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

nasb@Isaiah:1:2 @Listen, O heavens, and hear, O earth; For the LORD speaks, " Sons I have reared and brought up, But they have revolted against Me.

nasb@Isaiah:1:4 @Alas, sinful nation, People weighed down with iniquity, Offspring of evildoers, Sons who act corruptly! They have abandoned the LORD, They have despised the Holy One of Israel, They have turned away from Him.

nasb@Isaiah:1:5 @Where will you be stricken again, As you continue in your rebellion? The whole head is sick And the whole heart is faint.

nasb@Isaiah:1:6 @From the sole of the foot even to the head There is nothing sound in it, Only bruises, welts and raw wounds, Not pressed out or bandaged, Nor softened with oil.

nasb@Isaiah:1:7 @Your land is desolate, Your cities are burned with fire, Your fields--strangers are devouring them in your presence; It is desolation, as overthrown by strangers.

nasb@Isaiah:1:8 @The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, Like a watchman's hut in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.

nasb@Isaiah:1:9 @Unless the LORD of hosts Had left us a few survivors, We would be like Sodom, We would be like Gomorrah.

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

nasb@Isaiah:1:11" @ What are your multiplied sacrifices to Me?" Says the LORD. "I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams And the fat of fed cattle; And I take no pleasure in the blood of bulls, lambs or goats.

nasb@Isaiah:1:12" @When you come to appear before Me, Who requires of you this trampling of My courts?

nasb@Isaiah:1:13" @Bring your worthless offerings no longer, Incense is an abomination to Me. New moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies-- I cannot endure iniquity and the solemn assembly.

nasb@Isaiah:1:14" @I hate your new moon festivals and your appointed feasts, They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.

nasb@Isaiah:1:15" @So when you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; Yes, even though you multiply prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.

nasb@Isaiah:1:16" @ Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Remove the evil of your deeds from My sight. Cease to do evil,

nasb@Isaiah:1:17 @Learn to do good; Seek justice, Reprove the ruthless, Defend the orphan, Plead for the widow.

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

nasb@Isaiah:1:19" @ If you consent and obey, You will eat the best of the land;

nasb@Isaiah:1:20" @But if you refuse and rebel, You will be devoured by the sword." Truly, the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

nasb@Isaiah:1:21 @How the faithful city has become a harlot, She who was full of justice! Righteousness once lodged in her, But now murderers.

nasb@Isaiah:1:23 @Your rulers are rebels And companions of thieves; Everyone loves a bribe And chases after rewards. They do not defend the orphan, Nor does the widow's plea come before them.

nasb@Isaiah:1:24 @Therefore the Lord GOD of hosts, The Mighty One of Israel, declares, "Ah, I will be relieved of My adversaries And avenge Myself on My foes.

nasb@Isaiah:1:26" @Then I will restore your judges as at the first, And your counselors as at the beginning; After that you will be called the city of righteousness, A faithful city."

nasb@Isaiah:1:27 @Zion will be redeemed with justice And her repentant ones with righteousness.

nasb@Isaiah:1:28 @But transgressors and sinners will be crushed together, And those who forsake the LORD will come to an end.

nasb@Isaiah:1:29 @Surely you will be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, And you will be embarrassed at the gardens which you have chosen.

nasb@Isaiah:1:31 @The strong man will become tinder, His work also a spark. Thus they shall both burn together And there will be none to quench them.

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

nasb@Isaiah:2:2 @Now it will come about that In the last days The mountain of the house of the LORD Will be established as the chief of the mountains, And will be raised above the hills; And all the nations will stream to it.

nasb@Isaiah:2:3 @And many peoples will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; That He may teach us concerning His ways And that we may walk in His paths." For the law will go forth from Zion And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

nasb@Isaiah:2:4 @And He will judge between the nations, And will render decisions for many peoples; And they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, And never again will they learn war.

nasb@Isaiah:2:5 @Come, house of Jacob, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:2:6 @For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with influences from the east, And they are soothsayers like the Philistines, And they strike bargains with the children of foreigners.

nasb@Isaiah:2:7 @Their land has also been filled with silver and gold And there is no end to their treasures; Their land has also been filled with horses And there is no end to their chariots.

nasb@Isaiah:2:8 @Their land has also been filled with idols; They worship the work of their hands, That which their fingers have made.

nasb@Isaiah:2:9 @So the common man has been humbled And the man of importance has been abased, But do not forgive them.

nasb@Isaiah:2:10 @Enter the rock and hide in the dust From the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty.

nasb@Isaiah:2:11 @The proud look of man will be abased And the loftiness of man will be humbled, And the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

nasb@Isaiah:2:12 @For the LORD of hosts will have a day of reckoning Against everyone who is proud and lofty And against everyone who is lifted up, That he may be abased.

nasb@Isaiah:2:13 @And it will be against all the cedars of Lebanon that are lofty and lifted up, Against all the oaks of Bashan,

nasb@Isaiah:2:14 @Against all the lofty mountains, Against all the hills that are lifted up,

nasb@Isaiah:2:16 @Against all the ships of Tarshish And against all the beautiful craft.

nasb@Isaiah:2:17 @The pride of man will be humbled And the loftiness of men will be abased; And the LORD alone will be exalted in that day,

nasb@Isaiah:2:18 @But the idols will completely vanish.

nasb@Isaiah:2:19 @Men will go into caves of the rocks And into holes of the ground Before the terror of the LORD And the splendor of His majesty, When He arises to make the earth tremble.

nasb@Isaiah:2:20 @In that day men will cast away to the moles and the bats Their idols of silver and their idols of gold, Which they made for themselves to worship,

nasb@Isaiah:2:21 @In order to go into the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs Before the terror of the LORD and the splendor of His majesty, When He arises to make the earth tremble.

nasb@Isaiah:2:22 @Stop regarding man, whose breath of life is in his nostrils; For why should he be esteemedNULL

nasb@Isaiah:3:1 @For behold, the Lord GOD of hosts is going to remove from Jerusalem and Judah Both supply and support, the whole supply of bread And the whole supply of water;

nasb@Isaiah:3:2 @The mighty man and the warrior, The judge and the prophet, The diviner and the elder,

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

nasb@Isaiah:3:4 @And I will make mere lads their princes, And capricious children will rule over them,

nasb@Isaiah:3:5 @And the people will be oppressed, Each one by another, and each one by his neighbor; The youth will storm against the elder And the inferior against the honorable.

nasb@Isaiah:3:6 @When a man lays hold of his brother in his father's house, saying, "You have a cloak, you shall be our ruler, And these ruins will be under your charge,"

nasb@Isaiah:3:7 @He will protest on that day, saying, "I will not be your healer, For in my house there is neither bread nor cloak; You should not appoint me ruler of the people."

nasb@Isaiah:3:8 @For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen, Because their speech and their actions are against the LORD, To rebel against His glorious presence.

nasb@Isaiah:3:9 @The expression of their faces bears witness against them, And they display their sin like Sodom; They do not even conceal it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves.

nasb@Isaiah:3:10 @Say to the righteous that it will go well with them, For they will eat the fruit of their actions.

nasb@Isaiah:3:11 @Woe to the wicked! It will go badly with him, For what he deserves will be done to him.

nasb@Isaiah:3:12 @O My people! Their oppressors are children, And women rule over them. O My people! Those who guide you lead you astray And confuse the direction of your paths.

nasb@Isaiah:3:13 @The LORD arises to contend, And stands to judge the people.

nasb@Isaiah:3:14 @The LORD enters into judgment with the elders and princes of His people, "It is you who have devoured the vineyard; The plunder of the poor is in your houses.

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

nasb@Isaiah:3:16 @Moreover, the LORD said, "Because the daughters of Zion are proud And walk with heads held high and seductive eyes, And go along with mincing steps And tinkle the bangles on their feet,

nasb@Isaiah:3:17 @Therefore the Lord will afflict the scalp of the daughters of Zion with scabs, And the LORD will make their foreheads bare."

nasb@Isaiah:3:18 @In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, headbands, crescent ornaments,

nasb@Isaiah:3:20 @headdresses, ankle chains, sashes, perfume boxes, amulets,

nasb@Isaiah:3:24 @Now it will come about that instead of sweet perfume there will be putrefaction; Instead of a belt, a rope; Instead of well-set hair, a plucked-out scalp; Instead of fine clothes, a donning of sackcloth; And branding instead of beauty.

nasb@Isaiah:3:25 @Your men will fall by the sword And your mighty ones in battle.

nasb@Isaiah:3:26 @And her gates will lament and mourn, And deserted she will sit on the ground.

nasb@Isaiah:4:1 @For seven women will take hold of one man in that day, saying, "We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; take away our reproach!"

nasb@Isaiah:4:2 @In that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth will be the pride and the adornment of the survivors of Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:4:3 @It will come about that he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy--everyone who is recorded for life in Jerusalem.

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

nasb@Isaiah:4:5 @then the LORD will create over the whole area of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, even smoke, and the brightness of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy.

nasb@Isaiah:4:6 @There will be a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and refuge and protection from the storm and the rain.

nasb@Isaiah:5:2 @He dug it all around, removed its stones, And planted it with the choicest vine. And He built a tower in the middle of it And also hewed out a wine vat in it; Then He expected it to produce good grapes, But it produced only worthless ones.

nasb@Isaiah:5:4" @ What more was there to do for My vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I expected it to produce good grapes did it produce worthless ones?

nasb@Isaiah:5:5" @So now let Me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard- I will remove its hedge and it will be consumed; I will break down its wall and it will become trampled ground.

nasb@Isaiah:5:6" @I will lay it waste; It will not be pruned or hoed, But briars and thorns will come up. I will also charge the clouds to rain no rain on it."

nasb@Isaiah:5:7 @For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel And the men of Judah His delightful plant. Thus He looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; For righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.

nasb@Isaiah:5:8 @Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field, Until there is no more room, So that you have to live alone in the midst of the land!

nasb@Isaiah:5:9 @In my ears the LORD of hosts has sworn, "Surely, many houses shall become desolate, Even great and fine ones, without occupants.

nasb@Isaiah:5:11 @Woe to those who rise early in the morning that they may pursue strong drink, Who stay up late in the evening that wine may inflame them!

nasb@Isaiah:5:12 @Their banquets are accompanied by lyre and harp, by tambourine and flute, and by wine; But they do not pay attention to the deeds of the LORD, Nor do they consider the work of His hands.

nasb@Isaiah:5:13 @Therefore My people go into exile for their lack of knowledge; And their honorable men are famished, And their multitude is parched with thirst.

nasb@Isaiah:5:14 @Therefore Sheol has enlarged its throat and opened its mouth without measure; And Jerusalem's splendor, her multitude, her din of revelry and the jubilant within her, descend into it.

nasb@Isaiah:5:15 @So the common man will be humbled and the man of importance abased, The eyes of the proud also will be abased.

nasb@Isaiah:5:16 @But the LORD of hosts will be exalted in judgment, And the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.

nasb@Isaiah:5:17 @Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, And strangers will eat in the waste places of the wealthy.

nasb@Isaiah:5:18 @Woe to those who drag iniquity with the cords of falsehood, And sin as if with cart ropes;

nasb@Isaiah:5:19 @Who say, "Let Him make speed, let Him hasten His work, that we may see it; And let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near And come to pass, that we may know it!"

nasb@Isaiah:5:21 @Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes And clever in their own sight!

nasb@Isaiah:5:22 @Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine And valiant men in mixing strong drink,

nasb@Isaiah:5:23 @Who justify the wicked for a bribe, And take away the rights of the ones who are in the right!

nasb@Isaiah:5:24 @Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble And dry grass collapses into the flame, So their root will become like rot and their blossom blow away as dust; For they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:5:25 @On this account the anger of the LORD has burned against His people, And He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them down. And the mountains quaked, and their corpses lay like refuse in the middle of the streets. For all this His anger is not spent, But His hand is still stretched out.

nasb@Isaiah:5:26 @He will also lift up a standard to the distant nation, And will whistle for it from the ends of the earth; And behold, it will come with speed swiftly.

nasb@Isaiah:5:27 @No one in it is weary or stumbles, None slumbers or sleeps; Nor is the belt at its waist undone, Nor its sandal strap broken.

nasb@Isaiah:5:28 @Its arrows are sharp and all its bows are bent; The hoofs of its horses seem like flint and its chariot wheels like a whirlwind.

nasb@Isaiah:5:29 @Its roaring is like a lioness, and it roars like young lions; It growls as it seizes the prey And carries it off with no one to deliver it.

nasb@Isaiah:5:30 @And it will growl over it in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land, behold, there is darkness and distress; Even the light is darkened by its clouds.

nasb@Isaiah:6:1 @In the year of King Uzziah's death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple.

nasb@Isaiah:6:2 @Seraphim stood above Him, each having six wings- with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.

nasb@Isaiah:6:3 @And one called out to another and said, " Holy, Holy, Holy, is the LORD of hosts, The whole earth is full of His glory."

nasb@Isaiah:6:4 @And the foundations of the thresholds trembled at the voice of him who called out, while the temple was filling with smoke.

nasb@Isaiah:6:5 @Then I said, " Woe is me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I live among a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts."

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

nasb@Isaiah:6:7 @He touched my mouth with it and said, "Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away and your sin is forgiven."

nasb@Isaiah:6:8 @Then 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!"

nasb@Isaiah:6:9 @He said, "Go, and tell this people- 'Keep on listening, but do not perceive; Keep on looking, but do not understand.'

nasb@Isaiah:6:10" @ Render the hearts of this people insensitive, Their ears dull, And their eyes dim, Otherwise they might see with their eyes, Hear with their ears, Understand with their hearts, And return and be healed."

nasb@Isaiah:6:11 @Then I said, "Lord, how long?" And He answered, "Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant, Houses are without people And the land is utterly desolate,

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

nasb@Isaiah:6:13" @Yet there will be a tenth portion in it, And it will again be subject to burning, Like a terebinth or an oak Whose stump remains when it is felled. The holy seed is its stump."

nasb@Isaiah:7:1 @Now it came about in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Aram and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but could not conquer it.

nasb@Isaiah:7:2 @When it was reported to the house of David, saying, "The Arameans have camped in Ephraim," his heart and the hearts of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake with the wind.

nasb@Isaiah:7:3 @Then the LORD said to Isaiah, "Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and your son Shear-jashub, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway to the fuller's field,

nasb@Isaiah:7:4 @and say to him, 'Take care and be calm, have no fear and do not be fainthearted because of these two stubs of smoldering firebrands, on account of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and the son of Remaliah.

nasb@Isaiah:7:5 @'Because Aram, with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has planned evil against you, saying,

nasb@Isaiah:7:6" @Let us go up against Judah and terrorize it, and make for ourselves a breach in its walls and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,"

nasb@Isaiah:7:7 @thus says the Lord GOD- " It shall not stand nor shall it come to pass.

nasb@Isaiah:7:8" @For the head of Aram is Damascus and the head of Damascus is Rezin (now within another 65 years Ephraim will be shattered, so that it is no longer a people),

nasb@Isaiah:7:9 @and the head of Ephraim is Samaria and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you will not believe, you surely shall not last."'"

nasb@Isaiah:7:10 @Then the LORD spoke again to Ahaz, saying,

nasb@Isaiah:7:11" @Ask a sign for yourself from the LORD your God; make it deep as Sheol or high as heaven."

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

nasb@Isaiah:7:13 @Then he said, "Listen now, O house of David! Is it too slight a thing for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God as well?

nasb@Isaiah:7:14" @Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign- Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel.

nasb@Isaiah:7:15" @He will eat curds and honey at the time He knows enough to refuse evil and choose good.

nasb@Isaiah:7:16" @ For before the boy will know enough to refuse evil and choose good, the land whose two kings you dread will be forsaken.

nasb@Isaiah:7:17" @The LORD will bring on you, on your people, and on your father's house such days as have never come since the day that Ephraim separated from Judah, the king of Assyria."

nasb@Isaiah:7:18 @In that day the LORD will whistle for the fly that is in the remotest part of the rivers of Egypt and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

nasb@Isaiah:7:19 @They will all come and settle on the steep ravines, on the ledges of the cliffs, on all the thorn bushes and on all the watering places.

nasb@Isaiah:7:20 @In that day the Lord will shave with a razor, hired from regions beyond the Euphrates (that is, with the king of Assyria), the head and the hair of the legs; and it will also remove the beard.

nasb@Isaiah:7:21 @Now in that day a man may keep alive a heifer and a pair of sheep;

nasb@Isaiah:7:22 @and because of the abundance of the milk produced he will eat curds, for everyone that is left within the land will eat curds and honey.

nasb@Isaiah:7:23 @And it will come about in that day, that every place where there used to be a thousand vines, valued at a thousand shekels of silver, will become briars and thorns.

nasb@Isaiah:7:24 @People will come there with bows and arrows because all the land will be briars and thorns.

nasb@Isaiah:7:25 @As for all the hills which used to be cultivated with the hoe, you will not go there for fear of briars and thorns; but they will become a place for pasturing oxen and for sheep to trample.

nasb@Isaiah:7:8 @Then the LORD said to me, "Take for yourself a large tablet and write on it in ordinary letters- Swift is the booty, speedy is the prey.

nasb@Isaiah:7:2" @And I will take to Myself faithful witnesses for testimony, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah."

nasb@Isaiah:7:3 @So I approached the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. Then the LORD said to me, "Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz;

nasb@Isaiah:7:4 @for before the boy knows how to cry out 'My father' or 'My mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria."

nasb@Isaiah:7:5 @Again the LORD spoke to me further, saying,

nasb@Isaiah:7:6" @Inasmuch as these people have rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah And rejoice in Rezin and the son of Remaliah;

nasb@Isaiah:7:7" @Now therefore, behold, the Lord is about to bring on them the strong and abundant waters of the Euphrates, Even the king of Assyria and all his glory; And it will rise up over all its channels and go over all its banks.

nasb@Isaiah:7:8" @Then it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass through, It will reach even to the neck; And the spread of its wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.

nasb@Isaiah:7:9" @ Be broken, O peoples, and be shattered; And give ear, all remote places of the earth. Gird yourselves, yet be shattered; Gird yourselves, yet be shattered.

nasb@Isaiah:7:11 @For thus the LORD spoke to me with mighty power and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

nasb@Isaiah:7:12" @You are not to say, 'It is a conspiracy!' In regard to all that this people call a conspiracy, And you are not to fear what they fear or be in dread of it.

nasb@Isaiah:7:13" @It is the LORD of hosts whom you should regard as holy. And He shall be your fear, And He shall be your dread.

nasb@Isaiah:7:14" @Then He shall become a sanctuary; But to both the houses of Israel, a stone to strike and a rock to stumble over, And a snare and a trap for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

nasb@Isaiah:7:15" @Many will stumble over them, Then they will fall and be broken; They will even be snared and caught."

nasb@Isaiah:7:16 @Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

nasb@Isaiah:7:17 @And I will wait for the LORD who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob; I will even look eagerly for Him.

nasb@Isaiah:7:18 @Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.

nasb@Isaiah:7:19 @When they say to you, " Consult the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and mutter," should not a people consult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

nasb@Isaiah:7:20 @To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.

nasb@Isaiah:7:21 @They will pass through the land hard-pressed and famished, and it will turn out that when they are hungry, they will be enraged and curse their king and their God as they face upward.

nasb@Isaiah:7:22 @Then they will look to the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be driven away into darkness.

nasb@Isaiah:8:1 @But there will be no more gloom for her who was in anguish; in earlier times He treated the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali with contempt, but later on He shall make it glorious, by the way of the sea, on the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles.

nasb@Isaiah:8:2 @The people who walk in darkness Will see a great light; Those who live in a dark land, The light will shine on them.

nasb@Isaiah:8:3 @You shall multiply the nation, You shall increase their gladness; They will be glad in Your presence As with the gladness of harvest, As men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

nasb@Isaiah:8:4 @For You shall break the yoke of their burden and the staff on their shoulders, The rod of their oppressor, as at the battle of Midian.

nasb@Isaiah:8:5 @For every boot of the booted warrior in the battle tumult, And cloak rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.

nasb@Isaiah:8:6 @For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.

nasb@Isaiah:8:7 @There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace, On the throne of David and over his kingdom, To establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness From then on and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will accomplish this.

nasb@Isaiah:8:8 @The Lord sends a message against Jacob, And it falls on Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:8:9 @And all the people know it, That is, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, Asserting in pride and in arrogance of heart-

nasb@Isaiah:8:10" @The bricks have fallen down, But we will rebuild with smooth stones; The sycamores have been cut down, But we will replace them with cedars."

nasb@Isaiah:8:11 @Therefore the LORD raises against them adversaries from Rezin And spurs their enemies on,

nasb@Isaiah:8:12 @The Arameans on the east and the Philistines on the west; And they devour Israel with gaping jaws. In spite of all this, His anger does not turn away And His hand is still stretched out.

nasb@Isaiah:8:13 @Yet the people do not turn back to Him who struck them, Nor do they seek the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Isaiah:8:14 @So the LORD cuts off head and tail from Israel, Both palm branch and bulrush in a single day.

nasb@Isaiah:8:15 @The head is the elder and honorable man, And the prophet who teaches falsehood is the tail.

nasb@Isaiah:8:16 @For those who guide this people are leading them astray; And those who are guided by them are brought to confusion.

nasb@Isaiah:8:17 @Therefore the Lord does not take pleasure in their young men, Nor does He have pity on their orphans or their widows; For every one of them is godless and an evildoer, And every mouth is speaking foolishness. In spite of all this, His anger does not turn away And His hand is still stretched out.

nasb@Isaiah:8:18 @For wickedness burns like a fire; It consumes briars and thorns; It even sets the thickets of the forest aflame And they roll upward in a column of smoke.

nasb@Isaiah:8:19 @By the fury of the LORD of hosts the land is burned up, And the people are like fuel for the fire; No man spares his brother.

nasb@Isaiah:8:20 @They slice off what is on the right hand but still are hungry, And they eat what is on the left hand but they are not satisfied; Each of them eats the flesh of his own arm.

nasb@Isaiah:8:21 @Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh, And together they are against Judah. In spite of all this, His anger does not turn away And His hand is still stretched out.

nasb@Isaiah:9:2 @So as to deprive the needy of justice And rob the poor of My people of their rights, So that widows may be their spoil And that they may plunder the orphans.

nasb@Isaiah:9:3 @Now what will you do in the day of punishment, And in the devastation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where will you leave your wealth?

nasb@Isaiah:9:4 @Nothing remains but to crouch among the captives Or fall among the slain. In spite of all this, His anger does not turn away And His hand is still stretched out.

nasb@Isaiah:9:5 @Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger And the staff in whose hands is My indignation,

nasb@Isaiah:9:6 @I send it against a godless nation And commission it against the people of My fury To capture booty and to seize plunder, And to trample them down like mud in the streets.

nasb@Isaiah:9:7 @Yet it does not so intend, Nor does it plan so in its heart, But rather it is its purpose to destroy And to cut off many nations.

nasb@Isaiah:9:9" @Is not Calno like Carchemish, Or Hamath like Arpad, Or Samaria like Damascus?

nasb@Isaiah:9:10" @As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols, Whose graven images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,

nasb@Isaiah:9:11 @Shall I not do to Jerusalem and her images Just as I have done to Samaria and her idols?"

nasb@Isaiah:9:12 @So it will be that when the Lord has completed all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, "I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the pomp of his haughtiness."

nasb@Isaiah:9:13 @For he has said, "By the power of my hand and by my wisdom I did this, For I have understanding; And I removed the boundaries of the peoples And plundered their treasures, And like a mighty man I brought down their inhabitants,

nasb@Isaiah:9:14 @And my hand reached to the riches of the peoples like a nest, And as one gathers abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth; And there was not one that flapped its wing or opened its beak or chirped."

nasb@Isaiah:9:15 @Is the axe to boast itself over the one who chops with it? Is the saw to exalt itself over the one who wields it? That would be like a club wielding those who lift it, Or like a rod lifting him who is not wood.

nasb@Isaiah:9:16 @Therefore the Lord, the GOD of hosts, will send a wasting disease among his stout warriors; And under his glory a fire will be kindled like a burning flame.

nasb@Isaiah:9:17 @And the light of Israel will become a fire and his Holy One a flame, And it will burn and devour his thorns and his briars in a single day.

nasb@Isaiah:9:18 @And He will destroy the glory of his forest and of his fruitful garden, both soul and body, And it will be as when a sick man wastes away.

nasb@Isaiah:9:19 @And the rest of the trees of his forest will be so small in number That a child could write them down.

nasb@Isaiah:9:20 @Now in that day the remnant of Israel, and those of the house of Jacob who have escaped, will never again rely on the one who struck them, but will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:9:21 @A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

nasb@Isaiah:9:22 @For though your people, O Israel, may be like the sand of the sea, Only a remnant within them will return; A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

nasb@Isaiah:9:23 @For a complete destruction, one that is decreed, the Lord GOD of hosts will execute in the midst of the whole land.

nasb@Isaiah:9:24 @Therefore thus says the Lord GOD of hosts, "O My people who dwell in Zion, do not fear the Assyrian who strikes you with the rod and lifts up his staff against you, the way Egypt did.

nasb@Isaiah:9:25" @For in a very little while My indignation against you will be spent and My anger will be directed to their destruction."

nasb@Isaiah:9:26 @The LORD of hosts will arouse a scourge against him like the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb; and His staff will be over the sea and He will lift it up the way He did in Egypt.

nasb@Isaiah:9:27 @So it will be in that day, that his burden will be removed from your shoulders and his yoke from your neck, and the yoke will be broken because of fatness.

nasb@Isaiah:9:28 @He has come against Aiath, He has passed through Migron; At Michmash he deposited his baggage.

nasb@Isaiah:9:29 @They have gone through the pass, saying, " Geba will be our lodging place." Ramah is terrified, and Gibeah of Saul has fled away.

nasb@Isaiah:9:30 @Cry aloud with your voice, O daughter of Gallim! Pay attention, Laishah and wretched Anathoth!

nasb@Isaiah:9:31 @Madmenah has fled. The inhabitants of Gebim have sought refuge.

nasb@Isaiah:9:32 @Yet today he will halt at Nob; He shakes his fist at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

nasb@Isaiah:9:33 @Behold, the Lord, the GOD of hosts, will lop off the boughs with a terrible crash; Those also who are tall in stature will be cut down And those who are lofty will be abased.

nasb@Isaiah:9:34 @He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an iron axe, And Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.

nasb@Isaiah:10:1 @Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse, And a branch from his roots will bear fruit.

nasb@Isaiah:10:2 @The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel and strength, The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:10:3 @And He will delight in the fear of the LORD, And He will not judge by what His eyes see, Nor make a decision by what His ears hear;

nasb@Isaiah:10:4 @But with righteousness He will judge the poor, And decide with fairness for the afflicted of the earth; And He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, And with the breath of His lips He will slay the wicked.

nasb@Isaiah:10:5 @Also righteousness will be the belt about His loins, And faithfulness the belt about His waist.

nasb@Isaiah:10:6 @And the wolf will dwell with the lamb, And the leopard will lie down with the young goat, And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; And a little boy will lead them.

nasb@Isaiah:10:7 @Also the cow and the bear will graze, Their young will lie down together, And the lion will eat straw like the ox.

nasb@Isaiah:10:8 @The nursing child will play by the hole of the cobra, And the weaned child will put his hand on the viper's den.

nasb@Isaiah:10:9 @They will not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain, For the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD As the waters cover the sea.

nasb@Isaiah:10:10 @Then in that day The nations will resort to the root of Jesse, Who will stand as a signal for the peoples; And His resting place will be glorious.

nasb@Isaiah:10:11 @Then it will happen on that day that the Lord Will again recover the second time with His hand The remnant of His people, who will remain, From Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, And from the islands of the sea.

nasb@Isaiah:10:12 @And He will lift up a standard for the nations And assemble the banished ones of Israel, And will gather the dispersed of Judah From the four corners of the earth.

nasb@Isaiah:10:13 @Then the jealousy of Ephraim will depart, And those who harass Judah will be cut off; Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah, And Judah will not harass Ephraim.

nasb@Isaiah:10:14 @They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines on the west; Together they will plunder the sons of the east; They will possess Edom and Moab, And the sons of Ammon will be subject to them.

nasb@Isaiah:10:15 @And the LORD will utterly destroy The tongue of the Sea of Egypt; And He will wave His hand over the River With His scorching wind; And He will strike it into seven streams And make men walk over dry-shod.

nasb@Isaiah:10:16 @And there will be a highway from Assyria For the remnant of His people who will be left, Just as there was for Israel In the day that they came up out of the land of Egypt.

nasb@Isaiah:10:12 @Then you will say on that day, " I will give thanks to You, O LORD; For although You were angry with me, Your anger is turned away, And You comfort me.

nasb@Isaiah:10:2" @Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; For the LORD GOD is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation."

nasb@Isaiah:10:3 @Therefore you will joyously draw water From the springs of salvation.

nasb@Isaiah:10:4 @And in that day you will say, " Give thanks to the LORD, call on His name. Make known His deeds among the peoples; Make them remember that His name is exalted."

nasb@Isaiah:10:5 @Praise the LORD in song, for He has done excellent things; Let this be known throughout the earth.

nasb@Isaiah:10:6 @Cry aloud and shout for joy, O inhabitant of Zion, For great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:11:1 @The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

nasb@Isaiah:11:2 @Lift up a standard on the bare hill, Raise your voice to them, Wave the hand that they may enter the doors of the nobles.

nasb@Isaiah:11:4 @A sound of tumult on the mountains, Like that of many people! A sound of the uproar of kingdoms, Of nations gathered together! The LORD of hosts is mustering the army for battle.

nasb@Isaiah:11:5 @They are coming from a far country, From the farthest horizons, The LORD and His instruments of indignation, To destroy the whole land.

nasb@Isaiah:11:6 @Wail, for the day of the LORD is near! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

nasb@Isaiah:11:7 @Therefore all hands will fall limp, And every man's heart will melt.

nasb@Isaiah:11:8 @They will be terrified, Pains and anguish will take hold of them; They will writhe like a woman in labor, They will look at one another in astonishment, Their faces aflame.

nasb@Isaiah:11:9 @Behold, the day of the LORD is coming, Cruel, with fury and burning anger, To make the land a desolation; And He will exterminate its sinners from it.

nasb@Isaiah:11:10 @For the stars of heaven and their constellations Will not flash forth their light; The sun will be dark when it rises And the moon will not shed its light.

nasb@Isaiah:11:11 @Thus I will punish the world for its evil And the wicked for their iniquity; I will also put an end to the arrogance of the proud And abase the haughtiness of the ruthless.

nasb@Isaiah:11:12 @I will make mortal man scarcer than pure gold And mankind than the gold of Ophir.

nasb@Isaiah:11:13 @Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, And the earth will be shaken from its place At the fury of the LORD of hosts In the day of His burning anger.

nasb@Isaiah:11:14 @And it will be that like a hunted gazelle, Or like sheep with none to gather them, They will each turn to his own people, And each one flee to his own land.

nasb@Isaiah:11:15 @Anyone who is found will be thrust through, And anyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

nasb@Isaiah:11:16 @Their little ones also will be dashed to pieces Before their eyes; Their houses will be plundered And their wives ravished.

nasb@Isaiah:11:17 @Behold, I am going to stir up the Medes against them, Who will not value silver or take pleasure in gold.

nasb@Isaiah:11:18 @And their bows will mow down the young men, They will not even have compassion on the fruit of the womb, Nor will their eye pity children.

nasb@Isaiah:11:19 @And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, the glory of the Chaldeans' pride, Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

nasb@Isaiah:11:20 @It will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation; Nor will the Arab pitch his tent there, Nor will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.

nasb@Isaiah:11:21 @But desert creatures will lie down there, And their houses will be full of owls; Ostriches also will live there, and shaggy goats will frolic there.

nasb@Isaiah:11:22 @Hyenas will howl in their fortified towers And jackals in their luxurious palaces. Her fateful time also will soon come And her days will not be prolonged.

nasb@Isaiah:12:1 @When the LORD will have compassion on Jacob and again choose Israel, and settle them in their own land, then strangers will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

nasb@Isaiah:12:2 @The peoples will take them along and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them as an inheritance in the land of the LORD as male servants and female servants; and they will take their captors captive and will rule over their oppressors.

nasb@Isaiah:12:3 @And it will be in the day when the LORD gives you rest from your pain and turmoil and harsh service in which you have been enslaved,

nasb@Isaiah:12:4 @that you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased, And how fury has ceased!

nasb@Isaiah:12:5" @The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, The scepter of rulers

nasb@Isaiah:12:6 @Which used to strike the peoples in fury with unceasing strokes, Which subdued the nations in anger with unrestrained persecution.

nasb@Isaiah:12:7" @The whole earth is at rest and is quiet; They break forth into shouts of joy.

nasb@Isaiah:12:8" @Even the cypress trees rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, 'Since you were laid low, no tree cutter comes up against us.'

nasb@Isaiah:12:9" @ Sheol from beneath is excited over you to meet you when you come; It arouses for you the spirits of the dead, all the leaders of the earth; It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones.

nasb@Isaiah:12:10" @ They will all respond and say to you, 'Even you have been made weak as we, You have become like us.

nasb@Isaiah:12:11 @'Your pomp and the music of your harps Have been brought down to Sheol; Maggots are spread out as your bed beneath you And worms are your covering.'

nasb@Isaiah:12:12" @How you have fallen from heaven, O star of the morning, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the earth, You who have weakened the nations!

nasb@Isaiah:12:13" @But you said in your heart, 'I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God, And I will sit on the mount of assembly In the recesses of the north.

nasb@Isaiah:12:14 @'I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.'

nasb@Isaiah:12:15" @Nevertheless you will be thrust down to Sheol, To the recesses of the pit.

nasb@Isaiah:12:16" @Those who see you will gaze at you, They will ponder over you, saying, 'Is this the man who made the earth tremble, Who shook kingdoms,

nasb@Isaiah:12:17 @Who made the world like a wilderness And overthrew its cities, Who did not allow his prisoners to go home?'

nasb@Isaiah:12:18" @All the kings of the nations lie in glory, Each in his own tomb.

nasb@Isaiah:12:19" @But you have been cast out of your tomb Like a rejected branch, Clothed with the slain who are pierced with a sword, Who go down to the stones of the pit Like a trampled corpse.

nasb@Isaiah:12:20" @You will not be united with them in burial, Because you have ruined your country, You have slain your people. May the offspring of evildoers not be mentioned forever.

nasb@Isaiah:12:21" @Prepare for his sons a place of slaughter Because of the iniquity of their fathers. They must not arise and take possession of the earth And fill the face of the world with cities."

nasb@Isaiah:12:22" @I will rise up against them," declares the LORD of hosts, "and will cut off from Babylon name and survivors, offspring and posterity," declares the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:12:23" @I will also make it a possession for the hedgehog and swamps of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," declares the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Isaiah:12:24 @The LORD of hosts has sworn saying, "Surely, just as I have intended so it has happened, and just as I have planned so it will stand,

nasb@Isaiah:12:25 @to break Assyria in My land, and I will trample him on My mountains. Then his yoke will be removed from them and his burden removed from their shoulder.

nasb@Isaiah:12:26" @This is the plan devised against the whole earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out against all the nations.

nasb@Isaiah:12:27" @For the LORD of hosts has planned, and who can frustrate it? And as for His stretched-out hand, who can turn it back?"

nasb@Isaiah:12:28 @In the year that King Ahaz died this oracle came-

nasb@Isaiah:12:29" @Do not rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, Because the rod that struck you is broken; For from the serpent's root a viper will come out, And its fruit will be a flying serpent.

nasb@Isaiah:12:30" @Those who are most helpless will eat, And the needy will lie down in security; I will destroy your root with famine, And it will kill off your survivors.

nasb@Isaiah:12:31" @Wail, O gate; cry, O city; Melt away, O Philistia, all of you; For smoke comes from the north, And there is no straggler in his ranks.

nasb@Isaiah:12:32" @How then will one answer the messengers of the nationNULL That the LORD has founded Zion, And the afflicted of His people will seek refuge in it."

nasb@Isaiah:13:1 @The oracle concerning Moab. Surely in a night Ar of Moab is devastated and ruined; Surely in a night Kir of Moab is devastated and ruined.

nasb@Isaiah:13:2 @They have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, even to the high places to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba; Everyone's head is bald and every beard is cut off.

nasb@Isaiah:13:3 @In their streets they have girded themselves with sackcloth; On their housetops and in their squares Everyone is wailing, dissolved in tears.

nasb@Isaiah:13:4 @Heshbon and Elealeh also cry out, Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz; Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; His soul trembles within him.

nasb@Isaiah:13:5 @My heart cries out for Moab; His fugitives are as far as Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah, For they go up the ascent of Luhith weeping; Surely on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress over their ruin.

nasb@Isaiah:13:6 @For the waters of Nimrim are desolate. Surely the grass is withered, the tender grass died out, There is no green thing.

nasb@Isaiah:13:7 @Therefore the abundance which they have acquired and stored up They carry off over the brook of Arabim.

nasb@Isaiah:13:8 @For the cry of distress has gone around the territory of Moab, Its wail goes as far as Eglaim and its wailing even to Beer-elim.

nasb@Isaiah:13:9 @For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; Surely I will bring added woes upon Dimon, A lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon the remnant of the land.

nasb@Isaiah:14:1 @Send the tribute lamb to the ruler of the land, From Sela by way of the wilderness to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

nasb@Isaiah:14:2 @Then, like fleeing birds or scattered nestlings, The daughters of Moab will be at the fords of the Arnon.

nasb@Isaiah:14:3" @Give us advice, make a decision; Cast your shadow like night at high noon; Hide the outcasts, do not betray the fugitive.

nasb@Isaiah:14:4" @Let the outcasts of Moab stay with you; Be a hiding place to them from the destroyer." For the extortioner has come to an end, destruction has ceased, Oppressors have completely disappeared from the land.

nasb@Isaiah:14:5 @A throne will even be established in lovingkindness, And a judge will sit on it in faithfulness in the tent of David; Moreover, he will seek justice And be prompt in righteousness.

nasb@Isaiah:14:6 @We have heard of the pride of Moab, an excessive pride; Even of his arrogance, pride, and fury; His idle boasts are false.

nasb@Isaiah:14:7 @Therefore Moab will wail; everyone of Moab will wail. You will moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth As those who are utterly stricken.

nasb@Isaiah:14:8 @For the fields of Heshbon have withered, the vines of Sibmah as well; The lords of the nations have trampled down its choice clusters Which reached as far as Jazer and wandered to the deserts; Its tendrils spread themselves out and passed over the sea.

nasb@Isaiah:14:9 @Therefore I will weep bitterly for Jazer, for the vine of Sibmah; I will drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh; For the shouting over your summer fruits and your harvest has fallen away.

nasb@Isaiah:14:10 @Gladness and joy are taken away from the fruitful field; In the vineyards also there will be no cries of joy or jubilant shouting, No treader treads out wine in the presses, For I have made the shouting to cease.

nasb@Isaiah:14:11 @Therefore my heart intones like a harp for Moab And my inward feelings for Kir-hareseth.

nasb@Isaiah:14:12 @So it will come about when Moab presents himself, When he wearies himself upon his high place And comes to his sanctuary to pray, That he will not prevail.

nasb@Isaiah:14:13 @This is the word which the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab.

nasb@Isaiah:14:14 @But now the LORD speaks, saying, "Within three years, as a hired man would count them, the glory of Moab will be degraded along with all his great population, and his remnant will be very small and impotent."

nasb@Isaiah:14:17 @The oracle concerning Damascus. "Behold, Damascus is about to be removed from being a city And will become a fallen ruin.

nasb@Isaiah:14:2" @The cities of Aroer are forsaken; They will be for flocks to lie down in, And there will be no one to frighten them.

nasb@Isaiah:14:3" @The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim, And sovereignty from Damascus And the remnant of Aram; They will be like the glory of the sons of Israel," Declares the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Isaiah:14:4 @Now in that day the glory of Jacob will fade, And the fatness of his flesh will become lean.

nasb@Isaiah:14:5 @It will be even like the reaper gathering the standing grain, As his arm harvests the ears, Or it will be like one gleaning ears of grain In the valley of Rephaim.

nasb@Isaiah:14:6 @Yet gleanings will be left in it like the shaking of an olive tree, Two or three olives on the topmost bough, Four or five on the branches of a fruitful tree, Declares the LORD, the God of Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:14:7 @In that day man will have regard for his Maker And his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:14:8 @He will not have regard for the altars, the work of his hands, Nor will he look to that which his fingers have made, Even the Asherim and incense stands.

nasb@Isaiah:14:9 @In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken places in the forest, Or like branches which they abandoned before the sons of Israel; And the land will be a desolation.

nasb@Isaiah:14:10 @For you have forgotten the God of your salvation And have not remembered the rock of your refuge. Therefore you plant delightful plants And set them with vine slips of a strange god.

nasb@Isaiah:14:11 @In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in, And in the morning you bring your seed to blossom; But the harvest will be a heap In a day of sickliness and incurable pain.

nasb@Isaiah:14:12 @Alas, the uproar of many peoples Who roar like the roaring of the seas, And the rumbling of nations Who rush on like the rumbling of mighty waters!

nasb@Isaiah:14:13 @The nations rumble on like the rumbling of many waters, But He will rebuke them and they will flee far away, And be chased like chaff in the mountains before the wind, Or like whirling dust before a gale.

nasb@Isaiah:14:14 @At evening time, behold, there is terror! Before morning they are no more. Such will be the portion of those who plunder us And the lot of those who pillage us.

nasb@Isaiah:15:1 @Alas, oh land of whirring wings Which lies beyond the rivers of Cush,

nasb@Isaiah:15:2 @Which sends envoys by the sea, Even in papyrus vessels on the surface of the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, To a people feared far and wide, A powerful and oppressive nation Whose land the rivers divide.

nasb@Isaiah:15:3 @All you inhabitants of the world and dwellers on earth, As soon as a standard is raised on the mountains, you will see it, And as soon as the trumpet is blown, you will hear it.

nasb@Isaiah:15:4 @For thus the LORD has told me, "I will look from My dwelling place quietly Like dazzling heat in the sunshine, Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."

nasb@Isaiah:15:5 @For before the harvest, as soon as the bud blossoms And the flower becomes a ripening grape, Then He will cut off the sprigs with pruning knives And remove and cut away the spreading branches.

nasb@Isaiah:15:6 @They will be left together for mountain birds of prey, And for the beasts of the earth; And the birds of prey will spend the summer feeding on them, And all the beasts of the earth will spend harvest time on them.

nasb@Isaiah:15:7 @At that time a gift of homage will be brought to the LORD of hosts From a people tall and smooth, Even from a people feared far and wide, A powerful and oppressive nation, Whose land the rivers divide-- To the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, even Mount Zion.

nasb@Isaiah:15:19 @The oracle concerning Egypt. Behold, the LORD is riding on a swift cloud and is about to come to Egypt; The idols of Egypt will tremble at His presence, And the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.

nasb@Isaiah:15:2" @So I will incite Egyptians against Egyptians; And they will each fight against his brother and each against his neighbor, City against city and kingdom against kingdom.

nasb@Isaiah:15:3" @Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be demoralized within them; And I will confound their strategy, So that they will resort to idols and ghosts of the dead And to mediums and spiritists.

nasb@Isaiah:15:4" @Moreover, I will deliver the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel master, And a mighty king will rule over them," declares the Lord GOD of hosts.

nasb@Isaiah:15:5 @The waters from the sea will dry up, And the river will be parched and dry.

nasb@Isaiah:15:6 @The canals will emit a stench, The streams of Egypt will thin out and dry up; The reeds and rushes will rot away.

nasb@Isaiah:15:7 @The bulrushes by the Nile, by the edge of the Nile And all the sown fields by the Nile Will become dry, be driven away, and be no more.

nasb@Isaiah:15:8 @And the fishermen will lament, And all those who cast a line into the Nile will mourn, And those who spread nets on the waters will pine away.

nasb@Isaiah:15:9 @Moreover, the manufacturers of linen made from combed flax And the weavers of white cloth will be utterly dejected.

nasb@Isaiah:15:10 @And the pillars of Egypt will be crushed; All the hired laborers will be grieved in soul.

nasb@Isaiah:15:11 @The princes of Zoan are mere fools; The advice of Pharaoh's wisest advisers has become stupid. How can you men say to Pharaoh, "I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings"?

nasb@Isaiah:15:12 @Well then, where are your wise men? Please let them tell you, And let them understand what the LORD of hosts Has purposed against Egypt.

nasb@Isaiah:15:13 @The princes of Zoan have acted foolishly, The princes of Memphis are deluded; Those who are the cornerstone of her tribes Have led Egypt astray.

nasb@Isaiah:15:14 @The LORD has mixed within her a spirit of distortion; They have led Egypt astray in all that it does, As a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

nasb@Isaiah:15:15 @There will be no work for Egypt Which its head or tail, its palm branch or bulrush, may do.

nasb@Isaiah:15:16 @In that day the Egyptians will become like women, and they will tremble and be in dread because of the waving of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which He is going to wave over them.

nasb@Isaiah:15:17 @The land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt; everyone to whom it is mentioned will be in dread of it, because of the purpose of the LORD of hosts which He is purposing against them.

nasb@Isaiah:15:18 @In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will be speaking the language of Canaan and swearing allegiance to the LORD of hosts; one will be called the City of Destruction.

nasb@Isaiah:15:19 @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 near its border.

nasb@Isaiah:15:20 @It will become a sign and a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to the LORD because of oppressors, and He will send them a Savior and a Champion, and He will deliver them.

nasb@Isaiah:15:21 @Thus the LORD will make Himself known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know the LORD in that day. They will even worship with sacrifice and offering, and will make a vow to the LORD and perform it.

nasb@Isaiah:15:22 @The LORD will strike Egypt, striking but healing; so they will return to the LORD, and He will respond to them and will heal them.

nasb@Isaiah:15:23 @In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrians will come into Egypt and the Egyptians into Assyria, and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.

nasb@Isaiah:15:24 @In that day Israel will be the third party with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth,

nasb@Isaiah:15:25 @whom the LORD of hosts has blessed, saying, "Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance."

nasb@Isaiah:16:1 @In the year that the commander came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him and he fought against Ashdod and captured it,

nasb@Isaiah:16:2 @at that time the LORD spoke through Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, "Go and loosen the sackcloth from your hips and take your shoes off your feet." And he did so, going naked and barefoot.

nasb@Isaiah:16:3 @And the LORD said, "Even as My servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot three years as a sign and token against Egypt and Cush,

nasb@Isaiah:16:4 @so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old, naked and barefoot with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

nasb@Isaiah:16:5" @Then they will be dismayed and ashamed because of Cush their hope and Egypt their boast.

nasb@Isaiah:16:6" @So the inhabitants of this coastland will say in that day, 'Behold, such is our hope, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and we, how shall we escape?'"

nasb@Isaiah:17:1 @The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea. As windstorms in the Negev sweep on, It comes from the wilderness, from a terrifying land.

nasb@Isaiah:17:2 @A harsh vision has been shown to me; The treacherous one still deals treacherously, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, Elam, lay siege, Media; I have made an end of all the groaning she has caused.

nasb@Isaiah:17:3 @For this reason my loins are full of anguish; Pains have seized me like the pains of a woman in labor. I am so bewildered I cannot hear, so terrified I cannot see.

nasb@Isaiah:17:4 @My mind reels, horror overwhelms me; The twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling.

nasb@Isaiah:17:5 @They set the table, they spread out the cloth, they eat, they drink; "Rise up, captains, oil the shields,"

nasb@Isaiah:17:6 @For thus the Lord says to me, "Go, station the lookout, let him report what he sees.

nasb@Isaiah:17:7" @When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs, A train of donkeys, a train of camels, Let him pay close attention, very close attention."

nasb@Isaiah:17:8 @Then the lookout called, " O Lord, I stand continually by day on the watchtower, And I am stationed every night at my guard post.

nasb@Isaiah:17:9" @Now behold, here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs." And one said, " Fallen, fallen is Babylon; And all the images of her gods are shattered on the ground."

nasb@Isaiah:17:10 @O my threshed people, and my afflicted of the threshing floor! What I have heard from the LORD of hosts, The God of Israel, I make known to you.

nasb@Isaiah:17:11 @The oracle concerning Edom. One keeps calling to me from Seir, "Watchman, how far gone is the night? Watchman, how far gone is the night?"

nasb@Isaiah:17:12 @The watchman says, "Morning comes but also night. If you would inquire, inquire; Come back again."

nasb@Isaiah:17:13 @The oracle about Arabia. In the thickets of Arabia you must spend the night, O caravans of Dedanites.

nasb@Isaiah:17:14 @Bring water for the thirsty, O inhabitants of the land of Tema, Meet the fugitive with bread.

nasb@Isaiah:17:15 @For they have fled from the swords, From the drawn sword, and from the bent bow And from the press of battle.

nasb@Isaiah:17:16 @For thus the Lord said to me, "In a year, as a hired man would count it, all the splendor of Kedar will terminate;

nasb@Isaiah:17:17 @and the remainder of the number of bowmen, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, will be few; for the LORD God of Israel has spoken."

nasb@Isaiah:18:1 @The oracle concerning the valley of vision. What is the matter with you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?

nasb@Isaiah:18:2 @You who were full of noise, You boisterous town, you exultant city; Your slain were not slain with the sword, Nor did they die in battle.

nasb@Isaiah:18:3 @All your rulers have fled together, And have been captured without the bow; All of you who were found were taken captive together, Though they had fled far away.

nasb@Isaiah:18:4 @Therefore I say, "Turn your eyes away from me, Let me weep bitterly, Do not try to comfort me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people."

nasb@Isaiah:18:5 @For the Lord GOD of hosts has a day of panic, subjugation and confusion In the valley of vision, A breaking down of walls And a crying to the mountain.

nasb@Isaiah:18:6 @Elam took up the quiver With the chariots, infantry and horsemen; And Kir uncovered the shield.

nasb@Isaiah:18:7 @Then your choicest valleys were full of chariots, And the horsemen took up fixed positions at the gate.

nasb@Isaiah:18:8 @And He removed the defense of Judah. In that day you depended on the weapons of the house of the forest,

nasb@Isaiah:18:9 @And you saw that the breaches In the wall of the city of David were many; And you collected the waters of the lower pool.

nasb@Isaiah:18:10 @Then you counted the houses of Jerusalem And tore down houses to fortify the wall.

nasb@Isaiah:18:11 @And you made a reservoir between the two walls For the waters of the old pool. But you did not depend on Him who made it, Nor did you take into consideration Him who planned it long ago.

nasb@Isaiah:18:12 @Therefore in that day the Lord GOD of hosts called you to weeping, to wailing, To shaving the head and to wearing sackcloth.

nasb@Isaiah:18:13 @Instead, there is gaiety and gladness, Killing of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, Eating of meat and drinking of wine- " Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we may die."

nasb@Isaiah:18:14 @But the LORD of hosts revealed Himself to me, "Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you Until you die," says the Lord GOD of hosts.

nasb@Isaiah:18:15 @Thus says the Lord GOD of hosts, "Come, go to this steward, To Shebna, who is in charge of the royal household,

nasb@Isaiah:18:16 @'What right do you have here, And whom do you have here, That you have hewn a tomb for yourself here, You who hew a tomb on the height, You who carve a resting place for yourself in the rock?

nasb@Isaiah:18:17 @'Behold, the LORD is about to hurl you headlong, O man. And He is about to grasp you firmly

nasb@Isaiah:18:18 @And roll you tightly like a ball, To be cast into a vast country; There you will die And there your splendid chariots will be, You shame of your master's house.'

nasb@Isaiah:18:20" @Then it will come about in that day, That I will summon My servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,

nasb@Isaiah:18:21 @And I will clothe him with your tunic And tie your sash securely about him. I will entrust him with your authority, And he will become a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.

nasb@Isaiah:18:22" @Then I will set the key of the house of David on his shoulder, When he opens no one will shut, When he shuts no one will open.

nasb@Isaiah:18:23" @I will drive him like a peg in a firm place, And he will become a throne of glory to his father's house.

nasb@Isaiah:18:24" @So they will hang on him all the glory of his father's house, offspring and issue, all the least of vessels, from bowls to all the jars.

nasb@Isaiah:18:25" @In that day," declares the LORD of hosts, "the peg driven in a firm place will give way; it will even break off and fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut off, for the LORD has spoken."

nasb@Isaiah:19:1 @The oracle concerning Tyre. Wail, O ships of Tarshish, For Tyre is destroyed, without house or harbor; It is reported to them from the land of Cyprus.

nasb@Isaiah:19:2 @Be silent, you inhabitants of the coastland, You merchants of Sidon; Your messengers crossed the sea

nasb@Isaiah:19:3 @And were on many waters. The grain of the Nile, the harvest of the River was her revenue; And she was the market of nations.

nasb@Isaiah:19:4 @Be ashamed, O Sidon; For the sea speaks, the stronghold of the sea, saying, "I have neither travailed nor given birth, I have neither brought up young men nor reared virgins."

nasb@Isaiah:19:5 @When the report reaches Egypt, They will be in anguish at the report of Tyre.

nasb@Isaiah:19:6 @Pass over to Tarshish; Wail, O inhabitants of the coastland.

nasb@Isaiah:19:7 @Is this your jubilant city, Whose origin is from antiquity, Whose feet used to carry her to colonize distant places?

nasb@Isaiah:19:8 @Who has planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, Whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth?

nasb@Isaiah:19:9 @The LORD of hosts has planned it, to defile the pride of all beauty, To despise all the honored of the earth.

nasb@Isaiah:19:10 @Overflow your land like the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish, There is no more restraint.

nasb@Isaiah:19:11 @He has stretched His hand out over the sea, He has made the kingdoms tremble; The LORD has given a command concerning Canaan to demolish its strongholds.

nasb@Isaiah:19:12 @He has said, " You shall exult no more, O crushed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Cyprus; even there you will find no rest."

nasb@Isaiah:19:13 @Behold, the land of the Chaldeans--this is the people which was not; Assyria appointed it for desert creatures--they erected their siege towers, they stripped its palaces, they made it a ruin.

nasb@Isaiah:19:15 @Now in that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot-

nasb@Isaiah:19:16 @Take your harp, walk about the city, O forgotten harlot; Pluck the strings skillfully, sing many songs, That you may be remembered.

nasb@Isaiah:19:17 @It will come about at the end of seventy years that the LORD will visit Tyre. Then she will go back to her harlot's wages and will play the harlot with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.

nasb@Isaiah:19:18 @Her gain and her harlot's wages will be set apart to the LORD; it will not be stored up or hoarded, but her gain will become sufficient food and choice attire for those who dwell in the presence of the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:20:1 @Behold, the LORD lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts its surface and scatters its inhabitants.

nasb@Isaiah:20:2 @And the people will be like the priest, the servant like his master, the maid like her mistress, the buyer like the seller, the lender like the borrower, the creditor like the debtor.

nasb@Isaiah:20:3 @The earth will be completely laid waste and completely despoiled, for the LORD has spoken this word.

nasb@Isaiah:20:4 @The earth mourns and withers, the world fades and withers, the exalted of the people of the earth fade away.

nasb@Isaiah:20:5 @The earth is also polluted by its inhabitants, for they transgressed laws, violated statutes, broke the everlasting covenant.

nasb@Isaiah:20:6 @Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and those who live in it are held guilty. Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.

nasb@Isaiah:20:7 @The new wine mourns, The vine decays, All the merry-hearted sigh.

nasb@Isaiah:20:8 @The gaiety of tambourines ceases, The noise of revelers stops, The gaiety of the harp ceases.

nasb@Isaiah:20:9 @They do not drink wine with song; Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

nasb@Isaiah:20:10 @The city of chaos is broken down; Every house is shut up so that none may enter.

nasb@Isaiah:20:11 @There is an outcry in the streets concerning the wine; All joy turns to gloom. The gaiety of the earth is banished.

nasb@Isaiah:20:12 @Desolation is left in the city And the gate is battered to ruins.

nasb@Isaiah:20:13 @For thus it will be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, As the shaking of an olive tree, As the gleanings when the grape harvest is over.

nasb@Isaiah:20:14 @They raise their voices, they shout for joy; They cry out from the west concerning the majesty of the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:20:15 @Therefore glorify the LORD in the east, The name of the LORD, the God of Israel, In the coastlands of the sea.

nasb@Isaiah:20:16 @From the ends of the earth we hear songs, " Glory to the Righteous One," But I say, " Woe to me! Woe to me! Alas for me! The treacherous deal treacherously, And the treacherous deal very treacherously."

nasb@Isaiah:20:17 @Terror and pit and snare Confront you, O inhabitant of the earth.

nasb@Isaiah:20:18 @Then it will be that he who flees the report of disaster will fall into the pit, And he who climbs out of the pit will be caught in the snare; For the windows above are opened, and the foundations of the earth shake.

nasb@Isaiah:20:19 @The earth is broken asunder, The earth is split through, The earth is shaken violently.

nasb@Isaiah:20:20 @The earth reels to and fro like a drunkard And it totters like a shack, For its transgression is heavy upon it, And it will fall, never to rise again.

nasb@Isaiah:20:21 @So it will happen in that day, That the LORD will punish the host of heaven on high, And the kings of the earth on earth.

nasb@Isaiah:20:22 @They will be gathered together Like prisoners in the dungeon, And will be confined in prison; And after many days they will be punished.

nasb@Isaiah:20:23 @Then the moon will be abashed and the sun ashamed, For the LORD of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, And His glory will be before His elders.

nasb@Isaiah:21:2 @For You have made a city into a heap, A fortified city into a ruin; A palace of strangers is a city no more, It will never be rebuilt.

nasb@Isaiah:21:3 @Therefore a strong people will glorify You; Cities of ruthless nations will revere You.

nasb@Isaiah:21:4 @For You have been a defense for the helpless, A defense for the needy in his distress, A refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat; For the breath of the ruthless Is like a rain storm against a wall.

nasb@Isaiah:21:5 @Like heat in drought, You subdue the uproar of aliens; Like heat by the shadow of a cloud, the song of the ruthless is silenced.

nasb@Isaiah:21:6 @The LORD of hosts will prepare a lavish banquet for all peoples on this mountain; A banquet of aged wine, choice pieces with marrow, And refined, aged wine.

nasb@Isaiah:21:7 @And on this mountain He will swallow up the covering which is over all peoples, Even the veil which is stretched over all nations.

nasb@Isaiah:21:8 @He will swallow up death for all time, And the Lord GOD will wipe tears away from all faces, And He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth; For the LORD has spoken.

nasb@Isaiah:21:9 @And it will be said in that day, "Behold, this is our God for whom we have waited that He might save us. This is the LORD for whom we have waited; Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation."

nasb@Isaiah:21:10 @For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain, And Moab will be trodden down in his place As straw is trodden down in the water of a manure pile.

nasb@Isaiah:21:11 @And he will spread out his hands in the middle of it As a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim, But the Lord will lay low his pride together with the trickery of his hands.

nasb@Isaiah:21:12 @The unassailable fortifications of your walls He will bring down, Lay low and cast to the ground, even to the dust.

nasb@Isaiah:21:26 @In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah- "We have a strong city; He sets up walls and ramparts for security.

nasb@Isaiah:21:2" @Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter, The one that remains faithful.

nasb@Isaiah:21:3" @The steadfast of mind You will keep in perfect peace, Because he trusts in You.

nasb@Isaiah:21:4" @ Trust in the LORD forever, For in GOD the LORD, we have an everlasting Rock.

nasb@Isaiah:21:5" @For He has brought low those who dwell on high, the unassailable city; He lays it low, He lays it low to the ground, He casts it to the dust.

nasb@Isaiah:21:6" @ The foot will trample it, The feet of the afflicted, the steps of the helpless."

nasb@Isaiah:21:7 @The way of the righteous is smooth; O Upright One, make the path of the righteous level.

nasb@Isaiah:21:8 @Indeed, while following the way of Your judgments, O LORD, We have waited for You eagerly; Your name, even Your memory, is the desire of our souls.

nasb@Isaiah:21:9 @At night my soul longs for You, Indeed, my spirit within me seeks You diligently; For when the earth experiences Your judgments The inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

nasb@Isaiah:21:10 @Though the wicked is shown favor, He does not learn righteousness; He deals unjustly in the land of uprightness, And does not perceive the majesty of the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:21:11 @O LORD, Your hand is lifted up yet they do not see it. They see Your zeal for the people and are put to shame; Indeed, fire will devour Your enemies.

nasb@Isaiah:21:13 @O LORD our God, other masters besides You have ruled us; But through You alone we confess Your name.

nasb@Isaiah:21:14 @The dead will not live, the departed spirits will not rise; Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, And You have wiped out all remembrance of them.

nasb@Isaiah:21:15 @You have increased the nation, O LORD, You have increased the nation, You are glorified; You have extended all the borders of the land.

nasb@Isaiah:21:16 @O LORD, they sought You in distress; They could only whisper a prayer, Your chastening was upon them.

nasb@Isaiah:21:17 @As the pregnant woman approaches the time to give birth, She writhes and cries out in her labor pains, Thus were we before You, O LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:21:18 @We were pregnant, we writhed in labor, We gave birth, as it seems, only to wind. We could not accomplish deliverance for the earth, Nor were inhabitants of the world born.

nasb@Isaiah:21:19 @Your dead will live; Their corpses will rise. You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy, For your dew is as the dew of the dawn, And the earth will give birth to the departed spirits.

nasb@Isaiah:21:21 @For behold, the LORD is about to come out from His place To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; And the earth will reveal her bloodshed And will no longer cover her slain.

nasb@Isaiah:22:1 @In that day the LORD will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, With His fierce and great and mighty sword, Even Leviathan the twisted serpent; And He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.

nasb@Isaiah:22:3" @I, the LORD, am its keeper; I water it every moment. So that no one will damage it, I guard it night and day.

nasb@Isaiah:22:4" @I have no wrath. Should someone give Me briars and thorns in battle, Then I would step on them, I would burn them completely.

nasb@Isaiah:22:6 @In the days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will blossom and sprout, And they will fill the whole world with fruit.

nasb@Isaiah:22:7 @Like the striking of Him who has struck them, has He struck them? Or like the slaughter of His slain, have they been slain?

nasb@Isaiah:22:8 @You contended with them by banishing them, by driving them away. With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the east wind.

nasb@Isaiah:22:9 @Therefore through this Jacob's iniquity will be forgiven; And this will be the full price of the pardoning of his sin- When he makes all the altar stones like pulverized chalk stones; When Asherim and incense altars will not stand.

nasb@Isaiah:22:10 @For the fortified city is isolated, A homestead forlorn and forsaken like the desert; There the calf will graze, And there it will lie down and feed on its branches.

nasb@Isaiah:22:11 @When its limbs are dry, they are broken off; Women come and make a fire with them, For they are not a people of discernment, Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them. And their Creator will not be gracious to them.

nasb@Isaiah:22:12 @In that day the LORD will start His threshing from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt, and you will be gathered up one by one, O sons of Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:22:13 @It will come about also in that day that a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were perishing in the land of Assyria and who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come and worship the LORD in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

nasb@Isaiah:23:1 @Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim, And to the fading flower of its glorious beauty, Which is at the head of the fertile valley Of those who are overcome with wine!

nasb@Isaiah:23:2 @Behold, the Lord has a strong and mighty agent; As a storm of hail, a tempest of destruction, Like a storm of mighty overflowing waters, He has cast it down to the earth with His hand.

nasb@Isaiah:23:3 @The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim is trodden under foot.

nasb@Isaiah:23:4 @And the fading flower of its glorious beauty, Which is at the head of the fertile valley, Will be like the first-ripe fig prior to summer, Which one sees, And as soon as it is in his hand, He swallows it.

nasb@Isaiah:23:5 @In that day the LORD of hosts will become a beautiful crown And a glorious diadem to the remnant of His people;

nasb@Isaiah:23:6 @A spirit of justice for him who sits in judgment, A strength to those who repel the onslaught at the gate.

nasb@Isaiah:23:7 @And these also reel with wine and stagger from strong drink- The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, They are confused by wine, they stagger from strong drink; They reel while having visions, They totter when rendering judgment.

nasb@Isaiah:23:8 @For all the tables are full of filthy vomit, without a single clean place.

nasb@Isaiah:23:9" @To whom would He teach knowledge, And to whom would He interpret the message? Those just weaned from milk? Those just taken from the breast?

nasb@Isaiah:23:10" @For He says, ' Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there.'"

nasb@Isaiah:23:11 @Indeed, He will speak to this people Through stammering lips and a foreign tongue,

nasb@Isaiah:23:12 @He who said to them, "Here is rest, give rest to the weary," And, "Here is repose," but they would not listen.

nasb@Isaiah:23:13 @So the word of the LORD to them will be, "Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there," That they may go and stumble backward, be broken, snared and taken captive.

nasb@Isaiah:23:14 @Therefore, hear the word of the LORD, O scoffers, Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,

nasb@Isaiah:23:15 @Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we have made a pact. The overwhelming scourge will not reach us when it passes by, For we have made falsehood our refuge and we have concealed ourselves with deception."

nasb@Isaiah:23:16 @Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, " Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone, A costly cornerstone for the foundation, firmly placed. He who believes in it will not be disturbed.

nasb@Isaiah:23:17" @I will make justice the measuring line And righteousness the level; Then hail will sweep away the refuge of lies And the waters will overflow the secret place.

