LORD. "And shall I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?

nkjv@Jeremiah:5:10 @ "Go up on her walls and destroy, But do not make a complete end. Take away her branches, For they are not the LORD's.

nkjv@Jeremiah:5:11 @ For the house of Israel and the house of Judah Have dealt very treacherously with Me," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:5:12 @ They have lied about the LORD, And said, "It is not He. Neither will evil come upon us, Nor shall we see sword or famine.

nkjv@Jeremiah:5:13 @ And the prophets become wind, For the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them."

nkjv@Jeremiah:5:14 @ Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts: "Because you speak this word, Behold, I will make My words in your mouth fire, And this people wood, And it shall devour them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:5:15 @ Behold, I will bring a nation against you from afar, O house of Israel," says the LORD. "It is a mighty nation, It is an ancient nation, A nation whose language you do not know, Nor can you understand what they say.

nkjv@Jeremiah:5:16 @ Their quiver is like an open tomb; They are all mighty men.

nkjv@Jeremiah:5:17 @ And they shall eat up your harvest and your bread, Which your sons and daughters should eat. They shall eat up your flocks and your herds; They shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; They shall destroy your fortified cities, In which you trust, with the sword.

nkjv@Jeremiah:5:18 @ "Nevertheless in those days," says the LORD, "I will not make a complete end of you.

nkjv@Jeremiah:5:19 @ And it will be when you say, "Why does the LORD our God do all these things to us?' then you shall answer them, "Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve aliens in a land that is not yours.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:5:20 @ "Declare this in the house of Jacob And proclaim it in Judah, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:5:22 @ Do you not fear Me?' says the LORD. "Will you not tremble at My presence, Who have placed the sand as the bound of the sea, By a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass beyond it? And though its waves toss to and fro, Yet they cannot prevail; Though they roar, yet they cannot pass over it.

nkjv@Jeremiah:5:23 @ But this people has a defiant and rebellious heart; They have revolted and departed.

nkjv@Jeremiah:5:24 @ They do not say in their heart, "Let us now fear the LORD our God, Who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season. He reserves for us the appointed weeks of the harvest."

nkjv@Jeremiah:5:25 @ Your iniquities have turned these things away, And your sins have withheld good from you.

nkjv@Jeremiah:5:26 @ "For among My people are found wicked men; They lie in wait as one who sets snares; They set a trap; They catch men.

nkjv@Jeremiah:5:27 @ As a cage is full of birds, So their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become great and grown rich.

nkjv@Jeremiah:5:28 @ They have grown fat, they are sleek; Yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked; They do not plead the cause, The cause of the fatherless; Yet they prosper, And the right of the needy they do not defend.

nkjv@Jeremiah:5:29 @ Shall I not punish them for these things?' says the LORD. "Shall I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?'

nkjv@Jeremiah:5:30 @ "An astonishing and horrible thing Has been committed in the land:

nkjv@Jeremiah:5:31 @ The prophets prophesy falsely, And the priests rule by their own power; And My people love to have it so. But what will you do in the end?

nkjv@Jeremiah:6:1 @ "O you children of Benjamin, Gather yourselves to flee from the midst of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa, And set up a signal-fire in Beth Haccerem; For disaster appears out of the north, And great destruction.

nkjv@Jeremiah:6:2 @ I have likened the daughter of Zion To a lovely and delicate woman.

nkjv@Jeremiah:6:3 @ The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her. They shall pitch their tents against her all around. Each one shall pasture in his own place."

nkjv@Jeremiah:6:4 @ "Prepare war against her; Arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe to us, for the day goes away, For the shadows of the evening are lengthening.

nkjv@Jeremiah:6:6 @ For thus has the LORD of hosts said: "Cut down trees, And build a mound against Jerusalem. This is the city to be punished. She is full of oppression in her midst.

nkjv@Jeremiah:6:9 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts: "They shall thoroughly glean as a vine the remnant of Israel; As a grape-gatherer, put your hand back into the branches."

nkjv@Jeremiah:6:10 @ To whom shall I speak and give warning, That they may hear? Indeed their ear is uncircumcised, And they cannot give heed. Behold, the word of the LORD is a reproach to them; They have no delight in it.

nkjv@Jeremiah:6:11 @ Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD. I am weary of holding it in. "I will pour it out on the children outside, And on the assembly of young men together; For even the husband shall be taken with the wife, The aged with him who is full of days.

nkjv@Jeremiah:6:12 @ And their houses shall be turned over to others, Fields and wives together; For I will stretch out My hand Against the inhabitants of the land," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:6:13 @ "Because from the least of them even to the greatest of them, Everyone is given to covetousness; And from the prophet even to the priest, Everyone deals falsely.

nkjv@Jeremiah:6:14 @ They have also healed the hurt of My people slightly, Saying, "Peace, peace!' When there is no peace.

nkjv@Jeremiah:6:15 @ Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed; Nor did they know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; At the time I punish them, They shall be cast down," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:6:16 @ Thus says the LORD: "Stand in the ways and see, And ask for the old paths, where the good way is, And walk in it; Then you will find rest for your souls. But they said, "We will not walk in it.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:6:17 @ Also, I set watchmen over you, saying, "Listen to the sound of the trumpet!' But they said, "We will not listen.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:6:18 @ Therefore hear, you nations, And know, O congregation, what is among them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:6:19 @ Hear, O earth! Behold, I will certainly bring calamity on this people-- The fruit of their thoughts, Because they have not heeded My words Nor My law, but rejected it.

nkjv@Jeremiah:6:21 @ Therefore thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people, And the fathers and the sons together shall fall on them. The neighbor and his friend shall perish."

nkjv@Jeremiah:6:22 @ Thus says the LORD: "Behold, a people comes from the north country, And a great nation will be raised from the farthest parts of the earth.

nkjv@Jeremiah:6:23 @ They will lay hold on bow and spear; They are cruel and have no mercy; Their voice roars like the sea; And they ride on horses, As men of war set in array against you, O daughter of Zion."

nkjv@Jeremiah:6:24 @ We have heard the report of it; Our hands grow feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, Pain as of a woman in labor.

nkjv@Jeremiah:6:25 @ Do not go out into the field, Nor walk by the way. Because of the sword of the enemy, Fear is on every side.

nkjv@Jeremiah:6:26 @ O daughter of my people, Dress in sackcloth And roll about in ashes! Make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; For the plunderer will suddenly come upon us.

nkjv@Jeremiah:6:27 @ "I have set you as an assayer and a fortress among My people, That you may know and test their way.

nkjv@Jeremiah:6:28 @ They are all stubborn rebels, walking as slanderers. They are bronze and iron, They are all corrupters;

nkjv@Jeremiah:6:29 @ The bellows blow fiercely, The lead is consumed by the fire; The smelter refines in vain, For the wicked are not drawn off.

nkjv@Jeremiah:6:30 @ People will call them rejected silver, Because the LORD has rejected them."

nkjv@Jeremiah:7:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:7:2 @ "Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, "Hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah who enter in at these gates to worship the LORD!"'

nkjv@Jeremiah:7:3 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

nkjv@Jeremiah:7:4 @ Do not trust in these lying words, saying, "The temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD are these.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:7:6 @ if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or walk after other gods to your hurt,

nkjv@Jeremiah:7:7 @ then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.

nkjv@Jeremiah:7:9 @ Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not know,

nkjv@Jeremiah:7:10 @ and then come and stand before Me in this house which is called by My name, and say, "We are delivered to do all these abominations'?

nkjv@Jeremiah:7:11 @ Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of thieves in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:7:12 @ "But go now to My place which was in Shiloh, where I set My name at the first, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.

nkjv@Jeremiah:7:13 @ And now, because you have done all these works," says the LORD, "and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you did not hear, and I called you, but you did not answer,

nkjv@Jeremiah:7:14 @ therefore I will do to the house which is called by My name, in which you trust, and to this place which I gave to you and your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

nkjv@Jeremiah:7:15 @ And I will cast you out of My sight, as I have cast out all your brethren--the whole posterity of Ephraim.

nkjv@Jeremiah:7:16 @ "Therefore do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them, nor make intercession to Me; for I will not hear you.

nkjv@Jeremiah:7:17 @ Do you not see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

nkjv@Jeremiah:7:18 @ The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke Me to anger.

nkjv@Jeremiah:7:19 @ Do they provoke Me to anger?" says the LORD. "Do they not provoke themselves, to the shame of their own faces?"

nkjv@Jeremiah:7:20 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place--on man and on beast, on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground. And it will burn and not be quenched."

nkjv@Jeremiah:7:21 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat.

nkjv@Jeremiah:7:22 @ For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices.

nkjv@Jeremiah:7:23 @ But this is what I commanded them, saying, "Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:7:24 @ Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but followed the counsels and the dictates of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.

nkjv@Jeremiah:7:25 @ Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have even sent to you all My servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:7:26 @ Yet they did not obey Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.

nkjv@Jeremiah:7:27 @ "Therefore you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not obey you. You shall also call to them, but they will not answer you.

nkjv@Jeremiah:7:28 @ "So you shall say to them, "This is a nation that does not obey the voice of the LORD their God nor receive correction. Truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth.

nkjv@Jeremiah:7:29 @ Cut off your hair and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the desolate heights; for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:7:30 @ For the children of Judah have done evil in My sight," says the LORD. "They have set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to pollute it.

nkjv@Jeremiah:7:31 @ And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into My heart.

nkjv@Jeremiah:7:32 @ "Therefore behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "when it will no more be called Tophet, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter; for they will bury in Tophet until there is no room.

nkjv@Jeremiah:7:33 @ The corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth. And no one will frighten them away.

nkjv@Jeremiah:7:34 @ Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. For the land shall be desolate.

nkjv@Jeremiah:8:1 @ "At that time," says the LORD, "they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of its princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves.

nkjv@Jeremiah:8:2 @ They shall spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and which they have served and after which they have walked, which they have sought and which they have worshiped. They shall not be gathered nor buried; they shall be like refuse on the face of the earth.

nkjv@Jeremiah:8:3 @ Then death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of those who remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places where I have driven them," says the LORD of hosts.

nkjv@Jeremiah:8:4 @ "Moreover you shall say to them, "Thus says the LORD: "Will they fall and not rise? Will one turn away and not return?

nkjv@Jeremiah:8:5 @ Why has this people slidden back, Jerusalem, in a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit, They refuse to return.

nkjv@Jeremiah:8:6 @ I listened and heard, But they do not speak aright. No man repented of his wickedness, Saying, "What have I done?' Everyone turned to his own course, As the horse rushes into the battle.

nkjv@Jeremiah:8:7 @ "Even the stork in the heavens Knows her appointed times; And the turtledove, the swift, and the swallow Observe the time of their coming. But My people do not know the judgment of the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:8:8 @ "How can you say, "We are wise, And the law of the LORD is with us'? Look, the false pen of the scribe certainly works falsehood.

nkjv@Jeremiah:8:9 @ The wise men are ashamed, They are dismayed and taken. Behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD; So what wisdom do they have?

nkjv@Jeremiah:8:10 @ Therefore I will give their wives to others, And their fields to those who will inherit them; Because from the least even to the greatest Everyone is given to covetousness; From the prophet even to the priest Everyone deals falsely.

nkjv@Jeremiah:8:11 @ For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of My people slightly, Saying, "Peace, peace!' When there is no peace.

nkjv@Jeremiah:8:12 @ Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed, Nor did they know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; In the time of their punishment They shall be cast down," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:8:13 @ "I will surely consume them," says the LORD. "No grapes shall be on the vine, Nor figs on the fig tree, And the leaf shall fade; And the things I have given them shall pass away from them.""'

nkjv@Jeremiah:8:14 @ "Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, And let us enter the fortified cities, And let us be silent there. For the LORD our God has put us to silence And given us water of gall to drink, Because we have sinned against the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:8:15 @ "We looked for peace, but no good came; And for a time of health, and there was trouble!

nkjv@Jeremiah:8:16 @ The snorting of His horses was heard from Dan. The whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of His strong ones; For they have come and devoured the land and all that is in it, The city and those who dwell in it."

nkjv@Jeremiah:8:17 @ "For behold, I will send serpents among you, Vipers which cannot be charmed, And they shall bite you," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:8:19 @ Listen! The voice, The cry of the daughter of my people From a far country: "Is not the LORD in Zion? Is not her King in her?" "Why have they provoked Me to anger With their carved images-- With foreign idols?"

nkjv@Jeremiah:8:20 @ "The harvest is past, The summer is ended, And we are not saved!"

nkjv@Jeremiah:8:21 @ For the hurt of the daughter of my people I am hurt. I am mourning; Astonishment has taken hold of me.

nkjv@Jeremiah:8:22 @ Is there no balm in Gilead, Is there no physician there? Why then is there no recovery For the health of the daughter of my people?

nkjv@Jeremiah:9:1 @ Oh, that my head were waters, And my eyes a fountain of tears, That I might weep day and night For the slain of the daughter of my people!

nkjv@Jeremiah:9:2 @ Oh, that I had in the wilderness A lodging place for travelers; That I might leave my people, And go from them! For they are all adulterers, An assembly of treacherous men.

nkjv@Jeremiah:9:3 @ "And like their bow they have bent their tongues for lies. They are not valiant for the truth on the earth. For they proceed from evil to evil, And they do not know Me," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:9:4 @ "Everyone take heed to his neighbor, And do not trust any brother; For every brother will utterly supplant, And every neighbor will walk with slanderers.

nkjv@Jeremiah:9:5 @ Everyone will deceive his neighbor, And will not speak the truth; They have taught their tongue to speak lies; They weary themselves to commit iniquity.

nkjv@Jeremiah:9:6 @ Your dwelling place is in the midst of deceit; Through deceit they refuse to know Me," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:9:7 @ Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: "Behold, I will refine them and try them; For how shall I deal with the daughter of My people?

nkjv@Jeremiah:9:8 @ Their tongue is an arrow shot out; It speaks deceit; One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, But in his heart he lies in wait.

nkjv@Jeremiah:9:9 @ Shall I not punish them for these things?" says the LORD. "Shall I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?"

nkjv@Jeremiah:9:10 @ I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, And for the dwelling places of the wilderness a lamentation, Because they are burned up, So that no one can pass through; Nor can men hear the voice of the cattle. Both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled; They are gone.

nkjv@Jeremiah:9:11 @ "I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a den of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant."

nkjv@Jeremiah:9:12 @ Who is the wise man who may understand this? And who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it? Why does the land perish and burn up like a wilderness, so that no one can pass through?

nkjv@Jeremiah:9:13 @ And the LORD said, "Because they have forsaken My law which I set before them, and have not obeyed My voice, nor walked according to it,

nkjv@Jeremiah:9:14 @ but they have walked according to the dictates of their own hearts and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them,"

nkjv@Jeremiah:9:15 @ therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

nkjv@Jeremiah:9:16 @ I will scatter them also among the Gentiles, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. And I will send a sword after them until I have consumed them."

nkjv@Jeremiah:9:17 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Consider and call for the mourning women, That they may come; And send for skillful wailing women, That they may come.

nkjv@Jeremiah:9:18 @ Let them make haste And take up a wailing for us, That our eyes may run with tears, And our eyelids gush with water.

nkjv@Jeremiah:9:19 @ For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: "How we are plundered! We are greatly ashamed, Because we have forsaken the land, Because we have been cast out of our dwellings."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:9:20 @ Yet hear the word of the LORD, O women, And let your ear receive the word of His mouth; Teach your daughters wailing, And everyone her neighbor a lamentation.

nkjv@Jeremiah:9:21 @ For death has come through our windows, Has entered our palaces, To kill off the children--no longer to be outside! And the young men--no longer on the streets!

nkjv@Jeremiah:9:22 @ Speak, "Thus says the LORD: "Even the carcasses of men shall fall as refuse on the open field, Like cuttings after the harvester, And no one shall gather them."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:9:23 @ Thus says the LORD: "Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, Let not the mighty man glory in his might, Nor let the rich man glory in his riches;

nkjv@Jeremiah:9:24 @ But let him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the LORD, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:9:25 @ "Behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "that I will punish all who are circumcised with the uncircumcised--

nkjv@Jeremiah:9:26 @ Egypt, Judah, Edom, the people of Ammon, Moab, and all who are in the farthest corners, who dwell in the wilderness. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart."

nkjv@Jeremiah:10:1 @ Hear the word which the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel.

nkjv@Jeremiah:10:2 @ Thus says the LORD: "Do not learn the way of the Gentiles; Do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven, For the Gentiles are dismayed at them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:10:3 @ For the customs of the peoples are futile; For one cuts a tree from the forest, The work of the hands of the workman, with the ax.

nkjv@Jeremiah:10:4 @ They decorate it with silver and gold; They fasten it with nails and hammers So that it will not topple.

nkjv@Jeremiah:10:5 @ They are upright, like a palm tree, And they cannot speak; They must be carried, Because they cannot go by themselves. Do not be afraid of them, For they cannot do evil, Nor can they do any good."

nkjv@Jeremiah:10:6 @ Inasmuch as there is none like You, O LORD (You are great, and Your name is great in might),

nkjv@Jeremiah:10:7 @ Who would not fear You, O King of the nations? For this is Your rightful due. For among all the wise men of the nations, And in all their kingdoms, There is none like You.

nkjv@Jeremiah:10:8 @ But they are altogether dull-hearted and foolish; A wooden idol is a worthless doctrine.

nkjv@Jeremiah:10:9 @ Silver is beaten into plates; It is brought from Tarshish, And gold from Uphaz, The work of the craftsman And of the hands of the metalsmith; Blue and purple are their clothing; They are all the work of skillful men.

nkjv@Jeremiah:10:10 @ But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and the everlasting King. At His wrath the earth will tremble, And the nations will not be able to endure His indignation.

nkjv@Jeremiah:10:11 @ Thus you shall say to them: "The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens."

nkjv@Jeremiah:10:12 @ He has made the earth by His power, He has established the world by His wisdom, And has stretched out the heavens at His discretion.

nkjv@Jeremiah:10:13 @ When He utters His voice, There is a multitude of waters in the heavens: "And He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, He brings the wind out of His treasuries."

nkjv@Jeremiah:10:14 @ Everyone is dull-hearted, without knowledge; Every metalsmith is put to shame by an image; For his molded image is falsehood, And there is no breath in them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:10:15 @ They are futile, a work of errors; In the time of their punishment they shall perish.

nkjv@Jeremiah:10:16 @ The Portion of Jacob is not like them, For He is the Maker of all things, And Israel is the tribe of His inheritance; The LORD of hosts is His name.

nkjv@Jeremiah:10:17 @ Gather up your wares from the land, O inhabitant of the fortress!

nkjv@Jeremiah:10:18 @ For thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will throw out at this time The inhabitants of the land, And will distress them, That they may find it so."

nkjv@Jeremiah:10:20 @ My tent is plundered, And all my cords are broken; My children have gone from me, And they are no more. There is no one to pitch my tent anymore, Or set up my curtains.

nkjv@Jeremiah:10:21 @ For the shepherds have become dull-hearted, And have not sought the LORD; Therefore they shall not prosper, And all their flocks shall be scattered.

nkjv@Jeremiah:10:22 @ Behold, the noise of the report has come, And a great commotion out of the north country, To make the cities of Judah desolate, a den of jackals.

nkjv@Jeremiah:10:23 @ O LORD, I know the way of man is not in himself; It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps.

nkjv@Jeremiah:10:25 @ Pour out Your fury on the Gentiles, who do not know You, And on the families who do not call on Your name; For they have eaten up Jacob, Devoured him and consumed him, And made his dwelling place desolate.

nkjv@Jeremiah:11:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:11:2 @ "Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;

nkjv@Jeremiah:11:3 @ and say to them, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: "Cursed is the man who does not obey the words of this covenant

nkjv@Jeremiah:11:4 @ which I commanded your fathers in the day I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, "Obey My voice, and do according to all that I command you; so shall you be My people, and I will be your God,'

nkjv@Jeremiah:11:5 @ that I may establish the oath which I have sworn to your fathers, to give them "a land flowing with milk and honey,' as it is this day.""' And I answered and said, "So be it, LORD."

nkjv@Jeremiah:11:6 @ Then the LORD said to me, "Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: "Hear the words of this covenant and do them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:11:7 @ For I earnestly exhorted your fathers in the day I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, until this day, rising early and exhorting, saying, "Obey My voice."

nkjv@Jeremiah:11:8 @ Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but everyone followed the dictates of his evil heart; therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but which they have not done."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:11:9 @ And the LORD said to me, "A conspiracy has been found among the men of Judah and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

nkjv@Jeremiah:11:10 @ They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers who refused to hear My words, and they have gone after other gods to serve them; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I made with their fathers."

nkjv@Jeremiah:11:11 @ Therefore thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will surely bring calamity on them which they will not be able to escape; and though they cry out to Me, I will not listen to them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:11:12 @ Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they offer incense, but they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble.

nkjv@Jeremiah:11:13 @ For according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem you have set up altars to that shameful thing, altars to burn incense to Baal.

nkjv@Jeremiah:11:14 @ "So do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry out to Me because of their trouble.

nkjv@Jeremiah:11:15 @ "What has My beloved to do in My house, Having done lewd deeds with many? And the holy flesh has passed from you. When you do evil, then you rejoice.

nkjv@Jeremiah:11:16 @ The LORD called your name, Green Olive Tree, Lovely and of Good Fruit. With the noise of a great tumult He has kindled fire on it, And its branches are broken.

nkjv@Jeremiah:11:17 @ "For the LORD of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced doom against you for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke Me to anger in offering incense to Baal."

nkjv@Jeremiah:11:18 @ Now the LORD gave me knowledge of it, and I know it; for You showed me their doings.

nkjv@Jeremiah:11:19 @ But I was like a docile lamb brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had devised schemes against me, saying, "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more."

nkjv@Jeremiah:11:20 @ But, O LORD of hosts, You who judge righteously, Testing the mind and the heart, Let me see Your vengeance on them, For to You I have revealed my cause.

nkjv@Jeremiah:11:21 @ "Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the men of Anathoth who seek your life, saying, "Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD, lest you die by our hand'--

nkjv@Jeremiah:11:22 @ therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: "Behold, I will punish them. The young men shall die by the sword, their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;

nkjv@Jeremiah:11:23 @ and there shall be no remnant of them, for I will bring catastrophe on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their punishment."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:12:1 @ Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead with You; Yet let me talk with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are those happy who deal so treacherously?

nkjv@Jeremiah:12:2 @ You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; They grow, yes, they bear fruit. You are near in their mouth But far from their mind.

nkjv@Jeremiah:12:3 @ But You, O LORD, know me; You have seen me, And You have tested my heart toward You. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, And prepare them for the day of slaughter.

nkjv@Jeremiah:12:4 @ How long will the land mourn, And the herbs of every field wither? The beasts and birds are consumed, For the wickedness of those who dwell there, Because they said, "He will not see our final end."

nkjv@Jeremiah:12:5 @ "If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, Then how can you contend with horses? And if in the land of peace, In which you trusted, they wearied you, Then how will you do in the floodplain of the Jordan?

nkjv@Jeremiah:12:6 @ For even your brothers, the house of your father, Even they have dealt treacherously with you; Yes, they have called a multitude after you. Do not believe them, Even though they speak smooth words to you.

nkjv@Jeremiah:12:7 @ "I have forsaken My house, I have left My heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of My soul into the hand of her enemies.

nkjv@Jeremiah:12:8 @ My heritage is to Me like a lion in the forest; It cries out against Me; Therefore I have hated it.

nkjv@Jeremiah:12:9 @ My heritage is to Me like a speckled vulture; The vultures all around are against her. Come, assemble all the beasts of the field, Bring them to devour!

nkjv@Jeremiah:12:10 @ "Many rulers have destroyed My vineyard, They have trodden My portion underfoot; They have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

nkjv@Jeremiah:12:11 @ They have made it desolate; Desolate, it mourns to Me; The whole land is made desolate, Because no one takes it to heart.

nkjv@Jeremiah:12:12 @ The plunderers have come On all the desolate heights in the wilderness, For the sword of the LORD shall devour From one end of the land to the other end of the land; No flesh shall have peace.

nkjv@Jeremiah:12:13 @ They have sown wheat but reaped thorns; They have put themselves to pain but do not profit. But be ashamed of your harvest Because of the fierce anger of the LORD."

nkjv@Jeremiah:12:14 @ Thus says the LORD: "Against all My evil neighbors who touch the inheritance which I have caused My people Israel to inherit--behold, I will pluck them out of their land and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:12:15 @ Then it shall be, after I have plucked them out, that I will return and have compassion on them and bring them back, everyone to his heritage and everyone to his land.

nkjv@Jeremiah:12:16 @ And it shall be, if they will learn carefully the ways of My people, to swear by My name, "As the LORD lives,' as they taught My people to swear by Baal, then they shall be established in the midst of My people.

nkjv@Jeremiah:12:17 @ But if they do not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:13:1 @ Thus the LORD said to me: "Go and get yourself a linen sash, and put it around your waist, but do not put it in water."

nkjv@Jeremiah:13:2 @ So I got a sash according to the word of the LORD, and put it around my waist.

nkjv@Jeremiah:13:3 @ And the word of the LORD came to me the second time, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:13:4 @ "Take the sash that you acquired, which is around your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole in the rock."

nkjv@Jeremiah:13:5 @ So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me.

nkjv@Jeremiah:13:6 @ Now it came to pass after many days that the LORD said to me, "Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from there the sash which I commanded you to hide there."

nkjv@Jeremiah:13:7 @ Then I went to the Euphrates and dug, and I took the sash from the place where I had hidden it; and there was the sash, ruined. It was profitable for nothing.

nkjv@Jeremiah:13:8 @ Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:13:9 @ "Thus says the LORD: "In this manner I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

nkjv@Jeremiah:13:10 @ This evil people, who refuse to hear My words, who follow the dictates of their hearts, and walk after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be just like this sash which is profitable for nothing.

nkjv@Jeremiah:13:11 @ For as the sash clings to the waist of a man, so I have caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to Me,' says the LORD, "that they may become My people, for renown, for praise, and for glory; but they would not hear.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:13:12 @ "Therefore you shall speak to them this word: "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: "Every bottle shall be filled with wine."' "And they will say to you, "Do we not certainly know that every bottle will be filled with wine?'

nkjv@Jeremiah:13:13 @ "Then you shall say to them, "Thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land--even the kings who sit on David's throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem--with drunkenness!

nkjv@Jeremiah:13:14 @ And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together," says the LORD. "I will not pity nor spare nor have mercy, but will destroy them.""'

nkjv@Jeremiah:13:15 @ Hear and give ear: Do not be proud, For the LORD has spoken.

nkjv@Jeremiah:13:16 @ Give glory to the LORD your God Before He causes darkness, And before your feet stumble On the dark mountains, And while you are looking for light, He turns it into the shadow of death And makes it dense darkness.

nkjv@Jeremiah:13:17 @ But if you will not hear it, My soul will weep in secret for your pride; My eyes will weep bitterly And run down with tears, Because the LORD's flock has been taken captive.

nkjv@Jeremiah:13:18 @ Say to the king and to the queen mother, "Humble yourselves; Sit down, For your rule shall collapse, the crown of your glory."

nkjv@Jeremiah:13:19 @ The cities of the South shall be shut up, And no one shall open them; Judah shall be carried away captive, all of it; It shall be wholly carried away captive.

nkjv@Jeremiah:13:20 @ Lift up your eyes and see Those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, Your beautiful sheep?

nkjv@Jeremiah:13:21 @ What will you say when He punishes you? For you have taught them To be chieftains, to be head over you. Will not pangs seize you, Like a woman in labor?

nkjv@Jeremiah:13:22 @ And if you say in your heart, "Why have these things come upon me?" For the greatness of your iniquity Your skirts have been uncovered, Your heels made bare.

nkjv@Jeremiah:13:23 @ Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots? Then may you also do good who are accustomed to do evil.

nkjv@Jeremiah:13:24 @ "Therefore I will scatter them like stubble That passes away by the wind of the wilderness.

nkjv@Jeremiah:13:25 @ This is your lot, The portion of your measures from Me," says the LORD, "Because you have forgotten Me And trusted in falsehood.

nkjv@Jeremiah:13:26 @ Therefore I will uncover your skirts over your face, That your shame may appear.

nkjv@Jeremiah:13:27 @ I have seen your adulteries And your lustful neighings, The lewdness of your harlotry, Your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! Will you still not be made clean?"

nkjv@Jeremiah:14:1 @ The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the droughts.

nkjv@Jeremiah:14:2 @ "Judah mourns, And her gates languish; They mourn for the land, And the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.

nkjv@Jeremiah:14:3 @ Their nobles have sent their lads for water; They went to the cisterns and found no water. They returned with their vessels empty; They were ashamed and confounded And covered their heads.

nkjv@Jeremiah:14:4 @ Because the ground is parched, For there was no rain in the land, The plowmen were ashamed; They covered their heads.

nkjv@Jeremiah:14:5 @ Yes, the deer also gave birth in the field, But left because there was no grass.

nkjv@Jeremiah:14:6 @ And the wild donkeys stood in the desolate heights; They sniffed at the wind like jackals; Their eyes failed because there was no grass."

nkjv@Jeremiah:14:8 @ O the Hope of Israel, his Savior in time of trouble, Why should You be like a stranger in the land, And like a traveler who turns aside to tarry for a night?

nkjv@Jeremiah:14:10 @ Thus says the LORD to this people: "Thus they have loved to wander; They have not restrained their feet. Therefore the LORD does not accept them; He will remember their iniquity now, And punish their sins."

nkjv@Jeremiah:14:11 @ Then the LORD said to me, "Do not pray for this people, for their good.

nkjv@Jeremiah:14:12 @ When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence."

nkjv@Jeremiah:14:13 @ Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, the prophets say to them, "You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:14:14 @ And the LORD said to me, "The prophets prophesy lies in My name. I have not sent them, commanded them, nor spoken to them; they prophesy to you a false vision, divination, a worthless thing, and the deceit of their heart.

nkjv@Jeremiah:14:15 @ Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who prophesy in My name, whom I did not send, and who say, "Sword and famine shall not be in this land'--"By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed!

nkjv@Jeremiah:14:16 @ And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; they will have no one to bury them--them nor their wives, their sons nor their daughters--for I will pour their wickedness on them.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:14:17 @ "Therefore you shall say this word to them: "Let my eyes flow with tears night and day, And let them not cease; For the virgin daughter of my people Has been broken with a mighty stroke, with a very severe blow.

nkjv@Jeremiah:14:18 @ If I go out to the field, Then behold, those slain with the sword! And if I enter the city, Then behold, those sick from famine! Yes, both prophet and priest go about in a land they do not know."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:14:19 @ Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You stricken us so that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but there was no good; And for the time of healing, and there was trouble.

nkjv@Jeremiah:14:20 @ We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness And the iniquity of our fathers, For we have sinned against You.

nkjv@Jeremiah:14:21 @ Do not abhor us, for Your name's sake; Do not disgrace the throne of Your glory. Remember, do not break Your covenant with us.

nkjv@Jeremiah:14:22 @ Are there any among the idols of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are You not He, O LORD our God? Therefore we will wait for You, Since You have made all these.

nkjv@Jeremiah:15:1 @ Then the LORD said to me, "Even if Moses and Samuel stood before Me, My mind would not be favorable toward this people. Cast them out of My sight, and let them go forth.

nkjv@Jeremiah:15:2 @ And it shall be, if they say to you, "Where should we go?' then you shall tell them, "Thus says the LORD: "Such as are for death, to death; And such as are for the sword, to the sword; And such as are for the famine, to the famine; And such as are for the captivity, to the captivity."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:15:3 @ "And I will appoint over them four forms of destruction," says the LORD: "the sword to slay, the dogs to drag, the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

nkjv@Jeremiah:15:4 @ I will hand them over to trouble, to all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.

nkjv@Jeremiah:15:6 @ You have forsaken Me," says the LORD, "You have gone backward. Therefore I will stretch out My hand against you and destroy you; I am weary of relenting!

nkjv@Jeremiah:15:7 @ And I will winnow them with a winnowing fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children; I will destroy My people, Since they do not return from their ways.

nkjv@Jeremiah:15:8 @ Their widows will be increased to Me more than the sand of the seas; I will bring against them, Against the mother of the young men, A plunderer at noonday; I will cause anguish and terror to fall on them suddenly.

nkjv@Jeremiah:15:9 @ "She languishes who has borne seven; She has breathed her last; Her sun has gone down While it was yet day; She has been ashamed and confounded. And the remnant of them I will deliver to the sword Before their enemies," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:15:10 @ Woe is me, my mother, That you have borne me, A man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent for interest, Nor have men lent to me for interest. Every one of them curses me.

nkjv@Jeremiah:15:11 @ The LORD said: "Surely it will be well with your remnant; Surely I will cause the enemy to intercede with you In the time of adversity and in the time of affliction.

nkjv@Jeremiah:15:12 @ Can anyone break iron, The northern iron and the bronze?

nkjv@Jeremiah:15:16 @ Your words were found, and I ate them, And Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; For I am called by Your name, O LORD God of hosts.

nkjv@Jeremiah:15:17 @ I did not sit in the assembly of the mockers, Nor did I rejoice; I sat alone because of Your hand, For You have filled me with indignation.

nkjv@Jeremiah:15:19 @ Therefore thus says the LORD: "If you return, Then I will bring you back; You shall stand before Me; If you take out the precious from the vile, You shall be as My mouth. Let them return to you, But you must not return to them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:15:20 @ And I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall; And they will fight against you, But they shall not prevail against you; For I am with you to save you And deliver you," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:15:21 @ "I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked, And I will redeem you from the grip of the terrible."

nkjv@Jeremiah:16:1 @ The word of the LORD also came to me, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:16:3 @ For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them and their fathers who begot them in this land:

nkjv@Jeremiah:16:4 @ "They shall die gruesome deaths; they shall not be lamented nor shall they be buried, but they shall be like refuse on the face of the earth. They shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, and their corpses shall be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth."

nkjv@Jeremiah:16:5 @ For thus says the LORD: "Do not enter the house of mourning, nor go to lament or bemoan them; for I have taken away My peace from this people," says the LORD, "lovingkindness and mercies.

nkjv@Jeremiah:16:6 @ Both the great and the small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried; neither shall men lament for them, cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:16:7 @ Nor shall men break bread in mourning for them, to comfort them for the dead; nor shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or their mother.

nkjv@Jeremiah:16:8 @ Also you shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and drink."

nkjv@Jeremiah:16:9 @ For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Behold, I will cause to cease from this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

nkjv@Jeremiah:16:10 @ "And it shall be, when you show this people all these words, and they say to you, "Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? Or what is our iniquity? Or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?'

nkjv@Jeremiah:16:11 @ then you shall say to them, "Because your fathers have forsaken Me,' says the LORD; "they have walked after other gods and have served them and worshiped them, and have forsaken Me and not kept My law.

nkjv@Jeremiah:16:12 @ And you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, each one follows the dictates of his own evil heart, so that no one listens to Me.

nkjv@Jeremiah:16:13 @ Therefore I will cast you out of this land into a land that you do not know, neither you nor your fathers; and there you shall serve other gods day and night, where I will not show you favor.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:16:14 @ "Therefore behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "that it shall no more be said, "The LORD lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,'

nkjv@Jeremiah:16:15 @ but, "The LORD lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where He had driven them.' For I will bring them back into their land which I gave to their fathers.

nkjv@Jeremiah:16:16 @ "Behold, I will send for many fishermen," says the LORD, "and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

nkjv@Jeremiah:16:17 @ For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity hidden from My eyes.

nkjv@Jeremiah:16:18 @ And first I will repay double for their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable idols."

nkjv@Jeremiah:16:19 @ O LORD, my strength and my fortress, My refuge in the day of affliction, The Gentiles shall come to You From the ends of the earth and say, "Surely our fathers have inherited lies, Worthlessness and unprofitable things."

nkjv@Jeremiah:16:21 @ "Therefore behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know My hand and My might; And they shall know that My name is the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:17:1 @ "The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; With the point of a diamond it is engraved On the tablet of their heart, And on the horns of your altars,

nkjv@Jeremiah:17:2 @ While their children remember Their altars and their wooden images By the green trees on the high hills.

nkjv@Jeremiah:17:3 @ O My mountain in the field, I will give as plunder your wealth, all your treasures, And your high places of sin within all your borders.

nkjv@Jeremiah:17:4 @ And you, even yourself, Shall let go of your heritage which I gave you; And I will cause you to serve your enemies In the land which you do not know; For you have kindled a fire in My anger which shall burn forever."

nkjv@Jeremiah:17:5 @ Thus says the LORD: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man And makes flesh his strength, Whose heart departs from the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:17:6 @ For he shall be like a shrub in the desert, And shall not see when good comes, But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, In a salt land which is not inhabited.

nkjv@Jeremiah:17:7 @ "Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, And whose hope is the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:17:8 @ For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, Which spreads out its roots by the river, And will not fear when heat comes; But its leaf will be green, And will not be anxious in the year of drought, Nor will cease from yielding fruit.

nkjv@Jeremiah:17:9 @ "The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?

nkjv@Jeremiah:17:10 @ I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give every man according to his ways, According to the fruit of his doings.

nkjv@Jeremiah:17:11 @ "As a partridge that broods but does not hatch, So is he who gets riches, but not by right; It will leave him in the midst of his days, And at his end he will be a fool."

nkjv@Jeremiah:17:12 @ A glorious high throne from the beginning Is the place of our sanctuary.

nkjv@Jeremiah:17:13 @ O LORD, the hope of Israel, All who forsake You shall be ashamed. "Those who depart from Me Shall be written in the earth, Because they have forsaken the LORD, The fountain of living waters."

nkjv@Jeremiah:17:15 @ Indeed they say to me, "Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come now!"

nkjv@Jeremiah:17:16 @ As for me, I have not hurried away from being a shepherd who follows You, Nor have I desired the woeful day; You know what came out of my lips; It was right there before You.

nkjv@Jeremiah:17:17 @ Do not be a terror to me; You are my hope in the day of doom.

nkjv@Jeremiah:17:18 @ Let them be ashamed who persecute me, But do not let me be put to shame; Let them be dismayed, But do not let me be dismayed. Bring on them the day of doom, And destroy them with double destruction!

nkjv@Jeremiah:17:19 @ Thus the LORD said to me: "Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, by which the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;

nkjv@Jeremiah:17:20 @ and say to them, "Hear the word of the LORD, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, who enter by these gates.

nkjv@Jeremiah:17:21 @ Thus says the LORD: "Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;

nkjv@Jeremiah:17:22 @ nor carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day, nor do any work, but hallow the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.

nkjv@Jeremiah:17:23 @ But they did not obey nor incline their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear nor receive instruction.

nkjv@Jeremiah:17:24 @ "And it shall be, if you heed Me carefully," says the LORD, "to bring no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work in it,

nkjv@Jeremiah:17:25 @ then shall enter the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their princes, accompanied by the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city shall remain forever.

nkjv@Jeremiah:17:26 @ And they shall come from the cities of Judah and from the places around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin and from the lowland, from the mountains and from the South, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and incense, bringing sacrifices of praise to the house of the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:17:27 @ "But if you will not heed Me to hallow the Sabbath day, such as not carrying a burden when entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.""'

nkjv@Jeremiah:18:1 @ The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying:

nkjv@Jeremiah:18:2 @ "Arise and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause you to hear My words."

nkjv@Jeremiah:18:3 @ Then I went down to the potter's house, and there he was, making something at the wheel.

nkjv@Jeremiah:18:4 @ And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter; so he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make.

nkjv@Jeremiah:18:5 @ Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

nkjv@Jeremiah:18:6 @ "O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter?" says the LORD. "Look, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel!

nkjv@Jeremiah:18:7 @ The instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it,

nkjv@Jeremiah:18:8 @ if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it.

nkjv@Jeremiah:18:9 @ And the instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it,

nkjv@Jeremiah:18:10 @ if it does evil in My sight so that it does not obey My voice, then I will relent concerning the good with which I said I would benefit it.

nkjv@Jeremiah:18:11 @ "Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, "Thus says the LORD: "Behold, I am fashioning a disaster and devising a plan against you. Return now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.""'

nkjv@Jeremiah:18:12 @ And they said, "That is hopeless! So we will walk according to our own plans, and we will every one obey the dictates of his evil heart."

nkjv@Jeremiah:18:13 @ Therefore thus says the LORD: "Ask now among the Gentiles, Who has heard such things? The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.

nkjv@Jeremiah:18:14 @ Will a man leave the snow water of Lebanon, Which comes from the rock of the field? Will the cold flowing waters be forsaken for strange waters?

nkjv@Jeremiah:18:15 @ "Because My people have forgotten Me, They have burned incense to worthless idols. And they have caused themselves to stumble in their ways, From the ancient paths, To walk in pathways and not on a highway,

nkjv@Jeremiah:18:16 @ To make their land desolate and a perpetual hissing; Everyone who passes by it will be astonished And shake his head.

nkjv@Jeremiah:18:17 @ I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back and not the face In the day of their calamity."

nkjv@Jeremiah:18:18 @ Then they said, "Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us attack him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words."

nkjv@Jeremiah:18:19 @ Give heed to me, O LORD, And listen to the voice of those who contend with me!

nkjv@Jeremiah:18:20 @ Shall evil be repaid for good? For they have dug a pit for my life. Remember that I stood before You To speak good for them, To turn away Your wrath from them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:18:21 @ Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, And pour out their blood By the force of the sword; Let their wives become widows And bereaved of their children. Let their men be put to death, Their young men be slain By the sword in battle.

