THE CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES Old Testament Prophecy - Angelfire

THE CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES
Old Testament Prophecy
HOSEA 1
1 The word of the Lord which was directed at Hosea son of Beeri in the days of
Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam son
of Joash, king of Israel.
2 The beginning of the word of the Lord to Hosea. The Lord said to Hosea, "Go on,
take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of prostitution, for the land will
continue to engage in prostitution behind the back of the Lord." 3 He went and took
Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and gave birth to a son for him. 4 The
Lord said to him, "Call his name Jezreel, for in a little while I will avenge the blood of
Jezreel on the house of Judah, A and I will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to
cease. 5 It will be on that day that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel."
6 She conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. He said to him, "Call her name
Not Shown Mercy, for I will no longer proceed to show mercy to the house of Israel, but
will set myself in opposition to them. 7 I will show mercy to the sons of Judah and will
save them by the Lord their God; I will save them neither by a bow, nor by a sword,
nor by a battle, nor by chariots, B nor by horses, nor by horsemen."
8 She weaned Not Shown Mercy, and she conceived again and gave birth to a son.
9 He said, "Call his name Not My People, for you are not my people, and I am not
yours."
Hosea 2 C
1 The number of the sons of Israel was like the sand of the sea, which will not be
measured or numbered. It will be that, in the place where it was said to them, "You are
not my people," there they will be called sons of the living God. 2 The sons of Judah and
the sons of Israel will be gathered at the same place. They will set up for themselves
one realm, and they will come up out of the land, for the day of Jezreel will be great.
3 Say to your brother, "My people," and to your sister, "Shown Mercy."
4 "Contend with your mother; contend, for she is not my wife, and I am not her
husband. I will remove her prostitution out of my presence and her adultery from the
midst of her breasts, 5 so that I may strip her naked and re-establish her as on the day
of her birth. I will make her like a desert, array her like a waterless land, and kill her
with thirst. 6 I will not have mercy on her children, for they are children of prostitution.
7 For their mother engaged in prostitution; she who gave birth to them became a
disgrace, for she said, `I will follow after my paramours who are giving me my bread,
A Judah VA ¦ Jehu
B nor by chariots A ¦ ~ V
C 2:1-2 = 1:10-11 EV; 2:3-25 = 2:1-23 EV

my water, my garments, my linens, my oil, and everything which belongs to me.´
8 Because of this, behold, I am fencing her way in with a palisade; I will wall up her
ways, and she will not find her path. 9 She will pursue her paramours and will not
overtake them; she will seek them and will not find them. She will say, `I will go and
return to my former husband, for then it was better for me than now.´ 10 She did not
know that I have given grain, wine, and oil to her, and I multiplied silver for her.
Instead, she made silver and gold items for Baal. 11 Because of this, I will return and
carry away my grain in its hour and my wine in its season. I will remove my garments
and my linens so as not to cover her nakedness. 12 Now I will reveal her uncleanness
before her paramours, and no one will rescue her out of my hand. 13 I will overturn all
her good cheer: her festivals, her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her feasts. 14 I will
obliterate her vineyard and her fig trees, the things of which she said, `These are my
wages which my paramours gave me.´ I will set them up as a testimony, and the
beasts of the field, the birds of heaven, and the creeping things of the earth will devour
them. 15 I will avenge on her the days of the Baalim, on which she sacrificed to them,
put on her earrings and her necklaces, went after her paramours, and forgot me," says
the Lord.
16 "Because of this, behold, I will cause her to wander, and I will array her like a
desert. I will speak over her heart, 17 and I will give her possessions to her from there,
including the valley of Achor, to open her understanding. She will be humiliated there
according to the days of her infancy and according to the days of her coming up out of
the land of Egypt.
18 It will be on that day," says the Lord, "that she will call me `My husband,´ and will
no longer call me Baalim. 19 I will take the names of the Baalim out of her mouth, and
their names will no longer be remembered. 20 I will make for them on that day a
testament with the beasts of the field, with the birds of heaven, and with the creeping
things of the earth. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle from the earth, and
I will cause you to reside in hope. 21 I will betroth you to myself forever. I will betroth
you to myself in righteousness, in justice, in mercy, and in compassions; 22 I will betroth
you to myself in faith, and you will recognize the Lord.
23 It will be on that day," says the Lord, "that I will listen to heaven, heaven will
listen to the earth, 24 and the earth will listen to the grain, the wine, and the oil, and
they will listen to Jezreel. 25 I will plant her for myself on the earth; I will show mercy to
Not Shown Mercy, and I will say to Not My People, `You are my people.´ He himself
will say, `You are the Lord my God.´"
Hosea 3
1 The Lord said to me, "Go again and love a woman who loves evil things, an
adulteress, just as God loves the sons of Israel. They look up to strange gods, and they
like pastries with raisins." 2 I hired her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver, an omer of
barley, and a nébel A of wine. 3 I said to her, "You will sit with me many days; you will
not engage in prostitution, neither will you be for another man, and I will be with you."
A Heb, "flask"

4 For the sons of Israel will sit many days while not having a king, while not having a
ruler, while not having a sacrifice, while not having an altar or a priesthood or
manifestations. 5 After this, the sons of Israel will return, and they will seek the Lord
their God and David their king. They will be astonished at the Lord and at his good
things at the end of days.
Hosea 4
1 Hear the word of the Lord, O sons of Israel, for the Lord has a judgment against
those who reside in the land, for there is no truth or mercy or recognition of God in the
land. 2 Cursing, lying, murder, theft, and adultery flow over the land, and they mingle
blood with blood. 3 Because of this, the land will mourn. It will be belittled together with
all who reside in it, with the beasts of the field, with the creeping things of the earth,
and with the birds of heaven; even the fish of the sea will fail, 4 so that no one may
either plead or reprove. My people are like a priest who is being spoken against. 5 He
will become weak by day; even the prophet with you will become weak. I compared
your mother to the night. 6 My people were so compared since they have no knowledge.
Because you rejected any recognition, I also will reject you, so that you will not perform
priestly service for me. You forgot the law of your God, and I also will forget your
children.
7 According to their multitude, so they sinned against me; I will turn their glory into
dishonor. 8 They will eat the sins of my people, and they will receive their souls with
their wrongdoings. 9 Just as the people are, so also the priest will be; I will avenge his
ways on him, and I will pay him back for his resolutions. 10 They will eat and not be
satisfied; they engaged in prostitution and will not prosper, because they abandoned
keeping watch for the Lord.
11 The heart of my people was accepting prostitution, wine, and liquor. 12 They were
inquiring by means of omens, and were replying to him by means of his rods. They
wandered in a spirit of prostitution and engaged in prostitution away from their God.
13 They were sacrificing on the summits of the mountains and were slaughtering on the
hills, under the oak, the poplar, and the shady tree, because the shelter was excellent.
Because of this, your daughters will engage in prostitution, and your daughters-in-law
will commit adultery. 14 I will not watch over your daughters when they engage in
prostitution, nor over your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, for they
themselves were kneading dough with the prostitutes and were slaughtering with those
who have been initiated. The people who understood A got entangled with a prostitute.
15 O Israel, do not be ignorant; O Judah, do not go to Gilgal. Do not go up to the
house of On, B and do not swear by the living Lord. 16 For Israel was maddened like a
mad heifer; now the Lord will pasture them like a lamb in a wide place. 17 Ephraim, a
partner of idols, set traps for himself. 18 He chose the Canaanites. They kept engaging in
prostitution; they loved dishonor as a result of its arrogance. 19 You are a blast of wind
in its wings, and they will be ashamed as a result of their altars.
A understood VA ¦ did not understand
B house of On V* ¦ house of wrongdoing VcA

Hosea 5
1 Hear these things, O priests! Pay attention, O house of Israel! Listen, O house of
the king! For the judgment is against you, because you became a snare on the
watchtower and like a net spread over Tabor, 2 which those who hunt for prey have
fixed. I myself am your disciplinarian. 3 I knew Ephraim, and Israel is not far from me.
For now Ephraim has engaged in prostitution; Israel was defiled. 4 They did not propose
their resolutions to return to their God, for the spirit of prostitution is among them, and
they did not recognize the Lord. 5 The insolence of Israel will be humiliated in his face.
Israel and Ephraim will become weak in their wrongdoings; Judah also will become
weak with them. 6 They will go with sheep and calves to seek the Lord, yet they will not
find him, for he withdrew from them. 7 For they abandoned the Lord, for strange
children were conceived by them. Now fungus will devour them and their inheritances.
8 Blow the trumpet on the hills; sound off on the heights; proclaim in the house of
On. Benjamin was astonished; 9 Ephraim became an obliteration during the days of
refutation. Among the tribes of Israel I showed faithful acts. 10 The rulers of Judah
became like those who move borders; I will pour out my fury on them like water.
11 Ephraim overpowered his adversary; he trampled down the judgment, for he began to
go after vanities. 12 I will be like a riot to Ephraim and like a spur to the house of Judah.
13 Ephraim saw his disease and Judah his pain. Ephraim went to the Assyrians and sent
forth ambassadors to King Jarim, yet he himself could not heal you, and pain will not
cease from you. 14 For I myself am like a panther to Ephraim and like a lion to the house
of Judah. I myself will tear and go and take, and there will be no one who will rescue.
15 I will go and return to my place until they are obliterated. They will seek my face; in
their oppression they will rise up early for me.
Hosea 6
1 They will say, "Let us go and return to the Lord our God, for he himself has torn,
yet he will heal us; he will attack, yet he will bandage us. 2 After two days he will make
us healthy; on the third day we will arise and live before him. 3 We will know; we will
pursue knowing the Lord. We will find him ready like the morning, and he will come to
us like the early and latter rain to the earth."
4 What will I do for you, Ephraim? What will I do for you, Judah? Your mercy is like a
morning cloud and like the early dew which goes away.
5 Because of this, I mowed down your prophets; I killed them with the words of my
mouth. My judgment will come out like light. 6 For I want mercy, not sacrifice, and the
recognition of God rather than whole burnt offerings. 7 They are like a man
transgressing a testament; he despised me there. 8 Gilead is a city producing vanities,
disturbing water. 9 Your strength is that of a man who is a pirate. The priests hid the
way of the Lord; A they murdered Shechem, for they performed lawlessness. 10 In the
house of Israel I saw horrors, the prostitution of Ephraim there. Israel and Judah were
defiled.
A the way of the Lord A ¦ the way V

11 Begin to gather grapes for yourself during my returning of the captivity of my
people.
Hosea 7
1 In my healing of Israel, the wrongdoing of Ephraim and the wickedness of Samaria
will be revealed, for they produced falsehood. A thief will come in to him, a robber
plundering in his way, 2 so that they may sing together like those who sing together in
their hearts. I remembered all their wicked acts. Now their counsels have surrounded
them; they were opposed to my face. 3 They cheered kings with their wicked acts and
rulers with their lies. 4 They are all adulterers, like a burning oven for baking being
heated from the flame, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened. 5 These are
the days of your kings; the rulers began to be provoked as a result of wine. He
stretched out his hand with scoundrels. 6 For their hearts were kindled like an oven while
they were dashing forth. Ephraim was filled with sleep the entire night. It became
morning; he was kindled like a flaming fire. 7 They were all heated like an oven, A and
they devoured their judges. All their kings fell; there was not one among them who
called to me.
8 Ephraim was mixed among his peoples; Ephraim became a loaf which was not
turned. 9 Strangers devoured his strength, but he himself did not recognize it; gray hairs
grew on him, but he himself did not know it. 10 The arrogance of Israel will be
humiliated in his presence, yet they did not return to the Lord their God and did not
seek him among all these things. 11 Ephraim was like a mindless dove, which does not
have a heart; he summoned Egypt, and they went to the Assyrians. 12 Whenever they
go, I will cast my net over them. I will bring them down like the birds of heaven; I will
discipline them with the rumor of their oppression. 13 Woe to them, for they bounded
away from me. They are cowards, for they were ungodly toward me. I myself
redeemed them, but they themselves spoke falsehood against me. 14 Their hearts did
not cry out to me, but they howled on their beds; they were cut to pieces over grain
and wine. They were disciplined by me; 15 I strengthened their arms, yet they planned
evil things against me. 16 They turned away to nothing; they became like a bow
stretched tight. Their rulers will fall by the sword on account of the undisciplined
condition of their tongues. This is their contempt in the land of Egypt.
Hosea 8
1 It is like dirt in their laps, like an eagle over the house of the Lord, because they
transgressed my testament and became ungodly against my law. 2 They will shout to
me, "O God, we have known you." 3 For Israel turned away from good things; they
pursued an enemy. 4 They made kings for themselves, yet not through me; they ruled,
yet they did not make it known to me. They made their silver and their gold into idols
A They were all heated like an oven V ¦ Their hearts were all heated like an oven ¦ They
were all heated like a burning oven ¦ Their hearts were all heated like an oven burning
with fire A

for themselves, so that they might be destroyed. 5 Throw away your calf, O Samaria; my
anger was provoked against them. How long will they be unable to be cleansed in
Israel? 6 The craftsman made it; it is not God. For your calf, O Samaria, was one who
deceives. 7 For they sowed blighted seed, and their destruction will await these things. A
sheaf does not have strength to produce meal; even if it should produce it, strangers
will devour it. 8 Israel was swallowed up; now he has become among the nations like a
useless vessel, 9 because they went up to the Assyrians. Ephraim sprouted up against
himself; they loved gifts. 10 Because of this, they will be delivered up among the nations.
Now I will receive them, and they will cease for a little while to anoint a king and rulers.
11 Because Ephraim multiplied altars, beloved altars became sins to him. 12 I will
record a multitude for him, including his regulations; the beloved altars were reckoned
as strange things. 13 For if they offer a sacrifice and eat meat, the Lord will not accept
these things. Now he will remember their wrongdoings and will take vengeance on their
sins. They returned to Egypt, and they will eat unclean things among the Assyrians.
14 Israel forgot the one who made him; they built dedicated precincts, and Judah
multiplied walled cities. I will send out fire for his cities, and it will devour their
foundations.
Hosea 9
1 Do not rejoice, O Israel, and do not be cheerful like the peoples, for you engaged in
prostitution away from your God; you loved gifts on every threshing floor of grain. 2 The
threshing floor and wine press did not know them, and the wine lied to them. 3 They did
not reside in the land of the Lord; Ephraim resided in Egypt, and they will eat unclean
things among the Assyrians. 4 They did not offer a libation of wine to the Lord, and they
did not provide seasoning for him; their sacrifices were like the bread of mourning for
them. All who eat them will be defiled, because their bread for their souls will not enter
into the house of the Lord. 5 What will you do on the day of the festival and on the day
of the feast of the Lord? 6 Because of this, behold, they will go from the trouble of
Egypt; Memphis will receive them, and Michmash will bury them. Destruction will inherit
their silver; thorns will be in their tents.
7 The days of vengeance have come; the days of your recompense have come. Israel
will be afflicted like the prophet who is deranged, a man who is possessed; your
madness was multiplied by the multitude of your wrongdoings. 8 The watchman of
Ephraim was with God, a prophet, yet a crooked snare in all his ways; they established
madness in the house of the Lord. 9 They were corrupted according to the days of the
hill. He will remember their wrongdoings; he will take vengeance on their sins.
10 I found Israel like a bunch of grapes in the desert, and I saw their fathers like an
early watchman in a fig tree. They entered Baal Peor and were alienated in shame; the
beloved became like the abominable. 11 Ephraim flew away like a bird; their glories are
from births, labor pains, and conceptions. 12 For even if they nurture their children, they
will be barren as a result of men, for it is even a woe to them that my flesh is from
them. 13 Ephraim, in the manner that I saw, presented their children as prey, in order
for Ephraim to bring out his children for killing. 14 Give it to them, O Lord. What will you
give to them? Give to them a barren womb and dry breasts.

15 All their wicked acts are in Gilgal, for I hated them there; because of the wicked
acts of their habits, I will drive them out of my house. I will not continue to love them;
all their rulers are distrustful. 16 Ephraim was afflicted. He dried up at his roots; he will
no longer bear fruit. For even if they conceive, I will kill the desired things of their
womb. 17 God will reject them, because they did not listen to him; they will be
wanderers among the nations.
Hosea 10
1 Israel is a luxuriantly growing vine; its fruit is flourishing. According to the multitude
of his fruits, he multiplied the altars; according to the good things of his land, he built
pillars. 2 They divided their hearts; now they will be obliterated. He himself will raze their
altars; their pillars will suffer.
3 For now they will say, "We have no king, because we did not fear the Lord. What
will a king do for us?" 4 He will make a testament while speaking words which are false
professions; judgment will spring up like grass on the soil of the field. 5 Those who
reside in Samaria will sojourn near the calf of the house of On, for his people mourned
over him. Just as they provoked him, they will rejoice over his glory, for it migrated
away from him. 6 After they bound him for the Assyrians, they carried away presents for
King Jareb; Ephraim will receive a gift, and Israel will be ashamed of his counsel.
7 Samaria threw away her king like a twig on the surface of the water. 8 The platforms of
On, the sins of Israel, will be taken away. Thorns and thistles will come up on their
altars; they will say to the mountains, "Cover us," and to the hills, "Fall on us."
9 Since there were hills, Israel sinned; there they stood. Will not war against the
children of wrongdoing overtake them on the hill? 10 He came to discipline them;
peoples will be gathered against them when they are disciplined for their two
wrongdoings.
11 Ephraim is a calf taught to love a quarrel, but I will come against the most
beautiful part of her neck. I will mount Ephraim; I will pass over Judah in silence; Jacob
will prevail against him. 12 Sow for yourselves resulting in righteousness; reap resulting
in the fruit of life. Light for yourselves the light of knowledge; seek the Lord until the
produce of righteousness comes to you. 13 Why did you pass over ungodliness in silence,
and reap its wrongdoings? You ate false fruit, for you hoped in your chariots, in the
multitude of your force. 14 Destruction will rise up among your people, and all your
fortified places will depart like the ruler Solomon out of the house of Jeroboam. In the
days of war, they dashed mother upon children. 15 So I will do to you, O house of Israel,
due to the presence of your wicked acts. Early in the morning they were thrown away;
the king of Israel was thrown away.
Hosea 11
1 For Israel is an infant, and I loved him; out of Egypt I summoned his children. 2 As I
summoned them, so they departed from my presence; they were sacrificing to the
Baalim, and were burning incense to the carvings. 3 I myself bound the feet of Ephraim;
I took him on my arm, and they did not know that I healed them. 4 During the ruin of

men, I prolonged them with the bonds of my love. I will be to them like a man hitting
another on his cheek. I will stare at him; I will prevail over him.
5 Ephraim resided in Egypt, and Asshur himself was his king, because he did not
want to return. 6 The sword weakened in his cities and ceased in his hands. They will
eat of their own decrees. 7 His people were hanging out of his residence. God will be
furious with his precious things, and will not exalt him.
8 What will I arrange for you, O Ephraim? How will I protect you, O Israel? What will
I arrange for you? I will set you up like Admah and like Zeboiim. My heart turned within
itself; my regret was stirred up. 9 I will not act according to the wrath of my fury; I will
not abandon Ephraim to be wiped out. For I am God and not man, the Holy One among
you, and I will not enter into a city. 10 I will go after the Lord; he will roar like a lion, for
he himself will growl, and the children of the waters will be displaced. 11 They will be
displaced like a bird out of Egypt and like a dove out of the land of the Assyrians. "I will
restore them to their houses," says the Lord.
Hosea 12 A
1 Ephraim surrounded me with falsehood, and the house of Israel and Judah with
ungodly acts. Now God has come to know them, and they will be called the holy people
of God. 2 Ephraim is an evil spirit; he pursued the summer heat the entire day. He
multiplied empty and vain things; he made a testament with the Assyrians, and
imported oil into Egypt. 3 The Lord has a judgment against Judah in order to take
vengeance on Jacob according to his ways, and according to his habits he will repay
him. 4 He grabbed the heel of his brother in the womb, and in his labors he was strong
with God. 5 He was strong with the messenger and was powerful. They wept and
petitioned me; they found me in my house, and there it was spoken to him. B 6 The Lord
God Almighty will be his memorial. 7 You will return with your God; preserve mercy and
justice, and draw near to your God continually.
8 In Canaan's hand is a balance of wrongdoing; he loved to overpower. 9 Ephraim
said, "Nevertheless, I have become rich; I have found refreshment for myself." None of
his labors will be found for him because of the wrongdoings by which he sinned. 10 I
myself, the Lord your God, brought you up out of the land of Egypt. I will still cause you
to reside in tents, just as on the day of the festival. 11 I will speak to the prophets; I
multiplied visions, and by the hands of the prophets I was represented. 12 If there is no
Gilead, then the rulers in Gilead C were false when they were sacrificing, and their altars
were like heaps on the ground of the field. 13 Jacob departed for the plain of Syria;
Israel served for a wife and waited for a wife. 14 The Lord brought Israel out of Egypt by
a prophet, and by a prophet he was preserved. 15 Ephraim was furious and enraged. His
blood will be poured out upon him, and the Lord will repay his reproach to him.
A 12:1 = 11:12 EV; 12:2-15 = 12:1-14 EV
B in my house, and there it was spoken to him A ¦ in the house of On, and there it was
spoken to them V ¦ in the house of On, and there it was spoken to him
C Gilead VA ¦ Gilgal

Hosea 13
1 According to the word of Ephraim, he received righteous decrees in Israel; he set
them up for Baal, and he died. 2 They still proceeded to sin; they made for themselves a
molten object from their silver according to the image of idols, works accomplished for
them by craftsmen. They say, "Sacrifice men, for calves have failed." 3 Because of this,
they will be like a morning cloud and like early dew which passes away, just like dust
blown away from the threshing floor and like a vapor due to tears. A
4 I am the Lord your God, who solidifies heaven and creates earth, whose hands
created all the host of heaven. I did not show them to you so that you might go after
them. I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and you will not know any God except
me; there is no one who saves besides me. 5 I shepherded you in the desert, in an
uninhabited land. 6 According to their pastures, they were filled in abundance and their
hearts were exalted; on account of this, they forgot me. 7 I will be for them like a
panther and like a leopard, according to the way of the Assyrians. 8 I will meet them like
a needy bear. I will tear the pericardium of their hearts, and the cubs of the thicket will
devour them there; the wild animals of the field will rip them up.
9 O Israel, who will help you in your ruin? 10 Where is this king of yours? Let him save
you in all your cities; let him judge you, of whom you said, "Give me a king and a
ruler." 11 I gave you a king in my wrath and held a collection of wrongdoing in my fury.
12 As for Ephraim, his sin has been hidden. 13 Pains like those of a woman in labor will
come to him. This son of yours is prudent, B because he will not lend support in the
crushing of children. 14 I will deliver them from the hand of Hades and redeem them
from death. Where is your penalty, O death? Where is your sting, O Hades? Comfort
has been hidden from my eyes.
15 For this will cause a division between brothers. The Lord will bring a burning wind
from the desert over him, dry up his rivulets, and cause his springs to be deserted. He
himself will dry up his land and all his desirable vessels.
Hosea 14 C
1 Samaria will be obliterated, for she resisted her God. They will fall by the sword;
their nursing infants will be dashed to the ground, and their pregnant women will be
ripped open.
2 Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you became weak in your wrongdoings.
3 Take words with you and return to the Lord your God; say to him, so that you may not
receive wrongdoing and so that you may receive good things, "We will render the fruit
of our lips. 4 Assyria will not save us; we will not mount on a horse. We will no longer
say `Our gods´ to the works of our hands." The one who is in you will show mercy to
an orphan.
A due to tears V ¦ from a chimney A ¦ due to tears as the result of a chimney ¦ due to
locusts
B is prudent VA ¦ is not prudent
C 14:1 = 13:16 EV; 14:2-10 = 14:1-9 EV

5 I will heal their residences; I will love them openly, for my wrath turned away from
them. 6 I will be like dew for Israel; he will bloom like a lily and cast forth his roots like
Lebanon. 7 His branches will go forth; he will be like a fruitful olive tree, and his
fragrance will be like that of Lebanon. 8 They will return and dwell under his shadow;
they will live and be satiated with grain. His memorial will flower like a vine, like the
wine of Lebanon.
9 As for Ephraim, what has he to do any more with idols? I humiliated him, and I will
strengthen him; I am like a bushy juniper tree. From me your fruit was found.
10 Who is wise and will understand these things, or is understanding and will
recognize them? For the ways of the Lord are upright and the righteous will walk in
them, but the ungodly will be weakened in them.

AMOS 1
1 The words of Amos which occurred in Hakkerem A of Tekoa, which he saw
concerning Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam
son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
2 He said, "The Lord made an utterance from Zion and issued his voice from
Jerusalem. The pastures of the shepherds mourned, and the summit of Carmel dried
up."
3The Lord said, "For three ungodly acts of Damascus and for four, I will not turn
away from him, since they sawed with iron saws those in Gilead who were pregnant. 4 I
will send out fire into the house of Hazael, and it will devour the foundations of the son
of Hadad. 5 I will break the bars of Damascus, I will destroy the residents from the plain
of On, and I will cut down the tribe of the men of Charan. The distinguished people of
Syria will be taken captive," says the Lord.
6 Thus says the Lord: "For three ungodly acts of Gaza and for four, I will not turn
away from them, because they took captive the captivity of Solomon, to shut them up
in Idumea. 7 I will send out fire over the walls of Gaza, and it will devour her
foundations. 8 I will destroy the residents from Ashdod, and the tribe will be removed
from Ashkelon; I will bring forth my hand against Ekron, and the remnants of the
Philistines will perish," says the Lord.
9 Thus says the Lord: "For three ungodly acts of Tyre and for four, I will not turn
away from her, since they shut up the captivity of Solomon in Idumea B and did not
remember the testament of brothers. 10 I will send out fire over the walls of Tyre, and it
will devour her foundations."
11 Thus says the Lord: "For three ungodly acts of Idumea and for four, I will not turn
away from them, because they pursued his brother with the sword. He corrupted a
womb C on the ground, seized upon his horror during a testimony, and preserved his
being startled during a quarrel. 12 I will send out fire into Teman, and it will devour the
foundations of her walls."
13 Thus says the Lord: "For three ungodly acts of the sons of Ammon and for four, I
will not turn away from him, since they ripped up those of the Gileadites who were
pregnant, so that they might widen their borders. 14 I will kindle fire on the walls of
Rabbah, and it will devour her foundations with shouting on the day of battle. She will
be shaken on the day of her termination. 15 Her kings will go into captivity, their priests
and their rulers together," says the Lord.
A Hakkerem VA (Beth Hakkerem, south of Jerusalem on the way to Bethlehem and
Tekoa) ¦ Kiriath Jearim (west of Jerusalem)
B Idumea Vc ¦ Judea V*A
C womb A ¦ mother V

Amos 2
1 Thus says the Lord: "For three ungodly acts of Moab and for four, I will not turn
away from him, since they burned the bones of the king of Idumea to ash. 2 I will send
out fire over Moab, and it will devour the foundations of her cities. Moab will perish in
powerlessness with a shout and with the sound of a trumpet. 3 I will destroy the judge
from her and kill all her rulers with him," says the Lord.
4 Thus says the Lord: "For three ungodly acts of the sons of Judah and for four, I will
not turn away from him, because they rejected the law of the Lord and did not preserve
his ordinances. Their vanities which they made, after which their fathers followed,
deceived them. 5 I will send out fire over Judah, and it will devour the foundations of
Jerusalem."
6 Thus says the Lord: "For three ungodly acts of Israel and for four, I will not turn
away from him, since they sold out the righteous for silver and the needy because of
sandals, 7 which tread on the soil of the earth. They punched the heads of the poor and
diverted the way of the humble. A son and his father went into the same maidservant,
so that they might profane the name of their God. 8 They bound their garments with
threads and made screens near the altar; they drank wine obtained by extortion in the
house of their God.
9 I removed the Amorite from before their face, whose height was like the height of a
cedar; he was strong as an oak. I dried up his fruit from above and his roots from
beneath. 10 I brought you up out of the land of Egypt and led you about in the desert
forty years in order to inherit the land of the Amorites. 11 I took some of your sons for
prophets and some of your young men for consecration. Aren't these things so, O sons
of Israel?" says the Lord. 12 "You gave the consecrated ones wine to drink; you
commanded the prophets, saying, `Do not prophesy.´ 13 Because of this, behold, I am
rolling underneath you, as a wagon which is full of straw is rolled. 14 Flight will perish
from the runner, and the mighty one will not hold on to his strength. The fighter will
not save his soul, 15 and the archer will not remain concealed. The one who is swift in
his feet will not be preserved, neither will the horseman save his soul. 16 The mighty one
will not find his heart A in dominating acts; the naked one will be pursued on that day,"
says the Lord.
Amos 3
1 Hear this word which the Lord spoke concerning you, O house of Israel, and
against every tribe which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying, 2 "Nevertheless,
I knew you out of all the tribes of the earth; because of this, I will take vengeance on
you for all your sins." 3 Will two walk together entirely, if they do not make themselves
known? 4 Will a lion roar out of his thicket if he has no prey? Will a cub entirely issue his
sound out of his lair, unless he has taken something? 5 Will a bird fall on the earth
without a catcher? Will a trap let go on the earth without taking anything? 6 Will a
A The mighty one will not find his heart V* ¦ The mighty one will find his heart Vc ¦ He
will find his heart A

trumpet sound in a city, and the people not be excited? Will there be wickedness in a
city which the Lord did not perform? 7 For the Lord God will perform no act unless he
reveals his instruction to his slaves the prophets. 8 A lion will roar, and who will not be
afraid? The Lord God spoke, and who will not prophesy?
9 Proclaim it to the regions among the Assyrians and over the regions of Egypt; say,
"Gather at the mountain of Samaria and see many amazing things in its midst, including
the overpowering which is in it." 10 "She did not know the things which would come
against her," says the Lord, "those who store up wrongdoing and misery in their
regions." 11 Because of this, thus says the Lord God: "O Tyre, your land will be deserted
around you. He will bring down your strength from you, and your regions will be
plundered." 12 Thus says the Lord: "As when the shepherd pulls out from the mouth of a
lion two legs or the lobe of an ear, so the sons of Israel, who reside in Samaria opposite
the tribe and in Damascus, will be pulled out. 13 O priests, listen and testify to the house
of Jacob," says the Lord God Almighty. 14 "For on the day, whenever I take vengeance
on Israel for his ungodly acts, I will also take vengeance on the altars of Bethel. The
horns of the altar will be razed, and they will fall on the earth. 15 I will cause confusion,
and inflict the turreted house on the summer house. The ivory houses will be
destroyed, and many other houses in addition," says the Lord.
Amos 4
1 Hear this word, you heifers from the territory of Bashan who are in the mountain of
Samaria, who overpower the poor and trample on the needy, who say to their lords,
"Give to us so that we may drink." 2 The Lord swears by his holy ones: "For behold, days
are coming upon you, and they will take you with weapons, and fiery destroyers will
throw those who are with you into boiling caldrons. 3 You will be brought forth naked in
the presence of each other, and you will be thrown away on Mount Rimmon," A says the
Lord.
4 "You entered Bethel, acted lawlessly, and multiplied being ungodly at Gilgal. You
brought your sacrifices in the morning and your tithes on every third day. 5 They read
the law outside and called for confessions. Proclaim that the sons of Israel loved these
things," says the Lord God.
6 "I will give you dullness of teeth in all your cities and lack of bread in all your
places, yet you did not return to me," says the Lord. 7 "I withheld the rain from you
three months before the harvest. I will rain on one city, and I will not rain on another
city; one part will be rained on, and the part on which I will not rain will be dried up.
8 Two or three cities will assemble in one city to drink water, and will not be satisfied,
yet you did not return to me," says the Lord. 9 "I attacked you with fever and with
jaundice. You multiplied your gardens, your vineyards, and your fig orchards, and the
grasshopper devoured your olive groves, yet not even then did you return to me," says
the Lord. 10 "I sent death out to you by the way of Egypt and killed your young men
with the sword, together with the captivity of your horses. In my wrath B I elevated your
A Rimmon VA ¦ Harmon ¦ Hermon
B my wrath A ¦ your wrath V

camps with fire, yet not even then did you return to me," says the Lord. 11 "I overthrew
you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you became like a torch pulled out
of the fire, yet not even then did you return to me," says the Lord. 12 "Because of this,
thus I will do to you, O Israel; nevertheless, because I will do thus to you, prepare to
invoke your God, O Israel. 13 For behold, I am the one who solidifies the thunder,
creates the breeze, A and proclaims his Christ to men, who makes the dawn and the fog
and mounts up on the high places of the earth." The Lord God Almighty is his name.
Amos 5
1 Hear this word of the Lord, which I am taking up against you as a lamentation, O
house of Israel. 2 She fell; the virgin of Israel will not rise again. She tripped on her
land; there is no one who will raise her up. 3 For thus says the Lord: "In the city out of
which thousands went, a hundred will be left, and in the one out of which a hundred
went, ten will be left to the house of Israel."
4 For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: "Seek me and you will live. 5 Do not
seek Bethel, do not go into Gilgal, and do not cross over to the Well of the Oath. For
Gilgal will be taken into captivity, and Bethel will be like that which does not exist."
6 Seek the Lord and you will live, so that the house of Joseph may not blaze up like fire
and it devour him, and there will be no one to extinguish it for the house of Israel. 7 The
Lord is the one who executes justice on high; he established righteousness on the
earth. 8 He is the one who makes and changes all things, who turns shadow B into
morning and darkens day into night, who summons the water of the sea and pours it
out on the surface of the earth; the Lord God Almighty is his name. 9 He is the one who
lifts up ruin over strength and brings distress over a fortress.
10 They hated the one who reproved in the gates, and abhorred holy speech.
11 Because of this, since they punched C the poor, you accepted choice gifts from them.
You built polished houses, yet you will not dwell in them; you planted coveted
vineyards, yet you will not drink the wine from them. 12 For I knew your many ungodly
acts, and your sins are strong: trampling on one who is righteous, taking bribes, and
turning aside the needy in the gates. 13 Because of this, the one who is intelligent will be
silent in that season, for it is an evil season.
14 Seek what is good and not what is evil, so that you may live; thus will the Lord
God Almighty be with you, as you have said, 15 "We have hated the evil things and have
loved the good things." Restore justice in the gates, so that the Lord God Almighty may
have mercy on the remnants of Joseph.
16 Because of this, thus says the Lord God Almighty: "In all the streets there will be
mourning, and in all the roads it will be said, `Woe, woe!´ The farmer will be called to
grief and mourning, and to those who are acquainted with lamenting. 17 There will be
mourning in all the roads, because I will pass through your midst," says the Lord.
18 Woe to those who desire the day of the Lord! What is this day of the Lord to you?
A Or, "spirit" (pneuma)
B shadow VA ¦ the shadow of death
C they punched VA ¦ you punched

This is darkness and not light, 19 as when a man flees from the face of a lion, and a bear
falls upon him, as when he springs into his house and leans his hands on the wall, and
a serpent bites him. 20 Isn't the day of the Lord darkness and not light? Isn't it gloom
which has no illumination for it?
21 "I have hated, I reject your festivals, and I will not smell the sacrifices in your
feasts. 22 For even if you bring me your whole burnt offerings and sacrifices, I will not
accept them, neither will I look at your manifestations of salvation. 23 Remove from me
the noise of your songs, and I will not hear the music of your instruments. 24 Let justice
roll down like water and righteousness like an impassable torrent.
25 Did you offer for me victims and sacrifices in the desert for forty years, O house of
Israel? 26 You took up the tent of Moloch and the star of your god Rephan, their images
which you made for yourselves. 27 I will deport you beyond Damascus," says the Lord;
the Almighty God is his name.
Amos 6
1 Woe to those who have contempt for Zion and who trust in the mountain of
Samaria. They harvested the realms of nations, and they themselves entered. 2 O house
of Israel, all of you, pass by and see. Pass through from there to Emath Rabbah, and
descend from there to Gath of the Philistines, the most excellent of all these kingdoms.
See if their borders are greater than your borders. 3 You who are coming into A a wicked
day, who are approaching and participating in false sabbaths, 4 who are sleeping on
beds of ivory, living excessively on your couches, and eating young goats from the
flocks and nursing calves from the midst of the stalls, 5 who are applauding at the sound
of musical instruments (they reckoned them as established and not as fleeting), 6 who
are drinking clarified wine and anointing yourselves with the best ointments, you were
suffering nothing over the calamity of Joseph. 7 Because of this, they will now be
captives away from the realm of potentates, and the neighing of horses will be removed
from Ephraim.
8 For the Lord swore by himself: "Because I abhor all the insolence of Jacob, I have
also hated his territories, and I will remove a city along with all who reside in it." 9 It will
be that, if ten men are left behind in one house, they will die, and those who remain
will be left behind. 10 Their households will take them, and they will strain to carry their
bones from the house. One will say to those who preside over the house, "Is anyone
still with you?" He will say, "No longer." He will say, "Be silent, because you do not
name the name of the Lord." 11 For behold, the Lord is giving a command; he will attack
the great house with dents and the small house with cracks. 12 Will horses pursue
among rocks? Will they be silent among mares? For you turned justice into vinegar B and
the fruit of righteousness into bitterness, 13 you who are cheerful over the lack of any
word, who say, "Did we not possess horns by our strength?" 14 "For behold, O house of
A coming into V ¦ making a vow on A
B thumon, "thyme," sometimes mixed with vinegar and honey, is also the accusative of
thumos, "anger"

Israel, I will raise up against you a nation," says the Lord of forces. A They will afflict you
so that you may not enter into Emath, as far as the wadi of the west.
Amos 7
1 The Lord God showed me this: behold, a swarm of locusts coming at dawn, and
behold, one caterpillar, Gog the king. 2 It will be whenever he finishes devouring the
grass of the land. I said, "O Lord, O Lord, be merciful. Who will resurrect Jacob? For he
is few in number. 3 Repent, O Lord, concerning this." "This will not be," says the Lord.
4 The Lord showed me this: behold, the Lord called for judgment by fire. It devoured
the great abyss, and it devoured the Lord's portion. B 5 I said, "O Lord, O Lord, cease
now. Who will resurrect Jacob? For he is few in number. 6 Repent, O Lord, concerning
this." "This also will not happen," says the Lord.
7 The Lord showed me this: behold, there was a man standing on a wall of steel, and
there was steel in his hand. 8 The Lord said to me, "What do you see, Amos?" I said, "A
piece of steel." The Lord said to me, "Behold, I am inserting a piece of steel in the
midst of my people Israel; I will no longer proceed to pass them by. 9 The altars of joy
will be obliterated, and the events of Israel will be deserted; I will rise up against the
house of Jeroboam with a sword."
10 Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent out someone to Jeroboam, king of Israel,
saying, "Amos is forming conspiracies against you in the midst of the house of Israel.
The land will not be able to bear all his words. 11 For thus says Amos: `Jeroboam will be
deceased by the sword, and Israel will be led away captive from his land.´" 12 Amaziah
said to Amos, "O seer, go away; move yourself to the land of Judah, and live there. You
will prophesy there, 13 but you will no longer proceed to prophesy in Bethel, for it is the
sacred place of the king, and it is the house of the kingdom."
14 Amos answered and said to Amaziah, "I was not a prophet nor a son of a prophet,
but I was a herdsman and a gatherer of sycamore fruits. 15 The Lord took me from the
sheep, and the Lord said to me, `Go prophesy against my people Israel.´ 16 Now hear
the word of the Lord. You say, `Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not raise a
tumult against the house of Jacob.´ 17 Because of this, thus says the Lord: `Your wife
will be a prostitute in the city, your sons and your daughters will fall by the sword, and
your land will be measured with a line. You yourself will be deceased in an unclean
land; Israel will be taken captive from its land.´"
Amos 8
1 The Lord God showed me this: behold, there was a fowler's basket. 2 He said, "What
do you see, Amos?" I said, "A fowler's basket." The Lord said to me, "The end has
come upon my people Israel; I will no longer proceed to pass them by. 3 The ceilings of
the sanctuary will howl on that day," says the Lord God. "The fallen one will be
A says the Lord of forces V ¦ says the Lord God of forces ¦ says the Lord God of hosts ¦
~ A
B the Lord's portion V ¦ the portion A

numerous in every place; I will impose silence."
4 Now hear this, you who oppress the needy in the morning and overpower the poor
away from the land, 5 who say, "When will the month pass and we will sell, and the
sabbaths and we will open treasure chests in order to make the measure small, to
enlarge weights, and to make the balance unjust, 6 in order to buy the poor with silver
and the one who is humble in return for sandals, and we will trade in every kind of
product?"
7 The Lord swears against the arrogance of Jacob, "Surely none of your actions
resulting in abuse will ever be forgotten. 8 Won't the land be disturbed by these things?
Won't everyone who resides on it mourn? Destruction will ascend like a river and
descend like the river of Egypt. 9 It will be on that day," says the Lord God, "that the sun
will go down at noon and the light will be darkened over the land during the day. 10 I
will turn your festivals into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will bring
sackcloth over every waist and baldness over every head. I will make it for him like
mourning for a loved one, and for those who are with him like a day of grief.
11 Behold, days are coming," says the Lord, "and I will send out a famine over the
land. It will not be a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the
word of the Lord. 12 The waters will be disturbed as far as the sea, and from the north
to the east they will run around seeking the word of the Lord, yet they will not find it.
13 On that day the beautiful virgins and the young men will faint in thirst. 14 Those who
swear by the mercy of Samaria and say, `Your god lives, O Dan, and your god lives, O
Beersheba,´ will fall and not rise again."
Amos 9
1 I saw the Lord standing on the altar, and he said, "Attack the mercy seat, and the
gateways will be shaken. Cut through to the heads of all, and I will kill the remnants of
them with the sword. Even though they flee, none of them will escape, and even
though they return safely, none of them will be rescued. 2 If they sink into Hades, my
hand will pull them up from there; if they ascend into heaven, I will bring them down
from there. 3 If they hide on the summit of Carmel, I will search them out and take them
from there; if they plunge out of my eyesight into the depths of the sea, I will
command the dragon there and he will bite them. 4 If they go into captivity before the
face of their enemies, I will command the sword there and it will kill them. I will set my
eyes against them resulting in wicked things, and not in good things."
5 The Lord God Almighty is the one who takes hold of the land and shakes it, and all
who reside on it will mourn. Its termination will ascend like a river and descend like the
river of Egypt. 6 He is the one who builds his ascent into heaven and establishes his
promise on the earth, who summons the water of the sea and pours it out over the
surface of the earth; the Lord God Almighty is his name. 7 "Aren't you like the sons of
the Ethiopians to me, O sons of Israel?" says the Lord. "Didn't I bring Israel up out of
the land of Egypt, the Philistines out of Cappadocia, and the Syrians out of the pit?
8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are over the kingdom of sinners. I will cut it off
from the surface of the earth; nevertheless, I will not completely cut off the house of
Jacob," says the Lord. 9 "For behold, I am giving a command; I will sift the house of

Israel among all the nations in the manner that anything is sifted in a sieve, yet a
fragment will not fall on the earth. 10 All the sinners of my people will be deceased by
the sword, who say, `Wicked things will not come near or happen to us.´ 11 On that day
I will resurrect the tent of David which has fallen, rebuild its ruins, resurrect its parts
which have been razed, and rebuild it as in the ancient days, 12 so that the remnants of
men, and all the nations over whom my name is invoked, may seek me," says the Lord
God who does these things.
13 "Behold, days are coming," says the Lord, "when the harvest will overtake the
vintage and the grapes will ripen at seedtime. The mountains will drop sweet wine, and
all the hills will be planted. 14 I will return the captivity of my people Israel, and they will
build the obliterated cities and reside in them. They will plant vineyards and drink the
wine from them; they will plant gardens and eat the fruit from them. 15 I will plant them
in their land, and they will no longer be pulled up from their land which I gave them,"
says the Lord God Almighty.

MICAH 1
1 The word of the Lord was directed at Micah the son of Moresheth in the days of
Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, regarding the things which he saw
concerning Samaria and concerning Jerusalem.
2 Hear the words, O peoples, and let the earth and all who are on it pay attention.
The Lord will be among you for testimony, the Lord from his holy house. 3 For behold,
the Lord is going out of his place; he will descend on and mount the heights of the
earth. 4 The mountains will be shaken underneath him, and the valleys will melt like wax
due to the presence of fire and like water being brought down on a slope. 5 All these
things are because of the ungodliness of Jacob and because of the sin of the house of
Israel. What is the ungodliness of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? What is the sin of the house
of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem? 6 I will place Samaria as a gardener's hut in a field and as
a planting in a vineyard. I will pull her stones down into chaos, and I will reveal her
foundations. 7 They will cut down all her carvings, they will burn with fire all her fees,
and I will set up all her idols for obliteration. For she gathered together as a result of
the fees of prostitution, and she assembled together as a result of the fees of
prostitution.
8 Because of this, she will mourn and lament; she will go barefoot and naked; she
will engage in mourning like that of dragons, and in grief like that of the daughters of
sirens. 9 For her plague was prevalent, since it came as far as Judah and reached as far
as the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem. 10 You who are in Gath, do not be
magnified. You Anakim, A do not rebuild anything from the house upon laughter; scatter
dirt upon your laughter. 11 She who resides well, she who resides in Seneh, B did not
come out of her cities in order to mourn for the house neighboring her. She will receive
from you a plague of pain. 12 Who started out for the good things of her who resides in
pain? For wicked things descended from the Lord on the gates of Jerusalem, 13 the noise
of chariots and horsemen. She who resides in Lachish is the originator of sin for the
daughter of Zion, for in you were found the ungodly acts of Israel. 14 Because of this,
she will issue exiles, worthless houses, as far as the inheritance of Gath; they have
become empty C for the kings of Israel. 15 Until they bring back the heirs, D she who
resides in Lachish is the inheritance; the glory of the daughter of Israel will reach as far
as Adullam. E 16 Shave and cut off your hair over your tender children. Extend your
A The Anakim were Canaanites in Gath and other Philistine communities (Josh. 11:22)
B Seneh was the south cliff of a deep ravine north of Jerusalem, just east of Ramah
(1 Kgdms. 14:4); the Gk sennaar also transliterates "Shinar," an ancient name for
Babylon (Gen. 10:10)
C she will issue exiles ... they (that is, worthless houses) have become empty V ¦ you
will issue exiles ... it (that is, the inheritance of Gath) has become empty A
D they bring back the heirs VA ¦ I bring the heirs back to you
E Adullam was 18 miles southwest of Jerusalem, and Lachish was 11 miles further
southwest, thus Israel's "inheritance" and "glory" is limited to the territory of Judah

widowhood like an eagle, for they went away from you into captivity.
Micah 2
1 They were planning troubles and producing wicked things in their beds, and as
soon as it was day they perpetrated them, for they did not lift up their hands to God.
2 They coveted fields, plundered orphans, overpowered houses, and plundered a man
and his house, a man and his inheritance. 3 Because of this, thus says the Lord: "Behold,
I myself am planning wicked things against this tribe, out of which you will not lift up
your necks. You will not suddenly walk upright, for the season is evil. 4 On that day an
illustration will be taken up against you, and a lamentation will be uttered with music,
saying, `We are suffering distress. A division of my people was measured out with a
line, and there was no one who would prevent him from turning away; our fields were
divided.´ 5 Because of this, you will have no one who will cast a line by lot in the
assembly of the Lord.
6 Do not weep with tears, and do not let them shed tears over these things, for
reproaches will not decline. 7 Surely these are not the habits of the one who says, `The
house of Jacob provoked the Spirit of the Lord.´ Are his words not beautiful with him,
and have they not walked upright? 8 Previously my people resisted in animosity; in
opposition to his peace, they stripped off his hide so that the devastation of war might
deprive of hope. 9 Because of this, those who govern my people will be thrown out of
their houses of luxury; they were rejected because of their evil habits. Draw near to the
eternal mountains. 10 Arise and go, for because of uncleanness, this is not your rest. You
were brought to ruin. 11 You were pursued closely, even though no one was pursuing. A
spirit set up a lie; it dropped you into wine and liquor. It will be that, as a result of the
dropping of this people, 12 Jacob will be gathered with everyone. I will await the
remnants of Israel; I will bring about their return at the same place. Like sheep in
oppression, like a flock in the midst of their pen, they will jump away from men.
13 Through the breach before their face, they broke through, passed through the gate,
and came out through it. Their king came out before their face, and the Lord will lead
them."
Micah 3
1 He will also say, "Now hear these things, you realms of the house of Jacob and you
remnants of the house of Israel. Is it not for you to know the judgment, 2 you who hate
the beautiful things and seek the ugly things, who tear their skin from them and their
flesh from their bones? 3 In this manner they devoured the flesh of my people, stripped
off their skin from their bones, A smashed their bones, and dismembered them as flesh
for the kettle and as meat for the pot." 4 In this way they will shout to the Lord, yet he
will not listen to them. He will turn his face away from them in that season, because in
their habits they brought evil upon themselves.
5 Thus says the Lord against the prophets who lead my people astray, who bite with
A from their bones A ¦ from them V

their teeth and proclaim peace over them. Nothing was given into their mouths; they
raised up war over them. 6 Because of this, you will have a night without a vision, and
you will have darkness without a divination. The sun will set over the prophets, and the
day will darken over them. 7 Those who look at dreams will be ashamed, and the
diviners will be laughed at. Everyone will speak against them, because there will be no
one who will listen to them. 8 Surely I will be full of strength in the Spirit of the Lord, of
judgment and dominance, so as to announce to Jacob his ungodly acts and to Israel his
sins. 9 Now hear these things, you who govern the house of Jacob and you remnants of
the house of Israel, who abhor judgment and pervert all the upright things, 10 who build
Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with unrighteous acts. 11 Those who govern her sat
in judgment for gifts, her priests replied for a fee, and her prophets practiced divination
for silver. Yet they rested their hopes on the Lord, saying, "Is the Lord not among us?
Wicked things will not come upon us." 12 Because of this, Zion will be plowed like a field
because of you; Jerusalem will be like a gardener's hut, and the mountain of the house
like a grove of the forest.
Micah 4
1 It will be that, at the end of days, the mountain of the Lord will be visible, prepared
on the tops of the mountains, and it will be elevated above the hills. The peoples will
hurry to it. 2 Many nations will go and say, "Come, let us ascend to the mountain of the
Lord and to the house of the God of Jacob. They will show us his way, and we will walk
in his paths." For the law will come out of Zion and the word of the Lord out of
Jerusalem. 3 He will judge between many peoples, and will reprove strong nations as far
as a distant land. They will beat their swords into plows and their spears into sickles. A
nation will no longer pick up a sword against a nation, and they will no longer learn to
wage war. 4 Each one will rest under his vine and each one under his fig tree. There will
be no one who will make them afraid, for the mouth of the almighty Lord spoken these
things. 5 For all the peoples will walk, each one in his own way, but we will walk in the
name of the Lord our God forever and beyond.
6 "On that day," says the Lord, "I will gather her who has been bruised, and I will
receive her who has been cast out and those whom I rejected. 7 I will make her who has
been bruised into a remnant, and her who has been rejected into a strong nation." The
Lord will reign over them on Mount Zion from now on, even forever. 8 You, O squalid
tower of the flock, O daughter of Zion, the former realm will reach you and enter in, the
kingdom from Babylon for the daughter of Jerusalem.
9 Now why have you known wicked things? Was there not a king for you, or did your
counsel perish? For pains like those of a woman giving birth have seized you. 10 Be in
pain, be brave, and draw near, O daughter of Zion, like a woman giving birth. For now
you will come out of the city and dwell in the plain, and reach as far as Babylon. From
there he will deliver you, and from there the Lord your God will redeem you out of the
hand of your enemies. 11 Now many nations have gathered against you, who are saying,
"We will rejoice, and our eyes will look over Zion." 12 They did not know the plan of the
Lord and have not understood his counsel, for he gathered them like sheaves from the
threshing floor. 13 Arise and thresh them, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horns

iron, and I will make your hoofs bronze; you will dissolve many peoples. A You will
dedicate their abundance to the Lord and their strength to the Lord of all the earth.
14 Now the daughter of Ephraim B will be fenced in with a fence. He laid siege against us;
they will hit the tribes of Israel on the cheek with a staff.
Micah 5 C
1 You, Bethlehem, the house of Ephrathah, are too small to be among the thousands
of Judah. Out of you will come one who is to be a ruler in Israel for me. His departures
are from the beginning, from the days of eternity. 2 Because of this, he will grant them
until the season of her who is giving birth. She will give birth, and the remainder of
their brothers will return to the sons of Israel. 3 The Lord will stand and look, and will
shepherd his flock with strength. D They will exist in the glory of the name of the Lord
their God, for now he will be magnified E to the ends of the earth. 4 This peace will be
whenever the Assyrian comes against your land, and whenever he goes up against your
country. Seven shepherds will be raised up against him, and eight bitings by men.
5 They will shepherd the Assyrian with a sword and the land of Nimrod with her ditch.
He will deliver from the Assyrian whenever he comes against your land, and whenever
he goes up against your borders.
6 The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations in the midst of many peoples like
dew falling from the Lord and like lambs on the grass, so that no one may assemble or
resist among the sons of men. 7 The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations in the
midst of many peoples like a lion among livestock in the forest and like a cub among
flocks of sheep, as when he goes through, disperses, and snatches, and there is no one
who will rescue. 8 Your hand will be exalted over those who oppress you, and all your
enemies will be eliminated.
9 "It will be on that day," says the Lord, "that I will eliminate your horses out of your
midst and destroy your chariots. 10 I will eliminate the cities of your land and tear down
all your strongholds. 11 I will tear your sorceries out of your hands, and there will be no
fortune tellers among you. 12 I will eliminate your carvings and your statues out of your
midst, and you will no longer worship the works of your hands. 13 I will cut your groves
out of your midst and obliterate your cities. 14 I will execute vengeance among the
nations in anger and wrath, because they did not listen."
Micah 6
1 Now hear the word of the Lord, the things which the Lord said: F "Arise, seek a
A
you will dissolve many peoples V ¦ you will evaporate many peoples A ¦ you will
dissolve nations with them and evaporate many peoples
B
of Ephraim A ¦ ~ V
C
4:14 = 5:1 EV; 5:1-14 = 5:2-15 EV
D
The Lord will stand .. with strength VA ¦ He will stand .. with strength of the Lord
E
he will be magnified V* ¦ they will be magnified VcA
F
the word of the Lord, the things which the Lord said A ¦ the things which the Lord said

verdict with the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice. 2 Hear, you hills, the verdict
of the Lord, as well as you valleys, the foundations of the earth. For the Lord has a
verdict against his people and will dispute with Israel. 3 My people, what did I do to you,
or how did I give you grief, or how did I annoy you? Answer me! 4 For I brought you up
out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, and I sent out
before your face Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. 5 My people, now remember how Balak king
of Moab received advice against you, and how Balaam son of Beor answered him from
the reeds to Gilgal, so that the righteousness of the Lord might be known."
6 With what will I reach the Lord, and lay hold of my God Most High? Surely I will not
reach him by whole burnt offerings, by year old calves; 7 surely the Lord will not accept
thousands of rams, or ten thousands of fat goats; A surely I will not give my firstborn for
ungodliness, the fruit of my abdomen on behalf of the sin of my soul. 8 Surely it was
reported to you, O man, what is excellent, or what the Lord seeks from you: nothing
other than to perform justice, and to love mercy, and to be prepared to go with the
Lord your God.
9 The voice of the Lord will be invoked in the city, and he will save those who fear his
name. Hear, O tribe! Who will adorn the city? 10 Is there not a fire, and the house of the
lawless one laying up lawless treasures, and wrongdoing accompanied by pride?
11 Surely the lawless one will not be justified by the balance, nor deceitful weights by the
bag. 12 By these, they accumulated the wealth of their ungodliness. Those who reside in
her were speaking lies, and their tongues were exalted in their mouths. 13 I myself will
begin to attack you; I will obliterate you on account of your sins. 14 You will eat and not
be filled. It will grow dark in you, and he will move away. You will not escape, and as
many as do escape will be delivered up to the sword. 15 You will plant, yet you will not
harvest; you will press olives, yet you will not be anointed with olive oil, and also wine,
yet you will not drink. The regulations of my people will be obliterated. 16 You preserved
the decrees of Zimri B and all the actions of the house of Ahab. You walked in their
councils, so that I might deliver you up to obliteration and those who reside in her to
hissing. You will receive the reproaches of the peoples.
Micah 7
1 Alas for me, for I became like one who gathers straw during a harvest, and like one
who gathers gleanings during a vintage, when there is no cluster to eat as the first
fruits. Alas for me, my soul! 2 For the reverent person perished from the earth, and
there is no one among men who sets things straight. They all go to court for
bloodshed; each one oppresses his neighbor. 3 They prepare their hands for what is
wicked. The ruler requests, and the judge speaks words of peace; it is the dominant
thought of his soul. 4 I will take away their good things like a devouring moth, and like
¦ the word of the Lord. The Lord said ¦ the word. The Lord, the Lord said V
A goats Vc (chimaroi) ¦ torrents V* (cheimarroi; see the MT) ¦ rams A
B Zimri reigned for seven days over the northern kingdom, from the assassination by
him of King Elah to his suicide when he was attacked by Omri, Ahab's father (3 Kgdms.
16:8-20)

one who walks a boundary on a day of keeping watch. Woe, woe, your avengings have
arrived! Now will be their wailings. 5 Have no faith in friends, and set no hope on those
who govern; keep things away from your bedmate, and from entrusting anything to
her. 6 For a son dishonors a father; a daughter will rise up against her mother, a
daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. All the enemies of a man will be the men A
who are in his house.
7 I myself will look to the Lord. I will wait on God my savior; my God will listen to
me. 8 Do not rejoice over me, O my enemy. For I have fallen, yet I will arise, since even
if I should sit in the darkness, the Lord will illuminate me. 9 I will bear up under the
wrath of the Lord (for I sinned against him), until he declares my cause to be right. He
will carry out my verdict and will bring me out to the light; I will see his righteousness.
10 She who is my enemy will see it and will clothe herself with shame, she who says to
me, "Where is the Lord your God?" My eyes will look at her; now she will be for
trampling like mud in the roads 11 on a day of the glazing of brick. That day will be your
cancellation, and that day will erase your regulations. 12 Your cities will come to a
leveling and a division by the Assyrians. Your strong cities will be for division from Tyre
to the river of Syria, B from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain; it will be a day
of water and uproar. C 13 The land will be for obliteration along with those who reside in
it, as a result of the fruits of their habits.
14 Shepherd your people with your staff, D the sheep of your inheritance, those who
inhabit the thicket in the midst of Carmel by themselves. They will graze in the land of
Bashan and in the land of Gilead; it will be just like the days of old. 15 In agreement with
the days of your departure from Egypt, you will see amazing things. 16 Nations will see
them and be ashamed of all their strength. They will place their hands over their
mouths; their ears will be deafened. 17 They will lick the dirt like serpents crawling on
the earth; they will be confounded in their confinement. They will be astonished at the
Lord our God, and they will be afraid of you. 18 Who is a God like you, getting rid of
unjust acts and passing over ungodly acts for the remnants of his inheritance? He did
not retain his wrath as a testimony, for he is one who delights in mercy. 19 He himself
will return and sympathize with us. He will sink our unjust acts, all our sins, and they
will be thrown into the depths of the sea. 20 He will give mercy to Abraham resulting in
truth for Jacob, E just as you swore to our fathers according to the former days.
A All the enemies of a man will be the men V ¦ The enemies of a man will be the men ¦
The enemies of a man will be all the men ¦ The enemies will be all the men A
B of Syria A ¦ ~ V
C from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain; it will be a day of water and uproar
A ¦ from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain V ¦ it will be a day of water and
uproar
D your staff V ¦ your tribe A ¦ the staff of your tribe
E He will give mercy to Abraham resulting in truth for Jacob VA ¦ You will give mercy to
Abraham resulting in truth for Jacob ¦ You will give truth to Jacob and mercy to
Abraham

JOEL 1
1 The word of the Lord which was directed at Joel, the son of Bethuel. A
2 Hear these things, you elders, and listen, all of you who reside on the land. Surely
such things have not happened in your days or in the days of your fathers! 3 Give a
description concerning them to your children, and your children to their children, and
their children for another generation.
4 The locust ate the leavings of the grasshopper, the caterpillar ate the leavings of
the locust, and the fungus ate the leavings of the caterpillar. 5 Sober up from your wine,
you who are intoxicated, and weep; lament, all of you who drink wine to intoxication,
for cheerfulness and joy were removed from your mouths. 6 For a strong and
immeasurable nation came up against my land. Its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its
molars are those of a cub. 7 It set up my vine for obliteration and my fig trees for
mangling. It examined and re-examined it, and laid it waste; it peeled its branches.
8 Lament to me more than a bride girded with sackcloth for the husband of her
virginity. 9 Sacrifice and drink offering were removed from the house of the Lord. Mourn,
you priests who perform service at the altar. 10 For the plains have suffered; let the land
mourn, for the grain has suffered, the wine dried up, the oil became scarce. 11 The
farmers dried up; lament, you properties, regarding the wheat and barley, for the
harvest perished from the field. 12 The vine dried up, and the figs became scarce. The
pomegranate, date, apple, and all the trees of the field dried up, for the sons of men
turned joy into shame.
13 Gird yourselves and grieve, you priests; lament, you who perform service at the
altar; enter, sleep in sackcloth, you who perform service for God, for sacrifice and drink
offering were withheld from the house of your God. 14 Sanctify a fast, proclaim a
ceremony, gather all the elders who reside on the land into the house of your God, and
shout earnestly to the Lord, 15 "Alas for me! Alas for me! Alas for me today!" For the day
of the Lord is near, and it will come like suffering from suffering. 16 Before your eyes,
foods were abolished, as were cheerfulness and joy from the house of your God. 17 The
heifers leaped over their mangers; the treasures were obliterated; the wine presses
were dismantled, for the grain dried up. 18 What will we store for ourselves? The herds
of cattle wept because there was no pasture for them, and the flocks of sheep were
obliterated. 19 To you, O Lord, I will shout, for fire consumed the blooms of the desert,
and a flame burned up all the trees of the field. 20 The livestock of the plain looked up to
you, for the emissions of the waters dried up, and fire devoured the blooms of the
desert.
Joel 2
1 Blow a trumpet in Zion, make a proclamation on my holy mountain, and let all
those who reside on the land be confounded, since the day of the Lord has arrived. 2 For
A Joel's father was Pethuel according to the MT

a day of darkness and gloom is near, a day of cloud and fog. A numerous and strong
people will be spread over the mountains like the dawn. There has not been anyone
similar to them from eternity, and after them there will not be anyone again for years,
for generation after generation. 3 In front of them is a consuming fire, and behind them
is a kindled flame. The land before them is like a paradise of delight, and behind them
is a plain of obliteration, in which no one will be saved for them. 4 Their appearance is
like the sight of horses; they will pursue like horsemen. 5 They will leap like the sound of
chariots on the summits of the mountains, like the sound of a flame of fire devouring
stubble, and like a numerous and strong people lining themselves up for battle. 6 Before
their face, peoples will be crushed; every face will be like the scorching of a pot. 7 They
will run like fighters, and they will go up on the walls like military men. Each one will go
in his way, and they will not turn away from their paths. 8 No one will keep away from
his brother; they will go even while being weighed down with their weapons. They will
fall on their arrows, yet will not be finished off. 9 They will seize the city, run over the
walls, go up over the houses, and enter in through windows like thieves. 10 Before their
face, the earth will be confounded and heaven will be shaken; the sun and the moon
will darken, and the stars will withdraw their illumination. 11 The Lord will issue his voice
before the presence of his force, for his camp is exceedingly large, for the actions of his
words are strong. For the day of the Lord is great, great and exceedingly conspicuous,
and who will be fit for it? 12 "Now," says the Lord your God, "return to me from your
entire hearts with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; 13 tear your hearts and not
your garments." Return to the Lord your God, for he is merciful and compassionate,
patient and full of mercy; he relents concerning wicked things. 14 Who knows if he will
return and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, a sacrifice and a drink offering for
the Lord our God? 15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, proclaim a service.
16 Gather the people, sanctify the assembly, select the elders, gather the infants nursing
at the breasts. Let the bridegroom come out of his bedchamber and the bride out of her
closet. 17 Between the porch and the altar, let the priests who perform public service for
the Lord weep and say, "Spare your people, O Lord, and do not grant your inheritance
to be a reproach, resulting in the nations ruling over them, so that they may not say
among the nations, `Where is their God?´"
18 The Lord was zealous for his land and spared his people. 19 The Lord replied and
said to his people, "Behold, I will send out to you grain, wine, and oil, and you will be
satisfied with them. I will no longer grant you to be a reproach among the nations. 20 I
will chase away from you the one from the north, and I will drive him out into a
waterless land; I will obliterate his presence into the former sea and his back parts into
the latter sea. His decay will ascend and his roaring will ascend, because he magnified
his actions.
21 Have courage, O land; rejoice and be cheerful, for the Lord magnified what he was
doing. 22 Have courage, O livestock of the plain, for the plains of the desert have
budded, for the tree bore its fruit; the vine and the fig tree yielded their strength.
23 Rejoice and be cheerful, O children of Zion, over the Lord your God, for he gave you
foods in righteousness, and he will shower on you the early and the late rain, as before.
24 The threshing floors will be filled with grain, and the winepresses will overflow with

wine and oil. 25 I will compensate you for the years which the locust, the caterpillar, the
fungus, and the grasshopper have eaten, my great force which I sent out against you.
26 You will eat and eat, and you will be satisfied; you will praise the name of the Lord
your God for the things which he performed with you as wonders. My people will not be
ashamed forever. 27 You will recognize that I am in the midst of Israel, that I am the
Lord your God, and that there is no one else beside me; my people will no longer be
ashamed forever.
Joel 3 A
1 After this, it will be that I will pour out from my Spirit upon all flesh; your sons and
your daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, and your young men
will see visions. 2 On my male slaves and on my female slaves I will pour out from my
Spirit in those days. 3 I will give wonders in heaven and on earth: blood, fire, and vapor
of smoke. 4 The sun will turn into darkness and the moon into blood before the great
and conspicuous day of the Lord comes. 5 It will be that everyone, whoever invokes the
name of the Lord, will be saved, for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem the saved one will
be just as the Lord said, as well as those who have had the good news preached to
them, whom the Lord has called.
Joel 4
1 For behold, in those days and in that season, whenever I return the captivity of
Judah and Jerusalem, 2 I will also gather all the nations and bring them down to the
valley of Jehoshaphat. I will make a decision for them there on behalf of my people and
my inheritance Israel, who were dispersed among the nations. They divided my land,
3 cast lots for my people, gave their boys to prostitutes, and sold their girls for wine and
got drunk. 4 What do you have in common with me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all Galilee of
the Philistines? Are you giving me back retribution? Or are you bearing malice against
me? Quickly and speedily I will give back your retribution on your heads, 5 because you
took my silver and my gold, and you brought my choice and beautiful things into your
sanctuaries. 6 You sold the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem to the sons of the
Greeks, so that you might expel them from their borders. 7 Behold, I will raise them up
out of the place where you sold them, and I will give back your retribution on your
heads. 8 I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the sons of Judah,
and they will sell them into captivity to a distant nation, for the Lord has spoken.
9 Proclaim these things among the nations; sanctify a battle; wake up the fighters.
Approach and ascend, all you military men. 10 Beat your plows into swords and your
sickles into spears. Let the powerless one say, `I myself am strong.´ 11 Arrange
yourselves and go in, all you surrounding nations, and gather there. Let the gentle one
become a fighter. 12 Let all the nations wake up and ascend to the valley of
Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations. 13 Send out the
sickles, for the vintage is present. Go in, stomp, for the winepress is full. The vats will
A 3 = 2:28-32 EV; 4 = 3 EV

overflow, for their wicked acts have multiplied. 14 Noises have sounded in the valley of
judgment, for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of judgment. 15 The sun and the
moon will darken, and the stars will dim their illumination. 16 The Lord will shout from
Zion and will issue his voice from Jerusalem. Heaven and earth will be shaken, but the
Lord will spare his people and strengthen the sons of Israel. 17 You will recognize that I
am the Lord your God who dwells on Zion, on my holy mountain. Jerusalem will be a
holy city, and foreigners will not pass through her any more.
18 It will be on that day that the mountains will drop sweet wine and the hills will
flow with milk. All the conduits A of Judah will flow with waters, and a spring will come
out from the house of the Lord and water the wadi of the reeds. 19 Egypt will exist for
obliteration, and Idumea will exist as a plain of obliteration as a result of the
unrighteous acts against the sons of Judah, because they poured out righteous blood in
their land. 20 Judea will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem for generation after
generation. 21 I will avenge B their blood and will not leave it unpunished. The Lord will
dwell in Zion."
A the plural of aphesis, elsewhere "forgiveness" or "liberty"
B avenge A ¦ search for VS

1 The vision of Obadiah. A
OBADIAH
Thus says the Lord God to Idumea (I heard a report from the Lord, and he sent a
summary to the nations. Arise! Let us rise up against it in battle!): 2 "Behold, I have
granted you to be least among the nations; you have been exceedingly dishonored.
3 The arrogance of your heart flattered you, who dwell in the holes of the cliffs." He
exalted his residence and said in his heart, "Who will bring me down to the earth?" 4 "If
you rise like an eagle, and if you place your nest among the stars, I will bring you down
from there," says the Lord. 5 "If robbers or thieves had come to you at night, how far
would you have fallen? Would they not have robbed only enough for themselves? If
grape pickers had come to you, would they not have left a gleaning? 6 How Esau was
searched, and his hidden things seized! 7 All the men of your treaty sent you out to your
borders. They opposed you; men who were at peace with you overpowered you. They
placed a snare under you; there is no reasoning with them. 8 On that day," says the
Lord, "I will destroy wise men from Idumea and reasoning from the mountain of Esau.
9 Your fighters from Teman will be terrified, so that man may be removed from the
mountain of Esau. 10 Because of the slaughter and the ungodliness directed at your
brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be removed forever.
11 From the day you stood in opposition, on the day when other races took his force
captive, and aliens entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of
them. 12 Do not stare at the day of your brother on the day of aliens. Do not rejoice over
the sons of Judah on the day of their desolation. Do not brag on the day of oppression.
13 Do not enter the gates of the peoples on the day of their troubles. Do not stare at
their congregation on the day of their destruction. Do not join in attacking their force on
the day of their desolation. 14 Do not stand at their exits to destroy those among them
who are being brought to safety. Do not lock up those among them who are fleeing on
the day of oppression. 15 For the day of the Lord is near for all the nations. Just as you
did, so it will be for you; your payment will be paid back on your head. 16 For just as you
drank on my holy mountain, all the nations will drink wine; they will drink, go down,
and be as if they did not exist."
17 On the mountain of Zion there will be salvation, and it will be holy. The house of
Jacob will inherit those who inherited them. 18 The house of Jacob will be a fire, the
house of Joseph will be a flame, and the house of Esau will be like a reed. They will
burn against them; they will consume them. There will be no bearer of the sacred fire B
in the house of Esau, for the Lord has spoken. 19 Those who are in the Negev will inherit
the mountain of Esau, and those who are in the Shephelah will inherit the Philistines.
They will inherit the mountain of Ephraim, the plain of Samaria, Benjamin, and Gilead.
A
Probably the teacher during Jehoshaphat's reign (2 Sup. 17:7; see 20:10-12 for
Edom's alliance with Judah's enemies)
B
bearer of the sacred fire ScA (an epithet of numerous pagan deities as well as their
priests) ¦ wheat production VS*

20 This will be the realm of the resettlement for the sons of Israel: the land of the
Canaanites as far as Zarephath. The resettlement for Jerusalem will be as far as
Ephrathah, and they will inherit the cities of the Negev. 21 The men who have been
saved will go up from the mountain of Zion to punish the mountain of Esau, and the
kingdom will be the Lord's.

JONAH 1
1 The word of the Lord was directed at Jonah son of Amittai; he said, 2 "Rise up, go to
the great city of Nineveh, and proclaim in it, because the shouting of its wickedness has
come before me." 3 Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish, away from the presence of the
Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship headed for Tarshish. He paid his fare
and embarked on it to sail with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the Lord.
4 The Lord raised up a gale over the sea, and there were large waves in the sea. The
ship was in danger of breaking up. 5 The sailors were afraid, and each of them cried out
to his God. They jettisoned the containers which were on the ship into the sea, so that
it might be relieved of them. Jonah went down into the hold of the ship, went to sleep,
and was snoring. 6 The captain approached him and said to him, "Why are you snoring?
Rise up and call on your God, so that God may save us and we may not perish!" 7 Each
one said to his neighbor, "Come, let us cast lots and identify on whose account this
wickedness is among us." So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah. 8 They said to him,
"Tell us on whose account this wickedness is among us. What is your occupation? A
Where do you come from? What country and what people are you from?" 9 He said to
them, "I am a slave of the Lord; I worship the Lord God of heaven, who made the sea
and the dry land." 10 The men were filled with great fear, and they said to him, "Why did
you do this?" For the men recognized that he was fleeing from the presence of the
Lord, because he told them. 11 They said to him, "What should we do with you so that
the sea will recede from us?" For the sea was moving and was raising up more waves.
12 Jonah said to them, "Take me and throw me into the sea, and the sea will recede
from you, for I recognize that these large waves are upon you because of me." 13 The
men tried hard to return to land, but they could not, for the sea was moving and was
rising up even more against them. 14 They cried out to the Lord, "O Lord, may we by no
means perish because of the soul of this man. Do not put righteous blood on us, for
you, O Lord, have done as you wished." 15 They took Jonah and threw him into the sea,
and the sea stopped its rolling. 16 The men were filled with great fear of the Lord. They
offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows.
Jonah 2 B
1 The Lord ordered a large whale to swallow Jonah. Jonah was in the stomach of the
whale for three days and three nights. 2 Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the
stomach of the whale. 3 He said, "I cried out in my oppression to the Lord my God, and
he listened to me. From the stomach of Hades you heard my shouting and my voice.
4 You hurled me into the depths of the heart of the sea, and currents encircled me. All
your breakers and your waves passed over me. 5 I said, `I have been driven away from
A Tell us on whose account this wickedness is among us. What is your occupation? A ¦
Tell us, what is your occupation? VS
B 2:1 = 1:17 EV; 2:2-11 = 2:1-10 EV

your eyes, so will I again look toward your holy sanctuary?´ 6 Water was poured over
me as far as my soul. In the end the abyss encircled me; my head sank into the fissures
of the mountains. 7 I descended into the earth, whose barriers are secure and eternal.
`Let the destruction of my life come to pass, A O Lord my God!´ 8 When my soul was
failing me, I remembered the Lord. May my prayer come to you in your holy sanctuary.
9 Those who keep vain and false things have abandoned their mercy, 10 but I will
sacrifice to you with the sound of praise and acknowledgment. What I vowed I will pay
to you, the Lord of salvation." B 11 A command was given to the whale, and it threw
Jonah out onto dry land.
Jonah 3
1 The word of the Lord was directed at Jonah a second time; he said, 2 "Rise up, go to
the great city of Nineveh, and proclaim in it according to the previous proclamation
which I spoke to you." 3 Jonah rose up and went to Nineveh, as the Lord had spoken.
Nineveh was an important city to God, about a three days' journey across. 4 Jonah
began to enter the city, about a one day's journey. He proclaimed, "Three more days
and Nineveh will be overthrown." 5 The men of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a
fast and dressed in sackcloth from the greatest of them to the least of them. 6 Word
reached the king of Nineveh, and he rose from his throne, removed his robe from
himself, put on sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 It was proclaimed in Nineveh by the king
and by his great men, "Let the men, livestock, cattle, and sheep not taste anything,
feed, or drink water." 8 The men and the livestock wore sackcloth, and they cried out
fervently to God. Each one turned away from his evil way and from the wrongdoing
which was in their hands; they said, 9 "Who knows? God may relent and turn away from
the fury of his wrath, and we will not perish." 10 God saw their actions, that they turned
away from their evil ways. God relented concerning the wickedness which he had said
he would do to them, and he did not do it.
Jonah 4
1 Jonah was filled with great sadness and was confused. 2 He prayed to the Lord, "O
Lord, were these not my words when I was in my land? Because of this, I hurried to
flee to Tarshish, for I recognized that you are merciful, compassionate, patient, and full
of mercy; you relent concerning wicked things. 3 Now, O Master and Lord, take my soul
from me, for it is better for me to die than to live." 4 The Lord said to Jonah, "Have you
been saddened exceedingly?" 5 Jonah came out the city and sat down opposite the city.
He made a tent for himself there and sat underneath it in the shade, until he might see
what would happen to the city. 6 The Lord God gave orders to a gourd plant, and it rose
A Let the destruction of my life come to pass VS* ¦ Let my life come up out of
destruction A ¦ Let it (Jonah's soul) come up to you out of the destruction of my life Sc
¦ Let it (the earth) bring my life up to you out of destruction
B to you, the Lord of salvation VS* ¦ to the Lord for my salvation A ¦ to you, O Lord, for
my salvation Sc

up over the head of Jonah to be a shade above his head, to shade him from his
troubles. Jonah was filled with great joy over the gourd plant. 7 God ordered a worm on
the morning of the next day; it attacked the gourd plant, and it withered away. 8 When
the sun rose, God ordered a wind burning with the heat of summer, and the sun beat
down on the head of Jonah. He grew faint, denounced his soul, and said, "It is better
for me to die than to live." 9 God said to Jonah, "Have you been saddened exceedingly
over the gourd plant?" He said, "I have been saddened exceedingly, to the point of
death." 10 The Lord said, "You were concerned for the gourd plant, over which you did
not labor and which you did not nourish, which came into being overnight and perished
overnight. 11 Should I not be concerned for the great city of Nineveh, in which reside
more than one hundred twenty thousand men who do not recognize their right hand or
their left, as well as much livestock?"

NAHUM 1
1 A statement about Nineveh; a document of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
2 God is zealous, and the Lord takes vengeance with fury. The Lord takes vengeance
on his opponents, and he removes his enemies. 3 The Lord is patient, and his strength is
great; the Lord will not consider them innocent. His way is connected to termination
and commotion, and clouds are the dust of his feet. 4 He threatens the sea and dries it
up, and causes all the rivers to be deserted. The land of Bashan and Carmel were
diminished, and the blooming things of Lebanon failed. 5 The mountains quaked due to
him, the hills shook, and the land recoiled due to his presence, the entirety of it and all
who reside in it. 6 Who will withstand the presence of his anger? Who will resist the
wrath of his fury? His fury melts realms, and the cliffs were broken up due to him. 7 The
Lord is kind to those who wait for him on a day of oppression; he knows those who
have reverence for him. 8 With the flood of a passage, he will cause the termination of
those who rise up; darkness will pursue his enemies. 9 Why do you plan against the
Lord? He himself will cause the termination; he will not take vengeance by oppression
twice in the same place. 10 For it will be made barren even to their foundation, and it will
be consumed like twisted briar and like fully dried straw. 11 Out of you will come a plan
against the Lord, planning evil things which are in opposition. 12 Thus says the Lord who
rules over many waters: "In this way they will be dispelled, and the report of you will
no longer be heard. 13 Now I will shatter his rod from you, and I will break through your
bonds." 14 The Lord will command concerning you, "Nothing of your name will be
dispersed any longer. I will eliminate the carvings and the molten objects from the
house of your god; I will set up your grave, for they are fleeting."
Nahum 2 A
1 Behold on the mountains the feet of the one who preaches good news and reports
peace! O Judah, celebrate your festivals; pay your vows, for they will no longer
continue to arrive at you in old age. It has been terminated; it has been removed. 2 One
who was rescued from oppression has ascended and breathed into your face. Watch
the road; control the loins; be exceedingly brave with strength! 3 For the Lord turned
away the insolence of Jacob just like the insolence of Israel, for they shook them off as
well as their branches.
4 They ruined the weapons of their dominance which originate from people, powerful
men playing with fire. On the day of his preparation, the reins of their chariots and the
horsemen will be thrown into confusion 5 on the roads, and the chariots will collide and
become entangled in the streets. Their appearance is like lamps of fire and like lightning
flashes. 6 Their great men will remember and flee by day, and they will be weak in their
journey; they will hurry over the walls and prepare their outposts. 7 The gates of the
A 2:1 = 1:15 EV; 2:2-14 = 2:1-13 EV

cities A were opened, the palaces fell apart, 8 and the substructure was revealed. She
was going up, and her maidservants were being led away like doves crying in their
hearts. 9 The waters of Nineveh will be like a pool of water. They fled and did not stand,
and there was no one who was looking on. 10 They plundered the silver, they plundered
the gold, and there was no limit to their adornment; they have been weighed down
with all her coveted vessels. 11 There is shaking off, shaking up, trembling, breaking of
heart, loosening of knees, and pains on every loin; the faces of everyone are like the
scorching of a pot. 12 Where is the residence of the lions and the pasture which is for the
cubs? Where did the lion go, in order that the cub of the lion might enter there, and
there was no one who was scaring it away? 13 The lion seized sufficient things for his
cubs and strangled sufficient things for his lions; he filled his lair with prey and his
residence with plunder. 14 "Behold, I am against you," says the almighty Lord. "I will
burn up your multitude in smoke, and a sword will devour your lions. I will eliminate
your prey from the land, and your actions will no longer be heard."
Nahum 3
1 O city of blood, entirely false, full of unrighteousness: the prey will not be handled.
2 The noise of whips! The noise of rumbling wheels, of a pursuing horse, of a bounding
chariot, 3 of a mounting horseman, of a glittering sword, of gleaming weapons, of a
multitude of wounded, and of heavy falling! There was no limit to her nations; they will
be weak in their bodies 4 due to an abundance of prostitution. She is a beautiful and
gratifying prostitute, leading in sorcery, who sells nations in her prostitution and tribes
in her sorceries. 5 "Behold, I am against you," says the Lord God Almighty. "I will reveal
your backside before your face, and I will show your shame to nations and your
dishonor to kingdoms. 6 I will throw at you an abomination in agreement with your
unclean acts, and I will set you up as an example. 7 It will be that everyone who sees
you will descend from you and say, `Wretched Nineveh, who will moan for her? From
where will I seek comfort for her?´"
8 Prepare a portion; tune a chord. Prepare a portion for Ammon, she who resides in
rivers. Water is around her, whose realm is the sea and whose walls are water.
9 Ethiopia and Egypt is her strength; there is no limit to your flight. The Libyans became
her helpers. 10 She will go as a captive into a deportation, and they will dash her infants
to the ground at the beginnings of all her roads. They will cast lots for all her glorious
things, and all her great men will be bound in handcuffs. 11 You will be drunk, and you
will be overlooked; you will seek stature for yourself from your enemies. 12 All your
fortresses are like fig trees which have guards; if they are shaken, they will fall into the
mouth of the one who eats. 13 Behold, your people are like women among you. The
gates of your land will be opened for your enemies; fire will devour your bars. 14 Draw
for yourself water for a siege, and secure your fortresses. Step on the clay, and let it be
trampled together with the chaff; make it more secure than brick. 15 Fire will devour you
there. A sword will eliminate you; it will devour you like a locust, and you will be
weighed down like a caterpillar. 16 You multiplied your merchandise more than the stars
A cities VScA ¦ rivers S*

of heaven; a caterpillar rushed in and spread out. 17 Your conglomeration jumped off like
a grasshopper, like a locust which has landed on a fence on days of frost. The sun rose,
and it jumped away; it does not know its place. Woe to them! 18 Your shepherds were
stunned; the Assyrian king put your potentates to sleep. Your people departed for the
mountains, and there was no one who was accepting them. 19 There is no healing for
your shattering; your wound festered. Everyone who hears your report will clap hands
against you, for against whom did your wickedness not come continually?