nasb@Isaiah:23:18" @Your covenant with death will be canceled, And your pact with Sheol will not stand; When the overwhelming scourge passes through, Then you become its trampling place.

nasb@Isaiah:23:19" @As often as it passes through, it will seize you; For morning after morning it will pass through, anytime during the day or night, And it will be sheer terror to understand what it means."

nasb@Isaiah:23:20 @The bed is too short on which to stretch out, And the blanket is too small to wrap oneself in.

nasb@Isaiah:23:21 @For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim, He will be stirred up as in the valley of Gibeon, To do His task, His unusual task, And to work His work, His extraordinary work.

nasb@Isaiah:23:22 @And now do not carry on as scoffers, Or your fetters will be made stronger; For I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts Of decisive destruction on all the earth.

nasb@Isaiah:23:23 @Give ear and hear my voice, Listen and hear my words.

nasb@Isaiah:23:24 @Does the farmer plow continually to plant seed? Does he continually turn and harrow the ground?

nasb@Isaiah:23:25 @Does he not level its surface And sow dill and scatter cummin And plant wheat in rows, Barley in its place and rye within its area?

nasb@Isaiah:23:26 @For his God instructs and teaches him properly.

nasb@Isaiah:23:27 @For dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, Nor is the cartwheel driven over cummin; But dill is beaten out with a rod, and cummin with a club.

nasb@Isaiah:23:28 @Grain for bread is crushed, Indeed, he does not continue to thresh it forever. Because the wheel of his cart and his horses eventually damage it, He does not thresh it longer.

nasb@Isaiah:23:29 @This also comes from the LORD of hosts, Who has made His counsel wonderful and His wisdom great.

nasb@Isaiah:24:1 @Woe, O Ariel, Ariel the city where David once camped! Add year to year, observe your feasts on schedule.

nasb@Isaiah:24:2 @I will bring distress to Ariel, And she will be a city of lamenting and mourning; And she will be like an Ariel to me.

nasb@Isaiah:24:4 @Then you will be brought low; From the earth you will speak, And from the dust where you are prostrate Your words will come. Your voice will also be like that of a spirit from the ground, And your speech will whisper from the dust.

nasb@Isaiah:24:5 @But the multitude of your enemies will become like fine dust, And the multitude of the ruthless ones like the chaff which blows away; And it will happen instantly, suddenly.

nasb@Isaiah:24:6 @From the LORD of hosts you will be punished with thunder and earthquake and loud noise, With whirlwind and tempest and the flame of a consuming fire.

nasb@Isaiah:24:7 @And the multitude of all the nations who wage war against Ariel, Even all who wage war against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, Will be like a dream, a vision of the night.

nasb@Isaiah:24:8 @It will be as when a hungry man dreams-- And behold, he is eating; But when he awakens, his hunger is not satisfied, Or as when a thirsty man dreams-- And behold, he is drinking, But when he awakens, behold, he is faint And his thirst is not quenched. Thus the multitude of all the nations will be Who wage war against Mount Zion.

nasb@Isaiah:24:9 @Be delayed and wait, Blind yourselves and be blind; They become drunk, but not with wine, They stagger, but not with strong drink.

nasb@Isaiah:24:10 @For the LORD has poured over you a spirit of deep sleep, He has shut your eyes, the prophets; And He has covered your heads, the seers.

nasb@Isaiah:24:11 @The entire vision will be to you like the words of a sealed book, which when they give it to the one who is literate, saying, "Please read this," he will say, "I cannot, for it is sealed."

nasb@Isaiah:24:12 @Then the book will be given to the one who is illiterate, saying, "Please read this." And he will say, "I cannot read."

nasb@Isaiah:24:13 @Then the Lord said, "Because this people draw near with their words And honor Me with their lip service, But they remove their hearts far from Me, And their reverence for Me consists of tradition learned by rote,

nasb@Isaiah:24:14 @Therefore behold, I will once again deal marvelously with this people, wondrously marvelous; And the wisdom of their wise men will perish, And the discernment of their discerning men will be concealed."

nasb@Isaiah:24:15 @Woe to those who deeply hide their plans from the LORD, And whose deeds are done in a dark place, And they say, " Who sees us?" or "Who knows us?"

nasb@Isaiah:24:16 @You turn things around! Shall the potter be considered as equal with the clay, That what is made would say to its maker, "He did not make me"; Or what is formed say to him who formed it, "He has no understanding"?

nasb@Isaiah:24:17 @Is it not yet just a little while Before Lebanon will be turned into a fertile field, And the fertile field will be considered as a forest?

nasb@Isaiah:24:18 @On that day the deaf will hear words of a book, And out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see.

nasb@Isaiah:24:19 @The afflicted also will increase their gladness in the LORD, And the needy of mankind will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:24:20 @For the ruthless will come to an end and the scorner will be finished, Indeed all who are intent on doing evil will be cut off;

nasb@Isaiah:24:21 @Who cause a person to be indicted by a word, And ensnare him who adjudicates at the gate, And defraud the one in the right with meaningless arguments.

nasb@Isaiah:24:22 @Therefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob- "Jacob shall not now be ashamed, nor shall his face now turn pale;

nasb@Isaiah:24:23 @But when he sees his children, the work of My hands, in his midst, They will sanctify My name; Indeed, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob And will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:24:24" @Those who err in mind will know the truth, And those who criticize will accept instruction.

nasb@Isaiah:25:1" @Woe to the rebellious children," declares the LORD, "Who execute a plan, but not Mine, And make an alliance, but not of My Spirit, In order to add sin to sin;

nasb@Isaiah:25:2 @Who proceed down to Egypt Without consulting Me, To take refuge in the safety of Pharaoh And to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!

nasb@Isaiah:25:3" @Therefore the safety of Pharaoh will be your shame And the shelter in the shadow of Egypt, your humiliation.

nasb@Isaiah:25:4" @For their princes are at Zoan And their ambassadors arrive at Hanes.

nasb@Isaiah:25:5" @Everyone will be ashamed because of a people who cannot profit them, Who are not for help or profit, but for shame and also for reproach."

nasb@Isaiah:25:6 @The oracle concerning the beasts of the Negev. Through a land of distress and anguish, From where come lioness and lion, viper and flying serpent, They carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys And their treasures on camels' humps, To a people who cannot profit them;

nasb@Isaiah:25:7 @Even Egypt, whose help is vain and empty. Therefore, I have called her " Rahab who has been exterminated."

nasb@Isaiah:25:8 @Now go, write it on a tablet before them And inscribe it on a scroll, That it may serve in the time to come As a witness forever.

nasb@Isaiah:25:9 @For this is a rebellious people, false sons, Sons who refuse to listen To the instruction of the LORD;

nasb@Isaiah:25:10 @Who say to the seers, "You must not see visions"; And to the prophets, "You must not prophesy to us what is right, Speak to us pleasant words, Prophesy illusions.

nasb@Isaiah:25:11" @Get out of the way, turn aside from the path, Let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel."

nasb@Isaiah:25:12 @Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, " Since you have rejected this word And have put your trust in oppression and guile, and have relied on them,

nasb@Isaiah:25:13 @Therefore this iniquity will be to you Like a breach about to fall, A bulge in a high wall, Whose collapse comes suddenly in an instant,

nasb@Isaiah:25:14 @Whose collapse is like the smashing of a potter's jar, So ruthlessly shattered That a sherd will not be found among its pieces To take fire from a hearth Or to scoop water from a cistern."

nasb@Isaiah:25:15 @For thus the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said, "In repentance and rest you will be saved, In quietness and trust is your strength." But you were not willing,

nasb@Isaiah:25:16 @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.

nasb@Isaiah:25:17 @One thousand will flee at the threat of one man; You will flee at the threat of five, Until you are left as a flag on a mountain top And as a signal on a hill.

nasb@Isaiah:25:18 @Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you, And therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you. For the LORD is a God of justice; How blessed are all those who long for Him.

nasb@Isaiah:25:19 @O people in Zion, inhabitant in Jerusalem, you will weep no longer. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears it, He will answer you.

nasb@Isaiah:25:20 @Although the Lord has given you bread of privation and water of oppression, He, your Teacher will no longer hide Himself, but your eyes will behold your Teacher.

nasb@Isaiah:25:21 @Your ears will hear a word behind you, "This is the way, walk in it," whenever you turn to the right or to the left.

nasb@Isaiah:25:22 @And you will defile your graven images overlaid with silver, and your molten images plated with gold. You will scatter them as an impure thing, and say to them, " Be gone!"

nasb@Isaiah:25:23 @Then He will give you rain for the seed which you will sow in the ground, and bread from the yield of the ground, and it will be rich and plenteous; on that day your livestock will graze in a roomy pasture.

nasb@Isaiah:25:24 @Also the oxen and the donkeys which work the ground will eat salted fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork.

nasb@Isaiah:25:25 @On every lofty mountain and on every high hill there will be streams running with water on the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

nasb@Isaiah:25:26 @The light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, on the day the LORD binds up the fracture of His people and heals the bruise He has inflicted.

nasb@Isaiah:25:27 @Behold, the name of the LORD comes from a remote place; Burning is His anger and dense is His smoke; His lips are filled with indignation And His tongue is like a consuming fire;

nasb@Isaiah:25:28 @His breath is like an overflowing torrent, Which reaches to the neck, To shake the nations back and forth in a sieve, And to put in the jaws of the peoples the bridle which leads to ruin.

nasb@Isaiah:25:29 @You will have songs as in the night when you keep the festival, And gladness of heart as when one marches to the sound of the flute, To go to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:25:30 @And the LORD will cause His voice of authority to be heard, And the descending of His arm to be seen in fierce anger, And in the flame of a consuming fire In cloudburst, downpour and hailstones.

nasb@Isaiah:25:31 @For at the voice of the LORD Assyria will be terrified, When He strikes with the rod.

nasb@Isaiah:25:32 @And every blow of the rod of punishment, Which the LORD will lay on him, Will be with the music of tambourines and lyres; And in battles, brandishing weapons, He will fight them.

nasb@Isaiah:25:33 @For Topheth has long been ready, Indeed, it has been prepared for the king. He has made it deep and large, A pyre of fire with plenty of wood; The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of brimstone, sets it afire.

nasb@Isaiah:26:1 @Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help And rely on horses, And trust in chariots because they are many And in horsemen because they are very strong, But they do not look to the Holy One of Israel, nor seek the LORD!

nasb@Isaiah:26:2 @Yet He also is wise and will bring disaster And does not retract His words, But will arise against the house of evildoers And against the help of the workers of iniquity.

nasb@Isaiah:26:3 @Now the Egyptians are men and not God, And their horses are flesh and not spirit; So the LORD will stretch out His hand, And he who helps will stumble And he who is helped will fall, And all of them will come to an end together.

nasb@Isaiah:26:4 @For thus says the LORD to me, "As the lion or the young lion growls over his prey, Against which a band of shepherds is called out, And he will not be terrified at their voice nor disturbed at their noise, So will the LORD of hosts come down to wage war on Mount Zion and on its hill."

nasb@Isaiah:26:5 @Like flying birds so the LORD of hosts will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver it; He will pass over and rescue it.

nasb@Isaiah:26:8 @And the Assyrian will fall by a sword not of man, And a sword not of man will devour him. So he will not escape the sword, And his young men will become forced laborers.

nasb@Isaiah:26:9" @His rock will pass away because of panic, And his princes will be terrified at the standard," Declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

nasb@Isaiah:27:2 @Each will be like a refuge from the wind And a shelter from the storm, Like streams of water in a dry country, Like the shade of a huge rock in a parched land.

nasb@Isaiah:27:3 @Then the eyes of those who see will not be blinded, And the ears of those who hear will listen.

nasb@Isaiah:27:4 @The mind of the hasty will discern the truth, And the tongue of the stammerers will hasten to speak clearly.

nasb@Isaiah:27:5 @No longer will the fool be called noble, Or the rogue be spoken of as generous.

nasb@Isaiah:27:6 @For a fool speaks nonsense, And his heart inclines toward wickedness- To practice ungodliness and to speak error against the LORD, To keep the hungry person unsatisfied And to withhold drink from the thirsty.

nasb@Isaiah:27:7 @As for a rogue, his weapons are evil; He devises wicked schemes To destroy the afflicted with slander, Even though the needy one speaks what is right.

nasb@Isaiah:27:8 @But the noble man devises noble plans; And by noble plans he stands.

nasb@Isaiah:27:9 @Rise up, you women who are at ease, And hear my voice; Give ear to my word, You complacent daughters.

nasb@Isaiah:27:10 @Within a year and a few days You will be troubled, O complacent daughters; For the vintage is ended, And the fruit gathering will not come.

nasb@Isaiah:27:12 @Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,

nasb@Isaiah:27:13 @For the land of my people in which thorns and briars shall come up; Yea, for all the joyful houses and for the jubilant city.

nasb@Isaiah:27:14 @Because the palace has been abandoned, the populated city forsaken. Hill and watch-tower have become caves forever, A delight for wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks;

nasb@Isaiah:27:15 @Until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high, And the wilderness becomes a fertile field, And the fertile field is considered as a forest.

nasb@Isaiah:27:16 @Then justice will dwell in the wilderness And righteousness will abide in the fertile field.

nasb@Isaiah:27:17 @And the work of righteousness will be peace, And the service of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

nasb@Isaiah:27:18 @Then my people will live in a peaceful habitation, And in secure dwellings and in undisturbed resting places;

nasb@Isaiah:27:19 @And it will hail when the forest comes down, And the city will be utterly laid low.

nasb@Isaiah:27:20 @How blessed will you be, you who sow beside all waters, Who let out freely the ox and the donkey.

nasb@Isaiah:28:1 @Woe to you, O destroyer, While you were not destroyed; And he who is treacherous, while others did not deal treacherously with him. As soon as you finish destroying, you will be destroyed; As soon as you cease to deal treacherously, others will deal treacherously with you.

nasb@Isaiah:28:2 @O LORD, be gracious to us; we have waited for You. Be their strength every morning, Our salvation also in the time of distress.

nasb@Isaiah:28:3 @At the sound of the tumult peoples flee; At the lifting up of Yourself nations disperse.

nasb@Isaiah:28:4 @Your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; As locusts rushing about men rush about on it.

nasb@Isaiah:28:5 @The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

nasb@Isaiah:28:6 @And He will be the stability of your times, A wealth of salvation, wisdom and knowledge; The fear of the LORD is his treasure.

nasb@Isaiah:28:7 @Behold, their brave men cry in the streets, The ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.

nasb@Isaiah:28:8 @The highways are desolate, the traveler has ceased, He has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities, He has no regard for man.

nasb@Isaiah:28:9 @The land mourns and pines away, Lebanon is shamed and withers; Sharon is like a desert plain, And Bashan and Carmel lose their foliage.

nasb@Isaiah:28:10" @Now I will arise," says the LORD, "Now I will be exalted, now I will be lifted up.

nasb@Isaiah:28:12" @The peoples will be burned to lime, Like cut thorns which are burned in the fire.

nasb@Isaiah:28:13" @You who are far away, hear what I have done; And you who are near, acknowledge My might."

nasb@Isaiah:28:14 @Sinners in Zion are terrified; Trembling has seized the godless. "Who among us can live with the consuming fire? Who among us can live with continual burning?"

nasb@Isaiah:28:15 @He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, He who rejects unjust gain And shakes his hands so that they hold no bribe; He who stops his ears from hearing about bloodshed And shuts his eyes from looking upon evil;

nasb@Isaiah:28:16 @He will dwell on the heights, His refuge will be the impregnable rock; His bread will be given him, His water will be sure.

nasb@Isaiah:28:17 @Your eyes will see the King in His beauty; They will behold a far-distant land.

nasb@Isaiah:28:18 @Your heart will meditate on terror- "Where is he who counts? Where is he who weighs? Where is he who counts the towers?"

nasb@Isaiah:28:19 @You will no longer see a fierce people, A people of unintelligible speech which no one comprehends, Of a stammering tongue which no one understands.

nasb@Isaiah:28:20 @Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts; Your eyes will see Jerusalem, an undisturbed habitation, A tent which will not be folded; Its stakes will never be pulled up, Nor any of its cords be torn apart.

nasb@Isaiah:28:21 @But there the majestic One, the LORD, will be for us A place of rivers and wide canals On which no boat with oars will go, And on which no mighty ship will pass--

nasb@Isaiah:28:22 @For the LORD is our judge, The LORD is our lawgiver, The LORD is our king; He will save us--

nasb@Isaiah:28:23 @Your tackle hangs slack; It cannot hold the base of its mast firmly, Nor spread out the sail. Then the prey of an abundant spoil will be divided; The lame will take the plunder.

nasb@Isaiah:28:24 @And no resident will say, "I am sick"; The people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity.

nasb@Isaiah:29:1 @Draw near, O nations, to hear; and listen, O peoples! Let the earth and all it contains hear, and the world and all that springs from it.

nasb@Isaiah:29:2 @For the LORD'S indignation is against all the nations, And His wrath against all their armies; He has utterly destroyed them, He has given them over to slaughter.

nasb@Isaiah:29:3 @So their slain will be thrown out, And their corpses will give off their stench, And the mountains will be drenched with their blood.

nasb@Isaiah:29:4 @And all the host of heaven will wear away, And the sky will be rolled up like a scroll; All their hosts will also wither away As a leaf withers from the vine, Or as one withers from the fig tree.

nasb@Isaiah:29:5 @For My sword is satiated in heaven, Behold it shall descend for judgment upon Edom And upon the people whom I have devoted to destruction.

nasb@Isaiah:29:6 @The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, It is sated with fat, 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.

nasb@Isaiah:29:7 @Wild oxen will also fall with them And young bulls with strong ones; Thus their land will be soaked with blood, And their dust become greasy with fat.

nasb@Isaiah:29:8 @For the LORD has a day of vengeance, A year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

nasb@Isaiah:29:10 @It will not be quenched night or day; Its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation it will be desolate; None will pass through it forever and ever.

nasb@Isaiah:29:11 @But pelican and hedgehog will possess it, And owl and raven will dwell in it; And He will stretch over it the line of desolation And the plumb line of emptiness.

nasb@Isaiah:29:12 @Its nobles--there is no one there Whom they may proclaim king-- And all its princes will be nothing.

nasb@Isaiah:29:13 @Thorns will come up in its fortified towers, Nettles and thistles in its fortified cities; It will also be a haunt of jackals And an abode of ostriches.

nasb@Isaiah:29:14 @The desert creatures will meet with the wolves, The hairy goat also will cry to its kind; Yes, the night monster will settle there And will find herself a resting place.

nasb@Isaiah:29:15 @The tree snake will make its nest and lay eggs there, And it will hatch and gather them under its protection. Yes, the hawks will be gathered there, Every one with its kind.

nasb@Isaiah:29:16 @Seek from the book of the LORD, and read- Not one of these will be missing; None will lack its mate. For His mouth has commanded, And His Spirit has gathered them.

nasb@Isaiah:29:17 @He has cast the lot for them, And His hand has divided it to them by line. They shall possess it forever; From generation to generation they will dwell in it.

nasb@Isaiah:30:1 @The wilderness and the desert will be glad, And the Arabah will rejoice and blossom; Like the crocus

nasb@Isaiah:30:2 @It will blossom profusely And rejoice with rejoicing and shout of joy. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, The majesty of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the glory of the LORD, The majesty of our God.

nasb@Isaiah:30:3 @Encourage the exhausted, and strengthen the feeble.

nasb@Isaiah:30:4 @Say to those with anxious heart, "Take courage, fear not. Behold, your God will come with vengeance; The recompense of God will come, But He will save you."

nasb@Isaiah:30:5 @Then the eyes of the blind will be opened And the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

nasb@Isaiah:30:6 @Then the lame will leap like a deer, And the tongue of the mute will shout for joy. For waters will break forth in the wilderness And streams in the Arabah.

nasb@Isaiah:30:7 @The scorched land will become a pool And the thirsty ground springs of water; In the haunt of jackals, its resting place, Grass becomes reeds and rushes.

nasb@Isaiah:30:8 @A highway will be there, a roadway, And it will be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean will not travel on it, But it will be for him who walks that way, And fools will not wander on it.

nasb@Isaiah:30:9 @No lion will be there, Nor will any vicious beast go up on it; These will not be found there. But the redeemed will walk there,

nasb@Isaiah:30:10 @And the ransomed of the LORD will return And come with joyful shouting to Zion, With everlasting joy upon their heads. They will find gladness and joy, And sorrow and sighing will flee away.

nasb@Isaiah:31:1 @Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them.

nasb@Isaiah:31:2 @And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a large army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool on the highway of the fuller's field.

nasb@Isaiah:31:3 @Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to him.

nasb@Isaiah:31:4 @Then Rabshakeh said to them, "Say now to Hezekiah, 'Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, "What is this confidence that you have?

nasb@Isaiah:31:5" @I say, 'Your counsel and strength for the war are only empty words.' Now on whom do you rely, that you have rebelled against me?

nasb@Isaiah:31:6" @Behold, you rely on the staff of this crushed reed, even on 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 rely on him.

nasb@Isaiah:31:7" @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 has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'You shall worship before this altar'?

nasb@Isaiah:31:8" @Now therefore, come make a bargain with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.

nasb@Isaiah:31:9" @How then can you repulse one official of the least of my master's servants and rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

nasb@Isaiah:31:10" @Have I now come up without the LORD'S approval against this land to destroy it? The LORD said to me, 'Go up against this land and destroy it.'"'"

nasb@Isaiah:31:11 @Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, "Speak now to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and do not speak with us in Judean in the hearing of the people who are on the wall."

nasb@Isaiah:31:12 @But Rabshakeh said, "Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, doomed to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?"

nasb@Isaiah:31:13 @Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in Judean and said, "Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.

nasb@Isaiah:31:14" @Thus says the king, 'Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you;

nasb@Isaiah:31:15 @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."

nasb@Isaiah:31:16 @'Do not listen to Hezekiah,' for thus says the king of Assyria, 'Make your peace with me and come out to me, and eat each of his vine and each of his fig tree and drink each of the waters of his own cistern,

nasb@Isaiah:31:18 @'Beware that Hezekiah does not mislead you, saying, " The LORD will deliver us." Has any one of the gods of the nations delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

nasb@Isaiah:31:19 @'Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? And when have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

nasb@Isaiah:31:20 @'Who among all the gods of these lands have delivered their land from my hand, that the LORD would deliver Jerusalem from my hand?'"

nasb@Isaiah:31:21 @But they were silent and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, "Do not answer him."

nasb@Isaiah:31:22 @Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

nasb@Isaiah:32:1 @And when King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth and entered the house of the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:32:2 @Then he sent Eliakim who was over the household with Shebna the scribe and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.

nasb@Isaiah:32:3 @They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, 'This day is a day of distress, rebuke and rejection; for children have come to birth, and there is no strength to deliver.

nasb@Isaiah:32:4 @'Perhaps the LORD your God will hear the words of 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, offer a prayer for the remnant that is left.'"

nasb@Isaiah:32:5 @So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

nasb@Isaiah:32:6 @Isaiah said to them, "Thus you shall say to your master, 'Thus says the LORD, " Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.

nasb@Isaiah:32:7" @Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land. And I will make him fall by the sword in his own land."'"

nasb@Isaiah:32:8 @Then Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that the king had left Lachish.

nasb@Isaiah:32:9 @When he heard them say concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, "He has come out to fight against you," and when he heard it he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

nasb@Isaiah:32:10" @Thus you shall say to Hezekiah king of Judah, ' Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, "Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."

nasb@Isaiah:32:11 @' Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, destroying them completely. So will you be spared?

nasb@Isaiah:32:12 @'Did the gods of those nations which my fathers have destroyed deliver them, even Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the sons of Eden who were in Telassar?

nasb@Isaiah:32:13 @'Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, and of Hena and Ivvah?'"

nasb@Isaiah:32:14 @Then Hezekiah took the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it, and he went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:32:15 @Hezekiah prayed to the LORD saying,

nasb@Isaiah:32:16" @O LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, who is enthroned above the cherubim, You are the God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

nasb@Isaiah:32:17" @ Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see; and listen to all the words of Sennacherib, who sent them to reproach the living God.

nasb@Isaiah:32:18" @Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have devastated all the countries and their lands,

nasb@Isaiah:32:19 @and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

nasb@Isaiah:32:20" @Now, O LORD our God, deliver us from his hand that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, LORD, are God."

nasb@Isaiah:32:21 @Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria,

nasb@Isaiah:32:22 @this is the word that the LORD has spoken against him- "She has despised you and mocked you, The virgin daughter of Zion; She has shaken her head behind you, The daughter of Jerusalem!

nasb@Isaiah:32:23" @Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? And against whom have you raised your voice And haughtily lifted up your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!

nasb@Isaiah:32:24" @Through your servants you have reproached the Lord, And you have said, 'With my many chariots I came up to the heights of the mountains, To the remotest parts of Lebanon; And I cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypresses. And I will go to its highest peak, its thickest forest.

nasb@Isaiah:32:25 @'I dug wells and drank waters, And with the sole of my feet I dried up All the rivers of Egypt.'

nasb@Isaiah:32:26" @ Have you not heard? Long ago I did it, From ancient times I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, That you should turn fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

nasb@Isaiah:32:27" @Therefore their inhabitants were short of strength, They were dismayed and put to shame; They were as the vegetation of the field and as the green herb, As grass on the housetops is scorched before it is grown up.

nasb@Isaiah:32:29" @Because of your raging against Me And because your arrogance has 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.

nasb@Isaiah:32:30" @Then this shall be the sign for you- you will eat this year what grows of itself, in the second year what springs from the same, and in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

nasb@Isaiah:32:31" @The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

nasb@Isaiah:32:32" @For out of Jerusalem will go forth a remnant and out of Mount Zion survivors. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this."'

nasb@Isaiah:32:33" @Therefore, thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, 'He will not come to this city or shoot an arrow there; and he will not come before it with a shield, or throw up a siege ramp against it.

nasb@Isaiah:32:34 @' By the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he will not come to this city,' declares the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:32:36 @Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, all of these were dead.

nasb@Isaiah:32:37 @So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home and lived at Nineveh.

nasb@Isaiah:32:38 @It came about as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons killed him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son became king in his place.

nasb@Isaiah:33:1 @In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, ' Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.'"

nasb@Isaiah:33:2 @Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,

nasb@Isaiah:33:3 @and said, " Remember now, O LORD, I beseech You, how I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

nasb@Isaiah:33:4 @Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying,

nasb@Isaiah:33:5" @Go and say to Hezekiah, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of your father David, "I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

nasb@Isaiah:33:6" @I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city."'

nasb@Isaiah:33:7" @This shall be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that He has spoken-

nasb@Isaiah:33:8" @Behold, I will cause the shadow on the stairway, which has gone down with the sun on the stairway of Ahaz, to go back ten steps." So the sun's shadow went back ten steps on the stairway on which it had gone down.

nasb@Isaiah:33:9 @A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery-

nasb@Isaiah:33:10 @I said, " In the middle of my life I am to enter the gates of Sheol; I am to be deprived of the rest of my years."

nasb@Isaiah:33:11 @I said, "I will not see the LORD, The LORD in the land of the living; I will look on man no more among the inhabitants of the world.

nasb@Isaiah:33:12" @Like a shepherd's tent my dwelling is pulled up and removed from me; As a weaver I rolled up my life. He cuts me off from the loom; From day until night You make an end of me.

nasb@Isaiah:33:13" @I composed my soul until morning. Like a lion--so He breaks all my bones, From day until night You make an end of me.

nasb@Isaiah:33:14" @ Like a swallow, like a crane, so I twitter; I moan like a dove; My eyes look wistfully to the heights; O Lord, I am oppressed, be my security.

nasb@Isaiah:33:15" @ What shall I say? For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it; I will wander about all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

nasb@Isaiah:33:16" @O Lord, by these things men live, And in all these is the life of my spirit; O restore me to health and let me live!

nasb@Isaiah:33:17" @Lo, for my own welfare I had great bitterness; It is You who has kept my soul from the pit of nothingness, For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

nasb@Isaiah:33:18" @For Sheol cannot thank You, Death cannot praise You; Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

nasb@Isaiah:33:19" @It is the living who give thanks to You, as I do today; A father tells his sons about Your faithfulness.

nasb@Isaiah:33:20" @The LORD will surely save me; So we will play my songs on stringed instruments All the days of our life at the house of the LORD."

nasb@Isaiah:33:21 @Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover."

nasb@Isaiah:33:22 @Then Hezekiah had said, "What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORDNULL"

nasb@Isaiah:34:1 @At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered.

nasb@Isaiah:34:2 @Hezekiah was pleased, and showed them all his treasure house, the silver and the gold and the spices and the precious oil and his whole armory and all that was found in his treasuries. There was nothing in his house nor in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.

nasb@Isaiah:34:3 @Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, "What did these men say, and from where have they come to you?" And Hezekiah said, "They have come to me from a far country, from Babylon."

nasb@Isaiah:34:4 @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 treasuries that I have not shown them."

nasb@Isaiah:34:5 @Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of the LORD of hosts,

nasb@Isaiah:34:6 @'Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house and all that your fathers have laid up in store to this day will be carried to Babylon; nothing will be left,' says the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:34:7 @'And some of your sons who will issue from you, whom you will beget, will be taken away, and they will become officials in the palace of the king of Babylon.'"

nasb@Isaiah:34:8 @Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The word of the LORD which you have spoken is good." For he thought, "For there will be peace and truth in my days."

nasb@Isaiah:34:2" @ Speak kindly to Jerusalem; And call out to her, that her warfare has ended, That her iniquity has been removed, That she has received of the LORD'S hand Double for all her sins."

nasb@Isaiah:34:3 @A voice is calling, " Clear the way for the LORD in the wilderness; Make smooth in the desert a highway for our God.

nasb@Isaiah:34:4" @Let every valley be lifted up, And every mountain and hill be made low; And let the rough ground become a plain, And the rugged terrain a broad valley;

nasb@Isaiah:34:5 @Then the glory of the LORD will be revealed, And all flesh will see it together; For the mouth of the LORD has spoken."

nasb@Isaiah:34:6 @A voice says, "Call out." Then he answered, "What shall I call out?" All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field.

nasb@Isaiah:34:7 @The grass withers, the flower fades, When the breath of the LORD blows upon it; Surely the people are grass.

nasb@Isaiah:34:8 @The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.

nasb@Isaiah:34:9 @Get yourself up on a high mountain, O Zion, bearer of good news, Lift up your voice mightily, O Jerusalem, bearer of good news; Lift it up, do not fear. Say to the cities of Judah, " Here is your God!"

nasb@Isaiah:34:10 @Behold, the Lord GOD will come with might, With His arm ruling for Him. Behold, His reward is with Him And His recompense before Him.

nasb@Isaiah:34:11 @Like a shepherd He will tend His flock, In His arm He will gather the lambs And carry them in His bosom; He will gently lead the nursing ewes.

nasb@Isaiah:34:12 @Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, And marked off the heavens by the span, And calculated the dust of the earth by the measure, And weighed the mountains in a balance And the hills in a pair of scales?

nasb@Isaiah:34:13 @Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, Or as His counselor has informed Him?

nasb@Isaiah:34:14 @With whom did He consult and who gave Him understanding? And who taught Him in the path of justice and taught Him knowledge And informed Him of the way of understanding?

nasb@Isaiah:34:15 @Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, And are regarded as a speck of dust on the scales; Behold, He lifts up the islands like fine dust.

nasb@Isaiah:34:17 @All the nations are as nothing before Him, They are regarded by Him as less than nothing and meaningless.

nasb@Isaiah:34:18 @To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare with Him?

nasb@Isaiah:34:19 @As for the idol, a craftsman casts it, A goldsmith plates it with gold, And a silversmith fashions chains of silver.

nasb@Isaiah:34:20 @He who is too impoverished for such an offering Selects a tree that does not rot; He seeks out for himself a skillful craftsman To prepare an idol that will not totter.

nasb@Isaiah:34:21 @Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

nasb@Isaiah:34:22 @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.

nasb@Isaiah:34:23 @He it is who reduces rulers to nothing, Who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.

nasb@Isaiah:34:24 @Scarcely have they been planted, Scarcely have they been sown, Scarcely has their stock taken root in the earth, But He merely blows on them, and they wither, And the storm carries them away like stubble.

nasb@Isaiah:34:25" @ To whom then will you liken Me That I would be his equal?" says the Holy One.

nasb@Isaiah:34:26 @Lift up your eyes on high And see who has created these stars, The One who leads forth their host by number, He calls them all by name; Because of the greatness of His might and the strength of His power, Not one of them is missing.

nasb@Isaiah:34:27 @Why do you say, O Jacob, and assert, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the LORD, And the justice due me escapes the notice of my God"?

nasb@Isaiah:34:28 @Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth Does not become weary or tired. His understanding is inscrutable.

nasb@Isaiah:34:29 @He gives strength to the weary, And to him who lacks might He increases power.

nasb@Isaiah:34:31 @Yet those who wait for the LORD Will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary.

nasb@Isaiah:34:41" @ Coastlands, listen to Me in silence, And let the peoples gain new strength; Let them come forward, then let them speak; Let us come together for judgment.

nasb@Isaiah:34:2" @ Who has aroused one from the east Whom He calls in righteousness to His feet? He delivers up nations before him And subdues kings. He makes them like dust with his sword, As the wind-driven chaff with his bow.

nasb@Isaiah:34:3" @He pursues them, passing on in safety, By a way he had not been traversing with his feet.

nasb@Isaiah:34:4" @ Who has performed and accomplished it, Calling forth the generations from the beginning? ' I, the LORD, am the first, and with the last. I am He.'"

nasb@Isaiah:34:5 @The coastlands have seen and are afraid; The ends of the earth tremble; They have drawn near and have come.

nasb@Isaiah:34:6 @Each one helps his neighbor And says to his brother, "Be strong!"

nasb@Isaiah:34:7 @So the craftsman encourages the smelter, And he who smooths metal with the hammer encourages him who beats the anvil, Saying of the soldering, "It is good"; And he fastens it with nails, So that it will not totter.

nasb@Isaiah:34:9 @You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, And called from its remotest parts And said to you, 'You are My servant, I have chosen you and not rejected you.

nasb@Isaiah:34:10 @'Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.'

nasb@Isaiah:34:12" @ You will seek those who quarrel with you, but will not find them, Those who war with you will be as nothing and non-existent.

nasb@Isaiah:34:13" @For I am the LORD your God, who upholds your right hand, Who says to you, ' Do not fear, I will help you.'

nasb@Isaiah:34:14" @Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel; I will help you," declares the LORD, "and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:34:15" @Behold, I have made you a new, sharp threshing sledge with double edges; You will thresh the mountains and pulverize them, And will make the hills like chaff.

nasb@Isaiah:34:16" @You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, And the storm will scatter them; But you will rejoice in the LORD, You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:34:17" @The afflicted and needy are seeking water, but there is none, And their tongue is parched with thirst; I, the LORD, will answer them Myself, As the God of Israel I will not forsake them.

nasb@Isaiah:34:18" @I will open rivers on the bare heights And springs in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water And the dry land fountains of water.

nasb@Isaiah:34:19" @I will put the cedar in the wilderness, The acacia and the myrtle and the olive tree; I will place the juniper in the desert Together with the box tree and the cypress,

nasb@Isaiah:34:20 @That they may see and recognize, And consider and gain insight as well, That the hand of the LORD has done this, And the Holy One of Israel has created it.

nasb@Isaiah:34:21" @Present your case," the LORD says. "Bring forward your strong arguments," The King of Jacob says.

nasb@Isaiah:34:22 @Let them bring forth and declare to us what is going to take place; As for the former events, declare what they were, That we may consider them and know their outcome. Or announce to us what is coming;

nasb@Isaiah:34:23 @Declare the things that are going to come afterward, That we may know that you are gods; Indeed, do good or evil, that we may anxiously look about us and fear together.

nasb@Isaiah:34:24 @Behold, you are of no account, And your work amounts to nothing; He who chooses you is an abomination.

nasb@Isaiah:34:25" @I have aroused one from the north, and he has come; From the rising of the sun he will call on My name; And he will come upon rulers as upon mortar, Even as the potter treads clay."

nasb@Isaiah:34:26 @Who has declared this from the beginning, that we might know? Or from former times, that we may say, "He is right!"? Surely there was no one who declared, Surely there was no one who proclaimed, Surely there was no one who heard your words.

nasb@Isaiah:34:27" @ Formerly I said to Zion, 'Behold, here they are.' And to Jerusalem, 'I will give a messenger of good news.'

nasb@Isaiah:34:28" @But when I look, there is no one, And there is no counselor among them Who, if I ask, can give an answer.

nasb@Isaiah:34:29" @Behold, all of them are false; Their works are worthless, Their molten images are wind and emptiness.

nasb@Isaiah:34:42" @ Behold, My Servant, whom I uphold; My chosen one in whom My soul delights. I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the nations.

nasb@Isaiah:34:2" @He will not cry out or raise His voice, Nor make His voice heard in the street.

nasb@Isaiah:34:3" @A bruised reed He will not break And a dimly burning wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.

nasb@Isaiah:34:4" @He will not be disheartened or crushed Until He has established justice in the earth; And the coastlands will wait expectantly for His law."

nasb@Isaiah:34:5 @Thus says God the LORD, Who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who spread out the earth and its offspring, Who gives breath to the people on it And spirit to those who walk in it,

nasb@Isaiah:34:6" @I am the LORD, I have called You in righteousness, I will also hold You by the hand and watch over You, And I will appoint You as a covenant to the people, As a light to the nations,

nasb@Isaiah:34:7 @To open blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the dungeon And those who dwell in darkness from the prison.

nasb@Isaiah:34:8" @ I am the LORD, that is My name; I will not give My glory to another, Nor My praise to graven images.

nasb@Isaiah:34:9" @Behold, the former things have come to pass, Now I declare new things; Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you."

nasb@Isaiah:34:10 @Sing to the LORD a new song, Sing His praise from the end of the earth! You who go down to the sea, and all that is in it. You islands, and those who dwell on them.

nasb@Isaiah:34:11 @Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voices, The settlements where Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing aloud, Let them shout for joy from the tops of the mountains.

nasb@Isaiah:34:12 @Let them give glory to the LORD And declare His praise in the coastlands.

nasb@Isaiah:34:13 @The LORD will go forth like a warrior, He will arouse His zeal like a man of war. He will utter a shout, yes, He will raise a war cry. He will prevail against His enemies.

nasb@Isaiah:34:15" @I will lay waste the mountains and hills And wither all their vegetation; I will make the rivers into coastlands And dry up the ponds.

nasb@Isaiah:34:16" @I will lead the blind by a way they do not know, In paths they do not know I will guide them. I will make darkness into light before them And rugged places into plains. These are the things I will do, And I will not leave them undone."

nasb@Isaiah:34:17 @They will be turned back and be utterly put to shame, Who trust in idols, Who say to molten images, "You are our gods."

nasb@Isaiah:34:18 @Hear, you deaf! And look, you blind, that you may see.

nasb@Isaiah:34:19 @Who is blind but My servant, Or so deaf as My messenger whom I send? Who is so blind as he that is at peace with Me, Or so blind as the servant of the LORD?

nasb@Isaiah:34:20 @You have seen many things, but you do not observe them; Your ears are open, but none hears.

nasb@Isaiah:34:21 @The LORD was pleased for His righteousness' sake To make the law great and glorious.

nasb@Isaiah:34:22 @But this is a people plundered and despoiled; All of them are trapped in caves, Or are hidden away in prisons; They have become a prey with none to deliver them, And a spoil, with none to say, "Give them back!"

nasb@Isaiah:34:23 @Who among you will give ear to this? Who will give heed and listen hereafter?

nasb@Isaiah:34:24 @Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned, And in whose ways they were not willing to walk, And whose law they did not obey?

nasb@Isaiah:34:25 @So He poured out on him the heat of His anger And the fierceness of battle; And it set him aflame all around, Yet he did not recognize it; And it burned him, but he paid no attention.

nasb@Isaiah:34:43 @But now, thus says the LORD, your Creator, O Jacob, And He who formed you, O Israel, "Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine!

nasb@Isaiah:34:2" @When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched, Nor will the flame burn you.

nasb@Isaiah:34:3" @For I am the LORD your God, The Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I have given Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in your place.

nasb@Isaiah:34:4" @Since you are precious in My sight, Since you are honored and I love you, I will give other men in your place and other peoples in exchange for your life.

nasb@Isaiah:34:5" @Do not fear, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, And gather you from the west.

nasb@Isaiah:34:6" @I will say to the north, 'Give them up!' And to the south, 'Do not hold them back.' Bring My sons from afar And My daughters from the ends of the earth,

nasb@Isaiah:34:8 @Bring out the people who are blind, even though they have eyes, And the deaf, even though they have ears.

nasb@Isaiah:34:9 @All the nations have gathered together So that the peoples may be assembled. Who among them can declare this And proclaim to us the former things? Let them present their witnesses that they may be justified, Or let them hear and say, "It is true."

nasb@Isaiah:34:10" @You are My witnesses," declares the LORD, "And My servant whom I have chosen, So that you may know and believe Me And understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, And there will be none after Me.

nasb@Isaiah:34:11" @I, even I, am the LORD, And there is no savior besides Me.

nasb@Isaiah:34:12" @It is I who have declared and saved and proclaimed, And there was no strange god among you; So you are My witnesses," declares the LORD, "And I am God.

nasb@Isaiah:34:13" @Even from eternity I am He, And there is none who can deliver out of My hand; I act and who can reverse it?"

nasb@Isaiah:34:14 @Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, "For your sake I have sent to Babylon, And will bring them all down as fugitives, Even the Chaldeans, into the ships in which they rejoice.

nasb@Isaiah:34:15" @I am the LORD, your Holy One, The Creator of Israel, your King."

nasb@Isaiah:34:16 @Thus says the LORD, Who makes a way through the sea And a path through the mighty waters,

nasb@Isaiah:34:17 @Who brings forth the chariot and the horse, The army and the mighty man (They will lie down together and not rise again; They have been quenched and extinguished like a wick)-

nasb@Isaiah:34:18" @ Do not call to mind the former things, Or ponder things of the past.

nasb@Isaiah:34:19" @Behold, I will do something new, Now it will spring forth; Will you not be aware of it? I will even make a roadway in the wilderness, Rivers in the desert.

nasb@Isaiah:34:20" @The beasts of the field will glorify Me, The jackals and the ostriches, Because I have given waters in the wilderness And rivers in the desert, To give drink to My chosen people.

nasb@Isaiah:34:21" @The people whom I formed for Myself Will declare My praise.

nasb@Isaiah:34:23" @You have not brought to Me the sheep of your burnt offerings, Nor have you honored Me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, Nor wearied you with incense.

nasb@Isaiah:34:24" @You have bought Me not sweet cane with money, Nor have you filled Me with the fat of your sacrifices; Rather you have burdened Me with your sins, You have wearied Me with your iniquities.

nasb@Isaiah:34:25" @I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake, And I will not remember your sins.

nasb@Isaiah:34:26" @Put Me in remembrance, let us argue our case together; State your cause, that you may be proved right.

nasb@Isaiah:34:27" @Your first forefather sinned, And your spokesmen have transgressed against Me.

nasb@Isaiah:34:28" @So I will pollute the princes of the sanctuary, And I will consign Jacob to the ban and Israel to revilement.

nasb@Isaiah:35:2 @Thus says the LORD who made you And formed you from the womb, who will help you, ' Do not fear, O Jacob My servant; And you Jeshurun whom I have chosen.

nasb@Isaiah:35:3 @'For I will pour out water on the thirsty land And streams on the dry ground; I will pour out My Spirit on your offspring And My blessing on your descendants;

nasb@Isaiah:35:4 @And they will spring up among the grass Like poplars by streams of water.'

nasb@Isaiah:35:5" @This one will say, 'I am the LORD'S'; And that one will call on the name of Jacob; And another will write on his hand, 'Belonging to the LORD,' And will name Israel's name with honor.

nasb@Isaiah:35:6" @Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts- 'I am the first and I am the last, And there is no God besides Me.

nasb@Isaiah:35:7 @'Who is like Me? Let him proclaim and declare it; Yes, let him recount it to Me in order, From the time that I established the ancient nation. And let them declare to them the things that are coming And the events that are going to take place.

nasb@Isaiah:35:8 @'Do not tremble and do not be afraid; Have I not long since announced it to you and declared it? And you are My witnesses. Is there any God besides Me, Or is there any other Rock? I know of none.'"

nasb@Isaiah:35:9 @Those who fashion a graven image are all of them futile, and their precious things are of no profit; even their own witnesses fail to see or know, so that they will be put to shame.

nasb@Isaiah:35:11 @Behold, all his companions will be put to shame, for the craftsmen themselves are mere men. Let them all assemble themselves, let them stand up, let them tremble, let them together be put to shame.

nasb@Isaiah:35:12 @The man shapes iron into a cutting tool and does his work over the coals, fashioning it with hammers and working it with his strong arm. He also gets hungry and his strength fails; he drinks no water and becomes weary.

nasb@Isaiah:35:13 @Another shapes wood, he extends a measuring line; he outlines it with red chalk. He works it with planes and outlines it with a compass, and makes it like the form of a man, like the beauty of man, so that it may sit in a house.

nasb@Isaiah:35:14 @Surely he cuts cedars for himself, and takes a cypress or an oak and raises it for himself among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir, and the rain makes it grow.

nasb@Isaiah:35:15 @Then it becomes something for a man to burn, so he takes one of them and warms himself; he also makes a fire to bake bread. He also makes a god and worships it; he makes it a graven image and falls down before it.

nasb@Isaiah:35:16 @Half of it he burns in the fire; over this half he eats meat as he roasts a roast and is satisfied. He also warms himself and says, "Aha! I am warm, I have seen the fire."

nasb@Isaiah:35:17 @But the rest of it he makes into a god, his graven image. He falls down before it and worships; he also prays to it and says, "Deliver me, for you are my god."

nasb@Isaiah:35:18 @They do not know, nor do they understand, for He has smeared over their eyes so that they cannot see and their hearts so that they cannot comprehend.

nasb@Isaiah:35:19 @No one recalls, nor is there knowledge or understanding to say, "I have burned half of it in the fire and also have baked bread over its coals. I roast meat and eat it. Then I make the rest of it into an abomination, I fall down before a block of wood!"

nasb@Isaiah:35:20 @He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver himself, nor say, " Is there not a lie in my right hand?"

nasb@Isaiah:35:21" @ Remember these things, 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.

nasb@Isaiah:35:22" @I have wiped out your transgressions like a thick cloud And your sins like a heavy mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you."

nasb@Isaiah:35:23 @Shout for joy, O heavens, for the LORD has done it! Shout joyfully, you lower parts of the earth; Break forth into a shout of joy, you mountains, O forest, and every tree in it; For the LORD has redeemed Jacob And in Israel He shows forth His glory.

nasb@Isaiah:35:24 @Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, and the one who formed you from the womb, "I, the LORD, am the maker of all things, Stretching out the heavens by Myself And spreading out the earth all alone,

nasb@Isaiah:35:25 @Causing the omens of boasters to fail, Making fools out of diviners, Causing wise men to draw back And turning their knowledge into foolishness,

nasb@Isaiah:35:26 @Confirming the word of His servant And performing the purpose of His messengers. It is I who says of Jerusalem, 'She shall be inhabited!' And of the cities of Judah, ' They shall be built.' And I will raise up her ruins again.

nasb@Isaiah:35:27" @It is I who says to the depth of the sea, 'Be dried up!' And I will make your rivers dry.

nasb@Isaiah:35:28" @It is I who says of Cyrus, 'He is My shepherd! And he will perform all My desire.' And he declares of Jerusalem, ' She will be built,' And of the temple, 'Your foundation will be laid.'"

nasb@Isaiah:35:45 @Thus says the LORD to Cyrus His anointed, Whom I have taken by the right hand, To subdue nations before him And to loose the loins of kings; To open doors before him so that gates will not be shut-

nasb@Isaiah:35:2" @I will go before you and make the rough places smooth; I will shatter the doors of bronze and cut through their iron bars.

nasb@Isaiah:35:3" @I will give you the treasures of darkness And hidden wealth of secret places, So that you may know that it is I, The LORD, the God of Israel, who calls you by your name.

nasb@Isaiah:35:4" @For the sake of Jacob My servant, And Israel My chosen one, I have also called you by your name; I have given you a title of honor Though you have not known Me.

nasb@Isaiah:35:5" @I am the LORD, and there is no other; Besides Me there is no God. I will gird you, though you have not known Me;

nasb@Isaiah:35:6 @That men may know from the rising to the setting of the sun That there is no one besides Me. I am the LORD, and there is no other,

nasb@Isaiah:35:7 @The One forming light and creating darkness, Causing well-being and creating calamity; I am the LORD who does all these.

nasb@Isaiah:35:8" @ Drip down, O heavens, from above, And let the clouds pour down righteousness; Let the earth open up and salvation bear fruit, And righteousness spring up with it. I, the LORD, have created it.

nasb@Isaiah:35:9" @Woe to the one who quarrels with his Maker-- An earthenware vessel among the vessels of earth! Will the clay say to the potter, 'What are you doing?' Or the thing you are making say, 'He has no hands'?

nasb@Isaiah:35:10" @Woe to him who says to a father, 'What are you begetting?' Or to a woman, 'To what are you giving birth?'"

nasb@Isaiah:35:11 @Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker- " Ask Me about the things to come concerning My sons, And you shall commit to Me the work of My hands.

nasb@Isaiah:35:12" @It is I who made the earth, and created man upon it. I stretched out the heavens with My hands And I ordained all their host.

nasb@Isaiah:35:13" @I have aroused him in righteousness And I will make all his ways smooth; He will build My city and will let My exiles go free, Without any payment or reward," says the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Isaiah:35:14 @Thus says the LORD, "The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush And the Sabeans, men of stature, Will come over to you and will be yours; They will walk behind you, they will come over in chains And will bow down to you; They will make supplication to you- 'Surely, God is with you, and there is none else, No other God.'"

nasb@Isaiah:35:16 @They will be put to shame and even humiliated, all of them; The manufacturers of idols will go away together in humiliation.

nasb@Isaiah:35:17 @Israel has been saved by the LORD With an everlasting salvation; You will not be put to shame or humiliated To all eternity.

nasb@Isaiah:35:18 @For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and made it, He established it and did not create it a waste place, but formed it to be inhabited), "I am the LORD, and there is none else.

nasb@Isaiah:35:19" @ I have not spoken in secret, In some dark land; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, ' Seek Me in a waste place'; I, the LORD, speak righteousness, Declaring things that are upright.

nasb@Isaiah:35:20" @ Gather yourselves and come; Draw near together, you fugitives of the nations; They have no knowledge, Who carry about their wooden idol And pray to a god who cannot save.

nasb@Isaiah:35:21" @ Declare and set forth your case; Indeed, let them consult together. Who has announced this from of old? Who has long since declared it? Is it not I, the LORD? And there is no other God besides Me, A righteous God and a Savior; There is none except Me.

nasb@Isaiah:35:22" @ Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; For I am God, and there is no other.

nasb@Isaiah:35:23" @ I have sworn by Myself, The word has gone forth from My mouth in righteousness And will not turn back, That to Me every knee will bow, every tongue will swear allegiance.

nasb@Isaiah:35:24" @They will say of Me, 'Only in the LORD are righteousness and strength.' Men will come to Him, And all who were angry at Him will be put to shame.

nasb@Isaiah:35:25" @In the LORD all the offspring of Israel Will be justified and will glory."

nasb@Isaiah:36:1 @Bel has bowed down, Nebo stoops over; Their images are consigned to the beasts and the cattle. The things that you carry are burdensome, A load for the weary beast.

nasb@Isaiah:36:2 @They stooped over, they have bowed down together; They could not rescue the burden, But have themselves gone into captivity.

nasb@Isaiah:36:3" @ Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, And all the remnant of the house of Israel, You who have been borne by Me from birth And have been carried from the womb;

nasb@Isaiah:36:4 @Even to your old age I will be the same, And even to your graying years I will bear you! I have done it, and I will carry you; And I will bear you and I will deliver you.

nasb@Isaiah:36:6" @Those who lavish gold from the purse And weigh silver on the scale Hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god; They bow down, indeed they worship it.

nasb@Isaiah:36:7" @They lift it upon the shoulder and carry it; They set it in its place and it stands there. It does not move from its place. Though one may cry to it, it cannot answer; It cannot deliver him from his distress.

nasb@Isaiah:36:9" @Remember the former things long past, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me,

nasb@Isaiah:36:10 @Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things which have not been done, Saying, ' My purpose will be established, And I will accomplish all My good pleasure';

nasb@Isaiah:36:11 @Calling a bird of prey from the east, The man of My purpose from a far country. Truly I have spoken; truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it, surely I will do it.

nasb@Isaiah:36:47" @ 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 longer be called tender and delicate.

nasb@Isaiah:36:2" @Take the millstones and grind meal. Remove your veil, strip off the skirt, Uncover the leg, cross the rivers.

nasb@Isaiah:36:4 @Our Redeemer, the LORD of hosts is His name, The Holy One of Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:36:5" @ Sit silently, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans, For you will no longer be called The queen of kingdoms.

nasb@Isaiah:36:6" @I was angry with My people, I profaned My heritage And gave them into your hand. You did not show mercy to them, On the aged you made your yoke very heavy.

nasb@Isaiah:36:7" @Yet you said, 'I will be a queen forever.' These things you did not consider Nor remember the outcome of them.

nasb@Isaiah:36:8" @Now, then, hear this, you sensual one, Who dwells securely, Who says in your heart, ' I am, and there is no one besides me. I will not sit as a widow, Nor know loss of children.'

nasb@Isaiah:36:9" @But these two things will come on you suddenly in one day- Loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in full measure In spite of your many sorceries, In spite of the great power of your spells.

nasb@Isaiah:36:10" @You felt secure in your wickedness and said, ' No one sees me,' Your wisdom and your knowledge, they have deluded you; For you have said in your heart, ' I am, and there is no one besides me.'

nasb@Isaiah:36:13" @You are wearied with your many counsels; Let now the astrologers, Those who prophesy by the stars, Those who predict by the new moons, Stand up and save you from what will come upon you.

nasb@Isaiah:36:14" @Behold, they have become like stubble, Fire burns them; They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame; There will be no coal to warm by Nor a fire to sit before!

nasb@Isaiah:36:15" @So have those become to you with whom you have labored, Who have trafficked with you from your youth; Each has wandered in his own way; There is none to save you.

nasb@Isaiah:36:48" @ Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are named Israel And who came forth from the loins of Judah, Who swear by the name of the LORD And invoke the God of Israel, But not in truth nor in righteousness.

nasb@Isaiah:36:2" @For they call themselves after the holy city And lean on the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is His name.

nasb@Isaiah:36:3" @I declared the former things long ago And they went forth from My mouth, and I proclaimed them. Suddenly I acted, and they came to pass.

nasb@Isaiah:36:4" @Because I know that you are obstinate, And your neck is an iron sinew And your forehead bronze,

nasb@Isaiah:36:5 @Therefore I declared them to you long ago, Before they took place I proclaimed them to you, So that you would not say, 'My idol has done them, And my graven image and my molten image have commanded them.'

nasb@Isaiah:36:6" @You have heard; look at all this. And you, will you not declare it? I proclaim to you new things from this time, Even hidden things which you have not known.

nasb@Isaiah:36:7" @They are created now and not long ago; And before today you have not heard them, So that you will not say, 'Behold, I knew them.'

nasb@Isaiah:36:8" @You have not heard, you have not known. Even from long ago your ear has not been open, Because I knew that you would deal very treacherously; And you have been called a rebel from birth.

nasb@Isaiah:36:9" @ For the sake of My name I delay My wrath, And for My praise I restrain it for you, In order not to cut you off.

nasb@Isaiah:36:10" @Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

nasb@Isaiah:36:11" @ For My own sake, for My own sake, I will act; For how can My name be profaned? And My glory I will not give to another.

nasb@Isaiah:36:12" @Listen to Me, O Jacob, even Israel whom I called; I am He, I am the first, I am also the last.

nasb@Isaiah:36:13" @Surely My hand founded the earth, And My right hand spread out the heavens; When I call to them, they stand together.

nasb@Isaiah:36:14" @ Assemble, all of you, and listen! Who among them has declared these things? The LORD loves him; he will carry out His good pleasure on Babylon, And His arm will be against the Chaldeans.

nasb@Isaiah:36:15" @I, even I, have spoken; indeed I have called him, I have brought him, and He will make his ways successful.

nasb@Isaiah:36:16" @ Come near to Me, listen to this- From the first I have not spoken in secret, From the time it took place, I was there. And now the Lord GOD has sent Me, and His Spirit."

nasb@Isaiah:36:17 @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 in the way you should go.

nasb@Isaiah:36:18" @If only you had paid attention to My commandments! Then your well-being would have been like a river, And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

nasb@Isaiah:36:19" @Your descendants would have been like the sand, And your offspring like its grains; Their name would never be cut off or destroyed from My presence."

nasb@Isaiah:36:20 @Go forth from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! Declare with the sound of joyful shouting, proclaim this, Send it out to the end of the earth; Say, " The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob."

nasb@Isaiah:36:21 @They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts. He made the water flow out of the rock for them; He split the rock and the water gushed forth.

nasb@Isaiah:36:22" @ There is no peace for the wicked," says the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:37:1 @Listen to Me, O islands, And pay attention, you peoples from afar. The LORD called Me from the womb; From the body of My mother He named Me.

nasb@Isaiah:37:2 @He has made My mouth like a sharp sword, In the shadow of His hand He has concealed Me; And He has also made Me a select arrow, He has hidden Me in His quiver.

nasb@Isaiah:37:3 @He said to Me, " You are My Servant, Israel, In Whom I will show My glory."

nasb@Isaiah:37:4 @But I said, "I have toiled in vain, I have spent My strength for nothing and vanity; Yet surely the justice due to Me is with the LORD, And My reward with My God."

nasb@Isaiah:37:5 @And now says the LORD, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, To bring Jacob back to Him, so that Israel might be gathered to Him (For I am honored in the sight of the LORD, And My God is My strength),

nasb@Isaiah:37:6 @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 make You a light of the nations So that My salvation may reach to the end of the earth."

nasb@Isaiah:37:7 @Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel and its Holy One, To the despised One, To the One abhorred by the nation, To the Servant of rulers, " Kings will see and arise, Princes will also bow down, Because of the LORD who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen You."

nasb@Isaiah:37:8 @Thus says the LORD, "In a favorable time I have answered You, And in a day of salvation I have helped You; And I will keep You and give You for a covenant of the people, To restore the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritages;

nasb@Isaiah:37:9 @Saying to those who are bound, 'Go forth,' To those who are in darkness, 'Show yourselves.' Along the roads they will feed, And their pasture will be on all bare heights.

nasb@Isaiah:37:10" @They will not hunger or thirst, Nor will the scorching heat or sun strike them down; For He who has compassion on them will lead them And will guide them to springs of water.

nasb@Isaiah:37:12" @Behold, these will come from afar; And lo, these will come from the north and from the west, And these from the land of Sinim."

nasb@Isaiah:37:13 @Shout for joy, O heavens! And rejoice, O earth! Break forth into joyful shouting, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people And will have compassion on His afflicted.

nasb@Isaiah:37:14 @But Zion said, "The LORD has forsaken me, And the Lord has forgotten me."

nasb@Isaiah:37:15" @Can a woman forget her nursing child And have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, but I will not forget you.

nasb@Isaiah:37:16" @Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; Your walls are continually before Me.

nasb@Isaiah:37:18" @ Lift up your eyes and look around; All of them gather together, they come to you. As I live," declares the LORD, "You will surely put on all of them as jewels and bind them on as a bride.

nasb@Isaiah:37:19" @For your waste and desolate places and your destroyed land-- Surely now you will be too cramped for the inhabitants, And those who swallowed you will be far away.

nasb@Isaiah:37:20" @The children of whom you were bereaved will yet say in your ears, 'The place is too cramped for me; Make room for me that I may live here.'

nasb@Isaiah:37:21" @Then you will say in your heart, 'Who has begotten these for me, Since I have been bereaved of my children And am barren, an exile and a wanderer? And who has reared these? Behold, I was left alone; From where did these come?'"

nasb@Isaiah:37:22 @Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations And set up My standard to the peoples; And they will bring your sons in their bosom, And your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.

nasb@Isaiah:37:23" @ Kings will be your guardians, And their princesses your nurses. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth And lick the dust of your feet; And you will know that I am the LORD; Those who hopefully wait for Me will not be put to shame.

nasb@Isaiah:37:24" @ Can the prey be taken from the mighty man, Or the captives of a tyrant be rescued?"

nasb@Isaiah:37:25 @Surely, thus says the LORD, "Even the captives of the mighty man will be taken away, And the prey of the tyrant will be rescued; For I will contend with the one who contends with you, And I will save your sons.

nasb@Isaiah:37:26" @I will feed your oppressors with their own flesh, And they will become drunk with their own blood as with sweet wine; And all flesh will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior And your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob."

nasb@Isaiah:37:50 @Thus says the LORD, "Where is the certificate of divorce By which I have sent your mother away? Or to whom of My creditors did I sell you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, And for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

nasb@Isaiah:37:2" @Why was there no man when I came? When I called, why was there none to answer? Is My hand so short that it cannot ransom? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, I dry up the sea with My rebuke, I make the rivers a wilderness; Their fish stink for lack of water And die of thirst.

nasb@Isaiah:37:3" @I clothe the heavens with blackness And make sackcloth their covering."

nasb@Isaiah:37:4 @The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of disciples, That I may know how to sustain the weary one with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.

nasb@Isaiah:37:5 @The Lord GOD has opened My ear; And I was not disobedient Nor did I turn back.

nasb@Isaiah:37:6 @I gave My back to those who strike Me, And My cheeks to those who pluck out the beard; I did not cover My face from humiliation and spitting.

nasb@Isaiah:37:7 @For the Lord GOD helps Me, Therefore, I am not disgraced; Therefore, I have set My face like flint, And I know that I will not be ashamed.

nasb@Isaiah:37:8 @He who vindicates Me is near; Who will contend with Me? Let us stand up to each other; Who has a case against Me? Let him draw near to Me.

nasb@Isaiah:37:9 @Behold, the Lord GOD helps Me; Who is he who condemns Me? Behold, they will all wear out like a garment; The moth will eat them.

nasb@Isaiah:37:10 @Who is among you that fears the LORD, That obeys the voice of His servant, That walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD and rely on his God.

nasb@Isaiah:37:11 @Behold, all you who kindle a fire, Who encircle yourselves with firebrands, Walk in the light of your fire And among the brands you have set ablaze. This you will have from My hand- You will lie down in torment.

nasb@Isaiah:37:51" @ Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, Who seek the LORD- Look to the rock from which you were hewn And to the quarry from which you were dug.

nasb@Isaiah:37:2" @Look to Abraham your father And to Sarah who gave birth to you in pain; When he was but one I called him, Then I blessed him and multiplied him."

nasb@Isaiah:37:3 @Indeed, the LORD will comfort Zion; He will comfort all her waste places. And her wilderness He will make like Eden, And her desert like the garden of the LORD; Joy and gladness will be found in her, Thanksgiving and sound of a melody.

nasb@Isaiah:37:4" @ Pay attention to Me, O My people, And give ear to Me, O My nation; For a law will go forth from Me, And I will set My justice for a light of the peoples.

nasb@Isaiah:37:5" @My righteousness is near, My salvation has gone forth, And My arms will judge the peoples; The coastlands will wait for Me, And for My arm they will wait expectantly.

nasb@Isaiah:37:6" @ Lift up your eyes to the sky, Then look to the earth beneath; For the sky will vanish like smoke, And the earth will wear out like a garment And its inhabitants will die in like manner; But My salvation will be forever, And My righteousness will not wane.

nasb@Isaiah:37:7" @ Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, A people in whose heart is My law; Do not fear the reproach of man, Nor be dismayed at their revilings.

nasb@Isaiah:37:8" @For the moth will eat them like a garment, And the grub will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will be forever, And My salvation to all generations."

nasb@Isaiah:37:9 @Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; Awake as in the days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not You who cut Rahab in pieces, Who pierced the dragon?

nasb@Isaiah:37:10 @Was it not You who dried up the sea, The waters of the great deep; Who made the depths of the sea a pathway For the redeemed to cross over?

nasb@Isaiah:37:11 @So the ransomed of the LORD will return And come with joyful shouting to Zion, And everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, And sorrow and sighing will flee away.

nasb@Isaiah:37:12" @I, even I, am He who comforts you. Who are you that you are afraid of man who dies And of the son of man who is made like grass,

nasb@Isaiah:37:13 @That you have forgotten the LORD your Maker, Who stretched out the heavens And laid the foundations of the earth, That you fear continually all day long because of the fury of the oppressor, As he makes ready to destroy? But where is the fury of the oppressor?

nasb@Isaiah:37:14" @The exile will soon be set free, and will not die in the dungeon, nor will his bread be lacking.

nasb@Isaiah:37:15" @For I am the LORD your God, who stirs up the sea and its waves roar (the LORD of hosts is His name).

nasb@Isaiah:37:16" @I have put My words in your mouth and have covered you with the shadow of My hand, to establish the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, 'You are My people.'"

nasb@Isaiah:37:17 @Rouse yourself! Rouse yourself! Arise, O Jerusalem, You who have drunk from the LORD'S hand the cup of His anger; The chalice of reeling you have drained to the dregs.