nkjv@Jeremiah:18:22 @ Let a cry be heard from their houses, When You bring a troop suddenly upon them; For they have dug a pit to take me, And hidden snares for my feet.

nkjv@Jeremiah:18:23 @ Yet, LORD, You know all their counsel Which is against me, to slay me. Provide no atonement for their iniquity, Nor blot out their sin from Your sight; But let them be overthrown before You. Deal thus with them In the time of Your anger.

nkjv@Jeremiah:19:1 @ Thus says the LORD: "Go and get a potter's earthen flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests.

nkjv@Jeremiah:19:2 @ And go out to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the Potsherd Gate; and proclaim there the words that I will tell you,

nkjv@Jeremiah:19:3 @ and say, "Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Behold, I will bring such a catastrophe on this place, that whoever hears of it, his ears will tingle.

nkjv@Jeremiah:19:4 @ "Because they have forsaken Me and made this an alien place, because they have burned incense in it to other gods whom neither they, their fathers, nor the kings of Judah have known, and have filled this place with the blood of the innocents

nkjv@Jeremiah:19:5 @ (they have also built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or speak, nor did it come into My mind),

nkjv@Jeremiah:19:6 @ therefore behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "that this place shall no more be called Tophet or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.

nkjv@Jeremiah:19:7 @ And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hands of those who seek their lives; their corpses I will give as meat for the birds of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth.

nkjv@Jeremiah:19:9 @ And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the desperation with which their enemies and those who seek their lives shall drive them to despair."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:19:10 @ "Then you shall break the flask in the sight of the men who go with you,

nkjv@Jeremiah:19:11 @ and say to them, "Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Even so I will break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, which cannot be made whole again; and they shall bury them in Tophet till there is no place to bury.

nkjv@Jeremiah:19:12 @ Thus I will do to this place," says the LORD, "and to its inhabitants, and make this city like Tophet.

nkjv@Jeremiah:19:13 @ And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be defiled like the place of Tophet, because of all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and poured out drink offerings to other gods.""'

nkjv@Jeremiah:19:14 @ Then Jeremiah came from Tophet, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the Lord's house and said to all the people,

nkjv@Jeremiah:19:15 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Behold, I will bring on this city and on all her towns all the doom that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their necks that they might not hear My words."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:20:1 @ Now Pashhur the son of Immer, the priest who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.

nkjv@Jeremiah:20:2 @ Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:20:3 @ And it happened on the next day that Pashhur brought Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, "The LORD has not called your name Pashhur, but Magor-Missabib.

nkjv@Jeremiah:20:4 @ For thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall see it. I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive to Babylon and slay them with the sword.

nkjv@Jeremiah:20:5 @ Moreover I will deliver all the wealth of this city, all its produce, and all its precious things; all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give into the hand of their enemies, who will plunder them, seize them, and carry them to Babylon.

nkjv@Jeremiah:20:6 @ And you, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house, shall go into captivity. You shall go to Babylon, and there you shall die, and be buried there, you and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied lies."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:20:8 @ For when I spoke, I cried out; I shouted, "Violence and plunder!" Because the word of the LORD was made to me A reproach and a derision daily.

nkjv@Jeremiah:20:9 @ Then I said, "I will not make mention of Him, Nor speak anymore in His name." But His word was in my heart like a burning fire Shut up in my bones; I was weary of holding it back, And I could not.

nkjv@Jeremiah:20:10 @ For I heard many mocking: "Fear on every side!" "Report," they say, "and we will report it!" All my acquaintances watched for my stumbling, saying, "Perhaps he can be induced; Then we will prevail against him, And we will take our revenge on him."

nkjv@Jeremiah:20:11 @ But the LORD is with me as a mighty, awesome One. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and will not prevail. They will be greatly ashamed, for they will not prosper. Their everlasting confusion will never be forgotten.

nkjv@Jeremiah:20:12 @ But, O LORD of hosts, You who test the righteous, And see the mind and heart, Let me see Your vengeance on them; For I have pleaded my cause before You.

nkjv@Jeremiah:20:13 @ Sing to the LORD! Praise the LORD! For He has delivered the life of the poor From the hand of evildoers.

nkjv@Jeremiah:20:14 @ Cursed be the day in which I was born! Let the day not be blessed in which my mother bore me!

nkjv@Jeremiah:20:15 @ Let the man be cursed Who brought news to my father, saying, "A male child has been born to you!" Making him very glad.

nkjv@Jeremiah:20:16 @ And let that man be like the cities Which the LORD overthrew, and did not relent; Let him hear the cry in the morning And the shouting at noon,

nkjv@Jeremiah:20:17 @ Because he did not kill me from the womb, That my mother might have been my grave, And her womb always enlarged with me.

nkjv@Jeremiah:20:18 @ Why did I come forth from the womb to see labor and sorrow, That my days should be consumed with shame?

nkjv@Jeremiah:21:1 @ The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:21:2 @ "Please inquire of the LORD for us, for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon makes war against us. Perhaps the LORD will deal with us according to all His wonderful works, that the king may go away from us."

nkjv@Jeremiah:21:3 @ Then Jeremiah said to them, "Thus you shall say to Zedekiah,

nkjv@Jeremiah:21:4 @ "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: "Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the walls; and I will assemble them in the midst of this city.

nkjv@Jeremiah:21:6 @ I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they shall die of a great pestilence.

nkjv@Jeremiah:21:7 @ And afterward," says the LORD, "I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, his servants and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence and the sword and the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life; and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword. He shall not spare them, or have pity or mercy."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:21:8 @ "Now you shall say to this people, "Thus says the LORD: "Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

nkjv@Jeremiah:21:9 @ He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; but he who goes out and defects to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be as a prize to him.

nkjv@Jeremiah:21:10 @ For I have set My face against this city for adversity and not for good," says the LORD. "It shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:21:11 @ "And concerning the house of the king of Judah, say, "Hear the word of the LORD,

nkjv@Jeremiah:21:12 @ O house of David! Thus says the LORD: "Execute judgment in the morning; And deliver him who is plundered Out of the hand of the oppressor, Lest My fury go forth like fire And burn so that no one can quench it, Because of the evil of your doings.

nkjv@Jeremiah:21:13 @ "Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, And rock of the plain," says the LORD, "Who say, "Who shall come down against us? Or who shall enter our dwellings?'

nkjv@Jeremiah:21:14 @ But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings," says the LORD; "I will kindle a fire in its forest, And it shall devour all things around it.""'

nkjv@Jeremiah:22:1 @ Thus says the LORD: "Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and there speak this word,

nkjv@Jeremiah:22:2 @ and say, "Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, you who sit on the throne of David, you and your servants and your people who enter these gates!

nkjv@Jeremiah:22:3 @ Thus says the LORD: "Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong and do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

nkjv@Jeremiah:22:4 @ For if you indeed do this thing, then shall enter the gates of this house, riding on horses and in chariots, accompanied by servants and people, kings who sit on the throne of David.

nkjv@Jeremiah:22:5 @ But if you will not hear these words, I swear by Myself," says the LORD, "that this house shall become a desolation.""'

nkjv@Jeremiah:22:6 @ For thus says the LORD to the house of the king of Judah: "You are Gilead to Me, The head of Lebanon; Yet I surely will make you a wilderness, Cities which are not inhabited.

nkjv@Jeremiah:22:7 @ I will prepare destroyers against you, Everyone with his weapons; They shall cut down your choice cedars And cast them into the fire.

nkjv@Jeremiah:22:8 @ And many nations will pass by this city; and everyone will say to his neighbor, "Why has the LORD done so to this great city?'

nkjv@Jeremiah:22:9 @ Then they will answer, "Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshiped other gods and served them."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:22:10 @ Weep not for the dead, nor bemoan him; Weep bitterly for him who goes away, For he shall return no more, Nor see his native country.

nkjv@Jeremiah:22:11 @ For thus says the LORD concerning Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, who went from this place: "He shall not return here anymore,

nkjv@Jeremiah:22:12 @ but he shall die in the place where they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.

nkjv@Jeremiah:22:15 @ "Shall you reign because you enclose yourself in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, And do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

nkjv@Jeremiah:22:16 @ He judged the cause of the poor and needy; Then it was well. Was not this knowing Me?" says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:22:18 @ Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: "They shall not lament for him, Saying, "Alas, my brother!' or "Alas, my sister!' They shall not lament for him, Saying, "Alas, master!' or "Alas, his glory!'

nkjv@Jeremiah:22:19 @ He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, Dragged and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

nkjv@Jeremiah:22:22 @ The wind shall eat up all your rulers, And your lovers shall go into captivity; Surely then you will be ashamed and humiliated For all your wickedness.

nkjv@Jeremiah:22:23 @ O inhabitant of Lebanon, Making your nest in the cedars, How gracious will you be when pangs come upon you, Like the pain of a woman in labor?

nkjv@Jeremiah:22:24 @ "As I live," says the LORD, "though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were the signet on My right hand, yet I would pluck you off;

nkjv@Jeremiah:22:25 @ and I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of those whose face you fear--the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the hand of the Chaldeans.

nkjv@Jeremiah:22:26 @ So I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another country where you were not born; and there you shall die.

nkjv@Jeremiah:22:27 @ But to the land to which they desire to return, there they shall not return.

nkjv@Jeremiah:22:28 @ "Is this man Coniah a despised, broken idol-- A vessel in which is no pleasure? Why are they cast out, he and his descendants, And cast into a land which they do not know?

nkjv@Jeremiah:22:29 @ O earth, earth, earth, Hear the word of the LORD!

nkjv@Jeremiah:22:30 @ Thus says the LORD: "Write this man down as childless, A man who shall not prosper in his days; For none of his descendants shall prosper, Sitting on the throne of David, And ruling anymore in Judah."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:1 @ "Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!" says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:2 @ Therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel against the shepherds who feed My people: "You have scattered My flock, driven them away, and not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your doings," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:3 @ "But I will gather the remnant of My flock out of all countries where I have driven them, and bring them back to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:4 @ I will set up shepherds over them who will feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, nor shall they be lacking," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:5 @ "Behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness; A King shall reign and prosper, And execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:6 @ In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel will dwell safely; Now this is His name by which He will be called: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:7 @ "Therefore, behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "that they shall no longer say, "As the LORD lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,'

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:8 @ but, "As the LORD lives who brought up and led the descendants of the house of Israel from the north country and from all the countries where I had driven them.' And they shall dwell in their own land."

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:9 @ My heart within me is broken Because of the prophets; All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, And like a man whom wine has overcome, Because of the LORD, And because of His holy words.

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:10 @ For the land is full of adulterers; For because of a curse the land mourns. The pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up. Their course of life is evil, And their might is not right.

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:11 @ "For both prophet and priest are profane; Yes, in My house I have found their wickedness," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:12 @ "Therefore their way shall be to them Like slippery ways; In the darkness they shall be driven on And fall in them; For I will bring disaster on them, The year of their punishment," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:13 @ "And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: They prophesied by Baal And caused My people Israel to err.

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:14 @ Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem: They commit adultery and walk in lies; They also strengthen the hands of evildoers, So that no one turns back from his wickedness. All of them are like Sodom to Me, And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:15 @ "Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets: "Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, And make them drink the water of gall; For from the prophets of Jerusalem Profaneness has gone out into all the land."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:16 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They make you worthless; They speak a vision of their own heart, Not from the mouth of the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:17 @ They continually say to those who despise Me, "The LORD has said, "You shall have peace"'; And to everyone who walks according to the dictates of his own heart, they say, "No evil shall come upon you."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:18 @ For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD, And has perceived and heard His word? Who has marked His word and heard it?

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:19 @ Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD has gone forth in fury-- A violent whirlwind! It will fall violently on the head of the wicked.

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:20 @ The anger of the LORD will not turn back Until He has executed and performed the thoughts of His heart. In the latter days you will understand it perfectly.

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:21 @ "I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:22 @ But if they had stood in My counsel, And had caused My people to hear My words, Then they would have turned them from their evil way And from the evil of their doings.

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:23 @ "Am I a God near at hand," says the LORD, "And not a God afar off?

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:24 @ Can anyone hide himself in secret places, So I shall not see him?" says the LORD; "Do I not fill heaven and earth?" says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:25 @ "I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in My name, saying, "I have dreamed, I have dreamed!'

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:26 @ How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? Indeed they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart,

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:27 @ who try to make My people forget My name by their dreams which everyone tells his neighbor, as their fathers forgot My name for Baal.

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:28 @ "The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; And he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat?" says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:29 @ "Is not My word like a fire?" says the LORD, "And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:30 @ "Therefore behold, I am against the prophets," says the LORD, "who steal My words every one from his neighbor.

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:31 @ Behold, I am against the prophets," says the LORD, "who use their tongues and say, "He says.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:32 @ Behold, I am against those who prophesy false dreams," says the LORD, "and tell them, and cause My people to err by their lies and by their recklessness. Yet I did not send them or command them; therefore they shall not profit this people at all," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:33 @ "So when these people or the prophet or the priest ask you, saying, "What is the oracle of the LORD?' you shall then say to them, "What oracle?' I will even forsake you," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:34 @ "And as for the prophet and the priest and the people who say, "The oracle of the LORD!' I will even punish that man and his house.

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:35 @ Thus every one of you shall say to his neighbor, and every one to his brother, "What has the LORD answered?' and, "What has the LORD spoken?'

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:36 @ And the oracle of the LORD you shall mention no more. For every man's word will be his oracle, for you have perverted the words of the living God, the LORD of hosts, our God.

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:37 @ Thus you shall say to the prophet, "What has the LORD answered you?' and, "What has the LORD spoken?'

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:38 @ But since you say, "The oracle of the LORD!' therefore thus says the LORD: "Because you say this word, "The oracle of the LORD!" and I have sent to you, saying, "Do not say, "The oracle of the LORD!"'

nkjv@Jeremiah:23:39 @ therefore behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you and forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and will cast you out of My presence.

nkjv@Jeremiah:24:1 @ The LORD showed me, and there were two baskets of figs set before the temple of the LORD, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

nkjv@Jeremiah:24:2 @ One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

nkjv@Jeremiah:24:3 @ Then the LORD said to me, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" And I said, "Figs, the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad."

nkjv@Jeremiah:24:4 @ Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:24:5 @ "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: "Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge those who are carried away captive from Judah, whom I have sent out of this place for their own good, into the land of the Chaldeans.

nkjv@Jeremiah:24:6 @ For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land; I will build them and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up.

nkjv@Jeremiah:24:7 @ Then I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God, for they shall return to Me with their whole heart.

nkjv@Jeremiah:24:8 @ "And as the bad figs which cannot be eaten, they are so bad'--surely thus says the LORD--"so will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, his princes, the residue of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Jeremiah:24:9 @ I will deliver them to trouble into all the kingdoms of the earth, for their harm, to be a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:24:10 @ And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, till they are consumed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon),

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:2 @ which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying:

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:3 @ "From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, this is the twenty-third year in which the word of the LORD has come to me; and I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, but you have not listened.

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:4 @ And the LORD has sent to you all His servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear.

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:5 @ They said, "Repent now everyone of his evil way and his evil doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers forever and ever.

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:6 @ Do not go after other gods to serve them and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands; and I will not harm you.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:7 @ Yet you have not listened to Me," says the LORD, "that you might provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:8 @ "Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: "Because you have not heard My words,

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:9 @ behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,' says the LORD, "and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:10 @ Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:11 @ And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:12 @ "Then it will come to pass, when seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,' says the LORD; "and I will make it a perpetual desolation.

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:13 @ So I will bring on that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied concerning all the nations.

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:14 @ (For many nations and great kings shall be served by them also; and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the works of their own hands.)"'

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:15 @ For thus says the LORD God of Israel to me: "Take this wine cup of fury from My hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:16 @ And they will drink and stagger and go mad because of the sword that I will send among them."

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:17 @ Then I took the cup from the LORD's hand, and made all the nations drink, to whom the LORD had sent me:

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:18 @ Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:20 @ all the mixed multitude, all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the Philistines (namely, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod);

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:21 @ Edom, Moab, and the people of Ammon;

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:22 @ all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastlands which are across the sea;

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:23 @ Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who are in the farthest corners;

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:24 @ all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the mixed multitude who dwell in the desert;

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:25 @ all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes;

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:26 @ all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world which are on the face of the earth. Also the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:27 @ "Therefore you shall say to them, "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Drink, be drunk, and vomit! Fall and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:28 @ And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, "Thus says the LORD of hosts: "You shall certainly drink!

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:29 @ For behold, I begin to bring calamity on the city which is called by My name, and should you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished, for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth," says the LORD of hosts.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:30 @ "Therefore prophesy against them all these words, and say to them: "The LORD will roar from on high, And utter His voice from His holy habitation; He will roar mightily against His fold. He will give a shout, as those who tread the grapes, Against all the inhabitants of the earth.

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:31 @ A noise will come to the ends of the earth-- For the LORD has a controversy with the nations; He will plead His case with all flesh. He will give those who are wicked to the sword,' says the LORD."

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:32 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Behold, disaster shall go forth From nation to nation, And a great whirlwind shall be raised up From the farthest parts of the earth.

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:33 @ "And at that day the slain of the LORD shall be from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. They shall not be lamented, or gathered, or buried; they shall become refuse on the ground.

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:34 @ "Wail, shepherds, and cry! Roll about in the ashes, You leaders of the flock! For the days of your slaughter and your dispersions are fulfilled; You shall fall like a precious vessel.

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:35 @ And the shepherds will have no way to flee, Nor the leaders of the flock to escape.

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:36 @ A voice of the cry of the shepherds, And a wailing of the leaders to the flock will be heard. For the LORD has plundered their pasture,

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:37 @ And the peaceful dwellings are cut down Because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:25:38 @ He has left His lair like the lion; For their land is desolate Because of the fierceness of the Oppressor, And because of His fierce anger."

nkjv@Jeremiah:26:1 @ In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from the LORD, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:26:2 @ "Thus says the LORD: "Stand in the court of the LORD's house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD's house, all the words that I command you to speak to them. Do not diminish a word.

nkjv@Jeremiah:26:3 @ Perhaps everyone will listen and turn from his evil way, that I may relent concerning the calamity which I purpose to bring on them because of the evil of their doings.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:26:4 @ And you shall say to them, "Thus says the LORD: "If you will not listen to Me, to walk in My law which I have set before you,

nkjv@Jeremiah:26:5 @ to heed the words of My servants the prophets whom I sent to you, both rising up early and sending them (but you have not heeded),

nkjv@Jeremiah:26:6 @ then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.""'

nkjv@Jeremiah:26:7 @ So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:26:8 @ Now it happened, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, "You will surely die!

nkjv@Jeremiah:26:9 @ Why have you prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, "This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without an inhabitant'?" And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:26:10 @ When the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king's house to the house of the LORD and sat down in the entry of the New Gate of the LORD's house.

nkjv@Jeremiah:26:11 @ And the priests and the prophets spoke to the princes and all the people, saying, "This man deserves to die! For he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears."

nkjv@Jeremiah:26:12 @ Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and all the people, saying: "The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city with all the words that you have heard.

nkjv@Jeremiah:26:13 @ Now therefore, amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; then the LORD will relent concerning the doom that He has pronounced against you.

nkjv@Jeremiah:26:15 @ But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will surely bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its inhabitants; for truly the LORD has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing."

nkjv@Jeremiah:26:16 @ So the princes and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, "This man does not deserve to die. For he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God."

nkjv@Jeremiah:26:17 @ Then certain of the elders of the land rose up and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying:

nkjv@Jeremiah:26:18 @ "Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, "Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Zion shall be plowed like a field, Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins, And the mountain of the temple Like the bare hills of the forest."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:26:19 @ Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah ever put him to death? Did he not fear the LORD and seek the LORD's favor? And the LORD relented concerning the doom which He had pronounced against them. But we are doing great evil against ourselves."

nkjv@Jeremiah:26:20 @ Now there was also a man who prophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjath Jearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah.

nkjv@Jeremiah:26:21 @ And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid and fled, and went to Egypt.

nkjv@Jeremiah:26:22 @ Then Jehoiakim the king sent men to Egypt: Elnathan the son of Achbor, and other men who went with him to Egypt.

nkjv@Jeremiah:26:23 @ And they brought Urijah from Egypt and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

nkjv@Jeremiah:26:24 @ Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

nkjv@Jeremiah:27:1 @ In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:27:2 @ "Thus says the LORD to me: "Make for yourselves bonds and yokes, and put them on your neck,

nkjv@Jeremiah:27:3 @ and send them to the king of Edom, the king of Moab, the king of the Ammonites, the king of Tyre, and the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.

nkjv@Jeremiah:27:4 @ And command them to say to their masters, "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel--thus you shall say to your masters:

nkjv@Jeremiah:27:5 @ "I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are on the ground, by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and have given it to whom it seemed proper to Me.

nkjv@Jeremiah:27:6 @ And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant; and the beasts of the field I have also given him to serve him.

nkjv@Jeremiah:27:7 @ So all nations shall serve him and his son and his son's son, until the time of his land comes; and then many nations and great kings shall make him serve them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:27:8 @ And it shall be, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and which will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish,' says the LORD, "with the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

nkjv@Jeremiah:27:9 @ Therefore do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your soothsayers, or your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, "You shall not serve the king of Babylon."

nkjv@Jeremiah:27:10 @ For they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land; and I will drive you out, and you will perish.

nkjv@Jeremiah:27:11 @ But the nations that bring their necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will let them remain in their own land,' says the LORD, "and they shall till it and dwell in it."""

nkjv@Jeremiah:27:12 @ I also spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, "Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live!

nkjv@Jeremiah:27:13 @ Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD has spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

nkjv@Jeremiah:27:14 @ Therefore do not listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, "You shall not serve the king of Babylon,' for they prophesy a lie to you;

nkjv@Jeremiah:27:15 @ for I have not sent them," says the LORD, "yet they prophesy a lie in My name, that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you and the prophets who prophesy to you."

nkjv@Jeremiah:27:16 @ Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, "Thus says the LORD: "Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, "Behold, the vessels of the LORD's house will now shortly be brought back from Babylon"; for they prophesy a lie to you.

nkjv@Jeremiah:27:17 @ Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live! Why should this city be laid waste?

nkjv@Jeremiah:27:18 @ But if they are prophets, and if the word of the LORD is with them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, do not go to Babylon.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:27:19 @ "For thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, concerning the Sea, concerning the carts, and concerning the remainder of the vessels that remain in this city,

nkjv@Jeremiah:27:20 @ which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem--

nkjv@Jeremiah:27:21 @ yes, thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that remain in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem:

nkjv@Jeremiah:27:22 @ "They shall be carried to Babylon, and there they shall be until the day that I visit them,' says the LORD. "Then I will bring them up and restore them to this place."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:28:1 @ And it happened in the same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, who was from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:28:2 @ "Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying: "I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

nkjv@Jeremiah:28:3 @ Within two full years I will bring back to this place all the vessels of the LORD's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon.

nkjv@Jeremiah:28:4 @ And I will bring back to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah who went to Babylon,' says the LORD, "for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:28:5 @ Then the prophet Jeremiah spoke to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests and in the presence of all the people who stood in the house of the LORD,

nkjv@Jeremiah:28:6 @ and the prophet Jeremiah said, "Amen! The LORD do so; the LORD perform your words which you have prophesied, to bring back the vessels of the LORD's house and all who were carried away captive, from Babylon to this place.

nkjv@Jeremiah:28:7 @ Nevertheless hear now this word that I speak in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people:

nkjv@Jeremiah:28:8 @ The prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries and great kingdoms--of war and disaster and pestilence.

nkjv@Jeremiah:28:9 @ As for the prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet comes to pass, the prophet will be known as one whom the LORD has truly sent."

nkjv@Jeremiah:28:10 @ Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke off the prophet Jeremiah's neck and broke it.

nkjv@Jeremiah:28:11 @ And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, "Thus says the LORD: "Even so I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years."' And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.

nkjv@Jeremiah:28:12 @ Now the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:28:13 @ "Go and tell Hananiah, saying, "Thus says the LORD: "You have broken the yokes of wood, but you have made in their place yokes of iron."

nkjv@Jeremiah:28:14 @ For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him. I have given him the beasts of the field also.""'

nkjv@Jeremiah:28:15 @ Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, "Hear now, Hananiah, the LORD has not sent you, but you make this people trust in a lie.

nkjv@Jeremiah:28:16 @ Therefore thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will cast you from the face of the earth. This year you shall die, because you have taught rebellion against the LORD."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:28:17 @ So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

nkjv@Jeremiah:29:1 @ Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the remainder of the elders who were carried away captive--to the priests, the prophets, and all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon.

nkjv@Jeremiah:29:2 @ (This happened after Jeconiah the king, the queen mother, the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths had departed from Jerusalem.)

nkjv@Jeremiah:29:3 @ The letter was sent by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:29:4 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all who were carried away captive, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:

nkjv@Jeremiah:29:5 @ Build houses and dwell in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit.

nkjv@Jeremiah:29:6 @ Take wives and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters--that you may be increased there, and not diminished.

nkjv@Jeremiah:29:7 @ And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the LORD for it; for in its peace you will have peace.

nkjv@Jeremiah:29:8 @ For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are in your midst deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.

nkjv@Jeremiah:29:9 @ For they prophesy falsely to you in My name; I have not sent them, says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:29:10 @ For thus says the LORD: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place.

nkjv@Jeremiah:29:11 @ For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

nkjv@Jeremiah:29:12 @ Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

nkjv@Jeremiah:29:14 @ I will be found by you, says the LORD, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the LORD, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.

nkjv@Jeremiah:29:15 @ Because you have said, "The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon"--

nkjv@Jeremiah:29:16 @ therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, concerning all the people who dwell in this city, and concerning your brethren who have not gone out with you into captivity--

nkjv@Jeremiah:29:17 @ thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like rotten figs that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.

nkjv@Jeremiah:29:18 @ And I will pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence; and I will deliver them to trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth--to be a curse, an astonishment, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,

nkjv@Jeremiah:29:19 @ because they have not heeded My words, says the LORD, which I sent to them by My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; neither would you heed, says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:29:20 @ Therefore hear the word of the LORD, all you of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon.

nkjv@Jeremiah:29:21 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in My name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall slay them before your eyes.

nkjv@Jeremiah:29:22 @ And because of them a curse shall be taken up by all the captivity of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, "The LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire";

nkjv@Jeremiah:29:23 @ because they have done disgraceful things in Israel, have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken lying words in My name, which I have not commanded them. Indeed I know, and am a witness, says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:29:24 @ You shall also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:29:25 @ Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying: You have sent letters in your name to all the people who are at Jerusalem, to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:29:26 @ "The LORD has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, so that there should be officers in the house of the LORD over every man who is demented and considers himself a prophet, that you should put him in prison and in the stocks.

nkjv@Jeremiah:29:27 @ Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth who makes himself a prophet to you?

nkjv@Jeremiah:29:28 @ For he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, "This captivity is long; build houses and dwell in them, and plant gardens and eat their fruit."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:29:29 @ Now Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet.

nkjv@Jeremiah:29:30 @ Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying:

nkjv@Jeremiah:29:31 @ Send to all those in captivity, saying, Thus says the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I have not sent him, and he has caused you to trust in a lie--

nkjv@Jeremiah:29:32 @ therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his family: he shall not have anyone to dwell among this people, nor shall he see the good that I will do for My people, says the LORD, because he has taught rebellion against the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:30:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:30:2 @ "Thus speaks the LORD God of Israel, saying: "Write in a book for yourself all the words that I have spoken to you.

nkjv@Jeremiah:30:3 @ For behold, the days are coming,' says the LORD, "that I will bring back from captivity My people Israel and Judah,' says the LORD. "And I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:30:4 @ Now these are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and Judah.

nkjv@Jeremiah:30:5 @ "For thus says the LORD: "We have heard a voice of trembling, Of fear, and not of peace.

nkjv@Jeremiah:30:6 @ Ask now, and see, Whether a man is ever in labor with child? So why do I see every man with his hands on his loins Like a woman in labor, And all faces turned pale?

nkjv@Jeremiah:30:7 @ Alas! For that day is great, So that none is like it; And it is the time of Jacob's trouble, But he shall be saved out of it.

nkjv@Jeremiah:30:8 @ "For it shall come to pass in that day,' Says the LORD of hosts, "That I will break his yoke from your neck, And will burst your bonds; Foreigners shall no more enslave them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:30:9 @ But they shall serve the LORD their God, And David their king, Whom I will raise up for them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:30:10 @ "Therefore do not fear, O My servant Jacob,' says the LORD, "Nor be dismayed, O Israel; For behold, I will save you from afar, And your seed from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return, have rest and be quiet, And no one shall make him afraid.

nkjv@Jeremiah:30:11 @ For I am with you,' says the LORD, "to save you; Though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you, Yet I will not make a complete end of you. But I will correct you in justice, And will not let you go altogether unpunished.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:30:12 @ "For thus says the LORD: "Your affliction is incurable, Your wound is severe.

nkjv@Jeremiah:30:13 @ There is no one to plead your cause, That you may be bound up; You have no healing medicines.

nkjv@Jeremiah:30:14 @ All your lovers have forgotten you; They do not seek you; For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, With the chastisement of a cruel one, For the multitude of your iniquities, Because your sins have increased.

nkjv@Jeremiah:30:15 @ Why do you cry about your affliction? Your sorrow is incurable. Because of the multitude of your iniquities, Because your sins have increased, I have done these things to you.

nkjv@Jeremiah:30:16 @ "Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; And all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; Those who plunder you shall become plunder, And all who prey upon you I will make a prey.

nkjv@Jeremiah:30:17 @ For I will restore health to you And heal you of your wounds,' says the LORD, "Because they called you an outcast saying: "This is Zion; No one seeks her."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:30:18 @ "Thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will bring back the captivity of Jacob's tents, And have mercy on his dwelling places; The city shall be built upon its own mound, And the palace shall remain according to its own plan.

nkjv@Jeremiah:30:19 @ Then out of them shall proceed thanksgiving And the voice of those who make merry; I will multiply them, and they shall not diminish; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

nkjv@Jeremiah:30:20 @ Their children also shall be as before, And their congregation shall be established before Me; And I will punish all who oppress them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:30:21 @ Their nobles shall be from among them, And their governor shall come from their midst; Then I will cause him to draw near, And he shall approach Me; For who is this who pledged his heart to approach Me?' says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:30:23 @ Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD Goes forth with fury, A continuing whirlwind; It will fall violently on the head of the wicked.

nkjv@Jeremiah:30:24 @ The fierce anger of the LORD will not return until He has done it, And until He has performed the intents of His heart. In the latter days you will consider it.

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:1 @ "At the same time," says the LORD, "I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people."

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:2 @ Thus says the LORD: "The people who survived the sword Found grace in the wilderness-- Israel, when I went to give him rest."

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:3 @ The LORD has appeared of old to me, saying: "Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:4 @ Again I will build you, and you shall be rebuilt, O virgin of Israel! You shall again be adorned with your tambourines, And shall go forth in the dances of those who rejoice.

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:5 @ You shall yet plant vines on the mountains of Samaria; The planters shall plant and eat them as ordinary food.

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:6 @ For there shall be a day When the watchmen will cry on Mount Ephraim, "Arise, and let us go up to Zion, To the LORD our God."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:7 @ For thus says the LORD: "Sing with gladness for Jacob, And shout among the chief of the nations; Proclaim, give praise, and say, "O LORD, save Your people, The remnant of Israel!'

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:8 @ Behold, I will bring them from the north country, And gather them from the ends of the earth, Among them the blind and the lame, The woman with child And the one who labors with child, together; A great throng shall return there.

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:9 @ They shall come with weeping, And with supplications I will lead them. I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters, In a straight way in which they shall not stumble; For I am a Father to Israel, And Ephraim is My firstborn.

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:10 @ "Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, And declare it in the isles afar off, and say, "He who scattered Israel will gather him, And keep him as a shepherd does his flock.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:11 @ For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, And ransomed him from the hand of one stronger than he.

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:12 @ Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, Streaming to the goodness of the LORD-- For wheat and new wine and oil, For the young of the flock and the herd; Their souls shall be like a well-watered garden, And they shall sorrow no more at all.

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:13 @ "Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, And the young men and the old, together; For I will turn their mourning to joy, Will comfort them, And make them rejoice rather than sorrow.

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:14 @ I will satiate the soul of the priests with abundance, And My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, says the LORD."

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:15 @ Thus says the LORD: "A voice was heard in Ramah, Lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, Refusing to be comforted for her children, Because they are no more."

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:16 @ Thus says the LORD: "Refrain your voice from weeping, And your eyes from tears; For your work shall be rewarded, says the LORD, And they shall come back from the land of the enemy.

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:17 @ There is hope in your future, says the LORD, That your children shall come back to their own border.

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:18 @ "I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself: "You have chastised me, and I was chastised, Like an untrained bull; Restore me, and I will return, For You are the LORD my God.

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:19 @ Surely, after my turning, I repented; And after I was instructed, I struck myself on the thigh; I was ashamed, yes, even humiliated, Because I bore the reproach of my youth.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:20 @ Is Ephraim My dear son? Is he a pleasant child? For though I spoke against him, I earnestly remember him still; Therefore My heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:21 @ "Set up signposts, Make landmarks; Set your heart toward the highway, The way in which you went. Turn back, O virgin of Israel, Turn back to these your cities.

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:22 @ How long will you gad about, O you backsliding daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the earth-- A woman shall encompass a man."

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:23 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "They shall again use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I bring back their captivity: "The LORD bless you, O home of justice, and mountain of holiness!'

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:24 @ And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all its cities together, farmers and those going out with flocks.

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:25 @ For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul."

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:27 @ "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast.

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:28 @ And it shall come to pass, that as I have watched over them to pluck up, to break down, to throw down, to destroy, and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:29 @ In those days they shall say no more: "The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children's teeth are set on edge.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:30 @ But every one shall die for his own iniquity; every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:31 @ "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah--

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:32 @ not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:33 @ But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:34 @ No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, "Know the LORD,' for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:35 @ Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for a light by day, The ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, Who disturbs the sea, And its waves roar (The LORD of hosts is His name):

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:36 @ "If those ordinances depart From before Me, says the LORD, Then the seed of Israel shall also cease From being a nation before Me forever."

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:37 @ Thus says the LORD: "If heaven above can be measured, And the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel For all that they have done, says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:38 @ "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that the city shall be built for the LORD from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:39 @ The surveyor's line shall again extend straight forward over the hill Gareb; then it shall turn toward Goath.

nkjv@Jeremiah:31:40 @ And the whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields as far as the Brook Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, shall be holy to the LORD. It shall not be plucked up or thrown down anymore forever."

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:2 @ For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:3 @ For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, "Why do you prophesy and say, "Thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:4 @ and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape from the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him face to face, and see him eye to eye;

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:5 @ then he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there he shall be until I visit him," says the LORD; "though you fight with the Chaldeans, you shall not succeed"'?"

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:6 @ And Jeremiah said, "The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:7 @ "Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you, saying, "Buy my field which is in Anathoth, for the right of redemption is yours to buy it."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:8 @ Then Hanamel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said to me, "Please buy my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption yours; buy it for yourself.' Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:9 @ So I bought the field from Hanamel, the son of my uncle who was in Anathoth, and weighed out to him the money--seventeen shekels of silver.

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:10 @ And I signed the deed and sealed it, took witnesses, and weighed the money on the scales.

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:11 @ So I took the purchase deed, both that which was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open;

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:12 @ and I gave the purchase deed to Baruch the son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses who signed the purchase deed, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the prison.

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:13 @ "Then I charged Baruch before them, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:14 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Take these deeds, both this purchase deed which is sealed and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may last many days."

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:15 @ For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:16 @ "Now when I had delivered the purchase deed to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to the LORD, saying:

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:17 @ "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You.

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:18 @ You show lovingkindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them--the Great, the Mighty God, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:19 @ You are great in counsel and mighty in work, for your eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings.

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:20 @ You have set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, to this day, and in Israel and among other men; and You have made Yourself a name, as it is this day.

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:21 @ You have brought Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and with great terror;

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:22 @ You have given them this land, of which You swore to their fathers to give them--"a land flowing with milk and honey."

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:23 @ And they came in and took possession of it, but they have not obeyed Your voice or walked in Your law. They have done nothing of all that You commanded them to do; therefore You have caused all this calamity to come upon them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:24 @ "Look, the siege mounds! They have come to the city to take it; and the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword and famine and pestilence. What You have spoken has happened; there You see it!

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:25 @ And You have said to me, O Lord GOD, "Buy the field for money, and take witnesses"!--yet the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:26 @ Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:27 @ "Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me?

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:28 @ Therefore thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it.

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:29 @ And the Chaldeans who fight against this city shall come and set fire to this city and burn it, with the houses on whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke Me to anger;

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:30 @ because the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only evil before Me from their youth. For the children of Israel have provoked Me only to anger with the work of their hands,' says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:31 @ "For this city has been to Me a provocation of My anger and My fury from the day that they built it, even to this day; so I will remove it from before My face

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:32 @ because of all the evil of the children of Israel and the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me to anger--they, their kings, their princes, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:33 @ And they have turned to Me the back, and not the face; though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:34 @ But they set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:35 @ And they built the high places of Baal which are in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech, which I did not command them, nor did it come into My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:36 @ "Now therefore, thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city of which you say, "It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:37 @ Behold, I will gather them out of all countries where I have driven them in My anger, in My fury, and in great wrath; I will bring them back to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely.

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:38 @ They shall be My people, and I will be their God;

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:39 @ then I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children after them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:40 @ And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from doing them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from Me.