HABAKKUK 1
1 The statement which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
2 How long, O Lord, will I shout, and you will not listen? Will I cry out to you while I
am being harmed, and you will not save? 3 Why did you show me troubles and labors?
To gaze at misery and ungodliness? Justice is opposed to me, yet the judge receives it.
4 Because of this, law is being tossed aside and judgment is never settled completely,
for the ungodly one is overpowering the righteous one. On account of this, the
judgment will come out perverted.
5 Look, you despisers, and stare; wonder at the wonder, and disappear. For I am
performing a work in your days which you would not believe even if someone declared
it. 6 For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, A the bitter and speedy nation, the one
who goes over the breadth of the earth to inherit dwellings which are not his. 7 He is
fearful and conspicuous; his judgment will be from himself, and his statement will come
from himself. 8 His horses will leap more than leopards, and they are fiercer than the
wolves of Arabia. His horsemen will ride forth and will rush from a distance; they will fly
like an eagle which is eager to eat. 9 An ending will come to the ungodly, as their faces
make a stand in opposition, and it will gather captivity like sand. 10 He himself will play
with kings, and princes are his toys. He will mock at every stronghold; he will throw up
a dike and take possession of it. 11 Then he will change his spirit, pass by, and seek
atonement: "This strength belongs to my god."
12 Are you not from the beginning, O Lord God, my Holy One? We will not die. O
Lord, you have arrayed him for judgment; he formed me to reprove his instruction.
13 The pure eye is not to look at evil things and stare at painful labors. B Why do you
stare at those who despise? Will you be silent when the ungodly one swallows the
righteous one? 14 Will you make men like the fish of the sea, and like the creeping things
which have no guide? 15 He pulled down an ending with a hook, drew it in with a net,
and caught it in his dragnet; on account of this, he will be cheerful and his heart will
rejoice. 16 On account of this, he will sacrifice to his dragnet and burn incense to his net,
because by them he fattened his portion, and his foods are choice. 17 Because of this, he
will cast his net, and will not spare in killing the nations continually.
Habakkuk 2
1 I will stand on my guard; I will mount up on a cliff; I will watch to see what he will
say by me, and how I will reply to my reproof. 2 The Lord replied to me and said, "Write
the vision clearly on the board, so that the one who reads them may pursue them. 3 For
A
the Chaldeans VS* ¦ the Chaldeans against you Sc ¦ the Chaldean fighters against you
A
B
The pure eye is not to look at evil things and stare at painful labors VS* ¦ Your eye is
pure, so as not to look at evil things; you cannot stare at labors Sc (apparently
regarding the Lord as the antecedent of "you") ¦ My eye ... you cannot stare at labors A

the vision is yet for a season. He will spring up at the end, and not in vain. If he is
tardy, wait for him, for he will come and be present, and will not delay. 4 If he retreats,
my soul will not approve him, but the righteous one will live by my faith. A 5 The one who
is conceited and contemptuous, the boastful man who enlarged his soul just like Hades,
will not finish anything; like death, he is never satisfied. He will gather to himself all the
nations, and will receive to himself all the peoples."
6 Won't all of them take up an illustration against him, and a riddle as his narrative?
They will say, "Woe to the one who multiplies for himself the things which are not his
(for how long?) and who heavily weighs down his collar. 7 For those who will bite him
will suddenly arise." Those who plot against you will sober up, and you will be a plunder
for them. 8 Because you spoiled many nations, all the peoples who are left will spoil you
because of the bloodshed of men and the ungodly acts of the land, the city, and all who
reside in it.
9 O, the one who is filled with wicked greed for his house so as to arrange his nest
on high, so as to be pulled out of the hand of wicked things! 10 You planned shame for
your house by bringing many peoples to an end; your soul sinned. 11 For the stone will
cry out of the wall, and the beetle will utter things out of the timber.
12 Woe to the one who builds a city with bloodshed and prepares a city by
unrighteous acts. 13 Are these things not from the almighty Lord? Numerous peoples
were exhausted in the fire, and many nations fainted. 14 For the earth will be filled with
knowing the glory of the Lord; it will cover them like water.
15 O, the one who gives his neighbor to drink and intoxicates him with a foul
outpouring, so that he may stare at their secret parts! 16 You also, drink the fullness of
dishonor instead of glory; shake, O heart, B and quake. The cup of the Lord's right hand
surrounded you, and dishonor gathered over your glory. 17 For the ungodliness of
Lebanon will cover you and distress due to beasts will dismay you, because of the
bloodshed of men and the ungodly acts of the land, the city, and all who reside in it.
18 How does the carving benefit, since they carved it? He formed it as a molten
object, a false imagination, for the one who formed it trusted in his formation, to make
deaf idols. 19 Woe to the one who says to the wood, "Be aroused! Wake up!" and to the
stone, "Be exalted!" It is an appearance; this is an overlay of gold and silver, and there
is no spirit in it. 20 The Lord is in his holy sanctuary; let all the earth be reverent before
his face.
Habakkuk 3
1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, with singing.
2 O Lord, I have listened to your report, and I was afraid; I considered your works,
and was astonished. In the midst of two animals, you will be known; when the years
draw near, you will be recognized. When the season is present, you will be manifested;
when my soul is disturbed by wrath, you will remember mercy. 3 God will arrive from
A the righteous one will live by my faith VS ¦ my righteous one will live by faith A ¦ the
righteous one will live by faith
B O heart VS*A ¦ ~ Sc

Teman, and the Holy One from the dark shadowy Mount Paran. A (Interlude)
His virtue covered the heavens, and the earth is full of his praise; 4 his brightness will
be like light. There were horns in his hands, and he caused a mighty loving of his
strength. 5 The word will go before his face, and in his footsteps it will come out into the
plains. B 6 He stood, and the earth shook; he stared, and the nations melted away. The
mountains were crushed with violence; the eternal hills melted. 7 I looked at his eternal
courses instead of troubles. The tents of the Ethiopians will be dismayed, as will the
tents of the land of Midian. 8 You didn't become wrathful at the rivers, did you, O Lord?
Was your anger at the rivers, or your rage at the sea? For you will mount on your
horses, and your cavalry is salvation. 9 "You will stretch your bow against the scepters,"
says the Lord. (Interlude)
The land of rivers will burst forth. 10 Peoples will see you and be in pain, as you
disperse the waters of your course. The abyss issued its sound, the height of its
imagination. 11 The sun was exalted, and the moon stood still in its position. Your darts
will go forth into the light, into the brightness of the gleaming of your weapons. 12 You
will diminish the land with threatening, and with anger you will bring down nations.
13 You came out for the salvation of your people, to save your Christs. C You brought
death on the heads of the lawless; you erected bindings up to the neck. (Interlude)
14 You cut off the heads of potentates with ecstasy. They will be shaken at it; they
will break their bridles, like a poor man eating secretly. 15 You caused your horses to
enter the sea and disturb much water. 16 I watched, and my belly was dismayed at the
sound of the prayer of my lips. Trembling entered into my bones, and my posture was
disturbed from inside me. I will rest on the day of oppression, to ascend to the people
of my sojourning. 17 For the fig tree will bear no fruit, and there will be no produce on
the vines. The work of the olive will fail, and the fields will produce no food. The sheep
abandoned the pasture, and there are no cattle at the mangers. D 18 I will be glad in the
Lord; I will rejoice over God my savior. 19 The Lord God is my power, and he will array
my feet in completion. He mounts me on the high places to conquer by his song.
A
Mount Paran VS*A ¦ mountain Sc
B
and in his footsteps it will come out into the plains VS ¦ and it will come out; his feet
will be in sandals A
C
See Ps. 104:15
D
the mangers VS ¦ the mangers of their atonement A

ZEPHANIAH 1
1 The word of the Lord which was directed at Zephaniah son of Hushai, son of
Gedaliah, son of Amariah, son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah son of Amon, king of
Judah.
2 "Let everything fail from the surface of the earth," says the Lord. 3 "Let man and
livestock fail; let the birds of heaven and the fish of the sea fail. The ungodly will
weaken, and A I will remove the lawless B from the surface of the earth," says the Lord.
4 "I will stretch forth my hand against Judah and against all those who reside in
Jerusalem. I will remove from this place the names of Baal and the names of the
priests, 5 those on the roofs who worship the army of heaven, those who worship and
swear against the Lord, C those who swear against their king, 6 those who turn away
from the Lord, those who do not seek the Lord, and those who do not hold on to the
Lord.
7 Be reverent due to the presence of the Lord God, for the day of the Lord is near,
for the Lord has prepared his sacrifice and has sanctified the ones he invited. 8 It will be
that, on the day of the Lord's sacrifice, I will take vengeance on the rulers, on the
house of the king, and on everyone who wears strange clothing. 9 I will publicly take
vengeance on everyone in the gateways on that day, those who fill the house of the
Lord their God with ungodliness and deceit. 10 There will be on that day," says the Lord,
"a sound of shouting from the gate of those who are breaking through, a howling from
a second gate, and a great crash from the hills. 11 Lament this, you who reside in what
has been broken down, for all the people have become like Canaan. All those who have
been exalted by silver were destroyed. 12 It will be on that day that I will search
Jerusalem with a lamp, and I will take vengeance on the men who despise the things
which have been preserved for them, who say in their hearts, `The Lord will do no
good, neither will he do any evil.´ 13 Their force will exist for plundering and their
houses for obliteration. They will build houses and not reside in them; they will plant
vineyards and not drink their wine.
14 For the great day of the Lord is near; it is near and exceedingly swift. The sound
of the day of the Lord has been arranged to be bitter and harsh. 15 That day is a mighty
day of wrath, a day of oppression and distress, a day of calamity and obliteration, a day
of darkness and gloom, a day of cloud and fog, 16 a day of a trumpet and a shout
against the secure cities and against the high towers. 17 I will cause the men to cease,
and they will move like the blind. For they sinned against the Lord; their blood will be
poured out like dirt, and their flesh like dung. 18 Their silver and their gold will not be
A and the fish of the sea cease. The ungodly will weaken, and VSA ¦ and the fish of the
sea cease. ¦ and the fish of the sea and the traps cease, along with the ungodly.
B lawless VSA ¦ men
C those who worship and swear against the Lord VS ¦ those who swear against the Lord
¦ ~ A (the omission may be due to reading kata as swearing "by" the Lord, which would
imply a judgment against the godly)

able to rescue them on the day of the Lord's wrath. By the fire of his zeal, all the earth
will be consumed. For he will achieve completion and speed for all those who reside on
the earth.
Zephaniah 2
1 Be gathered and bound together, O undisciplined nation, 2 before you become like a
flower which passes away, before the wrath of the Lord comes upon you, before the
day of the Lord's anger comes upon you. 3 Seek the Lord, all you humble of the earth.
Carry out justice, seek righteousness, and reply to these things, so that you may be
protected on the day of the Lord's wrath.
4 For Gaza will be plundered, Ashkelon will exist for obliteration, Ashdod will be
jettisoned at noon, and Ekron will be uprooted. 5 Woe to those who reside on the parcel
by the sea, sojourners from the Cretans! The word of the Lord is against you, O
Canaan, land of the Philistines; I will destroy you out of your residence. 6 Crete will be a
pasture for flocks and a pen for sheep. 7 The parcel by the sea will be for the remnants
of the house of Judah. They will graze on it among the houses of Ashkelon. In the
evening they will lie down due to the presence of the sons of Judah, because the Lord
their God supervised them and returned their captivity.
8 I heard the reproaches by Moab and the mistreatments by the sons of Ammon,
among whom they reproached my people and magnified themselves against my
borders. 9 Because of this, as I live," says the Lord of forces, the God of Israel, "Moab
will be like Sodom, the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah, and Damascus failed like a pile
of salt and obliterated forever. The remnants of my people will plunder them, and the
remnants of my nation will inherit them. 10 They will have this instead of their pride,
because they reproached and magnified themselves against the almighty Lord. 11 The
Lord will appear over them and destroy all the gods of the nations of the earth. Each
one from his place, all the islands of the nations, will worship him.
12 You Ethiopians are also wounded by my sword. 13 He will extend his hand against
the north and destroy the Assyrian; he will set up Nineveh for obliteration, waterless
like a desert. 14 Flocks and all the wild animals of the earth will graze in her midst.
Chameleons and hedgehogs will feed in her haylofts. Wild animals will make noise in
her holes, as well as ravens in her gates, because her elevation was like a cedar. 15 This
is the contemptible city which resides in hope, which says in her heart, `I am it, and
there is no longer any after me.´ How she became an obliteration, a pasture for wild
animals! Everyone who goes by her will whistle and wave his hand.
Zephaniah 3
1 O, the conspicuous and redeemed city! 2 The dove did not listen to the voice; she
did not accept discipline. She did not trust in the Lord, and did not draw near to her
God. 3 Her rulers within her are like roaring lions. Her judges are like wolves of Arabia;
they did not leave until morning. 4 Her prophets are possessed, A men full of disdain. Her
A pneumatophoros, literally "carried by the spirit" or "inspired," but with a negative

priests profane the holy things and are ungodly with respect to the law. 5 The Lord is
righteous in her midst and will not perform what is unjust. Morning by morning he will
give his verdict in the light; it was not hidden. He did not know wrongdoing connected
to extortion, A and there is no wrongdoing resulting in strife. 6 I brought down the
arrogant with corruption; their towers were obliterated. I will cause their roads to be
deserted, so that there is absolutely no passing through. Their cities failed, since no one
is present or residing there. 7 I said, `Fear me nevertheless. Accept discipline, all acts of
vengeance which I took against her, and you will not be destroyed out of her eyes. Get
prepared; rise up early!´ All their gleaning was corrupted.
8 Because of this, wait for me," says the Lord, "until the day of my resurrection as a
testimony. For my verdict for the gathering of nations is to admit kings so as to pour
out upon them all the wrath of my anger. For in the fire of my zeal all the earth will be
consumed. 9 For then in her generation I will alter the language for the peoples, so that
everyone may invoke the name of the Lord in order to serve him under one yoke.
10 From the limits of the rivers of Ethiopia B they will bring sacrifices for me. 11 On that
day you will not be ashamed of all your habits, by which you became ungodly against
me. For then I will remove from you the contemptible things of your pride, and you will
no longer continue to boast on my holy mountain. 12 I will leave among you a gentle and
humble people, and they will be reverent due to the name of the Lord. 13 The remnants
of Israel will neither engage in wrongdoing nor speak vanities. A deceitful tongue will
not be found in their mouths, because they will graze and lie down, and the one who
frightens them will be no more."
14 Rejoice, O daughter of Zion! Proclaim, O daughter of Jerusalem! Have good cheer
and be delighted from your entire heart, O daughter of Jerusalem! 15 The Lord took
away your injustices; he has redeemed you from the hand of your enemies. The king of
Israel, the Lord, is C in your midst; you will not see wicked things any longer. 16 In that
season the Lord will say to Jerusalem, "Have courage, O Zion! Do not let your hands
relax. 17 The Lord your God is among you; the powerful one will save you. He will bring
good cheer upon you and renew you in his love. He will have good cheer over you with
delight as on a festival day. 18 I will gather those who are afflicted. Woe to the one who
took up a reproach against it! 19 Behold, I will take action among you on your behalf in
that season," says the Lord. "I will save her who has been forced out and admit her
who has been driven away. I will set them up as a boast and as famous names in all
the earth. 20 They will be ashamed in that season when I do you good, and in the
season when I admit you. For I will grant you to be famous names and a boast among
all the peoples of the earth, when I return your captivity in your sight," says the Lord.
entailment (see Hos. 9:7)
A he will give his verdict in the light; it was not hidden. He did not know wrongdoing
connected to extortion VS ¦ he will give his verdict A ¦ he will give his verdict in the light
B A ¦ + I will receive my dispersed ones; VS ¦ + I will receive those of the dispersed
ones who entreat me; ¦ + those who were scattered will petition me;
C The king of Israel, the Lord, is VS* ¦ The Lord reigns ScA

HAGGAI 1 A
1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first of the month,
the word of the Lord was in the hand of Haggai the prophet: "Say to Zerubbabel son of
Shealtiel, of the tribe of Judah, and to Jesus son of Jehozadak, the high priest, 2 `Thus
says the almighty Lord: "This people says that the time has not come to build the house
of the Lord."´" 3 The word of the Lord was in the hand of Haggai the prophet: 4 "Is it
time for you to reside in your paneled houses, when this house lies desolate? 5 Now thus
says the almighty Lord: `Then arrange your hearts to consider your ways. 6 You planted
many things, yet brought in few. You ate, yet this did not result in satisfaction. You
drank, yet this did not result in intoxication. You put on clothes, yet did not become
warm in them. The one who collected payments collected them in a bag full of holes.´
7 Thus says the almighty Lord: `Lay it on your hearts to consider your ways. 8 Go up
on the mountain, cut timber, and build the house; I will be satisfied with it, and I will be
glorified.´ The Lord said, 9 `You looked for many things, yet there were few; they were
brought into the house, yet I blew them away.´ Because of this, thus says the almighty
Lord: `Because my house is desolate, and each of you hurries to his own house, 10 for
this reason heaven will hold back the dew and the earth will restrict its produce. 11 I will
bring a sword over the earth, the mountains, the grain, the wine, the oil, whatever the
earth produces, the men, the livestock, and all the labors of their hands.´"
12 Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, of the tribe of Judah, Jesus son of Jehozadak, the
high priest, and all the remnant of the people listened to the voice of the Lord their God
and the words of Haggai the prophet, since the Lord their God had sent him out to
them, and the people were afraid of the presence of the Lord. 13 Haggai, the messenger
of the Lord, B said to the people, "The Lord says, `I am with you.´" 14 The Lord raised
the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, of the tribe of Judah, the spirit of Jesus son of
Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of the remnant of all the people. They entered
and did work in the house of the almighty Lord their God 15 on the twenty-fourth day of
the sixth month in the second year of Darius the king.
Haggai 2
1 In the seventh month, on the twenty-first of the month, the Lord spoke by the
hand of Haggai the prophet: 2 "Now say to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, of the tribe of
Judah, to Jesus son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people,
3 `Which of you saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? As if it were
nothing before you. 4 Now be strong, Zerubbabel,´ says the Lord, `and be strong, Jesus
son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Let all the people of the land be strong,´ says the
Lord. `Take action, for I am with you,´ says the almighty Lord. 5 `My Spirit is stationed
in your midst; have courage.´ 6 For thus says the almighty Lord: `Once more I will
A 2 Ezra 5:1
B ScA ¦ + among the messengers of the Lord VS*

shake heaven and earth, the sea and the dry land. 7 I will shake all the nations together,
and the select things of all the nations will come out. I will fill this house with glory,´
says the almighty Lord. 8 `The silver is mine and the gold is mine,´ says the almighty
Lord. 9 `For the glory of this house will be great, the last more than the first,´ says the
almighty Lord. `In this place I will give peace,´ says the almighty Lord, `the peace of
the soul as a possession for everyone who works to raise up this sanctuary.´"
10 On the twenty-fourth of the ninth month of the second year of Darius, the word of
the Lord was directed at Haggai the prophet: 11 "Thus says the almighty Lord: `Ask the
priests about the law. Say, 12 "If a man takes consecrated meat in the hem of his
garment, and the hem of his garment touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any food, will it
be consecrated?"´" The priests answered, "No." 13 Haggai said, "If an unclean person
who was defiled by a corpse touches any of these things, will it be defiled?" The priests
answered, "It will be defiled." 14 Haggai replied, "`So is this people, and so is this nation
before me,´ says the Lord, `and so are all the works of their hands. Whoever
approaches there will be defiled because of their statements in the morning. They will
be in pain due to their troubles. You hated those who reproved at the gates. 15 Now lay
it on your hearts from this day and beyond, before the laying of one stone on top of
another stone in the sanctuary of the Lord, 16 to consider who you were. When you
reached into the silo for twenty seahs A of barley, there were ten seahs of barley; when
you went to the vat to draw out fifty metretes, B there were twenty. 17 I struck you with
sterility and with blasting, and all the works of your hands with hail, yet you did not
return to me,´ says the Lord. 18 `Now humble your hearts from this day and from now
on, from the twenty-fourth of the ninth month, and from the day on which the
sanctuary of the Lord was founded. Lay it on your hearts 19 whether anything will again
be recognized on the threshing floor, whether there will again be a vine, a fig tree, a
pomegranate tree, and olive trees which do not bear fruit. From this day I will give a
blessing.´"
20 The word of the Lord was directed at Haggai the prophet a second time on the
twenty-fourth of the month: 21 "Say to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, of the tribe of Judah,
`I am going to shake heaven and earth, the sea and the dry land. 22 I will overturn the
thrones of kings, and I will destroy the force of the kings of the nations. I will overturn
chariots and riders; horses and their riders will go down, each by a sword C directed
against his brother. 23 On that day,´ says the almighty Lord, `I will take you, Zerubbabel
son of Shealtiel, as my slave,´ says the Lord, `and I will set you up like a seal. For I
chose you,´ says the almighty Lord."
A A seah (Gk saton) was a dry measure of nearly two gallons
B A metrétés was a liquid measure of nearly nine gallons
C horses and their riders will go down, each by a sword VS ¦ I will overturn all their
force. I will overthrow their borders; I will strengthen my chosen ones. Horses and their
riders will go up, each with a sword A

ZECHARIAH 1
1 In the eighth month of the second year for Darius, the word of the Lord was
directed at the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah son of Iddo; he said, 2 "The Lord was
wrathful over your fathers with great wrath. 3 You will say to them, `Thus says the
almighty Lord: "Turn to me," says the Lord of forces, "and I will turn to you," says the
Lord of forces. 4 "Do not be like your fathers, whom the previous prophets accused,
saying, `Thus says the almighty Lord: "Turn from your evil ways and from your evil
habits."´ They did not listen; A they did not pay attention in order to listen to me," says
the Lord. 5 "Where are your fathers? Will the prophets live forever? 6 Nevertheless,
accept my words and my regulations, which I am commanding by my Spirit to my
slaves the prophets, who overtook your fathers."´" They replied and said, "As the
almighty Lord has aligned himself to do to us according to our ways and according to
our habits, so he did to us." B
7 On the twenty-fourth of the eleventh month (this is the month Shebat) in the
second year for Darius, the word of the Lord was directed at the prophet Zechariah son
of Berechiah son of Iddo; he said, 8 "I have looked at night, and behold, a man mounted
on a red horse; he stood between the two shaded mountains. Behind him were red,
gray, multicolored, and white horses. 9 I said, `What are these things, my lord?´ The
messenger who was speaking with me said to me, `I will show you what these things
are.´ 10 The man who stood between the mountains answered and said to me, `These
are the ones whom the Lord has sent forth to patrol the earth.´ 11 They replied to the
messenger of the Lord who stood between the mountains and said, `We have patrolled
all the earth, and behold, all the earth is inhabited and is quiet.´ 12 The messenger of
the Lord replied and said, `O almighty Lord, how long will you not have mercy on
Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, which you disregarded this seventieth year?´ 13 The
almighty Lord answered the messenger who was speaking with me with excellent words
and comforting sayings. 14 The messenger who was speaking with me said to me,
`Shout and say, "Thus says the almighty Lord: `I have been zealous for Jerusalem and
Zion with great zeal. 15 I am wrathful with great wrath against the nations which join in
attacking, since I was wrathful over a few things, but they joined in attacking for
wickedness.´ 16 Because of this, thus says the Lord: `I will return to Jerusalem with
compassion, and my house will be rebuilt in it,´ says the almighty Lord. `A measure will
again be stretched out over Jerusalem.´"´ 17 The messenger who was speaking with me
said to me, `Shout and say, "Thus says the almighty Lord: `Cities will again be spread
with good things; the Lord will again have mercy on Zion, and he will again choose
Jerusalem.´"´
A They did not listen VS ¦ ~ A
B to do to us ... our ways ... our habits ... to us VSc ¦ to do to you ... our ways ... our
habits ... to us ¦ to do ... your ways ... your habits ... to you A

Zechariah 2 A
1 I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, four horns. 2 I said to the messenger
who was speaking with me, `What are these things, my lord?´ He said to me, `These
are the horns which scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.´ B 3 The Lord showed me
four craftsmen. 4 I said, `What are these people coming to do?´ He said, `These are the
horns which scattered Judah and shattered Israel, and none of these people lifted up a
head; these people came out to sharpen them for their hands. The four horns are the
nations which lifted up a horn against the land of the Lord in order to scatter it.´
5 I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, a man and a geometric cord in his
hand. 6 I said to him, `Where are you going?´ He said to me, `To measure Jerusalem,
to see how much is its width and how much is its length.´ 7 Behold, the messenger who
was speaking with me remained standing, and another messenger went out to meet
him. 8 He said to him, `Run and speak to that young man, saying, "Jerusalem will be
fruitfully inhabited due to an abundance of men and livestock in its midst. 9 I will be for
it," says the Lord, "a wall of fire all around, and I will exist for glory in its midst.
10 Hey, hey, flee from the land of the north," says the Lord, "because I will gather
you from the four winds of heaven," says the Lord. 11 "Seek safety in Zion, you who
inhabit the daughter of Babylon." 12 For thus says the almighty Lord: "After glory, he has
sent me forth against the nations which spoiled you, because the one who touches you
is like one who touches the pupil of his eye. 13 For behold, I am bringing my hand
against them, and they will be spoils for those who serve them. You will know that the
almighty Lord has sent me forth. 14 Take delight and be cheerful, O daughter of Zion, for
behold, I am coming and will set up my tent in your midst," says the Lord. 15 "Many
nations will take refuge in the Lord on that day; they will exist as a people for him, and
they will set up their tents in your midst. You will recognize that the almighty Lord has
sent me forth to you. 16 The Lord will inherit Judah, his portion in the holy land, and he
will again choose Jerusalem. 17 Let all flesh be reverent due to the presence of the Lord,
because he has risen up out of his holy clouds."´
Zechariah 3
1 The Lord showed me Jesus the high priest standing before the face of the
messenger of the Lord, and the devil stood at his right hand to resist him. 2 The Lord
said to the devil, `May the Lord rebuke you, O devil; may the Lord who chose
Jerusalem rebuke you! Behold, is this not like a torch pulled out of the fire?´ 3 Jesus was
clothed in filthy garments, and he stood before the face of the messenger. 4 He replied
and said to those who were standing before his face, `Take away from him the filthy
garments.´ He said to him, `Behold, I have taken away your lawless acts. Clothe him to
his feet, 5 and place a clean turban on his head.´ They dressed him with garments and
placed a clean turban on his head. The messenger of the Lord stood by.
6 The messenger of the Lord testified to Jesus, saying, 7 `Thus says the almighty
A 2:1-4 = 1:18-21 EV; 2:5-17 = 2:1-13 EV
B Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem VS ¦ Judah and Israel A

Lord: "If you go in my ways and preserve my ordinances, you will determine my house.
If you also carefully preserve my courtyard, I will give you those who rally in the midst
of these who are standing by. 8 Now listen, Jesus the high priest, you and your
neighbors who are sitting before your face. For the men are observers of portents; for
behold, I am bringing my slave, the Ascendant. 9 For the stone which I gave before the
face of Jesus, on the one stone are seven eyes. Behold, I am digging a trench," says
the almighty Lord, "and I will handle all the wrongdoing of that land in one day. 10 On
that day," says the almighty Lord, "each of you will invite his neighbor underneath a
vine and underneath a fig tree."´
Zechariah 4
1 The messenger who was speaking with me returned and awakened me, in the
manner whenever a man is awakened from his dream. 2 He said to me, `What do you
see?´ I said, `I have seen, and behold, a lampstand entirely of gold, the socket on it,
seven lamps on it, seven funnels for the lamps on it, 3 and two olive trees on it, one on
the right of its socket and one on the left.´ 4 I inquired and said to the messenger who
was speaking with me, `What are these things, my lord?´ 5 The messenger who was
speaking with me answered and said to me, `Don't you know what these things are?´ I
said, `No, my lord.´ 6 He replied and said to me, `This is the word of the Lord to
Zerubbabel; he said, "Not by great power or by strength, but by my Spirit," says the
almighty Lord. 7 "Who are you, O great mountain, to succeed before the face of
Zerubbabel? I will bring forth the stone of the inheritance, equal in grace to its grace."´
8 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 9 `The hands of Zerubbabel laid the
foundation of this house; his hands will finish it, and you will recognize that the
almighty Lord has sent me forth to you. 10 For who brought contempt into the little
days? They will rejoice, and they will see the stone of tin in the hand of Zerubbabel.
These seven are the eyes of the Lord which observe all the earth.´ 11 I replied and said
to him, `What are these two olive trees which are on the right and on the left of the
lampstand?´ 12 I inquired a second time and said to him, `What are the two branches of
the olive trees which are in the hands of the two gold nozzles which pour into and lead
into the gold funnels?´ 13 He said to me, `Don't you realize what these things are?´ I
said, `No, my lord.´ 14 He said, `These two sons of prosperity have stood beside the
Lord of all the earth.´
Zechariah 5
1 I turned, lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold, a flying sickle. 2 He said to me,
`What do you see?´ I said, `I see a flying sickle, twenty cubits in length and ten cubits
in width.´ 3 He said to me, `This is the curse which goes out over the surface of all the
earth. For every thief will be punished by this until death, and everyone who swears
falsely will be punished by this until death. 4 I will bring it forth,´ says the almighty Lord,
`and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears to a lie by
my name. It will dismantle in the midst of his house and will bring it to an end, both its
timbers and its stones.´

5 The messenger who was speaking with me came out and said to me, `Look up with
your eyes and see this thing which is going out.´ 6 I said, `What is it?´ He said, `This is
the measure which is going out.´ He also said, `This is their wrongdoing in all the
earth.´ 7 Behold, a talent of lead was being lifted up, and behold, one woman sat in the
midst of the measure. 8 He said, `This is the lawlessness.´ He threw her in the midst of
the measure and threw the stone of lead into her mouth. 9 I lifted up my eyes and
looked, and behold, two women were going out, and the breeze was in their wings.
They had wings like the wings of a hoopoe, and they took up the measure between the
earth and heaven. 10 I said to the messenger who was speaking with me, `To where are
they carrying away the measure?´ 11 He said to me, `To build a house for it in the land
of Babylon and to make preparations; they will place it there on its prepared site.´
Zechariah 6
1 I turned, lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold, four chariots were going out of
the midst of two mountains; the mountains were bronze mountains. 2 Connected to the
first chariot were red horses, connected to the second chariot were black horses,
3 connected to the third chariot were white horses, and connected to the fourth chariot
were multicolored gray horses. 4 I replied and said to the messenger who was speaking
with me, `What are these things, my lord?´ 5 The messenger who was speaking with
me answered and said, `These are the four winds of heaven; they are going out to
stand beside the Lord of all the earth.´ 6 As for the one to which the black horses were
connected, they went out over the land of the north; the white ones went out after
them, and the multicolored ones went out over the land of the south. 7 The gray ones
went out and looked to go and patrol the land. He said, `Go and patrol the land,´ and
they patrolled the land. 8 He cried out and spoke to me, saying, `Behold, the ones who
are going out over the land of the north! They caused my fury to cease in the land of
the north.´
9 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 10 `Take the things of the captivity
from the rulers, from its useful men, and from those who have recognized it. On that
day you will enter the house of Josiah son of Zephaniah, who arrived from Babylon.
11 You will take silver and gold and make crowns, and you will place them on the head
of Jesus son of Jehozadak, the high priest. 12 You will say to him, "Thus says the
almighty Lord: `Behold, a man! His name is the Ascendant; he will ascend from
underneath him, and he will build the house of the Lord. 13 He himself will receive virtue,
and he will sit and rule on his throne. A priest will be on his right hand, and peaceful
counsel will be between them both. 14 The crown will be for those who endure, for its
useful men, and for those who have recognized it, resulting in the grace of the son of
Zephaniah and in a psalm in the house of the Lord. 15 Those who are at a distance from
them will arrive and build in the house of the Lord, and you will know that the almighty
Lord has sent me forth to you. It will be, if you listen to the voice of the Lord your
God.´"´"

Zechariah 7
1 It happened that, in the fourth year for Darius the king, the word of the Lord was
directed at Zechariah on the fourth of the ninth month, which is Chislev. 2 Sharezer and
Arbathsager A the king and his men sent forth to Bethel in order to seek atonement from
the Lord. 3 He said to the priests who were in the house of the almighty Lord and to the
prophets, "Has the sacred thing entered here in the fifth month, just as it did B already
for many years?" 4 The word of the Lord of forces was directed at me, saying, 5 "Say to
all the people of the land and to the priests, `If you fast or mourn in the fifth or in the
seventh months, even behold for seventy years, have you fasted for me? 6 If you eat or
drink, is it not you who eat and you who drink? 7 Are not these the words which the
Lord spoke by the hands of the previous prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and
prospering as well as its surrounding cities, and the mountainside and the lowland was
inhabited?´"
8 The word of the Lord was directed at Zechariah, saying, 9 "Thus says the almighty
Lord: `Render a righteous judgment, and show mercy and sympathy, each one to his
brother. 10 Do not overpower a widow, an orphan, a guest, and a needy person. Let
each of you not remember in your hearts the wickedness of his brother. 11 They did not
trust so as to pay attention; they gave their backs to be senseless and their ears to be
heavy, so as not to listen. 12 They arranged their hearts to be distrustful, so as not to
listen to my law and the words which the almighty Lord sent forth by his Spirit, by the
hands of the previous prophets. There was great wrath from the almighty Lord. 13 It will
be in the manner he said. They did not listen to him, so they will shout, and I will not
listen,´ says the almighty Lord. 14 `I will drive them out into all the nations which they
did not know. The land behind them will be obliterated of anyone going through or of
anyone turning back; they arranged the elect land for obliteration.´"
Zechariah 8
1 The word of the almighty Lord was saying, 2 "Thus says the almighty Lord: `I was
zealous for Jerusalem and Zion with great zeal, and I was zealous for her with great
fury.´ 3 Thus says the Lord: `I will return to Zion and dwell in the midst of Jerusalem.
Jerusalem will be called a true city, and the mountain of the almighty Lord a holy
mountain.´ 4 Thus says the almighty Lord: `Old men and old women will still sit in the
streets of Jerusalem, each holding his staff in his hand due to the number of days. 5 The
streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing in its streets.´ 6 Thus says the
almighty Lord: `If it will be impossible in the sight of the remnant of this people in
those days, will it also be impossible in my sight?´ says the almighty Lord. 7 Thus says
the almighty Lord: `Behold, I will save my people from the land of the east and from
the land of the west. 8 I will bring them in and cause them to dwell in the midst of
Jerusalem. They will be a people for me, and I will be a God for them in truth and in
A Arbathsager (cited as a variant LXX reading in Kittel's Biblia Hebraica, where the MT
reads "Regem") ¦ Arbeseer VS* ¦ Arbeser Sc ¦ Arbeseere ¦ Arbeseser A
B it did VS ¦ they did A ¦ I did

ighteousness.´
9 Thus says the almighty Lord: `Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these
days these words out of the mouths of the prophets, from the day when the house of
the almighty Lord was founded and from when the sanctuary was built. 10 For before
those days, the wage of men will not result in an advantage, and the wage of livestock
will not exist. There will be no peace away from oppression for the one who goes out
and the one who goes in. I will send forth all men, each against his neighbor. 11 Now I
will not perform for the remnants of this people according to the former days,´ says the
almighty Lord. 12 `But I will show peace; the vine will yield its fruit, the land will yield its
produce, and heaven will yield its dew. I will cause the remnants of my people to inherit
all these things. 13 It will be that, in the manner you were connected to a curse among
the nations, O house of Judah and O house of Israel, so will I bring you to safety, and
you will be connected to a blessing. Have courage and be strong in your hands.´
14 For thus says the almighty Lord: `In the manner I intended to harm you when
your fathers provoked me,´ says the almighty Lord, `and I did not relent, 15 so I have
aligned myself and have intended in these days to do good to Jerusalem and the house
of Judah; have courage. 16 These are the words which you will perform: each of you
speak the truth to his neighbor, and render a peaceful judgment A in your gates. 17 Let
each of you in your hearts not plan wickedness against his neighbor, and do not love a
false oath, for I hated all these things,´ says the almighty Lord."
18 The word of the almighty Lord was directed at me, saying, 19 "Thus says the
almighty Lord: `The fourth fast, the fifth fast, the seventh fast, and the tenth fast will
be to the house of Judah for joy, for cheerfulness, and for good festivals. You will be
cheerful; love both truth and peace.´ 20 Thus says the almighty Lord: `Many peoples will
yet arrive, including those who inhabit many cities. 21 Those who inhabit five cities will
come together in one city, saying, "Let us go to petition the face of the Lord and to
seek the face of the almighty Lord; I also will go." 22 Many peoples and many nations
will arrive to seek the face of the almighty Lord in Jerusalem and to obtain atonement
from the face the Lord.´ 23 Thus says the almighty Lord: `In those days, if ten men from
all the languages of the nations take hold, let them take hold of the hem of a Judean
man, saying, "We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you."´"
Zechariah 9
1 A statement of the word of the Lord. His sacrifice is in the land of Shadrach B and in
Damascus, for the Lord looks upon men and upon all the tribes of Israel, 2 even Hamath
within its borders, Tyre and Sidon, for they were exceedingly intelligent. 3 Tyre built
strongholds for itself, filled treasure chests with silver like dirt, and gathered gold like
mud from the roads. 4 Because of this, the Lord will inherit it and will attack its force in
the sea; it will be consumed in fire. 5 Ashkelon will see and be afraid; Gaza also will
suffer exceeding pain as well as Ekron, for it was ashamed at its trespass. The king will
perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon will not be inhabited. 6 Aliens will be inhabitants in
A a peaceful judgment A ¦ truth and a peaceful judgment VS
B Shadrach VSA ¦ Hadrach

Ashdod, and I will bring down the insolence of the Philistines. 7 I will take their blood
from their mouths and their abominations from the midst of their teeth. These also will
be left for our God; they will be like a leader of a thousand men in Judah, and Ekron
will be like a Jebusite. 8 I will undertake a construction for my house, so that they may
not pass through or return. One who would drive them out will no longer come against
them, for now have I seen with my eyes.
9 Rejoice exceedingly, O daughter of Zion; proclaim, O daughter of Jerusalem.
Behold, your king is coming to you; he is righteous, and he himself is saving. He is
meek; he is riding on a draft animal and a young colt. 10 He will eliminate chariots from
Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem, and the bow of battle will be eliminated; there
will be abundance and peace from the nations. He will rule over the waters as far as the
sea and over the rivers in the estuaries of the land.
11 You, by the blood of the testament, sent forth your prisoners out of the pit which
has no water. 12 You will sit in a stronghold, you prisoners of the congregation, for in
return for one day of your sojourning I will pay you back double. 13 For I bent you, O
Judah, as a bow for myself; I filled Ephraim, and I will raise up your children, O Zion,
against the children of the Greeks. I will handle you like the sword of a fighter. 14 The
Lord will be over them, and his arrow will come out like lightning. The almighty Lord will
sound forth with a trumpet, and he will go in the tumult of his threat. 15 The almighty
Lord will protect them; they will consume them and overwhelm them with slung stones.
They will swallow them like wine and fill the altar like bowls. 16 The Lord himself will
save them on that day, his people like a flock, for holy stones are being rolled over his
land. 17 For if something of his is good and if something of his is beautiful, there will be
grain with the young men and fragrant wine for the virgins.
Zechariah 10
1 Ask rain from the Lord for the early and the late hour. The Lord made appearances;
he will give them winter rain, vegetation in the field to each. 2 For the spokesmen
declared troublesome things. The diviners were declaring false visions and false
dreams; they comforted with vain things. Because of this, they were taken out like
sheep and mistreated, for there was no healing. 3 My anger was provoked against the
shepherds, and I will supervise the lambs. The almighty Lord God will supervise his
flock, the house of Judah; he will arrange them like his handsome horse in a battle. 4 He
looked out from it and made arrangements from it. There was a bow from it in anger;
everyone who marches out together will come out from it. 5 They will be like fighters
trampling mud on the roads in a battle. They will line up, for the Lord is with them, and
the riders of horses will be put to shame. 6 "I will strengthen the house of Judah and
save the house of Joseph; I will make them inhabitants because I loved them. They will
be as though I had not turned them away, for I am the Lord their God, and I will listen
to them. 7 They will be like the fighters of Ephraim, and their hearts will rejoice as with
wine. Their children will look and be cheerful, and their hearts will rejoice over the Lord.
8 I will signal to them and gather them in, for I will redeem them; they will be multiplied,
as numerous as they were. 9 I will sow them among the peoples, and those who are at a
distance will remember me. They will nourish their children, and they will return. 10 I will

eturn them from the land of Egypt, and I will gather them in from the Assyrians. I will
bring them into the land of Gilead and into Lebanon, and not even one of them will be
left behind. 11 They will pass through a narrow sea and attack the waves in the sea; all
the deep places of the rivers will dry up. All the insolence of the Assyrians will be taken
away, and the scepter of Egypt will be removed. 12 I will strengthen them in the Lord
their God, and they will boast in his name," says the Lord.
Zechariah 11
1 Open your doors, O Lebanon, and let fire devour your cedars. 2 Let the pine howl,
for the cedar has fallen, because the great men suffered great distress. Howl, you oaks
of the land of Bashan, for the overgrown forest was torn down. 3 There is the sound of
shepherds lamenting because their greatness has suffered distress, the sound of
roaring lions because the pride of the Jordan has suffered distress.
4 Thus says the almighty Lord: "Shepherd the sheep of the slaughter, 5 which their
possessors were slaughtering, and they were not regretting it. Those who sold them
were saying, `Blessed be the Lord; we have become wealthy!´ Their shepherds were
suffering nothing over them. 6 Because of this, I will no longer be sparing toward those
who inhabit the land," says the Lord. "Behold, I will deliver up the men, each into the
hands of his neighbor and into the hands of his king. They will cut up the land, and I
will not rescue out of their hand. 7 I will shepherd the sheep of the slaughter in the land
of Canaan, and I will take for myself two rods. The one I called Beauty, and the other I
called Line; I will shepherd the sheep. 8 I will take out three shepherds in one month;
my soul will be burdened over them, for their souls were howling against me. 9 I said, `I
will not shepherd you. That which dies, let it die, and that which fails, let it fail. Let
each one of the rest consume the flesh of his neighbor.´ 10 I will take my excellent staff
and throw it away so as to scatter my testament which I made for all the peoples. 11 It
will be scattered on that day, and the Canaanites will know the sheep which are being
preserved, for it is the word of the Lord. 12 I will say to them, `If it is excellent in your
sight, establish my wage and give it, or refuse it.´ They established my wage as thirty
pieces of silver." 13 The Lord said to me, "Drop them into the furnace, and I will observe
if it is attested, in the manner I was attested on account of them." I took the thirty
pieces of silver and threw them into the furnace in the house of the Lord. 14 I threw
away the second rod, Line, so as to scatter the possession A between Judah and Israel.
15 The Lord said to me, "Take for yourself once more the shepherding implements of
an inexperienced shepherd. 16 For behold, I am raising up a shepherd against the land.
He will not supervise what is being abandoned, he will not seek what is being scattered,
he will not heal what has been broken, and he will not guide the whole thing. He will
devour the meat of the choice ones and will dislocate their vertebrae. 17 Oh, those who
shepherd vain things and those who have abandoned the sheep! A sword will be
against his arms and against his right eye; his arm will be withered, and his right eye
will be blinded."
A the possession VS* ¦ the testament Sc ¦ my testament A

Zechariah 12
1 A statement of the word of the Lord concerning Israel. The Lord, who stretches out
heaven, lays the foundation of earth, and forms the spirit of man within him, says,
2 "Behold, I will place Jerusalem as a shaking threshold for all the surrounding peoples,
and in Judea there will be a siege against Jerusalem. 3 It will be on that day that I will
place Jerusalem as a trampled stone for all the nations. Everyone who tramples on it
will be mocking, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.
4 On that day," says the almighty Lord, "I will attack every horse with astonishment and
its rider with madness. I will open my eyes over the house of Judah, and I will attack all
the horses of the peoples with blindness. 5 The leaders of a thousand men in Judah will
say in their hearts, `We will find for ourselves those who inhabit Jerusalem with the
almighty Lord their God.´ 6 On that day I will place the leaders of a thousand men in
Judah as a torch of fire among wood and as a lamp of fire among stubble; they will
devour all the surrounding peoples on the right and on the left. Jerusalem will once
more be an inhabitant by herself. 7 The Lord will save the tents of Judah as from the
beginning, so that the boast of the house of David and the elevation of those who
inhabit Jerusalem may not be magnified against Judah. 8 It will be on that day that the
Lord will shield those who inhabit Jerusalem. The one who is weak among them will be
on that day like David, and the house of David will be like the house of God, A like a
messenger of the Lord before them. 9 It will be on that day that I will seek to take out
all the nations which come against Jerusalem.
10 I will pour on the house of David and on those who inhabit Jerusalem a spirit of
grace and sympathy. They will look at me, since they danced triumphantly; they will
engage in mourning over him as over one who is beloved, and they will be filled with
grief as over a firstborn son. 11 On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be magnified
like the mourning for a pomegranate grove which is being cut down in the plain. 12 The
land will mourn according to tribes, each tribe by itself and their women by
themselves, B the tribe of the house of David by itself and their women by themselves,
the tribe of the house of Nathan by itself and their women by themselves, 13 the tribe of
the house of Levi by itself and their women by themselves, the tribe of Simeon by itself
and their women by themselves, 14 all the tribes which have been left behind, each tribe
by itself and their women by themselves.
Zechariah 13
1 On that day, every place will be open to the house of David and those who inhabit
Jerusalem for relocation and for seclusion. C
A like David, and the house of David will be like the house of God VS ¦ like the house of
David, and the house of David will be like the house of God ¦ like the house of David,
like the house of God A
B each tribe by itself and their women by themselves A ¦ each tribe by itself ¦ ~ VS
C to the house of David and those who inhabit Jerusalem for relocation and for
seclusion VS* ¦ to the house of David and those who inhabit Jerusalem for relocation

2 It will be on that day," says the Lord of sabaóth, "that I will eliminate A the names of
the idols from the land, and there will be no longer any remembrance of them. I will
take out the false prophets and the unclean spirit from the land. 3 It will be that, if a
man prophesies once more, his father and his mother who conceived him will say to
him, `You will not live, for you spoke lies in the name of the Lord.´ His father and his
mother who conceived him will bind his feet together while he is prophesying. 4 It will be
on that day that each one of the prophets will be ashamed of his vision while he is
prophesying; they will be clothed with a hairy skin because they lied. 5 He will say, `I
am not a prophet, for I am a man who cultivates the ground, for a man conceived me
from my youth.´ 6 He will say B to him, `What are these wounds between your hands?´
He will say, `Those with which I was wounded in my beloved house.´
7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherds and against the man who is my citizen," C
says the almighty Lord. "Attack the shepherds D and remove the sheep, E and I will bring
my hand against the little ones. F 8 It will be in all the land," G says the Lord, "that two
parts of it will be eliminated and will fail, but the third will be left behind in it. 9 I will
bring the third through fire and I will try them by fire as silver is tried; I will attest them
as gold is attested. He himself will call on my name, and I will listen to him. I will say,
`This is my people,´ and he himself will say, `The Lord is my God.´
Zechariah 14
1 Behold, the days of the Lord are coming, and your spoils will be divided in you. 2 I
will gather all the nations over Jerusalem in battle, and the city will be taken, the
houses will be plundered, and the women will be raped. Half of the city will come out in
captivity, but the rest of my people will not be eliminated from the city. 3 The Lord will
come out and line up with those nations, just like the day of his lining up on the day of
battle. 4 His feet will stand on that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is opposite
Jerusalem on the east. The Mount of Olives will be divided, half of it towards the east
and half of it towards the sea, an exceedingly great chasm; half of the mountain will
lean towards the north and half of it towards the south. 5 The valley of my mountains
and for sprinkling Sc ¦ in the house of David and among those who inhabit Jerusalem
for relocation and for sprinkling A ¦ in the house of David
A
on that day," says the Lord of sabaóth, "that I will eliminate VS ¦ on that day," says
the Lord, "that I will eliminate A ¦ on that day that the Lord will eliminate
B
He will say VS ¦ I will say A ¦ They will say
C
my citizen VS* ¦ his citizen ScA
D
shepherds ... Attack (plural) the shepherds VS* ¦ shepherd ... Attack (singular) the
shepherd ScA ¦ shepherds ... Attack (singular) the shepherd
E
remove the sheep VS* ¦ let the sheep be scattered Sc ¦ the sheep of the shepherd will
be scattered A ¦ the sheep will be scattered; remove the sheep ¦ let the sheep be
scattered; remove the sheep
F
I will bring my hand against the little ones VS* ¦ I will bring my hand against the
shepherds A ¦ I will turn my hand against the little shepherds Sc
G
in all the land VS* ¦ on that day ScA

will be blocked, and the valley of the mountains will be joined as far as Azel. It will be
blocked just as it was blocked in the days of the earthquake, in the days of Uzziah king
of Judah." The Lord my God will arrive, and all the holy ones with him. 6 On that day
there will be no light, cold, and frost; 7 it will be for one day, and that day is known to
the Lord. It will not be day and it will not be night; there will even be light towards
evening. 8 On that day fresh water will come out of Jerusalem, half of it into the former
sea and half of it into the latter sea; it will be so even in summer and in spring.
9 The Lord will be as king over all the land. On that day there will be one Lord, and
his name will be one. 10 It will surround A all the land, even the desert from Geba to
Rimmon south of Jerusalem. Ramah will remain in place from the gate of Benjamin to
the place of the first gate, to the gate of the corners, and to the tower of Hananel, as
far as the winepresses of the king. 11 They will inhabit it; there will no longer be any
curse, and Jerusalem will inhabit confidently.
12 This will be the overthrow by which the Lord will cut down all the peoples, as
many as waged war against Jerusalem: their flesh will melt while they are standing on
their feet, their eyes will ooze out of their sockets, and their tongues will melt in their
mouths. 13 On that day there will be great astonishment from the Lord over them; each
of them will take hold of the hand of his neighbor, and his hand will be joined to the
hand of his neighbor. 14 Judah will line up with Jerusalem, and he will gather the
strength of all the surrounding peoples, gold, silver, and clothing in exceeding
abundance. 15 This will be the overthrow of the horses, mules, camels, donkeys, and all
the livestock which is in those camps, in agreement with this overthrow.
16 It will be that whoever is left out of all the nations which came against Jerusalem
will also ascend each year to worship the king, the almighty Lord, and to celebrate the
Festival of Tabernacles. 17 It will be that whoever out of all the tribes of the earth does
not ascend to Jerusalem to worship the king, the almighty Lord, these also will be
added to the others. 18 If a tribe of Egypt does not ascend or come there, against these
there will be the overthrow by which the Lord will attack all the nations, whoever does
not ascend to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles. 19 This will be the sin of Egypt and
the sin of all the nations, whoever does not ascend to celebrate the Festival of
Tabernacles. 20 On that day there will be on the bridle of the horse, "Holy for the
almighty Lord." The cauldrons which are in the house of the Lord will be like bowls
before the face of the altar. 21 Every cauldron in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy for
the almighty Lord. All who sacrifice will arrive, take from them, and boil in them. A
Canaanite will no longer be in the house of the almighty Lord on that day.
A It will surround ScA ¦ He will surround VS*

MALACHI 1
1
A statement of the word of the Lord for Israel, by the hand of his messenger. Now
lay it upon your hearts.
2
"I loved you," says the Lord. You said, "In what way did you love us?" "Wasn't Esau
the brother of Jacob?" says the Lord. "I loved Jacob, 3 but I hated Esau; I arranged his
borders for obliteration and his inheritance as gifts for the desert." 4 Since Idumea will
say, "It has been overthrown; let us return and rebuild the deserted places," thus says
the almighty Lord: "They will build, and I will overthrow. They will be called borders of
lawlessness, and a people against whom the Lord has lined up forever." 5 Your eyes will
see it, and you will say, "The Lord was magnified beyond the borders of Israel."
6
"A son glorifies a father and a slave his lord. If I am a father, where is my glory? If
I am a lord, where is my fear?" says the almighty Lord. "You priests are the ones who
despise my name. You said, `In what way did we despise your name?´ 7 By bringing
contaminated loaves to my altar. You said, `In what way did we contaminate them?´
When you said, `The table of the Lord is contaminated.´ You treated the things placed
on it with contempt. A 8 For if you bring something blind as a sacrifice, isn't this wicked?
If you bring something crippled or sick, isn't this wicked? Now bring it to the one who
governs you, if he will receive you, B if he will accept the look on your face," says the
almighty Lord. 9 "Now seek atonement from the face of your God and petition him.
These things have been in your hands; should I accept from you the looks on your
faces?" says the almighty Lord. 10 "For among you also the doors will be shut, and my
altar will not freely ignite. My will is not among you," says the almighty Lord, "and I will
not accept a sacrifice from your hands. 11 For from the rising of the sun to its setting,
my name has been glorified among the nations, and in every place incense and pure
sacrifice is offered to my name, for my name is great among the nations," says the
almighty Lord. 12 "But you defile it when you say, `The table of the Lord is
contaminated, and his foods placed on it are contemptible.´ 13 You said, `These things
are laborious,´ and I blew them away," says the almighty Lord. "You brought in both
crippled and ill prey. If you offer the sacrifice, should I accept them from your hands?"
says the almighty Lord. 14 "Cursed is the one who was able, who possessed a male in his
flock, whose vow was upon him, who then sacrifices something corrupt to the Lord. For
I am a great king," says the almighty Lord, "and my name is renowned among the
nations."
Malachi 2
1 "Now, you priests, this command is for you. 2 If you do not listen, if you do not lay it
A contaminated. You treated the things placed on it with contempt VS* ¦ contemptible.
You treated the foods placed on it with contempt Sc ¦ contemptible, and the foods
placed on it are contemptible A
B you VS* ¦ it ScA

on your hearts to give glory to my name," says the almighty Lord, "I will send a curse
upon you, and I will curse your blessing; I will curse it. I will disperse your blessing, and
it will not be among you, for you did not lay it on your hearts. 3 Behold, I am denying
my arm to you. I will scatter carrion over your faces, the carrion of your festivals, and I
will capture you at the same time. 4 You will recognize, since I have sent this command
to you, that my testament is for the Levites," says the almighty Lord. 5 "My testament of
life and peace was with him; I gave it to him so that he might fear me with fear, and so
that he might be dispatched from the presence of my name. 6 The law of truth was in
his mouth, and wrongdoing was not found on his lips. He went straight and walked with
me in peace, and turned many away from wrongdoing. 7 For the lips of a priest will
preserve knowledge; they will seek the law from his mouth because he is a messenger
of the almighty Lord. 8 But you turned from the way and weakened many by legal
action. You ruined the testament of Levi," says the almighty Lord. 9 "I have granted you
to be contemptible and outcast among all the nations, because you did not preserve my
ways, but were taking faces into account in legal action.
10 Did not one God create you? Is there not one Father of you all? Why did each of
you abandon his brother in order to defile the testament of your fathers? 11 Judah was
abandoned, and there was an abomination in Israel and in Jerusalem, because Judah
defiled the holy things of the Lord, by which he showed love, and pursued other gods.
12 The Lord will destroy the man who does these things, so that he may be brought
down from the tents of Jacob and from those who offer a sacrifice to the almighty Lord.
13 You did these things which I hated; you covered the altar of the Lord with tears,
weeping, and groaning due to troubles. Is it still proper to look at a sacrifice, or
acceptable to receive something from your hands?" 14 You said, "Why is this?" Because
the Lord testified between you and the wife of your youth, whom you abandoned. She
is your partner and the wife of your testament. 15 Even a remnant of his Spirit did no
good. A You said, "What else beside seed does God seek?" By the Spirit in you, preserve
and do not abandon the wife of your youth. 16 "But if you hate and banish her," says the
Lord God of Israel, "ungodliness will cover your considerations," says the almighty Lord.
By the Spirit in you, preserve and do not abandon.
17 You provoked God with your words; you said, "In what way did we provoke him?"
When you said, "Everyone who does evil is noble before the Lord, and he was satisfied
with them," and, "Where is the God of righteousness?"
Malachi 3
1 "Behold, I am sending forth my messenger, and he will survey the way before my
face. The Lord, whom you seek, the messenger of the testament, whom you desire, will
suddenly come into his own sanctuary. Behold, he is coming!" says the almighty Lord.
2 Who will wait for the day of his entrance? Who will stand at his appearance? For he is
coming like the fire of a refinery and like the soap of those who do laundry. 3 He will sit
down to refine and cleanse them like silver and like gold. He will cleanse the sons of
A Even a remnant of his Spirit did no good VS ¦ No one else did this, not even one with
a remnant of his Spirit A

Levi and pour them out like gold and like silver. They will be offering a sacrifice to the
Lord in righteousness. 4 The sacrifice of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord
as in the days of old, as in the previous years. 5 "I will approach you in judgment; I will
be a swift witness against the sorcerers, the adulteresses, those who swear falsely by
my name, those who hold back the wage of an employee, those who overpower a
widow, those who abuse orphans, those who pervert justice for a visitor, and those
who do not fear me," says the almighty Lord.
6 "For I am the Lord your God; I do not change. You sons of Jacob did not abstain
7 from the unrighteous acts of your fathers. You perverted and did not preserve my
regulations. Return to me, and I will return to you," says the almighty Lord. "You say,
`In what way would we return?´ 8 Will a man step on God? For you step on me. You will
say, `In what way did we step on you?´ Because the tithes and initial offerings are still
with you. 9 You keep looking away, and you step on me. The year A is finished. 10 You
have brought all the produce into the storerooms, and the plundering of it will occur in
its house. Now consider this," says the almighty Lord. "Will I not open for you the
waterfalls of heaven, pour out on you my blessing until you are satisfied, 11 and
dispense food to you? I am not ruining the fruit of your land; your vine in the field will
not weaken," says the almighty Lord. 12 "All the nations will consider you fortunate, for
you will be a desirable land," says the almighty Lord.
13 "You loaded your words on me," says the Lord. "You said, `In what way did we
speak against you?´ 14 You said, `The one who serves God does so in vain; what good
was it that we kept his precepts, and that we walked as petitioners before the almighty
Lord? 15 Now we consider strangers fortunate. All who perform lawless acts are being
built up; they resisted God and were saved.´" 16 Each of those who feared the Lord
spoke against these things with his neighbor. The Lord paid attention, listened, and
wrote a document of remembrance before him for those who fear the Lord and honor
his name. 17 "They will be mine," says the almighty Lord, "on the day which I will set for
possession. I will adopt them in the way a man adopts his son who serves him. 18 You
will return and see the difference between a righteous and a lawless man, and between
one who serves God and one who does not serve.
19 For behold, the day of the Lord B is coming, on fire like a furnace, and it will burn
them up. All the aliens and all those who perform lawless acts will be a reed. The day
which is coming will kindle them," says the almighty Lord. "Neither root nor branch will
be left of them. C 20 The sun of righteousness will rise for you who fear my name, and
healing will be in his wings. You will come out and leap like calves released from bonds.
21 You will trample the lawless, for they will be ash underneath your feet on the day
which I set," says the almighty Lord. 22 "Behold, I am sending forth to you Elijah the
Tishbite before the great and conspicuous day of the Lord comes. 23 He will restore the
heart of a father to his son and the heart of a man to his neighbor, so that I would not
come and slaughter the earth completely. 24 Remember the law of Moses my slave, just
A year VScA ¦ nation S*
B of the Lord A ¦ ~ VS
C 3:19-24 = 4:1-6 EV

as I commanded ordinances and righteous decrees to him on Horeb for all Israel." A
A 22 "Behold, I am sending forth ... 23 He will restore the heart ... 24 Remember the law of
Moses ... VS*A ¦ 22 "Remember the law of Moses ... 23 Behold, I am sending forth ... 24 He
will restore the heart ... Sc (= MT)

ISAIAH 1
1
The vision which Isaiah son of Amos saw, which he saw concerning Judea and
concerning Jerusalem during the reign of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, who
reigned over Judea.
2
Hear, O heaven, and listen, O earth, for the Lord spoke: "I conceived and raised
sons, but they rejected me. 3 The ox knew the one who owned it and the donkey knew
the manger of its lord, but Israel did not know me; the people did not understand me."
4
Woe to the sinful nation, the people full of sins, the evil seed, the lawless sons! You
abandoned the Lord and provoked the wrath of the Holy One of Israel. 5 Why should
you still be struck because you add to lawlessness? Every head is in distress and every
heart is in pain. 6 From the feet to the head, A there is no emollient, oil, or bandages to
be applied, whether to a wound, a bruise, or an infected cut. 7 Your land is deserted;
your cities are on fire. Strangers are devouring your country before your eyes. It has
become deserted by being overturned by strange peoples. 8 The daughter of Zion will be
abandoned like a tent in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber patch, like a besieged city.
9 B
If the Lord of sabaóth had not left us seed, we would have become like Sodom and
would have been similar to Gomorrah.
10
Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; pay attention to the law of God,
you people of Gomorrah. 11 "What is the abundance of your sacrifices to me?" says the
Lord. "I am full of burnt offerings of rams; I do not desire the fat of sheep and the
blood of bulls and goats, 12 not even when you come to appear before me. For who
demanded these things from your hands? You will not continue to trample my
courtyard. 13 If you bring flour, it is meaningless; incense is an abomination to me. I do
not put up with your new moons, sabbaths, and great day; 14 my soul hates a fast and a
holiday, your new moons and your festivals. You gave me indigestion; I will no longer
remit your sins. 15 When you extend your hands to me, I will turn my eyes away from
you, and if you multiply the petition, I will not listen to you. For your hands are full of
blood. 16 Wash; become clean. Remove the evils from your souls before my eyes; cease
from your evils. 17 Learn to do good, demand justice, deliver one who is being wronged,
judge for an orphan, and vindicate a widow. 18 Come; let us be examined," says the
Lord. "If your sins are like crimson, I will whiten them like snow; if they are like scarlet,
I will whiten them like wool. 19 If you are willing and you listen to me, you will eat the
good things of the earth, 20 but if you are not willing and do not listen to me, a sword
will consume you." For the mouth of the Lord spoke these things.
21
How the faithful city of Zion, full of justice, became a prostitute! Righteousness
had slept with her, but now murderers. 22 Your silver is counterfeit; your salesmen mix
wine with water. 23 Your rulers are distrustful; they are partners of robbers, loving gifts,
pursuing repayment, not judging for orphans, and not paying attention to justice for
A VSA ¦ + there is no soundness in it;
B Heb tsebaoth, normally untranslated in the LXX, but rendered stratión, "armies," in Is.
3:15 v.l.; see also 2 Ezra 19:6

widows.
24 Because of this, thus says the Master, the Lord of sabaóth: "Woe to those who are
strong in Israel! For my fury with my opponents will not cease, and I will execute the
judgment of my enemies. 25 I will lay my hand on you and burn you clear through. I will
destroy those who are distrustful; I will remove from you all the lawless and humble all
the arrogant. A 26 I will establish your judges as before and your advisors as from the
beginning. After this you will be named the City of Righteousness, the Faithful
Metropolis of Zion."
27 For her captives will be saved with justice and with mercy. 28 The lawless and the
sinners will be smashed together, and those who abandon the Lord will be brought to
an end. 29 For they will be ashamed of their idols which they desired, and they will be
greatly ashamed of the groves which they coveted. 30 For they will be like a turpentine
tree which has dropped its leaves and like a garden which does not have water. 31 Their
strength will be like a thread of flax and their accomplishments like fiery sparks. The
lawless and the sinners will burn together, and there will be none to quench it.
Isaiah 2
1 B
The word which was directed at Isaiah son of Amos from the Lord concerning
Judea and concerning Jerusalem.
2
For in the last days the mountain of the Lord will be visible, and the house of God
will be on the tops of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and all the
nations will come to it. 3 Many nations will go and say, "Come, let us go up to the
mountain of the Lord and to the house of the God of Jacob. He will describe his way to
us, and we will walk in it." For the law will come out of Zion and the word of the Lord
out of Jerusalem. 4 He will judge between the nations and will reprove a large number of
the people. They will beat their swords into plows and their spears into sickles. A nation
will no longer take up a sword against a nation, and they will no longer learn to wage
war.
5 6
Come now, O house of Jacob; let us walk in the light of the Lord. For he neglected
his people, the house of Israel, because their country was filled with superstitions as it
was originally, like the country of the Philistines. Many Philistine children were
conceived by them. 7 For their country was filled with silver and gold, and no number
existed for their treasures. The land was filled with horses, and no number existed for
their chariots. 8 The land was filled with abominations, the works of their hands, and
they worshiped the things which their fingers made. 9 A person bowed down and a man
was brought low, yet I will not release them. 10 Now enter the cliffs and hide in the
ground due to the fear of the Lord and on account of the glory of his strength, when he
arises to shatter the earth. 11 For the eyes of the Lord are high, but man is low. The
height of men will be brought low, and the Lord alone will be exalted on that day. 12 For
the day of the Lord of sabaóth will be upon every violent and arrogant person, upon
every high and lofty person (and they will be brought low), 13 upon every cedar of
A and humble all the arrogant ScA ¦ and all the arrogant S* ¦ ~ V
B from the Lord SA ¦ ~ V

Lebanon, of those which are high and lofty, upon every oak tree of Bashan, 14 upon
every mountain, upon every high hill, 15 upon every high tower, upon every high wall,
16 upon every ship of the sea, upon every display of fine ships. 17 Every man will be
brought low, and the height of men will fall. The Lord alone will be exalted on that day.
18 They will hide all things made by hands 19 by carrying them into the caves, into the
fissures of the cliffs, and into the caverns of the earth due to the fear of the Lord and
on account of the glory of his strength, when he rises to shatter the earth. 20 For on that
day a man will throw out his silver and gold abominations, which they made to worship,
to worthless creatures and to bats, 21 so that they might go into the caverns of solid
rock and into the fissures of the cliffs due to the fear of the Lord and on account of the
glory of his strength, when he arises to shatter the earth. A
Isaiah 3
1 Now look, the Master, the Lord of sabaóth, will take away from Judea and from
Jerusalem the strong man and the strong woman, the strength of bread and the
strength of water, 2 the giant, the strong man, the military man, the judge, the prophet,
the prognosticator, the elder, 3 the captain of fifty, the wonderful counselor, the wise
architect, and the intelligent pupil. 4 I will set up young men as their leaders, and
mockers will have dominion over them. 5 The people will fall, man against man, a man
against his neighbor. The child will attack the old man, and the dishonorable the
honorable. 6 For a man will lay hold of his brother as one of the household of his father
and say, "You have clothing; be our leader, and let my food be under your control." 7 He
will answer on that day, "I will not be your leader, for there is neither bread nor
clothing in my house. I will not be the leader of this people." 8 For Jerusalem was
neglected and Judea has fallen. Their tongues are accompanied by lawlessness; they
distrust the things pertaining to the Lord. For now their glory has been humiliated, 9 and
the shame of their faces stands against them. They announced their sin like Sodom;
they made it clear. Woe to their souls, for they have offered an evil counsel against
themselves. 10 They said, "Let us bind the one who is righteous, for he is bothersome to
us." Accordingly, they will eat the fruits of their works. 11 Woe to the one who is lawless;
evil things will happen to him in agreement with the works of his hands. 12 O my people,
your collectors are picking you clean, and those who make demands are dominating
you. O my people, those who call you fortunate lead you astray and disturb the path of
your feet.
13 But now the Lord will make arrangements for judgment; he will cause his people
stand for judgment. 14 The Lord himself will enter into judgment with the elders of the
people and with its rulers: "Why did you set my vineyard on fire? Why is the plunder of
the one who is poor in your houses? 15 Why do you harm my people and shame the
faces of the poor?" B
16 Thus says the Lord: "Because the daughters of Zion were exalted and walked with
A VSA ¦ + 22 Keep yourselves away from man, in whose nostrils there is breath; for how
is that to be counted?
B VSA ¦ + says the Lord, the Lord of armies

a proud neck, with winks of the eyes and movement of the feet together, trailing the
skirts and dancing with the feet together, 17 God will humble the ruling daughters of
Zion, and the Lord will reveal their character on that day." 18 The Lord will take away the
glory of their clothing and their ornaments, A the hair braids and ribbons, the chokers
19 and neckwear, the adornment of their faces 20 and the glorious ornament collection,
the anklets and bracelets, the hair brooch and armlets, the finger rings and earrings,
21 the garments bordered and interlaced with purple, 22 the robes for inside the house
and the translucent Laconian garments, 23 the blue and scarlet linen garments, the linen
interwoven with gold and blue, the summer garments for lounging. 24 Instead of a
pleasant smell, there will be dust; instead of a belt, you will be girded with a rope;
instead of a gold ornament for the head, you will have baldness because of your
actions; instead of a skirt interlaced with purple, you will be girded with sackcloth.
25 Your most handsome son whom you love will fall by the sword, and your strong men
will fall by the sword. 26 The boxes of your ornaments will be humiliated and will mourn;
you will be left alone and will be dashed to the ground.
Isaiah 4
1 Seven women will seize one man and say, "We will eat our own bread and wear
our own clothes; just let your name be given to us. Take away our reproach."
2 On that day God will shine on the earth with counsel accompanied by glory, to exalt
and glorify the remnant of Israel. 3 The remainder in Zion and the remnant in Jerusalem
will be called holy, all who were written down for life in Jerusalem. 4 For the Lord will
wash away the filth of the sons and daughters of Zion, and will cleanse the blood from
their midst with the spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning. 5 He will come, and
every site on Mount Zion will be there. A cloud will overshadow all the areas
surrounding it during the day, and something like smoke and like the light of a burning
fire will overshadow them at night. It will be sheltered in all glory. 6 It will become a
shade from heat, a shelter and a hiding place from harshness and rain.
Isaiah 5
1 Now I will sing for the beloved a song about what is loved in my vineyard. The
beloved had a vineyard in a fertile place on a peak. 2 I placed a fence around it, staked
and planted a sorek B vine, built a tower in its midst, and excavated for a wine vat in it. I
waited for the production of grapes, but it produced thorns. 3 Now, O man of Judah and
those who reside in Jerusalem, judge between me and my vineyard. 4 What further will I
do to my vineyard that I did not do to it? For I waited for the production of grapes, but
it produced thorns. 5 Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away
its fence, and it will be for plunder; I will pull down its wall, and it will be for trampling.
6 I will neglect my vineyard; it will not be pruned or cultivated, and thorns will come up
in it as on barren land. I will command the clouds not to shower any rain on it. 7 For the
A and their ornaments SA ¦ ~ V
B sórék (also sóréch), Heb soréq, is a particular species of bright red grapes

vineyard of the Lord of sabaóth is the house of Israel, and the man of Judah his
beloved young plant. I waited for the production of justice, but it produced lawlessness;
no righteousness, but an outcry.
8 Woe to those who join house to house and bring field near to field, so that they
may take away something from their neighbor. You will not reside alone on the land,
will you? 9 For these things were heard in the ears of the Lord of sabaóth. For when
there are many houses, large and beautiful ones will be deserted, and there will be no
residents in them. 10 For where ten yoke of oxen work, it will produce one jar, and the
one who sows six artabas A will produce three measures.
11 Woe to those who rise early and pursue liquor, who remain for the evening, for
the wine will inflame them. 12 For they drink wine with harp, lyre, drums, and pipes, but
they do not look at the works of the Lord and do not consider the works of his hands.
13 Accordingly, my people became captive because they were not acquainted with the
Lord. There was a multitude of dead bodies because of hunger and thirst for water.
14 Hades widened its soul and opened its mouth without pausing. The glorious, the
great, the rich, and the scoundrels of her B will descend. 15 The man will be humiliated
and the husband will be dishonored; the lofty eyes will be humiliated. 16 The Lord of
sabaóth will be exalted in justice, and the holy God will be glorified in righteousness.
17 Those who were plundered will be fed like bulls, and lambs will feed on the deserted
places of those who have been taken away.
18 Woe to those who drag sins as with a long rope and lawless acts as with a thong
of a calf's yoke, 19 who say, "Let him quickly bring near the things which he will do so
that we may see, and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may
know."
20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, C who make darkness light and light
darkness, who make bitter sweet and sweet bitter.
21 Woe to those who are intelligent in themselves and understanding in their own
sight.
22 Woe to your strong ones who drink wine and the potentates who blend liquor,
23 who justify the ungodly because of gifts and take away what is righteous from the
righteous one. 24 Because of this, as a reed will be burned by a coal of fire and will be
burned up by an unrestrained flame, their root will be like chaff and their flower will
ascend like dust. For they did not want the law of the Lord of sabaóth, and instead
provoked the oracle of the Holy One of Israel. 25 The Lord of sabaóth was filled with
wrath against his people; he reached out his hand against them and attacked them.
The mountains were provoked, and their carcasses became like dung in the middle of
the road. In all these things, the anger was not turned away; instead, the hand is still
upraised.
26 Accordingly, he will lift up an insignia among the nations which are distant, and
A An artabé was a dry measure of nearly ten gallons
B There is no antecedent for the feminine pronoun in this context, but it almost certainly
refers to Judea (3:1) or another feminine term for God's people
C Or, "who call ugliness beauty and beauty ugliness"

will whistle to them from the end of the earth. Behold, they are quickly coming with
ease. 27 They will not be hungry, or grow weary, or slumber, or sleep, or loosen their
belts from their waists, nor will the straps of their sandals be broken. 28 Their arrows are
sharp and their bows are bent; the feet of their horses are reckoned as solid rock; the
wheels of their chariots are like a hurricane. 29 They rush forth like lions; they stood near
like a lion's cub. He will seize and cry out like a wild animal; he will drive them out, and
there will be no one who will deliver them. 30 He will cry out because of them on that
day like the sound of the undulating sea. They will look to the land, and behold, in their
perplexity there will be thick darkness.
Isaiah 6
1 It happened that, in the year in which Uzziah the king died, I saw the Lord sitting
on a high and exalted throne, and the house was full of his glory. 2 Seraphim A stood
around him. One had six wings, and the other had six wings; with two they covered the
face, with two they covered the feet, and with two they flew. 3 One shouted to the
other, and they said, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of sabaóth; all the earth is full of his
glory." 4 The lintel was lifted up due to the sound which they shouted, and the house
was filled with smoke. 5 I said, "Oh, I am wretched, for I am stunned. For I am a man
and have unclean lips, and I reside in the midst of a people who have unclean lips, yet I
saw with my eyes the King, the Lord of sabaóth."
6 One of the seraphim was sent forth to me, and he had in his hand a coal, which he
had taken from the altar with the tongs. 7 He touched my mouth and said, "Behold, this
touched your lips; it will take away your lawless acts and cleanse your sins." 8 I heard
the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom will I send forth, and who will go to this people?" I
said, "Behold, I am here; send me forth." 9 He said, "Go and say to this people, `You
will hear a report, yet will not understand, and will look and look, yet will not see.´
10 For the heart of this people became dull; they heard with their ears with difficulty and
closed their eyes, or else they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts, and return, and I would cure them." 11 I said, "How long,
O Lord?" He said, "Until cities are deserted due to not being inhabited, and houses due
to there being no men, and the land will be abandoned as a desert. 12 After this, God
will move the men to a distance, and those who were abandoned will multiply over the
earth. 13 A tenth will still be upon it, and it will again be for foraging, like a turpentine
tree and like an acorn when it falls out of its husk."
Isaiah 7
1 It happened in the days of Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah,
that Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel went up against
Jerusalem to wage war against it, yet they were not able to lay siege to it. 2 It was
reported to the house of David, "Aram has conspired with Ephraim." His soul was
A Heb seraphim, pl. of saraph, elsewhere rendered ophis, "serpent" (Num 21:6; Deut.
8:15; Is. 14:29) or aspis, "cobra" (Is. 30:6)

astonished, and also the soul of his people, as a tree in a forest is shaken by a breeze.
3 The Lord said to Isaiah, "Come out to meet Ahaz, you and the abandoned Jashub
your son, at the pool of the upper road of the fuller's field. 4 You will say to him, `Keep
quiet and do not be afraid; do not let your soul be weakened due to these two smoking
torch handles. For whenever my furious wrath occurs, I will heal again. 5 Since the son
of Aram and the son of Remaliah offered an evil counsel concerning you, saying, 6 "We
will go up to Judea, and by conferring with them we will turn them toward us and cause
the son of Tabeel to reign over it," 7 thus says the Lord of sabaóth: "This counsel will
not remain, neither will it come to pass. 8 On the contrary, the head of Aram is
Damascus; A on the contrary, within sixty-five more years the kingdom of Ephraim will
fail as a people. 9 The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son
of Remaliah." If you do not believe, neither will you understand.´"
10 The Lord again spoke to Ahaz, saying, 11 "Ask for a sign for yourself from the Lord
your God, in the depth or in the height." 12 Ahaz said, "I will not ask, neither will I test
the Lord." 13 He said, "Now listen, O house of David: it is no little thing for you to
propose a contest with men, is it? So how do you propose a contest with the Lord?
14 Because of this, the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will be
pregnant and will give birth to a son, and you will call B his name Immanuel. 15 He will
eat butter and honey. Before he knows or prefers evil things, he will choose what is
good. 16 For before the child knows what is good or wicked, he will refuse evil in order to
choose what is good, and the land which you are afraid of due to the two kings will be
abandoned. 17 Moreover, God will bring upon you, upon your people, and upon the
house of your father, days which have never been present since the day Ephraim
separated the king of the Assyrians from Judah. C
18 It will be on that day that the Lord will whistle for flies, which will reign over a part
of the river of Egypt, and for the bee, which is in the land of the Assyrians. 19 They will
all enter and rest in the valleys of the land, in the holes of the cliffs, in the caves, in
every ravine, and in every tree. 20 On that day the Lord will shave the head with a large
and lubricated razor, D which is beyond the river of the king of the Assyrians; he will
remove both the hairs of the feet and the beard. 21 It will be on that day that a man will
nurture a calf of the cattle and two sheep, 22 and it will be that, due to the abundance of
milk they produce, everyone who is abandoned on the land will eat butter and honey.
23 It will be on that day that every place, wherever there will be a thousand vines for a
thousand shekels, will be for wasteland and for the thorn plant. 24 They will enter there
with arrow and bow, for all the earth will be wasteland and thorn plants. 25 Every
ploughed mountain will be ploughed, and fear will not approach there. For it will be
away from the wasteland and thorn plants for the feeding of a sheep and the trampling
of an ox."
A VSA ¦ + and the head of Damascus is Rezin
B you (sing) will call VA ¦ she will call S ¦ you (pl) will call ¦ they will call
C A reference to the alliance between Israel and Assyria during Uzziah's reign (4 Kgdms.
15:19-20), which Ahaz convinced Assyria to terminate (4 Kgdms. 16:7-9)
D a large and lubricated razor SA ¦ a hired razor V ¦ a lubricated razor

Isaiah 8
1 The Lord said to me, "Take for yourself a sheet from a large new roll, and write on
it with a man's pen, `Of making a plunder of spoils quickly,´ for it is at hand. 2 Make
faithful men as witnesses for me: Uriah, and Zechariah son of Berakiah." 3 I
approached A the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. The Lord said
to me, "Call his name, `Take spoils speedily, plunder quickly.´ 4 For before the child
knows how to summon father or mother, he will receive the power of Damascus and
the spoils of Samaria before the king of the Assyrians."
5 The Lord spoke to me yet again: 6 "Because this people does not want the water of
Siloam which goes quietly, but wants to have Rezin and the son of Remaliah as king
over you, 7 because of this, behold, the Lord is bringing up against you the strong and
abundant water of the river, the king of the Assyrians and his glory. He will come up
over every valley of yours and will walk over every wall of yours. 8 He will take away
from Judea a man who can lift his head or is able to accomplish anything. His camp will
exist to fill the breadth of your land." God is with us; 9 know this, O nations, and be
overcome. Listen to the end of the earth; be overcome after you become strong. For if
you again become strong, you will again be overcome. 10 Whatever counsel you offer,
the Lord will disperse it, and whatever word you speak, it will not remain among you,
for the Lord God is with us.
11 Thus says the Lord: "With a strong hand they are distrustful on the journey of the
way of this people, saying, 12 `Perhaps they may say, "It is hard!" For everything that
this people says is hard.´ Do not be afraid of their fear, and do not be disturbed.
13 Sanctify the Lord himself, and he will be your fear. 14 If you are trusting in him, he will
be a sacred place for you, and you will not meet him like stumbling against a stone or
like falling on a rock. The house of Jacob is in a snare, and those who dwell in
Jerusalem are in a chasm. 15 Because of this, many among them will be powerless. They
will fall and be crushed; they will come near, and men who are in security will be
seized."
16 Then those who are sealed so as not to learn the law will be evident. 17 He will say,
"I will wait for God, who turned his face away from the house of Jacob, and I will be
trusting in him. 18 Behold, I and the children which God gave to me. They will exist as
signs and wonders in the house of Israel from the Lord of sabaóth, who resides in
Mount Zion." 19 If they say to you, "Seek those who sound forth from the earth and the
ventriloquists, those who speak vanities, who sound forth out of the belly," does a
nation not go toward its God? Why do they examine the dead concerning the living?
20 For he gave the law for help, so that they might not talk like this word, concerning
which there are no gifts to give concerning it. 21 Famine will come upon you harshly, and
it will be that, whenever you are hungry, you will grieve, and you will speak ill of the
ruler and the fathers' heritage. They will look up to heaven above, 22 and they will look
at the earth below. Behold: oppression and anguish and darkness, severe distress and
A I approached V (this form may also be rendered They approached) ¦ he approached
SA

darkness, so as not to see. 23 The one who is in anguish will not be distressed except for
a season.
Drink A this first; do it quickly, O country of Zebulun, O land of Naphtali, the Way of
the Sea and the rest who reside on the seacoast, B Transjordan, Galilee of the nations,
and the parts of Judea. C
Isaiah 9 D
1 You people who walk in darkness, look at the great light! On you who reside in the
land and shadow of death, light will shine. 2 The majority of the people, whom you
restored in your joy, will rejoice before you like those who rejoice at a harvest, in the
manner of those who divide spoils. 3 For the yoke which was laid on them and the rod
which was on their neck have been taken away. For the Lord scattered the rod of those
who extorted payment, as on the day of Midian. E 4 For they will pay for every robe
acquired by deceit and every garment acquired for profit, and they will be willing even if
they were damaged by fire. 5 For a child was conceived for us; a son was given to us,
whose rule was on his shoulder. His name will be called the messenger of great
counsel. F For I will bring peace upon the rulers and health G to him. 6 His rule is great,
and there is no limit to his peace over the throne of David and his kingdom, in order to
set it up and protect it in righteousness and in justice from now on and forever. The
zeal of the Lord of sabaóth will do these things.
7 The Lord sent forth death over Jacob, and it came over Israel. 8 All the people of
Ephraim and those who sit in Samaria will know it, who say with insolence and a lofty
heart, 9 "The bricks have fallen, but come, let us quarry stones, cut down sycamores
and cedars, and build a tower for ourselves." 10 God will overthrow those who rise up on
Mount Zion against them and will scatter their enemies: H 11 Syria at the rising of the sun
and the Greeks at the setting of the sun, who devour Israel with their entire mouths.
Because of all these things, the anger did not turn away, but the hand is still upraised.
12 The people did not return until they were struck, and they did not seek the Lord.
13 The Lord separated from Israel the head and the tail, the great and the small, in one
day. 14 (The old man and those who marvel at faces is the top, and the prophet who
teaches lawless things is the tail.) 15 Those who consider this people fortunate will
mislead them; they mislead so that they may swallow them. 16 Because of this, God will
A Drink VSA ¦ Do
B the Way of the Sea and the rest who reside on the seacoast ScA ¦ the rest on the
seacoast VS*
C and the parts of Judea SA ¦ and the parts of Galilee ¦ ~ V
D 8:23 = 9:1 EV; 9:1-20 = 9:2-21 EV
E See Num. 31, which avenged the Midianite prostitution in Num. 25
F VS* ¦ + He is the wonderful counselor, [+ God Sc] the strong authority, the ruler of
peace, the father of the future age. ScA
G health VS* ¦ peace and health ScA
H against them ... their enemies S*A ¦ against him ... their enemies Sc ¦ against him ...
the enemies V ¦ against him ... his enemies ¦ against him ... the enemies of Judah

not be cheerful over their young men, and will not have mercy on their orphans and
their widows. For all of them are lawless and evil, and every mouth speaks unjust
things. Because of all these things, the anger did not turn away, but the hand is still
upraised.
17 Lawlessness will burn like fire, and will be consumed by fire like dry grass. It will
burn in the thickets of the forest, and will devour everything which is around the hills.
18 Because of the furious wrath of the Lord, the entire earth is ablaze; the people will be
like those who are burned by fire. A man will not have mercy on his brother. 19 Instead,
he will turn to the right, for he will be hungry, and will eat from the left, yet a man will
not be filled even by eating the flesh of his arm. 20 Indeed, Manasseh will eat Ephraim,
and Ephraim will eat Manasseh, for they will besiege Judah together. Because of all
these things, the anger did not turn away, but the hand is still upraised.
Isaiah 10
1 Woe to those who write evil! For when they write, they write evil, 2 perverting the
justice of the poor, snatching the verdict from the needy of my people, so that a widow
may exist as prey for them and an orphan as plunder. 3 What will they do on the day of
inspection? For oppression will reach you from afar. To whom will you flee for help, and
where will you leave your glory, 4 so that you may not fall to an invasion? Because of all
these things, the anger did not turn away, but the hand is still upraised.
5 Woe to the Assyrians! The rod of my anger and wrath is in their hands. 6 I will send
forth my wrath against a lawless nation; I will organize my people to take spoils and
plunder, to trample the cities, and to turn them into dust. 7 He himself did not intend
this, and this was not planned in his soul, but his mind will change, even so as to
destroy not a few nations. 8 If they say to him, "You alone are the ruler," 9 then he will
say, "Didn't I take the country above Babylon and Calneh, where the tower was built? I
also took Arabia, Damascus, and Samaria. 10 As I took them in my hand, I will also take
all the realms. Howl, you carvings in Jerusalem and in Samaria! 11 For as I did to
Samaria and her handiworks, so I will also do to Jerusalem and her idols."
12 It will be that, whenever the Lord finishes doing everything on Mount Zion and in
Jerusalem, he will advance against the great mind, the ruler of the Assyrians, and
against the glorious height of his eyes. 13 For he said, "I will act in strength and in the
wisdom of understanding. I will remove the borders of nations, plunder their strength,
and shake inhabited cities. 14 I will take the entire inhabited world in my hand like a
nest, and I will pick them up like abandoned eggs. There is no one who will escape me
or contradict me."
15 Will the ax be glorified without the one who cuts down with it? Or will the saw be
exalted without the one who makes an incision with it, and likewise when someone
picks up a rod or a timber? 16 Not so; instead, the Lord of sabaóth will send forth
dishonor into your honor, and burning fire will be kindled in your glory. 17 The light of
Israel will become a fire; it will sanctify him with burning fire and devour the forest like
grass. 18 On that day the mountains, the hills, and the woods will be consumed; they will
be devoured from soul to flesh. The one who flees will be like one who flees from
burning flame. 19 Those who are left of them will be a fraction, and an infant will write

about them.
20 It will be on that day that what is left of Israel, and those of Jacob who were
saved, will no longer continue to trust in those who harmed them. Instead, they will
place their trust on God, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. 21 What is left of Jacob will be
upon the God who is strong. 22 If the people of Israel are like the sand of the sea, the
remnant of them will be saved, for he will finish the word and make it brief in
righteousness. 23 For God will create a brief word in the entire inhabited world.
24 Because of this, thus says the Lord of sabaóth: "Do not be afraid, O my people
who are inhabitants in Zion, of the Assyrians, that he will attack you with a rod. For I
am bringing a plague upon you in order to see the way of Egypt. 25 For in just a little
while, the wrath will cease; my anger will be against their council." 26 God will wake up
against them according to the plague of Midian, in the place of oppression. His anger
will be on the way to the sea, as far as the way to Egypt. 27 It will be on that day that
the fear of him will be removed from you, and his yoke from your shoulder; the yoke
will be eliminated from your shoulders.
28 For he will arrive at the city of Ai, will pass on to Migron, A and will place his
equipment in Michmash. 29 He will pass through the valley and arrive at Ai; fear will
seize Ramah, the city of Saul. 30 The daughter of Gallim will flee. Laishah will listen; she
will listen in Anathoth. 31 Madmenah was astonished, as well as those who inhabit
Gebim. 32 Encourage them to remain in the way today. With your hand, encourage the
mountain, the daughter of Zion, and the hills which are in Jerusalem.
33 For behold, the Master, the Lord of sabaóth, will disturb the glorious ones with
strength. Those who are exalted with pride will be crushed, and the exalted will be
humiliated. 34 The exalted will fall by the sword, and Lebanon will fall with the exalted.
Isaiah 11
1 A rod will come out of the root of Jesse, and a bloom will spring up from the root.
2 The spirit of God will rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of
counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and godliness; 3 the spirit of the fear of
God will fill him. He will not judge on the basis of opinion or reprove on the basis of
hearsay, 4 but he will judge the case of a humble man and will reprove the humble of
the earth. He will attack the earth with the word of his mouth and slay the godless man
with breath through his lips. 5 He will gird his waist with righteousness and cover his
sides with truth.
6 A wolf will feed together with a lamb, a leopard will rest together with a kid, a calf
and a bull and a lion will feed together, and a little child will lead them. 7 An ox and a
bear will feed together, and their children will be together. A lion and an ox will eat
chaff together. B 8 An infant child will put his hand over the hole of snakes and over the
A The towns in this section are all north of Jerusalem, extending to Ai about 12 miles
away; maged(d)ó can refer to Megiddo in northern Israel as well as Migron (near
Gibeah according to 1 Kgdms. 14:2)
B A lion and an ox will eat chaff together A ¦ A lion and an ox will eat chaff S ¦ A lion will
eat chaff like an ox V

nest of newborn snakes. 9 They will not do anything wicked, nor will they be able to
destroy anything on my holy mountain. For the universe has been filled with knowing
the Lord like much water covering the seas.
10
It will be on that day that the root of Jesse will rise to rule the nations. The nations
will hope in him; his rest will be an honor.
11
It will be on that day that the Lord will continue to show his hand to be zealous for
the abandoned remnant of the people, which was abandoned by the Assyrians, Egypt,
Babylonia, Ethiopia, the Elamites, the east, and Arabia. 12 He will lift up a sign for the
nations. He will gather the lost of Israel and will gather the dispersed of Judah from the
four corners of the earth. 13 The jealousy of Ephraim will be taken away, and the
enemies in Judah will perish. Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah, and Judah will not
oppress Ephraim. 14 They will fly across the sea in the ships of the Philistines. Together
they will plunder both those from the east and Idumea. They will lay their hands on
Moab first, and the sons of Ammon will be the first to respond. 15 The Lord will turn the
sea of Egypt into a desert. He will lay his hand on the river with a violent wind, and will
attack seven gullies so that one may pass through it in sandals. 16 There will be a
passage for my abandoned people in Egypt, and it will be for Israel like the day when
they came out of the land of Egypt.
Isaiah 12
1 You will say on that day, "I will bless you, O Lord, for you were wrathful with me,
yet you turned away your anger and had mercy on me. 2 Behold, my God is my savior. A
I will trust in him and be saved by him; B I will not be afraid. For the Lord is my glory
and my praise, and he became salvation for me." 3 Water will be drawn with joy from
the wells of salvation. 4 You will say on that day, "Sing hymns to the Lord; shout his
name. Report his honorable acts among the nations; remember that his name was
exalted." 5 Sing hymns to the name of the Lord, for he performed exalted things. Report
these things in all the earth. 6 Be glad and cheerful, you who reside on Zion, for the Holy
One of Israel was exalted in its midst.
Isaiah 13
1 A vision which Isaiah son of Amos saw against Babylon.
2 Lift up a sign on the mountain of the plain. Exalt your voice for them; do not be
afraid. Exhort with the hand: "Open up, you rulers!" 3 I myself am giving orders, and I
myself am bringing them; they have been sanctified, and I myself am bringing them.
Giants are coming to fulfill my anger, rejoicing and insulting at the same time. 4 There is
a sound of many nations on the mountains, similar to that of many nations; there is a
sound of kings and nations gathered together. The Lord of sabaóth has commanded a
warrior nation 5 to come from a land at a distance, from the ultimate foundation of
heaven, the Lord and his warriors to ruin the entire inhabited world. 6 Howl, for the day
A my savior VA ¦ the Lord my savior S
B and be saved by him VcS ¦ ~ V*A

of the Lord is near, and a shattering will arrive from God. 7 Because of this, every hand
will fail, and every soul of man will be intimidated. 8 The elderly will be disturbed; they
will have pains like a woman giving birth. They will moan one to another and be
stunned, and they will alter their faces like a flame. 9 For behold, a day of the Lord is
coming, an incorrigible one of anger and wrath, to make the entire inhabited world a
desert and to destroy the sinners out of it. 10 For the stars of heaven, Orion, and all the
adornment of heaven will not give light. It will be dark as the sun rises, and the moon
will not give its light. 11 I will command wicked things for the entire inhabited world and
their sins for the ungodly. I will destroy the insolence of the lawless and will humiliate
the insolence of the arrogant. 12 Those who have been abandoned will be more precious
than unsmelted gold, and a man will be more precious than stone which is from
Suphir. A 13 For heaven will be angered and earth will be shaken from its foundation
because of the anger of the wrath of the Lord of sabaóth, on the day on which his
anger will transpire. 14 Those who have been abandoned will be like a fleeing fawn and
like a wandering sheep. There will be no one to gather them together, so that a man
will return to his people and a man will pursue to his own country. 15 For whoever will be
captured will be overcome, and those who are gathered together will fall by the sword.
16 They will dash their children before their eyes; they will plunder their houses and
possess their wives. 17 Behold, I will rouse up against you the Medes, who did not
reckon silver or need gold. 18 They will break the bows of the young men. They will not
have mercy on your children, nor will their eyes have concern for your children.
19 Babylon, which is called glorious by the king of the Chaldeans, will be as when God
overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 20 It will not be inhabited for time immemorial, nor will
they enter it for many generations, nor will the Arabians pass through it, nor will
shepherds rest in it. 21 Beasts will rest there, and houses will be filled with noise. Sirens B
will rest there, and demons will dance there. 22 Centaurs will reside there, and
hedgehogs will make nests in their houses. It will come soon and will not delay. C
Isaiah 14
1 The Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will still choose Israel; they will rest on
their land. The traveler will be added to them; he will be added to the house of Jacob.
2 Nations will receive them and bring them into their place. They will inherit, and they
will be multiplied over the land of God as male and female slaves. Those who captured
them will be captives, and those who dominated them will be dominated.
3 It will be on that day that God will give you rest from your pain and anger, and
from your hard slavery in which you were enslaved to them. 4 You will take up this
lamentation over the king of Babylon, and you will say on that day, "How has the one
who makes demands ceased, and the dispatcher ceased! 5 God broke the yoke of the
A
Suphir (Ophir in the MT) was an ancient source of gold and precious stone (see 3
Kgdms. 10:11)
B
Sirens and centaurs were characters in Greek mythology, the first resembling
seductive women, the second lecherous men
C VSA ¦ + Its days will not be tardy

sinners, the yoke of the rulers. 6 After he attacked the nation in anger with an incurable
plague, after he struck a nation with an angry plague which did not spare them, 7 he
rested in confidence. All the earth cries out with cheerfulness. 8 The trees of Lebanon
were cheerful over you, including the cedar of Lebanon: `Since you have fallen asleep,
no one came up who would cut us down.´ 9 From below, Hades was provoked to meet
you. All the giants who ruled the earth, who aroused all the kings of the nations from
their thrones, were aroused together against you. 10 Everyone will reply and say to you,
`You too were seized, just as we were, and you were counted among us. 11 Your glory
descended to Hades, your great cheerfulness; underneath you they will spread
putrefaction, and a worm will be your covering.´ 12 How did the morning star A which
rose at dawn fall out of heaven! The one who sends forth to all the nations was crushed
into the earth. 13 You said in your mind, `I will ascend into heaven; I will place my
throne above the stars of heaven. I will sit on a high mountain, on the high mountains
which are toward the north. 14 I will ascend above the clouds; I will be similar to the
Most High.´ 15 But now you will descend to Hades, even to the foundations of the earth.
16 Those who see you will be amazed at you, and they will say, `This is the man who
irritated the earth, who made kings shake, 17 who made the entire inhabited world a
desert and devastated its cities; he did not set free those who were in misery.´ 18 All the
kings of the nations fell asleep in honor, each man in his house, 19 but you will be
thrown away on the mountains like a loathsome dead body along with many who have
died, who have been pierced with swords, who are descending into Hades. As a
garment stained with blood will not be clean, 20 so neither will you be clean, for you
destroyed my land and killed my people. You, the evil seed, will not remain forever.
21 Prepare your children to be slaughtered by the sins of your father, so that they may
not arise and inherit the earth, and fill the earth with wars." B
22 "I will rise up against them," says the Lord of sabaóth, "and I will destroy their
name, remnant, and seed." Thus says the Lord: 23 "I will make Babylonia a desert, so
that hedgehogs may reside there, and it will be as nothing. I will make it a pit of mud
for destruction." 24 Thus says the Lord of sabaóth: "As I have said, so it will be, and as I
have proposed, so it will remain: 25 to destroy the Assyrians from my land and from my
mountains. They will exist for trampling; their yoke will be taken away from them, and
their renown will be taken away from their shoulders." 26 This is the counsel which the
Lord has offered against the entire inhabited world, and this is the upraised hand which
is against all the nations of the inhabited world. 27 For who will frustrate the things
which God, the Holy One, has proposed? Who will turn away the upraised hand?
28 In the year in which Ahaz the king died, this word came: 29 "Do not rejoice, all you
Philistines, because the yoke of the one who struck you was broken. For out of the seed
of serpents will come the offspring of asps, and their offspring will come out as flying
serpents. 30 The poor will be fed by it, and poor men will rest in peace, but it will
A eósphoros, "dawn bringer," was an epithet of the planet Venus; the traditional
association of its Latin translation lucifer with Satan is unwarranted, since in context it
clearly refers to Babylon (v. 4)
B wars VSA ¦ cities

annihilate your seed with a famine, and will annihilate your remnant. 31 Howl, you gates
of the cities! Let the cities be disturbed and shout, all the Philistines, for smoke is
coming from the north, and existence is no more. 32 How will the kings of the nations
reply? That the Lord founded Zion, and by him the humble of the people will be saved."
Isaiah 15
1 The word which is against the Moabite land.
At night the Moabite land will be destroyed, for at night the wall of the Moabite land
will be destroyed. 2 Grieve for yourselves, for even Dibon, where your altar is, will be
destroyed. You will go up there to weep; howl over Nebo of the Moabite land! Baldness
will be on every head; all arms will be lacerated. 3 Gird yourselves with sackcloth in her
streets and mourn. Howl, all of you, with weeping on her roofs and in her alleys. 4 For
Heshbon and Elealeh shouted; A their voice was heard as far as Jahaz. Because of this,
the loins of the Moabite land are crying out; her soul will have knowledge. 5 The heart of
the Moabite land cries out within her as far as Segor, for it is a three year old heifer. On
the ascent of Luhith they will go up to you weeping; by the way of Horonaim she cries
out, "Destruction and earthquake!" 6 The water of Nimrim will be a desert, and its grass
will fail, for there will be no green grass. 7 Even so, will she be saved? For I will bring
Arabians over the valley, and they will take it. 8 For the cry reached the border of the
Moabite land of Eglaim, and her howling as far as the well of Elim. 9 The water of Dimon
will be filled with blood, for I will bring Arabians over Dimon, and I will take away the
seed of Moab, Ariel, and the remnant of Adamah.
Isaiah 16
1 I will send forth something like creeping things over the land. The mountain of the
daughter of Zion B isn't a deserted cliff, is it? 2 For you will be like a nestling taken away
from a bird which is flying off, O daughter of Moab. Then, O Arnon, 3 offer further
counsel; make for her a shelter of grieving continually. They are fleeing in darkness at
noon. They were astonished: "Do not be captured!" C 4 The fugitives of Moab will sojourn
with you. They will be a shelter for you from the face of the one who is pursuing, for
your alliance was taken away, and the ruler who trampled on the land perished. 5 A
throne will be restored with mercy; one will sit on it with truth in the tent of David, who
will judge, seek judgment, and hasten righteousness.
6 We heard of the insolence of Moab; he is exceedingly insolent. You exalted
arrogance; not so your divination, not so! 7 Moab will howl, for everyone will howl in the
Moabite land; you will care for those who reside in Hareseth, and you will feel no
shame. 8 The plains of Heshbon, the vine of Sibmah, will grieve. As you swallow the
A
Heshbon and Elealeh shouted V* ¦ Heshbon shouted and spoke VcScA ¦ Heshbon
shouted and Elealeh spoke S*
B
The mountain of the daughter of Zion VS ¦ Mount Zion A
C
They were astonished: "Do not be captured!" V* ¦ They were astonished, yet not from
the beginning. VcSA

nations, trample her vines as far as Jazer. Do not join together; wander in the desert!
Those who were sent forth were abandoned, for they crossed the desert. A 9 Because of
this, I will weep as with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. He cut down your
trees, O Heshbon and Elealeh, B for I will trample on your reaping and on your vintage,
and everything will fall. 10 Cheerfulness and gladness will be taken away from your
vineyards; they will not be cheerful in your vineyards, and they will not trample wine
into the vats, for it has ceased. 11 Because of this, my belly will resound like a lyre over
Moab; my inner parts will be like a wall which you renewed. 12 It will be to your shame,
for Moab labored over the altars; she will go in to her manufactured things in order to
pray, yet they will not be able to rescue him.
13 This was the word which the Lord spoke against Moab when he spoke. 14 "Now I
say, `In three years of the years of an employee, the glory of Moab will be dishonored
with all the great wealth; he will be left very few in number and not honored.´"
Isaiah 17
1 The word which is against Damascus.
"Behold, Damascus will be taken away from among cities and will result in a fall;
2 she will be abandoned forever, resulting in a bed and resting place for flocks, and
there will be no one who will pursue her. 3 She will no longer be a secure place for
Ephraim to flee to. There will no longer be a kingdom in Damascus, and the remnant of
the Syrians will perish, for you are no better than the sons of Israel and their glory."
Thus says the Lord of sabaóth.
4 There will be on that day a failure of the glory of Jacob, and the riches of his glory
will be shaken. 5 It will be as if someone gathered a reaping which was still standing and
reaped the seed of the crops with his arm. C It will be as if someone gathered a crop in
a hard valley, 6 and there was left in it a stalk or something like berries of an olive tree,
two or three at the highest elevation, or there were four or five left on their branches."
Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel. 7 On that day a man will be trusting in the one
who made him, and his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel. 8 They will not be
trusting in their altars or in the works of their hands, which their fingers made; they will
not look at their trees or their abominations. 9 On that day your cities will be abandoned
in the manner that the Amorites and the Hivites abandoned them due to the presence
of the sons of Israel. They will be deserted, 10 because you abandoned God your savior
and did not remember the Lord your helper. Because of this, you will plant an unfaithful
plant and an unfaithful seed. 11 On the day on which you plant, you will be deceived. If
you sow in the morning, it will spring up for reaping on whatever day you obtain an
inheritance, and like the father of a man, you will obtain an inheritance for your sons.
12 Woe to the multitude of many nations! Like a surging sea, so you will be
disturbed; the back of many nations will resound like water. 13 Many nations are like
much water, like much water rushing down violently. He will curse him and pursue him
A desert S*A ¦ sea VSc
B Elealeh V* ¦ he spoke (elalésen; see 15:4) VcSA
C with his arm S*A ¦ ~ VSc

far away, like the dust of chaff when they winnow before the wind and like a tornado
carrying debris in a circle. 14 Toward evening, there will be grief; before morning, it will
be no more. This is the portion of those who plundered you and the inheritance for
those who inherited you.
Isaiah 18
1 Woe to you, O wings of a land of ships beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, 2 the one who
sends forth pledges by sea and paper letters over the water! For swift messengers will
go to an elevated nation and a strange and cruel people. Who is beyond it? A hopeless
and downtrodden nation. 3 Now all the rivers of the land will be like an inhabited
country. Their country will be inhabited as if a signal were raised from a mountain; it
will be audible like the sound of a trumpet. 4 For the Lord said this to me: "There will be
security in my city like the light of midday heat, and it will be like a cloud of dew on a
day of reaping." 5 Before the harvest, whenever the blossom is completed and the
unripe grape blossoms as a unripe blossom, he will take away the little clusters with
sickles; he will take away the small branches and cut them off. 6 He will leave them
together for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth; the birds of heaven will
gather over them, and all the beasts of the earth will arrive over him. 7 In that season,
gifts will be brought to the Lord of sabaóth from an afflicted and plucked people, and
from a people who are great from now on and forever, a hopeful yet downtrodden
nation, which is in a part of a river of its land, as far as the place where the name of
the Lord of sabaóth is invoked, A Mount Zion.
Isaiah 19
1 The vision of Egypt.
Behold, the Lord is sitting on a swift cloud and will arrive in Egypt. The
manufactured things of Egypt will be shaken due to his presence, and their hearts will
be defeated within them. 2 Egyptians will be aroused against Egyptians; a man will make
war against his brother, a man against his neighbor, city against city, and law against
law. 3 The spirit of the Egyptians will be disturbed within them. "I will scatter their
counsel. They will inquire of their gods, their statues, those who sound forth from the
earth, and the ventriloquists. 4 I will deliver Egypt up into the hands of men, harsh lords;
harsh kings will dominate them." Thus says the Lord of sabaóth.
5 The Egyptians will drink water which is beside the sea, but the river will fail and dry
up. 6 The rivers and the canals of the river will fail; every collection of water will dry up,
even in every marsh of reed and papyrus. 7 All the green grass around the river and
everything which is sown by the river will dry up, blasted by wind. 8 The fishermen will
groan, and all who cast a hook into the river will groan; those who cast nets and the
anglers will mourn. 9 Shame will take those who work in fine linen and those who work
in silk. 10 Those who work in them B will be in pain, and everyone who makes beer will be
A is invoked S ¦ is VA
B work in them VS ¦ examine them A ¦ weave them