nasb@Isaiah:37:18 @There is none to guide her among all the sons she has borne, Nor is there one to take her by the hand among all the sons she has reared.

nasb@Isaiah:37:19 @These two things have befallen you; Who will mourn for you? The devastation and destruction, famine and sword; How shall I comfort you?

nasb@Isaiah:37:20 @Your sons have fainted, They lie helpless at the head of every street, Like an antelope in a net, Full of the wrath of the LORD, The rebuke of your God.

nasb@Isaiah:37:21 @Therefore, please hear this, you afflicted, Who are drunk, but not with wine-

nasb@Isaiah:37:22 @Thus says your Lord, the LORD, even your God Who contends for His people, "Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of reeling, The chalice of My anger; You will never drink it again.

nasb@Isaiah:37:23" @I will put it into the hand of your tormentors, Who have said to you, ' Lie down that we may walk over you.' You have even made your back like the ground And like the street for those who walk over it."

nasb@Isaiah:38:1 @Awake, awake, Clothe yourself in your strength, O Zion; Clothe yourself in your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; For the uncircumcised and the unclean Will no longer come into you.

nasb@Isaiah:38:2 @Shake yourself from the dust, rise up, O captive Jerusalem; Loose yourself from the chains around your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

nasb@Isaiah:38:3 @For thus says the LORD, "You were sold for nothing and you will be redeemed without money."

nasb@Isaiah:38:4 @For thus says the Lord GOD, "My people went down at the first into Egypt to reside there; then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

nasb@Isaiah:38:5" @Now therefore, what do I have here," declares the LORD, "seeing that My people have been taken away without cause?" Again the LORD declares, "Those who rule over them howl, and My name is continually blasphemed all day long.

nasb@Isaiah:38:6" @Therefore My people shall know My name; therefore in that day I am the one who is speaking, 'Here I am.'"

nasb@Isaiah:38:7 @How lovely on the mountains Are the feet of him who brings good news, Who announces peace And brings good news of happiness, Who announces salvation, And says to Zion, "Your God reigns!"

nasb@Isaiah:38:8 @Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices, They shout joyfully together; For they will see with their own eyes When the LORD restores Zion.

nasb@Isaiah:38:9 @Break forth, shout joyfully together, You waste places of Jerusalem; For the LORD has comforted His people, He has redeemed Jerusalem.

nasb@Isaiah:38:10 @The LORD has bared His holy arm In the sight of all the nations, That all the ends of the earth may see The salvation of our God.

nasb@Isaiah:38:11 @Depart, depart, go out from there, Touch nothing unclean; Go out of the midst of her, purify yourselves, You who carry the vessels of the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:38:12 @But you will not go out in haste, Nor will you go as fugitives; For the LORD will go before you, And the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

nasb@Isaiah:38:13 @Behold, My servant will prosper, He will be high and lifted up and greatly exalted.

nasb@Isaiah:38:14 @Just as many were astonished at you, My people, So His appearance was marred more than any man And His form more than the sons of men.

nasb@Isaiah:38:15 @Thus He will sprinkle many nations, Kings will shut their mouths on account of Him; For what had not been told them they will see, And what they had not heard they will understand.

nasb@Isaiah:39:1 @Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

nasb@Isaiah:39:2 @For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, And like a root out of parched ground; He has no stately form or majesty That we should look upon Him, Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him.

nasb@Isaiah:39:3 @He was despised and forsaken of men, A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; And like one from whom men hide their face He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

nasb@Isaiah:39:4 @Surely our griefs He Himself bore, And our sorrows He carried; Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, Smitten of God, and afflicted.

nasb@Isaiah:39:5 @But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed.

nasb@Isaiah:39:6 @All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him.

nasb@Isaiah:39:7 @He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He did not open His mouth; Like a lamb that is led to slaughter, And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers, So He did not open His mouth.

nasb@Isaiah:39:8 @By oppression and judgment He was taken away; And as for His generation, who considered That He was cut off out of the land of the living For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due?

nasb@Isaiah:39:9 @His grave was assigned with wicked men, Yet He was with a rich man in His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.

nasb@Isaiah:39:10 @But the LORD was pleased To crush Him, putting Him to grief; If He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, And the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.

nasb@Isaiah:39:11 @As a result of the anguish of His soul, He will see it and be satisfied; By His knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, will justify the many, As He will bear their iniquities.

nasb@Isaiah:39:12 @Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great, And He will divide the booty with the strong; Because He poured out Himself to death, And was numbered with the transgressors; Yet He Himself bore the sin of many, And interceded for the transgressors.

nasb@Isaiah:39:54" @ Shout for joy, O barren one, you who have borne no child; Break forth into joyful shouting and cry aloud, you who have not travailed; For the sons of the desolate one will be more numerous Than the sons of the married woman," says the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:39:2" @ Enlarge the place of your tent; Stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, spare not; Lengthen your cords And strengthen your pegs.

nasb@Isaiah:39:3" @For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left. And your descendants will possess nations And will resettle the desolate cities.

nasb@Isaiah:39:4" @Fear not, for you will not be put to shame; And do not feel humiliated, for you will not be disgraced; But you will forget the shame of your youth, And the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.

nasb@Isaiah:39:5" @For your husband is your Maker, Whose name is the LORD of hosts; And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, Who is called the God of all the earth.

nasb@Isaiah:39:6" @For the LORD has called you, Like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, Even like a wife of one's youth when she is rejected," Says your God.

nasb@Isaiah:39:7" @For a brief moment I forsook you, But with great compassion I will gather you.

nasb@Isaiah:39:8" @In an outburst of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, But with everlasting lovingkindness I will have compassion on you," Says the LORD your Redeemer.

nasb@Isaiah:39:9" @For this is like the days of Noah to Me, When I swore that the waters of Noah Would not flood the earth again; So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you Nor will I rebuke you.

nasb@Isaiah:39:10" @For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake, But My lovingkindness will not be removed from you, And My covenant of peace will not be shaken," Says the LORD who has compassion on you.

nasb@Isaiah:39:13" @ All your sons will be taught of the LORD; And the well-being of your sons will be great.

nasb@Isaiah:39:14" @In righteousness you will be established; You will be far from oppression, for you will not fear; And from terror, for it will not come near you.

nasb@Isaiah:39:16" @Behold, I Myself have created the smith who blows the fire of coals And brings out a weapon for its work; And I have created the destroyer to ruin.

nasb@Isaiah:39:17" @ No weapon that is formed against you will prosper; And every tongue that accuses you in judgment you will condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, And their vindication is from Me," declares the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:39:55" @Ho! Every one who thirsts, come to the waters; And you who have no money come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk Without money and without cost.

nasb@Isaiah:39:3" @ Incline your ear and come to Me. Listen, that you may live; And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, According to the faithful mercies shown to David.

nasb@Isaiah:39:4" @Behold, I have made him a witness to the peoples, A leader and commander for the peoples.

nasb@Isaiah:39:5" @Behold, you will call a nation you do not know, And a nation which knows you not will run to you, Because of the LORD your God, even the Holy One of Israel; For He has glorified you."

nasb@Isaiah:39:6 @Seek the LORD while He may be found; Call upon Him while He is near.

nasb@Isaiah:39:7 @Let the wicked forsake his way And the unrighteous man his thoughts; And let him return to the LORD, And He will have compassion on him, And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon.

nasb@Isaiah:39:8" @For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," declares the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:39:9" @For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts.

nasb@Isaiah:39:10" @For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, And do not return there without watering the earth And making it bear and sprout, And furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

nasb@Isaiah:39:11 @So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It will not return to Me empty, Without accomplishing what I desire, And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.

nasb@Isaiah:39:12" @For you will go out with joy And be led forth with peace; The mountains and the hills will break forth into shouts of joy before you, And all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

nasb@Isaiah:39:13" @Instead of the thorn bush the cypress will come up, And instead of the nettle the myrtle will come up, And it will be a memorial to the LORD, For an everlasting sign which will not be cut off."

nasb@Isaiah:39:56 @Thus says the LORD, " Preserve justice and do righteousness, For My salvation is about to come And My righteousness to be revealed.

nasb@Isaiah:39:2" @How blessed is the man who does this, And the son of man who takes hold of it; Who keeps from profaning the sabbath, And keeps his hand from doing any evil."

nasb@Isaiah:39:3 @Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, "The LORD will surely separate me from His people." Nor let the eunuch say, "Behold, I am a dry tree."

nasb@Isaiah:39:4 @For thus says the LORD, "To the eunuchs who keep My sabbaths, And choose what pleases Me, And hold fast My covenant,

nasb@Isaiah:39:5 @To them I will give in My house and within My walls a memorial, And a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name which will not be cut off.

nasb@Isaiah:39:6" @Also the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, To minister to Him, and to love the name of the LORD, To be His servants, every one who keeps from profaning the sabbath And holds fast My covenant;

nasb@Isaiah:39:7 @Even those I will bring to My holy mountain And make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be acceptable on My altar; For My house will be called a house of prayer for all the peoples."

nasb@Isaiah:39:8 @The Lord GOD, who gathers the dispersed of Israel, declares, "Yet others I will gather to them, to those already gathered."

nasb@Isaiah:39:9 @All you beasts of the field, All you beasts in the forest, Come to eat.

nasb@Isaiah:39:10 @His watchmen are blind, All of them know nothing. All of them are mute dogs unable to bark, Dreamers lying down, who love to slumber;

nasb@Isaiah:39:11 @And the dogs are greedy, they are not satisfied. And they are shepherds who have no understanding; They have all turned to their own way, Each one to his unjust gain, to the last one.

nasb@Isaiah:39:12" @Come," they say, "let us get wine, and let us drink heavily of strong drink; And tomorrow will be like today, only more so."

nasb@Isaiah:40:1 @The righteous man perishes, and no man takes it to heart; And devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from evil,

nasb@Isaiah:40:2 @He enters into peace; They rest in their beds, Each one who walked in his upright way.

nasb@Isaiah:40:3" @But come here, you sons of a sorceress, Offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute.

nasb@Isaiah:40:5 @Who inflame yourselves among the oaks, Under every luxuriant tree, Who slaughter the children in the ravines, Under the clefts of the crags?

nasb@Isaiah:40:6" @Among the smooth stones of the ravine Is your portion, they are your lot; Even to them you have poured out a drink offering, You have made a grain offering. Shall I relent concerning these things?

nasb@Isaiah:40:7" @Upon a high and lofty mountain You have made your bed. You also went up there to offer sacrifice.

nasb@Isaiah:40:8" @Behind the door and the doorpost You have set up your sign; Indeed, far removed from Me, you have uncovered yourself, And have gone up and made your bed wide. And you have made an agreement for yourself with them, You have loved their bed, You have looked on their manhood.

nasb@Isaiah:40:9" @You have journeyed to the king with oil And increased your perfumes; You have sent your envoys a great distance And made them go down to Sheol.

nasb@Isaiah:40:10" @You were tired out by the length of your road, Yet you did not say, ' It is hopeless.' You found renewed strength, Therefore you did not faint.

nasb@Isaiah:40:11" @Of whom were you worried and fearful When you lied, and did not remember Me Nor give Me a thought? Was I not silent even for a long time So you do not fear Me?

nasb@Isaiah:40:12" @I will declare your righteousness and your deeds, But they will not profit you.

nasb@Isaiah:40:13" @When you cry out, let your collection of idols deliver you. But the wind will carry all of them up, And a breath will take them away. But he who takes refuge in Me will inherit the land And will possess My holy mountain."

nasb@Isaiah:40:14 @And it will be said, " Build up, build up, prepare the way, Remove every obstacle out of the way of My people."

nasb@Isaiah:40:15 @For thus says the high and exalted One Who lives forever, whose name is Holy, "I dwell on a high and holy place, And also with the contrite and lowly of spirit In order to revive the spirit of the lowly And to revive the heart of the contrite.

nasb@Isaiah:40:16" @For I will not contend forever, Nor will I always be angry; For the spirit would grow faint before Me, And the breath of those whom I have made.

nasb@Isaiah:40:17" @Because of the iniquity of his unjust gain I was angry and struck him; I hid My face and was angry, And he went on turning away, in the way of his heart.

nasb@Isaiah:40:18" @I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and restore comfort to him and to his mourners,

nasb@Isaiah:40:19 @Creating the praise of the lips. Peace, peace to him who is far and to him who is near," Says the LORD, "and I will heal him."

nasb@Isaiah:40:20 @But the wicked are like the tossing sea, For it cannot be quiet, And its waters toss up refuse and mud.

nasb@Isaiah:40:21" @ There is no peace," says my God, "for the wicked."

nasb@Isaiah:40:58" @ Cry loudly, do not hold back; Raise your voice like a trumpet, And declare to My people their transgression And to the house of Jacob their sins.

nasb@Isaiah:40:2" @Yet they seek Me day by day and delight to know My ways, As a nation that has done righteousness And has not forsaken the ordinance of their God. They ask Me for just decisions, They delight in the nearness of God.

nasb@Isaiah:40:3 @'Why have we fasted and You do not see? Why have we humbled ourselves and You do not notice?' Behold, on the day of your fast you find your desire, And drive hard all your workers.

nasb@Isaiah:40:4" @Behold, you fast for contention and strife and to strike with a wicked fist. You do not fast like you do today to make your voice heard on high.

nasb@Isaiah:40:5" @Is it a fast like this which I choose, a day for a man to humble himself? Is it for bowing one's head like a reed And for spreading out sackcloth and ashes as a bed? Will you call this a fast, even an acceptable day to the LORD?

nasb@Isaiah:40:6" @Is this not the fast which I choose, To loosen the bonds of wickedness, To undo the bands of the yoke, And to let the oppressed go free And break every yoke?

nasb@Isaiah:40:7" @Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry And bring the homeless poor into the house; When you see the naked, to cover him; And not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

nasb@Isaiah:40:8" @Then your light will break out like the dawn, And your recovery will speedily spring forth; And your righteousness will go before you; The glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.

nasb@Isaiah:40:9" @Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; You will cry, and He will say, 'Here I am.' If you remove the yoke from your midst, The pointing of the finger and speaking wickedness,

nasb@Isaiah:40:10 @And if you give yourself to the hungry And satisfy the desire of the afflicted, Then your light will rise in darkness And your gloom will become like midday.

nasb@Isaiah:40:11" @And the LORD will continually guide you, And satisfy your desire in scorched places, And give strength to your bones; And you will be like a watered garden, And like a spring of water whose waters do not fail.

nasb@Isaiah:40:12" @Those from among you will rebuild the ancient ruins; You will raise up the age-old foundations; And you will be called the repairer of the breach, The restorer of the streets in which to dwell.

nasb@Isaiah:40:13" @If because of the sabbath, you turn your foot From doing your own pleasure on My holy day, And call the sabbath a delight, the holy day of the LORD honorable, And honor it, desisting from your own ways, From seeking your own pleasure And speaking your own word,

nasb@Isaiah:40:14 @Then you will take delight in the LORD, And I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; And I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, For the mouth of the LORD has spoken."

nasb@Isaiah:41:1 @Behold, the LORD'S hand is not so short That it cannot save; Nor is His ear so dull That it cannot hear.

nasb@Isaiah:41:2 @But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear.

nasb@Isaiah:41:4 @No one sues righteously and no one pleads honestly. They trust in confusion and speak lies; They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.

nasb@Isaiah:41:5 @They hatch adders' eggs and weave the spider's web; He who eats of their eggs dies, And from that which is crushed a snake breaks forth.

nasb@Isaiah:41:6 @Their webs will not become clothing, Nor will they cover themselves with their works; Their works are works of iniquity, And an act of violence is in their hands.

nasb@Isaiah:41:7 @Their feet run to evil, And they hasten to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, Devastation and destruction are in their highways.

nasb@Isaiah:41:8 @They do not know the way of peace, And there is no justice in their tracks; They have made their paths crooked, Whoever treads on them does not know peace.

nasb@Isaiah:41:9 @Therefore justice is far from us, And righteousness does not overtake us; We hope for light, but behold, darkness, For brightness, but we walk in gloom.

nasb@Isaiah:41:10 @We grope along the wall like blind men, We grope like those who have no eyes; We stumble at midday as in the twilight, Among those who are vigorous we are like dead men.

nasb@Isaiah:41:11 @All of us growl like bears, And moan sadly like doves; We hope for justice, but there is none, For salvation, but it is far from us.

nasb@Isaiah:41:13 @Transgressing and denying the LORD, And turning away from our God, Speaking oppression and revolt, Conceiving in and uttering from the heart lying words.

nasb@Isaiah:41:14 @Justice is turned back, And righteousness stands far away; For truth has stumbled in the street, And uprightness cannot enter.

nasb@Isaiah:41:15 @Yes, truth is lacking; And he who turns aside from evil makes himself a prey. Now the LORD saw, And it was displeasing in His sight that there was no justice.

nasb@Isaiah:41:16 @And He saw that there was no man, And was astonished that there was no one to intercede; Then His own arm brought salvation to Him, And His righteousness upheld Him.

nasb@Isaiah:41:17 @He put on righteousness like a breastplate, And a helmet of salvation on His head; And He put on garments of vengeance for clothing And wrapped Himself with zeal as a mantle.

nasb@Isaiah:41:18 @According to their deeds, so He will repay, Wrath to His adversaries, recompense to His enemies; To the coastlands He will make recompense.

nasb@Isaiah:41:19 @So they will fear the name of the LORD from the west And His glory from the rising of the sun, For He will come like a rushing stream Which the wind of the LORD drives.

nasb@Isaiah:41:20" @A Redeemer will come to Zion, And to those who turn from transgression in Jacob," declares the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:41:21" @As for Me, this is My covenant with them," says the LORD- "My Spirit which 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 offspring, nor from the mouth of your offspring's offspring," says the LORD, "from now and forever."

nasb@Isaiah:41:60" @ Arise, shine; for your light has come, And the glory of the LORD has risen upon you.

nasb@Isaiah:41:2" @For behold, darkness will cover the earth And deep darkness the peoples; But the LORD will rise upon you And His glory will appear upon you.

nasb@Isaiah:41:3" @ Nations will come to your light, And kings to the brightness of your rising.

nasb@Isaiah:41:4" @ Lift up your eyes round about and see; They all gather together, they come to you. Your sons will come from afar, And your daughters will be carried in the arms.

nasb@Isaiah:41:5" @Then you will see and be radiant, And your heart will thrill and rejoice; Because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you, The wealth of the nations will come to you.

nasb@Isaiah:41:6" @A multitude of camels will cover you, The young camels of Midian and Ephah; All those from Sheba will come; They will bring gold and frankincense, And will bear good news of the praises of the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:41:7" @All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered together to you, The rams of Nebaioth will minister to you; They will go up with acceptance on My altar, And I shall glorify My glorious house.

nasb@Isaiah:41:8" @ Who are these who fly like a cloud And like the doves to their lattices?

nasb@Isaiah:41:9" @Surely the coastlands will wait for Me; And the ships of Tarshish will come first, To bring your sons from afar, Their silver and their gold with them, For the name of the LORD your God, And for the Holy One of Israel because He has glorified you.

nasb@Isaiah:41:10" @ Foreigners will build up your walls, And their kings will minister to you; For in My wrath I struck you, And in My favor I have had compassion on you.

nasb@Isaiah:41:11" @Your gates will be open continually; They will not be closed day or night, So that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, With their kings led in procession.

nasb@Isaiah:41:12" @For the nation and the kingdom which will not serve you will perish, And the nations will be utterly ruined.

nasb@Isaiah:41:13" @The glory of Lebanon will come to you, The juniper, the box tree and the cypress together, To beautify the place of My sanctuary; And I shall make the place of My feet glorious.

nasb@Isaiah:41:14" @The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you, And all those who despised you will bow themselves at the soles of your feet; And they will call you the city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

nasb@Isaiah:41:15" @Whereas you have been forsaken and hated With no one passing through, I will make you an everlasting pride, A joy from generation to generation.

nasb@Isaiah:41:16" @You will also suck the milk of nations And suck the breast of kings; Then you will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior And your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

nasb@Isaiah:41:18" @ Violence will not be heard again in your land, Nor devastation or destruction within your borders; But you will call your walls salvation, and your gates praise.

nasb@Isaiah:41:19" @No longer will you have the sun for light by day, Nor for brightness will the moon give you light; But you will have the LORD for an everlasting light, And your God for your glory.

nasb@Isaiah:41:20" @Your sun will no longer set, Nor will your moon wane; For you will have the LORD for an everlasting light, And the days of your mourning will be over.

nasb@Isaiah:41:21" @Then all your people will be righteous; They will possess the land forever, The branch of My planting, The work of My hands, That I may be glorified.

nasb@Isaiah:41:22" @The smallest one will become a clan, And the least one a mighty nation. I, the LORD, will hasten it in its time."

nasb@Isaiah:42:1 @The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, Because the LORD has anointed me To bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to captives And freedom to prisoners;

nasb@Isaiah:42:2 @To proclaim the favorable year of the LORD And the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all who mourn,

nasb@Isaiah:42:3 @To grant those who mourn in Zion, Giving them a garland instead of ashes, The oil of gladness instead of mourning, The mantle of praise instead of a spirit of fainting. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.

nasb@Isaiah:42:4 @Then they will rebuild the ancient ruins, They will raise up the former devastations; And they will repair the ruined cities, The desolations of many generations.

nasb@Isaiah:42:6 @But you will be called the priests of the LORD; You will be spoken of as ministers of our God. You will eat the wealth of nations, And in their riches you will boast.

nasb@Isaiah:42:7 @Instead of your shame you will have a double portion, And instead of humiliation they will shout for joy over their portion. Therefore they will possess a double portion in their land, Everlasting joy will be theirs.

nasb@Isaiah:42:8 @For I, the LORD, love justice, I hate robbery in the burnt offering; And I will faithfully give them their recompense And make an everlasting covenant with them.

nasb@Isaiah:42:9 @Then their offspring will be known among the nations, And their descendants in the midst of the peoples. All who see them will recognize them Because they are the offspring whom the LORD has blessed.

nasb@Isaiah:42:10 @I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, My soul will exult in my God; For He has clothed me with garments of salvation, He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

nasb@Isaiah:42:11 @For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, And as a garden causes the things sown in it to spring up, So the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise To spring up before all the nations.

nasb@Isaiah:43:1 @For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, And for Jerusalem's sake I will not keep quiet, Until her righteousness goes forth like brightness, And her salvation like a torch that is burning.

nasb@Isaiah:43:2 @The nations will see your righteousness, And all kings your glory; And you will be called by a new name Which the mouth of the LORD will designate.

nasb@Isaiah:43:3 @You will also be a crown of beauty in the hand of the LORD, And a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

nasb@Isaiah:43:4 @It will no longer be said to you, " Forsaken," Nor to your land will it any longer be said, "Desolate"; But you will be called, "My delight is in her," And your land, " Married"; For the LORD delights in you, And to Him your land will be married.

nasb@Isaiah:43:5 @For as a young man marries a virgin, So your sons will marry you; And as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, So your God will rejoice over you.

nasb@Isaiah:43:6 @On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen; All day and all night they will never keep silent. You who remind the LORD, take no rest for yourselves;

nasb@Isaiah:43:7 @And give Him no rest until He establishes And makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

nasb@Isaiah:43:8 @The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His strong arm, "I will never again give your grain as food for your enemies; Nor will foreigners drink your new wine for which you have labored."

nasb@Isaiah:43:9 @But those who garner it will eat it and praise the LORD; And those who gather it will drink it in the courts of My sanctuary.

nasb@Isaiah:43:10 @Go through, go through the gates, Clear the way for the people; Build up, build up the highway, Remove the stones, lift up a standard over the peoples.

nasb@Isaiah:43:11 @Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the end of the earth, Say to the daughter of Zion, "Lo, your salvation comes; Behold His reward is with Him, and His recompense before Him."

nasb@Isaiah:43:12 @And they will call them, " The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD"; And you will be called, "Sought out, a city not forsaken."

nasb@Isaiah:44:1 @Who is this who comes from Edom, With garments of glowing colors from Bozrah, This One who is majestic in His apparel, Marching in the greatness of His strength? "It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save."

nasb@Isaiah:44:2 @Why is Your apparel red, And Your garments like the one who treads in the wine press?

nasb@Isaiah:44:3" @ I have trodden the wine trough alone, And from the peoples there was no man with Me. I also trod them in My anger And trampled them in My wrath; And their lifeblood is sprinkled on My garments, And I stained all My raiment.

nasb@Isaiah:44:4" @For the day of vengeance was in My heart, And My year of redemption has come.

nasb@Isaiah:44:5" @I looked, and there was no one to help, And I was astonished and there was no one to uphold; So My own arm brought salvation to Me, And My wrath upheld Me.

nasb@Isaiah:44:6" @I trod down the peoples in My anger And made them drunk in My wrath, And I poured out their lifeblood on the earth."

nasb@Isaiah:44:7 @I shall make mention of the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, the praises of the LORD, According to all that the LORD has granted us, And the great goodness toward the house of Israel, Which He has granted them according to His compassion And according to the abundance of His lovingkindnesses.

nasb@Isaiah:44:8 @For He said, "Surely, they are My people, Sons who will not deal falsely." So He became their Savior.

nasb@Isaiah:44:9 @In all their affliction He was afflicted, And the angel of His presence saved them; In His love and in His mercy He redeemed them, And He lifted them and carried them all the days of old.

nasb@Isaiah:44:10 @But they rebelled And grieved His Holy Spirit; Therefore He turned Himself to become their enemy, He fought against them.

nasb@Isaiah:44:11 @Then His people remembered the days of old, of Moses. Where is He who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is He who put His Holy Spirit in the midst of them,

nasb@Isaiah:44:12 @Who caused His glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses, Who divided the waters before them to make for Himself an everlasting name,

nasb@Isaiah:44:13 @Who led them through the depths? Like the horse in the wilderness, they did not stumble;

nasb@Isaiah:44:14 @As the cattle which go down into the valley, The Spirit of the LORD gave them rest. So You led Your people, To make for Yourself a glorious name.

nasb@Isaiah:44:15 @Look down from heaven and see from Your holy and glorious habitation; Where are Your zeal and Your mighty deeds? The stirrings of Your heart and Your compassion are restrained toward me.

nasb@Isaiah:44:16 @For You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us And Israel does not recognize us. You, O LORD, are our Father, Our Redeemer from of old is Your name.

nasb@Isaiah:44:17 @Why, O LORD, do You cause us to stray from Your ways And harden our heart from fearing You? Return for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.

nasb@Isaiah:45:1 @Oh, that You would rend the heavens and come down, That the mountains might quake at Your presence--

nasb@Isaiah:45:2 @As fire kindles the brushwood, as fire causes water to boil-- To make Your name known to Your adversaries, That the nations may tremble at Your presence!

nasb@Isaiah:45:3 @When You did awesome things which we did not expect, You came down, the mountains quaked at Your presence.

nasb@Isaiah:45:4 @For from days of old they have not heard or perceived by ear, Nor has the eye seen a God besides You, Who acts in behalf of the one who waits for Him.

nasb@Isaiah:45:5 @You meet him who rejoices in doing righteousness, Who remembers You in Your ways. Behold, You were angry, for we sinned, We continued in them a long time; And shall we be saved?

nasb@Isaiah:45:6 @For all of us have become like one who is unclean, And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; And all of us wither like a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

nasb@Isaiah:45:7 @There is no one who calls on Your name, Who arouses himself to take hold of You; For You have hidden Your face from us And have delivered us into the power of our iniquities.

nasb@Isaiah:45:8 @But now, O LORD, You are our Father, We are the clay, and You our potter; And all of us are the work of Your hand.

nasb@Isaiah:45:11 @Our holy and beautiful house, Where our fathers praised You, Has been burned by fire; And all our precious things have become a ruin.

nasb@Isaiah:45:12 @Will You restrain Yourself at these things, O LORDNULL Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measureNULL

nasb@Isaiah:45:65" @I permitted Myself to be sought by those who did not ask for Me; I permitted Myself to be found by those who did not seek Me. I said, 'Here am I, here am I,' To a nation which did not call on My name.

nasb@Isaiah:45:2" @ I have spread out My hands all day long to a rebellious people, Who walk in the way which is not good, following their own thoughts,

nasb@Isaiah:45:4 @Who sit among graves and spend the night in secret places; Who eat swine's flesh, And the broth of unclean meat is in their pots.

nasb@Isaiah:45:5" @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.

nasb@Isaiah:45:6" @Behold, it is written before Me, I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will even repay into their bosom,

nasb@Isaiah:45:7 @Both their own iniquities and the iniquities of their fathers together," says the LORD. "Because they have burned incense on the mountains And scorned Me on the hills, Therefore I will measure their former work into their bosom."

nasb@Isaiah:45:8 @Thus says the LORD, "As the new wine is found in the cluster, And one says, 'Do not destroy it, for there is benefit in it,' So I will act on behalf of My servants In order not to destroy all of them.

nasb@Isaiah:45:9" @I will bring forth offspring from Jacob, And an heir of My mountains from Judah; Even My chosen ones shall inherit it, And My servants will dwell there.

nasb@Isaiah:45:10" @ Sharon will be a pasture land for flocks, And the valley of Achor a resting place for herds, For My people who seek Me.

nasb@Isaiah:45:11" @But you who forsake the LORD, Who forget My holy mountain, Who set a table for Fortune, And who fill cups with mixed wine for Destiny,

nasb@Isaiah:45:12 @I will destine you for the sword, And all of you will bow down to the slaughter. Because I called, but you did not answer; I spoke, but you did not hear. And you did evil in My sight And chose that in which I did not delight."

nasb@Isaiah:45:13 @Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, My servants will eat, but you will be hungry. Behold, My servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.

nasb@Isaiah:45:14" @Behold, My servants will shout joyfully with a glad heart, But you will cry out with a heavy heart, And you will wail with a broken spirit.

nasb@Isaiah:45:15" @You will leave your name for a curse to My chosen ones, And the Lord GOD will slay you. But My servants will be called by another name.

nasb@Isaiah:45:16" @Because he who is blessed in the earth Will be blessed by the God of truth; And he who swears in the earth Will swear by the God of truth; Because the former troubles are forgotten, And because they are hidden from My sight!

nasb@Isaiah:45:17" @For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; And the former things will not be remembered or come to mind.

nasb@Isaiah:45:18" @But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; For behold, I create Jerusalem for rejoicing And her people for gladness.

nasb@Isaiah:45:19" @I will also rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in My people; And there will no longer be heard in her The voice of weeping and the sound of crying.

nasb@Isaiah:45:20" @No longer will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, Or an old man who does not live out his days; For the youth will die at the age of one hundred And the one who does not reach the age of one hundred Will be thought accursed.

nasb@Isaiah:45:21" @They will build houses and inhabit them; They will also plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

nasb@Isaiah:45:22" @They will not build and another inhabit, They will not plant and another eat; For as the lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people, And My chosen ones will wear out the work of their hands.

nasb@Isaiah:45:23" @They will not labor in vain, Or bear children for calamity; For they are the offspring of those blessed by the LORD, And their descendants with them.

nasb@Isaiah:45:24" @It will also come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear.

nasb@Isaiah:45:25" @The wolf and the lamb will graze together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox; and dust will be the serpent's food. They will do no evil or harm in all My holy mountain," says the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:45:66 @Thus says the LORD, " Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. Where then is a house you could build for Me? And where is a place that I may rest?

nasb@Isaiah:45:2" @For My hand made all these things, Thus all these things came into being," declares the LORD. "But to this one I will look, To him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word.

nasb@Isaiah:45:3" @But he who kills an ox is like one who slays a man; He who sacrifices a lamb is like the one who breaks a dog's neck; He who offers a grain offering is like one who offers swine's blood; He who burns incense is like the one who blesses an idol. As they have chosen their own ways, And their soul delights in their abominations,

nasb@Isaiah:45:4 @So I will choose their punishments And will bring on them what they dread. Because I called, but no one answered; I spoke, but they did not listen. And they did evil in My sight And chose that in which I did not delight."

nasb@Isaiah:45:5 @Hear the word of the LORD, you who tremble at His word- "Your brothers who hate you, who exclude you for My name's sake, Have said, 'Let the LORD be glorified, that we may see your joy.' But they will be put to shame.

nasb@Isaiah:45:6" @A voice of uproar from the city, a voice from the temple, The voice of the LORD who is rendering recompense to His enemies.

nasb@Isaiah:45:7" @Before she travailed, she brought forth; Before her pain came, she gave birth to a boy.

nasb@Isaiah:45:8" @ Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Can a land be born in one day? Can a nation be brought forth all at once? As soon as Zion travailed, she also brought forth her sons.

nasb@Isaiah:45:9" @Shall I bring to the point of birth and not give delivery?" says the LORD. "Or shall I who gives delivery shut the womb?" says your God.

nasb@Isaiah:45:10" @Be joyful with Jerusalem and rejoice for her, all you who love her; Be exceedingly glad with her, all you who mourn over her,

nasb@Isaiah:45:11 @That you may nurse and be satisfied with her comforting breasts, That you may suck and be delighted with her bountiful bosom."

nasb@Isaiah:45:12 @For thus says the LORD, "Behold, I extend peace to her like a river, And the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; And you will be nursed, you will be carried on the hip and fondled on the knees.

nasb@Isaiah:45:13" @As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; And you will be comforted in Jerusalem."

nasb@Isaiah:45:14 @Then you will see this, and your heart will be glad, And your bones will flourish like the new grass; And the hand of the LORD will be made known to His servants, But He will be indignant toward His enemies.

nasb@Isaiah:45:15 @For behold, the LORD will come in fire And His chariots like the whirlwind, To render His anger with fury, And His rebuke with flames of fire.

nasb@Isaiah:45:16 @For the LORD will execute judgment by fire And by His sword on all flesh, And those slain by the LORD will be many.

nasb@Isaiah:45:17" @Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go to the gardens, Following one in the center, Who eat swine's flesh, detestable things and mice, Will come to an end altogether," declares the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:45:18" @For I know their works and their thoughts; the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and see My glory.

nasb@Isaiah:45:19" @I will set a sign among them and will send survivors from them to the nations- Tarshish, Put, Lud, Meshech, Tubal and Javan, to the distant coastlands that have neither heard My fame nor seen My glory. And they will declare My glory among the nations.

nasb@Isaiah:45:20" @Then they shall bring all your brethren from all the nations as a grain offering to the LORD, on horses, in chariots, in litters, on mules and on camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem," says the LORD, "just as the sons of Israel bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:45:21" @I will also take some of them for priests and for Levites," says the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:45:22" @For just as the new heavens and the new earth Which I make will endure before Me," declares the LORD, "So your offspring and your name will endure.

nasb@Isaiah:45:23" @And it shall be from new moon to new moon And from sabbath to sabbath, All mankind will come to bow down before Me," says the LORD.

nasb@Isaiah:45:24" @Then they will go forth and look On the corpses of the men Who have transgressed against Me. For their worm will not die And their fire will not be quenched; And they will be an abhorrence to all mankind."

nasb@Jeremiah:1:1 @The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,

nasb@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.

nasb@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 exile of Jerusalem in the fifth month.

nasb@Jeremiah:1:4 @Now the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:1:5" @Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations."

nasb@Jeremiah:1:6 @Then I said, "Alas, Lord GOD! Behold, I do not know how to speak, Because I am a youth."

nasb@Jeremiah:1:7 @But the LORD said to me, "Do not say, 'I am a youth,' Because everywhere I send you, you shall go, And all that I command you, you shall speak.

nasb@Jeremiah:1:8" @ Do not be afraid of them, For I am with you to deliver you," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:1:9 @Then the LORD stretched out His hand and touched my mouth, and the LORD said to me, "Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.

nasb@Jeremiah:1:10" @See, I have appointed you this day over the nations and over the kingdoms, To pluck up and to break down, To destroy and to overthrow, To build and to plant."

nasb@Jeremiah:1:11 @The word of the LORD came to me saying, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" And I said, "I see a rod of an almond tree."

nasb@Jeremiah:1:12 @Then the LORD said to me, "You have seen well, for I am watching over My word to perform it."

nasb@Jeremiah:1:13 @The word of the LORD came to me a second time saying, " What do you see?" And I said, "I see a boiling pot, facing away from the north."

nasb@Jeremiah:1:14 @Then the LORD said to me, " Out of the north the evil will break forth on all the inhabitants of the land.

nasb@Jeremiah:1:15" @For, behold, I am calling all the families of the kingdoms of the north," declares the LORD; "and they will come and they will set each one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its walls round about and against all the cities of Judah.

nasb@Jeremiah:1:16" @I will pronounce My judgments on them concerning all their wickedness, whereby they have forsaken Me and have offered sacrifices to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.

nasb@Jeremiah:1:17" @Now, gird up your loins and arise, and speak to them all which I command you. Do not be dismayed before them, or I will dismay you before them.

nasb@Jeremiah:1:18" @Now behold, I have made you today as a fortified city and as a pillar of iron and as walls of bronze against the whole land, to the kings of Judah, to its princes, to its priests and to the people of the land.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:1" @They will fight against you, but they will not overcome you, for I am with you to deliver you," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:2 @Now the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:2:2" @Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, 'Thus says the LORD, "I remember concerning you the devotion of your youth, The love of your betrothals, Your following after Me in the wilderness, Through a land not sown.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:3" @Israel was holy to the LORD, The first of His harvest. All who ate of it became guilty; Evil came upon them," declares the LORD.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:2:4 @Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:5 @Thus says the LORD, " What injustice did your fathers find in Me, That they went far from Me And walked after emptiness and became empty?

nasb@Jeremiah:2:6" @They did not 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 of pits, Through a land of drought and of deep darkness, Through a land that no one crossed And where no man dwelt?'

nasb@Jeremiah:2:7" @I brought you into the fruitful land To eat its fruit and its good things. But you came and defiled My land, And My inheritance you made an abomination.

nasb@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, And the prophets prophesied by Baal And walked after things that did not profit.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:9" @Therefore I will yet contend with you," declares the LORD, "And with your sons' sons I will contend.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:10" @For cross to the coastlands of Kittim and see, And send to Kedar and observe closely And see if there has been such a thing as this!

nasb@Jeremiah:2:11" @Has a nation changed gods When they were not gods? But My people have changed their glory For that which does not profit.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:12" @Be appalled, O heavens, at this, And shudder, be very desolate," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:13" @For My people have committed two evils- They have forsaken Me, The fountain of living waters, To hew for themselves cisterns, Broken cisterns That can hold no water.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:14" @Is Israel a slave? Or is he a homeborn servant? Why has he become a prey?

nasb@Jeremiah:2:15" @The young lions have roared at him, They have roared loudly. And they have made his land a waste; His cities have been destroyed, without inhabitant.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:16" @Also the men of Memphis and Tahpanhes Have shaved the crown of your head.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:17" @Have you not done this to yourself By your forsaking the LORD your God When He led you in the way?

nasb@Jeremiah:2:18" @But now what are you doing on the road to Egypt, To drink the waters of the Nile? Or what are you doing on the road to Assyria, To drink the waters of the Euphrates?

nasb@Jeremiah:2:19" @ Your own wickedness will correct you, And your apostasies will reprove you; Know therefore and see that it is evil and bitter For you to forsake the LORD your God, And the dread of Me is not in you," declares the Lord GOD of hosts.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:21" @Yet I planted you a choice vine, A completely faithful seed. How then have you turned yourself before Me Into the degenerate shoots of a foreign vine?

nasb@Jeremiah:2:22" @Although you wash yourself with lye And use much soap, The stain of your iniquity is before Me," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:23" @ How can you say, 'I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baals'? Look at your way in the valley! Know what you have done! You are a swift young camel entangling her ways,

nasb@Jeremiah:2:24 @A wild donkey accustomed to the wilderness, That sniffs the wind in her passion. In the time of her heat who can turn her away? All who seek her will not become weary; In her month they will find her.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:25" @Keep your feet from being unshod And your throat from thirst; But you said, ' It is hopeless! No! For I have loved strangers, And after them I will walk.'

nasb@Jeremiah:2:26" @As the thief is shamed when he is discovered, So the house of Israel is shamed; They, their kings, their princes And their priests and their prophets,

nasb@Jeremiah:2:27 @Who say to a tree, 'You are my father,' And to a stone, 'You gave me birth.' 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.'

nasb@Jeremiah:2:28" @But where are your gods Which you made for yourself? 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.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:29" @Why do you contend with Me? You have all transgressed against Me," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:30" @ In vain I have struck your sons; They accepted no chastening. Your sword has devoured your prophets Like a destroying lion.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:31" @O generation, heed the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, Or a land of thick darkness? Why do My people say, ' We are free to roam; We will no longer come to You'?

nasb@Jeremiah:2:32" @Can a virgin forget her ornaments, Or a bride her attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me Days without number.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:33" @How well you prepare your way To seek love! Therefore even the wicked women You have taught your ways.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:34" @Also on your skirts is found The lifeblood of the innocent poor; You did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things,

nasb@Jeremiah:2:37" @From this place also you will go out With your hands on your head; For the LORD has rejected those in whom you trust, And you will not prosper with them."

nasb@Jeremiah:2:3 @God says, " If a husband divorces his wife And she goes from him And belongs to another man, Will he still return to her? Will not that land be completely polluted? But you are a harlot with many lovers; Yet you turn to Me," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:2" @Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see; Where have you not been violated? By the roads you have sat for them Like an Arab in the desert, And you have polluted a land With your harlotry and with your wickedness.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:3" @Therefore the showers have been withheld, And there has been no spring rain. Yet you had a harlot's forehead; You refused to be ashamed.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:4" @Have you not just now called to Me, ' My Father, You are the friend of my youth?

nasb@Jeremiah:2:5 @' Will He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?' Behold, you have spoken And have done evil things, And you have had your way."

nasb@Jeremiah:2:6 @Then the LORD said to me in the days of Josiah the king, "Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and she was a harlot there.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:7" @ I thought, 'After she has done all these things she will return to Me'; but she did not return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:8" @And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her away and given her a writ of divorce, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear; but she went and was a harlot also.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:9" @Because of the lightness of her harlotry, she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:10" @Yet in spite of all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but rather in deception," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:11 @And the LORD said to me, " Faithless Israel has proved herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:12" @Go and proclaim these words toward the north and say, ' Return, faithless Israel,' declares the LORD; ' I will not look upon you in anger. For I am gracious,' declares the LORD; 'I will not be angry forever.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:13 @'Only acknowledge your iniquity, That you have transgressed against the LORD your God And have scattered your favors to the strangers under every green tree, And you have not obeyed My voice,' declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:14 @'Return, O faithless sons,' declares the LORD; 'For I am a master to you, And I will take you one from a city and two from a family, And I will bring you to Zion.'

nasb@Jeremiah:2:15" @Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you on knowledge and understanding.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:16" @It shall be in those days when you are multiplied and increased in the land," declares the LORD, "they will no longer say, 'The ark of the covenant of the LORD.' And it will not come to mind, nor will they remember it, nor will they miss it, nor will it be made again.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:17" @At that time they will call Jerusalem 'The Throne of the LORD,' and all the nations will be gathered to it, to Jerusalem, for the name of the LORD; nor will they walk anymore after the stubbornness of their evil heart.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:18" @ In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave your fathers as an inheritance.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:19" @Then I said, 'How I would set you among My sons And give you a pleasant land, The most beautiful inheritance of the nations!' And I said, 'You shall call Me, My Father, And not turn away from following Me.'

nasb@Jeremiah:2:20" @Surely, as a woman treacherously departs from her lover, So you have dealt treacherously with Me, O house of Israel," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:21 @A voice is heard on the bare heights, The weeping and the supplications of the sons of Israel; Because they have perverted their way, They have forgotten the LORD their God.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:22" @Return, O faithless sons, I will heal your faithlessness." "Behold, we come to You; For You are the LORD our God.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:23" @Surely, the hills are a deception, A tumult on the mountains. Surely in the LORD our God Is the salvation of Israel.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:24" @But the shameful thing has consumed the labor of our fathers since our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

nasb@Jeremiah:2:25" @Let us lie down in our shame, and let our humiliation cover us; for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. And we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:1" @If you will return, O Israel," declares the LORD, "Then you should return to Me. And if you will put away your detested things from My presence, And will not waver,

nasb@Jeremiah:3:2 @And you will swear, 'As the LORD lives,' In truth, in justice and in righteousness; Then the nations will bless themselves in Him, And in Him they will glory."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:3 @For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, " Break up your fallow ground, And do not sow among thorns.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:4" @ Circumcise yourselves to the LORD And remove the foreskins of your heart, Men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, Or else My wrath will go forth like fire And burn with none to quench it, Because of the evil of your deeds."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:5 @Declare in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say, " Blow the trumpet in the land; Cry aloud and say, ' Assemble yourselves, and let us go Into the fortified cities.'

nasb@Jeremiah:3:6" @Lift up a standard toward Zion! Seek refuge, do not stand still, For I am bringing evil from the north, And great destruction.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:7" @A lion has gone up from his thicket, And a destroyer of nations has set out; He has gone out from his place To make your land a waste. Your cities will be ruins Without inhabitant.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:8" @For this, put on sackcloth, Lament and wail; For the fierce anger of the LORD Has not turned back from us."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:9" @It shall come about in that day," declares the LORD, "that the heart of the king and the heart of the princes will fail; and the priests will be appalled and the prophets will be astounded."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:10 @Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Surely You have utterly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ' You will have peace'; whereas a sword touches the throat."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:11 @In that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, "A scorching wind from the bare heights in the wilderness in the direction of the daughter of My people--not to winnow and not to cleanse,

nasb@Jeremiah:3:12 @a wind too strong for this--will come at My command; now I will also pronounce judgments against them.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:13" @Behold, he goes up like clouds, And his chariots like the whirlwind; His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!"

nasb@Jeremiah:3:14 @Wash your heart from evil, O Jerusalem, That you may be saved. How long will your wicked thoughts Lodge within you?

nasb@Jeremiah:3:16" @Report it to the nations, now! Proclaim over Jerusalem, 'Besiegers come from a far country, And lift their voices against the cities of Judah.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:17 @'Like watchmen of a field they are against her round about, Because she has rebelled against Me,' declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:18" @Your ways and your deeds Have brought these things to you. This is your evil. How bitter! How it has touched your heart!"

nasb@Jeremiah:3:19 @My soul, my soul! I am in anguish! Oh, my heart! My heart is pounding in me; I cannot be silent, Because you have heard, O my soul, The sound of the trumpet, The alarm of war.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:20 @Disaster on disaster is proclaimed, For the whole land is devastated; Suddenly my tents are devastated, My curtains in an instant.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:21 @How long must I see the standard And hear the sound of the trumpet?

nasb@Jeremiah:3:22" @ For My people are foolish, They know Me not; They are stupid children And have no understanding. They are shrewd to do evil, But to do good they do not know."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:23 @I looked on the earth, and behold, it was formless and void; And to the heavens, and they had no light.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:24 @I looked on the mountains, and behold, they were quaking, And all the hills moved to and fro.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:25 @I looked, and behold, there was no man, And all the birds of the heavens had fled.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:26 @I looked, and behold, the fruitful land was a wilderness, And all its cities were pulled down Before the LORD, before His fierce anger.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:27 @For thus says the LORD, "The whole land shall be a desolation, Yet I will not execute a complete destruction.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:28" @For this the earth shall mourn And the heavens above be dark, Because I have spoken, I have purposed, And I will not change My mind, nor will I turn from it."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:29 @At the sound of the horseman and bowman every city flees; They go into the thickets and climb among the rocks; Every city is forsaken, And no man dwells in them.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:30 @And you, O desolate one, what will you do? Although you dress in scarlet, Although you decorate yourself with ornaments of gold, Although you enlarge your eyes with paint, In vain you make yourself beautiful. Your lovers despise you; They seek your life.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:31 @For I heard a cry as of a woman in labor, The anguish as of one giving birth to her first child, The cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath, Stretching out her hands, saying, "Ah, woe is me, for I faint before murderers."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:5" @ Roam to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, And look now and take note. And seek in her open squares, If you can find a man, If there is one who does justice, who seeks truth, Then I will pardon her.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:2" @And although they say, 'As the LORD lives,' Surely they swear falsely."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:3 @O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You have smitten them, But they did not weaken; You have consumed them, But they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; They have refused to repent.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:4 @Then I said, "They are only the poor, They are foolish; For they do not know the way of the LORD Or the ordinance of their God.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:5" @I will go to the great And will speak to them, For they know the way of the LORD And the ordinance of their God." But they too, with one accord, have broken the yoke And burst the bonds.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:6 @Therefore a lion from the forest will slay them, A wolf of the deserts will destroy them, A leopard is watching their cities. Everyone who goes out of them will be torn in pieces, Because their transgressions are many, Their apostasies are numerous.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:7" @Why should I pardon you? Your sons have forsaken Me And sworn by those who are not gods. When I had fed them to the full, They committed adultery And trooped to the harlot's house.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:8" @They were well-fed lusty horses, Each one neighing after his neighbor's wife.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:9" @Shall I not punish these people," declares the LORD, "And on a nation such as this Shall I not avenge Myself?

nasb@Jeremiah:3:10" @Go up through her vine rows and destroy, But do not execute a complete destruction; Strip away her branches, For they are not the LORD'S.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:11" @For the house of Israel and the house of Judah Have dealt very treacherously with Me," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:12 @They have lied about the LORD And said, " Not He; Misfortune will not come on us, And we will not see sword or famine.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:13" @The prophets are as wind, And the word is not in them. Thus it will be done to them!"

nasb@Jeremiah:3:14 @Therefore, thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, "Because you have spoken this word, Behold, I am making My words in your mouth fire And this people wood, and it will consume them.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:15" @Behold, I am bringing a nation against you from afar, O house of Israel," declares the LORD. "It is an enduring nation, It is an ancient nation, A nation whose language you do not know, Nor can you understand what they say.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:16" @Their quiver is like an open grave, All of them are mighty men.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:17" @They will devour your harvest and your food; They will devour your sons and your daughters; They will devour your flocks and your herds; They will devour your vines and your fig trees; They will demolish with the sword your fortified cities in which you trust.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:18" @Yet even in those days," declares the LORD, "I will not make you a complete destruction.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:19" @It shall come about when they say, 'Why has the LORD our God done all these things to us?' then you shall say to them, 'As you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.'

nasb@Jeremiah:3:20" @Declare this in the house of Jacob And proclaim it in Judah, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:3:21 @'Now hear this, O foolish and senseless people, Who have eyes but do not see; Who have ears but do not hear.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:22 @'Do you not fear Me?' declares the LORD. 'Do you not tremble in My presence? For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea, An eternal decree, so it cannot cross over it. Though the waves toss, yet they cannot prevail; Though they roar, yet they cannot cross over it.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:23 @'But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; They have turned aside and departed.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:24 @'They do not say in their heart, "Let us now fear the LORD our God, Who gives rain in its season, Both the autumn rain and the spring rain, Who keeps for us The appointed weeks of the harvest."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:25 @'Your iniquities have turned these away, And your sins have withheld good from you.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:26 @'For wicked men are found among My people, They watch like fowlers lying in wait; They set a trap, They catch men.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:27 @'Like a cage full of birds, So their houses are full of deceit; Therefore they have become great and rich.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:28 @'They are fat, they are sleek, They also excel in deeds of wickedness; They do not plead the cause, The cause of the orphan, that they may prosper; And they do not defend the rights of the poor.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:29 @' Shall I not punish these people?' declares the LORD, 'On a nation such as this Shall I not avenge Myself?'

nasb@Jeremiah:3:30" @An appalling and horrible thing Has happened in the land-

nasb@Jeremiah:3:31 @The prophets prophesy falsely, And the priests rule on their own authority; And My people love it so! But what will you do at the end of itNULL

nasb@Jeremiah:3:6" @Flee for safety, O sons of Benjamin, From the midst of Jerusalem! Now blow a trumpet in Tekoa And raise a signal over Beth-haccerem; For evil looks down from the north, And a great destruction.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:2" @The comely and dainty one, the daughter of Zion, I will cut off.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:3" @ Shepherds and their flocks will come to her, They will pitch their tents around her, They will pasture each in his place.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:4" @ Prepare war against her; Arise, and let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the day declines, For the shadows of the evening lengthen!

nasb@Jeremiah:3:5" @Arise, and let us attack by night And destroy her palaces!"

nasb@Jeremiah:3:6 @For thus says the LORD of hosts, " Cut down her trees And cast up a siege against Jerusalem. This is the city to be punished, In whose midst there is only oppression.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:7" @ As a well keeps its waters fresh, So she keeps fresh her wickedness. Violence and destruction are heard in her; Sickness and wounds are ever before Me.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:9 @Thus says the LORD of hosts, "They will thoroughly glean as the vine the remnant of Israel; Pass your hand again like a grape gatherer Over the branches."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:10 @To whom shall I speak and give warning That they may hear? Behold, their ears are closed And they cannot listen. Behold, the word of the LORD has become a reproach to them; They have no delight in it.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:11 @But I am full of the wrath of the LORD; I am weary with holding it in. " Pour it out on the children in the street And on the gathering of young men together; For both husband and wife shall be taken, The aged and the very old.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:12" @Their houses shall be turned over to others, Their fields and their wives together; For I will stretch out My hand Against the inhabitants of the land," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:13" @For from the least of them even to the greatest of them, Everyone is greedy for gain, And from the prophet even to the priest Everyone deals falsely.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:14" @They have healed the brokenness of My people superficially, Saying, 'Peace, peace,' But there is no peace.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:15" @Were they ashamed because of the abomination they have done? They were not even ashamed at all; They did not even know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; At the time that I punish them, They shall be cast down," says the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:16 @Thus says the LORD, "Stand by the ways and see and ask for the ancient paths, Where the good way is, and walk in it; And you will find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'

nasb@Jeremiah:3:17" @And I set watchmen over you, saying, 'Listen to the sound of the trumpet!' But they said, 'We will not listen.'

nasb@Jeremiah:3:18" @Therefore hear, O nations, And know, O congregation, what is among them.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:19" @ Hear, O earth- behold, I am bringing disaster on this people, The fruit of their plans, Because they have not listened to My words, And as for My law, they have rejected it also.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:20" @ For what purpose does frankincense come to Me from Sheba And the sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable And your sacrifices are not pleasing to Me."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:21 @Therefore, thus says the LORD, "Behold, I am laying stumbling blocks before this people. And they will stumble against them, Fathers and sons together; Neighbor and friend will perish."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:22 @Thus says the LORD, "Behold, a people is coming from the north land, And a great nation will be aroused from the remote parts of the earth.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:23" @They seize bow and spear; They are cruel and have no mercy; Their voice roars like the sea, And they ride on horses, Arrayed as a man for the battle Against you, O daughter of Zion!"

nasb@Jeremiah:3:24 @We have heard the report of it; Our hands are limp. Anguish has seized us, Pain as of a woman in childbirth.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:25 @Do not go out into the field And do not walk on the road, For the enemy has a sword, Terror is on every side.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:26 @O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth And roll in ashes; Mourn as for an only son, A lamentation most bitter. For suddenly the destroyer Will come upon us.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:27" @I have made you an assayer and a tester among My people, That you may know and assay their way."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:28 @All of them are stubbornly rebellious, Going about as a talebearer. They are bronze and iron; They, all of them, are corrupt.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:29 @The bellows blow fiercely, The lead is consumed by the fire; In vain the refining goes on, But the wicked are not separated.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:30 @They call them rejected silver, Because the LORD has rejected them.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:7 @The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:3:2" @ 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 by these gates to worship the LORD!'"

nasb@Jeremiah:3:3 @Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, " Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwell in this place.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:4" @ Do not trust in deceptive words, saying, 'This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.'

nasb@Jeremiah:3:6 @if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your own ruin,

nasb@Jeremiah:3:7 @then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:9" @Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery and swear falsely, and offer sacrifices to Baal and walk after other gods that you have not known,

nasb@Jeremiah:3:10 @then come and stand before Me in this house, which is called by My name, and say, 'We are delivered!'--that you may do all these abominations?

nasb@Jeremiah:3:11" @Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Behold, I, even I, have seen it," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:12" @But go now to My place which was in Shiloh, where I made My name dwell at the first, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:13" @And now, because you have done all these things," declares 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,

nasb@Jeremiah:3:14 @therefore, I will do to the house which is called by My name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave you and your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:15" @I will cast you out of My sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, all the offspring of Ephraim.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:16" @As for you, do not pray for this people, and do not lift up cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with Me; for I do not hear you.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:17" @Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

nasb@Jeremiah:3:18" @The children gather wood, and 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 in order to spite Me.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:19" @ Do they spite Me?" declares the LORD. "Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?"

nasb@Jeremiah:3:20 @Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, My anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and on beast and on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and not be quenched."

nasb@Jeremiah:3:21 @Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:22" @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 and sacrifices.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:23" @But this is what I commanded them, saying, ' Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you will walk in all the way which I command you, that it may be well with you.'

nasb@Jeremiah:3:24" @Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:25" @Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets, daily rising early and sending them.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:26" @Yet they did not listen to Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck; they did more evil than their fathers.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:27" @You shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you; and you shall call to them, but they will not answer you.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:28" @You shall say to them, 'This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God or accept correction; truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:29 @' Cut off your hair and cast it away, And take up a lamentation on the bare heights; For the LORD has rejected and forsaken The generation of His wrath.'

nasb@Jeremiah:3:30" @For the sons of Judah have done that which is evil in My sight," declares the LORD, "they have set their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:31" @They have built the high places of Topheth, 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, and it did not come into My mind.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:32" @ Therefore, behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when it will no longer be called Topheth, or the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of the Slaughter; for they will bury in Topheth because there is no other place.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:33" @The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth; and no one will frighten them away.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:34" @Then I will make to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a ruin.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:8" @At that time," declares the LORD, "they will 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 from their graves.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:2" @They will spread them out to the sun, the moon and to all the host of heaven, which they have loved and which they have served, and which they have gone after and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They will not be gathered or buried; they will be as dung on the face of the ground.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:3" @And death will be chosen rather than life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family, that remains in all the places to which I have driven them," declares the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:4" @You shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD, "Do men fall and not get up again? Does one turn away and not repent?

nasb@Jeremiah:3:5" @Why then has this people, Jerusalem, Turned away in continual apostasy? They hold fast to deceit, They refuse to return.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:6" @I have listened and heard, They have spoken what is not right; No man repented of his wickedness, Saying, 'What have I done?' Everyone turned to his course, Like a horse charging into the battle.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:7" @Even the stork in the sky Knows her seasons; And the turtledove and the swift and the thrush Observe the time of their migration; But My people do not know The ordinance of the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:8" @ How can you say, 'We are wise, And the law of the LORD is with us'? But behold, the lying pen of the scribes Has made it into a lie.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:9" @The wise men are put to shame, They are dismayed and caught; Behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, And what kind of wisdom do they have?

nasb@Jeremiah:3:10" @Therefore I will give their wives to others, Their fields to new owners; Because from the least even to the greatest Everyone is greedy for gain; From the prophet even to the priest Everyone practices deceit.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:11" @They heal the brokenness of the daughter of My people superficially, Saying, 'Peace, peace,' But there is no peace.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:12" @Were they ashamed because of the abomination they had done? They certainly were not ashamed, And they did not know how to blush; Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; At the time of their punishment they shall be brought down," Says the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:13" @I will surely snatch them away," declares the LORD; "There will be no grapes on the vine And no figs on the fig tree, And the leaf will wither; And what I have given them will pass away."'"

nasb@Jeremiah:3:14 @Why are we sitting still? Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities And let us perish there, Because the LORD our God has doomed us And given us poisoned water to drink, For we have sinned against the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:15 @We waited for peace, but no good came; For a time of healing, but behold, terror!

nasb@Jeremiah:3:16 @From Dan is heard the snorting of his horses; At the sound of the neighing of his stallions The whole land quakes; For they come and devour the land and its fullness, The city and its inhabitants.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:17" @For behold, I am sending serpents against you, Adders, for which there is no charm, And they will bite you," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:18 @My sorrow is beyond healing, My heart is faint within me!

nasb@Jeremiah:3:19 @Behold, listen! The cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land- "Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King not within her?" "Why have they provoked Me with their graven images, with foreign idols?"

nasb@Jeremiah:3:21 @For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am broken; I mourn, dismay has taken hold of me.

nasb@Jeremiah:3:22 @Is there no balm in GileadNULL Is there no physician thereNULL Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people been restoredNULL

nasb@Jeremiah:4:1 @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!

nasb@Jeremiah:4:2 @Oh that I had in the desert A wayfarers' lodging place; That I might leave my people And go from them! For all of them are adulterers, An assembly of treacherous men.

nasb@Jeremiah:4:3" @They bend their tongue like their bow; Lies and not truth prevail in the land; For they proceed from evil to evil, And they do not know Me," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:4:4" @Let everyone be on guard against his neighbor, And do not trust any brother; Because every brother deals craftily, And every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.

nasb@Jeremiah:4:5" @Everyone deceives his neighbor And does not speak the truth, They have taught their tongue to speak lies; They weary themselves committing iniquity.

nasb@Jeremiah:4:6" @Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit; Through deceit they refuse to know Me," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:4:7 @Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, "Behold, I will refine them and assay them; For what else can I do, because of the daughter of My people?

nasb@Jeremiah:4:8" @Their tongue is a deadly arrow; It speaks deceit; With his mouth one speaks peace to his neighbor, But inwardly he sets an ambush for him.

nasb@Jeremiah:4:9" @ Shall I not punish them for these things?" declares the LORD. "On a nation such as this Shall I not avenge Myself?

nasb@Jeremiah:4:10" @For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing, And for the pastures of the wilderness a dirge, Because they are laid waste so that no one passes through, And the lowing of the cattle is not heard; Both the birds of the sky and the beasts have fled; they are gone.

nasb@Jeremiah:4:11" @I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, A haunt of jackals; And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant."

nasb@Jeremiah:4:12 @Who is the wise man that may understand this? And who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined, laid waste like a desert, so that no one passes through?

nasb@Jeremiah:4:13 @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,

nasb@Jeremiah:4:14 @but have walked after the stubbornness of their heart and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them,"

nasb@Jeremiah:4:15 @therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

nasb@Jeremiah:4:16" @I will scatter them among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them until I have annihilated them."

nasb@Jeremiah:4:17 @Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come; And send for the wailing women, that they may come!

nasb@Jeremiah:4:18" @Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, That our eyes may shed tears And our eyelids flow with water.

nasb@Jeremiah:4:19" @For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion, ' How are we ruined! We are put to great shame, For we have left the land, Because they have cast down our dwellings.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:4:20 @Now hear the word of the LORD, O you women, And let your ear receive the word of His mouth; Teach your daughters wailing, And everyone her neighbor a dirge.

nasb@Jeremiah:4:21 @For death has come up through our windows; It has entered our palaces To cut off the children from the streets, The young men from the town squares.

nasb@Jeremiah:4:22 @Speak, "Thus says the LORD, 'The corpses of men will fall like dung on the open field, And like the sheaf after the reaper, But no one will gather them.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:4:23 @Thus says the LORD, " Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches;

nasb@Jeremiah:4:24 @but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:4:25" @Behold, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "that I will punish all who are circumcised and yet uncircumcised--

nasb@Jeremiah:4:26 @Egypt and Judah, and Edom and the sons of Ammon, and Moab and all those inhabiting the desert who clip the hair on their temples; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised of heart."

nasb@Jeremiah:5:1 @Hear the word which the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:2 @Thus says the LORD, " Do not learn the way of the nations, And do not be terrified by the signs of the heavens Although the nations are terrified by them;

nasb@Jeremiah:5:3 @For the customs of the peoples are delusion; Because it is wood cut from the forest, The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:4" @They decorate it with silver and with gold; They fasten it with nails and with hammers So that it will not totter.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:5" @Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field are they, And they cannot speak; They must be carried, Because they cannot walk! Do not fear them, For they can do no harm, Nor can they do any good."

nasb@Jeremiah:5:6 @There is none like You, O LORD; You are great, and great is Your name in might.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:7 @Who would not fear You, O King of the nations? Indeed it is Your due! For among all the wise men of the nations And in all their kingdoms, There is none like You.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:8 @But they are altogether stupid and foolish In their discipline of delusion--their idol is wood!

nasb@Jeremiah:5:9 @Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish, And gold from Uphaz, The work of a craftsman and of the hands of a goldsmith; Violet and purple are their clothing; They are all the work of skilled men.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:10 @But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and the everlasting King. At His wrath the earth quakes, And the nations cannot endure His indignation.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:11 @Thus you shall say to them, "The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under the heavens."

nasb@Jeremiah:5:12 @It is He who made the earth by His power, Who established the world by His wisdom; And by His understanding He has stretched out the heavens.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:13 @When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, And He causes the clouds to ascend from the end of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain, And brings out the wind from His storehouses.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:14 @Every man is stupid, devoid of knowledge; Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols; For his molten images are deceitful, And there is no breath in them.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:15 @They are worthless, a work of mockery; In the time of their punishment they will perish.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:16 @The portion of Jacob is not like these; For the Maker of all is He, And Israel is the tribe of His inheritance; The LORD of hosts is His name.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:17 @Pick up your bundle from the ground, You who dwell under siege!

nasb@Jeremiah:5:18 @For thus says the LORD, "Behold, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land At this time, And will cause them distress, That they may be found."