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:41 @ Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will assuredly plant them in this land, with all My heart and with all My soul.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:42 @ "For thus says the LORD: "Just as I have brought all this great calamity on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I have promised them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:43 @ And fields will be bought in this land of which you say, "It is desolate, without man or beast; it has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans."

nkjv@Jeremiah:32:44 @ Men will buy fields for money, sign deeds and seal them, and take witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, in the places around Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South; for I will cause their captives to return,' says the LORD."

nkjv@Jeremiah:33:1 @ Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah a second time, while he was still shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:33:2 @ "Thus says the LORD who made it, the LORD who formed it to establish it (the LORD is His name):

nkjv@Jeremiah:33:4 @ "For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and the houses of the kings of Judah, which have been pulled down to fortify against the siege mounds and the sword:

nkjv@Jeremiah:33:5 @ "They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but only to fill their places with the dead bodies of men whom I will slay in My anger and My fury, all for whose wickedness I have hidden My face from this city.

nkjv@Jeremiah:33:6 @ Behold, I will bring it health and healing; I will heal them and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.

nkjv@Jeremiah:33:7 @ And I will cause the captives of Judah and the captives of Israel to return, and will rebuild those places as at the first.

nkjv@Jeremiah:33:8 @ I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against Me, and I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned and by which they have transgressed against Me.

nkjv@Jeremiah:33:9 @ Then it shall be to Me a name of joy, a praise, and an honor before all nations of the earth, who shall hear all the good that I do to them; they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and all the prosperity that I provide for it.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:33:10 @ "Thus says the LORD: "Again there shall be heard in this place--of which you say, "It is desolate, without man and without beast"--in the cities of Judah, in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast,

nkjv@Jeremiah:33:11 @ the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who will say: "Praise the LORD of hosts, For the LORD is good, For His mercy endures forever"-- and of those who will bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause the captives of the land to return as at the first,' says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:33:12 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts: "In this place which is desolate, without man and without beast, and in all its cities, there shall again be a dwelling place of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.

nkjv@Jeremiah:33:13 @ In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the lowland, in the cities of the South, in the land of Benjamin, in the places around Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flocks shall again pass under the hands of him who counts them,' says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:33:14 @ "Behold, the days are coming,' says the LORD, "that I will perform that good thing which I have promised to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah:

nkjv@Jeremiah:33:15 @ "In those days and at that time I will cause to grow up to David A Branch of righteousness; He shall execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.

nkjv@Jeremiah:33:16 @ In those days Judah will be saved, And Jerusalem will dwell safely. And this is the name by which she will be called: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:33:17 @ "For thus says the LORD: "David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel;

nkjv@Jeremiah:33:18 @ nor shall the priests, the Levites, lack a man to offer burnt offerings before Me, to kindle grain offerings, and to sacrifice continually."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:33:19 @ And the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:33:20 @ "Thus says the LORD: "If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that there will not be day and night in their season,

nkjv@Jeremiah:33:21 @ then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levites, the priests, My ministers.

nkjv@Jeremiah:33:22 @ As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the descendants of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:33:23 @ Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:33:24 @ "Have you not considered what these people have spoken, saying, "The two families which the LORD has chosen, He has also cast them off

nkjv@Jeremiah:33:25 @ "Thus says the LORD: "If My covenant is not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth,

nkjv@Jeremiah:33:26 @ then I will cast away the descendants of Jacob and David My servant, so that I will not take any of his descendants to be rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will cause their captives to return, and will have mercy on them."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:34:1 @ The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army, all the kingdoms of the earth under his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem and all its cities, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:34:2 @ "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: "Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him, "Thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

nkjv@Jeremiah:34:3 @ And you shall not escape from his hand, but shall surely be taken and delivered into his hand; your eyes shall see the eyes of the king of Babylon, he shall speak with you face to face, and you shall go to Babylon.""

nkjv@Jeremiah:34:4 @ Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah! Thus says the LORD concerning you: "You shall not die by the sword.

nkjv@Jeremiah:34:5 @ You shall die in peace; as in the ceremonies of your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so they shall burn incense for you and lament for you, saying, "Alas, lord!" For I have pronounced the word, says the LORD."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:34:6 @ Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,

nkjv@Jeremiah:34:7 @ when the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and Azekah; for only these fortified cities remained of the cities of Judah.

nkjv@Jeremiah:34:8 @ This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem to proclaim liberty to them:

nkjv@Jeremiah:34:9 @ that every man should set free his male and female slave--a Hebrew man or woman--that no one should keep a Jewish brother in bondage.

nkjv@Jeremiah:34:10 @ Now when all the princes and all the people, who had entered into the covenant, heard that everyone should set free his male and female slaves, that no one should keep them in bondage anymore, they obeyed and let them go.

nkjv@Jeremiah:34:11 @ But afterward they changed their minds and made the male and female slaves return, whom they had set free, and brought them into subjection as male and female slaves.

nkjv@Jeremiah:34:12 @ Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:34:13 @ "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: "I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:34:14 @ "At the end of seven years let every man set free his Hebrew brother, who has been sold to him; and when he has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you." But your fathers did not obey Me nor incline their ear.

nkjv@Jeremiah:34:15 @ Then you recently turned and did what was right in My sight--every man proclaiming liberty to his neighbor; and you made a covenant before Me in the house which is called by My name.

nkjv@Jeremiah:34:16 @ Then you turned around and profaned My name, and every one of you brought back his male and female slaves, whom he had set at liberty, at their pleasure, and brought them back into subjection, to be your male and female slaves.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:34:17 @ "Therefore thus says the LORD: "You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and every one to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim liberty to you,' says the LORD--"to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine! And I will deliver you to trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth.

nkjv@Jeremiah:34:18 @ And I will give the men who have transgressed My covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before Me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between the parts of it--

nkjv@Jeremiah:34:19 @ the princes of Judah, the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf--

nkjv@Jeremiah:34:20 @ I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life. Their dead bodies shall be for meat for the birds of the heaven and the beasts of the earth.

nkjv@Jeremiah:34:21 @ And I will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes into the hand of their enemies, into the hand of those who seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army which has gone back from you.

nkjv@Jeremiah:34:22 @ Behold, I will command,' says the LORD, "and cause them to return to this city. They will fight against it and take it and burn it with fire; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without inhabitant."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:35:1 @ The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:35:2 @ "Go to the house of the Rechabites, speak to them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink."

nkjv@Jeremiah:35:3 @ Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, his brothers and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites,

nkjv@Jeremiah:35:4 @ and I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door.

nkjv@Jeremiah:35:5 @ Then I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine, and cups; and I said to them, "Drink wine."

nkjv@Jeremiah:35:6 @ But they said, "We will drink no wine, for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, "You shall drink no wine, you nor your sons, forever.

nkjv@Jeremiah:35:7 @ You shall not build a house, sow seed, plant a vineyard, nor have any of these; but all your days you shall dwell in tents, that you may live many days in the land where you are sojourners.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:35:8 @ Thus we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters,

nkjv@Jeremiah:35:10 @ But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

nkjv@Jeremiah:35:11 @ But it came to pass, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, "Come, let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans and for fear of the army of the Syrians.' So we dwell at Jerusalem."

nkjv@Jeremiah:35:12 @ Then came the word of the LORD to Jeremiah, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:35:13 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, "Will you not receive instruction to obey My words?" says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:35:14 @ "The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, which he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are performed; for to this day they drink none, and obey their father's commandment. But although I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, you did not obey Me.

nkjv@Jeremiah:35:15 @ I have also sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, "Turn now everyone from his evil way, amend your doings, and do not go after other gods to serve them; then you will dwell in the land which I have given you and your fathers.' But you have not inclined your ear, nor obeyed Me.

nkjv@Jeremiah:35:16 @ Surely the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father, which he commanded them, but this people has not obeyed Me."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:35:17 @ "Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel: "Behold, I will bring on Judah and on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the doom that I have pronounced against them; because I have spoken to them but they have not heard, and I have called to them but they have not answered."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:35:18 @ And Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts and done according to all that he commanded you,

nkjv@Jeremiah:35:19 @ therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not lack a man to stand before Me forever.""'

nkjv@Jeremiah:36:1 @ Now it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying:

nkjv@Jeremiah:36:2 @ "Take a scroll of a book and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah even to this day.

nkjv@Jeremiah:36:3 @ It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the adversities which I purpose to bring upon them, that everyone may turn from his evil way, that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin."

nkjv@Jeremiah:36:4 @ Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote on a scroll of a book, at the instruction of Jeremiah, all the words of the LORD which He had spoken to him.

nkjv@Jeremiah:36:5 @ And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, "I am confined, I cannot go into the house of the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:36:6 @ You go, therefore, and read from the scroll which you have written at my instruction, the words of the LORD, in the hearing of the people in the LORD's house on the day of fasting. And you shall also read them in the hearing of all Judah who come from their cities.

nkjv@Jeremiah:36:7 @ It may be that they will present their supplication before the LORD, and everyone will turn from his evil way. For great is the anger and the fury that the LORD has pronounced against this people."

nkjv@Jeremiah:36:8 @ And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading from the book the words of the LORD in the LORD's house.

nkjv@Jeremiah:36:9 @ Now it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem.

nkjv@Jeremiah:36:10 @ Then Baruch read from the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper court at the entry of the New Gate of the LORD's house, in the hearing of all the people.

nkjv@Jeremiah:36:11 @ When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, heard all the words of the LORD from the book,

nkjv@Jeremiah:36:12 @ he then went down to the king's house, into the scribe's chamber; and there all the princes were sitting--Elishama the scribe, Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, Elnathan the son of Achbor, Gemariah the son of Shaphan, Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.

nkjv@Jeremiah:36:13 @ Then Michaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard when Baruch read the book in the hearing of the people.

nkjv@Jeremiah:36:14 @ Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, "Take in your hand the scroll from which you have read in the hearing of the people, and come." So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand and came to them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:36:15 @ And they said to him, "Sit down now, and read it in our hearing." So Baruch read it in their hearing.

nkjv@Jeremiah:36:16 @ Now it happened, when they had heard all the words, that they looked in fear from one to another, and said to Baruch, "We will surely tell the king of all these words."

nkjv@Jeremiah:36:17 @ And they asked Baruch, saying, "Tell us now, how did you write all these words--at his instruction?"

nkjv@Jeremiah:36:18 @ So Baruch answered them, "He proclaimed with his mouth all these words to me, and I wrote them with ink in the book."

nkjv@Jeremiah:36:19 @ Then the princes said to Baruch, "Go and hide, you and Jeremiah; and let no one know where you are."

nkjv@Jeremiah:36:20 @ And they went to the king, into the court; but they stored the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the hearing of the king.

nkjv@Jeremiah:36:21 @ So the king sent Jehudi to bring the scroll, and he took it from Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king and in the hearing of all the princes who stood beside the king.

nkjv@Jeremiah:36:22 @ Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month, with a fire burning on the hearth before him.

nkjv@Jeremiah:36:23 @ And it happened, when Jehudi had read three or four columns, that the king cut it with the scribe's knife and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.

nkjv@Jeremiah:36:24 @ Yet they were not afraid, nor did they tear their garments, the king nor any of his servants who heard all these words.

nkjv@Jeremiah:36:25 @ Nevertheless Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah implored the king not to burn the scroll; but he would not listen to them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:36:26 @ And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet, but the LORD hid them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:36:27 @ Now after the king had burned the scroll with the words which Baruch had written at the instruction of Jeremiah, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying:

nkjv@Jeremiah:36:28 @ "Take yet another scroll, and write on it all the former words that were in the first scroll which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.

nkjv@Jeremiah:36:29 @ And you shall say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, "Thus says the LORD: "You have burned this scroll, saying, "Why have you written in it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and cause man and beast to cease from here?"'

nkjv@Jeremiah:36:30 @ Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: "He shall have no one to sit on the throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat of the day and the frost of the night.

nkjv@Jeremiah:36:31 @ I will punish him, his family, and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring on them, on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah all the doom that I have pronounced against them; but they did not heed.""'

nkjv@Jeremiah:36:32 @ Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote on it at the instruction of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And besides, there were added to them many similar words.

nkjv@Jeremiah:37:1 @ Now King Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.

nkjv@Jeremiah:37:2 @ But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land gave heed to the words of the LORD which He spoke by the prophet Jeremiah.

nkjv@Jeremiah:37:3 @ And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, "Pray now to the LORD our God for us."

nkjv@Jeremiah:37:4 @ Now Jeremiah was coming and going among the people, for they had not yet put him in prison.

nkjv@Jeremiah:37:5 @ Then Pharaoh's army came up from Egypt; and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news of them, they departed from Jerusalem.

nkjv@Jeremiah:37:6 @ Then the word of the LORD came to the prophet Jeremiah, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:37:7 @ "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, "Thus you shall say to the king of Judah, who sent you to Me to inquire of Me: "Behold, Pharaoh's army which has come up to help you will return to Egypt, to their own land.

nkjv@Jeremiah:37:8 @ And the Chaldeans shall come back and fight against this city, and take it and burn it with fire."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:37:9 @ Thus says the LORD: "Do not deceive yourselves, saying, "The Chaldeans will surely depart from us," for they will not depart.

nkjv@Jeremiah:37:10 @ For though you had defeated the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and there remained only wounded men among them, they would rise up, every man in his tent, and burn the city with fire."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:37:11 @ And it happened, when the army of the Chaldeans left the siege of Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,

nkjv@Jeremiah:37:12 @ that Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin to claim his property there among the people.

nkjv@Jeremiah:37:13 @ And when he was in the Gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard was there whose name was Irijah the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, "You are defecting to the Chaldeans!"

nkjv@Jeremiah:37:14 @ Then Jeremiah said, "False! I am not defecting to the Chaldeans." But he did not listen to him. So Irijah seized Jeremiah and brought him to the princes.

nkjv@Jeremiah:37:15 @ Therefore the princes were angry with Jeremiah, and they struck him and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe. For they had made that the prison.

nkjv@Jeremiah:37:16 @ When Jeremiah entered the dungeon and the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days,

nkjv@Jeremiah:37:17 @ then Zedekiah the king sent and took him out. The king asked him secretly in his house, and said, "Is there any word from the LORD?" And Jeremiah said, "There is." Then he said, "You shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon!"

nkjv@Jeremiah:37:19 @ Where now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, "The king of Babylon will not come against you or against this land'?

nkjv@Jeremiah:37:20 @ Therefore please hear now, O my lord the king. Please, let my petition be accepted before you, and do not make me return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there."

nkjv@Jeremiah:37:21 @ Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah to the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread from the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

nkjv@Jeremiah:38:1 @ Now Shephatiah the son of Mattan, Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchiah heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken to all the people, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:38:2 @ "Thus says the LORD: "He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; but he who goes over to the Chaldeans shall live; his life shall be as a prize to him, and he shall live.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:38:3 @ Thus says the LORD: "This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which shall take it."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:38:4 @ Therefore the princes said to the king, "Please, let this man be put to death, for thus he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking such words to them. For this man does not seek the welfare of this people, but their harm."

nkjv@Jeremiah:38:5 @ Then Zedekiah the king said, "Look, he is in your hand. For the king can do nothing against you."

nkjv@Jeremiah:38:6 @ So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the king's son, which was in the court of the prison, and they let Jeremiah down with ropes. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire. So Jeremiah sank in the mire.

nkjv@Jeremiah:38:7 @ Now Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs, who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon. When the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin,

nkjv@Jeremiah:38:8 @ Ebed-Melech went out of the king's house and spoke to the king, saying:

nkjv@Jeremiah:38:9 @ "My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon, and he is likely to die from hunger in the place where he is. For there is no more bread in the city."

nkjv@Jeremiah:38:10 @ Then the king commanded Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, saying, "Take from here thirty men with you, and lift Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon before he dies."

nkjv@Jeremiah:38:11 @ So Ebed-Melech took the men with him and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took from there old clothes and old rags, and let them down by ropes into the dungeon to Jeremiah.

nkjv@Jeremiah:38:12 @ Then Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, "Please put these old clothes and rags under your armpits, under the ropes." And Jeremiah did so.

nkjv@Jeremiah:38:13 @ So they pulled Jeremiah up with ropes and lifted him out of the dungeon. And Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

nkjv@Jeremiah:38:14 @ Then Zedekiah the king sent and had Jeremiah the prophet brought to him at the third entrance of the house of the LORD. And the king said to Jeremiah, "I will ask you something. Hide nothing from me."

nkjv@Jeremiah:38:16 @ So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, "As the LORD lives, who made our very souls, I will not put you to death, nor will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life."

nkjv@Jeremiah:38:17 @ Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "Thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: "If you surely surrender to the king of Babylon's princes, then your soul shall live; this city shall not be burned with fire, and you and your house shall live.

nkjv@Jeremiah:38:18 @ But if you do not surrender to the king of Babylon's princes, then this city shall be given into the hand of the Chaldeans; they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape from their hand."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:38:19 @ And Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, "I am afraid of the Jews who have defected to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they abuse me."

nkjv@Jeremiah:38:20 @ But Jeremiah said, "They shall not deliver you. Please, obey the voice of the LORD which I speak to you. So it shall be well with you, and your soul shall live.

nkjv@Jeremiah:38:21 @ But if you refuse to surrender, this is the word that the LORD has shown me:

nkjv@Jeremiah:38:22 @ "Now behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah's house shall be surrendered to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say: "Your close friends have set upon you And prevailed against you; Your feet have sunk in the mire, And they have turned away again."

nkjv@Jeremiah:38:23 @ "So they shall surrender all your wives and children to the Chaldeans. You shall not escape from their hand, but shall be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon. And you shall cause this city to be burned with fire."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:38:24 @ Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, "Let no one know of these words, and you shall not die.

nkjv@Jeremiah:38:25 @ But if the princes hear that I have talked with you, and they come to you and say to you, "Declare to us now what you have said to the king, and also what the king said to you; do not hide it from us, and we will not put you to death,'

nkjv@Jeremiah:38:26 @ then you shall say to them, "I presented my request before the king, that he would not make me return to Jonathan's house to die there."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:38:27 @ Then all the princes came to Jeremiah and asked him. And he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they stopped speaking with him, for the conversation had not been heard.

nkjv@Jeremiah:38:28 @ Now Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken. And he was there when Jerusalem was taken.

nkjv@Jeremiah:39:1 @ In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem, and besieged it.

nkjv@Jeremiah:39:2 @ In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the city was penetrated.

nkjv@Jeremiah:39:3 @ Then all the princes of the king of Babylon came in and sat in the Middle Gate: Nergal-Sharezer, Samgar-Nebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergal-Sarezer, Rabmag, with the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.

nkjv@Jeremiah:39:4 @ So it was, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, that they fled and went out of the city by night, by way of the king's garden, by the gate between the two walls. And he went out by way of the plain.

nkjv@Jeremiah:39:5 @ But the Chaldean army pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. And when they had captured him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on him.

nkjv@Jeremiah:39:6 @ Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes in Riblah; the king of Babylon also killed all the nobles of Judah.

nkjv@Jeremiah:39:8 @ And the Chaldeans burned the king's house and the houses of the people with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

nkjv@Jeremiah:39:9 @ Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive to Babylon the remnant of the people who remained in the city and those who defected to him, with the rest of the people who remained.

nkjv@Jeremiah:39:10 @ But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left in the land of Judah the poor people, who had nothing, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.

nkjv@Jeremiah:39:11 @ Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:39:13 @ So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent Nebushasban, Rabsaris, Nergal-Sharezer, Rabmag, and all the king of Babylon's chief officers;

nkjv@Jeremiah:39:14 @ then they sent someone to take Jeremiah from the court of the prison, and committed him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, that he should take him home. So he dwelt among the people.

nkjv@Jeremiah:39:15 @ Meanwhile the word of the LORD had come to Jeremiah while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:39:16 @ "Go and speak to Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, saying, "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Behold, I will bring My words upon this city for adversity and not for good, and they shall be performed in that day before you.

nkjv@Jeremiah:39:17 @ But I will deliver you in that day," says the LORD, "and you shall not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid.

nkjv@Jeremiah:39:18 @ For I will surely deliver you, and you shall not fall by the sword; but your life shall be as a prize to you, because you have put your trust in Me," says the LORD."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:40:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him bound in chains among all who were carried away captive from Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away captive to Babylon.

nkjv@Jeremiah:40:2 @ And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said to him: "The LORD your God has pronounced this doom on this place.

nkjv@Jeremiah:40:3 @ Now the LORD has brought it, and has done just as He said. Because you people have sinned against the LORD, and not obeyed His voice, therefore this thing has come upon you.

nkjv@Jeremiah:40:4 @ And now look, I free you this day from the chains that were on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will look after you. But if it seems wrong for you to come with me to Babylon, remain here. See, all the land is before you; wherever it seems good and convenient for you to go, go there."

nkjv@Jeremiah:40:5 @ Now while Jeremiah had not yet gone back, Nebuzaradan said, "Go back to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people. Or go wherever it seems convenient for you to go." So the captain of the guard gave him rations and a gift and let him go.

nkjv@Jeremiah:40:6 @ Then Jeremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, to Mizpah, and dwelt with him among the people who were left in the land.

nkjv@Jeremiah:40:7 @ And when all the captains of the armies who were in the fields, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed to him men, women, children, and the poorest of the land who had not been carried away captive to Babylon,

nkjv@Jeremiah:40:8 @ then they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah--Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.

nkjv@Jeremiah:40:9 @ And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, took an oath before them and their men, saying, "Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Dwell in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.

nkjv@Jeremiah:40:10 @ As for me, I will indeed dwell at Mizpah and serve the Chaldeans who come to us. But you, gather wine and summer fruit and oil, put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken."

nkjv@Jeremiah:40:11 @ Likewise, when all the Jews who were in Moab, among the Ammonites, in Edom, and who were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan,

nkjv@Jeremiah:40:12 @ then all the Jews returned out of all places where they had been driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruit in abundance.

nkjv@Jeremiah:40:13 @ Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces that were in the fields came to Gedaliah at Mizpah,

nkjv@Jeremiah:40:14 @ and said to him, "Do you certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to murder you?" But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam did not believe them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:40:15 @ Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke secretly to Gedaliah in Mizpah, saying, "Let me go, please, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no one will know it. Why should he murder you, so that all the Jews who are gathered to you would be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?"

nkjv@Jeremiah:40:16 @ But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, "You shall not do this thing, for you speak falsely concerning Ishmael."

nkjv@Jeremiah:41:1 @ Now it came to pass in the seventh month that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal family and of the officers of the king, came with ten men to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, at Mizpah. And there they ate bread together in Mizpah.

nkjv@Jeremiah:41:2 @ Then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who were with him, arose and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword, and killed him whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.

nkjv@Jeremiah:41:3 @ Ishmael also struck down all the Jews who were with him, that is, with Gedaliah at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans who were found there, the men of war.

nkjv@Jeremiah:41:4 @ And it happened, on the second day after he had killed Gedaliah, when as yet no one knew it,

nkjv@Jeremiah:41:5 @ that certain men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, eighty men with their beards shaved and their clothes torn, having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:41:6 @ Now Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he went along; and it happened as he met them that he said to them, "Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam!"

nkjv@Jeremiah:41:7 @ So it was, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them and cast them into the midst of a pit, he and the men who were with him.

nkjv@Jeremiah:41:8 @ But ten men were found among them who said to Ishmael, "Do not kill us, for we have treasures of wheat, barley, oil, and honey in the field." So he desisted and did not kill them among their brethren.

nkjv@Jeremiah:41:9 @ Now the pit into which Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had slain, because of Gedaliah, was the same one Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.

nkjv@Jeremiah:41:10 @ Then Ishmael carried away captive all the rest of the people who were in Mizpah, the king's daughters and all the people who remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive and departed to go over to the Ammonites.

nkjv@Jeremiah:41:11 @ But when Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces that were with him heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,

nkjv@Jeremiah:41:12 @ they took all the men and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah; and they found him by the great pool that is in Gibeon.

nkjv@Jeremiah:41:13 @ So it was, when all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, that they were glad.

nkjv@Jeremiah:41:14 @ Then all the people whom Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah turned around and came back, and went to Johanan the son of Kareah.

nkjv@Jeremiah:41:15 @ But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men and went to the Ammonites.

nkjv@Jeremiah:41:16 @ Then Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, took from Mizpah all the rest of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah after he had murdered Gedaliah the son of Ahikam--the mighty men of war and the women and the children and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon.

nkjv@Jeremiah:41:17 @ And they departed and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham, which is near Bethlehem, as they went on their way to Egypt,

nkjv@Jeremiah:41:18 @ because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had murdered Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had made governor in the land.

nkjv@Jeremiah:42:1 @ Now all the captains of the forces, Johanan the son of Kareah, Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people, from the least to the greatest, came near

nkjv@Jeremiah:42:2 @ and said to Jeremiah the prophet, "Please, let our petition be acceptable to you, and pray for us to the LORD your God, for all this remnant (since we are left but a few of many, as you can see),

nkjv@Jeremiah:42:3 @ that the LORD your God may show us the way in which we should walk and the thing we should do."

nkjv@Jeremiah:42:4 @ Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, "I have heard. Indeed, I will pray to the LORD your God according to your words, and it shall be, that whatever the LORD answers you, I will declare it to you. I will keep nothing back from you."

nkjv@Jeremiah:42:5 @ So they said to Jeremiah, "Let the LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not do according to everything which the LORD your God sends us by you.

nkjv@Jeremiah:42:6 @ Whether it is pleasing or displeasing, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God to whom we send you, that it may be well with us when we obey the voice of the LORD our God."

nkjv@Jeremiah:42:7 @ And it happened after ten days that the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah.

nkjv@Jeremiah:42:8 @ Then he called Johanan the son of Kareah, all the captains of the forces which were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,

nkjv@Jeremiah:42:9 @ and said to them, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your petition before Him:

nkjv@Jeremiah:42:10 @ "If you will still remain in this land, then I will build you and not pull you down, and I will plant you and not pluck you up. For I relent concerning the disaster that I have brought upon you.

nkjv@Jeremiah:42:11 @ Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid; do not be afraid of him,' says the LORD, "for I am with you, to save you and deliver you from his hand.

nkjv@Jeremiah:42:13 @ "But if you say, "We will not dwell in this land,' disobeying the voice of the LORD your God,

nkjv@Jeremiah:42:14 @ saying, "No, but we will go to the land of Egypt where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor be hungry for bread, and there we will dwell'--

nkjv@Jeremiah:42:15 @ Then hear now the word of the LORD, O remnant of Judah! Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "If you wholly set your faces to enter Egypt, and go to dwell there,

nkjv@Jeremiah:42:16 @ then it shall be that the sword which you feared shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; the famine of which you were afraid shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there you shall die.

nkjv@Jeremiah:42:17 @ So shall it be with all the men who set their faces to go to Egypt to dwell there. They shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. And none of them shall remain or escape from the disaster that I will bring upon them.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:42:18 @ "For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "As My anger and My fury have been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so will My fury be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. And you shall be an oath, an astonishment, a curse, and a reproach; and you shall see this place no more.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:42:19 @ "The LORD has said concerning you, O remnant of Judah, "Do not go to Egypt!' Know certainly that I have admonished you this day.

nkjv@Jeremiah:42:20 @ For you were hypocrites in your hearts when you sent me to the LORD your God, saying, "Pray for us to the LORD our God, and according to all that the LORD your God says, so declare to us and we will do it.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:42:21 @ And I have this day declared it to you, but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, or anything which He has sent you by me.

nkjv@Jeremiah:42:22 @ Now therefore, know certainly that you shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence in the place where you desire to go to dwell."

nkjv@Jeremiah:43:1 @ Now it happened, when Jeremiah had stopped speaking to all the people all the words of the LORD their God, for which the LORD their God had sent him to them, all these words,

nkjv@Jeremiah:43:2 @ that Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, "You speak falsely! The LORD our God has not sent you to say, "Do not go to Egypt to dwell there.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:43:3 @ But Baruch the son of Neriah has set you against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death or carry us away captive to Babylon."

nkjv@Jeremiah:43:4 @ So Johanan the son of Kareah, all the captains of the forces, and all the people would not obey the voice of the LORD, to remain in the land of Judah.

nkjv@Jeremiah:43:5 @ But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces took all the remnant of Judah who had returned to dwell in the land of Judah, from all nations where they had been driven--

nkjv@Jeremiah:43:6 @ men, women, children, the king's daughters, and every person whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch the son of Neriah.

nkjv@Jeremiah:43:7 @ So they went to the land of Egypt, for they did not obey the voice of the LORD. And they went as far as Tahpanhes.

nkjv@Jeremiah:43:8 @ Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:43:9 @ "Take large stones in your hand, and hide them in the sight of the men of Judah, in the clay in the brick courtyard which is at the entrance to Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes;

nkjv@Jeremiah:43:10 @ and say to them, "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Behold, I will send and bring Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will set his throne above these stones that I have hidden. And he will spread his royal pavilion over them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:43:11 @ When he comes, he shall strike the land of Egypt and deliver to death those appointed for death, and to captivity those appointed for captivity, and to the sword those appointed for the sword.

nkjv@Jeremiah:43:12 @ I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them and carry them away captive. And he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his garment, and he shall go out from there in peace.

nkjv@Jeremiah:43:13 @ He shall also break the sacred pillars of Beth Shemesh that are in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians he shall burn with fire.""'

nkjv@Jeremiah:44:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who dwell in the land of Egypt, who dwell at Migdol, at Tahpanhes, at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:44:2 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "You have seen all the calamity that I have brought on Jerusalem and on all the cities of Judah; and behold, this day they are a desolation, and no one dwells in them,

nkjv@Jeremiah:44:3 @ because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke Me to anger, in that they went to burn incense and to serve other gods whom they did not know, they nor you nor your fathers.

nkjv@Jeremiah:44:4 @ However I have sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, "Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate!"

nkjv@Jeremiah:44:5 @ But they did not listen or incline their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods.

nkjv@Jeremiah:44:6 @ So My fury and My anger were poured out and kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as it is this day.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:44:7 @ "Now therefore, thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: "Why do you commit this great evil against yourselves, to cut off from you man and woman, child and infant, out of Judah, leaving none to remain,

nkjv@Jeremiah:44:8 @ in that you provoke Me to wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have gone to dwell, that you may cut yourselves off and be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

nkjv@Jeremiah:44:9 @ Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, the wickedness of the kings of Judah, the wickedness of their wives, your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

nkjv@Jeremiah:44:10 @ They have not been humbled, to this day, nor have they feared; they have not walked in My law or in My statutes that I set before you and your fathers.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:44:11 @ "Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Behold, I will set My face against you for catastrophe and for cutting off all Judah.

nkjv@Jeremiah:44:12 @ And I will take the remnant of Judah who have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to dwell there, and they shall all be consumed and fall in the land of Egypt. They shall be consumed by the sword and by famine. They shall die, from the least to the greatest, by the sword and by famine; and they shall be an oath, an astonishment, a curse and a reproach!

nkjv@Jeremiah:44:13 @ For I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence,

nkjv@Jeremiah:44:14 @ so that none of the remnant of Judah who have gone into the land of Egypt to dwell there shall escape or survive, lest they return to the land of Judah, to which they desire to return and dwell. For none shall return except those who escape."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:44:15 @ Then all the men who knew that their wives had burned incense to other gods, with all the women who stood by, a great multitude, and all the people who dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying:

nkjv@Jeremiah:44:16 @ "As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you!

nkjv@Jeremiah:44:17 @ But we will certainly do whatever has gone out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, were well-off, and saw no trouble.

nkjv@Jeremiah:44:18 @ But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine."

nkjv@Jeremiah:44:19 @ The women also said, "And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make cakes for her, to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her without our husbands' permission?"

nkjv@Jeremiah:44:20 @ Then Jeremiah spoke to all the people--the men, the women, and all the people who had given him that answer--saying:

nkjv@Jeremiah:44:21 @ "The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and did it not come into His mind?

nkjv@Jeremiah:44:22 @ So the LORD could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings and because of the abominations which you committed. Therefore your land is a desolation, an astonishment, a curse, and without an inhabitant, as it is this day.

nkjv@Jeremiah:44:23 @ Because you have burned incense and because you have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD or walked in His law, in His statutes or in His testimonies, therefore this calamity has happened to you, as at this day."

nkjv@Jeremiah:44:24 @ Moreover Jeremiah said to all the people and to all the women, "Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt!

nkjv@Jeremiah:44:25 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying: "You and your wives have spoken with your mouths and fulfilled with your hands, saying, "We will surely keep our vows that we have made, to burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her." You will surely keep your vows and perform your vows!'

nkjv@Jeremiah:44:26 @ Therefore hear the word of the LORD, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: "Behold, I have sworn by My great name,' says the LORD, "that My name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, "The Lord GOD lives."

nkjv@Jeremiah:44:27 @ Behold, I will watch over them for adversity and not for good. And all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, until there is an end to them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:44:28 @ Yet a small number who escape the sword shall return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah; and all the remnant of Judah, who have gone to the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall know whose words will stand, Mine or theirs.

nkjv@Jeremiah:44:29 @ And this shall be a sign to you,' says the LORD, "that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that My words will surely stand against you for adversity.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:44:30 @ "Thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies and into the hand of those who seek his life, as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, his enemy who sought his life."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:45:1 @ The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the instruction of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:45:2 @ "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, to you, O Baruch:

nkjv@Jeremiah:45:3 @ "You said, "Woe is me now! For the LORD has added grief to my sorrow. I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest."'

nkjv@Jeremiah:45:4 @ "Thus you shall say to him, "Thus says the LORD: "Behold, what I have built I will break down, and what I have planted I will pluck up, that is, this whole land.

nkjv@Jeremiah:45:5 @ And do you seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them; for behold, I will bring adversity on all flesh," says the LORD. "But I will give your life to you as a prize in all places, wherever you go.""'

nkjv@Jeremiah:46:1 @ The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the nations.

nkjv@Jeremiah:46:2 @ Against Egypt. Concerning the army of Pharaoh Necho, king of Egypt, which was by the River Euphrates in Carchemish, and which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

nkjv@Jeremiah:46:3 @ "Order the buckler and shield, And draw near to battle!

nkjv@Jeremiah:46:4 @ Harness the horses, And mount up, you horsemen! Stand forth with your helmets, Polish the spears, Put on the armor!

nkjv@Jeremiah:46:5 @ Why have I seen them dismayed and turned back? Their mighty ones are beaten down; They have speedily fled, And did not look back, For fear was all around," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:46:6 @ "Do not let the swift flee away, Nor the mighty man escape; They will stumble and fall Toward the north, by the River Euphrates.

nkjv@Jeremiah:46:7 @ "Who is this coming up like a flood, Whose waters move like the rivers?

nkjv@Jeremiah:46:8 @ Egypt rises up like a flood, And its waters move like the rivers; And he says, "I will go up and cover the earth, I will destroy the city and its inhabitants.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:46:9 @ Come up, O horses, and rage, O chariots! And let the mighty men come forth: The Ethiopians and the Libyans who handle the shield, And the Lydians who handle and bend the bow.

nkjv@Jeremiah:46:10 @ For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, A day of vengeance, That He may avenge Himself on His adversaries. The sword shall devour; It shall be satiated and made drunk with their blood; For the Lord GOD of hosts has a sacrifice In the north country by the River Euphrates.

nkjv@Jeremiah:46:11 @ "Go up to Gilead and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt; In vain you will use many medicines; You shall not be cured.

nkjv@Jeremiah:46:12 @ The nations have heard of your shame, And your cry has filled the land; For the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty; They both have fallen together."

nkjv@Jeremiah:46:13 @ The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon would come and strike the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Jeremiah:46:14 @ "Declare in Egypt, and proclaim in Migdol; Proclaim in Noph and in Tahpanhes; Say, "Stand fast and prepare yourselves, For the sword devours all around you.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:46:15 @ Why are your valiant men swept away? They did not stand Because the LORD drove them away.

nkjv@Jeremiah:46:16 @ He made many fall; Yes, one fell upon another. And they said, "Arise! Let us go back to our own people And to the land of our nativity From the oppressing sword.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:46:17 @ They cried there, "Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is but a noise. He has passed by the appointed time!'

nkjv@Jeremiah:46:18 @ "As I live," says the King, Whose name is the LORD of hosts, "Surely as Tabor is among the mountains And as Carmel by the sea, so he shall come.

nkjv@Jeremiah:46:20 @ "Egypt is a very pretty heifer, But destruction comes, it comes from the north.

nkjv@Jeremiah:46:21 @ Also her mercenaries are in her midst like fat bulls, For they also are turned back, They have fled away together. They did not stand, For the day of their calamity had come upon them, The time of their punishment.

nkjv@Jeremiah:46:22 @ Her noise shall go like a serpent, For they shall march with an army And come against her with axes, Like those who chop wood.

nkjv@Jeremiah:46:23 @ "They shall cut down her forest," says the LORD, "Though it cannot be searched, Because they are innumerable, And more numerous than grasshoppers.

nkjv@Jeremiah:46:24 @ The daughter of Egypt shall be ashamed; She shall be delivered into the hand Of the people of the north."

nkjv@Jeremiah:46:25 @ The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, says: "Behold, I will bring punishment on Amon of No, and Pharaoh and Egypt, with their gods and their kings--Pharaoh and those who trust in him.

nkjv@Jeremiah:46:26 @ And I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the hand of his servants. Afterward it shall be inhabited as in the days of old," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:46:27 @ "But do not fear, O My servant Jacob, And do not be dismayed, O Israel! For behold, I will save you from afar, And your offspring from the land of their captivity; Jacob shall return, have rest and be at ease; No one shall make him afraid.

nkjv@Jeremiah:46:28 @ Do not fear, O Jacob My servant," says the LORD, "For I am with you; For I will make a complete end of all the nations To which I have driven you, But I will not make a complete end of you. I will rightly correct you, For I will not leave you wholly unpunished."

nkjv@Jeremiah:47:1 @ The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before Pharaoh attacked Gaza.

nkjv@Jeremiah:47:2 @ Thus says the LORD: "Behold, waters rise out of the north, And shall be an overflowing flood; They shall overflow the land and all that is in it, The city and those who dwell within; Then the men shall cry, And all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.

nkjv@Jeremiah:47:3 @ At the noise of the stamping hooves of his strong horses, At the rushing of his chariots, At the rumbling of his wheels, The fathers will not look back for their children, Lacking courage,

nkjv@Jeremiah:47:4 @ Because of the day that comes to plunder all the Philistines, To cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains; For the LORD shall plunder the Philistines, The remnant of the country of Caphtor.

nkjv@Jeremiah:47:5 @ Baldness has come upon Gaza, Ashkelon is cut off With the remnant of their valley. How long will you cut yourself?

nkjv@Jeremiah:47:6 @ "O you sword of the LORD, How long until you are quiet? Put yourself up into your scabbard, Rest and be still!

nkjv@Jeremiah:47:7 @ How can it be quiet, Seeing the LORD has given it a charge Against Ashkelon and against the seashore? There He has appointed it."

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:1 @ Against Moab. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Woe to Nebo! For it is plundered, Kirjathaim is shamed and taken; The high stronghold is shamed and dismayed--

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:2 @ No more praise of Moab. In Heshbon they have devised evil against her: "Come, and let us cut her off as a nation.' You also shall be cut down, O Madmen! The sword shall pursue you;

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:5 @ For in the Ascent of Luhith they ascend with continual weeping; For in the descent of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:6 @ "Flee, save your lives! And be like the juniper in the wilderness.

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:7 @ For because you have trusted in your works and your treasures, You also shall be taken. And Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, His priests and his princes together.

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:8 @ And the plunderer shall come against every city; No one shall escape. The valley also shall perish, And the plain shall be destroyed, As the LORD has spoken.

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:9 @ "Give wings to Moab, That she may flee and get away; For her cities shall be desolate, Without any to dwell in them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:10 @ Cursed is he who does the work of the LORD deceitfully, And cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood.

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:11 @ "Moab has been at ease from his youth; He has settled on his dregs, And has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, Nor has he gone into captivity. Therefore his taste remained in him, And his scent has not changed.

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:12 @ "Therefore behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "That I shall send him wine-workers Who will tip him over And empty his vessels And break the bottles.

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:13 @ Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, As the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:14 @ "How can you say, "We are mighty And strong men for the war'?

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:15 @ Moab is plundered and gone up from her cities; Her chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter," says the King, Whose name is the LORD of hosts.

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:16 @ "The calamity of Moab is near at hand, And his affliction comes quickly.

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:17 @ Bemoan him, all you who are around him; And all you who know his name, Say, "How the strong staff is broken, The beautiful rod!'

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:18 @ "O daughter inhabiting Dibon, Come down from your glory, And sit in thirst; For the plunderer of Moab has come against you, He has destroyed your strongholds.

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:19 @ O inhabitant of Aroer, Stand by the way and watch; Ask him who flees And her who escapes; Say, "What has happened?'

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:21 @ "And judgment has come on the plain country: On Holon and Jahzah and Mephaath,

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:24 @ On Kerioth and Bozrah, On all the cities of the land of Moab, Far or near.

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:25 @ The horn of Moab is cut off, And his arm is broken," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:26 @ "Make him drunk, Because he exalted himself against the LORD. Moab shall wallow in his vomit, And he shall also be in derision.

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:28 @ You who dwell in Moab, Leave the cities and dwell in the rock, And be like the dove which makes her nest In the sides of the cave's mouth.

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:29 @ "We have heard the pride of Moab (He is exceedingly proud), Of his loftiness and arrogance and pride, And of the haughtiness of his heart."

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:30 @ "I know his wrath," says the LORD, "But it is not right; His lies have made nothing right.

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:31 @ Therefore I will wail for Moab, And I will cry out for all Moab; I will mourn for the men of Kir Heres.

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:32 @ O vine of Sibmah! I will weep for you with the weeping of Jazer. Your plants have gone over the sea, They reach to the sea of Jazer. The plunderer has fallen on your summer fruit and your vintage.

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:33 @ Joy and gladness are taken From the plentiful field And from the land of Moab; I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses; No one will tread with joyous shouting-- Not joyous shouting!

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:34 @ "From the cry of Heshbon to Elealeh and to Jahaz They have uttered their voice, From Zoar to Horonaim, Like a three-year-old heifer; For the waters of Nimrim also shall be desolate.

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:35 @ "Moreover," says the LORD, "I will cause to cease in Moab The one who offers sacrifices in the high places And burns incense to his gods.

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:36 @ Therefore My heart shall wail like flutes for Moab, And like flutes My heart shall wail For the men of Kir Heres. Therefore the riches they have acquired have perished.

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:37 @ "For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped; On all the hands shall be cuts, and on the loins sackcloth--

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:38 @ A general lamentation On all the housetops of Moab, And in its streets; For I have broken Moab like a vessel in which is no pleasure," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:39 @ "They shall wail: "How she is broken down! How Moab has turned her back with shame!' So Moab shall be a derision And a dismay to all those about her."

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:40 @ For thus says the LORD: "Behold, one shall fly like an eagle, And spread his wings over Moab.

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:41 @ Kerioth is taken, And the strongholds are surprised; The mighty men's hearts in Moab on that day shall be Like the heart of a woman in birth pangs.

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:42 @ And Moab shall be destroyed as a people, Because he exalted himself against the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:43 @ Fear and the pit and the snare shall be upon you, O inhabitant of Moab," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:44 @ "He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit, And he who gets out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For upon Moab, upon it I will bring The year of their punishment," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:45 @ "Those who fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon Because of exhaustion. But a fire shall come out of Heshbon, A flame from the midst of Sihon, And shall devour the brow of Moab, The crown of the head of the sons of tumult.

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:46 @ Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh perish; For your sons have been taken captive, And your daughters captive.

nkjv@Jeremiah:48:47 @ "Yet I will bring back the captives of Moab In the latter days," says the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:1 @ Against the Ammonites. Thus says the LORD: "Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then does Milcom inherit Gad, And his people dwell in its cities?

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:2 @ Therefore behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "That I will cause to be heard an alarm of war In Rabbah of the Ammonites; It shall be a desolate mound, And her villages shall be burned with fire. Then Israel shall take possession of his inheritance," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:3 @ "Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is plundered! Cry, you daughters of Rabbah, Gird yourselves with sackcloth! Lament and run to and fro by the walls; For Milcom shall go into captivity With his priests and his princes together.

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:4 @ Why do you boast in the valleys, Your flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? Who trusted in her treasures, saying, "Who will come against me?'

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:5 @ Behold, I will bring fear upon you," Says the Lord GOD of hosts, "From all those who are around you; You shall be driven out, everyone headlong, And no one will gather those who wander off.

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:6 @ But afterward I will bring back The captives of the people of Ammon," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:7 @ Against Edom. Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:8 @ Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan! For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, The time that I will punish him.

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:9 @ If grape-gatherers came to you, Would they not leave some gleaning grapes? If thieves by night, Would they not destroy until they have enough?

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:11 @ Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; And let your widows trust in Me."

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:12 @ For thus says the LORD: "Behold, those whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunk. And are you the one who will altogether go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you shall surely drink of it.

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:13 @ For I have sworn by Myself," says the LORD, "that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. And all its cities shall be perpetual wastes."

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:14 @ I have heard a message from the LORD, And an ambassador has been sent to the nations: "Gather together, come against her, And rise up to battle!