grieving and afflicting their souls. 11 The rulers of Tanis will be fools; the counsel of the
wise counselors of the king will become foolish. How will you say to the king, "We are
sons of the intelligent, sons of the kings from of old"? 12 Where now are your wise men?
Let them declare to you and say, "What has the Lord of sabaóth counseled regarding
Egypt?" 13 The rulers of Tanis failed, and the rulers of Memphis were exalted; they will
cause Egypt to wander according to its tribes. 14 For the Lord mixed for them a spirit of
wandering, and they caused Egypt to wander with all their works, as one wanders who
is drunk and vomiting at the same time. 15 There will not be a work for the Egyptians
which will make head and tail, beginning and end.
16 On that day the Egyptians will be like women, in fear and in trembling due to the
presence of the hand of the Lord of sabaóth, which he himself will bring over them.
17 The country of the Judeans will exist as a cause of fear to the Egyptians; they will be
afraid of everyone who mentions it to them, because of the counsel which the Lord has
offered concerning it.
18 On that day there will be five cities in Egypt speaking the Canaanite language and
swearing by the name of the Lord. One city will be called the city of Hazedek. A
19 On that day there will be an altar for the Lord in the country of the Egyptians and
a pillar for the Lord at its border. 20 It will exist as a sign for the Lord forever in the
country of Egypt, for they will cry out to the Lord because of those who are oppressing
them. The Lord will send forth to them a man who will save them; he will judge and
save them. 21 The Lord will be known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians will know the
Lord on that day; they will perform sacrifices, make vows to the Lord, and repay them.
22 The Lord will attack the Egyptians with a great blow and cure them with a cure. They
will return to the Lord, and he will listen to them and cure them.
23 On that day there will be a way from Egypt to the Assyrians, and the Assyrians will
enter Egypt. The Egyptians will go to the Assyrians, and the Egyptians will serve the
Assyrians.
24 On that day Israel will be third among the Assyrians and among the Egyptians,
blessed in the land 25 which the Lord of sabaóth blessed, saying, "Blessed be my people
who are in Egypt and who are among the Assyrians, my inheritance, Israel."
Isaiah 20
1 In the year when Tartan B entered Ashdod, after he was sent forth by Arna C king of
the Assyrians, made war against Ashdod, and captured it, 2 then the Lord spoke to
Isaiah, saying, "Go and take off the sackcloth from your loins, and loosen your sandals
from your feet. Do this, going naked and barefoot." 3 The Lord said, "In the manner that
Isaiah my servant has gone naked and barefoot for three years, there will be signs and
wonders for the Egyptians and Ethiopians. 4 For in this way the king of the Assyrians will
lead the captivity of Egypt and the Ethiopians, young men and old, naked and barefoot,
A Hazedek VScA (Heb ha tsedeq, "the righteousness") ¦ Hesed of the Sun S* (Heb
chesed, "mercy") ¦ the Sun (MT reads ha herem, "the overthrow")
B Heb, "field marshal" (from Assyrian)
C Arna VSA ¦ Sarna (MT reads Sargon)

exposing the shame of Egypt. 5 After the Egyptians are defeated, they will be ashamed
on account of the Ethiopians, on whom the Egyptians had trusted, for they were their
glory. 6 Those who reside in this island will say, `Behold, we who could not be saved
from the king of the Assyrians had trusted to flee to them for help. How will we be
saved?´"
Isaiah 21
1 The vision of the desert.
As a hurricane might pass through a desert, coming from a desert, from land, 2 so a
fearful and harsh vision was declared to me. The one who is treacherous acts
treacherously; the one who is lawless acts lawlessly. The Elamites are upon me, and
the ambassadors of the Persians are coming against me. Now I will groan and comfort
myself. 3 Because of this, my loins were filled with feebleness, and labor pains took me
like a woman giving birth. I acted unjustly so as not to hear; I hurried so as not to see.
4 My heart is wandering, and lawlessness immerses A me; my soul stood still in fear.
5 Prepare the table; eat, drink. Arise, you rulers; prepare shields. 6 For the Lord said this
to me: "Proceed; station a watchman for yourself and declare whatever you see." 7 I
saw riders, two horsemen, a rider of a donkey and a rider of a camel. Hear with much
hearing, 8 and call Uriah to the watchtower of the Lord. He said, "I stood through all the
day, and I stood over the camp the entire night." 9 Behold, he himself is coming, a rider
of a pair of horses. He answered and said, "Babylon has fallen; all her statues and her
manufactured things were crushed to the ground." 10 Hear, you who have been
abandoned and you who are in pain; hear the things I heard from the Lord of sabaóth.
The God of Israel made a declaration to us.
11 The vision of Idumea.
He calls to me from Seir, "Guard the battlements!" 12 I am guarding in the morning
and the night; if you are seeking, seek and reside beside me.
13 You will lie down in the grove at evening, in the way of Dedan. 14 You who reside in
the country of Teman, bring water to meet one who is thirsty. Meet with bread those
who are fleeing 15 because of the multitude of those who are fleeing, B because of the
multitude of those who are wandering, because of the multitude of the sword, because
of the multitude of stretched arrows, and because of the multitude of those who have
fallen in war. 16 For the Lord said this to me: "In one more year, like the year of an
employee, the glory of the sons of Kedar will fail, 17 and the remnant of the strong
arrows of the sons of Kedar will be few, for the Lord God of Israel spoke."
Isaiah 22
1 The word of the valley of Zion.
What happened to you now that you all ascended to worthless housetops? 2 The city
was filled with people shouting. Your wounded are not wounded from the sword, and
A baptizein, elsewhere "to baptize"
B those who are fleeing SA ¦ those who have been murdered V

your dead are not dead from battle. 3 All your rulers have fled, those who were seized
have been harshly bound, and those who were strong in you have fled far away.
4 Because of this, I said, "Leave me; I will weep bitterly. Do not encourage anyone to
comfort me over the ruin of the daughter of my race." 5 For it is a day of disturbance,
destruction, and trampling, a wandering from the Lord of sabaóth in the valley of Zion.
They wander from the least to the greatest; they wander on the mountains. 6 The
Elamites took quivers; there were men mounted on horses and a congregation of the
battle line. 7 It will be that your choice valleys will be filled with chariots, and horsemen
will block your gates. 8 They will uncover the gates of Judah, and on that day they will
look in the choice houses of the city. 9 They will uncover the secret places of the houses
of the citadel of David. They saw that they were many, that they turned the water of
the ancient pool into the city, 10 and that they pulled down the houses of Jerusalem in
order to fortify the wall for the city. 11 You produced water for yourselves between the
two walls, further inside than the ancient pool, yet you did not look to the one who
made it from the beginning, and you did not see the one who created it.
12 On that day the Lord of sabaóth summoned weeping, mourning, shaving, and
girding with sackcloth, 13 but they produced cheerfulness and gladness, slaughtering
calves and sacrificing sheep so as to eat meat and drink wine, saying, "Let us eat and
drink, for tomorrow we die." 14 These things have been revealed in the ears of the Lord
of sabaóth, for this sin will not be forgiven you until you die.
15 Thus says the Lord of sabaóth: "Go into the priestly chamber, to Shebna the
treasurer, and say to him, 16 `Why are you here? What is here for you that you cut for
yourself a tomb here, made for yourself a tomb on high, and wrote for yourself a
dwelling in the cliff? 17 Now behold, the Lord of sabaóth will drive out and wipe out such
a man. He will take away your robe 18 and your glorious crown, and will throw you into a
great and unmeasured land; there you will die. He will set your beautiful chariot in
dishonor and the house of your ruler in trampling. 19 You will be removed from your
management and from your station. 20 It will be on that day that I will summon my
servant Eliakim son of Hilkiah. 21 I will put on him your robe, I will give him your crown,
and I will give your might and management into his hands. He will be like a father to
those who reside in Jerusalem and those who reside in Judah. 22 I will give him the glory
of David; he will rule, and there will be no one who will contradict. I will give him the
key of the house of David upon his shoulder. He will open, and there will be no one
who will shut; he will shut, and there will be no one who will open. A 23 I will install him
as a ruler in a faithful place, and he will be on the throne of glory of the house of his
father. 24 Everyone who is glorious in the house of his father will trust in him, from the
least to the greatest; they will depend on him. 25 On that day (thus says the Lord of
sabaóth) the man who is fixed in a faithful place will be moved and will fall. The glory
A I will give him the key of the house of David upon his shoulder. He will open, and
there will be no one who will shut; he will shut, and there will be no one who will open.
SA ¦ He will open, and there will be no one who will shut; he will shut, and there will be
no one who will open. ¦ He will shut, and there will be no one who will open. V ¦ ~

which is on him will be taken away, A for the Lord has spoken.´"
Isaiah 23
1 The vision of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Carthage, for she perished, and they are no
longer coming from the land of the Cypriots; she has been led captive. 2 To whom have
they become similar, those who reside on the island, the dealers of Phoenicia who cross
the sea 3 in much water, the seed of dealers? The dealers of the nations are as when a
harvest is brought in. 4 "Be ashamed, O Sidon," said the sea. The strength of the sea
said, "I did not labor, give birth, rear young men, or raise up virgins." 5 Whenever it
becomes audible to Egypt, distress will seize them concerning Tyre. 6 Depart to
Carthage; howl, those of you who reside in this island. 7 Was this not your insolence
from the beginning, before she was delivered up? 8 Who planned these things against
Tyre? Is she inferior, or is she not strong? Her merchants are the glorious rulers of the
land. 9 The Lord of sabaóth planned to get rid of all the insolence of the glorious ones
and to dishonor every glorious thing on the land. 10 Till your land, for ships no longer
come out of Carthage. 11 Your hand which irritated kings is no longer strong throughout
the sea; the Lord of sabaóth commanded concerning Canaan to destroy her strength.
12 They will say, "You will no longer continue to insult and injure the daughter of Sidon. B
If you depart to the Cypriots, you will have no rest there either, 13 and to the land of the
Chaldeans, this also has been deserted due to the Assyrians, for her wall has fallen."
14 Howl, you ships of Carthage, for your stronghold perished. 15 It will be on that day that
Tyre will be abandoned for seventy years, like the time of a king, like the time of a
man. It will be after seventy years that Tyre will be like the song of a prostitute. 16 Take
a harp, roam about, you city, you forgotten prostitute! Play the harp well; sing many
songs so that you may be remembered. 17 It will be after the seventy years that God will
engage in oversight of Tyre, and she will again be restored to what was at the
beginning; she will be a market for all the kingdoms of the inhabited world. 18 Her
merchandise and wage will be holy to the Lord. It will not be gathered for them, but all
her merchandise will be for those who reside before the Lord to eat, drink, and be filled
as a banquet, a memorial before the Lord.
Isaiah 24
1 Behold, the Lord is ruining the inhabited world and causing it to be deserted; he
will uncover its surface and scatter those who reside in it. 2 The people will be like the
priest, the servant like the lord, and the maid like the lady; the buyer will be like the
seller, the lender like the borrower, and the debtor like the one to whom he is indebted.
3 The land will be ruined and the land will be plundered, for the mouth of the Lord spoke
these things. 4 The land mourned and the inhabited world was ruined; the exalted ones
of the land mourned. 5 The land acted lawlessly because of those who reside in it, for
A will be moved and will fall. The glory which is on him will be taken away SA ¦ will be
moved, will be taken away, and will fall. The glory which is on him will be eliminated V
B Sidon V* ¦ Zion VcSA

they transgressed the law and changed the ordinances, the eternal testament. 6 Because
of this, a curse will consume the land, for those who reside in it sinned; because of this,
those who reside in the land will be poor, and few men will be left. 7 The wine will
mourn; the vine will mourn; all those who are cheerful in soul will groan. 8 The
cheerfulness of tambourines has ceased; the stubbornness and wealth of the ungodly
has ceased; the sound of the harp has ceased. 9 They were ashamed; they did not drink
wine; liquor became bitter for those who drank it. 10 All the city was deserted; one will
shut a house for there to be no entering. 11 Howl everywhere concerning the wine! All
the cheerfulness of the land has ceased. 12 Cities will be abandoned as deserts, and
abandoned houses will perish. 13 All these things will be in the land in the midst of the
nations; in the manner that one might glean an olive tree, so they will glean them, even
when the vintage has ceased. 14 These will cry out with a noise; those who were
abandoned on the land will be cheerful together in the glory of the Lord. The water of
the sea will be disturbed. 15 Because of this, the glory of the Lord will be in the islands of
the sea; the name of the Lord will be glorious. 16 O Lord God of Israel, from the wings of
the earth we heard marvels; there is hope for the godly one. Those who despise the
law will say, "Woe to those who despise!" 17 Fear, a pit, and a snare are over you who
reside on the earth. 18 It will be that the one who flees from fear will fall into the pit; the
one who comes up out of the pit will be caught by the snare. For windows were opened
out of heaven, and the foundations of the earth will be shaken; 19 the earth will be
disturbed by a disturbance, and the earth will be perplexed by perplexity. 20 The earth
was declining; it will be shaken like a hut, like one who is intoxicated and hung over. It
will fall and will not be able to rise, for lawlessness prevailed over it. 21 God will bring his
hand over the adornment of heaven and over the kings of the earth. 22 They will gather
and shut up in a stronghold and in a prison; there will be oversight of them through
many generations. 23 The brick will dissolve and the wall will fall, for the Lord will reign
in Zion and in Jerusalem and will be glorified before the elders.
Isaiah 25
1 O Lord my God, I will glorify you; I will sing hymns to your name. For you
performed wonderful deeds, true and ancient counsel. Let it be so, O Lord! 2 For you
made cities into a rubbish pile, even secure cities, so that their foundations might fall. A
The city of the ungodly will never be rebuilt. 3 Because of this, the people which is poor
will bless you, and cities of injured men will bless you. 4 For you became a helper for
every humble city and a shelter for those who were disheartened by need. You will
deliver them from evil men; you will be the shelter of the thirsty and the breath of
injured men. 5 They will bless you B like faint-hearted men who thirst in Zion because of
ungodly men, to whom you delivered us up.
6 The Lord of sabaóth will do this for all the nations on this mountain: they will drink
cheerfulness; they will drink wine; they will be anointed with perfume. 7 Deliver all these
A even secure cities, so that their foundations might fall SA ¦ and secure cities, so that
their foundations might not fall V
B They will bless you SA ¦ They will be V

things up to the nations on this mountain, for this counsel is for all the nations. 8 Death
was strong and consuming, yet God again took away every tear from every face; he
took away the reproach of the people from all the earth. For the mouth of the Lord has
spoken. 9 On that day they will say, "Behold, our God in whom we hope! A We were glad;
we will become cheerful because of our salvation." 10 For God will give rest on this
mountain. The Moabite land will be trampled, in the manner that they trample a
threshing floor with wagons. 11 He will relax his hands, in the manner that he humbled
in order to destroy. He will humble his insolence on which he laid his hands. 12 He will
humble the protective height of your wall, and it will descend into the ground.
Isaiah 26
1 In that day they will sing this song over the land of Judah: "Behold, a secure city!
He will set up our salvation as the wall and rampart. 2 Open the gates! Let the people
enter who preserve righteousness, who preserve truth, 3 who support truth, and who
preserve peace. 4 For they hoped in you forever, O Lord, the great eternal God, 5 who
humbled and brought down those who reside in the heights. You will throw down
secure cities and bring them down to the ground. 6 The feet of the gentle and humble
will trample them."
7 The way of the godly became straight; the way of the godly has been prepared.
8 For the way of the Lord is justice; we hoped in your name and in the memory 9 which
our souls covet. At night my spirit gets up early for you, O God, because your
ordinances are a light over the earth. Learn righteousness, you who reside upon the
earth. 10 For the ungodly person has ceased. He will not learn righteousness upon the
earth; he will not perform the truth. Let the ungodly person be taken away, so that he
does not see the glory of the Lord. 11 O Lord, your arm is exalted, yet they were not
acquainted with it. When they know it, they will be ashamed; jealousy will take an
undisciplined nation, and fire will now devour the opponents.
12 O Lord our God, give us peace, for you repaid all things to us. 13 O Lord our God,
acquire us. O Lord, we are not acquainted with any other except you; we name your
name. 14 The dead will not see life, neither will physicians resurrect them. Because of
this, you advanced; you destroyed and took away every male of them. 15 Add wicked
things to them, O Lord; add wicked things to all the glorious ones of the earth. 16 O
Lord, in oppression I remembered you; in a little oppression, your discipline was for us.
17 As a woman going into labor comes near to giving birth and shouts during her labor
pain, so we became for your beloved because of your fear, O Lord. 18 We conceived,
went into labor, and gave birth; we brought the spirit of your salvation over the earth.
However, those who reside B upon the earth will fall. 19 The dead will rise, those who are
in the tombs will awaken, and those who are on the earth will cheer. For the dew which
is from you is a cure for them, but the earth of the ungodly will fall.
20 Proceed, my people; enter your closets, shut your door, hide for a little while, until
A SA ¦ + He will save us. This is the Lord; we waited for him. V
B However, those who reside S*A ¦ However, all who reside V ¦ We will not fall;
however, those who reside Sc

the wrath of the Lord passes away. 21 For behold, the Lord is bringing wrath from the
holy place upon those who reside upon the earth. The earth will disclose her blood and
will not cover those who were slain.
Isaiah 27
1 On that day God will bring the holy, great, and strong sword against the dragon,
the fleeing serpent, against the dragon, the crooked serpent; he will annihilate the
dragon.
2 On that day there will be a beautiful vineyard, a desire to lead a chorus concerning
it. 3 I am a strong city, a besieged city; I will water it in vain, for it will be captured by
night, and by day the wall will fall. 4 There is no one A who did not take hold of her. Who
will place me to guard stubble in a field? Because of this hostility I have rejected her.
Therefore, because of this, the Lord God did everything which he ordered. I have been
burned up! 5 Those who reside in her will cry out, "Let us make peace with him, let us
make peace!" 6 Those who are coming, the children of Jacob, will sprout; Israel will
blossom, and the inhabited world will be filled with his fruit.
7 As he attacked, will he himself be struck in this way, and as he did away with, will
he be done away with in this way? 8 While he is fighting and reproaching, he will banish
them. Were you not meditating in a harsh spirit, so as to do away with them in a spirit
of anger? 9 Because of this, the lawlessness of Jacob will be done away with; this is his
blessing, whenever I do away with his sin, whenever they break in pieces all the stones
of the altars like fine dust. Their trees will not remain, and their idols will be cut off like
a thicket at a distance. 10 The inhabited flock will be neglected like a deserted flock; it
will exist as pasture for a long time, and they will rest there. 11 After a time, there will
not be in it any green thing on account of it being dried up. Advance, you women who
are coming from the spectacles, for it is not a people who have understanding. Because
of this, the one who made them will not have compassion, and the one who formed
them will not have mercy. 12 On that day it will be that the Lord will fence them in from
the channel of the river as far as Rhinocorura. B Gather the sons of Israel one by one!
13 On that day it will be that they will blow the great trumpet, and those who were lost
in the country of the Assyrians and those who were lost in Egypt will arrive and worship
the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 28
1 Woe to the crown of insolence, the employees of Ephraim, the flower which fell
from the glory on the summit of the fertile mountain, those who became drunk without
wine. 2 Behold, the anger of the Lord is strong and harsh, like hail falling down when
there is no shelter, falling down with violence. Like a great amount of water sweeping a
country, he will produce rest for the land. 3 The crown of insolence, the employees of
A feminine, possibly referring to another city
B a town on the border between Egypt and Israel, from rhinos koura, "nose cropping,"
because criminals punished by this method were exiled there

Ephraim, will be trampled with hands and feet. 4 The flower of the hope of glory, which
fell off on the top of the high mountain, will be like an early fig; the one who sees it will
want to swallow it before he takes it into his hand. 5 On that day the Lord of sabaóth will
be the crown of hope, the wreath of glory for the remnant of my people. 6 They will be
left for a spirit of judgment, for the judgment and strength of those who prevent
slaying.
7 For these have been deceived by wine; they were deceived because of liquor. Priest
and prophet were confused because of wine; they were shaken due to drunkenness
from liquor. They have deceived; this is their vision. 8 A curse will devour this counsel,
for this counsel exists on account of greed.
9 To whom did we report wicked things? To whom did we report a message? Those
who have been weaned from milk, who have been pulled away from the breast.
10 Expect oppression upon oppression, hope upon hope, a little more, a little more,
11 because of the disparagement of the lips, through another language. For they will
speak to this people, 12 saying to them, "This is the rest for the one who is hungry, and
this is the affliction," yet they did not want to listen. 13 The oracle of the Lord God will be
for them oppression upon oppression, hope upon hope, a little more, a little more, so
that they may go and fall backward. They will be in danger; they will be crushed and
captured.
14 Because of this, hear the word of the Lord, you oppressed men and you rulers of
this people which is in Jerusalem. 15 For you said, "We made a testament with Hades
and agreements with death. If a hurricane being transported passes by, it will not come
upon us. We set up a lie as our hope, and by a lie we will be sheltered." 16 Because of
this, so says the Lord: "Behold, I will lay for the foundations of Zion an expensive,
choice stone, a valuable cornerstone for its foundations, and the one who believes on
him will not be ashamed. 17 I will set up justice resulting in hope, and my mercy will
result in lodgings; those who trust in a lie do so in vain. For the hurricane will not pass
you by, 18 unless it also takes away your testament of death, and your hope which is
toward Hades will not remain. If a hurricane being transported comes upon you, you
will exist for trampling by it. 19 Whenever it passes by, it will take you; morning by
morning it will pass by during the day, and in the night there will be an evil hope. Learn
to hear!" 20 Since we are confined, we cannot fight; we ourselves are too weak for us to
be gathered. 21 Like a mountain of the ungodly, he A will arise and be in the valley of
Gibeon; he will perform his works with fury, a work of bitterness. His fury will treat with
hostility, and his bitterness will be hostile. 22 Do not be cheerful and do not let your
bonds be strengthened, for I heard from the Lord of sabaóth about actions which have
been finished and terminated, which he will perform over all the earth.
23 "Listen and hear my voice; pay attention and hear my words. 24 Is the plowman
going to plow the entire day, or will he prepare the seeding beforehand, before he
works the earth? 25 Does he not, whenever he levels its surface, then sow the small
black cumin and the caraway, and again sow wheat, barley, and rice in your borders?
26 You will be disciplined by the judgment of your God, and you will be cheerful. 27 For
A he ScA ¦ the Lord VS*

the black cumin is not cleansed with harshness, nor will a wagon wheel run over the
caraway. Instead, the black cumin is threshed with a rod, and the caraway 28 will be
eaten with bread. For I will not be wrathful with you forever, nor will the voice of my
bitterness trample you. 29 These wonders came out from the Lord of sabaóth. Offer
counsel! Exalt vain comfort!
Isaiah 29
1 Woe to the city of Ariel, which David battled. Gather produce year by year; eat, for
you will eat with Moab. 2 For I will oppress Ariel, and her strength and wealth will be
mine. 3 I will surround you like David, throw a palisade around you, and set up towers
around you. 4 Your words will be lowered to the earth, and your words will sink to the
earth; your voice will be like those who sound out of the earth, and your voice will be
weakened on the ground."
5 The wealth of the ungodly will be like dust from a wheel and A like chaff being
transported. It will be like a moment, immediately, 6 from the Lord of sabaóth, for there
will be a visitation with thunder, an earthquake, a loud noise, a hurricane being
transported, and a consuming flame of fire. 7 The wealth of all the nations, as many as
warred against Ariel, all who warred against Jerusalem, and all who gathered against
her and oppressed her, will be like one who dreams during sleep. 8 They will be like
those who drink and eat during sleep; after they arise, their dream is vain. In the
manner that one who is thirsty dreams as if he were drinking, and after he arises is still
thirsty, his soul having placed its hope in emptiness, so will the wealth of all the nations
be, as many as warred against Mount Zion.
9 Faint, be confused, and become hung over, not due to liquor or due to wine. 10 For
the Lord made you drink a spirit of bewilderment; he will shut the eyes of them, their
prophets, and their rulers, who see the secret things. 11 All these things will be to you
like the words of this sealed scroll which, if they give it to a man who recognizes letters,
saying, "Read these things," he will say, "I cannot read, for it is sealed." 12 This scroll
will be given into the hands of a man who does not recognize letters; someone will say
to him, "Read this," and he will say, "I do not recognize letters."
13 The Lord said, "This people approaches me, B they honor me with their lips, but
their hearts are far away from me. They reverence me in vain, since they teach
commands and doctrines of men. 14 Because of this, behold, I will proceed to remove
this people, and I will remove them. I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will
hide the understanding of those who understand."
15 Woe to those who make counsel deep, and not through the Lord. Woe to those
who make counsel in secret; their works will be in darkness and they will say, "Who has
seen us, and who will know us or what we are doing?" 16 Will you not be reckoned like
the clay of the potter? Will the form say to the one who formed it, "You did not form
me," or the product to the one who produced it, "You did not produce me with
understanding"?
A SA ¦ + the multitude of those who overpower you will be V
B SA ¦ + with their mouth V

17 Is it not longer a little while, and Lebanon will be changed like Mount Carmel, and
Mount Carmel will be reckoned as a forest? 18 On that day the deaf will hear the words
of the scroll, including those who are in darkness and those who are in fog. The eyes of
the blind will see, 19 the poor will be glad in cheerfulness because of the Lord, and those
who were without hope among men will be filled with cheerfulness. 20 A lawless person
failed, an arrogant person perished, and those who act lawlessly concerning wicked
things were eliminated, 21 including those who cause men to sin in word. They will make
all who reprove in the gates an offense, and they led the righteous person astray by
means of unrighteous acts.
22 Because of this, thus says the Lord concerning the house of Jacob, whom he set
apart from Abraham: "Jacob will not now be ashamed, nor will Israel now change its
face. 23 But whenever their children see my works, they will sanctify my name because
of me; they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob and fear the God of Israel. 24 Those who
were deceived in spirit will have knowledge of understanding, the complainers will learn
to respond, and the stammering tongues will learn to speak peace.
Isaiah 30
1 Woe to the apostate children!" says the Lord. "You made counsel (not through me)
and agreements (not through my Spirit) to add sins to sins, 2 those who are proceeding
to go down to Egypt (but they did not inquire of me) to be helped by the Pharaoh and
to be sheltered by the Egyptians. 3 For the shelter of the Pharaoh will result in shame for
you, and there will be reproach for those who trust in Egypt. 4 For there are rulers in
Tanis, evil messengers. They will labor in vain 5 for a people who will not benefit them,
resulting in neither help nor in benefit, but in shame and reproach."
6 The vision of the quadrupeds in the desert. "In oppression and distress, a lion and
the cub of lion are there, also snakes and the offspring of flying snakes, who carried
their wealth on donkeys and camels to a nation which will not render to them
assistance, but rather shame and reproach. A 7 The Egyptians will render to you vain and
empty things; tell them, `This, your consolation, is vain.´
8 Now then, sit down and write these things on a tablet and on a scroll, for these
things will be for days of seasons and even forever. 9 For the people is distrustful, false
sons who did not wish to hear the law of God, 10 who say to the prophets, `Do not
report to us,´ and to those who see visions, `Do not speak to us, but speak to us and
report to us another deception, 11 and turn us aside from this way. Remove from us this
path, and remove from us the oracle B of Israel.´" 12 Because of this, thus says the Lord,
the Holy One of Israel: "Because you distrusted these words and hoped in falsehood,
because you complained and placed your trust in the latter word, 13 because of this, this
sin will be for you like a wall immediately falling when a fortified city has been captured,
whose fall is present immediately. 14 Its fall will be like the breaking of a ceramic vessel,
tiny fragments of a jar such that one does not find among them a potsherd, with which
you take up fire and with which you draw a little water." 15 So says the Lord, the Holy
A assistance, but rather shame and reproach SA ¦ ~ V
B oracle VSA ¦ Holy One

One of Israel: "Whenever you turn and groan, then you will be saved; you will know
where you were. When you trusted in vanities, your strength became vain, yet you did
not wish to hear. 16 Instead, you said, `We will flee on horses.´ Because of this, you will
flee. You said, `We will be riders on nimble mounts.´ Because of this, those who
pursue you will be nimble. 17 A thousand will flee because of the voice of one, and many
will flee because of the voice of five, until you are left like a pole on a mountain and like
one carrying an ensign on a hill." 18 God will again remain to have sympathy for you;
because of this, he will be exalted to have mercy on you. For the Lord our God is a
judge; where will you leave your glory? Blessed are those who remain steadfast in him.
19 Because a holy people will reside in Zion, and Jerusalem engaged in wailing, "Have
mercy on me!" he will have mercy on you at the sound of your outcry. When he saw,
he listened to you. 20 The Lord will give you the bread of oppression and a scant amount
of water, and those who are deceiving you will no longer come near you. For your eyes
will see those who are deceiving you, 21 and your ears will hear the words of those who
were deceiving behind you, who say, "This is the way; let us walk in it, whether on the
right or on the left." 22 You will remove the silver-plated and gold-plated idols. You will
make them into tiny fragments, scatter them like the water of a woman who is sitting
apart, and toss them out like dung.
23 Then there will be rain for the seed of your land; the bread of the produce of your
land will be plentiful and savory. Your livestock will feed on that day in a fertile and
spacious place. 24 Your bulls and the oxen which till the land will eat chaff mixed with
winnowed barley. 25 On every high mountain and on every prominent hill, water will be
flowing on that day, whenever many perish and whenever towers fall. 26 The light of the
moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times as
bright, on the day when the Lord heals the break in his people; he will heal the pain of
your plague.
27 Behold, the name of the Lord is coming after a long time, burning fury. The oracle
of his lips is with glory, an oracle full of wrath, and the wrath of his fury will devour like
fire. 28 His spirit, like water sweeping in a valley, will reach as far as the neck and be
distributed in order to disturb the nations for vain deception; deception also will pursue
them and take them before their face. 29 Is it necessary for you to be cheerful
continually and go into my holy places continually like those who celebrate a festival,
and to enter with a flute like those who are cheerful into the mountain of the Lord, to
the God of Israel? 30 The Lord will make the glory of his voice audible, and will show the
fury of his arm with fury, wrath, and consuming flame. He will thunder violently, like
water and hail brought down together with violence. 31 For because of the voice of the
Lord the Assyrians will be defeated by the plague by which he attacks them. 32 It will
happen to him from all around, from where he had the hope of assistance in which he
trusted. They themselves in turn will battle him with flutes A and harps. 33 For before a
few days, you will be required. Was it prepared for you also to reign over a deep valley,
piled up wood, fire, and much wood? The fury of the Lord will be like a valley set on fire
by sulfur.
A flutes SA ¦ drums V

Isaiah 31
1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who trust in horses (both in chariots,
for they are many, and in horses, an exceeding multitude), and have not trusted in the
Holy One of Israel and did not seek God. 2 He himself is wise; he brought wicked things
against them, and his word will not be nullified. He will rise up against the houses of
evil men and against their vain hope: 3 an Egyptian man and not God, the flesh of
horses and there is no help. The Lord will bring his hand against them; those who help
will grow weary, and all will perish together. 4 For the Lord said this to me, "In the
manner that a lion roars or a cub cries out over the prey which it took until the
mountains are filled with its voice, and they have been overwhelmed and terrified by
the multitude of its fury, so the Lord of sabaóth will descend to march against Mount
Zion, against her mountains. 5 Like flying birds, so the Lord will set up a shield on behalf
of Jerusalem; A he will rescue, preserve, and save."
6 Return, B you who are offering a deep and lawless counsel. 7 For on that day men
will renounce their silver and gold handiworks, which their hands made. 8 The Assyrian
will fall. Neither the sword of a husband nor the sword of a man will devour him, and
he will not flee from the face of the sword, but the young men will be for
overwhelming. 9 For they will be encompassed by a cliff like a palisade, and they will be
overwhelmed; the one who flees will be caught.
Thus says the Lord: "Fortunate is the one who has seed in Zion and members of a
household in Jerusalem."
Isaiah 32
1 For behold, a righteous king will reign, and rulers will rule with justice. 2 A man will
hide his words and be hidden as from rushing water; he will appear in Zion like a
rushing river, glorious in a thirsty land. 3 They will no longer be trusting in men, but will
give their ears to hear. 4 The hearts of the weak will attend to hear, and the stammering
tongues will soon learn to speak peace. 5 They will no longer tell a fool to rule, and your
attendants will no longer say, "Be silent." 6 For the fool will speak foolish things, and his
heart will perceive vanities in order to accomplish lawless acts and to speak deception
against the Lord, to scatter hungry souls, and to make thirsty souls empty. 7 For the
counsel of the evil will counsel lawless acts in order to ruin the humble with unjust
words and scatter the words of the humble in a judgment. 8 But the godly counseled
intelligent things, and this counsel will remain.
9 Rise up, you rich women, and hear my voice; you daughters in hope, hear my
words. 10 Mention them for the days of a year in pain with hope; the vintage was used
up; the sowing has ceased, and will no longer come. 11 Be astounded; be distressed, you
confident women. Undress; become naked; gird your loins with sackcloth. 12 Beat your
A the Lord will set up a shield on behalf of Jerusalem A ¦ the Lord of sabaóth will set up
a shield on behalf of Jerusalem Sc ¦ the Lord of sabaóth will set up a shield. He will set
up a shield on behalf of Jerusalem VS* ¦ the Lord will set up a shield
B SA ¦ + O sons of Israel, V

easts due to the coveted field and the product of the vine. 13 As for the land of my
people, thorn and grass will come up, and cheerfulness will be taken away from every
house. 14 As for the rich city, the houses are abandoned. They will let go of the wealth
of the city and the coveted houses. The villages will be caves forever, the cheerfulness
of wild donkeys, the pastures of shepherds, 15 until the Spirit comes upon you from the
highest place. Carmel will be a desert, and Carmel will be reckoned as a forest.
16 Judgment will rest in the desert, and righteousness will reside in Carmel. 17 The works
of righteousness will be peace; righteousness will gain possession of rest, and they will
be confident forever. 18 His people will reside in a city of peace, and will reside in it
confidently; they will rest with wealth. 19 If the hail descends, it will not come upon you;
those who reside in the forests will be confident like those in the plain. 20 Blessed are
those who sow by every water, where the ox and donkey are treading.
Isaiah 33
1 Woe to those who distress you. But no one makes you distressed, and the one who
rejects does not reject you. Those who reject will be captured and delivered up; like a
moth on a garment, so they will be defeated. 2 O Lord, have mercy on us, for we have
trusted in you. The seed of those who distrusted resulted in destruction; our salvation
was in a season of oppression. 3 Because of the sound of your fear, peoples were
astonished due to your fear, and the nations scattered. 4 Now the spoils of a small and a
great person from you will be gathered; in the manner that someone might gather
locusts, so they will mock you. 5 The God who resides in high places is holy; Zion was
filled with justice and righteousness. 6 They will be delivered up by the law; our salvation
is in treasures. Wisdom, knowledge, and piety toward the Lord are there; these are
treasures of righteousness. 7 Now behold, these will be afraid in fear of you; those
whom you feared will be afraid A due to you. For messengers will be sent forth
requesting peace, B bitterly weeping, encouraging peace. 8 For the ways of these will
become desolate; the fear of the nations has ceased, and the testament with these is
being taken away, and you will not reckon them as men. 9 The land mourned; Lebanon
was ashamed. Sharon became marshes; Galilee and Carmel will be visible. 10 "Now I will
arise," says the Lord. "Now I will be glorified; now I will be exalted. 11 Now you will see;
now you will perceive. The strength of your breath will be vain; fire will devour you.
12 The nations will be burned up, as a thorn in a field is cast out and burned up.
13 Those from afar will hear what I did; those who come near will know my
strength." 14 The lawless in Zion stood apart; trembling will seize the ungodly. Who will
report to you that a fire is being kindled? Who will report the eternal place to you?
15 One who walks in righteousness, who declares the straight way, who hates
lawlessness and wrongdoing, who rids his hands of gifts, who stops his ears so that he
may not hear a judgment of blood, who shuts his eyes so that he may not see
wrongdoing. 16 He will reside in a high cave of a strong cliff; bread will be given to him,
and his water will be faithful. 17 You will see a king with glory, and your eyes will see a
A be afraid ScA ¦ cry out VS*
B requesting peace ScA ¦ ~ VS*

land from afar. 18 Your souls will meditate on fear. Where are the scribes? Where are the
counselors? Where is the one who numbers those who are growing up? A 19 It is a small
and great people, with whom he did not take counsel. He was not acquainted with a
deep voice, such that a despised people might not hear, yet there is no understanding
for the one who does hear. 20 Behold the city of Zion, our salvation! Your eyes will see
Jerusalem, a rich city, tents which will not be shaken; the pegs of her tent will not move
for time eternal, neither will her ropes break through. 21 For the name of the Lord is
great for you. There will be a place for you: B rivers, and wide and spacious channels.
You will not go this way yourself, neither will a boat go sailing. 22 For my God is great;
the Lord will not pass me by. The Lord is our judge; the Lord is our ruler. The Lord is
our king; he will save us. 23 Your ropes broke, for they were not strong. Your mast
tilted; it will not release the sails. It will not carry a sign until it is delivered up for
plunder. Therefore many lame people will make plunder. 24 The people who reside
among them will not say, "I am weary," for their sin will be forgiven for them.
Isaiah 34
1 Advance, O nations, and listen, O rulers. Let the earth and those who are in it
listen, the inhabited world and the people who are in it. 2 For the fury of the Lord is over
all the nations and his wrath is over their number, so as to destroy them and deliver
them up to slaughter. 3 Their wounded and their dead will be thrown out; their smell will
ascend, and the mountains will be inundated from their blood. C 4 Heaven will roll up like
a scroll, and all the stars will fall like leaves from a vine and as leaves fall from a fig
tree. 5 My sword became drunk in heaven; behold, it will descend on Idumea and with
judgment on the people of destruction. 6 The sword of the Lord was filled with blood; it
grew thick from the fat of lambs and from the fat of goats and rams. For there is a
sacrifice for the Lord in Bozrah and a great slaughter in Idumea. 7 The stout, the rams
and the bulls, will fall with them; the land will be drunk from blood and will be filled
from their fat. 8 For it is the day of the Lord's judgment and the year of the rendering of
Zion’s judgment. 9 Its valleys will be turned into pitch and its land into sulfur; its land
will be burning like pitch night and day. 10 It will not be quenched for time eternal, and
its smoke will ascend; it will be deserted for generations and for much time. 11 Birds,
hedgehogs, ibises, and ravens will take up residence in it. A line for surveying a desert
will be thrown over it, and centaurs will reside in it. 12 Its rulers will be no more, for its
kings, its rulers, and its great men will be for destruction. 13 Thorn trees will grow up in
their cities and in its strongholds; they will be habitations of sirens and a courtyard of
sparrows. 14 Demons will meet with centaurs and cry out to one another; there the
centaurs will rest, for they found a place of rest for themselves. 15 There has the
hedgehog made its nest, and the earth saved its young with security; there the deer
met and saw the faces of each other. 16 They passed by in number, and not one of them
perished; they did not seek one another, for the Lord commanded them and his Spirit
A growing up V ¦ coming together SA ¦ retreating
B "You" is plural in v. 21a, but singular elsewhere in vv. 20-23
C SA ¦ + 4 All the powers of the heavens will melt. V

gathered them. 17 He himself will cast lots for them, and his hand apportioned for
feeding. You will inherit for time eternal; they will rest on it for generations after
generations.
Isaiah 35
1 Be cheerful, you thirsty desert; let the desert be glad and bloom like a lily. 2 The
deserted places of the Jordan will bloom and be glad; the glory of Lebanon and the
honor of Carmel was given to it. My people will see the glory of the Lord and the height
of God. 3 Be strong, you relaxed hands and paralyzed knees. 4 Take comfort, you who
are faint-hearted in your thoughts. Be strong; do not be afraid. Behold, our God is
bestowing and will continue to bestow justice; he will come and save us. 5 Then the
eyes of the blind will open and the ears of the deaf will hear. 6 Then the crippled man
will leap like a deer, and the tongues of those who have a speech impediment will be
clear. For water will gush forth in the desert, and a gully will gush forth in a thirsty land.
7 The waterless place will turn into marshes, and there will be a spring of water for the
thirsty land. The cheerfulness of birds will be there, dwellings for the reed and marshes.
8 A clean road will be there, and it will be called the holy road. No unclean man will pass
by there, nor will an unclean road be there. Those who have been dispersed will walk
on it and will not wander. 9 No lion will be there, nor may any of the evil beasts go up
on it or be found there, but those who have been redeemed will walk on it. 10 Those
who have been gathered for the Lord will return and come to Zion with cheerfulness,
and eternal cheerfulness will be over their heads. For praise and gladness will be on
their heads, and cheerfulness will overcome them. Pain, grief, and groaning have fled
away.
Isaiah 36
1 It happened that, in the fourteenth year of the reign of Hezekiah, Sennacherib king
of the Assyrians went up against the fortified cities of Judea and took them. 2 The king
of the Assyrians sent forth the Rabshakeh out of Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah
with a large force, and he stood by the aqueduct of the upper pool in the way of the
fuller's field. 3 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the manager, Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of
Asaph, the recorder, came out to him.
4 The Rabshakeh said to them, "Say to Hezekiah, `Thus says the great king, the king
of the Assyrians: "What are you trusting? 5 Does a battle line form by counsel and words
of the lips? In whom do you now trust, since you distrust me? 6 Behold, you trust in this
bruised rod made of reed, on Egypt. Whoever is supported by it, it will go into his
hand; A so is the Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and all who trust in him. 7 But if you say,
`We trust in the Lord our God,´ B 8 now mix with my lord, the king of the Assyrians, and
I will give you two thousand horses, if you can give riders upon them. 9 How can you
A VSA ¦ + and pierce it
B VSA ¦ + is he not the one whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah removed? He
said to Judah and Jerusalem, `Worship in the presence of this altar´;

turn to the face of one local official? A Those who trust in the Egyptians for a horse and
rider are domestic servants. 10 Now did we go up against this country to wage war
against it without the Lord?"´" B
11 Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to him, "Speak to your servants in the Syriac
language, for we understand it, and do not speak to us in the Jewish language. Why do
you speak in the ears of the men who are on the wall?" 12 The Rabshakeh said to them,
"Has my lord sent me forth to speak these words to your lord or to you? Has he not
sent me forth to the men who sit on the wall, so that they may eat dung and drink
urine together with you?"
13 The Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jewish language; he said,
"Listen to the words of the great king, the king of the Assyrians. 14 Thus says the king:
`Do not let Hezekiah deceive you with words, which will not be able to deliver you. 15 Do
not let Hezekiah say to you that God will deliver you and this city will not be delivered
up into the hand of the king of the Assyrians. 16 Do not listen to Hezekiah.´ Thus says
the king of the Assyrians: `If you wish to be blessed, go out to me, and each of you will
eat from his vineyard and his fig trees, and you will drink water out of your cistern,
17 until I come and take you into a land like your land, a land of grain, wine, loaves of
bread, and vineyards. 18 Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, saying, "God will deliver you."
Did each of the gods of the nations deliver his own country out of the hand of the king
of the Assyrians? 19 Where is the god of Hamath and Arpad? Where is the god of the city
of Sepharvaim? Were they able to deliver Samaria out of my hand? 20 Who of the gods
of all these nations delivered his land out of my hand, that God should deliver
Jerusalem out of my hand?´" 21 They were silent; no one answered him with a word,
because the king ordered no one to answer.
22 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the manager, and Shebna the scribe of the force, and Joah
son of Asaph, the recorder, came in to Hezekiah after they tore their tunics, and they
reported to him the words of the Rabshakeh.
Isaiah 37
1 It happened that, when king Hezekiah heard, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth,
and went up to the house of the Lord. 2 He sent forth Eliakim the manager, and Shebna
the scribe, and the elders of the priests clothed with sackcloth, to Isaiah son of Amos,
the prophet. 3 They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah: `Today is a day of oppression,
reproach, rebuke, and wrath, for labor pain has come upon the woman who will give
birth, but she does not have strength to give birth. 4 May the Lord your God listen to the
words of the Rabshakeh, which the king of the Assyrians sent forth to reproach the
living God and to reproach by the words which the Lord your God heard. You will pray
to your Lord concerning these who are left.´" 5 The servants of the king came to Isaiah.
6 Isaiah said to them, "You will say this to your lord, `Thus says the Lord: "Do not be
afraid due to the words which you heard, by which the ambassadors of the king of the
A
one local official ScA ¦ the local officials VS* ¦ one of the local officials, the lesser
slaves of my lord
B
A ¦ + The Lord said to me, `Go up against this land and ruin it.´ VS

Assyrians reproached me. 7 Behold, I will inject a spirit in him; after he hears a message,
he will return to his country and fall by the sword in his land."´"
8 The Rabshakeh turned back and overtook the king while he was besieging Libnah,
and the king of the Assyrians heard that 9 Tirhakah A king of the Ethiopians came out to
besiege him. When he heard, he turned back and sent forth messengers to Hezekiah,
saying, 10 "Thus you will say to Hezekiah king of Judea, `Do not let your God, in whom
you trust, deceive you, saying, "Jerusalem will not be delivered up into the hands of the
king of the Assyrians." 11 Did you not hear what the kings of the Assyrians did, how they
destroyed all the earth? B 12 Did the gods of the nations whom my fathers destroyed
deliver them: Gozan, Charan, and Rezeph, which are in the land of Temad? 13 Where are
the kings of Hamath, Arpad, the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, Ivvah?´"
14 Hezekiah took the scroll from the messengers C and opened it before the Lord.
15 Hezekiah prayed to the Lord, saying, 16 "O Lord of sabaóth, the God of Israel who sits
upon the cherubim, you alone are the God of every kingdom of the inhabited world;
you made heaven and earth. 17 Listen, O Lord; look, O Lord. D See the words which
Sennacherib sent forth to reproach the living God. 18 For in truth, the kings of the
Assyrians turned the whole inhabited world and their land into a desert, 19 and threw
their idols into the fire. For they were not gods, but works of the hands of men, pieces
of wood and stone; they destroyed them. 20 O Lord our God, save us from their hand, so
that every kingdom of the earth may know that you alone are God."
21 Isaiah son of Amos was sent forth to Hezekiah; he said to him, "Thus says the
Lord, the God of Israel: `I heard what you prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king
of the Assyrians. 22 This is the word which God spoke concerning him: "The virgin
daughter of Zion despised you and mocked you; the daughter of Jerusalem shook her
head at you. 23 Whom did you reproach and provoke? Against whom did you exalt your
voice? Did you not lift up your eyes to the height against the Holy One of Israel? 24 For
you reproached the Lord through messengers, for you said, `With the multitude of
chariots I ascended to the height of mountains and to the ends of Lebanon. I cut down
the height of his cedar and the beauty of the cypress. I entered the height of part of
the forest. 25 I set up a dam, and I turned the waters and every congregation of water
into a desert.´ 26 Did you not hear these things which I did long ago? I made
arrangements from ancient days, but I have now made a display of desolating nations
in fortifications and those who reside in fortified cities. 27 I relaxed hands, and they
withered; they became like dry grass on rooftops and like hay. 28 Now I recognize your
rest, your departure, and your entrance. 29 Your fury by which you became furious and
your bitterness ascended to me. I will put a hook into your nose and a bit into your lips,
A and the king of the Assyrians heard that 9 Tirhakah SA ¦ and he heard that he
departed from Lachish. 9 Tirhakah V ¦ for he heard that he departed from Lachish. 9 The
king of the Assyrians heard that Tirhakah
B SA ¦ + Will you be delivered? V
C ScA ¦ + and read it; he went up to the house of the Lord VS*
D Listen, O Lord; look, O Lord. SA ¦ Turn your ear, O Lord, and listen, O Lord; open
your eyes, O Lord, and look, O Lord. V

and I will turn you back by the way on which you came.
30 This will be the sign for you: eat this year what you sowed and in the second year
what is left, and in the third, sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. 31 Those
who are left in Judea will put forth a root downward and produce a seed upward, 32 for
those who are left will come out of Jerusalem and those who are being saved out of
Mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord of sabaóth will perform these things."´ 33 Because of
this, so says the Lord against the king of the Assyrians: `He will not enter this city, or
throw a weapon against it, or hurl a shield against it, or place a palisade around it.
34 Instead, by the way which he came, on it he will be turned back;´ A thus says the
Lord. 35 `I will defend this city to save it, on account of me and on account of David my
servant.´"
36 The messenger of the Lord came out and slew one hundred eighty-five thousand
from the camp of the Assyrians. They arose in the morning and found all the dead
bodies. 37 The king of the Assyrians B turned back and went away, and resided in
Nineveh. 38 While he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch, his patron deity,
Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons attacked him with swords; they escaped into
Armenia. Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.
Isaiah 38
1 It happened in that season that Hezekiah was sick to death. Isaiah son of Amos,
the prophet, came to him and said to him, "Thus says the Lord: `Make arrangements
concerning your house, for you are dying and will not live.´" 2 Hezekiah turned his face
to the wall and prayed to the Lord, 3 saying, "Remember, O Lord, how I went in your
sight with truth, in a true heart, and did what was pleasing in your sight." Hezekiah
wept with great weeping. 4 The word of the Lord was directed at Isaiah, saying, 5 "Go
and say to Hezekiah, `Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: "I heard the
sound of your prayer and saw your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your time.
6 I will save you out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will place a shield
over this city. 7 This will be the sign for you from the Lord that God will do this thing:
8 behold, I will turn the shadow of the steps, which the sun went down, on the ten steps
of the house of your father; I will turn the sun back on the ten steps."´" The sun went
up on the ten steps on which the shadow went down.
9 The prayer of Hezekiah king of Judea, when he was sick and arose from his
sickness. 10 "I said, `In the height of my days, in the gates of Hades, I will leave behind
the remaining years.´ 11 I said, `I will no longer see the salvation of God C on the earth.
I will no longer see a man 12 from my relatives; I left the rest of my life. It came out and
went away from me like one who takes a tent down after pitching it. My spirit within me
became like the loom of a weaver, when she draws near to trim off. On that day I was
delivered up 13 until morning as to a lion. In this way he broke my bones, for I was
delivered up from day until night. 14 Like a swallow, so I will sound forth, and like a
A SA ¦ + and will not enter into this city V
B The king of the Assyrians A ¦ Sennacherib king of the Assyrians VS
C SA ¦ + in the land of the living; I will no longer see the salvation of Israel V

dove, so I will rehearse, for my eyes failed to look into the height of heaven at the
Lord, who rescued me 15 and removed the pain of my soul.´ 16 For it was reported to
you, O Lord, concerning this. You aroused my breath; I was comforted, and I lived.
17 For you chose my soul so that it might not perish; you threw all my sins behind me.
18 For those who are in Hades will not praise you, nor will those who are dead bless you,
nor will those who are in Hades hope for your mercy. 19 Those who are living will bless
you in the manner I also do, for from this day I will produce children, who will declare
your righteousness, 20 O Lord of my salvation. I will not cease blessing you with a harp
all the days of my life in front of the house of God."
21 Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Take a cake of figs and mash it; apply it as a plaster, and
you will be healthy." 22 Hezekiah said, "This is the sign that I will go up to the house of
the Lord God."
Isaiah 39
1 In that season, Merodach son of Ladan, the king of Babylonia, sent forth letters,
ambassadors, and gifts to Hezekiah. For he heard that he had been sick to death and
had arisen. 2 Hezekiah rejoiced over them with great joy, and he showed them the
house of nechótha, A of liquid myrrh, of incenses, of perfume, of silver, and of gold, all
the houses of the vessels of the treasury, and everything which he had in his
storerooms. There was nothing in his house which Hezekiah did not show. 3 Isaiah the
prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, "What are these men saying, and from
where did they come to you?" Hezekiah said, "They came to me from a land far away,
from Babylon." 4 Isaiah said, "What did they see in your house?" Hezekiah said, "They
saw all the things which are in my house. There is nothing in my house which they did
not see, not even the things which are in my storerooms." 5 Isaiah said to him, "Hear
the word of the Lord of sabaóth. 6 `Behold, days are coming,´ says the Lord, `and they
will take all the things which are in your house. Whatever your fathers gathered until
this day will go to Babylon, and they will leave nothing behind.´ God also said, 7 `For
they will also take some of your children whom you conceived; they will make them
eunuchs in the house of the king of the Babylonians.´" 8 Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The
word of the Lord which he spoke is good. Now let there be peace and righteousness in
my days."
Isaiah 40
1 "Comfort, comfort my people," says God. 2 "You priests, speak to the heart of
Jerusalem. Comfort her, for her humiliation has been completed; her sin has been
pardoned. For she received from the hand of the Lord double for her sins."
3 There is a sound of someone shouting in the desert, "Prepare the way of the Lord;
make straight the paths of our God. 4 Every valley will be filled in, and every mountain
and hill will be made low. All the crooked places will become straight, and the rough
A Heb nekothoh, "treasure"

places will become plains. A 5 The glory of the Lord will appear, and all flesh will see the
salvation of God, for the Lord has spoken." 6 There is a sound of someone saying, "Cry
out!" I said, "What should I cry out?" "All flesh is a plant, and all the glory of man is like
a bloom on a plant. B 8 The plant withered and the bloom fell off, but the word of our
God remains forever." 9 Go up on a high mountain, you who bring good news to Zion.
Lift up your voice with strength, you who bring good news to Jerusalem. Lift it up; do
not be afraid. Say to the cities of Judah, "Behold, your God!" 10 Behold, the Lord is
coming with strength, and his arm is coming with authority. Behold, his reward is with
him, and his work is before him. 11 He will tend his flock like a shepherd; he will gather
lambs with his arm and comfort those who are pregnant.
12 Who measured the water with a hand, heaven with a span, and all the earth with
a palm? Who weighed the mountains with a scale and the ravines with a balance?
13 Who knew the mind of the Lord, and who became his counselor who would instruct
him? 14 With whom did he take counsel, such that he instructed him? Who showed him
justice? Who showed him the way of understanding? C 15 Surely all the nations are
reckoned as a drop in a bucket and as an adjustment of a balance; they will even be
reckoned as spit. 16 Lebanon is not enough for a fire, and all the four-footed creatures
are not enough for a burnt offering. 17 All the nations are as nothing and were reckoned
as nothing.
18 To whom did you compare the Lord, and with what likeness did you compare him?
19 Did a craftsman make an image, or a goldsmith melt gold, gild it, and form it into a
likeness? 20 For a craftsman selects wood which will not rot and wisely inquires how he
will set up his image so that it may not be shaken.
21 Will you not know? Will you not hear? Was it not told to you from the beginning?
Did you not know the foundations of the earth? 22 He controls the sphere of the earth,
the inhabitants of which are like grasshoppers; he set up heaven like a chamber and
stretched it like a tent to reside in; 23 he granted rulers to rule for nothing, and he made
the earth as nothing. 24 For they will not sow seeds or plant, nor will their roots be
rooted in the earth. He blew on them and they withered; a hurricane will take them
away like sticks. 25 "Now then, to whom did you compare me so that I would be
exalted?" said the Holy One. 26 Lift up your eyes to the heights and look; who displayed
all these things? The one who brought forth his world piece by piece will call them all
by name. Due to great glory and with mighty strength, nothing escaped you.
27 For you should not say this, O Jacob; why did you speak this, O Israel: "My way
was hidden from God; my God took away justice and stood apart"? 28 Now, did you not
know whether you heard? The eternal God, the God who formed the ends of the earth,
will not become hungry or tired. There is no discovery of his purpose. 29 He gives
strength to the hungry and pain to those who are not suffering. 30 For youths will
become hungry and young men will become tired, and the chosen will be without
A
plains VS* ¦ smooth roads ScA
B 7
VSA ¦ + The plant withered and the bloom fell off, for the spirit of the Lord blew
upon it. The people really are a plant.
C
VSc ¦ + Who gave to him first, such that he would pay him back? S*A

strength, 31 but those who wait for God will regain strength. They will grow wings like
eagles; they will run and not become tired; they will walk and not become hungry.
Isaiah 41
1 "Be restored to me, O islands, for the rulers will change strength. Let them
approach and speak together, then let them declare a judgment. 2 Who raised up
righteousness from the east and summoned her to his feet, and she will go? He will
give her before nations and astonish kings; he will give their swords to the earth and
their bows like discarded sticks. 3 He will pursue them; the way of his feet will pass
through in peace. 4 Who operated and performed these things? The one who summoned
her has been summoning her from generations of old. I, God, am the first, and I am for
the things which are coming. 5 Nations saw and were afraid; the ends of the earth
approached and came together, 6 each one judging to help his neighbor and his brother.
He will say, 7 `The craftsman became strong, as did the coppersmith who beats with a
hammer while he forges.´ At some time he will say, `The seam is fine!´ They
strengthened them with nails; they will place them, and they will not be moved.
8 You, O Israel, my servant Jacob whom I chose, the seed of Abraham whom I loved,
9 whom I took hold of from the ends of the earth, I summoned you from its lookouts,
and I said to you, `You are my servant; I chose you and did not abandon you.´ 10 Do
not be afraid, for I am with you; do not wander, for I am your God, the one who
strengthened you. I helped you and made you secure by my righteous right hand.
11 Behold, all who oppose you will be ashamed and disgraced, for they will be as though
they were not; all your adversaries will perish. 12 You will seek them, and you will not
find the men who would do violence to you, for they will be as though they were not;
those who battle against you will be no more. 13 For I am your God who holds your right
hand, the one who says to you, 14 `Do not be afraid, O Jacob, O little Israel. I helped
you,´ says the God who redeems you, O Israel. 15 Behold, I made you like new sawshaped
threshing wheels of a wagon; you will thresh mountains and pulverize hills, and
make them like dust. 16 You will winnow, and the wind will take them; a hurricane will
scatter them. You will be cheerful among the holy ones of Israel.
17 The poor and the needy will be glad, for they will seek water, and there will be
none; their tongues dried up due to thirst. I am the Lord God; I, the God of Israel, will
listen and will not abandon them, 18 but I will open rivers on the mountains and
fountains in the midst of plains. I will turn the desert into marshes and connect the
thirsty land to watercourses. 19 I will place in the waterless land the cedar, the boxwood,
the myrtle, the cypress, and the white poplar, 20 so that together they may see, know,
perceive, and understand that the hand of the Lord did all these things, and the Holy
One of Israel displayed them.
21 Your judgment approaches," says the Lord God. "Your counsels have approached,"
says the King of Jacob. 22 "Let them approach and declare to you the things which will
happen, or say what the former things were. `We will understand with our minds, and
we will know what will be the last things and the things which are coming; tell us!
23 Declare to us the things which are coming at last, and we will know that you are gods.
Do well and be wicked, and we will wonder and see at the same time. 24 For where are

you from, and where is your activity from? Out of the earth!´ They chose you as an
abomination.
25 I raised up the one who is from the north and the one who is from the rising of
the sun; they will be called by my name. Let the rulers come; like potter's clay and like
a potter treading clay, so you will be trodden down. 26 For who will declare the things
from the beginning, so that we may know even the previous things, and say that they
are true? There is no one who foretells, nor one who hears your words. 27 I will give the
rule to Zion, and I will comfort Jerusalem in the way. 28 For from the nations, behold,
there was no one; from their idols there was no one who was declaring anything. If I
should ask them, `Where are you from?´ they would not answer me. 29 For they are the
ones who make you, and the ones who deceive you are in vain.
Isaiah 42
1 Jacob is my servant; I will help him. Israel is my chosen one; my soul accepted
him. I put my spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations. 2 He will not
shout or let loose; his voice will not be heard outside. 3 He will not break a bruised reed,
and he will not extinguish a smoldering wick, but will bring forth justice in truth. 4 He will
blaze forth, and will not be crushed until he sets up justice on the earth. Nations will
hope in his name."
5 The Lord God, who made heaven and constructed it, who established the earth and
the things in it and gives breath to the people upon it and spirit to those who walk on it,
says this: 6 "I, the Lord God, called you in righteousness, and I will take hold of your
hand and strengthen you. I gave you as a testament of the race, as a light of the
nations, 7 to open the eyes of the blind, to bring those who are bound out of chains and
those who sit in darkness out of the prison house.
8 I am the Lord God; this is my name. I will not give my glory to another or my
virtues to carvings. 9 Behold, the things from the beginning have come back, and also
new things which I am announcing; before they sprang up, A they were displayed to
you."
10 Sing a new hymn to the Lord, you who constitute his realm; glorify his name from
the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea and sail on it, you islands and those
who reside on them. 11 Be cheerful, you desert and its towns, the estates and those who
reside in Kedar. Those who reside on a cliff will be cheerful; they will shout from the
tops of the mountains. 12 They will give glory to God; they will announce his virtues
among the islands. 13 The Lord God of forces will come out and cause war to break out;
he will stir up zeal and shout at his enemies with strength: 14 "I was silent, yet I will not
always be silent and hold myself back, will I? I endured like a woman giving birth; I will
lose consciousness and dry up at once. B 15 I will turn rivers into islands and will dry up
marshes. 16 I will lead the blind by a way which they did not know, and I will cause them
to walk on paths with which they were not acquainted. I will turn the darkness into light
for them and the crooked things into a straight line. I will do these things, and will not
A before they sprang up A ¦ before I announced them VS
B SA ¦ + 15 I will make mountains and hills desolate and will dry up all their vegetation. V

abandon them. 17 But they turned back; be filled with shame, you who trust in carvings,
who say to molten objects, `You are our gods.´
18 Listen, you deaf; lift up your eyes to see, you blind! 19 Who is blind but my
servants, and deaf but those who exercise dominion over them? The slaves of God have
been blinded. 20 Often you have seen yet did not observe; your ears were open yet you
did not hear." 21 The Lord God wished to be justified, and to magnify praise. 22 I saw that
the people had been plundered and ravaged, for there is a trap in the storerooms
everywhere and in the houses as well, where they hid them. They became plunder;
there was no one who would rescue the prey, and there was no one would say, "Give it
back!" 23 Who among you who hears these things will listen to the things to come?
24 Who gave Jacob to be a prey, and Israel to those who plunder it? Was it not God,
against whom they sinned? They did not wish to walk in his ways or listen to his law.
25 He brought upon them his furious wrath, and the war and those who set fires around
them prevailed against them. Not one of them knew or laid it on their soul.
Isaiah 43
1 Now the Lord God says this, the one who made you, O Jacob, the one who formed
you, O Israel: "Do not be afraid, for I redeemed you. I called you by your name; you
are mine. 2 If you pass through water, I am with you; the rivers will not overwhelm you.
If you come through fire, you will not be burned; the flame will not burn you. 3 For I am
the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, who saves you. I made Egypt, Ethiopia, and
Syene A your reward on your behalf. 4 Since you became precious in my sight, you were
glorified, and I loved you. I will give many men on your behalf and rulers on behalf of
your head. 5 Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bring your seed from the east,
and will gather you from the west. 6 I will say to the north, `Bring forth,´ and to the
south, `Do not hold back; bring my sons from the faraway land, and my daughters
from the ends of the earth, 7 all those who have been called by my name.´ For in my
glory I equipped him, formed him, and made him.
8 I brought forth a blind people; their eyes are blind in a similar way, and they have
deaf ears. 9 All the nations were gathered together, and rulers will be gathered out of
them. Who will declare these things, or who will declare to you the things from the
beginning? Let them bring their witnesses and be justified; let them hear and tell B the
truth. 10 Become my witnesses; I too am a witness," says the Lord God, "as well as the
servant whom I chose, so that you may know, believe, and understand that I am he.
Before me there was no other God, and after me there will be none. 11 I am God, and
besides me there is no one who saves. 12 I declared, and I saved; I reproached, and
there was no stranger among you. You are my witnesses; I too am a witness," says the
Lord God. 13 "Even from the beginning, there has been no one who rescues out of my
hands. I will act, and who will overturn it?"
14 The Lord God says this, the one who redeems you, the Holy One of Israel:
"Because of you I will send forth to Babylon, and I will arouse all who are fleeing; the
A Syene (modern Aswan) was a town on the southern border of ancient Egypt
B hear and tell VScA ¦ tell S*

Chaldeans will be bound in ships. A 15 I am the Lord God, your Holy One, who introduced
Israel as your king." 16 Thus says the Lord, the one who grants a way in the sea and a
path in the strong water, 17 the one who brought forth chariots, cavalry, and a strong
crowd (nevertheless, they lay down and will not arise): "They were extinguished as flax
is extinguished. 18 Do not remember the former things, and do not recapitulate the
ancient things. 19 Behold, I am making new things which will now spring forth, and you
will know them; I will make a way in the desert and rivers in the waterless land. 20 The
beasts of the field will bless me, the sirens and the daughters of sparrows, for I granted
water in the desert and rivers in the waterless land to give a drink to my chosen race,
21 my people whom I preserved to declare my virtues.
22 I did not just now summon you, O Jacob, neither did I cause you to become
weary, O Israel. 23 The sheep of your whole burnt offering were not for me, neither did
you glorify me with your sacrifices, B neither did I make you weary with frankincense,
24 neither did you acquire incense for me with silver, neither did I covet the fat of your
sacrifices. Instead, I stood before you C in your sins and in your unrighteous acts. 25 I
am, I am the one who erases your lawless acts, and I will not remember them. D 26 You
should remember, and let us be judged; tell your lawless acts first, so that you may be
justified. 27 First your fathers and their rulers committed lawless acts against me. 28 The
rulers defiled my holy things; I granted the destroying of Jacob, and for Israel to be a
reproach.
Isaiah 44
1 Now listen, my servant Jacob, and Israel whom I chose." 2 The Lord God, who made
you and who formed you from the womb, says this: "You will still be helped; do not be
afraid, my servant Jacob, the beloved Israel whom I chose. 3 For I will grant water when
there is thirst to those who walk in a dry place; I will place my Spirit on your seed and
my blessings on your children. 4 They will spring up like grass in the midst of water, and
like a willow beside flowing water. 5 This one will say, `I am God's,´ and that one will
cry out by the name of Jacob. Another will inscribe, `I am God's by the name of
Israel.´" E
6 God, the king of Israel, the one who delivered him, the God of sabaóth, say this: "I
am the first, and I am after these things; beside me there is no God. 7 Who is like me?
Let him stand, let him call, and let him prepare for me, since I made man forever. Let
A bound in ships VS* ¦ bound with collars ScA
B VS* ¦ + neither did you serve in your sacrifices, A ¦ + neither did you serve me in
your sacrifices, Sc ¦ + you did not serve me by bribes,
C I stood before you SA ¦ you stood before me V
D who erases your lawless acts, and I will not remember them. S ¦ who erases your
lawless acts on my own account, and I will not remember your sins. V ¦ who erases
your lawless acts, and I will not remember your unrighteous acts. A
E Another will inscribe, `I am God's by the name of Israel.´ ScA ¦ Another will inscribe,
`I am God's,´ and will cry out by the name of Israel. S* ¦ Another will inscribe with his
hand, `I am God's,´ and will cry out by the name of Israel. V

them announce to you the upcoming things before they come. 8 Do not disguise
yourselves. A Did you not hear from the beginning, and did I not tell you? You are
witnesses if there is a God beside me, and there were none at that time. 9 All those who
form and carve are vain, those who perform their desires which will not benefit them.
Instead, they will be ashamed, 10 all those who form a god and carve things which are
not beneficial. 11 They all withered from where they originated, and they are mute due
to men. Let them all gather and stand together; let them be disgraced and ashamed
together.
12 For the craftsman sharpened iron. He worked it with an axe and bored it with an
awl; he worked it with the arm of his strength. He will be hungry and weak, and will not
drink water. 13 The craftsman chose a piece of wood, set it up with a measure, and
arranged it with glue. He made it like the form of a man and like the beauty of a
person, to set it up in a house. 14 He cut this wood from a forest, which the Lord planted
and the rain made grow 15 so that it might be for men to burn. He took part of it and
warmed himself; they burned and baked loaves of bread over them. The rest they
worked into gods, and they are worshiping them. 16 Half of it they burned up in the fire;
they burned and baked loaves of bread over them. B He roasted meat over it, ate, and
was satisfied; he warmed himself and said, `I am pleased that I warmed myself and
saw the fire.´ 17 The rest he made into a carved god; he worships it and prays to it,
saying, `Rescue me, for you are my God.´
18 They do not know how to be intelligent, for they were blinded from seeing with
their eyes and understanding with their hearts. 19 He did not plan in his heart, consider
in his soul, or know with his intelligence that he burned up half of it in the fire, and over
its coals baked loaves of bread and roasted meat and ate, and made the rest of it into
an abomination, and they are worshiping it. 20 Know that their hearts are ashes. They
are wandering, and no one is able to rescue his soul. Look, will you not say, `There is a
lie in my right hand´?
21 Remember these things, O Jacob and Israel, for you are my servant. I formed you
as my servant; O Israel, do not forget me. 22 For behold, I blotted out your lawless acts
like a cloud and your sins like gloom. Return to me, and I will redeem you." 23 Be
cheerful, O heavens, for God showed mercy to Israel. Blow the trumpet, O foundations
of the earth; cry out, O mountains, with cheerfulness, O hills and all trees which are on
them, for God redeemed Jacob, and Israel will be glorified.
24 The Lord who redeems you and who forms you from the womb says this: "I am
the Lord who completes all things. I alone extended heaven and solidified the earth.
25 Who else will scatter from the heart the signs of the ventriloquists and their
divinations, by turning the intelligent back and making their counsel foolish, 26 by
confirming the word of his servant and verifying the counsel of his messengers? The
A SA ¦ + and do not wander V
B Half of it they burned up in the fire; they burned and baked loaves of bread over
them. S ¦ Half of it he burned up in the fire; they burned and baked loaves of bread
over them. A ¦ Half of it he burned up in the fire, and with half of it he baked loaves of
bread on the coals. V

one who says to Jerusalem, `You will be inhabited,´ and to the cities of Judea, A `You
will be built,´ and its desert places will spring forth, 27 who says to the abyss, `You will
be deserted, and I will dry up your rivers,´ 28 who says to Cyrus to be intelligent, and
`He will perform all my will,´ who says to Jerusalem, `You will be built, and I will lay
the foundation of my holy house.´"
Isaiah 45
1 The Lord God says this to my Christ, to Cyrus, whose right hand I held so that
nations might listen before him: "I will break through the strength of kings; I will open
doors before him, and cities will not be shut. 2 I will go before you, and I will level
mountains; I will smash bronze doors and break iron bars. 3 I will give you dark
treasures; I will open for you hidden, unseen treasures, so that you may know that I,
the Lord God who calls your name, am the God of Israel. 4 Because of Jacob my servant
and Israel my elect, I will call you by my name B and accept you; you yourself did not
know me. 5 For I am the Lord God; there is no other God beside me. I strengthened
you, C yet you were not acquainted with me, 6 so that those from the rising of the sun
and those from its setting might know that there is no one beside me. I am the Lord
God, and there is no one else. 7 I am the one who fashioned light and made darkness,
the one who makes peace and creates wicked things. D I am the Lord God, the one who
makes all these things.
8 Let heaven be cheerful from above, and let the clouds rain down righteousness. Let
the earth cause mercy to spring forth and sprout; let it likewise cause righteousness to
spring forth. I am the Lord who created you.
9 What better thing did I fashion like the clay of the potter? Will the plowman plow
the earth the entire day? Will the clay say to the potter, `What are you doing, since you
are not working, nor do you have hands´? E 10 Who says to the father, `What will you
conceive?´ and to the mother, `With what are you in labor?´" 11 For the Lord God, the
Holy One of Israel who made the upcoming things, says this: "Ask me concerning my
sons and concerning my daughters; command me concerning the works of my hands.
12 I made the earth, and man upon it. I solidified heaven with my hand; I commanded
all the stars. 13 I raised him up to be a king F with righteousness, and all his ways are
upright. He will build my city and will return the captivity of my people, not with
ransoms or with gifts," said the Lord of sabaóth.
14 The Lord of sabaóth says this: "Egypt and the commerce of the Ethiopians
labored; the exalted men of the Sabeans will come over to you, and they will be your
slaves. They will follow after you bound in handcuffs; they will worship you and pray
with regard to you, because God is in you. They will say, `There is no God beside you.
A Judea SA ¦ Idumea V
B my name VScA ¦ your name S*
C I strengthened you V ¦ ~ SA
D A reference to punishments for sin, as in 13:11 and 26:15
E ScA ¦ + 10 Will the form answer the one who formed it? VS*
F to be a king VS* ¦ ~ ScA

15
For you are God, yet we were not acquainted with you, the God of Israel, the savior.
16
All who oppose him will be ashamed and disgraced, and they will walk in shame.´ Be
restored to me, O islands." 17 Israel is being saved by the Lord with an eternal salvation;
they will not be ashamed or disgraced forever.
18
The Lord who made heaven, this God who displayed the earth and made it (he
marked its boundaries; he did not make it to be empty, but to be inhabited), says this:
"I am, and there is no one else. 19 I have not spoken in secret, nor in a dark place of the
earth. I did not say to the seed of Jacob, `Seek vanity.´ I am, I am the Lord, speaking
righteousness and announcing truth.
20
Gather and come; offer counsel together, you who are being saved from the
nations. Those who lift up wood as their carved image, who pray as if to gods who do
not save, did not know this. 21 If they will announce it, let them approach so that
together they may know who caused these things to be heard from the beginning.
Then it was announced to you, `I am God, and there is no other beside me; there is no
righteous one and savior except me.´ 22 Return to me and you will be saved, you who
are from the end of the earth. I am God, and there is no other. 23 By myself I swear:
righteousness will come out of my mouth. My words will not be turned back, for to me
every knee will bend and every tongue will acknowledge God, A
24 saying,
`Righteousness and glory will arrive with him.´ All who separate themselves will be
ashamed. 25 Due to the Lord they will be declared righteous, and in God all the seed of
the sons of Israel will be glorified.
Isaiah 46
1 Bel has fallen; Dagon B has been crushed. Their carvings are for wild animals and
livestock. You carry them bound like a burden for one who is weary 2 and one who is
hungry, together with one who has fainted because he has no strength, those who will
not be able to be saved from war; they themselves were led away captive.
3 Hear me, O house of Jacob and all the remnant of Israel, who are carried from the
womb and taught from infancy. 4 Until old age, I am, and until you grow old, I am; I am
bearing with you. I made, and I will release; I will take up and save you.
5 To whom did you compare me? Look; be skillful, you who are being deceived.
6 Those who collect gold from a purse and silver in a balance will stand it on a scale.
After they hired a goldsmith, they made handiworks; after they bow down, they
worship them. 7 They carry it on their shoulders and go. If they set it up, it remains in
its place; it will not move. Whoever cries out to him, he will not listen; he will not save
him from wicked things. 8 Remember these things and groan. Repent, you who have
been deceived; return in your hearts. 9 Remember the former things from of old, that I
am God, and there is nothing more beside me. 10 I report the last things first, before
they happen, and they are accomplished at once. I said, `All my counsel will stand, and
I will do all the things which I have planned.´ 11 From the east I am calling a bird, and
from a land far away those concerning whom I have planned. I spoke and brought; I
A acknowledge God ScA ¦ swear by God VS*
B Dagon SA ¦ Nebo V

created and made; I brought him and gave success to his way.
12 Hear me, you who have destroyed the heart, who are far from righteousness. 13 I
brought near my righteousness, and I will not be slow with the salvation which is from
me. I have given salvation in Zion to Israel, resulting in glorification.
Isaiah 47
1 Come down, sit on the ground, O virgin daughter of Babylon; enter the darkness, A
O daughter of the Chaldeans, for you will no longer continue to be called tender and
delicate. 2 Take a millstone, grind meal, remove your veil, uncover the gray hair, bare
the legs, pass through rivers. 3 Your shame will be uncovered, your reproaches will be
brought to light. I will take from you what is righteous; I will no longer deliver you up to
men." 4 The one who delivered you (the Lord of sabaóth is his name, the Holy One of
Israel) said, 5 "Sit stunned; enter the darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans. You will no
longer be called the strength of the kingdom. 6 I was provoked over my people; you
defiled my inheritance. I gave into your hand, but you did not give them mercy; you
made the yoke of the elder exceedingly heavy. 7 You said, `I will be a woman who rules
forever.´ You did not ponder these things in your heart or remember the last things.
8 Now hear these things, O delicate one who sits confidently, who says in her heart, `I
am, and there is no other; I will not sit as a widow or know orphanhood.´ 9 Now these
two things will arrive upon you suddenly in one day; widowhood and childlessness will
arrive suddenly upon you in connection with your sorcery, exceedingly in connection
with the strength of your enchantments, 10 in the hope of your evil. For you said, `I am,
and there is no other.´ Know that the understanding of these things and your
prostitution will be shame for you; you said in your heart, `I am, and there is no
other.´ 11 Destruction will arrive upon you, and you will not know; there will be a pit,
and you will fall into it. Distress will arrive upon you, and you will not be able to become
clean; destruction will arrive suddenly upon you, and you will not know. 12 Now stand in
your enchantments and your abundant sorcery, which things you learned from your
youth, if you are able to be benefited. 13 You have labored in your counsels. Let the
astrologers of the heaven stand and save you; let those who see the stars tell you what
is about to come upon you. 14 Behold, they all will be burned up like sticks over a fire,
and they will not rescue their souls from the flame. Because you have coals of fire, sit
on them; 15 these will be a help to you! You have labored in your transition from youth.
Each man wandered by himself; there will be no salvation for you."
Isaiah 48
1 Hear these things, O house of Jacob, the ones who have been called by the name
of Israel and the ones who came out of Judah, the ones who swear by the name of the
Lord God of Israel, mentioning it, but not with truth or with righteousness, 2 laying claim
to the name of the holy city and leaning on the God of Israel (the Lord of sabaóth is his
name). 3 I already reported the former things; they came out of my mouth and became
A enter the darkness SA ¦ sit on the ground V ¦ sit on the ground; there is no throne

audible; I acted suddenly, and it came to pass. 4 I know that you are hard; your neck is
an iron sinew, and your forehead is bronze. 5 I reported to you of old; before it came
upon you, I made it audible to you. Do not say, `The idols did it for me,´ and do not
say, `The carvings and molten objects commanded me.´ 6 You heard all these things,
yet you did not know; instead, I have made audible to you from now on the new things
which are about to happen, yet you did not talk. 7 They are happening now, and not of
old; you did not hear of them in former days. Do not say, `Yes, I know them.´ 8 You
neither knew nor understood, nor did I open your ears from the beginning, for I knew
that you would be treacherous and would be called a lawless one even from the womb.
9 For the sake of my name I will show you my fury, and I will bring upon you my
glorious acts so that I may not eliminate you. 10 Behold, I have sold you, not for the
sake of silver; I rescued you from the furnace of poverty. 11 For my own sake I will do
this for you, because my name has been profaned; I will not give my glory to another.
12 Listen to me, O Jacob and the one whom I call Israel; I am the first, and I am
forever. 13 My hand founded the earth, and my right hand made the sky firm; I will call
them, and they will stand together. 14 All will be gathered and will listen. Who told them
these things? Since I loved you, I performed your will against Babylon, to take away the
seed of the Chaldeans. 15 I spoke; I called; I brought him and made his way successful.
16 Approach me and listen to these things. I did not speak in secret from the beginning,
nor in a darkened place of the land. A When it happened, I was there; now the Lord and
his Spirit has sent me forth. 17 The Lord who delivered you, the Holy One of Israel, says
this: "I am your God; I have shown you how you find the way in which you should go.
18 If you listened to my commandments, your peace would have become like a river and
your righteousness like a wave of the sea. 19 Your seed would have become like the
sand and the offspring of your belly like the soil of the ground. Even now you will not
be eliminated, nor will your name perish before me.
20 Come out of Babylon, you who flee from the Chaldeans; report the sound of
cheerfulness. Let this become audible; announce it to the end of the earth. Say, `The
Lord delivered his slave Jacob.´ 21 If they are thirsty, he will lead them through the
desert; he will bring forth water for them out of the rock. The rock will be divided,
water will flow, and my people will drink. 22 There is no rejoicing for the ungodly," says
the Lord.
Isaiah 49
1 Listen to me, you islands, and pay attention, you nations. "Through much time it
will stand," says the Lord. From the womb of my mother he called my name. 2 He set up
my mouth like a sharp sword and hid me under the shelter of his hand; he set me up
like a select arrow and sheltered me in his quiver. 3 He said to me, "You are my slave, O
Israel, and in you I will be glorified." 4 I said, "I labored in vain, and I gave my strength
for emptiness and for nothing. Because of this, my justice is with the Lord, and my toil
is before my God."
5 Now the Lord, who formed me from the womb as a slave for himself in order to
A nor in a darkened place of the land S*A ¦ ~ VSc

gather Jacob and Israel to him (I will be gathered and glorified before the Lord, and my
God will be my strength), says this; 6 he said to me, "It is great for you to be called my
servant, in order to establish the tribes of Jacob and return the dispersion of Israel.
Behold, I have set you up as a testament of the race, as a light of the nations, so that
you may result in salvation to the end of the earth."
7 The Lord who delivered you, the God of Israel, says this: "Sanctify the one who
despises his soul, who is abhorred by the nations who are the slaves of the rulers. Kings
will see him and rulers will arise, and they will worship him because of the Lord. For the
Holy One of Israel is faithful, and I chose you."
8 The Lord says this: "In an acceptable season I heard you, and on a day of salvation
I helped you. I formed you, and A I gave you as a testament of the nations, to establish
the earth and to inherit the inheritance of the desert, 9 while saying, `Come out,´ to
those who are in chains and to those who are in the darkness, in order that they might
be revealed. They will be fed in all their ways, and their pasture will be in all the paths.
10 They will not hunger or thirst, nor will heat or the sun attack them; instead, the one
who has mercy on them will comfort them, and he will lead them through springs of
waters. 11 I will set up every mountain as a way and every path as a pasture for them.
12 Behold, these will come from a distance, and these from the north, and these from
the sea, and others from the land of the Persians." 13 Be cheerful, you heavens. Let the
earth be glad; let the mountains break forth with cheerfulness and the hills with
righteousness, B for the Lord had mercy on his people, and he comforted the humble of
his people.
14 Zion said, "The Lord abandoned me, and the Lord forgot me." 15 "Will a woman
forget her infant, so as not to have mercy on the offspring of her womb? But even if a
woman should forget these, nevertheless I will not forget you," said the Lord.
16 "Behold, I painted your walls on my hands, and you are continually before me. 17 You
will soon be built by those by whom you were demolished, and those who made you
desolate will come out of you. 18 Lift up your eyes round about and see all of them.
Behold, they gathered together and came to you. As I live," says the Lord, "you will
clothe yourself with all of them C and put them on like a bride's ornament. 19 For your
deserted and ruined and sunken places will now be crowded due to those who reside in
them, and those who swallowed you will become distant from you. 20 For your sons
whom you have lost will say in your ears, `The place is crowded for me; make a place
for me so that I may have a residence.´ 21 You will say in your heart, `Who conceived
these for me? I was childless and a widow; who reared these for me? I was left alone;
where did I have these?´"
22 The Lord says this: "Behold, I am lifting up my hand to the nations, and I will lift
up my signal to the islands. They will bring your sons in their lap, and they will lift up
your daughters on their shoulders. 23 Kings will be your foster fathers, and women who
rule will be your nurses. They will worship you on the surface of the earth and will lick
A I formed you, and V ¦ ~ SA
B and the hills with righteousness S* ¦ ~ VScA
C SA ¦ + like an ornament V ¦ + like a robe

the dirt of your feet. You will know that I am the Lord, and you A will not be ashamed."
24 Will someone take spoils from a giant? If someone should capture unjustly, will he be
saved? 25 The Lord says this: "If someone should capture a giant, he will take spoils, and
the one who takes from the one who is strong will be saved. I will judge your case, and
I will deliver your sons. 26 Those who oppressed you will eat their own flesh; they will
drink their own blood like fresh wine and become intoxicated. All flesh will perceive that
I am the Lord who delivered you and who protects the strength of Jacob."
Isaiah 50
1 The Lord says this: "What is your mother's document of separation, by which I sent
her away? Or for what debt have I sold you? Behold, you were sold for your sins; I sent
your mother away for your lawless acts. 2 Why is it that I came, and there was no man?
I called, and there was no one who responded. Is my hand not strong enough to
deliver? Am I not strong enough to rescue? Behold, I will cause the sea to be deserted
by my threatening; B I will turn rivers into deserts. Their fish will dry up due to there
being no water, and they will die in thirst. 3 I will clothe heaven with darkness, and I will
make its covering like sackcloth."
4 The Lord is giving me a disciplined tongue to know at the appropriate time when it
is necessary to say a word. He set me up in the morning; he added an ear to me in
order to hear. 5 The discipline of the Lord opens my ears; I do not distrust or contradict.
6 I have given my back to whips and my cheeks to slaps; I did not turn my face away
from the shame of spittings. 7 The Lord became my helper; because of this, I was not
disgraced, but I set my face like a solid rock and knew that I would not be ashamed.
8 For the one who declared me righteous is near; who is the one judges me? Let him
oppose me right now. Who is the one who judges me? Let him come near me. 9 Behold,
the Lord is helping me; who will harm me? Behold, all of you will grow old like a
garment, and something like a moth will consume you.
10 Who among you is the one who fears the Lord? Let him hear the voice of his
servant. You who walk in darkness and have no light, trust in the name of the Lord and
lean on God. 11 Behold, all of you; light a fire and strengthen a flame. Walk by the light
of your fire, and by the flame which you kindled. These things happened to you
because of me; you will lie down in sorrow.
Isaiah 51
1 "Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek the Lord. Look at the
solid rock which you quarried, and at the hole of the pit which you dug. 2 Look at
Abraham your father and at Sarah who labored with you. For he was just one, and I
called him, blessed him, loved him, and multiplied him. 3 Now I will comfort you, O Zion;
I comforted all her deserted places. I will make her deserted places like a paradise, and
A you SA ¦ those who wait for me V
B my threatening ScA ¦ my reproof V ¦ my reproof and my threatening S*

her western places like the paradise of the Lord. A They will find in her cheerfulness and
gladness, acknowledgment and the sound of praise.
4 Listen to me; listen, O my people, and you kings, hear me. For law will come out
from me, and my justice will be as a light of the nations. 5 My righteousness quickly
draws near, and my salvation will come out like light. Nations will have hope in my arm;
islands will wait for me, and will have hope in my arm. 6 Lift up your eyes to heaven and
look at the earth below. For heaven solidified like smoke, and the earth will grow old
like a garment. Those who reside on the earth will die just as these, but my salvation
will be forever and my righteousness will not fail.
7 Listen to me, you who are acquainted with justice, O my people, in whose hearts is
my law. Do not be afraid of the reproaching of men, and do not be defeated by their
contempt. 8 For it will be devoured like a garment by time, and it will be devoured like
wool by a moth, but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation for generations
of generations.
9 Wake up, wake up, O Jerusalem, and put on the strength of your arm; wake up as
at the beginning of a day, as in an ancient generation. 10 Are you not she who made the
sea deserted, the abundant water of the abyss, she who set up the depths of the sea as
a way of passage for the delivered and the redeemed? 11 For by the Lord they will return
and arrive in Zion with cheerfulness and eternal gladness, for gladness and praise will
be on their heads, and cheerfulness will take hold of them. Grief, sorrow, and sighing
have fled away.
12 I am, I am the one who is comforting you. Know whom you were wary of; you
were afraid of mortal man and of a son of man, who dried up like grass. 13 You forgot
the God who made you, who made heaven and founded the earth. You were always
afraid every day of the presence of the anger of the one who oppressed you. For just
as he advised to take you away, even now where is the anger of the one who
oppressed you? 14 For when you are saved, he will not stand or linger, 15 because I am
your God, the one who disturbs the sea and crashes its waves; the Lord of sabaóth is
my name. 16 I will place my words into your mouth, and I will shelter you under the
shadow of my hand, with which I established heaven and founded the earth." He will
also say to Zion, "You are my people."
17 Wake up, wake up; arise, O Jerusalem, she who drank the cup of anger from the
hand of the Lord. For you drank out of and emptied the cup of failure, the goblet of
anger, 18 and there was no one who was comforting you from all your children to whom
you gave birth, and there was no one who was taking hold of your hand, not even from
all your sons whom you raised. 19 These two things are opposed to you; who will grieve
with you? There is downfall and ruin, famine and sword; who will comfort you? 20 Your
sons are those who are perplexed, who lie down at the top of every passageway like a
half-boiled beet, who are full of the anger of the Lord, made to faint by the Lord God.
21 Because of this, listen, you who are humiliated and intoxicated, yet not from wine.
22 The Lord God who judges his people says this: "Behold, I have taken out of your hand
A like a paradise, and her western places like the paradise of the Lord VS* ¦ like the
paradise of the Lord ScA

the cup of failure, the goblet of anger; you will no longer continue to drink it. 23 I will
give it into the hands of those who wronged you and those who humiliated you, who
said to your soul, `Bow down so that we may pass by.´ You placed your backs level
with the earth for those who were going by outside."
Isaiah 52
1 Wake up, wake up, O Zion. Put on your strength, O Zion. Put on your glory, O
Jerusalem, the holy city. No longer will the uncircumcised and unclean man continue to
pass through you. 2 Shake off the dirt and arise; sit down, O Jerusalem. Take off the
chain on your neck, O captive daughter of Zion. 3 For thus says the Lord: "You were sold
for free, and you will be redeemed without silver." 4 The Lord says this: "Formerly, my
people went down to Egypt to sojourn there, and they were led to the Assyrians by
force. 5 Now why are you here?" Thus says the Lord: "Because my people were taken
for free, you are amazed and you howl." Thus says the Lord: "Because of you, my
name is constantly blasphemed among the nations. 6 Because of this, my people will
know my name on that day, for I myself am the one who is speaking.
7 I am present like springtime on the mountains, like the feet of one who preaches as
good news a report of peace, like one who preaches good things. For I will cause your
salvation to be heard; I will say, `O Zion, your God reigns.´ 8 For the voice of those who
guard you was lifted up, and they will be cheerful together with one voice. For they will
exchange glances when the Lord has mercy on Zion. 9 Let the deserted places of
Jerusalem break forth in cheerfulness together, for the Lord had mercy on it and
delivered Jerusalem. 10 The Lord will reveal his holy arm in the sight of all the nations,
and all the heights of the earth will see the salvation which is from our God.
11 Depart, depart; come out of there, and do not touch what is unclean. Come out of
its midst; be separate, you who carry the vessels of the Lord. 12 For you will not come
out in confusion, nor will you go in flight. For the Lord will go ahead of you, and the
one who gathers you will be the Lord God of Israel.
13 Behold, my servant will understand; he will be exalted and glorified exceedingly.
14 Just as there are many who will be astonished at you, so will your appearance be held
in contempt by men, and your glory will be held in contempt by men. 15 So, many
nations will be amazed at him, and kings will shut their mouths, for those who were not
told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand."
Isaiah 53
1 O Lord, who believed our report? To whom was the arm of the Lord revealed? 2 In
his presence we described him as a child, as a root in a thirsty land. There is no
attractiveness or glory in him; we saw him, and he had no attractiveness or beauty.
3 Instead, his appearance is without honor, a failure beyond all the sons of men. He is a
man in calamity, acquainted with the bearing of sickness. For he has turned his face
away; he was dishonored and not reckoned.
4 He carries our sins and suffers pain regarding us, and we reckoned him to be in
trouble, in calamity, and in distress. 5 He was wounded because of our lawless acts and

has been made sick because of our sins. The discipline of our peace was on him; we
were healed by his bruise. 6 All of us wandered like sheep; each man wandered in his
own way. The Lord delivered him up to our sins.
7 Because he is distressed, he does not open his mouth. He is led like a sheep to
slaughter; as a lamb is voiceless in the presence of the one who shears it, so he does
not open his mouth. 8 His justice was taken away in his humiliation; who will give an
account of his generation? For his life is taken away from the earth. Due to the lawless
acts of my people he was led to death. 9 I will give the evil in the place of his burial and
the rich in the place of his death. For he did not perform lawlessness, nor was deceit
found in his mouth.
10 The Lord wishes to cleanse him of calamity; whenever you give something
concerning sin, your souls will see long-lived seed. 11 The Lord wishes to relieve the
trouble of his soul, to show him light and form him with understanding, to declare him
righteous who serves many people well. He himself will remove their sins. 12 Because of
this, he will inherit many people and divide the spoils of the strong, for his soul was
delivered up to death and was reckoned among the lawless. He himself removed the
sins of many people and was delivered up because of their lawless acts.
Isaiah 54
1 "Be cheerful, you who are barren, who are not giving birth. Break forth and shout,
you who are not going into labor. For the children of the deserted woman are more
numerous than those of the one who has a husband, for the Lord said so. 2 Enlarge the
place of your tent and of your curtains. Fasten it together; spare no effort. Lengthen
your cords and strengthen your stakes. 3 Spread out more to the right and to the left;
your seed will inherit the nations, and you will inhabit the cities which have been
deserted. 4 Do not be afraid because you were put to shame, or be disgraced because
you were reproached. For you will forget eternal shame and will not remember the
reproach of your widowhood. 5 For it is the Lord who made you; the Lord of sabaóth is
his name. The one who delivered you is himself the God of Israel; he will be summoned
by all the earth. 6 The Lord has not summoned you like an abandoned and faint-hearted
woman, nor as a woman who has been hated from youth," said your God. 7 "For a little
while I abandoned you, yet with great mercy I will have mercy on you. 8 In a little anger
I turned my face away from you, yet with eternal mercy I will have mercy on you," said
the Lord who delivered you.
9 "Since the water which involved Noah, this is my concern: just as I swore to him at
that time that I would no longer be angry at the earth over you, nor in any threat to
you 10 would I remove the mountains, nor would your hills be shifted, so neither will the
mercy which is from me fail you, nor will the testament of your peace be removed, for
the Lord said he would be merciful to you.
11 O humbled and unsettled one, you have not been comforted. Behold, I am
preparing for you a garnet as your stone and a sapphire as your foundations. 12 I will
cause your battlements to be jasper, your gates to be crystal stones, your enclosing
wall to be select stones, 13 all your sons to be taught of God, and your children to be in
great peace. 14 You will be built in righteousness. Abstain from wrongdoing, and you will

not be afraid; trembling will not come near you. 15 Behold, converts will approach you
through me, A and they will seek refuge in you. 16 Behold, I am creating you, not like a
coppersmith who blows on coals and brings out a vessel for work; I created you, not in
order to ruin resulting in destruction. 17 I will not give success to any ruined vessel
against you. B Every voice will arise against you for judgment; you will vanquish them
all, and your guilty ones will be in the same condition. There is an inheritance for those
who attend the Lord, and you will be righteous for me," says the Lord.
Isaiah 55
1 "You who are thirsty, go to the water, and as many as do not have silver, proceed
and buy; drink wine and fat without silver and price. 2 Why do you value what comes
from silver, and your labor which does not result in satisfaction? Hear me, and you will
eat good things; your souls will feast on good things. 3 Pay attention with your ears and
follow my ways; listen to me, and your souls will live among good things. I will make
for you an eternal testament, the hallowed things of David, the faithful things. 4 Behold,
I have given him as a testimony among the nations, as a ruler and commander to the
nations. 5 Nations which were not acquainted with you will call upon you, and peoples
who did not comprehend you will flee to you, because of your God, the Holy One of
Israel, for he glorified you."
6 Seek God, and when you find him, call upon him. Whenever he draws near to you,
7 let the ungodly one leave his ways and the lawless man his counsels; let him return to
the Lord, and he will be shown mercy, for he will abundantly forgive your sins. 8 "For my
counsels are not like your counsels, nor are my ways like your ways," says the Lord.
9 "But as the heaven is distant from the earth, so is my way distant from your ways and
your thoughts from my mind. 10 For as rain or snow descends from heaven and does not
return until it saturates the earth, and it brings forth, sprouts, and gives seed to the
sower and bread for food, 11 so will my word be, whatever comes out of my mouth; it
will not return until as many things as I wanted have been accomplished. I will give
success to your ways and my commands. 12 For you will come out in gladness and will
be taught in joy; for the mountains and the hills will leap to accept you in joy, and all
the trees of the field will applaud with their branches. 13 Instead of the bramble, the
cypress will come up, and instead of the nettle, the myrtle will come up. The Lord will
become a name and an eternal sign, and he will not fail."
Isaiah 56
1 Thus says the Lord: "Preserve justice and perform righteousness, for my salvation
is close to arriving, and my mercy is close to being revealed. 2 Fortunate is the man who
performs these things and the person who takes hold of them, who preserves the
sabbaths by not profaning them and maintains his hands in not performing
unrighteousness." 3 Let the stranger who is attached to the Lord not say, "The Lord will
A SA ¦ + and will sojourn with you V
B any ruined vessel against you SA ¦ any vessel devised against you V

separate me from his people." Let the eunuch not say, "I am a dry tree." 4 Thus says the
Lord: "To the eunuchs, as many as preserve my sabbaths, and choose the things which
I want, and take hold of my testament, 5 I will give an honorable place inside my house
and inside my wall, better than that of sons and daughters. I will give an eternal name
to them, and it will not fail, 6 also to the strangers who are attached to the Lord in order
to serve him and to love the name of the Lord, so as to be male and female slaves for
him. As for all those who preserve my sabbaths by not profaning them and take hold of
my testament, 7 I will bring them to my holy mountain and cheer them in the house of
my prayer. Their whole burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be acceptable on my
altar, for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations," 8 said the Lord who
gathers the dispersed of Israel, "for I will gather a congregation over him.
9 All you beasts of the field, come forth; eat, all you beasts of the forest. 10 See that
they have all been blinded; they did not know how to be intelligent. They are all dumb
dogs; they cannot bark while they dream about bedtime, while they grow fond of
sleeping. 11 The dogs are shameless in soul; they are not acquainted with satisfaction.
They are evil; they are not acquainted with understanding. All of them followed in their
ways, each according to his own. A
Isaiah 57
1 See how the righteous one perished, and no one takes it to heart; righteous men
are taken away, and no one notices. For the righteous one has been taken away from
the presence of unrighteousness. 2 His burial will be in peace; he has been taken away
from the midst. 3 Approach here, you lawless sons, you seed of adulterers and a
prostitute. 4 In what did you take delight? Against whom did you open your mouths, and
against whom did you loosen your tongues? Are you not children of destruction, a
lawless seed? 5 You are the ones who call upon the idols under bushy trees, who slay
their children in the valleys between the cliffs. 6 That is your portion; this is your lot. To
these you poured out drink offerings, and to these you brought sacrifices. Will I not
then be wrathful over these things? 7 On a high and lofty mountain, there is your bed,
and there you carried up sacrifices. 8 Behind the posts of your door you placed your
memorials. You supposed that if you should stand apart from me, you would have
something more. You loved those who lay with you, 9 and you multiplied your
prostitution with them. You made numerous those who were at a distance from you,
and you sent forth ambassadors beyond your borders. You turned away, and B you were
humiliated as far as Hades. 10 You grew tired of your many ways, yet you did not say, `I
will cease strengthening myself.´ For you practiced these things; because of this, you
did not petition me.
11 Whom did you reverence and fear? You lied about me, and did not remember me
or take me into your mind or into your heart. Even when I see you, I take no notice, yet
A VSA ¦ + from his inmost being. Come, let us take wine and get drunk with liquor;
tomorrow will be a day as great as this one, very much so.
B You turned away, and ScA ¦ ~ VS*

you did not fear me. 12 I will also announce my righteousness A and your wicked acts,
which will not benefit you. 13 Whenever you cry out, let them rescue you in your
oppression. For all these the wind will take and the hurricane will carry away, but those
who hold on to me will possess the land and will inherit my holy mountain. 14 They will
say, `Cleanse the ways before his face, and pick up the hindrances B from the way of
my people.´"
15 Thus says the Lord Most High, who resides in the highest places forever (the Holy
One among the holy ones is his name, the Lord Most High resting among the holy ones,
giving patience to the faint-hearted and giving life to the broken-hearted): 16 "I will not
take vengeance on you forever, nor will I continually be wrathful with you, for the Spirit
will come out from me; I myself made every breath. 17 On account of sin, I grieved him
for a little while; I struck him, and I turned my face away from him. He was grieved,
and he went sullen on his ways. 18 I have seen his ways, and I healed him and
comforted him. I gave him genuine comfort, 19 peace upon peace to those who are far
and to those who are near." The Lord also said, "I will heal them. 20 The unrighteous will
thus be tossed like waves and will not be able to rest. 21 There is nothing for the
ungodly to rejoice over," said the Lord God.
Isaiah 58
1 "Cry out in strength and do not hold back; lift up your voice like a trumpet, and
declare their sins to my people and their lawless acts to the house of Jacob. 2 They seek
me day by day and covet knowing my ways, like a people which had performed
righteousness and had not abandoned the judgment of their God. They now ask me for
righteous judgment and covet drawing near to God, 3 saying, `Why is it that we fasted,
and you did not see? Why did we humble our souls, and you did not know?´ For in the
days of your fasts you find your own desires, and you sting all who are under your
hand. 4 If you fast for judgments and battles and hit a humble person with fists, why do
you fast for me like today so that your voice may be heard in shouting? 5 I did not
choose this fast and day for a man to humble his soul, not even if you should bend
down your neck like a chain link and spread sackcloth and ash underneath you; not
even in this way will you call a fast acceptable. 6 I did not choose such a fast," says the
Lord. "Instead, dissolve every conspiracy of unrighteousness, untie the knots of violent
contracts, send forth the bruised in liberty, and cancel every unjust account. 7 Break
your bread with a hungry person and lead the unsheltered poor to your house. If you
see someone naked, clothe him, and you will not overlook the domestic affairs of your
own seed. 8 Then your light will break forth like the morning, and your healings will
quickly spring up. Your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of God will
encompass you. 9 Then you will cry out, and God will listen to you; while you are still
speaking he will say, `Behold, I am present.´ If you remove from yourself the
conspiracy, the show of hands, and the complaining speech, 10 and give bread from your
soul to a hungry person and satisfy a humbled soul, then your light will spring up in the
A my righteousness ScA ¦ your righteousness VS*
B Or, "thorns"

darkness, and your darkness will be like noon. 11 Your God will be with you continually,
and you will be satisfied according to what your soul covets. Your bones will become
fat, and they will be like a well-watered garden and like a fountain from which water
has not failed. A 12 Your eternal deserts will be built up, and your foundations will be
eternal for generations of generations. You will be called a repairer of breaches, and
you will bring an end to the paths between.
13 If you turn your foot back due to the sabbaths, so as not to perform your own
desires on the holy day, you will call the sabbaths delights, holy to your God; you will
not lift up your foot for work nor speak a word in anger out of your mouth. 14 You will
trust in the Lord, and he will bring you up to the good things of the land and feed you
with the inheritance of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken these
things."
Isaiah 59
1 Is the hand of the Lord not strong to save? Or did he disable his ear so as not to
listen? 2 On the contrary, your sinful acts set you apart from God, and on account of
your sins he turned his face away from you so as not to show mercy. 3 For your hands
have been defiled by blood and your fingers with sins; your lips spoke lawlessness and
your tongues meditate on unrighteousness. 4 No one speaks righteous things, neither is
there true judgment; they trust in vanities and speak empty things, for they conceive
trouble and give birth to lawlessness. 5 They hatched the eggs of asps and are weaving
a spider's web. The one who is about to eat their eggs cracked an unfertilized one and
found a cobra even in it. 6 Their web will not become a garment, nor will they be clothed
by their works, for their works are works of lawlessness. 7 Their feet run to evil; they are
swift to shed blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of murder; B ruin and misery are in
their ways. 8 They are not acquainted with the way of peace, and there is no justice in
their ways, for their paths by which they travel are crooked, and they are not
acquainted with peace.
9 Because of this, justice departed from them, and righteousness will not overtake
them. While they waited for light, darkness came to them; while they waited for
brightness, they walked in the dead of night. 10 They will feel for a wall like blind men,
and will feel for it as if they had no eyes. They will fall at noon as at midnight; they will
groan like the dying. 11 They will go together like a bear and a dove. We waited for
justice, and there is none; salvation stood far apart from us. 12 For our lawlessness is
great before you, and our sins rose up against us. For our lawless acts are in us, and
we knew our unrighteous acts. 13 We became ungodly, lied, and rebelled against our
God; we spoke unrighteous things and were distrustful; we conceived and meditated on
unrighteous words from our hearts. 14 We turned back justice, and righteousness stood
far apart, for the truth is consumed in their ways, and they could not pass through what
is straight. 15 Truth was taken away, and they turned their minds from understanding.
A
VS* ¦ + Your bones will spring up like vegetation and become fat, and they will inherit
generations of generations. ScA
B
thoughts of murder VSc ¦ thoughts of fools S*A