nasb@Jeremiah:5:20 @My tent is destroyed, And all my ropes are broken; My sons have gone from me and are no more. There is no one to stretch out my tent again Or to set up my curtains.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:21 @For the shepherds have become stupid And have not sought the LORD; Therefore they have not prospered, And all their flock is scattered.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:22 @The sound of a report! Behold, it comes-- A great commotion out of the land of the north-- To make the cities of Judah A desolation, a haunt of jackals.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:25 @Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not know You And on the families that do not call Your name; For they have devoured Jacob; They have devoured him and consumed him And have laid waste his habitation.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:11 @The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:5:2" @ Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;

nasb@Jeremiah:5:3 @and say to them, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, " Cursed is the man who does not heed the words of this covenant

nasb@Jeremiah:5:4 @which I commanded your forefathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, ' Listen to My voice, and do according to all which I command you; so you shall be My people, and I will be your God,'

nasb@Jeremiah:5:5 @in order to confirm the oath which I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day."'" Then I said, " Amen, O LORD."

nasb@Jeremiah:5:6 @And 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.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:7 @'For I solemnly warned your fathers in the day that I brought them up from the land of Egypt, even to this day, warning persistently, saying, " Listen to My voice."

nasb@Jeremiah:5:8 @'Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked, each one, in the stubbornness of his evil heart; therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:5:9 @Then the LORD said to me, "A conspiracy has been found among the men of Judah and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:10" @They have turned back to the iniquities of their ancestors 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."

nasb@Jeremiah:5:11 @Therefore thus says the LORD, "Behold I am bringing disaster on them which they will not be able to escape; though they will cry to Me, yet I will not listen to them.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:12" @Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they surely will not save them in the time of their disaster.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:13" @For your gods are as many as your cities, O Judah; and as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to the shameful thing, altars to burn incense to Baal.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:14" @Therefore do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them; for I will not listen when they call to Me because of their disaster.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:15" @What right has My beloved in My house When she has done many vile deeds? Can the sacrificial flesh take away from you your disaster, So that you can rejoice?"

nasb@Jeremiah:5:16 @The LORD called your name, "A green olive tree, beautiful in fruit and form"; With the noise of a great tumult He has kindled fire on it, And its branches are worthless.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:17 @The LORD of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me by offering up sacrifices to Baal.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:18 @Moreover, the LORD made it known to me and I knew it; Then You showed me their deeds.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:19 @But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter; And I did not know that they had devised plots 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 be remembered no more."

nasb@Jeremiah:5:20 @But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, Who tries the feelings and the heart, Let me see Your vengeance on them, For to You have I committed my cause.

nasb@Jeremiah:5:21 @Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, " Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD, so that you will not die at our hand";

nasb@Jeremiah:5:22 @therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts, "Behold, I am about to punish them! The young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters will die by famine;

nasb@Jeremiah:5:23 @and a remnant will not be left to them, for I will bring disaster on the men of Anathoth-- the year of their punishment."

nasb@Jeremiah:6:1 @Righteous are You, O LORD, that I would plead my case with You; Indeed I would discuss matters of justice with You- Why has the way of the wicked prospered? Why are all those who deal in treachery at ease?

nasb@Jeremiah:6:2 @You have planted them, they have also taken root; They grow, they have even produced fruit. You are near to their lips But far from their mind.

nasb@Jeremiah:6:3 @But You know me, O LORD; You see me; And You examine my heart's attitude toward You. Drag them off like sheep for the slaughter And set them apart for a day of carnage!

nasb@Jeremiah:6:4 @How long is the land to mourn And the vegetation of the countryside to wither? For the wickedness of those who dwell in it, Animals and birds have been snatched away, Because men have said, "He will not see our latter ending."

nasb@Jeremiah:6:5" @If you have run with footmen and they have tired you out, Then how can you compete with horses? If you fall down in a land of peace, How will you do in the thicket of the Jordan?

nasb@Jeremiah:6:6" @For even your brothers and the household of your father, Even they have dealt treacherously with you, Even they have cried aloud after you. Do not believe them, although they may say nice things to you."

nasb@Jeremiah:6:7" @I have forsaken My house, I have abandoned My inheritance; I have given the beloved of My soul Into the hand of her enemies.

nasb@Jeremiah:6:8" @My inheritance has become to Me Like a lion in the forest; She has roared against Me; Therefore I have come to hate her.

nasb@Jeremiah:6:9" @Is My inheritance like a speckled bird of prey to Me? Are the birds of prey against her on every side? Go, gather all the beasts of the field, Bring them to devour!

nasb@Jeremiah:6:10" @Many shepherds have ruined My vineyard, They have trampled down My field; They have made My pleasant field A desolate wilderness.

nasb@Jeremiah:6:11" @It has been made a desolation, Desolate, it mourns before Me; The whole land has been made desolate, Because no man lays it to heart.

nasb@Jeremiah:6:12" @On all the bare heights in the wilderness Destroyers have come, For a sword of the LORD is devouring From one end of the land even to the other; There is no peace for anyone.

nasb@Jeremiah:6:13" @They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns, They have strained themselves to no profit. But be ashamed of your harvest Because of the fierce anger of the LORD."

nasb@Jeremiah:6:14 @Thus says the LORD concerning all My wicked neighbors who strike at the inheritance with which I have endowed My people Israel, "Behold I am about to uproot them from their land and will uproot the house of Judah from among them.

nasb@Jeremiah:6:15" @And it will come about that after I have uprooted them, I will again have compassion on them; and I will bring them back, each one to his inheritance and each one to his land.

nasb@Jeremiah:6:16" @Then if they will really learn the ways of My people, to swear by My name, 'As the LORD lives,' even as they taught My people to swear by Baal, they will be built up in the midst of My people.

nasb@Jeremiah:6:17" @But if they will not listen, then I will uproot that nation, uproot and destroy it," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:1 @Thus the LORD said to me, "Go and buy yourself a linen waistband and put it around your waist, but do not put it in water."

nasb@Jeremiah:7:2 @So I bought the waistband in accordance with the word of the LORD and put it around my waist.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:3 @Then the word of the LORD came to me a second time, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:7:4" @Take the waistband that you have bought, which is around your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a crevice of the rock."

nasb@Jeremiah:7:5 @So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as the LORD had commanded me.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:6 @After many days the LORD said to me, "Arise, go to the Euphrates and take from there the waistband which I commanded you to hide there."

nasb@Jeremiah:7:7 @Then I went to the Euphrates and dug, and I took the waistband from the place where I had hidden it; and lo, the waistband was ruined, it was totally worthless.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:8 @Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:7:9" @Thus says the LORD, 'Just so will I destroy the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:10 @'This wicked people, who refuse to listen to My words, who walk in the stubbornness of their hearts and have gone after other gods to serve them and to bow down to them, let them be just like this waistband which is totally worthless.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:11 @'For as the waistband clings to the waist of a man, so I made the whole household of Israel and the whole household of Judah cling to Me,' declares the LORD, 'that they might be for Me a people, for renown, for praise and for glory; but they did not listen.'

nasb@Jeremiah:7:12" @Therefore you are to speak this word to them, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, "Every jug is to be filled with wine."' And when they say to you, 'Do we not very well know that every jug is to be filled with wine?'

nasb@Jeremiah:7:13 @then say to them, 'Thus says the LORD, "Behold I am about to fill all the inhabitants of this land--the kings that sit for David on his throne, the priests, the prophets and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem--with drunkenness!

nasb@Jeremiah:7:14" @I will dash them against each other, both the fathers and the sons together," declares the LORD. "I will not show pity nor be sorry nor have compassion so as not to destroy them."'"

nasb@Jeremiah:7:15 @Listen and give heed, do not be haughty, For the LORD has spoken.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:16 @Give glory to the LORD your God, Before He brings darkness And before your feet stumble On the dusky mountains, And while you are hoping for light He makes it into deep darkness, And turns it into gloom.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:17 @But if you will not listen to it, My soul will sob in secret for such pride; And my eyes will bitterly weep And flow down with tears, Because the flock of the LORD has been taken captive.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:18 @Say to the king and the queen mother, " Take a lowly seat, For your beautiful crown Has come down from your head."

nasb@Jeremiah:7:19 @The cities of the Negev have been locked up, And there is no one to open them; All Judah has been carried into exile, Wholly carried into exile.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:20" @Lift up your eyes and see Those coming from the north. Where is the flock that was given you, Your beautiful sheep?

nasb@Jeremiah:7:21" @What will you say when He appoints over you-- And you yourself had taught them-- Former companions to be head over you? Will not pangs take hold of you Like a woman in childbirth?

nasb@Jeremiah:7:22" @If you say in your heart, ' Why have these things happened to me?' Because of the magnitude of your iniquity Your skirts have been removed And your heels have been exposed.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:23" @ Can the Ethiopian change his skin Or the leopard his spots? Then you also can do good Who are accustomed to doing evil.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:24" @Therefore I will scatter them like drifting straw To the desert wind.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:25" @This is your lot, the portion measured to you From Me," declares the LORD, "Because you have forgotten Me And trusted in falsehood.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:27" @As for your adulteries and your lustful neighings, The lewdness of your prostitution On the hills in the field, I have seen your abominations. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain uncleanNULL"

nasb@Jeremiah:7:14 @That which came as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah in regard to the drought-

nasb@Jeremiah:7:2" @Judah mourns And her gates languish; They sit on the ground in mourning, And the cry of Jerusalem has ascended.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:3" @Their nobles have sent their servants for water; They have come to the cisterns and found no water. They have returned with their vessels empty; They have been put to shame and humiliated, And they cover their heads.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:4" @Because the ground is cracked, For there has been no rain on the land; The farmers have been put to shame, They have covered their heads.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:5" @For even the doe in the field has given birth only to abandon her young, Because there is no grass.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:6" @The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights; They pant for air like jackals, Their eyes fail For there is no vegetation.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:8" @O Hope of Israel, Its Savior in time of distress, Why are You like a stranger in the land Or like a traveler who has pitched his tent for the night?

nasb@Jeremiah:7:10 @Thus says the LORD to this people, "Even so they have loved to wander; they have not kept their feet in check. Therefore the LORD does not accept them; now He will remember their iniquity and call their sins to account."

nasb@Jeremiah:7:11 @So the LORD said to me, " Do not pray for the welfare of this people.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:12" @When they fast, I am not going to listen to their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I am not going to accept them. Rather I am going to make an end of them by the sword, famine and pestilence."

nasb@Jeremiah:7:13 @But, "Ah, Lord GOD!" I said, "Look, the prophets are telling them, 'You will not see the sword nor will you have famine, but I will give you lasting peace in this place.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:7:14 @Then the LORD said to me, "The prophets are prophesying falsehood in My name. I have neither sent them nor commanded them nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a false vision, divination, futility and the deception of their own minds.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:15" @Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who are prophesying in My name, although it was not I who sent them--yet they keep saying, 'There will be no sword or famine in this land'-- by sword and famine those prophets shall meet their end!

nasb@Jeremiah:7:16" @The people also to whom they are prophesying will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and there will be no one to bury them--neither them, nor their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters--for I will pour out their own wickedness on them.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:17" @You will say this word to them, ' Let my eyes flow down with tears night and day, And let them not cease; For the virgin daughter of my people has been crushed with a mighty blow, With a sorely infected wound.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:18 @'If I go out to the country, Behold, those slain with the sword! Or if I enter the city, Behold, diseases of famine! For both prophet and priest Have gone roving about in the land that they do not know.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:7:19 @Have You completely rejected Judah? Or have You loathed Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We waited for peace, but nothing good came; And for a time of healing, but behold, terror!

nasb@Jeremiah:7:20 @We know our wickedness, O LORD, The iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against You.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:21 @Do not despise us, for Your own name's sake; Do not disgrace the throne of Your glory; Remember and do not annul Your covenant with us.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:22 @Are there any among the idols of the nations who give rainNULL Or can the heavens grant showersNULL Is it not You, O LORD our GodNULL Therefore we hope in You, For You are the one who has done all these things.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:15 @Then the LORD said to me, "Even though Moses and Samuel were to stand before Me, My heart would not be with this people; send them away from My presence and let them go!

nasb@Jeremiah:7:2" @And it shall be that when they say to you, 'Where should we go?' then you are to tell them, 'Thus says the LORD- "Those destined for death, to death; And those destined for the sword, to the sword; And those destined for famine, to famine; And those destined for captivity, to captivity."'

nasb@Jeremiah:7:3" @I will appoint over them four kinds of doom," declares the LORD- "the sword to slay, the dogs to drag off, and the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:4" @I will make them an object of horror among all the kingdoms of the earth because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:6" @You who have forsaken Me," declares the LORD, "You keep going backward. So I will stretch out My hand against you and destroy you; I am tired of relenting!

nasb@Jeremiah:7:7" @I will winnow them with a winnowing fork At the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy My people; They did not repent of their ways.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:8" @Their widows will be more numerous before Me Than the sand of the seas; I will bring against them, against the mother of a young man, A destroyer at noonday; I will suddenly bring down on her Anguish and dismay.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:9" @She who bore seven sons pines away; Her breathing is labored. Her sun has set while it was yet day; She has been shamed and humiliated. So I will give over their survivors to the sword Before their enemies," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:10 @Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me As a man of strife and a man of contention to all the land! I have not lent, nor have men lent money to me, Yet everyone curses me.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:11 @The LORD said, "Surely I will set you free for purposes of good; Surely I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you In a time of disaster and a time of distress.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:12" @Can anyone smash iron, Iron from the north, or bronze?

nasb@Jeremiah:7:14" @Then I will cause your enemies to bring it Into a land you do not know; For a fire has been kindled in My anger, It will burn upon you."

nasb@Jeremiah:7:16 @Your words were found and I ate them, And Your words became for me a joy and the delight of my heart; For I have been called by Your name, O LORD God of hosts.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:17 @I did not sit in the circle of merrymakers, Nor did I exult. Because of Your hand upon me I sat alone, For You filled me with indignation.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:18 @Why has my pain been perpetual And my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will You indeed be to me like a deceptive stream With water that is unreliable?

nasb@Jeremiah:7:19 @Therefore, thus says the LORD, " If you return, then I will restore you-- Before Me you will stand; And if you extract the precious from the worthless, You will become My spokesman. They for their part may turn to you, But as for you, you must not turn to them.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:20" @Then I will make you to this people A fortified wall of bronze; And though they fight against you, They will not prevail over you; For I am with you to save you And deliver you," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:21" @So I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked, And I will redeem you from the grasp of the violent."

nasb@Jeremiah:7:16 @The word of the LORD also came to me saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:7:3 @For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bear them, and their fathers who beget them in this land-

nasb@Jeremiah:7:4" @They will die of deadly diseases, they will not be lamented or buried; they will be as dung on the surface of the ground and come to an end by sword and famine, and their carcasses will become food for the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth."

nasb@Jeremiah:7:5 @For thus says the LORD, "Do not enter a house of mourning, or go to lament or to console them; for I have withdrawn My peace from this people," declares the LORD, "My lovingkindness and compassion.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:6" @Both great men and small will die in this land; they will not be buried, they will not be lamented, nor will anyone gash himself or shave his head for them.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:7" @Men will not break bread in mourning for them, to comfort anyone for the dead, nor give them a cup of consolation to drink for anyone's father or mother.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:8" @Moreover you shall not go into a house of feasting to sit with them to eat and drink."

nasb@Jeremiah:7:9 @For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel- "Behold, I am going to eliminate from this place, before your eyes and in your time, the voice of rejoicing and the voice of gladness, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:10" @Now when you tell this people all these words, they will say to you, ' For what reason has the LORD declared all this great calamity against us? And what is our iniquity, or what is our sin which we have committed against the LORD our God?'

nasb@Jeremiah:7:11" @Then you are to say to them, 'It is because your forefathers have forsaken Me,' declares the LORD, 'and have followed other gods and served them and bowed down to them; but Me they have forsaken and have not kept My law.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:12 @'You too have done evil, even more than your forefathers; for behold, you are each one walking according to the stubbornness of his own evil heart, without listening to Me.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:13 @'So I will hurl you out of this land into the land which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers; and there you will serve other gods day and night, for I will grant you no favor.'

nasb@Jeremiah:7:14" @ Therefore behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when it will no longer be said, 'As the LORD lives, who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt,'

nasb@Jeremiah:7:15 @but, 'As the LORD lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of the north and from all the countries where He had banished them.' For I will restore them to their own land which I gave to their fathers.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:16" @Behold, I am going to send for many fishermen," declares the LORD, "and they will fish for them; and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and every hill and from the clefts of the rocks.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:17" @ For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity concealed from My eyes.

nasb@Jeremiah:7:18" @I will first doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable idols and with their abominations."

nasb@Jeremiah:7:19 @O LORD, my strength and my stronghold, And my refuge in the day of distress, To You the nations will come From the ends of the earth and say, "Our fathers have inherited nothing but falsehood, Futility and things of no profit."

nasb@Jeremiah:7:20 @Can man make gods for himself? Yet they are not gods!

nasb@Jeremiah:7:21" @Therefore behold, I am going to make them know-- This time I will make them know My power and My might; And they shall know that My name is the LORD."

nasb@Jeremiah:8:1 @The sin of Judah is written down with an iron stylus; With a diamond point it is engraved upon the tablet of their heart And on the horns of their altars,

nasb@Jeremiah:8:2 @As they remember their children, So they remember their altars and their Asherim By green trees on the high hills.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:3 @O mountain of Mine in the countryside, I will give over your wealth and all your treasures for booty, Your high places for sin throughout your borders.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:4 @And you will, even of yourself, let go of your inheritance That I gave you; And I will make you serve your enemies In the land which you do not know; For you have kindled a fire in My anger Which will burn forever.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:5 @Thus says the LORD, " Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind And makes flesh his strength, And whose heart turns away from the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:6" @For he will be like a bush in the desert And will not see when prosperity comes, But will live in stony wastes in the wilderness, A land of salt without inhabitant.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:7" @ Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD And whose trust is the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:8" @For he will be like a tree planted by the water, That extends its roots by a stream And will not fear when the heat comes; But its leaves will be green, And it will not be anxious in a year of drought Nor cease to yield fruit.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:9" @The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it?

nasb@Jeremiah:8:10" @I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give to each man according to his ways, According to the results of his deeds.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:11" @As a partridge that hatches eggs which it has not laid, So is he who makes a fortune, but unjustly; In the midst of his days it will forsake him, And in the end he will be a fool."

nasb@Jeremiah:8:12 @A glorious throne on high from the beginning Is the place of our sanctuary.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:13 @O LORD, the hope of Israel, All who forsake You will be put to shame. Those who turn away on earth will be written down, Because they have forsaken the fountain of living water, even the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:14 @Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; Save me and I will be saved, For You are my praise.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:15 @Look, they keep saying to me, "Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come now!"

nasb@Jeremiah:8:16 @But as for me, I have not hurried away from being a shepherd after You, Nor have I longed for the woeful day; You Yourself know that the utterance of my lips Was in Your presence.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:17 @Do not be a terror to me; You are my refuge in the day of disaster.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:18 @Let those who persecute me be put to shame, but as for me, let me not be put to shame; Let them be dismayed, but let me not be dismayed. Bring on them a day of disaster, And crush them with twofold destruction!

nasb@Jeremiah:8:19 @Thus the LORD said to me, "Go and stand in the public gate, through which the kings of Judah come in and go out, as well as in all the gates of Jerusalem;

nasb@Jeremiah:8:20 @and say to them, ' Listen to the word of the LORD, kings of Judah, and all Judah and all inhabitants of Jerusalem who come in through these gates-

nasb@Jeremiah:8:21 @'Thus says the LORD, " Take heed for yourselves, and do not carry any load on the sabbath day or bring anything in through the gates of Jerusalem.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:22" @You shall not bring a load out of your houses on the sabbath day nor do any work, but keep the sabbath day holy, as I commanded your forefathers.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:23" @Yet they did not listen or incline their ears, but stiffened their necks in order not to listen or take correction.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:24" @But it will come about, if you listen attentively to Me," declares the LORD, "to bring no load in through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but to keep the sabbath day holy by doing no work on it,

nasb@Jeremiah:8:25 @then there will come in through the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their princes, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and this city will be inhabited forever.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:26" @They will come in from the cities of Judah and from the environs of Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from the lowland, from the hill country and from the Negev, bringing burnt offerings, sacrifices, grain offerings and incense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving to the house of the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:27" @But if you do not listen to Me to keep the sabbath day holy by not carrying a load and coming in through the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem and not be quenched."'"

nasb@Jeremiah:8:18 @The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:8:2" @Arise and go down to the potter's house, and there I will announce My words to you."

nasb@Jeremiah:8:3 @Then I went down to the potter's house, and there he was, making something on the wheel.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:4 @But the vessel that he was making of clay was spoiled in the hand of the potter; so he remade it into another vessel, as it pleased the potter to make.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:5 @Then the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:8:6" @Can I not, O house of Israel, deal with you as this potter does?" declares the LORD. "Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:8 @if that nation against which I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent concerning the calamity I planned to bring on it.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:9" @Or at another moment I might speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom to build up or to plant it;

nasb@Jeremiah:8:10 @if it does evil in My sight by not obeying My voice, then I will think better of the good with which I had promised to bless it.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:11" @So now then, speak to the men of Judah and against the inhabitants of Jerusalem saying, 'Thus says the LORD, "Behold, I am fashioning calamity against you and devising a plan against you. Oh turn back, each of you from his evil way, and reform your ways and your deeds."'

nasb@Jeremiah:8:12" @But they will say, 'It's hopeless! For we are going to follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.'

nasb@Jeremiah:8:13" @Therefore thus says the LORD, ' Ask now among the nations, Who ever heard the like of this? The virgin of Israel Has done a most appalling thing.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:14 @'Does the snow of Lebanon forsake the rock of the open country? Or is the cold flowing water from a foreign land ever snatched away?

nasb@Jeremiah:8:15 @'For My people have forgotten Me, They burn incense to worthless gods And they have stumbled from their ways, From the ancient paths, To walk in bypaths, Not on a highway,

nasb@Jeremiah:8:16 @To make their land a desolation, An object of perpetual hissing; Everyone who passes by it will be astonished And shake his head.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:17 @'Like an east wind I will scatter them Before the enemy; I will show them My back and not My face In the day of their calamity.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:8:18 @Then they said, "Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah. Surely the law is not going to be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the sage, nor the divine word to the prophet! Come on and let us strike at him with our tongue, and let us give no heed to any of his words."

nasb@Jeremiah:8:19 @Do give heed to me, O LORD, And listen to what my opponents are saying!

nasb@Jeremiah:8:20 @Should good be repaid with evil? For they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You To speak good on their behalf, So as to turn away Your wrath from them.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:21 @Therefore, give their children over to famine And deliver them up to the power of the sword; And let their wives become childless and widowed. Let their men also be smitten to death, Their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:22 @May an outcry be heard from their houses, When You suddenly bring raiders upon them; For they have dug a pit to capture me And hidden snares for my feet.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:23 @Yet You, O LORD, know All their deadly designs against me; Do not forgive their iniquity Or blot out their sin from Your sight. But may they be overthrown before You; Deal with them in the time of Your anger!

nasb@Jeremiah:8:19 @Thus says the LORD, "Go and buy a potter's earthenware jar, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:2" @Then go out to the valley of Ben-hinnom, which is by the entrance of the potsherd gate, and proclaim there the words that I tell you,

nasb@Jeremiah:8:3 @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 am about to bring a calamity upon this place, at which the ears of everyone that hears of it will tingle.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:4" @Because they have forsaken Me and have made this an alien place and have burned sacrifices in it to other gods, that neither they nor their forefathers nor the kings of Judah had ever known, and because they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent

nasb@Jeremiah:8:5 @and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, a thing which I never commanded or spoke of, nor did it ever enter My mind;

nasb@Jeremiah:8:6 @therefore, behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the valley of Ben-hinnom, but rather the valley of Slaughter.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:7" @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 hand of those who seek their life; and I will give over their carcasses as food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:8" @I will also make this city a desolation and an object of hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its disasters.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:9" @I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life will distress them."'

nasb@Jeremiah:8:10" @Then you are to break the jar in the sight of the men who accompany you

nasb@Jeremiah:8:11 @and say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Just so will I break this people and this city, even as one breaks a potter's vessel, which cannot again be repaired; and they will bury in Topheth because there is no other place for burial.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:12" @This is how I will treat this place and its inhabitants," declares the LORD, "so as to make this city like Topheth.

nasb@Jeremiah:8:13" @The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like the place Topheth, because of all the houses on whose rooftops they burned sacrifices to all the heavenly host and poured out drink offerings to other gods."'"

nasb@Jeremiah:8:14 @Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, 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-

nasb@Jeremiah:8:15" @Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Behold, I am about to bring on this city and all its towns the entire calamity that I have declared against it, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:9:1 @When Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer, who was chief officer in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things,

nasb@Jeremiah:9:2 @Pashhur had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put him in the stocks that were at the upper Benjamin Gate, which was by the house of the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:3 @On the next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, "Pashhur is not the name the LORD has called you, but rather Magor-missabib.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:4" @For thus says the LORD, 'Behold, I am going to make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends; and while your eyes look on, they will fall by the sword of their enemies. So I will give over all Judah to the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will carry them away as exiles to Babylon and will slay them with the sword.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:5 @'I will also give over all the wealth of this city, all its produce and all its costly things; even all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give over to the hand of their enemies, and they will plunder them, take them away and bring them to Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:6 @'And you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house will go into captivity; and you will enter Babylon, and there you will die and there you will be buried, you and all your friends to whom you have falsely prophesied.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:9:8 @For each time I speak, I cry aloud; I proclaim violence and destruction, Because for me the word of the LORD has resulted In reproach and derision all day long.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:9 @But if I say, "I will not remember Him Or speak anymore in His name," Then in my heart it becomes like a burning fire Shut up in my bones; And I am weary of holding it in, And I cannot endure it.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:10 @For I have heard the whispering of many, " Terror on every side! Denounce him; yes, let us denounce him!" All my trusted friends, Watching for my fall, say- "Perhaps he will be deceived, so that we may prevail against him And take our revenge on him."

nasb@Jeremiah:9:11 @But the LORD is with me like a dread champion; Therefore my persecutors will stumble and not prevail. They will be utterly ashamed, because they have failed, With an everlasting disgrace that will not be forgotten.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:12 @Yet, O LORD of hosts, You who test the righteous, Who see the mind and the heart; Let me see Your vengeance on them; For to You I have set forth my cause.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:13 @Sing to the LORD, praise the LORD! For He has delivered the soul of the needy one From the hand of evildoers.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:14 @Cursed be the day when I was born; Let the day not be blessed when my mother bore me!

nasb@Jeremiah:9:15 @Cursed be the man who brought the news To my father, saying, "A baby boy has been born to you!" And made him very happy.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:16 @But let that man be like the cities Which the LORD overthrew without relenting, And let him hear an outcry in the morning And a shout of alarm at noon;

nasb@Jeremiah:9:17 @Because he did not kill me before birth, So that my mother would have been my grave, And her womb ever pregnant.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:18 @Why did I ever come forth from the womb To look on trouble and sorrow, So that my days have been spent in shameNULL

nasb@Jeremiah:9:21 @The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:9:2" @Please inquire of the LORD on our behalf, for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is warring against us; perhaps the LORD will deal with us according to all His wonderful acts, so that the enemy will withdraw from us."

nasb@Jeremiah:9:3 @Then Jeremiah said to them, "You shall say to Zedekiah as follows-

nasb@Jeremiah:9:4 @'Thus says the LORD God of Israel, "Behold, I am about to turn back the weapons of war which are in your hands, with which you are warring against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the wall; and I will gather them into the center of this city.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:5" @I Myself will war against you with an outstretched hand and a mighty arm, even in anger and wrath and great indignation.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:6" @I will also strike down the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they will die of a great pestilence.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:7" @Then afterwards," declares the LORD, " I will give over Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people, even those who survive in this city from the pestilence, the sword and the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their foes and into the hand of those who seek their lives; and he will strike them down with the edge of the sword. He will not spare them nor have pity nor compassion."'

nasb@Jeremiah:9:8" @You shall also say to this people, 'Thus says the LORD, "Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:9" @He who dwells in this city will die by the sword and by famine and by pestilence; but he who goes out and falls away to the Chaldeans who are besieging you will live, and he will have his own life as booty.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:10" @For I have set My face against this city for harm and not for good," declares the LORD. "It will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon and he will burn it with fire."'

nasb@Jeremiah:9:11" @Then say to the household of the king of Judah, 'Hear the word of the LORD,

nasb@Jeremiah:9:12 @O house of David, thus says the LORD- " Administer justice every morning; And deliver the person who has been robbed from the power of his oppressor, That My wrath may not go forth like fire And burn with none to extinguish it, Because of the evil of their deeds.

nasb@Jeremiah:9:13" @Behold, I am against you, O valley dweller, O rocky plain," declares the LORD, "You men who say, ' Who will come down against us? Or who will enter into our habitations?'

nasb@Jeremiah:9:14" @But I will punish you according to the results of your deeds," declares the LORD, "And I will kindle a fire in its forest That it may devour all its environs."'"

nasb@Jeremiah:10:1 @Thus says the LORD, "Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and there speak this word

nasb@Jeremiah:10:2 @and say, 'Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, who sits on David's throne, you and your servants and your people who enter these gates.

nasb@Jeremiah:10:3 @'Thus says the LORD, " Do justice and righteousness, and deliver the one who has been robbed from the power of his oppressor. Also do not mistreat or do violence to the stranger, the orphan, or the widow; and do not shed innocent blood in this place.

nasb@Jeremiah:10:4" @For if you men will indeed perform this thing, then kings will enter the gates of this house, sitting in David's place on his throne, riding in chariots and on horses, even the king himself and his servants and his people.

nasb@Jeremiah:10:5" @ But if you will not obey these words, I swear by Myself," declares the LORD, "that this house will become a desolation."'"

nasb@Jeremiah:10:6 @For thus says the LORD concerning the house of the king of Judah- "You are like Gilead to Me, Like the summit of Lebanon; Yet most assuredly I will make you like a wilderness, Like cities which are not inhabited.

nasb@Jeremiah:10:7" @For I will set apart destroyers against you, Each with his weapons; And they will cut down your choicest cedars And throw them on the fire.

nasb@Jeremiah:10:8" @Many nations will pass by this city; and they will say to one another, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this great city?'

nasb@Jeremiah:10:9" @Then they will answer, 'Because they forsook the covenant of the LORD their God and bowed down to other gods and served them.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:10:10 @Do not weep for the dead or mourn for him, But weep continually for the one who goes away; For he will never return Or see his native land.

nasb@Jeremiah:10:11 @For thus says the LORD in regard to Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who became king in the place of Josiah his father, who went forth from this place, "He will never return there;

nasb@Jeremiah:10:12 @but in the place where they led him captive, there he will die and not see this land again.

nasb@Jeremiah:10:15" @Do you become a king because you are competing in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink And do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

nasb@Jeremiah:10:16" @He pled the cause of the afflicted and needy; Then it was well. Is not that what it means to know Me?" Declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:10:17" @But your eyes and your heart Are intent only upon your own dishonest gain, And on shedding innocent blood And on practicing oppression and extortion."

nasb@Jeremiah:10:18 @Therefore thus says the LORD in regard to Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, "They will not lament for him- ' Alas, my brother!' or, 'Alas, sister!' They will not lament for him: 'Alas for the master!' or, 'Alas for his splendor!'

nasb@Jeremiah:10:19" @He will be buried with a donkey's burial, Dragged off and thrown out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

nasb@Jeremiah:10:20" @Go up to Lebanon and cry out, And lift up your voice in Bashan; Cry out also from Abarim, For all your lovers have been crushed.

nasb@Jeremiah:10:22" @The wind will sweep away all your shepherds, And your lovers will go into captivity; Then you will surely be ashamed and humiliated Because of all your wickedness.

nasb@Jeremiah:10:23" @You who dwell in Lebanon, Nested in the cedars, How you will groan when pangs come upon you, Pain like a woman in childbirth!

nasb@Jeremiah:10:24" @As I live," declares the LORD, "even though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were a signet ring on My right hand, yet I would pull you off;

nasb@Jeremiah:10:25 @and I will give you over into the hand of those who are seeking your life, yes, into the hand of those whom you dread, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

nasb@Jeremiah:10:26" @I will hurl you and your mother who bore you into another country where you were not born, and there you will die.

nasb@Jeremiah:10:27" @But as for the land to which they desire to return, they will not return to it.

nasb@Jeremiah:10:28" @Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered jar? Or is he an undesirable vessel? Why have he and his descendants been hurled out And cast into a land that they had not known?

nasb@Jeremiah:10:29" @ O land, land, land, Hear the word of the LORD!

nasb@Jeremiah:10:30" @Thus says the LORD, 'Write this man down childless, A man who will not prosper in his days; For no man of his descendants will prosper Sitting on the throne of David Or ruling again in Judah.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:11:1" @ Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of My pasture!" declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:2 @Therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel concerning the shepherds who are tending My people- "You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them; behold, I am about to attend to you for the evil of your deeds," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:3" @Then I Myself will gather the remnant of My flock out of all the countries where I have driven them and bring them back to their pasture, and they will be fruitful and multiply.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:4" @I will also raise up shepherds over them and they will tend them; and they will not be afraid any longer, nor be terrified, nor will any be missing," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:5" @Behold, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "When I will raise up for David a righteous Branch; And He will reign as king and act wisely And do justice and righteousness in the land.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:6" @In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel will dwell securely; And this is His name by which He will be called, 'The LORD our righteousness.'

nasb@Jeremiah:11:7" @ Therefore behold, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "when they will no longer say, 'As the LORD lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt,'

nasb@Jeremiah:11:8 @but, 'As the LORD lives, who brought up and led back the descendants of the household of Israel from the north land and from all the countries where I had driven them.' Then they will live on their own soil."

nasb@Jeremiah:11:9 @As for the prophets- My heart is broken within me, All my bones tremble; I have become like a drunken man, Even like a man overcome with wine, Because of the LORD And because of His holy words.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:10 @For the land is full of adulterers; For the land mourns because of the curse. The pastures of the wilderness have dried up. Their course also is evil And their might is not right.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:11" @For both prophet and priest are polluted; Even in My house I have found their wickedness," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:12" @Therefore their way will be like slippery paths to them, They will be driven away into the gloom and fall down in it; For I will bring calamity upon them, The year of their punishment," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:13" @Moreover, among the prophets of Samaria I saw an offensive thing- They prophesied by Baal and led My people Israel astray.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:14" @Also among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing- The committing of adultery and walking in falsehood; And they strengthen the hands of evildoers, So that no one has turned back from his wickedness. All of them have become to Me like Sodom, And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:15" @Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets, 'Behold, I am going to feed them wormwood And make them drink poisonous water, For from the prophets of Jerusalem Pollution has gone forth into all the land.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:11:16 @Thus says the LORD of hosts, " Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you. They are leading you into futility; They speak a vision of their own imagination, Not from the mouth of the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:17" @They keep saying to those who despise Me, 'The LORD has said, " You will have peace"'; And as for everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, They say, ' Calamity will not come upon you.'

nasb@Jeremiah:11:18" @But who has stood in the council of the LORD, That he should see and hear His word? Who has given heed to His word and listened?

nasb@Jeremiah:11:19" @Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone forth in wrath, Even a whirling tempest; It will swirl down on the head of the wicked.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:20" @The anger of the LORD will not turn back Until He has performed and carried out the purposes of His heart; In the last days you will clearly understand it.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:21" @ I did not send these prophets, But they ran. I did not speak to them, But they prophesied.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:22" @But if they had stood in My council, Then they would have announced My words to My people, And would have turned them back from their evil way And from the evil of their deeds.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:23" @Am I a God who is near," declares the LORD, "And not a God far off?

nasb@Jeremiah:11:24" @Can a man hide himself in hiding places So I do not see him?" declares the LORD. " Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?" declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:25" @I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy falsely in My name, saying, 'I had a dream, I had a dream!'

nasb@Jeremiah:11:26" @How long? Is there anything in the hearts of the prophets who prophesy falsehood, even these prophets of the deception of their own heart,

nasb@Jeremiah:11:27 @who intend to make My people forget My name by their dreams which they relate to one another, just as their fathers forgot My name because of Baal?

nasb@Jeremiah:11:28" @The prophet who has a dream may relate his dream, but let him who has My word speak My word in truth. What does straw have in common with grain?" declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:29" @Is not My word like fire?" declares the LORD, "and like a hammer which shatters a rock?

nasb@Jeremiah:11:30" @Therefore behold, I am against the prophets," declares the LORD, "who steal My words from each other.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:31" @Behold, I am against the prophets," declares the LORD, "who use their tongues and declare, 'The Lord declares.'

nasb@Jeremiah:11:32" @Behold, I am against those who have prophesied false dreams," declares the LORD, "and related them and led My people astray by their falsehoods and reckless boasting; yet I did not send them or command them, nor do they furnish this people the slightest benefit," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:33" @Now when this people or the prophet or a priest asks you saying, 'What is the oracle of the LORD?' then you shall say to them, 'What oracle?' The LORD declares, 'I will abandon you.'

nasb@Jeremiah:11:34" @Then as for the prophet or the priest or the people who say, 'The oracle of the LORD,' I will bring punishment upon that man and his household.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:35" @Thus will each of you say to his neighbor and to his brother, ' What has the LORD answered?' or, 'What has the LORD spoken?'

nasb@Jeremiah:11:36" @For you will no longer remember the oracle of the LORD, because every man's own word will become the oracle, and you have perverted the words of the living God, the LORD of hosts, our God.

nasb@Jeremiah:11:37" @Thus you will say to that prophet, 'What has the LORD answered you?' and, 'What has the LORD spoken?'

nasb@Jeremiah:11:38" @For if you say, 'The oracle of the LORD!' surely thus says the LORD, 'Because you said this word, "The oracle of the LORD!" I have also sent to you, saying, "You shall not say, 'The oracle of the LORD!'"'

nasb@Jeremiah:11:39" @Therefore behold, I will surely forget you and cast you away from My presence, along with the city which I gave you and your fathers.

nasb@Jeremiah:12:1 @After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the officials of Judah with the craftsmen and smiths from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me- behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of the LORD!

nasb@Jeremiah:12:2 @One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, and the other basket had very bad figs which could not be eaten due to rottenness.

nasb@Jeremiah:12:3 @Then the LORD said to me, " What do you see, Jeremiah?" And I said, "Figs, the good figs, very good; and the bad figs, very bad, which cannot be eaten due to rottenness."

nasb@Jeremiah:12:4 @Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:12:5" @Thus says the LORD God of Israel, 'Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans.

nasb@Jeremiah:12:6 @'For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land; and I will build them up and not overthrow them, and I will plant them and not pluck them up.

nasb@Jeremiah:12:7 @'I will give them a heart to know Me, for I am the LORD; and they will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with their whole heart.

nasb@Jeremiah:12:8 @'But like the bad figs which cannot be eaten due to rottenness--indeed, thus says the LORD--so I will abandon Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land and the ones who dwell in the land of Egypt.

nasb@Jeremiah:12:9 @'I will make them a terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse in all places where I will scatter them.

nasb@Jeremiah:12:10 @'I will send the sword, the famine and the pestilence upon them until they are destroyed from the land which I gave to them and their forefathers.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:13:1 @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 (that was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon),

nasb@Jeremiah:13:2 @which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:13:3" @From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:4" @And the LORD has sent to you all His servants the prophets again and again, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear,

nasb@Jeremiah:13:5 @saying, ' Turn now everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your deeds, and dwell on the land which the LORD has given to you and your forefathers forever and ever;

nasb@Jeremiah:13:6 @and do not go after other gods to serve them and to worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands, and I will do you no harm.'

nasb@Jeremiah:13:7" @Yet you have not listened to Me," declares the LORD, "in order that you might provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:8" @Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, 'Because you have not obeyed My words,

nasb@Jeremiah:13:9 @behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,' declares the LORD, 'and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them and make them a horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:10 @'Moreover, I will take from them the voice of joy 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.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:11 @' This whole land will be a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:12 @'Then it will be when seventy years are completed I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,' declares the LORD, 'for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it an everlasting desolation.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:13 @'I will bring upon that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:14 @'(For many nations and great kings will make slaves of them, even them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.)'"

nasb@Jeremiah:13:15 @For thus the LORD, the God of Israel, says to me, "Take this cup of the wine of wrath from My hand and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:16" @They will drink and stagger and go mad because of the sword that I will send among them."

nasb@Jeremiah:13:17 @Then I took the cup from the LORD'S hand and made all the nations to whom the LORD sent me drink it-

nasb@Jeremiah:13:18 @Jerusalem and the cities of Judah and its kings and its princes, to make them a ruin, a horror, a hissing and a curse, as it is this day;

nasb@Jeremiah:13:20 @and all the foreign people, all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the Philistines (even Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron and the remnant of Ashdod);

nasb@Jeremiah:13:21 @Edom, Moab and the sons of Ammon;

nasb@Jeremiah:13:22 @and all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon and the kings of the coastlands which are beyond the sea;

nasb@Jeremiah:13:23 @and Dedan, Tema, Buz and all who cut the corners of their hair;

nasb@Jeremiah:13:24 @and all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the foreign people who dwell in the desert;

nasb@Jeremiah:13:25 @and all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam and all the kings of Media;

nasb@Jeremiah:13:26 @and all the kings of the north, near and far, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the earth which are upon the face of the ground, and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:27" @You shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, " Drink, be drunk, vomit, fall and rise no more because of the sword which I will send among you."'

nasb@Jeremiah:13:28" @And it will be, if they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you will say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts- " You shall surely drink!

nasb@Jeremiah:13:29" @For behold, I am beginning to work calamity in this city which is called by My name, and shall you be completely free from punishment? You will not be free from punishment; for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth," declares the LORD of hosts.'

nasb@Jeremiah:13:30" @Therefore you shall prophesy against them all these words, and you shall 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 shout like those who tread the grapes, Against all the inhabitants of the earth.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:31 @'A clamor has come to the end of the earth, Because the LORD has a controversy with the nations. He is entering into judgment with all flesh; As for the wicked, He has given them to the sword,' declares the LORD."

nasb@Jeremiah:13:32 @Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Behold, evil is going forth From nation to nation, And a great storm is being stirred up From the remotest parts of the earth.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:33" @Those slain by the LORD on that day will be from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be lamented, gathered or buried; they will be like dung on the face of the ground.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:34" @Wail, you shepherds, and cry; And wallow in ashes, you masters of the flock; For the days of your slaughter and your dispersions have come, And you will fall like a choice vessel.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:35" @ Flight will perish from the shepherds, And escape from the masters of the flock.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:36" @Hear the sound of the cry of the shepherds, And the wailing of the masters of the flock! For the LORD is destroying their pasture,

nasb@Jeremiah:13:37" @And the peaceful folds are made silent Because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:38" @He has left His hiding place like the lion; For their land has become a horror Because of the fierceness of the oppressing sword And because of His fierce anger."

nasb@Jeremiah:13:26 @In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from the LORD, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:13:2" @Thus says the LORD, ' Stand in the court of the LORD'S house, and speak to all the cities of Judah who have come to worship in the LORD'S house all the words that I have commanded you to speak to them. Do not omit a word!

nasb@Jeremiah:13:3 @' Perhaps they will listen and everyone will turn from his evil way, that I may repent of the calamity which I am planning to do to them because of the evil of their deeds.'

nasb@Jeremiah:13:4" @And you will 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,

nasb@Jeremiah:13:5 @to listen to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I have been sending to you again and again, but you have not listened;

nasb@Jeremiah:13:6 @then I will make this house like Shiloh, and this city I will make a curse to all the nations of the earth."'"

nasb@Jeremiah:13:7 @The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:8 @When Jeremiah finished speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, " You must die!

nasb@Jeremiah:13:9" @Why have you prophesied in the name of the LORD saying, 'This house will be like Shiloh and this city will be desolate, without inhabitant'?" And all the people gathered about Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:10 @When the officials of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king's house to the house of the LORD and sat in the entrance of the New Gate of the LORD'S house.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:11 @Then the priests and the prophets spoke to the officials and to all the people, saying, "A death sentence for this man! For he has prophesied against this city as you have heard in your hearing."

nasb@Jeremiah:13:12 @Then Jeremiah spoke to all the officials and to all the people, saying, " The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:13" @Now therefore amend your ways and your deeds and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will change His mind about the misfortune which He has pronounced against you.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:15" @Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city and on its inhabitants; for truly the LORD has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing."

nasb@Jeremiah:13:16 @Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets, "No death sentence for this man! For he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God."

nasb@Jeremiah:13:17 @Then some of the elders of the land rose up and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:13:18" @ Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, 'Thus the LORD of hosts has said, " Zion will be plowed as a field, And Jerusalem will become ruins, And the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest."'

nasb@Jeremiah:13:19" @Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Did he not fear the LORD and entreat the favor of the LORD, and the LORD changed His mind about the misfortune which He had pronounced against them? But we are committing a great evil against ourselves."

nasb@Jeremiah:13:20 @Indeed, there was also a man who prophesied in the name of the LORD, Uriah the son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land words similar to all those of Jeremiah.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:21 @When King Jehoiakim and all his mighty men and all the officials heard his words, then the king sought to put him to death; but Uriah heard it, and he was afraid and fled and went to Egypt.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:22 @Then King Jehoiakim sent men to Egypt- Elnathan the son of Achbor and certain men with him went into Egypt.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:23 @And they brought Uriah from Egypt and led him to King Jehoiakim, who slew him with a sword and cast his dead body into the burial place of the common people.

nasb@Jeremiah:13:24 @But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that he was not given into the hands of the people to put him to death.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:1 @In the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying--

nasb@Jeremiah:14:2 @thus says the LORD to me--"Make for yourself bonds and yokes and put them on your neck,

nasb@Jeremiah:14:3 @and send word to the king of Edom, to the king of Moab, to the king of the sons of Ammon, to the king of Tyre and to the king of Sidon by the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:4" @Command them to go to their masters, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, thus you shall say to your masters,

nasb@Jeremiah:14:5" @ I have made the earth, the men and the beasts which are on the face of the earth by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and I will give it to the one who is pleasing in My sight.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:6" @Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and I have given him also the wild animals of the field to serve him.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:7" @ All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will make him their servant.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:8" @It will be, that the nation or the kingdom which will not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and which will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine and with pestilence," declares the LORD, "until I have destroyed it by his hand.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:9" @But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your soothsayers or your sorcerers who speak to you, saying, 'You will not serve the king of Babylon.'

nasb@Jeremiah:14:10" @For they prophesy a lie to you in order to remove you far from your land; and I will drive you out and you will perish.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:11" @But the nation which will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will let remain on its land," declares the LORD, "and they will till it and dwell in it."'"

nasb@Jeremiah:14:12 @I spoke words like all these to Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, "Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him and his people, and live!

nasb@Jeremiah:14:13" @Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, famine and pestilence, as the LORD has spoken to that nation which will not serve the king of Babylon?

nasb@Jeremiah:14:14" @So do not listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, 'You will not serve the king of Babylon,' for they prophesy a lie to you;

nasb@Jeremiah:14:15 @for I have not sent them," declares the LORD, "but they prophesy falsely in My name, in order that I may drive you out and that you may perish, you and the prophets who prophesy to you."

nasb@Jeremiah:14:16 @Then 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 again from Babylon'; for they are prophesying a lie to you.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:17" @Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live! Why should this city become a ruin?

nasb@Jeremiah:14:18" @But if they are prophets, and if the word of the LORD is with them, let them now entreat 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 in Jerusalem may not go to Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:19" @For thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, concerning the sea, concerning the stands and concerning the rest of the vessels that are left in this city,

nasb@Jeremiah:14:20 @which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he carried into exile Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:21" @Yes, thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of the LORD and in the house of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem,

nasb@Jeremiah:14:22 @'They will be carried to Babylon and they will be there until the day I visit them,' declares the LORD. 'Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:14:28 @Now in the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:14:2" @ Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, 'I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:3 @'Within two years I am going to bring back to this place all the vessels of the LORD'S house, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:4 @'I am also going to bring back to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the exiles of Judah who went to Babylon,' declares the LORD, 'for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:14:5 @Then the prophet Jeremiah spoke to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests and in the presence of all the people who were standing in the house of the LORD,

nasb@Jeremiah:14:6 @and the prophet Jeremiah said, " Amen! May the LORD do so; may the LORD confirm your words which you have prophesied to bring back the vessels of the LORD'S house and all the exiles, from Babylon to this place.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:7" @Yet hear now this word which I am about to speak in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people!

nasb@Jeremiah:14:8" @The prophets who were before me and before you from ancient times prophesied against many lands and against great kingdoms, of war and of calamity and of pestilence.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:9" @The prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet comes to pass, then that prophet will be known as one whom the LORD has truly sent."

nasb@Jeremiah:14:10 @Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke it.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:11 @Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, " Thus says the LORD, 'Even so will I break within two full years the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all the nations.'" Then the prophet Jeremiah went his way.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:12 @The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah after Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:14:13" @Go and speak to Hananiah, saying, 'Thus says the LORD, "You have broken the yokes of wood, but you have made instead of them yokes of iron."

nasb@Jeremiah:14:14 @'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 will serve him. And I have also given him the beasts of the field."'"

nasb@Jeremiah:14:15 @Then Jeremiah the prophet said to Hananiah the prophet, "Listen now, Hananiah, the LORD has not sent you, and you have made this people trust in a lie.

nasb@Jeremiah:14:16" @Therefore thus says the LORD, ' Behold, I am about to remove you from the face of the earth. This year you are going to die, because you have counseled rebellion against the LORD.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:14:17 @So Hananiah the prophet died in the same year in the seventh month.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:1 @Now these are the words of the letter which Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the rest of the elders of the exile, the priests, the prophets and all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:2 @(This was after King Jeconiah and the queen mother, the court officials, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen and the smiths had departed from Jerusalem.)

nasb@Jeremiah:15:3 @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,

nasb@Jeremiah:15:4" @Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon,

nasb@Jeremiah:15:5 @' Build houses and live in them; and plant gardens and eat their produce.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:6 @'Take wives and become the fathers of sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there and do not decrease.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:7 @' Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf; for in its welfare you will have welfare.'

nasb@Jeremiah:15:8" @For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Do not let your prophets who are in your midst and your diviners deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams which they dream.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:9 @'For they prophesy falsely to you in My name; I have not sent them,' declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:10" @For thus says the LORD, 'When seventy years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill My good word to you, to bring you back to this place.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:11 @'For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:12 @'Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:13 @'You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:14 @'I will be found by you,' declares the LORD, 'and I will restore your fortunes and will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you,' declares the LORD, 'and I will bring you back to the place from where I sent you into exile.'

nasb@Jeremiah:15:15" @Because you have said, 'The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon'--

nasb@Jeremiah:15:16 @for thus says the LORD concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your brothers who did not go with you into exile--

nasb@Jeremiah:15:17 @thus says the LORD of hosts, 'Behold, I am sending upon them the sword, famine and pestilence, and I will make them like split-open figs that cannot be eaten due to rottenness.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:18 @'I will pursue them with the sword, with famine and with pestilence; and I will make them a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse and a horror and a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,

nasb@Jeremiah:15:19 @because they have not listened to My words,' declares the LORD, 'which I sent to them again and again by My servants the prophets; but you did not listen,' declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:20" @You, therefore, hear the word of the LORD, all you exiles, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:21" @Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you falsely in My name, 'Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will slay them before your eyes.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:22 @'Because of them a curse will be used by all the exiles from Judah who are in Babylon, saying, "May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,

nasb@Jeremiah:15:23 @because they have acted foolishly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives and have spoken words in My name falsely, which I did not command them; and I am He who knows and am a witness," declares the LORD.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:15:24 @To Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall speak, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:15:25" @Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are in Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:15:26" @The LORD has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, to be the overseer in the house of the LORD over every madman who prophesies, to put him in the stocks and in the iron collar,

nasb@Jeremiah:15:27 @now then, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth who prophesies to you?

nasb@Jeremiah:15:28" @For he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, 'The exile will be long; build houses and live in them and plant gardens and eat their produce.'"'"

nasb@Jeremiah:15:29 @Zephaniah the priest read this letter to Jeremiah the prophet.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:30 @Then came the word of the LORD to Jeremiah, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:15:31" @Send to all the exiles, saying, 'Thus says the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite, "Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, although I did not send him, and he has made you trust in a lie,"

nasb@Jeremiah:15:32 @therefore thus says the LORD, "Behold, I am about to punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants; he will not have anyone living among this people, and he will not see the good that I am about to do to My people," declares the LORD, "because he has preached rebellion against the LORD."'"

nasb@Jeremiah:15:30 @The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:15:2" @Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ' Write all the words which I have spoken to you in a book.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:3 @'For behold, days are coming,' declares the LORD, 'when I will restore the fortunes of My people Israel and Judah.' The LORD says, 'I will also bring them back to the land that I gave to their forefathers and they shall possess it.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:15:4 @Now these are the words which the LORD spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah-

nasb@Jeremiah:15:5" @For thus says the LORD, 'I have heard a sound of terror, Of dread, and there is no peace.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:7 @'Alas! for that day is great, There is none like it; And it is the time of Jacob's distress, But he will be saved from it.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:8 @'It shall come about on that day,' declares the LORD of hosts, 'that I will break his yoke from off their neck and will tear off their bonds; and strangers will no longer make them their slaves.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:9 @'But they shall serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:10 @' Fear not, O Jacob My servant,' declares the LORD, 'And do not be dismayed, O Israel; For behold, I will save you from afar And your offspring from the land of their captivity. And Jacob will return and will be quiet and at ease, And no one will make him afraid.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:11 @'For I am with you,' declares the LORD, 'to save you; For I will destroy completely all the nations where I have scattered you, Only I will not destroy you completely. But I will chasten you justly And will by no means leave you unpunished.'

nasb@Jeremiah:15:12" @For thus says the LORD, 'Your wound is incurable And your injury is serious.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:13 @'There is no one to plead your cause; No healing for your sore, No recovery for you.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:14 @'All your lovers have forgotten you, They do not seek you; For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, With the punishment of a cruel one, Because your iniquity is great And your sins are numerous.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:15 @'Why do you cry out over your injury? Your pain is incurable. Because your iniquity is great And your sins are numerous, I have done these things to you.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:16 @'Therefore all who devour you will be devoured; And all your adversaries, every one of them, will go into captivity; And those who plunder you will be for plunder, And all who prey upon you I will give for prey.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:17 @'For I will restore you to health And I will heal you of your wounds,' declares the LORD, 'Because they have called you an outcast, saying- "It is Zion; no one cares for her."'

nasb@Jeremiah:15:18" @Thus says the LORD, 'Behold, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob And have compassion on his dwelling places; And the city will be rebuilt on its ruin, And the palace will stand on its rightful place.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:19 @'From them will proceed thanksgiving And the voice of those who celebrate; And I will multiply them and they will not be diminished; I will also honor them and they will not be insignificant.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:20 @'Their children also will be as formerly, And their congregation shall be established before Me; And I will punish all their oppressors.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:21 @'Their leader shall be one of them, And their ruler shall come forth from their midst; And I will bring him near and he shall approach Me; For who would dare to risk his life to approach Me?' declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:23 @Behold, the tempest of the LORD! Wrath has gone forth, A sweeping tempest; It will burst on the head of the wicked.

nasb@Jeremiah:15:24 @The fierce anger of the LORD will not turn back Until He has performed and until He has accomplished The intent of His heart; In the latter days you will understand this.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:1" @At that time," declares the LORD, "I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people."

nasb@Jeremiah:16:2 @Thus says the LORD, "The people who survived the sword Found grace in the wilderness-- Israel, when it went to find its rest."

nasb@Jeremiah:16:3 @The LORD appeared to him from afar, saying, "I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore I have drawn you with lovingkindness.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:4" @ Again I will build you and you will be rebuilt, O virgin of Israel! Again you will take up your tambourines, And go forth to the dances of the merrymakers.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:5" @Again you will plant vineyards On the hills of Samaria; The planters will plant And will enjoy them.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:6" @For there will be a day when watchmen On the hills of Ephraim call out, 'Arise, and let us go up to Zion, To the LORD our God.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:16:7 @For thus says the LORD, " Sing aloud 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.'

nasb@Jeremiah:16:8" @Behold, I am bringing them from the north country, And I will gather them from the remote parts of the earth, Among them the blind and the lame, The woman with child and she who is in labor with child, together; A great company, they will return here.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:9" @ With weeping they will come, And by supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk by streams of waters, On a straight path in which they will not stumble; For I am a father to Israel, And Ephraim is My firstborn."

nasb@Jeremiah:16:10 @Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, And declare in the coastlands afar off, And say, "He who scattered Israel will gather him And keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock."

nasb@Jeremiah:16:11 @For the LORD has ransomed Jacob And redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:12" @They will come and shout for joy on the height of Zion, And they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD-- Over the grain and the new wine and the oil, And over the young of the flock and the herd; And their life will be like a watered garden, And they will never languish again.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:13" @Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance, And the young men and the old, together, For I will turn their mourning into joy And will comfort them and give them joy for their sorrow.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:14" @I will fill the soul of the priests with abundance, And My people will be satisfied with My goodness," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:15 @Thus says the LORD, " A voice is heard in Ramah, Lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; She refuses to be comforted for her children, Because they are no more."

nasb@Jeremiah:16:16 @Thus says the LORD, " Restrain your voice from weeping And your eyes from tears; For your work will be rewarded," declares the LORD, "And they will return from the land of the enemy.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:17" @There is hope for your future," declares the LORD, "And your children will return to their own territory.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:18" @I have surely heard Ephraim grieving, 'You have chastised me, and I was chastised, Like an untrained calf; Bring me back that I may be restored, For You are the LORD my God.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:19 @'For after I turned back, I repented; And after I was instructed, I smote on my thigh; I was ashamed and also humiliated Because I bore the reproach of my youth.'

nasb@Jeremiah:16:20" @Is Ephraim My dear son? Is he a delightful child? Indeed, as often as I have spoken against him, I certainly still remember him; Therefore My heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:21" @Set up for yourself roadmarks, Place for yourself guideposts; Direct your mind to the highway, The way by which you went. Return, O virgin of Israel, Return to these your cities.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:22" @How long will you go here and there, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the earth-- A woman will encompass a man."

nasb@Jeremiah:16:23 @Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Once again they will speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities when I restore their fortunes, 'The LORD bless you, O abode of righteousness, O holy hill!'

nasb@Jeremiah:16:24" @Judah and all its cities will dwell together in it, the farmer and they who go about with flocks.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:25" @ For I satisfy the weary ones and refresh everyone who languishes."

nasb@Jeremiah:16:27" @Behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:28" @As I have watched over them to pluck up, to break down, to overthrow, to destroy and to bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:29" @In those days they will not say again, ' The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children's teeth are set on edge.'

nasb@Jeremiah:16:30" @But everyone will die for his own iniquity; each man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:31" @ Behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,

nasb@Jeremiah:16:32 @not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:33" @But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days," declares the LORD, " I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:34" @They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them," declares the LORD, "for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."

nasb@Jeremiah:16:35 @Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for light by day And the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar; The LORD of hosts is His name-

nasb@Jeremiah:16:36" @ If this fixed order departs From before Me," declares the LORD, "Then the offspring of Israel also will cease From being a nation before Me forever."

nasb@Jeremiah:16:37 @Thus says the LORD, " If the heavens above can be measured And the foundations of the earth searched out below, Then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel For all that they have done," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:38" @Behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when the city will be rebuilt for the LORD from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:39" @The measuring line will go out farther straight ahead to the hill Gareb; then it will turn to Goah.

nasb@Jeremiah:16:40" @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 will not be plucked up or overthrown anymore forever."

nasb@Jeremiah:17:1 @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.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:2 @Now at that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the house of the king of Judah,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:3 @because Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, "Why do you prophesy, saying, ' Thus says the LORD, "Behold, I am about to give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will take it;

nasb@Jeremiah:17:4 @and Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but he will surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye;

nasb@Jeremiah:17:5 @and he will take Zedekiah to Babylon, and he will be there until I visit him," declares the LORD. "If you fight against the Chaldeans, you will not succeed"'?"

nasb@Jeremiah:17:6 @And Jeremiah said, "The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:7 @'Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle is coming to you, saying, "Buy for yourself my field which is at Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it."'

nasb@Jeremiah:17:8" @Then Hanamel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the guard according to the word of the LORD and said to me, 'Buy my field, please, that is at Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for you have the right of possession and the redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.' Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:9" @I bought the field which was at Anathoth from Hanamel my uncle's son, and I weighed out the silver for him, seventeen shekels of silver.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:10" @I signed and sealed the deed, and called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:11" @Then I took the deeds of purchase, both the sealed copy containing the terms and conditions and the open copy;

nasb@Jeremiah:17:12 @and I gave the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of Hanamel my uncle's son and in the sight of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, before all the Jews who were sitting in the court of the guard.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:13" @And I commanded Baruch in their presence, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:14 @'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Take these deeds, this sealed deed of purchase and this open deed, and put them in an earthenware jar, that they may last a long time."

nasb@Jeremiah:17:15 @'For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, " Houses and fields and vineyards will again be bought in this land."'

nasb@Jeremiah:17:16" @After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, then I prayed to the LORD, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:17 @' Ah Lord GOD! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm! Nothing is too difficult for You,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:18 @who shows lovingkindness to thousands, but repays the iniquity of fathers into the bosom of their children after them, O great and mighty God. The LORD of hosts is His name;

nasb@Jeremiah:17:19 @great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men, giving to everyone according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds;

nasb@Jeremiah:17:20 @who has set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and even to this day both in Israel and among mankind; and You have made a name for Yourself, as at this day.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:21 @'You brought Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and with wonders, and with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with great terror;

nasb@Jeremiah:17:22 @and gave them this land, which You swore to their forefathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:23 @'They came in and took possession of it, but they did not obey Your voice or walk in Your law; they have done nothing of all that You commanded them to do; therefore You have made all this calamity come upon them.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:24 @'Behold, the siege ramps have reached the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, the famine and the pestilence; and what You have spoken has come to pass; and behold, You see it.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:25 @'You have said to me, O Lord GOD, "Buy for yourself the field with money and call in witnesses"--although the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:17:26 @Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:27" @Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh; is anything too difficult for Me?"

nasb@Jeremiah:17:28 @Therefore thus says the LORD, "Behold, I am about to give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will take it.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:29" @The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will enter and set this city on fire and burn it, with the houses where people have offered incense to Baal on their roofs and poured out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:30" @Indeed the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have been doing only evil in My sight from their youth; for the sons of Israel have been only provoking Me to anger by the work of their hands," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:31" @Indeed this city has been to Me a provocation of My anger and My wrath from the day that they built it, even to this day, so that it should be removed from before My face,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:32 @because of all the evil of the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah which they have done to provoke Me to anger--they, their kings, their leaders, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:33" @They have turned their back to Me and not their face; though I taught them, teaching again and again, they would not listen and receive instruction.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:34" @But they put their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:35" @They built the high places of Baal that are in the valley of Ben-hinnom to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech, which I had not commanded them nor had it entered My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:36" @Now therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel concerning this city of which you say, 'It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword, by famine and by pestilence.'

nasb@Jeremiah:17:37" @Behold, I will gather them out of all the lands to which I have driven them in My anger, in My wrath and in great indignation; and I will bring them back to this place and make them dwell in safety.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:38" @They shall be My people, and I will be their God;

nasb@Jeremiah:17:39 @and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me always, for their own good and for the good of their children after them.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:40" @I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; and I will put the fear of Me in their hearts so that they will not turn away from Me.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:41" @I will rejoice over them to do them good and will faithfully plant them in this land with all My heart and with all My soul.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:42" @For thus says the LORD, ' Just as I brought all this great disaster on this people, so I am going to bring on them all the good that I am promising them.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:43 @' Fields will be bought in this land of which you say, " It is a desolation, without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans."

nasb@Jeremiah:17:44 @'Men will buy fields for money, sign and seal deeds, and call in witnesses in the land of Benjamin, in the environs of Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland and in the cities of the Negev; for I will restore their fortunes,' declares the LORD."

nasb@Jeremiah:17:33 @Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still confined in the court of the guard, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:2" @Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD who formed it to establish it, the LORD is His name,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:4" @For thus says the LORD God of Israel concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah which are broken down to make a defense against the siege ramps and against the sword,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:5 @'While they are coming to fight with the Chaldeans and to fill them with the corpses of men whom I have slain in My anger and in My wrath, and I have hidden My face from this city because of all their wickedness-

nasb@Jeremiah:17:6 @'Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them; and I will reveal to them an abundance of peace and truth.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:7 @'I will restore the fortunes of Judah and the fortunes of Israel and will rebuild them as they were at first.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:8 @'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 against Me and by which they have transgressed against Me.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:9 @' It will be to Me a name of joy, praise and glory before all the nations of the earth which will hear of all the good that I do for them, and they will fear and tremble because of all the good and all the peace that I make for it.'

nasb@Jeremiah:17:10" @Thus says the LORD, 'Yet again there will be heard in this place, of which you say, "It is a waste, without man and without beast," that is, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:11 @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 say, " Give thanks to the LORD of hosts, For the LORD is good, For His lovingkindness is everlasting"; and of those who bring a thank offering into the house of the LORD. For I will restore the fortunes of the land as they were at first,' says the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:12" @Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'There will again be in this place which is waste, without man or beast, and in all its cities, a habitation of shepherds who rest their flocks.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:13 @'In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, in the cities of the Negev, in the land of Benjamin, in the environs of Jerusalem and in the cities of Judah, the flocks will again pass under the hands of the one who numbers them,' says the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:14 @'Behold, days are coming,' declares the LORD, 'when I will fulfill the good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and the house of Judah.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:15 @'In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch of David to spring forth; and He shall execute justice and righteousness on the earth.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:16 @'In those days Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will dwell in safety; and this is the name by which she will be called- the LORD is our righteousness.'