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:16 @ Your fierceness has deceived you, The pride of your heart, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, Who hold the height of the hill! Though you make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:18 @ As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah And their neighbors," says the LORD, "No one shall remain there, Nor shall a son of man dwell in it.

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:19 @ "Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the floodplain of the Jordan Against the dwelling place of the strong; But I will suddenly make him run away from her. And who is a chosen man that I may appoint over her? For who is like Me? Who will arraign Me? And who is that shepherd Who will withstand Me?"

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:20 @ Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD that He has taken against Edom, And His purposes that He has proposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out; Surely He shall make their dwelling places desolate with them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:21 @ The earth shakes at the noise of their fall; At the cry its noise is heard at the Red Sea.

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:22 @ Behold, He shall come up and fly like the eagle, And spread His wings over Bozrah; The heart of the mighty men of Edom in that day shall be Like the heart of a woman in birth pangs.

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:23 @ Against Damascus. "Hamath and Arpad are shamed, For they have heard bad news. They are fainthearted; There is trouble on the sea; It cannot be quiet.

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:25 @ Why is the city of praise not deserted, the city of My joy?

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:26 @ Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, And all the men of war shall be cut off in that day," says the LORD of hosts.

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:27 @ "I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, And it shall consume the palaces of Ben-Hadad."

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:28 @ Against Kedar and against the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon shall strike. Thus says the LORD: "Arise, go up to Kedar, And devastate the men of the East!

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:29 @ Their tents and their flocks they shall take away. They shall take for themselves their curtains, All their vessels and their camels; And they shall cry out to them, "Fear is on every side!'

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:30 @ "Flee, get far away! Dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Hazor!" says the LORD. "For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you, And has conceived a plan against you.

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:31 @ "Arise, go up to the wealthy nation that dwells securely," says the LORD, "Which has neither gates nor bars, Dwelling alone.

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:32 @ Their camels shall be for booty, And the multitude of their cattle for plunder. I will scatter to all winds those in the farthest corners, And I will bring their calamity from all its sides," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:33 @ "Hazor shall be a dwelling for jackals, a desolation forever; No one shall reside there, Nor son of man dwell in it."

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:34 @ The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:35 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, The foremost of their might.

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:36 @ Against Elam I will bring the four winds From the four quarters of heaven, And scatter them toward all those winds; There shall be no nations where the outcasts of Elam will not go.

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:37 @ For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies And before those who seek their life. I will bring disaster upon them, My fierce anger,' says the LORD; "And I will send the sword after them Until I have consumed them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:38 @ I will set My throne in Elam, And will destroy from there the king and the princes,' says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:49:39 @ "But it shall come to pass in the latter days: I will bring back the captives of Elam,' says the LORD."

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:1 @ The word that the LORD spoke against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:2 @ "Declare among the nations, Proclaim, and set up a standard; Proclaim--do not conceal it-- Say, "Babylon is taken, Bel is shamed. Merodach is broken in pieces; Her idols are humiliated, Her images are broken in pieces.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:3 @ For out of the north a nation comes up against her, Which shall make her land desolate, And no one shall dwell therein. They shall move, they shall depart, Both man and beast.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:4 @ "In those days and in that time," says the LORD, "The children of Israel shall come, They and the children of Judah together; With continual weeping they shall come, And seek the LORD their God.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:5 @ They shall ask the way to Zion, With their faces toward it, saying, "Come and let us join ourselves to the LORD In a perpetual covenant That will not be forgotten.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:6 @ "My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray; They have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill; They have forgotten their resting place.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:7 @ All who found them have devoured them; And their adversaries said, "We have not offended, Because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, The LORD, the hope of their fathers.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:8 @ "Move from the midst of Babylon, Go out of the land of the Chaldeans; And be like the rams before the flocks.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:9 @ For behold, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon An assembly of great nations from the north country, And they shall array themselves against her; From there she shall be captured. Their arrows shall be like those of an expert warrior; None shall return in vain.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:10 @ And Chaldea shall become plunder; All who plunder her shall be satisfied," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:12 @ Your mother shall be deeply ashamed; She who bore you shall be ashamed. Behold, the least of the nations shall be a wilderness, A dry land and a desert.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:13 @ Because of the wrath of the LORD She shall not be inhabited, But she shall be wholly desolate. Everyone who goes by Babylon shall be horrified And hiss at all her plagues.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:14 @ "Put yourselves in array against Babylon all around, All you who bend the bow; Shoot at her, spare no arrows, For she has sinned against the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:15 @ Shout against her all around; She has given her hand, Her foundations have fallen, Her walls are thrown down; For it is the vengeance of the LORD. Take vengeance on her. As she has done, so do to her.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:16 @ Cut off the sower from Babylon, And him who handles the sickle at harvest time. For fear of the oppressing sword Everyone shall turn to his own people, And everyone shall flee to his own land.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:17 @ "Israel is like scattered sheep; The lions have driven him away. First the king of Assyria devoured him; Now at last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones."

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:18 @ Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, As I have punished the king of Assyria.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:20 @ In those days and in that time," says the LORD, "The iniquity of Israel shall be sought, but there shall be none; And the sins of Judah, but they shall not be found; For I will pardon those whom I preserve.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:21 @ "Go up against the land of Merathaim, against it, And against the inhabitants of Pekod. Waste and utterly destroy them," says the LORD, "And do according to all that I have commanded you.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:22 @ A sound of battle is in the land, And of great destruction.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:23 @ How the hammer of the whole earth has been cut apart and broken! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations! I have laid a snare for you;

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:24 @ You have indeed been trapped, O Babylon, And you were not aware; You have been found and also caught, Because you have contended against the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:25 @ The LORD has opened His armory, And has brought out the weapons of His indignation; For this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts In the land of the Chaldeans.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:26 @ Come against her from the farthest border; Open her storehouses; Cast her up as heaps of ruins, And destroy her utterly; Let nothing of her be left.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:27 @ Slay all her bulls, Let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their punishment.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:28 @ The voice of those who flee and escape from the land of Babylon Declares in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, The vengeance of His temple.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:29 @ "Call together the archers against Babylon. All you who bend the bow, encamp against it all around; Let none of them escape. Repay her according to her work; According to all she has done, do to her; For she has been proud against the LORD, Against the Holy One of Israel.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:30 @ Therefore her young men shall fall in the streets, And all her men of war shall be cut off in that day," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:31 @ "Behold, I am against you, O most haughty one!" says the Lord GOD of hosts; "For your day has come, The time that I will punish you.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:32 @ The most proud shall stumble and fall, And no one will raise him up; I will kindle a fire in his cities, And it will devour all around him."

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:33 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts: "The children of Israel were oppressed, Along with the children of Judah; All who took them captive have held them fast; They have refused to let them go.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:34 @ Their Redeemer is strong; The LORD of hosts is His name. He will thoroughly plead their case, That He may give rest to the land, And disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:35 @ "A sword is against the Chaldeans," says the LORD, "Against the inhabitants of Babylon, And against her princes and her wise men.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:36 @ A sword is against the soothsayers, and they will be fools. A sword is against her mighty men, and they will be dismayed.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:37 @ A sword is against their horses, Against their chariots, And against all the mixed peoples who are in her midst; And they will become like women. A sword is against her treasures, and they will be robbed.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:38 @ A drought is against her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is the land of carved images, And they are insane with their idols.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:39 @ "Therefore the wild desert beasts shall dwell there with the jackals, And the ostriches shall dwell in it. It shall be inhabited no more forever, Nor shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:40 @ As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah And their neighbors," says the LORD, "So no one shall reside there, Nor son of man dwell in it.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:41 @ "Behold, a people shall come from the north, And a great nation and many kings Shall be raised up from the ends of the earth.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:42 @ They shall hold the bow and the lance; They are cruel and shall not show mercy. Their voice shall roar like the sea; They shall ride on horses, Set in array, like a man for the battle, Against you, O daughter of Babylon.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:43 @ "The king of Babylon has heard the report about them, And his hands grow feeble; Anguish has taken hold of him, Pangs as of a woman in childbirth.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:44 @ "Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the floodplain of the Jordan Against the dwelling place of the strong; But I will make them suddenly run away from her. And who is a chosen man that I may appoint over her? For who is like Me? Who will arraign Me? And who is that shepherd Who will withstand Me?"

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:45 @ Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD that He has taken against Babylon, And His purposes that He has proposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out; Surely He will make their dwelling place desolate with them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:50:46 @ At the noise of the taking of Babylon The earth trembles, And the cry is heard among the nations.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:1 @ Thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, Against those who dwell in Leb Kamai, A destroying wind.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:2 @ And I will send winnowers to Babylon, Who shall winnow her and empty her land. For in the day of doom They shall be against her all around.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:3 @ Against her let the archer bend his bow, And lift himself up against her in his armor. Do not spare her young men; Utterly destroy all her army.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:4 @ Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, And those thrust through in her streets.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:5 @ For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, By his God, the LORD of hosts, Though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel."

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:6 @ Flee from the midst of Babylon, And every one save his life! Do not be cut off in her iniquity, For this is the time of the LORD's vengeance; He shall recompense her.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:7 @ Babylon was a golden cup in the LORD's hand, That made all the earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; Therefore the nations are deranged.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:9 @ We would have healed Babylon, But she is not healed. Forsake her, and let us go everyone to his own country; For her judgment reaches to heaven and is lifted up to the skies.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:10 @ The LORD has revealed our righteousness. Come and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:11 @ Make the arrows bright! Gather the shields! The LORD has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes. For His plan is against Babylon to destroy it, Because it is the vengeance of the LORD, The vengeance for His temple.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:12 @ Set up the standard on the walls of Babylon; Make the guard strong, Set up the watchmen, Prepare the ambushes. For the LORD has both devised and done What He spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:13 @ O you who dwell by many waters, Abundant in treasures, Your end has come, The measure of your covetousness.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:14 @ The LORD of hosts has sworn by Himself: "Surely I will fill you with men, as with locusts, And they shall lift up a shout against you."

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:15 @ He has made the earth by His power; He has established the world by His wisdom, And stretched out the heaven by His understanding.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:16 @ When He utters His voice-- There is a multitude of waters in the heavens: "He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; He makes lightnings for the rain; He brings the wind out of His treasuries."

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:17 @ Everyone is dull-hearted, without knowledge; Every metalsmith is put to shame by the carved image; For his molded image is falsehood, And there is no breath in them.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:18 @ They are futile, a work of errors; In the time of their punishment they shall perish.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:19 @ The Portion of Jacob is not like them, For He is the Maker of all things; And Israel is the tribe of His inheritance. The LORD of hosts is His name.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:20 @ "You are My battle-ax and weapons of war: For with you I will break the nation in pieces; With you I will destroy kingdoms;

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:21 @ With you I will break in pieces the horse and its rider; With you I will break in pieces the chariot and its rider;

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:22 @ With you also I will break in pieces man and woman; With you I will break in pieces old and young; With you I will break in pieces the young man and the maiden;

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:23 @ With you also I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; With you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen; And with you I will break in pieces governors and rulers.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:24 @ "And I will repay Babylon And all the inhabitants of Chaldea For all the evil they have done In Zion in your sight," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:25 @ "Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, Who destroys all the earth," says the LORD. "And I will stretch out My hand against you, Roll you down from the rocks, And make you a burnt mountain.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:26 @ They shall not take from you a stone for a corner Nor a stone for a foundation, But you shall be desolate forever," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:27 @ Set up a banner in the land, Blow the trumpet among the nations! Prepare the nations against her, Call the kingdoms together against her: Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a general against her; Cause the horses to come up like the bristling locusts.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:28 @ Prepare against her the nations, With the kings of the Medes, Its governors and all its rulers, All the land of his dominion.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:29 @ And the land will tremble and sorrow; For every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, To make the land of Babylon a desolation without inhabitant.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:30 @ The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting, They have remained in their strongholds; Their might has failed, They became like women; They have burned her dwelling places, The bars of her gate are broken.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:31 @ One runner will run to meet another, And one messenger to meet another, To show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on all sides;

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:32 @ The passages are blocked, The reeds they have burned with fire, And the men of war are terrified.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:33 @ For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor When it is time to thresh her; Yet a little while And the time of her harvest will come."

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:34 @ "Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon Has devoured me, he has crushed me; He has made me an empty vessel, He has swallowed me up like a monster; He has filled his stomach with my delicacies, He has spit me out.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:35 @ Let the violence done to me and my flesh be upon Babylon," The inhabitant of Zion will say; "And my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea!" Jerusalem will say.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:36 @ Therefore thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:38 @ They shall roar together like lions, They shall growl like lions' whelps.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:39 @ In their excitement I will prepare their feasts; I will make them drunk, That they may rejoice, And sleep a perpetual sleep And not awake," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:40 @ "I will bring them down Like lambs to the slaughter, Like rams with male goats.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:41 @ "Oh, how Sheshach is taken! Oh, how the praise of the whole earth is seized! How Babylon has become desolate among the nations!

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:42 @ The sea has come up over Babylon; She is covered with the multitude of its waves.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:44 @ I will punish Bel in Babylon, And I will bring out of his mouth what he has swallowed; And the nations shall not stream to him anymore. Yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:45 @ "My people, go out of the midst of her! And let everyone deliver himself from the fierce anger of the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:46 @ And lest your heart faint, And you fear for the rumor that will be heard in the land (A rumor will come one year, And after that, in another year A rumor will come, And violence in the land, Ruler against ruler),

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:47 @ Therefore behold, the days are coming That I will bring judgment on the carved images of Babylon; Her whole land shall be ashamed, And all her slain shall fall in her midst.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:48 @ Then the heavens and the earth and all that is in them Shall sing joyously over Babylon; For the plunderers shall come to her from the north," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:49 @ As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, So at Babylon the slain of all the earth shall fall.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:50 @ You who have escaped the sword, Get away! Do not stand still! Remember the LORD afar off, And let Jerusalem come to your mind.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:51 @ We are ashamed because we have heard reproach. Shame has covered our faces, For strangers have come into the sanctuaries of the LORD's house.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:52 @ "Therefore behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "That I will bring judgment on her carved images, And throughout all her land the wounded shall groan.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:53 @ Though Babylon were to mount up to heaven, And though she were to fortify the height of her strength, Yet from Me plunderers would come to her," says the LORD.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:54 @ The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, And great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans,

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:55 @ Because the LORD is plundering Babylon And silencing her loud voice, Though her waves roar like great waters, And the noise of their voice is uttered,

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:56 @ Because the plunderer comes against her, against Babylon, And her mighty men are taken. Every one of their bows is broken; For the LORD is the God of recompense, He will surely repay.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:57 @ "And I will make drunk Her princes and wise men, Her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men. And they shall sleep a perpetual sleep And not awake," says the King, Whose name is the LORD of hosts.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:58 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts: "The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, And her high gates shall be burned with fire; The people will labor in vain, And the nations, because of the fire; And they shall be weary."

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:59 @ The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And Seraiah was the quartermaster.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:60 @ So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that would come upon Babylon, all these words that are written against Babylon.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:61 @ And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, "When you arrive in Babylon and see it, and read all these words,

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:62 @ then you shall say, "O LORD, You have spoken against this place to cut it off, so that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but it shall be desolate forever.'

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:63 @ Now it shall be, when you have finished reading this book, that you shall tie a stone to it and throw it out into the Euphrates.

nkjv@Jeremiah:51:64 @ Then you shall say, "Thus Babylon shall sink and not rise from the catastrophe that I will bring upon her. And they shall be weary."' Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:1 @ Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:2 @ He also did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:3 @ For because of the anger of the LORD this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, till He finally cast them out from His presence. Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:4 @ Now it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and encamped against it; and they built a siege wall against it all around.

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:5 @ So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:6 @ By the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:7 @ Then the city wall was broken through, and all the men of war fled and went out of the city at night by way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden, even though the Chaldeans were near the city all around. And they went by way of the plain.

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:8 @ But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and they overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. All his army was scattered from him.

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:9 @ So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he pronounced judgment on him.

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:10 @ Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. And he killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:11 @ He also put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in bronze fetters, took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:12 @ Now in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month (which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, who served the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:13 @ He burned the house of the LORD and the king's house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, he burned with fire.

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:14 @ And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around.

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:15 @ Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive some of the poor people, the rest of the people who remained in the city, the defectors who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the craftsmen.

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:16 @ But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poor of the land as vinedressers and farmers.

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:17 @ The bronze pillars that were in the house of the LORD, and the carts and the bronze Sea that were in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried all their bronze to Babylon.

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:18 @ They also took away the pots, the shovels, the trimmers, the bowls, the spoons, and all the bronze utensils with which the priests ministered.

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:19 @ The basins, the firepans, the bowls, the pots, the lampstands, the spoons, and the cups, whatever was solid gold and whatever was solid silver, the captain of the guard took away.

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:20 @ The two pillars, one Sea, the twelve bronze bulls which were under it, and the carts, which King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD--the bronze of all these articles was beyond measure.

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:21 @ Now concerning the pillars: the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits, a measuring line of twelve cubits could measure its circumference, and its thickness was four fingers; it was hollow.

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:22 @ A capital of bronze was on it; and the height of one capital was five cubits, with a network and pomegranates all around the capital, all of bronze. The second pillar, with pomegranates was the same.

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:23 @ There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates, all around on the network, were one hundred.

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:24 @ The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three doorkeepers.

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:25 @ He also took out of the city an officer who had charge of the men of war, seven men of the king's close associates who were found in the city, the principal scribe of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city.

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:26 @ And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took these and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:27 @ Then the king of Babylon struck them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive from its own land.

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:28 @ These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews;

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:29 @ in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty-two persons;

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:30 @ in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred and forty-five persons. All the persons were four thousand six hundred.

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:31 @ Now it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, that Evil-Merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:32 @ And he spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prominent seat than those of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:33 @ So Jehoiachin changed from his prison garments, and he ate bread regularly before the king all the days of his life.

nkjv@Jeremiah:52:34 @ And as for his provisions, there was a regular ration given him by the king of Babylon, a portion for each day until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:1 @ How lonely sits the city That was full of people! How like a widow is she, Who was great among the nations! The princess among the provinces Has become a slave!

nkjv@Lamentations:1:2 @ She weeps bitterly in the night, Her tears are on her cheeks; Among all her lovers She has none to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; They have become her enemies.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:3 @ Judah has gone into captivity, Under affliction and hard servitude; She dwells among the nations, She finds no rest; All her persecutors overtake her in dire straits.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:4 @ The roads to Zion mourn Because no one comes to the set feasts. All her gates are desolate; Her priests sigh, Her virgins are afflicted, And she is in bitterness.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:5 @ Her adversaries have become the master, Her enemies prosper; For the LORD has afflicted her Because of the multitude of her transgressions. Her children have gone into captivity before the enemy.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:6 @ And from the daughter of Zion All her splendor has departed. Her princes have become like deer That find no pasture, That flee without strength Before the pursuer.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:7 @ In the days of her affliction and roaming, Jerusalem remembers all her pleasant things That she had in the days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the enemy, With no one to help her, The adversaries saw her And mocked at her downfall.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:8 @ Jerusalem has sinned gravely, Therefore she has become vile. All who honored her despise her Because they have seen her nakedness; Yes, she sighs and turns away.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:9 @ Her uncleanness is in her skirts; She did not consider her destiny; Therefore her collapse was awesome; She had no comforter. "O LORD, behold my affliction, For the enemy is exalted!"

nkjv@Lamentations:1:10 @ The adversary has spread his hand Over all her pleasant things; For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary, Those whom You commanded Not to enter Your assembly.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:11 @ All her people sigh, They seek bread; They have given their valuables for food to restore life. "See, O LORD, and consider, For I am scorned."

nkjv@Lamentations:1:12 @ "Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Behold and see If there is any sorrow like my sorrow, Which has been brought on me, Which the LORD has inflicted In the day of His fierce anger.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:13 @ "From above He has sent fire into my bones, And it overpowered them; He has spread a net for my feet And turned me back; He has made me desolate And faint all the day.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:14 @ "The yoke of my transgressions was bound; They were woven together by His hands, And thrust upon my neck. He made my strength fail; The Lord delivered me into the hands of those whom I am not able to withstand.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:15 @ "The Lord has trampled underfoot all my mighty men in my midst; He has called an assembly against me To crush my young men; The Lord trampled as in a winepress The virgin daughter of Judah.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:16 @ "For these things I weep; My eye, my eye overflows with water; Because the comforter, who should restore my life, Is far from me. My children are desolate Because the enemy prevailed."

nkjv@Lamentations:1:17 @ Zion spreads out her hands, But no one comforts her; The LORD has commanded concerning Jacob That those around him become his adversaries; Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:18 @ "The LORD is righteous, For I rebelled against His commandment. Hear now, all peoples, And behold my sorrow; My virgins and my young men Have gone into captivity.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:19 @ "I called for my lovers, But they deceived me; My priests and my elders Breathed their last in the city, While they sought food To restore their life.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:20 @ "See, O LORD, that I am in distress; My soul is troubled; My heart is overturned within me, For I have been very rebellious. Outside the sword bereaves, At home it is like death.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:21 @ "They have heard that I sigh, But no one comforts me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; They are glad that You have done it. Bring on the day You have announced, That they may become like me.

nkjv@Lamentations:1:22 @ "Let all their wickedness come before You, And do to them as You have done to me For all my transgressions; For my sighs are many, And my heart is faint."

nkjv@Lamentations:2:1 @ How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion With a cloud in His anger! He cast down from heaven to the earth The beauty of Israel, And did not remember His footstool In the day of His anger.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:2 @ The Lord has swallowed up and has not pitied All the dwelling places of Jacob. He has thrown down in His wrath The strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:3 @ He has cut off in fierce anger Every horn of Israel; He has drawn back His right hand From before the enemy. He has blazed against Jacob like a flaming fire Devouring all around.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:4 @ Standing like an enemy, He has bent His bow; With His right hand, like an adversary, He has slain all who were pleasing to His eye; On the tent of the daughter of Zion, He has poured out His fury like fire.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:5 @ The Lord was like an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel, He has swallowed up all her palaces; He has destroyed her strongholds, And has increased mourning and lamentation In the daughter of Judah.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:6 @ He has done violence to His tabernacle, As if it were a garden; He has destroyed His place of assembly; The LORD has caused The appointed feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion. In His burning indignation He has spurned the king and the priest.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:7 @ The Lord has spurned His altar, He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has given up the walls of her palaces Into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the house of the LORD As on the day of a set feast.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:8 @ The LORD has purposed to destroy The wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out a line; He has not withdrawn His hand from destroying; Therefore He has caused the rampart and wall to lament; They languished together.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:9 @ Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations; The Law is no more, And her prophets find no vision from the LORD.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:10 @ The elders of the daughter of Zion Sit on the ground and keep silence; They throw dust on their heads And gird themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem Bow their heads to the ground.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:11 @ My eyes fail with tears, My heart is troubled; My bile is poured on the ground Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the children and the infants Faint in the streets of the city.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:12 @ They say to their mothers, "Where is grain and wine?" As they swoon like the wounded In the streets of the city, As their life is poured out In their mothers' bosom.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:13 @ How shall I console you? To what shall I liken you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare with you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your ruin is spread wide as the sea; Who can heal you?

nkjv@Lamentations:2:14 @ Your prophets have seen for you False and deceptive visions; They have not uncovered your iniquity, To bring back your captives, But have envisioned for you false prophecies and delusions.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:15 @ All who pass by clap their hands at you; They hiss and shake their heads At the daughter of Jerusalem: "Is this the city that is called "The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth'?"

nkjv@Lamentations:2:16 @ All your enemies have opened their mouth against you; They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, "We have swallowed her up! Surely this is the day we have waited for; We have found it, we have seen it!

nkjv@Lamentations:2:17 @ The LORD has done what He purposed; He has fulfilled His word Which He commanded in days of old. He has thrown down and has not pitied, And He has caused an enemy to rejoice over you; He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:18 @ Their heart cried out to the Lord, "O wall of the daughter of Zion, Let tears run down like a river day and night; Give yourself no relief; Give your eyes no rest.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:19 @ "Arise, cry out in the night, At the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift your hands toward Him For the life of your young children, Who faint from hunger at the head of every street."

nkjv@Lamentations:2:20 @ "See, O LORD, and consider! To whom have You done this? Should the women eat their offspring, The children they have cuddled? Should the priest and prophet be slain In the sanctuary of the Lord?

nkjv@Lamentations:2:21 @ "Young and old lie On the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men Have fallen by the sword; You have slain them in the day of Your anger, You have slaughtered and not pitied.

nkjv@Lamentations:2:22 @ "You have invited as to a feast day The terrors that surround me. In the day of the LORD's anger There was no refugee or survivor. Those whom I have borne and brought up My enemies have destroyed."

nkjv@Lamentations:3:1 @ I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:3 @ Surely He has turned His hand against me Time and time again throughout the day.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:6 @ He has set me in dark places Like the dead of long ago.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:12 @ He has bent His bow And set me up as a target for the arrow.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:13 @ He has caused the arrows of His quiver To pierce my loins.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:14 @ I have become the ridicule of all my people-- Their taunting song all the day.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:18 @ And I said, "My strength and my hope Have perished from the LORD."

nkjv@Lamentations:3:19 @ Remember my affliction and roaming, The wormwood and the gall.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:21 @ This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:22 @ Through the LORD's mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:23 @ They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:24 @ "The LORD is my portion," says my soul, "Therefore I hope in Him!"

nkjv@Lamentations:3:25 @ The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, To the soul who seeks Him.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:26 @ It is good that one should hope and wait quietly For the salvation of the LORD.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:27 @ It is good for a man to bear The yoke in his youth.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:29 @ Let him put his mouth in the dust-- There may yet be hope.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:30 @ Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes him, And be full of reproach.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:31 @ For the Lord will not cast off forever.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:32 @ Though He causes grief, Yet He will show compassion According to the multitude of His mercies.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:33 @ For He does not afflict willingly, Nor grieve the children of men.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:34 @ To crush under one's feet All the prisoners of the earth,

nkjv@Lamentations:3:35 @ To turn aside the justice due a man Before the face of the Most High,

nkjv@Lamentations:3:36 @ Or subvert a man in his cause-- The Lord does not approve.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:37 @ Who is he who speaks and it comes to pass, When the Lord has not commanded it?

nkjv@Lamentations:3:38 @ Is it not from the mouth of the Most High That woe and well-being proceed?

nkjv@Lamentations:3:39 @ Why should a living man complain, A man for the punishment of his sins?

nkjv@Lamentations:3:40 @ Let us search out and examine our ways, And turn back to the LORD;

nkjv@Lamentations:3:45 @ You have made us an offscouring and refuse In the midst of the peoples.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:46 @ All our enemies Have opened their mouths against us.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:48 @ My eyes overflow with rivers of water For the destruction of the daughter of my people.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:50 @ Till the LORD from heaven Looks down and sees.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:51 @ My eyes bring suffering to my soul Because of all the daughters of my city.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:53 @ They silenced my life in the pit And threw stones at me.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:54 @ The waters flowed over my head; I said, "I am cut off!"

nkjv@Lamentations:3:55 @ I called on Your name, O LORD, From the lowest pit.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:57 @ You drew near on the day I called on You, And said, "Do not fear!"

nkjv@Lamentations:3:58 @ O Lord, You have pleaded the case for my soul; You have redeemed my life.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:60 @ You have seen all their vengeance, All their schemes against me.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:61 @ You have heard their reproach, O LORD, All their schemes against me,

nkjv@Lamentations:3:62 @ The lips of my enemies And their whispering against me all the day.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:63 @ Look at their sitting down and their rising up; I am their taunting song.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:64 @ Repay them, O LORD, According to the work of their hands.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:65 @ Give them a veiled heart; Your curse be upon them!

nkjv@Lamentations:3:66 @ In Your anger, Pursue and destroy them From under the heavens of the LORD.

nkjv@Lamentations:4:1 @ How the gold has become dim! How changed the fine gold! The stones of the sanctuary are scattered At the head of every street.

nkjv@Lamentations:4:2 @ The precious sons of Zion, Valuable as fine gold, How they are regarded as clay pots, The work of the hands of the potter!

nkjv@Lamentations:4:3 @ Even the jackals present their breasts To nurse their young; But the daughter of my people is cruel, Like ostriches in the wilderness.

nkjv@Lamentations:4:4 @ The tongue of the infant clings To the roof of its mouth for thirst; The young children ask for bread, But no one breaks it for them.

nkjv@Lamentations:4:5 @ Those who ate delicacies Are desolate in the streets; Those who were brought up in scarlet Embrace ash heaps.

nkjv@Lamentations:4:6 @ The punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people Is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, Which was overthrown in a moment, With no hand to help her!

nkjv@Lamentations:4:7 @ Her Nazirites were brighter than snow And whiter than milk; They were more ruddy in body than rubies, Like sapphire in their appearance.

nkjv@Lamentations:4:8 @ Now their appearance is blacker than soot; They go unrecognized in the streets; Their skin clings to their bones, It has become as dry as wood.

nkjv@Lamentations:4:9 @ Those slain by the sword are better off Than those who die of hunger; For these pine away, Stricken for lack of the fruits of the field.

nkjv@Lamentations:4:10 @ The hands of the compassionate women Have cooked their own children; They became food for them In the destruction of the daughter of my people.

nkjv@Lamentations:4:11 @ The LORD has fulfilled His fury, He has poured out His fierce anger. He kindled a fire in Zion, And it has devoured its foundations.

nkjv@Lamentations:4:12 @ The kings of the earth, And all inhabitants of the world, Would not have believed That the adversary and the enemy Could enter the gates of Jerusalem--

nkjv@Lamentations:4:13 @ Because of the sins of her prophets And the iniquities of her priests, Who shed in her midst The blood of the just.

nkjv@Lamentations:4:14 @ They wandered blind in the streets; They have defiled themselves with blood, So that no one would touch their garments.

nkjv@Lamentations:4:15 @ They cried out to them, "Go away, unclean! Go away, go away, Do not touch us!" When they fled and wandered, Those among the nations said, "They shall no longer dwell here."

nkjv@Lamentations:4:16 @ The face of the LORD scattered them; He no longer regards them. The people do not respect the priests Nor show favor to the elders.

nkjv@Lamentations:4:18 @ They tracked our steps So that we could not walk in our streets. Our end was near; Our days were over, For our end had come.

nkjv@Lamentations:4:19 @ Our pursuers were swifter Than the eagles of the heavens. They pursued us on the mountains And lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

nkjv@Lamentations:4:20 @ The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, Was caught in their pits, Of whom we said, "Under his shadow We shall live among the nations."

nkjv@Lamentations:4:21 @ Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, You who dwell in the land of Uz! The cup shall also pass over to you And you shall become drunk and make yourself naked.

nkjv@Lamentations:4:22 @ The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; He will no longer send you into captivity. He will punish your iniquity, O daughter of Edom; He will uncover your sins!

nkjv@Lamentations:5:3 @ We have become orphans and waifs, Our mothers are like widows.

nkjv@Lamentations:5:4 @ We pay for the water we drink, And our wood comes at a price.

nkjv@Lamentations:5:5 @ They pursue at our heels; We labor and have no rest.

nkjv@Lamentations:5:6 @ We have given our hand to the Egyptians And the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

nkjv@Lamentations:5:7 @ Our fathers sinned and are no more, But we bear their iniquities.

nkjv@Lamentations:5:8 @ Servants rule over us; There is none to deliver us from their hand.

nkjv@Lamentations:5:9 @ We get our bread at the risk of our lives, Because of the sword in the wilderness.

nkjv@Lamentations:5:10 @ Our skin is hot as an oven, Because of the fever of famine.

nkjv@Lamentations:5:11 @ They ravished the women in Zion, The maidens in the cities of Judah.

nkjv@Lamentations:5:12 @ Princes were hung up by their hands, And elders were not respected.

nkjv@Lamentations:5:13 @ Young men ground at the millstones; Boys staggered under loads of wood.

nkjv@Lamentations:5:14 @ The elders have ceased gathering at the gate, And the young men from their music.

nkjv@Lamentations:5:15 @ The joy of our heart has ceased; Our dance has turned into mourning.

nkjv@Lamentations:5:16 @ The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

nkjv@Lamentations:5:17 @ Because of this our heart is faint; Because of these things our eyes grow dim;

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:1 @ Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on 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.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:2 @ On the fifth day of the month, which was in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin's captivity,

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:3 @ the word of the LORD came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the River Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was upon him there.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:4 @ Then I looked, and behold, a whirlwind was coming out of the north, a great cloud with raging fire engulfing itself; and brightness was all around it and radiating out of its midst like the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:5 @ Also from within it came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:7 @ Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the soles of calves' feet. They sparkled like the color of burnished bronze.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:8 @ The hands of a man were under their wings on their four sides; and each of the four had faces and wings.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:9 @ Their wings touched one another. The creatures did not turn when they went, but each one went straight forward.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:10 @ As for the likeness of their faces, each had the face of a man; each of the four had the face of a lion on the right side, each of the four had the face of an ox on the left side, and each of the four had the face of an eagle.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:11 @ Thus were their faces. Their wings stretched upward; two wings of each one touched one another, and two covered their bodies.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:12 @ And each one went straight forward; they went wherever the spirit wanted to go, and they did not turn when they went.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:13 @ As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches going back and forth among the living creatures. The fire was bright, and out of the fire went lightning.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:14 @ And the living creatures ran back and forth, in appearance like a flash of lightning.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:15 @ Now as I looked at the living creatures, behold, a wheel was on the earth beside each living creature with its four faces.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:16 @ The appearance of the wheels and their workings was like the color of beryl, and all four had the same likeness. The appearance of their workings was, as it were, a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:17 @ When they moved, they went toward any one of four directions; they did not turn aside when they went.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:18 @ As for their rims, they were so high they were awesome; and their rims were full of eyes, all around the four of them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:19 @ 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.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:20 @ Wherever the spirit wanted to go, they went, because there the spirit went; and the wheels were lifted together with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:21 @ When those went, these went; when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up together with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:22 @ The likeness of the firmament above the heads of the living creatures was like the color of an awesome crystal, stretched out over their heads.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:23 @ And under the firmament their wings spread out straight, one toward another. Each one had two which covered one side, and each one had two which covered the other side of the body.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:24 @ When they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of many waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a tumult like the noise of an army; and when they stood still, they let down their wings.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:25 @ A voice came from above the firmament that was over their heads; whenever they stood, they let down their wings.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:26 @ And above the firmament over their heads was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like a sapphire stone; on the likeness of the throne was a likeness with the appearance of a man high above it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:27 @ Also from the appearance of His waist and upward I saw, as it were, the color of amber with the appearance of fire all around within it; and from the appearance of His waist and downward I saw, as it were, the appearance of fire with brightness all around.

nkjv@Ezekiel:1:28 @ Like the appearance of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the brightness all around it. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. So when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of One speaking.

nkjv@Ezekiel:2:2 @ Then the Spirit entered me when He spoke to me, and set me on my feet; and I heard Him who spoke to me.

nkjv@Ezekiel:2:3 @ And He said to me: "Son of man, I am sending you to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have transgressed against Me to this very day.

nkjv@Ezekiel:2:4 @ For they are impudent and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, and you shall say to them, "Thus says the Lord GOD.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:2:5 @ As for them, whether they hear or whether they refuse--for they are a rebellious house--yet they will know that a prophet has been among them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:2:6 @ "And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you and you dwell among scorpions; do not be afraid of their words or dismayed by their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

nkjv@Ezekiel:2:7 @ You shall speak My words to them, whether they hear or whether they refuse, for they are rebellious.

nkjv@Ezekiel:2:9 @ Now when I looked, there was a hand stretched out to me; and behold, a scroll of a book was in it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:2:10 @ Then He spread it before me; and there was writing on the inside and on the outside, and written on it were lamentations and mourning and woe.

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:1 @ Moreover He said to me, "Son of man, eat what you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel."

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:4 @ Then He said to me: "Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with My words to them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:5 @ For you are not sent to a people of unfamiliar speech and of hard language, but to the house of Israel,

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:6 @ not to many people of unfamiliar speech and of hard language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, had I sent you to them, they would have listened to you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:7 @ But the house of Israel will not listen to you, because they will not listen to Me; for all the house of Israel are impudent and hard-hearted.

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:8 @ Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads.

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:9 @ Like adamant stone, harder than flint, I have made your forehead; do not be afraid of them, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house."

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:11 @ And go, get to the captives, to the children of your people, and speak to them and tell them, "Thus says the Lord GOD,' whether they hear, or whether they refuse."

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:12 @ Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me a great thunderous voice: "Blessed is the glory of the LORD from His place!"

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:13 @ I also heard the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels beside them, and a great thunderous noise.

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:14 @ So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:15 @ Then I came to the captives at Tel Abib, who dwelt by the River Chebar; and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:16 @ Now it came to pass at the end of seven days that the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:17 @ "Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore hear a word from My mouth, and give them warning from Me:

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:18 @ When I say to the wicked, "You shall surely die,' and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, that same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand.

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:19 @ Yet, if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:21 @ Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man that the righteous should not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live because he took warning; also you will have delivered your soul."

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:22 @ Then the hand of the LORD was upon me there, and He said to me, "Arise, go out into the plain, and there I shall talk with you."

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:23 @ So I arose and went out into the plain, and behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, like the glory which I saw by the River Chebar; and I fell on my face.

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:24 @ Then the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet, and spoke with me and said to me: "Go, shut yourself inside your house.

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:25 @ And you, O son of man, surely they will put ropes on you and bind you with them, so that you cannot go out among them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:26 @ I will make your tongue cling to the roof of your mouth, so that you shall be mute and not be one to rebuke them, for they are a rebellious house.

nkjv@Ezekiel:3:27 @ But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, "Thus says the Lord GOD.' He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house.

nkjv@Ezekiel:4:3 @ Moreover take for yourself an iron plate, and set it as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face against it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:4:4 @ "Lie also on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it. According to the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.

nkjv@Ezekiel:4:5 @ For I have laid on you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days; so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:4:6 @ And when you have completed them, lie again on your right side; then you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days. I have laid on you a day for each year.

nkjv@Ezekiel:4:7 @ "Therefore you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem; your arm shall be uncovered, and you shall prophesy against it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:4:8 @ And surely I will restrain you so that you cannot turn from one side to another till you have ended the days of your siege.

nkjv@Ezekiel:4:9 @ "Also take for yourself wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them into one vessel, and make bread of them for yourself. During the number of days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:4:12 @ And you shall eat it as barley cakes; and bake it using fuel of human waste in their sight."

nkjv@Ezekiel:4:13 @ Then the LORD said, "So shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I will drive them."

nkjv@Ezekiel:4:15 @ Then He said to me, "See, I am giving you cow dung instead of human waste, and you shall prepare your bread over it."

nkjv@Ezekiel:4:16 @ Moreover He said to me, "Son of man, surely I will cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem; they shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and shall drink water by measure and with dread,

nkjv@Ezekiel:4:17 @ that they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed with one another, and waste away because of their iniquity.

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:1 @ "And you, son of man, take a sharp sword, take it as a barber's razor, and pass it over your head and your beard; then take scales to weigh and divide the hair.

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:2 @ You shall burn with fire one-third in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are finished; then you shall take one-third and strike around it with the sword, and one-third you shall scatter in the wind: I will draw out a sword after them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:3 @ You shall also take a small number of them and bind them in the edge of your garment.

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:4 @ Then take some of them again and throw them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From there a fire will go out into all the house of Israel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:5 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: "This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations and the countries all around her.

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:6 @ She has rebelled against My judgments by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against My statutes more than the countries that are all around her; for they have refused My judgments, and they have not walked in My statutes.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:7 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Because you have multiplied disobedience more than the nations that are all around you, have not walked in My statutes nor kept My judgments, nor even done according to the judgments of the nations that are all around you'--

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:8 @ therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Indeed I, even I, am against you and will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:9 @ And I will do among you what I have never done, and the like of which I will never do again, because of all your abominations.

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:10 @ Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments among you, and all of you who remain I will scatter to all the winds.

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:11 @ "Therefore, as I live,' says the Lord GOD, "surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you; My eye will not spare, nor will I have any pity.

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:12 @ One-third of you shall die of the pestilence, and be consumed with famine in your midst; and one-third shall fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter another third to all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:13 @ "Thus shall My anger be spent, and I will cause My fury to rest upon them, and I will be avenged; and they shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken it in My zeal, when I have spent My fury upon them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:14 @ Moreover I will make you a waste and a reproach among the nations that are all around you, in the sight of all who pass by.

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:15 @ "So it shall be a reproach, a taunt, a lesson, and an astonishment to the nations that are all around you, when I execute judgments among you in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I, the LORD, have spoken.

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:16 @ When I send against them the terrible arrows of famine which shall be for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, I will increase the famine upon you and cut off your supply of bread.

nkjv@Ezekiel:5:17 @ So I will send against you famine and wild beasts, and they will bereave you. Pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:6:1 @ Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

nkjv@Ezekiel:6:2 @ "Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,

nkjv@Ezekiel:6:3 @ and say, "O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, to the hills, to the ravines, and to the valleys: "Indeed I, even I, will bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.

nkjv@Ezekiel:6:4 @ Then your altars shall be desolate, your incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

nkjv@Ezekiel:6:5 @ And I will lay the corpses of the children of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones all around your altars.

nkjv@Ezekiel:6:6 @ In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate, so that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, your idols may be broken and made to cease, your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

nkjv@Ezekiel:6:7 @ The slain shall fall in your midst, and you shall know that I am the LORD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:6:8 @ "Yet I will leave a remnant, so that you may have some who escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered through the countries.

nkjv@Ezekiel:6:9 @ Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations where they are carried captive, because I was crushed by their adulterous heart which has departed from Me, and by their eyes which play the harlot after their idols; they will loathe themselves for the evils which they committed in all their abominations.

nkjv@Ezekiel:6:10 @ And they shall know that I am the LORD; I have not said in vain that I would bring this calamity upon them."

nkjv@Ezekiel:6:11 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Pound your fists and stamp your feet, and say, "Alas, for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! For they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.

nkjv@Ezekiel:6:12 @ He who is far off shall die by the pestilence, he who is near shall fall by the sword, and he who remains and is besieged shall die by the famine. Thus will I spend My fury upon them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:6:13 @ Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain are among their idols all around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every thick oak, wherever they offered sweet incense to all their idols.

nkjv@Ezekiel:6:14 @ So I will stretch out My hand against them and make the land desolate, yes, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblah, in all their dwelling places. Then they shall know that I am the LORD."""