The Lord looked, and it did not please him that there was no justice. 16 He looked, and
there was no man; he observed, and there was no one who helped. He defended them
with his arm and established them with his mercy. 17 He put on righteousness like a
breastplate and placed the helmet of salvation on his head; he clothed himself with the
cloak and garment of vengeance, 18 like one who is about to render a reprisal, a
reproach to the adversaries. 19 Those who are from the west will fear the name of the
Lord, and those who are from the rising of the sun will fear his glorious name, for the
wrath from the Lord will arrive like a violent river; it will arrive with fury. 20 The one who
delivers will arrive because of Zion, and he will turn ungodliness away from Jacob.
21 "This is the testament from me to them," said the Lord. "My Spirit which is upon you
and the words which I gave to your mouth will not fail from your mouth and from the
mouth of your seed, for the Lord said it, from now on and forever.
Isaiah 60
1 Be enlightened, be enlightened, O Jerusalem, for your light arrived, and the glory of
the Lord has risen over you. 2 Behold, darkness and gloom will cover the earth over the
nations, but the Lord will appear over you and his glory will be seen over you. 3 Kings
will travel in your light, and nations in your brightness.
4 Lift up your eyes all around, and see your children gathered! Behold, all your sons
have arrived from a distance, and your daughters will be carried on shoulders. 5 Then
you will see, fear, and be amazed in heart, for the wealth of the sea, of nations, and of
peoples, will surround you. 6 Herds of camels will arrive for you, and the camels of
Midian and Ephah will cover you. All from Sheba will arrive bringing gold; they will bring
incense, A and they will preach the good news of the salvation of the Lord. 7 All the flocks
of Kedar will gather for you, and the rams of Nebaioth will arrive for you. Acceptable
things will be brought up on my altar, and the house of my prayer will be glorified.
8 Who are these who fly B like clouds and like doves with young ones? 9 The islands
waited for me; the ships of Tarshish were among the first to bring your children from a
distance, and silver and gold with them, because of the holy name of the Lord and
because the Holy One of Israel is glorious. 10 Aliens will build your walls, and their kings
will attend to you, for because of my wrath I attacked you, and because of mercy I
loved you. 11 Your gates will be opened continually (they will not be shut day and night),
in order to bring in to you the power of the nations and their kings being led away.
12 For the nations and the kings who will not serve you will perish; those nations will
become desolate. 13 The glory of Lebanon will arrive at you, together with cypress, pine,
and cedar, to glorify my holy place. 14 The sons of those who humiliated you and
provoked you will go to you with anxiety; you will be called the city of the Lord, Zion of
the Holy One of Israel. 15 Because you have become abandoned and hated, and there
was no one who helped, I will set you up as eternal gladness, the cheerfulness of
generations for generations. 16 You will nurse on the milk of nations and will eat the
wealth of kings; you will know that I am the Lord who saves you and rescues you, the
A VSc ¦ + and precious stone S*A
B fly SA ¦ fly over me V

God of Israel. 17 Instead of bronze I will bring you gold, instead of iron I will bring you
silver, instead of wood I will bring you bronze, and instead of stones, iron. I will give
your rulers in peace and your overseers in righteousness. 18 Wrongdoing will no longer
be heard in your land, nor will ruin or misery within your borders; instead, your walls
will be called Salvation and your gates Insignia. 19 You will not have the sun as a light
during the day, nor will the rising of the moon illuminate the night for you; instead, the
Lord will be an eternal light for you, and God will be your glory. 20 For the sun will not
set for you, and the moon will not be eclipsed for you, for the Lord will be an eternal
light for you, and the days of your mourning will be completed. 21 Your people will all be
righteous. They will inherit the land forever, preserving the planting, the works of their
hands, for glory. 22 The smallest will become thousands, and the least a great nation. I,
the Lord, will gather them at the appropriate time.
Isaiah 61
1 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he anointed me. He has sent me forth
to preach good news to the poor, to heal the broken in heart, to proclaim liberty for the
captives and restored sight for the blind, 2 to summon an acceptable year of the Lord
and a day of repayment, to comfort all who mourn, 3 so that there might be given to the
mourners of Zion glory instead of ashes, the oil of cheerfulness to the mourners, the
robe of glory instead of the spirit of indifference. They will be called generations of
righteousness, the planting of the Lord resulting in glory. 4 They will build on the eternal
deserts; they will raise up those formerly deserted. They will renew the desert cities
which have been deserted for generations. 5 Other races will arrive and shepherd your
flocks, and other tribes A will be your plowmen and vinedressers. 6 You will be called
priests of the Lord, public servants of God. You will devour the strength of nations, and
will be amazed by their wealth. 7 In this way they will inherit the land a second time,
and eternal cheerfulness will be above their heads. 8 For I am the Lord who loves
righteousness and hates plunderings as a result of injustice. I will give the results of
their hard labor to the righteous, and I will make an eternal testament for them. 9 Their
seed will be known among the nations, and their offspring in the midst of the peoples. B
Everyone who sees them will recognize them, for they are a seed blessed by God.
10 They will be cheered with cheerfulness in the Lord."
Let my soul be glad over the Lord, for he clothed me with the garment of salvation
and the tunic of cheerfulness. He put a turban on me as on a bridegroom, and adorned
me with ornaments as a bride. 11 Like the earth growing its flower and like a garden its
seeds, so the Lord will cause righteousness and gladness to spring forth before all the
nations.
A allophuloi, elsewhere "Philistines"
B Their seed will be known among the nations, and their offspring in the midst of the
peoples VS* ¦ Their seed and their offspring will be known among the nations ScA

Isaiah 62
1 Because of Zion I will not be silent, and because of Jerusalem I will not give up,
until my righteousness A comes out like a light; my salvation will burn like a torch.
2 Nations will see your righteousness and kings your glory. They will call you by your
new name, which the Lord will name. 3 You will be a beautiful crown in the hand of the
Lord and a royal diadem in the hand of your God. 4 You will no longer be called
Abandoned, and your land will no longer be called The Desert. For you will be called My
Delight and your land The Inhabited World. B 5 As a young man resides together with a
virgin, so will your sons reside with you. C In the manner a bridegroom is cheerful over a
bride, so will the Lord be cheerful over you. 6 On your walls, O Jerusalem, I placed
watchmen for the entire day and the entire night, who will never stop mentioning the
Lord. 7 For no one is similar to you, even if he should engage in restoration and make
Jerusalem a source of pride on the earth. 8 The Lord swore by his glory D and by the
strength of his arm, "I will no longer give your grain and your foods to your enemies,
and the sons of strangers will no longer drink your wine, over which you toiled.
9 Instead, those who gathered them will eat them, and they will praise the Lord; those
who gathered them will drink of them in my holy courts.
10 Go through my gates and make way for my people. Disperse the stones from the
way; raise a signal for the nations." 11 For behold, the Lord made it audible to the end of
the earth: "Say to the daughter of Zion, `Behold, the savior has arrived for you; he has
his reward and his work before his face.´" 12 They will call them The Holy People
Redeemed by the Lord; you will be called The City Sought After and Not Abandoned.
Isaiah 63
1 Who is this who is arriving from Edom, the redness of garments from Bozrah, thus
beautiful in apparel, in force with strength? "I am discussing righteousness and the
justice of salvation." 2 For what reason are your garments red and your clothes as from
a trampled winepress? 3 "I am full of what has been trampled down, and there is no
man with me from the nations. I trampled them down in fury, dashed them to pieces
like earth, and brought their blood down to the earth. 4 For a day of repayment came
upon them, and a year of redemption is present. 5 I looked, and no one was a helper; I
observed, and no one protected. My arm delivered them, and my fury was established.
6 I trampled them down in my wrath, and brought their blood down to the earth."
7 I remembered the mercy of the Lord, the virtues of the Lord in all things by which
he is repaying us. The Lord is a good judge for the house of Israel; he supplies us
according to his mercy and according to the abundance of his righteousness. 8 He said,
"Isn't this my people? The children won't reject, will they?" He became salvation for
them 9 from all their oppression. Not an ambassador nor a messenger, but the Lord
A my righteousness SA ¦ its righteousness V
B SA ¦ + For the Lord approved you, and your land will be united. V
C with you SA ¦ ~ V
D his glory V*SA ¦ his right hand Vc

himself saved them because he loved them and spared them. He himself redeemed
them, took them up, and exalted them all the days of the age. 10 But they distrusted and
provoked his Holy Spirit. He turned to them in animosity; he himself battled them. 11 The
one who brought the shepherd of the sheep up from the earth remembered the ancient
days. A Where is the one who placed the Holy Spirit in them, 12 the one who led Moses
with his right hand, the arm of his glory? He forced water from his presence, to make
for himself an eternal name. 13 He led them through the abyss like a horse through a
desert, and they did not labor, 14 and like livestock through a plain. The Spirit came
down from the Lord and guided them; you led your people in this way to make for
yourself a name of glory.
15 Return from heaven; look from your holy house of glory. Where is your zeal and
your strength? Where is the abundance of your mercy and of your sympathies? For you
gave up on us. 16 Indeed, you are our Father; for Abraham did not know us, and Israel
did not recognize us, but you, O Lord, are our Father. Deliver us; your name has been
upon us from the beginning. 17 Why did you cause us to wander, O Lord, from your way,
and harden our hearts so as not to fear you? Return on account of your slaves, on
account of the tribes of your inheritance, 18 so that we may inherit a little of your holy
mountain. B 19 We have become as at the beginning, when you did not rule us and your
name was not invoked over us. If you open heaven, trembling from you will seize the
mountains, and they will melt.
Isaiah 64 C
1 As wax melts due to fire, fire will burn up the opponents. The name of the Lord will
be manifest among the opponents; the nations will be disturbed due to your presence,
2 whenever you perform the glorious acts; trembling from you will seize the mountains.
3 From of old we did not hear nor did our eyes see a God beside you and your works,
which you will perform for those who wait for mercy. 4 For this will befall those who do
what is right, and they will remember your ways. Behold, you became wrathful, and we
sinned; because of this, we wandered off. 5 We all became like the unclean; all our
righteousness was like a filthy rag. We fell like leaves because of our lawless acts; in
this way, the wind will carry us away. 6 There is no one who invokes your name and
who remembers to take hold of you. For you turned your face away from us, and
delivered us up because of our sins.
7 Now, O Lord, you are our Father, and we are clay; all of us are the work of your
hands. 8 Do not be exceedingly wrathful with us, and do not remember our sins for a
A The one who brought the shepherd of the sheep up from the earth remembered the
ancient days. SA ¦ He remembered the ancient days. Where is the one who brought the
shepherd of the sheep up from the earth? Vc ¦ He remembered the ancient days.
Where is the one who brought the shepherd of the sheep up from the sea? V* ¦ He
remembered the ancient days of Moses and his people. Where is the one who brought
the shepherd of the sheep up from the earth?
B VS ¦ + Our opponents trampled down your sacred place. A
C 63:19b = 64:1 EV; 64:1-11 = 64:2-12 EV

moment. Look at us now, for we are all your people. 9 The city of your Holy One became
a desert; Zion became like a desert, Jerusalem as a curse. 10 The house, our holy place,
and the glory which our fathers blessed, was burned with fire, and all our glorious
things fell. 11 On the basis of all these things, O Lord, you gave up; you were silent, and
you humbled us exceedingly.
Isaiah 65
1 "I became manifest to those who did not seek me; I was found by those who did
not ask for me. I said, `Behold, I am here!´ to the nation which did not call my name.
2 I stretched out my hands the entire day to a distrusting and contradicting people, who
did not walk on the true way, A but after their sins. 3 This is the people which provokes
me continually in my presence; they sacrifice in the gardens and burn incense on the
bricks to the demons, which do not exist. 4 In the tombs and in the caves they lie down
on account of dreams. They eat meat from pigs and the sauce of sacrifices; all their
vessels have been defiled. 5 They say, `Depart from me; do not come near me, for I am
clean.´ This is the smoke of my fury; a fire burns in it every day. 6 Behold, it has been
written in my sight; I will not be silent until I pay back into their laps 7 the sins of them
and their fathers," says the Lord, "who burned incense on the mountains and
reproached me on the hills. I will pay back their works into their laps."
8 The Lord says this: "In the manner that a grape will be found in a cluster, and they
will say, `Do not spoil it, for a blessing B is in it,´ so I will do on account of the one who
serves me; on his account I will not destroy everyone. 9 I will lead forth the seed which
is from Jacob and from Judah, and they will inherit my holy mountain. My chosen ones
and my slaves will inherit it, and they will reside there. 10 There will be pens of flocks in
the forest, and the valley of Achor will be a resting place of herds for my people who
sought me. 11 You who abandoned me and forgot my holy mountain, who are preparing
a table for a demon and filling a mixed drink for Fortune, 12 I will deliver you up to a
sword; all of you will fall in a slaughter. For I called you, yet you did not respond; I
spoke, yet you refused to hear. You did what is evil before me, and chose the things
which I did not want."
13 Because of this, thus says the Lord: "Behold, the ones who serve me will eat, but
you will be hungry. Behold, the ones who serve me will drink, but you will be thirsty.
Behold, the ones who serve me will be cheerful, but you will be ashamed. 14 Behold, the
ones who serve me will be glad in cheerfulness, but you will shout because of the
sorrow of your hearts and will howl due to the vexation of your spirit. 15 For you will
abandon your name, resulting in satisfaction for my chosen ones, and the Lord will
annihilate you, but a new name will be summoned for the ones who serve him, C 16 which
will be blessed on the earth. For they will bless the true God, and those who swear on
the earth will swear by the true God. For they will forget their former oppression; it will
A who did not walk on the genuine way ScA ¦ who walked on the way which was not
good VSc ¦ who walked on the way which was not true S*
B a blessing VS* ¦ the blessing of the Lord ScA
C who serve him A ¦ who serve me VS

not ascend over their hearts.
17 For heaven will be new and the earth will be new. They will not remember the
former things, neither will they come over their hearts; 18 instead, they will find
cheerfulness and gladness in her, for behold, I am causing Jerusalem to be gladness
and my people to be cheerfulness. 19 I will be glad over Jerusalem and cheerful over my
people. There will no longer be heard in her the sound of weeping or the sound of
shouting. 20 One who experiences an untimely death and an old man who will not
complete his time will not be there. For the youth will be a hundred years old, and the
sinner who dies at a hundred years will also be cursed. 21 They will build houses, and
they themselves will reside within; they will plant vineyards, and they themselves will
eat the produce of them. 22 They will not build and others reside within; they will not
plant and others eat. For the days of my people will be according to the days of the
tree of life; they will make old the works of their labors. 23 My chosen ones will not toil in
vain, neither will they conceive children for a curse, for they are a seed blessed by God,
and their offspring will be with them. 24 It will be that, before they shout, I will listen to
them; while they are still speaking, I will say, `What is it?´ 25 Then wolves and lambs
will feed together; a lion will eat chaff like an ox, but a serpent will eat earth like bread.
They will not harm or mistreat on my holy mountain," says the Lord.
Isaiah 66
1 The Lord says this: "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What sort
of a house will you build for me, or of what sort will be the place of my rest? 2 For my
hand made all these things, and all these things are mine," says the Lord. "On whom
will I look but on the one who is humble and quiet, who trembles at my words? 3 The
lawless person who sacrifices a calf for me is like the one who kills a dog; the one who
offers fine flour is like one who offers swine's blood; the one who gives incense as a
memorial is like a blasphemer. They chose their ways and their abominations, which
their souls wanted. 4 I also will choose their mockeries and will pay them back their sins,
because I called them, yet they did not respond to me; I spoke, yet they did not hear.
They did what is evil before me and chose the things which I did not wish."
5 Hear the statement of the Lord, you who tremble at his word. You who are our
brothers, talk to those who hate us and treat us as abominations, so that the name of
the Lord may be glorified and may be seen during their cheerfulness, and they will be
ashamed. 6 The sound of a shout from the city, a sound from the sanctuary, the sound
of the Lord paying back the opponents! 7 Before she who was in labor gave birth, before
the labor pains came, she escaped and gave birth to a male. 8 Who heard such a thing,
and who has seen in this way? Was the earth in labor for one day, or was even a nation
born at once? For Zion was in labor and gave birth to her infants. 9 "I gave this
expectation, yet you did not remember me," said the Lord. "Behold, did I not make the
conceiving woman and the barren woman?" said God. 10 Be cheerful, O Jerusalem, and
celebrate a festival in her, all you who love her. Rejoice with joy, all you who mourn
over her, 11 so that you may nurse and be filled due to the breast of her comfort, so that
you may continue nursing and take delight due to the entrance of her glory. 12 For thus
says the Lord: "Behold, I am turning toward them like a river of peace, and like a

torrent flooding over them with the glory of the nations. Their infants will be carried on
their shoulders and will be comforted on their knees. 13 As if a mother would comfort
someone, so also will I comfort you; you will be comforted in Jerusalem. 14 You will see;
your hearts will rejoice, and your bones will spring up like grass. The hand of the Lord
will be known by those who revere him, and he will threaten those who distrust him.
15 For behold, the Lord will arrive like fire and his chariots like a hurricane, to pay
back vengeance with fury and repudiation with a flame of fire. 16 For with the fire of the
Lord all the earth will be judged, and all flesh with his sword. Many will be wounded by
the Lord. 17 Those who purify and cleanse themselves for the gardens, and in the
thresholds eat swine's flesh, abominations, and the mouse, will be consumed together,"
said the Lord. 18 "I understand their works and their plan. I am coming to gather all the
nations and languages; they will arrive and see my glory. 19 I will leave a sign on them,
and I will send forth from them those who have been saved to the nations, to Tarshish,
Put, Lud, Meshech, and Tubal, and to Greece and to the islands far away, who have not
heard my name or seen my glory; they will announce my glory among the nations.
20 They will bring your brothers from all the nations as a gift to the Lord with horses and
chariots, in mule-drawn litters with shades, to the holy city Jerusalem," said the Lord,
"as the sons of Israel bring their sacrifices to me with psalms into the house of the
Lord. 21 I will take from them priests and Levites for myself," said the Lord. 22 "For in the
manner that the new heaven and the new earth, which I am making, are remaining
before me," says the Lord, "so will your seed and your name stand. 23 It will be for
month after month and for sabbath after sabbath; all flesh will arrive before me to
worship in Jerusalem," said the Lord. 24 "They will come out and see the carcasses of
the men who have transgressed against me, for their worm will not be deceased and
their fire will not be quenched; they will become a spectacle for all flesh."

JEREMIAH 1
1 The word of God which was directed at Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, from the priests
who reside in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, 2 which word of God was directed to
him in the days of Josiah son of Amos, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign,
3 and was directed in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the
eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the captivity of Jerusalem
in the fifth month.
4 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, A 5 "Before I formed you in the
abdomen, I perceived you, and before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I
appointed you as a prophet to the nations." 6 I said, "O Master, O Lord, the One who is,
behold, I do not perceive how to speak, for I am a youth." 7 The Lord said to me, "Do
not say, `I am a youth,´ for you will go to everyone, to whomever I send you forth,
and you will speak according to everything, whatever I command you. 8 Do not be afraid
of their presence, for I am with you to rescue you," says the Lord. 9 The Lord extended
his hand to me and touched my mouth; the Lord said to me, "Behold, I have given my
words to your mouth. 10 Behold, I installed you today over nations and over kingdoms to
root out, to undermine, to destroy, to rebuild, and to plant."
11 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" I
said, "A walnut twig." 12 The Lord said to me, "You have seen well, for I watched over
my words to perform them."
13 The word of the Lord was directed at me a second time, saying, "What do you
see?" I said, "A burning caldron, and its face is from the north." 14 The Lord said to me,
"From the north wicked things will flame forth against all who reside on the land. 15 For
behold, I am calling together all the kingdoms from the north of the earth," says the
Lord. "They will arrive, and each one will place his throne against the thresholds of the
gates of Jerusalem, against all the walls around her, and against all the cities of Judah.
16 I will speak to them with judgment concerning all their wickedness, how they
abandoned me, sacrificed to strange gods, and worshiped the works of their hands.
17 Gird your waist, stand up, and say to them everything, whatever I command you. Do
not be afraid of their presence, and do not be scared before them, for I am with you to
rescue you," says the Lord. 18 "Behold, I have placed you this day as a secure city and
as a bronze wall, secure against all the kings of Judah, his rulers, and the people of the
land. 19 They will battle you, yet will have no ability against you, because I am with you
to rescue you," says the Lord.
Jeremiah 2 B
2 He said, "Thus says the Lord: `I remembered the mercy of your youth and the love
of your maturity in your following the Holy One of Israel,´ says the Lord. 3 `Israel was
A was directed at me, saying A ¦ was directed at him VS
B No LXX manuscript includes v. 1, "The word of the Lord was directed at me."

holy A to the Lord as the beginning of his produce. All those who eat him will be in error;
wicked things will come upon them,´ says the Lord."
4 Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob and every family of the house of
Israel. 5 Thus says the Lord: "What error did your fathers find in me, that they stood far
away from me, went after vanities, and became vain? 6 They did not say, `Where is the
Lord who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who guided us in the desert in a
boundless and impassable land, in a waterless and unfruitful land, in a land in which no
man B passed through and the son of man C did not reside there?´ 7 I brought you to
Carmel for you to eat its fruits and its good things; you entered and defiled my land,
and made my inheritance into an abomination. 8 The priests did not say, `Where is the
Lord?´ Those who laid claim to the law did not understand me. The shepherds were
ungodly toward me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal; they went after what was
not beneficial.
9 Because of this, I will still plead with you," says the Lord, "and I will plead with the
sons of your sons. 10 Indeed, pass through to the islands of the Kittim and look; send
forth to Kedar and observe exceedingly, and see if such things have happened, 11 if the
nations will change their gods. And these are not gods! My people changed their glory
for that by which they will not be benefited. 12 Heaven was astonished over this and
shuddered exceedingly more," says the Lord. 13 "For my people performed two evils:
they abandoned me, the spring of the water of life, and they dug for themselves broken
cisterns, which will not be able to hold water.
14 Israel is not a slave or a house servant, is he? Why did he become a spoil? 15 Lions
roared against him and issued their sound, which arranged his land as a desert; his
cities were razed so as not to be inhabited. 16 The sons of Memphis and Tahpanhes
knew you and mocked you. 17 Did not your abandoning me do these things to you?"
says the Lord your God. 18 "Now what do you have in common with the way of Egypt, to
drink the water of the Gihon? What do you have in common with the way of the
Assyrians, to drink the water of the rivers? 19 Your apostasy will discipline you and your
wickedness will reprove you. Know and see that your abandoning me is bitter for you,"
says the Lord your God. "I did not approve of you," says the Lord your God.
20 "For from eternity, you broke your yoke and ripped apart your bonds. You said, `I
will not serve, but will go on every high hill and under every shady tree; there I will
indulge in my prostitution.´ 21 I planted you as a fruitful vine, entirely true. How did you
turn to bitterness, a strange vine? 22 Even if you wash with soda and multiply herbs for
yourself, you have been stained by your unjust acts before me," says the Lord. 23 "How
will you say, `I was not defiled, and I did not go after Baal´? See your ways in the
cemetery and know what you did. Her voice howled in the evening. 24 She widened her
ways over the waters of a desert; she was inspired by the covetous acts of her soul.
She was delivered up; who will return back? None of those who seek her will grow
A Since Israel, like many Hebrew names, is not inflected in Greek texts, agios Israel can
be translated both "the Holy One of Israel" (v. 2) and "Israel was holy" (v. 3)
B no man S ¦ no adult man Vc ¦ nothing V*A
C the son of man S ¦ man VA

weary; during her humiliation they will find her. 25 Turn your foot away from a rough
way and your throat from thirst. She said, `I will be brave,´ for she loved strangers and
went after them. 26 Like the shame of a thief whenever he is caught, so will the sons of
Israel be ashamed, they, their kings, their rulers, their priests, and their prophets.
27 They said to wood, `You are my father,´ and to stone, `You conceived me.´ They
turned their backs to me and not their faces, yet in the season of their wicked things
they will say, `Arise and save us!´ 28 Where are your gods, whom you made for
yourself? Will they arise and save you in the season of your wicked condition? For your
gods were in agreement with the number of your cities, O Judah; they sacrificed for
Baal in agreement with the number of the streets of Jerusalem.
29 Why are you speaking to me? All of you became ungodly and all of you acted
lawlessly against me," says the Lord. 30 "I attacked your children in vain; you did not
accept discipline. A sword devoured your prophets like a slaying lion, yet you were not
afraid." 31 Hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord: "Did I become desert or a
barren land for Israel? Why did my people say, `We will not be dominated, and we will
not approach you any longer´? 32 Will a bride forget her adornment, and a virgin her
breastband? My people forgot me for days of which there is no number. 33 What
excellent thing will you still pursue in your ways in order to seek love? It will not be so;
instead, you did evil in defiling your ways. 34 In your hands the blood of innocent souls
was found; I did not find them in trenches, but on every oak. 35 You said, `I am
innocent; only let his anger be turned away from me.´ Behold, I will plead with you in
your saying, `I did not sin.´ 36 For you despised exceedingly so as to repeat your ways.
You will be ashamed of Egypt as you were ashamed of Asshur. 37 For you will come out
from there, and your hands will be on your head, for the Lord rejected your hope, and
you will not succeed in it.
Jeremiah 3
1
If a man banishes his wife, and she departs from him and become another man's,
will she come back to him any more? Won't that woman be defiled? You engaged in
prostitution with many shepherds and came back to me," says the Lord. 2 "Lift up your
eyes straight forward, and look; where were you not commingled? You sat for them on
the ways like a deserted crow, and you defiled the land with your prostitutions and with
your wicked acts. 3 You possessed many shepherds, resulting in a stumbling block for
yourself. You had the appearance of a prostitute; you were shameless toward
everyone. 4 Didn't you call me as a home, and as the father and guide of your virginity?
5
Will it remain forever, or be preserved in victory? Behold, you spoke and performed
these evil things, and were empowered."
6
The Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, "Did you see the things which
the residence of Israel did to me? They went over every high mountain and under every
tree in the woods, and engaged in prostitution there. 7 I said after she committed all
these acts of prostitution, `Turn back to me,´ yet she did not turn back. Dissenting
Judah saw her dissent. 8 I saw that, concerning all the things of which she was
convicted, in which the residence of Israel committed adultery, I banished her and gave
a document of separation into her hands, yet dissenting Judah was not afraid; she

herself also went and engaged in prostitution. 9 Her prostitution was for nothing; she
committed adultery with wood and stone. 10 In all these things, dissenting Judah did not
return to me from her entire heart, but on the basis of a lie."
11 The Lord said to me, "Israel justified his soul more than dissenting Judah. 12 Go
and read these words to the north. You will say, `"Return to me, O residence of Israel,"
says the Lord. "I will not set my face against you, for I am merciful," says the Lord,
"and I will not be angry with you forever. 13 Nevertheless, know your wrongdoing, that
you were ungodly toward the Lord your God and extended your ways toward strangers
under every tree in the woods, but you did not respond to my voice," says the Lord.
14 "Return, O separated sons," says the Lord, "for I will have dominion over you. I will
take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you into Zion. 15 I will
give you shepherds according to my heart, and they will shepherd you with knowledge.
16 It will be that, when you multiply and increase over the land in those days," says the
Lord, "they will no longer say, `The ark of the testament of the Holy One of Israel!´ It
will not ascend over the heart; it will not be named, nor will it be overseen, nor will it
be used any longer. 17 In those days and in that season they will call Jerusalem, `The
throne of the Lord.´ All the nations will be gathered in it, and they will no longer go
after the considerations of their evil hearts. 18 In those days the house of Judah will
come together over the house of Israel, and they will be present at the same place
from the land of the north, and from all the countries, over the land which I caused
their fathers to inherit."´" 19 I said, "Let it be so, O Lord!"
"For I will array you as children and give you a choice land as the inheritance of the
Almighty God of the nations. I said, `You will call me Father, and you will not turn away
from me.´ 20 Nevertheless, as a woman acts treacherously against her mate, so did the
house of Israel act treacherously against me," says the Lord.
21 "A sound was heard from the lips, of weeping and of a petition from the sons of
Israel, that they were unjust in their ways (they forgot their Holy God; 22 return, O
returning sons, and I will heal your fractures): `Behold, we will be slaves for you, for
you are the Lord our God. 23 The hills and the power of the mountains were really a lie;
on the contrary, the salvation of Israel is through the Lord our God. 24 Shame consumed
the labors of our fathers from our youth: their sheep, their calves, their sons, and their
daughters. 25 We lay down in our shame, and our dishonor covered us, because we and
our fathers sinned before our God, from our youth until this day, and we did not
respond to the voice of the Lord our God.´
Jeremiah 4
1 If Israel returns," says the Lord, "he will return to me. If he removes his
abominations from his mouth, is reverent due to my presence, 2 and swears, `As the
Lord lives,´ with truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations will bless by him,
and by him they will praise God in Jerusalem." 3 For thus says the Lord to the men of
Judah and to those who reside in Jerusalem: "Plough up ploughed fields for yourselves,
and do not sow among thorns. 4 Be circumcised for your God, and circumcise your
hardness of heart, O men of Judah and those who reside in Jerusalem, so that my fury
may not come out like fire and burn, and there be no one who will quench it due to the

presence of the evil of your habits.
5 Make an announcement in Judah, and let it be heard in Jerusalem; say, `Sound a
trumpet over the land!´ Cry out loudly; say, `Gather together; let us enter into the
walled cities!´ 6 Take up and flee to Zion. Hurry; do not stand, for I will bring wicked
things from the north, and a great ruin. 7 A lion went up from his den; he aroused and
eliminated nations, and came out of his place to put the land in desolation. Cities will be
demolished since they are not inhabited. 8 For these things, gird yourselves with
sackcloth, mourn, and howl, for the fury of the Lord did not turn away from you. 9 It will
be on that day," says the Lord, "that the heart of the king and the heart of the rulers
will perish; the priests will be astonished, and the prophets will be amazed." 10 I said, "O
Lord the Master, you indeed deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, `There will be
peace for you.´ Behold, the sword reached as far as their souls."
11 In that season they will say to this people and to Jerusalem, "There is a spirit of
wandering in the desert; the way of the daughter of my people is not to what is pure,
nor to what is holy." 12 A spirit of fulfillment will be present with me; I am now speaking
judgments against them. 13 Behold, he will ascend like a cloud, and his chariots like a
hurricane; his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us, for we are miserable.
14 Wash away wickedness from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved; how
long will the considerations of your troubles be within you? 15 For the sound of someone
making announcements from Dan will be present, and trouble will be heard from Mount
Ephraim. 16 Remind the nations; behold, they are present! Make an announcement in
Jerusalem: "Bands are coming from a land far away; they issued their voice against the
cities of Judah. 17 Like preservers of a field, they were around her, because you
neglected me," says the Lord. 18 "Your ways and your habits did these things to you;
this is your wickedness, for it is bitter, for it reached as far as your heart."
19 My belly, I have pain in my belly and in the faculties of my heart. My soul is
agitated; my heart is torn. I will not be silent, for my soul heard the sound of a
trumpet, the cry of war, 20 and distress. It is invoking ruin, for all the land has been
distressed. The tent has suddenly been distressed; my curtains were torn apart. 21 How
long will I see those who are fleeing and hear the sound of trumpets? 22 For those who
are governing my people were not acquainted with me; they are foolish sons and not
intelligent. They are wise to perform wickedness, but did not know how to perform
anything well. 23 I looked over the earth, and behold, it was nothing, and at heaven, and
it had no lights. 24 I saw the mountains, and they were trembling, and all the hills being
disturbed. 25 I looked, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of heaven were
terrified. 26 I saw, and behold, Carmel was a desert, and all the cities had been burned
with fire due to the presence of the Lord, and due to the presence of the wrath of his
fury they were obliterated.
27 Thus says the Lord: "All the earth will be a desert, but I will not make an end of it.
28 Let the earth grieve over these things, and let heaven above be darkened, for I spoke,
and I will not repent; I have rushed out, and I will not turn back from it." 29 Every
country withdrew due to the sound of a horseman and a bent bow; they crawled into
the caves, hid in the groves, and went up on the cliffs. Every city was abandoned; no
man resides in them. 30 What will you do? If you put on scarlet and adorn yourself with

gold adornment, and if you anoint your eyes with mascara, your beauty will be in vain.
Your paramours rejected you; they are seeking your soul. 31 For I heard the sound of
your groaning like that of a woman in labor, like that of a woman giving birth to her
first. The voice of the daughter of Zion will fail, and she will relax her hands. "Woe is
me! For my soul is fainting over those who have been slain."
Jeremiah 5
1 "Run around in the roads of Jerusalem; look, know, and seek in her streets. If you
find a man, if there is one who executes judgment and seeks faith, I will be merciful to
them," says the Lord. 2 "As the Lord lives," they say. Because of this, are they not
swearing to lies? 3 O Lord, your eyes are on faith. You scourged them, yet they did not
suffer; you finished them off, yet they did not want to accept discipline. They made
their faces more solid than rock; they did not want to return.
4 I said, "Perhaps they are poor, since they are not able, for they did not know the
way of the Lord and the justice of God. 5 I will go to the stout and speak to them, for
they recognized the way of the Lord and the justice of God. Behold, with one accord
they smashed the yoke; they broke the bonds. 6 Because of this, a lion out of the forest
toyed with them, a wolf eliminated them as far as their houses, and a leopard watched
over their cities. All who go out from them will be hunted, for they multiplied their
ungodly acts; they became strong in their diversions."
7 "For which of these should I be merciful to you? Your sons abandoned me and
swore by those who are not gods. I fed them, yet they committed adultery and lodged
in the houses of prostitutes. 8 They became womanizing horses; each one neighed for
the wife of his neighbor. 9 Won't I conduct an inspection of these things?" says the Lord,
"or won't my soul take vengeance on such a nation as this?
10 Go up upon her battlements and raze them, but do not make an end. Leave her
buttresses, for they are the Lord's. 11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah
acted treacherously against me," says the Lord. 12 They lied to their own Lord, and they
said, "These things are not so; wicked things will not arrive over us, and we will not see
sword and famine." 13 Our prophets became like wind, and the word of the Lord did not
exist in them; so it will be for them.
14 Because of this, thus says the almighty Lord: "Since you spoke this word, behold, I
have given my words into your mouth as fire and this people as wood, and it will
devour them. 15 Behold, I will bring upon you a nation from afar, O house of Israel,"
says the Lord, "a nation the sound of whose language one will not hear. 16 All of them
are strong. 17 They will devour your harvest and your bread, they will devour your sons
and your daughters, they will devour your sheep and your calves, and they will devour
your vineyards, your fig yards, and your olive yards. They will thresh with the sword
your fortified cities in which you trusted.
18 It will be in those days," says the Lord your God, "that I will not bring you to an
end. 19 It will be that, whenever you say, `Why did the Lord our God do all these things
to us?´ you will say to them, `Because you served strange gods in your land, so you
will serve strangers in a land which is not yours.´
20 Announce these things to the house of Jacob, and let them be heard in that of

Judah. 21 Now hear these things, O foolish and heartless people. They have eyes, yet do
not see; they have ears, yet do not hear. 22 Won't you fear me?" says the Lord, "or
won't you be reverent due to my presence, the one who arranges sand as a border for
the sea, as an eternal ordinance, and it will not go beyond it? It will be disturbed, yet
will not able; its waves will resound, yet will not go beyond it. 23 But this people has an
inattentive and distrusting heart; they turned away and went back. 24 They did not say
in their hearts, `Let us now fear the Lord our God, who gives us the early and later rain
according to the season of the fulfillment of the ordinance of the harvest, and he
preserved it for us.´ 25 Your lawless acts turned away these things, and your sins
removed the good things from you. 26 For the ungodly were found among my people;
they set traps to bring men to ruin, and they caught them. 27 As a trap after being set is
full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Because of this, they became great and
wealthy. 28 They transgressed justice; they were not executing the justice of the orphan,
and they did not execute the justice of the widow. 29 Won't I conduct an inspection of
these things?" says the Lord, "or won't my soul take vengeance on such a nation as
this?
30 Astonishment and horrors occurred over the land. 31 The prophets prophesied
unrighteous things, and the priests clapped their hands. My people loved in this way;
what will you do for the things after these?"
Jeremiah 6
1 Be strong, O sons of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem; signal with a trumpet
in Tekoa, and set up a sign over Beth-haccerem. For wicked things popped up from the
north, and a great crushing is about to occur. 2 Your height, O daughter of Zion, will be
taken away. 3 Shepherds and their flocks will reach her; they will pitch their tents
against her in a circle, and each will shepherd with his hand. 4 Make arrangements for
battle against her. Arise; let us go up against her at noon. Woe to us! For the day has
declined, for the shadows of the day A are growing faint. 5 Arise; let us go up during the
night and ruin her foundations. 6 For thus says the Lord: "Cut down her trees; pour out
a force against Jerusalem. O false city, there is complete overpowering in her. 7 As a
cistern cools water, so her wickedness cools her; ungodliness and misery will be heard
in her, before her face continually. 8 You will be disciplined with labor and the whip, O
Jerusalem, so that my soul may not depart from you, so that I may not make you an
impassable land which will not be inhabited." 9 For thus says the Lord: "Glean; glean the
remnants of Israel like a vine. Return like the grape gatherer to his basket. 10 To whom
will I speak and testify, and he will listen? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised, and
they are not able to listen. Behold, the word of the Lord became a reproach for them;
they will not want to listen to it. B 11 I filled up my anger, yet I held back and did not
finish them off. I will pour it out on the infants outside and on the congregation of
young men together. For man and woman will be taken together, the old man with
fullness of days. 12 Their houses will be turned over to others, their fields and wives at
A day VS ¦ evening A
B will not want to listen to it ScA ¦ will not want it VS*

the same time, for I will extend my hand over those who reside in this land," says the
Lord. 13 "For from the least of them even to the greatest, they all completed lawless
acts; from the priest even to the false prophet, they all produced lies. 14 They healed the
fracture of my people with contempt, saying, `Peace, peace!´ yet where is the peace?
15 They were ashamed because they failed, yet they were not ashamed like those who
are being put to shame, and they did not know their dishonor. Because of this, when
they will fall they will indeed fall, and in the season of their inspection they will perish,"
said the Lord.
16 Thus says the Lord: "Stand on the ways and look; make a request for the ancient
paths of the Lord, and look at what is the good way. Proceed on it, and you will find
purification for your souls. They said, `We will not go.´ 17 I installed watchmen over
you, saying, `Listen to the sound of the trumpet.´ They said, `We will not listen.´
18 Because of this, the nations listened, and those who shepherd their flocks. 19 Listen, O
earth! Behold, I am bringing wicked things over this people, the fruit of their turning
away, for they did not hold on to my words, and they rejected my law. 20 Why do you
bring me incense from Sheba and cinnamon from a land far away? Your whole burnt
offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices were not pleasant for me." 21 Because
of this, thus says the Lord: "Behold, I am giving weakness over this people, and in it
fathers and sons together will be weak; a bystander and his neighbor will perish."
22 Thus says the Lord: "Behold, a people is coming from the north, and nations will
be aroused from the end of the earth. 23 They will take hold of a bow and a spear; they
are reckless and will not show mercy. Their voice is like a roaring sea; they will line up
for battle against you like fire over horses and chariots, O daughter of Zion. 24 We heard
their report. Our hands relaxed; oppression seized us, pains like those of someone
giving birth. 25 Do not go out into the field, and do not proceed on the ways, for the
sword of the enemies is sojourning all around. 26 O daughter of my people, gird yourself
with sackcloth; sprinkle ashes. Make for yourself the grief of a beloved, pitiable
mourning, for misery will suddenly arrive over you.
27 I have given you as an approver among approved peoples, and you will know me
when I approve their way. 28 They are all unresponsive; they are going crookedly. They
are bronze and iron; they were all corrupted. 29 The bellows from the fire failed; the lead
failed. The silversmith works in vain; their evil did not melt. 30 Call them disapproved
silver, because the Lord disapproved them."
Jeremiah 7 A
2 Hear the word of the Lord, all Judea. 3 Thus says the Lord God of Israel: "Correct
your ways and your habits, and I will cause you to reside in this place. 4 Do not trust in
yourselves with lying words, for they will not benefit you at all when you say, `The
sanctuary of the Lord! It is the sanctuary of the Lord!´ 5 For if you correct your ways
and your habits, execute justice between a man and his neighbor, 6 do not overpower a
guest, an orphan, and a widow, do not shed innocent blood in this place, and do not go
A No LXX manuscript includes v. 1, "The word which was directed at Jeremiah from the
Lord."

after strange gods, resulting in wickedness for you, 7 I will cause you to reside in this
place, in the land which I gave to your fathers from eternity and for eternity.
8 9
But if you have trusted in lying words, by which you will not be benefited, and you
murder, commit adultery, steal, and swear to injustice, and you have burned incense to
Baal and gone after strange gods with whom you were not acquainted, so that it goes
wickedly for you, 10 and you have come and stood in my sight in the house over which
my name is invoked, and have said, `We refrained from doing all these abominations,´
11
is not my house over which my name is invoked a den of robbers in your sight?
Behold, I have seen it," says the Lord. 12 "For go to my place which is in Shiloh, where I
caused my name to dwell there previously, and see what I did to it due to the presence
of the wickedness of my people Israel. 13 Now, because you performed all these works,
and I spoke to you yet you did not listen to me, and I called you yet you did not
answer, 14 I will also do to this house over which my name is invoked, in which you have
trusted, and to the place which I gave to you and your fathers, just as I did to Shiloh.
15
I will throw you away from my presence, just as I threw away your brothers, all the
seed of Ephraim.
16
Do not pray concerning this people, and do not expect them to be shown mercy.
Do not make a vow, and do not approach me concerning them, for I will not listen. 17 Do
you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the ways of Jerusalem?
18
Their sons gather wood, their fathers kindle fire, and their women knead dough to
make cakes for the host of heaven. They offered libations to strange gods, so that they
might provoke me. 19 They don't provoke me, do they?" says the Lord. "Is it not
themselves, in order that their faces may be ashamed?" 20 Because of this, thus says the
Lord: "Behold, my wrath and anger will be poured out on this place, on the men, on the
livestock, on every tree of their field, and on the produce of the land; it will burn and
will not be quenched."
21
Thus says the Lord: "Gather your whole burnt offerings with your sacrifices, and
eat meat. 22 For I did not speak to your fathers, and I did not command them on the
day on which I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, concerning whole burnt
offerings and sacrifice. 23 Instead, I commanded them this statement, saying, `Hear my
voice, and I will be God for you, and you will be a people for me. Go on all my ways on
which I may command you, in order that it may be well with you.´ 24 They did not listen
to me, and their ear paid no attention. Instead, they went in the considerations of their
wicked hearts; they were backwards and not forwards. 25 From the day their fathers
came out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, I sent forth to you all my slaves, the
prophets, during the day and early in the morning. I sent forth, 26 yet they did not listen
to me, and their ear paid no attention; they stiffened their neck more than their fathers.
27 28
You will say this word to them: `This is the nation which did not listen to the voice
of the Lord and did not accept correction; the faith failed from their mouths.´
29
Cut off your hair and throw it away; take up a lamentation on your lips. For the
Lord disqualified and rejected the generation which did these things. 30 For the sons of
Judah did what was evil before me," says the Lord. "They arranged their abominations
in the house over which my name was invoked in order to defile it. 31 They built the
platform of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, in order to burn up

their sons and their daughters with fire, which I did not command them and did not
intend in my heart. 32 Because of this, behold, days are coming," says the Lord, "and
they will no longer say, `The platform of Topheth and the valley of the son of Hinnom,´
but, `The valley of those who were carried away.´ They will bury in Topheth because
of not having space. 33 The dead of this people will exist as food for the birds of heaven
and for the beasts of the earth; there will be no one who will scare them away. 34 I will
abolish from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the sound of those
who are cheerful and the sound of those who are rejoicing, the sound of the groom and
the sound of the bride, for all the land will become a desolation.
Jeremiah 8
1 In that season," says the Lord, "they will bring out the bones of the kings of Judah,
the bones of his rulers, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the
bones of those reside in Jerusalem out of their graves. 2 They will expose them to the
sun and the moon, to all the stars, and to all the host of heaven which they loved,
which they served, after which they went, to which they clung, and which they
worshiped. They will not be mourned for, and they will not be buried. They will exist as
an example on the surface of the earth, 3 even for all the remnants which were left from
that generation in every place where I will drive them out, because they chose death
rather than life."
4 For thus says the Lord: "The one who falls will not arise, wlll he? Or the one who
turns away will not return, wlll he? 5 Why was this my people turning away with a
shameless turning away, and being overcome in their purpose and not wanting to
return? 6 Please listen and hear. Will they not speak in this way, `There is no man who
repents of his wickedness, saying, "What did I do?"´ The runner paused from his
course like a sweating horse during his neighing. 7 The stork in heaven knew her
season, as well as the turtledove and the swallow of the field; the sparrows observed
the seasons of their entrance. But my people did not know the judgments of the Lord.
8 How will you say, `We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us´? In vain did the
scribes possess a false pen. 9 The wise were ashamed, terrified, and confined, because
they rejected the word of the Lord; what wisdom is among them? 10 Because of this, I
will give their wives to others and their fields to inheritors. A
13 They will gather their produce," says the Lord. There is no grape cluster on the
vines, and there are no figs on the fig trees; the leaves dropped off. 14 Why are we
sitting? Gather yourselves; let us enter the fortified cities and be thrown away. For God
threw us away and made us drink bitter water, because we sinned before him. 15 We
gathered for peace, yet there were no good things, and for a season of healing, yet
behold, an emergency! 16 We will hear out of Dan the sound of the swiftness of his
horses; all the land shook due to the sound of the neighing of his cavalry of his horses.
He will arrive and devour the land and its fullness, the city and those who reside in it.
17 "For behold, I am sending forth against you deadly serpents for which there is no
charm, which will bite you, 18 incurable things along with the grief of your confused
A No LXX manuscript includes vv. 10b-12

hearts. 19 Behold, there is the sound of the outcry of the daughter of my people from a
land far away: `The Lord is not in Zion, is he? The king is not there, is he?´ Why did
they provoke my wrath with their carvings and with strange vanities: 20 `The summer
transpired, the harvest passed, yet we were not saved´? 21 I was bewildered over the
affliction of the daughter of my people; in my confusion, pains seized me as of a
woman giving birth. 22 Is there no rosin in Gilead, or is there no physician there? Why
did no healing of the daughter of my people result? 23 Who will give water for my head
and a fountain of tears for my eyes, and I will weep for this my people day and night,
those of the daughter of my people who have been wounded?
Jeremiah 9 A
1 Who will give me the last lodging in the desert, and I will leave my people and
depart from them? For they all are committing adultery, a concourse of the
treacherous. 2 They bent their tongues like a bow. A lie, not faith, prevailed over the
earth, for they came out of wicked things into wicked things, and they did not know
me," says the Lord. 3 "Let each of you guard against his neighbor and not trust in your
brothers, for every brother will stick his foot out, and every friend will go deceitfully.
4 Each one will mock his friend; they will not speak truth. Their tongues have learned to
speak lies; they engaged in wrongdoing and did not cease in order to return. 5 There is
interest on top of interest, deceit on top of deceit; they did not want to be acquainted
with me," says the Lord.
6 Because of this, thus says the Lord: "Behold, I will set them on fire and test them,
for I will act due to the presence of the evil of the daughter of my people. 7 Their
tongues are wounding arrows; the words of their mouths are deceitful. One speaks
peaceful things to his neighbor, yet in himself has animosity. 8 Will I not make a survey
of these things," says the Lord, "or will my soul not take vengeance on such a people?
9 Take up a dirge over the mountains and a lamentation over the paths of the desert,
for they failed so that there would be no men. They did not hear the sound of
existence. They rose up, from the birds of heaven to the cattle; they departed. 10 I will
give Jerusalem to a deportation and to a residence of dragons, and I will place the cities
of Judah into obliteration so that they will not be inhabited."
11 Who is the understanding man? Let him understand this. The one who has the
word of the mouth of the Lord directed at him, let him tell you why the land perished,
kindled like a desert so that it would not be traversed. 12 The Lord said to me, "Because
they abandoned my law, which I gave before their face, and did not listen to my voice,
13 but went after the pleasures B of their wicked hearts and after the idols which their
fathers taught them." 14 Because of this, thus says the Lord God of Israel: "Behold, I will
feed them distresses and give them the water of bile to drink. 15 I will scatter them
among the nations, to those whom they and their fathers did not know. I will send forth
a sword over them until I have consumed them with it."
16 Thus says the Lord: "Call the lamenting women and let them come; send forth to
A 8:23 = 9:1 EV; 9:1-25 = 9:2-26 EV
B pleasures VS ¦ lusts A

the wise women and let them give utterance. 17 Let them take up a lamentation over
you, and let your eyes bring down tears and your eyelids flow with water. 18 For the
sound of pity was heard in Zion: `How we have become wretched! We were
exceedingly ashamed, for we abandoned the land and threw away our tents.´ 19 Now
hear, you women, the word of God, and let your ears receive the words of his mouth.
Teach your daughters pity, and let a woman teach her neighbor a lamentation. 20 For
death came up through your windows; it entered your land to wipe out the infants
outside and the young men from the streets. 21 The dead of the men will exist as an
example on the surface of the plain of your land, like grass after a harvester, yet there
will be no one who will gather."
22 Thus says the Lord: "Let the wise man not boast in his wisdom, let the strong man
not boast in his strength, and let the wealthy man not boast in his wealth. 23 Instead, let
the one who boasts boast in this: to understand and know that I am the Lord who
produces mercy, justice, and righteousness on the earth, for my will is in these things,"
says the Lord.
24 "Behold, days are coming," says the Lord, "and I will conduct a survey over all the
circumcised concerning their foreskins: 25 over Egypt, over Idumea, A over Edom, over
the sons of Ammon, over the sons of Moab, and over everyone who closely trims the
things on his face, those who reside in the desert. For all the nations are uncircumcised
in flesh, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in their hearts."
Jeremiah 10
1 Hear the word of the Lord which he spoke to you, O house of Israel. 2 Thus says the
Lord: "Do not learn according to the ways of the nations, and do not be afraid due to
the signs of heaven, for they are afraid of them in their faces. 3 For the regulations of
the nations are vain. It is a tree cut from the forest, the work of a carpenter and a
molten image. 4 They have been beautified with silver and gold. They made them firm
with hammers and nails; they will not move. B 5 It is sculpted silver; they will not walk.
Laminated silver will arrive from Tarshish, gold of Muphaz C and the hand of goldsmiths,
all the works of craftsmen. They will clothe them with blue and purple. 6 They will be
raised and carried, for they will not ride. Do not be afraid of them, for they will do no
harm, and there is no good in them. D 11 You will say to them as follows: `Let the gods
who did not make heaven and earth perish from the earth and underneath this
heaven.´"
12 The Lord, who made the earth in his strength, who erected the inhabited world in
his wisdom, also extended heaven by his intelligence. 13 Much water was in heaven, and
he brought up clouds from the end of the earth. He made lightnings for the rain and
brought forth light out of his treasure chests. 14 Every man became foolish away from
knowledge. Every goldsmith was ashamed over his carvings, for he molded lies; there is
A
Idumea VSA ¦ Judea
B
they will not move SA ¦ they will set them up, and they will not move V
C
See Dan. 10:5
D
10:5 = 10:9 MT; 10:6 = 10:5b MT (no LXX manuscript includes vv. 6-8 and 10)

no spirit in them. 15 They are vain; they are works to be mocked. They will perish in the
season of their inspection. 16 Such is not the portion of Jacob, for the one who formed
all things is his inheritance; the Lord is his name.
17 He gathered your substance from the outside while it resided in choice places.
18 For thus says the Lord: "Behold, I am tripping up those who reside in this land with
oppression, so that your plague may be found." 19 Woe on account of your fracture;
your plague is painful. I said, `Surely this is your wound, and it overtook you.´ A 20 Your
tent suffered; it departed. All your curtains B were torn. My sons and my sheep are no
more; there is no longer a place for my tent, a place for my curtains. 21 For the
shepherds lacked intelligence and did not seek the Lord; because of this, none of the
pasture understood, and they were scattered. 22 Behold, the sound of a report is
coming, as well as a great earthquake from the land of the north, in order to arrange
the cities of Judah for obliteration and a bed of ostriches. 23 I am aware, O Lord, that
the way of a man is not his own, nor will a man go and give success to his journey.
24 Discipline us, O Lord, but in justice and not in fury, so that you do not make us few.
25 Pour out your fury on the nations which are not aware of you and on the generations
which did not invoke your name, for they devoured Jacob and consumed him, and
made his pasture desolate.
Jeremiah 11
1 The word which was directed at Jeremiah from the Lord; he said, 2 "Hear the words
of this testament. You will speak to the men of Judah and to those who reside in
Jerusalem. 3 You will say to them, `Thus says the Lord God of Israel: "Cursed is the man
who will not hear the words of this testament, 4 which I commanded for your fathers on
the day when I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace,
saying, `Hear my voice and do all the things which I command you; you will become a
people for me, and I will become God for you,´ 5 so that I may confirm my oath which I
swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this
day."´" I answered and said, "Let it be so, O Lord."
6 The Lord said to me, "Read these words in the cities of Judah and outside
Jerusalem, saying, `Hear the words of this testament and do them.´" C 8 Yet they did not
do them.
9 The Lord said to me, "A conspiracy was found among the men of Judah and among
those who reside in Jerusalem. 10 They returned to the injustices of their fathers who
were in former times, who did not want to listen to my words. Behold, they themselves
are proceeding after strange gods, in order to serve them. The house of Israel and the
house of Judah broke my testament which I made for their fathers. 11 Because of this,
thus says the Lord: `Behold, I am bringing wicked things over this people, out of which
they will not be able to come. They will shout to me, and I will not listen to them. 12 The
A
this is your wound, and it overtook you VS ¦ this wound did not also overtake me A ¦
this is my wound, and it overtook me
B
Your tent … your curtains VSA ¦ My tent … my curtains
C
No LXX manuscript includes vv. 7-8a

cities of Judah and those who reside in Jerusalem will go and shout to the gods to
whom they are burning incense; will they save them in the season of their wicked acts?
13 For your gods, O Judah, were according to the number of your cities, and you
arranged altars to burn incense to Baal according to the number of passageways out of
Jerusalem.´
14 Do not pray concerning this people, and do not make a request concerning them
in petition and prayer, for I will not listen in the season when they invoke me, in the
season of their affliction. 15 Why did the beloved produce an abomination in my house?
Will vows and holy meats take your wicked acts away from you, or will you escape by
these things?" 16 The Lord named you a beautiful olive tree, with a form well suited for
giving shade. At the sound of her being cut down, fire was kindled against her. The
oppression against you is great; her branches became useless. 17 The Lord who planted
you spoke wicked things against you because of the wickedness of the house of Israel
and the house of Judah: "They acted by themselves in provoking me by their burning
incense to Baal."
18 O Lord, make this known to me, and I will know; then I saw their habits. 19 I, like
an innocent lamb being led to be sacrificed, did not know. They devised an evil plan
against me, saying, "Come, let us put wood into his bread; let us cut him off from the
land of the living, and let his name not be remembered any more." 20 O Lord, who
vindicates righteous things when you test minds and hearts, let me see by them the
vengeance which comes from you, for to you I revealed my righteous plea.
21 Because of this, thus says the Lord regarding the men of Anathoth who seek my
soul, who say, "You will not prophesy in the name of the Lord, but if you do, you will
die by our hands": 22 "Behold, I will visit them. Their young men will die by the sword,
and their sons and their daughters will be deceased in a famine. 23 There will be no
remnant of them, for I will bring wicked things over those who reside in Anathoth in the
year of their visitation."
Jeremiah 12
1 You are righteous, O Lord, for I will make my defense to you; indeed, I will speak
judgments to you. Why is it that the way of the ungodly is prospering, that all who are
acting treacherously are flourishing? 2 You planted them and they took root; they
produced children and made fruit. You are near their mouths and far from their minds.
3 O Lord, you know me; you have approved my heart before you. Purify them for the
day of their slaughter. 4 How long will the land mourn and all the grass of the field
wither due to the wickedness of those who reside in it? The livestock and birds were
obliterated, for they said, "God will not see our ways."
5 Your feet are running and cause you to faint; how will you make arrangements for
horses? You trusted in a land of peace; how will you act in the roaring of Jordan? 6 For
both your brothers and the house of your father, even these acted treacherously with
you. They cried out; they gathered together from behind you. Do not believe in them,
for they will speak beautiful things to you.
7 I abandoned my house; I left my inheritance. I gave my beloved soul into the
hands of its enemies. 8 My inheritance became for me like a lion in a forest. It issued its

voice against me; because of this, I hated it. 9 Is my inheritance for me the cave of a
hyena or the cave around it? Proceed; gather all the beasts of the field, and let them
come to eat it. 10 Many shepherds ruined my vineyard. They defiled my portion; they
gave my desirable portion to a trackless desert. 11 It was placed into a destructive
obliteration. On account of me, all the land was obliterated in an obliteration, because
there is no man who lays it on his heart. 12 Those who cause trouble came to every pass
in the desert. For the sword of the Lord will devour from one end of the land to the
other end of the land; there is no peace for any flesh. 13 Sow wheat and reap thorns;
their allotments will not profit them. Be ashamed due to your boasting, due to
reproaching before the Lord.
14 For thus says the Lord concerning all the evil neighbors who are touching my
inheritance, which I divided for my people Israel: "Behold, I will draw them away from
their land, and I will drive out Judah from their midst. 15 It will be that, after I drive
them out, I will return and have mercy on them. I will cause them to reside, each one
in his inheritance and each one in his land. 16 It will be that, if they learn the way of my
people, to swear by my name, `As the Lord lives,´ just as they taught my people to
swear by Baal, they will be built in the midst of my people. 17 But if they do not return, I
will remove that nation with a removal and destruction."
Jeremiah 13
1 Thus says the Lord: "Proceed and acquire for yourself a linen girdle, and place it
around your waist; it will not come in contact with water." 2 I acquired the girdle
according to the word of the Lord, and placed it around my waist. 3 The word of the
Lord was directed at me, saying, 4 "Take the girdle which is around your waist and arise;
proceed to the Euphrates and hide it there in a hole of the cliff." 5 I went and hid it at
the Euphrates, just as the Lord commanded me. 6 After many days, it happened that the
Lord said to me, "Arise, proceed to the Euphrates, and take from there the girdle which
I commanded you to hide there." 7 I went to the Euphrates River, dug, and took the
girdle out of the place where I buried it. Behold, it was ruined; it was useful for nothing.
8 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 9 "Thus says the Lord: `In this
way I will ruin the insolence of Judah and the insolence of Jerusalem, 10 this great
insolence, those who do not wish to respond to my words and who went after strange
gods, to serve them and to worship them. They will be like this girdle, which will be
useful for nothing. 11 For just as a girdle is joined around the waist of a man, so I joined
to myself the house of Israel and all the house of Judah, to be for me a famous people,
a boast, and a glory, yet they did not listen to me.´
12 You will say to this people, `Every flask will be filled with wine.´ It will be that, if
they say to you, `We won't know that every flask will be filled with wine, will we?´
13 you will say to them, `Thus says the Lord: "Behold, I will fill with liquor those who
inhabit this land, their kings (the sons of David who sit on their throne), A the priests,
the prophets, Judah, and all those who inhabit Jerusalem. 14 I will scatter them, each
man and his brother, their fathers and their sons in the same place. I will not yearn for
A their throne VScA ¦ his throne S*

them," says the Lord. "I will not spare, and I will not have pity due to their ruin."´"
15 Listen and hear; do not be exalted, for the Lord spoke. 16 Give glory to the Lord
your God before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on dark mountains.
You will wait for light, yet the shadow of death will be there, and they will be placed
into darkness. 17 If you do not listen, your soul will weep secretly due to insolence and
your eyes will let down tears, because the flock of the Lord was shattered. 18 Say to the
king and the potentates, "Be humble and sit down, for your crown of glory was
removed from your heads." 19 The cities which are toward the south were shut, and
there was no one who would open. Judah was exiled; he completed a complete exile.
20 Lift up your eyes, O Jerusalem, and see those who are coming from the north.
Where is the flock which was given to you, the sheep of your glory? 21 What will you say
whenever they inspect you? You taught them lessons for rule over you; won't labor
pains seize you just like a woman giving birth? 22 If you say in your heart, "Why did
these things meet me?" it is because of the abundance of your wrongdoing that your
back parts were revealed, in order for your heels to be made an example of. 23 If an
Ethiopian changes his skin and the leopardess her spots, you will be able to do well
even though you have learned wicked things. 24 "I scattered them like firewood being
carried by the wind into the desert. 25 This is your allotment and the portion of your
being unfaithful to me," says the Lord, "since you forgot me and hoped in lies. 26 I also
will reveal the things which are behind you to your face, and your dishonor will be seen,
27 as well as your adultery, your neighing, and the estrangement of your prostitution; I
have seen your abominations on the hills and in the fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem,
for you were not cleansed behind me; how much longer will it be?"
Jeremiah 14
1 The word of the Lord was directed at Jeremiah concerning the drought. 2 Judea
mourned; her gates were emptied and darkened over the land. The outcry of Jerusalem
ascended. 3 Her great men sent forth their little ones for water; they came upon wells,
yet did not find water, and returned their vessels empty. 4 The works of the land failed,
because there was no rain. The farmers were ashamed; they covered their heads.
5 Deer gave birth in the field and abandoned them, because there was no vegetation.
6 Wild donkeys stood by the groves; they inhaled the wind. Their eyes failed, because
there was no grass due to an unrighteous people. A
7 Our sins rose up against us, O Lord; act toward us for your own benefit. For our
sins before you are many, for we sinned against you. 8 You are the patience of Israel, O
Lord, and you save in a season of wicked things. Why did you become like a sojourner
on the land, and like a native turning aside for lodging? 9 Will you be like a man who is
sleeping, or like a husband who cannot save? You are among us, O Lord, and your
name has been invoked over us; do not forget us.
10 The Lord us says this to this people: "They loved to move their feet, yet they did
not spare." God did not approve them; now he will remember their wrongdoings. 11 The
Lord said to me, "Do not pray concerning this people for good things. 12 For if they fast,
A due to an unrighteous people A ¦ ~ VS

I will not hear their petition; if they offer whole burnt offerings and sacrifices, I will not
approve them. For I will terminate them with sword, with famine, and with execution."
13 I said, "O Lord, the one who is, behold, their prophets are prophesying and saying,
`You will not see a sword, nor will a famine be among you, for I will give truth and
peace over the land and in this place.´" 14 The Lord said to me, "The prophets are
prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them forth, I did not command them, and I
did not speak to them. For they are prophesying to you false visions, divinations,
omens, and opinions of their own hearts. 15 Because of this, thus says the Lord
concerning the prophets who are prophesying lies in my name, and I did not send them
forth, who are saying, `Sword and famine will not be over this land´: `They will die in a
grievous execution, and the prophets will be terminated in a famine. 16 The people to
whom they are prophesying will also be thrown into the passageways of Jerusalem due
to the presence of sword and famine; there will be no one who will bury them, not even
their wives, their sons, and their daughters. I will pour out upon them their wicked
acts.´ 17 You will speak this word to them: `Bring down tears over your eyes day and
night. Do not let them cease, for the daughter of my people was crushed by a crushing
and by an exceedingly painful plague. 18 If I come out into the plain, behold, there are
those wounded by the sword, and if I come into the city, behold, there is the distress of
a famine. For priest and prophet went to a land with which they were not acquainted.´"
19 You didn't reject Judah, did you? Your soul didn't stand apart from Zion, did it?
Why did you tease us, and there is no healing for us? We waited for peace, yet there
were no good things; for a season of healing, yet behold, a disturbance! 20 We knew, O
Lord, our sins, the wrongdoings of our fathers, for we sinned before you. 21 Abate on
account of your name; do not destroy the throne of your glory. Remember; do not
break your testament which is with us. 22 There isn't anyone who gives rain among the
idols of the nations, is there? Will heaven give its fullness? Are not you he? We will wait
for you, for you made all these things.
Jeremiah 15
1 The Lord said to me, "If Moses and Samuel stood before my face, my soul would
not be toward them. Dismiss this people, and let them come out. 2 It will be that, if they
say to you, `Where will we come out?´ you will say to them, `Thus says the Lord: "As
many as are for death, they are for death; as many as are for the sword, they are for
the sword; as many as are for famine, they are for famine; as many as are for captivity,
they are for captivity."´ 3 I will exact four types of vengeance on them," says the Lord,
"the sword for slaughter, the dogs for tearing to pieces, and the beasts of the earth and
the birds of heaven for consumption and ruin. 4 I will deliver them up for compulsions by
all the kingdoms of the earth on account of Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah,
concerning everything which he did in Jerusalem. 5 Who will be sparing of you, O
Jerusalem? Who will be afraid of you, or who will return for your peace? 6 You turned
away from me," says the Lord. "You will go back, and I will extend my hand and ruin
you; I will no longer release them. 7 I will scatter them in a scattering. In the gates of
my people they were deprived of children; they destroyed my people on account of
their wicked acts. 8 Their widows were multiplied more than the sand of the sea. I

ought distress against the mother of a young man at noon; I suddenly threw
trembling and rashness over her. 9 She who gave birth to seven was empty; her soul
was placed under wickedness. Her sun set while it was still the middle of the day; she
was ashamed and reproached. I will give their remnants to the sword before their
enemies."
10 Woe is me, my mother! As whom did you give birth to me? A man being judged
and criticized by all the earth. I did not benefit, and no one benefited me; my strength
failed among those who are cursing me. 11 May it be so, O Master, while they are
succeeding. Surely I stood beside you in the season of their wicked acts, and in the
season of their oppression which resulted in good things for the enemy.
12 "Will iron be known? Your strength is a bronze covering. 13 I will give your
treasures as a spoil, a compensation on account of all your sins, and in all your borders.
14 I will enslave you to your surrounding enemies in a land with which you were not
acquainted. For a fire has been kindled out of my fury; it will burn over you."
15 O Lord, remember me and watch over me. Vindicate me, and not with patience,
from those who persecute me. Know how I received a reproach concerning you 16 by
those who rejected your words; bring them to an end! Your word will result for me in
the cheerfulness and joy of my heart, for your name has been invoked over me, O
almighty Lord. 17 I did not sit in their council while they teased, but I was reverent due
to the presence of your hand. I sat alone, for I was filled with bitterness. 18 Why do
those who grieve me prevail over me? My plague is severe; how will I be healed? It
became for me like false water which has no faithfulness.
19 Because of this, thus says the Lord: "If you return, I will restore you, and you will
stand before my face. If you bring forth what is precious from what is worthy, A you will
be like my mouth. They will turn back to you, yet you will not turn back to them. 20 I will
give you to this people as a secure bronze wall. They will wage war against you, yet
they will have no power against you. For I am with you to save you 21 and to remove
you out of the hand of the evil ones; I will ransom you out of the hand of scoundrels.
Jeremiah 16
1 You will not take a wife," says the Lord God of Israel. 2 "Neither a son or a daughter
will be conceived for you in this place." 3 For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and
concerning the daughters who are being conceived in this place, and concerning their
mothers who have given birth to them, and concerning their fathers who have
conceived them in this land: 4 "They will die in a diseased death; they will not be
mourned and will not be buried. They will be an example on the surface of the earth for
both the beasts of the land and the birds of heaven. They will fall by the sword and will
be terminated in a famine."
5 Thus says the Lord: "Do not enter their funeral feast, and do not go to mourn; do
not grieve for them, for I have removed my peace from this people. 6 They will not
mourn them or make incisions; they will not be shaved. 7 Bread will not be broken
during their grieving as a consolation regarding the dead; they will not give anyone a
A worthy VS*A ¦ worthless Sc

cup to drink as a consolation over his father and mother. 8 You will not enter a house of
drinking in order to sit with them to eat and to drink." 9 For thus says the Lord God of
Israel: "Behold, I am abolishing from this place, in the sight of your eyes and in your
days, the voice of joy and the voice of cheerfulness, the voice of a groom and the voice
of a bride.
10 It will be that, whenever you report to this people all these words, they will say to
you, `Why did the Lord speak against us all these wicked things? What is our
unrighteousness, and what is our sin which we have committed before the Lord our
God?´ 11 You will say to them, `Since your fathers abandoned me,´ says the Lord, `and
departed after strange gods, served them, and worshiped them, and abandoned me
and did not preserve my law, 12 and you did more evil than your fathers (and behold,
each of you are going after the things which please your evil heart, so as not to
respond to me), 13 I will throw you from this land into a land with which you and your
fathers were not acquainted. There you will serve other gods, who will give you no
mercy.´
14 Because of this, behold, days are coming," says the Lord, "and they will no longer
say, `As the Lord lives, who brought the sons of Israel up out of the land of Egypt,´
15 but, `As the Lord lives, who brought the house of Israel up from the land of the north
and from all countries where they were banished.´ I will restore them to their land
which I gave to their fathers.
16 Behold, I will send forth many fishermen," says the Lord, "and they will fish for
them. After this, I will send forth many hunters, and they will hunt for them on every
mountain, on every hill, and out of the holes of the cliffs. 17 For my eyes are over all
their ways, and their unjust acts were not hidden in front of my eyes. 18 I will doubly
repay their injustices and their sins, by which they profaned my land with the carcasses
of their abominations and with their lawless acts, with which they erred against my
inheritance."
19 O Lord, you are my strength, my help, and my refuge on a day of wicked things.
The nations will come forth to you from the end of the earth and say, "How our fathers
acquired false idols, yet there is no benefit in them!" 20 Will a man make gods for
himself? These are not gods.
21 "Because of this, behold, I will manifest my hand to them during this season, and I
will make my power known to them; they will know that my name is the Lord."
Jeremiah 17 A
5 Cursed is the man who has hope in man; he will establish the flesh of his arm over
him, and his heart departs from the Lord. 6 He will be like a tamarisk tree which is in the
desert; he will not see whenever the good things come. He will pitch his tent on
beaches and in the desert, in a salty land which is not inhabited. 7 Blessed is the man
who trusts in the Lord; the Lord will be his hope. 8 He will be like a tree which is thriving
beside the waters; he will cast forth his root toward moisture. He will not be afraid
whenever heat comes; the trunks of the woodland will be over him. He will not be
A No LXX manuscript includes 17:1-4

afraid in a year of drought, and he will not fail to produce fruit.
9 The heart is deep beyond everything. This is man; who will know him? 10 "I the Lord
am examining hearts and testing minds in order to give to each one according to his
ways and according to the fruits of his habits."
11 The partridge makes a sound; it gathers what it did not hatch. When someone
does not produce his wealth with justice, by half of his days they will leave him, and at
his end he will be a fool.
12 An exalted throne of glory is our sacred place. 13 O Lord, the patience of Israel, let
everyone who abandoned you be ashamed. Let those who stood apart be written on
the earth, that they abandoned the Lord, the fountain of life.
14 Heal me, O Lord, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for you are
my boast. 15 Behold, they are saying to me, "Where is the word of the Lord?" Let it
come. 16 I did not grow tired of following after you, and I did not covet the day of man;
you realize this. The things which are going out through my lips are before your face.
17 Do not become for me a cause of estrangement; spare me on an evil day. 18 Let those
who persecute me be ashamed, and may I not be ashamed; let them be terrified, and
may I not be terrified. Bring an evil day over them; crush them with a double crushing.
19 Thus says the Lord: "Proceed and stand in the gates of the sons of your people, by
which the kings of Judah go in and by which they go out, and in all the gates of
Jerusalem. 20 You will say to them, `Hear the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah, all
Judea, and all Jerusalem who go in by these gates. 21 Thus says the Lord: "Guard your
souls; do not pick up burdens on the day of the sabbath, do not go out by the gates of
Jerusalem, 22 and do not carry burdens out of your houses on the day of the sabbath.
You will not do any work; sanctify the day of the sabbath, just as I commanded your
fathers. They did not hear, and they did not incline their ear. 23 They stiffened their neck
more than their fathers, so as not to hear me and so as not to receive correction.
24 It will be that, if you hear me," says the Lord, "so as not to carry burdens in
through the gates of this city on the day of the sabbath and to sanctify the day of the
sabbath so as not to do any work, 25 kings and rulers will enter through the gates of this
city sitting on the throne of David, riding on their chariots and horses, they, their rulers,
the men of Judah, and those who reside in Jerusalem. This city will be resided in
forever. 26 They will arrive out of the cities of Judah and from around Jerusalem, out of
the land of Benjamin, out of the plain, out of the mountain, and out of what is in the
south, bringing whole burnt offerings, a sacrifice, incense, manna, A and frankincense,
bringing praise into the house of the Lord. 27 It will be that, if you do not listen to me so
as to sanctify the day of the sabbath, so as not to carry burdens and not to go in by the
gates of Jerusalem on the day of the sabbath, I will kindle fire in its gates. It will devour
the streets of Jerusalem, and will not be extinguished."´"
Jeremiah 18
1 The word which was directed at Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 "Arise and go down to
the potter's house, and there you will hear my words." 3 I went down to the potter's
A manna VA ¦ manaa (see Ezek. 45:25)

house, and behold, he was making a work over the stones. 4 The implement which he
was making with his hands fell, and he made it again, another implement, just as it was
pleasing in his sight to make it.
5 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 6 "Will I not be able to make you,
O house of Israel, just as this potter? Behold, you are in my hands like the clay of the
potter. 7 If I at last speak over a nation or over a kingdom to remove and to destroy
them, 8 and that nation turns away from all their wicked things, I will repent concerning
the wicked things which I planned to do to them, 9 and if I at last speak over a nation
and over a kingdom to rebuild and to plant it, 10 and they do evil things before me so as
not to hear my voice, I will repent concerning the good things which I spoke to do for
them. 11 Now say to the men of Judah and to those who reside in Jerusalem, `Behold, I
am forming wicked things against you, and I am performing a reckoning against you.
Let each one now turn away from his evil way; make your habits better.´ 12 They said,
`We will be brave, for we will go after our perversions, and each of us will do the things
which are pleasing to his evil heart.´ 13 Because of this, thus says the Lord: `Inquire
now among the nations; who heard such awful things which the virgin of Israel did
exceedingly? 14 Will knolls fail from a cliff, or snow from Lebanon? Will water violently
carried by the wind turn aside? 15 For my people forgot me; they burned incense in vain.
They will become weak in their ways, treading paths for eternal miles A since they do
not have a road for travel, 16 arranging their land for obliteration and an eternal hissing.
Everyone who goes through it will be astounded and will shake their head. 17 I will
scatter them before the face of their enemies like a burning wind; I will show them the
day of their destruction.´"
18 They said, "Come, let us devise a plan against Jeremiah, for the law will not perish
from the priest, nor will counsel from the one who understands, nor will the word from
the prophet. Come, let us attack him with the tongue, and we will hear all his words."
19 Listen to me, O Lord, and listen to the sound of my righteous decree. 20 Surely
wicked things are not repayed in return for good! For they joined in speaking words
against my soul and hid their punishment for me. Remember me standing before your
face in order to speak good things on their behalf, in order to turn your fury away from
them. 21 Because of this, give their sons to famine and collect them for the hand of the
sword. Let their women be childless and widows; let their men be taken away by death,
and their young men fall by the sword in battle. 22 Let there be a cry in their houses.
You will bring robbers against them suddenly, for they carried out a word for seizing
me, and they hid snares against me. 23 O Lord, you knew all their counsel for death
against me. Do not let their unjust acts go unpunished, and do not blot out their sins
from before your face. Let their weakness come before you; deal with them in the
season of your fury.
Jeremiah 19
1 Then the Lord said to me, "Proceed and acquire a ceramic jar which has been
A A schoinos is a measure of forty stadia, about five miles

formed. You will bring some of the elders of the people and some of the priests. A 2 You
will come out to the cemetery of the sons of their children, which is at the thresholds of
the gate of Charsith. B Read there all the words which I will speak to you. 3 You will say
to them, `Hear the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah, men of Judah, those who reside
in Jerusalem, and those who go in by these gates. Thus says the Lord God of Israel:
"Behold, I am bringing wicked things against this place, so that the ears of everyone
who hears them will be ringing, 4 since they abandoned me, altered this place, and
burned incense in it for strange gods with which they and their fathers were not
acquainted. The kings of Judah filled this place with innocent blood, 5 and they built high
places for Baal in order to burn their sons in the fire, which things I did not command
or intend in my heart. 6 Because of this, behold, days are coming," says the Lord, "and
this place will no longer be called the Fall and Cemetery of the Son of Hinnom, but the
Cemetery of Slaughter. 7 I will slaughter the counsel of Judah and the counsel of
Jerusalem in this place; I will throw them down by the sword before their enemies and
by the hands of those who seek their souls. I will give their dead for food to the birds of
heaven and to the beasts of the earth. 8 I will arrange this city for obliteration and for a
hissing; everyone who goes by it will scowl and hiss on account of all her plague. 9 They
will eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; each of them will eat the
flesh of his neighbor in the blockade and in the siege by which their enemies will
besiege them."´
10 You will break the jar under the eyes of the men who are going out with you.
11 You will say, `Thus says the Lord: "In this way I will break this people and this city,
just as a ceramic vessel is broken which will no longer be able to be mended. 12 I will do
this," says the Lord, "to this place and to those who reside in it, in order for this city to
be given like one which is falling. 13 The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the
kings of Judah will be just like a place which is falling due to the unclean things in all
the homes, in which they burned incense on their roofs for all the host of heaven and
poured libations for strange gods."´"
14 Jeremiah came from the Fall, C where the Lord sent him forth to prophesy. He
stood in the courtyard of the house of the Lord and said to all the people, 15 "Thus says
the Lord: `Behold, I am bringing against this city, against all its cities, and against its
villages, all the wicked things which I spoke against it, because they have hardened
their neck so as not to listen to my commands.´" D
Jeremiah 20
1 Pashhur son of Immer, the priest (he had also been installed as governor of the
house of the Lord), heard Jeremiah prophesying these words. 2 He attacked him and
cast him into the trapdoor which was in the gate of the distinct upper house, which was
in the house of the Lord. 3 Pashhur brought Jeremiah out of the trapdoor; Jeremiah said
A some of the priests VS ¦ some of the elders of the priests A
B Heb, "potsherd"
C VS ¦ + the place of Topheth A
D commands VS ¦ words A

to him, "The Lord did not call your name Pashhur, but Deportation. 4 For thus says the
Lord: `Behold, I am giving you into a deportation with all your friends; they will fall by
the sword of their enemies, and your eyes will see it. I will give you and all Judah into
the hands of the king of Babylon, and they will deport them and cut them down with
swords. 5 I will give all the strength of this city, all its labors, and all the treasures of the
king of Judah into the hands of his enemies, and they will bring them to Babylon. 6 You
and all those who reside in your house will go in captivity; you will die in Babylon, and
there you and all your friends, to whom you prophesied lies, will be buried.´
7
You deceived me, O Lord, and I was deceived; you were mighty, and you were
powerful. I existed for laughter; I continued being mocked every day. 8 For I will laugh
with my bitter speech; I will invoke faithlessness and distress, for the word of the Lord
existed for a reproach to me and for scoffing at all my day. 9 I said, `I will not name the
name of the Lord, and I will no longer speak in his name.´ It became like a burning fire
flaming in my bones; I was weakened everywhere, and cannot endure. 10 For I heard
the censure of many who were gathering around: `Conspire; let all of us men who are
his friends conspire against him! Watch his intention, whether he will be deceived, and
we will be powerful against him and take our vengeance from him.´ 11 The Lord was
with me as a strong warrior; because of this, they persecuted me, yet could not
perceive; they were exceedingly ashamed, for they did not perceive their dishonors,
which will never be forgotten. 12 O Lord, who attests righteous acts, who understands
minds and hearts, may I see vengeance from you among them, for to you I revealed
my pleas.
13
Sing to the Lord; sing praise to him, for he rescued the soul of a poor person from
the hand of evildoers.
14
Cursed is the day on which I was born; let the day on which my mother gave birth
to me not be desired. 15 Cursed is the man who preached good news to my father,
saying, `A male was born to you; be cheerful!´ 16 Let that man be like the cities which
the Lord overthrew in fury and did not regret it. Let him hear an outcry in the morning
and shouting at noon, 17 because he did not kill me in the womb, and my mother did not
become my tomb for me and her womb one of eternal conception. 18 Why is this, that I
came out of the womb to see troubles and labors, and my days continue in shame?"
Jeremiah 21
1 The word which was directed at Jeremiah from the Lord, when King Zedekiah sent
forth to him Pashhur son of Malchijah and Zephaniah son of Maaseiah the priest,
saying, 2 "Inquire of the Lord concerning us, for the king of Babylon is standing against
us. He will go away from us, if the Lord will act according to all his marvels."
3 Jeremiah said to them, "So you will say to Zedekiah king of Judah, 4 `Thus says the
Lord: "Behold, I will turn back into the midst of this city the military weapons with
which you battle against the Chaldeans who have enclosed you from outside the wall. 5 I
will battle you with an outstretched hand and with a mighty arm, in anger and great
wrath. 6 I will attack all those who reside in this city, the men and the livestock, with a
great death, and they will die. 7 After this," so says the Lord, "I will give Zedekiah king
of Judah, his servants, and the people who are left in this city from the death, from the

famine, and from the sword, into the hands of their enemies who are seeking their
souls. They will cut them down with the edge of a sword. I will not spare them, and I
will not have compassion on them."´
8 You A will say to this people, `Thus says the Lord: "Behold, I have given before your
face the way of life and the way of death. 9 The one who sits in this city will die by a
sword and by famine. The one who goes out to support the Chaldeans who have
enclosed you will live; his soul will be for him as plunder, and he will live. 10 For I have
set my face against this city for wicked things and not for good things; it will be
delivered up into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will consume it with fire."´
11 O house of the king of Judah, hear the word of the Lord. 12 O house of David, thus
says the Lord: `Execute judgment in the morning; guide and rescue the ravaged one
from the hand of the one who wronged him, so that my wrath might not be kindled like
fire and burn, and there be no one who will quench it. 13 Behold, I am against you who
reside in the valley of Zur, the plain, those who say, "Who will scare us, or who will
enter our residence?" 14 I will kindle a fire in its forest, and it will devour everything
around it.´
Jeremiah 22
1 Thus says the Lord: `Go and descend to the house of the king of Judah; there you
will speak this word. 2 You will say, "Hear the word of the Lord, O king of Judah who sits
on the throne of David, you, your house, your people, and those who go in at these
gates. 3 Thus says the Lord: `Perform justice and righteousness; rescue the ravaged
one from the hand of the one who wronged him. Do not overpower a guest, an orphan,
and a widow; do not be ungodly, and do not pour out innocent blood in this place. 4 For
if you perform this word, kings sitting on the throne of David and mounted on chariots
and horses will enter by the gates of this house, they, their servants, and their people.
5 But if you do not perform these words, I have sworn by myself,´ says the Lord, `that
this house will be for desolation.´ 6 For thus says the Lord against the house of the king
of Judah: `You are Gilead to me, the beginning of Lebanon. Surely I will put you into a
desert, as cities which will not be inhabited. 7 I will bring over you an eliminating man
and his axe, and they will cut down your choice cedars and throw them into the fire.
8 Nations will pass through this city, and each one will say to his neighbor, "Why did the
Lord do this to this great city?" 9 They will say, "Because they abandoned the testament
of the Lord their God, and they worshiped strange gods and served them."´
10 Do not weep for one who is dead or lament for him; weep with weeping for the
one who goes out, for he will not again return and will not see his native land. 11 For
thus says the Lord concerning Shallum son of Josiah, who reigns instead of Josiah his
father, who came out of this place: `He will not again turn back to there, 12 but in the
place where I deported him, there he will die; he will not again see this land.
13 The one who builds his house not with righteousness and his upper rooms not with
judgment, who works at his neighbor’s place for nothing and will not pay him back his
wage, 14 you built for yourself a symmetrical house, ventilated upper rooms vented with
A Singular here and in v. 13, but plural elsewhere in this chapter

windows, paneled with cedar, and painted with vermilion. 15 Will you reign, because you
are provoked with Ahaz your father? They will not eat and they will not drink; it is
better for you to perform judgment and excellent righteousness. 16 They did not know;
they did not execute justice for one who is humble or the justice of one who is poor.
Isn't this your not knowing me?´ says the Lord. 17 `Behold, neither your eyes nor your
heart are excellent, but are for your greed, for innocent blood in order to shed it, for
injustice, and for murder in order to do it.´ 18 Because of this, thus says the Lord
concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah: `Woe concerning this man! They
will not mourn for him ("Oh, brother!") or weep for him ("Alas, O lord!"). 19 He will be
buried with the burial of a donkey; he will be carried off and cast beyond the gate of
Jerusalem.
20 Go up to Lebanon and shout; issue your voice to Bashan and cry out to the other
side of the sea, for all your paramours were crushed. 21 I spoke to you during your
trespass, yet you said, "I will not listen." This was your way from your youth; you did
not listen to my voice. 22 The wind will shepherd all your shepherds and your paramours
will come out into captivity, for then you will be ashamed and dishonored away from all
who befriended you. 23 She who resides in Lebanon, who makes her nest in the cedars,
you will groan when pains as of a woman giving birth come to you.
24 As I live,´ says the Lord, `if Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were a seal
on my right hand, from there I would pluck you. 25 I will deliver you up into the hands of
those who are seeking your soul, into the hands of the Chaldeans before whose face
you are intimidated. 26 I will cast out you and your mother who gave birth to you into a
land where you were not born, and there you will die. 27 They will not return to the land
concerning which they made a vow in their souls. 28 Jeconiah was dishonored as a
vessel which has no use, for he was cast forth and thrown out into a land with which he
was not acquainted. 29 O land, O land, hear the word of the Lord. 30 Write this man as an
outcast person, for a man sitting on the throne of David as a ruler in Judah will never
again grow up from his seed.´
Jeremiah 23
1 Woe to the shepherds who scatter and destroy the sheep of their pasture! 2 Because
of this, thus says the Lord against those who shepherd my people: `You scattered my
sheep and banished them; you did not supervise them. Behold, I will take vengeance
on you in agreement with your evil habits. 3 I will admit the remnants of my people from
every land where I banished them, and I will station them in their pasture; they will
increase and be multiplied. 4 I will raise up shepherds for them who will shepherd them,
and they will no longer be afraid or scared,´ says the Lord.
5 `Behold, days are coming,´ says the Lord, `and I will raise up for David a righteous
branch. A king will reign and understand, and he will execute judgment and
righteousness on the earth. 6 In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will dwell
securely. This is his name which the Lord will call him among the prophets:
Jozadak.´"´ A
A Heb yotsadaq, "The Lord our righteousness"