nasb@Jeremiah:17:17" @For thus says the LORD, 'David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel;

nasb@Jeremiah:17:18 @and the Levitical priests shall never lack a man before Me to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings and to prepare sacrifices continually.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:17:19 @The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:20" @Thus says the LORD, 'If you can break My covenant for the day and My covenant for the night, so that day and night will not be at their appointed time,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:21 @then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant so that he will not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levitical priests, My ministers.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:22 @'As the host of heaven cannot be counted and the sand of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the descendants of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:17:23 @And the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:24" @Have you not observed what this people have spoken, saying, 'The two families which the LORD chose, He has rejected them'? Thus they despise My people, no longer are they as a nation in their sight.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:25" @Thus says the LORD, 'If My covenant for day and night stand not, and the fixed patterns of heaven and earth I have not established,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:26 @then I would reject the descendants of Jacob and David My servant, not taking from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. But I will restore their fortunes and will have mercy on them.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:17:34 @The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army, with all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and against all its cities, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:2" @Thus says the LORD God of Israel, ' Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and say to him- "Thus says the LORD, 'Behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:3 @' You will not escape from his hand, for you will surely be captured and delivered into his hand; and you will see the king of Babylon eye to eye, and he will speak with you face to face, and you will go to Babylon.'"'

nasb@Jeremiah:17:4" @Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah! Thus says the LORD concerning you, 'You will not die by the sword.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:5 @'You will die in peace; and as spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so they will burn spices for you; and they will lament for you, "Alas, lord!"' For I have spoken the word," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:6 @Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem

nasb@Jeremiah:17:7 @when the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the remaining cities of Judah, that is, Lachish and Azekah, for they alone remained as fortified cities among the cities of Judah.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:8 @The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were in Jerusalem to proclaim release to them-

nasb@Jeremiah:17:9 @that each man should set free his male servant and each man his female servant, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman; so that no one should keep them, a Jew his brother, in bondage.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:10 @And all the officials and all the people obeyed who had entered into the covenant that each man should set free his male servant and each man his female servant, so that no one should keep them any longer in bondage; they obeyed, and set them free.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:11 @But afterward they turned around and took back the male servants and the female servants whom they had set free, and brought them into subjection for male servants and for female servants.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:12 @Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:13" @Thus says the LORD God of Israel, 'I made a covenant with your forefathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:14" @ At the end of seven years each of you shall set free his Hebrew brother who has been sold to you and has served you six years, you shall send him out free from you; but your forefathers did not obey Me or incline their ear to Me.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:15" @Although recently you had turned and done what is right in My sight, each man proclaiming release to his neighbor, and you had made a covenant before Me in the house which is called by My name.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:16" @Yet you turned and profaned My name, and each man took back his male servant and each man his female servant whom you had set free according to their desire, and you brought them into subjection to be your male servants and female servants."'

nasb@Jeremiah:17:17" @Therefore thus says the LORD, 'You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming release each man to his brother and each man to his neighbor. Behold, I am proclaiming a release to you,' declares the LORD, 'to the sword, to the pestilence and to the famine; and I will make you a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:18 @'I will give the men who have transgressed My covenant, who have not fulfilled the words of the covenant which they made before Me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between its parts--

nasb@Jeremiah:17:19 @the officials of Judah and the officials of Jerusalem, the court officers and the priests and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf--

nasb@Jeremiah:17:20 @I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life. And their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:21 @' Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials I will give into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life, and into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon which has gone away from you.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:22 @'Behold, I am going to command,' declares the LORD, 'and I will bring them back to this city; and 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.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:17:35 @The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:2" @Go to the house of the Rechabites and speak to them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink."

nasb@Jeremiah:17:3 @Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, son of Habazziniah, and his brothers and all his sons and the whole house of the Rechabites,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:4 @and I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was near the chamber of the officials, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the doorkeeper.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:5 @Then I set before the men of the house of the Rechabites pitchers full of wine and cups; and I said to them, " Drink wine!"

nasb@Jeremiah:17:6 @But they said, "We will not drink wine, for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, 'You shall not drink wine, you or your sons, forever.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:7 @'You shall not build a house, and you shall not sow seed and you shall not plant a vineyard or own one; but in tents you shall dwell all your days, that you may live many days in the land where you sojourn.'

nasb@Jeremiah:17:8" @We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, not to drink wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons or our daughters,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:10" @We have only dwelt in tents, and have obeyed and have done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:11" @But when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against the land, we said, 'Come and let us go to Jerusalem before the army of the Chaldeans and before the army of the Arameans.' So we have dwelt in Jerusalem."

nasb@Jeremiah:17:12 @Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:13" @Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Go and say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, " Will you not receive instruction by listening to My words?" declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:14" @The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, which he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are observed. So they do not drink wine to this day, for they have obeyed their father's command. But I have spoken to you again and again; yet you have not listened to Me.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:15" @Also I have sent to you all My servants the prophets, sending them again and again, saying- ' Turn now every man from his evil way and amend your deeds, and do not go after other gods to worship them. Then you will dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your forefathers; but you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:16 @'Indeed, the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have observed the command of their father which he commanded them, but this people has not listened to Me.'"'

nasb@Jeremiah:17:17" @Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Behold, I am bringing on Judah and on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the disaster that I have pronounced against them; because I spoke to them but they did not listen, and I have called them but they did not answer.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:17:18 @Then Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Because you have obeyed the command of Jonadab your father, kept all his commands and done according to all that he commanded you;

nasb@Jeremiah:17:19 @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 always."'"

nasb@Jeremiah:17:36 @In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:2" @Take a scroll and write on it all the words which I have spoken to you concerning Israel and concerning Judah, and concerning all the nations, from the day I first spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:3" @ Perhaps the house of Judah will hear all the calamity which I plan to bring on them, in order that every man will turn from his evil way; then I will forgive their iniquity and their sin."

nasb@Jeremiah:17:4 @Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote on a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD which He had spoken to him.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:5 @Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, "I am restricted; I cannot go into the house of the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:6" @So you go and read from the scroll which you have written at my dictation the words of the LORD to the people in the LORD'S house on a fast day. And also you shall read them to all the people of Judah who come from their cities.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:7" @ Perhaps their supplication will come before the LORD, and everyone will turn from his evil way, for great is the anger and the wrath that the LORD has pronounced against this people."

nasb@Jeremiah:17:8 @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.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:9 @Now in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem proclaimed a fast before the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:10 @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, to all the people.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:11 @Now when Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard all the words of the LORD from the book,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:12 @he went down to the king's house, into the scribe's chamber. And behold, all the officials were sitting there-- Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the other officials.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:13 @Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard when Baruch read from the book to the people.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:14 @Then all the officials 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 to the people and come." So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand and went to them.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:15 @They said to him, "Sit down, please, and read it to us." So Baruch read it to them.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:16 @When they had heard all the words, they turned in fear one to another and said to Baruch, "We will surely report all these words to the king."

nasb@Jeremiah:17:17 @And they asked Baruch, saying, "Tell us, please, how did you write all these words? Was it at his dictation?"

nasb@Jeremiah:17:18 @Then Baruch said to them, "He dictated all these words to me, and I wrote them with ink on the book."

nasb@Jeremiah:17:19 @Then the officials said to Baruch, "Go, hide yourself, you and Jeremiah, and do not let anyone know where you are."

nasb@Jeremiah:17:20 @So they went to the king in the court, but they had deposited the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and they reported all the words to the king.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:21 @Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it to the king as well as to all the officials who stood beside the king.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:22 @Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month, with a fire burning in the brazier before him.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:23 @When Jehudi had read three or four columns, the king cut it with a scribe's knife and threw it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:24 @Yet the king and all his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, nor did they rend their garments.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:25 @Even though Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah pleaded with the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:26 @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.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:27 @Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah after the king had burned the scroll and the words which Baruch had written at the dictation of Jeremiah, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:17:28" @ Take again another scroll and write on it all the former words that were on the first scroll which Jehoiakim the king of Judah burned.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:29" @And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, 'Thus says the LORD, "You have burned this scroll, saying, ' Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will make man and beast to cease from it?'"

nasb@Jeremiah:17:30 @'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.

nasb@Jeremiah:17:31" @I will also punish him and his descendants and his servants for their iniquity, and I will bring on them and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the men of Judah all the calamity that I have declared to them--but they did not listen."'"

nasb@Jeremiah:17:32 @Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the son of Neriah, the scribe, and he wrote on it at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and many similar words were added to them.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:1 @Now Zedekiah the son of Josiah whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had made king in the land of Judah, reigned as king in place of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:2 @But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land listened to the words of the LORD which He spoke through Jeremiah the prophet.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:3 @Yet King Zedekiah sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to Jeremiah the prophet, saying, " Please pray to the LORD our God on our behalf."

nasb@Jeremiah:18:4 @Now Jeremiah was still coming in and going out among the people, for they had not yet put him in the prison.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:5 @Meanwhile, Pharaoh's army had set out from Egypt; and when the Chaldeans who had been besieging Jerusalem heard the report about them, they lifted the siege from Jerusalem.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:6 @Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:18:7" @Thus says the LORD God of Israel, ' Thus you are to say to the king of Judah, who sent you to Me to inquire of Me- "Behold, Pharaoh's army which has come out for your assistance is going to return to its own land of Egypt.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:8" @The Chaldeans will also return and fight against this city, and they will capture it and burn it with fire."'

nasb@Jeremiah:18:9" @Thus says the LORD, 'Do not deceive yourselves, saying, "The Chaldeans will surely go away from us," for they will not go.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:10 @'For even if you had defeated the entire army of Chaldeans who were fighting against you, and there were only wounded men left among them, each man in his tent, they would rise up and burn this city with fire.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:18:11 @Now it happened when the army of the Chaldeans had lifted the siege from Jerusalem because of Pharaoh's army,

nasb@Jeremiah:18:12 @that Jeremiah went out from Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin in order to take possession of some property there among the people.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:13 @While he was at the Gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah the son of Hananiah was there; and he arrested Jeremiah the prophet, saying, "You are going over to the Chaldeans!"

nasb@Jeremiah:18:14 @But Jeremiah said, " A lie! I am not going over to the Chaldeans"; yet he would not listen to him. So Irijah arrested Jeremiah and brought him to the officials.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:15 @Then the officials were angry at Jeremiah and beat him, and they put him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, which they had made into the prison.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:16 @For Jeremiah had come into the dungeon, that is, the vaulted cell; and Jeremiah stayed there many days.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:17 @Now King Zedekiah sent and took him out; and in his palace the king secretly asked him and said, "Is there a word from the LORD?" And Jeremiah said, "There is!" Then he said, "You will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon!"

nasb@Jeremiah:18:19" @ Where then are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, 'The king of Babylon will not come against you or against this land'?

nasb@Jeremiah:18:20" @But now, please listen, O my lord the king; please let my petition come before you and do not make me return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, that I may not die there."

nasb@Jeremiah:18:21 @Then King Zedekiah gave commandment, and they committed Jeremiah to the court of the guardhouse and gave him a loaf of bread daily from the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the court of the guardhouse.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:38 @Now Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchijah heard the words that Jeremiah was speaking to all the people, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:18:2" @Thus says the LORD, 'He who stays in this city will die by the sword and by famine and by pestilence, but he who goes out to the Chaldeans will live and have his own life as booty and stay alive.'

nasb@Jeremiah:18:3" @Thus says the LORD, 'This city will certainly be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon and he will capture it.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:18:4 @Then the officials said to the king, "Now let this man be put to death, inasmuch as he is discouraging the men of war who are left in this city and all the people, by speaking such words to them; for this man is not seeking the well-being of this people but rather their harm."

nasb@Jeremiah:18:5 @So King Zedekiah said, "Behold, he is in your hands; for the king can do nothing against you."

nasb@Jeremiah:18:6 @Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchijah the king's son, which was in the court of the guardhouse; and they let Jeremiah down with ropes. Now in the cistern there was no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank into the mud.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:7 @But Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, while he was in the king's palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. Now the king was sitting in the Gate of Benjamin;

nasb@Jeremiah:18:8 @and Ebed-melech went out from the king's palace and spoke to the king, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:18:9" @My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet whom they have cast into the cistern; and he will die right where he is because of the famine, for there is no more bread in the city."

nasb@Jeremiah:18:10 @Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, "Take thirty men from here under your authority and bring up Jeremiah the prophet from the cistern before he dies."

nasb@Jeremiah:18:11 @So Ebed-melech took the men under his authority and went into the king's palace to a place beneath the storeroom and took from there worn-out clothes and worn-out rags and let them down by ropes into the cistern to Jeremiah.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:12 @Then Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, "Now put these worn-out clothes and rags under your armpits under the ropes"; and Jeremiah did so.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:13 @So they pulled Jeremiah up with the ropes and lifted him out of the cistern, and Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guardhouse.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:14 @Then King Zedekiah sent and had Jeremiah the prophet brought to him at the third entrance that is in the house of the LORD; and the king said to Jeremiah, "I am going to ask you something; do not hide anything from me."

nasb@Jeremiah:18:15 @Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, " If I tell you, will you not certainly put me to death? Besides, if I give you advice, you will not listen to me."

nasb@Jeremiah:18:16 @But King Zedekiah swore to Jeremiah in secret saying, "As the LORD lives, who made this life for us, surely I will not put you to death nor will I give you over to the hand of these men who are seeking your life."

nasb@Jeremiah:18:17 @Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "Thus says the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, 'If you will indeed go out to the officers of the king of Babylon, then you will live, this city will not be burned with fire, and you and your household will survive.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:18 @'But if you will not go out to the officers of the king of Babylon, then this city will be given over to the hand of the Chaldeans; and they will burn it with fire, and you yourself will not escape from their hand.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:18:19 @Then King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, "I dread the Jews who have gone over to the Chaldeans, for they may give me over into their hand and they will abuse me."

nasb@Jeremiah:18:20 @But Jeremiah said, "They will not give you over. Please obey the LORD in what I am saying to you, that it may go well with you and you may live.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:21" @But if you keep refusing to go out, this is the word which the LORD has shown me-

nasb@Jeremiah:18:22 @'Then behold, all of the women who have been left in the palace of the king of Judah are going to be brought out to the officers of the king of Babylon; and those women will say, "Your close friends Have misled and overpowered you; While your feet were sunk in the mire, They turned back."

nasb@Jeremiah:18:23 @'They will also bring out all your wives and your sons to the Chaldeans, and you yourself will not escape from their hand, but will be seized by the hand of the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned with fire.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:18:24 @Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, "Let no man know about these words and you will not die.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:25" @But if the officials hear that I have talked with you and come to you and say to you, 'Tell us now what you said to the king and what the king said to you; do not hide it from us and we will not put you to death,'

nasb@Jeremiah:18:26 @then you are to say to them, 'I was presenting my petition before the king, not to make me return to the house of Jonathan to die there.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:18:27 @Then all the officials came to Jeremiah and questioned him. So he reported to them in accordance with all these words which the king had commanded; and they ceased speaking with him, since the conversation had not been overheard.

nasb@Jeremiah:18:28 @So Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guardhouse until the day that Jerusalem was captured.

nasb@Jeremiah:19:1 @Now when Jerusalem was captured in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came to Jerusalem and laid siege to it;

nasb@Jeremiah:19:2 @in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the city wall was breached.

nasb@Jeremiah:19:3 @Then all the officials of the king of Babylon came in and sat down at the Middle Gate- Nergal-sar-ezer, Samgar-nebu, Sar-sekim the Rab-saris, Nergal-sar-ezer the Rab-mag, and all the rest of the officials of the king of Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:19:4 @When Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, they fled and went out of the city at night by way of the king's garden through the gate between the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah.

nasb@Jeremiah:19:5 @But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and they seized him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him.

nasb@Jeremiah:19:6 @Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes at Riblah; the king of Babylon also slew all the nobles of Judah.

nasb@Jeremiah:19:7 @He then blinded Zedekiah's eyes and bound him in fetters of bronze to bring him to Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:19:8 @The Chaldeans also burned with fire the king's palace and the houses of the people, and they broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

nasb@Jeremiah:19:9 @As for the rest of the people who were left in the city, the deserters who had gone over to him and the rest of the people who remained, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard carried them into exile in Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:19:10 @But some of the poorest people who had nothing, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard left behind in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at that time.

nasb@Jeremiah:19:11 @Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon gave orders about Jeremiah through Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:19:12" @Take him and look after him, and do nothing harmful to him, but rather deal with him just as he tells you."

nasb@Jeremiah:19:13 @So Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard sent word, along with Nebushazban the Rab-saris, and Nergal-sar-ezer the Rab-mag, and all the leading officers of the king of Babylon;

nasb@Jeremiah:19:14 @they even sent and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guardhouse and entrusted him to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to take him home. So he stayed among the people.

nasb@Jeremiah:19:15 @Now the word of the LORD had come to Jeremiah while he was confined in the court of the guardhouse, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:19:16" @Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Behold, I am about to bring My words on this city for disaster and not for prosperity; and they will take place before you on that day.

nasb@Jeremiah:19:17" @But I will deliver you on that day," declares the LORD, "and you will not be given into the hand of the men whom you dread.

nasb@Jeremiah:19:18" @For I will certainly rescue you, and you will not fall by the sword; but you will have your own life as booty, because you have trusted in Me," declares the LORD.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:20:1 @The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan captain of the bodyguard had released him from Ramah, when he had taken him bound in chains among all the exiles of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:20:2 @Now the captain of the bodyguard had taken Jeremiah and said to him, "The LORD your God promised this calamity against this place;

nasb@Jeremiah:20:3 @and the LORD has brought it on and done just as He promised. Because you people sinned against the LORD and did not listen to His voice, therefore this thing has happened to you.

nasb@Jeremiah:20:4" @But now, behold, I am freeing you today from the chains which are on your hands. If you would prefer to come with me to Babylon, come along, and I will look after you; but if you would prefer not to come with me to Babylon, never mind. Look, the whole land is before you; go wherever it seems good and right for you to go."

nasb@Jeremiah:20:5 @As Jeremiah was still not going back, he said, "Go on back then to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed over the cities of Judah, and stay with him among the people; or else go anywhere it seems right for you to go." So the captain of the bodyguard gave him a ration and a gift and let him go.

nasb@Jeremiah:20:6 @Then Jeremiah went to Mizpah to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam and stayed with him among the people who were left in the land.

nasb@Jeremiah:20:7 @Now all the commanders of the forces that were in the field, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam over the land and that he had put him in charge of the men, women and children, those of the poorest of the land who had not been exiled to Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:20:8 @So they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah, along with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, both they and their men.

nasb@Jeremiah:20:9 @Then Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, swore to them and to their men, saying, " Do not be afraid of serving the Chaldeans; stay in the land and serve the king of Babylon, that it may go well with you.

nasb@Jeremiah:20:10" @Now as for me, behold, I am going to stay at Mizpah to stand for you before the Chaldeans who come to us; but as for you, gather in wine and summer fruit and oil and put them in your storage vessels, and live in your cities that you have taken over."

nasb@Jeremiah:20:11 @Likewise, also all the Jews who were in Moab and among the sons of Ammon and in Edom and who were in all the other countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant for Judah, and that he had appointed over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan.

nasb@Jeremiah:20:12 @Then all the Jews returned from all the places to which they had been driven away and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and gathered in wine and summer fruit in great abundance.

nasb@Jeremiah:20:13 @Now Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces that were in the field came to Gedaliah at Mizpah

nasb@Jeremiah:20:14 @and said to him, "Are you well aware that Baalis the king of the sons of Ammon has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life?" But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam did not believe them.

nasb@Jeremiah:20:15 @Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke secretly to Gedaliah in Mizpah, saying, " Let me go and kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and not a man will know! Why should he take your life, so that all the Jews who are gathered to you would be scattered and the remnant of Judah would perish?"

nasb@Jeremiah:20:16 @But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, " Do not do this thing, for you are telling a lie about Ishmael."

nasb@Jeremiah:21:1 @In the seventh month Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal family and one of the chief officers of the king, along with ten men, came to Mizpah to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. While they were eating bread together there in Mizpah,

nasb@Jeremiah:21:2 @Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him arose and struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword and put to death the one whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land.

nasb@Jeremiah:21:3 @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.

nasb@Jeremiah:21:4 @Now it happened on the next day after the killing of Gedaliah, when no one knew about it,

nasb@Jeremiah:21:5 @that eighty men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria with their beards shaved off and their clothes torn and their bodies gashed, having grain offerings and incense in their hands to bring to the house of the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:21:6 @Then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he went; and as he met them, he said to them, "Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam!"

nasb@Jeremiah:21:7 @Yet it turned out that as soon as they came inside the city, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the men that were with him slaughtered them and cast them into the cistern.

nasb@Jeremiah:21:8 @But ten men who were found among them said to Ishmael, "Do not put us to death; for we have stores of wheat, barley, oil and honey hidden in the field." So he refrained and did not put them to death along with their companions.

nasb@Jeremiah:21:9 @Now as for the cistern where Ishmael had cast all the corpses of the men whom he had struck down because of Gedaliah, it was the one that King Asa had made on account of Baasha, king of Israel; Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.

nasb@Jeremiah:21:10 @Then Ishmael took captive all the remnant of the people who were in Mizpah, the king's daughters and all the people who were left in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard had put under the charge of Gedaliah the son of Ahikam; thus Ishmael the son of Nethaniah took them captive and proceeded to cross over to the sons of Ammon.

nasb@Jeremiah:21:11 @But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces that were with him heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done.

nasb@Jeremiah:21:12 @So 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.

nasb@Jeremiah:21:13 @Now as soon as all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah and the commanders of the forces that were with him, they were glad.

nasb@Jeremiah:21:14 @So all the people whom Ishmael had taken captive from Mizpah turned around and came back, and went to Johanan the son of Kareah.

nasb@Jeremiah:21:15 @But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men and went to the sons of Ammon.

nasb@Jeremiah:21:16 @Then Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces that were with him took from Mizpah all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, after he had struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, that is, the men who were soldiers, the women, the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon.

nasb@Jeremiah:21:17 @And they went and stayed in Geruth Chimham, which is beside Bethlehem, in order to proceed into Egypt

nasb@Jeremiah:21:18 @because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of them, since Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land.

nasb@Jeremiah:22:1 @Then all the commanders of the forces, Johanan the son of Kareah, Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people both small and great approached

nasb@Jeremiah:22:2 @and said to Jeremiah the prophet, "Please let our petition come before you, and pray for us to the LORD your God, that is for all this remnant; because we are left but a few out of many, as your own eyes now see us,

nasb@Jeremiah:22:3 @that the LORD your God may tell us the way in which we should walk and the thing that we should do."

nasb@Jeremiah:22:4 @Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, "I have heard you. Behold, I am going to pray to the LORD your God in accordance with your words; and I will tell you the whole message which the LORD will answer you. I will not keep back a word from you."

nasb@Jeremiah:22:5 @Then they said to Jeremiah, "May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act in accordance with the whole message with which the LORD your God will send you to us.

nasb@Jeremiah:22:6" @Whether it is pleasant or unpleasant, we will listen to the voice of the LORD our God to whom we are sending you, so that it may go well with us when we listen to the voice of the LORD our God."

nasb@Jeremiah:22:7 @Now at the end of ten days the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah.

nasb@Jeremiah:22:8 @Then he called for Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces that were with him, and for all the people both small and great,

nasb@Jeremiah:22:9 @and said to them, "Thus says the LORD the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your petition before Him-

nasb@Jeremiah:22:10 @'If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will build you up and not tear you down, and I will plant you and not uproot you; for I will relent concerning the calamity that I have inflicted on you.

nasb@Jeremiah:22:11 @' Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you are now fearing; do not be afraid of him,' declares the LORD, 'for I am with you to save you and deliver you from his hand.

nasb@Jeremiah:22:12 @'I will also show you compassion, so that he will have compassion on you and restore you to your own soil.

nasb@Jeremiah:22:13 @'But if you are going to say, "We will not stay in this land," so as not to listen to the voice of the LORD your God,

nasb@Jeremiah:22:14 @saying, "No, but we will go to the land of Egypt, where we will not see war or hear the sound of a trumpet or hunger for bread, and we will stay there";

nasb@Jeremiah:22:15 @then in that case listen to the word of the LORD, O remnant of Judah. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "If you really set your mind to enter Egypt and go in to reside there,

nasb@Jeremiah:22:16 @then the sword, which you are afraid of, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are anxious, will follow closely after you there in Egypt, and you will die there.

nasb@Jeremiah:22:17" @So all the men who set their mind to go to Egypt to reside there will die by the sword, by famine and by pestilence; and they will have no survivors or refugees from the calamity that I am going to bring on them."'"

nasb@Jeremiah:22:18 @For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "As My anger and wrath have been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so My wrath will be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. And you will become a curse, an object of horror, an imprecation and a reproach; and you will see this place no more."

nasb@Jeremiah:22:19 @The LORD has spoken to you, O remnant of Judah, "Do not go into Egypt!" You should clearly understand that today I have testified against you.

nasb@Jeremiah:22:20 @For you have only deceived yourselves; for it is you who sent me to the LORD your God, saying, "Pray for us to the LORD our God; and whatever the LORD our God says, tell us so, and we will do it."

nasb@Jeremiah:22:21 @So I have told you today, but you have not obeyed the LORD your God, even in whatever He has sent me to tell you.

nasb@Jeremiah:22:22 @Therefore you should now clearly understand that you will die by the sword, by famine and by pestilence, in the place where you wish to go to reside.

nasb@Jeremiah:23:1 @But as soon as Jeremiah, whom the LORD their God had sent, had finished telling all the people all the words of the LORD their God--that is, all these words--

nasb@Jeremiah:23:2 @Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, "You are telling a lie! The LORD our God has not sent you to say, 'You are not to enter Egypt to reside there';

nasb@Jeremiah:23:3 @but Baruch the son of Neriah is inciting you against us to give us over into the hand of the Chaldeans, so they will put us to death or exile us to Babylon."

nasb@Jeremiah:23:4 @So Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces, and all the people, did not obey the voice of the LORD to stay in the land of Judah.

nasb@Jeremiah:23:5 @But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces took the entire remnant of Judah who had returned from all the nations to which they had been driven away, in order to reside in the land of Judah--

nasb@Jeremiah:23:6 @the men, the women, the children, the king's daughters and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan, together with Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch the son of Neriah--

nasb@Jeremiah:23:7 @and they entered the land of Egypt (for they did not obey the voice of the LORD) and went in as far as Tahpanhes.

nasb@Jeremiah:23:8 @Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:23:9" @Take some large stones in your hands and hide them in the mortar in the brick terrace which is at the entrance of Pharaoh's palace in Tahpanhes, in the sight of some of the Jews;

nasb@Jeremiah:23:10 @and say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Behold, I am going to send and get Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and I am going to set his throne right over these stones that I have hidden; and he will spread his canopy over them.

nasb@Jeremiah:23:11" @He will also come and strike the land of Egypt; those who are meant for death will be given over to death, and those for captivity to captivity, and those for the sword to the sword.

nasb@Jeremiah:23:12" @And I shall set fire to the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he will burn them and take them captive. So he will wrap himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself with his garment, and he will depart from there safely.

nasb@Jeremiah:23:13" @He will also shatter the obelisks of Heliopolis, which is in the land of Egypt; and the temples of the gods of Egypt he will burn with fire."'"

nasb@Jeremiah:23:44 @The word that came to Jeremiah for all the Jews living in the land of Egypt, those who were living in Migdol, Tahpanhes, Memphis, and the land of Pathros, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:23:2" @Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, 'You yourselves have seen all the calamity that I have brought on Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah; and behold, this day they are in ruins and no one lives in them,

nasb@Jeremiah:23:3 @because of their wickedness which they committed so as to provoke Me to anger by continuing to burn sacrifices and to serve other gods whom they had not known, neither they, you, nor your fathers.

nasb@Jeremiah:23:4 @'Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets, again and again, saying, "Oh, do not do this abominable thing which I hate."

nasb@Jeremiah:23:5 @'But they did not listen or incline their ears to turn from their wickedness, so as not to burn sacrifices to other gods.

nasb@Jeremiah:23:6 @'Therefore My wrath and My anger were poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, so they have become a ruin and a desolation as it is this day.

nasb@Jeremiah:23:7 @'Now then thus says the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, "Why are you doing great harm to yourselves, so as to cut off from you man and woman, child and infant, from among Judah, leaving yourselves without remnant,

nasb@Jeremiah:23:8 @provoking Me to anger with the works of your hands, burning sacrifices to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you are entering to reside, so that you might be cut off and become a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

nasb@Jeremiah:23:9" @Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and 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?

nasb@Jeremiah:23:10" @But they have not become contrite even to this day, nor have they feared nor walked in My law or My statutes, which I have set before you and before your fathers."'

nasb@Jeremiah:23:11" @Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Behold, I am going to set My face against you for woe, even to cut off all Judah.

nasb@Jeremiah:23:12 @'And I will take away the remnant of Judah who have set their mind on entering the land of Egypt to reside there, and they will all meet their end in the land of Egypt; they will fall by the sword and meet their end by famine. Both small and great will die by the sword and famine; and they will become a curse, an object of horror, an imprecation and a reproach.

nasb@Jeremiah:23:13 @'And I will punish those who live in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, with the sword, with famine and with pestilence.

nasb@Jeremiah:23:14 @'So there will be no refugees or survivors for the remnant of Judah who have entered the land of Egypt to reside there and then to return to the land of Judah, to which they are longing to return and live; for none will return except a few refugees.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:23:15 @Then all the men who were aware that their wives were burning sacrifices to other gods, along with all the women who were standing by, as a large assembly, including all the people who were living in Pathros in the land of Egypt, responded to Jeremiah, saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:23:16" @As for the message that you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we are not going to listen to you!

nasb@Jeremiah:23:17" @But rather we will certainly carry out every word that has proceeded from our mouths, by burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, just as we ourselves, our forefathers, our kings and our princes did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had plenty of food and were well off and saw no misfortune.

nasb@Jeremiah:23:18" @But since we stopped burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have met our end by the sword and by famine."

nasb@Jeremiah:23:19" @And," said the women, "when we were burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and were pouring out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands that we made for her sacrificial cakes in her image and poured out drink offerings to her?"

nasb@Jeremiah:23:20 @Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men and women--even to all the people who were giving him such an answer--saying,

nasb@Jeremiah:23:21" @As for the smoking sacrifices that you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your forefathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them and did not all this come into His mind?

nasb@Jeremiah:23:22" @So the LORD was no longer able to endure it, because of the evil of your deeds, because of the abominations which you have committed; thus your land has become a ruin, an object of horror and a curse, without an inhabitant, as it is this day.

nasb@Jeremiah:23:23" @Because you have burned sacrifices and have sinned against the LORD and not obeyed the voice of the LORD or walked in His law, His statutes or His testimonies, therefore this calamity has befallen you, as it has this day."

nasb@Jeremiah:23:24 @Then Jeremiah said to all the people, including all the women, " Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt,

nasb@Jeremiah:23:25 @thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, as follows- 'As for you and your wives, you have spoken with your mouths and fulfilled it with your hands, saying, "We will certainly perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her." Go ahead and confirm your vows, and certainly perform your vows!'

nasb@Jeremiah:23:26" @Nevertheless hear the word of the LORD, all Judah who are living in the land of Egypt, 'Behold, I have sworn by My great name,' says the LORD, ' never shall My name be invoked again by the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, " As the Lord GOD lives."

nasb@Jeremiah:23:27 @'Behold, I am watching over them for harm and not for good, and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will meet their end by the sword and by famine until they are completely gone.

nasb@Jeremiah:23:28 @' Those who escape the sword will return out of the land of Egypt to the land of Judah few in number. Then all the remnant of Judah who have gone to the land of Egypt to reside there will know whose word will stand, Mine or theirs.

nasb@Jeremiah:23:29 @'This will be the sign to you,' declares the LORD, 'that I am going to punish you in this place, so that you may know that My words will surely stand against you for harm.'

nasb@Jeremiah:23:30" @Thus says the LORD, 'Behold, I am going to give over Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt to the hand of his enemies, to the hand of those who seek his life, just as I gave over Zedekiah king of Judah to the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy and was seeking his life.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:23:45 @This is the message which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written down these words in a book at Jeremiah's dictation, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying-

nasb@Jeremiah:23:2" @Thus says the LORD the God of Israel to you, O Baruch-

nasb@Jeremiah:23:3 @'You said, "Ah, woe is me! For the LORD has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning and have found no rest."'

nasb@Jeremiah:23:4" @Thus you are to say to him, 'Thus says the LORD, "Behold, what I have built I am about to tear down, and what I have planted I am about to uproot, that is, the whole land."

nasb@Jeremiah:23:5 @'But you, are you seeking great things for yourself? Do not seek them; for behold, I am going to bring disaster on all flesh,' declares the LORD, 'but I will give your life to you as booty in all the places where you may go.'"

nasb@Jeremiah:24:1 @That which came as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.

nasb@Jeremiah:24:2 @To Egypt, concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was by the Euphrates River at Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah-

nasb@Jeremiah:24:3" @ Line up the shield and buckler, And draw near for the battle!

nasb@Jeremiah:24:4" @Harness the horses, And mount the steeds, And take your stand with helmets on! Polish the spears, Put on the scale-armor!

nasb@Jeremiah:24:5" @Why have I seen it? They are terrified, They are drawing back, And their mighty men are defeated And have taken refuge in flight, Without facing back; Terror is on every side!" Declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:24:6 @Let not the swift man flee, Nor the mighty man escape; In the north beside the river Euphrates They have stumbled and fallen.

nasb@Jeremiah:24:7 @Who is this that rises like the Nile, Like the rivers whose waters surge about?

nasb@Jeremiah:24:8 @Egypt rises like the Nile, Even like the rivers whose waters surge about; And He has said, "I will rise and cover that land; I will surely destroy the city and its inhabitants."

nasb@Jeremiah:24:9 @Go up, you horses, and drive madly, you chariots, That the mighty men may march forward- Ethiopia and Put, that handle the shield, And the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.

nasb@Jeremiah:24:10 @For that day belongs to the Lord GOD of hosts, A day of vengeance, so as to avenge Himself on His foes; And the sword will devour and be satiated And drink its fill of their blood; For there will be a slaughter for the Lord GOD of hosts, In the land of the north by the river Euphrates.

nasb@Jeremiah:24:11 @Go up to Gilead and obtain balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain have you multiplied remedies; There is no healing for you.

nasb@Jeremiah:24:12 @The nations have heard of your shame, And the earth is full of your cry of distress; For one warrior has stumbled over another, And both of them have fallen down together.

nasb@Jeremiah:24:13 @This is the message which the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to smite the land of Egypt-

nasb@Jeremiah:24:14" @Declare in Egypt and proclaim in Migdol, Proclaim also in Memphis and Tahpanhes; Say, 'Take your stand and get yourself ready, For the sword has devoured those around you.'

nasb@Jeremiah:24:15" @Why have your mighty ones become prostrate? They do not stand because the LORD has thrust them down.

nasb@Jeremiah:24:16" @They have repeatedly stumbled; Indeed, they have fallen one against another. Then they said, 'Get up! And let us go back To our own people and our native land Away from the sword of the oppressor.'

nasb@Jeremiah:24:17" @They cried there, 'Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a big noise; He has let the appointed time pass by!'

nasb@Jeremiah:24:18" @As I live," declares the King Whose name is the LORD of hosts, "Surely one shall come who looms up like Tabor among the mountains, Or like Carmel by the sea.

nasb@Jeremiah:24:20" @Egypt is a pretty heifer, But a horsefly is coming from the north--it is coming!

nasb@Jeremiah:24:21" @Also her mercenaries in her midst Are like fattened calves, For even they too have turned back and have fled away together; They did not stand their ground. For the day of their calamity has come upon them, The time of their punishment.

nasb@Jeremiah:24:22" @Its sound moves along like a serpent; For they move on like an army And come to her as woodcutters with axes.

nasb@Jeremiah:24:23" @They have cut down her forest," declares the LORD; "Surely it will no more be found, Even though they are now more numerous than locusts And are without number.

nasb@Jeremiah:24:24" @The daughter of Egypt has been put to shame, Given over to the power of the people of the north."

nasb@Jeremiah:24:25 @The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, says, "Behold, I am going to punish Amon of Thebes, and Pharaoh, and Egypt along with her gods and her kings, even Pharaoh and those who trust in him.

nasb@Jeremiah:24:26" @I shall give them over to the power of those who are seeking their lives, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of his officers. Afterwards, however, it will be inhabited as in the days of old," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:24:27" @But as for you, O Jacob My servant, do not fear, Nor be dismayed, O Israel! For, see, I am going to save you from afar, And your descendants from the land of their captivity; And Jacob will return and be undisturbed And secure, with no one making him tremble.

nasb@Jeremiah:24:28" @O Jacob My servant, do not fear," declares the LORD, "For I am with you. For I will make a full end of all the nations Where I have driven you, Yet I will not make a full end of you; But I will correct you properly And by no means leave you unpunished."

nasb@Jeremiah:25:1 @That which came as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh conquered Gaza.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:2 @Thus says the LORD- "Behold, waters are going to rise from the north And become an overflowing torrent, And overflow the land and all its fullness, The city and those who live in it; And the men will cry out, And every inhabitant of the land will wail.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:3" @Because of the noise of the galloping hoofs of his stallions, The tumult of his chariots, and the rumbling of his wheels, The fathers have not turned back for their children, Because of the limpness of their hands,

nasb@Jeremiah:25:4 @On account of the day that is coming To destroy all the Philistines, To cut off from Tyre and Sidon Every ally that is left; For the LORD is going to destroy the Philistines, The remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:5" @ Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon has been ruined. O remnant of their valley, How long will you gash yourself?

nasb@Jeremiah:25:6" @Ah, sword of the LORD, How long will you not be quiet? Withdraw into your sheath; Be at rest and stay still.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:7" @How can it be quiet, When the LORD has given it an orderNULL Against Ashkelon and against the seacoast-- There He has assigned it."

nasb@Jeremiah:25:48 @Concerning Moab. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Woe to Nebo, for it has been destroyed; Kiriathaim has been put to shame, it has been captured; The lofty stronghold has been put to shame and shattered.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:2" @There is praise for Moab no longer; In Heshbon they have devised calamity against her- 'Come and let us cut her off from being a nation!' You too, Madmen, will be silenced; The sword will follow after you.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:3" @The sound of an outcry from Horonaim, 'Devastation and great destruction!'

nasb@Jeremiah:25:4" @Moab is broken, Her little ones have sounded out a cry of distress.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:5" @For by the ascent of Luhith They will ascend with continual weeping; For at the descent of Horonaim They have heard the anguished cry of destruction.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:6" @ Flee, save your lives, That you may be like a juniper in the wilderness.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:7" @For because of your trust in your own achievements and treasures, Even you yourself will be captured; And Chemosh will go off into exile Together with his priests and his princes.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:8" @A destroyer will come to every city, So that no city will escape; The valley also will be ruined And the plateau will be destroyed, As the LORD has said.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:9" @Give wings to Moab, For she will flee away; And her cities will become a desolation, Without inhabitants in them.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:10" @ Cursed be the one who does the LORD'S work negligently, And cursed be the one who restrains his sword from blood.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:11" @Moab has been at ease since his youth; He has also been undisturbed, like wine on its dregs, And he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, Nor has he gone into exile. Therefore he retains his flavor, And his aroma has not changed.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:12" @Therefore behold, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will send to him those who tip vessels, and they will tip him over, and they will empty his vessels and shatter his jars.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:13" @And Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:15" @Moab has been destroyed and men have gone up to his cities; His choicest young men have also gone down to the slaughter," Declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:16" @The disaster of Moab will soon come, And his calamity has swiftly hastened.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:17" @Mourn for him, all you who live around him, Even all of you who know his name; Say, 'How has the mighty scepter been broken, A staff of splendor!'

nasb@Jeremiah:25:18" @ Come down from your glory And sit on the parched ground, O daughter dwelling in Dibon, For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you, He has ruined your strongholds.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:19" @Stand by the road and keep watch, O inhabitant of Aroer; Ask him who flees and her who escapes And say, 'What has happened?'

nasb@Jeremiah:25:20" @Moab has been put to shame, for it has been shattered. Wail and cry out; Declare by the Arnon That Moab has been destroyed.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:21" @Judgment has also come upon the plain, upon Holon, Jahzah and against Mephaath,

nasb@Jeremiah:25:24 @against Kerioth, Bozrah and all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:25" @The horn of Moab has been cut off and his arm broken," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:26" @ Make him drunk, for he has become arrogant toward the LORD; so Moab will wallow in his vomit, and he also will become a laughingstock.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:27" @Now was not Israel a laughingstock to you? Or was he caught among thieves? For each time you speak about him you shake your head in scorn.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:28" @Leave the cities and dwell among the crags, O inhabitants of Moab, And be like a dove that nests Beyond the mouth of the chasm.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:29" @ We have heard of the pride of Moab--he is very proud-- Of his haughtiness, his pride, his arrogance and his self-exaltation.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:30" @I know his fury," declares the LORD, "But it is futile; His idle boasts have accomplished nothing.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:31" @Therefore I will wail for Moab, Even for all Moab will I cry out; I will moan for the men of Kir-heres.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:32" @More than the weeping for Jazer I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah! Your tendrils stretched across the sea, They reached to the sea of Jazer; Upon your summer fruits and your grape harvest The destroyer has fallen.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:33" @So gladness and joy are taken away From the fruitful field, even from the land of Moab. And I have made the wine to cease from the wine presses; No one will tread them with shouting, The shouting will not be shouts of joy.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:34" @ From the outcry at Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz they have raised their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim and to Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim will become desolate.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:35" @I will make an end of Moab," declares the LORD, "the one who offers sacrifice on the high place and the one who burns incense to his gods.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:36" @Therefore My heart wails for Moab like flutes; My heart also wails like flutes for the men of Kir-heres. Therefore they have lost the abundance it produced.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:37" @For every head is bald and every beard cut short; there are gashes on all the hands and sackcloth on the loins.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:38" @On all the housetops of Moab and in its streets there is lamentation everywhere; for I have broken Moab like an undesirable vessel," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:39" @How shattered it is! How they have wailed! How Moab has turned his back--he is ashamed! So Moab will become a laughingstock and an object of terror to all around him."

nasb@Jeremiah:25:40 @For thus says the LORD- "Behold, one will fly swiftly like an eagle And spread out his wings against Moab.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:41" @Kerioth has been captured And the strongholds have been seized, So the hearts of the mighty men of Moab in that day Will be like the heart of a woman in labor.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:42" @Moab will be destroyed from being a people Because he has become arrogant toward the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:43" @ Terror, pit and snare are coming upon you, O inhabitant of Moab," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:44" @The one who flees from the terror Will fall into the pit, And the one who climbs up out of the pit Will be caught in the snare; For I shall bring upon her, even upon Moab, The year of their punishment," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:45" @In the shadow of Heshbon The fugitives stand without strength; For a fire has gone forth from Heshbon And a flame from the midst of Sihon, And it has devoured the forehead of Moab And the scalps of the riotous revelers.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:46" @ Woe to you, Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished; For your sons have been taken away captive And your daughters into captivity.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:47" @Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab In the latter days," declares the LORD. Thus far the judgment on Moab.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:49 @Concerning the sons of Ammon. Thus says the LORD- "Does Israel have no sons? Or has he no heirs? Why then has Malcam taken possession of Gad And his people settled in its cities?

nasb@Jeremiah:25:2" @Therefore behold, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "That I will cause a trumpet blast of war to be heard Against Rabbah of the sons of Ammon; And it will become a desolate heap, And her towns will be set on fire. Then Israel will take possession of his possessors," Says the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:3" @Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed! Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah, Gird yourselves with sackcloth and lament, And rush back and forth inside the walls; For Malcam will go into exile Together with his priests and his princes.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:4" @How boastful you are about the valleys! Your valley is flowing away, O backsliding daughter Who trusts in her treasures, saying, ' Who will come against me?'

nasb@Jeremiah:25:5" @Behold, I am going to bring terror upon you," Declares the Lord GOD of hosts, "From all directions around you; And each of you will be driven out headlong, With no one to gather the fugitives together.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:6" @But afterward I will restore The fortunes of the sons of Ammon," Declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:7 @Concerning Edom. Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Is there no longer any wisdom in Teman? Has good counsel been lost to the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?

nasb@Jeremiah:25:8" @Flee away, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan, For I will bring the disaster of Esau upon him At the time I punish him.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:9" @ If grape gatherers came to you, Would they not leave gleanings? If thieves came by night, They would destroy only until they had enough.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:10" @But I have stripped Esau bare, I have uncovered his hiding places So that he will not be able to conceal himself; His offspring has been destroyed along with his relatives And his neighbors, and he is no more.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:11" @Leave your orphans behind, I will keep them alive; And let your widows trust in Me."

nasb@Jeremiah:25:12 @For thus says the LORD, "Behold, those who were not sentenced to drink the cup will certainly drink it, and are you the one who will be completely acquitted? You will not be acquitted, but you will certainly drink it.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:13" @For I have sworn by Myself," declares the LORD, "that Bozrah will become an object of horror, a reproach, a ruin and a curse; and all its cities will become perpetual ruins."

nasb@Jeremiah:25:14 @I have heard a message from the LORD, And an envoy is sent among the nations, saying, " Gather yourselves together and come against her, And rise up for battle!"

nasb@Jeremiah:25:15" @For behold, I have made you small among the nations, Despised among men.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:16" @As for the terror of you, The arrogance of your heart has deceived you, O you who live in the clefts of the rock, Who occupy the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as an eagle's, I will bring you down from there," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:18" @Like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah with its neighbors," says the LORD, " no one will live there, nor will a son of man reside in it.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:19" @ Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan against a perennially watered pasture; for in an instant I will make him run away from it, and whoever is chosen I shall appoint over it. For who is like Me, and who will summon Me into court? And who then is the shepherd who can stand against Me?"

nasb@Jeremiah:25:20 @Therefore hear the plan of the LORD which He has planned against Edom, and His purposes which He has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman- surely they will drag them off, even the little ones of the flock; surely He will make their pasture desolate because of them.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:21 @The earth has quaked at the noise of their downfall. There is an outcry! The noise of it has been heard at the Red Sea.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:22 @Behold, He will mount up and swoop like an eagle and spread out His wings against Bozrah; and the hearts of the mighty men of Edom in that day will be like the heart of a woman in labor.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:23 @Concerning Damascus. " Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, For they have heard bad news; They are disheartened. There is anxiety by the sea, It cannot be calmed.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:24" @Damascus has become helpless; She has turned away to flee, And panic has gripped her; Distress and pangs have taken hold of her Like a woman in childbirth.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:25" @How the city of praise has not been deserted, The town of My joy!

nasb@Jeremiah:25:26" @Therefore, her young men will fall in her streets, And all the men of war will be silenced in that day," declares the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:27" @I will set fire to the wall of Damascus, And it will devour the fortified towers of Ben-hadad."

nasb@Jeremiah:25:28 @Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated. Thus says the LORD, "Arise, go up to Kedar And devastate the men of the east.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:29" @They will take away their tents and their flocks; They will carry off for themselves Their tent curtains, all their goods and their camels, And they will call out to one another, ' Terror on every side!'

nasb@Jeremiah:25:30" @Run away, flee! Dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Hazor," declares the LORD; "For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has formed a plan against you And devised a scheme against you.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:31" @Arise, go up against a nation which is at ease, Which lives securely," declares the LORD. "It has no gates or bars; They dwell alone.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:32" @Their camels will become plunder, And their many cattle for booty, And I will scatter to all the winds those who cut the corners of their hair; And I will bring their disaster from every side," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:33" @Hazor will become a haunt of jackals, A desolation forever; No one will live there, Nor will a son of man reside in it."

nasb@Jeremiah:25:34 @That which came as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying-

nasb@Jeremiah:25:35" @Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'Behold, I am going to break the bow of Elam, The finest of their might.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:36 @'I will bring upon Elam the four winds From the four ends of heaven, And will scatter them to all these winds; And there will be no nation To which the outcasts of Elam will not go.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:37 @'So I will shatter Elam before their enemies And before those who seek their lives; And I will bring calamity upon them, Even My fierce anger,' declares the LORD, 'And I will send out the sword after them Until I have consumed them.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:38 @'Then I will set My throne in Elam And destroy out of it king and princes,' Declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:39 @'But it will come about in the last days That I will restore the fortunes of Elam,'" Declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:50 @The word which the LORD spoke concerning Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, through Jeremiah the prophet-

nasb@Jeremiah:25:2" @ Declare and proclaim among the nations. Proclaim it and lift up a standard. Do not conceal it but say, ' Babylon has been captured, Bel has been put to shame, Marduk has been shattered; Her images have been put to shame, her idols have been shattered.'

nasb@Jeremiah:25:3" @For a nation has come up against her out of the north; it will make her land an object of horror, and there will be no inhabitant in it. Both man and beast have wandered off, they have gone away!

nasb@Jeremiah:25:4" @In those days and at that time," declares the LORD, "the sons of Israel will come, both they and the sons of Judah as well; they will go along weeping as they go, and it will be the LORD their God they will seek.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:5" @They will ask for the way to Zion, turning their faces in its direction; they will come that they may join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:6" @My people have become lost sheep; Their shepherds have led them astray. They have made them turn aside on the mountains; They have gone along from mountain to hill And have forgotten their resting place.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:7" @All who came upon them have devoured them; And their adversaries have said, ' We are not guilty, Inasmuch as they have sinned against the LORD who is the habitation of righteousness, Even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.'

nasb@Jeremiah:25:8" @Wander away from the midst of Babylon And go forth from the land of the Chaldeans; Be also like male goats at the head of the flock.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:9" @For behold, I am going to arouse and bring up against Babylon A horde of great nations from the land of the north, And they will draw up their battle lines against her; From there she will be taken captive. Their arrows will be like an expert warrior Who does not return empty-handed.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:10" @ Chaldea will become plunder; All who plunder her will have enough," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:11" @Because you are glad, because you are jubilant, O you who pillage My heritage, Because you skip about like a threshing heifer And neigh like stallions,

nasb@Jeremiah:25:12 @Your mother will be greatly ashamed, She who gave you birth will be humiliated. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, A wilderness, a parched land and a desert.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:13" @Because of the indignation of the LORD she will not be inhabited, But she will be completely desolate; Everyone who passes by Babylon will be horrified And will hiss because of all her wounds.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:14" @Draw up your battle lines against Babylon on every side, All you who bend the bow; Shoot at her, do not be sparing with your arrows, For she has sinned against the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:15" @Raise your battle cry against her on every side! She has given herself up, her pillars have fallen, Her walls have been torn down. For this is the vengeance of the LORD- Take vengeance on her; As she has done to others, so do to her.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:16" @Cut off the sower from Babylon And the one who wields the sickle at the time of harvest; From before the sword of the oppressor They will each turn back to his own people And they will each flee to his own land.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:17" @Israel is a scattered flock, the lions have driven them away. The first one who devoured him was the king of Assyria, and this last one who has broken his bones is Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:18" @Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel- 'Behold, I am going to punish the king of Babylon and his land, just as I punished the king of Assyria.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:19 @'And I will bring Israel back to his pasture and he will graze on Carmel and Bashan, and his desire will be satisfied in the hill country of Ephraim and Gilead.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:20 @'In those days and at that time,' declares the LORD, 'search will be made for the iniquity of Israel, but there will be none; and for the sins of Judah, but they will not be found; for I will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant.'

nasb@Jeremiah:25:21" @Against the land of Merathaim, go up against it, And against the inhabitants of Pekod. Slay and utterly destroy them," declares the LORD, "And do according to all that I have commanded you.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:22" @The noise of battle is in the land, And great destruction.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:23" @How the hammer of the whole earth Has been cut off and broken! How Babylon has become An object of horror among the nations!

nasb@Jeremiah:25:24" @I set a snare for you and you were also caught, O Babylon, While you yourself were not aware; You have been found and also seized Because you have engaged in conflict with the LORD."

nasb@Jeremiah:25:25 @The LORD has opened His armory And has brought forth the weapons of His indignation, For it is a work of the Lord GOD of hosts In the land of the Chaldeans.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:26 @Come to her from the farthest border; Open up her barns, Pile her up like heaps And utterly destroy her, Let nothing be left to her.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:27 @Put all her young bulls to the sword; Let them go down to the slaughter! Woe be upon them, for their day has come, The time of their punishment.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:28 @There is a sound of fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon, To declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, Vengeance for His temple.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:29" @Summon many against Babylon, All those who bend the bow- Encamp against her on every side, Let there be no escape. Repay her according to her work; According to all that she has done, so do to her; For she has become arrogant against the LORD, Against the Holy One of Israel.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:30" @Therefore her young men will fall in her streets, And all her men of war will be silenced in that day," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:31" @Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Declares the Lord GOD of hosts, "For your day has come, The time when I will punish you.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:32" @The arrogant one will stumble and fall With no one to raise him up; And I will set fire to his cities And it will devour all his environs."

nasb@Jeremiah:25:33 @Thus says the LORD of hosts, "The sons of Israel are oppressed, And the sons of Judah as well; And all who took them captive have held them fast, They have refused to let them go.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:34" @Their Redeemer is strong, the LORD of hosts is His name; He will vigorously plead their case So that He may bring rest to the earth, But turmoil to the inhabitants of Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:35" @A sword against the Chaldeans," declares the LORD, "And against the inhabitants of Babylon And against her officials and her wise men!

nasb@Jeremiah:25:36" @A sword against the oracle priests, and they will become fools! A sword against her mighty men, and they will be shattered!

nasb@Jeremiah:25:37" @A sword against their horses and against their chariots And against all the foreigners who are in the midst of her, And they will become women! A sword against her treasures, and they will be plundered!

nasb@Jeremiah:25:38" @A drought on her waters, and they will be dried up! For it is a land of idols, And they are mad over fearsome idols.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:39" @Therefore the desert creatures will live there along with the jackals; The ostriches also will live in it, And it will never again be inhabited Or dwelt in from generation to generation.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:40" @As when God overthrew Sodom And Gomorrah with its neighbors," declares the LORD, "No man will live there, Nor will any son of man reside in it.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:41" @Behold, a people is coming from the north, And a great nation and many kings Will be aroused from the remote parts of the earth.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:42" @They seize their bow and javelin; They are cruel and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea; And they ride on horses, Marshalled like a man for the battle Against you, O daughter of Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:43" @The king of Babylon has heard the report about them, And his hands hang limp; Distress has gripped him, Agony like a woman in childbirth.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:44" @ Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thicket of the Jordan to a perennially watered pasture; for in an instant I will make them run away from it, and whoever is chosen I will appoint over it. For who is like Me, and who will summon Me into court? And who then is the shepherd who can stand before Me?"

nasb@Jeremiah:25:45 @Therefore hear the plan of the LORD which He has planned against Babylon, and His purposes which He has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans- surely they will drag them off, even the little ones of the flock; surely He will make their pasture desolate because of them.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:46 @At the shout, "Babylon has been seized!" the earth is shaken, and an outcry is heard among the nations.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:51 @Thus says the LORD- "Behold, I am going to arouse against Babylon And against the inhabitants of Leb-kamai The spirit of a destroyer.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:2" @I will dispatch foreigners to Babylon that they may winnow her And may devastate her land; For on every side they will be opposed to her In the day of her calamity.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:3" @Let not him who bends his bow bend it, Nor let him rise up in his scale-armor; So do not spare her young men; Devote all her army to destruction.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:4" @They will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, And pierced through in their streets."

nasb@Jeremiah:25:5 @For neither Israel nor Judah has been forsaken By his God, the LORD of hosts, Although their land is full of guilt Before the Holy One of Israel.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:6 @Flee from the midst of Babylon, And each of you save his life! Do not be destroyed in her punishment, For this is the LORD'S time of vengeance; He is going to render recompense to her.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:7 @Babylon has been a golden cup in the hand of the LORD, Intoxicating all the earth. The nations have drunk of her wine; Therefore the nations are going mad.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:8 @Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken; Wail over her! Bring balm for her pain; Perhaps she may be healed.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:9 @We applied healing to Babylon, but she was not healed; Forsake her and let us each go to his own country, For her judgment has reached to heaven And towers up to the very skies.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:10 @The LORD has brought about our vindication; Come and let us recount in Zion The work of the LORD our God!

nasb@Jeremiah:25:11 @Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, Because His purpose is against Babylon to destroy it; For it is the vengeance of the LORD, vengeance for His temple.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:12 @Lift up a signal against the walls of Babylon; Post a strong guard, Station sentries, Place men in ambush! For the LORD has both purposed and performed What He spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:13 @O you who dwell by many waters, Abundant in treasures, Your end has come, The measure of your end.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:14 @The LORD of hosts has sworn by Himself- "Surely I will fill you with a population like locusts, And they will cry out with shouts of victory over you."

nasb@Jeremiah:25:15 @It is He who made the earth by His power, Who established the world by His wisdom, And by His understanding He stretched out the heavens.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:16 @When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, And He causes the clouds to ascend from the end of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain And brings forth the wind from His storehouses.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:17 @All mankind is stupid, devoid of knowledge; Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, For his molten images are deceitful, And there is no breath in them.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:18 @They are worthless, a work of mockery; In the time of their punishment they will perish.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:19 @The portion of Jacob is not like these; For the Maker of all is He, And of the tribe of His inheritance; The LORD of hosts is His name.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:20 @He says, "You are My war-club, My weapon of war; And with you I shatter nations, And with you I destroy kingdoms.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:21" @With you I shatter the horse and his rider, And with you I shatter the chariot and its rider,

nasb@Jeremiah:25:23 @And with you I shatter the shepherd and his flock, And with you I shatter the farmer and his team, And with you I shatter governors and prefects.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:24" @But I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea for all their evil that they have done in Zion before your eyes," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:25" @Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, Who destroys the whole earth," declares the LORD, "And I will stretch out My hand against you, And roll you down from the crags, And I will make you a burnt out mountain.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:26" @They will not take from you even a stone for a corner Nor a stone for foundations, But you will be desolate forever," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:27 @Lift up a signal in the land, Blow a trumpet among the nations! Consecrate the nations against her, Summon against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni and Ashkenaz; Appoint a marshal against her, Bring up the horses like bristly locusts.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:28 @Consecrate the nations against her, The kings of the Medes, Their governors and all their prefects, And every land of their dominion.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:29 @So the land quakes and writhes, For the purposes of the LORD against Babylon stand, To make the land of Babylon A desolation without inhabitants.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:30 @The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting, They stay in the strongholds; Their strength is exhausted, They are becoming like women; Their dwelling places are set on fire, The bars of her gates are broken.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:31 @One courier runs to meet another, And one messenger to meet another, To tell the king of Babylon That his city has been captured from end to end;

nasb@Jeremiah:25:32 @The fords also have been seized, And they have burned the marshes with fire, And the men of war are terrified.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:33 @For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel- "The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor At the time it is stamped firm; Yet in a little while the time of harvest will come for her."

nasb@Jeremiah:25:34" @Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me and crushed me, He has set me down like an empty vessel; He has swallowed me like a monster, He has filled his stomach with my delicacies; He has washed me away.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:35" @May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon," The inhabitant of Zion will say; And, "May my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea," Jerusalem will say.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:36 @Therefore thus says the LORD, "Behold, I am going to plead your case And exact full vengeance for you; And I will dry up her sea And make her fountain dry.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:37" @ Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals, An object of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:38" @They will roar together like young lions, They will growl like lions' cubs.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:39" @When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet And make them drunk, that they may become jubilant And may sleep a perpetual sleep And not wake up," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:40" @I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, Like rams together with male goats.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:41" @How Sheshak has been captured, And the praise of the whole earth been seized! How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!

nasb@Jeremiah:25:42" @The sea has come up over Babylon; She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:43" @Her cities have become an object of horror, A parched land and a desert, A land in which no man lives And through which no son of man passes.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:44" @ I will punish Bel in Babylon, And I will make what he has swallowed come out of his mouth; And the nations will no longer stream to him. Even the wall of Babylon has fallen down!

nasb@Jeremiah:25:45" @ Come forth from her midst, My people, And each of you save yourselves From the fierce anger of the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:46" @Now so that your heart does not grow faint, And you are not afraid at the report that will be heard in the land-- For the report will come one year, And after that another report in another year, And violence will be in the land With ruler against ruler--

nasb@Jeremiah:25:47 @Therefore behold, days are coming When I will punish the idols of Babylon; And her whole land will be put to shame And all her slain will fall in her midst.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:48" @Then heaven and earth and all that is in them Will shout for joy over Babylon, For the destroyers will come to her from the north," Declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:49 @Indeed Babylon is to fall for the slain of Israel, As also for Babylon the slain of all the earth have fallen.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:50 @You who have escaped the sword, Depart! Do not stay! Remember the LORD from afar, And let Jerusalem come to your mind.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:51 @We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; Disgrace has covered our faces, For aliens have entered The holy places of the LORD'S house.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:52" @Therefore behold, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "When I will punish her idols, And the mortally wounded will groan throughout her land.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:53" @Though Babylon should ascend to the heavens, And though she should fortify her lofty stronghold, From Me destroyers will come to her," declares the LORD.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:54 @The sound of an outcry from Babylon, And of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

nasb@Jeremiah:25:55 @For the LORD is going to destroy Babylon, And He will make her loud noise vanish from her. And their waves will roar like many waters; The tumult of their voices sounds forth.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:56 @For the destroyer is coming against her, against Babylon, And her mighty men will be captured, Their bows are shattered; For the LORD is a God of recompense, He will fully repay.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:57" @I will make her princes and her wise men drunk, Her governors, her prefects and her mighty men, That they may sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake up," Declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:58 @Thus says the LORD of hosts, "The broad wall of Babylon will be completely razed And her high gates will be set on fire; So the peoples will toil for nothing, And the nations become exhausted only for fire."

nasb@Jeremiah:25:59 @The message which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the grandson of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. (Now Seraiah was quartermaster.)

nasb@Jeremiah:25:60 @So Jeremiah wrote in a single scroll all the calamity which would come upon Babylon, that is, all these words which have been written concerning Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:25:61 @Then Jeremiah said to Seraiah, "As soon as you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words aloud,

nasb@Jeremiah:25:62 @and say, 'You, O LORD, have promised concerning this place to cut it off, so that there will be nothing dwelling in it, whether man or beast, but it will be a perpetual desolation.'

nasb@Jeremiah:25:63" @And as soon as you finish reading this scroll, you will tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates,

nasb@Jeremiah:25:64 @and say, 'Just so shall Babylon sink down and not rise again because of the calamity that I am going to bring upon her; and they will become exhausted.'" Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:1 @Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:2 @He did evil in the sight of the LORD like all that Jehoiakim had done.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:3 @For through the anger of the LORD this came about in Jerusalem and Judah until He cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:4 @Now it came about in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it and built a siege wall all around it.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:5 @So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:6 @On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:7 @Then the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled and went forth from the city at night by way of the gate between the two walls which was by the king's garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. And they went by way of the Arabah.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:8 @But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:9 @Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:10 @The king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also slaughtered all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:11 @Then he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon and put him in prison until the day of his death.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:12 @Now on the tenth day of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, who was in the service of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:13 @He burned the house of the LORD, the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every large house he burned with fire.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:14 @So all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:15 @Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away into exile some of the poorest of the people, the rest of the people who were left in the city, the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon and the rest of the artisans.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:16 @But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:17 @Now the bronze pillars which belonged to the house of the LORD and the stands and the bronze sea, which were in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried all their bronze to Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:18 @They also took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the pans and all the bronze vessels which were used in temple service.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:19 @The captain of the guard also took away the bowls, the firepans, the basins, the pots, the lampstands, the pans and the drink offering bowls, what was fine gold and what was fine silver.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:20 @The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze bulls that were under the sea, and the stands, which King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD--the bronze of all these vessels was beyond weight.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:21 @As for the pillars, the height of each pillar was eighteen cubits, and it was twelve cubits in circumference and four fingers in thickness, and hollow.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:22 @Now a capital of bronze was on it; and the height of each capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the capital all around, all of bronze. And the second pillar was like these, including pomegranates.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:23 @There were ninety-six exposed pomegranates; all the pomegranates numbered a hundred on the network all around.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:24 @Then the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest, with the three officers of the temple.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:25 @He also took from the city one official who was overseer of the men of war, and seven of the king's advisers who were found in the city, and the scribe of the commander 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.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:26 @Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:27 @Then the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was led away into exile from its land.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:28 @These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away into exile- in the seventh year 3,023 Jews;

nasb@Jeremiah:26:29 @in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar 832 persons from Jerusalem;

nasb@Jeremiah:26:30 @in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile 745 Jewish people; there were 4,600 persons in all.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:31 @Now it came about in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, showed favor to Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:32 @Then he spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the thrones of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:33 @So Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes, and had his meals in the king's presence regularly all the days of his life.

nasb@Jeremiah:26:34 @For his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king of Babylon, a daily portion all the days of his life until the day of his death.

nasb@Lamentations:1:1 @How lonely sits the city That was full of people! She has become like a widow Who was once great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces Has become a forced laborer!