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:1 @ Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:2 @ "And you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel: "An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:3 @ Now the end has come upon you, And I will send My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways, And I will repay you for all your abominations.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:4 @ My eye will not spare you, Nor will I have pity; But I will repay your ways, And your abominations will be in your midst; Then you shall know that I am the LORD!'

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:5 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: "A disaster, a singular disaster; Behold, it has come!

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:6 @ An end has come, The end has come; It has dawned for you; Behold, it has come!

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:7 @ Doom has come to you, you who dwell in the land; The time has come, A day of trouble is near, And not of rejoicing in the mountains.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:9 @ "My eye will not spare, Nor will I have pity; I will repay you according to your ways, And your abominations will be in your midst. Then you shall know that I am the LORD who strikes.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:10 @ "Behold, the day! Behold, it has come! Doom has gone out; The rod has blossomed, Pride has budded.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:11 @ Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness; None of them shall remain, None of their multitude, None of them; Nor shall there be wailing for them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:12 @ The time has come, The day draws near. "Let not the buyer rejoice, Nor the seller mourn, For wrath is on their whole multitude.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:13 @ For the seller shall not return to what has been sold, Though he may still be alive; For the vision concerns the whole multitude, And it shall not turn back; No one will strengthen himself Who lives in iniquity.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:14 @ "They have blown the trumpet and made everyone ready, But no one goes to battle; For My wrath is on all their multitude.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:15 @ The sword is outside, And the pestilence and famine within. Whoever is in the field Will die by the sword; And whoever is in the city, Famine and pestilence will devour him.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:16 @ "Those who survive will escape and be on the mountains Like doves of the valleys, All of them mourning, Each for his iniquity.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:18 @ They will also be girded with sackcloth; Horror will cover them; Shame will be on every face, Baldness on all their heads.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:19 @ "They will throw their silver into the streets, And their gold will be like refuse; Their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them In the day of the wrath of the LORD; They will not satisfy their souls, Nor fill their stomachs, Because it became their stumbling block of iniquity.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:20 @ "As for the beauty of his ornaments, He set it in majesty; But they made from it The images of their abominations-- Their detestable things; Therefore I have made it Like refuse to them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:21 @ I will give it as plunder Into the hands of strangers, And to the wicked of the earth as spoil; And they shall defile it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:22 @ I will turn My face from them, And they will defile My secret place; For robbers shall enter it and defile it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:23 @ "Make a chain, For the land is filled with crimes of blood, And the city is full of violence.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:24 @ Therefore I will bring the worst of the Gentiles, And they will possess their houses; I will cause the pomp of the strong to cease, And their holy places shall be defiled.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:25 @ Destruction comes; They will seek peace, but there shall be none.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:26 @ Disaster will come upon disaster, And rumor will be upon rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet; But the law will perish from the priest, And counsel from the elders.

nkjv@Ezekiel:7:27 @ "The king will mourn, The prince will be clothed with desolation, And the hands of the common people will tremble. I will do to them according to their way, And according to what they deserve I will judge them; Then they shall know that I am the LORD!"'

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:1 @ And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house with the elders of Judah sitting before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell upon me there.

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:2 @ Then I looked, and there was a likeness, like the appearance of fire--from the appearance of His waist and downward, fire; and from His waist and upward, like the appearance of brightness, like the color of amber.

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:3 @ He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my hair; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven, and brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the north gate of the inner court, where the seat of the image of jealousy was, which provokes to jealousy.

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:4 @ And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, like the vision that I saw in the plain.

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:5 @ Then He said to me, "Son of man, lift your eyes now toward the north." So I lifted my eyes toward the north, and there, north of the altar gate, was this image of jealousy in the entrance.

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:6 @ Furthermore He said to me, "Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel commits here, to make Me go far away from My sanctuary? Now turn again, you will see greater abominations."

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:7 @ So He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, there was a hole in the wall.

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:8 @ Then He said to me, "Son of man, dig into the wall"; and when I dug into the wall, there was a door.

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:9 @ And He said to me, "Go in, and see the wicked abominations which they are doing there."

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:10 @ So I went in and saw, and there--every sort of creeping thing, abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed all around on the walls.

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:11 @ And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and in their midst stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan. Each man had a censer in his hand, and a thick cloud of incense went up.

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:12 @ Then He said to me, "Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the room of his idols? For they say, "The LORD does not see us, the LORD has forsaken the land."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:13 @ And He said to me, "Turn again, and you will see greater abominations that they are doing."

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:14 @ So He brought me to the door of the north gate of the LORD's house; and to my dismay, women were sitting there weeping for Tammuz.

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:15 @ Then He said to me, "Have you seen this, O son of man? Turn again, you will see greater abominations than these."

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:16 @ So He brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house; and there, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs toward the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east, and they were worshiping the sun toward the east.

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:17 @ And He said to me, "Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it a trivial thing to the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence; then they have returned to provoke Me to anger. Indeed they put the branch to their nose.

nkjv@Ezekiel:8:18 @ Therefore I also will act in fury. My eye will not spare nor will I have pity; and though they cry in My ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them."

nkjv@Ezekiel:9:1 @ Then He called out in my hearing with a loud voice, saying, "Let those who have charge over the city draw near, each with a deadly weapon in his hand."

nkjv@Ezekiel:9:2 @ And suddenly six men came from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with his battle-ax in his hand. One man among them was clothed with linen and had a writer's inkhorn at his side. They went in and stood beside the bronze altar.

nkjv@Ezekiel:9:3 @ Now the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherub, where it had been, to the threshold of the temple. And He called to the man clothed with linen, who had the writer's inkhorn at his side;

nkjv@Ezekiel:9:4 @ and the LORD said to him, "Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within it."

nkjv@Ezekiel:9:5 @ To the others He said in my hearing, "Go after him through the city and kill; do not let your eye spare, nor have any pity.

nkjv@Ezekiel:9:6 @ Utterly slay old and young men, maidens and little children and women; but do not come near anyone on whom is the mark; and begin at My sanctuary." So they began with the elders who were before the temple.

nkjv@Ezekiel:9:7 @ Then He said to them, "Defile the temple, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!" And they went out and killed in the city.

nkjv@Ezekiel:9:8 @ So it was, that while they were killing them, I was left alone; and I fell on my face and cried out, and said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Will You destroy all the remnant of Israel in pouring out Your fury on Jerusalem?"

nkjv@Ezekiel:9:9 @ Then He said to me, "The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of bloodshed, and the city full of perversity; for they say, "The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD does not see!'

nkjv@Ezekiel:9:10 @ And as for Me also, My eye will neither spare, nor will I have pity, but I will recompense their deeds on their own head."

nkjv@Ezekiel:9:11 @ Just then, the man clothed with linen, who had the inkhorn at his side, reported back and said, "I have done as You commanded me."

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:1 @ And I looked, and there in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubim, there appeared something like a sapphire stone, having the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:2 @ Then He spoke to the man clothed with linen, and said, "Go in among the wheels, under the cherub, fill your hands with coals of fire from among the cherubim, and scatter them over the city." And he went in as I watched.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:3 @ Now the cherubim were standing on the south side of the temple when the man went in, and the cloud filled the inner court.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:4 @ Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and paused over the threshold of the temple; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD's glory.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:5 @ And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even in the outer court, like the voice of Almighty God when He speaks.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:6 @ Then it happened, when He commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, "Take fire from among the wheels, from among the cherubim," that he went in and stood beside the wheels.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:7 @ And the cherub stretched out his hand from among the cherubim to the fire that was among the cherubim, and took some of it and put it into the hands of the man clothed with linen, who took it and went out.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:8 @ The cherubim appeared to have the form of a man's hand under their wings.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:9 @ And when I looked, there were four wheels by the cherubim, one wheel by one cherub and another wheel by each other cherub; the wheels appeared to have the color of a beryl stone.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:10 @ As for their appearance, all four looked alike--as it were, a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:11 @ When they went, they went toward any of their four directions; they did not turn aside when they went, but followed in the direction the head was facing. They did not turn aside when they went.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:12 @ And their whole body, with their back, their hands, their wings, and the wheels that the four had, were full of eyes all around.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:13 @ As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, "Wheel."

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:14 @ Each one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, the second face the face of a man, the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:15 @ And the cherubim were lifted up. This was the living creature I saw by the River Chebar.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:16 @ When the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also did not turn from beside them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:17 @ When the cherubim stood still, the wheels stood still, and when one was lifted up, the other lifted itself up, for the spirit of the living creature was in them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:18 @ Then the glory of the LORD departed from the threshold of the temple and stood over the cherubim.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:19 @ And the cherubim lifted their wings and mounted up from the earth in my sight. When they went out, the wheels were beside them; and they stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD's house, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:20 @ This is the living creature I saw under the God of Israel by the River Chebar, and I knew they were cherubim.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:21 @ Each one had four faces and each one four wings, and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.

nkjv@Ezekiel:10:22 @ And the likeness of their faces was the same as the faces which I had seen by the River Chebar, their appearance and their persons. They each went straight forward.

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:1 @ Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the East Gate of the LORD's house, which faces eastward; and there at the door of the gate were twenty-five men, among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:2 @ And He said to me: "Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity and give wicked counsel in this city,

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:3 @ who say, "The time is not near to build houses; this city is the caldron, and we are the meat.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:4 @ Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man!"

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:5 @ Then the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said to me, "Speak! "Thus says the LORD: "Thus you have said, O house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind.

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:6 @ You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain."

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:7 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Your slain whom you have laid in its midst, they are the meat, and this city is the caldron; but I shall bring you out of the midst of it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:8 @ You have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:9 @ "And I will bring you out of its midst, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and execute judgments on you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:10 @ You shall fall by the sword. I will judge you at the border of Israel. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:11 @ This city shall not be your caldron, nor shall you be the meat in its midst. I will judge you at the border of Israel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:12 @ And you shall know that I am the LORD; for you have not walked in My statutes nor executed My judgments, but have done according to the customs of the Gentiles which are all around you.""'

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:13 @ Now it happened, while I was prophesying, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then I fell on my face and cried with a loud voice, and said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Will You make a complete end of the remnant of Israel?"

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:14 @ Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:15 @ "Son of man, your brethren, your relatives, your countrymen, and all the house of Israel in its entirety, are those about whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, "Get far away from the LORD; this land has been given to us as a possession.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:16 @ Therefore say, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Although I have cast them far off among the Gentiles, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet I shall be a little sanctuary for them in the countries where they have gone."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:17 @ Therefore say, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "I will gather you from the peoples, assemble you from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:18 @ And they will go there, and they will take away all its detestable things and all its abominations from there.

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:19 @ Then I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them, and take the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh,

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:20 @ that they may walk in My statutes and keep My judgments and do them; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God.

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:21 @ But as for those whose hearts follow the desire for their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their deeds on their own heads," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:22 @ So the cherubim lifted up their wings, with the wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel was high above them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:23 @ And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city and stood on the mountain, which is on the east side of the city.

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:24 @ Then the Spirit took me up and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to those in captivity. And the vision that I had seen went up from me.

nkjv@Ezekiel:11:25 @ So I spoke to those in captivity of all the things the LORD had shown me.

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:1 @ Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:2 @ "Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, which has eyes to see but does not see, and ears to hear but does not hear; for they are a rebellious house.

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:3 @ "Therefore, son of man, prepare your belongings for captivity, and go into captivity by day in their sight. You shall go from your place into captivity to another place in their sight. It may be that they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:4 @ By day you shall bring out your belongings in their sight, as though going into captivity; and at evening you shall go in their sight, like those who go into captivity.

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:5 @ Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry your belongings out through it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:6 @ In their sight you shall bear them on your shoulders and carry them out at twilight; you shall cover your face, so that you cannot see the ground, for I have made you a sign to the house of Israel."

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:7 @ So I did as I was commanded. I brought out my belongings by day, as though going into captivity, and at evening I dug through the wall with my hand. I brought them out at twilight, and I bore them on my shoulder in their sight.

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:8 @ And in the morning the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:9 @ "Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, "What are you doing?'

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:10 @ Say to them, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "This burden concerns the prince in Jerusalem and all the house of Israel who are among them."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:11 @ Say, "I am a sign to you. As I have done, so shall it be done to them; they shall be carried away into captivity.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:12 @ And the prince who is among them shall bear his belongings on his shoulder at twilight and go out. They shall dig through the wall to carry them out through it. He shall cover his face, so that he cannot see the ground with his eyes.

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:13 @ I will also spread My net over him, and he shall be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, to the land of the Chaldeans; yet he shall not see it, though he shall die there.

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:14 @ I will scatter to every wind all who are around him to help him, and all his troops; and I will draw out the sword after them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:15 @ "Then they shall know that I am the LORD, when I scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries.

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:16 @ But I will spare a few of their men from the sword, from famine, and from pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the Gentiles wherever they go. Then they shall know that I am the LORD."

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:17 @ Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:19 @ And say to the people of the land, "Thus says the Lord GOD to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the land of Israel: "They shall eat their bread with anxiety, and drink their water with dread, so that her land may be emptied of all who are in it, because of the violence of all those who dwell in it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:20 @ Then the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall become desolate; and you shall know that I am the LORD.""'

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:21 @ And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:22 @ "Son of man, what is this proverb that you people have about the land of Israel, which says, "The days are prolonged, and every vision fails'?

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:23 @ Tell them therefore, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "I will lay this proverb to rest, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel." But say to them, "The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of every vision.

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:24 @ For no more shall there be any false vision or flattering divination within the house of Israel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:25 @ For I am the LORD. I speak, and the word which I speak will come to pass; it will no more be postponed; for in your days, O rebellious house, I will say the word and perform it," says the Lord GOD."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:26 @ Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:27 @ "Son of man, look, the house of Israel is saying, "The vision that he sees is for many days from now, and he prophesies of times far off.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:12:28 @ Therefore say to them, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "None of My words will be postponed any more, but the word which I speak will be done," says the Lord GOD."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:1 @ And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:2 @ "Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy out of their own heart, "Hear the word of the LORD!"'

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:3 @ Thus says the Lord GOD: "Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:4 @ O Israel, your prophets are like foxes in the deserts.

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:5 @ You have not gone up into the gaps to build a wall for the house of Israel to stand in battle on the day of the LORD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:6 @ They have envisioned futility and false divination, saying, "Thus says the LORD!' But the LORD has not sent them; yet they hope that the word may be confirmed.

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:7 @ Have you not seen a futile vision, and have you not spoken false divination? You say, "The LORD says,' but I have not spoken."

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:8 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Because you have spoken nonsense and envisioned lies, therefore I am indeed against you," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:9 @ "My hand will be against the prophets who envision futility and who divine lies; they shall not be in the assembly of My people, nor be written in the record of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter into the land of Israel. Then you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:10 @ "Because, indeed, because they have seduced My people, saying, "Peace!' when there is no peace--and one builds a wall, and they plaster it with untempered mortar--

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:11 @ say to those who plaster it with untempered mortar, that it will fall. There will be flooding rain, and you, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall tear it down.

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:12 @ Surely, when the wall has fallen, will it not be said to you, "Where is the mortar with which you plastered it?"'

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:13 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "I will cause a stormy wind to break forth in My fury; and there shall be a flooding rain in My anger, and great hailstones in fury to consume it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:14 @ So I will break down the wall you have plastered with untempered mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be uncovered; it will fall, and you shall be consumed in the midst of it. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:15 @ "Thus will I accomplish My wrath on the wall and on those who have plastered it with untempered mortar; and I will say to you, "The wall is no more, nor those who plastered it,

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:16 @ that is, the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her when there is no peace,"' says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:17 @ "Likewise, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; prophesy against them,

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:18 @ and say, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Woe to the women who sew magic charms on their sleeves and make veils for the heads of people of every height to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of My people, and keep yourselves alive?

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:20 @ "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I am against your magic charms by which you hunt souls there like birds. I will tear them from your arms, and let the souls go, the souls you hunt like birds.

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:21 @ I will also tear off your veils and deliver My people out of your hand, and they shall no longer be as prey in your hand. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:22 @ "Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and you have strengthened the hands of the wicked, so that he does not turn from his wicked way to save his life.

nkjv@Ezekiel:13:23 @ Therefore you shall no longer envision futility nor practice divination; for I will deliver My people out of your hand, and you shall know that I am the LORD.""'

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:1 @ Now some of the elders of Israel came to me and sat before me.

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:2 @ And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:3 @ "Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts, and put before them that which causes them to stumble into iniquity. Should I let Myself be inquired of at all by them?

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:4 @ "Therefore speak to them, and say to them, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Everyone of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart, and puts before him what causes him to stumble into iniquity, and then comes to the prophet, I the LORD will answer him who comes, according to the multitude of his idols,

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:5 @ that I may seize the house of Israel by their heart, because they are all estranged from Me by their idols."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:6 @ "Therefore say to the house of Israel, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Repent, turn away from your idols, and turn your faces away from all your abominations.

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:7 @ For anyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell in Israel, who separates himself from Me and sets up his idols in his heart and puts before him what causes him to stumble into iniquity, then comes to a prophet to inquire of him concerning Me, I the LORD will answer him by Myself.

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:8 @ I will set My face against that man and make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of My people. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:9 @ "And if the prophet is induced to speak anything, I the LORD have induced that prophet, and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:10 @ And they shall bear their iniquity; the punishment of the prophet shall be the same as the punishment of the one who inquired,

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:11 @ that the house of Israel may no longer stray from Me, nor be profaned anymore with all their transgressions, but that they may be My people and I may be their God," says the Lord GOD."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:12 @ The word of the LORD came again to me, saying:

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:14 @ Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only themselves by their righteousness," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:15 @ "If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they empty it, and make it so desolate that no man may pass through because of the beasts,

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:16 @ even though these three men were in it, as I live," says the Lord GOD, "they would deliver neither sons nor daughters; only they would be delivered, and the land would be desolate.

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:17 @ "Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, "Sword, go through the land,' and I cut off man and beast from it,

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:18 @ even though these three men were in it, as I live," says the Lord GOD, "they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but only they themselves would be delivered.

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:20 @ even though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live," says the Lord GOD, "they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only themselves by their righteousness."

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:21 @ For thus says the Lord GOD: "How much more it shall be when I send My four severe judgments on Jerusalem--the sword and famine and wild beasts and pestilence--to cut off man and beast from it?

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:22 @ Yet behold, there shall be left in it a remnant who will be brought out, both sons and daughters; surely they will come out to you, and you will see their ways and their doings. Then you will be comforted concerning the disaster that I have brought upon Jerusalem, all that I have brought upon it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:14:23 @ And they will comfort you, when you see their ways and their doings; and you shall know that I have done nothing without cause that I have done in it," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:15:1 @ Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

nkjv@Ezekiel:15:2 @ "Son of man, how is the wood of the vine better than any other wood, the vine branch which is among the trees of the forest?

nkjv@Ezekiel:15:4 @ Instead, it is thrown into the fire for fuel; the fire devours both ends of it, and its middle is burned. Is it useful for any work?

nkjv@Ezekiel:15:5 @ Indeed, when it was whole, no object could be made from it. How much less will it be useful for any work when the fire has devoured it, and it is burned?

nkjv@Ezekiel:15:6 @ "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give up the inhabitants of Jerusalem;

nkjv@Ezekiel:15:7 @ and I will set My face against them. They will go out from one fire, but another fire shall devour them. Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when I set My face against them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:15:8 @ Thus I will make the land desolate, because they have persisted in unfaithfulness,' says the Lord GOD."

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:1 @ Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:3 @ and say, "Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem: "Your birth and your nativity are from the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:4 @ As for your nativity, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water to cleanse you; you were not rubbed with salt nor wrapped in swaddling cloths.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:5 @ No eye pitied you, to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you; but you were thrown out into the open field, when you yourself were loathed on the day you were born.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:7 @ I made you thrive like a plant in the field; and you grew, matured, and became very beautiful. Your breasts were formed, your hair grew, but you were naked and bare.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:8 @ "When I passed by you again and looked upon you, indeed your time was the time of love; so I spread My wing over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:9 @ "Then I washed you in water; yes, I thoroughly washed off your blood, and I anointed you with oil.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:10 @ I clothed you in embroidered cloth and gave you sandals of badger skin; I clothed you with fine linen and covered you with silk.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:14 @ Your fame went out among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through My splendor which I had bestowed on you," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:15 @ "But you trusted in your own beauty, played the harlot because of your fame, and poured out your harlotry on everyone passing by who would have it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:16 @ You took some of your garments and adorned multicolored high places for yourself, and played the harlot on them. Such things should not happen, nor be.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:17 @ You have also taken your beautiful jewelry from My gold and My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images and played the harlot with them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:18 @ You took your embroidered garments and covered them, and you set My oil and My incense before them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:19 @ Also My food which I gave you--the pastry of fine flour, oil, and honey which I fed you--you set it before them as sweet incense; and so it was," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:20 @ "Moreover you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore to Me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your acts of harlotry a small matter,

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:21 @ that you have slain My children and offered them up to them by causing them to pass through the fire?

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:22 @ And in all your abominations and acts of harlotry you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, struggling in your blood.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:23 @ "Then it was so, after all your wickedness--"Woe, woe to you!' says the Lord GOD--

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:25 @ You built your high places at the head of every road, and made your beauty to be abhorred. You offered yourself to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your acts of harlotry.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:26 @ You also committed harlotry with the Egyptians, your very fleshly neighbors, and increased your acts of harlotry to provoke Me to anger.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:27 @ "Behold, therefore, I stretched out My hand against you, diminished your allotment, and gave you up to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:28 @ You also played the harlot with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; indeed you played the harlot with them and still were not satisfied.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:29 @ Moreover you multiplied your acts of harlotry as far as the land of the trader, Chaldea; and even then you were not satisfied.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:30 @ "How degenerate is your heart!" says the Lord GOD, "seeing you do all these things, the deeds of a brazen harlot.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:31 @ "You erected your shrine at the head of every road, and built your high place in every street. Yet you were not like a harlot, because you scorned payment.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:33 @ Men make payment to all harlots, but you made your payments to all your lovers, and hired them to come to you from all around for your harlotry.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:34 @ You are the opposite of other women in your harlotry, because no one solicited you to be a harlot. In that you gave payment but no payment was given you, therefore you are the opposite."

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:35 @ "Now then, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD!

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:36 @ Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because your filthiness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your harlotry with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children which you gave to them,

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:37 @ surely, therefore, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved, and all those you hated; I will gather them from all around against you and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:39 @ I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your shrines and break down your high places. They shall also strip you of your clothes, take your beautiful jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:40 @ "They shall also bring up an assembly against you, and they shall stone you with stones and thrust you through with their swords.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:41 @ They shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women; and I will make you cease playing the harlot, and you shall no longer hire lovers.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:43 @ Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but agitated Me with all these things, surely I will also recompense your deeds on your own head," says the Lord GOD. "And you shall not commit lewdness in addition to all your abominations.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:44 @ "Indeed everyone who quotes proverbs will use this proverb against you: "Like mother, like daughter!'

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:45 @ You are your mother's daughter, loathing husband and children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children; your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:46 @ "Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who dwells to the south of you, is Sodom and her daughters.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:47 @ You did not walk in their ways nor act according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you became more corrupt than they in all your ways.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:48 @ "As I live," says the Lord GOD, "neither your sister Sodom nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:49 @ Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:50 @ And they were haughty and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:51 @ "Samaria did not commit half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters by all the abominations which you have done.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:52 @ You who judged your sisters, bear your own shame also, because the sins which you committed were more abominable than theirs; they are more righteous than you. Yes, be disgraced also, and bear your own shame, because you justified your sisters.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:53 @ "When I bring back their captives, the captives of Sodom and her daughters, and the captives of Samaria and her daughters, then I will also bring back the captives of your captivity among them,

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:54 @ that you may bear your own shame and be disgraced by all that you did when you comforted them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:55 @ When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters return to their former state, then you and your daughters will return to your former state.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:56 @ For your sister Sodom was not a byword in your mouth in the days of your pride,

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:57 @ before your wickedness was uncovered. It was like the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria and all those around her, and of the daughters of the Philistines, who despise you everywhere.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:58 @ You have paid for your lewdness and your abominations," says the LORD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:59 @ For thus says the Lord GOD: "I will deal with you as you have done, who despised the oath by breaking the covenant.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:60 @ "Nevertheless I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:61 @ Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed, when you receive your older and your younger sisters; for I will give them to you for daughters, but not because of My covenant with you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:62 @ And I will establish My covenant with you. Then you shall know that I am the LORD,

nkjv@Ezekiel:16:63 @ that you may remember and be ashamed, and never open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I provide you an atonement for all you have done," says the Lord GOD."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:1 @ And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:2 @ "Son of man, pose a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel,

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:3 @ and say, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "A great eagle with large wings and long pinions, Full of feathers of various colors, Came to Lebanon And took from the cedar the highest branch.

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:5 @ Then he took some of the seed of the land And planted it in a fertile field; He placed it by abundant waters And set it like a willow tree.

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:7 @ "But there was another great eagle with large wings and many feathers; And behold, this vine bent its roots toward him, And stretched its branches toward him, From the garden terrace where it had been planted, That he might water it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:9 @ "Say, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Will it thrive? Will he not pull up its roots, Cut off its fruit, And leave it to wither? All of its spring leaves will wither, And no great power or many people Will be needed to pluck it up by its roots.

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:10 @ Behold, it is planted, Will it thrive? Will it not utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It will wither in the garden terrace where it grew.""'

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:11 @ Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:12 @ "Say now to the rebellious house: "Do you not know what these things mean?' Tell them, "Indeed the king of Babylon went to Jerusalem and took its king and princes, and led them with him to Babylon.

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:13 @ And he took the king's offspring, made a covenant with him, and put him under oath. He also took away the mighty of the land,

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:14 @ that the kingdom might be brought low and not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand.

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:15 @ But he rebelled against him by sending his ambassadors to Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Will he prosper? Will he who does such things escape? Can he break a covenant and still be delivered?

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:16 @ "As I live,' says the Lord GOD, "surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke--with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:17 @ Nor will Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company do anything in the war, when they heap up a siege mound and build a wall to cut off many persons.

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:18 @ Since he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, and in fact gave his hand and still did all these things, he shall not escape."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:19 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "As I live, surely My oath which he despised, and My covenant which he broke, I will recompense on his own head.

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:20 @ I will spread My net over him, and he shall be taken in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon and try him there for the treason which he committed against Me.

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:21 @ All his fugitives with all his troops shall fall by the sword, and those who remain shall be scattered to every wind; and you shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken."

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:22 @ Thus says the Lord GOD: "I will take also one of the highest branches of the high cedar and set it out. I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and will plant it on a high and prominent mountain.

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:23 @ On the mountain height of Israel I will plant it; and it will bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a majestic cedar. Under it will dwell birds of every sort; in the shadow of its branches they will dwell.

nkjv@Ezekiel:17:24 @ And all the trees of the field shall know that I, the LORD, have brought down the high tree and exalted the low tree, dried up the green tree and made the dry tree flourish; I, the LORD, have spoken and have done it."

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:1 @ The word of the LORD came to me again, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:2 @ "What do you mean when you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying: "The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children's teeth are set on edge'?

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:3 @ "As I live," says the Lord GOD, "you shall no longer use this proverb in Israel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:4 @ "Behold, all souls are Mine; The soul of the father As well as the soul of the son is Mine; The soul who sins shall die.

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:6 @ If he has not eaten on the mountains, Nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, Nor defiled his neighbor's wife, Nor approached a woman during her impurity;

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:7 @ If he has not oppressed anyone, But has restored to the debtor his pledge; Has robbed no one by violence, But has given his bread to the hungry And covered the naked with clothing;

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:9 @ If he has walked in My statutes And kept My judgments faithfully-- He is just; He shall surely live!" Says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:10 @ "If he begets a son who is a robber Or a shedder of blood, Who does any of these things

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:11 @ And does none of those duties, But has eaten on the mountains Or defiled his neighbor's wife;

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:12 @ If he has oppressed the poor and needy, Robbed by violence, Not restored the pledge, Lifted his eyes to the idols, Or committed abomination;

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:13 @ If he has exacted usury Or taken increase-- Shall he then live? He shall not live! If he has done any of these abominations, He shall surely die; His blood shall be upon him.

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:14 @ "If, however, he begets a son Who sees all the sins which his father has done, And considers but does not do likewise;

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:15 @ Who has not eaten on the mountains, Nor lifted his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, Nor defiled his neighbor's wife;

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:16 @ Has not oppressed anyone, Nor withheld a pledge, Nor robbed by violence, But has given his bread to the hungry And covered the naked with clothing;

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:17 @ Who has withdrawn his hand from the poor And not received usury or increase, But has executed My judgments And walked in My statutes-- He shall not die for the iniquity of his father; He shall surely live!

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:18 @ "As for his father, Because he cruelly oppressed, Robbed his brother by violence, And did what is not good among his people, Behold, he shall die for his iniquity.

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:19 @ "Yet you say, "Why should the son not bear the guilt of the father?' Because the son has done what is lawful and right, and has kept all My statutes and observed them, he shall surely live.

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:20 @ The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:22 @ None of the transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him; because of the righteousness which he has done, he shall live.

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:23 @ Do I have any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?" says the Lord GOD, "and not that he should turn from his ways and live?

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:24 @ "But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? All the righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; because of the unfaithfulness of which he is guilty and the sin which he has committed, because of them he shall die.

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:25 @ "Yet you say, "The way of the Lord is not fair.' Hear now, O house of Israel, is it not My way which is fair, and your ways which are not fair?

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:26 @ When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity, and dies in it, it is because of the iniquity which he has done that he dies.

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:27 @ Again, when a wicked man turns away from the wickedness which he committed, and does what is lawful and right, he preserves himself alive.

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:28 @ Because he considers and turns away from all the transgressions which he committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:29 @ Yet the house of Israel says, "The way of the Lord is not fair.' O house of Israel, is it not My ways which are fair, and your ways which are not fair?

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:30 @ "Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways," says the Lord GOD. "Repent, and turn from all your transgressions, so that iniquity will not be your ruin.

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:31 @ Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Israel?

nkjv@Ezekiel:18:32 @ For I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies," says the Lord GOD. "Therefore turn and live!"

nkjv@Ezekiel:19:1 @ "Moreover take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

nkjv@Ezekiel:19:2 @ and say: "What is your mother? A lioness: She lay down among the lions; Among the young lions she nourished her cubs.

nkjv@Ezekiel:19:4 @ The nations also heard of him; He was trapped in their pit, And they brought him with chains to the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Ezekiel:19:5 @ "When she saw that she waited, that her hope was lost, She took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.

nkjv@Ezekiel:19:6 @ He roved among the lions, And became a young lion; He learned to catch prey; He devoured men.

nkjv@Ezekiel:19:7 @ He knew their desolate places, And laid waste their cities; The land with its fullness was desolated By the noise of his roaring.

nkjv@Ezekiel:19:8 @ Then the nations set against him from the provinces on every side, And spread their net over him; He was trapped in their pit.

nkjv@Ezekiel:19:9 @ They put him in a cage with chains, And brought him to the king of Babylon; They brought him in nets, That his voice should no longer be heard on the mountains of Israel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:19:10 @ "Your mother was like a vine in your bloodline, Planted by the waters, Fruitful and full of branches Because of many waters.

nkjv@Ezekiel:19:11 @ She had strong branches for scepters of rulers. She towered in stature above the thick branches, And was seen in her height amid the dense foliage.

nkjv@Ezekiel:19:12 @ But she was plucked up in fury, She was cast down to the ground, And the east wind dried her fruit. Her strong branches were broken and withered; The fire consumed them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:19:13 @ And now she is planted in the wilderness, In a dry and thirsty land.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:1 @ It came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and sat before me.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:2 @ Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:3 @ "Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say to them, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Have you come to inquire of Me? As I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will not be inquired of by you."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:4 @ Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Then make known to them the abominations of their fathers.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:5 @ "Say to them, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "On the day when I chose Israel and raised My hand in an oath to the descendants of the house of Jacob, and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt, I raised My hand in an oath to them, saying, "I am the LORD your God.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:6 @ On that day I raised My hand in an oath to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, "flowing with milk and honey,' the glory of all lands.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:7 @ Then I said to them, "Each of you, throw away the abominations which are before his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:8 @ But they rebelled against Me and would not obey Me. They did not all cast away the abominations which were before their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said, "I will pour out My fury on them and fulfill My anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:9 @ But I acted for My name's sake, that it should not be profaned before the Gentiles among whom they were, in whose sight I had made Myself known to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:10 @ "Therefore I made them go out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:11 @ And I gave them My statutes and showed them My judgments, "which, if a man does, he shall live by them.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:12 @ Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:13 @ Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness; they did not walk in My statutes; they despised My judgments, "which, if a man does, he shall live by them'; and they greatly defiled My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out My fury on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:14 @ But I acted for My name's sake, that it should not be profaned before the Gentiles, in whose sight I had brought them out.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:15 @ So I also raised My hand in an oath to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, "flowing with milk and honey,' the glory of all lands,

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:16 @ because they despised My judgments and did not walk in My statutes, but profaned My Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:17 @ Nevertheless My eye spared them from destruction. I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:18 @ "But I said to their children in the wilderness, "Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:19 @ I am the LORD your God: Walk in My statutes, keep My judgments, and do them;

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:20 @ hallow My Sabbaths, and they will be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:21 @ "Notwithstanding, the children rebelled against Me; they did not walk in My statutes, and were not careful to observe My judgments, "which, if a man does, he shall live by them'; but they profaned My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out My fury on them and fulfill My anger against them in the wilderness.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:22 @ Nevertheless I withdrew My hand and acted for My name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the Gentiles, in whose sight I had brought them out.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:23 @ Also I raised My hand in an oath to those in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the Gentiles and disperse them throughout the countries,

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:24 @ because they had not executed My judgments, but had despised My statutes, profaned My Sabbaths, and their eyes were fixed on their fathers' idols.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:25 @ "Therefore I also gave them up to statutes that were not good, and judgments by which they could not live;

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:26 @ and I pronounced them unclean because of their ritual gifts, in that they caused all their firstborn to pass through the fire, that I might make them desolate and that they might know that I am the LORD."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:27 @ "Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and say to them, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "In this too your fathers have blasphemed Me, by being unfaithful to Me.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:28 @ When I brought them into the land concerning which I had raised My hand in an oath to give them, and they saw all the high hills and all the thick trees, there they offered their sacrifices and provoked Me with their offerings. There they also sent up their sweet aroma and poured out their drink offerings.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:29 @ Then I said to them, "What is this high place to which you go?' So its name is called Bamah to this day."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:30 @ Therefore say to the house of Israel, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Are you defiling yourselves in the manner of your fathers, and committing harlotry according to their abominations?

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:31 @ For when you offer your gifts and make your sons pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols, even to this day. So shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will not be inquired of by you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:32 @ What you have in your mind shall never be, when you say, "We will be like the Gentiles, like the families in other countries, serving wood and stone.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:33 @ "As I live," says the Lord GOD, "surely with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out, I will rule over you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:34 @ I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you are scattered, with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:35 @ And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will plead My case with you face to face.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:36 @ Just as I pleaded My case with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will plead My case with you," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:37 @ "I will make you pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant;

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:38 @ I will purge the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against Me; I will bring them out of the country where they dwell, but they shall not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:39 @ "As for you, O house of Israel," thus says the Lord GOD: "Go, serve every one of you his idols--and hereafter--if you will not obey Me; but profane My holy name no more with your gifts and your idols.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:40 @ For on My holy mountain, on the mountain height of Israel," says the Lord GOD, "there all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, shall serve Me; there I will accept them, and there I will require your offerings and the firstfruits of your sacrifices, together with all your holy things.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:41 @ I will accept you as a sweet aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered; and I will be hallowed in you before the Gentiles.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:42 @ Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for which I raised My hand in an oath to give to your fathers.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:43 @ And there you shall remember your ways and all your doings with which you were defiled; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight because of all the evils that you have committed.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:44 @ Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when I have dealt with you for My name's sake, not according to your wicked ways nor according to your corrupt doings, O house of Israel," says the Lord GOD."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:45 @ Furthermore the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:46 @ "Son of man, set your face toward the south; preach against the south and prophesy against the forest land, the South,

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:47 @ and say to the forest of the South, "Hear the word of the LORD! Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree and every dry tree in you; the blazing flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be scorched by it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:48 @ All flesh shall see that I, the LORD, have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.""'

nkjv@Ezekiel:20:49 @ Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! They say of me, "Does he not speak parables?"'

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:1 @ And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:2 @ "Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, preach against the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel;

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:3 @ and say to the land of Israel, "Thus says the LORD: "Behold, I am against you, and I will draw My sword out of its sheath and cut off both righteous and wicked from you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:4 @ Because I will cut off both righteous and wicked from you, therefore My sword shall go out of its sheath against all flesh from south to north,

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:5 @ that all flesh may know that I, the LORD, have drawn My sword out of its sheath; it shall not return anymore."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:6 @ Sigh therefore, son of man, with a breaking heart, and sigh with bitterness before their eyes.

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:7 @ And it shall be when they say to you, "Why are you sighing?' that you shall answer, "Because of the news; when it comes, every heart will melt, all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it is coming and shall be brought to pass,' says the Lord GOD."

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:8 @ Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:9 @ "Son of man, prophesy and say, "Thus says the LORD!' Say: "A sword, a sword is sharpened And also polished!

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:10 @ Sharpened to make a dreadful slaughter, Polished to flash like lightning! Should we then make mirth? It despises the scepter of My son, As it does all wood.

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:11 @ And He has given it to be polished, That it may be handled; This sword is sharpened, and it is polished To be given into the hand of the slayer.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:12 @ "Cry and wail, son of man; For it will be against My people, Against all the princes of Israel. Terrors including the sword will be against My people; Therefore strike your thigh.

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:13 @ "Because it is a testing, And what if the sword despises even the scepter? The scepter shall be no more," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:14 @ "You therefore, son of man, prophesy, And strike your hands together. The third time let the sword do double damage. It is the sword that slays, The sword that slays the great men, That enters their private chambers.

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:15 @ I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, That the heart may melt and many may stumble. Ah! It is made bright; It is grasped for slaughter:

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:16 @ "Swords at the ready! Thrust right! Set your blade! Thrust left-- Wherever your edge is ordered!

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:17 @ "I also will beat My fists together, And I will cause My fury to rest; I, the LORD, have spoken."

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:18 @ The word of the LORD came to me again, saying:

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:19 @ "And son of man, appoint for yourself two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to go; both of them shall go from the same land. Make a sign; put it at the head of the road to the city.

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:20 @ Appoint a road for the sword to go to Rabbah of the Ammonites, and to Judah, into fortified Jerusalem.

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:21 @ For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the road, at the fork of the two roads, to use divination: he shakes the arrows, he consults the images, he looks at the liver.

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:22 @ In his right hand is the divination for Jerusalem: to set up battering rams, to call for a slaughter, to lift the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to heap up a siege mound, and to build a wall.

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:23 @ And it will be to them like a false divination in the eyes of those who have sworn oaths with them; but he will bring their iniquity to remembrance, that they may be taken.

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:24 @ "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear--because you have come to remembrance, you shall be taken in hand.

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:26 @ thus says the Lord GOD: "Remove the turban, and take off the crown; Nothing shall remain the same. Exalt the humble, and humble the exalted.

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:28 @ "And you, son of man, prophesy and say, "Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites and concerning their reproach,' and say: "A sword, a sword is drawn, Polished for slaughter, For consuming, for flashing--

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:29 @ While they see false visions for you, While they divine a lie to you, To bring you on the necks of the wicked, the slain Whose day has come, Whose iniquity shall end.

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:30 @ "Return it to its sheath. I will judge you In the place where you were created, In the land of your nativity.

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:31 @ I will pour out My indignation on you; I will blow against you with the fire of My wrath, And deliver you into the hands of brutal men who are skillful to destroy.

nkjv@Ezekiel:21:32 @ You shall be fuel for the fire; Your blood shall be in the midst of the land. You shall not be remembered, For I the LORD have spoken."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:1 @ Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:2 @ "Now, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Yes, show her all her abominations!