7 My heart broke within me; all my bones were shaken. I became like a broken man
and like a person constrained due to wine, due to the presence of the Lord and due to
the presence of dignity of his glory. A 8 For due to the presence of these things, the land
mourned; the pastures of the desert dried up. Their course became evil, and so also
their strength. 9 For priest and prophet were defiled; I saw their evils in my house.
10 Because of this, let their way result in stumbling in the dark for them; they will trip
and fall in it, for I will bring wicked things upon them in the year of their visitation.
11 Among the prophets of Samaria I saw lawless acts; they prophesied through Baal and
deceived my people Israel. 12 Among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen horrible
things: people committing adultery, walking in lies, and assisting the hands of many B so
that each might not turn away from his evil way. They all became for me like Sodom,
and those who resided in it just like Gomorrah. 13 Because of this, thus says the Lord:
`Behold, I will feed them pain and give them bitter water to drink, for from the
prophets of Jerusalem defilement came out to all the earth.´
14 So says the almighty Lord: `Do not listen to the words of the prophets, for they
are making a vain vision for themselves; they are speaking from their hearts and not
from the mouth of the Lord. 15 They are saying to those who reject the word of the
Lord, "There will be peace for you." To all who walk by their desires, to everyone who
walks by the deception of his heart, they said, "Wicked things will not come upon you."
16 For who stood in the support of the Lord and saw his word? Who heard and listened?
17 Behold, there is an earthquake from the Lord, and wrath goes out resulting in a
quaking; it will condense and come upon the ungodly. 18 The fury of the Lord will no
longer return until he produces it and until he establishes it from the undertaking of his
heart; at the end of the days they will understand these things. 19 I did not send forth
the prophets, yet they themselves ran; I did not speak to them, yet they themselves
prophesied. 20 If they had stood in my support and listened to my words, they would
have turned my people away from their evil habits. 21 I am a God nearby,´ says the
Lord, `and not a God far away. 22 Will a man be hidden in secret places, and I not see
him? Do I not fill heaven and earth?´ says the Lord. 23 `I heard the things which the
prophets are speaking; they are prophesying lies in my name, saying, "I dreamed a
dream." 24 How long will these things be in the hearts of the prophets, who prophesy
lies even when they prophesy the desires of their hearts, 25 who reckon that they may
forget my law in their dreams which each one described to his neighbor, just as their
fathers forgot my name in connection with Baal? 26 The prophet in whom there is a
dream, let him describe his dream, and in whom there is my word to him, let him
describe my word in truth. What is the chaff to the grain? So are my words,´ says the
Lord. 27 `Aren’t my words like fire, and like a chisel cutting rock? 28 Because of this,
behold, I am against the prophets,´ says the Lord God, `each of whom steals my
words from his neighbor. 29 Behold, I am against the prophets who put forth prophecies
of the tongue and lull themselves to sleep. 30 Behold, I am against the prophets who
prophesy false dreams; they described them and deceived my people with their lies and
A 23:7-38 = 23:9-40 MT; 23:39-40 = 23:7-8 MT
B many VS ¦ the evil A

with their deceptions. I did not send them forth myself, and I did not command them;
they will not be of any benefit to this people.
31 If this people, a priest, or a prophet asks you, "What is the statement of the
Lord?" you will say to them, "`You are the statement, and I will strike you down,´ says
the Lord." 32 As for the prophet, the priest, and the people who say, "The statement of
the Lord!" I will take vengeance on that man and his house. 33 Each of you will talk in
this way to his neighbor and each of you to his brother: "What did the Lord answer,
and what did the Lord speak? 34 Do you no longer name the statement of the Lord? For
his word will be the statement for a man. 35 Why did the Lord our God speak?"
36 Because of this, thus says the Lord God: "Since you said this word, `The statement of
the Lord!´ and I sent forth to you, saying, `You will not say, "The statement of the
Lord!"´ 37 because of this, behold, I will take and strike down you and the city which I
gave to you and your fathers. 38 I will give an eternal reproach and an eternal dishonor
over you, which will not be forgotten."
39 Because of this, behold, days are coming,´ says the Lord, `and they will no longer
say, "As the Lord lives, who brought the house of Israel up out of the land of Egypt,"
40 but, "As the Lord lives, who gathered all the seed of Israel from the land of the north
and from all the countries where he drove them out, and restored them to their own
land."´"
Jeremiah 24
1 The Lord showed me two baskets of figs lying in front of the sanctuary of the Lord,
after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon exiled Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah,
the rulers, the craftsmen, the prisoners, and the wealthy out of Jerusalem and brought
them to Babylon. 2 The one basket was of exceedingly fine figs, like the early figs; the
other basket was of exceedingly evil figs, which would not be eaten due to their evil.
3 The Lord said to me, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" I said, "Figs; the fine are very fine,
and the evil are very evil, which will not be eaten due to their evil." 4 The word of the
Lord was directed at me, saying, 5 "Thus says the Lord God of Israel: `Like these fine
figs, so I will recognize those who were exiled from Judah, whom I have sent forth out
of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, resulting in good things. 6 I will fix my eyes
on them resulting in good things, and I will restore them to this land resulting in good
things. I will build them up and not pull down; I will plant them and not uproot. 7 I will
give them a heart in order for them to be acquainted with me, that I am the Lord. They
will exist as a people for me and I will exist as a God for them, for they will return to
me from their entire hearts. 8 And like the evil figs, which would not be eaten due to
their evil,´ thus says the Lord, `so I will deliver up Zedekiah king of Judah, his great
men, and the remnant of Jerusalem, those who have been left in this land and those
who reside in Egypt. 9 I will give them to the dispersion, to all the kingdoms of the
earth, and they will exist as a reproach, as an illustration, as an object of hatred, and as
a curse in every place where I drove them out. 10 I will send forth to them famine,
execution, and the sword, until they fail from the land which I gave them.´"

Jeremiah 25
1 The word which was directed at Jeremiah regarding all the people of Judah in the
fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, 2 which he spoke to all the people
of Judah and to those who resided in Jerusalem, saying, 3 "In the thirteenth year of
Josiah son of Amos, king of Judah, and for twenty-three years until this day, I spoke to
you; I rose early and talked. 4 I sent forth to you my slaves the prophets; I sent them
forth early. Yet you did not listen, and you did not pay attention with your ears. 5 I said,
`Let each of you turn from his evil way and from your evil habits, and you will reside on
the land which I gave to you and your fathers from eternity and for eternity. 6 Do not go
after strange gods in order to serve them and worship them, so that you do not
provoke me by the works of your hands so as to harm you.´ 7 Yet you did not listen to
me. 8 Because of this, thus says the Lord: `Since you did not believe my words, 9 behold,
I am sending forth, and I will take the family from the north and lead them against this
land, against those who reside in it, and against all the nations which are around it. I
will make them desolate, and I will give them for an obliteration, for a hissing, and for
an eternal reproach. 10 I will destroy from them the sound of joy and the sound of
cheerfulness, the sound of a bridegroom and the sound of a bride, the smell of perfume
and the light of a lamp. 11 All the land will be for an obliteration, and they will serve
among the nations for seventy years. 12 When the seventy years are fulfilled, I will take
vengeance on that nation," says the Lord, "and I will place them into an eternal
obliteration. 13 I will bring over that land all my words which I spoke against it, all the
things which have been written in this scroll."
14 The things which Jeremiah prophesied against the nations of Elam. A 15 Thus says
the Lord: "Let the bow of Elam, the beginning of their dynasty, be broken. 16 I will bring
over Elam the four winds from the four corners of heaven, and I will disperse them in
all these winds. There will not be a nation in which those driven out from Elam will not
be present. 17 I will terrify them before their enemies who are seeking their souls. I will
bring wicked things over them according to the wrath of my fury, and I will send forth
my sword after them until it disposes of them. 18 I will place my throne in Elam, and I
will send forth kings and great men from there. 19 It will be at the end of days that I will
return the captivity of Elam," says the Lord.
20 In the beginning of the reigning by Zedekiah the king, this word was directed
concerning Elam.
Jeremiah 26 B
2 For Egypt, regarding the force of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, who was by the river
Euphrates in Carchemish, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon attacked in the fourth
year of Jehoiakim king of Judah.
3 "Take up weapons and shields, and advance for battle. 4 Saddle the horses; mount,
you horsemen! Station yourselves in your helmets; present the spears and put on your
A 25:14 = 49:34a MT; 25:15-19 = 49:35-39 MT; 25:20 = 49:34b MT
B 26 = 46 MT (no LXX manuscript includes vv. 1 and 26)

eastplates. 5 Why are they are terrified and retreating backward? Because their strong
ones will be cut down. They fled in a flight, yet did not turn back since they were
entirely surrounded," says the Lord. 6 Do not let the nimble one flee, and do not let the
strong one escape. In the north, the areas beside the Euphrates weakened; they have
fallen. 7 Who is this who will go up like a river, and who are agitating water like rivers?
8
The waters of Egypt will go up like a river; he said, "I will go up, cover the land, and
destroy those who reside in it." 9 Mount the horses; procure the chariots. Come out, you
warriors of the Ethiopians and you Libyans armed with weapons. Go up, you Lydians;
stretch the bow. 10 That day will be for the Lord our God a day of vengeance, so as to
take vengeance on his enemies. The sword of the Lord will devour, be satiated, and be
intoxicated due to their blood, for the Lord of sabaóth A has a sacrifice from the land of
the north at the river Euphrates. 11 Go up, O Gilead, and take rosin for the virgin
daughter of Egypt. In vain you multiplied your medicines; there is no help for you.
12
Nations heard your voice, and the land was filled with your cry. For warrior weakened
against warrior; both fell at the same time.
13
The words which the Lord spoke by the hand of Jeremiah, concerning the coming
of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to cut down the land of Egypt.
14
"Announce it at Migdol and transmit it at Memphis. Say, `Stand up and prepare,
for a sword devoured your oak tree.´ 15 Why did Apis B flee? Your choice calf did not
remain, for the Lord unloosed him. 16 Your multitude weakened and fell; each one was
speaking to his neighbor, `Let us arise and return to our people in our fatherland, away
from the presence of the Grecian sword.´ 17 Call the name of Pharaoh Neco king of
Egypt, `Shaon he-Ebir ha-Moéd.´ C 18 As I live," says the Lord God, "he will arrive like
Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel which is at the sea. 19 Make for yourself
implements of emigration, O resident daughter of Egypt, for Memphis will be for
obliteration and will be called Woe, because those who reside in it do not exist. 20 Egypt
is a beautified heifer; a fragmentation from the north came over her. 21 Her employees
within her are like fattened calves nourished within her, for they also turned back and
fled with one accord. They did not stand, for the day of destruction and the season of
their vengeance came over them. 22 There is a sound like that of a hissing serpent, for
they are going on the sand; they will arrive at her with axes like those who cut wood.
23
They will cut down her forest," says the Lord God, "for it cannot be estimated, for it is
multiplying beyond the locust, and they have no number. 24 The daughter of Egypt was
put to shame; she was delivered up into the hands of a people from the north.
25
Behold, I will take vengeance on Ammon her son against the Pharaoh and against
those who trust in him. 27 Do not fear, O Jacob my slave; do not be terrified, O Israel,
for behold, I am saving you from afar and your seed from their captivity. Jacob will
return, be quiet, and dream, and there will be no one who will annoy him. 28 Do not be
afraid, O Jacob my servant," says the Lord, "for I am with you; she who was undaunted
A of sabaóth A ¦ ~ VS
B Apis was a sacred bull worshiped at Memphis
C Heb, "the roar who let pass the appointed time"

and luxurious was delivered up. A For I will cause a termination in every nation among
whom I expelled you. I will not cause you to fail, yet I will discipline you resulting in a
judgment; when I regard anyone as guiltless, I will not regard you as guiltless."
Jeremiah 27 B
1 The word of the Lord which he spoke against Babylon: 2 "Announce it among the
nations and make it audible; do not hide it. Say, `Babylon was captured; Bel the
undaunted was put to shame; the luxurious Marduk was delivered up.´ 3 For a nation
went up against her from the north; this one will place her land into an obliteration, and
there will be no one who will reside in it from man to livestock. 4 In those days and in
that season, the sons of Israel will arrive, they and the sons of Judah together; while
they are proceeding and weeping, they will go and seek the Lord their God. 5 They will
ask the way to Zion, for there they will give their presence. They will arrive and take
refuge with the Lord God, for the eternal testament will not be forgotten. 6 My people
became lost sheep. Their shepherds drove them out; they caused them to wander on
the mountains. They departed from mountain to hill; they forgot their bed. 7 Everyone
who found them consumed them; their enemies said, `Let us not release them, since
they sinned against the Lord, the one who gathered their fathers in a pasture of
righteousness.´ 8 Be alienated from the midst of Babylon and from the land of the
Chaldeans; come out and be like dragons in front of sheep. 9 For behold, I am waking
up against Babylon congregations of nations out of the land of the north; they will line
up against her. From there she will be captured, as the javelin of an intelligent fighter
will not return empty. 10 Chaldea will be for plunder; all who plunder her will be filled,
11 because you were cheerful and were boasting while you plundered my inheritance,
because you leapt like calves in the vegetation and butted with horns like bulls. 12 Your
mother was exceedingly ashamed; regarding good things, your mother is the last of the
nations, C a desert. 13 Due to the wrath of the Lord, she will not be inhabited; everything
will be for an obliteration. Everyone who passes through Babylon will scowl and hiss at
all her plague. 14 Line up against Babylon all around, all of you who stretch the bow.
Shoot at her; do not spare your arrows. 15 Prevail over her; her hands relaxed, her
bulwarks fell, and her wall was razed, for it is vengeance from God. Take vengeance on
her; just as she did, do to her. 16 Eliminate seed from Babylon, the one who holds a
sickle in the season of harvest. Due to the presence of a Grecian sword, each will return
to his people and each will flee to his land.
17 Israel is a wandering sheep; lions drove him out. The first, the king of Assyria, ate
him, and later this king of Babylon ate his bones. 18 Because of this, thus says the Lord:
`Behold, I will take vengeance on the king of Babylon and on his land, just as I took
vengeance on the king of Assyria. 19 I will restore Israel to his pasture; he will feed in
A
she who was undaunted and luxurious was delivered up VSA ¦ ~
B
27 = 50 MT
C
Your mother was exceedingly ashamed; regarding good things, your mother is the last
of the nations VS ¦ Our [your] mother was exceedingly ashamed; the mother who gave
birth to us [you] turned away. Regarding good things, she is the last of the nations A

Carmel, in Mount Ephraim, and in Gilead, and his soul will be filled. 20 In those days and
in that season, they will seek the wrongdoing of Israel, and there will be none, and the
sins of Judah, and they will not be found, for I will be merciful to those who are left on
the land,´ says the Lord.
21 Go up harshly against it and against those who reside on it. Take vengeance, O
sword, and obliterate," says the Lord. "Act in agreement with everything which I am
commanding you." 22 The sound of battle! Great destruction in the land of the
Chaldeans! 23 How is the hammer of all the earth broken and crushed! How has Babylon
become an obliteration among the nations! 24 They will impose on you; how you will be
captured, O Babylon, and you will not know it! You were found and taken, because you
resisted the Lord. 25 The Lord opened his treasury and brought out the implements of
his anger, for there is work for the Lord God in the land of the Chaldeans, 26 for her
seasons have come. Open her storehouses; search her like a cave. Eliminate her; let
there be no remnant of her. 27 Dry up all her fruits, and let them go down to the
slaughter. Woe to them, for their day and the season of vengeance against them has
arrived. 28 The sound of those who are fleeing and escaping from the land of Babylon, in
order to declare to Zion the vengeance which is from the Lord our God!
29 "Summon many against Babylon, everyone who stretches the bow. Camp all
around against her; do not let anyone of her escape. Render to her according to her
works; do to her according to everything which she did, for she was resistant to the
Lord, the Holy God of Israel. 30 Because of this, her young men will fall in her streets,
and all the men who are her warriors will be thrown down," says the Lord. 31 "Behold, I
am against you, O insolent woman," says the Lord, "for your day and the season of
vengeance against you has arrived. 32 Your insolence will become weak and fall, and
there will be no one who will stand it up. I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it will
devour all the things around her."
33 Thus says the Lord: "The sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have been
overpowered together. Everyone who captured them overpowered them, for they did
not want to send them forth. 34 The one who redeems them is strong; the almighty Lord
is his name. He will render a judgment regarding his adversaries, so that he may do
away with the land. He will provoke those who reside in Babylon 35 with a sword against
the Chaldeans, against those who reside in Babylon, against her great men, and against
her intelligent men; 36 a sword against her fighters (they will be disabled); 37 a sword
against their horses and against their chariots; a sword against their warriors and
against what is mixed together in her midst (they will be like women); a sword against
her treasures (they will be scattered). 38 They will yearn for her water and be ashamed, A
for it is a land of carvings, even among the islands where they boasted. 39 Because of
this, hallucinations will reside in the islands, and the daughters of sirens will reside in it;
it will no longer be resided in forever. 40 Just as God overturned Sodom and Gomorrah
and those bordering them," said the Lord, "no man will reside there and no son of man
will sojourn there.
A (they will be scattered). 38 They will yearn for her water and be ashamed, A ¦ (they will
be scattered over her water). 38 They will be ashamed, VS

41 Behold, a people and a great nation is coming from the north, and many kings will
be awoken from the end of the earth. 42 They have a bow and a dagger. It is bold, and
will not show mercy. Their voices will resound like the sea; they will ride on horses,
equipped for battle against you like fire, O daughter of Babylon. 43 The king of Babylon
heard their sound, and his hands were disabled; oppression prevailed over them, pains
as of a woman giving birth. 44 Behold, he will go up like a lion from the Jordan to the
place of Ethan, for I will quickly chase them away from her, and I will stand every
young man against her. For who is like me? Who will resist me? Who is this shepherd
who will stand in front of my face?" 45 Because of this, listen to the counsel of the Lord
which he has offered against Babylon and his plans which he devised against the
Chaldeans who are residing it: `Surely the lambs of their flocks will be ruined; surely
pasture will disappear from them.´ 46 For due to the sound of the capture of Babylon,
the earth will shake and a cry will be heard among the nations.
Jeremiah 28 A
1 Thus says the Lord: "Behold, I am arousing against Babylon and against the
resident Chaldeans a ruinous burning wind. 2 I will send forth insolent men to Babylon,
and they will be insolent with her and damage her land. Woe against everything around
Babylon on the day of her mistreatment. 3 Let the one who bends his bow bend it, and
let the one who has his weapons put them on. Do not spare her young men; obliterate
all her force." 4 The wounded will fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and those who have
been pierced will fall outside her. 5 For Israel and Judah were not bereaved of their God,
of the almighty Lord, because their land was filled with wrongdoing, away from the holy
things of Israel. 6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and let each of you cause his soul to
escape. Do not be overthrown by her wrongdoing, for it is the season of her vengeance
from the Lord; he is rendering a repayment to her. 7 Babylon was a gold cup in the hand
of the Lord, causing all the earth to be drunk. The nations drank some of her wine;
because of this, they were shaken. 8 Babylon suddenly fell and broke. Lament her; take
rosin for her ruin, if somehow she may be healed. 9 We treated Babylon, yet she was
not healed. Let us abandon her, and let each one depart to his own land. For her
judgment drew near to heaven; it rose up as far as the stars. 10 The Lord brought out
his judgment; come, let us report to Zion the works of the Lord our God.
11 Prepare the arrows; fill the quivers. The Lord woke up the spirit of the king of the
Medes, for his wrath is for Babylon in order to eliminate it. For it is the vengeance of
the Lord; it is the vengeance of his people. 12 Lift up a sign over the walls of Babylon;
set up the quivers; wake up the guards; prepare the weapons. For the Lord initiated
and will perform the things which he spoke against those who reside in Babylon, 13 who
pitched their tents by many waters and by the abundance of her treasures; your end
will truly arrive inside your bowels. 14 For the Lord swore by his arm: "For I will fill you
with men as with locusts, and those who descend will make utterance against you."
15 He made the earth by his strength; he prepared the inhabited world by his
wisdom; by his understanding he extended heaven. 16 He set up the sound of water as a
A 28 = 51 MT (no LXX manuscript includes vv. 45-48)

voice in heaven and brought clouds up from the end of the earth; he made lightning
flashes for the rain, and brought light out of his treasures. 17 Every man became foolish
apart from knowledge; every goldsmith was ashamed due to his carvings. For they
molded false things; there is no spirit in them. 18 They are vain, ridiculed works; in the
season of their inspection they will perish. 19 The portion of Jacob is not such as this, for
the one who formed all things is himself his inheritance; the Lord is his name.
20 "You are scattering implements of war for me, and I will scatter nations by you
and get rid of kings from you. 21 By you I will scatter a horse and its rider; by you I will
scatter chariots and their riders. 22 By you I will scatter a young man and a virgin; by
you I will scatter a man and a woman. 23 By you I will scatter a shepherd and his flock;
by you I will scatter a farmer and his farm; by you I will scatter your governors and
captains.
24 I will repay to Babylon and to all the resident Chaldeans all their wicked acts which
they performed over Zion in front of your eyes," says the Lord. 25 "Behold, I am against
you, the ruined mountain which ruins all the earth; I will extend my hand over you, roll
you down from the cliffs, and give you as a mountain set on fire. 26 They will not take
from you a stone for a corner and a stone for a foundation, for you will become an
obliteration forever," says the Lord.
27 Lift up a sign over the land; sound a trumpet among the nations. Sanctify the
nations against her; summon from me against her the kingdoms A of Ararat and the
people of Ashkenaz. Station engines of war against her; bring up against her the horse
like a multitude of locusts. 28 Bring up nations against her, the king of the Medes and of
all the land, his governors, and all his captains. 29 The land shook and suffered, because
the plan of the Lord arose against Babylon in order to set up the land of Babylon for
obliteration, and in order for it not to be inhabited. 30 The fighter of Babylon failed to
battle; they will sit there during the siege. Their domination was broken; they became
like women. Her tents were set on fire; her bars were shattered. 31 A pursuer will pursue
to meet a pursuer, and an announcer to meet an announcer, in order to announce to
the king of Babylon that his city was captured. 32 At the end of his passageways they
were taken; they burned his units with fire, and his men who were warriors came out.
33 For thus says the Lord: "The houses of the king of Babylon will be threshed like a
threshing floor in season; in a little while, her harvest will arrive."
34 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon devoured me. He divided me; he overtook me as
though I were a slight darkness. He swallowed me like a dragon; he filled his belly from
my luxury. 35 "My troubles and my distresses drove me out into Babylon," she who
resides in Zion will say. "My blood is on the resident Chaldeans," Jerusalem will say.
36 Because of this, thus says the Lord: "Behold, I will judge your adversary, and I will
exact your vengeance; I will make her sea a desert and dry up her fountain. 37 Babylon
will become an obliteration and will not be inhabited. 38 They were aroused together like
lions and like the cubs of lions. 39 In their heat I will give them a potion and get them
drunk, so that they may be stupefied, sleep an eternal sleep, and not awake," says the
Lord. 40 Bring them down like lambs to a slaughter, and like rams with kids.
A kingdoms A ¦ kings VS

41 How the boast of all the earth was captured and hunted down! How Babylon
became an obliteration among the nations! 42 The sea ascended over Babylon with the
sound of its waves, and she was covered. 43 Her cities became like a waterless and
trackless land; not even one person will reside in it, nor will a son of man lodge in it. 44 I
will take vengeance on Babylon and bring out of her mouth the things which she
swallowed; the nations will no longer be gathered to her.
49 In Babylon, the wounded of all the land will fall. 50 Go out of the land, you who are
escaping, and do not stay; you who are at a distance, remember the Lord, and let
Jerusalem ascend over your heart. 51 We were ashamed because we heard our
reproach; dishonor covered our face. Foreigners entered into our holy places, into the
house of the Lord.
52 "Because of this, behold, days are coming," says the Lord, "and I will take
vengeance on her carvings; the wounded will fall in all her land. 53 For even if Babylon
ascends like heaven, and even if she fortifies the height of her strength, those who will
eliminate her will arrive from me," says the Lord. 54 The noise of a cry in Babylon, and a
great shattering in the land of the Chaldeans! 55 For the Lord eliminated Babylon and
destroyed from her the great voice which sounded like many waters; he gave her voice
for elimination. 56 For distress came over Babylon; her fighters were captured. Their bow
was terrified, for God is repaying them; the Lord is rendering a repayment to her. 57 He
will make her governors, her wise men, and her captains drunk with drunkenness," says
the King; the almighty Lord is his name. 58 Thus says the Lord: "The wall of Babylon was
flattened; it will be leveled, and her high gates will be set on fire. The peoples will not
labor in vain, and the nations will fail in rule."
59 The word which the Lord commanded Jeremiah the prophet to say to Seraiah son
of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went from Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon in
the fourth year of his reign; Seraiah was the ruler of the gifts. 60 Jeremiah wrote in one
scroll all the wicked things which would arrive against Babylon, all these words which
had been written against Babylon. 61 Jeremiah said to Seraiah, "Whenever you come to
Babylon, and you see and read all these words, 62 you will say, `O Lord, O Lord, you
spoke against this place in order to eliminate it, and in order for there to be nothing
dwelling in it from man to livestock, for it will be an obliteration forever.´ 63 It will be
that, whenever you cease reading this scroll, you will bind a stone upon it, throw it into
the midst of the Euphrates, 64 and say, `Babylon will sink in this way and not arise due
the presence of the wicked things which I am bringing against it.´"
Jeremiah 29 A
1 Against the Philistines.
2 Thus says the Lord: "Behold, waters are going up from the north. They will be an
inundating torrent, and it will inundate the land and its fullness, the city and those who
reside in it. Men will cry out, and all who reside in the land will howl 3 due to the sound
of his rushing, due to the implements of his feet, due to the shaking of his chariots, at
the noise of his wheels. Fathers did not return to their sons due to the relaxation of
A 29 = 47 MT

their hands, 4 on the day which is coming to destroy all the Philistines. I will obliterate
Tyre and Sidon and all who remain of their help, for the Lord will eliminate those who
remain of the islands. 5 A bald spot was present on Gaza; Ashkelon was thrown away, as
well as those who remain of the Anakim. 6 How long will you cut down, O sword of the
Lord? How long will you not be quiet? Be restored to your sheath; rest and be taken
away. 7 How will it be quiet? The Lord commanded it to awaken against Ashkelon and
against the coastal regions, against those who remain.
Jeremiah 30 A
1 To Idumea.
Thus says the Lord: "Wisdom is no longer in Teman; counsel perished from the
intelligent. Their wisdom has been departing; 2 their place was deceived. Go down deep
for a seat, you who reside in Dedan, for he made difficult things; I brought them
against him at the time I inspected him. 3 For grape gatherers came to you; they will not
leave you a remnant. Like thieves at night, they will impose their hand. 4 For I ravaged
Esau; I revealed their secret places. They will not be able to hide; they perished
through the hand of his brother and his ally. B 5 Your orphan is not going to be left so
that he might live; I will live, and widows are trusting in me." 6 For thus said the Lord:
"Those for whom there was no law to drink the cup were drinking it; although you have
been declared guiltless, you will not be declared guiltless, for after you have drunk you
will continue to drink. C 7 For I swore by myself," says the Lord, "that in her midst you
will become impassable, a reproach, and a curse; all her cities will be deserts forever."
8 I heard a report from the lord, and he sent forth messengers to the nations: "Gather
together and appear against her; arise for battle. 9 I gave you to be small among the
nations, contemptible among men. 10 Your pretence initiated it for you. The recklessness
of your heart broke up the holes of the cliffs; it seized the strength of the exalted hill.
For he exalted his nest like an eagle; I will pull you down from there. 11 Idumea will
become impassable; everyone who goes by will hiss at her. 12 As Sodom, Gomorrah, and
those who resided near her were overturned," said the almighty Lord, "a man will not
sit there and a son of man will not reside there. 13 Behold, he will go up like a lion from
the midst of the Jordan to the place of Ethan, for I will quickly chase them away from
her; stand the young men against her. For who is like me? Who will resist me? Who is
this shepherd who will stand in front of my face?" 14 Because of this, listen to the
counsel of the Lord which he offered against Idumea and his plan which he devised
against those who reside in Teman: "Surely the least of the sheep will be swept away;
surely their lodging will be made impassable for them. 15 For the earth was shaken due
to the sound of their fall, and your cry was not heard in the sea. D 16 Behold, he will see
A
30:1-16 = 49:7-22 MT; 30:17-22 = 49:1-6 MT; 30:23-28 = 49:28-33 MT; 30:29-33 =
49:23-27 MT
B
his brother and his ally A ¦ his brother, my ally VS
C
for after you have drunk you will continue to drink A ¦ ~ VS
D
the earth was shaken … and your cry was not heard in the sea A ¦ the earth was
afraid … and the cry of the sea was not heard VS

like an eagle and extend his wings over her strongholds. The heart of the strong of
Idumea will be on that day like the heart of a woman suffering labor pains."
17
To the sons of Ammon.
So said the Lord: "Are there no sons in Israel, or is there no one to succeed them?
Why did Malcam take over Gilead, A and why will their people reside in their cities?
18
Because of this, behold, days are coming," says the Lord, "and I will cause the tumult
of battles to be heard in Rabbah. They will become impassable and will result in
destruction, and its altars will be burned with fire. Israel will take over his realm.
19
Howl, O Heshbon, for Gai perished. Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah; gird yourselves
with sackcloth, convulse, and mourn over Malcam, for it will proceed into exile, its
priests and its rulers together. 20 Why are you glad in the plains of the Anakim, O
reckless daughter who trusts in her treasures, who says, `Who will come in against
me?´ 21 Behold, I am bringing fear over you," said the Lord, "from all those who reside
around you. Each of you will be scattered to his own person, and there will be no one
who gathers." B
23
To Kedar, the queen of the courtyard, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
attacked.
So said the Lord: "Arise and go up to Kedar; fill the sons of Kedem. 24 They will take
their tents and their sheep; they will take for themselves their garments, all their
implements, and their camels. Summon destruction against them all around. 25 Flee; go
down very deep for a seat, you who sit in the courtyard, for the king of Babylon offered
counsel against you and devised a plan against you. 26 Arise and go up against a nation
which is stable and sitting at ease, those who do not have doors, bolts, or bars, who
lodge alone. 27 Their camels will be for plunder, and the multitude of their livestock will
be for destruction. I will winnow them with every breath after their hair has been cut
before their faces; from every part of them I will bring about their reversal," says the
Lord. 28 "The courtyard will be a resort for ostriches and impassable forever. A man will
not sit there, and a son of man will not reside there."
29
To Damascus.
"Emath and Arpad were ashamed, for they heard an evil report. They were
astonished; they became angry; they will not be able to rest. 30 Damascus failed; it
turned back in flight; trembling seized it. 31 How did it not abandon my city? They loved
the village. 32 Because of this, young men will fall in your streets, and all your military
men will fall," says the Lord. 33 "I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it will
devour the roads of the son of Ader."
Jeremiah 31 C
1 To Moab.
So said the Lord: "Woe against Nebo, for it perished. Kiriathaim was taken; Hamath
A Gilead VSA ¦ Gad
B no one who gathers." VSA ¦ no one who gathers a wanderer. 22 After these things, I
will return the captivity of the sons of Ammon," says the Lord.
C 31 = 48 (no LXX manuscript includes vv. 45-47)

was shamed and lessened. 2 Healing for Moab, haughtiness in Heshbon, no longer
exists; he devised wicked things against her. We cut her off from being a nation, and
she will cease. A sword will proceed after you, 3 for a voice is crying out of Horonaim, an
elimination and a great shattering. 4 Moab was shattered; report it to Zoar. 5 For Haluhith
was filled with weeping; one will go up weeping on the way to Horonaim. You heard
the cry of the shattering. 6 Flee and save your souls, and you will be like a wild donkey
in the desert. 7 Since you trusted in your strongholds, you will be captured. Chemosh will
come out in a exile, his priests and his rulers together. 8 Elimination will arrive over
every city, and no city will be saved; the canyon will be destroyed and the country of
the plain will be eliminated, just as the Lord said. 9 Give signs for Moab, for she will be lit
up with kindling, and all her cities will become impassable. From where will there be a
resident for her? 10 Cursed is the one who does the works of the Lord carelessly, holding
back his sword from blood.
11 Moab has been at rest since he was a boy and has trusted in his glory; he did not
pour from vessel into vessel and did not depart into exile. Because of this, his taste
stood in him and his smell did not fail. 12 Because of this, behold, days are coming," says
the Lord, "and I will send forth to him those who are diverting, and they will divert him.
They will diminish his implements and cut off his horns. 13 Moab will be ashamed of
Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their hope when they trusted
in them. 14 How will you say, `We are strong, and a man strong in military matters´?
15 Moab perished; his city and his choice young men went down to slaughter. 16 The day
of Moab is near to come, and his evil is exceedingly swift. 17 Move against him, all of you
who are around him; all of you, give up his name! Say, `How did the famous staff
break, the rod of magnificence!´ 18 Descend from glory and sit in moisture. After Dibon
is seated, she will be wiped out, because Moab perished; one who ravaged your
stronghold went up against you. 19 Stand on the way and look, you who are seated in
Aroer; ask one who is fleeing and being saved, and say, `What happened?´ 20 Moab
was ashamed, because he was broken. Howl and cry; announce in Arnon that Moab
perished. 21 Judgment is coming into the land of Misor against Holon, against Rephas,
against Mephaath, 22 against Dibon, against Nebo, against the house of Diblathaim,
23 against Kiriathaim, against the house of Gamul, against the house of Meon, 24 against
Kerioth, against Bozrah, and against all the cities of Moab, the far and the near. 25 The
horn of Moab was shattered and his arm was broken. 26 Make him intoxicated, for he
was magnified against the Lord. Moab will clap with his hand, and he himself will also
be an occasion for laughter. 27 Surely Israel became for you an absurdity; surely he was
found among your thefts, because you battled him. 28 Those who reside in Moab
abandoned the cities and resided in cliffs; they became like doves nesting in cliffs, at
the mouth of a pit. 29 I heard the insolence of Moab (he became very insolent), his
insolence and his arrogance; his heart was exalted. 30 I knew his works. It was not
enough for him; he did not act in this way. 31 Because of this, howl against Moab all
around; cry out against the shorn men of the drought. 32 Like the weeping of Jazer, I
will weep for you, O vine of Ashermah. Your branches passed over the sea; they
reached the cities of Jazer. Elimination fell over your summertime, upon your grape
gatherers. 33 Joy and cheerfulness were swept away from the land of Moab. Wine

emained in your presses; they did not tread it in the morning or in the evening. They
did nothing. 34 As for those who were from the cry of Heshbon to Elealeh, their cities
gave their voice from Zoar to Horonaim and the message of Shelishiyah, for even the
water of Nimrim will become a burning. 35 I will destroy Moab," says the Lord, "as he
comes up to the platform and burns incense to his gods. 36 Because of this, the heart of
Moab will hiss like flutes; my heart will hiss like a flute over the shorn men. Because of
this, the things which he preserved have perished from a man. 37 They will have every
head shaved in every place, and every beard will be shaved. All hands will beat, and
there will be sackcloth on every waist, 38 on all the housetops of Moab, and on her
streets. For I broke Moab," says the Lord, "like a vessel for which there is no need.
39 How he changed! How Moab turned his back! Moab was shamed and became an
occasion for laughter and indignation for all who were around her." 40 For so said the
Lord: 41 "Kerioth was taken and the strongholds were captured. 42 Moab will perish from
being a crowd, because he was magnified over the Lord. 43 A snare, fear, and a pit are
upon you, you who sit in Moab. 44 The one who flees from the face of fear will fall into
the pit, and the one who goes up out of the pit will be captured in the snare, for I will
bring these things upon Moab in the year of their inspection."
Jeremiah 32 A
1 The things which Jeremiah prophesied concerning all the nations. B
2 So said the Lord God of Israel: "Take the cup of this unmixed wine from my hand;
you will cause all the nations to drink, to which I am sending you forth. 3 They will drink,
vomit, and become insane due to the sword which I am sending forth between them."
4 I took the cup from the hand of the Lord and caused the nations to drink, to which the
Lord sent me forth: 5 Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, the kings of Judah and its
rulers, to place them into desolation, into an inaccessible place, and into a hissing; 6 the
Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and his servants, his great men, all his people, 7 and all his
miscellaneous people; all the kings of the Philistines, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the
remnant of Ashdod; 8 Idumea, the Moabite, and the sons of Ammon; 9 all the kings of
Tyre, the kings of Sidon, and the kings who are on the other side of the sea; 10 Dedan,
Teman, Rosh, and everyone who is shaved around his face; 11 all the miscellaneous
people who lodge in the desert; 12 all the kings of Elam and all the kings of the Persians;
13 all the kings from the east wind, the far and the near, each one with his brother, and
all the kingdoms which are on the surface of the earth.
14 "You will say to them, `So said the almighty Lord: "Drink, become intoxicated, and
vomit! You will fall and not arise due to the presence of the sword which I am sending
forth between you."´ 15 It will be that, whenever they do not wish to accept the cup
from your hand in order to drink it, you will say, `So said the Lord: "You will indeed
drink. 16 For in the city in which my name was named over it, I am beginning to harm,
and you will not be cleansed by a cleansing, for I am summoning a sword over those
who reside on the land."´
A 32:1 = 25:13b MT; 32:2-25 = 25:15-38 MT
B The things which Jeremiah prophesied concerning all the nations. A ¦ ~ VS

17 You will prophesy these words against them; you will say, `The Lord will
deliberate from on high; from his holy place he will give his voice. He will deliberate a
word regarding his place; they will answer like those who gather grapes. Over those
who are sitting on the earth, 18 an elimination is arriving over part of the earth. For there
is a judgment for the Lord among the nations; he himself is being judged by all flesh,
and the ungodly were given to the sword,´ says the Lord."
19 So said the Lord: "Behold, wicked things are coming from nation to nation, and a
great hurricane is going out from the end of the earth. 20 Those wounded by the Lord
will be on the day of the Lord from one part of the earth to another part of the earth.
They will not be buried; they will be like dung on the surface of the earth. 21 Howl, you
shepherds, and cry out; mourn, you rams of the sheep, for your days were fulfilled for
slaughter, and you will fall like the choice rams. 22 Fleeing will perish from the shepherds
and salvation from the rams of the sheep. 23 There is a sound of the outcry of the
shepherds, and there is a howling of the sheep and the rams, for the Lord eliminated
their pastures. 24 The remaining places of peace will cease due to the presence of the
wrath of my fury. 25 He abandoned his lair like a lion, for their land become an
inaccessible place due to the presence of the great sword."
Jeremiah 33 A
1 In the beginning of the reign of King Jehoiakim son of Josiah, this word was from
the Lord: 2 "The Lord said this: `Stand in the courtyard of the Lord's house. To all the
Judeans and to all who come to worship in the house of the Lord, you will disclose all
the words which I directed you to disclose to them; do not hold back a word. 3 Perhaps
they will listen, and each of them will turn from his evil way, and I will cease from the
wicked things which I am planning to do to them because of their evil habits. 4 You will
say: "The Lord said this: `If you do not hear me, so as to walk in my regulations which
I gave in your presence, 5 and to listen to the words of my servants the prophets whom
I am sending forth to you early in the morning (I sent them forth, yet you did not listen
to me), 6 then I will give this house to be like Shiloh, and I will give this city as a curse
to all the nations of all the earth.´"´" 7 The priests, the false prophets, and all the
people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the Lord. 8 It happened
that, when Jeremiah finished speaking everything which the Lord directed him to speak
to all the people, the priests, the false prophets, and all the people took hold of him,
saying, "You will die! 9 For you prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, `This house
will be like Shiloh, and this city will be desolated, with no inhabitants.´" All the people
assembled against Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.
10 The rulers of Judah heard these words, and they went up from the house of the
king to the house of the Lord and sat in the threshold of the New Gate of the Lord. B
11 The priests and the false prophets said to the rulers and to all the people, "A verdict
of death for this man, because he prophesied against this city, as you heard with your
ears." 12 Jeremiah said to the rulers and for all the people, "The Lord sent me forth to
A 33 = 26 MT
B of the Lord A ¦ ~ VS

prophesy against this house and against this city all these words which you heard.
13 Now make your ways and your works better; listen to the voice of the Lord your God,
and the Lord will cease from the wicked things which he spoke against you. 14 Behold, I
am in your hands. Do to me as is beneficial and as is better for you. 15 But know that if
you slay me, you will be issuing innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city and
those who reside in it, for in truth the Lord sent me forth to you to speak all these
words in your ears."
16 The rulers and all the people said to the priests and the false prophets, "A verdict
of death is not for this man, because he spoke to us in the name of the Lord our God."
17 Men from the elders of the land arose and said to all the congregation of the people,
18 "Micah the Moreshethite was in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; he said to all the
people of Judah, `The Lord said this: "Zion will be plowed like a field; Jerusalem will
become impassable, A and the mountain of the house will become a grove of the
forest."´ 19 Did Hezekiah and all Judah slay him? Was it not that they feared the Lord
and that they petitioned the face of the Lord, and the Lord ceased from the wicked
things which he spoke against them? We did great wicked things against our souls."
20 There was a man prophesying in the name of the Lord, Uriah son of Shemaiah
from Kiriath-jearim; he prophesied concerning this land according to all the words of
Jeremiah. 21 King Jehoiakim and all the rulers heard all his words, and they sought to kill
him; Uriah heard of it and entered Egypt. 22 The king sent forth men to Egypt; 23 they
brought him from there, and they brought him to the king. He struck him with a sword
and threw him into the tomb of the sons of his people. 24 Nevertheless the hand of
Ahikam son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so as not to deliver him up to the hands of
the people, so as not to slay him.
Jeremiah 34 B
2 So said the Lord: "Make bonds and collars and place them around your neck. 3 You
will send them forth to the king of Idumea, 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 hands of their
messengers who are coming to meet them at Jerusalem with Zedekiah king of Judah.
4 You will order them to say to their lords, `So said the Lord God of Israel: "So will you
say to your lords: 5 `I made the land by my great strength and by my upraised arm, and
I will give it to whomever it seems appropriate in my eyes. 6 I gave the land to
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon in order to serve him, and the beasts of the field in
order to work for him. 8 As for the nation and kingdom, as many as do not submit their
neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will inspect them with a sword and with
famine,´ said the Lord, `until they cease by his hand. 9 Do not listen to your false
prophets, those who practice divination for you, those who interpret dreams for you,
your omens, and your sorcerers, who say, "You will not work for the king of Babylon."
10 For they are prophesying lies to you in order to take you far from your land. 11 As for
the nation which inserts its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and works for
A impassable VS ¦ a gardener's hut A
B 34 = 27 MT (no LXX manuscript includes vv. 1, 7, 13, 17, and 21)

him, I will leave it on his land; it will work for him and reside in it.´"´"
12 I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah in agreement with all these words, saying,
"Insert your neck. 14 Work for the king of Babylon, for they are prophesying unrighteous
things to you, 15 for I did not send them forth," says the Lord. "They are prophesying in
my name based on what is unrighteous, so as to destroy you, and you will indeed be
destroyed, as well as your prophets who are prophesying lies to you based on what is
unrighteous. 16 I spoke to you, all this people as well as the priests, saying, `So said the
Lord: "Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you, saying,
`Behold, the vessels of the house of the Lord will return from Babylon,´ for they are
prophesying unrighteous things to you; I did not send them forth. 18 If they are
prophets, and if the word of the Lord is among them, let them meet me." 19 For so said
the Lord: "As for the remaining vessels, 20 which the king of Babylon did not take when
he exiled Jeconiah from Jerusalem, 22 they will come into Babylon," says the Lord.´"
Jeremiah 35 A
1 It happened that, in the fourth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fifth month,
Hananiah son of Azzur, the false prophet who was from Gibeon, talked to me in the
house of the Lord, in front of the eyes of the priests and all the people, saying, 2 "So
said the Lord: `I broke the yoke of the king of Babylon. 3 In two more years of days, I
will return to this place the vessels of the house of the Lord, 4 Jeconiah, and the exile of
Judah, for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.´" 5 Jeremiah talked to Hananiah
in front of the eyes of all the people and in front of the eyes of the priests who stood in
the house of the Lord; 6 Jeremiah said, "May the Lord truly do this: may he confirm your
word which you are prophesying, to return the vessels of the house of the Lord and all
the exile from Babylon to this place. 7 Nevertheless, listen to the word of the Lord which
I am saying in your ears and in the ears of all the people. 8 The prophets of old who
were previous to me and previous to you also prophesied for war over a large land and
against great kingdoms. 9 As for the prophet who prophesied for peace, when the word
comes, they will know the prophet whom the Lord sent forth to them in faith."
10 Hananiah took the collars from the neck of Jeremiah in the eyes of all the people and
broke them. 11 Hananiah talked in front of the eyes of all the people, saying, "So said
the Lord: `So will I break the yoke of the king of Babylon from the necks of all the
nations.´" Jeremiah departed on his way.
12 The word of the Lord was directed at Jeremiah after Hananiah broke the collars
from his neck, saying, 13 "Proceed and talk to Hananiah, saying, `So said the Lord: "You
broken wooden collars; I will make iron collars in their place." 14 For so said the Lord: "I
placed an iron yoke on the neck of all the nations so as to work for the king of
Babylon."´" 15 Jeremiah also said to Hananiah, "The Lord did not send you forth; you
caused this people to trust in unrighteousness. 16 Because of this, so said the Lord:
`Behold, I will banish you from the surface of the earth; this year you will die.´" 17 He
died in the seventh month.
A 35 = 28 MT

Jeremiah 36 A
1 These are the words of the book which Jeremiah sent forth from Jerusalem to the
elders of the exile, to the priests, and to the false prophets, as a letter to Babylon for
the exile and pertaining to all the people, 2 after Jeconiah the king, the queen, the
eunuchs, and every freeman, person in bondage, and craftsman came out of Jerusalem,
3 by the hand of Elasah son of Shaphan and Gemariah son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah
king of Judah sent forth to the king of Babylon in Babylon, saying, 4 "So said the Lord
God of Israel regarding the exile which I exiled from Jerusalem: 5 `Build and inhabit
houses; plant parks B and eat their fruits. 6 Take wives and produce sons and daughters
as children; take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands. Multiply and
do not be diminished. 7 Seek for the peace of the land into which I exiled you there, and
pray to the Lord concerning them, for in its peace there will be peace for you.´ 8 For so
said the Lord: `Do not let the false prophets who are among you persuade you, do not
let your diviners persuade you, and do not listen to your dreams which you are
dreaming. 9 For they are prophesying unrighteous things to you in my name; I did not
send them forth.´ 10 For so said the Lord: `When seventy years are about to be fulfilled
at Babylon, I will inspect you and confirm my words regarding you so as to return your
people to this place. 11 I will devise for you a plan of peace so as not to give you these
wicked things. 12 Pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 Seek me, and you will find me,
for you will seek me with your entire heart, 14 and I will appear to you.´
15 Since you said, `The Lord installed prophets for us in Babylon,´ 21 so said the Lord
regarding Ahiab and regarding Zedekiah: `Behold, I am giving them into the hands of
the king of Babylon, and he will attack them in front of your eyes. 22 They will receive
from them a curse in all the exile of Judah in Babylon, saying, "May the Lord do to you
as he did to Zedekiah and as he did to Ahiab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the
fire, 23 on account of the lawlessness which they performed in Israel." They committed
adultery with the wives of their fellow citizens and issued a word in my name which I
did not order for them. I am the witness,´ says the Lord.
24 `To Shemaiah the Elamite you will say, 25 "I did not send you forth in my name."´
To Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, the priest, he said, 26 `The Lord gave you as a priest in
place of Jehoiada the priest to preside in the house of the Lord over every man who
prophesies and every man who raves; you will give them to the guardhouse and to the
trapdoor. 27 Now why did you join in reviling C Jeremiah who is from Anathoth, who
prophesied to you? 28 Did he not send forth to you in Babylon because of this, when he
said, "It is far away. Build and inhabit houses; plant gardens and eat their fruit"?´"
29 Zephaniah read the scroll in the ears of Jeremiah. 30 The word of the Lord was
directed at Jeremiah, saying, 31 "Send forth to the exile, saying, `So said the Lord
regarding Shemaiah the Elamite: "Since Shemaiah prophesied to you even though I did
not send him forth and made you trust in unrighteous acts," 32 because of this, so said
A 36 = 29 MT (no LXX manuscript includes vv. 16-20)
B paradeisos, elsewhere "paradise"
C join in reviling VA ¦ revile S ¦ not rebuke by means of

the Lord: "Behold, I will inspect Shemaiah and his race. There will not be a man of
them in your midst to see the good things which I will do for you; they will not see."´"
Jeremiah 37 A
1 The word which was directed at Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, 2 "The Lord God of
Israel said this: `Write all the words which I disclosed to you on a scroll. 3 For behold,
days are coming,´ says the Lord, `and I will return the exile of my people Israel and
Judah,´ said the Lord. `I will return them to the land which I gave to their fathers, and
they will dominate it.´"
4 These are the words which the Lord spoke concerning Israel and Judah; 5 the Lord
said this: "You will hear the sound of fear; there is fear, and there is no peace. 6 Inquire
and see if a male gave birth, and about fear, in which they will hold on to a lap and to
salvation. For I have seen every man, and his hands are on his lap. Faces turned; they
became jaundiced. 7 For that day is great, and there is no other such; it is a narrow time
for Jacob, and from this he will be saved. 8 In that day," said the Lord, "I will break the
yoke from their neck and I will burst their bonds; they will no longer work for strangers.
9 They will work for the Lord their God, and I will raise up for them David their king."
12 The Lord said this: "I raised up an abrasion; your wound is painful. 13 There is no
one who judges your case. You were given treatments resulting in pain; there is no
benefit for you. 14 All your friends forgot you; they will not inquire. For I struck you with
the wound of an enemy, with firm discipline. Your sins multiplied over all your
wrongdoing. 16 Because of this, all who eat you will be devoured, and all your enemies
will eat all their own carcasses. Your sins multiplied over the multitude of your
wrondoings; they did these things to you. Those who spoil you will become a spoil, and
I will give as plunder all who plunder you. 17 For I will bring about your healing; I will
heal you of your grievous wound," says the Lord. "For you were called Dispersed; `she
is your prey, for there is no one who seeks after her.´"
18 The Lord said this: "Behold, I will return the exile of Jacob and will have mercy on
his captivity. The city will be built on its height, and the people will take their seats
according to their judgment. B 19 From them will come out singers, and the sound of
those who are playing. I will expand them, and they will not be diminished. 20 Their sons
will enter as formerly, and their testimonies will be set up before my face. I will visit
those who oppress them. 21 His stronger ones will be over them, and his ruler will come
out of them. I will gather them, and they will return to me. For who is this who gave his
heart to return to me?" says the Lord.
23 For the fierce wrath of the Lord came out. Repeating wrath came out; it will arrive
upon the ungodly. 24 The wrath of the Lord's fury will not return until he performs it and
until he establishes the undertaking of his heart. At the end of days you will know these
things.
A 37 = 30 MT (no LXX manuscript includes vv. 10-11, 15, and 22)
B the people will take their seats according to their judgment VSA ¦ the temple will take
its seat according to its judgment

Jeremiah 38 A
1 "In that time," said the Lord, "I will be God for the race of Israel, and they will be a
people for me." 2 The Lord said this: "I found him warm in the desert with those who
perished by the sword. Proceed, and do not destroy Israel." 3 The Lord appeared to him
from afar: "I loved you with an eternal love; because of this, I attracted you in
compassion. 4 Still I will build you, and you will be built, O virgin of Israel. Still you will
take your tambourine and come out with the congregation of those who are playing.
5 Still you planted vineyards on the mountains of Samaria; plant, and give praise. 6 For it
is a day of the calling of those who speak in defense on the mountains of Ephraim:
`Arise, and go up on Zion to the Lord our God.´"
7 For the Lord said this to Jacob, "Cheer and snicker over the head of the nations;
cause things to be heard and give praise; say, `The Lord saved his people, the remnant
of Israel.´ 8 Behold, I am bringing them from the north, and will gather them from the
end of the earth at the festival of the Passover. B He will procreate a great multitude,
and they will return here. 9 They came out with weeping, and I will bring them back with
comfort, causing them to lodge by the channels of waters in a straight way. They will
not wander in it, for I became a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn."
10 Hear the word of the Lord, O nations, and announce it to the islands which are at
a distance: "Say, `The one who scattered Israel will gather him and preserve him as
one who feeds his flock.´ 11 For the Lord redeemed Jacob; he rescued him out of the
hand of those who were more solid than he. 12 They will come and be cheerful on the
mountain of Zion, and will come upon the good things of the Lord, upon a land of grain,
wine, fruits, livestock, and sheep. Their souls will be like fruitful trees; they will no
longer be hungry. 13 Then virgins will rejoice in the congregation of the young, and the
old will rejoice. I will turn their mourning into joy and will cause them to be cheerful. 14 I
will magnify and intoxicate the souls of the priests, the sons of Levi, and my people will
be filled with my good things."
15 The Lord said this: "A voice was heard in Ramah C of lamentation, weeping, and
wailing. Rachel was weeping for her sons and did not want to be comforted, D because
they are no more." 16 The Lord said this: "Let your voice cease from weeping and your
eyes from your tears, for there is a reward for your works. They will return from the
land of enemies; 17 there will be a permanent dwelling for your children. 18 I heard the
sound of Ephraim wailing: `You disciplined me, and I was disciplined; like a calf, I was
not taught. Return me, and I will return, for you are the Lord my God. 19 For after my
captivity I repented, and after I knew, I groaned on a day of shame; I showed you that
I received reproach from my youth.´ 20 Ephraim is a beloved son to me, a child I delight
in, for because my words are in him, I will remember him. Because of this, I hurried to
him; I will have mercy on him," says the Lord.
A 38 = 31 MT
B phasek, from Heb pesach
C Ramah VSc ¦ the high country S*A
D did not want to be comforted A ¦ did not want to stop VS

21 Establish yourself, O Zion; execute vengeance. Give your heart to your shoulders.
Return by the way which you traveled, O virgin of Israel; return grieving to your cities.
22 How long, O dishonored daughter, will you turn away? For the Lord created salvation
for a new plantation; men will go about in salvation.
23 The Lord said this: "They will still speak this word in the land of Judah and in his
cities whenever I return his captivity: `Blessed be the Lord on his righteous holy
mountain!´ 24 Those who reside in the cities of Judah and in all his land A will be together
with the farmer, and he will be extolled among the flock. 25 For I intoxicated every
thirsting soul and filled every hungering soul. 26 Because of this I woke up and looked;
my sleep was sweet to me.
27 Because of this, behold, days are coming," says the Lord, "and I will sow the
house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of livestock.
28 It will be that, as I watched over them to pull down and to afflict, so I will watch over
them to build and to plant," says the Lord. 29 "In those days they should not say, `The
fathers ate an unripe grape, and the teeth of the children were set on edge.´ 30 On the
contrary, each will die in his own sin, and the teeth of the one who eats the unripe
grape will be set on edge.
31 Behold, days are coming," says the Lord, "and I will make for the house of Israel
and for the house of Judah a new testament, 32 not according to the testament which I
made for their fathers in the day when I took hold of their hand to bring them out of
the land of Egypt. For they did not remain in my testament, and I disregarded them,"
says the Lord. 33 "For this is the testament which I will make for the house of Israel after
those days," says the Lord. "I will give my laws into their minds and write them on their
hearts; I will be God for them, and they will be a people for me. B 34 Each of them will
not teach his fellow citizen and each his brother, C saying, `Know the Lord,´ for they will
all be acquainted with me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. For I will be
merciful with regard to their wrongdoings, and I will no longer remember their sins.
35 If heaven is raised in midair," says the Lord, "and if the ground of the earth
beneath is lowered, I will not reject the race of Israel," says the Lord, "regarding
everything which they did." D 36 The Lord, who gives the sun for light of the day, the
moon and the stars for light of the night, and a shouting in the sea (he caused its
waves to roar; the almighty Lord is his name), said this: 37 "If these laws cease from my
presence," says the Lord, "the race of Israel will cease to be a nation in my presence
for all the days.
38 Behold, days are coming," says the Lord, "and the city will be built for the Lord
from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner. 39 Its measurement will come out
in front of them as far as the hills of Gareb, and it will be encompassed in a circle of
A
in the cities of Judah and in all his land V ¦ in Judea and in every city S ¦ in the cities
of Judah and in all the cities A
B
VSc ¦ + and I will see them S*A
C
his fellow citizen and each his brother VS ¦ his brother and each his neighbor A ¦ his
neighbor and each his brother
D 38:35-37 = 38:37, 35-36 MT

choice stones. 40 All the Sheremoth A to Nachal Kidron, B as far as the corner of the Horse
Gate eastward, will be a sacred place for the Lord; it will no longer fail, and it will not
be demolished forever."
Jeremiah 39 C
1 The word which was directed at Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year for King
Zedekiah; this was the eighteenth year for King Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon.
2 The force of the king of Babylon made a palisade against Jerusalem, and Jeremiah was
being guarded in the courtyard of the prison, which was in the house of the king, 3 in
which King Zedekiah shut him up, saying, "For what reason are you prophesying,
saying, `Thus says the Lord: "Behold, I am giving this city into the hands of the king of
Babylon, and he will take it. 4 Zedekiah will not be saved from the hand of the
Chaldeans, for he will be delivered up into the hands of the king of Babylon. His mouth
will speak to his mouth, and his eyes will see his eyes. 5 Zedekiah will enter Babylon and
sit there"´?"
6 The word of the Lord was directed at Jeremiah, saying, 7 "Behold, Hanamel son of
Shallum, the brother of your father, is coming to you, saying, `Acquire for yourself my
field which is in Anathoth, for you have the right to take it over in an acquisition.´"
8 Hanamel son of Shallum, the brother of my father, came to me in the courtyard of the
prison and said to me, "Acquire my field which is in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,
for you have the right to acquire it, and you are the elder." I knew that it was the word
of the Lord. 9 I acquired the field of Hanamel, the son of the brother of my father, and I
weighed out for him seventeen shekels of silver. 10 I wrote it on a scroll, sealed it, took
the testimony of witnesses, and weighed out the silver in a balance. 11 I took the scroll
of acquisition, the one which had been sealed and the one which had been read, 12 and
I gave it to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, before the eyes of Hanamel, the
son of the brother of my father, before the eyes of those who stood and wrote in the
scroll of acquisition, and before the eyes of the Judeans who were in the courtyard of
the prison. 13 I ordered Baruch before their eyes, saying, 14 "So said the almighty Lord:
`Take this scroll of acquisition and the scroll which has been read; you will place it in a
ceramic vessel, so that it may remain for many days.´ 15 For so said the Lord: `Fields,
houses, and vineyards will still be acquired in this land.´"
16 I prayed to the Lord after I gave the scroll of acquisition to Baruch son of Neriah,
saying, 17 "O Lord, the one who is, you made heaven and earth by your great strength,
and by your high and elevated arm; nothing is hidden from you. 18 You, who perform
mercy for thousands and pay back the sins of the fathers into the laps of their children
after them, are the great and strong God, 19 the Lord of great counsel, the one who is
powerful in actions, the great almighty God, and the Lord of great name. Your eyes are
on the ways of the sons of men to give to each according to his way. 20 You performed
signs and wonders in the land of Egypt until this day, in Israel, and among the
A Heb sherémoth or shedémoth, "cultivated fields"
B that is, the Wadi Kidron (John 18:1)
C 39 = 32 MT

earthborn, and you made for yourself a name, as this day. 21 You brought your people
Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, with wonders, with a mighty hand, with a
high arm, and with great sights. 22 You gave them this land, which you swore to their
fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey. 23 They entered and took it, yet they did not
listen to your voice and did not go by your ordinances; they did nothing which you
commanded them, and they made all these wicked things happen to them. 24 Behold, a
crowd arrived at the city to capture it; the city was given into the hands of the
Chaldeans who were battling it, due to the presence of sword and famine. As you
spoke, so it happened. 25 You are saying to me, `Acquire for yourself a field for silver,
and I wrote a scroll, sealed it, and took the testimony of witnesses.´ The city was given
into the hands of the Chaldeans."
26 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 27 "I am the Lord God of all flesh;
will anything be hidden from me?" 28 Because of this, so said the Lord God of Israel:
"This city will be delivered up into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will take it.
29 The Chaldeans will arrive, battling against this city; they will burn this city with fire
and burn down the houses in which they burned incense on their roofs to Baal and
poured libations to other gods in order to provoke me. 30 For the sons of Israel and the
sons of Judah alone were performing what is evil before my eyes from their youth.
31 For this city was on my wrath and on my anger, from the day they built it until this
day, so as to remove it from my presence, 32 because of all the evils of the sons of Israel
and Judah which they performed to provoke me, they, their kings, their rulers, their
priests, their prophets, the men of Judah, and those who reside in Jerusalem. 33 They
turned to me the back and not the face; I taught and taught them at dawn, yet they
did not listen so as to receive discipline. 34 By their unclean acts, they placed their
pollutions in the house over which my name was invoked. 35 They built platforms for
Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, in order to offer up their sons and
their daughters to Moloch the king, which things I did not arrange for them. It did not
ascend over my heart to perform this abomination, so as to cause Judah to sin."
36 And now, so said the Lord God of Israel concerning this city, regarding which you
say, "It will be delivered up into the hands of the king of Babylon by sword, by famine,
and by banishment": 37 "Behold, I am gathering them out of all the land where I
dispersed them in my wrath, my anger, and great exasperation; I will return them to
this place and cause them to sit in confidence. 38 They will be a people for me, and I will
be God for them. 39 I will give them another way and another heart in order to fear me
for all the days, resulting in good for them and their children after them. 40 I will make
for them an eternal testament which I will not turn away from them; I will give my fear
into their heart in order for them not to stand apart from me. 41 I will make an
inspection in order to do them good, and I will plant them in this land in faith, in every
heart and in every soul." 42 For so said the Lord: "Just as I brought over this people all
these great wicked things, so I will bring over them all the good things which I spoke
over them. 43 Fields will still be acquired in the land, regarding which you say, `It will be
inaccessible, away from men and livestock; they were delivered up into the hands of
the Chaldeans.´ 44 They will acquire fields with silver, and you will write a scroll, seal it,
and take the testimony of witnesses in the land of Benjamin, around Jerusalem, in the

cities of Judah, in the cities of the mountain, and in the cities of the Shephelah, and in
the cities of the Negev, for I will return their resettlements."
Jeremiah 40 A
1 The word of the Lord was directed at Jeremiah a second time; he was still bound in
the courtyard of the prison. He said, 2 "The Lord said this, the one who made the earth
and formed it so as to establish it; the Lord is his name: 3 `Shout to me, and I will
answer you; I will tell you about great and strong things which you did not know.´ 4 For
the Lord God of Israel B said this about the houses of this city and about the houses of
the king of Judah, which have been demolished for ramparts and fortifications 5 in order
to fight against the Chaldeans and to fill her with the dead of men: `I attacked them in
my wrath and in my anger, and I turned my face from them on account of all their
evils. 6 Behold, I am bringing her recovery and healing, C and I will make it evident for
them to hear. I will heal her and make peace and faith for them. 7 I will return the exile
of Judah and the exile of Israel, and I will build them as at first. 8 I will cleanse them
from all their wrongdoings by which they sinned against me, and I will not remember
their sins by which they sinned against me and rebelled against me. 9 This will result in
cheerfulness, praise, and magnificence for all the people of the earth, who will hear all
the good things which I will do. They will be afraid and will be irritated on account of all
the good things and on account of all the peace which I will make for them.´
10 The Lord said this: `In this place, of which you say, "It is deserted by men and
livestock," in the cities of Judah and outside of Jerusalem, which have been deserted
because there is no man and livestock, there will still be heard 11 the voice of
cheerfulness and the voice of joy, the voice of a bridegroom and the voice of a bride,
the voice of those who say, "Acknowledge the almighty Lord, for the Lord is kind, for
his mercy is forever." They will bring gifts into the house of the Lord, for I will return all
the exile of that land as at first,´ said the Lord.
12 The Lord of forces said this: `In this place, which is deserted because there is no
man and livestock, and in all its cities, there will still be lodgings for shepherds who give
rest to sheep. 13 In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the Shephelah, in the
cities of the Negev, in the land of Benjamin, in the areas around Jerusalem, and in the
cities of Judah, sheep will still pass under the hand of the one who counts them,´ said
the Lord."
Jeremiah 41 D
1 The word which was directed at Jeremiah from the Lord (Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon, all his army, and all the land of his realm were battling against Jerusalem and
against all the cities of Judah), saying, 2 "So said the Lord: `Proceed to Zedekiah king of
A 40 = 33:1-13 MT
B God of Israel SA ¦ ~ V
C V ¦ + I will heal them ScA ¦ + I will heal her S*
D 41 = 34 MT

Judah. You will say to him, "So said the Lord: `This city will be delivered up into the
hands of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it and burn it with fire. 3 You will not
be saved out of his hand. You will be captured, and you will be given into his hands;
your eyes will see his eyes, his mouth will speak with your mouth, A and you will enter
Babylon.´ 4 Nevertheless, hear the word of the Lord, O Zedekiah king of Judah. So said
the Lord: 5 `You will die in peace; as they wept for your fathers who reigned prior to
you, they will also weep for you, and they will mourn for you as far as Hades, for I
spoke the word,´ said the Lord."´"
6 Jeremiah spoke all these words to King Zedekiah in Jerusalem. 7 The force of the
king of Babylon was battling against Jerusalem, against the cities of Judah, against
Lachish, and against Azekah, for these secure cities were left among the cities of Judah.
8 This is the word which was directed at Jeremiah from the Lord, after King Zedekiah
finished a testament for the people to call for liberty, 9 for each to send forth his
manservant and each his maidservant, the Hebrew male and the Hebrew female, as
free persons, so that no man of Judah would be enslaved. 10 All the great men and all
the people, who entered into the testament for each to send forth his manservant and
each his maidservant, turned 11 and impelled them to be manservants and maidservants.
12 The word of the Lord was directed at Jeremiah, saying, 13 "So said the Lord God of
Israel: `I set up a testament for your fathers on the day on which I rescued them out
of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, saying, 14 "Whenever six years are
fulfilled, you will send forth your brother the Hebrew, who will be sold to you. He will
work for you for six years, and you will send him forth as a free person." They did not
listen to me and did not incline their ear. 15 Today they turned to do what was correct
before my eyes, for each to call for the liberty of his neighbor; they finished a
testament in front of me, in the house over which my name was invoked. 16 Yet you
turned and profaned my name, for each to turn his manservant and each his
maidservant, whom you sent forth as free persons in their souls, into manservants and
maidservants for you.´ 17 Because of this, so said the Lord: `You did not listen to me,
for each to call for liberty for his neighbor. Behold, I am calling for liberty for you into
the sword, into execution, and into famine; I will give you to a dispersion in all the
kingdoms of the earth. 18 I will give the men who went passed by my testament, who
did not establish my testament which they made in front of me, the calf which they
rendered to perform a work by it: 19 the rulers of Judah, the potentates, the priests, and
the people. 20 I will give them to their enemies, and their carcasses will be food for the
birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth. 21 I will give Zedekiah king of Judea and
their rulers into the hands of their enemies, and the force of the king of Babylon will be
on those who run away from them. 22 Behold, I am making arrangements,´ says the
Lord, `and I will return them to this land. They will battle against it, take it, and burn it
and the cities of Judah with fire. I will grant them to be deserted by their residents.´"
A his mouth will speak with your mouth, S ¦ ~ VA

Jeremiah 42 A
1 The word which was directed at Jeremiah from the Lord in the days of Jehoiakim
king of Judah; he said, 2 "Proceed to the house of the Rechabites. You will bring them
into the house of the Lord, into one of the courtyards, and give them wine to drink." 3 I
brought forth Jeconiah, B the son of Jeremiah son of Habazziniah, and his brothers, his
sons, and all the house of the Rechabites. 4 I brought them into the house of the Lord,
into the priestly chamber of the sons of Hananiah son of Gedaliah, C a man of God who
was near the house of the rulers who are over the house of Mahseiah son of Shallum,
who guarded the courtyard. 5 I gave in front of them a jar of wine and cups, and I said,
"Drink wine." 6 They said, "We will not drink wine, for Jonadab son of Rechab, our
father, commanded us, saying, `You and your sons will not drink wine forever. 7 You will
not build a house, you will not sow seed, and you will not have a vineyard, for you will
reside in tents all your days, so that you may live for many days on the land on which
you are spending time.´ 8 We heard the voice of Jonadab our father for us, our wives,
our sons, and our daughters not to drink wine all our days, 9 and not to build houses to
reside there; we did not have a vineyard, field, and seed. 10 We resided in tents, and we
heard and acted according to everything which Jonadab our father commanded us. 11 It
happened that, when Nebuchadnezzar went up against the land, we said, `After we go
up, we will come D into Jerusalem due to the presence of the force of the Chaldeans and
due to the presence of the force of the Assyrians,´ and we resided there."
12 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 13 "The Lord says this: `Go and
say to the man of Judah and to those who reside in Jerusalem, "Won't you accept
discipline in order to hear my words? 14 The sons of Jonadab son of Rechab established
the word by which he commanded his children not to drink wine, and they did not
drink. I spoke to you early; I spoke, yet you did not hear. 15 I sent forth to you my
servants the prophets, saying, `Each of you turn away from his evil way and improve
your habits. You will not go after other gods to serve them, and you will reside on the
land which I gave to you and your fathers,´ yet you did not incline your ears, and you
did not hear. 16 The sons of Jonadab son of Rechab established the command of their
father, but this people did not hear me."´ 17 Because of this, the Lord said this: `Behold,
I am bringing over Judah and over those who reside in Jerusalem all the wicked things
which I spoke against them.´
18 Because of this, the Lord said this: `Since the sons of Jonadab son of Rechab
heard the command of their father so as to do just as their father commanded them,
19 a man of the sons of Jonadab son of Rechab will not fail to stand in front of me for all
A 42 = 35 MT
B Jeconiah VSA ¦ Jaazaniah (= MT)
C the sons of Hananiah son of Gedaliah A ¦ the sons of Jonah, the son of Hananiah son
of Gedaliah V ¦ the sons of Hanan son of Hananiah S
D we said, `After we go up, we will come …´ A ¦ we said, `After we go up, let us
come …´ ¦ we said, `Come in, and let us come …´ S ¦ we said we would go up, and we
came V

the days of the earth.´"
Jeremiah 43 A
1 In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, the word of the Lord
was directed at me, saying, 2 "Take for yourself a page of a scroll and write on it all the
words which I issued to you against Jerusalem, against Judah, and against all the
nations, from the day of my speaking to you, from the days of Josiah king of Judah,
even to this day. 3 Perhaps the house of Judah will hear all the wicked things which I am
planning to do to them, so that they may turn away from their evil way, and I will be
merciful with regard to their wrongdoings and their sins."
4 Jeremiah called Baruch son of Neriah, and he wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all
the words of the Lord which he issued to him on a page of a scroll. 5 Jeremiah
commanded Baruch, saying, "I am being guarded; I cannot enter the house of the
Lord. 6 You will read this page in the ears of the people in the house of the Lord on the
day of the fast; in the ears of all Judah, of those who are coming out of their city, you
will read to them. 7 Perhaps their mercy will fall in front of the Lord, and they will turn
away from their evil way, for the anger and the wrath of the Lord, which he spoke
against this people, is great." 8 Baruch did according to everything which Jeremiah
commanded him by reading in the scroll the words of the Lord in the house of the Lord.
9 It happened that, in the eighth year of King Jehoiakim, in the ninth month, all the
people in Jerusalem and the house of Judah assembled for a fast in front of the Lord.
10 Baruch read in the scroll the words of Jeremiah in the house of the Lord, in the house
of Gemariah son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper courtyard, in the threshold of the
new gate of the house of the Lord, in the ears of all the people.
11 Michaiah son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, heard all the words of the Lord
from the scroll. 12 He went down to the house of the king, to the house of the scribe.
Behold, all the rulers were sitting there: Elishama the scribe, Delaiah son of Shemaiah,
Jonathan B son of Achbor, Gemariah son of Shaphan, Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all
the rulers. 13 Michaiah told them all the words which he heard Baruch reading in the
ears of the people. 14 All the rulers sent forth Jehudi son of Nethaniah, the son of
Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch son of Neriah, saying, "As for the page which
you read in the ears of the people, take it in your hand and come forward." Baruch took
the page and went down to them. 15 They said to him, "Read it again in our ears," and
Baruch read it. 16 It happened that, when they heard all the words, each took counsel
with his neighbor and said, "Let us tell all these words to the king." 17 They asked
Baruch, saying, "Where did you write all these words?" 18 Baruch said, "Jeremiah told
me all these words from his mouth, and I wrote them in a scroll." 19 They said to
Baruch, "Proceed; you and Jeremiah hide. Let no man know where you are." 20 They
came in to the king in the courtyard and gave the page for preserving in the house of
Elishama; they told the king all these words.
21 The king sent forth Jehudi to take the page, and he took it out of the house of
A 43 = 36 MT
B Jonathan VS ¦ Nathan A ¦ Elnathan

Elishama. Jehudi read in the ears of the king and in the ears of all the rulers who stood
around the king. 22 The king was sitting in the winter house, and a fiery hearth was in
front of him. 23 It happened that, when Jehudi had read three or four columns, he cut
them away with a scribe's razor and threw them into the fire which was on the hearth,
until all the page was eradicated in the fire which was on the hearth. 24 The king and his
servants who heard all these words did not seek, and they did not tear their garments.
25 Elnathan and Gedaliah advised the king to burn the page. A 26 The king commanded
Jerahmeel, the son of the king, and Seraiah son of Azriel to seize Baruch and Jeremiah,
yet they were hidden.
27 The word of the Lord was directed at Jeremiah, after the king burned the page, all
the words which Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah, saying, 28 "Take another
page again and write all the words which were on the page which King Jehoiakim
burned. 29 You will say, `So said the Lord: "You burned this page, saying, `Why did you
write on it, saying, "The king of Babylon will go in, eliminate this land, and man and
livestock will be eradicated from it"?´" 30 Because of this, so said the Lord regarding
Jehoiakim king of Judah: "He will not have anyone sitting on the throne of David; his
corpse will be thrown out in the heat of the day and in the frost of the night. 31 I will
make an inspection of him, his race, and his servants; I will bring over them, over those
who reside in Jerusalem, and over the land of Judah, all the wicked things about which
I spoke to them, yet they did not listen."´" 32 Baruch took another page and wrote on it
from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the scroll which Jehoiakim burned; still
more words were added to it like the former.
Jeremiah 44 B
1 Zedekiah son of Josiah reigned in place of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar
caused to reign over Judah. 2 He, his servants, and the people of the land did not listen
to the words of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of Jeremiah.
3 King Zedekiah sent forth Jehucal son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah son of Mahseiah,
the priest, to Jeremiah, saying, "Now pray concerning us to the Lord." 4 Jeremiah came
and passed through the midst of the city, and they did not put him into the house of
the prison. 5 The force of the Pharaoh came out of Egypt. The Chaldeans heard the
report of them, and they went up from Jerusalem.
6 The word of the Lord was directed at Jeremiah, saying, 7 "So said the Lord: `So you
will say to the king of Judah who sent forth to you in order to seek me, "Behold, the
force of the Pharaoh, which came out as a help for you, will return to the land of Egypt.
8 The Chaldeans will turn back, battle against this city, seize it, and burn it with fire."´
9 For so said the Lord: `Do not suppose in your souls, saying, "The Chaldeans will
depart from us," for they will not depart. 10 If you attack all the force of the Chaldeans
A Elnathan and Gedaliah … to burn the page VS* ¦ Elnathan, Delaiah, Gedaliah, and
Gemariah … not to burn the page Sc ¦ Nathan, Gedaliah, and Gemariah … not to burn
the scroll A ¦ Elnathan, Delaiah, Gemariah, and Gedaliah … not to burn the page, yet he
did not listen to them
B 44 = 37 MT

who are battling you, and some who have been stabbed are left, each in his place,
these will arise and burn this city with fire.´"
11 It happened that, when the force of the Chaldeans went up from Jerusalem due to
the presence of the force of the Pharaoh, 12 Jeremiah came out from Jerusalem to go
into the land of Benjamin in order to buy from there in the midst of the people. 13 He
was in the gate of Benjamin, and a man was there beside whom he lodged, Zeruiah son
of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah. He seized Jeremiah, saying, "Are you fleeing to the
Chaldeans?" 14 He said, "It is false; I am not fleeing to the Chaldeans." He did not listen
to him, and Zeruiah seized Jeremiah and brought him to the rulers. 15 The rulers were
irritated with Jeremiah; they attacked him and sent him forth into the house of
Jonathan the scribe, for they made this into the house of the prison. 16 Jeremiah came
into the house of the pit and into the chereth, A and he sat there for many days.
17 Zedekiah sent forth and summoned him; the king asked him secretly, saying, "Is
there a word from the Lord?" He said, "There is; you will be delivered up into the hands
of the king of Babylon." 18 Jeremiah said to the king, "How did I wrong you, your
servants, and this people, that you put me into the house of the prison? 19 Where are
your prophets who prophesied to you saying, `The king of Babylon will not come
against this land´? 20 Now, my lord the king, let my mercy fall in front of you. Why are
you returning me to the house of Jonathan the scribe? May I not die there!" 21 The king
gave orders, and they threw him into the house of the prison; they gave him one loaf a
day outside of where they bake, until the bread failed from the city. Jeremiah sat in the
courtyard of the prison.
Jeremiah 45 B
1 Shephatiah son of Nathan, C Gedaliah son of Pashhur, and Jucal son of Shelemiah
heard the words which Jeremiah was speaking regarding the people, saying, 2 "So said
the Lord: `The one who resides in this city will die by the sword and by famine, and the
one who goes out to the Chaldeans will live; his soul will be for discovery, and he will
live.´ 3 For so said the Lord: `This city will be delivered up into the hands of the force of
the king of Babylon, and they will seize it.´" 4 They said to the king, "Now let that man
be done away with, for he relaxes the hands of the men who are battling, who are left
in the city, and the hands of all the people, speaking to them according to these words.
For this man does not utter oracles of peace to this people, but of evil things instead."
5 The king said, "Behold, he is in your hands," for the king was not able to be against
them. 6 They threw him into the pit of Malchijah, the son of the king, which was in the
courtyard of the prison. They let him down into the pit; in the pit there was no water,
but filth instead, and he was in the filth.
7 Ebed-melech the Ethiopian (he was in the house of the king) heard that they put
Jeremiah into the pit. The king was in the gate of Benjamin, 8 and he came out to him
and spoke to the king; he said, 9 "You engaged in evil by the things which you did, in
A Heb, "bore, slit"; MT reads chanuyyoth, "cells"
B 45 = 38 MT
C Nathan VSA ¦ Mattan

killing this man due to the presence of the famine, for there is no longer any bread in
the city." 10 The king commanded Ebed-melech, saying, "Take into your hands thirty
men from here, and bring him up out of the pit so that he may not die." 11 Ebed-melech
took the men and entered the underground part of the house of the king; he took old
rags and old ropes from there and threw them to Jeremiah in the pit. 12 He said, "Place
these under the ropes," and Jeremiah did so. 13 They pulled him with the ropes and
brought him up out of the pit. Jeremiah sat in the courtyard of the prison.
14 The king sent forth and summoned him to himself in the house of Hashelishel, A
which was in the house of the Lord. The king said to him, "I will ask you about an
issue; now do not hide a word from me." 15 Jeremiah said to the king, "If I tell you,
won't you put me to death? If I advise you, you will not listen to me." 16 The king swore
to him, saying, "As the Lord lives who made this soul for us, I will not kill you, and I will
not give you into the hands of these men."
17 Jeremiah said to him, "So said the Lord: `If you come out to the governors of the
king of Babylon, your soul will live, and this city will not be burned with fire. You and
your house will live. 18 If you do not come out, this city will be given into the hands of
the Chaldeans, and they will burn it with fire, and you will not be saved.´" 19 The king
said to Jeremiah, "I have an issue regarding the Judeans who have fled to the
Chaldeans, for them not to give me into their hands, and they will mock me."
20 Jeremiah said, "They will not deliver you up. Hear the word of the Lord which I am
saying to you; it will be better for you, and your soul will live. 21 If you do not want to
come out, this is the word which the Lord showed me. 22 Behold, all the women who are
left in the house of the king of Judah were led out to the rulers of the king of Babylon;
they said, `Your peaceful men deceived you, and they will overpower you. They will
cause your feet to break loose in a landslide; they turned away from you.´ 23 They will
lead out your wives and your children to the Chaldeans, and you will not be saved, for
you will be seized by the hand of the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned."
24 The king said to him, "Let no man know any of these words, and you will not die.
25 If the rulers hear that I spoke to you, and they come to you and say to you, `Tell us,
what did the king speak to you? Do not hide it from us, and we will not slay you. What
did the king speak to you?´ 26 you will say to them, `I threw my mercy before the eyes
of the king, in order for him not to return me to the house of Jonathan to die there.´"
27 All the rulers came to Jeremiah and asked him, and he reported to them according to
all these words which the king commanded to him. They were silent, for the word of
the Lord was not heard. 28 Jeremiah sat in the courtyard of the prison until the time
when Jerusalem was seized.
Jeremiah 46 B
1 It happened that, in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, C
A Hashelishel V ¦ Hashaliel S ¦ Shealtiel A ¦ ha-shelishi (Heb, "the third story")
B 46 = 39 MT (no LXX manuscript includes vv. 4-13)
C in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month A ¦ in the ninth month
of Zedekiah king of Judah VS

Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his force arrived at Jerusalem and laid siege to
it. 2 In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth of the month,
the city was broken into. 3 All the governors of the king of Babylon entered and sat in
the middle gate: Nergal-sar-ezer, Samgar, Nebu-sekim, Nebu-saris, Nergal-sar-ezer the
Rabmag, and the rest of the governors of the king of Babylon. 14 They sent forth and
took Jeremiah out of the courtyard of the prison, and gave him to Gedaliah son of
Ahikam, son of Shaphan. They brought him out, and he sat in the midst of the people.
15 The word of the Lord was directed at Jeremiah in the courtyard of the prison,
saying, 16 "Go and say to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, `So said the Lord God of Israel:
"Behold, I am bringing my words over this city for wicked things and not for good. 17 I
will save you on that day, and I will not give you into the hands of the men due to
whose presence you are afraid. 18 For I will save you, and you will not fall by the sword;
your soul will be for finding, because you trusted in me," says the Lord.´"
Jeremiah 47 A
1 The word which was directed at Jeremiah from the Lord later on, after
Nebuzaradan the chief butcher who was from Ramah sent him forth, when he took him
in handcuffs in the midst of the exile of Judah, of those who were led to Babylon. 2 The
chief butcher took him and said to him, "The Lord your God spoke these wicked things
over this place, 3 and the Lord did them, because you sinned against him and did not
listen to his voice. 4 Behold, I released you from the handcuffs which were on your
hands. If it is fine before you to come with me to Babylon, proceed, and I will place my
eyes over you, 5 but if not, run away and return to Gedaliah son of Ahikam son of
Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon installed in the land of Judah, and reside with him
in the midst of the people in the land of Judah. Go to all the places which are good in
your eyes to go." The chief butcher gave him gifts and sent him forth. 6 He came to
Gedaliah at Mizpah and settled in the midst of the people who were left in the land.
7 All the governors of the force which was in the field, they and their men, heard that
the king of Babylon installed Gedaliah in the land, and they entrusted to him the men
and their wives whom he did not deport to Babylon. 8 Ishmael son of Nethaniah,
Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth, the sons of Ephai the Netophathite,
and Jezaniah son of the Maacathite, they and their men, came to Gedaliah at Mizpah.
9 Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, saying, "Do not be afraid due to the
presence of the children of the Chaldeans. Reside in the land and work for the king of
Babylon, and it will be better for you. 10 Behold, I am sitting before you at Mizpah, to
stand in front of the Chaldeans who may come against you. Collect wine and summer
fruits and collect oil, and put them into your vessels; reside in the cities over which you
have prevailed." 11 All the Judeans who were in the land of Moab and among the sons of
Ammon, who were in Idumea, and who were in all the land heard that the king of
Babylon granted a remnant to Judah, and that he installed over them Gedaliah son of
Ahikam. 12 They came to Gedaliah in the land of Judah at Mizpah and collected wine, an
exceedingly large amount of summer fruit, and oil.
A 47 = 40 MT

13 Johanan son of Kareah and all the governors of the force who were in the fields
came to Gedaliah at Mizpah; 14 they said to him, "Do you have knowledge that Baalis,
the king of the sons of Ammon, sent forth Ishmael to you in order to attack your soul?"
Gedaliah did not believe them. 15 Johanan said to Gedaliah secretly in Mizpah, "I will
now go and attack Ishmael. Let no one know, so that he may not attack your soul, and
all Judah, those who are gathered to you, be dispersed and the remnants of Judah
perish." 16 Gedaliah said to Johanan, "Do not do this thing, for you are telling lies about
Ishmael."
Jeremiah 48 A
1 In the seventh month, it happened that Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of
Elishama, from the race of the king, and ten men with him, came to Gedaliah at
Mizpah. There they ate bread together. 2 Ishmael and the ten men who were with him
arose and attacked Gedaliah, whom the king of Babylon installed over the land, 3 all the
Judeans who were with him in Mizpah, and all the Chaldeans who were found there.
4 It happened that, on the second day after he attacked Gedaliah (and no man knew
it), 5 men came from Shechem, from Salem, and from Samaria, eighty men who had
shaved their beards, torn their garments, and were mourning. Manna and frankincense
were in their hands to bring into the house of the Lord. 6 Ishmael came out to meet
them; they were going and weeping. He said to them, "Come in to Gedaliah." 7 It
happened that, when they came in to the midst of the city, he slaughtered them into a
well. 8 Ten men were found there; they said to Ishmael, "Do not slay us, for we have
treasures in the field, wheat and barley, honey and oil." He passed by and did not slay
them in the midst of their brothers. 9 The well into which Ishmael threw everyone whom
he attacked there, this is the great well which King Asa made due to the presence of
Baasha king of Israel. Ishmael filled this with the wounded. 10 Ishmael returned all the
people who were left in Mizpah, including the daughters of the king whom the chief
butcher entrusted to Gedaliah son of Ahikam. He departed beyond the sons of Ammon.
11 Johanan son of Kareah and all the governors of the force who were with him
heard all the wicked things which Ishmael did. 12 They brought all their army and
departed to battle him; they found him by much water in Gibeon. 13 It happened that,
when all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan and the governors of the
force which was with him, 14 they returned to Johanan. 15 Ishmael was saved together
with eight men, and he departed to the sons of Ammon.
16 Johanan and all the governors of the force who were with him took all the
remnants of the people whom he returned from Ishmael: men powerful in battle, the
wives, the remaining things, B and the eunuchs whom they returned from Gibeon.
17 They departed and sat in Geruth Chimham, which is near Bethlehem, in order to go to
enter Egypt 18 due to the presence of the Chaldeans, for they were afraid due to their
presence, for Ishmael attacked Gedaliah, whom the king of Babylon installed in the
land.
A 48 = 41 MT
B the remaining things VScA ¦ the remaining females S* ¦ the remaining persons

Jeremiah 49 A
1 All the governors of the force, Johanan, Azariah son of Mahseiah, and all the people
from the small to the great, 2 approached Jeremiah the prophet and said to him, "Now
let our mercy fall before your face; pray to the Lord your God concerning these who are
left. For we few were left from many, just as your eyes see. 3 Let the Lord your God tell
us the way by which we will go and the word which we will perform." 4 Jeremiah said to
them, "I heard you; behold, I will pray to the Lord our God according to your words. It
will be that, whatever the Lord God will answer, I will tell you the word; I will not hide a
saying from you." 5 They said to Jeremiah, "Let the Lord be among us as a righteous
and faithful witness, if we do not do according to every word which the Lord sends
forth to us. 6 If it is good, and even if it is wicked, we will listen to the voice of the Lord
our God, to whom we are sending you forth, so that it may be better for us, because
we will listen to the voice of the Lord our God."
7 It happened that, after ten days, the word of the Lord was directed at Jeremiah.
8 He called Johanan, the governors of the force, and all the people from the small to the
great, 9 and said to them, "So said the Lord: 10 `If you sit in this land, I will build you and
not pull down; I will plant you and not pluck out. For I came to a halt regarding the
wicked things which I did to you. 11 Do not be afraid due to the presence of the king of
Babylon, of whom you are afraid due to his presence. Do not be afraid,´ says the Lord,
`for I am with you to rescue you and save you out of his hand. 12 I will give you mercy,
I will show mercy to you, and I will return you to your land.´ 13 If you say, `We will not
sit in this land, in order not to listen to the voice of the Lord, 14 for we will enter the land
of Egypt; we will not see a battle, we will not hear the sound of a trumpet, we will not
be hungry for bread, and we will reside there,´ 15 because of this, hear the word of the
Lord. So said the Lord: `If you give your face to Egypt and enter to reside there, 16 it
will be that the sword of which you are afraid due to its presence will find you in the
land of Egypt, and the famine for which you have concern due to its presence will
overtake you in Egypt, you will die there. 17 They will be all the men and all the
strangers who set their face toward the land of Egypt to reside there. They will fail by
the sword and by famine, and none of them will be saved from the wicked things which
I am bringing over them.´ 18 For so said the Lord: `Just as my fury dropped on those
who reside in Jerusalem, so will my fury drop on you when you enter Egypt. You will
become a desolation, under the hand of others, a curse, and a reproach, and you will
no longer see this place.´ 19 These are the things which the Lord spoke regarding you,
those who are left of Judah. Do not enter Egypt. 20 Know now that you did evil in your
souls when you sent me forth, saying, `Pray to the Lord concerning us; we will do
according to everything which the Lord speaks to you,´ 21 yet you did not listen to the
voice of the Lord, by which he sent me forth to you. 22 Now, by sword and by famine,
you will fail in the place which you wish to enter in order to reside there."
A 49 = 42 MT

Jeremiah 50 A
1 It happened that, when Jeremiah ceased saying to the people all the words of the
Lord, all these words concerning which the Lord sent him forth to them, 2 Azariah son of
Mahseiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and all the men who had talked with Jeremiah, said,
"It is false; the Lord did not send you forth to us, saying, `Do not enter Egypt to reside
there.´ 3 Instead, Baruch son of Neriah is setting you against us, so that you may give
us into the hands of the Chaldeans in order to put us to death and in order for us to be
deported to Babylon." 4 Johanan, all the governors of the force, and all the people did
not listen to the voice of the Lord so as to reside in the land of Judah. 5 Johanan and all
the governors of the force took all the remnants of Judah, those who had returned to
reside in the land, 6 the powerful men, the women, the remaining infants, the daughters
of the king, the souls which Nebuzaradan left with Gedaliah son of Ahikam, Jeremiah
the prophet, and Baruch son of Neriah. 7 They entered Egypt, for they did not listen to
the voice of the Lord; they entered Tahpanhes.
8 The word of the Lord was directed at Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying, 9 "Take for
yourself great stones and hide them in the threshold in the gate of the house of the
Pharaoh in Tahpanhes, in the eyes of the men of Judah. 10 You will say, `So said the
Lord: "Behold, I am sending forth, and I will bring Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. He
will place his throne upon these stones which you hid, and he will lift up his weapons
against them. 11 He will enter and attack the land of Egypt: those who are for death into
death, those who are for captivity into captivity, and those who are for the sword into
the sword. 12 He will kindle a fire in the houses of their gods and burn them, and he will
deport them. He will delouse the land of Egypt as a shepherd delouses his garment,
and he will come out in peace. 13 He will break the pillars of Heliopolis which are in On,
and he will burn their houses with fire."´"
Jeremiah 51 B
1 The word which was directed at Jeremiah for all the Judeans who resided in the
land of Egypt, and for those settled in Migdol, in Tahpanhes, and in the land of Pathros,
saying, 2 "So said the Lord God of Israel: `You have seen all the wicked things which I
brought over Jerusalem and over the cities of Judah. Behold, they are deserts, apart
from inhabitants, 3 due to the presence of their evil which they performed in provoking
me, by going to burn incense for other gods whom you did not know. 4 I sent forth to
you my servants the prophets at dawn; I sent forth, saying, "Do not perform the act of
this defilement, which I hated." 5 They did not listen to me, and they did not incline their
ear to turn away from their wicked things, so as not to burn incense for other gods. 6 My
wrath and my anger dropped and was kindled in the gates of Judah and outside of
Jerusalem; they became a desolation and an inaccessible place, as this day.´ 7 And now,
so said the almighty Lord: `Why did you perform great wicked things against your
souls, in cutting off from you man and woman, baby and nursing infant out of the midst
A 50 = 43 MT
B 51:1-30 = 44 MT; 51:31-35 = 45:1-5 MT

of Judah, in order for none of you to be left, 8 in provoking me with the works of your
hands, in burning incense for other gods in the land of Egypt, which you entered to
reside there, so that you might be cut off and so that you might become a curse and a
reproach among all the nations of the earth? 9 Did you forget the wicked things of your
fathers, the wicked things of the kings of Judah, the wicked things of your rulers, and
the wicked things of your wives, which they performed in the land of Judah and outside
of Jerusalem? 10 They did not cease until this day, and they did not adhere to my
ordinances, which I gave in front of their fathers.´
11 Because of this, so said the Lord: `Behold, I am setting my face 12 to destroy all
the remnants which are in Egypt. They will fall by the sword and by famine, from the
small to the great. They will be for reproach, for destruction, and for a curse. 13 I will
make an inspection of those who settled in the land of Egypt as I made an inspection of
Jerusalem: with sword, with famine, and with execution. 14 None of those remaining in
Judah who are sojourning in the land of Egypt will be saved in order to return to the
land of Judah, regarding which they are hoping in their souls to return there. They will
not return, except for those who escape.´"
15 All the men who knew that their wives were burning incense for other gods, all the
women (a great congregation), and all the people who settled in the land of Egypt, in
Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying, 16 "As for the word which you spoke to us in the
name of the Lord, we will not listen to you. 17 For we will perform every word which will
come out of our mouth in order to burn incense for the queen of heaven and to offer
libations to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our rulers did in the cities of
Judah and outside of Jerusalem. We were filled with bread, we became prosperous, and
we did not see wicked things. 18 Yet since we discontinued burning incense for the
queen of heaven, all of us were diminished, and by sword and by famine we suffered
failure. 19 For we burned incense for the queen of heaven and offered libations to her;
we didn't make cakes for her and offer libations to her without our husbands, did we?"
20 Jeremiah said to all the people, the powerful men, the women, and all the people
who answered him with these words, saying, 21 "Didn't the Lord remember the incense
which you, your fathers, your kings, your rulers, and the people of the land burned in
the cities of Judah and outside of Jerusalem? Didn't it ascend over his heart? 22 The Lord
could no longer endure you due to the presence of the evil of your acts, due to the
presence of the abominations which you performed. Your land became a desolation, an
inaccessible place, and a curse, as on this day, 23 due to the presence of the incense
which you burned and due to the presence of the sins which you committed against the
Lord. You did not listen to the voice of the Lord and did not go by his ordinances, by his
law, and by his testimonies; these wicked things seized you." 24 Jeremiah also said to
the people and the women, "Hear the word of the Lord. 25 So said the Lord God of
Israel: `You women spoke with your mouth and fulfilled with your hands, saying, "We
will perform our confessions which we confessed, so as to burn incense for the queen
of heaven and to offer libations to her." You remained in and performed your
confessions.´ 26 Because of this, hear the word of the Lord, all Judah, you who settled in
the land of Egypt: `Behold, I swore by my great name,´ said the Lord. `My name
surely will no longer be in the mouth of all Judah so as to say over all the land of Egypt,

"The Lord, the Lord lives!" 27 For behold, I kept watch over them so as to harm them
and not to do them good. All Judah, those who reside in the land of Egypt, will suffer
failure by sword and by famine until they have failed. 28 Those who are saved from the
sword will return to the land of Judah few in number, and the remnants of Judah, who
were established in the land of Egypt in order to reside there, will know whose word will
remain. 29 This will be a sign for you that I will make an inspection of you resulting in
evil things.´ 30 So said the Lord: `Behold, I am giving Hophra king of Egypt into the
hands of his enemy and into the hands of those who are seeking his soul, just as I gave
Zedekiah king of Judah into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, his enemy
and the one who was seeking his soul.´"
31 The word which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch son of Neriah when he
wrote these words in the scroll from the mouth of Jeremiah in the fourth year of
Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: 32 "So said the Lord regarding you, O Baruch.
33 You said, `Alas, alas, for the Lord added trouble upon toil for me! I lay down in
groanings; I did not find rest.´ 34 `Say to him, "So said the Lord: `Behold, I am taking
down those whom I built, and I am plucking out those whom I planted. 35 Will you seek
great things for yourself? Do not seek them, for behold, I am bringing wicked things
over all flesh,´ says the Lord, `and I will give your soul as a discovery in every place
where you proceed.´"´"
Jeremiah 52 A
1 During the twenty-first year of Zedekiah, when he started to reign, he reigned for
eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah from
Libnah. 4 It happened that, in the ninth year of his reign, in the ninth B month, on the
tenth of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his force came against
Jerusalem. They made a palisade around it and built a wall all around it with
rectangular stones. 5 The city came into distress until the eleventh year of King
Zedekiah; 6 on the ninth of the month, the famine became severe in the city, and there
were no loaves of bread for the people of the land. 7 The city was broken into, and all
the military men came out at night by the way of the gate between the wall and the
fortification, which was by the garden of the king. The Chaldeans were over the city all
around; they went by the way to the Arabah. 8 The force of the Chaldeans pursued after
the king and overtook him in the region beyond Jericho; all his servants dispersed from
him. 9 They took the king and brought him to the king of Babylon in Riblah, and he
spoke to him with judgment. 10 The king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah
before his eyes, and he slaughtered all the rulers of Judah in Riblah. 11 He blinded the
eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in fetters; the king of Babylon brought him to Babylon
and gave him to the milling house until the day he died.
12 In the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, Nebuzaradan, the chief butcher who
stood in front of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. 13 He burned the house of the
Lord, the house of the king, and all the houses of the city; he burned with fire every
A No LXX manuscript includes vv. 2-3, 15, and 28-30
B ninth VS ¦ seventh A ¦ tenth (= MT)

great house. 14 The force of the Chaldeans which was with the chief butcher pulled
down all the wall around Jerusalem. 16 The chief butcher left the remnants of the people
as vineyard workers and as farmers.
17 The Chaldeans broke the bronze pillars which were in the house of the Lord, the
bases, and the bronze sea which was in the house of the Lord. They took the bronze
from them and carried it away to Babylon. 18 The chief butcher also took crown, the
bowls, the meat hooks, all the bronze utensils with which they performed public service,
19 the siphoth, A the mezameroth, B the oil funnels, the lampstands, the censers, the
ladles which were golden gold and silvery silver, 20 the two pillars, the one sea, and the
twelve bronze calves underneath the sea, which King Solomon made for the house of
the Lord. There was no weighing of the bronze from them. 21 As for the pillars, the
height of one pillar was thirty-five cubits, and a cord of twelve cubits surrounded it; its
thickness was four fingers all around. 22 There was a bronze cornice on them; the
projection of one cornice was five cubits in length. There was a net and pomegranates
on the cornice all around, all bronze, and like these, the second pillar had eight
pomegranates per cubit for the twelve cubits. 23 The pomegranates were ninety-six on
the one part, and all the pomegranates on the net all around were one hundred.
24 The chief butcher took the first priest, the second priest, the three who guarded
the way, 25 one eunuch who was the overseer of the military men, seven famous men
who were in the presence of the king who were found in the city, the scribe of the
forces who acted as scribe for the people of the land, and sixty men from the people of
the land who were found in the midst of the city. 26 Nebuzaradan, the chief butcher,
took them and brought them to the king of Babylon in Riblah. 27 The king of Babylon
attacked them in Riblah, in the land of Hamath.
31 It happened that, in the thirty-seventh year after that Jehoiakim king of Judah was
deported, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fourth of the month, Evil-merodach king
of Babylon, in the year in which he began to reign, took the head of Jehoiakim king of
Judah, shaved him, and brought him out of the house where he was imprisoned. 32 He
spoke kind things to him, gave his throne above the kings who were with him in
Babylon, 33 and changed his prison robe. He ate bread continually before his face all the
days which he lived. 34 His pension was given to him continually from the king of
Babylon from day to day until the day when he died.
A Heb, "basins" (in 2 Kgdms. 17:29, Gk sapphóth transliterates Heb shephoth, "cheese")
B Heb, "snuffers"

BARUCH 1
1 These are the words of the document which Baruch son of Neriah, son of
Mahseiah, son of Zedekiah, son of Hasadiah, son of Hilkiah wrote in Babylon, 2 in the
fifth year, on the seventh of the month, in the season when the Chaldeans took
Jerusalem and burned her with fire.
3 Baruch read the words of this document in the ears of Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim,
king of Judah, in the ears of all the people who were coming to the book, 4 in the ears
of the powerful and the sons of kings, in the ears of the elders, and in the ears of all
the people, from small to great, everyone who resided in Babylon by the River Sud.
5 They wept and fasted, and made vows before the Lord. 6 They collected silver, as
much as the hand of each could hold, 7 and sent it to Jerusalem to the priest Jehoiakim
son of Hilkiah son of Shallum, to the priests, and to all the people who were found with
him in Jerusalem, 8 while he took the vessels of the house of the Lord, which had been
carried away from the sanctuary, to return them to the land of Judah on the tenth day
of Sivan. These were the silver vessels which Zedekiah son of Josiah, king of Judah,
had made, 9 after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had deported Jeconiah, the rulers,
the prisoners, the powerful, and the people of the land from Jerusalem; he brought
them to Babylon.
10 They said, "Behold, we have sent silver to you. Buy with the silver whole burnt
offerings, those for sin, and incense. Make manna and offer it on the altar of the Lord
our God. 11 Pray for the life of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and for the life of
Belshazzar his son, so that their days on earth may be like the days of heaven. 12 The
Lord will give us strength and will illuminate our eyes. We will live under the shadow of
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and under the shadow of Belshazzar his son, and we
will serve them many days and find grace before them. 13 Pray for us to the Lord our
God, for we sinned against the Lord our God; the anger of the Lord and his wrath have
not turned away from us to this day. 14 You will read this document which we sent forth
to you in order to make a declaration in the house of the Lord on the day of the festival
and on days which are appointed.
15 You will say: `The Lord our God has righteousness, but as on this day we have
shame on our faces, the man of Judah and those who reside in Jerusalem, 16 our kings,
our rulers, our priests, our prophets, and our fathers; 17 we sinned before the Lord. 18 We
distrusted him, and we did not hear the voice of the Lord our God in order to walk in
the ordinances of the Lord which he gave in our presence. 19 From the day when the
Lord brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt until this day, we have been
distrustful towards the Lord our God and we have been careless, so as not to listen to
his voice. 20 As on this day, the wicked things and the curse have clung to us, which the
Lord directed through Moses his servant on the day when he brought our fathers out of
the land of Egypt to give to us a land flowing with milk and honey. 21 We did not listen
to the voice of the Lord our God in agreement with all the words of the prophets whom
he sent forth to us. 22 Each was led in the thinking of his evil heart to work for other
gods, to do wicked things in the eyes of the Lord our God.