nasb@Lamentations:1:2 @She weeps bitterly in the night And her tears are on her cheeks; She has none to comfort her Among all her lovers. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; They have become her enemies.

nasb@Lamentations:1:3 @Judah has gone into exile under affliction And under harsh servitude; She dwells among the nations, But she has found no rest; All her pursuers have overtaken her In the midst of distress.

nasb@Lamentations:1:4 @The roads of Zion are in mourning Because no one comes to the appointed feasts. All her gates are desolate; Her priests are groaning, Her virgins are afflicted, And she herself is bitter.

nasb@Lamentations:1:5 @Her adversaries have become her masters, Her enemies prosper; For the LORD has caused her grief Because of the multitude of her transgressions; Her little ones have gone away As captives before the adversary.

nasb@Lamentations:1:6 @All her majesty Has departed from the daughter of Zion; Her princes have become like deer That have found no pasture; And they have fled without strength Before the pursuer.

nasb@Lamentations:1:7 @In the days of her affliction and homelessness Jerusalem remembers all her precious things That were from the days of old, When her people fell into the hand of the adversary And no one helped her. The adversaries saw her, They mocked at her ruin.

nasb@Lamentations:1:8 @Jerusalem sinned greatly, Therefore she has become an unclean thing. All who honored her despise her Because they have seen her nakedness; Even she herself groans and turns away.

nasb@Lamentations:1:9 @Her uncleanness was in her skirts; She did not consider her future. Therefore she has fallen astonishingly; She has no comforter. " See, O LORD, my affliction, For the enemy has magnified himself!"

nasb@Lamentations:1:10 @The adversary has stretched out his hand Over all her precious things, For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary, The ones whom You commanded That they should not enter into Your congregation.

nasb@Lamentations:1:11 @All her people groan seeking bread; They have given their precious things for food To restore their lives themselves. "See, O LORD, and look, For I am despised."

nasb@Lamentations:1:12" @Is it nothing to all you who pass this way? Look and see if there is any pain like my pain Which was severely dealt out to me, Which the LORD inflicted on the day of His fierce anger.

nasb@Lamentations:1:13" @From on high He sent fire into my bones, And it prevailed over them. He has spread a net for my feet; He has turned me back; He has made me desolate, Faint all day long.

nasb@Lamentations:1:14" @The yoke of my transgressions is bound; By His hand they are knit together. They have come upon my neck; He has made my strength fail. The Lord has given me into the hands Of those against whom I am not able to stand.

nasb@Lamentations:1:15" @The Lord has rejected all my strong men In my midst; He has called an appointed time against me To crush my young men; The Lord has trodden as in a wine press The virgin daughter of Judah.

nasb@Lamentations:1:16" @For these things I weep; My eyes run down with water; Because far from me is a comforter, One who restores my soul. My children are desolate Because the enemy has prevailed."

nasb@Lamentations:1:17 @Zion stretches out her hands; There is no one to comfort her; The LORD has commanded concerning Jacob That the ones round about him should be his adversaries; Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

nasb@Lamentations:1:18" @The LORD is righteous; For I have rebelled against His command; Hear now, all peoples, And behold my pain; My virgins and my young men Have gone into captivity.

nasb@Lamentations:1:19" @I called to my lovers, but they deceived me; My priests and my elders perished in the city While they sought food to restore their strength themselves.

nasb@Lamentations:1:20" @See, O LORD, for I am in distress; My spirit is greatly troubled; My heart is overturned within me, For I have been very rebellious. In the street the sword slays; In the house it is like death.

nasb@Lamentations:1:21" @They have heard that I groan; There is no one to comfort me; All my enemies have heard of my calamity; They are glad that You have done it. Oh, that You would bring the day which You have proclaimed, That they may become like me.

nasb@Lamentations:1:22" @Let all their wickedness come before You; And deal with them as You have dealt with me For all my transgressions; For my groans are many and my heart is faint."

nasb@Lamentations:2:1 @How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion With a cloud in His anger! He has cast from heaven to earth The glory of Israel, And has not remembered His footstool In the day of His anger.

nasb@Lamentations:2:2 @The Lord has swallowed up; He has not spared All the habitations of Jacob. In His wrath He has thrown down The strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

nasb@Lamentations:2:3 @In fierce anger He has cut off All the strength of Israel; He has drawn back His right hand From before the enemy. And He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire Consuming round about.

nasb@Lamentations:2:4 @He has bent His bow like an enemy; He has set His right hand like an adversary And slain all that were pleasant to the eye; In the tent of the daughter of Zion He has poured out His wrath like fire.

nasb@Lamentations:2:5 @The Lord has become like an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all its palaces, He has destroyed its strongholds And multiplied in the daughter of Judah Mourning and moaning.

nasb@Lamentations:2:6 @And He has violently treated His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His appointed meeting place. The LORD has caused to be forgotten The appointed feast and sabbath in Zion, And He has despised king and priest In the indignation of His anger.

nasb@Lamentations:2:7 @The Lord has rejected His altar, He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered into the hand of the enemy The walls of her palaces. They have made a noise in the house of the LORD As in the day of an appointed feast.

nasb@Lamentations:2:8 @The LORD determined to destroy The wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out a line, He has not restrained His hand from destroying, And He has caused rampart and wall to lament; They have languished together.

nasb@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. Also, her prophets find No vision from the LORD.

nasb@Lamentations:2:10 @The elders of the daughter of Zion Sit on the ground, they are silent. They have thrown dust on their heads; They have girded themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem Have bowed their heads to the ground.

nasb@Lamentations:2:11 @My eyes fail because of tears, My spirit is greatly troubled; My heart is poured out on the earth Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, When little ones and infants faint In the streets of the city.

nasb@Lamentations:2:12 @They say to their mothers, " Where is grain and wine?" As they faint like a wounded man In the streets of the city, As their life is poured out On their mothers' bosom.

nasb@Lamentations:2:13 @How shall I admonish you? To what shall I compare you, O daughter of Jerusalem? To what shall I liken you as I comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your ruin is as vast as the sea; Who can heal you?

nasb@Lamentations:2:14 @Your prophets have seen for you False and foolish visions; And they have not exposed your iniquity So as to restore you from captivity, But they have seen for you false and misleading oracles.

nasb@Lamentations:2:15 @All who pass along the way Clap their hands in derision at you; They hiss and shake their heads At the daughter of Jerusalem, "Is this the city of which they said, ' The perfection of beauty, A joy to all the earth'?"

nasb@Lamentations:2:16 @All your enemies Have opened their mouths wide against you; They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, "We have swallowed her up! Surely this is the day for which we waited; We have reached it, we have seen it."

nasb@Lamentations:2:17 @The LORD has done what He purposed; He has accomplished His word Which He commanded from days of old. He has thrown down without sparing, And He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; He has exalted the might of your adversaries.

nasb@Lamentations:2:18 @Their heart cried out to the Lord, "O wall of the daughter of Zion, Let your tears run down like a river day and night; Give yourself no relief, Let your eyes have no rest.

nasb@Lamentations:2:19" @Arise, cry aloud in the night At the beginning of the night watches; Pour out your heart like water Before the presence of the Lord; Lift up your hands to Him For the life of your little ones Who are faint because of hunger At the head of every street."

nasb@Lamentations:2:20 @See, O LORD, and look! With whom have You dealt thus? Should women eat their offspring, The little ones who were born healthy? Should priest and prophet be slain In the sanctuary of the Lord?

nasb@Lamentations:2:21 @On the ground in the streets Lie young and old; My virgins and my young men Have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger, You have slaughtered, not sparing.

nasb@Lamentations:2:22 @You called as in the day of an appointed feast My terrors on every side; And there was no one who escaped or survived In the day of the LORD'S anger. Those whom I bore and reared, My enemy annihilated them.

nasb@Lamentations:3:1 @I am the man who has seen affliction Because of the rod of His wrath.

nasb@Lamentations:3:2 @He has driven me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.

nasb@Lamentations:3:3 @Surely against me He has turned His hand Repeatedly all the day.

nasb@Lamentations:3:4 @He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away, He has broken my bones.

nasb@Lamentations:3:5 @He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship.

nasb@Lamentations:3:6 @In dark places He has made me dwell, Like those who have long been dead.

nasb@Lamentations:3:7 @He has walled me in so that I cannot go out; He has made my chain heavy.

nasb@Lamentations:3:8 @Even when I cry out and call for help, He shuts out my prayer.

nasb@Lamentations:3:9 @He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.

nasb@Lamentations:3:10 @He is to me like a bear lying in wait, Like a lion in secret places.

nasb@Lamentations:3:11 @He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

nasb@Lamentations:3:12 @He bent His bow And set me as a target for the arrow.

nasb@Lamentations:3:13 @He made the arrows of His quiver To enter into my inward parts.

nasb@Lamentations:3:14 @I have become a laughingstock to all my people, Their mocking song all the day.

nasb@Lamentations:3:15 @He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood.

nasb@Lamentations:3:16 @He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in the dust.

nasb@Lamentations:3:18 @So I say, "My strength has perished, And so has my hope from the LORD."

nasb@Lamentations:3:19 @Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and bitterness.

nasb@Lamentations:3:21 @This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope.

nasb@Lamentations:3:22 @The LORD'S lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail.

nasb@Lamentations:3:23 @They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.

nasb@Lamentations:3:24" @The LORD is my portion," says my soul, "Therefore I have hope in Him."

nasb@Lamentations:3:25 @The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, To the person who seeks Him.

nasb@Lamentations:3:26 @It is good that he waits silently For the salvation of the LORD.

nasb@Lamentations:3:27 @It is good for a man that he should bear The yoke in his youth.

nasb@Lamentations:3:28 @Let him sit alone and be silent Since He has laid it on him.

nasb@Lamentations:3:29 @Let him put his mouth in the dust, Perhaps there is hope.

nasb@Lamentations:3:30 @Let him give his cheek to the smiter, Let him be filled with reproach.

nasb@Lamentations:3:31 @For the Lord will not reject forever,

nasb@Lamentations:3:32 @For if He causes grief, Then He will have compassion According to His abundant lovingkindness.

nasb@Lamentations:3:33 @For He does not afflict willingly Or grieve the sons of men.

nasb@Lamentations:3:34 @To crush under His feet All the prisoners of the land,

nasb@Lamentations:3:35 @To deprive a man of justice In the presence of the Most High,

nasb@Lamentations:3:36 @To defraud a man in his lawsuit-- Of these things the Lord does not approve.

nasb@Lamentations:3:37 @Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass, Unless the Lord has commanded it?

nasb@Lamentations:3:38 @Is it not from the mouth of the Most High That both good and ill go forth?

nasb@Lamentations:3:40 @Let us examine and probe our ways, And let us return to the LORD.

nasb@Lamentations:3:41 @We lift up our heart and hands Toward God in heaven;

nasb@Lamentations:3:45 @You have made us mere offscouring and refuse In the midst of the peoples.

nasb@Lamentations:3:46 @All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

nasb@Lamentations:3:48 @My eyes run down with streams of water Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

nasb@Lamentations:3:50 @Until the LORD looks down And sees from heaven.

nasb@Lamentations:3:51 @My eyes bring pain to my soul Because of all the daughters of my city.

nasb@Lamentations:3:53 @They have silenced me in the pit And have placed a stone on me.

nasb@Lamentations:3:54 @Waters flowed over my head; I said, "I am cut off!"

nasb@Lamentations:3:55 @I called on Your name, O LORD, Out of the lowest pit.

nasb@Lamentations:3:56 @You have heard my voice, " Do not hide Your ear from my prayer for relief, From my cry for help."

nasb@Lamentations:3:57 @You drew near when I called on You; You said, " Do not fear!"

nasb@Lamentations:3:60 @You have seen all their vengeance, All their schemes against me.

nasb@Lamentations:3:61 @You have heard their reproach, O LORD, All their schemes against me.

nasb@Lamentations:3:62 @The lips of my assailants and their whispering Are against me all day long.

nasb@Lamentations:3:63 @Look on their sitting and their rising; I am their mocking song.

nasb@Lamentations:3:64 @You will recompense them, O LORD, According to the work of their hands.

nasb@Lamentations:3:65 @You will give them hardness of heart, Your curse will be on them.

nasb@Lamentations:3:66 @You will pursue them in anger and destroy them From under the heavens of the LORD!

nasb@Lamentations:4:1 @How dark the gold has become, How the pure gold has changed! The sacred stones are poured out At the corner of every street.

nasb@Lamentations:4:2 @The precious sons of Zion, Weighed against fine gold, How they are regarded as earthen jars, The work of a potter's hands!

nasb@Lamentations:4:3 @Even jackals offer the breast, They nurse their young; But the daughter of my people has become cruel Like ostriches in the wilderness.

nasb@Lamentations:4:4 @The tongue of the infant cleaves To the roof of its mouth because of thirst; The little ones ask for bread, But no one breaks it for them.

nasb@Lamentations:4:5 @Those who ate delicacies Are desolate in the streets; Those reared in purple Embrace ash pits.

nasb@Lamentations:4:6 @For the iniquity of the daughter of my people Is greater than the sin of Sodom, Which was overthrown as in a moment, And no hands were turned toward her.

nasb@Lamentations:4:7 @Her consecrated ones were purer than snow, They were whiter than milk; They were more ruddy in body than corals, Their polishing was like lapis lazuli.

nasb@Lamentations:4:8 @Their appearance is blacker than soot, They are not recognized in the streets; Their skin is shriveled on their bones, It is withered, it has become like wood.

nasb@Lamentations:4:9 @Better are those slain with the sword Than those slain with hunger; For they pine away, being stricken For lack of the fruits of the field.

nasb@Lamentations:4:10 @The hands of compassionate women Boiled their own children; They became food for them Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

nasb@Lamentations:4:11 @The LORD has accomplished His wrath, He has poured out His fierce anger; And He has kindled a fire in Zion Which has consumed its foundations.

nasb@Lamentations:4:12 @The kings of the earth did not believe, Nor did any of the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy Could enter the gates of Jerusalem.

nasb@Lamentations:4:13 @Because of the sins of her prophets And the iniquities of her priests, Who have shed in her midst The blood of the righteous;

nasb@Lamentations:4:14 @They wandered, blind, in the streets; They were defiled with blood So that no one could touch their garments.

nasb@Lamentations:4:15" @Depart! Unclean!" they cried of themselves. "Depart, depart, do not touch!" So they fled and wandered; Men among the nations said, "They shall not continue to dwell with us."

nasb@Lamentations:4:16 @The presence of the LORD has scattered them, He will not continue to regard them; They did not honor the priests, They did not favor the elders.

nasb@Lamentations:4:17 @Yet our eyes failed, Looking for help was useless; In our watching we have watched For a nation that could not save.

nasb@Lamentations:4:18 @They hunted our steps So that we could not walk in our streets; Our end drew near, Our days were finished For our end had come.

nasb@Lamentations:4:19 @Our pursuers were swifter Than the eagles of the sky; They chased us on the mountains, They waited in ambush for us in the wilderness.

nasb@Lamentations:4:20 @The breath of our nostrils, the LORD'S anointed, Was captured in their pits, Of whom we had said, "Under his shadow We shall live among the nations."

nasb@Lamentations:4:21 @Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, Who dwells in the land of Uz; But the cup will come around to you as well, You will become drunk and make yourself naked.

nasb@Lamentations:4:22 @The punishment of your iniquity has been completed, O daughter of Zion; He will exile you no longer. But He will punish your iniquity, O daughter of Edom; He will expose your sins!

nasb@Lamentations:5:2 @Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, Our houses to aliens.

nasb@Lamentations:5:3 @We have become orphans without a father, Our mothers are like widows.

nasb@Lamentations:5:5 @Our pursuers are at our necks; We are worn out, there is no rest for us.

nasb@Lamentations:5:7 @Our fathers sinned, and are no more; It is we who have borne their iniquities.

nasb@Lamentations:5:8 @Slaves rule over us; There is no one to deliver us from their hand.

nasb@Lamentations:5:9 @We get our bread at the risk of our lives Because of the sword in the wilderness.

nasb@Lamentations:5:10 @Our skin has become as hot as an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

nasb@Lamentations:5:11 @They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

nasb@Lamentations:5:12 @Princes were hung by their hands; Elders were not respected.

nasb@Lamentations:5:13 @Young men worked at the grinding mill, And youths stumbled under loads of wood.

nasb@Lamentations:5:14 @Elders are gone from the gate, Young men from their music.

nasb@Lamentations:5:15 @The joy of our hearts has ceased; Our dancing has been turned into mourning.

nasb@Lamentations:5:16 @The crown has fallen from our head; Woe to us, for we have sinned!

nasb@Lamentations:5:17 @Because of this our heart is faint, Because of these things our eyes are dim;

nasb@Ezekiel:1:1 @Now it came about in the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was by the river Chebar among the exiles, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:2 @(On the fifth of the month in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin's exile,

nasb@Ezekiel:1:3 @the word of the LORD came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and there the hand of the LORD came upon him.)

nasb@Ezekiel:1:4 @As I looked, behold, a storm wind was coming from the north, a great cloud with fire flashing forth continually and a bright light around it, and in its midst something like glowing metal in the midst of the fire.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:5 @Within it there were figures resembling four living beings. And this was their appearance- they had human form.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:6 @Each of them had four faces and four wings.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:7 @Their legs were straight and their feet were like a calf's hoof, and they gleamed like burnished bronze.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:8 @Under their wings on their four sides were human hands. As for the faces and wings of the four of them,

nasb@Ezekiel:1:9 @their wings touched one another; their faces did not turn when they moved, each went straight forward.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:10 @As for the form of their faces, each had the face of a man; all four had the face of a lion on the right and the face of a bull on the left, and all four had the face of an eagle.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:11 @Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above; each had two touching another being, and two covering their bodies.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:12 @And each went straight forward; wherever the spirit was about to go, they would go, without turning as they went.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:13 @In the midst of the living beings there was something that looked like burning coals of fire, like torches darting back and forth among the living beings. The fire was bright, and lightning was flashing from the fire.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:14 @And the living beings ran to and fro like bolts of lightning.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:15 @Now as I looked at the living beings, behold, there was one wheel on the earth beside the living beings, for each of the four of them.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:16 @The appearance of the wheels and their workmanship was like sparkling beryl, and all four of them had the same form, their appearance and workmanship being as if one wheel were within another.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:17 @Whenever they moved, they moved in any of their four directions without turning as they moved.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:18 @As for their rims they were lofty and awesome, and the rims of all four of them were full of eyes round about.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:19 @Whenever the living beings moved, the wheels moved with them. And whenever the living beings rose from the earth, the wheels rose also.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:20 @Wherever the spirit was about to go, they would go in that direction. And the wheels rose close beside them; for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:21 @Whenever those went, these went; and whenever those stood still, these stood still. And whenever those rose from the earth, the wheels rose close beside them; for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:22 @Now over the heads of the living beings there was something like an expanse, like the awesome gleam of crystal, spread out over their heads.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:23 @Under the expanse their wings were stretched out straight, one toward the other; each one also had two wings covering its body on the one side and on the other.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:24 @I also heard the sound of their wings like the sound of abundant waters as they went, like the voice of the Almighty, a sound of tumult like the sound of an army camp; whenever they stood still, they dropped their wings.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:25 @And there came a voice from above the expanse that was over their heads; whenever they stood still, they dropped their wings.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:26 @Now above the expanse that was over their heads there was something resembling a throne, like lapis lazuli in appearance; and on that which resembled a throne, high up, was a figure with the appearance of a man.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:27 @Then I noticed from the appearance of His loins and upward something like glowing metal that looked like fire all around within it, and from the appearance of His loins and downward I saw something like fire; and there was a radiance around Him.

nasb@Ezekiel:1:28 @As the appearance of the rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the surrounding radiance. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell on my face and heard a voice speaking.

nasb@Ezekiel:2:1 @Then He said to me, "Son of man, stand on your feet that I may speak with you!"

nasb@Ezekiel:2:2 @As He spoke to me the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet; and I heard Him speaking to me.

nasb@Ezekiel:2:3 @Then He said to me, "Son of man, I am sending you to the sons of Israel, to a rebellious people who have rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have transgressed against Me to this very day.

nasb@Ezekiel:2:4" @I am sending you to them who are stubborn and obstinate children, and you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD.'

nasb@Ezekiel:2:5" @As for them, whether they listen or not--for they are a rebellious house--they will know that a prophet has been among them.

nasb@Ezekiel:2:6" @And you, son of man, neither fear them nor fear their words, though thistles and thorns are with you and you sit on scorpions; neither fear their words nor be dismayed at their presence, for they are a rebellious house.

nasb@Ezekiel:2:7" @But you shall speak My words to them whether they listen or not, for they are rebellious.

nasb@Ezekiel:2:9 @Then I looked, and behold, a hand was extended to me; and lo, a scroll was in it.

nasb@Ezekiel:2:10 @When He spread it out before me, it was written on the front and back, and written on it were lamentations, mourning and woe.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:1 @Then He said to me, "Son of man, eat what you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel."

nasb@Ezekiel:3:2 @So I opened my mouth, and He fed me this scroll.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:3 @He said to me, "Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your body with this scroll which I am giving you." Then I ate it, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:4 @Then He said to me, "Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with My words to them.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:5" @For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel,

nasb@Ezekiel:3:6 @nor to many peoples of unintelligible speech or difficult language, whose words you cannot understand. But I have sent you to them who should listen to you;

nasb@Ezekiel:3:7 @yet the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, since they are not willing to listen to Me. Surely the whole house of Israel is stubborn and obstinate.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:8" @Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:9" @Like emery harder than flint I have made your forehead. Do not be afraid of them or be dismayed before them, though they are a rebellious house."

nasb@Ezekiel:3:10 @Moreover, He said to me, "Son of man, take into your heart all My words which I will speak to you and listen closely.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:11" @Go to the exiles, to the sons of your people, and speak to them and tell them, whether they listen or not, 'Thus says the Lord GOD.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:3:12 @Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me, "Blessed be the glory of the LORD in His place."

nasb@Ezekiel:3:13 @And I heard the sound of the wings of the living beings touching one another and the sound of the wheels beside them, even a great rumbling sound.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:14 @So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away; and I went embittered in the rage of my spirit, and the hand of the LORD was strong on me.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:15 @Then I came to the exiles who lived beside the river Chebar at Tel-abib, and I sat there seven days where they were living, causing consternation among them.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:16 @At the end of seven days the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:3:17" @Son of man, I have appointed you a watchman to the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from My mouth, warn them from Me.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:18" @When I say to the wicked, 'You will surely die,' and you do not warn him or speak out to warn the wicked from his wicked way that he may live, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:19" @Yet if you have warned the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered yourself.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:20" @Again, when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I place an obstacle before him, he will die; since you have not warned him, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:21" @However, if you have warned the righteous man that the righteous should not sin and he does not sin, he shall surely live because he took warning; and you have delivered yourself."

nasb@Ezekiel:3:22 @The hand of the LORD was on me there, and He said to me, "Get up, go out to the plain, and there I will speak to you."

nasb@Ezekiel:3:23 @So I got up and went out to the plain; and behold, the glory of the LORD was standing there, like the glory which I saw by the river Chebar, and I fell on my face.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:24 @The Spirit then entered me and made me stand on my feet, and He spoke with me and said to me, "Go, shut yourself up in your house.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:25" @As for you, son of man, they will put ropes on you and bind you with them so that you cannot go out among them.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:26" @Moreover, I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be mute and cannot be a man who rebukes them, for they are a rebellious house.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:27" @But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth and you will 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.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:2" @Then lay siege against it, build a siege wall, raise up a ramp, pitch camps and place battering rams against it all around.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:3" @Then get yourself an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city, and set your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This is a sign to the house of Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:4" @As for you, lie down on your left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; you shall bear their iniquity for the number of days that you lie on it.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:5" @For I have assigned you a number of days corresponding to the years of their iniquity, three hundred and ninety days; thus you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:6" @When you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah; I have assigned it to you for forty days, a day for each year.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:7" @Then you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:8" @Now behold, I will put ropes on you so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:9" @But as for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and spelt, put them in one vessel and make them into bread for yourself; you shall eat it according to the number of the days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:10" @Your food which you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:11" @The water you drink shall be the sixth part of a hin by measure; you shall drink it from time to time.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:12" @You shall eat it as a barley cake, having baked it in their sight over human dung."

nasb@Ezekiel:3:13 @Then the LORD said, "Thus will the sons of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations where I will banish them."

nasb@Ezekiel:3:15 @Then He said to me, "See, I will give you cow's dung in place of human dung over which you will prepare your bread."

nasb@Ezekiel:3:16 @Moreover, He said to me, "Son of man, behold, I am going to break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and drink water by measure and in horror,

nasb@Ezekiel:3:17 @because bread and water will be scarce; and they will be appalled with one another and waste away in their iniquity.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:5" @As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword; take and use it as a barber's razor on your head and beard. Then take scales for weighing and divide the hair.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:2" @One third you shall burn in the fire at the center of the city, when the days of the siege are completed. Then you shall take one third and strike it with the sword all around the city, and one third you shall scatter to the wind; and I will unsheathe a sword behind them.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:3" @Take also a few in number from them and bind them in the edges of your robes.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:4" @Take again some of them and throw them into the fire and burn them in the fire; from it a fire will spread to all the house of Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:5" @Thus says the Lord GOD, 'This is Jerusalem; I have set her at the center of the nations, with lands around her.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:6 @'But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations and against My statutes more than the lands which surround her; for they have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.'

nasb@Ezekiel:3:7" @Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, 'Because you have more turmoil than the nations which surround you and have not walked in My statutes, nor observed My ordinances, nor observed the ordinances of the nations which surround you,'

nasb@Ezekiel:3:8 @therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, I, even I, am against you, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:9 @'And because of all your abominations, I will do among you what I have not done, and the like of which I will never do again.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:10 @'Therefore, fathers will eat their sons among you, and sons will eat their fathers; for I will execute judgments on you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:11 @'So as I live,' declares the Lord GOD, 'surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominations, therefore I will also withdraw, and My eye will have no pity and I will not spare.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:12 @'One third of you will die by plague or be consumed by famine among you, one third will fall by the sword around you, and one third I will scatter to every wind, and I will unsheathe a sword behind them.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:13 @'Thus My anger will be spent and I will satisfy My wrath on them, and I will be appeased; then they will know that I, the LORD, have spoken in My zeal when I have spent My wrath upon them.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:14 @'Moreover, I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations which surround you, in the sight of all who pass by.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:15 @'So it will be a reproach, a reviling, a warning and an object of horror to the nations who surround you when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath and raging rebukes. I, the LORD, have spoken.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:16 @'When I send against them the deadly arrows of famine which were for the destruction of those whom I will send to destroy you, then I will also intensify the famine upon you and break the staff of bread.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:17 @'Moreover, I will send on you famine and wild beasts, and they will bereave you of children; plague and bloodshed also will pass through you, and I will bring the sword on you. I, the LORD, have spoken.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:3:6 @And the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:3:2" @Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them

nasb@Ezekiel:3:3 @and say, 'Mountains of Israel, listen to the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, the hills, the ravines and the valleys- "Behold, I Myself am going to bring a sword on you, and I will destroy your high places.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:4" @So your altars will become desolate and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will make your slain fall in front of your idols.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:5" @I will also lay the dead bodies of the sons of Israel in front of their idols; and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:6" @In all your dwellings, cities will become waste and the high places will be desolate, that your altars may become waste and desolate, your idols may be broken and brought to an end, your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be blotted out.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:7" @The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:8" @However, I will leave a remnant, for you will have those who escaped the sword among the nations when you are scattered among the countries.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:9" @Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations to which they will be carried captive, how I have been hurt by their adulterous hearts which turned away from Me, and by their eyes which played the harlot after their idols; and they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed, for all their abominations.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:10" @Then they will know that I am the LORD; I have not said in vain that I would inflict this disaster on them."'

nasb@Ezekiel:3:11" @Thus says the Lord GOD, 'Clap your hand, stamp your foot and say, " Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, which will fall by sword, famine and plague!

nasb@Ezekiel:3:12" @He who is far off will die by the plague, and he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who remains and is besieged will die by the famine. Thus will I spend My wrath on them.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:13" @Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain are among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, under every green tree and under every leafy oak--the places where they offered soothing aroma to all their idols.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:14" @So throughout all their habitations I will stretch out My hand against them and make the land more desolate and waste than the wilderness toward Diblah; thus they will know that I am the LORD."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:3:7 @Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:3:2" @And you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel, 'An end! The end is coming on the four corners of the land.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:3 @'Now the end is upon you, and I will send My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and bring all your abominations upon you.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:4 @'For My eye will have no pity on you, nor will I spare you, but I will bring your ways upon you, and your abominations will be among you; then you will know that I am the LORD!'

nasb@Ezekiel:3:5" @Thus says the Lord GOD, 'A disaster, unique disaster, behold it is coming!

nasb@Ezekiel:3:6 @'An end is coming; the end has come! It has awakened against you; behold, it has come!

nasb@Ezekiel:3:7 @'Your doom has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. The time has come, the day is near--tumult rather than joyful shouting on the mountains.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:9 @'My eye will show no pity nor will I spare. I will repay you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst; then you will know that I, the LORD, do the smiting.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:10 @'Behold, the day! Behold, it is coming! Your doom has gone forth; the rod has budded, arrogance has blossomed.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:11 @'Violence has grown into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, none of their people, none of their wealth, nor anything eminent among them.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:12 @'The time has come, the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice nor the seller mourn; for wrath is against all their multitude.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:13 @'Indeed, the seller will not regain what he sold as long as they both live; for the vision regarding all their multitude will not be averted, nor will any of them maintain his life by his iniquity.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:14 @'They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one is going to the battle, for My wrath is against all their multitude.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:15 @'The sword is outside and the plague and the famine are within. He who is in the field will die by the sword; famine and the plague will also consume those in the city.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:16 @'Even when their survivors escape, they will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, each over his own iniquity.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:18 @'They will gird themselves with sackcloth and shuddering will overwhelm them; and shame will be on all faces and baldness on all their heads.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:19 @'They will fling their silver into the streets and their gold will become an abhorrent thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetite nor can they fill their stomachs, for their iniquity has become an occasion of stumbling.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:20 @'They transformed the beauty of His ornaments into pride, and they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things with it; therefore I will make it an abhorrent thing to them.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:21 @'I will give it into the hands of the foreigners as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will profane it.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:22 @'I will also turn My face from them, and they will profane My secret place; then robbers will enter and profane it.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:23 @' Make the chain, for the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:24 @'Therefore, I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will possess their houses. I will also make the pride of the strong ones cease, and their holy places will be profaned.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:25 @'When anguish comes, they will seek peace, but there will be none.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:26 @' Disaster will come upon disaster and rumor will be added to rumor; then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but the law will be lost from the priest and counsel from the elders.

nasb@Ezekiel:3:27 @'The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with horror, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. According to their conduct I will deal with them, and by their judgments I will judge them. And they will know that I am the LORD.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:4:1 @It came about in the sixth year, on the fifth day of the sixth month, as I was sitting in my house with the elders of Judah sitting before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell on me there.

nasb@Ezekiel:4:2 @Then I looked, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of a man; from His loins and downward there was the appearance of fire, and from His loins and upward the appearance of brightness, like the appearance of glowing metal.

nasb@Ezekiel:4:3 @He stretched out the form of a hand and caught me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the seat of the idol of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy, was located.

nasb@Ezekiel:4:4 @And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, like the appearance which I saw in the plain.

nasb@Ezekiel:4:5 @Then He said to me, "Son of man, raise your eyes now toward the north." So I raised my eyes toward the north, and behold, to the north of the altar gate was this idol of jealousy at the entrance.

nasb@Ezekiel:4:6 @And He said to me, "Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations which the house of Israel are committing here, so that I would be far from My sanctuary? But yet you will see still greater abominations."

nasb@Ezekiel:4:7 @Then He brought me to the entrance of the court, and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.

nasb@Ezekiel:4:8 @He said to me, "Son of man, now dig through the wall." So I dug through the wall, and behold, an entrance.

nasb@Ezekiel:4:9 @And He said to me, "Go in and see the wicked abominations that they are committing here."

nasb@Ezekiel:4:10 @So I entered and looked, and behold, every form of creeping things and beasts and detestable things, with all the idols of the house of Israel, were carved on the wall all around.

nasb@Ezekiel:4:11 @Standing in front of them were seventy elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan standing among them, each man with his censer in his hand and the fragrance of the cloud of incense rising.

nasb@Ezekiel:4:12 @Then He said to me, "Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are committing in the dark, each man in the room of his carved images? For they say, ' The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:4:13 @And He said to me, "Yet you will see still greater abominations which they are committing."

nasb@Ezekiel:4:14 @Then He brought me to the entrance of the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the north; and behold, women were sitting there weeping for Tammuz.

nasb@Ezekiel:4:15 @He said to me, "Do you see this, son of man? Yet you will see still greater abominations than these."

nasb@Ezekiel:4:16 @Then He brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house. And behold, at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east; and they were prostrating themselves eastward toward the sun.

nasb@Ezekiel:4:17 @He said to me, "Do you see this, son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they have committed here, that they have filled the land with violence and provoked Me repeatedly? For behold, they are putting the twig to their nose.

nasb@Ezekiel:4:18" @Therefore, I indeed will deal in wrath. My eye will have no pity nor will I spare; and though they cry in My ears with a loud voice, yet I will not listen to them."

nasb@Ezekiel:5:1 @Then He cried out in my hearing with a loud voice saying, "Draw near, O executioners of the city, each with his destroying weapon in his hand."

nasb@Ezekiel:5:2 @Behold, six men came from the direction of the upper gate which faces north, each with his shattering weapon in his hand; and among them was a certain man clothed in linen with a writing case at his loins. And they went in and stood beside the bronze altar.

nasb@Ezekiel:5:3 @Then the glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub on which it had been, to the threshold of the temple. And He called to the man clothed in linen at whose loins was the writing case.

nasb@Ezekiel:5:4 @The LORD said to him, "Go through the midst of the city, even through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations which are being committed in its midst."

nasb@Ezekiel:5:5 @But to the others He said in my hearing, "Go through the city after him and strike; do not let your eye have pity and do not spare.

nasb@Ezekiel:5:6" @Utterly slay old men, young men, maidens, little children, and women, but do not touch any man on whom is the mark; and you shall start from My sanctuary." So they started with the elders who were before the temple.

nasb@Ezekiel:5:7 @And He said to them, " Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!" Thus they went out and struck down the people in the city.

nasb@Ezekiel:5:8 @As they were striking the people and I alone was left, I fell on my face and cried out saying, " Alas, Lord GOD! Are You destroying the whole remnant of Israel by pouring out Your wrath on Jerusalem?"

nasb@Ezekiel:5:9 @Then He said to me, "The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is filled with blood and the city is full of perversion; for they say, 'The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD does not see!'

nasb@Ezekiel:5:10" @But as for Me, My eye will have no pity nor will I spare, but I will bring their conduct upon their heads."

nasb@Ezekiel:5:11 @Then behold, the man clothed in linen at whose loins was the writing case reported, saying, "I have done just as You have commanded me."

nasb@Ezekiel:6:1 @Then I looked, and behold, in the expanse that was over the heads of the cherubim something like a sapphire stone, in appearance resembling a throne, appeared above them.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:2 @And He spoke to the man clothed in linen and said, "Enter between the whirling wheels under the cherubim and fill your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim and scatter them over the city." And he entered in my sight.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:3 @Now the cherubim were standing on the right side of the temple when the man entered, and the cloud filled the inner court.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:4 @Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub to the threshold of the temple, and the temple was filled with the cloud and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:5 @Moreover, the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty when He speaks.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:6 @It came about when He commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, "Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim," he entered and stood beside a wheel.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:7 @Then the cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire which was between the cherubim, took some and put it into the hands of the one clothed in linen, who took it and went out.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:8 @The cherubim appeared to have the form of a man's hand under their wings.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:9 @Then I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like the gleam of a Tarshish stone.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:10 @As for their appearance, all four of them had the same likeness, as if one wheel were within another wheel.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:11 @When they moved, they went in any of their four directions without turning as they went; but they followed in the direction which they faced, without turning as they went.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:12 @Their whole body, their backs, their hands, their wings and the wheels were full of eyes all around, the wheels belonging to all four of them.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:13 @The wheels were called in my hearing, the whirling wheels.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:14 @And each one had four faces. The first face was the face of a cherub, the second face was the face of a man, the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:15 @Then the cherubim rose up. They are the living beings that I saw by the river Chebar.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:16 @Now when the cherubim moved, the wheels would go beside them; also when the cherubim lifted up their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels would not turn from beside them.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:17 @When the cherubim stood still, the wheels would stand still; and when they rose up, the wheels would rise with them, for the spirit of the living beings was in them.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:18 @Then the glory of the LORD departed from the threshold of the temple and stood over the cherubim.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:19 @When the cherubim departed, they lifted their wings and rose up from the earth in my sight with the wheels beside them; and they stood still at the entrance of the east gate of the LORD'S house, and the glory of the God of Israel hovered over them.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:20 @These are the living beings that I saw beneath the God of Israel by the river Chebar; so I knew that they were cherubim.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:21 @Each one had four faces and each one four wings, and beneath their wings was the form of human hands.

nasb@Ezekiel:6:22 @As for the likeness of their faces, they were the same faces whose appearance I had seen by the river Chebar. Each one went straight ahead.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:1 @Moreover, the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the LORD'S house which faced eastward. And behold, there were twenty-five men at the entrance of the gate, and among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, leaders of the people.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:2 @He said to me, "Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity and give evil advice in this city,

nasb@Ezekiel:7:3 @who say, 'The time is not near to build houses. This city is the pot and we are the flesh.'

nasb@Ezekiel:7:4" @Therefore, prophesy against them, son of man, prophesy!"

nasb@Ezekiel:7:5 @Then the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and He said to me, "Say, 'Thus says the LORD, "So you think, house of Israel, for I know your thoughts.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:6" @You have multiplied your slain in this city, filling its streets with them."

nasb@Ezekiel:7:7 @'Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, "Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of the city are the flesh and this city is the pot; but I will bring you out of it.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:8" @You have feared a sword; so I will bring a sword upon you," the Lord GOD declares.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:9" @And I will bring you out of the midst of the city and deliver you into the hands of strangers and execute judgments against you.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:10" @You will fall by the sword. I will judge you to the border of Israel; so you shall know that I am the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:11" @This city will not be a pot for you, nor will you be flesh in the midst of it, but I will judge you to the border of Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:12" @Thus you will know that I am the LORD; for you have not walked in My statutes nor have you executed My ordinances, but have acted according to the ordinances of the nations around you."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:7:13 @Now it came about as I prophesied, that Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell on my face and cried out with a loud voice and said, " Alas, Lord GOD! Will You bring the remnant of Israel to a complete end?"

nasb@Ezekiel:7:14 @Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:7:15" @Son of man, your brothers, your relatives, your fellow exiles and the whole house of Israel, all of them, are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, 'Go far from the LORD; this land has been given us as a possession.'

nasb@Ezekiel:7:16" @Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Though I had removed them far away among the nations and though I had scattered them among the countries, yet I was a sanctuary for them a little while in the countries where they had gone."'

nasb@Ezekiel:7:17" @Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries among which you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel."'

nasb@Ezekiel:7:18" @When they come there, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations from it.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:19" @And I will give them one heart, and put a new spirit within them. And I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,

nasb@Ezekiel:7:20 @that they may walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and do them. Then they will be My people, and I shall be their God.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:21" @But as for those whose hearts go after their detestable things and abominations, I will bring their conduct down on their heads," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:22 @Then the cherubim lifted up their wings with the wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel hovered over them.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:23 @The glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city and stood over the mountain which is east of the city.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:24 @And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God to the exiles in Chaldea. So the vision that I had seen left me.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:25 @Then I told the exiles all the things that the LORD had shown me.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:12 @Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:7:2" @Son of man, you live in the midst of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see but do not see, ears to hear but do not hear; for they are a rebellious house.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:3" @Therefore, son of man, prepare for yourself baggage for exile and go into exile by day in their sight; even go into exile from your place to another place in their sight. Perhaps they will understand though they are a rebellious house.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:4" @Bring your baggage out by day in their sight, as baggage for exile. Then you will go out at evening in their sight, as those going into exile.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:5" @Dig a hole through the wall in their sight and go out through it.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:6" @Load the baggage on your shoulder in their sight and carry it out in the dark. You shall cover your face so that you cannot see the land, for I have set you as a sign to the house of Israel."

nasb@Ezekiel:7:7 @I did so, as I had been commanded. By day I brought out my baggage like the baggage of an exile. Then in the evening I dug through the wall with my hands; I went out in the dark and carried the baggage on my shoulder in their sight.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:8 @In the morning the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:7:9" @Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, ' What are you doing?'

nasb@Ezekiel:7:10" @Say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "This burden concerns the prince in Jerusalem as well as all the house of Israel who are in it."'

nasb@Ezekiel:7:11" @Say, 'I am a sign to you. As I have done, so it will be done to them; they will go into exile, into captivity.'

nasb@Ezekiel:7:12" @The prince who is among them will load his baggage on his shoulder in the dark and go out. They will dig a hole through the wall to bring it out. He will cover his face so that he can not see the land with his eyes.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:13" @I will also spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. And I will bring him to Babylon in the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, though he will die there.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:14" @I will scatter to every wind all who are around him, his helpers and all his troops; and I will draw out a sword after them.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:15" @So they will know that I am the LORD when I scatter them among the nations and spread them among the countries.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:16" @But I will spare a few of them from the sword, the famine and the pestilence that they may tell all their abominations among the nations where they go, and may know that I am the LORD."

nasb@Ezekiel:7:17 @Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:7:19" @Then say to the people of the land, 'Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel, "They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water with horror, because their land will be stripped of its fullness on account of the violence of all who live in it.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:20" @The inhabited cities will be laid waste and the land will be a desolation. So you will know that I am the LORD."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:7:21 @Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:7:22" @Son of man, what is this proverb you people have concerning the land of Israel, saying, 'The days are long and every vision fails'?

nasb@Ezekiel:7:23" @Therefore say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "I will make this proverb cease so that they will no longer use it as a proverb in Israel." But tell them, " The days draw near as well as the fulfillment of every vision.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:24" @For there will no longer be any false vision or flattering divination within the house of Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:25" @For I the LORD will speak, and whatever word I speak will be performed. It will no longer be delayed, for in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak the word and perform it," declares the Lord GOD.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:7:26 @Furthermore, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:7:27" @Son of man, behold, the house of Israel is saying, 'The vision that he sees is for many years from now, and he prophesies of times far off.'

nasb@Ezekiel:7:28" @Therefore say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "None of My words will be delayed any longer. Whatever word I speak will be performed,"'" declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:13 @Then the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:7:2" @Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy from their own inspiration, ' Listen to the word of the LORD!

nasb@Ezekiel:7:3 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Woe to the foolish prophets who are following their own spirit and have seen nothing.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:4" @O Israel, your prophets have been like foxes among ruins.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:5" @You have not gone up into the breaches, nor did you build the wall around the house of Israel to stand in the battle on the day of the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:6" @They see falsehood and lying divination who are saying, 'The LORD declares,' when the LORD has not sent them; yet they hope for the fulfillment of their word.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:7" @ Did you not see a false vision and speak a lying divination when you said, 'The LORD declares,' but it is not I who have spoken?"'"

nasb@Ezekiel:7:8 @Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, "Because you have spoken falsehood and seen a lie, therefore behold, I am against you," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:9" @So My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations. They will have no place in the council of My people, nor will they be written down in the register of the house of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel, that you may know that I am the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:10" @It is definitely because they have misled My people by saying, ' Peace!' when there is no peace. And when anyone builds a wall, behold, they plaster it over with whitewash;

nasb@Ezekiel:7:12" @Behold, when the wall has fallen, will you not be asked, 'Where is the plaster with which you plastered it?'"

nasb@Ezekiel:7:13 @Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, "I will make a violent wind break out in My wrath. There will also be in My anger a flooding rain and hailstones to consume it in wrath.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:14" @So I will tear down the wall which you plastered over with whitewash and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation is laid bare; and when it falls, you will be consumed in its midst. And you will know that I am the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:15" @Thus I will spend My wrath on the wall and on those who have plastered it over with whitewash; and I will say to you, 'The wall is gone and its plasterers are gone,

nasb@Ezekiel:7:16 @along with the prophets of Israel who prophesy to Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her when there is no peace,' declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:17" @Now you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people who are prophesying from their own inspiration. Prophesy against them

nasb@Ezekiel:7:18 @and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Woe to the women who sew magic bands on all wrists and make veils for the heads of persons of every stature to hunt down lives! Will you hunt down the lives of My people, but preserve the lives of others for yourselves?

nasb@Ezekiel:7:19" @ For handfuls of barley and fragments of bread, you have profaned Me to My people to put to death some who should not die and to keep others alive who should not live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:7:20 @Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am against your magic bands by which you hunt lives there as birds and I will tear them from your arms; and I will let them go, even those lives whom you hunt as birds.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:21" @I will also tear off your veils and deliver My people from your hands, and they will no longer be in your hands to be hunted; and you will know that I am the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:7:22" @Because you disheartened the righteous with falsehood when I did not cause him grief, but have encouraged the wicked not to turn from his wicked way and preserve his life,

nasb@Ezekiel:7:23 @therefore, you women will no longer see false visions or practice divination, and I will deliver My people out of your hand. Thus you will know that I am the LORD."

nasb@Ezekiel:8:1 @Then some elders of Israel came to me and sat down before me.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:2 @And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:3" @Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts and have put right before their faces the stumbling block of their iniquity. Should I be consulted by them at all?

nasb@Ezekiel:8:4" @Therefore speak to them and tell them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Any man of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart, puts right before his face the stumbling block of his iniquity, and then comes to the prophet, I the LORD will be brought to give him an answer in the matter in view of the multitude of his idols,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:5 @in order to lay hold of the hearts of the house of Israel who are estranged from Me through all their idols."'

nasb@Ezekiel:8:6" @Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, " Repent and turn away from your idols and turn your faces away from all your abominations.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:7" @For anyone of the house of Israel or of the immigrants who stay in Israel who separates himself from Me, sets up his idols in his heart, puts right before his face the stumbling block of his iniquity, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of Me for himself, I the LORD will be brought to answer him in My own person.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:8" @I will set My face against that man and make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from among My people. So you will know that I am the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:9" @But if the prophet is prevailed upon to speak a word, it is I, the LORD, who have prevailed upon that prophet, and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:10" @They will bear the punishment of their iniquity; as the iniquity of the inquirer is, so the iniquity of the prophet will be,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:11 @in order that the house of Israel may no longer stray from Me and no longer defile themselves with all their transgressions. Thus they will be My people, and I shall be their God,"' declares the Lord GOD."

nasb@Ezekiel:8:12 @Then the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:14 @even though these three men, Noah, Daniel and Job were in its midst, by their own righteousness they could only deliver themselves," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:15" @If I were to cause wild beasts to pass through the land and they depopulated it, and it became desolate so that no one would pass through it because of the beasts,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:16 @though these three men were in its midst, as I live," declares the Lord GOD, "they could not deliver either their sons or their daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the country would be desolate.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:17" @Or if I should bring a sword on that country and say, 'Let the sword pass through the country and cut off man and beast from it,'

nasb@Ezekiel:8:18 @even though these three men were in its midst, as I live," declares the Lord GOD, "they could not deliver either their sons or their daughters, but they alone would be delivered.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:20 @even though Noah, Daniel and Job were in its midst, as I live," declares the Lord GOD, "they could not deliver either their son or their daughter. They would deliver only themselves by their righteousness."

nasb@Ezekiel:8:21 @For thus says the Lord GOD, "How much more when I send My four severe judgments against Jerusalem- sword, famine, wild beasts and plague to cut off man and beast from it!

nasb@Ezekiel:8:22" @Yet, behold, survivors will be left in it who will be brought out, both sons and daughters. Behold, they are going to come forth to you and you will see their conduct and actions; then you will be comforted for the calamity which I have brought against Jerusalem for everything which I have brought upon it.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:23" @Then they will comfort you when you see their conduct and actions, for you will know that I have not done in vain whatever I did to it," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:15 @Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:2" @Son of man, how is the wood of the vine better than any wood of a branch which is among the trees of the forest?

nasb@Ezekiel:8:4" @If it has been put into the fire for fuel, and the fire has consumed both of its ends and its middle part has been charred, is it then useful for anything?

nasb@Ezekiel:8:5" @Behold, while it is intact, it is not made into anything. How much less, when the fire has consumed it and it is charred, can it still be made into anything!

nasb@Ezekiel:8:6" @Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, 'As the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem;

nasb@Ezekiel:8:7 @and I set My face against them. Though they have come out of the fire, yet the fire will consume them. Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I set My face against them.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:8 @'Thus I will make the land desolate, because they have acted unfaithfully,'" declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:16 @Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:2" @Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations

nasb@Ezekiel:8:3 @and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem, "Your origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite, your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:4" @As for your birth, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing; you were not rubbed with salt or even wrapped in cloths.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:5" @No eye looked with pity on you to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you. Rather you were thrown out into the open field, for you were abhorred on the day you were born.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:6" @When I passed by you and saw you squirming in your blood, I said to you while you were in your blood, 'Live!' Yes, I said to you while you were in your blood, 'Live!'

nasb@Ezekiel:8:7" @I made you numerous like plants of the field. Then you grew up, became tall and reached the age for fine ornaments; your breasts were formed and your hair had grown. Yet you were naked and bare.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:8" @Then I passed by you and saw you, and behold, you were at the time for love; so I spread My skirt over you and covered your nakedness. I also swore to you and entered into a covenant with you so that you became Mine," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:9" @Then I bathed you with water, washed off your blood from you and anointed you with oil.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:10" @I also clothed you with embroidered cloth and put sandals of porpoise skin on your feet; and I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:12" @I also put a ring in your nostril, earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:14" @Then your fame went forth among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of My splendor which I bestowed on you," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:15" @But you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot because of your fame, and you poured out your harlotries on every passer-by who might be willing.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:16" @You took some of your clothes, made for yourself high places of various colors and played the harlot on them, which should never come about nor happen.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:17" @You also took your beautiful jewels made of My gold and of My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images that you might play the harlot with them.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:18" @Then you took your embroidered cloth and covered them, and offered My oil and My incense before them.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:19" @Also My bread which I gave you, fine flour, oil and honey with which I fed you, you would offer before them for a soothing aroma; so it happened," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:20" @Moreover, you took your sons and daughters whom you had borne to Me and sacrificed them to idols to be devoured. Were your harlotries so small a matter?

nasb@Ezekiel:8:21" @You slaughtered My children and offered them up to idols by causing them to pass through the fire.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:22" @Besides all your abominations and harlotries you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare and squirming in your blood.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:23" @Then it came about after all your wickedness ('Woe, woe to you!' declares the Lord GOD),

nasb@Ezekiel:8:25" @You built yourself a high place at the top of every street and made your beauty abominable, and you spread your legs to every passer-by to multiply your harlotry.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:26" @You also played the harlot with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, and multiplied your harlotry to make Me angry.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:27" @Behold now, I have stretched out My hand against you and diminished your rations. And I delivered you up to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd conduct.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:28" @Moreover, you played the harlot with the Assyrians because you were not satisfied; you played the harlot with them and still were not satisfied.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:29" @You also multiplied your harlotry with the land of merchants, Chaldea, yet even with this you were not satisfied."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:8:30" @How languishing is your heart," declares the Lord GOD, "while you do all these things, the actions of a bold-faced harlot.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:31" @When you built your shrine at the beginning of every street and made your high place in every square, in disdaining money, you were not like a harlot.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:32" @You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

nasb@Ezekiel:8:33" @Men give gifts to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers to bribe them to come to you from every direction for your harlotries.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:34" @Thus you are different from those women in your harlotries, in that no one plays the harlot as you do, because you give money and no money is given you; thus you are different."

nasb@Ezekiel:8:35 @Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:36 @Thus says the Lord GOD, "Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your harlotries with your lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your sons which you gave to idols,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:37 @therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, even all those whom you loved and all those whom you hated. So I will gather them against you from every direction and expose your nakedness to them that they may see all your nakedness.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:38" @Thus I will judge you like women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:39" @I will also give you into the hands of your lovers, and they will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, strip you of your clothing, take away your jewels, and will leave you naked and bare.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:40" @They will incite a crowd against you and they will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:41" @They will burn your houses with fire and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. Then I will stop you from playing the harlot, and you will also no longer pay your lovers.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:43" @Because you have not remembered the days of your youth but have enraged Me by all these things, behold, I in turn will bring your conduct down on your own head," declares the Lord GOD, "so that you will not commit this lewdness on top of all your other abominations.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:44" @Behold, everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb concerning you, saying, 'Like mother, like daughter.'

nasb@Ezekiel:8:45" @You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and children. You are also the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:46" @Now your older sister is Samaria, who lives north of you with her daughters; and your younger sister, who lives south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:47" @Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or done according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you acted more corruptly in all your conduct than they.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:48" @As I live," declares the Lord GOD, "Sodom, your sister and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:49" @Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom- she and her daughters had arrogance, abundant food and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:50" @Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore I removed them when I saw it.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:51" @Furthermore, Samaria did not commit half of your sins, for you have multiplied your abominations more than they. Thus you have made your sisters appear righteous by all your abominations which you have committed.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:52" @Also bear your disgrace in that you have made judgment favorable for your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. Yes, be also ashamed and bear your disgrace, in that you made your sisters appear righteous.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:53" @Nevertheless, I will restore their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and along with them your own captivity,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:54 @in order that you may bear your humiliation and feel ashamed for all that you have done when you become a consolation to them.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:55" @Your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will return to their former state, and you with your daughters will also return to your former state.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:56" @As the name of your sister Sodom was not heard from your lips in your day of pride,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:57 @before your wickedness was uncovered, so now you have become the reproach of the daughters of Edom and of all who are around her, of the daughters of the Philistines--those surrounding you who despise you.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:58" @You have borne the penalty of your lewdness and abominations," the LORD declares.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:59 @For thus says the Lord GOD, "I will also do with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:60" @Nevertheless, I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:61" @Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, both your older and your younger; and I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of your covenant.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:62" @Thus I will establish My covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the LORD,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:63 @so that you may remember and be ashamed and never open your mouth anymore because of your humiliation, when I have forgiven you for all that you have done," the Lord GOD declares.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:17 @Now the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:2" @Son of man, propound a riddle and speak a parable to the house of Israel,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:3 @saying, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "A great eagle with great wings, long pinions and a full plumage of many colors came to Lebanon and took away the top of the cedar.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:4" @He plucked off the topmost of its young twigs and brought it to a land of merchants; he set it in a city of traders.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:5" @He also took some of the seed of the land and planted it in fertile soil. He placed it beside abundant waters; he set it like a willow.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:6" @Then it sprouted and became a low, spreading vine with its branches turned toward him, but its roots remained under it. So it became a vine and yielded shoots and sent out branches.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:7" @But there was another great eagle with great wings and much plumage; and behold, this vine bent its roots toward him and sent out its branches toward him from the beds where it was planted, that he might water it.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:8" @It was planted in good soil beside abundant waters, that it might yield branches and bear fruit and become a splendid vine."'

nasb@Ezekiel:8:9" @Say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Will it thrive? Will he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, so that it withers--so that all its sprouting leaves wither? And neither by great strength nor by many people can it be raised from its roots again.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:10" @Behold, though it is planted, will it thrive? Will it not completely wither as soon as the east wind strikes it--wither on the beds where it grew?"'"

nasb@Ezekiel:8:11 @Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:12" @Say now to the rebellious house, 'Do you not know what these things mean?' Say, 'Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, took its king and princes and brought them to him in Babylon.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:13 @'He took one of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. He also took away the mighty of the land,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:14 @that the kingdom might be in subjection, not exalting itself, but keeping his covenant that it might continue.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:15 @'But he rebelled against him by sending his envoys to Egypt that they might give him horses and many troops. Will he succeed? Will he who does such things escape? Can he indeed break the covenant and escape?

nasb@Ezekiel:8:16 @'As I live,' declares the Lord GOD, 'Surely in the country of the king who put him on the throne, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke, in Babylon he shall die.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:17 @' Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company will not help him in the war, when they cast up ramps and build siege walls to cut off many lives.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:18 @'Now he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, and behold, he pledged his allegiance, yet did all these things; he shall not escape.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:8:19 @Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, "As I live, surely My oath which he despised and My covenant which he broke, I will inflict on his head.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:20" @I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. Then I will bring him to Babylon and enter into judgment with him there regarding the unfaithful act which he has committed against Me.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:21" @All the choice men in all his troops will fall by the sword, and the survivors will be scattered to every wind; and you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken."

nasb@Ezekiel:8:22 @Thus says the Lord GOD, "I will also take a sprig from the lofty top of the cedar and set it out; I will pluck from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:23" @On the high mountain of Israel I will plant it, that it may bring forth boughs and bear fruit and become a stately cedar. And birds of every kind will nest under it; they will nest in the shade of its branches.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:24" @All the trees of the field will know that I am the LORD; I bring down the high tree, exalt the low tree, dry up the green tree and make the dry tree flourish. I am the LORD; I have spoken, and I will perform it."

nasb@Ezekiel:8:18 @Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:2" @ What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, ' The fathers eat the sour grapes, But the children's teeth are set on edge'?

nasb@Ezekiel:8:3" @As I live," declares the Lord GOD, "you are surely not going to use this proverb in Israel anymore.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:4" @Behold, all souls are Mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is Mine. The soul who sins will die.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:6 @and does not eat at the mountain shrines or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, or defile his neighbor's wife or approach a woman during her menstrual period--

nasb@Ezekiel:8:7 @if a man does not oppress anyone, but restores to the debtor his pledge, does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:8 @if he does not lend money on interest or take increase, if he keeps his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between man and man,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:9 @if he walks in My statutes and My ordinances so as to deal faithfully-- he is righteous and will surely live," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:10" @Then he may have a violent son who sheds blood and who does any of these things to a brother

nasb@Ezekiel:8:11 @(though he himself did not do any of these things), that is, he even eats at the mountain shrines, and defiles his neighbor's wife,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:12 @oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore a pledge, but lifts up his eyes to the idols and commits abomination,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:13 @he lends money on interest and takes increase; will he live? He will not live! He has committed all these abominations, he will surely be put to death; his blood will be on his own head.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:14" @Now behold, he has a son who has observed all his father's sins which he committed, and observing does not do likewise.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:15" @He does not eat at the mountain shrines or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, or defile his neighbor's wife,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:16 @or oppress anyone, or retain a pledge, or commit robbery, but he gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing,

nasb@Ezekiel:8:17 @he keeps his hand from the poor, does not take interest or increase, but executes My ordinances, and walks in My statutes; he will not die for his father's iniquity, he will surely live.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:18" @As for his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother and did what was not good among his people, behold, he will die for his iniquity.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:19" @Yet you say, ' Why should the son not bear the punishment for the father's iniquity?' When the son has practiced justice and righteousness and has observed all My statutes and done them, he shall surely live.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:20" @The person who sins will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the father's iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the son's iniquity; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:21" @But if the wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed and observes all My statutes and practices justice and righteousness, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:22" @ All his transgressions which he has committed will not be remembered against him; because of his righteousness which he has practiced, he will live.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:23" @ Do I have any pleasure in the death of the wicked," declares the Lord GOD, "rather than that he should turn from his ways and live?

nasb@Ezekiel:8:24" @But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity and does according to all the abominations that a wicked man does, will he live? All his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered for his treachery which he has committed and his sin which he has committed; for them he will die.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:25" @Yet you say, ' The way of the Lord is not right.' Hear now, O house of Israel! Is My way not right? Is it not your ways that are not right?

nasb@Ezekiel:8:26" @When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity and dies because of it, for his iniquity which he has committed he will die.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:27" @Again, when a wicked man turns away from his wickedness which he has committed and practices justice and righteousness, he will save his life.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:28" @Because he considered and turned away from all his transgressions which he had committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:29" @But the house of Israel says, 'The way of the Lord is not right.' Are My ways not right, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are not right?

nasb@Ezekiel:8:30" @Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each according to his conduct," declares the Lord GOD. " Repent and turn away from all your transgressions, so that iniquity may not become a stumbling block to you.

nasb@Ezekiel:8:31" @ Cast away from you all your transgressions which you have committed and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! For why will you die, O house of Israel?

nasb@Ezekiel:8:32" @For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies," declares the Lord GOD. "Therefore, repent and live."

nasb@Ezekiel:9:1" @As for you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel

nasb@Ezekiel:9:2 @and say, 'What was your mother? A lioness among lions! She lay down among young lions, She reared her cubs.

nasb@Ezekiel:9:3 @'When she brought up one of her cubs, He became a lion, And he learned to tear his prey; He devoured men.

nasb@Ezekiel:9:4 @'Then nations heard about him; He was captured in their pit, And they brought him with hooks To the land of Egypt.

nasb@Ezekiel:9:5 @'When she saw, as she waited, That her hope was lost, She took another of her cubs And made him a young lion.

nasb@Ezekiel:9:6 @'And he walked about among the lions; He became a young lion, He learned to tear his prey; He devoured men.

nasb@Ezekiel:9:7 @'He destroyed their fortified towers And laid waste their cities; And the land and its fullness were appalled Because of the sound of his roaring.

nasb@Ezekiel:9:8 @'Then nations set against him On every side from their provinces, And they spread their net over him; He was captured in their pit.

nasb@Ezekiel:9:9 @' They put him in a cage with hooks And brought him to the king of Babylon; They brought him in hunting nets So that his voice would be heard no more On the mountains of Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:9:10 @'Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, Planted by the waters; It was fruitful and full of branches Because of abundant waters.

nasb@Ezekiel:9:11 @'And it had strong branches fit for scepters of rulers, And its height was raised above the clouds So that it was seen in its height with the mass of its branches.

nasb@Ezekiel:9:12 @'But it was plucked up in fury; It was cast down to the ground; And the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branch was torn off So that it withered; The fire consumed it.

nasb@Ezekiel:9:13 @'And now it is planted in the wilderness, In a dry and thirsty land.

nasb@Ezekiel:9:14 @'And fire has gone out from its branch; It has consumed its shoots and fruit, So that there is not in it a strong branch, A scepter to rule.'" This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:1 @Now in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and sat before me.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:2 @And the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:3" @Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Do you come to inquire of Me? As I live," declares the Lord GOD, " I will not be inquired of by you."'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:4" @Will you judge them, will you judge them, son of man? Make them know the abominations of their fathers;

nasb@Ezekiel:10:5 @and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "On the day when I chose Israel and swore to the descendants of the house of Jacob and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I swore to them, saying, I am the LORD your God,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:6 @on that day I swore to them, to bring them out from the land of Egypt into a land that I had selected for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:7" @I said to them, ' Cast away, each of you, the detestable things of his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:8" @But they rebelled against Me and were not willing to listen to Me; they did not cast away the detestable things of their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath on them, to accomplish My anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:9" @But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made Myself known to them by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:10" @So I took them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:11" @I gave them My statutes and informed them of My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:12" @Also I gave them My sabbaths to be a sign between Me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:13" @But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not walk in My statutes and they rejected My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live; and My sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath on them in the wilderness, to annihilate them.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:14" @But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, before whose sight I had brought them out.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:15" @Also I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:16 @because they rejected My ordinances, and as for My statutes, they did not walk in them; they even profaned My sabbaths, for their heart continually went after their idols.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:17" @Yet My eye spared them rather than destroying them, and I did not cause their annihilation in the wilderness.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:18" @I said to their children in the wilderness, ' Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:19 @' I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and observe them.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:20 @' Sanctify My sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:21" @But the children rebelled against Me; they did not walk in My statutes, nor were they careful to observe My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live; they profaned My sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath on them, to accomplish My anger against them in the wilderness.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:22" @But I withdrew My hand and acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:23" @Also I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them among the lands,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:24 @because they had not observed My ordinances, but had rejected My statutes and had profaned My sabbaths, and their eyes were on the idols of their fathers.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:25" @I also gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live;

nasb@Ezekiel:10:26 @and I pronounced them unclean because of their gifts, in that they caused all their firstborn to pass through the fire so that I might make them desolate, in order that they might know that I am the LORD."'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:27" @Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed Me by acting treacherously against Me.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:28" @When I had brought them into the land which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every leafy tree, and they offered there their sacrifices and there they presented the provocation of their offering. There also they made their soothing aroma and there they poured out their drink offerings.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:29" @Then I said to them, 'What is the high place to which you go?' So its name is called Bamah to this day."'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:30" @Therefore, say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Will you defile yourselves after the manner of your fathers and play the harlot after their detestable things?