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:3 @ Then say, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "The city sheds blood in her own midst, that her time may come; and she makes idols within herself to defile herself.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:4 @ You have become guilty by the blood which you have shed, and have defiled yourself with the idols which you have made. You have caused your days to draw near, and have come to the end of your years; therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all countries.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:6 @ "Look, the princes of Israel: each one has used his power to shed blood in you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:7 @ In you they have made light of father and mother; in your midst they have oppressed the stranger; in you they have mistreated the fatherless and the widow.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:9 @ In you are men who slander to cause bloodshed; in you are those who eat on the mountains; in your midst they commit lewdness.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:10 @ In you men uncover their fathers' nakedness; in you they violate women who are set apart during their impurity.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:11 @ One commits abomination with his neighbor's wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; and another in you violates his sister, his father's daughter.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:12 @ In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take usury and increase; you have made profit from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:13 @ "Behold, therefore, I beat My fists at the dishonest profit which you have made, and at the bloodshed which has been in your midst.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:14 @ Can your heart endure, or can your hands remain strong, in the days when I shall deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken, and will do it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:15 @ I will scatter you among the nations, disperse you throughout the countries, and remove your filthiness completely from you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:16 @ You shall defile yourself in the sight of the nations; then you shall know that I am the LORD.""'

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:17 @ The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:18 @ "Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me; they are all bronze, tin, iron, and lead, in the midst of a furnace; they have become dross from silver.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:19 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Because you have all become dross, therefore behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:20 @ As men gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the midst of a furnace, to blow fire on it, to melt it; so I will gather you in My anger and in My fury, and I will leave you there and melt you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:21 @ Yes, I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and you shall be melted in its midst.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:22 @ As silver is melted in the midst of a furnace, so shall you be melted in its midst; then you shall know that I, the LORD, have poured out My fury on you."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:23 @ And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:24 @ "Son of man, say to her: "You are a land that is not cleansed or rained on in the day of indignation.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:25 @ The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured people; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:26 @ Her priests have violated My law and profaned My holy things; they have not distinguished between the holy and unholy, nor have they made known the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:27 @ Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy people, and to get dishonest gain.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:28 @ Her prophets plastered them with untempered mortar, seeing false visions, and divining lies for them, saying, "Thus says the Lord GOD,' when the LORD had not spoken.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:29 @ The people of the land have used oppressions, committed robbery, and mistreated the poor and needy; and they wrongfully oppress the stranger.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:30 @ So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.

nkjv@Ezekiel:22:31 @ Therefore I have poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; and I have recompensed their deeds on their own heads," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:1 @ The word of the LORD came again to me, saying:

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:2 @ "Son of man, there were two women, The daughters of one mother.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:3 @ They committed harlotry in Egypt, They committed harlotry in their youth; Their breasts were there embraced, Their virgin bosom was there pressed.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:4 @ Their names: Oholah the elder and Oholibah her sister; They were Mine, And they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem is Oholibah.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:5 @ "Oholah played the harlot even though she was Mine; And she lusted for her lovers, the neighboring Assyrians,

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:6 @ Who were clothed in purple, Captains and rulers, All of them desirable young men, Horsemen riding on horses.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:7 @ Thus she committed her harlotry with them, All of them choice men of Assyria; And with all for whom she lusted, With all their idols, she defiled herself.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:8 @ She has never given up her harlotry brought from Egypt, For in her youth they had lain with her, Pressed her virgin bosom, And poured out their immorality upon her.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:9 @ "Therefore I have delivered her Into the hand of her lovers, Into the hand of the Assyrians, For whom she lusted.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:10 @ They uncovered her nakedness, Took away her sons and daughters, And slew her with the sword; She became a byword among women, For they had executed judgment on her.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:12 @ "She lusted for the neighboring Assyrians, Captains and rulers, Clothed most gorgeously, Horsemen riding on horses, All of them desirable young men.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:13 @ Then I saw that she was defiled; Both took the same way.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:14 @ But she increased her harlotry; She looked at men portrayed on the wall, Images of Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion,

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:15 @ Girded with belts around their waists, Flowing turbans on their heads, All of them looking like captains, In the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, The land of their nativity.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:16 @ As soon as her eyes saw them, She lusted for them And sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:17 @ "Then the Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love, And they defiled her with their immorality; So she was defiled by them, and alienated herself from them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:18 @ She revealed her harlotry and uncovered her nakedness. Then I alienated Myself from her, As I had alienated Myself from her sister.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:19 @ "Yet she multiplied her harlotry In calling to remembrance the days of her youth, When she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:20 @ For she lusted for her paramours, Whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys, And whose issue is like the issue of horses.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:21 @ Thus you called to remembrance the lewdness of your youth, When the Egyptians pressed your bosom Because of your youthful breasts.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:22 @ "Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I will stir up your lovers against you, From whom you have alienated yourself, And I will bring them against you from every side:

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:23 @ The Babylonians, All the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, Koa, All the Assyrians with them, All of them desirable young men, Governors and rulers, Captains and men of renown, All of them riding on horses.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:24 @ And they shall come against you With chariots, wagons, and war-horses, With a horde of people. They shall array against you Buckler, shield, and helmet all around. "I will delegate judgment to them, And they shall judge you according to their judgments.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:25 @ I will set My jealousy against you, And they shall deal furiously with you; They shall remove your nose and your ears, And your remnant shall fall by the sword; They shall take your sons and your daughters, And your remnant shall be devoured by fire.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:26 @ They shall also strip you of your clothes And take away your beautiful jewelry.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:27 @ "Thus I will make you cease your lewdness and your harlotry Brought from the land of Egypt, So that you will not lift your eyes to them, Nor remember Egypt anymore.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:28 @ "For thus says the Lord GOD: "Surely I will deliver you into the hand of those you hate, into the hand of those from whom you alienated yourself.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:29 @ They will deal hatefully with you, take away all you have worked for, and leave you naked and bare. The nakedness of your harlotry shall be uncovered, both your lewdness and your harlotry.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:30 @ I will do these things to you because you have gone as a harlot after the Gentiles, because you have become defiled by their idols.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:31 @ You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore I will put her cup in your hand.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:32 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: "You shall drink of your sister's cup, The deep and wide one; You shall be laughed to scorn And held in derision; It contains much.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:33 @ You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, The cup of horror and desolation, The cup of your sister Samaria.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:34 @ You shall drink and drain it, You shall break its shards, And tear at your own breasts; For I have spoken,' Says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:35 @ "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, Therefore you shall bear the penalty Of your lewdness and your harlotry."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:36 @ The LORD also said to me: "Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:37 @ For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols, and even sacrificed their sons whom they bore to Me, passing them through the fire, to devour them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:38 @ Moreover they have done this to Me: They have defiled My sanctuary on the same day and profaned My Sabbaths.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:39 @ For after they had slain their children for their idols, on the same day they came into My sanctuary to profane it; and indeed thus they have done in the midst of My house.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:40 @ "Furthermore you sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and there they came. And you washed yourself for them, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:42 @ The sound of a carefree multitude was with her, and Sabeans were brought from the wilderness with men of the common sort, who put bracelets on their wrists and beautiful crowns on their heads.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:43 @ Then I said concerning her who had grown old in adulteries, "Will they commit harlotry with her now, and she with them?'

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:44 @ Yet they went in to her, as men go in to a woman who plays the harlot; thus they went in to Oholah and Oholibah, the lewd women.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:45 @ But righteous men will judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:46 @ "For thus says the Lord GOD: "Bring up an assembly against them, give them up to trouble and plunder.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:47 @ The assembly shall stone them with stones and execute them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn their houses with fire.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:48 @ Thus I will cause lewdness to cease from the land, that all women may be taught not to practice your lewdness.

nkjv@Ezekiel:23:49 @ They shall repay you for your lewdness, and you shall pay for your idolatrous sins. Then you shall know that I am the Lord GOD."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:1 @ Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:2 @ "Son of man, write down the name of the day, this very day--the king of Babylon started his siege against Jerusalem this very day.

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:3 @ And utter a parable to the rebellious house, and say to them, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Put on a pot, set it on, And also pour water into it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:4 @ Gather pieces of meat in it, Every good piece, The thigh and the shoulder. Fill it with choice cuts;

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:5 @ Take the choice of the flock. Also pile fuel bones under it, Make it boil well, And let the cuts simmer in it."

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:6 @ "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Woe to the bloody city, To the pot whose scum is in it, And whose scum is not gone from it! Bring it out piece by piece, On which no lot has fallen.

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:7 @ For her blood is in her midst; She set it on top of a rock; She did not pour it on the ground, To cover it with dust.

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:9 @ "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Woe to the bloody city! I too will make the pyre great.

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:10 @ Heap on the wood, Kindle the fire; Cook the meat well, Mix in the spices, And let the cuts be burned up.

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:11 @ "Then set the pot empty on the coals, That it may become hot and its bronze may burn, That its filthiness may be melted in it, That its scum may be consumed.

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:12 @ She has grown weary with lies, And her great scum has not gone from her. Let her scum be in the fire!

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:14 @ I, the LORD, have spoken it; It shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not hold back, Nor will I spare, Nor will I relent; According to your ways And according to your deeds They will judge you," Says the Lord GOD."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:15 @ Also the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:16 @ "Son of man, behold, I take away from you the desire of your eyes with one stroke; yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, nor shall your tears run down.

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:17 @ Sigh in silence, make no mourning for the dead; bind your turban on your head, and put your sandals on your feet; do not cover your lips, and do not eat man's bread of sorrow."

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:18 @ So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died; and the next morning I did as I was commanded.

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:19 @ And the people said to me, "Will you not tell us what these things signify to us, that you behave so?"

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:20 @ Then I answered them, "The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:21 @ "Speak to the house of Israel, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I will profane My sanctuary, your arrogant boast, the desire of your eyes, the delight of your soul; and your sons and daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:23 @ Your turbans shall be on your heads and your sandals on your feet; you shall neither mourn nor weep, but you shall pine away in your iniquities and mourn with one another.

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:24 @ Thus Ezekiel is a sign to you; according to all that he has done you shall do; and when this comes, you shall know that I am the Lord GOD."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:25 @ "And you, son of man--will it not be in the day when I take from them their stronghold, their joy and their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that on which they set their minds, their sons and their daughters:

nkjv@Ezekiel:24:27 @ on that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped; you shall speak and no longer be mute. Thus you will be a sign to them, and they shall know that I am the LORD."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:25:1 @ The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:25:2 @ "Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:25:3 @ Say to the Ammonites, "Hear the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because you said, "Aha!' against My sanctuary when it was profaned, and against the land of Israel when it was desolate, and against the house of Judah when they went into captivity,

nkjv@Ezekiel:25:4 @ indeed, therefore, I will deliver you as a possession to the men of the East, and they shall set their encampments among you and make their dwellings among you; they shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk.

nkjv@Ezekiel:25:5 @ And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels and Ammon a resting place for flocks. Then you shall know that I am the LORD."

nkjv@Ezekiel:25:6 @ "For thus says the Lord GOD: "Because you clapped your hands, stamped your feet, and rejoiced in heart with all your disdain for the land of Israel,

nkjv@Ezekiel:25:7 @ indeed, therefore, I will stretch out My hand against you, and give you as plunder to the nations; I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will cause you to perish from the countries; I will destroy you, and you shall know that I am the LORD."

nkjv@Ezekiel:25:8 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because Moab and Seir say, "Look! The house of Judah is like all the nations,'

nkjv@Ezekiel:25:9 @ therefore, behold, I will clear the territory of Moab of cities, of the cities on its frontier, the glory of the country, Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kirjathaim.

nkjv@Ezekiel:25:10 @ To the men of the East I will give it as a possession, together with the Ammonites, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations.

nkjv@Ezekiel:25:11 @ And I will execute judgments upon Moab, and they shall know that I am the LORD."

nkjv@Ezekiel:25:12 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because of what Edom did against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended by avenging itself on them,"

nkjv@Ezekiel:25:13 @ therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "I will also stretch out My hand against Edom, cut off man and beast from it, and make it desolate from Teman; Dedan shall fall by the sword.

nkjv@Ezekiel:25:14 @ I will lay My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel, that they may do in Edom according to My anger and according to My fury; and they shall know My vengeance," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:25:15 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because the Philistines dealt vengefully and took vengeance with a spiteful heart, to destroy because of the old hatred,"

nkjv@Ezekiel:25:16 @ therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "I will stretch out My hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and destroy the remnant of the seacoast.

nkjv@Ezekiel:25:17 @ I will execute great vengeance on them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I lay My vengeance upon them.""'

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:1 @ And it came to pass in the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:2 @ "Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, "Aha! She is broken who was the gateway of the peoples; now she is turned over to me; I shall be filled; she is laid waste.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:3 @ "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up.

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:4 @ And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers; I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:5 @ It shall be a place for spreading nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken,' says the Lord GOD; "it shall become plunder for the nations.

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:6 @ Also her daughter villages which are in the fields shall be slain by the sword. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:7 @ "For thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses, with chariots, and with horsemen, and an army with many people.

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:8 @ He will slay with the sword your daughter villages in the fields; he will heap up a siege mound against you, build a wall against you, and raise a defense against you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:10 @ Because of the abundance of his horses, their dust will cover you; your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen, the wagons, and the chariots, when he enters your gates, as men enter a city that has been breached.

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:11 @ With the hooves of his horses he will trample all your streets; he will slay your people by the sword, and your strong pillars will fall to the ground.

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:12 @ They will plunder your riches and pillage your merchandise; they will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses; they will lay your stones, your timber, and your soil in the midst of the water.

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:13 @ I will put an end to the sound of your songs, and the sound of your harps shall be heard no more.

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:14 @ I will make you like the top of a rock; you shall be a place for spreading nets, and you shall never be rebuilt, for I the LORD have spoken,' says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:15 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre: "Will the coastlands not shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded cry, when slaughter is made in the midst of you?

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:16 @ Then all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones, lay aside their robes, and take off their embroidered garments; they will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on the ground, tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:17 @ And they will take up a lamentation for you, and say to you: "How you have perished, O one inhabited by seafaring men, O renowned city, Who was strong at sea, She and her inhabitants, Who caused their terror to be on all her inhabitants!

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:18 @ Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your fall; Yes, the coastlands by the sea are troubled at your departure."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:19 @ "For thus says the Lord GOD: "When I make you a desolate city, like cities that are not inhabited, when I bring the deep upon you, and great waters cover you,

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:20 @ then I will bring you down with those who descend into the Pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the lowest part of the earth, in places desolate from antiquity, with those who go down to the Pit, so that you may never be inhabited; and I shall establish glory in the land of the living.

nkjv@Ezekiel:26:21 @ I will make you a terror, and you shall be no more; though you are sought for, you will never be found again,' says the Lord GOD."

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:1 @ The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:3 @ and say to Tyre, "You who are situated at the entrance of the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coastlands, thus says the Lord GOD: "O Tyre, you have said, "I am perfect in beauty.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:4 @ Your borders are in the midst of the seas. Your builders have perfected your beauty.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:5 @ They made all your planks of fir trees from Senir; They took a cedar from Lebanon to make you a mast.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:6 @ Of oaks from Bashan they made your oars; The company of Ashurites have inlaid your planks With ivory from the coasts of Cyprus.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:7 @ Fine embroidered linen from Egypt was what you spread for your sail; Blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah was what covered you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:8 @ "Inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen; Your wise men, O Tyre, were in you; They became your pilots.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:9 @ Elders of Gebal and its wise men Were in you to caulk your seams; All the ships of the sea And their oarsmen were in you To market your merchandise.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:10 @ "Those from Persia, Lydia, and Libya Were in your army as men of war; They hung shield and helmet in you; They gave splendor to you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:11 @ Men of Arvad with your army were on your walls all around, And the men of Gammad were in your towers; They hung their shields on your walls all around; They made your beauty perfect.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:12 @ "Tarshish was your merchant because of your many luxury goods. They gave you silver, iron, tin, and lead for your goods.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:13 @ Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders. They bartered human lives and vessels of bronze for your merchandise.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:14 @ Those from the house of Togarmah traded for your wares with horses, steeds, and mules.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:15 @ The men of Dedan were your traders; many isles were the market of your hand. They brought you ivory tusks and ebony as payment.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:16 @ Syria was your merchant because of the abundance of goods you made. They gave you for your wares emeralds, purple, embroidery, fine linen, corals, and rubies.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:17 @ Judah and the land of Israel were your traders. They traded for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, millet, honey, oil, and balm.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:18 @ Damascus was your merchant because of the abundance of goods you made, because of your many luxury items, with the wine of Helbon and with white wool.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:21 @ Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your regular merchants. They traded with you in lambs, rams, and goats.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:22 @ The merchants of Sheba and Raamah were your merchants. They traded for your wares the choicest spices, all kinds of precious stones, and gold.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:23 @ Haran, Canneh, Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Assyria, and Chilmad were your merchants.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:24 @ These were your merchants in choice items--in purple clothes, in embroidered garments, in chests of multicolored apparel, in sturdy woven cords, which were in your marketplace.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:25 @ "The ships of Tarshish were carriers of your merchandise. You were filled and very glorious in the midst of the seas.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:26 @ Your oarsmen brought you into many waters, But the east wind broke you in the midst of the seas.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:27 @ "Your riches, wares, and merchandise, Your mariners and pilots, Your caulkers and merchandisers, All your men of war who are in you, And the entire company which is in your midst, Will fall into the midst of the seas on the day of your ruin.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:28 @ The common-land will shake at the sound of the cry of your pilots.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:29 @ "All who handle the oar, The mariners, All the pilots of the sea Will come down from their ships and stand on the shore.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:30 @ They will make their voice heard because of you; They will cry bitterly and cast dust on their heads; They will roll about in ashes;

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:31 @ They will shave themselves completely bald because of you, Gird themselves with sackcloth, And weep for you With bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:32 @ In their wailing for you They will take up a lamentation, And lament for you: "What city is like Tyre, Destroyed in the midst of the sea?

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:33 @ "When your wares went out by sea, You satisfied many people; You enriched the kings of the earth With your many luxury goods and your merchandise.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:34 @ But you are broken by the seas in the depths of the waters; Your merchandise and the entire company will fall in your midst.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:35 @ All the inhabitants of the isles will be astonished at you; Their kings will be greatly afraid, And their countenance will be troubled.

nkjv@Ezekiel:27:36 @ The merchants among the peoples will hiss at you; You will become a horror, and be no more forever."""

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:1 @ The word of the LORD came to me again, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:2 @ "Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because your heart is lifted up, And you say, "I am a god, I sit in the seat of gods, In the midst of the seas,' Yet you are a man, and not a god, Though you set your heart as the heart of a god

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:3 @ (Behold, you are wiser than Daniel! There is no secret that can be hidden from you!

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:4 @ With your wisdom and your understanding You have gained riches for yourself, And gathered gold and silver into your treasuries;

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:6 @ "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Because you have set your heart as the heart of a god,

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:7 @ Behold, therefore, I will bring strangers against you, The most terrible of the nations; And they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, And defile your splendor.

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:8 @ They shall throw you down into the Pit, And you shall die the death of the slain In the midst of the seas.

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:9 @ "Will you still say before him who slays you, "I am a god'? But you shall be a man, and not a god, In the hand of him who slays you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:10 @ You shall die the death of the uncircumcised By the hand of aliens; For I have spoken," says the Lord GOD."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:11 @ Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:12 @ "Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, and say to him, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "You were the seal of perfection, Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:13 @ You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every precious stone was your covering: The sardius, topaz, and diamond, Beryl, onyx, and jasper, Sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold. The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes Was prepared for you on the day you were created.

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:14 @ "You were the anointed cherub who covers; I established you; You were on the holy mountain of God; You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones.

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:15 @ You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, Till iniquity was found in you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:16 @ "By the abundance of your trading You became filled with violence within, And you sinned; Therefore I cast you as a profane thing Out of the mountain of God; And I destroyed you, O covering cherub, From the midst of the fiery stones.

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:17 @ "Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor; I cast you to the ground, I laid you before kings, That they might gaze at you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:18 @ "You defiled your sanctuaries By the multitude of your iniquities, By the iniquity of your trading; Therefore I brought fire from your midst; It devoured you, And I turned you to ashes upon the earth In the sight of all who saw you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:19 @ All who knew you among the peoples are astonished at you; You have become a horror, And shall be no more forever.""'

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:20 @ Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:22 @ and say, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I am against you, O Sidon; I will be glorified in your midst; And they shall know that I am the LORD, When I execute judgments in her and am hallowed in her.

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:23 @ For I will send pestilence upon her, And blood in her streets; The wounded shall be judged in her midst By the sword against her on every side; Then they shall know that I am the LORD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:24 @ "And there shall no longer be a pricking brier or a painful thorn for the house of Israel from among all who are around them, who despise them. Then they shall know that I am the Lord GOD."

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:25 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: "When I have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and am hallowed in them in the sight of the Gentiles, then they will dwell in their own land which I gave to My servant Jacob.

nkjv@Ezekiel:28:26 @ And they will dwell safely there, build houses, and plant vineyards; yes, they will dwell securely, when I execute judgments on all those around them who despise them. Then they shall know that I am the LORD their God.""'

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:1 @ In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:3 @ Speak, and say, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies in the midst of his rivers, Who has said, "My River is my own; I have made it for myself.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:4 @ But I will put hooks in your jaws, And cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales; I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, And all the fish in your rivers will stick to your scales.

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:5 @ I will leave you in the wilderness, You and all the fish of your rivers; You shall fall on the open field; You shall not be picked up or gathered. I have given you as food To the beasts of the field And to the birds of the heavens.

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:6 @ "Then all the inhabitants of Egypt Shall know that I am the LORD, Because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:7 @ When they took hold of you with the hand, You broke and tore all their shoulders; When they leaned on you, You broke and made all their backs quiver."

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:8 @ "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Surely I will bring a sword upon you and cut off from you man and beast.

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:9 @ And the land of Egypt shall become desolate and waste; then they will know that I am the LORD, because he said, "The River is mine, and I have made it.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:10 @ Indeed, therefore, I am against you and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Ethiopia.

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:11 @ Neither foot of man shall pass through it nor foot of beast pass through it, and it shall be uninhabited forty years.

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:12 @ I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and among the cities that are laid waste, her cities shall be desolate forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries."

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:13 @ "Yet, thus says the Lord GOD: "At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered.

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:14 @ I will bring back the captives of Egypt and cause them to return to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin, and there they shall be a lowly kingdom.

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:15 @ It shall be the lowliest of kingdoms; it shall never again exalt itself above the nations, for I will diminish them so that they will not rule over the nations anymore.

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:16 @ No longer shall it be the confidence of the house of Israel, but will remind them of their iniquity when they turned to follow them. Then they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.""'

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:17 @ And it came to pass in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:18 @ "Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to labor strenuously against Tyre; every head was made bald, and every shoulder rubbed raw; yet neither he nor his army received wages from Tyre, for the labor which they expended on it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:19 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Surely I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; he shall take away her wealth, carry off her spoil, and remove her pillage; and that will be the wages for his army.

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:20 @ I have given him the land of Egypt for his labor, because they worked for Me,' says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:29:21 @ "In that day I will cause the horn of the house of Israel to spring forth, and I will open your mouth to speak in their midst. Then they shall know that I am the LORD."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:1 @ The word of the LORD came to me again, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:2 @ "Son of man, prophesy and say, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Wail, "Woe to the day!'

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:3 @ For the day is near, Even the day of the LORD is near; It will be a day of clouds, the time of the Gentiles.

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:4 @ The sword shall come upon Egypt, And great anguish shall be in Ethiopia, When the slain fall in Egypt, And they take away her wealth, And her foundations are broken down.

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:5 @ "Ethiopia, Libya, Lydia, all the mingled people, Chub, and the men of the lands who are allied, shall fall with them by the sword."

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:6 @ "Thus says the LORD: "Those who uphold Egypt shall fall, And the pride of her power shall come down. From Migdol to Syene Those within her shall fall by the sword," Says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:7 @ "They shall be desolate in the midst of the desolate countries, And her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are laid waste.

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:8 @ Then they will know that I am the LORD, When I have set a fire in Egypt And all her helpers are destroyed.

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:9 @ On that day messengers shall go forth from Me in ships To make the careless Ethiopians afraid, And great anguish shall come upon them, As on the day of Egypt; For indeed it is coming!"

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:10 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: "I will also make a multitude of Egypt to cease By the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:11 @ He and his people with him, the most terrible of the nations, Shall be brought to destroy the land; They shall draw their swords against Egypt, And fill the land with the slain.

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:12 @ I will make the rivers dry, And sell the land into the hand of the wicked; I will make the land waste, and all that is in it, By the hand of aliens. I, the LORD, have spoken."

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:13 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: "I will also destroy the idols, And cause the images to cease from Noph; There shall no longer be princes from the land of Egypt; I will put fear in the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:15 @ I will pour My fury on Sin, the strength of Egypt; I will cut off the multitude of No,

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:17 @ The young men of Aven and Pi Beseth shall fall by the sword, And these cities shall go into captivity.

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:18 @ At Tehaphnehes the day shall also be darkened, When I break the yokes of Egypt there. And her arrogant strength shall cease in her; As for her, a cloud shall cover her, And her daughters shall go into captivity.

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:19 @ Thus I will execute judgments on Egypt, Then they shall know that I am the LORD.""'

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:20 @ And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:21 @ "Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and see, it has not been bandaged for healing, nor a splint put on to bind it, to make it strong enough to hold a sword.

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:22 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Surely I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, both the strong one and the one that was broken; and I will make the sword fall out of his hand.

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:23 @ I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them throughout the countries.

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:24 @ I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put My sword in his hand; but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he will groan before him with the groanings of a mortally wounded man.

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:25 @ Thus I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; they shall know that I am the LORD, when I put My sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt.

nkjv@Ezekiel:30:26 @ I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they shall know that I am the LORD."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:31:1 @ Now it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:31:3 @ Indeed Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, With fine branches that shaded the forest, And of high stature; And its top was among the thick boughs.

nkjv@Ezekiel:31:4 @ The waters made it grow; Underground waters gave it height, With their rivers running around the place where it was planted, And sent out rivulets to all the trees of the field.

nkjv@Ezekiel:31:5 @ "Therefore its height was exalted above all the trees of the field; Its boughs were multiplied, And its branches became long because of the abundance of water, As it sent them out.

nkjv@Ezekiel:31:6 @ All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; Under its branches all the beasts of the field brought forth their young; And in its shadow all great nations made their home.

nkjv@Ezekiel:31:7 @ "Thus it was beautiful in greatness and in the length of its branches, Because its roots reached to abundant waters.

nkjv@Ezekiel:31:8 @ The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; The fir trees were not like its boughs, And the chestnut trees were not like its branches; No tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty.

nkjv@Ezekiel:31:9 @ I made it beautiful with a multitude of branches, So that all the trees of Eden envied it, That were in the garden of God.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:31:10 @ "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Because you have increased in height, and it set its top among the thick boughs, and its heart was lifted up in its height,

nkjv@Ezekiel:31:11 @ therefore I will deliver it into the hand of the mighty one of the nations, and he shall surely deal with it; I have driven it out for its wickedness.

nkjv@Ezekiel:31:12 @ And aliens, the most terrible of the nations, have cut it down and left it; its branches have fallen on the mountains and in all the valleys; its boughs lie broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the peoples of the earth have gone from under its shadow and left it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:31:13 @ "On its ruin will remain all the birds of the heavens, And all the beasts of the field will come to its branches--

nkjv@Ezekiel:31:14 @ "So that no trees by the waters may ever again exalt themselves for their height, nor set their tops among the thick boughs, that no tree which drinks water may ever be high enough to reach up to them. "For they have all been delivered to death, To the depths of the earth, Among the children of men who go down to the Pit.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:31:15 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: "In the day when it went down to hell, I caused mourning. I covered the deep because of it. I restrained its rivers, and the great waters were held back. I caused Lebanon to mourn for it, and all the trees of the field wilted because of it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:31:16 @ I made the nations shake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to hell together with those who descend into the Pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the depths of the earth.

nkjv@Ezekiel:31:17 @ They also went down to hell with it, with those slain by the sword; and those who were its strong arm dwelt in its shadows among the nations.

nkjv@Ezekiel:31:18 @ "To which of the trees in Eden will you then be likened in glory and greatness? Yet you shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the depths of the earth; you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,' says the Lord GOD."

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:1 @ And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:2 @ "Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him: "You are like a young lion among the nations, And you are like a monster in the seas, Bursting forth in your rivers, Troubling the waters with your feet, And fouling their rivers.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:3 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: "I will therefore spread My net over you with a company of many people, And they will draw you up in My net.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:4 @ Then I will leave you on the land; I will cast you out on the open fields, And cause to settle on you all the birds of the heavens. And with you I will fill the beasts of the whole earth.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:5 @ I will lay your flesh on the mountains, And fill the valleys with your carcass.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:6 @ "I will also water the land with the flow of your blood, Even to the mountains; And the riverbeds will be full of you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:7 @ When I put out your light, I will cover the heavens, and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, And the moon shall not give her light.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:8 @ All the bright lights of the heavens I will make dark over you, And bring darkness upon your land,' Says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:9 @ "I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:10 @ Yes, I will make many peoples astonished at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid of you when I brandish My sword before them; and they shall tremble every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:11 @ "For thus says the Lord GOD: "The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:12 @ By the swords of the mighty warriors, all of them the most terrible of the nations, I will cause your multitude to fall. "They shall plunder the pomp of Egypt, And all its multitude shall be destroyed.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:13 @ Also I will destroy all its animals From beside its great waters; The foot of man shall muddy them no more, Nor shall the hooves of animals muddy them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:14 @ Then I will make their waters clear, And make their rivers run like oil,' Says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:15 @ "When I make the land of Egypt desolate, And the country is destitute of all that once filled it, When I strike all who dwell in it, Then they shall know that I am the LORD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:16 @ "This is the lamentation With which they shall lament her; The daughters of the nations shall lament her; They shall lament for her, for Egypt, And for all her multitude,' Says the Lord GOD."

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:17 @ It came to pass also in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:18 @ "Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt, And cast them down to the depths of the earth, Her and the daughters of the famous nations, With those who go down to the Pit:

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:19 @ "Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down, be placed with the uncircumcised.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:20 @ "They shall fall in the midst of those slain by the sword; She is delivered to the sword, Drawing her and all her multitudes.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:21 @ The strong among the mighty Shall speak to him out of the midst of hell With those who help him: "They have gone down, They lie with the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:22 @ "Assyria is there, and all her company, With their graves all around her, All of them slain, fallen by the sword.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:23 @ Her graves are set in the recesses of the Pit, And her company is all around her grave, All of them slain, fallen by the sword, Who caused terror in the land of the living.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:24 @ "There is Elam and all her multitude, All around her grave, All of them slain, fallen by the sword, Who have gone down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the earth, Who caused their terror in the land of the living; Now they bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:25 @ They have set her bed in the midst of the slain, With all her multitude, With her graves all around it, All of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; Though their terror was caused In the land of the living, Yet they bear their shame With those who go down to the Pit; It was put in the midst of the slain.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:26 @ "There are Meshech and Tubal and all their multitudes, With all their graves around it, All of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, Though they caused their terror in the land of the living.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:27 @ They do not lie with the mighty Who are fallen of the uncircumcised, Who have gone down to hell with their weapons of war; They have laid their swords under their heads, But their iniquities will be on their bones, Because of the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:28 @ Yes, you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, And lie with those slain by the sword.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:29 @ "There is Edom, Her kings and all her princes, Who despite their might Are laid beside those slain by the sword; They shall lie with the uncircumcised, And with those who go down to the Pit.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:30 @ There are the princes of the north, All of them, and all the Sidonians, Who have gone down with the slain In shame at the terror which they caused by their might; They lie uncircumcised with those slain by the sword, And bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:31 @ "Pharaoh will see them And be comforted over all his multitude, Pharaoh and all his army, Slain by the sword," Says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:32:32 @ "For I have caused My terror in the land of the living; And he shall be placed in the midst of the uncircumcised With those slain by the sword, Pharaoh and all his multitude," Says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:1 @ Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:2 @ "Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and say to them: "When I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from their territory and make him their watchman,

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:3 @ when he sees the sword coming upon the land, if he blows the trumpet and warns the people,

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:4 @ then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, if the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be on his own head.

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:5 @ He heard the sound of the trumpet, but did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But he who takes warning will save his life.

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:6 @ But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at the watchman's hand.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:7 @ "So you, son of man: I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore you shall hear a word from My mouth and warn them for Me.

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:8 @ When I say to the wicked, "O wicked man, you shall surely die!' and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand.

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:9 @ Nevertheless if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:10 @ "Therefore you, O son of man, say to the house of Israel: "Thus you say, "If our transgressions and our sins lie upon us, and we pine away in them, how can we then live?"'

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:11 @ Say to them: "As I live,' says the Lord GOD, "I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?'

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:12 @ "Therefore you, O son of man, say to the children of your people: "The righteousness of the righteous man shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression; as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall because of it in the day that he turns from his wickedness; nor shall the righteous be able to live because of his righteousness in the day that he sins.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:13 @ When I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, but he trusts in his own righteousness and commits iniquity, none of his righteous works shall be remembered; but because of the iniquity that he has committed, he shall die.

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:14 @ Again, when I say to the wicked, "You shall surely die,' if he turns from his sin and does what is lawful and right,

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:15 @ if the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life without committing iniquity, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:17 @ "Yet the children of your people say, "The way of the LORD is not fair.' But it is their way which is not fair!

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:18 @ When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he shall die because of it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:19 @ But when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is lawful and right, he shall live because of it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:20 @ Yet you say, "The way of the LORD is not fair.' O house of Israel, I will judge every one of you according to his own ways."

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:21 @ And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, that one who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me and said, "The city has been captured!"

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:22 @ Now the hand of the LORD had been upon me the evening before the man came who had escaped. And He had opened my mouth; so when he came to me in the morning, my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:23 @ Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:24 @ "Son of man, they who inhabit those ruins in the land of Israel are saying, "Abraham was only one, and he inherited the land. But we are many; the land has been given to us as a possession.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:25 @ "Therefore say to them, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "You eat meat with blood, you lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land?

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:26 @ You rely on your sword, you commit abominations, and you defile one another's wives. Should you then possess the land?"'

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:27 @ "Say thus to them, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "As I live, surely those who are in the ruins shall fall by the sword, and the one who is in the open field I will give to the beasts to be devoured, and those who are in the strongholds and caves shall die of the pestilence.

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:28 @ For I will make the land most desolate, her arrogant strength shall cease, and the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that no one will pass through.

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:29 @ Then they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:30 @ "As for you, son of man, the children of your people are talking about you beside the walls and in the doors of the houses; and they speak to one another, everyone saying to his brother, "Please come and hear what the word is that comes from the LORD.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:31 @ So they come to you as people do, they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words, but they do not do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their hearts pursue their own gain.

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:32 @ Indeed you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they do not do them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:33:33 @ And when this comes to pass--surely it will come--then they will know that a prophet has been among them."

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:1 @ And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:2 @ "Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy and say to them, "Thus says the Lord GOD to the shepherds: "Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flocks?

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:3 @ You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool; you slaughter the fatlings, but you do not feed the flock.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:4 @ The weak you have not strengthened, nor have you healed those who were sick, nor bound up the broken, nor brought back what was driven away, nor sought what was lost; but with force and cruelty you have ruled them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:5 @ So they were scattered because there was no shepherd; and they became food for all the beasts of the field when they were scattered.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:6 @ My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill; yes, My flock was scattered over the whole face of the earth, and no one was seeking or searching for them."

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:7 @ "Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:8 @ "As I live," says the Lord GOD, "surely because My flock became a prey, and My flock became food for every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, nor did My shepherds search for My flock, but the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock"--

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:9 @ therefore, O shepherds, hear the word of the LORD!

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:10 @ Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require My flock at their hand; I will cause them to cease feeding the sheep, and the shepherds shall feed themselves no more; for I will deliver My flock from their mouths, that they may no longer be food for them."

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:11 @ "For thus says the Lord GOD: "Indeed I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:12 @ As a shepherd seeks out his flock on the day he is among his scattered sheep, so will I seek out My sheep and deliver them from all the places where they were scattered on a cloudy and dark day.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:13 @ And I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land; I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, in the valleys and in all the inhabited places of the country.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:14 @ I will feed them in good pasture, and their fold shall be on the high mountains of Israel. There they shall lie down in a good fold and feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:15 @ I will feed My flock, and I will make them lie down," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:16 @ "I will seek what was lost and bring back what was driven away, bind up the broken and strengthen what was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong, and feed them in judgment."

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:17 @ "And as for you, O My flock, thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I shall judge between sheep and sheep, between rams and goats.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:18 @ Is it too little for you to have eaten up the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture--and to have drunk of the clear waters, that you must foul the residue with your feet?

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:19 @ And as for My flock, they eat what you have trampled with your feet, and they drink what you have fouled with your feet."

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:20 @ "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD to them: "Behold, I Myself will judge between the fat and the lean sheep.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:21 @ Because you have pushed with side and shoulder, butted all the weak ones with your horns, and scattered them abroad,

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:22 @ therefore I will save My flock, and they shall no longer be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:23 @ I will establish one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them--My servant David. He shall feed them and be their shepherd.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:24 @ And I, the LORD, will be their God, and My servant David a prince among them; I, the LORD, have spoken.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:25 @ "I will make a covenant of peace with them, and cause wild beasts to cease from the land; and they will dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:26 @ I will make them and the places all around My hill a blessing; and I will cause showers to come down in their season; there shall be showers of blessing.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:27 @ Then the trees of the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase. They shall be safe in their land; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke and delivered them from the hand of those who enslaved them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:28 @ And they shall no longer be a prey for the nations, nor shall beasts of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and no one shall make them afraid.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:29 @ I will raise up for them a garden of renown, and they shall no longer be consumed with hunger in the land, nor bear the shame of the Gentiles anymore.

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:30 @ Thus they shall know that I, the LORD their God, am with them, and they, the house of Israel, are My people," says the Lord GOD."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:34:31 @ "You are My flock, the flock of My pasture; you are men, and I am your God," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:35:1 @ Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:35:3 @ and say to it, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, O Mount Seir, I am against you; I will stretch out My hand against you, And make you most desolate;

nkjv@Ezekiel:35:4 @ I shall lay your cities waste, And you shall be desolate. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:35:5 @ "Because you have had an ancient hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, when their iniquity came to an end,

nkjv@Ezekiel:35:6 @ therefore, as I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:35:7 @ Thus I will make Mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it the one who leaves and the one who returns.

nkjv@Ezekiel:35:8 @ And I will fill its mountains with the slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those who are slain by the sword shall fall.

nkjv@Ezekiel:35:9 @ I will make you perpetually desolate, and your cities shall be uninhabited; then you shall know that I am the LORD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:35:10 @ "Because you have said, "These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess them,' although the LORD was there,

nkjv@Ezekiel:35:11 @ therefore, as I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will do according to your anger and according to the envy which you showed in your hatred against them; and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:35:12 @ Then you shall know that I am the LORD. I have heard all your blasphemies which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, "They are desolate; they are given to us to consume.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:35:13 @ Thus with your mouth you have boasted against Me and multiplied your words against Me; I have heard them."

nkjv@Ezekiel:35:14 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: "The whole earth will rejoice when I make you desolate.

nkjv@Ezekiel:35:15 @ As you rejoiced because the inheritance of the house of Israel was desolate, so I will do to you; you shall be desolate, O Mount Seir, as well as all of Edom--all of it! Then they shall know that I am the LORD."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:1 @ "And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, "O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD!

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:2 @ Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because the enemy has said of you, "Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession,""

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:3 @ therefore prophesy, and say, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because they made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you are taken up by the lips of talkers and slandered by the people"--

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:4 @ therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, the hills, the rivers, the valleys, the desolate wastes, and the cities that have been forsaken, which became plunder and mockery to the rest of the nations all around--

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:5 @ therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Surely I have spoken in My burning jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave My land to themselves as a possession, with wholehearted joy and spiteful minds, in order to plunder its open country."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:6 @ "Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains, the hills, the rivers, and the valleys, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and My fury, because you have borne the shame of the nations."

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:7 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "I have raised My hand in an oath that surely the nations that are around you shall bear their own shame.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:8 @ But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to My people Israel, for they are about to come.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:10 @ I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:11 @ I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bear young; I will make you inhabited as in former times, and do better for you than at your beginnings. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:12 @ Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, My people Israel; they shall take possession of you, and you shall be their inheritance; no more shall you bereave them of children."

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:13 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because they say to you, "You devour men and bereave your nation of children,'

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:14 @ therefore you shall devour men no more, nor bereave your nation anymore," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:15 @ Nor will I let you hear the taunts of the nations anymore, nor bear the reproach of the peoples anymore, nor shall you cause your nation to stumble anymore," says the Lord GOD."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:16 @ Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:17 @ "Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own ways and deeds; to Me their way was like the uncleanness of a woman in her customary impurity.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:18 @ Therefore I poured out My fury on them for the blood they had shed on the land, and for their idols with which they had defiled it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:19 @ So I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed throughout the countries; I judged them according to their ways and their deeds.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:20 @ When they came to the nations, wherever they went, they profaned My holy name--when they said of them, "These are the people of the LORD, and yet they have gone out of His land.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:21 @ But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations wherever they went.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:22 @ "Therefore say to the house of Israel, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "I do not do this for your sake, O house of Israel, but for My holy name's sake, which you have profaned among the nations wherever you went.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:23 @ And I will sanctify My great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst; and the nations shall know that I am the LORD," says the Lord GOD, "when I am hallowed in you before their eyes.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:24 @ For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:25 @ Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:26 @ I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:27 @ I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:28 @ Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:29 @ I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses. I will call for the grain and multiply it, and bring no famine upon you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:30 @ And I will multiply the fruit of your trees and the increase of your fields, so that you need never again bear the reproach of famine among the nations.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:31 @ Then you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight, for your iniquities and your abominations.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:32 @ Not for your sake do I do this," says the Lord GOD, "let it be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel!"