Baruch 2
1 The Lord established his word which he spoke against us, against our jurists who
exercised jurisdiction over Israel, against our kings, against our rulers, and against the
man of Israel and Judah, 2 to bring against us great wicked things which were done
underneath all of heaven, as he did A in Jerusalem in agreement with the things which
had been written in the law of Moses, 3 in order for us to eat, one man the flesh of his
son and another man the flesh of his daughter. 4 He gave them in subjection to all the
kingdoms surrounding us as a reproach and as an impassable place among all the
surrounding peoples where the Lord scattered them. 5 They were underneath and not
above, for we sinned against the Lord our God by not listening to his voice.
6 Righteousness belongs to the Lord our God, but the shame of faces belongs to us
and to our fathers, as it is this day. 7 All these wicked things, which the Lord spoke
against us, came against us. 8 Yet we did not petition the face of the Lord, in order for
each one to turn away from the thoughts of their evil hearts. 9 The Lord watched out for
wicked things, and the Lord brought them against us, for the Lord is righteous over all
his works which he commanded us. 10 Yet we did not listen to his voice, to walk in the
ordinances of the Lord which he gave in our presence.
11 Now, O Lord God of Israel, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with
a mighty hand, with signs, with wonders, with great power, and with a high arm, and
made for yourself a name, as it is this day: 12 we sinned, we became ungodly, we
became unrighteous, O Lord our God, regarding all your righteous decrees. 13 Let your
anger turn away from us, for we were left as a few among the nations where you
scattered us. 14 Listen, O Lord, to our prayer and our petition, rescue us for your own
sake, and give us grace in the presence of those who exiled us, 15 so that all the earth
may know that you are the Lord our God, for your name was invoked over Israel and
over his race. 16 O Lord, look down from your holy house and consider us; O Lord,
incline your ear and hear. 17 O Lord, open your eyes and look, for the dead who are in
Hades, whose spirits were taken away from their inward parts, will give no glory and
righteous decree to the Lord. 18 But the soul which grieves over greatness, which
proceeds bent over and weak, and the eyes which fail and the soul which hungers, will
give you glory and righteousness, O Lord. 19 For we are not throwing away our mercy in
your presence, O Lord our God, regarding the righteous decrees of our fathers and our
kings. 20 For you injected your anger and your wrath into us, just as you spoke by the
hand of your servants the prophets, saying, 21 "The Lord says this: `Bow down your
shoulders and work for the king of Babylon. Sit on the land which I gave to your
fathers. 22 If you do not listen to the voice of the Lord, to work for the king of Babylon,
23 I will cause to fail from the cites of Judah and out of Jerusalem the voice of
cheerfulness and the voice of joyfulness, the voice of a groom and the voice of the
bride. All the land will be an impassable place, devoid of inhabitants.´" 24 Yet we did not
listen to your voice, to work for the king of Babylon, and you established your words
A to bring against us great wicked things which were done underneath all of heaven, as
he did A ¦ It was not done underneath all of heaven as he did V

which you spoke by the hand of your servants the prophets, for the bones of our kings
and the bones of our fathers to be brought out of their places. 25 Behold, they are being
thrown out to the heat of the day and to the frost of the night; they died by evil labors,
by famine, by the sword, and by banishment. 26 You set up the house over which your
name was invoked as it is this day, because of the evil of the house of Israel and the
house of Judah.
27 You acted toward us, O Lord our God, according to all your fairness and according
to all your great compassion, 28 just as you spoke by the hand of your servant Moses on
the day when you commanded him to write your law before the sons of Israel, saying,
29 "If you do not listen to my voice, surely this very great commotion will turn into a
small one among the nations where I will scatter them. 30 For I knew that they would
not listen to me, because it is a stiff-necked people. Yet they will return to their hearts
in the land of their exile. 31 They will know that I am the Lord their God. I will give them
a heart and listening ears, 32 and they will praise me in the land of their exile, remember
my name, 33 and turn away from their stiff back and from their evil deeds, for they will
remember the way of their fathers who sinned before the Lord. 34 I will turn them away
to the land which I swore to their fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and they will
dominate it. I will multiply them, and they will not be diminished. 35 I will establish for
them an eternal testament for me to be God for them, and they will be a people for me.
I will no longer move my people Israel away from the land which I gave them."
Baruch 3
1 O almighty Lord, O God of Israel, the soul in difficulties and the spirit with agonies
is shouting to you. 2 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy, for you, O God, are merciful; have
mercy, A for we sinned before you. 3 For you are sitting forever, and we are perishing
forever. 4 O almighty Lord, O God of Israel, hear now the prayer of those of Israel who
have been put to death and of the sons who are sinning before you, who did not listen
to the voice of their God; B wicked things were joined to us. 5 Do not remember the
unjust acts of our fathers; instead, remember your hand and your name in this season.
6 For you are the Lord our God, and we will praise you, O Lord. 7 For because of this, you
gave the fear of you upon our hearts, so as to invoke your name. We will praise you in
our exile, for we turned away from our hearts every unjust act of our fathers who have
sinned before you. 8 Behold, today we are in our exile where you scattered us, resulting
in a reproach, resulting in a curse, and resulting in a penalty, in agreement with all the
unjust acts of our fathers who stood apart from the Lord our God.´"
9 Hear, O Israel, the commands of life; listen in order to know intelligence. 10 Why is
it, O Israel, that you are in the land of your enemies, that you grew old in a foreign
land, 11 that you were defiled with the dead, that you were reckoned with those who are
for Hades? 12 You abandoned the fountain of wisdom. 13 If you had walked in the way of
God, you would have resided in peace forever. 14 Learn where there is intelligence,
where there is strength, where there is understanding, together with knowing where
A for you, O God, are merciful; have mercy, A ¦ ~ V
B their God A ¦ you, their God V ¦ the Lord their God

there is the length of days and life, where there is the light of the eyes and peace.
15 Who found her place? Who entered her treasures? 16 Where are the rulers of the
nations and those who dominated the beasts which are on the earth, 17 who played with
the birds of heaven and laid up treasures of silver and gold, in which men have trusted?
There is no end of their acquisition, 18 those who make plans for silver and are anxious;
there is no discovery of their works. 19 They were obliterated, and they descended into
Hades; others stood up in their place. 20 Young men saw the light and resided on the
earth, but they did not know the way of comprehension, 21 understand its paths, or take
hold of it; their sons were far apart from their way. 22 It was not heard in Canaan, nor
was it seen in Teman. 23 Neither the sons of Hagar who sought understanding on the
earth, nor the merchants of Merran A and Teman, nor the mythmakers and seekers of
understanding knew the way of wisdom or remembered her paths.
24 O Israel, how great is the house of God! How extensive is the place of his
possession! 25 It is great and has no end; it is high and immeasurable. 26 The famous
giants who were from the beginning were there, those who were of good size, those
who comprehended war. 27 God did not choose these, and he did not give them the way
of comprehension. 28 They perished due to not having intelligence; they perished on
account of their thoughtlessness.
29 Who ascended into heaven, took her, and brought her down from the clouds?
30 Who crossed over the sea and found her, and will bring her for choice gold? 31 There is
no one who knows her way or considers her path. 32 Instead, the one who is acquainted
with all things knows her; he found her out with his understanding. The one who
equipped the earth for eternal time filled it with four-footed domestic animals. 33 The
one who sends forth the light and it goes, he named it, and it responded to him with
trembling. 34 The stars shone during their watches and were cheerful. 35 He called them,
and they said, "We are present!" They shone with cheerfulness for the one who made
them. 36 This is our God; another will not be reckoned with him. 37 He found out all the
way of comprehension, and he gave it to Jacob his servant and to Israel who was loved
by him. 38 After this, he was seen on the earth, and he associated with men.
Baruch 4
1 This is the book of the ordinances of God and the law which exists forever. All
those who hold on to it will be in life, but those who abandon it will die.
2 Return, O Jacob, and attain it; travel to the lamp in front of its light. 3 Do not give
your glory to another and the things which benefit you to a foreign nation. 4 We are
fortunate, O Israel, for the things which are pleasing to God are known to us.
5 Have courage, my people, the memorial of Israel. 6 You were sold to the nations,
not for destruction; you were delivered up to the opponents because you made God
wrathful. 7 For you provoked the one who made you by sacrificing to demons and not to
God. 8 You forgot the eternal God who nursed you; you also grieved Jerusalem who
raised you. 9 For she saw the wrath from God coming over you, and she said, "Listen,
you sojourners of Zion; God brought great mourning over me. 10 For I saw the captivity
A Possibly a variant spelling of "Midian"; see Gen. 37:28.

of my sons and daughters, which the Eternal One brought over them. 11 For I nourished
them with cheerfulness, but I sent them away with weeping and mourning. 12 Let no
one rejoice over me, a widow and one who was abandoned by many, who was made
desolate on account of the sins of my children, because they turned away from the law
of God. 13 They did not know his righteous decrees, go in the ways of the commands of
God, or tread the paths of discipline in his righteousness. 14 Let the sojourners of Zion
come; remember the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Eternal One
brought over them. 15 For he brought over them a nation from afar, a nation without
shame and of a foreign language, who felt no shame before an old man and showed no
mercy to a child. 16 They carried away the beloved sons of a widow, and made her who
was alone desolate without daughters. 17 What am I able to do to help you? 18 For the
one who brought wicked things over you will rescue you from the hands of your
enemies. 19 Proceed, my children, proceed, for I was abandoned as desolate. 20 I took off
the robe of peace and put on the sackcloth of my petition; I will shout to the Eternal
One in my days.
21 Have courage, my children; cry out to God, and he will rescue you from the
dominion, from the hand of enemies. 22 For I hoped in the Eternal One for your
salvation, and joy came to me from the Holy One on the basis of the mercy which will
arrive at you with swiftness from your eternal savior. 23 For I sent you out with
mourning and weeping, but God will give you back to me with joyfulness and
cheerfulness forever. 24 For as the sojourners of Zion have now seen your captivity, so
they will see with swiftness your salvation which is from your God, which will come over
you with great glory and the brightness of the Eternal One. 25 My children, endure the
wrath which is coming over you from God; your enemy pursued you, yet you will see
his destruction with swiftness and will tread on their necks. 26 My delicate ones went on
rough ways; they were taken away like a flock snatched by enemies.
27 Have courage, my children, and cry out to God, for the remembering of you will be
by the one who brings things over. 28 For as your thinking became to wander away from
God, multiply seeking him by ten after you have returned. 29 For the one who brought
wicked things over you will bring you eternal cheerfulness along with your salvation.
30 Have courage, O Jerusalem; the one who named you will comfort you. 31 Those
who harmed you and rejoiced over your downfall are wretched. 32 The cities which your
children served are wretched; she who accepted your sons is wretched. 33 For as she
rejoiced over your downfall and became cheerful over your fall, so she will be grieved
over her own desolation. 34 I will take away the gladness of her large crowd, and her
haughtiness will become mourning. 35 For fire will come over her from the Eternal One
for long days, and she will be inhabited by demons for much time.
36 Look around toward the east, O Jerusalem, and see the cheerfulness which is
coming to you from God. 37 Behold, your sons are coming whom you sent away. They
are coming after having been gathered together from the east to the west by the word
of the Holy One, rejoicing in the glory of God.
Baruch 5
1 Take off, O Jerusalem, the robe of your grief and mistreatment, and put on forever

the dignity of the glory from God. 2 Wrap yourself with the cloak of the righteousness
from God; place the turban of the glory of the Eternal One on your head. 3 For God will
show your splendor to everything under heaven. 4 For your name will forever be called
by God, "Peace of righteousness and glory of godliness."
5 Arise, O Jerusalem, stand on the height, gaze at the east, and see your children
gathered from the west to the east A by the word of the Holy One, rejoicing at the
mention of God. 6 For they came out from you on foot, led by their enemies, but God
will bring them back to you, carried with glory, as on a royal throne. B 7 For God directed
every high mountain to be lowered, and the permanent sea beds and the valleys to be
filled to the level of the earth, so that Israel may proceed safely in the glory of God.
8 The woods and every fragrant tree shaded Israel by order of God. 9 For God will lead
Israel with cheerfulness, in the light of his glory, with the mercy and righteousness
which are from him.
A Lit, "from the settings of the sun to the risings"
B carried with glory, as on a royal throne V ¦ sons of the kingdom carried with glory A

LAMENTATIONS 1
It happened that, after Israel was taken captive and Jerusalem became desolate,
Jeremiah sat weeping, and he lamented with this lamentation over Jerusalem. He said:
1 ALEPH: How did the city which was filled with peoples sit alone! She became like a
widow; she who was multiplied among nations and ruling among countries became
tribute. 2 BETH: She wept during the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; there is no
one who comforts her from all those who love her. All those who were befriending her
dealt treacherously with her; they became her enemies. 3 GIMEL: Judea was deported
due to her humiliation and due to the abundance of her slavery. She sat among
nations; she did not find rest. All those who were pursuing her overtook her between
those who were oppressing. 4 DALETH: The roads of Zion are mourning because none
are coming during the feast. All her gates are obliterated; her priests are groaning. Her
virgins are being led away, and she is embittered within herself. 5 HE: Those who were
oppressing her became the head, and her enemies were prospering, for the Lord
humiliated her based on the multitude of her ungodly acts. Her infants went into
captivity before the face of one who was oppressing. 6 VAV: All her splendor was taken
away from the daughter of Zion. Her rulers became like rams who were not finding
pasture, and they went without strength before the face of one who was pursuing.
7 ZAYIN: Jerusalem remembered the days of her humiliation and her rejections, all her
coveted things which were from days of old, when her people fell into the hands of one
who was oppressing, and there was no one who was helping her. When her enemies
saw it, they laughed at her deportation. A 8 CHETH: Jerusalem committed sin; because of
this, she became unstable. All those who were glorifying her humiliated her, for they
saw her shame. Indeed, she herself groaned and turned away. 9 TETH: Her uncleanness
is at her feet; she did not remember her ends. She brought down excessive things;
there is no one who is comforting her. See, O Lord, my humiliation, for the enemy was
magnified. 10 YOD: One who was oppressing stretched out his hand over all her coveted
things, for she saw nations entering her sacred place, which you commanded not to
enter your assembly. 11 KAPH: All her people were groaning as they were seeking bread;
they gave her coveted things for food to restore a soul. See, O Lord, and look, for I
became dishonored. B 12 LAMED: Is it nothing to you, all of you who are passing along
the road? Return, and see if there is any pain corresponding to my pain which occurred.
The Lord who made utterance by me humiliated me on a day of his furious wrath.
13 MEM: He sent forth fire from his height; he brought it among my bones. He spread a
net for my feet; he turned me back. He gave me as her who was obliterated, as her
who was grieving the entire day. 14 NUN: He kept watch over my ungodly acts. They
were entwined in my hands; they came up over my neck. My strength was weakened,
for the Lord gave griefs in my hands; I will not be able to stand. 15 SAMECH: The Lord
A her deportation A ¦ her settlement VS
B I became dishonored S*A ¦ she became dishonored VSc

emoved all my strong men from my midst; he summoned against me a season for
crushing my chosen men. The Lord trod a winepress for the virgin daughter of Judah; I
am weeping over these things. 16 AYIN: My eye brought down water, for the one who
comforts me, who restores my soul, was at a distance from me. My sons have been
obliterated, for the enemy prevailed. 17 PE: Zion spread her hands, and there was no
one who was comforting her. The Lord gave a command for Jacob; those who oppress
him are surrounding him. Jerusalem became in their midst as she who was sitting
apart. 18 TSADE: The Lord is righteous, for I embittered his mouth. Now listen, all you
peoples, and see my pain; my virgins and my young men went in captivity. 19 QOPH: I
summoned my paramours, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders in the city
failed, for they sought food for themselves so that they might restore their souls, and
did not find it. 20 RESH: See, O Lord, that I am oppressed. My stomach was disturbed
and my heart was turned within me, for I was embittered while I was embittering. A
Outside, a sword made me childless, like death in a house. 21 SHIN: Now listen, for I am
groaning; there is no one who is comforting me. All my enemies heard of my wicked
things and rejoiced because you performed them. You brought on the day; you
summoned the season. They became similar to me. 22 TAV: Let all their wickedness
enter before your face. Glean them in the manner they performed a gleaning regarding
all my sins, for my groanings are many, and my heart is saddened.
Lamentations 2
1 ALEPH: How the Lord in his wrath brought gloom over the daughter of Zion! He
threw down the glory of Israel from heaven to earth, and did not remember the
footstool of his feet on the day of his wrath. 2 BETH: The Lord drowned and did not
spare all the beautiful things of Jacob; he brought down in his fury the strongholds of
the daughter of Judah. He joined them to the ground; he profaned her kings and her
rulers. 3 GIMEL: He shattered in his furious wrath every horn of Israel; he turned back
his right hand from the face of the enemy. He kindled a flame in Jacob like fire, and it
devoured all the surrounding things. 4 DALETH: He bent his bow like an opposing
enemy; he solidified his right hand like an opponent. He killed all the desirable things of
my eyes in the tent of the daughter of Zion; he poured out his fury like fire. 5 HE: The
Lord became like an enemy; he drowned Israel. He drowned all her towers; he ruined
its strongholds. He multiplied the humbled and humiliated woman for the daughter of
Judah. 6 VAV: He spread his tent like a vine; he ruined his feast. The Lord forgot what
he made in Zion of the feast and the sabbath; he provoked in the indignation of his
wrath the king, the priest, and the ruler. 7 ZAYIN: The Lord rejected his altar; he got rid
of his sacred place. He broke by the hand of an enemy the wall of her towers; they
issued a sound in the house of the Lord as on a day of a feast. 8 CHETH: The Lord
returned to ruin the wall of the daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line; he
did not turn his hand away from trampling. The fortification mourned, and the wall was
weakened along with it. 9 TETH: Her gates were stuck in the ground; he destroyed and
broke her bars, her king and her ruler among the nations. There is no law; indeed, her
A I was embittered while I was embittering VA ¦ I was embittering S

prophets did not see a vision from the Lord. 10 YOD: They sat on the ground; the elders
of the daughter of Zion were silent. They brought up dirt over their heads; they girded
themselves with sackcloth. They brought down to the ground the chief virgins in
Jerusalem. 11 KAPH: My eyes were being eclipsed by tears; my heart was disturbed. My
glory was poured out on the ground over the breaking of the daughter of my people,
while the infant and nursling were eclipsed in the streets of the city. 12 LAMED: They
said to their mothers, "Where is the grain and the wine?" while they fainted like the
wounded in the streets of the city, while their souls were poured out into the lap of
their mothers. 13 MEM: What will I testify to you, or what will I compare to you, O
daughter of Jerusalem? Who will save you and comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion?
For the cup of your smashing was enlarged; who will heal you? 14 NUN: Your prophets
saw vanities and foolishness for you. They did not reveal your wrongdoing in order to
return your captivity; they saw vain statements and banishments for you. 15 SAMECH: All
who go beside the way clapped their hands at you; they hissed and shook their heads
at the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this the city of which they say, "The crown of glory,
the cheerfulness of all the earth"? 16 AYIN: All your enemies opened their mouths
against you. They hissed and gnashed their teeth; they said, "We swallowed her up.
Moreover, this is the day which we expected. We found it; we saw it." 17 PE: The Lord
did the things which he considered; he accomplished his words, the things which he
commanded from ancient days. He demolished and did not spare. He cheered an
enemy over you; he exalted the horn of one who oppressed you. 18 TSADE: Their hearts
cried out to the Lord, "O walls of Zion, bring down tears like torrents day and night. Do
not give yourself calm; may your eye not be silent, O daughter." A 19 QOPH: Arise; be
glad in the night at the beginnings of your watch. Pour out your heart like water before
the face of the Lord; lift up your hands to him concerning the souls of your infants, who
faint with hunger at the beginning of all the exits. 20 RESH: Look, O Lord, and see for
whom you gleaned in this way. Will women eat the fruit of their wombs? The butcher
made a gleaning. Will infants nursing at breasts be murdered? Will you kill a priest and
a prophet in the sacred place of the Lord? 21 SHIN: The child and old man fell asleep in
the exit; my virgins and my young men went into captivity. You killed by the sword and
by hunger. On the day of your wrath you butchered them; you did not spare. 22 TAV: He
summoned my sojournings from all around on the day of a festival. There was no one
on the day of the wrath of the Lord who was brought to safety or was left behind, as I
prevailed over and multiplied all my enemies.
Lamentations 3
1 ALEPH: I am a man who sees poverty by the rod of his fury upon me. 2 He seized
and led me away into darkness and not light. 3 Only at me did he turn his hand back the
entire day. 4 BETH: He made my flesh and my skin old; he broke my bones. 5 He built up
against me and encompassed my head, and it was distressed. 6 He sat me in darkened
places like those long dead. 7 GIMEL: He built up against me, and I will not come out;
A may your eye not be silent, O daughter VSA ¦ do not let the apple of your eye be
silent

he weighed me down with bronze. 8 I will indeed shout and cry out; he blocked my
prayer. 9 He built up my ways; he fenced in my paths; he disturbed me. 10 DALETH: He is
to me a bear lying in wait, a lion in hidden places. 11 He pursued one who was moving
away and stopped me; he set me up like a woman who was disfigured. 12 He bent his
bow and erected me as a target for a missile. 13 HE: He brought into my kidneys the
arrows of his quiver. 14 I became a laughing stock to all my people, their psalm the
entire day. 15 He stuffed me with bitterness; he got me drunk with gall. 16 VAV: He
expelled my teeth with gravel; he fed me with ashes. 17 He removed my soul from
peace; I forgot good things. 18 I said, "My victory and my hope from the Lord perished."
19 ZAYIN: I remembered my bitterness and gall due to my poverty and as a result of my
persecution. 20 My soul will remember and chatter about me. 21 I will arrange this for my
heart; because of this, I will wait. A 25 CHETH: The Lord is good to those who wait for
him; the soul which will seek him is good. 26 It will wait and be quiet for the salvation of
the Lord. 27 It is good for a man when he carries a yoke in his youth. 28 TETH: He will sit
alone and be silent that he carried it by himself. 30 He will give his cheek to the one who
strikes him; he will be stuffed with reproaches. 31 YOD: For the Lord will not reject
forever. 32 For the one who humbled will have compassion according to the abundance
of his mercy. 33 For he did not reply apart from his heart, and he humbled the sons of a
man. 34 KAPH: To humble under his feet all the prisoners of the earth, 35 to turn away
the judgment of a man before the face of the Most High, 36 to condemn a person when
he seeks justice, the Lord did not say. 37 LAMED: Who said this, and it happened? The
Lord did not command it. 38 Out of the mouth of the Most High, will wicked things come
as well as what is good? 39 Why should a living person complain, a man concerning his
sin? 40 MEM: Our way was searched out and examined; let us turn to the Lord. 41 Let us
take up our hearts on our hands to the Exalted One in heaven. 42 NUN: We sinned; we
became ungodly, and you were not merciful. 43 SAMECH: You covered us in fury and
drove us away. You killed; you did not spare. 44 You covered yourself with a cloud
because of a prayer, 45 in order to close my eyes and reject me; you placed us in the
midst of the peoples. 46 AYIN: All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
47 Fear and fury came into being for us, devastation and crushing. 48 My eye will bring
forth emissions of water over the crushing of the daughter of my people. 49 PE: My eye
was drowned. I will not be silent, so that I may not become calm 50 until the Lord stoops
down and sees from heaven. 51 My eye will glean my soul beyond all the daughters of
the city. 52 TSADE: My enemies kept hunting me like a sparrow for no reason; 53 they put
my life to death in a pit and placed a stone over me. 54 Water flowed over my head; I
said, "I am rejected!" 55 QOPH: I invoked your name, O Lord, out of the lowest pit.
56 You heard my voice; do not conceal your ears to my petition. 57 You came near to my
help; on the day I invoked, you said to me, "Do not be afraid." 58 RESH: O Lord, you
pleaded the cases of my soul; you redeemed my life. 59 O Lord, you saw my troubles;
you judged my justice. 60 You saw all their vengeance in all their arguments with me.
61 SHIN: You heard their reproach, all their arguments against me, 62 the lips of those
who rose up against me and their threats against me the entire day, 63 their sitting down
A No LXX manuscript includes vv. 22-24

and their rising up; look at their eyes! 64 TAV: You will pay them back with a repayment,
O Lord, according to the works of their hands. 65 You will pay them back with a shield,
with distress of the heart. 66 You will pursue them with wrath and exterminate them
under heaven, O Lord.
Lamentations 4
1 ALEPH: How gold will be tarnished and good silver will be changed! The holy stones
were poured out at the beginning of all the exits. 2 BETH: The precious sons of Zion who
were excited by gold, how they were reckoned as ceramic vessels, works of the hands
of a potter! 3 GIMEL: Even dragons bared their breasts; they nursed their offspring. The
daughters of my people are in an incurable condition, like an ostrich in a desert.
4 DALETH: The tongue of the one who was nursing was glued to its throat in thirst. The
infants asked for bread; there is no one who breaks it for them. 5 HE: Those who eat
delicacies disappeared in the exits; those who were nursed in scarlet were dressed in
dung. 6 VAV: The lawlessness of the daughter of my people was magnified beyond the
lawless acts of Sodom, which was overthrown as in haste; they did not busy their hands
with her. 7 ZAYIN: Her Nazirites were made purer than snow; they shone brighter than
milk; they were reddened more than stones of sapphire in their order. 8 CHETH: Their
appearance became darker than smoke; they were not recognized in the exits. Their
skin stuck to their bones. They withered; they became like wood. 9 TETH: The ones
wounded by a sword were better than the ones wounded by hunger; after being
stabbed, they went away from the produce of the fields. 10 YOD: The hands of
compassionate women boiled their children; they became food for them in the
shattering of the daughter of my people. 11 KAPH: The Lord accomplished his fury; he
poured out the fury of his wrath. He kindled a fire in Zion, and it devoured her
foundations. 12 LAMED: The kings of the earth, all who reside in the inhabited world, did
not believe that an enemy and oppressor would enter through the gates of Jerusalem.
13 MEM: It was the result of the sins of her prophets, the unjust acts of her priests,
those who poured out righteous blood in her midst. 14 NUN: Her watchmen were shaken
in the exits. They were defiled with blood; when they could do nothing, they touched
their garments. 15 SAMECH: Stay away from unclean things. Summon them: "Stay away!
Stay away! Do not touch!" For they were ignited, and indeed they were shaken. Say
among the nations, "They will not continue to sojourn." 16 AYIN: The face of the Lord
was their portion; he will not continue to look at them. They did not receive the face of
the priests; they did not show mercy to the elderly. 17 PE: While we still existed, our
eyes failed with respect to our help. TSADE: While we were looking at vain things, we
looked to a nation which did not save. 18 We hunted for our little ones, so that they
might not walk in our streets. QOPH: Our season drew near; our days were fulfilled; our
season is present. 19 Those who pursue us were lighter than the eagles of heaven. They
clung to the mountains; in the desert they lay in wait for us. 20 RESH: The spirit of our
face, the anointed Lord, A was captured in their corruptions, the one of whom we said,
"In his shadow we will live among the nations." 21 SHIN: Rejoice and be cheerful, O
A Or, "Christ the Lord"

daughter of Idumea who resides on the land. Indeed, the cup of the Lord will pass
through to you; you will become intoxicated and cause a spill. 22 TAV: Your lawlessness
was eclipsed, O daughter of Zion; he will no longer continue to banish you. He visited
your lawless acts, O daughter of Edom; he revealed your ungodly acts.
Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O Lord, what happened to us; look, and see our reproach. 2 Our
inheritance was turned over to foreigners, our houses to strangers. 3 We became
orphans. There is no father; our mothers are like widows. 4 As a result of our days, A our
wood came in an exchange. 5 We were persecuted up to our necks. We labored; we had
no rest. 6 Egypt gave a slap of the hand, as did Asshur to their satisfaction. 7 Our fathers
sinned; they do not exist. We were held under their lawless acts. 8 Slaves dominated us;
there is no one who would redeem out of their hand. 9 We will bring in our bread by our
souls, due to the presence of the sword of the desert. 10 Our skin was discolored like an
oven; they shriveled up due to the presence of the storms of famine. 11 They humiliated
women in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah. 12 Rulers were suspended by their hands;
elders were not glorified. 13 The chosen took up weeping, and youths were weakened by
wood. 14 Elders ceased from the gate; the chosen ceased from their psalms. 15 The joy of
our hearts dissolved; our dance was turned into mourning. 16 The crown fell off our
head. Woe indeed to us, for we sinned! 17 Regarding this, our hearts became sorrowful;
regarding this, our eyes darkened. 18 Foxes passed through on Mount Zion, because it is
was obliterated.
19 But you, O Lord, will reside forever, your throne for generation after generation.
20 Why will you forget us in a dispute and abandon us for a length of days? 21 Return us,
O Lord, to you, and we will be returned; renew our days as before. 22 For you rejected
us; you became exceedingly wrathful against us.
A As a result of our days, VA ¦ We drank our water in return for silver;

JEREMIAH'S LETTER
A copy of a letter which Jeremiah sent forth to those who were to be taken as captives
to Babylon by the king of the Babylonians, to report to them just as it was ordered him
by God.
1 Because of the sins which you committed before God, you will be taken as captives
to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar, king of the Babylonians. 2 So, when you enter Babylon,
you will be there for many years and a long time, until seven generations. After this, I
will bring you out from there with peace. 3 Now in Babylon you will see silvery, golden,
and wooden gods carried on shoulders, which represent fear to the nations. 4 So be
cautious that you do not become like the Philistines and fear seize you over them,
5 when you see the crowd in front and behind them worshiping them. Say in your minds,
"It is necessary to worship you, O Master." 6 For my messenger is with you, and he
himself is looking out for your souls.
7 For their tongues are polished by a craftsman, and they are overlaid with gold and
silver, but they are false and cannot speak. 8 Just as for a virgin who befriends the
world, they take gold and fashion crowns for the heads of their gods. 9 It is also that,
when the priests pilfer gold and silver from their gods and lavish it on themselves, they
will give from them even to the prostitutes in the brothel. 10 They will adorn them with
garments like men, silvery, golden, and wooden gods, but these cannot preserve
themselves from rust and excrement. 11 Although they are encompassed by purple
clothing, their faces are wiped because of the dust from the house, which is over most
of them. 12 It has a scepter like a man who is the judge of a country, who does not slay
the one who sins against him. 13 It has a hand knife in its right hand and an ax, but
cannot rescue itself from war and robbers. 14 From this they are known not to be gods,
so do not fear them.
15 For just as the vessel of a man becomes useless when it is broken, such are their
gods when they are dedicated in the houses. 16 Their eyes are full of dust due to the
feet of those who go in. 17 Just as courtyards are fenced off to someone who did wrong
to a king, as though he were being led away for execution, the priests fortify their
houses with doorways, locks, and bars, so that they might not be plundered by robbers.
18 They light candles even more than for themselves, by which they can see nothing. 19 It
is like a beam of those from the house; they say that their hearts are touched, even
though when the creeping things from the earth consume them and their clothing, they
do not perceive it. 20 Their faces are blackened due to the smoke which is from the
house. 21 Bats, swallows, and birds flit over their bodies and over their heads, and
similarly also cats. 22 From this you will know that they are not gods, so do not fear
them.
23 Despite the gold which surrounds them for beauty, unless someone wipes off the
rust, they will not gleam, for not even when they were molten did they perceive it.
24 Things in which there is no breath are purchased at all cost. 25 They are carried on
shoulders, without feet, exhibiting to men their own dishonor. Even those who attend
them are ashamed, since if they ever fall on the ground, they cannot arise by

themselves. 26 If someone stands it upright, it will not move by itself, and if it is laid
down, it will not bring itself upright, but gifts are placed beside them as for the dead.
27
Their priests sell and use their sacrifices; similarly, their wives also pickle foods from
them, yet they share neither with a poor or a powerless person. A woman who sits
apart and one who has given birth A touch their sacrifices. 28 So, because you know from
these things that they are not gods, do not fear them.
29
For how, since women set food before silvery, golden, and wooden gods, may
they be called gods? 30 The priests sit down in their houses after having their tunics torn
and their heads and beards shaved; their heads are uncovered. 31 They roar and cry in
front of their gods, as some do at a wake for a dead person. 32 The priests take off
some of their clothing and dress their wives and children. 33 Whether they have
something wicked or something good done to them by someone, they will not be able
to repay it; they can neither install a king nor remove him. 34 Similarly, they can give
neither wealth nor copper; if someone makes a vow to them and does not pay it, they
will not demand it. 35 They will not deliver a man from death or rescue a weak person
from a strong one. 36 They will not restore a blind man to sight or rescue a man who is
in distress. 37 They will not have mercy on a widow or do good to an orphan. 38 Things
which are wooden and overlaid with gold and silver are similar to the stones from the
mountain, and those who attend them will be put to shame. 39 So how can anyone think
them to be or call them gods?
40
Furthermore, even the Chaldeans themselves dishonor them. Whenever they see a
dumb person who cannot speak, they bring him forward and expect Bel to make a
sound, as though he were able to perceive. 41 Although they understand this, they
cannot abandon them, for they have no perception. 42 The women put cords around
themselves and sit on the roads to burn bran as incense. 43 Whenever one of them is
drawn away by one of those who are passing by and lies with him, she reproaches her
neighbor that she was not as worthy as herself, neither was her cord broken.
44
Everything which happens to them is false, so how can anyone think them to be or
call them gods?
45
They are fashioned by carpenters and goldsmiths; they may become nothing else
than what the workmen wish them to become. 46 Those who fashioned them will not
themselves be long-lived; how then are the things which were fashioned by them going
to be gods? 47 For they left lies and a reproach behind for those who are coming after.
48
For whenever a war and wicked things comes upon them, the priests consult with
themselves as where they may be hidden together with them. 49 So how is it not
perceived that they are not gods, who do not save themselves either from war or from
wicked things? 50 For since they are wooden and overlaid with gold and silver, it will be
known after this that they are false. It will apparent to the nations and all the kings that
they are not gods, but the works of the hands of men, and there is no work of God
among them. 51 So by this, anyone can know that they are not gods.
52 53
For they will not raise up the king of a country or give rain to men. They will not
decide their own case or deliver one who is being wronged, since they are powerless.
A one who has given birth VA ¦ one who is being taken to bed

For they are like crows, between heaven and earth. 54 For whenever fire falls upon a
house of wooden gods or those overlaid with gold or silver, their priests will flee and
seek safety, but they themselves will be burned like central beams. 55 They will not resist
a king or armies, 56 so how can anyone accept or think that they are gods?
57 Wooden gods and those overlaid with silver and gold will not find safety either
from thieves or from robbers. The strong of them will remove the gold, the silver, and
the clothing which they are wearing, and get away with it; they will not help
themselves. 58 As a result, it is better to be a king who displays his own bravery, or a
useful vessel in a house which the owner will use, than the false gods, or even a door in
an house which keeps safe the things which are in it than the false gods, or a wooden
pillar in a palace than the false gods.
59 For the sun, moon, and stars are compliant, since they are bright and are sent
forth for duty. 60 Similarly, lightning is easily seen whenever it flashes; in the same way,
a breeze blows in every country. 61 As for clouds, whenever they are arranged by God to
go over the entire inhabited world, they accomplish what was ordained, and fire sent
forth from above to consume hills and forests performs what was directed. 62 These are
comparable in neither their appearances nor their powers. 63 Therefore one can neither
think them to be nor call them gods, since they are able neither to judge a case nor to
do good to men. 64 So know that they are not gods; do not fear them.
65 For they will neither curse nor bless kings, 66 neither can they show signs in heaven
among the nations, nor shine like the sun, nor illuminate like the moon. 67 The beasts,
which can flee for shelter to benefit themselves, are better than they are. 68 So it is by
no means apparent to us that they are gods; accordingly, do not fear them.
69 For just as an amulet A guards nothing in a cucumber field, so are their wooden
gods and those overlaid with gold and silver. 70 In the same manner, their wooden gods
and those overlaid with gold and silver are comparable to a thorny shrub in an orchard
on which every bird sits, and similarly to a dead body which is throw out in the dark.
71 Due to the purple and the glitter which is rotting upon them, you will know that they
are not gods. They will be consumed at last and will be a reproach in the country. 72 So,
a righteous man who does not have idols is better, for he will be far away from
reproach.
A Or, "scarecrow"

EZEKIEL 1
1 It happened that, in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth of the
month, I was in the midst of the captivity by the River Chebar. The heavens were
opened, and I saw visions of God. 2 On the fifth of the month (this was the fifth year of
the captivity of King Jehoiakim), 3 the word of the Lord was directed at Ezekiel son of
Buzi, the priest, in the land of the Chaldeans by the River Chebar. The hand of the Lord
was upon me.
4 I looked, and behold, an uplifting spirit A was coming from the north, and a great
cloud was in it. There was a radiance around it and a gleaming fire; in the midst of it
there was something like a vision of amber in the midst of the fire, and a radiance was
in it. 5 In its midst there was something like the semblance of four animals. This was the
vision of them: the semblance of a man was on them. 6 One had four faces, and one
had four wings. 7 Their legs were straight, their feet were winged, there were sparks like
gleaming bronze, and their wings were lightweight. 8 The hand of a man was
underneath their wings on their four parts. The faces of the four of them 9 were not
turning B when they were proceeding; they were each going in the opposite direction of
their faces. 10 The likeness of their faces was the face of a man; the four had the face of
a lion on the right, the four had the face of a calf on the left, and the four had the face
of an eagle. 11 The four had their wings spread out above; each one had two joined to
one another and two covering up their bodies. 12 Each one was going opposite its face;
wherever the spirit was going, they were going, and they were not turning. 13 In the
midst of the animals there was a vision of something like burning coals of fire, like the
sight of lamps joining together between the animals; there was also a radiance from
the fire, and lightning went out of the fire. C
15 I looked, and behold, the four had one wheel, on the earth next to the animals.
16 The appearance of the wheels was like the appearance of tin, D and the four had one
semblance; their work was just as though it were a wheel within a wheel. 17 They were
going on their four parts; they were not turning when they were going, 18 nor were their
backs. They had height; I saw them, and the four had their backs full of eyes all
around. 19 When the animals were going, the wheels were going next to them, and
when the animals were lifting up from the earth, the wheels were being lifted up.
20 Wherever the cloud was, there the spirit was to go. The animals were going, and the
A pneuma here likely means "breeze," but see v. 20
B The faces of the four of them 9 were not turning V ¦ The faces and the wings of the
four of them 9 were next to each other, and their faces were not turning A ¦ The faces
and the wings of the four of them 9 were next to each other, and their wings were not
turning
C V ¦ + 14 The living creatures ran and went back and forth like the appearance of Bezek.
A (Bezek was the site of Israel's first victory after the death of Jesus son of Navé, Jgs.
1:4)
D See Dan. 10:6

wheels were also being lifted up with them, because the spirit of life was in the wheels.
21
When the former were going, the latter were going; when the former stood, the latter
stood; when the former lifted up from the earth, the latter were lifted up with them, for
the spirit of life was in the wheels.
22
On top of the heads of the animals, they had a semblance like a firmament,
something like a vision of crystal, spread out over their wings from above. 23 Their wings
were spread out under the firmament, one flapping against the other; each had two
paired together covering their bodies. 24 I heard the sound of their wings when they
were going, like the sound of much water. A When they stood, their wings rested.
25
Behold, there was a voice from up above the firmament which was on top of their
heads. B
26
There was something like a vision of a sapphire stone; the semblance of a throne
was on it. On the semblance of the throne was the semblance of something like the
appearance of a man above. 27 I saw something like the sight of amber C from a vision of
the loins upward, and from a vision of the loins on down I saw something like a vision
of fire and its surrounding radiance. 28 Like a vision of a rainbow, whenever it is in the
cloud on days of rain, so was the form of the surrounding radiance. This was the vision
of the semblance of the glory of the Lord. I looked and fell on my face, and I heard the
voice of one speaking.
Ezekiel 2
1 He said to me, "Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak to you." 2 The
Spirit came upon me, took me up, lifted me up, and stood me on my feet. I heard him
speaking to me. 3 He said to me, "Son of man, I am sending you forth to the house of
Israel, those who are provoking me, they and their fathers who provoked me to this
day. 4 You will say to them, `Thus says the Lord!´ 5 Whether they then hear or are
terrified (for it is a provoking house), they will know that you are a prophet in their
midst. 6 Son of man, do not be afraid of them or be distraught due to their presence, for
they will incite and riot against you all around, and you will reside in the midst of
scorpions. Do not be afraid of their words or be distraught due to their presence, for it
is a provoking house. 7 You will speak my words to them, whether they then hear or are
terrified, for it is a provoking house.
8 Son of man, hear the one who speaks to you; do not be provoking like the
provoking house. Open up your mouth and eat what I give you." 9 I looked, and behold,
a hand stretched out to me, and in it there was a scroll of a document. D 10 He unrolled it
before me, and on it the back and the front had been inscribed. A lamentation, a lyric,
and a woe had been inscribed in it.
A
V ¦ + like a considerable sound. When they were going, the sound of their word was
like the sound of an encampment. A
B 26
V ¦ + When they stood, their wings relaxed. Above the firmament which was on top
of their heads, A
C V ¦ + like a vision of fire all around inside it A
D See Ps. 39:7 [40:7 MT]

Ezekiel 3
1 He said to me, "Son of man, eat this scroll, and go and speak to the sons of Israel."
2 He opened my mouth and fed me the scroll. 3 He said to me, "Son of man, your mouth
will eat and your belly will be filled with this scroll which has been given to you." I ate
it, and in my mouth it was like sweet honey.
4 He said to me, "Son of man, proceed; come in to the house of Israel and speak my
words to them. 5 For you are being sent forth to the house of Israel, not to a people of
hard lip and hard tongue, 6 nor to many peoples of other speech or other tongues, or
who are stubborn in tongue, whose words you will not hear. If I had sent you forth to
such as these, they would have listened to you. 7 But the house of Israel will not be
willing to listen to you, for they do not wish to listen to me, for all the house of Israel
are contentious and hardhearted. 8 Behold, I have granted your face to be powerful
against their faces, and I will strengthen your argument against their arguments. 9 It will
continually be mightier than a cliff; do not be afraid of them or be scared due to their
faces, for it is a provoking house." 10 He also said to me, "Son of man, receive into your
heart and hear with your ears all the words which I have spoken with you. 11 Proceed;
come into the captivity, to the sons of your people; you will speak to them and say to
them, `Thus says the Lord,´ whether they hear or whether they fall short."
12 The Spirit took me up, and I heard behind me the sound of a great earthquake:
"Blessed be the glory of the Lord from his place." 13 I beheld the sound of the wings of
the animals flapping one against the other; the sound of the wheels and the sound of
the earthquake was close to them. 14 The Spirit lifted me and took me up, and I went
elevated in the impulse of my spirit; the hand of the Lord was mighty upon me. 15 I
came elevated into the captivity and went around those who resided by the River
Chebar who were there. I sat there for seven days, dwelling in their midst.
16 After the seven days, the word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 17 "Son of
man, I have given you as a watchman for the house of Israel; you will hear a word
from my mouth and will threaten them from me. 18 When I say to the lawless person,
`You will be put to death,´ and you did not warn him or speak in order to warn the
lawless person to turn away from his ways in order for him to live, that lawless person
will die in his wrongdoing, and I will demand his blood from your hand. 19 If you warn
the lawless person, and he does not turn away from his lawlessness and his way, that
lawless person will die in his wrongdoing, yet you will deliver your soul. 20 When a
righteous person turns away from his acts of righteousness and performs a trespass,
and I give torment to his face, he will die because you did not warn him. He will die in
his sins, because his acts of righteousness which he performed will not be remembered,
and I will demand his blood from your hand. 21 But if you warn the righteous person not
to sin and he does not sin, the righteous person will live because you warned him, and
you will deliver your own soul."
22 The hand of the Lord was upon me; he said to me, "Arise and come out into the
plain, and there it will be spoken to you." 23 I arose and came out into the plain, and
behold, the glory of the Lord stood there, according to the vision and according to the
glory which I saw by the River Chebar, and I fell on my face. 24 The Spirit came upon

me and stood me on my feet; he spoke to me and said to me, "Come in and shut
yourself up in the midst of your house. 25 Behold, son of man, bonds have been given
concerning you; they will bind you with them, and you will not come out of their midst.
26 I will bind your tongue, and you will be deaf and will not be for them a man who
reproves, because it is a provoking house. 27 When I speak to you, I will open your
mouth and you will say to them, `Thus says the Lord.´ The one who hears, let him
hear, and the one who is distrustful, let him be distrustful, because it is a provoking
house.
Ezekiel 4
1 Son of man, take for yourself a brick; you will place it before your face and draw on
it the city Jerusalem. 2 You will give an enclosure to it, build fortifications on it, throw a
palisade around it, give camps to it, and arrange artillery all around. 3 Take for yourself
an iron frying pan; you will place it as an iron wall between you and the city. You will
prepare your face against it; it will be in confinement, and you will confine it. This is a
sign for the sons of Israel.
4 You will lie on your left side and place the wrongdoings of the house of Israel on it,
according to the number of the days (one hundred fifty) during which you will lie on it;
you will receive their wrongdoings. 5 I have given you their two wrongdoings for a
number of days (one hundred ninety days); you will receive the wrongdoings of the
house of Israel. 6 You will complete all these things, and you will lie on your right side;
you will receive the wrongdoings of the house of Judah for forty days. I have
established for you a day for a year. 7 You will prepare your face for the confinement of
Jerusalem; you will make your arm solid and prophesy against it. 8 Behold, I have given
bonds over you; do not turn from your one side to your other side until the days of your
confinement are completed.
9 Take for yourself wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and rice; you will throw them
into one ceramic vessel and make them into loaves for yourself. You will eat them
according to the number of the days during which you sleep on your side (one hundred
ninety days). 10 Your food which you will eat will be in weight twenty shekels a day; you
will eat them from time to time. 11 You will drink water, in measure one sixth of a hin; A
you will drink from time to time. 12 You will eat them as a barley cake; you will bake
them before their eyes in droppings of human dung. 13 You will say, `Thus says the Lord
God of Israel: "In this way the sons of Israel will eat unclean things among the
nations."´" 14 I said, "By no means, O Lord God of Israel! Surely my soul has not been
defiled with uncleanness; I have not eaten carcass and prey from my birth until now,
neither has any stale meat entered my mouth." 15 He said to me, "Behold, I have given
you droppings of oxen instead of human droppings, and you will make your loaves on
them." 16 He also said to me, "Son of man, behold, I am breaking the support of bread
in Jerusalem. They will eat bread in weight and in lack, and they will drink water in
measure and in disappearance, 17 so that they may lack bread and water. A man and his
brother will disappear, and they will dissolve in their wrongdoings.
A The Egyptian hekat, equivalent to a gallon (see Ex. 29:40)

Ezekiel 5
1 Son of man, take for yourself a sword sharper than a barber's razor; you will
acquire it for yourself, and you will bring it over your head and over your beard. You
will take a balance of weights, and you will set things apart. 2 You will ignite a fourth
part with fire in the midst of the city at the fulfillment of the days of the confinement,
you will take a fourth part and burn it up in her midst, you will cut up a fourth part with
a sword all around her, and you will scatter a fourth part to the breeze; I will unsheathe
a dagger after them. 3 You will take from there a few in number and enclose them in
your mantle. 4 You will take some of these again, throw them into the midst of the fire,
and burn them up with fire; fire will come out from it.
You will say to all the house of Israel, 5 `Thus says the Lord: A "This is Jerusalem; I
have placed her and the countries around her in the midst of the nations. 6 You will tell
my righteous decrees and my regulations to the lawless one from the nations, from the
countries which are around her, because they rejected my righteous decrees and did
not walk in my regulations." 7 Because of this, thus says the Lord: "Since your origin was
from the nations which are around you, and you did not walk in my regulations and did
not perform my righteous decrees (indeed, you have not even performed according to
the righteous decrees of the nations which are around you)," 8 because of this, thus
says the Lord: "Behold, I am against you; I will perform a judgment in your midst in the
sight of the nations. 9 I will perform among you things which I have not performed, the
like of which I will not perform again, according to all your abominations. 10 Because of
this, fathers will eat children in your midst, and children will eat fathers. I will perform
judgments among you, and I will scatter all who are left of you to every wind.
11 Because of this, as I live," says the Lord. "since you defiled my holy things with all
your abominations, surely I also will reject you; my eye will not spare, and I will not
show mercy. 12 A fourth part of you will be disposed of in an execution, a fourth part of
you will be terminated in a famine in your midst, a fourth part of you I will scatter to
every wind, and a fourth part of you will fall by the sword all around you; I will
unsheathe a dagger after them.
13 My anger and my wrath will be terminated over them; you will recognize that I the
Lord have spoken in my zeal when I terminate my wrath over them. 14 I will place you
and your daughters around you in a desert, in the sight of everyone who passes by.
15 You will be lamentable and miserable among the nations which are around you when
I perform judgments among you in the vengeance of my anger. I the Lord have
spoken. 16 When I send forth my javelins of famine against them, they will be for
extinction, and I will break the support of your bread. 17 I will send forth against you
famine and evil beasts, and I will punish you. Death and blood will pass over you, and I
will bring a sword against you all around. I the Lord have spoken."´"
Ezekiel 6
1 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 2 "Son of man, set your face
A the Lord V ¦ the Lord Adonai A (similar variants appear throughout this book)

against the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them. 3 You will say, `O
mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord to the mountains, to
the hills, to the valleys, and to the glens: "Behold, I am bringing a sword over you, and
your high places will be eliminated. 4 Your altars and your consecrated places will be
smashed. I will throw down your wounded before your idols. A 5 I will scatter your bones
around your altars. 6 In every residence of yours, the cities will be deserted and the high
places will be obliterated, so that your altars may be eliminated, your idols smashed,
and your consecrated places removed. B 7 The wounded will fall in your midst, and you
will recognize that I am the Lord.
8 When some of you are being saved from the sword among the nations and in your
scattering among the countries, 9 those of you who are being saved among the nations
where they were taken captive will remember me. I have sworn with regard to their
hearts which are engaging in prostitution away from me and their eyes which are
engaging in prostitution after their habits. They will cut their faces C with all their
abominations. 10 They will recognize that I, the Lord, have spoken." D
11 Thus says the Lord: "Clap the hand, stomp the foot, and say, `Yeah, yeah!´ over
all the abominations of the house of Israel. They will fall by the sword, by execution,
and by famine. 12 The one who is near will fall by the sword, the one who is far will be
deceased by execution, and the one who is surrounded will be terminated by famine. I
will terminate my wrath against them. 13 You will know that I am the Lord when your
wounded are in the midst of your idols around your altars, over every high hill, E and
under every shady tree, F where they gave a fragrant aroma to all their idols. 14 I will
extend my hand against them, and I will set up the land for obliteration and elimination
from the desert of Diblah, out of every residence. You will recognize that I am the
Lord."´"
Ezekiel 7
1 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 2 "Son of man, say, `Thus says
the Lord to the land of Israel: "An end has arrived; the end has arrived over the four
corners of the land. 3 The end has arrived. G 4 The season has arrived over you who
reside on the land. The day is near, not with confusion or with pains. 5 Now from close
by I will pour out my wrath over you, and I will terminate my fury in you. I will judge
you in your ways, and I will give all your abominations against you. 6 My eye will not
spare, nor will I have mercy, for I will give your ways against you, and your
abominations will be in your midst. You will recognize that I am the Lord who strikes.
A 5
V ¦ + I will give the corpses of the sons of Israel in front of their idols. A
B
V ¦ + Your actions will be blotted out. A
C
V ¦ + concerning the wicked acts which they performed A
D
have spoken V ¦ have not spoken for nothing, that I would do all these wicked things
to them A
E
V ¦ + and on all the peaks of the mountains A
F
V ¦ + and under every leafy woodland A
G
7:3 = 7:6 MT; 7:4-6 V = 7:7-9 MT (= A); 7:7-9 V = 7:3-5 MT (= 7:4-6 A)

7 Now the end is directed at you, and I will send it forth against you. I will take
vengeance on you in your ways, and I will give all your abominations against you. 8 My
eye will not spare over you, nor will I have mercy, for I will give your way against you,
and your abominations will be in your midst. You will recognize that I am the Lord."
9 For thus says the Lord: 10 "Behold, the end has arrived; behold, the day of the Lord!
Although the rod blossomed, insolence rose up. 11 It will shatter the support of the
lawless one, and not with confusion or with speed. A 12 The season has arrived; behold,
the day! Do not let the buyer rejoice, and do let not the seller lament. B 13 For the buyer
will no longer return to the seller, C and a man will not control his life with an eye.
14 Trumpet with a trumpet, and judge all things. D 15 War by the sword is outside, and
famine and execution are inside. The one who is in the plain will be deceased by the
sword; famine and execution will terminate those who are in the city. 16 Those who are
being saved from them will be saved, and they will be on the mountains. E I will kill
them all, each one in his unjust acts. 17 All hands will be relaxed, and all thighs will be
polluted with moisture. 18 They will gird themselves with sackcloth, and amazement will
cover them; shame will be on them, on every face, and baldness on every head. 19 Their
silver will be hurled in the streets, and their gold will be overlooked. F Their souls will not
be satisfied, and their bellies will not be filled, because it was the torment of their
unjust acts. 20 They set up the choice things of adornment for pride, and they made
images of their abominations from them. On account of this, I have given them to them
for uncleanness. 21 I will deliver them up into the hands of strangers in order to plunder
them, and to the pests of the earth as a spoil; they will profane them. 22 I will turn my
face away from them, and they will defile my supervision; they will enter them
unguardedly and profane them. 23 They will produce disorder, because the land is full of
peoples, and the city is full of lawlessness. G 24 I will turn away the arrogance of their
strength; their holy things will be defiled. 25 Atonement will arrive and seek peace, yet
there will be none. 26 There will be woe upon woe, and there will be message upon
message. A vision will be sought from a prophet; law will perish from a priest, and
counsel from elders. 27 A ruler H will be clothed with obliteration, and the hands of the
people of the land will be disabled. I will do to them according to their ways, and by
their judgments I will take vengeance on them; they will know that I am the Lord."´"
A V ¦ + None of them exist, nor is there elegance in them. A
B V ¦ + For wrath is against all her multitude. A
C V ¦ + and their living is still in life, for the vision will not turn back to all her multitude,
A
D V ¦ + No one is going to the battle, for my wrath is against all her multitude. A
E V ¦ + like cooing doves A
F V ¦ + Their silver and their gold will not be able to rescue them on the day of the
wrath of the Lord. A
G V ¦ + 24 I will bring the evil of the nations, and they will inherit their houses. A
H A ruler V ¦ The king will mourn and the ruler A

Ezekiel 8
1 It happened that, in the sixth year, in the fifth month, on the fifth of the month, I
was sitting in the house, and the elders of Judah were sitting before me. The hand of
the Lord was upon me. 2 I looked, and behold, the likeness of a man; from his waist on
down there was fire, and from his waist upwards there was something like a vision of
amber. A 3 He extended the likeness of a hand and took me up by my scalp. The Spirit
took me up between the earth and heaven and brought me to Jerusalem in a vision of
God, at the threshold of the inner gate which looked to the north, where the pillar of
the buyer was. 4 Behold, the glory of the Lord God of Israel was there, according to the
vision which I saw in the plain.
5 He said to me, "Son of man, lift up your eyes toward the north." I lifted up my eyes
toward the north, and behold, it was from the north to the gate B which was toward the
east. 6 He said to me, "Son of man, have you seen what these are performing? They are
performing great acts of lawlessness C here to keep away from my holy things. You will
see still greater acts of lawlessness."
7 He brought me to the threshold of the courtyard. D 8 He said to me, "Son of man,
dig." I dug, and behold, one door. 9 He said to me, "Enter and look at the acts of
lawlessness which they are performing here." 10 I entered and looked, and behold, E vain
abominations and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed on it all around. 11 There
were seventy men from the elders of the house of Israel, and Jeconiah F son of Shaphan
stood in their midst facing them. Each one held his censer in his hand; the smoke of the
incense was ascending. 12 He said to me, "Son of man, have you seen what the elders of
the house of Israel are performing, each one of them in their hidden bedroom? For they
said, `The Lord does not see; the Lord has abandoned the earth.´" 13 He said to me,
"You will see still greater acts of lawlessness which these are performing."
14 He brought me to the threshold of the gate of the house of the Lord which looked
to the north, and behold, women were sitting there lamenting for Tammuz. 15 He said to
me, "Son of man, have you seen? You will see still greater habits than these."
16 He brought me into the inner courtyard of the house of the Lord, and behold, at
the threshold of the sanctuary of the Lord, between the ulam G and the altar, were
about twenty H men. Their backs were toward the sanctuary of the Lord, and their faces
A
amber V ¦ an aura like the appearance of amber A ¦ a luster like the appearance of
amber
B
it (apparently, the vision of God, v. 3) was from the north to the gate V ¦ there was an
image of this zeal when it went in from the north to the gate of the altar A
C
They are performing great acts of lawlessness V ¦ Great acts of lawlessness, which the
house of Israel is performing A
D
V ¦ + I looked, and behold, one hole in the wall. A
E
V ¦ + every likeness of a creeping thing and livestock, A
F Jeconiah V ¦ Jaazaniah A
G Heb, "portico"
H twenty V ¦ twenty-five A

were opposite; these were worshiping the sun. A 17 He said to me, "Have you seen, son
of man? Is it a little thing to the house of Judah to perform the acts of lawlessness
which they have performed here? For they filled the land with acts of lawlessness, B and
behold, these are like those who turn up their noses. C 18 I will perform for them with
fury; my eye will not spare, nor will I have mercy." D
Ezekiel 9
1 He cried out into my ears with a loud voice, saying, "The avenging of the city is
near!" Each one had the implements of elimination in his hand. 2 Behold, six men came
from the way of the high gate which looked to the north, and the axe of each one was
in his hand. One man in their midst was clothed to his feet, and a sapphire belt was on
his loins. They entered and stood next to the bronze altar.
3 The glory of the God of Israel which was over them ascended from the cherubim to
the atrium of the house. He called the man who was clothed to his feet, who had the
belt on his loins. 4 The Lord said to him, "Pass through the midst of Jerusalem and give
the sign on the foreheads of the men who are groaning and who are afflicted over all
the lawless acts which are happening in their midst." 5 He said to these as I was
listening, "Go after him into the city; cut down, do not let spare with your eyes, and do
not show mercy. 6 Kill to extinction elder, youth, virgin, infants, and women, but do not
approach anyone upon whom is the sign. Begin from my holy places." They began from
the elderly men who were inside the house. 7 He said to them, "Defile the house; go
out, fill the ways with the dead, and cut down." 8 It happened that, while they were
cutting down, I fell on my face and cried out; I said, "Alas, O Lord! Will you make the
rest of Israel extinct in your pouring out of your anger over Jerusalem?" 9 He said to me,
"The wrongdoing of the house of Israel and Judah has become exceedingly great, for
the land was filled with many peoples, and the city was filled with wrongdoing and
uncleanness. For they said, `The Lord abandoned the earth; the Lord is not looking at
it.´ 10 My eye will not spare, and I will not show mercy; I have given their ways onto
their heads."
11 Behold, the man who was clothed to his feet and girded with the belt on his loins
answered and said, "I have done as you commanded me."
Ezekiel 10
1 I looked, and behold, over the firmament which was above the head of the
cherubim was the likeness of a throne over them, like a stone of sapphire. 2 He said to
the man who was clothed with the robe, "Enter the midst of the wheels which are
under the cherubim. Fill your palms with coals of fire from the midst of the cherubim
and scatter them over the city." He entered in my sight. 3 The cherubim stood on the
A V ¦ + in the east A
B V ¦ + and turned to provoke my wrath A
C V ¦ + and extend a switch A
D V ¦ + They will call in my ears with a loud voice, and I will not listen to them. A

ight of the house while the man went in; the cloud filled the inner courtyard. 4 The
glory of the Lord departed from the cherubim to the atrium of the house; the cloud
filled the house, and the courtyard was filled with the brightness of the glory of the
Lord. 5 The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer courtyard
as the voice of the God (Shaddai) A speaking. 6 It happened that, when he commanded
the man who was clothed with the holy robe, saying, "Take fire from the midst of the
wheels from the midst of the cherubim," he entered and stood next to the wheels. 7 He B
extended his hand into the midst of the fire which was in the midst of the cherubim,
took it, and gave it into the hands of the one who was clothed with the holy robe. He
took it and came out.
8 I saw the cherubim, the likeness of the hands of men underneath their wings. 9 I
looked, and behold, four wheels stood next to the cherubim, one wheel next to one
cherub. C The appearance of the wheels was like the appearance of a garnet stone. 10 As
for their appearance, there was one likeness for the four, in such a manner as
whenever a wheel is in the midst of a wheel. 11 When they went, they went in their four
parts. They did not turn when they went, for into whichever place the first element
looked, they went; they did not turn when they went. 12 Their backs, their hands, and
their wings and wheels were full of eyes all around in their four wheels. 13 The surname
Galgal D was given to these wheels as I listened. E 15 The cherubim were this animal F
which I saw at the River Chebar. 16 When the cherubim went, the wheels went, and
these were next to them. When the cherubim lifted up their wings to elevate from the
earth, their wheels did not turn. G 17 When the former stood, the latter stood; when the
former elevated, the latter elevated with them, because the spirit of life was in them.
18 The glory of the Lord came out from the house H and mounted up over the cherubim.
19 The cherubim took up their wings and elevated from the earth in my sight. When they
came out, the wheels were next to them, and they stood at the threshold of the front
gate of the house of the Lord; the glory of the God of Israel was upon them from
above. 20 This is the animal which I saw under the God of Israel at the River Chebar; I
knew that they were cherubim. 21 Each one had four faces, and each one had eight
wings; the likeness of the hands of a man was underneath their wings. 22 As for the
semblance of their faces, these are the faces which I saw under the glory of the God of
Israel by the River Chebar; each of them was going in front of them.
A
Heb, elsewhere translated "Almighty," apparently from shadad, "to devastate"
B
He V (referring to the Lord) ¦ The cherub A
C
V ¦ + and one wheel next to the cherub A ¦ + and one wheel next to one cherub
D
Heb, "whirlwind," unique to this text (distinct from Gilgal, "circle")
E 14
V ¦ + There were four faces for each one. The face of the first was the face of a
cherub, the face of the second was the face of a man, the third was the face of a lion,
and the fourth was the face of an eagle. A
F
The cherubim were this animal V ¦ The cherubim lifted off. This was the animal A
G
V ¦ + even away from the things which were next to them A
H the house V ¦ the atrium of the house A

Ezekiel 11
1 The Spirit took me up and brought me to the opposite gate of the house of the
Lord, which looked toward the east. Behold, at the threshold of the gate were about
twenty-five men; I saw in their midst Jeconiah A son of Ezer B and Pelatiah son of
Benaiah, who were governing the people. 2 The Lord said to me, "Son of man, these are
the men who plan vanities and offer evil counsel in this city, 3 who say, `Weren't the
houses recently built? This is the kettle, and we are the meat.´ 4 Because of this,
prophesy against them; prophesy, son of man."
5 The Spirit of the Lord fell on me and said to me, "Say, `Thus says the Lord: "So
you said, O house of Israel; I comprehend the deliberations of your spirit. 6 You
multiplied your dead in this city, and you filled its ways with wounded." 7 Because of
this, thus says the Lord: "Your dead whom you attacked in its midst, these are the
meat, and this is the caldron. I will bring you out of its midst. 8 You fear the sword; I will
bring a sword over you," says the Lord. 9 "I will bring you out of its midst, I will deliver
you up into the hands of strangers, and I will execute judgments among you. 10 You will
fall by the sword; I will judge you on the mountains of Israel, and you will recognize
that I am the Lord. 11 This will not be for you as a kettle, and you will not become as
meat in its midst. I will judge you on the mountains of Israel, 12 and you will recognize
that I am the Lord." C
13 It happened that, when I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. I fell on
my face and cried out with a loud voice; I said, "Alas, alas, O Lord! Will you bring to
termination those who are left of Israel?"
14 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 15 "Son of man, your brothers,
the men of your captivity, and all the house of Israel have been terminated, to whom
those who reside in Jerusalem said, `Keep far away from the Lord; the land has been
given to us as an inheritance.´ 16 Because of this, say, `Thus says the Lord: "I will drive
them into the nations and disperse them into every land, yet I will be for them as a
little sacred place in the countries which they enter there."´ 17 Because of this, say,
`Thus says the Lord: "I will also receive them out of the nations and gather them out of
the lands among which I scattered them, and I will give them the land of Israel. 18 They
will enter in there and remove all its abominations and all its lawless acts from it. 19 I will
give them another heart, and I will give a new spirit among them. I will extract the
stony heart from their flesh and give them a fleshly heart, 20 so that they may go by my
ordinances, preserve my righteous decrees, and perform them. They will be a people
for me, and I will be God for them. 21 Regarding the heart of their abominations and
their lawless acts, how their heart was going, I have given their ways onto their
heads,"´" says the Lord.
A Jeconiah VA ¦ Jaazaniah
B Ezer V ¦ Jazer A ¦ Azzur
C 11:11-12 A ¦ ~ V ¦ + For you did not go by my righteous decrees, and you did not
perform my judgments; you performed according to the judgments of the nations which
surround you.

22 The cherubim lifted up their wings; the wheels were next to them, and the glory of
the God of Israel was upon them from above them. 23 The glory of the Lord went up
from the midst of the city and stood on the mountain which was in front of the city.
24 The Spirit took me up and brought me to the land of the Chaldeans, to the captivity,
by a vision, by the Spirit of God. I went up due to the vision which I saw, 25 and I spoke
to the captivity all the words of the Lord which he showed me.
Ezekiel 12
1 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 2 "Son of man, you are residing in
the midst of the wrongdoings of those who have eyes to see, yet do not see, who have
ears to hear, yet do not hear, because it is a provoking house. 3 Son of man, make for
yourself implements of captivity, and be taken captive by day in their sight. You will be
taken captive from your place into another place in their sight, so that they may see
that it is a provoking house. 4 You will bring out your implements as implements of
captivity by day in front of their eyes; you will come out in the evening in their sight as
a captive goes out. 5 In their sight, dig for yourself into the wall, and you will pass
through it; 6 in their sight, you will be taken up on shoulders and come out secretly. You
will cover your face and will not see the ground, because I have given you as a wonder
to the house of Israel." 7 I acted in this way according to everything which he
commanded me. I brought out the implements as implements of captivity by day, and
in the evening I dug for myself through the wall by hand and came out secretly; I was
taken up on shoulders in their sight.
8 The word of the Lord was directed at me in the morning, saying, 9 "Son of man,
didn't the house of Israel, the provoking house, say to you, `What are you doing?´
10 Say to them, `Thus says the Lord, the Lord, the ruler A and governor in Israel and in
all the house of Israel who are in their midst.´ 11 Say, `I am performing wonders in her
midst; in the manner that I have performed, so it will be for them; they will go in a
deportation and captivity.´ 12 The ruler in their midst will be carried on shoulders; he will
come out secretly through the wall and dig in order for him to come out through it. He
will cover his face so that he may not be seen by an eye, and he himself will not see
the ground. 13 I will spread out my net over him, and he will be caught in my enclosure.
I will bring him to Babylon, to the land of the Chaldeans; he will not see her, yet he will
be deceased there. 14 I will disperse to every wind all his helpers who are around him
and all who protect him; I will unsheathe a sword after them. 15 They will know that I
am the Lord when I scatter them among the nations; I will disperse them among the
countries. 16 I will leave behind from them a number of men from the sword, from
famine, and from execution, so that they may declare all their lawless acts among the
nations where they entered. They will know that I am the Lord.
17 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 18 "Son of man, eat your bread
with grief and drink your water with torment and oppression. 19 You will say to the
people of the land, `Thus says the Lord to those who reside in Jerusalem, on the land
of Israel: "They will eat their bread with deficiency and drink their water with
A the ruler V ¦ to the ruler Ac ¦ say to the ruler A*

obliteration, so that the land may be obliterated with all its fullness, for all who reside in
it are in ungodliness. 20 Their inhabited cities will be desolated, and the land will be for
obliteration; you will recognize that I am the Lord."´"
21 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 22 "Son of man, what is this
illustration which all of you have concerning the land of Israel, which says, `The days
are long; the vision has perished´? 23 Because of this, say to them, `Thus says the Lord:
"I will overturn this illustration, and the house of Israel will no longer tell this
illustration."´ For you will speak to them: `The days have arrived, as well as the word
of every vision. 24 For there will no longer be any false vision and one who divines things
for a favor in the midst of the sons of Israel. 25 For I the Lord will speak my words; I will
speak and perform them, and will no longer delay. For in your days, O provoking house,
I will speak and perform the word,´ says the Lord."
26 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 27 "Son of man, behold, the
provoking house of Israel is saying, `The vision which this person sees is for many
days, and this person is prophesying for distant seasons.´ 28 Because of this, say to
them, `Thus says the Lord: "None of my words will delay any longer; I will speak and
perform the things which I will speak,"´ says the Lord."
Ezekiel 13
1 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 2 "Son of man, prophesy against
the prophets of Israel. A You will prophesy and say to them, `Hear the word of the Lord.
3 Thus says the Lord: "Woe to those who prophesy from their heart and do not see
entirely. 4 Your prophets, O Israel, are like foxes in the deserts. 5 They did not stand on a
firmament; they gathered flocks against the house of Israel. Those who say, `On the
day of the Lord,´ did not arise. 6 Those who say, `The Lord says,´ are seeing
falsehoods; they are divining vanities. The Lord did not send them forth, yet they began
to make a word arise. 7 Haven't you seen a false vision and told vain divinations?"´ B
8 Because of this, say, `Thus says the Lord: "Since your words are false and your
divinations are vain, because of this, behold, I am against you," says the Lord. 9 "I will
extend my hand against the prophets who see falsehoods and who utter vanities. They
will not be in the instruction of my people, neither will they be written in the writing of
the house of Israel. They will not enter the land of Israel, and they will know that I am
the Lord. 10 Since they deceived my people, saying, `Peace, peace,´ and there was no
peace, this one is building a wall and they are plastering it; it will fall. 11 Say to those
who are plastering it, `It will fall!´ There will be a flooding rain. I will give slingshot
stones against their joints, and they will fall; there will be a removing breeze, and it will
be broken. 12 Behold, the wall has fallen! Won't they say to you, `Where is your plaster
with which you plastered it?´" 13 Because of this, thus says the Lord: "I will also cause
to break forth a removing blast with fury, and there will be a flooding rain in my wrath;
in fury I will bring forth slingshot stones, resulting in a termination. 14 I will raze the wall
which you plastered, and it will fall. I will place it on the ground; its foundations will be
A V ¦ + who prophesy. You will say to the prophets who prophesy from their heart; A
B V ¦ + You were saying, `The Lord is talking,´ yet I did not speak. A

evealed, and it will fall. You will be terminated with rebukes, and you will recognize
that I am the Lord. 15 I will terminate my fury against the wall and against those who
are plastering it, and it will fall. I said to you, `There is no wall or those who are
plastering it, 16 the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem and who see
peace for her, and there is no peace,´ says the Lord."´
17 Son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people who prophesy
from their heart; prophesy against them. 18 You will say, `Thus says the Lord: "Woe to
the women who sew pillows for every bend of a hand and who make coverings for
every head of every stature in order to pervert souls! The souls of my people became
perverted, and they were preserving souls in this way. 19 They were profaning me
before my people on account of a handful of barley and on account of pieces of bread
in order to kill souls which should not die and to preserve souls which should not live,
while you give utterance to a people which listens to vain utterances."
20 Because of this, thus says the Lord God: "Behold, I am against your pillows
whereby you are collecting souls; I will tear them from your arms and send forth the
souls, their souls which you are distorting. 21 I will tear your coverings and deliver my
people out of your hand; they will no longer be in your hands as a collection, and you
will recognize that I am the Lord. 22 Since you were unjustly perverting the heart of one
who was righteous (I myself was not perverting him), in order to strengthen the hands
of one who was lawless so as not to turn entirely from his evil way and live, 23 because
of this, you will not see falsehoods and you will no longer perform divinations. I will
deliver my people out of your hand, and you will know that I am the Lord."´"
Ezekiel 14
1 Men from the elders of Israel came to me and sat before my face. 2 The word of the
Lord was directed at me, saying, 3 "Son of man, these men placed their thoughts on
their hearts, and they have placed the punishment of their wrongdoings before their
face. Will I answer them? 4 Because of this, speak to them; you will say to them, `Thus
says the Lord: "Any person from the house of Israel who places his thoughts on his
heart, arranges the punishment of his wrongdoing before his face, and comes to the
prophet, I the Lord will answer him by the things with which his mind is entangled, 5 so
that he may lead the house of Israel astray according to their hearts which are
estranged from me in their considerations."´
6 Because of this, say to the house of Israel, `Thus says the Lord God: "Return and
turn away from your habits and from all your ungodly acts; turn your faces. 7 For any
person from the house of Israel and from the guests who are staying in Israel, who
becomes estranged from me, places his considerations on his heart, arranges the
punishment of his wrongdoing before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire of
him by me, I the Lord will answer him by that with which he is entangled. 8 I will
establish my face against that person, place him into a desert and into an obliteration,
and remove him from the midst of my people; you will recognize that I am the Lord. 9 If
the prophet wanders and speaks, I the Lord have caused that prophet to wander. I will
extend my hand over him and obliterate him from the midst of my people Israel. 10 They
will receive their wrongdoing according to the wrongful act of the one who inquires, and

according to the wrongful act it will be similar for the prophet, 11 so that the house of
Israel may no longer wander away from me, and in order that they may no longer be
defiled by all their trespasses. They will become a people for me, and I will become God
for them,"´ says the Lord."
12 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 13 "Son of man, if a land sins
against me by committing a trespass, I will extend my hand over it and break its
support of bread; I will send forth famine over it and remove man and beast from it.
14 Yet if these three men are in its midst, Noah, Daniel, and Job, they themselves will be
saved by their righteousness," says the Lord. 15 "If I bring evil beasts over the land and
punish it and it becomes an obliteration, and there is no one who is passing through
due to the presence of the beasts, 16 and these three men are in its midst, as I live,"
says the Lord, "neither sons nor daughters will be saved, but only these will be saved,
and the land will be for elimination. 17 Or if I also bring a sword over that land, and I
say, `Let the sword come through the land, and I will remove man and beast from it,´
18 and these three men are in its midst, as I live," says the Lord, "they will not deliver
sons or daughters; only these will be saved. 19 Or if I also send forth execution over that
land, and I pour out my fury on it with blood so as to eliminate man and beast from it,
20 and Noah, Daniel, and Job are in its midst, as I live," says the Lord, "neither sons nor
daughters will be left; these by their righteousness will deliver their souls." 21 Thus says
the Lord: "If I also send forth over Jerusalem my four evil judgments (sword, famine,
evil beasts, and execution) so as to eliminate man and beast from it, 22 and behold,
those who have escaped from it are left in it, who will bring out of it sons and
daughters, behold, they will go out to you, and you will see their ways and their
considerations, and you will have regrets over the wicked things which I brought over
Jerusalem, all the wicked things which I brought over it. 23 They will comfort you,
because you will see their ways and their considerations. You will recognize that I have
not done anything in vain which I did in it," says the Lord.
Ezekiel 15
1 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 2 "Son of man, out of all the wood
of the branches which are among the wood of the forest, what may become of the
wood of the vine? 3 Will they take wood out of it to render it for work? Will they take out
of it a peg to hang any vessel on it? 4 It has only been given to the fire for consumption;
the fire consumes the annual pruning from it, and it fails completely. It won't be useful
for work, will it? 5 Not even while it is still whole will it be for work. If the fire consumes
it completely, it won't still be for work, will it? 6 Because of this, say, `Thus says the
Lord: "In the manner of the wood of the vine among the wood of the forest, which I
have given to the fire for consumption, so I have given those who reside in Jerusalem.
7 I will give my face against them; they will come out of the fire, yet the fire will devour
them. They will recognize that I am the Lord in my setting of my face against them. 8 I
will give the land to an obliteration, since they engaged in a trespass,´" says the Lord.