nasb@Ezekiel:10:31" @When you offer your gifts, when you cause your sons to pass through the fire, you are defiling yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live," declares the Lord GOD, "I will not be inquired of by you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:32" @What comes into your mind will not come about, when you say- 'We will be like the nations, like the tribes of the lands, serving wood and stone.'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:33" @As I live," declares the Lord GOD, "surely with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out, I shall be king over you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:34" @I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you from the lands where you are scattered, with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out;

nasb@Ezekiel:10:35 @and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:36" @As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:37" @I will make you pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant;

nasb@Ezekiel:10:38 @and I will purge from you the rebels and those who transgress against Me; I will bring them out of the land where they sojourn, but they will not enter the land of Israel. Thus you will know that I am the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:39" @As for you, O house of Israel," thus says the Lord GOD, " Go, serve everyone his idols; but later you will surely listen to Me, and My holy name you will profane no longer with your gifts and with your idols.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:40" @For on My holy mountain, on the high mountain of Israel," declares the Lord GOD, "there the whole house of Israel, all of them, will serve Me in the land; there I will accept them and there I will seek your contributions and the choicest of your gifts, with all your holy things.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:41" @As a soothing aroma I will accept you when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you from the lands where you are scattered; and I will prove Myself holy among you in the sight of the nations.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:42" @And you will know that I am the LORD, when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the land which I swore to give to your forefathers.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:43" @There you will remember your ways and all your deeds with which you have defiled yourselves; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for all the evil things that you have done.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:44" @Then you will know that I am the LORD when I have dealt with you for My name's sake, not according to your evil ways or according to your corrupt deeds, O house of Israel," declares the Lord GOD.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:45 @Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:46" @Son of man, set your face toward Teman, and speak out against the south and prophesy against the forest land of the Negev,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:47 @and say to the forest of the Negev, 'Hear the word of the LORD- thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am about to kindle a fire in you, and it will consume every green tree in you, as well as every dry tree; the blazing flame will not be quenched and the whole surface from south to north will be burned by it.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:48" @All flesh will see that I, the LORD, have kindled it; it shall not be quenched."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:49 @Then I said, "Ah Lord GOD! They are saying of me, 'Is he not just speaking parables?'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:21 @And the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:2" @Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and speak against the sanctuaries and prophesy against the land of Israel;

nasb@Ezekiel:10:3 @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 from you the righteous and the wicked.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:4" @Because I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore My sword will go forth from its sheath against all flesh from south to north.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:5" @Thus all flesh will know that I, the LORD, have drawn My sword out of its sheath. It will not return to its sheath again."'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:6" @As for you, son of man, groan with breaking heart and bitter grief, groan in their sight.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:7" @And when they say to you, 'Why do you groan?' you shall say, 'Because of the news that is coming; and every heart will melt, all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes and it will happen,' declares the Lord GOD."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:8 @Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:9" @Son of man, prophesy and say, 'Thus says the LORD.' Say, ' A sword, a sword sharpened And also polished!

nasb@Ezekiel:10:10 @'Sharpened to make a slaughter, Polished to flash like lightning!' Or shall we rejoice, the rod of My son despising every tree?

nasb@Ezekiel:10:11" @It is given to be polished, that it may be handled; the sword is sharpened and polished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:12" @ Cry out and wail, son of man; for it is against My people, it is against all the officials of Israel. They are delivered over to the sword with My people, therefore strike your thigh.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:13" @For there is a testing; and what if even the rod which despises will be no more?" declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:14" @You therefore, son of man, prophesy and clap your hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword for the slain. It is the sword for the great one slain, which surrounds them,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:15 @that their hearts may melt, and many fall at all their gates. I have given the glittering sword. Ah! It is made for striking like lightning, it is wrapped up in readiness for slaughter.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:16" @Show yourself sharp, go to the right; set yourself; go to the left, wherever your edge is appointed.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:17" @I will also clap My hands together, and I will appease My wrath; I, the LORD, have spoken."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:18 @The word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:19" @As for you, son of man, make two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come; both of them will go out of one land. And make a signpost; make it at the head of the way to the city.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:20" @You shall mark a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the sons of Ammon, and to Judah into fortified Jerusalem.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:21" @For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination; he shakes the arrows, he consults the household idols, he looks at the liver.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:22" @Into his right hand came the divination, 'Jerusalem,' to set battering rams, to open the mouth for slaughter, to lift up the voice with a battle cry, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up ramps, to build a siege wall.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:23" @And it will be to them like a false divination in their eyes; they have sworn solemn oaths. But he brings iniquity to remembrance, that they may be seized.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:24" @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 deeds your sins appear--because you have come to remembrance, you will be seized with the hand.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:25 @'And you, O slain, wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the punishment of the end,'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:26 @thus says the Lord GOD, 'Remove the turban and take off the crown; this will no longer be the same. Exalt that which is low and abase that which is high.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:27 @' A ruin, a ruin, a ruin, I will make it. This also will be no more until He comes whose right it is, and I will give it to Him.'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:28" @And you, son of man, prophesy and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the sons of Ammon and concerning their reproach,' and say- 'A sword, a sword is drawn, polished for the slaughter, to cause it to consume, that it may be like lightning--

nasb@Ezekiel:10:29 @while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies for you--to place you on the necks of the wicked who are slain, whose day has come, in the time of the punishment of the end.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:30 @' Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:31 @'I will pour out My indignation on you; I will blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and I will give you into the hand of brutal men, skilled in destruction.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:32 @'You will be fuel for the fire; your blood will be in the midst of the land. You will not be remembered, for I, the LORD, have spoken.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:22 @Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:2" @And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:3" @You shall say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "A city shedding blood in her midst, so that her time will come, and that makes idols, contrary to her interest, for defilement!

nasb@Ezekiel:10:4" @You have become guilty by the blood which you have shed, and defiled by your idols which you have made. Thus you have brought your day near and have come to your years; therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mocking to all the lands.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:6" @Behold, the rulers of Israel, each according to his power, have been in you for the purpose of shedding blood.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:7" @They have treated father and mother lightly within you. The alien they have oppressed in your midst; the fatherless and the widow they have wronged in you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:9" @Slanderous men have been in you for the purpose of shedding blood, and in you they have eaten at the mountain shrines. In your midst they have committed acts of lewdness.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:10" @In you they have uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in you they have humbled her who was unclean in her menstrual impurity.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:11" @One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. And another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:12" @In you they have taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and profits, and you have injured your neighbors for gain by oppression, and you have forgotten Me," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:13" @Behold, then, I smite My hand at your dishonest gain which you have acquired and at the bloodshed which is among you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:14" @Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong in the days that I will deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken and will act.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:15" @I will scatter you among the nations and I will disperse you through the lands, and I will consume your uncleanness from you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:16" @You will profane yourself in the sight of the nations, and you will know that I am the LORD."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:17 @And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:18" @Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace; they are the dross of silver.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:19" @Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, 'Because all of you have become dross, therefore, behold, I am going to gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:20 @'As they gather silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into the furnace to blow fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you in My anger and in My wrath and I will lay you there and melt you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:21 @'I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and you will be melted in the midst of it.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:22 @'As silver is melted in the furnace, so you will be melted in the midst of it; and you will know that I, the LORD, have poured out My wrath on you.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:23 @And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:24" @Son of man, say to her, 'You are a land that is not cleansed or rained on in the day of indignation.'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:25" @There is a conspiracy of her prophets in her midst like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have devoured lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in the midst of her.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:26" @Her priests have done violence to My law and have profaned My holy things; they have made no distinction between the holy and the profane, and they have not taught the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they hide their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:27" @Her princes within her are like wolves tearing the prey, by shedding blood and destroying lives in order to get dishonest gain.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:28" @Her prophets have smeared whitewash for them, seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, 'Thus says the Lord GOD,' when the LORD has not spoken.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:29" @The people of the land have practiced oppression and committed robbery, and they have wronged the poor and needy and have oppressed the sojourner without justice.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:30" @I searched for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before Me for the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:31" @Thus I have poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; their way I have brought upon their heads," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:23 @The word of the LORD came to me again, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:2" @Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother;

nasb@Ezekiel:10:3 @and they played the harlot in Egypt. They played the harlot in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and there their virgin bosom was handled.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:4" @Their names were Oholah the elder and Oholibah her sister. And they became Mine, and they bore sons and daughters. And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah and Jerusalem is Oholibah.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:5" @Oholah played the harlot while she was Mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians, her neighbors,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:6 @who were clothed in purple, governors and officials, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:7" @She bestowed her harlotries on them, all of whom were the choicest men of Assyria; and with all whom she lusted after, with all their idols she defiled herself.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:8" @She did not forsake her harlotries from the time in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her, and they handled her virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:9" @Therefore, I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:10" @They uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters, but they slew her with the sword. Thus she became a byword among women, and they executed judgments on her.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:11" @Now her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lust than she, and her harlotries were more than the harlotries of her sister.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:12" @She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and officials, the ones near, magnificently dressed, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:13" @I saw that she had defiled herself; they both took the same way.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:14" @So she increased her harlotries. And she saw men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:15 @girded with belts on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, like the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:16" @When she saw them she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:17" @The Babylonians came to her to the bed of love and defiled her with their harlotry. And when she had been defiled by them, she became disgusted with them.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:18" @She uncovered her harlotries and uncovered her nakedness; then I became disgusted with her, as I had become disgusted with her sister.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:19" @Yet she multiplied her harlotries, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:20" @She lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:21" @Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom because of the breasts of your youth.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:22" @Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold I will arouse your lovers against you, from whom you were alienated, and I will bring them against you from every side-

nasb@Ezekiel:10:23 @the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them; desirable young men, governors and officials all of them, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:24 @'They will come against you with weapons, chariots and wagons, and with a company of peoples. They will set themselves against you on every side with buckler and shield and helmet; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they will judge you according to their customs.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:25 @'I will set My jealousy against you, that they may deal with you in wrath. They will remove your nose and your ears; and your survivors will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters; and your survivors will be consumed by the fire.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:26 @'They will also strip you of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewels.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:27 @'Thus I will make your lewdness and your harlotry brought from the land of Egypt to cease from you, so that you will not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:28" @For thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, I will give you into the hand of those whom you hate, into the hand of those from whom you were alienated.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:29 @'They will deal with you in hatred, take all your property, and leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your harlotries will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your harlotries.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:30 @'These things will be done to you because you have played the harlot with the nations, because you have defiled yourself with their idols.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:31 @'You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore I will give her cup into your hand.'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:32" @Thus says the Lord GOD, 'You will drink your sister's cup, Which is deep and wide. You will be laughed at and held in derision; It contains much.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:33 @'You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, The cup of horror and desolation, The cup of your sister Samaria.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:34 @'You will drink it and drain it. Then you will gnaw its fragments And tear your breasts; for I have spoken,' declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:35" @Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, 'Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, bear now the punishment of your lewdness and your harlotries.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:36 @Moreover, the LORD said to me, "Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:37" @For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. Thus they have committed adultery with their idols and even caused their sons, whom they bore to Me, to pass through the fire to them as food.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:38" @Again, they have done this to Me- they have defiled My sanctuary on the same day and have profaned My sabbaths.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:39" @For when they had slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My sanctuary on the same day to profane it; and lo, thus they did within My house.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:40" @Furthermore, they have even sent for men who come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and lo, they came--for whom you bathed, painted your eyes and decorated yourselves with ornaments;

nasb@Ezekiel:10:42" @The sound of a carefree multitude was with her; and drunkards were brought from the wilderness with men of the common sort. And they put bracelets on the hands of the women and beautiful crowns on their heads.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:43" @Then I said concerning her who was worn out by adulteries, 'Will they now commit adultery with her when she is thus?'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:44" @But they went in to her as they would go in to a harlot. Thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:45" @But they, righteous men, will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:46" @For thus says the Lord GOD, 'Bring up a company against them and give them over to terror and plunder.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:47 @'The company will stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords; they will slay their sons and their daughters and burn their houses with fire.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:48 @'Thus I will make lewdness cease from the land, that all women may be admonished and not commit lewdness as you have done.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:49 @'Your lewdness will be requited upon you, and you will bear the penalty of worshiping your idols; thus you will know that I am the Lord GOD.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:24 @And the word of the LORD came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:2" @Son of man, write the name of the day, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:3" @Speak a parable to the rebellious house and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Put on the pot, put it on and also pour water in it;

nasb@Ezekiel:10:4 @Put in it the pieces, Every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder; Fill it with choice bones.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:5" @Take the choicest of the flock, And also pile wood under the pot. Make it boil vigorously. Also seethe its bones in it."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:6 @'Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, "Woe to the bloody city, To the pot in which there is rust And whose rust has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece, Without making a choice.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:7" @For her blood is in her midst; She placed it on the bare rock; She did not pour it on the ground To cover it with dust.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:8" @That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have put her blood on the bare rock, That it may not be covered."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:9 @'Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, " Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:10" @Heap on the wood, kindle the fire, Boil the flesh well And mix in the spices, And let the bones be burned.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:11" @Then set it empty on its coals So that it may be hot And its bronze may glow And its filthiness may be melted in it, Its rust consumed.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:12" @She has wearied Me with toil, Yet her great rust has not gone from her; Let her rust be in the fire!

nasb@Ezekiel:10:14" @I, the LORD, have spoken; it is coming and I will act. I will not relent, and I will not pity and I will not be sorry; according to your ways and according to your deeds I will judge you," declares the Lord GOD.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:15 @And the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:16" @Son of man, behold, I am about to take from you the desire of your eyes with a blow; but you shall not mourn and you shall not weep, and your tears shall not come.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:17" @Groan silently; make no mourning for the dead. Bind on your turban and put your shoes on your feet, and do not cover your mustache and do not eat the bread of men."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:18 @So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And in the morning I did as I was commanded.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:19 @The people said to me, "Will you not tell us what these things that you are doing mean for us?"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:20 @Then I said to them, "The word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:21 @'Speak to the house of Israel, "Thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, I am about to profane My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes and the delight of your soul; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:22 @'You will do as I have done; you will not cover your mustache and you will not eat the bread of men.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:23 @'Your turbans will be on your heads and your shoes on your feet. You will not mourn and you will not weep, but you will rot away in your iniquities and you will groan to one another.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:24 @'Thus Ezekiel will be a sign to you; according to all that he has done you will do; when it comes, then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:25 @'As for you, son of man, will it not be on the day when I take from them their stronghold, the joy of their pride, the desire of their eyes and their heart's delight, their sons and their daughters,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:26 @that on that day he who escapes will come to you with information for your ears?

nasb@Ezekiel:10:27 @'On that day your mouth will be opened to him who escaped, and you will speak and be mute no longer. Thus you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am the LORD.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:25 @And the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:2" @Son of man, set your face toward the sons of Ammon and prophesy against them,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:3 @and say to the sons of Ammon, '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 made desolate, and against the house of Judah when they went into exile,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:4 @therefore, behold, I am going to give you to the sons of the east for a possession, and they will set their encampments among you and make their dwellings among you; they will eat your fruit and drink your milk.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:5" @I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and the sons of Ammon a resting place for flocks. Thus you will know that I am the LORD."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:6 @'For thus says the Lord GOD, "Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet and rejoiced with all the scorn of your soul against the land of Israel,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:7 @therefore, behold, I have stretched out My hand against you and I will give you for spoil to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and make you perish from the lands; I will destroy you. Thus you will know that I am the LORD."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:8 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Because Moab and Seir say, 'Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations,'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:9 @therefore, behold, I am going to deprive the flank of Moab of its cities, of its cities which are on its frontiers, the glory of the land, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon and Kiriathaim,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:10 @and I will give it for a possession along with the sons of Ammon to the sons of the east, so that the sons of Ammon will not be remembered among the nations.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:11" @Thus I will execute judgments on Moab, and they will know that I am the LORD."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:12 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Because Edom has acted against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has incurred grievous guilt, and avenged themselves upon them,"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:13 @therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "I will also stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off man and beast from it. And I will lay it waste; from Teman even to Dedan they will fall by the sword.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:14" @ I will lay My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel. Therefore, they will act in Edom according to My anger and according to My wrath; thus they will know My vengeance," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:15 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Because the Philistines have acted in revenge and have taken vengeance with scorn of soul to destroy with everlasting enmity,"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:16 @therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will stretch out My hand against the Philistines, even cut off the Cherethites and destroy the remnant of the seacoast.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:17" @I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes; and they will know that I am the LORD when I lay My vengeance on them."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:26 @Now in the eleventh year, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:2" @Son of man, because Tyre has said concerning Jerusalem, 'Aha, the gateway of the peoples is broken; it has opened to me. I shall be filled, now that she is laid waste,'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:3 @therefore thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and I will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:4 @'They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers; and I will scrape her debris from her and make her a bare rock.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:5 @'She will be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken,' declares the Lord GOD, 'and she will become spoil for the nations.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:6 @'Also her daughters who are on the mainland will be slain by the sword, and they will know that I am the LORD.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:7 @For thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will bring upon Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses, chariots, cavalry and a great army.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:8" @He will slay your daughters on the mainland with the sword; and he will make siege walls against you, cast up a ramp against you and raise up a large shield against you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:9" @The blow of his battering rams he will direct against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:10" @Because of the multitude of his horses, the dust raised by them will cover you; your walls will shake at the noise of cavalry and wagons and chariots when he enters your gates as men enter a city that is breached.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:11" @With the hoofs of his horses he will trample all your streets. He will slay your people with the sword; and your strong pillars will come down to the ground.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:12" @Also they will make a spoil of your riches and a prey of your merchandise, break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses, and throw your stones and your timbers and your debris into the water.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:13" @So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the sound of your harps will be heard no more.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:14" @I will make you a bare rock; you will be a place for the spreading of nets. You will be built no more, for I the LORD have spoken," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:15 @Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre, "Shall not the coastlands shake at the sound of your fall when the wounded groan, when the slaughter occurs in your midst?

nasb@Ezekiel:10:16" @Then all the princes of the sea will go down from their thrones, remove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on the ground, tremble every moment and be appalled at you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:17" @They will take up a lamentation over you and say to you, ' How you have perished, O inhabited one, From the seas, O renowned city, Which was mighty on the sea, She and her inhabitants, Who imposed her terror On all her inhabitants!

nasb@Ezekiel:10:18 @'Now the coastlands will tremble On the day of your fall; Yes, the coastlands which are by the sea Will be terrified at your passing.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:19 @For thus says the Lord GOD, "When I make you a desolate city, like the cities which are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you and the great waters cover you,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:20 @then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth, like the ancient waste places, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set glory in the land of the living.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:21" @I will bring terrors on you and you will be no more; though you will be sought, you will never be found again," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:27 @Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:3 @and say to Tyre, who dwells at the entrance to the sea, merchant of the peoples to many coastlands, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "O Tyre, you have said, 'I am perfect in beauty.'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:4" @Your borders are in the heart of the seas; Your builders have perfected your beauty.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:5" @They have made all your planks of fir trees from Senir; They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:6" @Of oaks from Bashan they have made your oars; With ivory they have inlaid your deck of boxwood from the coastlands of Cyprus.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:7" @Your sail was of fine embroidered linen from Egypt So that it became your distinguishing mark; Your awning was blue and purple from the coastlands of Elishah.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:8" @The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers; Your wise men, O Tyre, were aboard; they were your pilots.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:9" @The elders of Gebal and her wise men were with you repairing your seams; All the ships of the sea and their sailors were with you in order to deal in your merchandise.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:10" @ Persia and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war. They hung shield and helmet in you; they set forth your splendor.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:11" @The sons of Arvad and your army were on your walls, all around, and the Gammadim were in your towers. They hung their shields on your walls all around; they perfected your beauty.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:12" @Tarshish was your customer because of the abundance of all kinds of wealth; with silver, iron, tin and lead they paid for your wares.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:13" @ Javan, Tubal and Meshech, they were your traders; with the lives of men and vessels of bronze they paid for your merchandise.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:15" @The sons of Dedan were your traders. Many coastlands were your market; ivory tusks and ebony they brought as your payment.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:16" @ Aram was your customer because of the abundance of your goods; they paid for your wares with emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral and rubies.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:17" @Judah and the land of Israel, they were your traders; with the wheat of Minnith, cakes, honey, oil and balm they paid for your merchandise.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:18" @ Damascus was your customer because of the abundance of your goods, because of the abundance of all kinds of wealth, because of the wine of Helbon and white wool.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:21" @ Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, they were your customers for lambs, rams and goats; for these they were your customers.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:22" @The traders of Sheba and Raamah, they traded with you; they paid for your wares with the best of all kinds of spices, and with all kinds of precious stones and gold.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:23" @Haran, Canneh, Eden, the traders of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad traded with you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:24" @They traded with you in choice garments, in clothes of blue and embroidered work, and in carpets of many colors and tightly wound cords, which were among your merchandise.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:25" @The ships of Tarshish were the carriers for your merchandise. And you were filled and were very glorious In the heart of the seas.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:26" @Your rowers have brought you Into great waters; The east wind has broken you In the heart of the seas.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:27" @Your wealth, your wares, your merchandise, Your sailors and your pilots, Your repairers of seams, your dealers in merchandise And all your men of war who are in you, With all your company that is in your midst, Will fall into the heart of the seas On the day of your overthrow.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:28" @At the sound of the cry of your pilots The pasture lands will shake.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:29" @All who handle the oar, The sailors and all the pilots of the sea Will come down from their ships; They will stand on the land,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:30 @And they will make their voice heard over you And will cry bitterly. They will cast dust on their heads, They will wallow in ashes.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:31" @Also they will make themselves bald for you And gird themselves with sackcloth; And they will weep for you in bitterness of soul With bitter mourning.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:32" @Moreover, in their wailing they will take up a lamentation for you And lament over you- 'Who is like Tyre, Like her who is silent in the midst of the sea?

nasb@Ezekiel:10:33 @'When your wares went out from the seas, You satisfied many peoples; With the abundance of your wealth and your merchandise You enriched the kings of earth.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:34 @'Now that you are broken by the seas In the depths of the waters, Your merchandise and all your company Have fallen in the midst of you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:35 @'All the inhabitants of the coastlands Are appalled at you, And their kings are horribly afraid; They are troubled in countenance.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:36 @'The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; You have become terrified And you will cease to be forever.'"'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:28 @The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:2" @Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Because your heart is lifted up And you have said, ' I am a god, I sit in the seat of gods In the heart of the seas'; Yet you are a man and not God, Although you make your heart like the heart of God--

nasb@Ezekiel:10:3 @Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; There is no secret that is a match for you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:4" @By your wisdom and understanding You have acquired riches for yourself And have acquired gold and silver for your treasuries.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:5" @By your great wisdom, by your trade You have increased your riches And your heart is lifted up because of your riches--

nasb@Ezekiel:10:6 @Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, 'Because you have made your heart Like the heart of God,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:7 @Therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon you, The most ruthless of the nations. And they will draw their swords Against the beauty of your wisdom And defile your splendor.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:8 @'They will bring you down to the pit, And you will die the death of those who are slain In the heart of the seas.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:9 @'Will you still say, "I am a god," In the presence of your slayer, Though you are a man and not God, In the hands of those who wound you?

nasb@Ezekiel:10:10 @'You will die the death of the uncircumcised By the hand of strangers, For I have spoken!' declares the Lord GOD!"'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:11 @Again the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:12" @Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre and say to him, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "You had the seal of perfection, Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:13" @You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every precious stone was your covering- The ruby, the topaz and the diamond; The beryl, the onyx and the jasper; The lapis lazuli, the turquoise and the emerald; And the gold, the workmanship of your settings and sockets, Was in you. On the day that you were created They were prepared.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:14" @You were the anointed cherub who covers, And I placed you there. You were on the holy mountain of God; You walked in the midst of the stones of fire.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:15" @You were blameless in your ways From the day you were created Until unrighteousness was found in you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:16" @By the abundance of your trade You were internally filled with violence, And you sinned; Therefore I have cast you as profane From the mountain of God. And I have destroyed you, O covering cherub, From the midst of the stones of fire.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:17" @Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; You corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I put you before kings, That they may see you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:18" @By the multitude of your iniquities, In the unrighteousness of your trade You profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought fire from the midst of you; It has consumed you, And I have turned you to ashes on the earth In the eyes of all who see you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:19" @All who know you among the peoples Are appalled at you; You have become terrified And you will cease to be forever."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:20 @And the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:21" @Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, prophesy against her

nasb@Ezekiel:10:22 @and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am against you, O Sidon, And I will be glorified in your midst. Then they will know that I am the LORD when I execute judgments in her, And I will manifest My holiness in her.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:23" @For I will send pestilence to her And blood to her streets, And the wounded will fall in her midst By the sword upon her on every side; Then they will know that I am the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:24" @And there will be no more for the house of Israel a prickling brier or a painful thorn from any round about them who scorned them; then they will know that I am the Lord GOD."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:25 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and will manifest My holiness in them in the sight of the nations, then they will live in their land which I gave to My servant Jacob.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:26" @They will live in it securely; and they will build houses, plant vineyards and live securely when I execute judgments upon all who scorn them round about them. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:29 @In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:2" @Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:3" @Speak and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, The great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers, That has said, 'My Nile is mine, and I myself have made it.'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:4" @I will put hooks in your jaws And make the fish of your rivers cling to your scales. And I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, And all the fish of your rivers will cling to your scales.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:5" @I will abandon you to the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers; You will fall on the open field; you will not be brought together or gathered. I have given you for food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the sky.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:6" @Then all the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am the LORD, Because they have been only a staff made of reed to the house of Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:7" @When they took hold of you with the hand, You broke and tore all their hands; And when they leaned on you, You broke and made all their loins quake."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:8 @'Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will bring upon you a sword and I will cut off from you man and beast.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:9" @The land of Egypt will become a desolation and waste. Then they will know that I am the LORD. Because you said, 'The Nile is mine, and I have made it,'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:10 @therefore, behold, I am against you and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene and even to the border of Ethiopia.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:11" @A man's foot will not pass through it, and the foot of a beast will not pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:12" @So I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated lands. And her cities, in the midst of cities that are laid waste, will be desolate forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:13 @'For thus says the Lord GOD, "At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:14" @I will turn the fortunes of Egypt and make them return to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin, and there they will be a lowly kingdom.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:15" @It will be the lowest of the kingdoms, and it will never again lift itself up above the nations. And I will make them so small that they will not rule over the nations.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:16" @And it will never again be the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing to mind the iniquity of their having turned to Egypt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:17 @Now in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:18" @Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre; every head was made bald and every shoulder was rubbed bare. But he and his army had no wages from Tyre for the labor that he had performed against it."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:19 @Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. And he will carry off her wealth and capture her spoil and seize her plunder; and it will be wages for his army.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:20" @I have given him the land of Egypt for his labor which he performed, because they acted for Me," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:21" @On that day I will make a horn sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth in their midst. Then they will know that I am the LORD."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:30 @The word of the LORD came again to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:2" @Son of man, prophesy and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, " Wail, 'Alas for the day!'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:3" @For the day is near, Even the day of the LORD is near; It will be a day of clouds, A time of doom for the nations.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:4" @A sword will come upon Egypt, And anguish will be in Ethiopia; When the slain fall in Egypt, They take away her wealth, And her foundations are torn down.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:5" @Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all Arabia, Libya and the people of the land that is in league will fall with them by the sword."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:6 @'Thus says the LORD, "Indeed, those who support Egypt will fall And the pride of her power will come down; From Migdol to Syene They will fall within her by the sword," Declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:7" @They will be desolate In the midst of the desolated lands; And her cities will be In the midst of the devastated cities.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:8" @And they will know that I am the LORD, When I set a fire in Egypt And all her helpers are broken.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:9" @On that day messengers will go forth from Me in ships to frighten secure Ethiopia; and anguish will be on them as on the day of Egypt; for behold, it comes!"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:10 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, " I will also make the hordes of Egypt cease By the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:11" @He and his people with him, The most ruthless of the nations, Will be brought in to destroy the land; And they will draw their swords against Egypt And fill the land with the slain.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:12" @Moreover, I will make the Nile canals dry And sell the land into the hands of evil men. And I will make the land desolate And all that is in it, By the hand of strangers; I the LORD have spoken."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:13 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "I will also destroy the idols And make the images cease from Memphis. And there will no longer be a prince in the land of Egypt; And I will put fear in the land of Egypt.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:14" @I will make Pathros desolate, Set a fire in Zoan And execute judgments on Thebes.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:15" @I will pour out My wrath on Sin, The stronghold of Egypt; I will also cut off the hordes of Thebes.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:16" @I will set a fire in Egypt; Sin will writhe in anguish, Thebes will be breached And Memphis will have distresses daily.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:17" @The young men of On and of Pi-beseth Will fall by the sword, And the women will go into captivity.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:18" @In Tehaphnehes the day will be dark When I break there the yoke bars of Egypt. Then the pride of her power will cease in her; A cloud will cover her, And her daughters will go into captivity.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:19" @Thus I will execute judgments on Egypt, And they will know that I am the LORD."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:20 @In the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:21" @Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, behold, it has not been bound up for healing or wrapped with a bandage, that it may be strong to hold the sword.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:22" @Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt and will break his arms, both the strong and the broken; and I will make the sword fall from his hand.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:23 @'I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:24 @'For I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put My sword in his hand; and I will break the arms of Pharaoh, so that he will groan before him with the groanings of a wounded man.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:25 @'Thus I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh will fall. Then they will 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.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:26 @'When I scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands, then they will know that I am the LORD.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:31 @In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:3 @'Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon With beautiful branches and forest shade, And very high, And its top was among the clouds.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:4 @'The waters made it grow, the deep made it high. With its rivers it continually extended all around its planting place, And sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:5 @'Therefore its height was loftier than all the trees of the field And its boughs became many and its branches long Because of many waters as it spread them out.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:6 @'All the birds of the heavens nested in its boughs, And under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth, And all great nations lived under its shade.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:7 @'So it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; For its roots extended to many waters.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:8 @'The cedars in God's garden could not match it; The cypresses could not compare with its boughs, And the plane trees could not match its branches. No tree in God's garden could compare with it in its beauty.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:9 @'I made it beautiful with the multitude of its branches, And all the trees of Eden, which were in the garden of God, were jealous of it.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:10 @'Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Because it is high in stature and has set its top among the clouds, and its heart is haughty in its loftiness,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:11 @therefore I will give it into the hand of a despot of the nations; he will thoroughly deal with it. According to its wickedness I have driven it away.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:12" @ Alien tyrants of the nations have cut it down and left it; on the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen and its boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land. And all the peoples of the earth have gone down from its shade and left it.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:13" @On its ruin all the birds of the heavens will dwell, and all the beasts of the field will be on its fallen branches

nasb@Ezekiel:10:14 @so that all the trees by the waters may not be exalted in their stature, nor set their top among the clouds, nor their well-watered mighty ones stand erect in their height. For they have all been given over to death, to the earth beneath, among the sons of men, with those who go down to the pit."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:15 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "On the day when it went down to Sheol I caused lamentations; I closed the deep over it and held back its rivers. And its many waters were stopped up, and I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field wilted away on account of it.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:16" @I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall when I made it go down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit; and all the well-watered trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, were comforted in the earth beneath.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:17" @They also went down with it to Sheol to those who were slain by the sword; and those who were its strength lived under its shade among the nations.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:18" @To which among the trees of Eden are you thus equal in glory and greatnessNULL Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the earth beneath; you will lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who were slain by the sword. So is Pharaoh and all his hordes!"' declares the Lord GOD."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:32 @In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:2" @Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him, 'You compared yourself to a young lion of the nations, Yet you are like the monster in the seas; And you burst forth in your rivers And muddied the waters with your feet And fouled their rivers.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:3 @Thus says the Lord GOD, "Now I will spread My net over you With a company of many peoples, And they shall lift you up in My net.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:4" @I will leave you on the land; I will cast you on the open field. And I will cause all the birds of the heavens to dwell on you, And I will satisfy the beasts of the whole earth with you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:5" @I will lay your flesh on the mountains And fill the valleys with your refuse.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:6" @I will also make the land drink the discharge of your blood As far as the mountains, And the ravines will be full of you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:7" @And when I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars; I will cover the sun with a cloud And the moon will not give its light.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:8" @All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you And will set darkness on your land," Declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:9" @I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples when I bring your destruction among the nations, into lands which you have not known.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:10" @I will make many peoples appalled at you, and their kings will be horribly afraid of you when I brandish My sword before them; and they will tremble every moment, every man for his own life, on the day of your fall."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:11 @For thus says the Lord GOD, "The sword of the king of Babylon will come upon you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:12" @By the swords of the mighty ones I will cause your hordes to fall; all of them are tyrants of the nations, And they will devastate the pride of Egypt, And all its hordes will be destroyed.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:13" @I will also destroy all its cattle from beside many waters; And the foot of man will not muddy them anymore And the hoofs of beasts will not muddy them.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:14" @Then I will make their waters settle And will cause their rivers to run like oil," Declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:15" @When I make the land of Egypt a desolation, And the land is destitute of that which filled it, When I smite all those who live in it, Then they shall know that I am the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:16" @This is a lamentation and they shall chant it. The daughters of the nations shall chant it. Over Egypt and over all her hordes they shall chant it," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:17 @In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:18" @Son of man, wail for the hordes of Egypt and bring it down, her and the daughters of the powerful nations, to the nether world, with those who go down to the pit;

nasb@Ezekiel:10:19 @'Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and make your bed with the uncircumcised.'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:20" @They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword. She is given over to the sword; they have drawn her and all her hordes away.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:21" @The strong among the mighty ones shall speak of him and his helpers from the midst of Sheol, 'They have gone down, they lie still, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:22" @ Assyria is there and all her company; her graves are round about her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:23 @whose graves are set in the remotest parts of the pit and her company is round about her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword, who spread terror in the land of the living.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:24" @ Elam is there and all her hordes around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the earth, who instilled their terror in the land of the living and bore their disgrace with those who went down to the pit.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:25" @They have made a bed for her among the slain with all her hordes. Her graves are around it, they are all uncircumcised, slain by the sword (although their terror was instilled in the land of the living), and they bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit; they were put in the midst of the slain.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:26" @ Meshech, Tubal and all their hordes are there; their graves surround them. All of them were slain by the sword uncircumcised, though they instilled their terror in the land of the living.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:27" @ Nor do they lie beside the fallen heroes of the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war and whose swords were laid under their heads; but the punishment for their iniquity rested on their bones, though the terror of these heroes was once in the land of the living.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:28" @But in the midst of the uncircumcised you will be broken and lie with those slain by the sword.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:29" @There also is Edom, its kings and all its princes, who for all their might are laid with those slain by the sword; they will lie with the uncircumcised and with those who go down to the pit.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:30" @There also are the chiefs of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who in spite of the terror resulting from their might, in shame went down with the slain. So they lay down uncircumcised with those slain by the sword and bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:31" @These Pharaoh will see, and he will be comforted for all his hordes slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his army," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:32" @Though I instilled a terror of him in the land of the living, yet he will be made to lie down among the uncircumcised along with those slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his hordes," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:33 @And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:2" @Son of man, speak to the sons of your people and say to them, 'If I bring a sword upon a land, and the people of the land take one man from among them and make him their watchman,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:3 @and he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows on the trumpet and warns the people,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:4 @then he who hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, and a sword comes and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:5 @'He heard the sound of the trumpet but did not take warning; his blood will be on himself. But had he taken warning, he would have delivered his life.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:6 @'But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned, and a sword comes and takes a person from them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require from the watchman's hand.'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:7" @Now as for you, son of man, I have appointed you a watchman for the house of Israel; so you will hear a message from My mouth and give them warning from Me.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:8" @When I say to the wicked, 'O wicked man, you will 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 from your hand.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:9" @But if you on your part warn a wicked man to turn from his way and he does not turn from his way, he will die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your life.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:10" @Now as for you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, 'Thus you have spoken, saying, "Surely our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we are rotting away in them; how then can we survive?"'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:11" @Say to them, ' As I live!' declares the Lord GOD, 'I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil ways! Why then will you die, O house of Israel?'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:12" @And you, son of man, say to your fellow citizens, 'The righteousness of a righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression, and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble because of it in the day when he turns from his wickedness; whereas a righteous man will not be able to live by his righteousness on the day when he commits sin.'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:13" @When I say to the righteous he will surely live, and he so trusts in his righteousness that he commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but in that same iniquity of his which he has committed he will die.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:14" @But when I say to the wicked, 'You will surely die,' and he turns from his sin and practices justice and righteousness,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:15 @if a wicked man restores a pledge, pays back what he has taken by robbery, walks by the statutes which ensure life without committing iniquity, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:16" @ None of his sins that he has committed will be remembered against him. He has practiced justice and righteousness; he shall surely live.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:17" @Yet your fellow citizens say, 'The way of the Lord is not right,' when it is their own way that is not right.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:18" @When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, then he shall die in it.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:19" @But when the wicked turns from his wickedness and practices justice and righteousness, he will live by them.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:20" @Yet you say, ' The way of the Lord is not right.' O house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his ways."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:21 @Now in the twelfth year of our exile, on the fifth of the tenth month, the refugees from Jerusalem came to me, saying, " The city has been taken."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:22 @Now the hand of the LORD had been upon me in the evening, before the refugees came. And He opened my mouth at the time they came to me in the morning; so my mouth was opened and I was no longer speechless.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:23 @Then the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:24" @Son of man, they who live in these waste places in the land of Israel are saying, ' Abraham was only one, yet he possessed the land; so to us who are many the land has been given as a possession.'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:25" @Therefore say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "You eat meat with the blood in it, lift up your eyes to your idols as you shed blood. Should you then possess the land?

nasb@Ezekiel:10:26" @You rely on your sword, you commit abominations and each of you defiles his neighbor's wife. Should you then possess the land?"'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:27" @Thus you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "As I live, surely those who are in the waste places will fall by the sword, and whoever is in the open field I will give to the beasts to be devoured, and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves will die of pestilence.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:28" @I will make the land a desolation and a waste, and the pride of her power will cease; and the mountains of Israel will be desolate so that no one will pass through.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:29" @Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I make the land a desolation and a waste because of all their abominations which they have committed."'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:30" @But as for you, son of man, your fellow citizens who talk about you by the walls and in the doorways of the houses, speak to one another, each to his brother, saying, ' Come now and hear what the message is which comes forth from the LORD.'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:31" @They come to you as people come, and sit before you as My people and hear your words, but they do not do them, for they do the lustful desires expressed by their mouth, and their heart goes after their gain.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:32" @Behold, you are to them like a sensual song by one who has a beautiful voice and plays well on an instrument; for they hear your words but they do not practice them.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:33" @So when it comes to pass--as surely it will--then they will know that a prophet has been in their midst."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:34 @Then the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:2" @Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to those shepherds, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Woe, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flock?

nasb@Ezekiel:10:3" @You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat sheep without feeding the flock.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:4" @Those who are sickly you have not strengthened, the diseased you have not healed, the broken you have not bound up, the scattered you have not brought back, nor have you sought for the lost; but with force and with severity you have dominated them.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:5" @They were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and they became food for every beast of the field and were scattered.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:6" @My flock wandered through all the mountains and on every high hill; My flock was scattered over all the surface of the earth, and there was no one to search or seek for them."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:7 @Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD-

nasb@Ezekiel:10:8" @As I live," declares the Lord GOD, "surely because My flock has become a prey, My flock has even become food for all the beasts of the field for lack of a shepherd, and My shepherds did not search for My flock, but rather the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock;

nasb@Ezekiel:10:9 @therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD-

nasb@Ezekiel:10:10 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will demand My sheep from them and make them cease from feeding sheep. So the shepherds will not feed themselves anymore, but I will deliver My flock from their mouth, so that they will not be food for them."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:11 @For thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:12" @ As a shepherd cares for his herd in the day when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will care for My sheep and will deliver them from all the places to which they were scattered on a cloudy and gloomy day.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:13" @I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and bring them to their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the streams, and in all the inhabited places of the land.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:14" @I will feed them in a good pasture, and their grazing ground will be on the mountain heights of Israel. There they will lie down on good grazing ground and feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:15" @I will feed My flock and I will lead them to rest," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:16" @I will seek the lost, bring back the scattered, bind up the broken and strengthen the sick; but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with judgment.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:17" @As for you, My flock, thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, I will judge between one sheep and another, between the rams and the male goats.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:18 @'Is it too slight a thing for you that you should feed in the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pastures? Or that you should drink of the clear waters, that you must foul the rest with your feet?

nasb@Ezekiel:10:19 @'As for My flock, they must eat what you tread down with your feet and drink what you foul with your feet!'"

nasb@Ezekiel:10:20 @Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD to them, "Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:21" @Because you push with side and with shoulder, and thrust at all the weak with your horns until you have scattered them abroad,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:22 @therefore, I will deliver My flock, and they will no longer be a prey; and I will judge between one sheep and another.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:23" @Then I will set over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them; he will feed them himself and be their shepherd.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:24" @And I, the LORD, will be their God, and My servant David will be prince among them; I the LORD have spoken.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:25" @I will make a covenant of peace with them and eliminate harmful beasts from the land so that they may live securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:26" @I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. And I will cause showers to come down in their season; they will be showers of blessing.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:27" @Also the tree of the field will yield its fruit and the earth will yield its increase, and they will be secure on their land. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bars of their yoke and have delivered them from the hand of those who enslaved them.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:28" @They will no longer be a prey to the nations, and the beasts of the earth will not devour them; but they will live securely, and no one will make them afraid.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:29" @I will establish for them a renowned planting place, and they will not again be victims of famine in the land, and they will not endure the insults of the nations anymore.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:30" @Then they will know that I, the LORD their God, am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are My people," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:31" @As for you, My sheep, the sheep of My pasture, you are men, and I am your God," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:35 @Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:2" @Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it

nasb@Ezekiel:10:3 @and say to it, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, And I will stretch out My hand against you And make you a desolation and a waste.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:4" @I will lay waste your cities And you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:5" @Because you have had everlasting enmity and have delivered the sons of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of the punishment of the end,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:6 @therefore as I live," declares the Lord GOD, "I will give you over to bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you; since you have not hated bloodshed, therefore bloodshed will pursue you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:7" @I will make Mount Seir a waste and a desolation and I will cut off from it the one who passes through and returns.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:8" @I will fill its mountains with its slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those slain by the sword will fall.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:9" @I will make you an everlasting desolation and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:10" @Because you have said, 'These two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we will possess them,' although the LORD was there,

nasb@Ezekiel:10:11 @therefore as I live," declares the Lord GOD, "I will deal with you according to your anger and according to your envy which you showed because of your hatred against them; so I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:12" @Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard all your revilings which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel saying, 'They are laid desolate; they are given to us for food.'

nasb@Ezekiel:10:13" @And you have spoken arrogantly against Me and have multiplied your words against Me; I have heard it."

nasb@Ezekiel:10:14 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "As all the earth rejoices, I will make you a desolation.

nasb@Ezekiel:10:15" @As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be a desolation, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the LORD."'

nasb@Ezekiel:11:1" @And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say, 'O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:2 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Because the enemy has spoken against you, 'Aha!' and, 'The everlasting heights have become our possession,'

nasb@Ezekiel:11:3 @therefore prophesy and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "For good reason they have made you desolate and crushed you from every side, that you would become a possession of the rest of the nations and you have been taken up in the talk and the whispering of the people."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:11:4 @'Therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the forsaken cities which have become a prey and a derision to the rest of the nations which are round about,

nasb@Ezekiel:11:5 @therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Surely in the fire of My jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who appropriated My land for themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and with scorn of soul, to drive it out for a prey."

nasb@Ezekiel:11:6 @'Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, "Thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and in My wrath because you have endured the insults of the nations.'

nasb@Ezekiel:11:7" @Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, 'I have sworn that surely the nations which are around you will themselves endure their insults.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:8 @'But you, O mountains of Israel, you will put forth your branches and bear your fruit for My people Israel; for they will soon come.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:10 @'I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, all of it; and the cities will be inhabited and the waste places will be rebuilt.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:11 @'I will multiply on you man and beast; and they will increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited as you were formerly and will treat you better than at the first. Thus you will know that I am the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:12 @'Yes, I will cause men--My people Israel--to walk on you and possess you, so that you will become their inheritance and never again bereave them of children.'

nasb@Ezekiel:11:13" @Thus says the Lord GOD, 'Because they say to you, "You are a devourer of men and have bereaved your nation of children,"

nasb@Ezekiel:11:14 @therefore you will no longer devour men and no longer bereave your nation of children,' declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:15" @I will not let you hear insults from the nations anymore, nor will you bear disgrace from the peoples any longer, nor will you cause your nation to stumble any longer," declares the Lord GOD.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:11:16 @Then the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:11:17" @Son of man, when the house of Israel was living in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds; their way before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:18" @Therefore I poured out My wrath on them for the blood which they had shed on the land, because they had defiled it with their idols.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:19" @Also I scattered them among the nations and they were dispersed throughout the lands. According to their ways and their deeds I judged them.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:20" @When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned My holy name, because it was said of them, 'These are the people of the LORD; yet they have come out of His land.'

nasb@Ezekiel:11:21" @But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they went.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:22" @Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for My holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:23" @I will vindicate the holiness of My great name which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD," declares the Lord GOD, "when I prove Myself holy among you in their sight.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:24" @For I will take you from the nations, gather you from all the lands and bring you into your own land.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:25" @Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:26" @Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:28" @You will live in the land that I gave to your forefathers; so you will be My people, and I will be your God.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:29" @Moreover, I will save you from all your uncleanness; and I will call for the grain and multiply it, and I will not bring a famine on you.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:30" @I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the produce of the field, so that you will not receive again the disgrace of famine among the nations.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:31" @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.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:32" @I am not doing this for your sake," declares the Lord GOD, "let it be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel!"

nasb@Ezekiel:11:33 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places will be rebuilt.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:34" @The desolate land will be cultivated instead of being a desolation in the sight of everyone who passes by.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:35" @They will say, 'This desolate land has become like the garden of Eden; and the waste, desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.'

nasb@Ezekiel:11:36" @Then the nations that are left round about you will know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt the ruined places and planted that which was desolate; I, the LORD, have spoken and will do it."

nasb@Ezekiel:11:37 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "This also I will let the house of Israel ask Me to do for them- I will increase their men like a flock.

nasb@Ezekiel:11:38" @Like the flock for sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so will the waste cities be filled with flocks of men. Then they will know that I am the LORD."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:12:1 @The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:2 @He caused me to pass among them round about, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley; and lo, they were very dry.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:3 @He said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" And I answered, "O Lord GOD, You know."

nasb@Ezekiel:12:4 @Again He said to me, " Prophesy over these bones and say to them, 'O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.'

nasb@Ezekiel:12:5" @Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones, 'Behold, I will cause breath to enter you that you may come to life.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:6 @'I will put sinews on you, make flesh grow back on you, cover you with skin and put breath in you that you may come alive; and you will know that I am the LORD.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:12:7 @So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to its bone.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:8 @And I looked, and behold, sinews were on them, and flesh grew and skin covered them; but there was no breath in them.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:9 @Then 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 come to life."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:12:10 @So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they came to life and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:11 @Then He said to me, "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; behold, they say, 'Our bones are dried up and our hope has perished. We are completely cut off.'

nasb@Ezekiel:12:12" @Therefore prophesy and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves, My people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:13" @Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves and caused you to come up out of your graves, My people.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:14" @I will put My Spirit within you and you will come to life, and I will place you on your own land. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken and done it," declares the LORD.'"

nasb@Ezekiel:12:15 @The word of the LORD came again to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:12:16" @And you, son of man, take for yourself one stick and write on it, 'For Judah and for the sons of Israel, his companions'; then take another stick and write on it, 'For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his companions.'

nasb@Ezekiel:12:17" @Then join them for yourself one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:18" @When the sons of your people speak to you saying, 'Will you not declare to us what you mean by these?'

nasb@Ezekiel:12:19 @say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will put them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in My hand."'

nasb@Ezekiel:12:20" @The sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:21" @Say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and I will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land;

nasb@Ezekiel:12:22 @and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king will be king for all of them; and they will no longer be two nations and no longer be divided into two kingdoms.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:23" @They will no longer defile themselves with their idols, or with their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. And they will be My people, and I will be their God.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:24" @My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances and keep My statutes and observe them.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:25" @They will live on the land that I gave to Jacob My servant, in which your fathers lived; and they will live on it, they, and their sons and their sons' sons, forever; and David My servant will be their prince forever.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:26" @I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will place them and multiply them, and will set My sanctuary in their midst forever.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:27" @My dwelling place also will be with them; and I will be their God, and they will be My people.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:28" @And the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forever."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:12:38 @And the word of the LORD came to me saying,

nasb@Ezekiel:12:2" @Son of man, set your face toward Gog of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him

nasb@Ezekiel:12:3 @and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am against you, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:4" @I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them splendidly attired, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them wielding swords;

nasb@Ezekiel:12:5 @Persia, Ethiopia and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

nasb@Ezekiel:12:6 @Gomer with all its troops; Beth-togarmah from the remote parts of the north with all its troops--many peoples with you.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:7" @ Be prepared, and prepare yourself, you and all your companies that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:8" @ After many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come into the land that is restored from the sword, whose inhabitants have been gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel which had been a continual waste; but its people were brought out from the nations, and they are living securely, all of them.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:9" @You will go up, you will come like a storm; you will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your troops, and many peoples with you."

nasb@Ezekiel:12:10 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "It will come about on that day, that thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil plan,

nasb@Ezekiel:12:11 @and you will say, 'I will go up against the land of unwalled villages. I will go against those who are at rest, that live securely, all of them living without walls and having no bars or gates,

nasb@Ezekiel:12:12 @to capture spoil and to seize plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places which are now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered from the nations, who have acquired cattle and goods, who live at the center of the world.'

nasb@Ezekiel:12:13" @ Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all its villages will say to you, 'Have you come to capture spoil? Have you assembled your company to seize plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to capture great spoil?'"'

nasb@Ezekiel:12:14" @Therefore prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "On that day when My people Israel are living securely, will you not know it?

nasb@Ezekiel:12:15" @ You will come from your place out of the remote parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great assembly and a mighty army;

nasb@Ezekiel:12:16 @and you will come up against My people Israel like a cloud to cover the land. It shall come about in the last days that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me when I am sanctified through you before their eyes, O Gog."

nasb@Ezekiel:12:17 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Are you the one of whom I spoke in former days through My servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for many years that I would bring you against them?

nasb@Ezekiel:12:18" @It will come about on that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel," declares the Lord GOD, "that My fury will mount up in My anger.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:19" @In My zeal and in My blazing wrath I declare that on that day there will surely be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:20" @ The fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the beasts of the field, all the creeping things that creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the face of the earth will shake at My presence; the mountains also will be thrown down, the steep pathways will collapse and every wall will fall to the ground.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:21" @I will call for a sword against him on all My mountains," declares the Lord GOD. " Every man's sword will be against his brother.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:22" @With pestilence and with blood I will enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him and on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, a torrential rain, with hailstones, fire and brimstone.

nasb@Ezekiel:12:23" @I will magnify Myself, sanctify Myself, and make Myself known in the sight of many nations; and they will know that I am the LORD."'

nasb@Ezekiel:13:1" @And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am against you, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal;

nasb@Ezekiel:13:2 @and I will turn you around, drive you on, take you up from the remotest parts of the north and bring you against the mountains of Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:4" @You will fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; I will give you as food to every kind of predatory bird and beast of the field.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:5" @You will fall on the open field; for it is I who have spoken," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:6" @And I will send fire upon Magog and those who inhabit the coastlands in safety; and they will know that I am the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:7" @My holy name I will make known in the midst of My people Israel; and I will not let My holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations will know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:8" @Behold, it is coming and it shall be done," declares the Lord GOD. "That is the day of which I have spoken.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:9" @Then those who inhabit the cities of Israel will go out and make fires with the weapons and burn them, both shields and bucklers, bows and arrows, war clubs and spears, and for seven years they will make fires of them.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:10" @They will not take wood from the field or gather firewood from the forests, for they will make fires with the weapons; and they will take the spoil of those who despoiled them and seize the plunder of those who plundered them," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:11" @On that day I will give Gog a burial ground there in Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea, and it will block off those who would pass by. So they will bury Gog there with all his horde, and they will call it the valley of Hamon-gog.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:12" @For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:13" @Even all the people of the land will bury them; and it will be to their renown on the day that I glorify Myself," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:14" @They will set apart men who will constantly pass through the land, burying those who were passing through, even those left on the surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:15" @As those who pass through the land pass through and anyone sees a man's bone, then he will set up a marker by it until the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:16" @And even the name of the city will be Hamonah. So they will cleanse the land."'

nasb@Ezekiel:13:17" @As for you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD, 'Speak to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field, "Assemble and come, gather from every side to My sacrifice which I am going to sacrifice for you, as a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:18" @You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, as though they were rams, lambs, goats and bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:20" @You will be glutted at My table with horses and charioteers, with mighty men and all the men of war," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:21" @And I will set My glory among the nations; and all the nations will see My judgment which I have executed and My hand which I have laid on them.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:22" @And the house of Israel will know that I am the LORD their God from that day onward.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:23" @The nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile for their iniquity because they acted treacherously against Me, and I hid My face from them; so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and all of them fell by the sword.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:24" @ According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I dealt with them, and I hid My face from them."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:13:25 @Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for My holy name.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:26" @They will forget their disgrace and all their treachery which they perpetrated against Me, when they live securely on their own land with no one to make them afraid.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:27" @When I bring them back from the peoples and gather them from the lands of their enemies, then I shall be sanctified through them in the sight of the many nations.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:28" @Then they will know that I am the LORD their God because I made them go into exile among the nations, and then gathered them again to their own land; and I will leave none of them there any longer.

nasb@Ezekiel:13:29" @I will not hide My face from them any longer, for I will have poured out My Spirit on the house of Israel," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:1 @In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was taken, on that same day the hand of the LORD was upon me and He brought me there.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:2 @In the visions of God He brought me into the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain, and on it to the south there was a structure like a city.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:3 @So He brought me there; and behold, there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, with a line of flax and a measuring rod in his hand; and he was standing in the gateway.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:4 @The man said to me, " Son of man, see with your eyes, hear with your ears, and give attention to all that I am going to show you; for you have been brought here in order to show it to you. Declare to the house of Israel all that you see."

nasb@Ezekiel:14:5 @And behold, there was a wall on the outside of the temple all around, and in the man's hand was a measuring rod of six cubits, each of which was a cubit and a handbreadth. So he measured the thickness of the wall, one rod; and the height, one rod.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:6 @Then he went to the gate which faced east, went up its steps and measured the threshold of the gate, one rod in width; and the other threshold was one rod in width.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:7 @The guardroom was one rod long and one rod wide; and there were five cubits between the guardrooms. And the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate facing inward was one rod.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:8 @Then he measured the porch of the gate facing inward, one rod.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:9 @He measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its side pillars, two cubits. And the porch of the gate was faced inward.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:10 @The guardrooms of the gate toward the east numbered three on each side; the three of them had the same measurement. The side pillars also had the same measurement on each side.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:11 @And he measured the width of the gateway, ten cubits, and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:12 @There was a barrier wall one cubit wide in front of the guardrooms on each side; and the guardrooms were six cubits square on each side.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:13 @He measured the gate from the roof of the one guardroom to the roof of the other, a width of twenty-five cubits from one door to the door opposite.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:14 @He made the side pillars sixty cubits high; the gate extended round about to the side pillar of the courtyard.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:15 @From the front of the entrance gate to the front of the inner porch of the gate was fifty cubits.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:16 @There were shuttered windows looking toward the guardrooms, and toward their side pillars within the gate all around, and likewise for the porches. And there were windows all around inside; and on each side pillar were palm tree ornaments.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:17 @Then he brought me into the outer court, and behold, there were chambers and a pavement made for the court all around; thirty chambers faced the pavement.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:18 @The pavement (that is, the lower pavement) was by the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:19 @Then he measured the width from the front of the lower gate to the front of the exterior of the inner court, a hundred cubits on the east and on the north.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:20 @As for the gate of the outer court which faced the north, he measured its length and its width.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:21 @It had three guardrooms on each side; and its side pillars and its porches had the same measurement as the first gate. Its length was fifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:22 @Its windows and its porches and its palm tree ornaments had the same measurements as the gate which faced toward the east; and it was reached by seven steps, and its porch was in front of them.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:23 @The inner court had a gate opposite the gate on the north as well as the gate on the east; and he measured a hundred cubits from gate to gate.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:24 @Then he led me toward the south, and behold, there was a gate toward the south; and he measured its side pillars and its porches according to those same measurements.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:25 @The gate and its porches had windows all around like those other windows; the length was fifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:26 @There were seven steps going up to it, and its porches were in front of them; and it had palm tree ornaments on its side pillars, one on each side.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:27 @The inner court had a gate toward the south; and he measured from gate to gate toward the south, a hundred cubits.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:28 @Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate; and he measured the south gate according to those same measurements.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:29 @Its guardrooms also, its side pillars and its porches were according to those same measurements. And the gate and its porches had windows all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:30 @There were porches all around, twenty-five cubits long and five cubits wide.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:31 @Its porches were toward the outer court; and palm tree ornaments were on its side pillars, and its stairway had eight steps.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:32 @He brought me into the inner court toward the east. And he measured the gate according to those same measurements.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:33 @Its guardrooms also, its side pillars and its porches were according to those same measurements. And the gate and its porches had windows all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:34 @Its porches were toward the outer court; and palm tree ornaments were on its side pillars, on each side, and its stairway had eight steps.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:35 @Then he brought me to the north gate; and he measured it according to those same measurements,

nasb@Ezekiel:14:36 @with its guardrooms, its side pillars and its porches. And the gate had windows all around; the length was fifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:37 @Its side pillars were toward the outer court; and palm tree ornaments were on its side pillars on each side, and its stairway had eight steps.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:38 @A chamber with its doorway was by the side pillars at the gates; there they rinse the burnt offering.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:39 @In the porch of the gate were two tables on each side, on which to slaughter the burnt offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:40 @On the outer side, as one went up to the gateway toward the north, were two tables; and on the other side of the porch of the gate were two tables.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:41 @Four tables were on each side next to the gate; or, eight tables on which they slaughter sacrifices.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:42 @For the burnt offering there were four tables of hewn stone, a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide and one cubit high, on which they lay the instruments with which they slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:43 @The double hooks, one handbreadth in length, were installed in the house all around; and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:44 @From the outside to the inner gate were chambers for the singers in the inner court, one of which was at the side of the north gate, with its front toward the south, and one at the side of the south gate facing toward the north.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:45 @He said to me, "This is the chamber which faces toward the south, intended for the priests who keep charge of the temple;

nasb@Ezekiel:14:46 @but the chamber which faces toward the north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who from the sons of Levi come near to the LORD to minister to Him."

nasb@Ezekiel:14:47 @He measured the court, a perfect square, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide; and the altar was in front of the temple.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:48 @Then he brought me to the porch of the temple and measured each side pillar of the porch, five cubits on each side; and the width of the gate was three cubits on each side.

nasb@Ezekiel:14:49 @The length of the porch was twenty cubits and the width eleven cubits; and at the stairway by which it was ascended were columns belonging to the side pillars, one on each side.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:1 @Then he brought me to the nave and measured the side pillars; six cubits wide on each side was the width of the side pillar.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:2 @The width of the entrance was ten cubits and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on each side. And he measured the length of the nave, forty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:3 @Then he went inside and measured each side pillar of the doorway, two cubits, and the doorway, six cubits high; and the width of the doorway, seven cubits.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:4 @He measured its length, twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the nave; and he said to me, "This is the most holy place."

nasb@Ezekiel:15:5 @Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits; and the width of the side chambers, four cubits, all around about the house on every side.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:6 @The side chambers were in three stories, one above another, and thirty in each story; and the side chambers extended to the wall which stood on their inward side all around, that they might be fastened, and not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:7 @The side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story. Because the structure surrounding the temple went upward by stages on all sides of the temple, therefore the width of the temple increased as it went higher; and thus one went up from the lowest story to the highest by way of the second story.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:8 @I saw also that the house had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full rod of six long cubits in height.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:9 @The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. But the free space between the side chambers belonging to the temple

nasb@Ezekiel:15:10 @and the outer chambers was twenty cubits in width all around the temple on every side.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:11 @The doorways of the side chambers toward the free space consisted of one doorway toward the north and another doorway toward the south; and the width of the free space was five cubits all around.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:12 @The building that was in front of the separate area at the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length was ninety cubits.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:13 @Then he measured the temple, a hundred cubits long; the separate area with the building and its walls were also a hundred cubits long.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:14 @Also the width of the front of the temple and that of the separate areas along the east side totaled a hundred cubits.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:15 @He measured the length of the building along the front of the separate area behind it, with a gallery on each side, a hundred cubits; he also measured the inner nave and the porches of the court.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:16 @The thresholds, the latticed windows and the galleries round about their three stories, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, and from the ground to the windows (but the windows were covered),

nasb@Ezekiel:15:17 @over the entrance, and to the inner house, and on the outside, and on all the wall all around inside and outside, by measurement.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:18 @It was carved with cherubim and palm trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces,

nasb@Ezekiel:15:19 @a man's face toward the palm tree on one side and a young lion's face toward the palm tree on the other side; they were carved on all the house all around.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:20 @From the ground to above the entrance cherubim and palm trees were carved, as well as on the wall of the nave.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:21 @The doorposts of the nave were square; as for the front of the sanctuary, the appearance of one doorpost was like that of the other.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:22 @The altar was of wood, three cubits high and its length two cubits; its corners, its base and its sides were of wood. And he said to me, "This is the table that is before the LORD."

nasb@Ezekiel:15:23 @The nave and the sanctuary each had a double door.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:24 @Each of the doors had two leaves, two swinging leaves; two leaves for one door and two leaves for the other.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:25 @Also there were carved on them, on the doors of the nave, cherubim and palm trees like those carved on the walls; and there was a threshold of wood on the front of the porch outside.

nasb@Ezekiel:15:26 @There were latticed windows and palm trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the porch; thus were the side chambers of the house and the thresholds.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:1 @Then he brought me out into the outer court, the way toward the north; and he brought me to the chamber which was opposite the separate area and opposite the building toward the north.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:2 @Along the length, which was a hundred cubits, was the north door; the width was fifty cubits.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:3 @Opposite the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery corresponding to gallery in three stories.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:4 @Before the chambers was an inner walk ten cubits wide, a way of one hundred cubits; and their openings were on the north.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:5 @Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space away from them than from the lower and middle ones in the building.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:6 @For they were in three stories and had no pillars like the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper chambers were set back from the ground upward, more than the lower and middle ones.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:7 @As for the outer wall by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court facing the chambers, its length was fifty cubits.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:8 @For the length of the chambers which were in the outer court was fifty cubits; and behold, the length of those facing the temple was a hundred cubits.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:9 @Below these chambers was the entrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer court.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:10 @In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, facing the separate area and facing the building, there were chambers.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:11 @The way in front of them was like the appearance of the chambers which were on the north, according to their length so was their width, and all their exits were both according to their arrangements and openings.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:12 @Corresponding to the openings of the chambers which were toward the south was an opening at the head of the way, the way in front of the wall toward the east, as one enters them.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:13 @Then he said to me, "The north chambers and the south chambers, which are opposite the separate area, they are the holy chambers where the priests who are near to the LORD shall eat the most holy things. There they shall lay the most holy things, the grain offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering; for the place is holy.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:14" @When the priests enter, then they shall not go out into the outer court from the sanctuary without laying there their garments in which they minister, for they are holy. They shall put on other garments; then they shall approach that which is for the people."

nasb@Ezekiel:16:15 @Now when he had finished measuring the inner house, he brought me out by the way of the gate which faced toward the east and measured it all around.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:16 @He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds by the measuring reed.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:17 @He measured on the north side five hundred reeds by the measuring reed.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:18 @On the south side he measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:19 @He turned to the west side and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

nasb@Ezekiel:16:20 @He measured it on the four sides; it had a wall all around, the length five hundred and the width five hundred, to divide between the holy and the profane.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:1 @Then he led me to the gate, the gate facing toward the east;

nasb@Ezekiel:17:2 @and behold, the glory of the God of Israel was coming from the way of the east. And His voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shone with His glory.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:3 @And it was like the appearance of the vision which I saw, like the vision which I saw when He came to destroy the city. And the visions were like the vision which I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:4 @And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate facing toward the east.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:5 @And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:6 @Then I heard one speaking to me from the house, while a man was standing beside me.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:7 @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 among the sons of Israel forever. And the house of Israel will not again defile My holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their harlotry and by the corpses of their kings when they die,

nasb@Ezekiel:17:8 @by setting their threshold by My threshold and their door post beside My door post, with only the wall between Me and them. And they have defiled My holy name by their abominations which they have committed. So I have consumed them in My anger.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:9" @Now let them put away their harlotry and the corpses of their kings far from Me; and I will dwell among them forever.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:10" @As for you, son of man, describe the temple to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the plan.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:11" @If they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the house, its structure, its exits, its entrances, all its designs, all its statutes, and all its laws. And write it in their sight, so that they may observe its whole design and all its statutes and do them.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:12" @This is the law of the house- its entire area on the top of the mountain all around shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:13" @And these are the measurements of the altar by cubits (the cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth)- the base shall be a cubit and the width a cubit, and its border on its edge round about one span; and this shall be the height of the base of the altar.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:14" @From the base on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits and the width one cubit; and from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge shall be four cubits and the width one cubit.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:15" @The altar hearth shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth shall extend upwards four horns.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:16" @Now the altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve wide, square in its four sides.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:17" @The ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen wide in its four sides, the border around it shall be half a cubit and its base shall be a cubit round about; and its steps shall face the east."