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:33 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: "On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will also enable you to dwell in the cities, and the ruins shall be rebuilt.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:34 @ The desolate land shall be tilled instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass by.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:35 @ So they will say, "This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden; and the wasted, desolate, and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:36 @ Then the nations which are left all around you shall know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt the ruined places and planted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken it, and I will do it."

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:37 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: "I will also let the house of Israel inquire of Me to do this for them: I will increase their men like a flock.

nkjv@Ezekiel:36:38 @ Like a flock offered as holy sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem on its feast days, so shall the ruined cities be filled with flocks of men. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.""'

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:1 @ The hand of the LORD came upon me and brought me out in the Spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones.

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:2 @ Then He caused me to pass by them all around, and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and indeed they were very dry.

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:3 @ And He said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" So I answered, "O Lord GOD, You know."

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:4 @ Again He said to me, "Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, "O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD!

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:5 @ Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: "Surely I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:6 @ I will put sinews on you and bring flesh upon you, cover you with skin and put breath in you; and you shall live. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.""'

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:7 @ So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and suddenly a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to bone.

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:8 @ Indeed, as I looked, the sinews and the flesh came upon them, and the skin covered them over; but there was no breath in them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:9 @ Also He said to me, "Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.""'

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:10 @ So I prophesied as He commanded me, and breath came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an exceedingly great army.

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:11 @ Then He said to me, "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They indeed say, "Our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off!'

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:12 @ Therefore prophesy and say to them, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:13 @ Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O My people, and brought you up from your graves.

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:14 @ I will put My Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken it and performed it," says the LORD."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:15 @ Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:16 @ "As for you, son of man, take a stick for yourself and write on it: "For Judah and for the children of Israel, his companions.' Then take another stick and write on it, "For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel, his companions.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:17 @ Then join them one to another for yourself into one stick, and they will become one in your hand.

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:18 @ "And when the children of your people speak to you, saying, "Will you not show us what you mean by these?'--

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:19 @ say to them, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Surely I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will join them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in My hand."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:20 @ And the sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:21 @ "Then say to them, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Surely I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, wherever they have gone, and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land;

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:22 @ and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king over them all; they shall no longer be two nations, nor shall they ever be divided into two kingdoms again.

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:23 @ They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. Then they shall be My people, and I will be their God.

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:24 @ "David My servant shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd; they shall also walk in My judgments and observe My statutes, and do them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:25 @ Then they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob My servant, where your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell there, they, their children, and their children's children, forever; and My servant David shall be their prince forever.

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:26 @ Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them, and it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary in their midst forevermore.

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:27 @ My tabernacle also shall be with them; indeed I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

nkjv@Ezekiel:37:28 @ The nations also will know that I, the LORD, sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.""'

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:1 @ Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:2 @ "Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him,

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:3 @ and say, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:4 @ I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and lead you out, with all your army, horses, and horsemen, all splendidly clothed, a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords.

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:5 @ Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya are with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:6 @ Gomer and all its troops; the house of Togarmah from the far north and all its troops--many people are with you.

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:7 @ "Prepare yourself and be ready, you and all your companies that are gathered about you; and be a guard for them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:8 @ After many days you will be visited. In the latter years you will come into the land of those brought back from the sword and gathered from many people on the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate; they were brought out of the nations, and now all of them dwell safely.

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:9 @ You will ascend, coming like a storm, covering the land like a cloud, you and all your troops and many peoples with you."

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:10 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: "On that day it shall come to pass that thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will make an evil plan:

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:11 @ You will say, "I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will go to a peaceful people, who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates'--

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:12 @ to take plunder and to take booty, to stretch out your hand against the waste places that are again inhabited, and against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land.

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:13 @ Sheba, Dedan, the merchants of Tarshish, and all their young lions will say to you, "Have you come to take plunder? Have you gathered your army to take booty, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?""

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:14 @ "Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "On that day when My people Israel dwell safely, will you not know it?

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:15 @ Then you will come from your place out of the far north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army.

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:16 @ You will come up against My people Israel like a cloud, to cover the land. It will be in the latter days that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me, when I am hallowed in you, O Gog, before their eyes."

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:17 @ Thus says the Lord GOD: "Are you he of whom I have spoken in former days by My servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied for years in those days that I would bring you against them?

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:18 @ "And it will come to pass at the same time, when Gog comes against the land of Israel," says the Lord GOD, "that My fury will show in My face.

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:19 @ For in My jealousy and in the fire of My wrath I have spoken: "Surely in that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel,

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:20 @ so that the fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the beasts of the field, all creeping things that creep on the earth, and all men who are on the face of the earth shall shake at My presence. The mountains shall be thrown down, the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.'

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:21 @ I will call for a sword against Gog throughout all My mountains," says the Lord GOD. "Every man's sword will be against his brother.

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:22 @ And I will bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed; I will rain down on him, on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, flooding rain, great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

nkjv@Ezekiel:38:23 @ Thus I will magnify Myself and sanctify Myself, and I will be known in the eyes of many nations. Then they shall know that I am the LORD."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:1 @ "And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal;

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:2 @ and I will turn you around and lead you on, bringing you up from the far north, and bring you against the mountains of Israel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:3 @ Then I will knock the bow out of your left hand, and cause the arrows to fall out of your right hand.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:4 @ You shall fall upon the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:5 @ You shall fall on the open field; for I have spoken," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:6 @ "And I will send fire on Magog and on those who live in security in the coastlands. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:7 @ So I will make My holy name known in the midst of My people Israel, and I will not let them profane My holy name anymore. Then the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:8 @ Surely it is coming, and it shall be done," says the Lord GOD. "This is the day of which I have spoken.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:9 @ "Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and bucklers, the bows and arrows, the javelins and spears; and they will make fires with them for seven years.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:10 @ They will not take wood from the field nor cut down any from the forests, because they will make fires with the weapons; and they will plunder those who plundered them, and pillage those who pillaged them," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:11 @ "It will come to pass in that day that I will give Gog a burial place there in Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea; and it will obstruct travelers, because there they will bury Gog and all his multitude. Therefore they will call it the Valley of Hamon Gog.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:12 @ For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, in order to cleanse the land.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:13 @ Indeed all the people of the land will be burying, and they will gain renown for it on the day that I am glorified," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:14 @ "They will set apart men regularly employed, with the help of a search party, to pass through the land and bury those bodies remaining on the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:15 @ The search party will pass through the land; and when anyone sees a man's bone, he shall set up a marker by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon Gog.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:16 @ The name of the city will also be Hamonah. Thus they shall cleanse the land."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:17 @ "And as for you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD, "Speak to every sort of bird and to every beast of the field: "Assemble yourselves and come; Gather together from all sides to My sacrificial meal Which I am sacrificing for you, A great sacrificial meal on the mountains of Israel, That you may eat flesh and drink blood.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:18 @ You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, Drink the blood of the princes of the earth, Of rams and lambs, Of goats and bulls, All of them fatlings of Bashan.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:20 @ You shall be filled at My table With horses and riders, With mighty men And with all the men of war," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:21 @ "I will set My glory among the nations; all the nations shall see My judgment which I have executed, and My hand which I have laid on them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:22 @ So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day forward.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:23 @ The Gentiles shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they were unfaithful to Me, therefore I hid My face from them. I gave them into the hand of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:24 @ According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I have dealt with them, and hidden My face from them."'

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:25 @ "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Now I will bring back the captives of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for My holy name--

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:26 @ after they have borne their shame, and all their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, when they dwelt safely in their own land and no one made them afraid.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:27 @ When I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and I am hallowed in them in the sight of many nations,

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:28 @ then they shall know that I am the LORD their God, who sent them into captivity among the nations, but also brought them back to their land, and left none of them captive any longer.

nkjv@Ezekiel:39:29 @ And I will not hide My face from them anymore; for I shall have poured out My Spirit on the house of Israel,' says the Lord GOD."

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:1 @ In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was captured, on the very same day the hand of the LORD was upon me; and He took me there.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:2 @ In the visions of God He took me into the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain; on it toward the south was something like the structure of a city.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:3 @ He took me there, and behold, there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze. He had a line of flax and a measuring rod in his hand, and he stood in the gateway.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:4 @ And the man said to me, "Son of man, look with your eyes and hear with your ears, and fix your mind on everything I show you; for you were brought here so that I might show them to you. Declare to the house of Israel everything you see."

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:5 @ Now there was a wall all around the outside of the temple. In the man's hand was a measuring rod six cubits long, each being a cubit and a handbreadth; and he measured the width of the wall structure, one rod; and the height, one rod.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:6 @ Then he went to the gateway which faced east; and he went up its stairs and measured the threshold of the gateway, which was one rod wide, and the other threshold was one rod wide.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:7 @ Each gate chamber was one rod long and one rod wide; between the gate chambers was a space of five cubits; and the threshold of the gateway by the vestibule of the inside gate was one rod.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:8 @ He also measured the vestibule of the inside gate, one rod.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:9 @ Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, eight cubits; and the gateposts, two cubits. The vestibule of the gate was on the inside.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:10 @ In the eastern gateway were three gate chambers on one side and three on the other; the three were all the same size; also the gateposts were of the same size on this side and that side.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:11 @ He measured the width of the entrance to the gateway, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:12 @ There was a space in front of the gate chambers, one cubit on this side and one cubit on that side; the gate chambers were six cubits on this side and six cubits on that side.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:13 @ Then he measured the gateway from the roof of one gate chamber to the roof of the other; the width was twenty-five cubits, as door faces door.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:14 @ He measured the gateposts, sixty cubits high, and the court all around the gateway extended to the gatepost.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:15 @ From the front of the entrance gate to the front of the vestibule of the inner gate was fifty cubits.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:16 @ There were beveled window frames in the gate chambers and in their intervening archways on the inside of the gateway all around, and likewise in the vestibules. There were windows all around on the inside. And on each gatepost were palm trees.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:17 @ Then he brought me into the outer court; and there were chambers and a pavement made all around the court; thirty chambers faced the pavement.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:18 @ The pavement was by the side of the gateways, corresponding to the length of the gateways; this was the lower pavement.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:19 @ Then he measured the width from the front of the lower gateway to the front of the inner court exterior, one hundred cubits toward the east and the north.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:20 @ On the outer court was also a gateway facing north, and he measured its length and its width.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:21 @ Its gate chambers, three on this side and three on that side, its gateposts and its archways, had the same measurements as the first gate; its length was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:22 @ Its windows and those of its archways, and also its palm trees, had the same measurements as the gateway facing east; it was ascended by seven steps, and its archway was in front of it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:23 @ A gate of the inner court was opposite the northern gateway, just as the eastern gateway; and he measured from gateway to gateway, one hundred cubits.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:24 @ After that he brought me toward the south, and there a gateway was facing south; and he measured its gateposts and archways according to these same measurements.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:25 @ There were windows in it and in its archways all around like those windows; its length was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:26 @ Seven steps led up to it, and its archway was in front of them; and it had palm trees on its gateposts, one on this side and one on that side.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:27 @ There was also a gateway on the inner court, facing south; and he measured from gateway to gateway toward the south, one hundred cubits.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:28 @ Then he brought me to the inner court through the southern gateway; he measured the southern gateway according to these same measurements.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:29 @ Also its gate chambers, its gateposts, and its archways were according to these same measurements; there were windows in it and in its archways all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:30 @ There were archways all around, twenty-five cubits long and five cubits wide.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:31 @ Its archways faced the outer court, palm trees were on its gateposts, and going up to it were eight steps.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:32 @ And he brought me into the inner court facing east; he measured the gateway according to these same measurements.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:33 @ Also its gate chambers, its gateposts, and its archways were according to these same measurements; and there were windows in it and in its archways all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:34 @ Its archways faced the outer court, and palm trees were on its gateposts on this side and on that side; and going up to it were eight steps.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:35 @ Then he brought me to the north gateway and measured it according to these same measurements--

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:37 @ Its gateposts faced the outer court, palm trees were on its gateposts on this side and on that side, and going up to it were eight steps.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:38 @ There was a chamber and its entrance by the gateposts of the gateway, where they washed the burnt offering.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:39 @ In the vestibule of the gateway were two tables on this side and two tables on that side, on which to slay the burnt offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:40 @ At the outer side of the vestibule, as one goes up to the entrance of the northern gateway, were two tables; and on the other side of the vestibule of the gateway were two tables.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:41 @ Four tables were on this side and four tables on that side, by the side of the gateway, eight tables on which they slaughtered the sacrifices.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:42 @ There were also four tables of hewn stone for the burnt offering, one cubit and a half long, one cubit and a half wide, and one cubit high; on these they laid the instruments with which they slaughtered the burnt offering and the sacrifice.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:43 @ Inside were hooks, a handbreadth wide, fastened all around; and the flesh of the sacrifices was on the tables.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:44 @ Outside the inner gate were the chambers for the singers in the inner court, one facing south at the side of the northern gateway, and the other facing north at the side of the southern gateway.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:45 @ Then he said to me, "This chamber which faces south is for the priests who have charge of the temple.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:46 @ The chamber which faces north is for the priests who have charge of the altar; these are the sons of Zadok, from the sons of Levi, who come near the LORD to minister to Him."

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:47 @ And he measured the court, one hundred cubits long and one hundred cubits wide, foursquare. The altar was in front of the temple.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:48 @ Then he brought me to the vestibule of the temple and measured the doorposts of the vestibule, five cubits on this side and five cubits on that side; and the width of the gateway was three cubits on this side and three cubits on that side.

nkjv@Ezekiel:40:49 @ The length of the vestibule was twenty cubits, and the width eleven cubits; and by the steps which led up to it there were pillars by the doorposts, one on this side and another on that side.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:1 @ Then he brought me into the sanctuary and measured the doorposts, six cubits wide on one side and six cubits wide on the other side--the width of the tabernacle.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:2 @ The width of the entryway was ten cubits, and the side walls of the entrance were five cubits on this side and five cubits on the other side; and he measured its length, forty cubits, and its width, twenty cubits.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:3 @ Also he went inside and measured the doorposts, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits high; and the width of the entrance, seven cubits.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:4 @ He measured the length, twenty cubits; and the width, twenty cubits, beyond the sanctuary; and he said to me, "This is the Most Holy Place."

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:5 @ Next, he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits. The width of each side chamber all around the temple was four cubits on every side.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:6 @ The side chambers were in three stories, one above the other, thirty chambers in each story; they rested on ledges which were for the side chambers all around, that they might be supported, but not fastened to the wall of the temple.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:7 @ As one went up from story to story, the side chambers became wider all around, because their supporting ledges in the wall of the temple ascended like steps; therefore the width of the structure increased as one went up from the lowest story to the highest by way of the middle one.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:8 @ I also saw an elevation all around the temple; it was the foundation of the side chambers, a full rod, that is, six cubits high.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:9 @ The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits, and so also the remaining terrace by the place of the side chambers of the temple.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:10 @ And between it and the wall chambers was a width of twenty cubits all around the temple on every side.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:11 @ The doors of the side chambers opened on the terrace, one door toward the north and another toward the south; and the width of the terrace was five cubits all around.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:12 @ The building that faced the separating courtyard at its western end was seventy cubits wide; the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:13 @ So he measured the temple, one hundred cubits long; and the separating courtyard with the building and its walls was one hundred cubits long;

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:14 @ also the width of the eastern face of the temple, including the separating courtyard, was one hundred cubits.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:15 @ He measured the length of the building behind it, facing the separating courtyard, with its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits, as well as the inner temple and the porches of the court,

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:16 @ their doorposts and the beveled window frames. And the galleries all around their three stories opposite the threshold were paneled with wood from the ground to the windows--the windows were covered--

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:17 @ from the space above the door, even to the inner room, as well as outside, and on every wall all around, inside and outside, by measure.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:19 @ so that the face of a man was toward a palm tree on one side, and the face of a young lion toward a palm tree on the other side; thus it was made throughout the temple all around.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:20 @ From the floor to the space above the door, and on the wall of the sanctuary, cherubim and palm trees were carved.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:21 @ The doorposts of the temple were square, as was the front of the sanctuary; their appearance was similar.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:22 @ The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits. Its corners, its length, and its sides were of wood; and he said to me, "This is the table that is before the LORD."

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:23 @ The temple and the sanctuary had two doors.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:24 @ The doors had two panels apiece, two folding panels: two panels for one door and two panels for the other door.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:25 @ Cherubim and palm trees were carved on the doors of the temple just as they were carved on the walls. A wooden canopy was on the front of the vestibule outside.

nkjv@Ezekiel:41:26 @ There were beveled window frames and palm trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the vestibule--also on the side chambers of the temple and on the canopies.

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:1 @ Then he brought me out into the outer court, by the way toward the north; and he brought me into the chamber which was opposite the separating courtyard, and which was opposite the building toward the north.

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:2 @ Facing the length, which was one hundred cubits (the width was fifty cubits), was the north door.

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:3 @ Opposite the inner court of twenty cubits, and opposite the pavement of the outer court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:4 @ In front of the chambers, toward the inside, was a walk ten cubits wide, at a distance of one cubit; and their doors faced north.

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:5 @ Now the upper chambers were shorter, because the galleries took away space from them more than from the lower and middle stories of the building.

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:6 @ For they were in three stories and did not have pillars like the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper level was shortened more than the lower and middle levels from the ground up.

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:7 @ And a wall which was outside ran parallel to the chambers, at the front of the chambers, toward the outer court; its length was fifty cubits.

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:8 @ The length of the chambers toward the outer court was fifty cubits, whereas that facing the temple was one hundred cubits.

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:9 @ At the lower chambers was the entrance on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer court.

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:10 @ Also there were chambers in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, opposite the separating courtyard and opposite the building.

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:11 @ There was a walk in front of them also, and their appearance was like the chambers which were toward the north; they were as long and as wide as the others, and all their exits and entrances were according to plan.

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:12 @ And corresponding to the doors of the chambers that were facing south, as one enters them, there was a door in front of the walk, the way directly in front of the wall toward the east.

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:13 @ Then he said to me, "The north chambers and the south chambers, which are opposite the separating courtyard, are the holy chambers where the priests who approach the LORD shall eat the most holy offerings. There they shall lay the most holy offerings--the grain offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering--for the place is holy.

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:14 @ When the priests enter them, they shall not go out of the holy chamber into the outer court; but there they shall leave their garments in which they minister, for they are holy. They shall put on other garments; then they may approach that which is for the people."

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:15 @ Now when he had finished measuring the inner temple, he brought me out through the gateway that faces toward the east, and measured it all around.

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:16 @ He measured the east side with the measuring rod, five hundred rods by the measuring rod all around.

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:17 @ He measured the north side, five hundred rods by the measuring rod all around.

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:18 @ He measured the south side, five hundred rods by the measuring rod.

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:19 @ He came around to the west side and measured five hundred rods by the measuring rod.

nkjv@Ezekiel:42:20 @ He measured it on the four sides; it had a wall all around, five hundred cubits long and five hundred wide, to separate the holy areas from the common.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:1 @ Afterward he brought me to the gate, the gate that faces toward the east.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:2 @ And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east. His voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shone with His glory.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:3 @ It was like the appearance of the vision which I saw--like the vision which I saw when I came to destroy the city. The visions were like the vision which I saw by the River Chebar; and I fell on my face.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:4 @ And the glory of the LORD came into the temple by way of the gate which faces toward the east.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:5 @ The Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the temple.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:6 @ Then I heard Him speaking to me from the temple, while a man stood beside me.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:7 @ And He said to me, "Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever. No more shall the house of Israel defile My holy name, they nor their kings, by their harlotry or with the carcasses of their kings on their high places.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:8 @ When they set their threshold by My threshold, and their doorpost by My doorpost, with a wall between them and Me, they defiled My holy name by the abominations which they committed; therefore I have consumed them in My anger.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:9 @ Now let them put their harlotry and the carcasses of their kings far away from Me, and I will dwell in their midst forever.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:10 @ "Son of man, describe the temple to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:11 @ And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the temple and its arrangement, its exits and its entrances, its entire design and all its ordinances, all its forms and all its laws. Write it down in their sight, so that they may keep its whole design and all its ordinances, and perform them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:12 @ This is the law of the temple: The whole area surrounding the mountaintop is most holy. Behold, this is the law of the temple.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:13 @ "These are the measurements of the altar in cubits (the cubit is one cubit and a handbreadth): the base one cubit high and one cubit wide, with a rim all around its edge of one span. This is the height of the altar:

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:14 @ from the base on the ground to the lower ledge, two cubits; the width of the ledge, one cubit; from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge, four cubits; and the width of the ledge, one cubit.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:15 @ The altar hearth is four cubits high, with four horns extending upward from the hearth.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:16 @ The altar hearth is twelve cubits long, twelve wide, square at its four corners;

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:17 @ the ledge, fourteen cubits long and fourteen wide on its four sides, with a rim of half a cubit around it; its base, one cubit all around; and its steps face toward the east."

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:18 @ And He said to me, "Son of man, thus says the Lord GOD: "These are the ordinances for the altar on the day when it is made, for sacrificing burnt offerings on it, and for sprinkling blood on it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:19 @ You shall give a young bull for a sin offering to the priests, the Levites, who are of the seed of Zadok, who approach Me to minister to Me,' says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:20 @ You shall take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge, and on the rim around it; thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:21 @ Then you shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and burn it in the appointed place of the temple, outside the sanctuary.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:22 @ On the second day you shall offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:23 @ When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without blemish, and a ram from the flock without blemish.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:24 @ When you offer them before the LORD, the priests shall throw salt on them, and they will offer them up as a burnt offering to the LORD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:25 @ Every day for seven days you shall prepare a goat for a sin offering; they shall also prepare a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without blemish.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:26 @ Seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and purify it, and so consecrate it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:43:27 @ When these days are over it shall be, on the eighth day and thereafter, that the priests shall offer your burnt offerings and your peace offerings on the altar; and I will accept you,' says the Lord GOD."

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:1 @ Then He brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary which faces toward the east, but it was shut.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:2 @ And the LORD said to me, "This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter by it, because the LORD God of Israel has entered by it; therefore it shall be shut.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:3 @ As for the prince, because he is the prince, he may sit in it to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gateway, and go out the same way."

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:4 @ Also He brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple; so I looked, and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD; and I fell on my face.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:5 @ And the LORD said to me, "Son of man, mark well, see with your eyes and hear with your ears, all that I say to you concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD and all its laws. Mark well who may enter the house and all who go out from the sanctuary.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:6 @ "Now say to the rebellious, to the house of Israel, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "O house of Israel, let Us have no more of all your abominations.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:7 @ When you brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary to defile it--My house--and when you offered My food, the fat and the blood, then they broke My covenant because of all your abominations.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:8 @ And you have not kept charge of My holy things, but you have set others to keep charge of My sanctuary for you."

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:9 @ Thus says the Lord GOD: "No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart or uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter My sanctuary, including any foreigner who is among the children of Israel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:10 @ "And the Levites who went far from Me, when Israel went astray, who strayed away from Me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:11 @ Yet they shall be ministers in My sanctuary, as gatekeepers of the house and ministers of the house; they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:12 @ Because they ministered to them before their idols and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity, therefore I have raised My hand in an oath against them," says the Lord GOD, "that they shall bear their iniquity.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:13 @ And they shall not come near Me to minister to Me as priest, nor come near any of My holy things, nor into the Most Holy Place; but they shall bear their shame and their abominations which they have committed.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:14 @ Nevertheless I will make them keep charge of the temple, for all its work, and for all that has to be done in it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:15 @ "But the priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who kept charge of My sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from Me, they shall come near Me to minister to Me; and they shall stand before Me to offer to Me the fat and the blood," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:16 @ "They shall enter My sanctuary, and they shall come near My table to minister to Me, and they shall keep My charge.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:17 @ And it shall be, whenever they enter the gates of the inner court, that they shall put on linen garments; no wool shall come upon them while they minister within the gates of the inner court or within the house.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:18 @ They shall have linen turbans on their heads and linen trousers on their bodies; they shall not clothe themselves with anything that causes sweat.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:19 @ When they go out to the outer court, to the outer court to the people, they shall take off their garments in which they have ministered, leave them in the holy chambers, and put on other garments; and in their holy garments they shall not sanctify the people.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:20 @ "They shall neither shave their heads, nor let their hair grow long, but they shall keep their hair well trimmed.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:21 @ No priest shall drink wine when he enters the inner court.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:22 @ They shall not take as wife a widow or a divorced woman, but take virgins of the descendants of the house of Israel, or widows of priests.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:23 @ "And they shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the unholy, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:24 @ In controversy they shall stand as judges, and judge it according to My judgments. They shall keep My laws and My statutes in all My appointed meetings, and they shall hallow My Sabbaths.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:25 @ "They shall not defile themselves by coming near a dead person. Only for father or mother, for son or daughter, for brother or unmarried sister may they defile themselves.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:26 @ After he is cleansed, they shall count seven days for him.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:27 @ And on the day that he goes to the sanctuary to minister in the sanctuary, he must offer his sin offering in the inner court," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:28 @ "It shall be, in regard to their inheritance, that I am their inheritance. You shall give them no possession in Israel, for I am their possession.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:29 @ They shall eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering; every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:30 @ The best of all firstfruits of any kind, and every sacrifice of any kind from all your sacrifices, shall be the priest's; also you shall give to the priest the first of your ground meal, to cause a blessing to rest on your house.

nkjv@Ezekiel:44:31 @ The priests shall not eat anything, bird or beast, that died naturally or was torn by wild beasts.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:1 @ "Moreover, when you divide the land by lot into inheritance, you shall set apart a district for the LORD, a holy section of the land; its length shall be twenty-five thousand cubits, and the width ten thousand. It shall be holy throughout its territory all around.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:2 @ Of this there shall be a square plot for the sanctuary, five hundred by five hundred rods, with fifty cubits around it for an open space.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:3 @ So this is the district you shall measure: twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand wide; in it shall be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:4 @ It shall be a holy section of the land, belonging to the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to the LORD; it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:5 @ An area twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand wide shall belong to the Levites, the ministers of the temple; they shall have twenty chambers as a possession.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:6 @ "You shall appoint as the property of the city an area five thousand cubits wide and twenty-five thousand long, adjacent to the district of the holy section; it shall belong to the whole house of Israel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:7 @ "The prince shall have a section on one side and the other of the holy district and the city's property; and bordering on the holy district and the city's property, extending westward on the west side and eastward on the east side, the length shall be side by side with one of the tribal portions, from the west border to the east border.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:8 @ The land shall be his possession in Israel; and My princes shall no more oppress My people, but they shall give the rest of the land to the house of Israel, according to their tribes."

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:9 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Enough, O princes of Israel! Remove violence and plundering, execute justice and righteousness, and stop dispossessing My people," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:11 @ The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, so that the bath contains one-tenth of a homer, and the ephah one-tenth of a homer; their measure shall be according to the homer.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:12 @ The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your mina.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:13 @ "This is the offering which you shall offer: you shall give one-sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat, and one-sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:14 @ The ordinance concerning oil, the bath of oil, is one-tenth of a bath from a kor. A kor is a homer or ten baths, for ten baths are a homer.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:15 @ And one lamb shall be given from a flock of two hundred, from the rich pastures of Israel. These shall be for grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement for them," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:16 @ "All the people of the land shall give this offering for the prince in Israel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:17 @ Then it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings, at the feasts, the New Moons, the Sabbaths, and at all the appointed seasons of the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel."

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:18 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: "In the first month, on the first day of the month, you shall take a young bull without blemish and cleanse the sanctuary.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:19 @ The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the gateposts of the gate of the inner court.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:20 @ And so you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who has sinned unintentionally or in ignorance. Thus you shall make atonement for the temple.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:21 @ "In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall observe the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:22 @ And on that day the prince shall prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:23 @ On the seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bulls and seven rams without blemish, daily for seven days, and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:24 @ And he shall prepare a grain offering of one ephah for each bull and one ephah for each ram, together with a hin of oil for each ephah.

nkjv@Ezekiel:45:25 @ "In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast, he shall do likewise for seven days, according to the sin offering, the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the oil."

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:1 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: "The gateway of the inner court that faces toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Sabbath it shall be opened, and on the day of the New Moon it shall be opened.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:2 @ The prince shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gateway from the outside, and stand by the gatepost. The priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings. He shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until evening.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:3 @ Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the entrance to this gateway before the LORD on the Sabbaths and the New Moons.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:4 @ The burnt offering that the prince offers to the LORD on the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish;

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:5 @ and the grain offering shall be one ephah for a ram, and the grain offering for the lambs, as much as he wants to give, as well as a hin of oil with every ephah.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:6 @ On the day of the New Moon it shall be a young bull without blemish, six lambs, and a ram; they shall be without blemish.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:7 @ He shall prepare a grain offering of an ephah for a bull, an ephah for a ram, as much as he wants to give for the lambs, and a hin of oil with every ephah.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:8 @ When the prince enters, he shall go in by way of the vestibule of the gateway, and go out the same way.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:9 @ "But when the people of the land come before the LORD on the appointed feast days, whoever enters by way of the north gate to worship shall go out by way of the south gate; and whoever enters by way of the south gate shall go out by way of the north gate. He shall not return by way of the gate through which he came, but shall go out through the opposite gate.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:10 @ The prince shall then be in their midst. When they go in, he shall go in; and when they go out, he shall go out.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:11 @ At the festivals and the appointed feast days the grain offering shall be an ephah for a bull, an ephah for a ram, as much as he wants to give for the lambs, and a hin of oil with every ephah.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:12 @ "Now when the prince makes a voluntary burnt offering or voluntary peace offering to the LORD, the gate that faces toward the east shall then be opened for him; and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings as he did on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he goes out the gate shall be shut.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:13 @ "You shall daily make a burnt offering to the LORD of a lamb of the first year without blemish; you shall prepare it every morning.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:14 @ And you shall prepare a grain offering with it every morning, a sixth of an ephah, and a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour. This grain offering is a perpetual ordinance, to be made regularly to the LORD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:15 @ Thus they shall prepare the lamb, the grain offering, and the oil, as a regular burnt offering every morning."

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:16 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: "If the prince gives a gift of some of his inheritance to any of his sons, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:17 @ But if he gives a gift of some of his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his until the year of liberty, after which it shall return to the prince. But his inheritance shall belong to his sons; it shall become theirs.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:18 @ Moreover the prince shall not take any of the people's inheritance by evicting them from their property; he shall provide an inheritance for his sons from his own property, so that none of My people may be scattered from his property.""'

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:19 @ Now he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests which face toward the north; and there a place was situated at their extreme western end.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:20 @ And he said to me, "This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them out into the outer court to sanctify the people."

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:21 @ Then he brought me out into the outer court and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and in fact, in every corner of the court there was another court.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:22 @ In the four corners of the court were enclosed courts, forty cubits long and thirty wide; all four corners were the same size.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:23 @ There was a row of building stones all around in them, all around the four of them; and cooking hearths were made under the rows of stones all around.

nkjv@Ezekiel:46:24 @ And he said to me, "These are the kitchens where the ministers of the temple shall boil the sacrifices of the people."

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:1 @ Then he brought me back to the door of the temple; and there was water, flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east, for the front of the temple faced east; the water was flowing from under the right side of the temple, south of the altar.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:2 @ He brought me out by way of the north gate, and led me around on the outside to the outer gateway that faces east; and there was water, running out on the right side.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:3 @ And when the man went out to the east with the line in his hand, he measured one thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the water came up to my ankles.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:4 @ Again he measured one thousand and brought me through the waters; the water came up to my knees. Again he measured one thousand and brought me through; the water came up to my waist.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:5 @ Again he measured one thousand, and it was a river that I could not cross; for the water was too deep, water in which one must swim, a river that could not be crossed.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:6 @ He said to me, "Son of man, have you seen this?" Then he brought me and returned me to the bank of the river.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:7 @ When I returned, there, along the bank of the river, were very many trees on one side and the other.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:8 @ Then he said to me: "This water flows toward the eastern region, goes down into the valley, and enters the sea. When it reaches the sea, its waters are healed.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:9 @ And it shall be that every living thing that moves, wherever the rivers go, will live. There will be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters go there; for they will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river goes.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:10 @ It shall be that fishermen will stand by it from En Gedi to En Eglaim; they will be places for spreading their nets. Their fish will be of the same kinds as the fish of the Great Sea, exceedingly many.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:11 @ But its swamps and marshes will not be healed; they will be given over to salt.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:12 @ Along the bank of the river, on this side and that, will grow all kinds of trees used for food; their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. They will bear fruit every month, because their water flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for medicine."

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:13 @ Thus says the Lord GOD: "These are the borders by which you shall divide the land as an inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph shall have two portions.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:14 @ You shall inherit it equally with one another; for I raised My hand in an oath to give it to your fathers, and this land shall fall to you as your inheritance.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:15 @ "This shall be the border of the land on the north: from the Great Sea, by the road to Hethlon, as one goes to Zedad,

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:16 @ Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim (which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath), to Hazar Hatticon (which is on the border of Hauran).

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:17 @ Thus the boundary shall be from the Sea to Hazar Enan, the border of Damascus; and as for the north, northward, it is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:18 @ "On the east side you shall mark out the border from between Hauran and Damascus, and between Gilead and the land of Israel, along the Jordan, and along the eastern side of the sea. This is the east side.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:19 @ "The south side, toward the South, shall be from Tamar to the waters of Meribah by Kadesh, along the brook to the Great Sea. This is the south side, toward the South.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:20 @ "The west side shall be the Great Sea, from the southern boundary until one comes to a point opposite Hamath. This is the west side.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:21 @ "Thus you shall divide this land among yourselves according to the tribes of Israel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:22 @ It shall be that you will divide it by lot as an inheritance for yourselves, and for the strangers who dwell among you and who bear children among you. They shall be to you as native-born among the children of Israel; they shall have an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

nkjv@Ezekiel:47:23 @ And it shall be that in whatever tribe the stranger dwells, there you shall give him his inheritance," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:1 @ "Now these are the names of the tribes: From the northern border along the road to Hethlon at the entrance of Hamath, to Hazar Enan, the border of Damascus northward, in the direction of Hamath, there shall be one section for Dan from its east to its west side;

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:2 @ by the border of Dan, from the east side to the west, one section for Asher;

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:3 @ by the border of Asher, from the east side to the west, one section for Naphtali;

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:4 @ by the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west, one section for Manasseh;

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:5 @ by the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west, one section for Ephraim;

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:6 @ by the border of Ephraim, from the east side to the west, one section for Reuben;

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:7 @ by the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west, one section for Judah;

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:8 @ by the border of Judah, from the east side to the west, shall be the district which you shall set apart, twenty-five thousand cubits in width, and in length the same as one of the other portions, from the east side to the west, with the sanctuary in the center.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:9 @ "The district that you shall set apart for the LORD shall be twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in width.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:10 @ To these--to the priests--the holy district shall belong: on the north twenty-five thousand cubits in length, on the west ten thousand in width, on the east ten thousand in width, and on the south twenty-five thousand in length. The sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the center.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:11 @ It shall be for the priests of the sons of Zadok, who are sanctified, who have kept My charge, who did not go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:12 @ And this district of land that is set apart shall be to them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:13 @ "Opposite the border of the priests, the Levites shall have an area twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in width; its entire length shall be twenty-five thousand and its width ten thousand.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:14 @ And they shall not sell or exchange any of it; they may not alienate this best part of the land, for it is holy to the LORD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:15 @ "The five thousand cubits in width that remain, along the edge of the twenty-five thousand, shall be for general use by the city, for dwellings and common-land; and the city shall be in the center.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:16 @ These shall be its measurements: the north side four thousand five hundred cubits, the south side four thousand five hundred, the east side four thousand five hundred, and the west side four thousand five hundred.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:17 @ The common-land of the city shall be: to the north two hundred and fifty cubits, to the south two hundred and fifty, to the east two hundred and fifty, and to the west two hundred and fifty.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:18 @ The rest of the length, alongside the district of the holy section, shall be ten thousand cubits to the east and ten thousand to the west. It shall be adjacent to the district of the holy section, and its produce shall be food for the workers of the city.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:19 @ The workers of the city, from all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:20 @ The entire district shall be twenty-five thousand cubits by twenty-five thousand cubits, foursquare. You shall set apart the holy district with the property of the city.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:21 @ "The rest shall belong to the prince, on one side and on the other of the holy district and of the city's property, next to the twenty-five thousand cubits of the holy district as far as the eastern border, and westward next to the twenty-five thousand as far as the western border, adjacent to the tribal portions; it shall belong to the prince. It shall be the holy district, and the sanctuary of the temple shall be in the center.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:22 @ Moreover, apart from the possession of the Levites and the possession of the city which are in the midst of what belongs to the prince, the area between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin shall belong to the prince.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:23 @ "As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side to the west, Benjamin shall have one section;

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:24 @ by the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west, Simeon shall have one section;

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:25 @ by the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west, Issachar shall have one section;

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:26 @ by the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west, Zebulun shall have one section;

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:27 @ by the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west, Gad shall have one section;

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:28 @ by the border of Gad, on the south side, toward the South, the border shall be from Tamar to the waters of Meribah by Kadesh, along the brook to the Great Sea.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:29 @ This is the land which you shall divide by lot as an inheritance among the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions," says the Lord GOD.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:30 @ "These are the exits of the city. On the north side, measuring four thousand five hundred cubits

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:31 @ (the gates of the city shall be named after the tribes of Israel), the three gates northward: one gate for Reuben, one gate for Judah, and one gate for Levi;

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:32 @ on the east side, four thousand five hundred cubits, three gates: one gate for Joseph, one gate for Benjamin, and one gate for Dan;

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:33 @ on the south side, measuring four thousand five hundred cubits, three gates: one gate for Simeon, one gate for Issachar, and one gate for Zebulun;

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:34 @ on the west side, four thousand five hundred cubits with their three gates: one gate for Gad, one gate for Asher, and one gate for Naphtali.

nkjv@Ezekiel:48:35 @ All the way around shall be eighteen thousand cubits; and the name of the city from that day shall be: THE LORD IS THERE."

nkjv@Daniel:1:1 @ In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.

nkjv@Daniel:1:2 @ And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the articles of the house of God, which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the articles into the treasure house of his god.

nkjv@Daniel:1:3 @ Then the king instructed Ashpenaz, the master of his eunuchs, to bring some of the children of Israel and some of the king's descendants and some of the nobles,

nkjv@Daniel:1:4 @ young men in whom there was no blemish, but good-looking, gifted in all wisdom, possessing knowledge and quick to understand, who had ability to serve in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the language and literature of the Chaldeans.

nkjv@Daniel:1:5 @ And the king appointed for them a daily provision of the king's delicacies and of the wine which he drank, and three years of training for them, so that at the end of that time they might serve before the king.

nkjv@Daniel:1:6 @ Now from among those of the sons of Judah were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

nkjv@Daniel:1:7 @ To them the chief of the eunuchs gave names: he gave Daniel the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abed-Nego.

nkjv@Daniel:1:8 @ But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

nkjv@Daniel:1:9 @ Now God had brought Daniel into the favor and goodwill of the chief of the eunuchs.

nkjv@Daniel:1:10 @ And the chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel, "I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and drink. For why should he see your faces looking worse than the young men who are your age? Then you would endanger my head before the king."

nkjv@Daniel:1:11 @ So Daniel said to the steward whom the chief of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,

nkjv@Daniel:1:12 @ "Please test your servants for ten days, and let them give us vegetables to eat and water to drink.

nkjv@Daniel:1:13 @ Then let our appearance be examined before you, and the appearance of the young men who eat the portion of the king's delicacies; and as you see fit, so deal with your servants."

nkjv@Daniel:1:14 @ So he consented with them in this matter, and tested them ten days.

nkjv@Daniel:1:15 @ And at the end of ten days their features appeared better and fatter in flesh than all the young men who ate the portion of the king's delicacies.

nkjv@Daniel:1:16 @ Thus the steward took away their portion of delicacies and the wine that they were to drink, and gave them vegetables.

nkjv@Daniel:1:17 @ As for these four young men, God gave them knowledge and skill in all literature and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

nkjv@Daniel:1:18 @ Now at the end of the days, when the king had said that they should be brought in, the chief of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.

nkjv@Daniel:1:19 @ Then the king interviewed them, and among them all none was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah; therefore they served before the king.

nkjv@Daniel:1:20 @ And in all matters of wisdom and understanding about which the king examined them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers who were in all his realm.

nkjv@Daniel:1:21 @ Thus Daniel continued until the first year of King Cyrus.

nkjv@Daniel:2:1 @ Now in the second year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; and his spirit was so troubled that his sleep left him.

nkjv@Daniel:2:2 @ Then the king gave the command to call the magicians, the astrologers, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans to tell the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.

nkjv@Daniel:2:3 @ And the king said to them, "I have had a dream, and my spirit is anxious to know the dream."

nkjv@Daniel:2:4 @ Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Aramaic, "O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will give the interpretation."

nkjv@Daniel:2:5 @ The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, "My decision is firm: if you do not make known the dream to me, and its interpretation, you shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made an ash heap.

nkjv@Daniel:2:6 @ However, if you tell the dream and its interpretation, you shall receive from me gifts, rewards, and great honor. Therefore tell me the dream and its interpretation."

nkjv@Daniel:2:7 @ They answered again and said, "Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will give its interpretation."

nkjv@Daniel:2:8 @ The king answered and said, "I know for certain that you would gain time, because you see that my decision is firm:

nkjv@Daniel:2:9 @ if you do not make known the dream to me, there is only one decree for you! For you have agreed to speak lying and corrupt words before me till the time has changed. Therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can give me its interpretation."