Ezekiel 16
1 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 2 "Son of man, testify to
Jerusalem concerning her lawless acts. 3 You will say, `Thus says the Lord to Jerusalem:
"Your root and your origin are out of the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite,
and your mother was a Hittite. 4 As for your origin, on the day you were born, they did
not bind your breasts, and you were not washed in water; A you were not salted with
salt, and you were not wrapped in wrappings. 5 My eye was not sparing regarding you
so as to do for you one of all these things, so as to feel something regarding you. You
were thrown out over the surface of the field in the crookedness of your soul on the
day you were born.
6 I passed over you and saw you wallowing in your blood; I said to you, `Let there
be life out of your blood. 7 Multiply; I have given you just like the growth of the field.´
You multiplied, became great, and entered the cities of cities. Your breasts were
enlarged and your hair grew, but you were naked and ashamed. 8 I passed through you
and saw you, and behold, your season was a season of things being abolished; I spread
my wings over you and covered your shame. I swore to you and entered into a
testament with you," says the Lord, "and you became mine. 9 I washed you in water and
rinsed your blood from you; I anointed you with oil. 10 I clothed you with multicolored
fabrics and clothed you underneath with blue; I girded you with linen and dressed you
with woven hair. 11 I adorned you with ornamentation; I put bracelets around your
hands and a necklace around your neck. 12 I gave an earring around your nostril, hoops
on your ears, and a crown of boasting on your head. 13 You were adorned with gold and
silver; your dress was linen, woven hair, and multicolored fabrics. You ate flour, oil, and
honey; you became exceedingly beautiful. 14 Your name came out among the nations in
your beauty, because it was completed in dignity, in the youthfulness which I arranged
for you," says the Lord.
15 "You trusted in your beauty and engaged in prostitution regarding your name; you
poured out your prostitution over every passerby, which should not be. B 16 You took
some of your garments, made for yourself embroidered idols, and engaged in
prostitution with them. You will not enter, nor will it happen. 17 You took the implements
of your boasting from my gold and from my silver, from what I gave you; you made for
yourself male images and engaged in prostitution by them. 18 You took your
multicolored apparel, dressed them, and placed my oil and my incense before their
face. 19 You took my bread which I gave you (I fed you with flour, oil, and honey) and
placed them before their face as a fragrant aroma; it happened," says the Lord. 20 "You
took your sons and your daughters, whom you conceived, and sacrificed these to them
as expendable, as though you had engaged little in prostitution. 21 You slaughtered your
children and gave them in your expiating by them. 22 This was beyond all your
prostitution; you did not remember the days of your infancy, when you were naked and
ashamed and you lived wallowing in your blood.
A V ¦ + by my Christ A
B which should not be A ¦ ~ V

23 It happened that, after all your wicked acts," says the Lord, 24 "you built for
yourself a housing for prostitutes and made for yourself an edict in every street. 25 At
the beginning of every way, you built your prostitutions and corrupted your beauty; you
carried your legs to every passerby and multiplied your prostitution. 26 You engaged in
prostitution with the sons of Egypt who were adjacent to you, who were great of flesh;
you engaged in prostitution many times to provoke me. 27 If I extend my hand against
you, I will remove your regulations and deliver you up to the souls of those who hate
you, the daughters of the Philistines who turned you out of your way. You became
ungodly, 28 and you engaged in prostitution with the daughters of Asshur, yet you were
not filled even in this way; you engaged in prostitution, yet were not being filled. 29 You
multiplied your testaments to the land of the Chaldeans, yet you were not filled even by
these.
30 Why should I make a testament for your daughter," says the Lord, "when you are
doing all these things, the works of a woman who is a prostitute? You engaged in
prostitution three times by your daughters. 31 You built a brothel at every beginning of a
way and made your pedestal in every street, and you became A like a prostitute
gathering fees. 32 A woman who is committing adultery is similar to you, taking fees
from her husband; 33 she was giving out fees to everyone who engaged in prostitution
with her. You have given fees to all your paramours; you were encumbering them in
order to come to you in your prostitution from all around. 34 A perverted thing happened
in you beyond women in your prostitution: they have engaged in prostitution with you
in your giving out of fees, yet fees were not given to you. Perverted things happened in
you."
35 Because of this, O prostitute, hear the word of the Lord. 36 Thus says the Lord:
"Since you poured out your copper, your shame will be revealed in your prostitution
with your paramours, for all the considerations of your lawless acts, and with regard to
the blood of your children which you gave them. 37 Because of this, behold, I will gather
against you all your paramours with whom you had intercourse and all whom you
loved, with all whom you were hating. I will gather them against you all around and
reveal your wicked acts to them, and they will see all your shame. 38 I will take
vengeance on you with the vengeance of an adulteress and of a woman who pours out
blood, B and I will place you in the blood of fury and jealousy. 39 I will deliver you up into
their hands, and they will raze your brothel and tear down your pedestal. They will strip
you of your clothing, take implements of your boasting, and leave you naked and
ashamed. 40 They will bring crowds against you; they will stone you with stones and
slaughter you with their knives. 41 They will burn your houses with fire and execute
vengeance on you in the sight of many women. I will turn you away from your
prostitution, and I will no longer give you fees. 42 I will discharge my fury over you, and
my jealousy will be removed from you. I will rest and no longer be anxious about you.
43 Since you did not remember the day of your infancy and were grieving me by all
these things, behold, I have given your ways onto your head," says the Lord, "for in
A and you became VA ¦ yet you did not become
B and of a woman who pours out blood A ¦ ~ V

this way you produced ungodliness over all your lawless acts.
44 These are all the things which they said against you in an illustration, saying, `Like
mother, like daughter.´ 45 You are the daughter of your mother; you are the one who
rejected her husband and her children. You are the sisters of your sisters; you are the
ones who rejected their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and
your father was an Amorite. 46 Your older sister is Samaria, she and her daughters, who
resides on your left hand. Your younger sister, who resides on your right hand, is
Sodom and her daughters. 47 You did not go in their ways or act according to their
lawless acts just a little; you excelled them in all your ways. 48 As I live," says the Lord,
"Sodom your sister, she and her daughters, have not acted in the manner that you and
your daughters acted. 49 Moreover, this lawless deed of Sodom your sister was
arrogance; she and her daughters were living in luxury, in an abundance of bread and
in a bounty of wine. This belonged to her and her daughters, and they did not assist
the hand of one who is poor and needy. 50 They bragged and performed lawless deeds
in my sight; I removed them as I saw them. 51 Samaria did not sin according to half of
your sins. You multiplied your lawless acts beyond them, and you justified your sisters
in all your lawless acts which you performed. 52 Reap your torment in which you ruined
your sisters by your sins, by which you engaged in lawlessness beyond them and
justified them beyond yourself. Be ashamed and receive your dishonor in your justifying
of your sisters.
53 I will turn their turning away, the turning away of Sodom and her daughters; I will
turn the turning away of Samaria and her daughters; I will turn your turning away in
their midst, 54 so that you may reap your torment and be dishonored for everything
which you did in your provoking me. 55 Your sister Sodom and her daughters will be
restored just as they were from the beginning, Samaria and her daughters will be
restored just as they were from the beginning, A and you and your daughters will be
restored just as you were from the beginning. 56 Surely Sodom your sister was not in
your mouth as a report in the days of your arrogance, 57 before your wicked acts were
revealed in the manner that you are now the reproach of the daughters of Syria and of
all who are around her, of the daughters of the Philistines who encompass you all
around. 58 As for your ungody acts and your lawless acts, you reaped them," says the
Lord. 59 Thus says the Lord: "I will also do in you just as you did, as you dishonored
these things so as to transgress my testament. 60 I will remember my testament which is
with you in the days of your infancy, and I will resurrect for you an eternal testament.
61 You will remember your way, and you will be dishonored when you receive your older
sisters with your younger ones. I will give them to you for edification, yet not as a
result of your testament. 62 I will resurrect my testament with you, and you will
recognize that I am the Lord, 63 so that you may remember and be ashamed, and it
would no longer occur to you to open your mouth due to the presence of your
dishonor, when I am reconciled B to you for everything which you did," says the Lord.´"
A Samaria … from the beginning A ¦ ~ V
B exilaskein, elsewhere "atoned"

Ezekiel 17
1 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 2 "Son of man, narrate a narrative
and tell an illustration to the house of Israel. 3 You will say, `Thus says the Lord: "The
great eagle with great wings, large in extension, full of claws, who has the purpose of
entering Lebanon, took the choice parts of the cedar. 4 He trimmed the heights of
tenderness and brought them into the land of Canaan; he placed them in a walled city.
5 He took from the seed of the land and gave it to a plain as a plant over much water;
he arranged it to be observed. 6 It sprouted and became a weak vine, small in size when
it came into view; its branches were on it and its roots were underneath it. It became a
vine, made channels, and extended its tendrils. 7 There was another great eagle with
great wings, with numerous claws. Behold, this vine was entwined around him and its
roots were directed toward him; it sent forth its branches to him in order that he might
water it together with the soil of its planting. 8 This one is thriving in a fair plain over
much water in order to produce shoots and bear fruit, in order to be a great vine."´
9 Because of this, say, `Thus says the Lord: "Will it succeed? Will not the roots of its
tenderness and the fruit become rotten, and all its early sprouts dry up, and not by a
great arm or by many people pulling it out from its roots? 10 Behold, it is thriving; will it
succeed? Will it not dry up as soon as the summer wind touches it? It will dry up
together with the soil of its sprouting."´"
11 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 12 "Son of man, say now to the
provoking house, `Didn't you realize what these things were?´ Say, `Whenever the
king of Babylon comes against Jerusalem, he will take her king and her rulers and bring
them to himself in Babylon. 13 He will take from the seed of the kingdom, and he will
make a testament with him and induct him with an oath. He will take the governors of
the land 14 in order for it to become a universally weak kingdom which is not to rise up,
in order to preserve his testament and establish it. 15 He will stand apart from him in
order to send forth his messengers into Egypt, in order to give him horses and many
people. Will he succeed? Will the one who produces opposition be preserved? Will the
one who transgresses the testament be saved? 16 As I live,´ says the Lord, `in the place
of the king who made him king, the one who dishonored my oath and who
transgressed my testament will be deceased with him in the midst of Babylon. 17 The
Pharaoh will not make war against him with a great force or a large crowd, in raising a
palisade and in building artillery to take away souls. 18 He dishonored the sworn alliance
in order to transgress the testament. Behold, he has given his hand, and he did all
these things to him; will he be saved?´ 19 Because of this, say, `Thus says the Lord: "As
I live, my testament which he transgressed and my sworn alliance which he dishonored,
I will give them onto his head. 20 I will spread my net over him, and he will be caught in
its circumference. A 21 In every battle line of his, they will fall by the sword, and I will
scatter those who remain to every wind. You will recognize that I the Lord have spoken
it."
A V ¦ + I will lead him to Babylon and determine with him there his wrongdoing which
he committed against me. 21 As for all his fugitives, A

22 For thus says the Lord: `I will take from the choice parts of the cedar; I will trim
from the top of their hearts, A and I will transplant it on a high mountain. 23 I will hang it
on a lofty mountain of Israel. I will transplant it, and it will bring forth a blossom and
produce a fruit. It will be a great cedar; every beast will rest underneath it, and every
bird will rest under its shadow. Its branches will be restored. 24 All the trees of the field
will know that I am the Lord, who humbles the exalted tree and exalts the humble tree,
who withers the green tree and causes the withered tree to flourish. I the Lord have
spoken, and I will do it.´"
Ezekiel 18
1 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 2 "Son of man, what does this
illustration among the sons of Israel mean to you? They are saying, `The fathers ate
unripe grapes, and the teeth of the children were set on edge.´ 3 As I live," says the
Lord, "surely this illustration will no longer be said in Israel. 4 For all souls are mine. As is
the soul of the father, so also is the soul of the son; they are mine. The soul which sins,
this one will die.
5 But the man who will be righteous, who will perform justice and righteousness, 6 he
will not eat on the mountains, will not lift up his eyes to the considerations of the house
of Israel, will not defile the wife of his neighbor, will not come near to a woman who is
in menstruation, 7 and will not overpower a man. He will give back the pledge of a
debtor, will not take any plunder, will give his bread to one who is hungry, will clothe
one who is naked, 8 will not give his silver at interest, will not receive excess, will turn
his hand away from wrongdoing, and will perform a righteous judgment between a man
and his neighbor. 9 He has gone by my ordinances and has preserved my righteous
decrees in order to perform them. This one is righteous; he will live the life," says the
Lord.
10 "If he conceives as a son a scoundrel who poured out blood, performed sins, 11 and
did not go in the way of his righteous father, but ate on the mountains, defiled the wife
of his neighbor, 12 overpowered one who is poor and needy, took plunder, did not give
back a pledge, set his eyes on idols, performed lawlessness, 13 gave with interest, and
received excess, this one will not live the life; he performed all these lawless acts. He
will be put to death; his blood will be on him.
14 But if he conceives a son, and he sees all the sins of his father which he
performed, and is afraid and does not act in agreement with these, 15 and he did not eat
on the mountains, did not set his eyes on the considerations of the house of Israel, did
not defile the wife of his neighbor, 16 did not overpower a man, did not demand a
pledge, did not take plunder, gave his bread to the one who is hungry, clothed one who
is naked, 17 turned his hand away from wrongdoing, did not receive interest or excess,
performed righteousness and went in my ordinances, he will not be deceased in the
wrongdoings of his father; he will live the life. 18 But if his father oppresses and takes
A the choice parts of the cedar; I will trim from the top of their hearts V ¦ the choice
parts of the cedar, from the top [of their hearts A], and I will give its shoots from the
head. I will trim their hearts A

plunder, he has engaged in opposition in the midst of my people, and will die in his
wrongdoing.
19 You will say, `Why is it that the son did not receive the wrongdoing of his father?´
Because the son performed righteousness and mercy, and maintained all my
regulations and performed them; he will live the life. 20 But the soul which sins will die.
The son will not receive the wrongdoing of his father, and the father will not receive the
wrongdoing of his son. The righteousness of one who is righteous will be upon him, and
the lawlessness of one who is lawless will be upon him. 21 If the one who is lawless
turns away from all his lawless acts which he performed, preserves all my
commandments, and performs righteousness and mercy, he will live the life; he will not
die. 22 None of his trespasses which he performed will be remembered; he will live in his
righteousness which he performed. 23 Do I want the death of the one who is lawless,"
says the Lord, "as I want for him to turn from his evil way, and for him to live? 24 But
when one who is righteous turns away from his righteousness and performs
wrongdoing according to all the lawless acts which the one who is lawless performed,
none of his righteous acts which he performed will be remembered. In his trespass by
which he trespassed and in his sins by which he sinned, in them he will die.
25 You said, `The way of the Lord is not straight.´ Hear now, all you house of Israel:
is my way not straight? Is not your way not straight? 26 When one who is righteous
turns away from his righteousness, performs a trespass, and dies in the trespass which
he performed, he will die in it. 27 When one who is lawless turned away from his
lawlessness which he performed and performed justice and righteousness, this one
preserved his soul. 28 He turned away from all his ungodly acts which he performed. He
will live the life; he will not die. 29 The house of Israel says, `The way of the Lord is not
upright.´ Is my way not upright, O house of Israel? Is not your way not upright? 30 I will
judge you, O house of Israel, each according to his way," says the Lord. "Return and
turn away from all your ungodly acts, and they will not result in the punishment of
wrongdoing for you. 31 Throw away from yourselves all your ungodly acts by which you
became ungodly against me, and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit.
Why are you dying, O house of Israel? 32 For I do not want the death of the one who is
dying," says the Lord. A
Ezekiel 19
1 "Take up a lamentation over the ruler of Israel; 2 you will say, `What is your
mother? She became a cub in the midst of lions; in the midst of lions she multiplied her
cubs. 3 One of her cubs ran away, became a lion, and learned to seize prey; he ate men.
4 Nations heard about him; he was caught in their ruin, and they brought him into the
land of Egypt in a muzzle. 5 She saw that he was driven away from her, and her
steadfastness perished. She took another of her cubs; she arranged for him to be a
lion. 6 He went about in the midst of lions, became a lion, and learned to seize prey; he
ate men. 7 He was feeding in his rashness; he made their cities desolate, and obliterated
the land and its fullness due to the sound of his roaring. 8 They put nations over him
A V ¦ + "Return, and live!" A

from the surrounding countries, and they spread their nets over him; he was caught in
their ruin. 9 They placed him in a muzzle and in a cage; he came to the king of Babylon,
and he threw him into prison so that his voice might not be heard on the mountains of
Israel.
10 Your mother was like a vine, like a bloom on a pomegranate tree planted in water;
her fruit and her blossom originated from much water. 11 She became a strong rod over
a tribe of governors, and was exalted in her size in the midst of logs; she saw her size
in the multitude of her branches. 12 She was broken off in fury; she was thrown out on
the ground, and a burning wind dried up her choice parts. Vengeance was taken on
her, and the rod of her strength dried up; fire devoured it. 13 Now they have planted her
in the desert, in a waterless land. 14 Fire came out of a rod of her choice parts and
consumed her; there was no rod of strength in her.´ The tribe exists as an illustration
of lamentation, and it will continue to exist as a lamentation."
Ezekiel 20
1 It happened that, in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the
month, A men came from the elders of the house of Israel to inquire of the Lord, and
they sat before my face. 2 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 3 "Son of
man, speak to the elders of Israel; you will say to them, `Thus says the Lord: "Did you
come to inquire of me? As I live, I will not answer you," says the Lord.´ 4 Will I take
vengeance on them? Son of man, testify to them the lawless acts of their fathers. 5 You
will say to them, `Thus says the Lord: "From the day I chose the house of Israel, and
was made known to the seed of the house of Jacob, and was known to them in the
land of Egypt, and helped them with my hand, saying, `I am the Lord your God,´ 6 on
that day I helped them with my hand in order to bring them out of the land of Egypt
into the land which I prepared for them, a land flowing with milk and honey; it is a
honeycomb beyond every land. 7 I said to them, `Let each one throw away the
abominations of his eyes, and do not be defiled with the habits of Egypt; I am the Lord
your God.´ 8 They stood apart from me and did not want to listen to me; they did not
throw away the abominations of their eyes and did not abandon the habits of Egypt.
I said that I would pour out my fury upon them, that I would complete my wrath in
them in the midst of the land of Egypt. 9 I acted so that my name might not be
thoroughly profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose midst they are, among whom
I was known to them in their sight in order to bring them out of the land of Egypt. 10 I
brought them out of the land of Egypt, B and I brought them into the desert. 11 I gave
them my ordinances, and I made my righteous decrees known to them, which a man
will perform and live by them. 12 I gave them my sabbaths to exist as a sign between
me and them, for them to know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them. 13 I said to the
house of Israel in the desert, `Go by my ordinances,´ yet they did not go, and they
rejected my righteous decrees, which a man will perform and live by them, and they
profaned my sabbaths exceedingly. I said that I would pour out my fury upon them in
A in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month A ¦ on the fifteenth of the month V
B I brought them out of the land of Egypt A ¦ ~ V

the desert in order to consume them. 14 I acted so that my name might not be
thoroughly profaned in the sight of the nations, in front of whose eyes I brought them
out. 15 I lifted up my hand against them thoroughly in the desert, so as not to bring
them into the land which I gave them, a land flowing with milk and honey (it is a
honeycomb beyond every land), 16 because they rejected my righteous decrees, did not
go by my ordinances, profaned my sabbaths, and went after the considerations of their
hearts. 17 My eye spared them from wiping them out, and I did not make an end of
them in the desert.
18 I said to their children in the desert, `Do not go by the regulations of your fathers,
do not preserve their righteous decrees, do not be mixed together with their habits, and
do not be defiled. 19 I am the Lord your God; go by my ordinances, preserve my
righteous decrees, and perform them. 20 Sanctify my sabbaths, and let them exist as a
sign between me and you of knowing that I am the Lord your God.´ 21 They and their
children provoked me; they did not go by my ordinances, they did not preserve my
righteous decrees in order to perform them, which a man will perform and live by them,
and they profaned my sabbaths. I said that I would pour out my fury upon them in the
desert, that I would complete my wrath upon them. 22 I acted so that my name might
not be thoroughly profaned in the sight of the nations, in front of whose eyes I brought
them out. 23 I lifted up my hand against them in the desert, so as to scatter them
among the nations and disperse them in the countries, 24 because they did not perform
my righteous decrees, rejected my ordinances, and profaned my sabbaths; their eyes
were after the considerations of their fathers. 25 I gave them ordinances which were not
good and righteous decrees by which they would not live. 26 I will defile them with their
gifts when I pass through everything which opens a womb, so that I may obliterate
them."´ A
27 Because of this, speak to the house of Israel, son of man; you will say to them,
`Thus says the Lord: "Until this time your fathers provoked me in their trespasses in
which they trespassed against me. 28 I brought them into the land concerning which I
lifted up my hand to give it to them. They saw every high hill and every shady tree;
there they sacrificed to their gods, there they arranged a fragrant aroma, and there
they poured their libations. 29 I said to them, `What is Bamah, that you go in there?´
They called its name Bamah B until this day."´ 30 Because of this, say to the house of
Israel, `Thus says the Lord, "Are you defiled with the lawless acts of your fathers, and
do you engage in prostitution after their abominations? 31 With the initial offerings of
your gifts, with the settings apart of your sons in fire, you are defiled C with all your
considerations until this day. Will I answer you, O house of Israel? As I live," says the
Lord, "I will not answer you, and this will not ascend over your spirit. 32 It will not be in
the manner that you say, `We will be like the nations and like the tribes of the earth in
A
V ¦ + in order that they might know that I am the Lord A
B
Heb, "high place"
C 31
after their abominations? With the initial offerings of your gifts, with the settings
apart of your sons in fire, you are defiled A ¦ after their abominations, 31 with the initial
offerings of your gifts, with the settings apart by which you are defiled V

adoring trees and stones.´
33 Because of this, as I live," says the Lord, "I will reign over you with a mighty hand,
with a high arm, and with outpoured fury. 34 I will bring you out from the peoples and
take you in from the countries among which you were dispersed with a mighty hand,
with a high arm, and with outpoured fury. 35 I will bring you into the desert of the
peoples and will make a decision regarding you there face to face. 36 In the manner that
I made a decision regarding your fathers in the desert of the land of Egypt, so I will
judge you," says the Lord. 37 "I will bring you through under my rod, and I will bring you
in by number. 38 I will select from you the ungodly and the rebels, for I will bring them
out of their sojourn, and they will not enter the land of Israel; you will recognize that I
am the Lord. 39 As for you, O house of Israel," thus says the Lord, the Lord: "Let each of
you take away his habits. After this, surely you will listen to me and no longer profane
my holy name by your gifts and by your habits. 40 For on my holy mountain, on the high
mountain," says the Lord, the Lord, "there all the house of Israel will serve me until the
end, there I will accept you, and there I will look upon your initial offerings, including
the initial offerings of your settings apart among all your sacred places. 41 I will accept
you with a fragrant aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and take you in from
the countries among which you were dispersed; I will be sanctified among you in front
of the eyes of the peoples. 42 You will recognize that I am the Lord when I bring you
into the land of Israel, into the land toward which I lifted up my hand to give it to your
fathers. 43 There you will remember your ways and your habits by which you were
defiled; you will strike your faces with regard to all your wicked acts. 44 You will
recognize that I am the Lord when I have done thus to you, that my name may not be
profaned in your evil ways, and in your corrupt habits," says the Lord.´"
Ezekiel 21 A
1 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 2 "Son of man, set your face
against Teman, look over Dagon, and prophesy against the governing forest of the
Negev. 3 You will say to the forest of the Negev, `Hear the word of the Lord. Thus says
the Lord, the Lord: "Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it will devour every green
tree and every dry tree in you. The flame which is kindled will not be extinguished, and
every face will be burned by it from the east wind to the north wind. 4 All flesh will
recognize that I the Lord ignited it, and it will not be extinguished."´" 5 I said, "By no
means, O Lord, O Lord! They themselves are saying to me, `Isn't this thing which is
being said an illustration´?"
6 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 7 "Prophesy because of this, son
of man; set your face against Jerusalem and look over their holy places. You will
prophesy against the land of Israel, 8 and you will say to the land of Israel, `Thus says
the Lord, the Lord: "Behold, I am against you. I will draw my dagger out of its sheath,
and I will eliminate from you one who is unrighteous and lawless. 9 Since I will eliminate
from you one who is unrighteous and lawless, so will my dagger come out of its sheath
against all flesh from the east wind to the north wind. 10 All flesh will recognize that I the
A 21:1-5 = 20:45-49 EV; 21:6-37 = 21:1-32 EV

Lord drew my dagger out of its sheath, and it will not return any more."´ 11 Son of man,
groan during the crushing of your loins; in pains you will groan before their eyes. 12 It
will be that, if they say to you, `For what reason are you groaning?´ you will say,
`Based on the report, because it is coming. Every heart will break, all hands will
become paralyzed, all flesh and every spirit will faint, and all thighs will be defiled with
moisture. Behold, it is coming,´ says the Lord."
13 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 14 "Prophesy, son of man; you
will say, `Thus says the Lord.´ Say, `O sword, o sword, be sharp and furious, 15 so that
you may slaughter victims. Be sharp so that you may become radiant, ready for
paralysis. Slaughter; nullify; set aside every tree.´" 16 He gave it to be ready for his hand
to hold. The sword was sharpened; it is ready to give into the hand of one who kills.
17 "Cry out and howl, son of man, for this is among my people; this is among all those
who govern Israel. They will sojourn with the sword; it was among my people. Because
of this, clap your hands, 18 for it has been declared righteous. What if even a tribe is
rejected? It will not be," says the Lord God. 19 "Prophesy, son of man; clap hand upon
hand and double the sword. The third sword is that of the slain, the sword of the slain
which is great. You will astonish them, 20 so that the heart may faint and those who are
weak may multiply at every gate of theirs. They have been delivered up to the
slaughter of the sword. It has become good for slaughter; it has become good for
radiance. 21 Go on, be sharp on the right and on the left, wherever your face may be
aroused. 22 I too will clap my hand upon my hand and let loose my fury; I the Lord have
spoken."
23 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 24 "Son of man, appoint for
yourself two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to enter. The two will come out
of one country, and there will be a hand at the beginning of the way of the city. 25 At
the beginning, you will appoint a way for a sword to enter over Rabbah of the sons of
Ammon, over Judea, and over Jerusalem in its midst. 26 For the king of Babylon will
stand on the ancient way at the beginning of the two ways in order to practice
divination, to make the rod jump, to make inquiry among the carvings, and to examine
entrails on the right hand. 27 The divination was against Jerusalem so as to throw a
stake, to open the mouth in shouting, to lift up the voice with an outcry, to throw a
stake against her gates, to throw up a mound, and to build batteries. 28 He himself was
for them like one who practiced divination in their sight, and he himself was like one
who recalled his unjust acts in order to be remembered. 29 Because of this, thus says the
Lord: `Since you recalled your unjust acts in the revealing of your ungodly acts, in
order for your sins to be seen among all your ungodly acts and among your habits,
since you recalled them, you will be captured by these. 30 You, the profane lawless
governor of Israel, whose day has arrived, an end in a season of wrongdoing,´ thus
says the Lord: 31 `You took off the turban and put on the crown; this will not be like
this. You lowered what was high and exalted what was low. 32 Injustice, injustice I will
make it; this will not be like this, until he comes to whom it belongs; I will deliver it up
to him.´
33 Prophesy, son of man; you will say, `Thus says the Lord regarding the sons of
Ammon and regarding their reproach.´ You will say, `O sword, o sword drawn for

slaughter and drawn for termination, wake up so that that you may be radiant 34 in your
vain vision, while you were divining lies in order to deliver yourself up over the necks of
the lawless wounded, whose day has arrived, an end in a season of wrongdoing.
35 Return; do not lodge in this place where you were conceived. I will judge you in your
own land. 36 I will pour out my wrath upon you; I will blow on you with the fire of my
wrath, and I will deliver you up into the hands of barbarian men who are devising ruin.
37 You will be food in the fire; your blood will be in the midst of your land. There will be
no remembrance of you, for I the Lord have spoken.´"
Ezekiel 22
1 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 2 "Son of man, will you judge the
city of blood? Exhibit her all her lawless acts. 3 You will say, `Thus says the Lord, the
Lord: "O city who pours out blood in her midst in order for her season to come, and
who produces considerations against herself in order to defile herself, 4 in their blood
which you poured out you have trespassed, and in your considerations which you
produced you defiled yourself. You made your days near and brought on the season of
your years. Because of this, I have given you to be a reproach to the nations and to be
a mockery to all the countries, 5 to those who are near to you and to those who are far
away from you. Among you they will be mocking, `She who is notoriously unclean and
abundant in lawless acts.´ 6 Behold, the governors of the house of Israel were each
mixed together among you against his relatives so that they might pour out blood.
7 Among you they spoke wickedly of father and mother, and among you they engaged in
unjust acts against the guest; among you they overpowered an orphan and a widow.
8 They nullified my holy things and they profaned my sabbaths among you. 9 They are
thieving men among you so that they might pour out blood among you. They ate on
the mountains among you; they performed unhallowed acts in your midst. 10 Among you
they revealed the shame of a father, and among you they humiliated a woman who
was sitting apart during unclean times. 11 They each acted lawlessly with the wife of his
neighbor, they each defiled his daughter-in-law one in ungodliness, and among you
they each humiliated his sister, the daughter of his father. 12 They received gifts among
you so that they might pour out blood; they received interest and excess gain among
you. You brought about the completion of your wickedness which involved an
overpowering, and you forgot me," says the Lord.
13 "If I launch an attack with my hand on top of my hand against the things which
you completed, which you performed, and against your bloody acts which have
occurred in your midst, 14 will your heart be sustained? Will your hands be mighty on the
days on which I act among you? I the Lord have spoken, and I will act. 15 I will scatter
you among the nations and disperse you in the countries, and your uncleanness will
leave you. 16 I will give an inheritance among you in the eyes of the nations, and you
will know that I am the Lord."´"
17 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 18 "Son of man, behold, the
house of Israel for me has all become mixed with brass, iron, tin, and lead; they are
mixed in the midst of silver. 19 Because of this, say, `Thus says the Lord God: "Since all
of you became one blending, because of this I will admit you into the midst of

Jerusalem. 20 Just as silver, brass, iron, tin, and lead are admitted into the midst of a
furnace to blow fire into it in order to be melted, so I will admit you in my wrath, and I
will gather and melt you. 21 I will blow on you in the fire of my wrath, and you will be
melted in its midst. 22 In the manner that silver is melted in the midst of a furnace, so
you will be melted in its midst, and you will recognize that I the Lord poured out my
fury on you."´"
23 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 24 "Son of man, say to her, `You
are the land on which it did not shower, neither was there any rain over you on the day
of wrath. 25 Her governors in her midst are like roaring lions seizing prey, devouring
souls by domination, and taking honors by wrongdoing; your widows were multiplied in
your midst. 26 Her priests canceled my law and profaned my holy things. They were not
distinguishing between the holy and the profane, and they were not distinguishing
between the unclean and the clean. They hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I was
profaned in their midst. 27 Her rulers in her midst are like ravenous wolves in pouring out
blood, so that they may acquire excess gain. 28 Her prophets who anoint them will fall,
those who see vain things, who divine lies, who say, "Thus says the Lord," and the Lord
has not spoken, 29 who squash the people of the land with wrongdoing, who engage in
plunderings, who overpower one who is poor and needy, and who not behave with
justice toward the guest. 30 I sought from them a man who was behaving correctly and
standing before my face perfectly in the season of the earth A so as not to wipe her out
completely, yet I did not find him. 31 I poured out my fury on her in the fire of my wrath
in order to complete it. I have given their ways onto their heads,´ says the Lord God."
Ezekiel 23
1 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 2 "Son of man, there were two
women, the daughters of one mother, 3 and they engaged in prostitution in Egypt in
their youth. Their breasts fell there; they were deflowered there. 4 Their names were
Oholah, the older, and Oholibah her sister. They were mine, and they gave birth to
sons and daughters. These were their names: Oholah was Samaria, and Oholibah was
Jerusalem.
5 Oholah engaged in prostitution away from me and imposed on her paramours, on
the Assyrians who were near her, 6 those who were clothed in blue, the governors and
commanders. They were all select young men, horseman riding on horses. 7 She gave
her prostitution upon them (they were all select sons of the Assyrians) and upon
everyone on whom she imposed; she was defiled by all her considerations. 8 She did not
abandon her prostitution from Egypt, for they lay with her in her youth; they
deflowered her and poured out their prostitution upon her. 9 Because of this, I delivered
her up into the hands of her paramours, into the hands of the sons of the Assyrians, on
whom she imposed. 10 They revealed her shame; they took her sons and daughters and
killed her with the sword. She became a cause of derision among women, and they
exacted vengeance on the daughters by her.
11 Her sister Oholibah saw and corrupted her imposition more than she did, and her
A the earth V ¦ my wrath A

prostitution more than the prostitution of her sister. 12 She imposed on the sons of the
Assyrians, the governors and commanders who were near her, clothed in purple
bordered cloth, horsemen riding on horses; they were all select young men. 13 I saw
that they had been defiled; there was one way for the two. 14 She added to her
prostitution; she saw men painted on the wall, images of Chaldeans painted with a
paintbrush, 15 girded with embroidered cloths on their loins and brightly colored tiaras
on their heads. There was a threefold appearance of all, the likeness of the sons of the
Chaldeans from their fatherland. 16 She imposed on them with the sight of her eyes and
sent forth messengers to them into the land of the Chaldeans. 17 The sons of Babylon
came to her, into the bed of the lodgers. They defiled her in her prostitution, and she
was defiled by them; her soul stood apart from them. 18 She revealed her prostitution
and revealed her shame; my soul stood apart from her, in the manner that my soul
stood apart from her sister. 19 You multiplied your prostitution in order to remember the
days of your youth, during which you engaged in prostitution in Egypt. 20 You imposed
on the Chaldeans, whose flesh was like that of donkeys and their private parts like the
private parts of horses. 21 You inspected the lawlessness of your youth, the things which
you did in Egypt during your lodging, where the breasts of your youth were.
22 Because of this, Oholibah, thus says the Lord: `Behold, I am arousing your
paramours against you, apart from whom your soul stood, and I will bring them against
you all around: 23 the sons of Babylon and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, Koa, and all
the sons of the Assyrians with them, select young men, all the governors and
commanders, threefold and renowned riders on horses. 24 They will all arrive against you
from the north, chariots and wheels with a crowd of peoples, large and small shields,
and they will set a watch against you all around. I will give a judgment before their
face, and they will take vengeance on you with their judgments. 25 I will give my zeal
among you, and they will deal with you in furious wrath; they will take away your nose
and your ears and throw down your remnants with the sword. They themselves will
take your sons and your daughters, and fire will devour your remnants. 26 They will strip
you of your clothing and take the instruments of your boasting. 27 I will turn back your
ungodliness from you and your prostitution from the land of Egypt; you will not lift up
your eyes over them, and you will no longer remember Egypt.´ 28 For thus says the
Lord, the Lord: `Behold, I am delivering you up into the hands of those whom you
hate, apart from whom your soul stood. 29 They will deal with you in hatred; they will
take all your labors and your toils. You will be naked and ashamed, and the shame of
your prostitution and your ungodliness will be revealed. 30 Your prostitution did these
things to you in your engaging in prostitution after the nations; you were defiled by
their considerations. 31 You went in the way of your sister; I will give her cup into your
hands.´ 32 Thus says the Lord: `Drink the cup of your sister, the deep and the wide one,
the excessive one, A to complete the intoxication, 33 and you will be filled with fainting.
The cup of obliteration, the cup of your sister Samaria, 34 drink it! I will turn back her
festivals and her new moons, for I have spoken,´ says the Lord. 35 Because of this, thus
says the Lord: `Since you forgot me and threw me behind your body, receive your
A V ¦ + it will result in laughter and mockery A

ungodliness and your prostitution.´"
36 The Lord said to me, "Son of man, won't you judge Oholah and Oholibah, and
declare to them their lawless acts? 37 For they committed adultery, and blood was in
their hands; their considerations committed adultery, and their children, which they
conceived for me, passed through the fiery coals for them. 38 As long as they did these
things to me, A they were defiling my holy things and profaning my sabbaths. 39 When
they slaughtered their children for their idols, they also were going into my holy things B
to profane them. Not only were they doing so in the midst of my house, 40 they also did
so to the men who were coming from a distance, to whom they sent forth messengers.
As soon as they came, immediately you began to wash, paint your eyes, apply
adornments, 41 and sit on a bed which had been made up; also, a table had been
adorned before her face. As for my incense and my oil, they became cheerful by them.
42 They struck up a sound of harmony, even for men arriving from the desert out of the
multitude of humans. They gave bracelets on their hands and a crown of boasting on
their heads. 43 I said, `Aren't they committing adultery with these people? She also
engaged in prostitution by the works of a prostitute.´ 44 They went in to her in the
manner that they go in to a woman who is a prostitute; in this way they went in to
Oholah and to Oholibah to perform lawlessness. 45 Righteous men will themselves take
vengeance on them with the vengeance of an adulteress and with the vengeance of
blood, for they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
46 Thus says the Lord, the Lord: `Bring up a crowd against them, and give
disturbance and plunder among them. 47 Throw stones at them with the stones of
crowds, and pierce them with their knives. They will kill their sons and their daughters
and burn up their houses. 48 I will turn back ungodliness out of the land; all the women
will be instructed, and they will not act in agreement with their ungodly acts. 49 Your
ungodliness will be given against you, you will receive the sins of your considerations,
and you will know that I am the Lord.´"
Ezekiel 24
1 The word of the Lord was directed at me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on
the tenth of the month, saying, 2 "Son of man, write to yourself daily from this day from
which the king of Babylon settled over Jerusalem, from this very day. 3 Tell an
illustration against the provoking house; you will say to them, `Thus says the Lord: "Set
up the kettle and pour water into it. 4 Throw the pieces into it, every excellent piece, the
leg and shoulder with the flesh stripped from the bones, 5 which have been taken from
choice livestock, and burn the bones underneath them. It seethed; her bones seethed
and were cooked in her midst."
6 Because of this, thus says the Lord: "O city of blood, the kettle in which there is
poison! C The poison did not come out of her; it brought her out limb by limb. No lot fell
on her. 7 For her blood is in her midst; I have arranged it on a smooth rock. I have not
A V ¦ + and did the things which I hated A
B V ¦ + unwatched on that day A
C Or, "rust" (also in vv. 11-12)

poured it out on the earth for the earth to cover it. 8 For my fury to ascend, for
vengeance to be taken, I have given her blood on a smooth rock so as not to cover it."
9 Because of this, thus says the Lord: "I will also magnify the kindling. 10 I will multiply
the wood and ignite the fire so that the meat may dissolve, A and the sauce diminish B
11 and stand over the coals, C so that her bronze may be scorched, be heated, D and melt
in the midst of her uncleanness, her poison may cease, 12 and her abundant poison may
not come out of her. Her poison will be put to shame. 13 Since you defiled yourself, E
what if you are no longer cleansed until I fulfill my fury? 14 I the Lord have spoken. It
will arrive, and I will do it; I will not set aside, and I will not have mercy. I will judge
you according to your ways and according to your considerations," says the Lord.
"Because of this, I will judge you according to your bloody acts, and I will judge you
according to your considerations, O unclean, notorious, and abundantly provoking
one."´"
15 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 16 "Son of man, behold, I am
taking out of you the desires of your eyes by means of a battle line. You will not mourn
and you will not weep. 17 There is a groaning of blood, of loins, and of grief; your hair
will not be braided on you, and your sandals will not be on your feet. You will not be
comforted by their lips, and you will not eat the bread of men." 18 I spoke to the people
in the morning in the manner that he commanded me in the evening. F I acted in the
morning in the manner that it was ordered to me. 19 The people said to me, "Won't you
tell us what these things are which you are doing? 20 I said to them, "The word of the
Lord was directed at me, saying, 21 `Say to the house of Israel, "Thus says the Lord:
`Behold, I will profane my holy things, the boast of your strength, the desires of your
eyes, and the things about which your souls are concerned. Your sons and your
daughters, whom you abandoned, will fall by the sword. 22 You will act in the manner
that I have acted; you will not be comforted from their mouth, and you will not eat the
bread of men. 23 Your hair will be on your head and your sandals will be on your feet,
and you will neither mourn nor weep. You will languish in your wrongdoings, yet each
of you will comfort his brother. 24 Ezekiel will exist as a wonder for you; in agreement
with everything which I did, G you will do whenever these things come, and you will
recognize that I am the Lord.´"
25 Son of man, won't it be on the day when I take the strength from them, the
expansion of their boasting, the covetous acts of their eyes, and the expansion of their
A Literally, "melt" (as in v. 11)
B V ¦ + and the bones be charred A
C the coals, V ¦ her coals; it will be cooked A
D V ¦ + so that it may be charred A
E Since you defiled yourself, V ¦ In your uncleanness there is seething, since you defiled
yourself, and you were not cleansed from your uncleanness. A
F in the manner that he commanded me in the evening V ¦ in the manner that he
commanded me, and my wife died in the evening ¦ and my wife died in the manner
that he commanded me in the evening A
G I did VcA ¦ you did V* ¦ he did

soul, their sons and their daughters? 26 On that day, the one who escapes will arrive at
you in order to report it to you in your ears. 27 On that day, your mouth will be opened
to the one who escapes; you will speak and will be no longer dumb. You will exist as a
wonder for them, and they will recognize that I am the Lord.´"
Ezekiel 25
1 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 2 "Son of man, set your face
against the sons of Ammon and prophesy against them. 3 You will say to the sons of
Ammon, `Hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord: "Since you rejoiced over my
holy places because they were profaned, over the land of Israel because it was
obliterated, and over the house of Judah because they went into captivity, 4 because of
this, behold, I will deliver you up to the sons of Kedem as an inheritance. They will
dwell among you with their utensils, and they will give their tents among you. They
themselves will eat your fruits, and they themselves will drink your cream. 5 I will give
the city of Ammon as pastures of camels and the sons of Ammon as a pasture of sheep,
and you will recognize that I am the Lord." 6 For thus says the Lord: "Since you clapped
your hands, stomped with your foot, and rejoiced from your soul against the land of
Israel, 7 because of this, I will extend my hand against you and give you as plunder
among the nations. I will eliminate you from the peoples and destroy you from the
countries in a destruction, and you will recognize that I am the Lord."
8 Thus says the Lord: "Since Moab A said, `Behold, isn’t the house of Israel and Judah
similar to all the nations?´ 9 because of this, behold, I will paralyze the shoulder of Moab
from the cities of his extremities, the select land, the house of Beth-jeshimoth above
the fountain of the city beside the sea. 10 I have given him the sons of Kedem in
addition to the sons of Ammon as an inheritance, so that there may be no memory of
the sons of Ammon. 11 I will execute vengeance on Moab, and they will recognize that I
am the Lord."
12 Thus says the Lord: "Since Idumea executed vengeance when they took
vengeance on the house of Judah, remembered wicked acts, and exacted a penalty,"
13 because of this, thus says the Lord: "I will also extend my hand against Idumea. I will
eliminate man and livestock from it, and I will make it a desert; those who are being
pursued from Teman will fall by the sword. 14 I will execute my vengeance against
Idumea by the hand of my people Israel; they will act in Idumea according to my wrath
and according to my fury, and they will recognize my vengeance," says the Lord.
15 Because of this, thus says the Lord: "Since the Philistines acted in vengeance and
raised up vengeance, while they were rejoicing from the soul, in order to wipe out
forever," 16 because of this, thus says the Lord: "Behold, I will extend my hand against
the Philistines, eliminate the Cretans, and destroy the remnants which reside by the
seacoast. 17 I will execute great acts of vengeance among them, and they will recognize
that I am the Lord when I give my vengeance against them."´"
A V ¦ + and Seir A

Ezekiel 26
1 It happened that, in the eleventh year, on the first of the month, the word of the
Lord was directed at me, saying, 2 "Son of man, since Zur said against Jerusalem, `Aha,
she was crushed; the nations were destroyed! She was returned to me; she who was
full was deserted,´ 3 because of this, thus says the Lord: `Behold, I am against you, O
Zur. I will bring up many nations against you, as the sea goes up in its waves. 4 They
will throw down the walls of Zur, and they will throw down your towers. I will scrape
her soil from her and give her to become smooth rock. 5 She will be a drying place for
dragnets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken,´ says the Lord. `It will become a
spoil for the nations. 6 Her daughters who are in the plain will be done away with by the
sword, and they will know that I am the Lord.´
7 For thus says the Lord: `Behold, I am bringing against you, O Zur, Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon from the north (he is a king of kings) with horses, chariots, horsemen,
and a congregation of exceedingly numerous nations. 8 This one will do away with your
daughters who are in the plain with the sword; he will give an outpost over you, build
an enclosure, make a palisade and a circle of armaments against you all around, and
give his spears in opposition to you. 9 He will throw down with his swords your walls and
your towers. 10 Due to the multitude of his horses, their dust will cover you, and due to
the sound of his horsemen and the wheels of his chariots, your walls will be shaken
when he goes into your gates like one who goes into a city from the plain. 11 With the
hoofs of his horses, they will trample all your streets; he will slay your people with the
sword and bring down to the ground the substance of your strength. 12 He will prey on
your power, plunder your possessions, throw down your walls, and take down your
desirable houses; he will throw your stones, your wood, and your soul into the midst of
the sea. 13 He will abolish the multitude of your musicians, and the sound of your harps
will no longer be heard. 14 I will give you to become smooth rock; you will be a drying
place for dragnets. You will no longer be built, for I have spoken,´ says the Lord.
15 For thus says the Lord, the Lord, to Zur: `Won't the islands be shaken due to the
sound of your fall when the wounded are groaning, when they draw a sword in your
midst? 16 All the rulers of the nations of the sea will go down from their thrones, take off
their headbands from their heads, and remove their embroidered clothing. They will be
astonished; they will sit down on the ground, be afraid of their destruction, and groan
over you. 17 They will take up a lamentation over you, and they will say to you, "How
you were abolished from the sea, O praised city, A who gave fear of her to everyone
who resides in her!" 18 The islands will be afraid due to the day of your fall.´ B 19 For thus
says the Lord, the Lord: `Whenever I give you to be a deserted city, like the cities
which will not be inhabited when I bring the abyss over you, much water will cover you.
20 I will make you go down to those who go down into a pit, to a people of old, and I
will cause you to reside in the depths of the earth as an eternal desert with those who
go down into a pit, so that you may not be inhabited or stand on the land of life. 21 I will
A V ¦ + who became strong in the sea, she and those who reside in her, A
B V ¦ + The islands in the sea will be disturbed due to your expedition. A

give you to be a destruction, and you will no longer exist forever,´ A says the Lord, the
Lord."
Ezekiel 27
1 The word of the Lord was directed at me saying, 2 "Son of man, take up a
lamentation over Zur. 3 You will say to Zur who resides at the entrance of the sea, to the
market of the peoples from many islands, `Thus says the Lord to Zur: "You said, `I put
my beauty around myself. 4 In the heart of the sea, your sons put beauty around you for
the Baalim. 5 Cedar from Senir was built for you; strips from boards of cypress from
Lebanon were taken to make boat masts for you. 6 They made your oars out of the land
of Bashan; they made your sacred things out of ivory, your woodland houses from the
islands of the Hittites. 7 Fine linen with embroidery out of Egypt became a mattress for
you in order to put glory around you and to wrap you in blue and purple from the
islands of Elishah; they became your wrappings. 8 Your rulers who resided in Sidon and
the Arvadians were your rowers; your wise men who were in you, O Zur, were your
pilots. 9 The elders of the Byblians B and their wise men were in you; these strengthened
your counsel, and all the ships of the sea and their rowers became yours to the farthest
west. 10 Persians, Lydians, and Libyans were in your force. Your military men hung small
shields and helmets on you; these gave your glory. 11 The sons of the Arvadians and
your force were on your walls; there were guards in your towers. They hung their
quivers on your harbors all around; these completed your beauty. 12 The Carthaginians
were your merchants due to the abundance of all your strength; they gave silver, gold,
iron, tin, and lead as your inventory. 13 Greece, the entire area and the adjacent places,
traded with you in the souls of men, and they gave bronze vessels as your
merchandise. 14 Out of the house of Togarmah, horses and horsemen gave your
inventory. 15 The sons of the Rhodians were your merchants; from the islands they
multiplied elephants' teeth as your merchandise. To the importers, you returned your
rewards: 16 men as your merchandise from the abundance of your association, liquid
myrrh and embroidered cloths from Tarshish. Both Ramoth and Karkor gave your
inventory. 17 Judah and the sons of Israel were your merchants in the sale of grain,
ointments, and cassia; they gave to your association the best honey, oil, and rosin.
18 Damascus was your merchant out of the abundance of all your power, wine out of
Helbon and wool out of Miletus. 19 They gave wine to your inventory. Out of Uzal there
is wrought iron, and there is a circuit among your association. 20 Dedan were your
merchants with choice livestock for chariots. 21 Arabia and all the rulers of Kedar were
your merchants; through your hand, they will trade in camels, rams, and lambs with
you. 22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah were your merchants, with the best spices
and useful stones; they gave gold as your inventory. 23 Charan and Canneh were your
merchants; Asshur and Chilmad were your merchants, 24 bringing blue merchandise,
choice treasures bound with cords, and cypress ships. 25 Among them, Carthaginians
A you will no longer exist forever V ¦ you will no longer exist, yet you will be sought
forever A ¦ you will no longer exist; you will be sought, yet you will not be found forever
B Byblians V (residents of the Phoenician city of Byblos, Heb gebal) ¦ scrolls A

were your merchants in abundance among your association; you were filled and
exceedingly weighed down in the heart of the sea.
26 Your rowers brought you into much water; a breeze from the south broke you in
the heart of the sea. 27 They were your forces, the reward of you and of your associates.
Your rowers, your pilots, your counselors, your associates from your associates, all your
military men who were in you, and all your congregation in your midst will fall in the
heart of the sea on the day of your fall. 28 At the sound of your cry, your pilots will be
afraid. 29 All your rowers will descend from the ships, and the mariners and navigators of
the sea will stand on the land. 30 They will shout about you with their voice, cry out
bitterly, put earth on their heads, and spread ashes underneath. A 32 Their sons will take
up a lamentation over you and a lamenting for you: 33 How much reward did you find
from the sea? You filled nations from your abundance; from your association you
enriched all the kings of the earth. 34 Now you have been broken in the sea, in depth of
water; your association, all your congregation in your midst, and all your rowers have
fallen. 35 All who resided on the islands became hostile to you, their kings were
astonished, and their faces shed tears. 36 Merchants from the nations hissed at you; you
became a destruction, and you will no longer exist forever.´"´"
Ezekiel 28
1 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 2 "Son of man, say to the ruler of
Tyre, `Thus says the Lord: "Since your heart was exalted, you said, `I am God; I have
resided in the residence of God in the heart of the sea.´ But you are a man and not
God, yet you gave your heart as the heart of God. 3 Are you wiser than Daniel? Didn't
the wise discipline you with their skill? 4 You didn't make power for yourself by your skill
or by your intelligence, and make gold and silver by your treasures, did you? 5 By your
abundant skill and your merchandise, you multiplied your power; your heart was
exalted by your power." 6 Because of this, thus says the Lord: "Since you have given
your heart as the heart of God, 7 in response to this, behold, I am bringing against you
strange pestilences from the nations. They will draw their swords against you and
against the beauty of your skill, and they will lay your beauty low resulting in
destruction. 8 They will bring you down, and you will die the death of the wounded in
the heart of the sea. 9 You won't say, `I am God,´ in the sight of those who are doing
away with you, will you? You are a man and not God. 10 Among the multitude of the
uncircumcised, you will perish B by the hands of strangers, for I have spoken, says he
Lord."´"
11 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 12 "Son of man, take up a
lamentation over the ruler of Tyre; say to him, `Thus says the Lord, the Lord: "You are
the seal of a likeness and the crown of beauty. 13 You were in the luxury of the paradise
of God; you have bound to yourself every useful stone: ruby, topaz, emerald, garnet,
A V ¦ + 31 They will make themselves bald over you, gird themselves with sackcloth, and
weep concerning you in bitterness of soul and with bitter mourning. A
B Among the multitude of the uncircumcised, you will perish V ¦ Among the multitude of
those who wounded you, you will perish in the deaths of the uncircumcised A

sapphire, jasper, silver, gold, quartz, agate, amethyst, chrysolite, beryl, and onyx. A You
filled your treasures and your storehouses among you with gold from the day you were
created. 14 I placed you with the cherub on the holy mountain of God; you were in the
midst of fiery stones. 15 You were blameless in your days, from the day you were
created until unjust acts were found in you. 16 From the abundance of your merchandise
you filled your storerooms with lawless acts. You sinned, and you were wounded due to
the mountain of God; the cherub brought you out of the midst of the fiery stones.
17 Your heart was exalted over your beauty; your skill was ruined with your beauty.
Because of the multitude of your sins, I threw you to the ground; I gave you to become
a spectacle before kings. 18 Because of the multitude of your sins and the unjust acts of
your merchandise, I profaned your sacred things. I will bring fire out of your midst; this
will devour you. I will give you as ashes over your land before all who see you. 19 All
who perceive you among the nations will groan over you; you became destruction, and
you will no longer exist forever."´"
20 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 21 "Son of man, set your face
against Sidon and prophesy against it; 22 say, `Thus says the Lord: "Behold, I am
against you, O Sidon, yet I will be glorified in you. You will know that I am the Lord
when I perform judgments in you, and I will be sanctified in you. 23 Blood and death will
be in your streets; those who have been wounded by swords will fall in you all around
you, and they will know that I am the Lord. 24 There will no longer be for the house of
Israel a thorn of bitterness and a thistle of grief from those all around them who
dishonored them, and they will know that I am the Lord."
25 Thus says the Lord God: "I will also gather Israel from the nations, among whom
they were scattered there. I will be sanctified among them, in the sight of the peoples
and nations, and they will reside on their land which I have given to my slave Jacob.
26 They will reside on it in hope; they will build houses, plant vineyards, and reside in
hope whenever I execute a judgment among all who dishonored them, among those
who are around them. They will know that I am the Lord their God and the God of their
fathers."´"
Ezekiel 29
1 In the twelfth year, in the tenth month, on the first of the month, the word of the
Lord was directed at me, saying, 2 "Son of man, set your face against the Pharaoh, the
king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against the whole of Egypt. 3 Say, `Thus
says the Lord: "Behold, I am against the Pharaoh, B the great dragon who sits in the
midst of his rivers, who says, `The rivers are mine, and I myself made them.´ 4 I will
put hooks into your jaws, and I will join the fish of your river to your wings; I will bring
you up out of the midst of your river, as well as all the fish of your river. 5 I will quickly
pull you down as well as all the fish of your river; you will fall on the surface of the
plain. You will not be gathered, and you will not be protected. I have given you for food
A Beside silver and gold, these are the same twelve stones which symbolize the twelve
tribes of Israel on Aaron's oracle of judgment, Ex. 28:17-20
B the Pharaoh V ¦ you, O Pharaoh, the king of Egypt A

to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of heaven. 6 All those who reside in Egypt will
know that I am the Lord, since you became a reed staff to the house of Israel. 7 When
they seized you with their hand, you broke, and when every hand prevailed against
them and when they came to rest on you, you were shattered, and you crushed every
loin of them." 8 Because of this, thus says the Lord: "Behold, I am bringing a sword
against you, and I will destroy men and livestock from you. 9 The land of Egypt will be a
destruction and a desert; they will know that I am the Lord, in return for your saying,
`The rivers are mine, and I myself made them.´ 10 Because of this, behold, I am against
you and against all your rivers. I will give the land of Egypt to the desert, the sword,
and destruction, from Migdol and Syene to the borders of the Ethiopians. 11 A foot of a
man will not pass through her, and a foot of livestock will not pass through her; she will
not be inhabited for forty years. 12 I will give her land destruction in the midst of a
deserted land, and her cities will be in the midst of deserted cities for forty years. I will
disperse Egypt among the nations, and I will winnow them into the countries."
13 Thus says the Lord: "After forty years, I will gather the Egyptians from the nations
where they were scattered. 14 I will return the captivity of the Egyptians and cause them
to reside in the land of Pathros, in the land from which they were taken. 15 It will be a
humble realm beyond all the realms; it will no longer be exalted over the nations. I will
make them very small, so that they may not be numerous among the nations. 16 They
will no longer be for the house of Israel a hope which recalls lawlessness when they
follow after them; they will know that I am the Lord."´"
17 It happened that, in the twenty-seventh year, on the first of the first month, the
word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 18 "Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon reduced his force to great slavery against Tyre. Every head was bald and every
shoulder was scuffed, yet there was no reward for him and his force against Tyre, not
even for the slavery which they served against her." 19 Thus says the Lord, the Lord:
"Behold, I am giving the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. A He will take
her plunder and seize her spoils; it will be a reward for his force. 20 In return for his
public service which he served against Tyre, I have given him the land of Egypt." Thus
says the Lord, the Lord: 21 "On that day a horn will spring up for all the house of Israel,
and I will give you an open mouth in their midst; they will know that I am the Lord."
Ezekiel 30
1 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 2 "Son of man, prophesy and say,
`Thus says the Lord: "Woe, woe is the day! 3 For the day of the Lord is near, a day
which will be the end of nations. B 4 A sword will arrive over the Egyptians, and there will
be a disturbance in Ethiopia; they will fall wounded in Egypt, C and her foundations will
fall together. 5 Persians, Cretans, Lydians, Libyans, and all those in union with the sons
of my testament will fall in her by the sword. 6 The supports of Egypt will fall; the
A V ¦ + and he will take her multitude A
B a day which will be the end of nations V ¦ a day of cloud, a season which will be the
end of nations A ¦ a day of cloud which will be the end of nations
C V ¦ + they will take her multitude, A

arrogance of her strength will go down from Migdol to Syene; they will fall in her by the
sword," says the Lord. 7 "She will be deserted in the midst of obliterated countries, and
their cities will be in the midst of deserted cities. 8 They will know that I am the Lord
whenever I give fire over Egypt, and all who help her are broken. 9 On that day,
messengers will come out hurrying to obliterate Ethiopia. There will be a disturbance
among them on the day of Egypt, for behold, it has arrived!"
10 Thus says the Lord, the Lord: "I will also destroy the multitude of the Egyptians
through the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, 11 of him and his people. They are
nuisances sent forth from the nations to destroy the land; they all will unsheathe their
swords against Egypt, and the land will be filled with wounded. 12 I will give their rivers
as deserts, A and I will destroy the land and its fullness by the hands of strangers; I the
Lord have spoken."
13 For thus says the Lord, the Lord: "I will also destroy B the great men from Memphis
and the rulers of Memphis C out of the land of Egypt; they will be no more. D 14 I will
destroy the land of Pathros, give fire over Tanis, and execute vengeance on Diospolis. E
15 I will pour out my fury on Sin, the strength of Egypt, and I will destroy the multitude
of Memphis. 16 I will give fire over Egypt, and Syene will be a disturbed by a
disturbance; there will be an eruption in Diospolis and waters will be poured out. 17 The
young men of Heliopolis and Bubastis F will fall by the sword, and the women will go into
captivity. 18 The day will be darkened in Tehaphnehes when I break the scepters of
Egypt there. The arrogance of her strength will be destroyed there; a cloud will cover
her, and her daughters will be taken as captives. 19 I will execute judgment in Egypt,
and they will know that I am the Lord."´"
20 It happened that, in the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh of the
month, the word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 21 "Son of man, I broke the
arms of the Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. Behold, it has not been bound up in order to be
given healing, in order for gauze to be given over it, in order for strength to be given so
as to take hold of a sword. 22 Because of this, thus says the Lord, the Lord: `Behold, I
am against the Pharaoh, the king of Egypt; I will break his strong and outstretched G
arms, and I will pull down his sword from his hand. 23 I will disperse Egypt into the
nations and scatter them into the countries. 24 I will strengthen the arms of the king of
Babylon and put my sword into his hand; he will bring it against Egypt, take her
plunder, and seize her spoils. 25 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and
the arms of the Pharaoh will fall. They will know that I am the Lord when I give my
sword into the hands of the king of Babylon; he will extend it over the land of Egypt. 26 I
A
V ¦ + I will sell the land into the hand of those who are evil, A
B
V ¦ + the abominations and put an end to A
C
of Memphis V ¦ of Tanis A ¦ ~
D
V ¦ + I will put fear into the land of Egypt. A
E
Literally, "city of Zeus," the Greek rendering of "city of Amun-Ra," formerly Thebes
F
Egyptian, "house of (the goddess) Bastet" (Heb, "Pi-beseth")
G
strong and outstretched V ¦ strong, outstretched, and broken A ¦ strong, positioned,
and broken

will disperse Egypt into the nations and scatter them into the countries, and all of them
will know that I am the Lord.´"
Ezekiel 31
1 It happened that, in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first of the
month, the word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 2 "Son of man, say to the
Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to his multitude: `To whom did you compare yourself
in your height? 3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cypress in Lebanon, beautiful in
appendages and high in stature; his rule was in the midst of the clouds. 4 The water
nourished him; the abyss exalted him; it led its rivers around his plants and sent forth
its accumulations into all the trees of the plain. 5 On account of this, his stature was
exalted beyond all the trees of the plain and his branches spread out A due to much
water. 6 All the birds of heaven nested in his appendages, and all the beasts of the field
conceived underneath his branches; all the multitude of nations resided in his shade.
7 He was beautiful in his height because of the multitude of his branches, for his roots
were in much water. 8 Such cypresses were not B in the paradise of God; there were no
pines similar to his appendages, and there were no firs similar to his branches. No tree
in the paradise of God was comparable to him in his beauty 9 because of the multitude
of his branches, and the trees of God's paradise of luxury were jealous of him.´
10 Because of this, thus says the Lord: `Since you became great in stature and gave
your rule in the midst of the clouds (and I saw when he was exalted), 11 I delivered him
up into the hands of the ruler of the nations, and he produced his destruction.
12 Pestilent strangers from the nations eliminated him and threw him down on the
mountains; his branches fell in all the valleys, and his boughs broke in every plain of
the land. All the peoples of the nations went down from their shelter and laid him low.
13 All the birds of heaven halted at his fall, and all the beasts of the field were over his
boughs, 14 so that none of the trees which were by the water might be exalted in their
stature; they did not give their rule in the midst of the clouds. None of those who drank
water stood with them in their height; all were given to death, to the depth of the
earth, in the midst of the sons of men with who are going down into the hole.´
15 Thus says the Lord, the Lord: `On the day he went down to Hades, the abyss
grieved for him. I stopped its floods and prevented an abundance of water. Lebanon
was darkened over him; C all the trees of the plain broke down over him. 16 Due to the
sound of his fall, the nations shook when I brought him down to Hades with those who
are going down into the pit. All the trees of luxury and the choice of plants of Lebanon,
all who drink water, were comforting him in the land. 17 For they went down with him to
Hades among those who were wounded due to the sword. His seed, those who resided
A V ¦ + and his appendages were exalted A
B Such cypresses were not A ¦ Such cypresses were V
C the abyss grieved for him. I stopped its floods and prevented an abundance of water.
Lebanon was darkened over him V ¦ I stopped the abyss over him and prevented its
floods. Lebanon prevented an abundance of water, grieved for him, and was astonished
at him A

under his shadow, perished in the midst of their life. 18 To whom were you compared?
Go down and be brought down with the trees of luxury to the depth of the earth. You
will lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with those who were wounded by the sword.
So will the Pharaoh and the multitude of his strength be,´ says the Lord, the Lord."
Ezekiel 32
1 It happened that, in the twelfth year, in the tenth month, A on the first of the
month, the word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 2 "Son of man, take up a
lamentation over the Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. You will say to him, `You became
similar to a lion of the nations, and you are like a dragon which is in the sea. You gored
with your rivers, disturbed water with your feet, and trampled on your rivers. 3 Thus
says the Lord: "I will also throw over you the nets of many peoples, and I will bring you
up with my hook. 4 I will extend you over the earth; the plains will be filled with you. I
will cause all the birds of heaven to sit on you, and by you I will fill all the beasts of the
earth. 5 I will give your flesh on the mountains, and I will fill them from your blood. 6 The
earth will be drenched with your excrement, due to your multitude on the mountains; I
will fill valleys from you. 7 I will cover up heaven when you are extinguished, and I will
darken its stars; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not shine its light.
8 Everything which shines light in heaven will darken over you, and I will give darkness
over the earth," says the Lord God. 9 "I will make the heart of many peoples wrathful
whenever I lead your captivity into the nations, into a land which you did not know.
10 Many nations will be gloomy over you, and their kings will be stunned when my sword
flies at their faces, while they await their fall from the day of your fall." 11 For thus says
the Lord God: "The sword of the king of Babylon will arrive at you 12 with the swords of
giants; I will throw down your strength. They are all nuisances from the nations; they
will destroy the arrogance of Egypt, and all her strength will be broken. 13 I will destroy
all her livestock due to much water; the foot of a man will not disturb it any longer, and
the tracks of livestock will not trample it. 14 Then their waters will be quiet in this way,
and their rivers will go like oil," says the Lord, 15 "whenever I give Egypt to destruction
and the land with its fullness is deserted, whenever I disperse everyone who resides in
it; they will know that I am the Lord. 16 There is a lamentation, and you will lament with
it. The daughters of the nations will lament with it; they will lament with it over Egypt
and over all her strength," says the Lord God.´"
17 It happened that, in the twelfth year, in the first month, on the fifteenth of the
month, the word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 18 "Son of man, lament over
the strength of Egypt. The nations will bring her daughters down dead into the depth of
the earth, to those who go down into the trench. B 20 They will fall with him in the midst
of those who were wounded by the sword, and all his strength will sleep. 21 The giants
will say to you, `Be in the depth of the trench; to whom are you superior? Go down and
A
twelfth year … tenth month V ¦ eleventh year … twelfth month A* ¦ eleventh year …
tenth month Ac ¦ tenth year … twelfth month
B 19
V ¦ + `Go down out of the waters seemingly dignified, and sleep with the
uncircumcised.´ A

sleep with the uncircumcised, in the midst of those who were wounded by the sword.´
22 Asshur and all his congregation were there; all his wounded were put there. Their
burial was in the depth of the trench, and his congregation was around his monument,
all the wounded who fell by the sword, A 23 who put the fear of them over the land of life.
24 Elam and all his force were there around his monument, all the wounded who fell by
the sword and those who went down into the depth of the earth, who put the fear of
them over life. They received their torment with those who went down into the trench,
25 in the midst of the wounded. 26 Meshech, Tubal, and all their strength were put there
around his monument, as well as all his wounded and all the uncircumcised who were
wounded due to the sword, who put the fear of them over life. 27 They slept with the
giants who fell of old, who went down into Hades with their military weapons. They
placed their swords under their heads, and their lawless acts were on their bones,
because they made giants afraid during their life. 28 You yourself will sleep in the midst
of the uncircumcised, with those who have been wounded by the sword. 29 The rulers of
Asshur were put there, B who put their strength into the wounding of the sword. These
slept with the wounded, with those who went down into the trench. 30 The rulers of the
north were there, all the captains of Asshur, who went down wounded with their fear
and strength. The uncircumcised slept with those who were wounded by the sword and
endured their torment with those who went down to the trench. 31 King Pharaoh will see
them and be comforted over all their strength," C says the Lord, the Lord. 32 "For I have
put the fear of him over life, yet he will sleep in the midst of the uncircumcised with
those who were wounded by the sword, the Pharaoh and all his multitude," says the
Lord, the Lord.
Ezekiel 33
1 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 2 "Son of man, speak to the sons
of your people. You will say to them, `Over whatever land I bring a sword, the people
of the land will take one man from them, and they will give him as a watchman for
themselves. 3 He will see the sword coming over the land, blow the trumpet, and signal
the people. 4 The one who hears the sound of the trumpet, who hears yet does not keep
watch, the sword will come upon and overtake him; his blood will be upon his head.
5 For although he heard the sound of the trumpet, he did not keep watch; his blood will
be upon him, yet the former, because he did keep watch, rescued his soul. 6 If the
watchman sees the sword coming and does not signal the trumpet, the people do not
keep watch, and the sword comes and takes a soul from them, the latter was taken
because of its lawlessness, and I will require the blood from the hand of the
watchman.´
7 Son of man, I have given you as a watchman for the house of Israel, and you will
A 23
V ¦ + who put their burials in the sides of the pit. An assembly was around his
burial, all the same wounded who fell by the sword, A
B
The rulers of Asshur were put there V ¦ Edom, her kings, and all the rulers of Asshur
were there A
C
V ¦ + those who were wounded by the sword, the Pharaoh and all his force A

hear a word from my mouth. 8 When I say to the sinner, `You will be put to death,´ and
you do not speak to preserve the ungodly person from his way, the lawless person
himself will die in his lawlessness, and I will require his blood from your hand. 9 But if
you forewarn the ungodly person about his way so as to turn from it, and he does not
turn from his way, the latter will die in his ungodliness, yet you yourself have delivered
your own soul.
10 Son of man, say to the house of Israel, `You spoke in this way: "Our wanderings
and our lawless acts are upon us, and in them we are wasting away; how will we
live?"´ 11 Say to them, `As I live,´ says the Lord, `I do not wish the death of the
ungodly person, in order for the ungodly person to turn from his way and for him to
live. Turn from your way; why will you die, O house of Israel?´ 12 Say to the sons of
your people, `The righteousness of the righteous person will not rescue him on
whatever day he wanders, and the lawlessness of the ungodly person will not harm him
on whatever day he turns from his lawlessness; a righteous person will not be able to
be saved on the day of his sin. A 13 When I say to the righteous person, "You will live,"
and he has trusted in his righteousness yet performs lawlessness, B none of his acts of
righteousness will be remembered; he will die in his unrighteousness which he
performed. 14 When I say to the ungodly person, "You will be put to death," he will turn
from his sin, perform justice and righteousness, 15 repay a pledge, make compensation
for plunder, and travel in the ordinances of life so as not to do wrong; he will live and
will not die. 16 None of his sins which he committed will be remembered, for he
performed justice and righteousness; in them he will live.´
17 The sons of your people will say, `The way of the Lord is not straight,´ yet this
way of theirs is not straight. 18 When the righteous person turns from his righteousness
and performs lawless acts, he will die in them. 19 When the sinner turns from his
lawlessness and performs justice and righteousness, in them he himself will live. 20 This
is what you said: `The way of the Lord is not straight.´ I will judge you, O house of
Israel, each one in his ways."
21 It happened that, in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the twelfth month, on the
fifth of the month, one who was brought safely from Jerusalem came to me, saying,
"The city has been captured." 22 The hand of the Lord was upon me in the evening
before he came, and he opened my mouth. Until he came to me in the morning, my
mouth was open; it was no longer constrained.
23 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 24 "Son of man, those who reside
in the deserted places on the land of Israel are saying, `Abraham was one, and he
possessed the land. We are more numerous; to us the land has been given as a
possession.´ 25 Because of this, say to them, `So said the Lord Adonai: "You eat things
with blood, you take your eyes toward your idols, and you pour out blood; will you
inherit the land? 26 You stand on your sword, you perform an abomination, and every
A on the day of his sin A ¦ on whatever day he sins ¦ ~ V
B "You will live," and he has trusted in his righteousness yet performs lawlessness A ¦
"He has trusted in his righteousness," yet he performs lawlessness V

man of you defiles his neighbor; will you inherit the land in this way?"´ A 27 Because of
this, say to them, `Thus says the Lord, the Lord: "As I live, surely those who are in the
deserted places will fall by the sword, those who are on the surface of the plain will be
given as food to the beasts of the field, and I will kill with disease those who are in the
walled places and those who are in the caves. 28 I will give the land as a desert, and the
insolence of its strength will perish; the mountains of Israel will be deserted on account
of there being no traveler. 29 They will know that I am the Lord; I will make their land a
desert, and it will be deserted on account of all their abominations which they
performed."´
30 Son of man, the sons of your people are those who speak concerning you beside
the walls and on the porches of the houses. A man speaks to his brother, saying, `Let
us come together and hear the things which are going out from the Lord.´ 31 They come
to you as a people goes together; they sit in front of you and hear your words, yet they
will not perform them, for a lie is in their mouths and their hearts are after defilements.
32 You are to them like a sound of a sweet, well-tuned harp; they will hear your words,
yet they will not perform them. 33 Whenever it comes, they will say, `Behold, it has
arrived!´ They will know that a prophet was in their midst."
Ezekiel 34
1 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 2 "Son of man, prophesy against
the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to the shepherds, `Thus says the Lord, the
Lord: "O shepherds of Israel, shepherds don't feed themselves, do they? Don't the
shepherds feed the sheep? 3 Behold, you consume the milk, clothe yourselves with the
wool, and slaughter the ample, yet you do not feed my sheep. 4 You did not strengthen
what has been weakened, and you did not revive what was ill; you did not bind up
what has been broken, and you did not return what was wandering; you did not seek
what was lost, and you subdued with hardship what was strong. 5 My sheep were
scattered because there were no shepherds, and they became food for all the beasts of
the field. 6 My sheep were scattered on every mountain and on every high hill; they
were scattered over the surface of all the earth, and there was no one who would seek
them out or turn them back."´"
7 Because of this, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord. 8 "As I live," says the
Lord God, "surely in return for my sheep becoming prey and my sheep becoming food
for all the beasts of the plain while there were no shepherds, the shepherds did not
seek out my sheep, and the shepherds fed themselves but did not feed my sheep. 9 In
return for this, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord. B 10 Thus says the Lord, the
Lord: `Behold, I am against the shepherds. I will seek out my sheep from their hands,
and will turn them back so as not to shepherd my sheep; the shepherds will no longer
feed them. I will rescue my sheep out of their mouths, and they will no longer be food
A 25 Because of this ... every man of you defiles his neighbor; will you inherit the land in
this way?"´ A ¦ 25 Because of this ... each of you defiles the wife of his neighbor; will
you inherit the land in this way?"´ ¦ ~ V
B hear the word of the Lord A ¦ ~ V

for them.´"
11 For thus says the Lord: "Behold, I will seek out my sheep and supervise them. 12 As
the shepherd seeks his flock on a day when there is gloom and cloud in the midst of his
sheep which have been separated, so I will seek out my sheep and bring them back
from every place where they were scattered on a day of cloud and gloom. 13 I will bring
them out of the nations and gather them together from the countries; I will bring them
into their land and feed them on the mountains of Israel, in the valleys, and in every
inhabited place of the land. 14 I will feed them in a good pasture, and their enclosures
will be on the high mountain of Israel. There they will lie down, and there they will rest
in good luxury; they will be fed in a fat pasture on the mountains of Israel. 15 I will feed
my sheep, and I will give them rest; they will know that I am the Lord." Thus says the
Lord, the Lord: 16 "I will seek what was lost, and I will return what was wandering; I will
bind up what has been broken, and I will strengthen what is failing; I will preserve what
is strong, and I will feed them with justice.
17 As for you, the sheep, thus says the Lord, the Lord: `Behold, I will distinguish
between sheep and sheep, rams and male goats. 18 Is it not sufficient for you that you
were pastured on the excellent pasture, trampled on the remnants of your pasture with
your feet, drank the standing water, and disturbed the remainder with your feet? 19 My
sheep were pastured on what has been trodden on by your feet; they drank the water
which has been disturbed by your feet.´"
20 Because of this, thus says the Lord, the Lord: "Behold, I will distinguish between a
strong sheep and a weak sheep. 21 You jostled with your sides and shoulders and gored
with your horns, and you oppressed everything which failed. 22 I will save my sheep, and
they will no longer exist as prey; I will judge between one ram and another ram. 23 I will
raise up over them one shepherd, and he will shepherd them, my slave David; he will
be their shepherd. 24 I the Lord will be God for them, and David will be a ruler in their
midst; I the Lord have spoken.
25 I will make for David a testament of peace, and I will make the evil beasts
disappear from the land; they will reside in the desert and sleep in the forests. 26 I will
give them what surrounds my mountain; I will give you the rain, the rain of blessing.
27 The trees which are in the plain will yield their fruit, the earth will yield her strength,
and they will reside on their land in hope of peace. They will know that I am the Lord
when I break their yoke; I will rescue them out of the hand of those who enslaved
them. 28 They will no longer be prey for the nations, and the beasts of the land will no
longer eat them; they will reside in hope, and there will be no one who would make
them afraid. 29 I will raise up for them a plant of peace, and they will no longer be
destroyed by famine over the land; they will no longer endure the reproach of nations.
30 They will know that I am the Lord their God, and they themselves are my people, the
house of Israel," says the Lord, the Lord. 31 "You are my sheep and the sheep of my
flock, and I am the Lord your God," says the Lord, the Lord.
Ezekiel 35
1 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 2 "Son of man, set your face
against Mount Seir and prophesy against it. 3 Say to it, `Thus says the Lord, the Lord:

"Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir, and I will extend my hand against you; I will
grant you to be a desert, and you will be deserted. 4 I will cause desertion in your cities;
you will be a desert, and you will know that I am the Lord. 5 In return for your becoming
an eternal animosity (you even stationed yourself deceitfully in the house of Israel, with
the hand of enemies, by the sword, in a season of wrongdoing, to the last), 6 because of
this, as I live," says the Lord, the Lord, "since you sinned resulting in blood, blood will
also pursue you. 7 I will grant Mount Seir to be a desert and deserted, and I will destroy
from it men and livestock. 8 I will fill your hills and valleys with your wounded, and in all
your plains those who have been wounded will fall in you by the sword. 9 I will set you
up as an eternal desertion; your cities will no longer be inhabited, and you will know
that I am the Lord.
10 Because you said, `The two nations and the two countries will be mine, and I will
inherit them even though the Lord is there,´ 11 because of this, as I live," says the Lord,
"I will also act toward you according to your animosity, and I will be known by you
whenever I judge you; 12 you will know that I am the Lord. I heard the voice of your
blasphemies, that you said, `The mountains of Israel are deserted; they have been
given to us for food.´ 13 You spoke great words against me with your mouth; I myself
heard." 14 Thus says the Lord: "During the cheerfulness of all the earth, I will make you
into a desert. 15 You will be a desert, O Mount Seir, and all Idumea will be consumed;
you will know that I am the Lord their God."´
Ezekiel 36
1 You, son of man, prophesy over the mountains of Israel, and say to the mountains
of Israel, `Hear the word of the Lord. 2 Thus says the Lord, the Lord: "In return for this,
the enemy said against you, `Good! The eternal deserted places became a possession
for us!´"´ 3 Because of this, prophesy and say, `Thus says the Lord, the Lord: "In return
for your being dishonored and your being hated by those around you, in order that you
might be a possession for the remaining nations (you even went up as chatter by the
tongue and for an insult by the nations), 4 because of this, you mountains of Israel, hear
the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord to the mountains, the hills, the valleys, the
streams, the desolated and obliterated places, and the cities which have been
abandoned, which became a prey and a place of trampling for the surrounding nations
which were left; 5 because of this, thus says the Lord, the Lord: `Surely in the fire of my
fury I spoke against the rest of the nations and against all Idumea, because they gave
my land to themselves for a possession with cheerfulness, dishonoring souls so as to
obliterate them in a plunder.´"´ 6 Because of this, prophesy over the land of Israel, and
say to the mountains, the hills, the valleys, and the glens, `Thus says the Lord:
"Behold, I spoke in my zeal and in my fury, in return for your enduring the reproaches
of the nations. 7 Because of this, I will lift up my hand against the nations which
surround you; these will receive their dishonor. 8 But my people will eat your grapes and
your fruit, you mountains of Israel, for they are hoping to come. 9 For behold, I am over
you, and I will watch over you; you will be tilled and sown. 10 I will multiply men over
you, all the house of Israel to the end; the cities will be inhabited, and the one which
was deserted will be built. 11 I will multiply men and livestock over you. I will cause you

to reside as in your beginning, and I will treat you well just as in your former times; you
will know that I am the Lord. 12 I will conceive men over you, my people Israel. They will
inherit you, and you will be a possession for them; you will no longer continue to be
childless apart from them." 13 Thus says the Lord, the Lord: "In return for this, they said
to you, `You are devouring men and have become childless by your nation.´ 14 Because
of this, you will no longer eat men, and you will no longer make your nation childless,"
says the Lord, the Lord. 15 "The dishonor of nations will no longer be heard against you,
and you will no longer endure the reproaches of peoples," says the Lord, the Lord.´"
16 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 17 "Son of man, the house of
Israel resided on their land and defiled it with their way, with their idols, and with their
unclean acts; their way before my face became like the uncleanness of a woman who
was sitting apart. 18 I poured out my fury on them; A 19 I dispersed them into the nations
and scattered them into the countries. I judged them according to their way and
according to their sin. 20 They entered the nations where they entered, and they
profaned my holy name while it was said of them, `These are the people of the Lord,
and they came out of his land.´ 21 I spared them because of my holy name, which the
house of Israel profaned among the nations where they entered.
22 Because of this, say to the house of Israel, `Thus says the Lord: "I am not doing
this for you, O house of Israel, but because of my holy name, which you profaned
among the nations where you entered. 23 I will sanctify my great name, which was
profaned among the nations, which you profaned in their midst. The nations will know
that I am the Lord when I am sanctified among you in their eyes. 24 I will take you out
of the nations, collect you out of all the lands, and bring you into your land. 25 I will
sprinkle on you clean water; you will be cleansed from all your unclean acts and from
all your idols, and I will cleanse you. 26 I will give you a new heart, and I will give a new
spirit among you; I will take away the stone heart out of your flesh, and I will give you
a fleshly heart. 27 I will give my Spirit among you, and I will make it so that you may
walk in my righteous decrees and preserve and perform my judgments. 28 You will
reside on the land which I gave to your fathers; you will be a people for me, and I will
be a God for you. 29 I will save you from all your unclean acts; I will summon the grain
and multiply it, and will not give a famine over you. 30 I will multiply the fruit of the trees
and the produce of the field, so that you may not receive the reproach of a famine
among the nations. 31 You will remember your evil ways and your habits which were not
good, and in their presence you will be vexed by your lawless acts and on the basis of
your abominations. 32 I am not doing this because of you," says the Lord, the Lord. "It
will be made known to you; be ashamed and turn back from your ways, O house of
Israel."
33 Thus says the Lord, the Lord God: "On the day on which I will cleanse you from all
your lawless acts, I will also cause the cities to be inhabited, and the deserted places
will be built. 34 The obliterated land will be cultivated instead of being obliterated in the
eyes of everyone who passes by. 35 They will say, `That obliterated land became like a
A V ¦ + concerning the blood which they poured out on the land, and they polluted it by
their idols A

garden of delight; the deserted, obliterated, and razed cities sat secure.´ 36 The nations,
as many as are left around you, will know that I the Lord built the desolated places and
planted the obliterated places. I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it."
37 Thus says the Lord God: "I will still be sought by the house of Israel to do this for
them: I will multiply them like human sheep, 38 like holy sheep, like the sheep of
Jerusalem during her festivals. In this way, the deserted cities will be full of human
sheep, and they will know that I am the Lord."´"
Ezekiel 37
1 The hand of the Lord was on me. The Lord brought me out in spirit and put me in
the midst of a plain; the latter was full of human bones. 2 He led me around them in a
circle, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the plain, and behold, they
were exceedingly dry. 3 He said to me, "Son of man, will these bones live?" I said, "O
Lord God, only you are certain of this." 4 He said to me, "Prophesy over these bones;
you will say to them, `O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. 5 Thus says the Lord to
these bones: "Behold, I will bring over you the breath of life. 6 I will give tendons over
you, bring up flesh over you, extend skin over you, and give my Spirit to you, and you
will live. You will know that I am the Lord."´"
7 I prophesied just as he commanded me. It happened that, while I was
prophesying, behold, A there was a shaking, and he attached the bones, each to its
joint. 8 I looked, and behold, tendons and flesh were growing over them, and skin was
going up over them from above, yet there was no spirit among them. 9 He said to me,
"Prophesy, son of man; prophesy over the spirit, and say to the spirit, `Thus says the
Lord: "Come, O spirit, from the four winds of heaven; B breathe into these dead men
and let them live."´" 10 I prophesied just as he commanded me; the spirit entered into
them, and they lived and stood upon their feet, an exceedingly large congregation.
11 The Lord spoke to me, saying, "Son of man, these bones are all the house of
Israel. They are saying, `Our bones have become dry; our hope has perished; we are in
disarray.´ 12 Because of this, prophesy and say, `Thus says the Lord: "Behold, I will
open your tombs; I will bring you up out of your tombs, and I will bring you into the
land of Israel. 13 You will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves in order for
me to bring my people up out of their graves. 14 I will give my Spirit to you and you will
live, and I will put you on your land. You will know that I am the Lord; I have spoken,
and I will do it," says the Lord.´"
15 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 16 "Son of man, take for yourself
a rod and write on it, `Judah and the sons of Israel which belong to him.´ You will take
for yourself a second rod and write it for Joseph, `The rod of Ephraim and all the sons
of Israel which were added to it.´ 17 You will join them to each other for yourself so as
to bind them into one rod; they will be in your hand. 18 It will be that, whenever the
sons of your people say to you, `Will you not tell us what these things are to you?´
A
It happened that, while I was prophesying, behold V ¦ A sound occurred while I was
prophesying, and behold A
B
Come, O spirit, from the four winds of heaven A ¦ Come from the four spirits V

19 you will say to them, `Thus says the Lord: "Behold, I will take the tribe of Joseph,
which is through the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel which belong to him, and
I will give them to the tribe of Judah, and they will be one rod in the hand of Judah."´
20 The rods on which you wrote will be in your hand in their sight. 21 You will say to
them, `Thus says the Lord, the Lord: "Behold, I am taking all the house of Israel out of
the midst of the nations where they entered. I will gather them from all who are around
them, and I will bring them into the land of Israel. 22 I will give them as a nation in my
land and among the mountains of Israel. They will have one ruler, and they will no
longer be two nations, nor will they be divided any longer into two kingdoms, 23 so that
they may no longer be defiled by their idols. A I will deliver them from all their lawless
acts by which they sinned, and I will cleanse them. They will be a people for me, and I
the Lord will be a God for them. 24 My slave David will be a ruler in their midst; there will
be one shepherd of everyone, for they will walk in my ordinances, preserve my
judgments, and perform them. 25 They will reside on their land which I have given to my
slave Jacob, where their fathers resided; they themselves will reside on it, B and David
my slave will be their ruler forever. 26 I will make for them a testament of peace; it will
be an eternal testament with them. I will put my holy places in their midst forever. 27 My
tent will be among them; I will be a God for them, and they will be my people. 28 The
nations will know that I am the Lord who makes them holy when my holy places are in
their midst forever."´"
Ezekiel 38
1 The word of the Lord was directed at me, saying, 2 "Son of man, set your face
against Gog and the land of Magog, the ruler of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and
prophesy against him. 3 Say to him, `Thus says the Lord, the Lord: "Behold, I am
against you, O Gog, the ruler of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal. 4 I will gather you and all
your force, horses and horsemen, all wearing breastplates; a great congregation,
shields, helmets, and swords; 5 Persians, Ethiopians, and Libyans, all with helmets and
shields; 6 Gomer and all who are around him; the house of Togarmah from the end of
the north, and all who are around him; many nations with you.
7 Be prepared; prepare yourself, you and all your congregation which is gathered
with you, and you will be a guardpost for me. 8 After many days he will be prepared,
and at the end of years he will come; he will arrive in the land which was turned back
from the sword, after they are gathered from many nations, against the land of Israel,
which became entirely deserted. He has come out of the nations, and they will all reside
in peace. 9 You will go up like rain and will arrive like a cloud to cover the land, and
there will be you C and all who are around you, and many nations with you."
10 Thus says the Lord, the Lord: "It will also be on that day that words will go up into
your heart, and you will devise evil plans. 11 You will say, `I will go up against the
A V ¦ + by which they sinned, and by their sources of vexation and by all their kingdoms
A ¦ + and by their sources of vexation and by all their ungodly acts
B V ¦ + and their sons and the sons of their sons forever, A
C there will be you V ¦ you will fall A

ejected land; I will arrive against those who are resting quietly and residing in peace,
all inhabiting a land in which there is no wall or bars, and they have no doors, 12 to seize
plunder and to strip off their spoils, to return my hand A to her who had been deserted,
who was inhabited, and against a nation which had been gathered from many nations,
which had acquired properties, which is residing at the navel of the earth.´ 13 Sheba,
Dedan, the Carthaginian merchants, and all their villages will say to you, `Are you
coming to seize plunder and to strip off spoils? Did you gather your congregation to
take silver and gold, to carry away property, to strip off spoils?´"´
14 Because of this, prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog, `Thus says the Lord: "On
that day, when my people Israel are residing in peace, will you not awaken? 15 You will
arrive out of your place from the extremity of the north, and many nations with you, all
of them mounted on horses, a great congregation and a large force. 16 You will ascend
against my people Israel like a cloud to cover the land. During the last days, it will be
that I will bring you up against my land, so that all the nations may know me when I
am sanctified by you before them."
17 Thus says the Lord, the Lord, to Gog: "You are the one about whom I spoke
before the previous days through the hand of my slaves, the prophets of Israel, to bring
you up in those days and years against them. 18 It will be on that day, on a day when
Gog comes against the land of Israel," says the Lord, the Lord, "that my fury will
ascend, 19 as well as my zeal. I spoke in the fire of my wrath, `Surely on that day there
will be a great shaking over the land of Israel; 20 the fish of the sea will be shaken due
to the presence of the Lord, as well as the birds of heaven, the beasts of the plain, all
the creeping things which creep over the earth, and all the men who are on the surface
of the earth. The mountains will be split, the valleys will fall, and every wall on the land
will fall.´ 21 I will summon against him all fear," B says the Lord. "The sword of a man will
be against his brother. 22 I will judge him with death, blood, flooding rain, and
hailstones; I will rain fire and brimstone on him, on all who are with him, and on many
nations with him. 23 I will be magnified, sanctified, and glorified; I will be known in the
presence of many nations, and they will know that I am the Lord."´
Ezekiel 39
1 You, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, `Thus says the Lord: "Behold, I
am against you, O Gog, ruler of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal. 2 I will gather you, direct
you, and cause you to come up from the extremity of the north, and I will bring you up
over the mountains of Israel. 3 I will destroy the bow from your left hand and your
arrows from your right hand. 4 I will throw you down on the mountains of Israel, and
you and all who are around you will fall. The nations which are with you will be given to
multitudes of birds; I have given you to be devoured by every winged creature and by
all the beasts of the plain. 5 You will fall on the surface of the plain, for I spoke it," says
the Lord. 6 "I will send forth fire over Gog, and the islands will be inhabited in peace.
They will know that I am the Lord.
A my hands VA ¦ your hands
B fear V ¦ fear of a sword A

7
My holy name will be known in the midst of my people Israel; my holy name will no
longer be profaned. The nations will know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.
8
Behold, it has arrived, and you will know that it will be," says the Lord, the Lord. "This
is the day concerning which I spoke.
9
Those who inhabit the cities of Israel will come out and make a fire with the
weapons, shields, spears, bows, arrows, hand staffs, and lances; they will make a fire
with them for seven years. 10 They will not take wood out of the plain, nor will they cut
down out of the forests, but they will burn the weapons with fire. They will plunder
those who plundered them and spoil those who spoiled them," says the Lord.
11
"It will be on that day that I will give to Gog a place of renown, a tomb in Israel,
the mausoleum of those who advance to the sea. They will build around the rim of the
valley, and there they will bury Gog and all his multitude; it will be called Gai, A the
mausoleum of Gog. 12 The house of Israel will bury them so that the land may be
cleansed in a seven month period. 13 All the people of the land will bury them; it will be
for them a place of renown on the day it was glorified," says the Lord. 14 "They will
continually set apart men who go over the land to entomb those who have been left on
the surface of the land, to cleanse it after the seven month period, and they will search.
15
Everyone who goes through the land and sees a man's bone will build a sign beside it,
until whenever the entombers entomb it in Gai, the mausoleum of Gog. 16 For the name
of the city will be Mausoleum, and the land will be cleansed."´
17
You, son of man, say, `Thus says the Lord: "Say to every winged bird and to all
the beasts of the plain, `Gather and come; gather from all the surrounding places at
my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you, a great sacrifice on the mountains of
Israel; you will eat meat and drink blood. 18 You will eat the meat of giants, and you will
drink the blood of rulers of the earth, rams, calves, and goats; they are all fattened
calves. 19 You will eat fat to satisfaction, and you will drink wine to intoxication due to
my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. 20 You will be filled at my table with horse
and rider, giant and every man who is a warrior,´" says the Lord.
21
"I will give my glory among you; all the nations will see my justice which I
performed and my hand which I brought over them. 22 The house of Israel will know
that I am the Lord their God from this day and onwards. 23 All the nations will know that
the house of Israel was taken captive because of their sins, since they rebelled against
me, and I turned my face away from them and delivered them up into the hands of
their enemies, and they all fell by the sword. 24 I did to them according to their unclean
acts and according to their lawless acts, and I turned my face away from them."
25
Because of this, thus says the Lord, the Lord: "Now I will turn back the captivity of
Jacob; I will have mercy on the house of Israel and will be zealous on account of my
holy name. 26 They will receive their dishonor and the wrongdoing which they committed
when they resided on their land in peace, yet there will be no one who would terrify.
27
When I turn them back from the nations and I gather them out of the countries of the
nations, I will be sanctified among them in the sight of the nations. 28 They will know
A Heb gai, "valley," first appears untranslated in the LXX as the name for Moses' burial
site in Deut. 34:6

that I am the Lord their God when I am manifested to them among the nations. 29 I will
no longer turn my face away from them, since I poured out my fury on the house of
Israel," says the Lord, the Lord.´"
Ezekiel 40
1 It happened that, in the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the first month, on the
tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the capturing of the city, on that day
the hand of the Lord was on me. 2 He brought me in a vision of God into the land of
Israel and placed me on an exceedingly high mountain; on it there was something like
the construction of a city in front. 3 He brought me in there, and behold, there was a
man, and his appearance was something like the appearance of gleaming bronze. In his
hand was a builders' line and a measuring reed, and he stood at the gate. 4 The man
said to me, "Have you seen, son of man? Look with your eyes and hear with your ears;
arrange in your heart everything which I am showing you. For you have entered here in
order to show you, and you will show everything which you see to the house of Israel."
5 Behold, an enclosing wall was outside the house all around, and the reed was in
the hand of the man; the measure by the cubit was six cubits and a span. He measured
the fortification; the width was equal to the reed, and its height was equal to the reed.
6 He entered the gate which looked toward the east by seven steps, and he measured
the ulam A of the gate as equal to the reed. 7 As for the ta, B the length was equal to the
reed and the width was equal to the reed. The ulam between the taim was six cubits,
and as for the second ta, the width was equal to the reed and the length was equal to
the reed. The ulam was five cubits, 8 and as for the third ta, the width was equal to the
reed and the length was equal to the reed. 9 The ulam of the gateway next to the ulam
of the gate was eight cubits; the éylim C were two cubits, and the ulam of the gate was
inside. 10 The taim of the gate of the ta in front were three on this side and three on
that side. There was one measure for the three, and there was one measure for the
ulamim on this side and on that side. 11 He measured the width of the door of the
gateway as ten cubits and the breadth of the gateway as thirteen cubits. 12 A cubit was
introduced in front of the taim D on this side and on that side; a ta was six cubits on this
side and six cubits on that side. 13 He measured the gate from the wall of a ta to the
wall of a ta; the width was twenty-five cubits, from this gate to that gate. 14 The atrium
of the ulam of the gate outside was twenty cubits E around the taim of the gate. 15 From
the atrium of the gate outside to the atrium of the ulam of the gate inside was fifty
cubits. 16 There were hidden windows on the taim and on the ulamim inside the gate of
the courtyard all around, and windows for the ulamim in the same manner around the
inside. On the ulam there were palm trees on this side and on that side.
17 He brought me into the inner courtyard, and behold, there were priestly chambers
A Heb, "portico"
B Heb, "chamber"
C Heb ayil (pl. éylim), "pilaster" (a column attached to a wall)
D the taim V ¦ a ta with a border of one cubit by one cubit A
E outside was twenty cubits V ¦ outside was twenty-five cubits A ¦ was sixty cubits

and colonnades all around the courtyard; there were thirty priestly chambers among
the colonnades. 18 The porches were behind the gates; the lower colonnade was
according to the length of the gates. 19 He measured the width of the courtyard from
the atrium of the outer gate inside to the atrium of the gate which looked outside,
which looked toward the east, as one hundred cubits. He brought me to the north.
20
Behold, there was a gate which looked toward the north for the outer courtyard.
He measured it, both its length and width, 21 as well as the taim, three on this side and
three on that side, the éylim, the ulamim, and its palm trees. They were according to
the measures of the gate which looked toward the east; its length was fifty cubits, and
its breadth was twenty-five cubits. 22 Its windows, its ulamim, and its palm trees were
just like the gate which looked toward the east; they went up to it by seven rungs, and
the ulamim were inside. 23 There was a gate for the inner courtyard which looked at the
gate of the north, in the manner of the gate which looked toward the east. He
measured the courtyard from gate to gate: one hundred cubits.
24
He brought me toward the south, and behold, there was a gate which looked to
the south. He measured it, the taim, the éylim, and the ulamim according to these
measures. 25 Its windows and the ulamim all around were just like the windows of the
ulam; its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth was twenty-five cubits. 26 There were
seven rungs for it, as well as ulamim inside; there were palm trees for it on the éylim,
one on this side and one on that side. 27 There was a gate opposite the gate of the inner
courtyard to the south. He measured the courtyard from gate to gate; the breadth was
one hundred cubits to the south.
28
He brought me into the inner courtyard of the gate which was to the south, and he
measured the gate according to these measures, 29 as well as the taim, the éylim, and
the ulamim according to these measures. There were windows for it and for the ulamim
all around; its length was fifty cubits, and the breadth was twenty-five cubits. 30 As for
the ulamim all around, the length was twenty-five cubits and the width was five cubits. A
31
The ulamim were toward the outer courtyard; there were palm trees for the ayil, and
eight rungs.
32
He brought me into the gate which looked toward the east, and he measured it
according to these measures, 33 as well as the taim, the éylim, and the ulamim
according to these measures. There were windows for it, and ulamim all around; its
length was fifty cubits, and the breadth was twenty-five cubits. 34 The ulamim were
toward the inner courtyard; there were palm trees on the ayil on this side and on that
side, and there were eight rungs for it.
35
He brought me into the gate which was to the north, and he measured it
according to these measures, 36 as well as the taim, the éylim, and the ulamim. There
were windows for it all around, as well as for its ulamim; its length was fifty cubits, and
the breadth was twenty-five cubits. 37 The ulamim were toward the inner courtyard;
there were palm trees for the ayil on this side and on that side, and there were eight
rungs for it.
A 30 As for the ulamim all around, the length was twenty-five cubits and the width was
five cubits. A ¦ ~ V

38 Its priestly chambers, its doorways, and its ulamim were at the gate; there they
rinsed the whole burnt offering. 39 In the ulam of the second gate, there was an outlet.
There were two tables on this side and two tables on that side, A so that they might
slaughter the whole burnt offering, B those on behalf of sin and on behalf of ignorance.
40 Behind the drain of the whole burnt offerings which looked to the north, there were
two tables to the east, and behind the second one and the ulam of the gate, there were
two tables toward the east, 41 four on this side and four on that side behind the gate.
They slaughter the sacrificial victims on them, in front of the eight tables of sacrificial
victims. 42 There were four hewn stone tables of the whole burnt offerings; the width
was one and a half cubits, the length was two and a half cubits, and the height was
about cubit. On them they will place the implements by which they slaughter there the
whole burnt offerings and the sacrificial victims. 43 They will have a hewn cornice, a span
inside all around, and over the tables, roofs above for covering from the rain and from
the dryness.
44 He brought me into the inner courtyard, and behold, there were two arcades in
the inner courtyard, one leading to the south behind the gate which looked to the
north, and one behind the gate which was to the south but which looked to the north.
45 He said to me, "This arcade which looks to the south is for the priests who keep the
watch of the house, 46 and the arcade which looks to the north is for the priests who
keep the watch of the altar. Those are the sons of Zadok, the ones from Levi who draw
near to the Lord to perform public service for him." 47 He measured the courtyard; the
length was one hundred cubits and the breadth was one hundred cubits on its four
sides. The altar was in front of the house.
48 He brought me into the ulam of the house, and he measured the ayil of the ulam.
The width was five cubits on this side and five cubits on that side; the breadth of the
doorway was fourteen cubits, and the shoulder pieces of the door of the ulam were
three cubits on this side and three cubits on that side. 49 The length of the ulam was
twenty cubits, and the breadth was twelve cubits. They would go up to it by ten steps;
there were pillars on the ulam, one on this side and one on that side.
Ezekiel 41
1 He brought me into the sanctuary, the ulam of which he measured; the width was
six cubits on this side, and the breadth of the ulam was six cubits on that side. 2 The
breadth of the gateway was ten cubits, and the shoulder pieces of the gateway were
five cubits on this side and five cubits on that side. He measured its length as forty
cubits and the breadth as twenty cubits. 3 He entered the inner courtyard and measured
the ayil of the doorway as two cubits, the doorway as six cubits, and the shoulder
pieces of the doorway as seven cubits on this side and seven cubits on that side. 4 He
measured the length of the doors as forty cubits and the breadth as twenty cubits in
A were at the gate; there they rinsed the whole burnt offering. 39 In the ulam of the
second gate, there was an outlet. There were two tables on this side and two tables on
that side, A ¦ were at the second gate 39 as an outlet, V
B the whole burnt offering, A ¦ in it V ¦ in it the whole burnt offering,

front of the sanctuary. He said, "This is the holy of holies."
5 He measured the wall of the house as six cubits and the breadth of the side as four
cubits all around. 6 The sides were thirty-three twice, side by side. There was a space in
the wall of the house, in the sides all around, existing for those who are attempting to
see so that they might not at all touch the walls of the house. 7 The breadth of the
upper one of the sides was according to the projection out of the wall, against the
upper one around the house, so that it might be flattened out from above and they
might ascend to the upper stories from those below and to the third stories from the
middle ones. 8 The tharél A of the house was a summit all around. The space of the sides
was equal to a reed; the space was six cubits. 9 The breadth of the wall of the outer side
was five cubits. As for the remaining areas between the sides of the house 10 and
between the arcades, the breadth was twenty cubits, the circumference of the house all
around. 11 The doors of the arcades were toward the remaining area of the one door
which was to the north, and there was one door to the south. The breadth of the light B
of the remaining area was five cubits wide all around.
12 The partition in front of the remaining area, like one toward the sea, was seventy
cubits; the width of the wall of the partition was five cubits in breadth all around, and
its length was ninety cubits. 13 He measured a length of one hundred cubits opposite the
house; as for the remaining areas, the partitions, and their walls, the length was one
hundred cubits. 14 The breadth in front of the house and the remaining areas opposite
was one hundred cubits.
15 He measured the length of the partition in front of the remaining area of the back
parts of that house; as for the remaining areas on this side and on that side, the length
was one hundred cubits. The sanctuary, the corners, and the outer ulam were overlaid
with ceilings. 16 The windows were latticed, narrow openings all around for the three so
as to look through. The house and the adjoining parts were planked all around, as well
as the floor and from the floor as far as the windows. The windows opened out in three
parts in order to look through. 17 As far as what was next to the inner one and as far as
the outer one, and on the entire wall all around on the inside and on the outside,
18 there were carved cherubim and palm trees between the cherub and cherub. There
were two faces for a cherub: 19 the face of a man was toward a palm tree on this side
and on that side, and the face of a lion was toward a palm tree on this side and on that
side. The entire house was carved all around. 20 From the floor to the ceiling there were
cherubim and carved palm trees.
21 The holy place and the sanctuary opened out on four sides. In front of the holy
places, the appearance was like the sight of a wooden altar; 22 its height was three
cubits, the length was two cubits, and the breadth was two cubits. It had horns, and its
base and its walls were wooden. He said to me, "This is the table which is before the
presence of the Lord." 23 There were two doorways for the sanctuary and the holy place.
24 There were two doorways for the two pivoting doorways, two doorways for the one
A Possibly a parapet-like structure, from Heb raal, "to reel" or "to dangle," through its
derivative nouns realah, "veil," and tharélah, "reeling" (unique to this text)
B A natural light source other than a window, such as a skylight (also in 42:7, 10-12)

and two doorways for the second door. 25 A carving was on them: cherubim on the
doorways of the sanctuary, and palm trees according to the carving of the holy places.
There was excellent wood in front of the ulam outside, 26 and there were hidden
windows. He measured on this side and on that side to the roofs of the ulam; the sides
of the house were yoked.
Ezekiel 42
1 He brought me into the inner courtyard toward the east, opposite the gate to the
north. He brought me in, and behold, there were five arcades near the remaining area
and near the partition to the north. 2 The length toward the north was about one
hundred cubits, and the width was fifty cubits, 3 delineated in the manner of the gates
of the inner courtyard and in the manner of the colonnades of the outer courtyard.
Triple porches were arranged in a row facing each other. 4 Opposite the arcades was a
walkway. The width was ten cubits; the length was about one hundred cubits. Their
doorways were to the north. 5 The upper walkways were similar, for the colonnade
projected from it, from the colonnade underneath, and there was a space. In this way
there was a colonnade and a space, and in this way there were porches. 6 For they were
triple, and they did not have pillars like the pillars of the outer ones; because of this,
they projected away from the ground from the ones underneath and the ones in the
middle. 7 There was light outside in the manner of the arcades of the outer courtyard
which looked opposite the arcades which were to the north; the length was fifty cubits.
8 For the length of the arcades which looked toward the inner courtyard was fifty cubits;
these are those which faced each other; the whole thing was one hundred cubits.
9 There were doors of these arcades belonging to the entrance which was to the east, so
as to go in through them out of the outer courtyard 10 according to the light of the
walkway at the beginning.
The parts to the south were arcades in front of the south, in front of the remaining
area and in front of the partition. 11 The walkway in front of them was according to the
measures of the arcades which were to the north, according to their length and
according to their breadth, according to all their exits and according to all their turns,
according to their lights and according to their doorways, 12 those of the arcades which
were to the south, and according to the doorways from the beginning of the walkway,
as it was by the light of the space of a reed and toward the east so as to go in through
them.
13 He said to me, "The arcades to the north and the arcades to the south which are
in front of the spaces, these are the arcades of the holy place in which the priests, the
sons of Zadok who draw near to the Lord, will eat the holy of holies there. They will
place there the holy of holies, the sacrifice, those concerning sin, and those concerning
ignorance, for the place is holy. 14 No one will come in there except the priests; they will
not come out of the holy place into the outer courtyard, so that those who move
forward may be continually holy, and they may not touch their apparel in which they
perform public service, for these things are holy. They will put on other garments
whenever they touch the people."
15 The measurement of the house inside was completed. He brought me out by the

way of the gate which looked toward the east, and he measured the pattern of the
house all around in order. 16 He stood behind the gate which looked toward the east,
and he measured five hundred with the measuring reed. 17 He turned to the north and
measured the area in front of the north as five hundred cubits with the measuring reed.
18 He turned to the sea and measured the area in front of the sea as five hundred with
the measuring reed. 19 He turned to the south and measured opposite the south as five
hundred with the measuring reed. 20 The four parts were by the same reed. He set it in
order, as well as their enclosure all around, as five hundred toward the east. There was
a breadth of five hundred cubits to distinguish between the holy places and the
fortification which was in the order of the house.
Ezekiel 43
1 He brought me to the gate which looked toward the east, and he brought me out.
2 Behold, the glory of the God of Israel came by the way of the gate which looked to the
east; there was a sound of a camp, like the sound of many doubling up, and the earth
shone like light from the glory all around. 3 The vision which I saw was like the vision
which I saw when I went in to anoint the city; the vision of the chariot which I saw was
like the vision which I saw at the River Chebar. I fell on my face. 4 The glory of the Lord
entered the house by the way of the gate which looked toward the east. 5 The Spirit
took me up and brought me into the inner courtyard; behold, the house was full of the
glory of the Lord.
6 I stood, and behold, there was a voice out of the house of one speaking to me, and
a man stood next to me. 7 He said to me, "Son of man, you have seen the place of my
throne and the place of the soles of my feet, in which my name will pitch its tent in the
midst of the house of Israel forever. The house of Israel, they and their governors, will
no longer profane my holy name by their prostitution and by the murders of their
governors in their midst, 8 when they place my threshold by their threshold and my
doorjambs next to their doorjambs. They gave my wall as if it joined me and them, and
they profaned my holy name with their lawless act which they performed. I wiped them
out with my fury and with murder. 9 Now let them put away from me their prostitution
and the murders of their governors, and I will pitch my tent in their midst forever.
10 You, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, its visions and its
arrangement, and they will grow weary of their sins. 11 They will receive their
punishment concerning everything which they did. You will describe the house, its
preparation, its exits, its entrances, A its substance, all its ordinances, and all its
regulations; you will make them known to them and describe them before them. They
will preserve all my righteous decrees and all my ordinances, and they will perform
them, 12 as well as the description of the house on the summit of the mountain. All its
borders all around will be a holy of holies. This is the law of the house. B
13 These are the measures of the altar, by the cubit of a cubit and a span. The bulge:
the bottom will be about a cubit, and the breadth will be a cubit. The cornice on its lip:
A its preparation, its exits, its entrances A ¦ its exits V
B This is the law of the house. A ¦ ~ V

a span all around. This will be the height of the altar: 14 from the bottom of the
beginning of its cavity to the great mercy seat which is underneath there will be two
cubits, and the breadth will be a cubit. From the little mercy seat to the great mercy
seat there will be four cubits, and the breadth will be a cubit. 15 The ariel A will be four
cubits, and from the ariel and above the horns there will be a cubit. 16 The ariel will be
twelve cubits long, about twelve cubits wide, square on its four sides. 17 As for the
mercy seat, the length will be fourteen cubits; the breadth will be about fourteen cubits
on its four sides. The cornice for it circling around it will be half a cubit; its rim will be a
cubit all around, and its rungs will look toward the east."
18 He also said to me, "Son of man, thus says the Lord God of Israel: `These are the
ordinances of the altar on the day of its making, to offer up on it whole burnt offerings
and to pour out blood on it. 19 You will give to the priests, to the Levites, to those of the
seed of Zadok, to those who draw near me,´ says the Lord God, `in order to perform
public service for me, a calf from the cattle concerning sin. 20 They will take some of its
blood and will place it on the four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the mercy
seat, and on the base all around; they will sprinkle it B and they will make atonement for
it. 21 They will take the calf which is concerning sin, and it will be burned in the
separated part of the house, outside the holy places. 22 On the second day they will take
two unblemished kids of the goats on behalf of sin, and they will make atonement for
the altar just as they made atonement with the calf. 23 After you complete the
atonement, they will bring forth an unblemished calf from the cattle and an
unblemished ram from the sheep. 24 You will bring them forth before the Lord, and the
priests will sprinkle salt on them and offer them up as whole burnt offerings to the
Lord. 25 For seven days you will render a kid on behalf of sin each day, as well as a calf
from the cattle and a ram from the sheep; they will render them unblemished for seven
days. 26 They will make atonement for the altar and cleanse it, and they will fill their
hands. 27 It will be that, from the eighth day onward, the priests will render on the altar
your whole burnt offerings and those pertaining to your salvation, and I will accept
you,´ says the Lord."
Ezekiel 44
1 He returned me by the way of the outer gate of the holy places, which looked
toward the east; it was shut. 2 The Lord said to me, "This gate will be shut; it will not be
opened, and no one will pass through it. For the Lord God of Israel will come in through
it, and it will be shut. 3 For the governor will sit in it in order to eat bread before the
Lord; he will come in by the way of the ulam of the gate, and he will come out by his
way."
4 He brought me in by the way of the gate which was to the north, in front of the
house. I looked, and behold, the house of the Lord was full of glory, and I fell on my
face. 5 The Lord said to me, "Son of man, make arrangements in your heart, see with
your eyes, and hear with your ears everything which I am speaking with you according
A Heb ariéyl, "altar hearth"; see 1 Sup. 11:22
B they will sprinkle it A ¦ ~ V

to all the ordinances of the house of the Lord and according to all its regulations. You
will arrange your heart in the entrance of the house according to all its exits among all
the holy things. 6 You will say to the provoking house, to the house of Israel, `Thus says
the Lord God: "Let that be enough of all your lawless acts for you, O house of Israel,
7 for you to bring in sons of foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in
flesh, to be in my holy places. They profaned them when you brought forth bread,
flesh A and blood, and you transgressed my testament by all your lawless acts. 8 You did
not keep the watch of my holy places, yet B you gave orders to keep the watches in my
holy places."
9 Because of this, thus says the Lord God: "No son of a foreigner, uncircumcised in
heart and uncircumcised in flesh, will enter my holy places among all the sons of
foreigners who are in the midst of the house of Israel. 10 Instead, the Levites, who
bounded C away from me when Israel wandered away from me after their
considerations, will receive their wrongdoing. 11 They will be performing public service in
my holy places as doorkeepers at the gates of the house, and they will be performing
public service for the house. They will slaughter the whole burnt offerings and the
sacrifices for the people, and they will stand before the people to perform public service
for them. 12 Since they were performing public service for them before the face of their
idols, it became for the house of Israel a punishment of wrongdoing. On account of
this, I lifted up my hand against them," says the Lord God. D 13 "They will not draw near
to me to serve me as priests, or to move toward the holy things of the sons of Israel or
toward my holy of holies. They will receive their dishonor with regard to the wandering
in which they wandered. 14 They will arrange them to keep the watches of the house for
all its works and for everything which they will do.
15 The priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok who kept the watches of my holy
places when the house of Israel wandered away from me, will move toward me in order
to perform public service for me. They will stand before my face to bring forth a
sacrifice to me, fat and blood," says the Lord God. 16 "They will enter my holy places,
and they will come to my table in order to perform public service for me; they will keep
my watches. 17 It will be that, when they go into the gates of the inner courtyard, they
will put on linen robes; they will not put on wool when they perform public service away
from the gate of the inner courtyard. 18 They will have linen turbans on their heads, and
they will have linen drawers on their loins; they will not forcefully gird themselves.
19 When they go out into the outer courtyard toward the people, they will take off their
robes in which they are performing public service, and they will place them in the
arcades of the holy things. They will put on other robes, and they will not sanctify the
people with their robes. 20 They will not shave their heads, and they will not pluck their
beards; they will cover their heads. 21 No priest will drink wine when they go into the
inner courtyard. 22 They will not take as a wife for themselves a widow and one who has
A
flesh VA ¦ fat
B
You did not keep the watch of my holy places, yet A ¦ ~ V
C
bounded V ¦ were taken A
D
V ¦ + "They will receive their dishonor. A ¦ + "They will receive their wrongdoing.