nasb@Ezekiel:17:18 @And He said to me, " Son of man, thus says the Lord GOD, 'These are the statutes for the altar on the day it is built, to offer burnt offerings on it and to sprinkle blood on it.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:19 @'You shall give to the Levitical priests who are from the offspring of Zadok, who draw near to Me to minister to Me,' declares the Lord GOD, 'a young bull for a sin offering.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:20 @'You shall take some of its blood and put it on its four horns and on the four corners of the ledge and on the border round about; thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:21 @'You shall also take the bull for the sin offering, and it shall be burned in the appointed place of the house, outside the sanctuary.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:22 @'On the second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish for a sin offering, and they shall cleanse the altar as they cleansed it with the bull.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:23 @'When you have finished cleansing it, you shall present a young bull without blemish and a ram without blemish from the flock.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:24 @'You shall present them before the LORD, and the priests shall throw salt on them, and they shall offer them up as a burnt offering to the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:25 @' For seven days you shall prepare daily a goat for a sin offering; also a young bull and a ram from the flock, without blemish, shall be prepared.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:26 @'For seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate it.

nasb@Ezekiel:17:27 @'When they have completed the days, it shall be that on the eighth day and onward, the priests shall offer your burnt offerings on the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you,' declares the Lord GOD."

nasb@Ezekiel:18:1 @Then He brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which faces the east; and it was shut.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:2 @The LORD said to me, "This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and no one shall enter by it, for the LORD God of Israel has entered by it; therefore it shall be shut.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:3" @As for the prince, he shall sit in it as prince to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by way of the porch of the gate and shall go out by the same way."

nasb@Ezekiel:18:4 @Then He brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the house; and I looked, and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD, and I fell on my face.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:5 @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 statutes of the house of the LORD and concerning all its laws; and mark well the entrance of the house, with all exits of the sanctuary.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:6" @You shall say to the rebellious ones, to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, " Enough of all your abominations, O house of Israel,

nasb@Ezekiel:18:7 @when you brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary to profane it, even My house, when you offered My food, the fat and the blood; for they made My covenant void--this in addition to all your abominations.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:9 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, " No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the sons of Israel, shall enter My sanctuary.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:10" @But the Levites who went far from Me when Israel went astray, who went astray from Me after their idols, shall bear the punishment for their iniquity.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:11" @Yet they shall be ministers in My sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house and ministering in the house; they shall slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:12" @Because they ministered to them before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have sworn against them," declares the Lord GOD, "that they shall bear the punishment for their iniquity.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:13" @And they shall not come near to Me to serve as a priest to Me, nor come near to any of My holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they will bear their shame and their abominations which they have committed.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:14" @Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of the house, of all its service and of all that shall be done in it.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:15" @But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept charge of My sanctuary when the sons of Israel went astray from Me, shall come near to Me to minister to Me; and they shall stand before Me to offer Me the fat and the blood," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:16" @They shall enter My sanctuary; they shall come near to My table to minister to Me and keep My charge.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:17" @It shall be that when they enter at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and wool shall not be on them while they are ministering in the gates of the inner court and in the house.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:18" @Linen turbans shall be on their heads and linen undergarments shall be on their loins; they shall not gird themselves with anything which makes them sweat.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:19" @When they go out into the outer court, into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they have been ministering and lay them in the holy chambers; then they shall put on other garments so that they will not transmit holiness to the people with their garments.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:20" @Also they shall not shave their heads, yet they shall not let their locks grow long; they shall only trim the hair of their heads.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:21" @ Nor shall any of the priests drink wine when they enter the inner court.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:22" @And they shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman but shall take virgins from the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:23" @Moreover, they shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:24" @In a dispute they shall take their stand to judge; they shall judge it according to My ordinances. They shall also keep My laws and My statutes in all My appointed feasts and sanctify My sabbaths.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:25" @ They shall not go to a dead person to defile themselves; however, for father, for mother, for son, for daughter, for brother, or for a sister who has not had a husband, they may defile themselves.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:26" @After he is cleansed, seven days shall elapse for him.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:27" @On the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:28" @And it shall be with regard to an inheritance for them, that I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel--I am their possession.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:29" @They shall eat the grain offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:30" @The first of all the first fruits of every kind and every contribution of every kind, from all your contributions, shall be for the priests; you shall also give to the priest the first of your dough to cause a blessing to rest on your house.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:31" @The priests shall not eat any bird or beast that has died a natural death or has been torn to pieces.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:45" @And when you divide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer an allotment to the LORD, a holy portion of the land; the length shall be the length of 25,000 cubits, and the width shall be 20,000. It shall be holy within all its boundary round about.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:2" @Out of this there shall be for the holy place a square round about five hundred by five hundred cubits, and fifty cubits for its open space round about.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:3" @From this area you shall measure a length of 25,000 cubits and a width of 10,000 cubits; and in it shall be the sanctuary, the most holy place.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:4" @It shall be the holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to the LORD, and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:5" @An area 25,000 cubits in length and 10,000 in width shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, and for their possession cities to dwell in.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:6" @You shall give the city possession of an area 5,000 cubits wide and 25,000 cubits long, alongside the allotment of the holy portion; it shall be for the whole house of Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:7" @The prince shall have land on either side of the holy allotment and the property of the city, adjacent to the holy allotment and the property of the city, on the west side toward the west and on the east side toward the east, and in length comparable to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:8" @This shall be his land for a possession in Israel; so My princes shall no longer oppress My people, but they shall give the rest of the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes."

nasb@Ezekiel:18:9 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, " Enough, you princes of Israel; put away violence and destruction, and practice justice and righteousness. Stop your expropriations from My people," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:11" @The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity, so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer and the ephah a tenth of a homer; their standard shall be according to the homer.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:12" @The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your maneh.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:13" @This is the offering that you shall offer- a sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat; a sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley;

nasb@Ezekiel:18:14 @and the prescribed portion of oil (namely, the bath of oil), a tenth of a bath from each kor (which is ten baths or a homer, for ten baths are a homer);

nasb@Ezekiel:18:15 @and one sheep from each flock of two hundred from the watering places of Israel--for a grain offering, for a burnt offering and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:16" @ All the people of the land shall give to this offering for the prince in Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:17" @It shall be the prince's part to provide the burnt offerings, the grain offerings and the drink offerings, at the feasts, on the new moons and on the sabbaths, at all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel; he shall provide the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt offering and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel."

nasb@Ezekiel:18:18 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "In the first month, on the first of the month, you shall take a young bull without blemish and cleanse the sanctuary.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:19" @The priest shall take some of the blood from the sin offering and put it on the door posts of the house, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar and on the posts of the gate of the inner court.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:20" @Thus you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who goes astray or is naive; so you shall make atonement for the house.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:21" @In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:22" @On that day the prince shall provide for himself and all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:23" @During the seven days of the feast he shall provide as a burnt offering to the LORD seven bulls and seven rams without blemish on every day of the seven days, and a male goat daily for a sin offering.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:24" @He shall provide as a grain offering an ephah with a bull, an ephah with a ram and a hin of oil with an ephah.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:25" @In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast, he shall provide like this, seven days for the sin offering, the burnt offering, the grain offering and the oil."

nasb@Ezekiel:18:46 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "The gate of the inner court facing east shall be shut the six working days; but it shall be opened on the sabbath day and opened on the day of the new moon.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:2" @The prince shall enter by way of the porch of the gate from outside and stand by the post of the gate. Then the priests shall provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate and then go out; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:3" @The people of the land shall also worship at the doorway of that gate before the LORD on the sabbaths and on the new moons.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:4" @The burnt offering which the prince shall offer to the LORD on the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish;

nasb@Ezekiel:18:5 @and the grain offering shall be an ephah with the ram, and the grain offering with the lambs as much as he is able to give, and a hin of oil with an ephah.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:6" @On the day of the new moon he shall offer a young bull without blemish, also six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:7" @And he shall provide a grain offering, an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he is able, and a hin of oil with an ephah.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:8" @When the prince enters, he shall go in by way of the porch of the gate and go out by the same way.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:9" @But when the people of the land come before the LORD at the appointed feasts, he who enters by way of the north gate to worship shall go out by way of the south gate. And he who enters by way of the south gate shall go out by way of the north gate. No one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered but shall go straight out.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:10" @When they go in, the prince shall go in among them; and when they go out, he shall go out.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:11" @At the festivals and the appointed feasts the grain offering shall be an ephah with a bull and an ephah with a ram, and with the lambs as much as one is able to give, and a hin of oil with an ephah.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:12" @When the prince provides a freewill offering, a burnt offering, or peace offerings as a freewill offering to the LORD, the gate facing east shall be opened for him. And he shall provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings as he does on the sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and the gate shall be shut after he goes out.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:13" @And you shall provide a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to the LORD daily; morning by morning you shall provide it.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:14" @Also you shall provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, a sixth of an ephah and a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour, a grain offering to the LORD continually by a perpetual ordinance.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:15" @Thus they shall provide the lamb, the grain offering and the oil, morning by morning, for a continual burnt offering."

nasb@Ezekiel:18:16 @'Thus says the Lord GOD, "If the prince gives a gift out of his inheritance to any of his sons, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:17" @But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his until the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince. His inheritance shall be only his sons'; it shall belong to them.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:18" @The prince shall not take from the people's inheritance, thrusting them out of their possession; he shall give his sons inheritance from his own possession so that My people will not be scattered, anyone from his possession."'"

nasb@Ezekiel:18:19 @Then he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests, which faced north; and behold, there was a place at the extreme rear toward the west.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:20 @He said to me, "This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering and where they shall bake the grain offering, in order that they may not bring them out into the outer court to transmit holiness to the people."

nasb@Ezekiel:18:21 @Then he brought me out into the outer court and led me across to the four corners of the court; and behold, in every corner of the court there was a small court.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:22 @In the four corners of the court there were enclosed courts, forty cubits long and thirty wide; these four in the corners were the same size.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:23 @There was a row of masonry round about in them, around the four of them, and boiling places were made under the rows round about.

nasb@Ezekiel:18:24 @Then he said to me, "These are the boiling places where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifices of the people."

nasb@Ezekiel:19:1 @Then he brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, water was flowing from under the threshold of the house toward the east, for the house faced east. And the water was flowing down from under, from the right side of the house, from south of the altar.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:2 @He brought me out by way of the north gate and led me around on the outside to the outer gate by way of the gate that faces east. And behold, water was trickling from the south side.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:3 @When the man went out toward the east with a line in his hand, he measured a thousand cubits, and he led me through the water, water reaching the ankles.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:4 @Again he measured a thousand and led me through the water, water reaching the knees. Again he measured a thousand and led me through the water, water reaching the loins.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:5 @Again he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not ford, for the water had risen, enough water to swim in, a river that could not be forded.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:6 @He said to me, "Son of man, have you seen this?" Then he brought me back to the bank of the river.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:7 @Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river there were very many trees on the one side and on the other.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:8 @Then he said to me, "These waters go out toward the eastern region and go down into the Arabah; then they go toward the sea, being made to flow into the sea, and the waters of the sea become fresh.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:9" @It will come about that every living creature which swarms in every place where the river goes, will live. And there will be very many fish, for these waters go there and the others become fresh; so everything will live where the river goes.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:10" @And it will come about that fishermen will stand beside it; from Engedi to Eneglaim there will be a place for the spreading of nets. Their fish will be according to their kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea, very many.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:11" @But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:12" @ By the river on its bank, on one side and on the other, will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither and their fruit will not fail. They will bear every month because their water flows from the sanctuary, and their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing."

nasb@Ezekiel:19:13 @Thus says the Lord GOD, "This shall be the boundary by which you shall divide the land for an inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel; Joseph shall have two portions.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:14" @You shall divide it for an inheritance, each one equally with the other; for I swore to give it to your forefathers, and this land shall fall to you as an inheritance.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:15" @This shall be the boundary of the land- on the north side, from the Great Sea by the way of Hethlon, to the entrance of Zedad;

nasb@Ezekiel:19:16 @Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer-hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:17" @The boundary shall extend from the sea to Hazar-enan at the border of Damascus, and on the north toward the north is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:18" @The east side, from between Hauran, Damascus, Gilead and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the north border to the eastern sea you shall measure. This is the east side.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:19" @The south side toward the south shall extend from Tamar as far as the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the brook of Egypt and to the Great Sea. This is the south side toward the south.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:20" @The west side shall be the Great Sea, from the south border to a point opposite Lebo-hamath. This is the west side.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:21" @So you shall divide this land among yourselves according to the tribes of Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:22" @You shall divide it by lot for an inheritance among yourselves and among the aliens who stay in your midst, who bring forth sons in your midst. And they shall be to you as the native-born among the sons of Israel; they shall be allotted an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:23" @And in the tribe with which the alien stays, there you shall give him his inheritance," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:48" @Now these are the names of the tribes- from the northern extremity, beside the way of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath, as far as Hazar-enan at the border of Damascus, toward the north beside Hamath, running from east to west, Dan, one portion.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:2" @Beside the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side, Asher, one portion.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:3" @Beside the border of Asher, from the east side to the west side, Naphtali, one portion.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:4" @Beside the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, Manasseh, one portion.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:5" @Beside the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, Ephraim, one portion.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:6" @Beside the border of Ephraim, from the east side to the west side, Reuben, one portion.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:7" @Beside the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side, Judah, one portion.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:8" @And beside the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the allotment which you shall set apart, 25,000 cubits in width, and in length like one of the portions, from the east side to the west side; and the sanctuary shall be in the middle of it.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:9" @The allotment that you shall set apart to the LORD shall be 25,000 cubits in length and 10,000 in width.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:10" @The holy allotment shall be for these, namely for the priests, toward the north 25,000 cubits in length, toward the west 10,000 in width, toward the east 10,000 in width, and toward the south 25,000 in length; and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in its midst.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:11" @It shall be for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept My charge, who did not go astray when the sons of Israel went astray as the Levites went astray.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:12" @It shall be an allotment to them from the allotment of the land, a most holy place, by the border of the Levites.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:13" @Alongside the border of the priests the Levites shall have 25,000 cubits in length and 10,000 in width. The whole length shall be 25,000 cubits and the width 10,000.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:14" @Moreover, they shall not sell or exchange any of it, or alienate this choice portion of land; for it is holy to the LORD.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:15" @The remainder, 5,000 cubits in width and 25,000 in length, shall be for common use for the city, for dwellings and for open spaces; and the city shall be in its midst.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:16" @These shall be its measurements- the north side 4,500 cubits, the south side 4,500 cubits, the east side 4,500 cubits, and the west side 4,500 cubits.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:17" @The city shall have open spaces- on the north 250 cubits, on the south 250 cubits, on the east 250 cubits, and on the west 250 cubits.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:18" @The remainder of the length alongside the holy allotment shall be 10,000 cubits toward the east and 10,000 toward the west; and it shall be alongside the holy allotment. And its produce shall be food for the workers of the city.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:19" @The workers of the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:20" @The whole allotment shall be 25,000 by 25,000 cubits; you shall set apart the holy allotment, a square, with the property of the city.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:21" @The remainder shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy allotment and of the property of the city; in front of the 25,000 cubits of the allotment toward the east border and westward in front of the 25,000 toward the west border, alongside the portions, it shall be for the prince. And the holy allotment and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the middle of it.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:22" @Exclusive of the property of the Levites and the property of the city, which are in the middle of that which belongs to the prince, everything between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin shall be for the prince.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:23" @As for the rest of the tribes- from the east side to the west side, Benjamin, one portion.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:24" @Beside the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, Simeon, one portion.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:25" @Beside the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, Issachar, one portion.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:26" @Beside the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, Zebulun, one portion.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:27" @Beside the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad, one portion.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:28" @And beside the border of Gad, at the south side toward the south, the border shall be from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the brook of Egypt, to the Great Sea.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:29" @This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for an inheritance, and these are their several portions," declares the Lord GOD.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:30" @These are the exits of the city- on the north side, 4,500 cubits by measurement,

nasb@Ezekiel:19:31 @shall be the gates of the city, named for the tribes of Israel, three gates toward the north- the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:32" @On the east side, 4,500 cubits, shall be three gates- the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:33" @On the south side, 4,500 cubits by measurement, shall be three gates- the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:34" @On the west side, 4,500 cubits, shall be three gates- the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.

nasb@Ezekiel:19:35" @The city shall be 18,000 cubits round about; and the name of the city from that day shall be, 'The LORD is there.'"

nasb@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.

nasb@Daniel:1:2 @The Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the vessels of the house of God; and he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and he brought the vessels into the treasury of his god.

nasb@Daniel:1:3 @Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, the chief of his officials, to bring in some of the sons of Israel, including some of the royal family and of the nobles,

nasb@Daniel:1:4 @youths in whom was no defect, who were good-looking, showing intelligence in every branch of wisdom, endowed with understanding and discerning knowledge, and who had ability for serving in the king's court; and he ordered him to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans.

nasb@Daniel:1:5 @The king appointed for them a daily ration from the king's choice food and from the wine which he drank, and appointed that they should be educated three years, at the end of which they were to enter the king's personal service.

nasb@Daniel:1:6 @Now among them from the sons of Judah were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah.

nasb@Daniel:1:7 @Then the commander of the officials assigned new names to them; and to Daniel he assigned the name Belteshazzar, to Hananiah Shadrach, to Mishael Meshach and to Azariah Abed-nego.

nasb@Daniel:1:8 @But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king's choice food or with the wine which he drank; so he sought permission from the commander of the officials that he might not defile himself.

nasb@Daniel:1:9 @Now God granted Daniel favor and compassion in the sight of the commander of the officials,

nasb@Daniel:1:10 @and the commander of the officials said to Daniel, "I am afraid of my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink; for why should he see your faces looking more haggard than the youths who are your own age? Then you would make me forfeit my head to the king."

nasb@Daniel:1:11 @But Daniel said to the overseer whom the commander of the officials had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah,

nasb@Daniel:1:13" @Then let our appearance be observed in your presence and the appearance of the youths who are eating the king's choice food; and deal with your servants according to what you see."

nasb@Daniel:1:14 @So he listened to them in this matter and tested them for ten days.

nasb@Daniel:1:15 @At the end of ten days their appearance seemed better and they were fatter than all the youths who had been eating the king's choice food.

nasb@Daniel:1:16 @So the overseer continued to withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and kept giving them vegetables.

nasb@Daniel:1:17 @As for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and intelligence in every branch of literature and wisdom; Daniel even understood all kinds of visions and dreams.

nasb@Daniel:1:18 @Then at the end of the days which the king had specified for presenting them, the commander of the officials presented them before Nebuchadnezzar.

nasb@Daniel:1:19 @The king talked with them, and out of them all not one was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah; so they entered the king's personal service.

nasb@Daniel:1:20 @As for every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king consulted them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and conjurers who were in all his realm.

nasb@Daniel:1:21 @And Daniel continued until the first year of Cyrus the king.

nasb@Daniel:2:1 @Now in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; and his spirit was troubled and his sleep left him.

nasb@Daniel:2:2 @Then the king gave orders to call in the magicians, the conjurers, the sorcerers and the Chaldeans to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.

nasb@Daniel:2:3 @The king said to them, "I had a dream and my spirit is anxious to understand the dream."

nasb@Daniel:2:4 @Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Aramaic- " O king, live forever! Tell the dream to your servants, and we will declare the interpretation."

nasb@Daniel:2:5 @The king replied to the Chaldeans, "The command from me is firm- if you do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you will be torn limb from limb and your houses will be made a rubbish heap.

nasb@Daniel:2:6" @But if you declare the dream and its interpretation, you will receive from me gifts and a reward and great honor; therefore declare to me the dream and its interpretation."

nasb@Daniel:2:7 @They answered a second time and said, "Let the king tell the dream to his servants, and we will declare the interpretation."

nasb@Daniel:2:8 @The king replied, "I know for certain that you are bargaining for time, inasmuch as you have seen that the command from me is firm,

nasb@Daniel:2:9 @that if you do not make the dream known to me, there is only one decree for you. For you have agreed together to speak lying and corrupt words before me until the situation is changed; therefore tell me the dream, that I may know that you can declare to me its interpretation."

nasb@Daniel:2:10 @The Chaldeans answered the king and said, "There is not a man on earth who could declare the matter for the king, inasmuch as no great king or ruler has ever asked anything like this of any magician, conjurer or Chaldean.

nasb@Daniel:2:11" @Moreover, the thing which the king demands is difficult, and there is no one else who could declare it to the king except gods, whose dwelling place is not with mortal flesh."

nasb@Daniel:2:12 @Because of this the king became indignant and very furious and gave orders to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

nasb@Daniel:2:13 @So the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they looked for Daniel and his friends to kill them.

nasb@Daniel:2:14 @Then Daniel replied with discretion and discernment to Arioch, the captain of the king's bodyguard, who had gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon;

nasb@Daniel:2:15 @he said to Arioch, the king's commander, "For what reason is the decree from the king so urgent?" Then Arioch informed Daniel about the matter.

nasb@Daniel:2:16 @So Daniel went in and requested of the king that he would give him time, in order that he might declare the interpretation to the king.

nasb@Daniel:2:17 @Then Daniel went to his house and informed his friends, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, about the matter,

nasb@Daniel:2:18 @so that they might request compassion from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his friends would not be destroyed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

nasb@Daniel:2:19 @Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven;

nasb@Daniel:2:20 @Daniel said, "Let the name of God be blessed forever and ever, For wisdom and power belong to Him.

nasb@Daniel:2:21" @It is He who changes the times and the epochs; He removes kings and establishes kings; He gives wisdom to wise men And knowledge to men of understanding.

nasb@Daniel:2:22" @It is He who reveals the profound and hidden things; He knows what is in the darkness, And the light dwells with Him.

nasb@Daniel:2:23" @To You, O God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise, For You have given me wisdom and power; Even now You have made known to me what we requested of You, For You have made known to us the king's matter."

nasb@Daniel:2:24 @Therefore, Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon; he went and spoke to him as follows- " Do not destroy the wise men of Babylon! Take me into the king's presence, and I will declare the interpretation to the king."

nasb@Daniel:2:25 @Then Arioch hurriedly brought Daniel into the king's presence and spoke to him as follows- "I have found a man among the exiles from Judah who can make the interpretation known to the king!"

nasb@Daniel:2:26 @The king said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, "Are you able to make known to me the dream which I have seen and its interpretation?"

nasb@Daniel:2:27 @Daniel answered before the king and said, "As for the mystery about which the king has inquired, neither wise men, conjurers, magicians nor diviners are able to declare it to the king.

nasb@Daniel:2:28" @However, there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will take place in the latter days. This was your dream and the visions in your mind while on your bed.

nasb@Daniel:2:29" @As for you, O king, while on your bed your thoughts turned to what would take place in the future; and He who reveals mysteries has made known to you what will take place.

nasb@Daniel:2:30" @But as for me, this mystery has not been revealed to me for any wisdom residing in me more than in any other living man, but for the purpose of making the interpretation known to the king, and that you may understand the thoughts of your mind.

nasb@Daniel:2:31" @You, O king, were looking and behold, there was a single great statue; that statue, which was large and of extraordinary splendor, was standing in front of you, and its appearance was awesome.

nasb@Daniel:2:32" @The head of that statue was made of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze,

nasb@Daniel:2:34" @You continued looking until a stone was cut out without hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and crushed them.

nasb@Daniel:2:35" @Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were crushed all at the same time and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away so that not a trace of them was found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

nasb@Daniel:2:36" @This was the dream; now we will tell its interpretation before the king.

nasb@Daniel:2:37" @You, O king, are the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the strength and the glory;

nasb@Daniel:2:38 @and wherever the sons of men dwell, or the beasts of the field, or the birds of the sky, He has given them into your hand and has caused you to rule over them all. You are the head of gold.

nasb@Daniel:2:39" @After you there will arise another kingdom inferior to you, then another third kingdom of bronze, which will rule over all the earth.

nasb@Daniel:2:40" @Then there will be a fourth kingdom as strong as iron; inasmuch as iron crushes and shatters all things, so, like iron that breaks in pieces, it will crush and break all these in pieces.

nasb@Daniel:2:41" @In that you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter's clay and partly of iron, it will be a divided kingdom; but it will have in it the toughness of iron, inasmuch as you saw the iron mixed with common clay.

nasb@Daniel:2:42" @As the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of pottery, so some of the kingdom will be strong and part of it will be brittle.

nasb@Daniel:2:43" @And in that you saw the iron mixed with common clay, they will combine with one another in the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, even as iron does not combine with pottery.

nasb@Daniel:2:44" @In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, and that kingdom will not be left for another people; it will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, but it will itself endure forever.

nasb@Daniel:2:45" @Inasmuch as you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands and that it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold, the great God has made known to the king what will take place in the future; so the dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy."

nasb@Daniel:2:46 @Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face and did homage to Daniel, and gave orders to present to him an offering and fragrant incense.

nasb@Daniel:2:47 @The king answered Daniel and said, "Surely your God is a God of gods and a Lord of kings and a revealer of mysteries, since you have been able to reveal this mystery."

nasb@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 prefect over all the wise men of Babylon.

nasb@Daniel:2:49 @And Daniel made request of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego over the administration of the province of Babylon, while Daniel was at the king's court.

nasb@Daniel:3:1 @Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, the height of which was sixty cubits and its width six cubits; he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.

nasb@Daniel:3:2 @Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent word to assemble the satraps, the prefects and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates and all the rulers of the provinces to come to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

nasb@Daniel:3:3 @Then the satraps, the prefects and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates and all the rulers of the provinces were assembled for the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

nasb@Daniel:3:4 @Then the herald loudly proclaimed- "To you the command is given, O peoples, nations and men of every language,

nasb@Daniel:3:5 @that at the moment you hear the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe and all kinds of music, you are to fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up.

nasb@Daniel:3:6" @But whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately be cast into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire."

nasb@Daniel:3:7 @Therefore at that time, when all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe and all kinds of music, all the peoples, nations and men of every language fell down and worshiped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

nasb@Daniel:3:8 @For this reason at that time certain Chaldeans came forward and brought charges against the Jews.

nasb@Daniel:3:9 @They responded and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king- " O king, live forever!

nasb@Daniel:3:10" @You, O king, have made a decree that every man who hears the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon, psaltery, and bagpipe and all kinds of music, is to fall down and worship the golden image.

nasb@Daniel:3:11" @But whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire.

nasb@Daniel:3:12" @There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the administration of the province of Babylon, namely Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego. These men, O king, have disregarded you; they do not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up."

nasb@Daniel:3:13 @Then Nebuchadnezzar in rage and anger gave orders to bring Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego; then these men were brought before the king.

nasb@Daniel:3:14 @Nebuchadnezzar responded and said to them, "Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden image that I have set up?

nasb@Daniel:3:15" @Now if you are ready, at the moment you hear the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon, psaltery and bagpipe and all kinds of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, very well. But if you do not worship, you will immediately be cast into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire; and what god is there who can deliver you out of my hands?"

nasb@Daniel:3:16 @Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego replied to the king, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to give you an answer concerning this matter.

nasb@Daniel:3:17" @If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the furnace of blazing fire; and He will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

nasb@Daniel:3:18" @ But even if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we are not going to serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up."

nasb@Daniel:3:19 @Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with wrath, and his facial expression was altered toward Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego. He answered by giving orders to heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.

nasb@Daniel:3:20 @He commanded certain valiant warriors who were in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego in order to cast them into the furnace of blazing fire.

nasb@Daniel:3:21 @Then these men were tied up in their trousers, their coats, their caps and their other clothes, and were cast into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire.

nasb@Daniel:3:22 @For this reason, because the king's command was urgent and the furnace had been made extremely hot, the flame of the fire slew those men who carried up Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego.

nasb@Daniel:3:23 @But these three men, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, fell into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire still tied up.

nasb@Daniel:3:24 @Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astounded and stood up in haste; he said to his high officials, "Was it not three men we cast bound into the midst of the fire?" They replied to the king, "Certainly, O king."

nasb@Daniel:3:25 @He said, "Look! I see four men loosed and walking about in the midst of the fire without harm, and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods!"

nasb@Daniel:3:26 @Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the door of the furnace of blazing fire; he responded and said, "Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, come out, you servants of the Most High God, and come here!" Then Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego came out of the midst of the fire.

nasb@Daniel:3:27 @The satraps, the prefects, the governors and the king's high officials gathered around and saw in regard to these men that the fire had no effect on the bodies of these men nor was the hair of their head singed, nor were their trousers damaged, nor had the smell of fire even come upon them.

nasb@Daniel:3:28 @Nebuchadnezzar responded and said, "Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, who has sent His angel and delivered His servants who put their trust in Him, violating the king's command, and yielded up their bodies so as not to serve or worship any god except their own God.

nasb@Daniel:3:29" @Therefore I make a decree that any people, nation or tongue that speaks anything offensive against the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego shall be torn limb from limb and their houses reduced to a rubbish heap, inasmuch as there is no other god who is able to deliver in this way."

nasb@Daniel:3:30 @Then the king caused Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego to prosper in the province of Babylon.

nasb@Daniel:3:4 @Nebuchadnezzar the king to all the peoples, nations, and men of every language that live in all the earth- "May your peace abound!

nasb@Daniel:3:2" @It has seemed good to me to declare the signs and wonders which the Most High God has done for me.

nasb@Daniel:3:5" @I saw a dream and it made me fearful; and these fantasies as I lay on my bed and the visions in my mind kept alarming me.

nasb@Daniel:3:6" @So I gave orders to bring into my presence all the wise men of Babylon, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.

nasb@Daniel:3:7" @Then the magicians, the conjurers, the Chaldeans and the diviners came in and I related the dream to them, but they could not make its interpretation known to me.

nasb@Daniel:3:8" @But finally Daniel came in before me, whose name is Belteshazzar according to the name of my god, and in whom is a spirit of the holy gods; and I related the dream to him, saying,

nasb@Daniel:3:9 @'O Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, since I know that a spirit of the holy gods is in you and no mystery baffles you, tell me the visions of my dream which I have seen, along with its interpretation.

nasb@Daniel:3:10 @'Now these were the visions in my mind as I lay on my bed- I was looking, and behold, there was a tree in the midst of the earth and its height was great.

nasb@Daniel:3:11 @'The tree grew large and became strong And its height reached to the sky, And it was visible to the end of the whole earth.

nasb@Daniel:3:12 @'Its foliage was beautiful and its fruit abundant, And in it was food for all. The beasts of the field found shade under it, And the birds of the sky dwelt in its branches, And all living creatures fed themselves from it.

nasb@Daniel:3:13 @'I was looking in the visions in my mind as I lay on my bed, and behold, an angelic watcher, a holy one, descended from heaven.

nasb@Daniel:3:14 @'He shouted out and spoke as follows- " Chop down the tree and cut off its branches, Strip off its foliage and scatter its fruit; Let the beasts flee from under it And the birds from its branches.

nasb@Daniel:3:15" @Yet leave the stump with its roots in the ground, But with a band of iron and bronze around it In the new grass of the field; And let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, And let him share with the beasts in the grass of the earth.

nasb@Daniel:3:17" @This sentence is by the decree of the angelic watchers And the decision is a command of the holy ones, In order that the living may know That the Most High is ruler over the realm of mankind, And bestows it on whom He wishes And sets over it the lowliest of men."

nasb@Daniel:3:18 @'This is the dream which I, King Nebuchadnezzar, have seen. Now you, Belteshazzar, tell me its interpretation, inasmuch as none of the wise men of my kingdom is able to make known to me the interpretation; but you are able, for a spirit of the holy gods is in you.'

nasb@Daniel:3:19" @Then Daniel, whose name is Belteshazzar, was appalled for a while as his thoughts alarmed him. The king responded and said, 'Belteshazzar, do not let the dream or its interpretation alarm you.' Belteshazzar replied, ' My lord, if only the dream applied to those who hate you and its interpretation to your adversaries!

nasb@Daniel:3:20 @'The tree that you saw, which became large and grew strong, whose height reached to the sky and was visible to all the earth

nasb@Daniel:3:21 @and whose foliage was beautiful and its fruit abundant, and in which was food for all, under which the beasts of the field dwelt and in whose branches the birds of the sky lodged--

nasb@Daniel:3:22 @it is you, O king; for you have become great and grown strong, and your majesty has become great and reached to the sky and your dominion to the end of the earth.

nasb@Daniel:3:23 @'In that the king saw an angelic watcher, a holy one, descending from heaven and saying, " Chop down the tree and destroy it; yet leave the stump with its roots in the ground, but with a band of iron and bronze around it in the new grass of the field, and let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, and let him share with the beasts of the field until seven periods of time pass over him,"

nasb@Daniel:3:24 @this is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the Most High, which has come upon my lord the king-

nasb@Daniel:3:25 @that you be driven away from mankind and your dwelling place be with the beasts of the field, and you be given grass to eat like cattle and be drenched with the dew of heaven; and seven periods of time will pass over you, until you recognize that the Most High is ruler over the realm of mankind and bestows it on whomever He wishes.

nasb@Daniel:3:26 @'And in that it was commanded to leave the stump with the roots of the tree, your kingdom will be assured to you after you recognize that it is Heaven that rules.

nasb@Daniel:3:27 @'Therefore, O king, may my advice be pleasing to you- break away now from your sins by doing righteousness and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, in case there may be a prolonging of your prosperity.'

nasb@Daniel:3:28" @All this happened to Nebuchadnezzar the king.

nasb@Daniel:3:29" @ Twelve months later he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon.

nasb@Daniel:3:30" @The king reflected and said, 'Is this not Babylon the great, which I myself have built as a royal residence by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?'

nasb@Daniel:3:31" @While the word was in the king's mouth, a voice came from heaven, saying, 'King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is declared- sovereignty has been removed from you,

nasb@Daniel:3:32 @and you will be driven away from mankind, and your dwelling place will be with the beasts of the field. You will be given grass to eat like cattle, and seven periods of time will pass over you until you recognize that the Most High is ruler over the realm of mankind and bestows it on whomever He wishes.'

nasb@Daniel:3:33" @Immediately the word concerning Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled; and he was driven away from mankind and began eating grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until his hair had grown like eagles' feathers and his nails like birds' claws.

nasb@Daniel:3:34" @But at the end of that period, I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven and my reason 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 endures from generation to generation.

nasb@Daniel:3:35" @ All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, But He does according to His will in the host of heaven And among the inhabitants of earth; And no one can ward off His hand Or say to Him, ' What have You done?'

nasb@Daniel:3:36" @At that time my reason returned to me. And my majesty and splendor were restored to me for the glory of my kingdom, and my counselors and my nobles began seeking me out; so I was reestablished in my sovereignty, and surpassing greatness was added to me.

nasb@Daniel:3:37" @Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt and honor the King of heaven, for all His works are true and His ways just, and He is able to humble those who walk in pride."

nasb@Daniel:4:1 @Belshazzar the king held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand.

nasb@Daniel:4:2 @When Belshazzar tasted the wine, he gave orders to bring the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them.

nasb@Daniel:4:3 @Then they brought the gold vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God which was in Jerusalem; and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines drank from them.

nasb@Daniel:4:4 @They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone.

nasb@Daniel:4:5 @Suddenly the fingers of a man's hand emerged and began writing opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, and the king saw the back of the hand that did the writing.

nasb@Daniel:4:6 @Then the king's face grew pale and his thoughts alarmed him, and his hip joints went slack and his knees began knocking together.

nasb@Daniel:4:7 @The king called aloud to bring in the conjurers, the Chaldeans and the diviners. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, "Any man who can read this inscription and explain its interpretation to me shall be clothed with purple and have a necklace of gold around his neck, and have authority as third ruler in the kingdom."

nasb@Daniel:4:8 @Then all the king's wise men came in, but they could not read the inscription or make known its interpretation to the king.

nasb@Daniel:4:9 @Then King Belshazzar was greatly alarmed, his face grew even paler, and his nobles were perplexed.

nasb@Daniel:4:10 @The queen entered the banquet hall because of the words of the king and his nobles; the queen spoke and said, " O king, live forever! Do not let your thoughts alarm you or your face be pale.

nasb@Daniel:4:11" @There is a man in your kingdom in whom is a spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father, illumination, insight and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods were found in him. And King Nebuchadnezzar, your father, your father the king, appointed him chief of the magicians, conjurers, Chaldeans and diviners.

nasb@Daniel:4:12" @This was because an extraordinary spirit, knowledge and insight, interpretation of dreams, explanation of enigmas and solving of difficult problems were found in this Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Let Daniel now be summoned and he will declare the interpretation."

nasb@Daniel:4:13 @Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel, "Are you that Daniel who is one of the exiles from Judah, whom my father the king brought from Judah?

nasb@Daniel:4:14" @Now I have heard about you that a spirit of the gods is in you, and that illumination, insight and extraordinary wisdom have been found in you.

nasb@Daniel:4:15" @Just now the wise men and the conjurers were brought in before me that they might read this inscription and make its interpretation known to me, but they could not declare the interpretation of the message.

nasb@Daniel:4:16" @But I personally have heard about you, that you are able to give interpretations and solve difficult problems. Now if you are able to read the inscription and make its interpretation known to me, you will be clothed with purple and wear a necklace of gold around your neck, and you will have authority as the third ruler in the kingdom."

nasb@Daniel:4:17 @Then Daniel answered and said before the king, "Keep your gifts for yourself or give your rewards to someone else; however, I will read the inscription to the king and make the interpretation known to him.

nasb@Daniel:4:18" @O king, the Most High God granted sovereignty, grandeur, glory and majesty to Nebuchadnezzar your father.

nasb@Daniel:4:19" @Because of the grandeur which He bestowed on him, all the peoples, nations and men of every language feared and trembled before him; whomever he wished he killed and whomever he wished he spared alive; and whomever he wished he elevated and whomever he wished he humbled.

nasb@Daniel:4:20" @But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became so proud that he behaved arrogantly, he was deposed from his royal throne and his glory was taken away from him.

nasb@Daniel:4:21" @He was also driven away from mankind, and his heart was made like that of beasts, and his dwelling place was with the wild donkeys. He was given grass to eat like cattle, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until he recognized that the Most High God is ruler over the realm of mankind and that He sets over it whomever He wishes.

nasb@Daniel:4:22" @Yet you, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this,

nasb@Daniel:4:23 @but you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines have been drinking wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which do not see, hear or understand. But the God in whose hand are your life-breath and all your ways, you have not glorified.

nasb@Daniel:4:24" @Then the hand was sent from Him and this inscription was written out.

nasb@Daniel:4:25" @Now this is the inscription that was written out- 'MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.'

nasb@Daniel:4:26" @This is the interpretation of the message- 'MENE'--God has numbered your kingdom and put an end to it.

nasb@Daniel:4:27" @ 'TEKEL'--you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

nasb@Daniel:4:28" @ 'PERES'--your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians."

nasb@Daniel:4:29 @Then Belshazzar gave orders, and they clothed Daniel with purple and put a necklace of gold around his neck, and issued a proclamation concerning him that he now had authority as the third ruler in the kingdom.

nasb@Daniel:4:30 @That same night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain.

nasb@Daniel:4:31 @So Darius the Mede received the kingdom at about the age of sixty-two.

nasb@Daniel:5:1 @It seemed good to Darius to appoint 120 satraps over the kingdom, that they would be in charge of the whole kingdom,

nasb@Daniel:5:2 @and over them three commissioners (of whom Daniel was one), that these satraps might be accountable to them, and that the king might not suffer loss.

nasb@Daniel:5:3 @Then this Daniel began distinguishing himself among the commissioners and satraps because he possessed an extraordinary spirit, and the king planned to appoint him over the entire kingdom.

nasb@Daniel:5:4 @Then the commissioners and satraps began trying to find a ground of accusation against Daniel in regard to government affairs; but they could find no ground of accusation or evidence of corruption, inasmuch as he was faithful, and no negligence or corruption was to be found in him.

nasb@Daniel:5:5 @Then these men said, "We will not find any ground of accusation against this Daniel unless we find it against him with regard to the law of his God."

nasb@Daniel:5:6 @Then these commissioners and satraps came by agreement to the king and spoke to him as follows- "King Darius, live forever!

nasb@Daniel:5:7" @All the commissioners of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the high officials and the governors have consulted together that the king should establish a statute and enforce an injunction that anyone who makes a petition to any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, shall be cast into the lions' den.

nasb@Daniel:5:8" @Now, O king, establish the injunction and sign the document so that it may not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which may not be revoked."

nasb@Daniel:5:9 @Therefore King Darius signed the document, that is, the injunction.

nasb@Daniel:5:10 @Now when Daniel knew that the document was signed, he entered his house (now in his roof chamber he had windows open toward Jerusalem); and he continued kneeling on his knees three times a day, praying and giving thanks before his God, as he had been doing previously.

nasb@Daniel:5:11 @Then these men came by agreement and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.

nasb@Daniel:5:12 @Then they approached and spoke before the king about the king's injunction, "Did you not sign an injunction that any man who makes a petition to any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, is to be cast into the lions' den?" The king replied, "The statement is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which may not be revoked."

nasb@Daniel:5:13 @Then they answered and spoke before the king, " Daniel, who is one of the exiles from Judah, pays no attention to you, O king, or to the injunction which you signed, but keeps making his petition three times a day."

nasb@Daniel:5:14 @Then, as soon as the king heard this statement, he was deeply distressed and set his mind on delivering Daniel; and even until sunset he kept exerting himself to rescue him.

nasb@Daniel:5:15 @Then these men came by agreement to the king and said to the king, "Recognize, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no injunction or statute which the king establishes may be changed."

nasb@Daniel:5:16 @Then the king gave orders, and Daniel was brought in and cast into the lions' den. The king spoke and said to Daniel, " Your God whom you constantly serve will Himself deliver you."

nasb@Daniel:5:17 @A stone was brought and laid over the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the signet rings of his nobles, so that nothing would be changed in regard to Daniel.

nasb@Daniel:5:18 @Then the king went off to his palace and spent the night fasting, and no entertainment was brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.

nasb@Daniel:5:19 @Then the king arose at dawn, at the break of day, and went in haste to the lions' den.

nasb@Daniel:5:20 @When he had come near the den to Daniel, he cried out with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, "Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you constantly serve, been able to deliver you from the lions?"

nasb@Daniel:5:21 @Then Daniel spoke to the king, " O king, live forever!

nasb@Daniel:5:22" @My God sent His angel and shut the lions' mouths and they have not harmed me, inasmuch as I was found innocent before Him; and also toward you, O king, I have committed no crime."

nasb@Daniel:5:23 @Then the king was very pleased and gave orders for Daniel to be taken up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den and no injury whatever was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.

nasb@Daniel:5:24 @The king then gave orders, and they brought those men who had maliciously accused Daniel, and they cast them, their children and their wives into the lions' den; and they had not reached the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.

nasb@Daniel:5:25 @Then Darius the king wrote to all the peoples, nations and men of every language who were living in all the land- " May your peace abound!

nasb@Daniel:5:26" @I make a decree that in all the dominion of my kingdom men are to fear and tremble before the God of Daniel; For He is the living God and enduring forever, And His kingdom is one which will not be destroyed, And His dominion will be forever.

nasb@Daniel:5:27" @He delivers and rescues and performs signs and wonders In heaven and on earth, Who has also delivered Daniel from the power of the lions."

nasb@Daniel:5:28 @So this Daniel enjoyed success in the reign of Darius and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

nasb@Daniel:6:1 @In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel saw a dream and visions in his mind as he lay on his bed; then he wrote the dream down and related the following summary of it.

nasb@Daniel:6:2 @Daniel said, "I was looking in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea.

nasb@Daniel:6:3" @And four great beasts were coming up from the sea, different from one another.

nasb@Daniel:6:4" @The first was like a lion and had the wings of an eagle. I kept looking until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man; a human mind also was given to it.

nasb@Daniel:6:5" @And behold, another beast, a second one, resembling a bear. And it was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth; and thus they said to it, 'Arise, devour much meat!'

nasb@Daniel:6:6" @After this I kept looking, and behold, another one, 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.

nasb@Daniel:6:7" @After this I kept looking in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrifying and extremely strong; and it had large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed and trampled down the remainder with its feet; and it was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.

nasb@Daniel:6:8" @While I was contemplating the horns, behold, another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were pulled out by the roots before it; and behold, this horn possessed eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth uttering great boasts.

nasb@Daniel:6:9" @I kept looking Until thrones were set up, And the Ancient of Days took His seat; His vesture was like white snow And the hair of His head like pure wool. His throne was ablaze with flames, Its wheels were a burning fire.

nasb@Daniel:6:10" @A river of fire was flowing And coming out from before Him; Thousands upon thousands were attending Him, And myriads upon myriads were standing before Him; The court sat, And the books were opened.

nasb@Daniel:6:11" @Then I kept looking because of the sound of the boastful words which the horn was speaking; I kept looking until the beast was slain, and its body was destroyed and given to the burning fire.

nasb@Daniel:6:12" @As for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away, but an extension of life was granted to them for an appointed period of time.

nasb@Daniel:6:13" @I kept looking in the night visions, And behold, with the clouds of heaven One like a Son of Man was coming, And He came up to the Ancient of Days And was presented before Him.

nasb@Daniel:6:14" @And to Him was given dominion, Glory and a kingdom, That all the peoples, nations and men of every language Might serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion Which will not pass away; And His kingdom is one Which will not be destroyed.

nasb@Daniel:6:15" @As for me, Daniel, my spirit was distressed within me, and the visions in my mind kept alarming me.

nasb@Daniel:6:16" @I approached one of those who were standing by and began asking him the exact meaning of all this. So he told me and made known to me the interpretation of these things-

nasb@Daniel:6:17 @'These great beasts, which are four in number, are four kings who will arise from the earth.

nasb@Daniel:6:18 @'But the saints of the Highest One will receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, for all ages to come.'

nasb@Daniel:6:19" @Then I desired to know the exact meaning of the fourth beast, which was different from all the others, exceedingly dreadful, with its teeth of iron and its claws of bronze, and which devoured, crushed and trampled down the remainder with its feet,

nasb@Daniel:6:20 @and the meaning of the ten horns that were on its head and the other horn which came up, and before which three of them fell, namely, that horn which had eyes and a mouth uttering great boasts and which was larger in appearance than its associates.

nasb@Daniel:6:21" @I kept looking, and that horn was waging war with the saints and overpowering them

nasb@Daniel:6:22 @until the Ancient of Days came and judgment was passed in favor of the saints of the Highest One, and the time arrived when the saints took possession of the kingdom.

nasb@Daniel:6:23" @Thus he said- 'The fourth beast will be a fourth kingdom on the earth, which will be different from all the other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth and tread it down and crush it.

nasb@Daniel:6:24 @'As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings will arise; and another will arise after them, and he will be different from the previous ones and will subdue three kings.

nasb@Daniel:6:25 @'He will speak out against the Most High and wear down the saints of the Highest One, and he will intend to make alterations in times and in law; and they will be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time.

nasb@Daniel:6:26 @'But the court will sit for judgment, and his dominion will be taken away, annihilated and destroyed forever.

nasb@Daniel:6:27 @'Then the sovereignty, the dominion and the greatness of all the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the Highest One; His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all the dominions will serve and obey Him.'

nasb@Daniel:6:28" @At this point the revelation ended. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts were greatly alarming me and my face grew pale, but I kept the matter to myself."

nasb@Daniel:7:1 @In the third year of the reign of Belshazzar the king a vision appeared to me, Daniel, subsequent to the one which appeared to me previously.

nasb@Daniel:7:2 @I looked in the vision, and while I was looking I was in the citadel of Susa, which is in the province of Elam; and I looked in the vision and I myself was beside the Ulai Canal.

nasb@Daniel:7:3 @Then I lifted my eyes and looked, and behold, a ram which had two horns was standing in front of the canal. Now the two horns were long, but one was longer than the other, with the longer one coming up last.

nasb@Daniel:7:4 @I saw the ram butting westward, northward, and southward, and no other beasts could stand before him nor was there anyone to rescue from his power, but he did as he pleased and magnified himself.

nasb@Daniel:7:5 @While I was observing, behold, a male goat was coming from the west over the surface of the whole earth without touching the ground; and the goat had a conspicuous horn between his eyes.

nasb@Daniel:7:6 @He came up to the ram that had the two horns, which I had seen standing in front of the canal, and rushed at him in his mighty wrath.

nasb@Daniel:7:7 @I saw him come beside the ram, and he was enraged at him; and he struck the ram and shattered his two horns, and the ram had no strength to withstand him. So he hurled him to the ground and trampled on him, and there was none to rescue the ram from his power.

nasb@Daniel:7:8 @Then the male goat magnified himself exceedingly. But as soon as he was mighty, the large horn was broken; and in its place there came up four conspicuous horns toward the four winds of heaven.

nasb@Daniel:7:9 @Out of one of them came forth a rather small horn which grew exceedingly great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the Beautiful Land.

nasb@Daniel:7:10 @It grew up to the host of heaven and caused some of the host and some of the stars to fall to the earth, and it trampled them down.

nasb@Daniel:7:11 @It even magnified itself to be equal with the Commander of the host; and it removed the regular sacrifice from Him, and the place of His sanctuary was thrown down.

nasb@Daniel:7:12 @And on account of transgression the host will be given over to the horn along with the regular sacrifice; and it will fling truth to the ground and perform its will and prosper.

nasb@Daniel:7:13 @Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to that particular one who was speaking, " How long will the vision about the regular sacrifice apply, while the transgression causes horror, so as to allow both the holy place and the host to be trampled?"

nasb@Daniel:7:14 @He said to me, "For 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the holy place will be properly restored."

nasb@Daniel:7:15 @When I, Daniel, had seen the vision, I sought to understand it; and behold, standing before me was one who looked like a man.

nasb@Daniel:7:16 @And I heard the voice of a man between the banks of Ulai, and he called out and said, " Gabriel, give this man an understanding of the vision."

nasb@Daniel:7:17 @So he came near to where I was standing, and when he came I was frightened and fell on my face; but he said to me, "Son of man, understand that the vision pertains to the time of the end."

nasb@Daniel:7:18 @Now while he was talking with me, I sank into a deep sleep with my face to the ground; but he touched me and made me stand upright.

nasb@Daniel:7:19 @He said, "Behold, I am going to let you know what will occur at the final period of the indignation, for it pertains to the appointed time of the end.

nasb@Daniel:7:20" @The ram which you saw with the two horns represents the kings of Media and Persia.

nasb@Daniel:7:21" @The shaggy goat represents the kingdom of Greece, and the large horn that is between his eyes is the first king.

nasb@Daniel:7:22" @The broken horn and the four horns that arose in its place represent four kingdoms which will arise from his nation, although not with his power.

nasb@Daniel:7:23" @In the latter period of their rule, When the transgressors have run their course, A king will arise, Insolent and skilled in intrigue.

nasb@Daniel:7:24" @His power will be mighty, but not by his own power, And he will destroy to an extraordinary degree And prosper and perform his will; He will destroy mighty men and the holy people.

nasb@Daniel:7:25" @And through his shrewdness He will cause deceit to succeed by his influence; And he will magnify himself in his heart, And he will destroy many while they are at ease. He will even oppose the Prince of princes, But he will be broken without human agency.

nasb@Daniel:7:26" @The vision of the evenings and mornings Which has been told is true; But keep the vision secret, For it pertains to many days in the future."

nasb@Daniel:7:27 @Then I, Daniel, was exhausted and sick for days. Then I got up again and carried on the king's business; but I was astounded at the vision, and there was none to explain it.

nasb@Daniel:8:1 @In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of Median descent, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans--

nasb@Daniel:8:2 @in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, observed in the books the number of the years which was revealed as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet for the completion of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.

nasb@Daniel:8:3 @So I gave my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes.

nasb@Daniel:8:4 @I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed and said, "Alas, O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and lovingkindness for those who love Him and keep His commandments,

nasb@Daniel:8:6" @Moreover, we have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our princes, our fathers and all the people of the land.

nasb@Daniel:8:7" @ Righteousness belongs to You, O Lord, but to us open shame, as it is this day--to the men of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those who are nearby and those who are far away in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of their unfaithful deeds which they have committed against You.

nasb@Daniel:8:8" @Open shame belongs to us, O Lord, to our kings, our princes and our fathers, because we have sinned against You.

nasb@Daniel:8:9" @To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against Him;

nasb@Daniel:8:10 @nor have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in His teachings which He set before us through His servants the prophets.

nasb@Daniel:8:11" @Indeed all Israel has transgressed Your law and turned aside, not obeying Your voice; so the curse has been poured out on us, along with the oath which is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against Him.

nasb@Daniel:8:12" @Thus He has confirmed His words which He had spoken against us and against our rulers who ruled us, to bring on us great calamity; for under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what was done to Jerusalem.

nasb@Daniel:8:13" @As it is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come on us; yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our iniquity and giving attention to Your truth.

nasb@Daniel:8:14" @Therefore the LORD has kept the calamity in store and brought it on us; for the LORD our God is righteous with respect to all His deeds which He has done, but we have not obeyed His voice.

nasb@Daniel:8:15" @And now, O Lord our God, who have brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and have made a name for Yourself, as it is this day--we have sinned, we have been wicked.

nasb@Daniel:8:16" @O Lord, in accordance with all Your righteous acts, let now Your anger and Your wrath turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a reproach to all those around us.

nasb@Daniel:8:17" @So now, our God, listen to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplications, and for Your sake, O Lord, let Your face shine on Your desolate sanctuary.

nasb@Daniel:8:18" @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 are not presenting our supplications before You on account of any merits of our own, but on account of Your great compassion.

nasb@Daniel:8:19" @O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and take action! For Your own sake, O my God, do not delay, because Your city and Your people are called by Your name."

nasb@Daniel:8:20 @Now while I was speaking and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God in behalf of the holy mountain of my God,

nasb@Daniel:8:21 @while I was still speaking in prayer, then the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision previously, came to me in my extreme weariness about the time of the evening offering.

nasb@Daniel:8:22 @He gave me instruction and talked with me and said, "O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you insight with understanding.

nasb@Daniel:8:23" @At the beginning of your supplications the command was issued, and I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed; so give heed to the message and gain understanding of the vision.

nasb@Daniel:8:24" @Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.

nasb@Daniel:8:25" @So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.

nasb@Daniel:8:26" @Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.

nasb@Daniel:8:27" @And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate."

nasb@Daniel:9:1 @In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a message was revealed to Daniel, who was named Belteshazzar; and the message was true and one of great conflict, but he understood the message and had an understanding of the vision.

nasb@Daniel:9:3 @I did not eat any tasty food, nor did meat or wine enter my mouth, nor did I use any ointment at all until the entire three weeks were completed.

nasb@Daniel:9:4 @On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, while I was by the bank of the great river, that is, the Tigris,

nasb@Daniel:9:5 @I lifted my eyes and looked, and behold, there was a certain man dressed in linen, whose waist was girded with a belt of pure gold of Uphaz.

nasb@Daniel:9:6 @His body also was like beryl, his face had the appearance of lightning, his eyes were like flaming torches, his arms and feet like the gleam of polished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a tumult.

nasb@Daniel:9:7 @Now I, Daniel, alone saw the vision, while the men who were with me did not see the vision; nevertheless, a great dread fell on them, and they ran away to hide themselves.

nasb@Daniel:9:9 @But I heard the sound of his words; and as soon as I heard the sound of his words, I fell into a deep sleep on my face, with my face to the ground.

nasb@Daniel:9:10 @Then behold, a hand touched me and set me trembling on my hands and knees.

nasb@Daniel:9:11 @He said to me, "O Daniel, man of high esteem, understand the words that I am about to tell you and stand upright, for I have now been sent to you." And when he had spoken this word to me, I stood up trembling.

nasb@Daniel:9:12 @Then he said to me, " Do not be afraid, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart on understanding this and on humbling yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to your words.

nasb@Daniel:9:13" @But the prince of the kingdom of Persia was withstanding me for twenty-one days; then behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left there with the kings of Persia.

nasb@Daniel:9:14" @Now I have come to give you an understanding of what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision pertains to the days yet future."

nasb@Daniel:9:15 @When he had spoken to me according to these words, I turned my face toward the ground and became speechless.

nasb@Daniel:9:16 @And behold, one who resembled a human being was touching my lips; then I opened my mouth and spoke and said to him who was standing before me, "O my lord, as a result of the vision anguish has come upon me, and I have retained no strength.

nasb@Daniel:9:17" @For how can such a servant of my lord talk with such as my lord? As for me, there remains just now no strength in me, nor has any breath been left in me."

nasb@Daniel:9:18 @Then this one with human appearance touched me again and strengthened me.

nasb@Daniel:9:19 @He said, "O man of high esteem, do not be afraid. Peace be with you; take courage and be courageous!" Now as soon as he spoke to me, I received strength and said, "May my lord speak, for you have strengthened me."

nasb@Daniel:9:20 @Then he said, "Do you understand why I came to you? But I shall now return to fight against the prince of Persia; so I am going forth, and behold, the prince of Greece is about to come.

nasb@Daniel:9:21" @However, I will tell you what is inscribed in the writing of truth. Yet there is no one who stands firmly with me against these forces except Michael your prince.

nasb@Daniel:9:11" @In the first year of Darius the Mede, I arose to be an encouragement and a protection for him.

nasb@Daniel:9:2" @And now I will tell you the truth. Behold, three more kings are going to arise in Persia. Then a fourth will gain far more riches than all of them; as soon as he becomes strong through his riches, he will arouse the whole empire against the realm of Greece.

nasb@Daniel:9:3" @And a mighty king will arise, and he will rule with great authority and do as he pleases.

nasb@Daniel:9:4" @But as soon as he has arisen, his kingdom will be broken up and parceled out toward the four points of the compass, though not to his own descendants, nor according to his authority which he wielded, for his sovereignty will be uprooted and given to others besides them.

nasb@Daniel:9:5" @Then the king of the South will grow strong, along with one of his princes who will gain ascendancy over him and obtain dominion; his domain will be a great dominion indeed.

nasb@Daniel:9:6" @After some years they will form an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the South will come to the king of the North to carry out a peaceful arrangement. But she will not retain her position of power, nor will he remain with his power, but she will be given up, along with those who brought her in and the one who sired her as well as he who supported her in those times.

nasb@Daniel:9:7" @But one of the descendants of her line will arise in his place, and he will come against their army and enter the fortress of the king of the North, and he will deal with them and display great strength.

nasb@Daniel:9:8" @Also their gods with their metal images and their precious vessels of silver and gold he will take into captivity to Egypt, and he on his part will refrain from attacking the king of the North for some years.

nasb@Daniel:9:9" @Then the latter will enter the realm of the king of the South, but will return to his own land.

nasb@Daniel:9:10" @His sons will mobilize and assemble a multitude of great forces; and one of them will keep on coming and overflow and pass through, that he may again wage war up to his very fortress.

nasb@Daniel:9:11" @The king of the South will be enraged and go forth and fight with the king of the North. Then the latter will raise a great multitude, but that multitude will be given into the hand of the former.

nasb@Daniel:9:12" @When the multitude is carried away, his heart will be lifted up, and he will cause tens of thousands to fall; yet he will not prevail.

nasb@Daniel:9:13" @For the king of the North will again raise a greater multitude than the former, and after an interval of some years he will press on with a great army and much equipment.

nasb@Daniel:9:14" @Now in those times many will rise up against the king of the South; the violent ones among your people will also lift themselves up in order to fulfill the vision, but they will fall down.

nasb@Daniel:9:15" @Then the king of the North will come, cast up a siege ramp and capture a well-fortified city; and the forces of the South will not stand their ground, not even their choicest troops, for there will be no strength to make a stand.

nasb@Daniel:9:16" @But he who comes against him will do as he pleases, and no one will be able to withstand him; he will also stay for a time in the Beautiful Land, with destruction in his hand.

nasb@Daniel:9:17" @He will set his face to come with the power of his whole kingdom, bringing with him a proposal of peace which he will put into effect; he will also give him the daughter of women to ruin it. But she will not take a stand for him or be on his side.

nasb@Daniel:9:18" @Then he will turn his face to the coastlands and capture many. But a commander will put a stop to his scorn against him; moreover, he will repay him for his scorn.

nasb@Daniel:9:19" @So he will turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land, but he will stumble and fall and be found no more.

nasb@Daniel:9:20" @Then in his place one will arise who will send an oppressor through the Jewel of his kingdom; yet within a few days he will be shattered, though not in anger nor in battle.

nasb@Daniel:9:21" @In his place a despicable person will arise, on whom the honor of kingship has not been conferred, but he will come in a time of tranquility and seize the kingdom by intrigue.

nasb@Daniel:9:22" @The overflowing forces will be flooded away before him and shattered, and also the prince of the covenant.

nasb@Daniel:9:23" @After an alliance is made with him he will practice deception, and he will go up and gain power with a small force of people.

nasb@Daniel:9:24" @In a time of tranquility he will enter the richest parts of the realm, and he will accomplish what his fathers never did, nor his ancestors; he will distribute plunder, booty and possessions among them, and he will devise his schemes against strongholds, but only for a time.

nasb@Daniel:9:25" @He will stir up his strength and courage against the king of the South with a large army; so the king of the South will mobilize an extremely large and mighty army for war; but he will not stand, for schemes will be devised against him.

nasb@Daniel:9:27" @As for both kings, their hearts will be intent on evil, and they will speak lies to each other at the same table; but it will not succeed, for the end is still to come at the appointed time.

nasb@Daniel:9:28" @Then he will return to his land with much plunder; but his heart will be set against the holy covenant, and he will take action and then return to his own land.

nasb@Daniel:9:29" @At the appointed time he will return and come into the South, but this last time it will not turn out the way it did before.

nasb@Daniel:9:30" @For ships of Kittim will come against him; therefore he will be disheartened and will return and become enraged at the holy covenant and take action; so he will come back and show regard for those who forsake the holy covenant.

nasb@Daniel:9:31" @Forces from him will arise, desecrate the sanctuary fortress, and do away with the regular sacrifice. And they will set up the abomination of desolation.

nasb@Daniel:9:32" @By smooth words he will turn to godlessness those who act wickedly toward the covenant, but the people who know their God will display strength and take action.

nasb@Daniel:9:33" @ Those who have insight among the people will give understanding to the many; yet they will fall by sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder for many days.

nasb@Daniel:9:34" @Now when they fall they will be granted a little help, and many will join with them in hypocrisy.

nasb@Daniel:9:35" @Some of those who have insight will fall, in order to refine, purge and make them pure until the end time; because it is still to come at the appointed time.

nasb@Daniel:9:36" @Then the king will do as he pleases, and he will exalt and magnify himself above every god and will speak monstrous things against the God of gods; and he will prosper until the indignation is finished, for that which is decreed will be done.

nasb@Daniel:9:37" @He will show no regard for the gods of his fathers or for the desire of women, nor will he show regard for any other god; for he will magnify himself above them all.

nasb@Daniel:9:38" @But instead he will honor a god of fortresses, a god whom his fathers did not know; he will honor him with gold, silver, costly stones and treasures.

nasb@Daniel:9:39" @He will take action against the strongest of fortresses with the help of a foreign god; he will give great honor to those who acknowledge him and will cause them to rule over the many, and will parcel out land for a price.

nasb@Daniel:9:40" @At the end time the king of the South will collide with him, and the king of the North will storm against him with chariots, with horsemen and with many ships; and he will enter countries, overflow them and pass through.

nasb@Daniel:9:41" @He will also enter the Beautiful Land, and many countries will fall; but these will be rescued out of his hand- Edom, Moab and the foremost of the sons of Ammon.

nasb@Daniel:9:42" @Then he will stretch out his hand against other countries, and the land of Egypt will not escape.

nasb@Daniel:9:43" @But he will gain control over the hidden treasures of gold and silver and over all the precious things of Egypt; and Libyans and Ethiopians will follow at his heels.

nasb@Daniel:9:44" @But rumors from the East and from the North will disturb him, and he will go forth with great wrath to destroy and annihilate many.

nasb@Daniel:9:45" @He will pitch the tents of his royal pavilion between the seas and the beautiful Holy Mountain; yet he will come to his end, and no one will help him.

nasb@Daniel:9:12" @Now at that time Michael, the great prince who stands guard over the sons of your people, will arise. And there will be a time of distress such as never occurred since there was a nation until that time; and at that time your people, everyone who is found written in the book, will be rescued.

nasb@Daniel:9:2" @ Many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting contempt.

nasb@Daniel:9:3" @Those who have insight will shine brightly like the brightness of the expanse of heaven, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.

nasb@Daniel:9:4" @But as for you, Daniel, conceal these words and seal up the book until the end of time; many will go back and forth, and knowledge will increase."

nasb@Daniel:9:5 @Then I, Daniel, looked and behold, two others were standing, one on this bank of the river and the other on that bank of the river.

nasb@Daniel:9:6 @And one said to the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, " How long will it be until the end of these wonders?"

nasb@Daniel:9:7 @I heard the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, as he raised his right hand and his left toward heaven, and swore by Him who lives forever that it would be for a time, times, and half a time; and as soon as they finish shattering the power of the holy people, all these events will be completed.

nasb@Daniel:9:8 @As for me, I heard but could not understand; so I said, "My lord, what will be the outcome of these events?"

nasb@Daniel:9:9 @He said, "Go your way, Daniel, for these words are concealed and sealed up until the end time.

nasb@Daniel:9:10" @ Many will be purged, purified and refined, but the wicked will act wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand, but those who have insight will understand.

nasb@Daniel:9:11" @From the time that the regular sacrifice is abolished and the abomination of desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days.

nasb@Daniel:9:12" @How blessed is he who keeps waiting and attains to the 1,335 days!

nasb@Daniel:9:13" @But as for you, go your way to the end; then you will enter into rest and rise again for your allotted portion at the end of the age."

nasb@Hosea:1:1 @The word of the LORD which came to Hosea the son of Beeri, during the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and during the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.


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