nkjv@Daniel:2:10 @ The Chaldeans answered the king, and said, "There is not a man on earth who can tell the king's matter; therefore no king, lord, or ruler has ever asked such things of any magician, astrologer, or Chaldean.

nkjv@Daniel:2:11 @ It is a difficult thing that the king requests, and there is no other who can tell it to the king except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh."

nkjv@Daniel:2:12 @ For this reason the king was angry and very furious, and gave the command to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

nkjv@Daniel:2:13 @ So the decree went out, and they began killing the wise men; and they sought Daniel and his companions, to kill them.

nkjv@Daniel:2:14 @ Then with counsel and wisdom Daniel answered Arioch, the captain of the king's guard, who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon;

nkjv@Daniel:2:15 @ he answered and said to Arioch the king's captain, "Why is the decree from the king so urgent?" Then Arioch made the decision known to Daniel.

nkjv@Daniel:2:16 @ So Daniel went in and asked the king to give him time, that he might tell the king the interpretation.

nkjv@Daniel:2:17 @ Then Daniel went to his house, and made the decision known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions,

nkjv@Daniel:2:18 @ that they might seek mercies from the God of heaven concerning this secret, so that Daniel and his companions might not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

nkjv@Daniel:2:19 @ Then the secret was revealed to Daniel in a night vision. So Daniel blessed the God of heaven.

nkjv@Daniel:2:20 @ Daniel answered and said: "Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, For wisdom and might are His.

nkjv@Daniel:2:21 @ And He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and raises up kings; He gives wisdom to the wise And knowledge to those who have understanding.

nkjv@Daniel:2:22 @ He reveals deep and secret things; He knows what is in the darkness, And light dwells with Him.

nkjv@Daniel:2:23 @ "I thank You and praise You, O God of my fathers; You have given me wisdom and might, And have now made known to me what we asked of You, For You have made known to us the king's demand."

nkjv@Daniel:2:24 @ Therefore Daniel went to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He went and said thus to him: "Do not destroy the wise men of Babylon; take me before the king, and I will tell the king the interpretation."

nkjv@Daniel:2:25 @ Then Arioch quickly brought Daniel before the king, and said thus to him, "I have found a man of the captives of Judah, who will make known to the king the interpretation."

nkjv@Daniel:2:26 @ The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, "Are you able to make known to me the dream which I have seen, and its interpretation?"

nkjv@Daniel:2:27 @ Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, "The secret which the king has demanded, the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, and the soothsayers cannot declare to the king.

nkjv@Daniel:2:28 @ But there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head upon your bed, were these:

nkjv@Daniel:2:30 @ But as for me, this secret has not been revealed to me because I have more wisdom than anyone living, but for our sakes who make known the interpretation to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your heart.

nkjv@Daniel:2:34 @ You watched while a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.

nkjv@Daniel:2:35 @ Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

nkjv@Daniel:2:36 @ "This is the dream. Now we will tell the interpretation of it before the king.

nkjv@Daniel:2:37 @ You, O king, are a king of kings. For the God of heaven has given you a kingdom, power, strength, and glory;

nkjv@Daniel:2:38 @ and wherever the children of men dwell, or the beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven, He has given them into your hand, and has made you ruler over them all--you are this head of gold.

nkjv@Daniel:2:39 @ But after you shall arise another kingdom inferior to yours; then another, a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all the earth.

nkjv@Daniel:2:40 @ And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron, inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything; and like iron that crushes, that kingdom will break in pieces and crush all the others.

nkjv@Daniel:2:41 @ Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter's clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay.

nkjv@Daniel:2:42 @ And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile.

nkjv@Daniel:2:43 @ As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay.

nkjv@Daniel:2:44 @ And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.

nkjv@Daniel:2:45 @ Inasmuch as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold--the great God has made known to the king what will come to pass after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation is sure."

nkjv@Daniel:2:46 @ Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, prostrate before Daniel, and commanded that they should present an offering and incense to him.

nkjv@Daniel:2:47 @ The king answered Daniel, and said, "Truly your God is the God of gods, the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since you could reveal this secret."

nkjv@Daniel:2:48 @ Then the king promoted Daniel and gave him many great gifts; and he made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief administrator over all the wise men of Babylon.

nkjv@Daniel:2:49 @ Also Daniel petitioned the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego over the affairs of the province of Babylon; but Daniel sat in the gate of the king.

nkjv@Daniel:3:1 @ Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits and its width six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

nkjv@Daniel:3:2 @ And King Nebuchadnezzar sent word to gather together the satraps, the administrators, the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

nkjv@Daniel:3:3 @ So the satraps, the administrators, the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces gathered together for the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

nkjv@Daniel:3:4 @ Then a herald cried aloud: "To you it is commanded, O peoples, nations, and languages,

nkjv@Daniel:3:5 @ that at the time you hear the sound of the horn, flute, harp, lyre, and psaltery, in symphony with all kinds of music, you shall fall down and worship the gold image that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up;

nkjv@Daniel:3:6 @ and whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast immediately into the midst of a burning fiery furnace."

nkjv@Daniel:3:7 @ So at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the horn, flute, harp, and lyre, in symphony with all kinds of music, all the people, nations, and languages fell down and worshiped the gold image which King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

nkjv@Daniel:3:8 @ Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came forward and accused the Jews.

nkjv@Daniel:3:9 @ They spoke and said to King Nebuchadnezzar, "O king, live forever!

nkjv@Daniel:3:10 @ You, O king, have made a decree that everyone who hears the sound of the horn, flute, harp, lyre, and psaltery, in symphony with all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the gold image;

nkjv@Daniel:3:11 @ and whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

nkjv@Daniel:3:12 @ There are certain Jews whom you have set over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego; these men, O king, have not paid due regard to you. They do not serve your gods or worship the gold image which you have set up."

nkjv@Daniel:3:13 @ Then Nebuchadnezzar, in rage and fury, gave the command to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. So they brought these men before the king.

nkjv@Daniel:3:14 @ Nebuchadnezzar spoke, saying to them, "Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the gold image which I have set up?

nkjv@Daniel:3:15 @ Now if you are ready at the time you hear the sound of the horn, flute, harp, lyre, and psaltery, in symphony with all kinds of music, and you fall down and worship the image which I have made, good! But if you do not worship, you shall be cast immediately into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. And who is the god who will deliver you from my hands?"

nkjv@Daniel:3:16 @ Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego answered and said to the king, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.

nkjv@Daniel:3:17 @ If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king.

nkjv@Daniel:3:18 @ But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up."

nkjv@Daniel:3:19 @ Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the expression on his face changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. He spoke and commanded that they heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.

nkjv@Daniel:3:20 @ And he commanded certain mighty men of valor who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, and cast them into the burning fiery furnace.

nkjv@Daniel:3:21 @ Then these men were bound in their coats, their trousers, their turbans, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

nkjv@Daniel:3:22 @ Therefore, because the king's command was urgent, and the furnace exceedingly hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego.

nkjv@Daniel:3:23 @ And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

nkjv@Daniel:3:24 @ Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished; and he rose in haste and spoke, saying to his counselors, "Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?" They answered and said to the king, "True, O king."

nkjv@Daniel:3:25 @ "Look!" he answered, "I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God."

nkjv@Daniel:3:26 @ Then Nebuchadnezzar went near the mouth of the burning fiery furnace and spoke, saying, "Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here." Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego came from the midst of the fire.

nkjv@Daniel:3:27 @ And the satraps, administrators, governors, and the king's counselors gathered together, and they saw these men on whose bodies the fire had no power; the hair of their head was not singed nor were their garments affected, and the smell of fire was not on them.

nkjv@Daniel:3:28 @ Nebuchadnezzar spoke, saying, "Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, who sent His Angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him, and they have frustrated the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they should not serve nor worship any god except their own God!

nkjv@Daniel:3:29 @ Therefore I make a decree that any people, nation, or language which speaks anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made an ash heap; because there is no other God who can deliver like this."

nkjv@Daniel:3:30 @ Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego in the province of Babylon.

nkjv@Daniel:4:1 @ Nebuchadnezzar the king, To all peoples, nations, and languages that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you.

nkjv@Daniel:4:2 @ I thought it good to declare the signs and wonders that the Most High God has worked for me.

nkjv@Daniel:4:5 @ I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts on my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.

nkjv@Daniel:4:6 @ Therefore I issued a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.

nkjv@Daniel:4:7 @ Then the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers came in, and I told them the dream; but they did not make known to me its interpretation.

nkjv@Daniel:4:8 @ But at last Daniel came before me (his name is Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god; in him is the Spirit of the Holy God), and I told the dream before him, saying:

nkjv@Daniel:4:9 @ "Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, because I know that the Spirit of the Holy God is in you, and no secret troubles you, explain to me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and its interpretation.

nkjv@Daniel:4:10 @ "These were the visions of my head while on my bed: I was looking, and behold, A tree in the midst of the earth, And its height was great.

nkjv@Daniel:4:11 @ The tree grew and became strong; Its height reached to the heavens, And it could be seen to the ends of all the earth.

nkjv@Daniel:4:12 @ Its leaves were lovely, Its fruit abundant, And in it was food for all. The beasts of the field found shade under it, The birds of the heavens dwelt in its branches, And all flesh was fed from it.

nkjv@Daniel:4:13 @ "I saw in the visions of my head while on my bed, and there was a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven.

nkjv@Daniel:4:14 @ He cried aloud and said thus: "Chop down the tree and cut off its branches, Strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the beasts get out from under it, And the birds from its branches.

nkjv@Daniel:4:15 @ Nevertheless leave the stump and roots in the earth, Bound with a band of iron and bronze, In the tender grass of the field. Let it be wet with the dew of heaven, And let him graze with the beasts On the grass of the earth.

nkjv@Daniel:4:16 @ Let his heart be changed from that of a man, Let him be given the heart of a beast, And let seven times pass over him.

nkjv@Daniel:4:17 @ "This decision is by the decree of the watchers, And the sentence by the word of the holy ones, In order that the living may know That the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, Gives it to whomever He will, And sets over it the lowest of men.'

nkjv@Daniel:4:18 @ "This dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, have seen. Now you, Belteshazzar, declare its interpretation, since all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation; but you are able, for the Spirit of the Holy God is in you."

nkjv@Daniel:4:19 @ Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonished for a time, and his thoughts troubled him. So the king spoke, and said, "Belteshazzar, do not let the dream or its interpretation trouble you." Belteshazzar answered and said, "My lord, may the dream concern those who hate you, and its interpretation concern your enemies!

nkjv@Daniel:4:20 @ "The tree that you saw, which grew and became strong, whose height reached to the heavens and which could be seen by all the earth,

nkjv@Daniel:4:21 @ whose leaves were lovely and its fruit abundant, in which was food for all, under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and in whose branches the birds of the heaven had their home--

nkjv@Daniel:4:22 @ it is you, O king, who have grown and become strong; for your greatness has grown and reaches to the heavens, and your dominion to the end of the earth.

nkjv@Daniel:4:23 @ "And inasmuch as the king saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying, "Chop down the tree and destroy it, but leave its stump and roots in the earth, bound with a band of iron and bronze in the tender grass of the field; let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let him graze with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him';

nkjv@Daniel:4:24 @ this is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the Most High, which has come upon my lord the king:

nkjv@Daniel:4:25 @ They shall drive you from men, your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make you eat grass like oxen. They shall wet you with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over you, till you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He chooses.

nkjv@Daniel:4:26 @ "And inasmuch as they gave the command to leave the stump and roots of the tree, your kingdom shall be assured to you, after you come to know that Heaven rules.

nkjv@Daniel:4:27 @ Therefore, O king, let my advice be acceptable to you; break off your sins by being righteous, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your prosperity."

nkjv@Daniel:4:29 @ At the end of the twelve months he was walking about the royal palace of Babylon.

nkjv@Daniel:4:30 @ The king spoke, saying, "Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for a royal dwelling by my mighty power and for the honor of my majesty?"

nkjv@Daniel:4:31 @ While the word was still in the king's mouth, a voice fell from heaven: "King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: the kingdom has departed from you!

nkjv@Daniel:4:32 @ And they shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. They shall make you eat grass like oxen; and seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He chooses."

nkjv@Daniel:4:33 @ That very hour the word was fulfilled concerning Nebuchadnezzar; he was driven from men and ate grass like oxen; his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hair had grown like eagles' feathers and his nails like birds' claws.

nkjv@Daniel:4:34 @ And at the end of the time I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me; and I blessed the Most High and praised and honored Him who lives forever: For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, And His kingdom is from generation to generation.

nkjv@Daniel:4:35 @ All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; He does according to His will in the army of heaven And among the inhabitants of the earth. No one can restrain His hand Or say to Him, "What have You done?"

nkjv@Daniel:4:36 @ At the same time my reason returned to me, and for the glory of my kingdom, my honor and splendor returned to me. My counselors and nobles resorted to me, I was restored to my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added to me.

nkjv@Daniel:4:37 @ Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all of whose works are truth, and His ways justice. And those who walk in pride He is able to put down.

nkjv@Daniel:5:1 @ Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine in the presence of the thousand.

nkjv@Daniel:5:2 @ While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar gave the command to bring the gold and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple which had been in Jerusalem, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.

nkjv@Daniel:5:3 @ Then they brought the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple of the house of God which had been in Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.

nkjv@Daniel:5:4 @ They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.

nkjv@Daniel:5:5 @ In the same hour the fingers of a man's hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

nkjv@Daniel:5:6 @ Then the king's countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his hips were loosened and his knees knocked against each other.

nkjv@Daniel:5:7 @ The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke, saying to the wise men of Babylon, "Whoever reads this writing, and tells me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around his neck; and he shall be the third ruler in the kingdom."

nkjv@Daniel:5:8 @ Now all the king's wise men came, but they could not read the writing, or make known to the king its interpretation.

nkjv@Daniel:5:9 @ Then King Belshazzar was greatly troubled, his countenance was changed, and his lords were astonished.

nkjv@Daniel:5:10 @ The queen, because of the words of the king and his lords, came to the banquet hall. The queen spoke, saying, "O king, live forever! Do not let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your countenance change.

nkjv@Daniel:5:11 @ There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the Spirit of the Holy God. And in the days of your father, light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him; and King Nebuchadnezzar your father--your father the king--made him chief of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers.

nkjv@Daniel:5:12 @ Inasmuch as an excellent spirit, knowledge, understanding, interpreting dreams, solving riddles, and explaining enigmas were found in this Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar, now let Daniel be called, and he will give the interpretation."

nkjv@Daniel:5:13 @ Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king spoke, and said to Daniel, "Are you that Daniel who is one of the captives from Judah, whom my father the king brought from Judah?

nkjv@Daniel:5:14 @ I have heard of you, that the Spirit of God is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you.

nkjv@Daniel:5:15 @ Now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing and make known to me its interpretation, but they could not give the interpretation of the thing.

nkjv@Daniel:5:16 @ And I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations and explain enigmas. Now if you can read the writing and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom."

nkjv@Daniel:5:17 @ Then Daniel answered, and said before the king, "Let your gifts be for yourself, and give your rewards to another; yet I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.

nkjv@Daniel:5:18 @ O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom and majesty, glory and honor.

nkjv@Daniel:5:19 @ And because of the majesty that He gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. Whomever he wished, he executed; whomever he wished, he kept alive; whomever he wished, he set up; and whomever he wished, he put down.

nkjv@Daniel:5:20 @ But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.

nkjv@Daniel:5:21 @ Then he was driven from the sons of men, his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. They fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and appoints over it whomever He chooses.

nkjv@Daniel:5:23 @ And you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. They have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which do not see or hear or know; and the God who holds your breath in His hand and owns all your ways, you have not glorified.

nkjv@Daniel:5:24 @ Then the fingers of the hand were sent from Him, and this writing was written.

nkjv@Daniel:5:25 @ "And this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.

nkjv@Daniel:5:26 @ This is the interpretation of each word. MENE: God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it;

nkjv@Daniel:5:27 @ TEKEL: You have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting;

nkjv@Daniel:5:28 @ PERES: Your kingdom has been divided, and given to the Medes and Persians."

nkjv@Daniel:5:29 @ Then Belshazzar gave the command, and they clothed Daniel with purple and put a chain of gold around his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

nkjv@Daniel:5:30 @ That very night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was slain.

nkjv@Daniel:5:31 @ And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.

nkjv@Daniel:6:1 @ It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred and twenty satraps, to be over the whole kingdom;

nkjv@Daniel:6:2 @ and over these, three governors, of whom Daniel was one, that the satraps might give account to them, so that the king would suffer no loss.

nkjv@Daniel:6:3 @ Then this Daniel distinguished himself above the governors and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king gave thought to setting him over the whole realm.

nkjv@Daniel:6:4 @ So the governors and satraps sought to find some charge against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find no charge or fault, because he was faithful; nor was there any error or fault found in him.

nkjv@Daniel:6:5 @ Then these men said, "We shall not find any charge against this Daniel unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God."

nkjv@Daniel:6:6 @ So these governors and satraps thronged before the king, and said thus to him: "King Darius, live forever!

nkjv@Daniel:6:7 @ All the governors of the kingdom, the administrators and satraps, the counselors and advisors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute and to make a firm decree, that whoever petitions any god or man for thirty days, except you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions.

nkjv@Daniel:6:8 @ Now, O king, establish the decree and sign the writing, so that it cannot be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which does not alter."

nkjv@Daniel:6:9 @ Therefore King Darius signed the written decree.

nkjv@Daniel:6:10 @ Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days.

nkjv@Daniel:6:11 @ Then these men assembled and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God.

nkjv@Daniel:6:12 @ And they went before the king, and spoke concerning the king's decree: "Have you not signed a decree that every man who petitions any god or man within thirty days, except you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?" The king answered and said, "The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which does not alter."

nkjv@Daniel:6:13 @ So they answered and said before the king, "That Daniel, who is one of the captives from Judah, does not show due regard for you, O king, or for the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day."

nkjv@Daniel:6:14 @ And the king, when he heard these words, was greatly displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored till the going down of the sun to deliver him.

nkjv@Daniel:6:15 @ Then these men approached the king, and said to the king, "Know, O king, that it is the law of the Medes and Persians that no decree or statute which the king establishes may be changed."

nkjv@Daniel:6:16 @ So the king gave the command, and they brought Daniel and cast him into the den of lions. But the king spoke, saying to Daniel, "Your God, whom you serve continually, He will deliver you."

nkjv@Daniel:6:17 @ Then a stone was brought and laid on the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the signets of his lords, that the purpose concerning Daniel might not be changed.

nkjv@Daniel:6:18 @ Now the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting; and no musicians were brought before him. Also his sleep went from him.

nkjv@Daniel:6:19 @ Then the king arose very early in the morning and went in haste to the den of lions.

nkjv@Daniel:6:20 @ And when he came to the den, he cried out with a lamenting voice to Daniel. The king spoke, saying to Daniel, "Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?"

nkjv@Daniel:6:21 @ Then Daniel said to the king, "O king, live forever!

nkjv@Daniel:6:22 @ My God sent His angel and shut the lions' mouths, so that they have not hurt me, because I was found innocent before Him; and also, O king, I have done no wrong before you."

nkjv@Daniel:6:23 @ Now the king was exceedingly glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no injury whatever was found on him, because he believed in his God.

nkjv@Daniel:6:24 @ And the king gave the command, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions--them, their children, and their wives; and the lions overpowered them, and broke all their bones in pieces before they ever came to the bottom of the den.

nkjv@Daniel:6:25 @ Then King Darius wrote: To all peoples, nations, and languages that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you.

nkjv@Daniel:6:26 @ I make a decree that in every dominion of my kingdom men must tremble and fear before the God of Daniel. For He is the living God, And steadfast forever; His kingdom is the one which shall not be destroyed, And His dominion shall endure to the end.

nkjv@Daniel:6:27 @ He delivers and rescues, And He works signs and wonders In heaven and on earth, Who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.

nkjv@Daniel:6:28 @ So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

nkjv@Daniel:7:1 @ In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head while on his bed. Then he wrote down the dream, telling the main facts.

nkjv@Daniel:7:2 @ Daniel spoke, saying, "I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the Great Sea.

nkjv@Daniel:7:3 @ And four great beasts came up from the sea, each different from the other.

nkjv@Daniel:7:4 @ The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings. I watched till its wings were plucked off; and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand on two feet like a man, and a man's heart was given to it.

nkjv@Daniel:7:5 @ "And suddenly another beast, a second, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. And they said thus to it: "Arise, devour much flesh!'

nkjv@Daniel:7:6 @ "After this I looked, and there was another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird. The beast also had four heads, and dominion was given to it.

nkjv@Daniel:7:7 @ "After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, exceedingly strong. It had huge iron teeth; it was devouring, breaking in pieces, and trampling the residue with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.

nkjv@Daniel:7:8 @ I was considering the horns, and there was another horn, a little one, coming up among them, before whom three of the first horns were plucked out by the roots. And there, in this horn, were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking pompous words.

nkjv@Daniel:7:9 @ "I watched till thrones were put in place, And the Ancient of Days was seated; His garment was white as snow, And the hair of His head was like pure wool. His throne was a fiery flame, Its wheels a burning fire;

nkjv@Daniel:7:10 @ A fiery stream issued And came forth from before Him. A thousand thousands ministered to Him; Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him. The court was seated, And the books were opened.

nkjv@Daniel:7:11 @ "I watched then because of the sound of the pompous words which the horn was speaking; I watched till the beast was slain, and its body destroyed and given to the burning flame.

nkjv@Daniel:7:12 @ As for the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away, yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.

nkjv@Daniel:7:13 @ "I was watching in the night visions, And behold, One like the Son of Man, Coming with the clouds of heaven! He came to the Ancient of Days, And they brought Him near before Him.

nkjv@Daniel:7:14 @ Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, That all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, Which shall not pass away, And His kingdom the one Which shall not be destroyed.

nkjv@Daniel:7:15 @ "I, Daniel, was grieved in my spirit within my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.

nkjv@Daniel:7:16 @ I came near to one of those who stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me and made known to me the interpretation of these things:

nkjv@Daniel:7:17 @ "Those great beasts, which are four, are four kings which arise out of the earth.

nkjv@Daniel:7:18 @ But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.'

nkjv@Daniel:7:19 @ "Then I wished to know the truth about the fourth beast, which was different from all the others, exceedingly dreadful, with its teeth of iron and its nails of bronze, which devoured, broke in pieces, and trampled the residue with its feet;

nkjv@Daniel:7:20 @ and the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn which came up, before which three fell, namely, that horn which had eyes and a mouth which spoke pompous words, whose appearance was greater than his fellows.

nkjv@Daniel:7:21 @ "I was watching; and the same horn was making war against the saints, and prevailing against them,

nkjv@Daniel:7:22 @ until the Ancient of Days came, and a judgment was made in favor of the saints of the Most High, and the time came for the saints to possess the kingdom.

nkjv@Daniel:7:23 @ "Thus he said: "The fourth beast shall be A fourth kingdom on earth, Which shall be different from all other kingdoms, And shall devour the whole earth, Trample it and break it in pieces.

nkjv@Daniel:7:24 @ The ten horns are ten kings Who shall arise from this kingdom. And another shall rise after them; He shall be different from the first ones, And shall subdue three kings.

nkjv@Daniel:7:25 @ He shall speak pompous words against the Most High, Shall persecute the saints of the Most High, And shall intend to change times and law. Then the saints shall be given into his hand For a time and times and half a time.

nkjv@Daniel:7:26 @ "But the court shall be seated, And they shall take away his dominion, To consume and destroy it forever.

nkjv@Daniel:7:27 @ Then the kingdom and dominion, And the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven, Shall be given to the people, the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, And all dominions shall serve and obey Him.'

nkjv@Daniel:7:28 @ "This is the end of the account. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts greatly troubled me, and my countenance changed; but I kept the matter in my heart."

nkjv@Daniel:8:1 @ In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar a vision appeared to me--to me, Daniel--after the one that appeared to me the first time.

nkjv@Daniel:8:2 @ I saw in the vision, and it so happened while I was looking, that I was in Shushan, the citadel, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in the vision that I was by the River Ulai.

nkjv@Daniel:8:3 @ Then I lifted my eyes and saw, and there, standing beside the river, was a ram which had two horns, and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up last.

nkjv@Daniel:8:4 @ I saw the ram pushing westward, northward, and southward, so that no animal could withstand him; nor was there any that could deliver from his hand, but he did according to his will and became great.

nkjv@Daniel:8:5 @ And as I was considering, suddenly a male goat came from the west, across the surface of the whole earth, without touching the ground; and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.

nkjv@Daniel:8:6 @ Then he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing beside the river, and ran at him with furious power.

nkjv@Daniel:8:7 @ And I saw him confronting the ram; he was moved with rage against him, attacked the ram, and broke his two horns. There was no power in the ram to withstand him, but he cast him down to the ground and trampled him; and there was no one that could deliver the ram from his hand.

nkjv@Daniel:8:8 @ Therefore the male goat grew very great; but when he became strong, the large horn was broken, and in place of it four notable ones came up toward the four winds of heaven.

nkjv@Daniel:8:9 @ And out of one of them came a little horn which grew exceedingly great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the Glorious Land.

nkjv@Daniel:8:10 @ And it grew up to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and some of the stars to the ground, and trampled them.

nkjv@Daniel:8:11 @ He even exalted himself as high as the Prince of the host; and by him the daily sacrifices were taken away, and the place of His sanctuary was cast down.

nkjv@Daniel:8:12 @ Because of transgression, an army was given over to the horn to oppose the daily sacrifices; and he cast truth down to the ground. He did all this and prospered.

nkjv@Daniel:8:13 @ Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to that certain one who was speaking, "How long will the vision be, concerning the daily sacrifices and the transgression of desolation, the giving of both the sanctuary and the host to be trampled underfoot?"

nkjv@Daniel:8:14 @ And he said to me, "For two thousand three hundred days; then the sanctuary shall be cleansed."

nkjv@Daniel:8:15 @ Then it happened, when I, Daniel, had seen the vision and was seeking the meaning, that suddenly there stood before me one having the appearance of a man.

nkjv@Daniel:8:16 @ And I heard a man's voice between the banks of the Ulai, who called, and said, "Gabriel, make this man understand the vision."

nkjv@Daniel:8:17 @ So he came near where I stood, and when he came I was afraid and fell on my face; but he said to me, "Understand, son of man, that the vision refers to the time of the end."

nkjv@Daniel:8:18 @ Now, as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep with my face to the ground; but he touched me, and stood me upright.

nkjv@Daniel:8:19 @ And he said, "Look, I am making known to you what shall happen in the latter time of the indignation; for at the appointed time the end shall be.

nkjv@Daniel:8:20 @ The ram which you saw, having the two horns--they are the kings of Media and Persia.

nkjv@Daniel:8:21 @ And the male goat is the kingdom of Greece. The large horn that is between its eyes is the first king.

nkjv@Daniel:8:22 @ As for the broken horn and the four that stood up in its place, four kingdoms shall arise out of that nation, but not with its power.

nkjv@Daniel:8:23 @ "And in the latter time of their kingdom, When the transgressors have reached their fullness, A king shall arise, Having fierce features, Who understands sinister schemes.

nkjv@Daniel:8:24 @ His power shall be mighty, but not by his own power; He shall destroy fearfully, And shall prosper and thrive; He shall destroy the mighty, and also the holy people.

nkjv@Daniel:8:25 @ "Through his cunning He shall cause deceit to prosper under his rule; And he shall exalt himself in his heart. He shall destroy many in their prosperity. He shall even rise against the Prince of princes; But he shall be broken without human means.

nkjv@Daniel:8:26 @ "And the vision of the evenings and mornings Which was told is true; Therefore seal up the vision, For it refers to many days in the future."

nkjv@Daniel:8:27 @ And I, Daniel, fainted and was sick for days; afterward I arose and went about the king's business. I was astonished by the vision, but no one understood it.

nkjv@Daniel:9:1 @ In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the lineage of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans--

nkjv@Daniel:9:2 @ in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years specified by the word of the LORD through Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

nkjv@Daniel:9:3 @ Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

nkjv@Daniel:9:4 @ And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made confession, and said, "O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments,

nkjv@Daniel:9:6 @ Neither have we heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings and our princes, to our fathers and all the people of the land.

nkjv@Daniel:9:7 @ O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day--to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against You.

nkjv@Daniel:9:8 @ "O Lord, to us belongs shame of face, to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You.

nkjv@Daniel:9:9 @ To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against Him.

nkjv@Daniel:9:10 @ We have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in His laws, which He set before us by His servants the prophets.

nkjv@Daniel:9:11 @ Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your law, and has departed so as not to obey Your voice; therefore the curse and the oath written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against Him.

nkjv@Daniel:9:12 @ And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great disaster; for under the whole heaven such has never been done as what has been done to Jerusalem.

nkjv@Daniel:9:13 @ "As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us; yet we have not made our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth.

nkjv@Daniel:9:14 @ Therefore the LORD has kept the disaster in mind, and brought it upon us; for the LORD our God is righteous in all the works which He does, though we have not obeyed His voice.

nkjv@Daniel:9:15 @ And now, O Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and made Yourself a name, as it is this day--we have sinned, we have done wickedly!

nkjv@Daniel:9:16 @ "O Lord, according to all Your righteousness, I pray, let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all those around us.

nkjv@Daniel:9:17 @ Now therefore, our God, hear the prayer of Your servant, and his supplications, and for the Lord's sake cause Your face to shine on Your sanctuary, which is desolate.

nkjv@Daniel:9:18 @ O my God, incline Your ear and hear; open Your eyes and see our desolations, and the city which is called by Your name; for we do not present our supplications before You because of our righteous deeds, but because of Your great mercies.

nkjv@Daniel:9:20 @ Now while I was speaking, praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God,

nkjv@Daniel:9:21 @ yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, reached me about the time of the evening offering.

nkjv@Daniel:9:23 @ At the beginning of your supplications the command went out, and I have come to tell you, for you are greatly beloved; therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision:

nkjv@Daniel:9:24 @ "Seventy weeks are determined For your people and for your holy city, To finish the transgression, To make an end of sins, To make reconciliation for iniquity, To bring in everlasting righteousness, To seal up vision and prophecy, And to anoint the Most Holy.

nkjv@Daniel:9:25 @ "Know therefore and understand, That from the going forth of the command To restore and build Jerusalem Until Messiah the Prince, There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; The street shall be built again, and the wall, Even in troublesome times.

nkjv@Daniel:9:26 @ "And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, And till the end of the war desolations are determined.

nkjv@Daniel:9:27 @ Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, Even until the consummation, which is determined, Is poured out on the desolate."

nkjv@Daniel:10:1 @ In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a message was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar. The message was true, but the appointed time was long; and he understood the message, and had understanding of the vision.

nkjv@Daniel:10:4 @ Now on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, that is, the Tigris,

nkjv@Daniel:10:5 @ I lifted my eyes and looked, and behold, a certain man clothed in linen, whose waist was girded with gold of Uphaz!

nkjv@Daniel:10:6 @ His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like torches of fire, his arms and feet like burnished bronze in color, and the sound of his words like the voice of a multitude.

nkjv@Daniel:10:7 @ And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision, for the men who were with me did not see the vision; but a great terror fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves.

nkjv@Daniel:10:8 @ Therefore I was left alone when I saw this great vision, and no strength remained in me; for my vigor was turned to frailty in me, and I retained no strength.

nkjv@Daniel:10:9 @ Yet I heard the sound of his words; and while I heard the sound of his words I was in a deep sleep on my face, with my face to the ground.

nkjv@Daniel:10:10 @ Suddenly, a hand touched me, which made me tremble on my knees and on the palms of my hands.

nkjv@Daniel:10:11 @ And he said to me, "O Daniel, man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright, for I have now been sent to you." While he was speaking this word to me, I stood trembling.

nkjv@Daniel:10:12 @ Then he said to me, "Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard; and I have come because of your words.

nkjv@Daniel:10:13 @ But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; and behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left alone there with the kings of Persia.

nkjv@Daniel:10:14 @ Now I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision refers to many days yet to come."

nkjv@Daniel:10:15 @ When he had spoken such words to me, I turned my face toward the ground and became speechless.

nkjv@Daniel:10:16 @ And suddenly, one having the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips; then I opened my mouth and spoke, saying to him who stood before me, "My lord, because of the vision my sorrows have overwhelmed me, and I have retained no strength.

nkjv@Daniel:10:18 @ Then again, the one having the likeness of a man touched me and strengthened me.

nkjv@Daniel:10:19 @ And he said, "O man greatly beloved, fear not! Peace be to you; be strong, yes, be strong!" So when he spoke to me I was strengthened, and said, "Let my lord speak, for you have strengthened me."

nkjv@Daniel:10:20 @ Then he said, "Do you know why I have come to you? And now I must return to fight with the prince of Persia; and when I have gone forth, indeed the prince of Greece will come.

nkjv@Daniel:10:21 @ But I will tell you what is noted in the Scripture of Truth. (No one upholds me against these, except Michael your prince.

nkjv@Daniel:11:1 @ "Also in the first year of Darius the Mede, I, even I, stood up to confirm and strengthen him.)

nkjv@Daniel:11:2 @ And now I will tell you the truth: Behold, three more kings will arise in Persia, and the fourth shall be far richer than them all; by his strength, through his riches, he shall stir up all against the realm of Greece.

nkjv@Daniel:11:3 @ Then a mighty king shall arise, who shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.

nkjv@Daniel:11:4 @ And when he has arisen, his kingdom shall be broken up and divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not among his posterity nor according to his dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom shall be uprooted, even for others besides these.

nkjv@Daniel:11:5 @ "Also the king of the South shall become strong, as well as one of his princes; and he shall gain power over him and have dominion. His dominion shall be a great dominion.

nkjv@Daniel:11:6 @ And at the end of some years they shall join forces, for the daughter of the king of the South shall go to the king of the North to make an agreement; but she shall not retain the power of her authority, and neither he nor his authority shall stand; but she shall be given up, with those who brought her, and with him who begot her, and with him who strengthened her in those times.

nkjv@Daniel:11:7 @ But from a branch of her roots one shall arise in his place, who shall come with an army, enter the fortress of the king of the North, and deal with them and prevail.

nkjv@Daniel:11:8 @ And he shall also carry their gods captive to Egypt, with their princes and their precious articles of silver and gold; and he shall continue more years than the king of the North.

nkjv@Daniel:11:9 @ "Also the king of the North shall come to the kingdom of the king of the South, but shall return to his own land.

nkjv@Daniel:11:10 @ However his sons shall stir up strife, and assemble a multitude of great forces; and one shall certainly come and overwhelm and pass through; then he shall return to his fortress and stir up strife.

nkjv@Daniel:11:11 @ "And the king of the South shall be moved with rage, and go out and fight with him, with the king of the North, who shall muster a great multitude; but the multitude shall be given into the hand of his enemy.

nkjv@Daniel:11:12 @ When he has taken away the multitude, his heart will be lifted up; and he will cast down tens of thousands, but he will not prevail.

nkjv@Daniel:11:13 @ For the king of the North will return and muster a multitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come at the end of some years with a great army and much equipment.

nkjv@Daniel:11:14 @ "Now in those times many shall rise up against the king of the South. Also, violent men of your people shall exalt themselves in fulfillment of the vision, but they shall fall.

nkjv@Daniel:11:15 @ So the king of the North shall come and build a siege mound, and take a fortified city; and the forces of the South shall not withstand him. Even his choice troops shall have no strength to resist.

nkjv@Daniel:11:16 @ But he who comes against him shall do according to his own will, and no one shall stand against him. He shall stand in the Glorious Land with destruction in his power.

nkjv@Daniel:11:17 @ "He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do. And he shall give him the daughter of women to destroy it; but she shall not stand with him, or be for him.

nkjv@Daniel:11:18 @ After this he shall turn his face to the coastlands, and shall take many. But a ruler shall bring the reproach against them to an end; and with the reproach removed, he shall turn back on him.

nkjv@Daniel:11:19 @ Then he shall turn his face toward the fortress of his own land; but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found.

nkjv@Daniel:11:20 @ "There shall arise in his place one who imposes taxes on the glorious kingdom; but within a few days he shall be destroyed, but not in anger or in battle.

nkjv@Daniel:11:21 @ And in his place shall arise a vile person, to whom they will not give the honor of royalty; but he shall come in peaceably, and seize the kingdom by intrigue.

nkjv@Daniel:11:22 @ With the force of a flood they shall be swept away from before him and be broken, and also the prince of the covenant.

nkjv@Daniel:11:23 @ And after the league is made with him he shall act deceitfully, for he shall come up and become strong with a small number of people.

nkjv@Daniel:11:24 @ He shall enter peaceably, even into the richest places of the province; and he shall do what his fathers have not done, nor his forefathers: he shall disperse among them the plunder, spoil, and riches; and he shall devise his plans against the strongholds, but only for a time.

nkjv@Daniel:11:25 @ "He shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the South with a great army. And the king of the South shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand, for they shall devise plans against him.

nkjv@Daniel:11:26 @ Yes, those who eat of the portion of his delicacies shall destroy him; his army shall be swept away, and many shall fall down slain.

nkjv@Daniel:11:27 @ Both these kings' hearts shall be bent on evil, and they shall speak lies at the same table; but it shall not prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time.

nkjv@Daniel:11:28 @ While returning to his land with great riches, his heart shall be moved against the holy covenant; so he shall do damage and return to his own land.

nkjv@Daniel:11:29 @ "At the appointed time he shall return and go toward the south; but it shall not be like the former or the latter.

nkjv@Daniel:11:30 @ For ships from Cyprus shall come against him; therefore he shall be grieved, and return in rage against the holy covenant, and do damage. "So he shall return and show regard for those who forsake the holy covenant.

nkjv@Daniel:11:31 @ And forces shall be mustered by him, and they shall defile the sanctuary fortress; then they shall take away the daily sacrifices, and place there the abomination of desolation.

nkjv@Daniel:11:32 @ Those who do wickedly against the covenant he shall corrupt with flattery; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits.

nkjv@Daniel:11:33 @ And those of the people who understand shall instruct many; yet for many days they shall fall by sword and flame, by captivity and plundering.

nkjv@Daniel:11:34 @ Now when they fall, they shall be aided with a little help; but many shall join with them by intrigue.

nkjv@Daniel:11:35 @ And some of those of understanding shall fall, to refine them, purify them, and make them white, until the time of the end; because it is still for the appointed time.

nkjv@Daniel:11:36 @ "Then the king shall do according to his own will: he shall exalt and magnify himself above every god, shall speak blasphemies against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the wrath has been accomplished; for what has been determined shall be done.

nkjv@Daniel:11:37 @ He shall regard neither the God of his fathers nor the desire of women, nor regard any god; for he shall exalt himself above them all.

nkjv@Daniel:11:38 @ But in their place he shall honor a god of fortresses; and a god which his fathers did not know he shall honor with gold and silver, with precious stones and pleasant things.

nkjv@Daniel:11:39 @ Thus he shall act against the strongest fortresses with a foreign god, which he shall acknowledge, and advance its glory; and he shall cause them to rule over many, and divide the land for gain.

nkjv@Daniel:11:40 @ "At the time of the end the king of the South shall attack him; and the king of the North shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter the countries, overwhelm them, and pass through.

nkjv@Daniel:11:41 @ He shall also enter the Glorious Land, and many countries shall be overthrown; but these shall escape from his hand: Edom, Moab, and the prominent people of Ammon.

nkjv@Daniel:11:42 @ He shall stretch out his hand against the countries, and the land of Egypt shall not escape.

nkjv@Daniel:11:43 @ He shall have power over the treasures of gold and silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt; also the Libyans and Ethiopians shall follow at his heels.

nkjv@Daniel:11:44 @ But news from the east and the north shall trouble him; therefore he shall go out with great fury to destroy and annihilate many.

nkjv@Daniel:11:45 @ And he shall plant the tents of his palace between the seas and the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and no one will help him.

nkjv@Daniel:12:1 @ "At that time Michael shall stand up, The great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people; And there shall be a time of trouble, Such as never was since there was a nation, Even to that time. And at that time your people shall be delivered, Every one who is found written in the book.

nkjv@Daniel:12:2 @ And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, Some to everlasting life, Some to shame and everlasting contempt.

nkjv@Daniel:12:3 @ Those who are wise shall shine Like the brightness of the firmament, And those who turn many to righteousness Like the stars forever and ever.

nkjv@Daniel:12:4 @ "But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase."

nkjv@Daniel:12:5 @ Then I, Daniel, looked; and there stood two others, one on this riverbank and the other on that riverbank.

nkjv@Daniel:12:6 @ And one said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, "How long shall the fulfillment of these wonders be?"

nkjv@Daniel:12:7 @ Then I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by Him who lives forever, that it shall be for a time, times, and half a time; and when the power of the holy people has been completely shattered, all these things shall be finished.

nkjv@Daniel:12:8 @ Although I heard, I did not understand. Then I said, "My lord, what shall be the end of these things?"

nkjv@Daniel:12:9 @ And he said, "Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.

nkjv@Daniel:12:10 @ Many shall be purified, made white, and refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand.

nkjv@Daniel:12:11 @ "And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days.

nkjv@Daniel:12:12 @ Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.

nkjv@Daniel:12:13 @ "But you, go your way till the end; for you shall rest, and will arise to your inheritance at the end of the days."

nkjv@Hosea:1:1 @ The word of the LORD that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.


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