een driven out, but rather a virgin from the seed of Israel, yet they will take a widow if
she is from a priest. 23 They will teach my people, and they will make known to them the
difference between holy and profane and between clean and unclean. 24 They will
preside over a judgment of blood in order to decide it. They will be righteous with my
righteous decrees, they will be just with my judgments, they will preserve my
regulations and my ordinances during all my feasts, and they will sanctify my sabbaths.
25 They will not come in to be defiled over the soul of a man, but he will be defiled over
a father, over a mother, over a son, over a daughter, over a brother, and over his sister
for whom there is no husband. 26 After he is cleansed, he will number seven days for
himself. 27 On whatever day they go into the inner courtyard to perform public service in
the holy place, they will bring forth mercy," says the Lord God.
28 "It will be an inheritance for them. I am the inheritance for them; a possession will
not be given to them among the sons of Israel, for I am their possession. 29 They will
eat the sacrifices, both those on behalf of sin and those on behalf of ignorance;
everything distinguished in Israel will be for them. 30 The initial offerings of everything,
the firstborn of everything, and all deductions from all your initial offerings will be for
the priests. You will give your first products to the priest in order to place your blessings
on your houses. 31 The priests will not eat any carcass and what has been torn by beasts
from the birds and from the livestock.
Ezekiel 45
1 When you measure the land in an inheritance, you will set apart an initial offering
for the Lord, a holy area from the land; the length will be twenty-five thousand, and the
breadth twenty thousand. It will be holy within all its borders all around. 2 There will be
a sacred place out of this, five hundred by five hundred, a square all around, and a
space for it all around, fifty cubits. 3 Out of this measurement, you will measure the
length as twenty-five thousand and the breadth as twenty thousand; A the holy of
holies B will be in it. 4 There will be something from the land for the priests who perform
public service in the holy place. It will be for those who draw near to perform public
service for the Lord; it will be for them a place for houses which have been set apart for
their sacred activity. 5 The length will be twenty-five thousand and the breadth will be
twenty thousand; it will be for the Levites who perform public service for the house,
cities for them to reside in as a possession. 6 You will give the possession of the city; the
breadth will be five thousand and the length will be twenty-five thousand. In the
manner of the initial offering of the holy places, they will be for all the house of Israel,
7 as well as for the governor, out of this and from this, as the initial offerings of the holy
places, as the possession of the city in front of the initial offerings of the holy places
and in front of the possession of the city, the areas which are toward the sea, and from
those which are toward the sea to the east. The length will be like one of the parts from
the borders which are toward the sea, and the length will be at the borders which are
A twenty thousand VA ¦ ten thousand (also in v. 5)
B the holy of holies V ¦ the sacred place of the holy things A ¦ the sacred place, the holy
of holies,

toward the east of the land. 8 It will be for him as a possession in Israel. The governors
of Israel will no longer overpower my people, and the house of Israel will inherit the
land according to their tribes."
9 Thus says the Lord God: "Let that be enough for you, O governors of Israel.
Remove wrongdoing and misery, perform justice and righteousness, and take away
overpowering from my people," says the Lord God. 10 "Let there be a righteous balance,
a righteous measure, and a righteous choenix A for you as the measure. 11 The choenix
will similarly be one for receiving. The choenix will be a tenth of an omer; the measure
will be equal to an omer. B 12 The weights will be twenty obols; five shekels will be five,
ten shekels will be ten, and fifty shekels will be one mina C for you.
13 This is the initial offering which you will set apart: one sixth of a measure from an
omer of wheat, and one sixth of an ephah from a cor of barley. 14 The ordinance of the
oil: one cup of oil from ten cups (for ten cups are an omer), 15 and one sheep from ten
sheep, as a deduction from all the families of Israel for sacrifices, for whole burnt
offerings, and for what pertains to salvation, in order to make atonement concerning
you," says the Lord God. 16 "All the people will give this initial offering to the governor of
Israel. 17 The whole burnt offerings, the sacrifices, and the libations will be through the
governor; they will be during the feasts, during the new moons, and during the
sabbaths, and during all the feasts of the house of Israel. He will render those on behalf
of sin, the sacrifice, the whole burnt offerings, and those pertaining to salvation, in
order to make atonement on behalf of the house of Israel."
18 Thus says the Lord God: "In the first month, on the first of the month, you will
take an unblemished calf from the cattle to make atonement for the holy place. 19 The
priest will take some of the blood of the atonement and put it on the doorjambs of the
house, on the four corners of the temple, on the altar, and on the doorjambs of the
gate of the inner courtyard. 20 You will do so in the seventh month; on the first of the
month you will take an allocation from each one, D and you will make atonement for the
house.
21 In the first month, on the fourteenth of the month, there will be the Passover feast
for you; you will eat unleavened bread for seven days. 22 On that day the governor will
render, on behalf of himself and the house and on behalf of all the people of the land, a
calf on behalf of sin. 23 For the seven days of the feast, he will render as whole burnt
offerings to the Lord seven calves and seven unblemished rams each day for the seven
days, a kid from the goats each day on behalf of sin and a sacrifice. 24 You will make a
pastry for the calf, a pastry for the ram, and a hin of oil for the pastry. 25 In the seventh
month, on the fifteenth of the month, during the feast, you will render according to the
same things for seven days, just like those on behalf of sin, just like the whole burnt
A A choinix was a dry measure of one to two quarts (Rev. 6:6)
B the measure will be equal to an omer A ¦ and a tenth of an omer will be equal to an
omer V ¦ and the measure will be a tenth of an omer; it will be equal to an omer
C See Luke 19:13
D an allocation from each one V ¦ from each one who is ignorant, yet apart from an
infant A ¦ an allocation from each one who is ignorant and an infant

offerings, just like the manna, A and just like the oil."
Ezekiel 46
1 Thus says the Lord God: "The gate which is in the inner courtyard, which looks to
the east, will be shut for the six working days. On the day of the sabbath it will be
opened, and on the day of the new moon it will be opened. 2 The governor will enter by
the way of the ulam of the inner gate, and he will stand at the doors of the gate. The
priests will produce his whole burnt offerings and those pertaining to his salvation, and
he will worship at the door of the gate. He will come out, and the gate will not be shut
until evening. 3 The people of the land will worship before the Lord at the doors of that
gate, both on the sabbaths and at the new moons. 4 The governor will offer whole burnt
offerings for the Lord on the day of the sabbath: six unblemished lambs, an
unblemished ram, 5 a manna pastry for the ram, a sacrifice for the lambs (a gift from his
hand), and a hin of oil for the pastry. 6 On the day of the new moon, there will be an
unblemished calf (the son of a herd), B six lambs, and an unblemished ram, 7 and there
will be a pastry for the ram, a pastry for the calf and for the lambs just as his hand may
furnish, and a hin of oil for the pastry. 8 When the governor goes in, he will come in by
the way of the ulam of the gate, and he will come out by the way of the gate.
9 Whenever the people of the land go in before the Lord during the feasts, the one who
goes in to worship by the way of the gate which is on the north will come out by the
way of the gate which is on the south, and the one who goes in by the way of the gate
which is on the south will come out by the way of the gate which is on the north. He
will not return by the gate through which he came in, but he will come out straight
across from it. 10 The governor will come in with them in their midst when they go in,
and will come out when they go out. 11 During the feasts and during the general
assemblies, there will be a manna pastry for the calf, a pastry for the ram and for the
lambs just as his hand may furnish, and a hin of oil for the pastry. 12 If the governor
produces as an acknowledgment to the Lord a whole burnt offering pertaining to
salvation, he will open for himself the gate which looks toward the east, and he will
produce his whole burnt offering and those pertaining to his salvation in the manner
that he produces them on the day of the sabbath. He will come out, and he will shut
the doors after he comes out. 13 He will produce a year old unblemished lamb as a
whole burnt offering each day for the Lord; he will produce it in the morning. 14 He will
produce for it in the morning a sixth of a measure of manna and a third of a hin of oil,
in order to mix the manna flour for the Lord continually as an eternal ordinance. 15 You
will produce the lamb and the manna, and you will produce the oil in the morning
continually as a whole burnt offering."
16 Thus says the Lord God: "If the governor gives a gift to one of his sons from his
inheritance, this will be a possession for his sons by inheritance. 17 If he gives a gift from
his inheritance to one of his servants, it will be for him until the year of release, and he
A manna A (Heb man) ¦ manaa V (Heb minchah, "grain offering"; in Lev. 2:15, the latter
was mixed with incense, which like manna was made from plant resin)
B (the son of a herd) A ¦ ~ V

will give it back to the governor; nevertheless, it will be part of the inheritance of his
sons for them. 18 The governor will not take part of the inheritance of the people in
order to overpower them. He will give an inheritance to his sons from his possession, so
that each of my people may be not scattered from his possession."´"
19 He brought me into the entrance of what was behind the gate, into the arcade of
the holy things of the priests, which looked to the north. Behold, there was a place
which had been set apart. 20 He said to me, "This is the place where the priests will boil
those on behalf of sin ignorance and those on behalf of sin. There also they will bake
the entire manna, so as not to bring it out into the outer courtyard to sanctify the
people." 21 He brought me out into the outer courtyard and led me around by the four
parts of the courtyard. Behold, there was a courtyard on the sides of the courtyard, a
courtyard on each side, 22 a courtyard for the four sides of the courtyard, little
courtyards forty cubits in length and thirty cubits in width (one measure for the four).
23 There were arcades all around in them, all around the four, and kitchens located
under the arcades all around. 24 He said to me, "These are the houses of the kitchens, A
where those who perform public service for the house will boil the sacrificial animals of
the people."
Ezekiel 47
1 He brought me in by the threshold of the house. Behold, water was going out
under the atrium toward the east, for the face of the house looked toward the east. The
water was descending from the right side, from the south by the altar. 2 He brought me
out by the way of the gate which was on the north, and he led me around the way
outside to the gate of the courtyard which looked toward the east. Behold, water was
being brought down from the right side.
3 Just then there was a departure of a man from the opposite direction, and a
measuring line was in his hand. He measured a thousand with the measure, and he
passed through in the water; it was water from a conduit. B 4 He measured a thousand,
and he passed through the water; it was water up to the thighs. He measured a
thousand, and he passed through; it was water up to the loins. 5 He measured a
thousand, and he could not pass through, for the water was violent like a rush of a
wadi which they do not go across. 6 He said to me, "Have you seen this, son of man?"
He brought me by the lip of the river. 7 In my returning, behold, by the lip of the river
there was an exceedingly large number of trees on this side and on that side. 8 He said
to me, "This is the water which is going out to Galilee which is toward the east. It was
descending to Arabia and coming until it was by the sea, by the water of the outlet; the
waters will be healthy. 9 It will be that every soul of the animals which are teeming over
everything, over which the river will come there, will live. An exceedingly large number
of fish will be there, for this water will arrive there, and they will be healthy and live.
Everything over which the river comes there will live. 10 Fishermen will stand there from
Engedi to Eneglaim; it will be a drying place for dragnets. It will be by itself; its fish will
A kitchens A ¦ cooks V
B aphesis, elsewhere "forgiveness" or "liberty"; see Joel 4:18

e like the fish of the great sea, an exceedingly large multitude. 11 In its outlet, in its
turning, and in its elevation, they will not be healthy; they have been given to salt.
12 Every edible tree will ascend at the river, at its lip on this side and on that side. They
will not grow old by it, neither will its fruit fail. It will cast forth the first of its newness,
for these waters of theirs are going out of the holy places. Their fruit will be for eating,
and their ascension will be for health."
13 Thus says the Lord God: "You will inherit these borders of the land; it is an
assignment of a parcel to the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel. 14 You will inherit it,
each just like his brother, toward which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers.
This land will fall to you in an inheritance.
15 These are the borders of the land toward the north, from the great sea which
descends and surrounds the entrance of Hamath-zedad, 16 Berothah, Sibraim, Eliam:
between the borders of Damascus and the borders of Hamath (the courtyard of
Saunan), which are above the borders of the territory of Hauran. 17 These are the
borders from the sea, from the courtyard of Enan: the borders of Damascus and those
toward the north. 18 Those toward the east: between the territory of Hauran and
Damascus, and between the territory of Gilead and the land of Israel, the Jordan
divides at the sea which is toward the east of the Palm Grove. These are the ones
toward the east. 19 Those toward the south and the southwest: from Teman and the
Palm Grove to the water of Meribath-kadesh, extending to the great sea. This is the
part which is south and southwest. 20 This is the part of the great sea; it forms a border
as far as the opposite the entrance of Hamath, as far as its entrance. These are places
which are toward the sea at Hamath.
21 You will divide this land for them, for the tribes of Israel. 22 You will cast it by lot
for you and for the guests who are sojourning in your midst, who conceived sons in
your midst. They will be to you like natives among the sons of Israel; they will eat with
you in the inheritance in the midst of the tribes of Israel. 23 They will be in the tribe of
guests, among the guests who are with them. You will give them an inheritance there,"
says the Lord God.
Ezekiel 48
1 "These are the names of the tribes: from the source which is toward the north,
throughout the portion of the descent which divides at the entrance of Hamath, the
courtyard of Enan, the border of Damascus toward the north throughout the portion of
Hamath, the courtyard, there will be for them the areas toward the east as far as those
toward the sea, for Dan, one; 2 from the borders of Dan, those toward the east as far as
those toward the sea, for Asher, one; 3 from the borders of Asher, from those toward
the east as far as those toward the sea, for Naphtali, one; 4 from the borders of
Naphtali, from those toward the east as far as those toward the sea, for Manasseh,
one; 5 from the borders of Manasseh, from those toward the east as far as those toward
the sea, for Ephraim, one; 6 from the borders of Ephraim, from those toward the east as
far as those toward the sea, for Reuben, one; 7 and from the borders of Reuben, from
those toward the east as far as those toward the sea, for Judah, one.
8 From the borders of Judah, from those toward the east as far as those toward the

sea, there will be the first fruits of what was set apart, twenty-five thousand in width
and in length, just like one of the portions from those toward the east and as far as
those toward the sea. The holy place will be in their midst, 9 the first fruits which they
will set apart for the Lord, twenty-five thousand in length and twenty-five thousand in
width. 10 From these, the first fruits of the holy places will be for the priests: toward the
north, twenty-five thousand; toward the sea, ten thousand in breadth; A and toward the
south, twenty-five thousand in length. The mountain of the holy places will be in its
midst 11 for the priests, the sanctified sons of Zadok who keep the watches of the house,
who were not deceived in the deception of the sons of Israel, in the manner that the
Levites were deceived. 12 The first fruits will be given to them out of the first fruits of the
land, a holy of holies from the borders of the Levites. 13 The Levites will have the parts
next to the borders of the priests, twenty-five thousand in length and ten thousand in
width; all the length will be twenty-five thousand, and the width twenty thousand.
14
Nothing from it will be sold or measured, neither will the initial offerings of the land be
removed, for they are holy to the Lord.
15
The five thousand which remain beyond the breadth, beyond the twenty-five
thousand, will be a fortification for the city, resulting in its residence and space; the city
will be in its midst. 16 These are its measurements: B from those toward the north, four
thousand five hundred; from those toward the south, four thousand five hundred; from
those toward the east, four thousand five hundred; and from those toward the sea, four
thousand five hundred. 17 There will be a space for the city: toward the north, two
hundred fifty; toward the south, two hundred fifty; toward the east, two hundred fifty;
and toward the sea, two hundred fifty. 18 The remainder of the length which is next to
the first fruits of the holy places will be ten thousand toward the east and ten thousand
toward the sea. They will be the first fruits of the holy place; its produce will result in
bread for those who make the city. 19 Those who make the city will make it out of all the
tribes of Israel. 20 All the first fruits will be a square, twenty-five thousand by twenty-five
thousand; you will set apart the first fruits of it, the holy place, from the possession of
the city.
21
The remainder of this side and of that side from the first fruits of the holy place
will be for the governor, resulting in the possession of the city up to twenty-five
thousand in length as far as the borders which are toward the east and toward the sea,
up to twenty-five thousand as far as the borders which are toward the sea next to the
portions of the governor. The first fruits of the holy places and the sacred place of the
house will be in its midst. 22 It will be from the possession of the Levites and from the
possession of the city in the midst of the governors; it will belong to the governors
between the borders of Judah and the borders of Benjamin.
23
The remainder of the tribes: from those toward the east as far as those toward the
sea, for Benjamin, one; 24 from the borders of Benjamin, from those toward the east as
far as those toward the sea, for Simeon, one; 25 from the borders of Simeon, from those
A VA ¦ + toward the east, ten thousand in breadth;
B The antecedent for "its measurements" is the city, but for "its residence" and "its
midst" in the previous verse, the antecedent is the fortification

toward the east as far as those toward the sea, for Issachar, one; 26 from the borders of
Issachar, from those toward the east as far as those toward the sea, for Zebulun, one;
27 from the borders of Zebulun, from those toward the east as far as those toward the
sea, for Gad, one; 28 and from the borders of Gad, as far as those toward the southwest,
his borders will be from Teman and the water of Meribath Kadesh as an inheritance, as
far as the great sea. 29 This is the land, which you will assign by lot to the tribes of
Israel, and these are their divisions," says the Lord God.
30 These are the exits of the city which are toward the north: four thousand five
hundred in measurement. 31 The gates of the city will be based on the names of the
tribes of Israel: three gates toward the north (the gate of Reuben, one, the gate of
Judah, one, and the gate of Levi, one); 32 those toward the east, four thousand five
hundred, and three gates (the gate of Joseph, one, the gate of Benjamin, one, and the
gate of Dan, one); 33 those toward the south, four thousand five hundred in
measurement, and three gates (the gate of Simeon, one, the gate of Issachar, one, and
the gate of Zebulun, one); 34 those toward the sea, four thousand five hundred in
measurement, and three gates (the gate of Gad, one, the gate of Asher, one, and the
gate of Naphtali, one). 35 The circumference: eighteen thousand. The name of the city,
from the day it comes into being: the Lord is there. A
A The name of the city, from the day it comes into being: the Lord is there. A ¦ The
name of the city: from the day it comes into being, that will be its name. V (apparently
meaning that the city will be named after the date of its founding)

DANIEL
Susannah
1 There was a man residing in Babylon; his name was Jehoiakim. 2 He took a wife by
the name of Susannah, the daughter of Hilkiah; she was exceedingly beautiful, and she
feared the Lord. 3 Her parents were righteous, and they taught their daughter according
to the law of Moses. 4 Jehoiakim was exceedingly rich, and he had a park adjacent to his
house. The Judeans used it regularly, because it was more highly esteemed than any.
5 Two elders from the people were appointed as judges during that year; concerning
them, the Master declared, "Lawlessness came out from Babylon, from elder judges
who were supposed to guide the people." 6 They held court in the house of Jehoiakim,
and everyone who had a case to be judged came to them.
7 It happened that, when the people departed in the middle of the day, Susannah
would go into and walk in the park of her husband. 8 The two elders observed her going
in and walking each day, and they were filled with covetousness for her. 9 They
perverted their own minds, and they turned their eyes away so as not to look at heaven
nor remember righteous judgments. 10 They were both smitten by her, yet did not tell
each other of their distress, 11 for they were ashamed to tell of their covetousness, that
they wanted to have intercourse with her. 12 They watched eagerly each day for a
chance to see her.
13 The one said to the other, "Let us go home now, for it is the lunch hour." After
they came out and separated from each other, 14 they turned back and came to the
same place. When they asked each other the reason, they confessed their
covetousness. Then they agreed together on an opportune time when they could find
her alone.
15 It happened that, while they were watching on a convenient day, she entered at
some point just as she had the day before and the day before that, with two maids
only. She desired to bathe in the park, for it was hot. 16 No one was there except the
two elders who were hidden, who were watching her. 17 She said to the maids, "Now
bring me oil and soap, and shut the gates of the park, so that I may bathe." 18 They did
as she said; they shut up the gates of the park, and they came out through the side
gates to bring the things which had been commanded to them. They did not see the
elders, for they were hidden.
19 It happened that, as the maids came out, the two elders stood up and ran to her.
20 They said, "Behold, the gates of the park have been shut, and no one will observe us.
We are full of covetousness for you, so give us your permission and have relations with
us. 21 Otherwise, we will testify against you that a young man was with you, and that
because of this you sent the maids away from you."
22 Susannah moaned and said, "I am blocked at every turn, for if I do this, it is death
to me, and if I do not, I will not escape your hands. 23 It is better for me not to do it and
to fall into your hands than to sin in the sight of the Lord."
24 Susannah cried out in a loud voice, and the two elders shouted against her. 25 One

of them ran and opened the gates of the park. 26 When the servants of the house heard
the shouting in the park, they rushed in through the side gate to see what had
happened to her. 27 After the elders gave their reports, the slaves were exceedingly
ashamed, for such a report had never been given concerning Susannah.
28 It happened that, on the next day when the people came together with her
husband Jehoiakim, the two elders came; they were full of a lawless intention against
Susannah, to put her to death. 29 They said before the people, "Send for Susannah, the
daughter of Hilkiah, who is the wife of Jehoiakim." They sent for her. 30 She came, as
well as her parents, her children, and all her relatives.
31 Susannah was exceedingly delicate and beautiful in appearance. 32 The lawbreakers
ordered her to be uncovered (for she had been covered), so that they might be filled
with her beauty. 33 Her companions and all who saw her began to weep.
34 The two elders stood up in the midst of the people and placed their hands on her
head. 35 She wept and looked up to heaven, for her heart trusted in the Lord. 36 The
elders said, "While we were walking in the park alone, this woman entered with two
maids, shut the gates of the park, and dismissed the maids. 37 A young man who had
been hidden came to her and lay with her. 38 We were in the corner of the park; when
we saw the lawlessness, we ran toward them. 39 When we saw them having intercourse,
we could not get a hold of that man because he was stronger than we were; he opened
the gates and bounded out. 40 We detained this woman and asked who the young man
was, 41 yet she did not want to tell us. We testify to these things."
The congregation believed them as the elders and judges of the people, and they
condemned her to die.
42 Susannah cried out in a loud voice, "O eternal God, the one who is the knower of
hidden things, who is aware of all things before their origin, 43 you realize that they have
given false testimony against me. Behold, I am to die even though I did nothing which
these men wickedly invented against me."
44 The Lord heard her voice. 45 As she was being led away to be executed, God raised
up the holy spirit of a young boy by the name of Daniel. 46 He shouted in a loud voice, "I
am innocent of the blood of this woman!"
47 All the people turned to him and said, "What is this word which you have spoken?"
48 He stood in their midst and said, "Are you so foolish, O sons of Israel, that without
identifying or ascertaining the facts you have condemned a daughter of Israel? 49 Return
to the place of judgment, for they have given false testimony against her."
50 All the people returned with haste. The elders said to him, "Come sit in our midst,
and explain to us how God has given you the office of elder." 51 Daniel said to them,
"Separate them at a distance from each other, and I will examine them."
52 When they were separated one from the other, he summoned one of them and
said to him, "You who have grown old during wicked days, your sins which you
previously committed have now come to light. 53 You render unjust judgments, condemn
the innocent, and set the guilty free, while the Lord says, `You will not kill the innocent
and the righteous.´ 54 Now then, if in fact you saw this woman, say under which tree
you saw them having intercourse with each other." He said, "Under the mastic tree."
55 Daniel said, "Indeed you have lied against your own head, for a messenger of God

has already received the sentence from God to split you down the middle."
56 He stood him aside and gave orders to bring forth the other. He said to him, "O
seed of Canaan and not of Judah, beauty deceived you and covetousness perverted
your heart. 57 This is what you have done to the daughters of Israel: because they were
afraid, they had intercourse with you. But the daughter of Judah did not submit to your
lawlessness. 58 Now then, tell me under which tree you caught them having intercourse
with each other." He said, "Under the oak tree." 59 Daniel said to him, "Indeed you also
have lied against your own head, for the messenger of God is waiting; he has a sword
to saw you down the middle, so that he might destroy both of you." A
60 All the congregation cried out in a loud voice and blessed the God who saves those
who hope in him. 61 They rose up against the two elders, since Daniel proved from their
own mouths that they had given false testimony. They did to them as they had
wickedly intended against their neighbor, 62 acting according to the law of Moses: they
killed them. Innocent blood was saved on that day.
63 Hilkiah and his wife praised God regarding their daughter Susannah, along with
Jehoiakim her husband and all the relatives, for no shameful thing was found in her.
64 Daniel became great in the sight of the people from that day and beyond.
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. 2 The Lord gave into his hand Jehoiakim
king of Judah, as well as a portion of the vessels from the house of God. He brought
them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and brought the vessels into the
treasure house B of his god.
3 The king told Ashpenaz his chief eunuch to bring in some of the sons of the
captivity of Israel, some of the seed of the royal family, and some of the partemim, C
4 young men in whom there was no blemish, handsome in appearance, conversant with
all wisdom, filled with knowledge, prudently minded, and having the strength to stand
in the house of the king, D in order to teach them the literature and language of the
Chaldeans. 5 The king prescribed for them a daily portion from the table of the king and
some of the wine of his cupboard to nourish them each day for three years, and after
that to stand before the king. 6 Among them were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and
Azariah from the sons of Judah. 7 The chief eunuch conferred names upon them: upon
Daniel, Belshazzar; upon Hananiah, Shadrach; upon Mishael, Meshach; upon Azariah,
Abednego.
8 Daniel laid it on his heart that he would not be defiled by the table of the king and
by the wine of his cupboard, and he requested of the chief eunuch that he might not be
A
An apparent play on words exists between the trees named by the elders (schinos,
"mastic"; prinos, "oak") and their punishments (schizein, "to split"; priein, "to saw")
B
treasure house V ¦ house A
C
Heb = Skr prathama, "nobles"
D
to stand in the house of the king V* ¦ to stand before the king in the house Vc ¦ to
stand before the king A

defiled. 9 God put Daniel into mercy and compassion before the chief eunuch. 10 The
chief eunuch said to Daniel, "I am afraid of my lord the king, who assigned your food
and your drink, in case he sees your faces melancholy compared to the other boys your
age. You might get my head condemned by the king." 11 Daniel said to Hammelezar,
whom the chief eunuch had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
12 "Now test your servants for ten days. A Let them give us some of the seeds, and we
will eat; we will also drink water. 13 Let our appearances and the appearances of the
boys who eat from the table of the king appear before you; deal with your servants
according to what you see." 14 He agreed with them and tested them for ten days. 15 At
the end of the ten days, their appearances looked physically better and stronger than
the boys who ate the table of the king. 16 Hammelezar took away their dinner and the
wine of their cups, and gave them seeds. 17 To these four boys God gave intelligence
and prudence with regard to all literature and wisdom. Daniel had understanding
regarding all visions and dreams.
18 At the end of the days after which the king had said to bring them in, the chief
eunuch brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar. 19 The king spoke with them, and none
similar to Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah were found out of all of them. They
stood before the king, 20 and in every matter of wisdom and understanding which the
king sought from them, he found them ten times beyond all the enchanters and
magicians who were in all his kingdom. 21 Daniel continued until the first year of Cyrus
the king.
Daniel 2
1 In the second year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign, Nebuchadnezzar had a dream. His
spirit became anxious, and his sleep departed from him. 2 The king said to summon the
enchanters, magicians, sorcerers, and Chaldeans in order to disclose the king's dreams
to him. They came and stood before the king. 3 The king said to them, "I had a dream,
and my spirit became anxious to know the dream." 4 The Chaldeans spoke to the king in
Syriac, "O king, may you live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will disclose
the interpretation." 5 The king replied to the Chaldeans, "The matter has left me. If you
do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you will be destroyed and
your houses will be seized. 6 But if you do make known to me the dream and its
interpretation, you will receive from me gifts, presents, and great honor. Just disclose
to me the dream and its interpretation." 7 They replied a second time, "Let the king tell
his servants the dream, and we will disclose the interpretation." 8 The king replied, "In
truth I am aware that you are buying time, since you see that the account has left me.
9 So if you do not disclose the dream to me, I will become aware that you conspired to
tell a false and corrupt account in my presence before the allotted time has passed. Tell
me my dream, and I will know that you will also disclose to me its interpretation." 10 The
Chaldeans replied in the presence of the king, "There is no man on dry land who could
make known the account of the king; accordingly, no great king and ruler asks for such
an account from any enchanter, magician, or Chaldean. 11 For the matter concerning
A See Rev. 2:10

which the king asks is difficult, and there is no one else who will disclose it in the
presence of the king except the gods, whose dwelling is not with all flesh."
12 Then in great anger and wrath the king said to destroy all the wise men of
Babylon. 13 The decree came out, and the wise men started to be killed; they also
sought to slay Daniel and his friends. 14 Then Daniel replied with his advice and opinion
to Arioch, the chief butcher of the king, who had come out to slay the wise men of
Babylon. 15 He inquired of him, "O ruler of the king, why did this ruthless opinion come
out from the presence of the king?" Arioch made the account known to Daniel. A 16 Daniel
entered and petitioned the king that he might give him time, and that he might disclose
to the king its interpretation.
17 Daniel entered his house and made the account known to his friends Hananiah,
Mishael, and Azariah. 18 They sought acts of compassion from the God of heaven
concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his friends might not be destroyed with the
rest of the wise men of Babylon. 19 Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision
during the night. Daniel blessed the God of heaven; 20 he said, "May the name of God
be blessed from age to age, for wisdom and understanding B are his. 21 He changes
seasons and times; he installs and deposes kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and
intelligence to those who are acquainted with understanding. 22 He reveals deep and
hidden things; he knows the things which are in darkness, and the light is with him. 23 I
acknowledge and praise you, O God of my fathers, for you gave me wisdom and power.
You made known to me the things which we expected from you; you made known to
me the vision of the king."
24 Daniel came to Arioch, whom the king appointed to destroy the wise men of
Babylon. He said to him, "Do not destroy the wise men of Babylon. Bring me into the
presence of the king, and I will disclose the interpretation to the king." 25 Then in haste
Arioch brought Daniel into the presence of the king and said to him, "I have found a
man from the sons of the captivity of Judea, who will disclose the interpretation to the
king." 26 The king replied and said to Daniel, whose name was Belshazzar, "Can you
disclose to me the dream which I saw as well as its interpretation?" 27 Daniel answered
in the presence of the king, "There is no one of the wise men, magicians, enchanters,
and Gazarenes C to disclose to the king the mystery about which the king inquired, 28 but
there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries. He made known to King
Nebuchadnezzar the things which must happen in the last days. Your dream and the
visions of your head while you were on your bed are as follows. 29 O king, your thoughts
while you were on your bed ascended to what must happen after this, and the one who
reveals mysteries made known to you the things which must happen. 30 This mystery
was revealed to me, not by wisdom which is in me beyond all the living, but for the
sake of making the interpretation known to the king, so that you may know the
thoughts of your heart.
31 You were watching, and behold, there was one image. That image was large, and
A Daniel V ¦ the king A
B wisdom and understanding V ¦ wisdom, understanding, and strength A
C "soothsayers," from Aram gezar, "to determine"

its features were prominent. It stood before your face, and its appearance was
fearsome. 32 The head of the image was of pure gold, its hands, chest, and arms were
silver, its belly and thighs were bronze, 33 its legs were iron, its feet were partly iron and
partly clay. 34 You kept watching until a stone was cut, not by hand, from a mountain. It
struck the image on its iron and clay feet and completely disintegrated them. 35 Then at
once the clay, the iron, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were disintegrated and
became like dust from a threshing floor in summer. A large amount of breeze carried
them away, and no place was found for them. The stone which struck the image
became a large mountain, and it filled all the earth.
36 This is the dream; we will tell its interpretation in the presence of the king. 37 You,
O king, are the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven gave a strong, mighty, and
honorable kingdom. 38 In every place where the sons of men reside, he gave in your
hand the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven; A he installed you as lord of
everything. You are the gold head. 39 After you another kingdom will rise, one inferior to
you. B There will also be a third kingdom, which is the bronze, which will have dominion
over all the earth. 40 There will also be a fourth kingdom, as strong as iron; as iron
disintegrates and overpowers everything, so it will disintegrate and overpower
everything. 41 For you saw the feet and the toes, partly clay and partly iron; the
kingdom will be divided, and some of the root of iron will be in it, just as you saw the
iron mixed with clay. 42 The toes of the feet are partly iron and partly clay; part of the
kingdom will be strong, and some of it will be shattered. 43 For you saw the iron mixed
with clay; they will be mixed together among the seed of men, yet this one will not be
joined with that one, just as iron does not mix with clay. 44 In the days of those kings,
the God of heaven will raise up a kingdom which will never be ruined; his kingdom will
not be abandoned to another people. It will disintegrate and scatter all the kingdoms,
and it will stand up forever, 45 just as you saw that a stone was cut, not by hand, from a
mountain, and it disintegrated the clay, the iron, the bronze, the silver, and the gold.
The great God made known to the king the things which must happen after this. The
dream is true, and its interpretation is trustworthy."
46 Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face and worshiped Daniel; he said to offer
him manna C and fragrant substances. 47 The king replied to Daniel, "In truth your God is
the God of gods, the Lord of kings, D and the revealer of secrets, for you were able to
reveal this secret." 48 The king magnified Daniel, and gave him great and numerous
gifts. He installed him over all the province of Babylon and as ruler of the satraps above
all the wise men of Babylon. 49 Daniel made a request of the king, and he installed
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the works of the province of Babylon. Daniel
was in the courtyard of the king.
A
the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven V ¦ the beasts of the field, the birds of
heaven, and the fish of the sea A
B
V ¦ + which is the silver A
C
manna VA ¦ manaa (see Ezek. 45:25)
D
the Lord of kings V ¦ the Lord of lords, the King of kings A

Daniel 3
1 In the eighteenth year, Nebuchadnezzar the king made a golden image. Its height
was sixty cubits; its width was six cubits. He set it up on the plain of Dura in the
province of Babylon. 2 He sent forth men to gather the superiors, the officers, and the
district rulers, the governors and princes, those in authority and all the rulers of the
provinces, to come for the dedications of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king set
up. 3 The district rulers, superiors, officers, governors, great princes, those in authority,
and all the rulers of the provinces gathered for the dedication of the image which
Nebuchadnezzar the king set up. They stood before the image which Nebuchadnezzar
set up. 4 A herald cried out with strength, "This is said to you, O peoples, tribes, and
languages! 5 In whatever hour you hear the sound of the trumpet and pipe, as well as
the lyre, lute, harp, orchestra, and every kind of music, you will fall down and worship
the golden image which Nebuchadnezzar the king set up. 6 Whoever does not fall down
and worship will in the same hour be thrown into the blazing furnace of fire." 7 It
happened that, when the peoples heard the sound of the trumpet and pipe, as well as
the lyre, lute, harp, orchestra, and every kind of music, all the peoples, tribes, and
languages fell down and worshiped the golden image which Nebuchadnezzar the king
set up.
8 Then Chaldean men approached and accused the Judeans. 9 They said to King
Nebuchadnezzar, "O king, may you live forever! 10 You, O king, issued a decree that
every man who hears the sound of the trumpet and pipe, as well as the lyre, lute, harp,
orchestra, and every kind of music, 11 and does not fall down and worship the golden
image will be thrown into the blazing furnace of fire. 12 There are Judean men whom
you installed over the works of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abednego. These men did not respond, O king, to your decree. They do not adore your
gods and do not worship the golden image which you set up."
13 Then Nebuchadnezzar in anger and wrath told men to bring Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abednego, and they were brought before the king, 14 Nebuchadnezzar replied to
them, "Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you do not adore my gods
and do not worship the golden image which I set up? 15 So now, are you ready, so that
whenever you hear the sound of the trumpet and pipe, as well as the lyre, lute, harp,
orchestra, and every kind of music, you will fall down and worship the image which I
made? If you do not worship, in the same hour you will be thrown into the blazing
furnace of fire. Who is the god who will rescue you from my hands?" 16 Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego replied to King Nebuchadnezzar, "We do not need to reply to
you regarding this matter. 17 For our God is in the heavens, A whom we adore, who is
able to rescue us from the blazing furnace of fire. From your hands, O king, he will
deliver us. 18 Yet if not, it will be known to you, O king, that we do not adore your gods
and do not worship the golden image which you set up."
19 Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with anger, and the appearance of his face
changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He told men to heat the furnace
A our God is in the heavens VcA ¦ there is a God V*

seven times, until it was completely heated. 20 He told men who were strong in strength
to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and throw them into the blazing furnace of
fire. 21 Then these men were bound with their trousers, turbans, leggings, and clothes,
and were thrown into the midst of the blazing furnace of fire. 22 Since the word of the
king was adamant, the furnace was heated to excess. A 23 These three, Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego, having been bound, fell into the midst of the blazing furnace
of fire.
24 They were walking in the midst of the flame, singing hymns to God and blessing
the Lord. B 25 Azariah stood with the others and prayed as follows; he opened his mouth
in the midst of the fire and said, 26 "Blessed are you, O Lord God of our fathers, and
may your name be praised and glorified forever. 27 For you are righteous in all the things
which you have done to us; all your actions are genuine, your ways are straight, and all
your judgments are truth. 28 You executed true verdicts in all the things which you
brought upon us and upon Jerusalem, the holy city of our fathers. For in truth and
justice you brought about all these things because of our sins. 29 For we sinned and
acted lawlessly, so as to stand apart from you. We sinned in every way and did not
hear your commands. 30 We neither preserved nor acted as you commanded us, so that
it might go well for us. 31 Everything which you brought upon us and everything which
you did to us, you did in genuine justice. 32 You delivered us up into the hands of
lawless enemies, most detestable rebels, and to an unjust king, indeed the most evil in
comparison with all the earth. 33 Now there is no opening of the mouth for us; shame
and reproach have befallen your slaves and those who revere you. 34 On account of your
name, do not deliver us up completely, and do not annul your testament. 35 Do not
cause your mercy to stand apart from us, on account of Abraham who was loved by
you, and on account of Isaac your servant and Israel your holy one, 36 to whom you
declared that you would multiply their seed as the stars of heaven and as the sand
which is beside the edge of the sea. 37 For we, O Master, became smaller than all the
nations, and we are humiliated in all the earth today because of our sins. 38 In this
season there is no ruler, prophet, or governor, no whole burnt offering, sacrifice,
presentation, or incense, no place to offer fruits before you and to find mercy.
39 Nevertheless, let us be accepted with a broken soul and a humble spirit, as in whole
burnt offerings of rams and bulls, and as in tens of thousands of fat sheep. 40 Let our
sacrifice be like this in your presence today, and leave accomplishment in your wake,
for there will be no shame for those who trust in you. 41 Now we are following with our
entire hearts. We fear you and are seeking your face; do not put us to shame.
42 Instead, deal with us according to your clemency and according to the multitude of
your mercy. 43 Rescue us according to your amazing acts, and give glory to your name,
O Lord. 44 May all who ascribe wicked things to your slaves be reversed, may they be
ashamed away from all power and majesty, and may their strength be broken. 45 Let
A
V ¦ + The flame of the fire killed those men who cast forth Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abednego. A
B
3:24-90, omitted by the MT, includes "The Prayer of Azariah" (3:26-45) and "The
Song of the Three Young Men" (3:52-90)

them know that you alone are the Lord God, and glorious over the whole inhabited
world."
46 The officers of the king who cast them forth did not stop heating the furnace with
naphtha, tar, hemp, and brushwood. 47 The flame extended forty-nine cubits above the
furnace. 48 It passed through and burned some of the Chaldeans, whom it found around
the furnace. 49 The messenger of the Lord came down into the furnace together with
those around Azariah, and he expelled the flame of fire out of the furnace. 50 He made
the midst of the furnace like a moist whistling breeze. The fire did not touch them at all,
and did not hurt or annoy them.
51 Then the three, as out of one mouth, began to sing hymns, and were glorifying
and blessing God in the furnace. They said, 52 "Blessed are you, O Lord God of our
fathers, and praised and highly exalted forever. May the holy name of your glory be
blessed, and highly praised and highly exalted forever. 53 Blessed are you in the
sanctuary of your holy glory, and highly lauded with hymns and highly glorified forever.
54 Blessed are you, who observes the abysses, who sits upon the cherubim, and praised
and highly exalted forever. 55 Blessed are you on the throne of your kingdom, and highly
lauded with hymns and highly exalted forever. A 56 Blessed are you in the firmament of
heaven, and lauded with hymns and glorified forever. 57 All you works of the Lord, bless
the Lord; sing hymns and highly exalt him forever. 58 You heavens, bless the Lord; sing
hymns and highly exalt him forever. 59 You messengers of the Lord, bless the Lord; sing
hymns and highly exalt him forever. B 60 All you waters above heaven, bless the Lord;
sing hymns and highly exalt him forever. 61 All you forces, C bless the Lord; sing hymns
and highly exalt him forever. 62 You sun and moon, bless the Lord; sing hymns and
highly exalt him forever. 63 You stars of heaven, bless the Lord; sing hymns and highly
exalt him forever. 64 All you rain and dew, bless the Lord; sing hymns and highly exalt
him forever. 65 All you breezes, bless the Lord; sing hymns and highly exalt him forever.
66 You fire and heat, bless the Lord; sing hymns and highly exalt him forever. 67 You cold
and hot, bless the Lord; sing hymns and highly exalt him forever. 68 You dewdrops and
snowflakes, bless the Lord; sing hymns and highly exalt him forever. 69 You nights and
days, bless the Lord; sing hymns and highly exalt him forever. 70 You light and darkness,
bless the Lord; sing hymns and highly exalt him forever. 71 You frost and cold, bless the
Lord; sing hymns and highly exalt him forever. 72 You sleet and snow, bless the Lord;
sing hymns and highly exalt him forever. D 73 You lightnings and clouds, bless the Lord;
sing hymns and highly exalt him forever. 74 Let the earth bless the Lord; sing hymns and
highly exalt him forever. 75 You mountains and hills, bless the Lord; sing hymns and
highly exalt him forever. 76 All you things which grow in the earth, bless the Lord; sing
hymns and highly exalt him forever. 77 You seas and rivers, bless the Lord; sing hymns
and highly exalt him forever. 78 You springs, bless the Lord; sing hymns and highly exalt
A Some editions of the LXX place 3:55 before 3:54
B Some editions of the LXX place 3:59 before 3:58
C All you forces V ¦ All you forces of the Lord A
D Some editions of the LXX place 3:71-72 before 3:69-70

him forever. A 79 You whales and everything which moves in the waters, bless the Lord;
sing hymns and highly exalt him forever. 80 All you birds of heaven, bless the Lord; sing
hymns and highly exalt him forever. 81 All you wild animals and livestock, bless the Lord;
sing hymns and highly exalt him forever. 82 You sons of men, bless the Lord; sing hymns
and highly exalt him forever. 83 O Israel, bless the Lord; sing hymns and highly exalt him
forever. 84 You priests of the Lord, bless the Lord; sing hymns and highly exalt him
forever. 85 You slaves of the Lord, bless the Lord; sing hymns and highly exalt him
forever. 86 You spirits and souls of the righteous, bless the Lord; sing hymns and highly
exalt him forever. 87 You who are holy and humble in heart, bless the Lord; sing hymns
and highly exalt him forever. 88 O Hananiah, Azariah, and Mishael, bless the Lord; sing
hymns and highly exalt him forever. For he rescued us from Hades, and he saved us
from the hand of death. He delivered us from the midst of the furnace of burning
flame; he delivered us from the midst of the fire. 89 Acknowledge the Lord, for he is
kind, for his mercy is forever. 90 All you who revere the Lord, bless the God of gods; sing
hymns and make an acknowledgment, for his mercy is forever."
91 Nebuchadnezzar heard them singing hymns and was amazed; he rose up in haste
and said to his great men, "Did we not throw three men who had been bound into the
midst of the fire?" They said to the king, "Certainly, O king." B 92 The king said, "Behold,
I see four men untied and walking in the midst of the fire, and there is no injury among
them. The appearance of the fourth is similar to a son of God." 93 Then Nebuchadnezzar
approached the door of the blazing furnace of fire and said, "Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abednego, slaves of God Most High, come out and go forth!" Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abednego came out of the midst of the fire. 94 The satraps, officers, district rulers, and
potentates of the king gathered and observed the men, for the fire had not dominated
their bodies, the hair of their heads was not singed, their trousers were not altered, and
there was no smell of fire on them. 95 Nebuchadnezzar replied, C "Blessed be the God of
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who sent forth his messenger and rescued his
servants, for they trusted in him. They altered the word of the king and delivered their
bodies up to the fire, so that they might not adore or worship any god but their God. 96 I
set forth a decree: `Every people, tribe, or language which speaks blasphemy against
the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego will be for destruction, and their houses
for ruin, since there is no other god who can deliver in this way.´" 97 Then the king
promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon, and deemed
them worthy to govern all the Judeans who were in his kingdom.
Daniel 4
1 Nebuchadnezzar the king to all the peoples, tribes, and languages who reside in all
the land. Peace be multiplied for you! 2 It was pleasing before me to report to you the
signs and wonders which God Most High performed with me, 3 how great and strong
A
Some editions of the LXX place 3:78 before 3:77
B
3:91-97 = 3:24-30 MT
C
Nebuchadnezzar replied V* ¦ The king worshiped the Lord before them, and
Nebuchadnezzar replied VcA

they are. His kingdom is an eternal kingdom, and his authority is in generation after
generation.
4 I, Nebuchadnezzar, was prospering in my house and thriving. 5 I saw a dream, and
it terrified me; I was disturbed on my bed, and the visions of my head troubled me. 6 A
decree was established through me to bring in before me all the wise men of Babylon,
so that they might make the interpretation of the dream known to me. 7 The
enchanters, magicians, Gazarenes, and Chaldeans went in. I told the dream before
them, and they did not make its interpretation known to me, 8 until Daniel came, whose
name is Belshazzar according to the name of my god, who has in himself the Holy Spirit
of God. I told the dream before him: 9 "O Belshazzar, ruler of the enchanters, of whom I
knew that the Holy Spirit of God is in you, and no mystery is impossible for you, hear
the vision of the dream which I saw, and tell me its interpretation. 10 I was watching on
my bed, and behold, a tree was in the midst of the earth, and its height was great.
11 The tree became great and grew strong; its height reached as far as heaven, and its
trunk to the limits of all the earth. 12 Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit was plentiful, and
food for all was in it. The wild beasts were dwelling underneath it, and the birds of
heaven were residing in its branches; all flesh was being nourished from it. 13 I was
watching in the vision of the night on my bed, and behold, an eir A and a holy one
descended from heaven. 14 He sounded with strength and talked in this way: `Cut down
the tree, pluck its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit. Let the beasts be
agitated underneath it, and the birds from its branches. 15 Only leave the growth of its
roots in the earth, with an iron and bronze band. It will lie in the greenery outside and
in the dew of heaven, and its portion will be with the beasts in the grass of the earth.
16 Its heart will be changed from that of men, and the heart of a beast will be given to
it; seven seasons will be altered for it. 17 The saying is by a judgment of the eir, and the
demand is a word of the holy ones, so that those who are living may know that the
Most High is the Lord of the kingdom of men. He will give it to whomever he pleases,
and he will raise up over it what was nullified by men.´ 18 This is the dream which I,
Nebuchadnezzar the king, saw. O Belshazzar, tell the interpretation, for none of the
wise men of my kingdom are able to show me its interpretation. But you, O Daniel, are
able, for the Holy Spirit of God is in you."
19 Then Daniel, whose name was Belshazzar, was speechless for about one hour, and
his thoughts troubled him. The king answered and said, "O Belshazzar, do not let the
dream and the interpretation dismay you." Belshazzar answered and said, "My lord, the
dream is for those who hate you, and its interpretation is for your enemies. 20 The tree
which you saw, which became great and grew strong, whose height reached into
heaven and its trunk into all the earth, 21 whose leaves were thriving, whose fruit was
plentiful and on which was food for all, underneath which the wild beasts were residing
and in whose branches the birds of heaven were dwelling, 22 is yourself, O king, for you
became great and grew strong, and your greatness became great and reached into
heaven, and your dominion to the limits of the earth. 23 For the king saw an eir and a
A Aram ir, unique to this chapter, commonly rendered "watcher," but more likely "one
who incites to action," from Heb ur, "to wake up"

holy one descending from heaven, and he said, `Pluck the tree and ruin it; only leave
the growth of its roots in the earth, with an iron and bronze band. It will lodge in the
greenery outside and in the dew of heaven, and its portion will be with wild beasts until
seven seasons are changed for it.´ 24 This is its interpretation, O king, and it is a
judgment of the Most High which reached over my lord the king. 25 They will chase you
away from men, and your residence will be with wild beasts; they will feed you grass
like an ox, and you will lodge by the dew of heaven. Seven seasons will be altered for
you, until you know that the Most High dominates the kingdom of men, and will give it
to whomever he pleases. 26 Because they said, `Leave the growth of the roots of the
tree,´ your kingdom will remain for you from whenever you know the heavenly
authority. 27 Because of this, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you; redeem your
sins by acts of mercy and your wrongdoings by sympathies for the poor. Perhaps God
will be patient with regard to your trespasses."
28 All these things reached over Nebuchadnezzar the king. 29 After the twelve month,
as he was walking in the sanctuary of the king in Babylon, 30 the king replied and said,
"Is this not Babylon the great, which I built as a house of the kingdom in the might of
my strength, for the honor of my glory?" 31 While the word was still in the mouth of the
king, there was a voice from heaven: "To you, King Nebuchadnezzar, they say, `The
kingdom departed from you!´ 32 They will chase you away from men, and your
residence will be with wild beasts; they will feed you grass like an ox. Seven seasons
will be altered for you, until you know that the Most High dominates the kingdom of
men, and will give it to whomever he pleases." 33 In the same hour, the word was
fulfilled for Nebuchadnezzar; he was chased away from men and ate grass like an ox.
His body was bathed by the dew of heaven, until his hair became great like that of lions
and his nails like those of birds.
34 "After the end of the days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, directed my eyes up to heaven,
and my senses returned to me. I blessed the Most High, and I praised and glorified the
one who lives forever, for his authority is an eternal authority, and his kingdom is for
generation after generation. 35 All those who reside on the earth were reckoned as
nothing; he acts according to his will in the force of heaven and in the residence of the
earth. There is no one who will act against his hand and say to him, `What did you
do?´ 36 On the same occasion my senses returned to me, and I came into the honor of
my kingdom. My form returned to me, and my princes and my great men sought me. I
was became mighty over my kingdom, and more abundant greatness was added to me.
37 So now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, greatly exalt, and glorify the king of heaven, for all
his works are true and his paths are justice. He is able to humiliate all who walk in
arrogance."
Daniel 5
1 Belshazzar the king made a great supper for his thousand great men, and there
was wine in front of the thousand. 2 While he was drinking, during the tasting of the
wine, Belshazzar said to bring the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his
father brought out of the sanctuary which was in Jerusalem, "and let the king, his great
men, his concubines, and his consorts drink with them." 3 The gold and silver vessels

which he brought out of the sanctuary of God which was in Jerusalem were brought,
and the king, his great men, his concubines, and his consorts drank with them. 4 They
drank wine and praised gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone gods. They did not
bless the God of eternity who had authority over their spirits. A
5 In the same hour, the fingers of a man's hand came out and wrote opposite the
lamp on the plaster of the wall of the house of the king. The king observed the knuckles
of the hand which was writing. 6 Then the form of the king was changed, and his
thoughts troubled him; the bonds of his waist were loosened, and his knees were
knocking together. 7 The king cried out with strength to bring in the magicians,
Chaldeans, and Gazarenes. He said to the wise men of Babylon, "Whoever reads this
writing and makes the interpretation known to me will be dressed in purple, and a gold
chain will be on his neck; he will rule as third in my kingdom." 8 All the wise men of the
king went in, yet they could not read the writing nor make the interpretation known to
the king. 9 King Belshazzar was much disturbed; his form was changed over him, and his
great men were troubled.
10 The queen entered the banquet house and said, "O king, may you live forever! Let
your thoughts not disturb you, and let your form not be changed. 11 There is a man in
your kingdom in whom there is the Spirit of God; in the days of your father,
watchfulness and understanding were found in him. King Nebuchadnezzar your father
installed him as ruler of the enchanters, magicians, Chaldeans, and Gazarenes. 12 For
there is an excellent spirit in him, as well as intelligence and understanding in him,
since he interprets dreams, declares what is being conquered, and loosens bonds. It is
Daniel; the king imposed on him the name Belshazzar. Now then, let him be called, and
he will declare its interpretation to you."
13 Then Daniel was led in before the king; the king said to Daniel, "Are you Daniel,
the one from the sons of the captivity of Judea, which my father the king brought? 14 I
heard concerning you that the Spirit of God is in you, and watchfulness, understanding,
and excellent wisdom were found in you. 15 Now the wise men, magicians, and
Gazarenes entered before me so that they might read this writing and make its
interpretation known to me, yet they could not declare it to me. 16 I heard concerning
you that you are able to interpret judgments. Now then, if you are able to read the
writing and make its interpretation known to me, you will be dressed in purple, and a
gold chain will be on your neck; you will rule as third in my kingdom." 17 Daniel said
before the king, "Let your gifts be for yourself, and give the present of your house to
another. I will read the writing to the king and make its interpretation known to you.
18 O king, God Most High gave to Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and
greatness, honor, and glory. 19 Due to the greatness which he gave to him, all the
peoples, tribes, and languages were trembling and afraid before his face. He slew
whom he wished; he struck whom he wished; he exalted whom he wished; he
humiliated whom he wished. 20 When his heart was exalted and his spirit was
emboldened to become arrogant, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom, and
his honor was taken away from him. 21 He was chased away from men, and his heart
A They did not bless the God of eternity who had authority over their spirits. VcA ¦ ~ V*

was given to be with the beasts. His residence was with the wild asses; they fed him
grass like an ox, and his body was bathed by the dew of heaven, until he knew that
God Most High is the Lord of the kingdom of men, and will give it to whomever he
pleases. 22 You, his son Belshazzar, did not humble your heart in the sight of God; did
you not know all these things? 23 You were exalted over the Lord God of heaven; they
brought before you the vessels of his house, and you, your great men, your concubines,
and your consorts drank wine with them. You praised gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood,
and stone gods, which do not see, do not hear, and do not know, and you did not
glorify the God in whose hand is your breath and all your ways. 24 Because of this, from
his presence was sent forth the knuckle of a hand; he arranged this writing. 25 This is
the writing which has been arranged: Mene, Tekel, Peres. 26 This is the interpretation of
the word. Mene: God measured your kingdom and filled it. 27 Tekel: it was placed in a
balance and found lacking. 28 Peres: your kingdom has been divided and given to the
Medes and Persians."
29 Belshazzar said so, and they dressed Daniel in purple and put the gold chain
around his neck; he proclaimed concerning him that he was the third ruler in the
kingdom. 30 On the same night, Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain.
Daniel 6 A
1 Darius the Mede received the kingdom when he was sixty-two years old. 2 It was
pleasing before Darius, and he installed over the kingdom one hundred twenty satraps,
for them to be in his entire kingdom, 3 and over them three regulators, one of whom
was Daniel, for the satraps to give an account to them, so that the king might not be
troubled. 4 Daniel was above them, for an excellent spirit was in him; the king installed
him over his entire kingdom. 5 The regulators and satraps sought to find a pretext
against Daniel; they did not find against him any pretext, trespass, and fault, for he was
faithful. 6 The regulators said, "We will not find a pretext against Daniel, except in the
regulations of his God." 7 Then the regulators and satraps stood beside the king and said
to him, "O King Darius, may you live forever! 8 All who are over your kingdom, officers
and satraps, superiors and district rulers, took counsel together to establish and
strengthen a restriction by royal edict, that for thirty days whoever makes a request of
any god and man, except of you, O king, will be thrown into the pit of lions. 9 Now then,
O king, establish the restriction and publish a written version, so that the decree of the
Medes and Persians may not be changed." 10 Then King Darius ordered the decree to be
written.
11 When Daniel knew that the decree was enacted, he entered his house. The
windows in his upper rooms were open to him facing Jerusalem; on three occasions of
the day he would get down on his knees, pray, and make an acknowledgment before
his God, just as he would do before. 12 Then these men watched closely and found
Daniel supplicating and petitioning his God. 13 They approached and said to the king, "O
king, did you not post the restriction that for thirty days any man who makes a request
of any god and man, except of you, O king, will be thrown into the pit of lions?" The
A 6:1 = 5:31 EV; 6:2-29 = 6:1-28 EV

king said, "The word is true, and the decree of the Medes and Persians will not pass
away." 14 Then they replied and said before the king, "Daniel, who is from the sons of
the captivity of Judea, did not submit to your decree regarding the restriction which you
posted; on three occasions of the day he makes his requests of his God." 15 Then the
king, when he heard the word, was very much saddened over it. He agonized regarding
Daniel, as to how to rescue him; until evening he was agonizing as to how to rescue
him. 16 Then those men said to the king, "Know, O king, that it is the decree of the
Medes and Persians that it is necessary not to alter any restriction and edict which the
king establishes." 17 Then the king said so, and they brought Daniel and threw him into
the pit of lions. The king said to Daniel, "Your God, whom you adore continually, will
himself rescue you." 18 They brought a stone and placed it over the mouth of the pit;
the king sealed it with his ring and with the ring of his great men, so that the matter
with regard to Daniel might not be changed. 19 The king departed for his house. He lay
down without supper, and they did not bring him things to eat; sleep avoided him. A
20 Then the king arose in the light at dawn and came in haste to the pit of lions.
21 When he came near the pit, he cried out with a strong voice, "O Daniel, slave of the
living God, was your God, whom you adore continually, able to rescue you from the
mouths of the lions?" 22 Daniel said to the king, "O king, may you live forever! 23 My God
sent forth his messenger and blocked the mouths of the lions. They did not harm me,
for uprightness was found in me before him, and in your sight, O king, I did not commit
a trespass." 24 Then the king was very much in good spirits over him. He said to bring
Daniel out of the pit; Daniel was brought out of the pit, and any damage was not found
in him, for he believed in his God. 25 The king said so, and they brought the men who
had accused Daniel; they themselves, their sons, and their wives were thrown into the
pit of lions. They did not reach the bottom of the pit before the lions dominated them
and tore all their bones to pieces.
26 Then Darius the king wrote to all the peoples, tribes, and languages who resided
in all the land: "Peace be multiplied for you! 27 A decree was established from my
presence for people in every realm of my kingdom to be trembling and afraid due to the
presence of the God of Daniel, for he himself is the God who lives and remains forever.
His kingdom will not be damaged, and his dominion is to the end. 28 He helps and
delivers, and performs signs and wonders in heaven and on earth; he rescued Daniel
from the hand of the lions." 29 Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and during
the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
Daniel 7
1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans, Daniel saw a dream, and the
visions of his head occurred while he was in his bed. He wrote about his dream: 2 I,
Daniel, was gazing at a vision of the night, B and behold, the four winds of heaven were
striking against the great sea. 3 Four great beasts ascended out of the sea, differing
from each other. 4 The first was like a lioness, and she had wings like an eagle's. I kept
A VA ¦ + God shut the mouths of the lions, and they did not annoy Daniel.
B at a vision of the night A ¦ at my vision of the night ¦ ~ V

gazing until her wings were plucked, and she was lifted off the earth; she stood on
human feet, and a human heart was given to her. 5 Behold, the second beast was
similar to a bear, and it stood on one side. Three ribs were in its mouth between its
teeth, and so they said to it, "Arise; eat much flesh." 6 After this one I kept gazing, and
behold, there was another beast like a leopard, and it had on it four wings of a bird.
The beast had four heads, and authority was given to it. 7 After this one I kept gazing,
and behold, there was a fourth beast: fearful, terrible, and exceedingly strong. Its teeth
were large iron ones, eating and crushing to bits, and it trampled the remainder with its
feet. It was exceedingly different from all the beasts which were before it, and it had
ten horns. 8 I noticed its horns, and behold, another little horn ascended in the midst of
them, and three horns which were before it were rooted out from its presence. Behold,
there were eyes like the eyes of a man in this horn, and a mouth speaking great things.
9 I kept gazing until thrones were set up, and the Ancient of Days took his seat. His
garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head was like clean wool. His throne
was a flame of fire; its wheels were burning fire. 10 A river of fire was flowing from
before him. Thousands of thousands performed public service for him, and myriads of
myriads stood beside him. The court sat down, and books were opened. 11 I kept gazing
then due to the sound of the great words which that horn was speaking, until the beast
was slain and destroyed, and his body was given for a burning with fire. 12 The realm of
the rest of the beasts was taken away, yet an extension of life was given to them for a
season and a season. 13 I kept gazing at the vision of the night, and behold, someone
like a son of man was coming with the clouds of heaven. He reached as far as the
Ancient of Days and in his presence introduced him. A 14 The realm, the honor, and the
kingdom were given to him; all the peoples, tribes, and languages are serving him. His
authority is an eternal authority which will not pass away, and his kingdom will not be
destroyed.
15 As for me, Daniel, my spirit shivered in my anatomy, and the visions of my head
disturbed me. 16 I approached one of those who were standing, and I sought from him
the precise account concerning all these things. He told me the precise account and
made known to me the interpretation of the words: 17 "These four great beasts are four
kingdoms which will arise on the earth, which will be taken away. 18 The holy ones of
the Most High will receive the kingdom and possess it forever and ever." 19 I sought
precisely concerning the fourth beast, for it was different from every beast, extremely
fearful. Its teeth were iron and its claws were bronze; it was eating and smashing to
bits. It trampled the remainder with its feet. 20 Concerning its ten horns which were in
its head, and the other which came up and uprooted three of the former, that horn
which had eyes and a mouth speaking great things, his appearance was greater than
the rest. 21 I kept gazing, and that horn made war with the holy ones and was strong
against them, 22 until the Ancient of Days came; he gave the judgment to the holy ones
of the Most High. The season arrived, and the holy ones possessed the kingdom. 23 He
said, "The fourth beast will be the fourth kingdom on the earth, which will surpass all
A in his presence introduced him A ¦ was introduced to him V ¦ was brought into his
presence

kingdoms; it will devour all the earth, and trample and destroy it. 24 His ten horns are
ten kings which will arise, and after them another will arise, who will exceed all the
former ones in wicked acts; he will humiliate three kings. 25 He will speak words against
the Most High and will wear out the holy ones of the Most High; he will think to change
seasons and law, and it will be given in his hand for a season, and seasons, and half a
season. 26 The court will sit down, and they will remove his realm in order to obliterate it
and to destroy it completely. 27 The kingdom, the authority, and the greatness of the
kings which are underneath all of heaven were given to the holy ones of the Most High.
His kingdom is an eternal kingdom, and all realms will serve and respond to him." 28 At
this point was the end of the saying. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts greatly disturbed
me, and my complexion was changed upon me. I maintained the matter in my heart.
Daniel 8
1 In the third year of the reign of Belshazzar the king, a vision appeared to me,
Daniel, after the one which appeared to me at the beginning. 2 I was in Susa, the citadel
which is in the land of Elam, and I was by the Ubal. A 3 I lifted up my eyes and looked,
and behold, one ram was standing before the Ubal. It had horns, and the horns were
high; the one was higher than the other, and the high one came up last. 4 I saw the ram
charging toward the sea, the north, and the south. None of the beasts will stand before
it, and there was no one who rescued out of its hand. It acted according to its will and
was magnified.
5 I was considering, and behold, a male goat of the goats was coming from the
southwest over the surface of all the earth, yet it was not touching the earth. The male
goat had a visible horn between its eyes. 6 It came to the ram which had the horns,
which I saw standing before the Ubal, and it ran at it with a rush of its strength. 7 I saw
it reaching as far as the ram; it was enraged against it and struck the ram, and it broke
both its horns. There was no strength in the ram to stand before it; it threw it upon the
earth and trampled it, and there was no one who rescued the ram out of its hand. 8 The
male goat of the goats was magnified exceedingly, and when it was strong, its great
horn was broken. Four horns arose underneath it toward the four winds of heaven.
9 Out of one of them came one strong horn, and it was excessively magnified toward
the south, toward the east, B and toward the force. 10 It was magnified as far as the
force of heaven; it fell on the earth from the force of heaven and from the stars, and it
trampled them, 11 even until the chief commander might deliver the captivity. On
account of it, the sacrifice was disturbed; this happened and gave it success. The holy
place will be deserted. 12 Sin was given over the sacrifice and righteousness was thrown
to the ground; it acted and succeeded. 13 I heard one holy one speaking, and one holy
one said to the palmoni C who was speaking, "How long will the vision stand (the
sacrifice which was taken away and the sin of desolation which was given), and the
holy place and the force be trampled?" 14 He said to him, "Until two thousand four
A Heb ubal ulai, "the Ulai canal"
B toward the east A ¦ ~ V
C Heb, "certain one" or "particular person"

hundred days, evening and morning, and the holy place will be cleansed."
15 It happened that, as I, Daniel, saw the vision and was seeking understanding,
behold, something like a vision of a man stood before me. 16 I heard the voice of a man
in the midst of the Ubal; he called and said, "Gabriel, cause that person to understand
the vision." 17 He came and stood near where I stood, and when he came, I was
astonished, and I fell on my face. He said to me, "Understand, O son of man, for the
vision is yet for the season of the end." 18 While he was speaking with me, I fell on my
face on the earth; he touched me and stood me on my feet. 19 He said, "Behold, I am
making known to you the things which will be at the end of the wrath, for the vision is
yet for the season of the end. 20 The ram which you saw, which has the horns, is the
king of the Persians and Medes. 21 The male goat of the goats is the king of the Greeks;
the great horn which was between his eyes is the first king. 22 Concerning the one which
was broken, underneath which stood four horns, four kings will arise out of his nation,
yet not in his strength. A 23 At the end of their kingdom, when their sins are filling up, a
king will arise who is shameless in countenance and understands defenses. 24 His
strength will be mighty, yet not by his own strength. B He will ruin wonderful things; he
will prosper and take action; he will ruin strong men and the holy people. 25 The yoke of
his collar will prosper. Deceit is in his hand; he will be magnified in his heart, and by
deceit he will ruin many. He will stand over the destruction of many, and will crush
them like eggs in his hand. 26 The vision of the evening and morning which was
mentioned is true. Seal the vision, because it is for many days." 27 I, Daniel, lay down
and became sick; I arose and performed the works of the king. I wondered about the
vision, and there was no one who understood it.
Daniel 9
1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, from the seed of the Medes, who
reigned over the kingdom of the Chaldeans, 2 in the first year of his kingdom, C I, Daniel,
understood in the books the number of the years, which was the word of the Lord to
Jeremiah the prophet for the accomplishment of the desolation of Jerusalem: seventy
years. 3 I gave my face to the Lord God in order to search out prayer and petition with
fastings, sackcloth, and ash. D 4 I prayed to and acknowledged the Lord my God; I said,
"O Lord, the great and wonderful God who preserves your testament and mercy for
those who love you and who preserve your commands: 5 we sinned, we engaged in
wrongdoing, we committed lawlessness, and we departed and turned away from your
commands and from your judgments. 6 We did not listen to your slaves the prophets,
who spoke in your name to our kings, our rulers, and our fathers, and to all the people
of the earth. 7 With you, O Lord, is righteousness, and with us is shamefacedness as on
this day, with the man of Judah, with those who reside in Jerusalem, and with all Israel,
with those who are near and with those who are at a distance in all the earth, where
A in his strength A ¦ by their own strength V
B yet not by his own strength A ¦ ~ V
C in the first year of his kingdom A ¦ ~ V
D petition with fastings, sackcloth, and ash A ¦ petitions with fastings and sackcloth V

you scattered them in their faithlessness by which they broke faith with you. 8 O Lord,
with us is shamefacedness, with our kings, with our rulers, and with our fathers, who
sinned against you. 9 With the Lord our God are sympathies and sources of mercy, for
we departed 10 and did not listen to the voice of the Lord our God to walk in his laws,
which he gave in our presence by the hands of his slaves the prophets. 11 All Israel
transgressed your law and turned away so as not to listen to your voice. The curse
came upon us, as well as the oath which has been written in the law of Moses the slave
of God, because we sinned against him. 12 He confirmed his words which he spoke
against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us great acts of
wickedness, of the sort which did not happen under all the heaven, according to the
things which happened in Jerusalem. 13 As it has been written in the law of Moses, all
these acts of wickedness came upon us, yet we did not petition the face of the Lord our
God to turn away from our wrongdoings and to have understanding in all your truth.
14 The Lord watched A and brought them upon us, for the Lord our God is righteous over
all his work which he performed, yet we did not listen to his voice. 15 Now, O Lord our
God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and made
for yourself a name as on this day: we sinned, we committed lawlessness. 16 O Lord, by
all your mercy, let your anger and your wrath then turn away from your city Jerusalem,
your holy mountain. For we sinned, and by the wrongdoings of us and of our fathers,
Jerusalem and your people became a reproach among all who surround us. 17 Now
listen, O Lord our God, to the prayer of your slave and to his petitions, and cause your
face to shine on your desolate sanctuary for your own sake, O Lord. 18 Incline your ear,
O my God, and hear. Open your eyes and see the obliteration of us and of your city,
over which your name has been invoked. For we do not cast forth our sympathy before
you on the basis of our acts of righteousness, but on the basis of your many
sympathies. 19 O Lord, listen; O Lord, be merciful; O Lord, pay attention and act; B for
your own sake, do not delay, O my God. For your name has been invoked over your
city and over your people."
20 While I was still speaking, praying, redeeming my sins and the sins of my people
Israel, and casting forth my mercy before the Lord my God concerning the holy
mountain of my God, C 21 while I was still speaking in the prayer, behold, the man
Gabriel, whom I saw in the vision in the beginning, was flying, and he touched me
about the hour of the evening sacrifice. 22 He made me understand, and he spoke with
me; he said, "Daniel, I have now come out to instruct you in understanding. 23 In the
beginning of your petition the word came out, and I came to tell you, for you are a man
of desires. Reflect on the matter and gain understanding by the sight. 24 Seventy weeks D
were determined regarding your people and regarding the holy city for sin to be
A
The Lord watched V ¦ The Lord our God watched over the wickedness A
B
and act A ¦ ~ V
C
of my God A ¦ ~ V
D
Outside of Daniel, ebdomas, "week" occurs only in names and definitions of holidays:
the sabbath (the end of a week, 2 Macc. 6:11), Pentecost (seven weeks after Passover,
Ex. 34:22), and Jubilees (the year after every seven "weeks of years," Lev. 25:8)

concluded, to seal sins, to blot out the lawless acts, to seek atonement for
wrongdoings, to bring eternal righteousness, to seal vision and prophet, and to anoint
the holy of holies. 25 You will know and understand: from the departure of the word to
defend and build Jerusalem until the anointed governor A are seven weeks and sixty-two
weeks. It will return, street and wall will be built, and the seasons will be expended.
26 After the sixty-two weeks, the anointing will be destroyed; there is no justice in it. It
will ruin the city and the holy place along with the coming governor; they will be cut off
in a flood. Even to the end of the determined battle, it will arrange obliterations. 27 For
one week, it will empower the testament for many. In half of the week, my sacrifice
and libation will be taken away, and upon the temple will be the abomination of
desolations, even to the conclusion of the season. A conclusion will be given to the
desolation." B
Daniel 10
1 In the third year of Cyrus king of the Persians, a word was revealed to Daniel,
whose name was called Belshazzar. The word was true, and great power and
understanding was given to him in the vision. 2 In those days, I, Daniel, was mourning
for three weeks of days. 3 I did not eat desirable bread, meat and wine did not enter my
mouth, and I did not apply ointment until the fullness of three weeks of days. 4 On the
twenty-fourth day of the first month, I was close to the great river, that is, the Tigris
Hiddekel. C 5 I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, a man was clothed in linen, and
his waist was girded with gold of Uphaz. 6 His body was like tin, D his face was like the
appearance of lightning, his eyes were like lamps of fire, his arms and his legs were like
the appearance of gleaming bronze, and the sound of his words was like the sound of a
crowd. 7 I, Daniel, alone saw the vision. The men who were with me did not see the
vision, but a great trance fell on them, and they fled in fear. 8 I was left alone, and I saw
this great vision. There was no strength left in me; my glory was turned into corruption,
and I retained no strength. 9 I heard the sound of his words; when I heard him I was
stunned, and my face was on the earth.
10 Behold, a hand touched me, and it raised me on my knees. 11 He said to me, "O
Daniel, man of desires, gain understanding by the words which I am speaking to you
and stand in your position, for I was just now sent forth to you." When he had spoken
this word to me, I stood up trembling. 12 He said to me, "Do not be afraid, Daniel, for
A
Or, "the governing Christ"
B
my sacrifice and libation will be taken away, and upon the temple will be the
abomination of desolations, even to the conclusion of the season. A conclusion will be
given to the desolation. V ¦ the altar and sacrifice, even to the parapet (literally, "little
wing"; see Matt. 4:5), will cease due to obliteration, even to the conclusion. It will
arrange for obliteration in haste. A
C
Tigris Hiddekel VA ¦ Tigris ¦ Hiddekel (the latter being the Hebrew name for the Tigris;
see Gen. 2:14 MT)
D
Literally, "like Tarshish," which Ezek. 38:13 identifies as Carthage; tin was its most
exclusive export

from the first day on which you gave your heart to be an associate A and to be afflicted
before the Lord your God, your words were heard, and I came in connection with your
words. 13 The ruler of the kingdom of the Persians stood in opposition to me for twentyone
days. Behold, Michael, one of the foremost rulers, came to help me, and I left him
there with the ruler of the kingdom of the Persians. 14 I came to make you understand
whatever will happen to your people in the last of the days, for the vision is still for
days." 15 When he had spoken with me according to these words, I put my face on the
ground and was stunned. 16 Behold, someone in the likeness of a son of man touched
my lips. I opened my mouth and spoke, and I said to the one who stood before me, "O
lord, during your vision my inward parts turned within me, and I had no strength.
17 How will your servant be able, O lord, to speak with this my lord? As for me, from
now on strength will not stay in me." Breath B was not left in me.
18 Someone with the appearance of a man again touched me, and he strengthened
me. 19 He said to me, "Do not be afraid, O man of desires; peace to you. Be brave and
be strong." When he had spoken with me, I received strength, and I said, "Let my lord
speak, for you strengthened me." 20 He said, "Surely you are aware of why I came to
you! Now I will return to battle with the ruler of the Persians. I was going out, C and the
ruler of the Greeks was coming. 21 But I will tell you what is registered in the writing of
truth: there is no one who holds out with me regarding these things except Michael
your ruler."
Daniel 11
1 In the first year of Cyrus, I myself stood in might and strength.
2 "Now I will tell you the truth. Behold, three more kings will arise in Persia, and the
fourth will be full of great wealth beyond everyone. After he gains possession of his
wealth, he will rise up against all the kingdoms of the Greeks. 3 A powerful king will arise
and dominate a large dominion, and he will act according to his will. 4 As soon as it
stands, his kingdom will be crushed and divided to the four winds of heaven, yet not to
its extremities nor according to his dominion which he dominated. For his kingdom will
be plucked up and is for others beside these.
5 The king of the south will be strong; one of his rulers will be stronger than them, D
and he will dominate a large dominion by his authority. 6 After his years they will form
an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the south will enter with the king of the
north to make agreements with him, yet she will not gain possession of the strength of
an arm, and his seed will not remain standing. She will be delivered up, as well as those
who brought her, the maiden, and the one who strengthened her in those seasons.
7 From the flower of her root, one of his preparation will arise. He will come against the
force and will enter into the foundations of the king of the north. He will deal with them
A be an associate VA ¦ understand
B Breath A ¦ The spirit V
C going out A ¦ going in V
D one of his rulers will be stronger than them A ¦ one of their rulers will be stronger
than them V ¦ one of his rulers will be stronger than him

and prevail. 8 Indeed, he will overthrow their gods along with their molten objects; he
will bring to Egypt A every coveted silver and gold vessel of theirs along with a body of
captives. He will remain standing longer than the king of the north. 9 He will enter into
the kingdom of the king of the south, and will return to his own land.
10 His sons will gather a crowd of many forces. It will keep coming and
overwhelming; it will pass by, swoop down, and contend to the limit of its strength.
11 The king of the south will be enraged; he will come out and battle with the king of the
north. He will establish a large crowd, and a crowd will be delivered up by his hand.
12 He will receive the crowd, and his heart will be exalted; he will cast down tens of
thousands, yet he will not prevail. 13 The king of the north will return and lead a crowd
larger than the former, and at the end of the seasons of years he will come against the
entrances with a great force and with much equipment.
14 In those seasons many will rise up against the king of the south. The sons of the
scoundrels of your people will be lifted up in order to establish a vision, yet they will
grow weak. 15 The king of the north will enter, deposit a siege mound, and capture
secure cities. The arms of the king of the south will not remain standing. B His chosen
ones will arise, yet there will be no strength to stand. 16 The one who comes in against
him will act according to his will, and there is no one who will stand before his face. He
will stand in the land of sabi, C and it will be finished by his hand. 17 He will arrange his
face to enter with the strength of all his kingdom, and will cause everything to be in line
with him. He will give him a daughter of women in order to corrupt her, yet she will not
remain, neither will she be his. 18 He will turn his face back to the islands and will
capture many. He will inflame rulers with their reproach; D nevertheless, his own
reproach will return on him. 19 He will turn his face back to the strength of his land. He
will grow weak, fall, and not be found.
20 A plant of the kingdom will arise out of his root, pushing aside his preparation,
earning the glory of the kingdom. In those days he will be crushed, yet not in public E
nor in battle. 21 He will remain standing over his preparation (he was treated with
contempt, and they did not give him the glory of the kingdom). He will come in
prosperity, and prevail over the kingdom by slippery acts. 22 The arms of the one who
overwhelms will be overwhelmed due to his presence and will be crushed, as will the
governor of the testament. 23 Due to the alliances with him, he will practice deceit; he
will go up and prevail over him with a small nation. 24 He will be present in prosperity
and in fertile regions. He will do what his fathers and the fathers of his fathers did not
do: he will scatter plunder, spoils, and possessions for them. He will also devise his
plans against Egypt for a season. 25 His strength and his heart will be aroused against
the king of the south with a great force. The king of the south will join in battle with a
A he will overthrow their gods along with their molten objects; he will bring to Egypt
VcA ¦ he will bring their gods to Egypt along with their molten objects, V*
B will not remain standing A ¦ will remain standing V
C Heb tsebi, "beauty" (left untranslated only in this chapter)
D inflame rulers with their reproach VA ¦ cause rulers to stop their reproach
E Literally, "among faces"

great and exceedingly strong force; they will not stand, A for they will devise plans
against him. 26 They will eat his provisions and crush him, yet he will overwhelm forces,
and many will fall wounded. 27 The hearts of both kings are for evil; they will speak lies
at one table, yet it will not succeed, for the end is yet for a season. 28 He will return to
his land with many possessions. His heart will be against the holy testament; he will
take action and return to his own land.
29 In the appointed season he will return and will be present in the south, yet the last
will not be like the first. 30 The Cypriots will go out and come at him, and he will be
humiliated. He will return and become angry against the holy testament. He will take
action and return, and come to an understanding with those who abandoned the holy
testament. 31 Seeds will arise from him, and they will profane the sanctuary of majesty;
they will change the regular practice B and give an obliterated abomination. 32 Those who
act lawlessly will introduce a testament by slippery acts, and a people which knows
their God will prevail and take action. 33 Those of the people who understand will have
understanding in many things, yet they will become weak by the sword, by flame, by
captivity, and by the plundering of days. 34 When they become weak, they will be helped
with a little help, and many will impose on them by slippery acts. 35 Some of those who
understand will become weak in order to refine them, to be selected and be revealed
until the season of the end, for it is yet for a season.
36 He will act according to his will; the king will be exalted and magnified against
every god. C He will speak excessive things and will prosper until the wrath is completed,
for it is coming to completion. 37 He will take no notice of all the gods of his fathers and
the desire of women; he will take no notice of any god, for he will be magnified above
all. 38 He will glorify the god of maózin D at his place, and he will glorify a god whom his
fathers did not know with gold, silver, and precious stone, and with desirable things.
39 He will take action in the fortresses of the places of refuge with a foreign god. He will
increase glory; he will subject many to them, and will distribute the land in gifts.
40 At the end of the season he will lock horns with the king of the south. The king of
the north will gather against him with chariots, with horsemen, and with many ships.
He will enter the land, crush, and pass on. 41 He will enter the land of sabi, and many
will grow weak. These will be saved from his hand: Edom, Moab, and the realm of the
sons of Ammon. 42 He will stretch out his hand over the land, and there will be no
salvation for the land of Egypt. 43 He will be dominant among the hidden stores of gold
and silver, and among all the coveted things of Egypt, the Libyans, and the Ethiopians
in their fortresses. 44 Reports and dispatches out of the east and from the north will
disturb him. He will come with great fury to obliterate and curse many. 45 He will pitch
A they will not stand VA ¦ he will not stand
B endelechismos, "regular practice," is often used in connection with sacrifices, as in Ex.
29:38, but by itself means "habit," such as telling lies in Sir. 7:13, or "standing order,"
as concerning the "eternal flame" of the tent in Lev. 24:3
C V ¦ + and against the God of gods A
D Heb maoz, left untranslated here, but in the next verse rendered kataphugé, "place of
refuge"

his tent at the apeden A between the seas in the holy mountain of sabi. He will come to
his portion, yet there is no one who will deliver him.
Daniel 12
1 In that season Michael, the great ruler who stands over the sons of your people,
will arise. It will be a season of oppression, an oppression of a sort which has not
happened since a nation came into being on the earth until that season. In that season
your people, everyone who was found written in the book, will be saved. 2 Many of
those who sleep in the soil of the earth will awaken, some to eternal life and others to
reproach and eternal shame. 3 Those who are intelligent will shine like the brightness of
the firmament, and the many righteous will shine like the stars forever and ever. 4 O
Daniel, conclude the words and seal the scroll until the season of the consummation,
until many are taught and knowledge increases."
5 I, Daniel, looked, and behold, there were two others standing, one on one bank of
the river and one on the other bank of the river. 6 One said to the man who was dressed
in linen, who was above the water of the river, "How long until the end of the amazing
things which you have told?" 7 I heard the man who was dressed in linen, who was
above the water of the river. He lifted up his right hand and his left hand to heaven and
swore by the one who lives forever, "For a season, and seasons, B and half a season.
When the dispersion of the hand of the sanctified people C is completed, they will know
all these things." 8 I heard, yet I did not understand; I said, "O Lord, which are the last
of these things?" 9 He said, "Go, Daniel, for the words have been concluded and sealed
until the season of the end. 10 Many are being chosen, whitened, refined, and
sanctified. D The lawless will act lawlessly; none of the lawless will understand, yet the
thoughtful will understand. 11 After the season of the alteration of the regular practice, E
the abomination of desolation will be given for twelve hundred ninety days. F 12 Fortunate
is the one who endures and reaches thirteen hundred thirty-five days. 13 Go and rest, for
there are still more days G until the fulfillment of the consummation. You will rest and
rise to your allotment at the consummation of days."
Bel and the Dragon
1 King Astyages was added to his fathers, and Cyrus the Persian received his
kingdom. 2 Daniel was a confidant of the king, and was honored more than all his
A
Heb, "palace," from Pers apadana, "treasury" or "armory"
B
a season, and seasons A ¦ a season of seasons V
C
of the hand of the sanctified people ¦ of the sanctified people A ¦ ~ V
D
whitened, refined, and sanctified Vc ¦ whitened, and refined V* ¦ refined, and
sanctified A
E
V ¦ + after the sacrifice rises completely A
F
will be given for twelve hundred ninety days V ¦ was prepared to be given for twelve
hundred days A
G days V*A ¦ days and hours Vc

friends. 3 The Babylonians had an idol by the name of Bel; each day twelve artabas A of
flour, forty sheep, and six metretes B of wine were expended on it. 4 The king revered it
and went each day to worship it, but Daniel worshiped his God. 5 The king said to him,
"Why don't you worship Bel?" He said, "Because I do not revere manufactured idols,
but the living God, who created heaven and earth and who has dominion over all flesh."
6 The king said to him, "Doesn't it occur to you that Bel is the living God? Don't you see
how much he eats and drinks each day?" 7 Daniel laughed and said, "Do not be
deceived, O king, for this is clay on the inside and bronze on the outside, and it has
never eaten or drunk." 8 The king was enraged; he summoned his priests and said to
them, "If you do not tell me who eats this provision, you will die, but if you show that
Bel eats them, Daniel will die because he blasphemed against Bel." 9 Daniel said to the
king, "Let it be in agreement with your word." There were seventy priests of Bel,
besides wives and children. 10 The king came with Daniel into the house of Bel. 11 The
priests of Bel said, "Behold, we are proceeding outside. O king, set out the foods, set
down the blended wine, close the door, and seal it with your signet ring. When you
come in the morning, if you do not find everything eaten by Bel, we will die instead of
Daniel, who is lying about us." 12 They were unconcerned, for they had made a hidden
entrance under the table, and they regularly went in through it and consumed the
items. 13 It happened that, when they had gone out, the king set out the foods for Bel.
14 Daniel gave orders to his young servants, and they brought ash and dusted the entire
sanctuary in the presence of the king alone. They came out, closed the door, sealed it
with the signet ring of the king, and left. 15 The priests, their wives, and their children
came during the night according to their custom, and they ate and drank everything.
16 The king got up early in the morning, and Daniel accompanied him. 17 The king said,
"Are the seals intact, Daniel?" He said, "They are intact, O king." 18 It happened that, as
soon as he opened the doors, the king looked at the table and shouted in a loud voice,
"You are great, O Bel; there is no deceit in you, not one thing!" 19 Daniel laughed, and
he held the king back so that he might not go inside. He said, "Now look at the floor
and identify whose footprints these are." 20 The king said, "I see the footprints of men,
women, and children." 21 Then the king became wrathful, and he brought together the
priests, their wives, and their children. They showed him the hidden doors through
which they were going in and partaking of the things on the table. 22 The king killed
them and gave Bel as a present to Daniel, and he overturned it and its temple.
23 There was also a large dragon, and the Babylonians revered it. 24 The king said to
Daniel, "You won't say that this too is bronze, will you? Behold, he is alive, and he eats
and drinks. C You can't say that this is not the living God; worship him." 25 Daniel said, "I
will worship the Lord my God, for he is the living God. O king, give me authority, and I
will kill the dragon without a sword and staff." 26 The king said, "I give it to you."
27 Daniel took pitch, fat, and hair, and mixed them together. He made lumps and put
A See Is. 5:10
B See Hag. 2:16
C You won't say that this too is bronze, will you? Behold, he is alive, and he eats and
drinks. VcA ¦ ~ V*

them into the mouth of the dragon; the dragon ate them and burst. He said, "Look at
your objects of worship!" 28 It happened that, when the Babylonians heard this, they
were very indignant, and they conspired against the king. They said, "The king has
become a Judean. He pulled down Bel, killed the dragon, and slaughtered the priests."
29 They went to the king and said, "Hand Daniel over to us. Otherwise, we will kill you
and your household." 30 The king saw that they were pressuring him exceedingly, and
he handed Daniel over to them under compulsion. 31 They threw him into a pit of lions,
and he was there for six days. 32 There were seven lions in the pit. Each day two human
bodies and two sheep were given to them, but this time they were not given to them so
that they might eat Daniel. 33 Habakkuk the prophet was in Judea. He mixed a stew,
broke loaves of bread in a bowl, and was going into the field to bring it to the
harvesters. 34 A messenger of the Lord said to Habakkuk, "Bring the lunch which you
have to Babylon for Daniel in the pit of lions." 35 Habakkuk said, "Lord, I have not seen
Babylon, and I do not know the pit." 36 The messenger of the Lord took hold of his
scalp, carried him by the hair of his head, and placed him in Babylon above the pit with
a rush of his breath. A 37 Habakkuk shouted, "Daniel, Daniel, take the lunch which God
sent to you!" 38 Daniel said, "Indeed you remembered me, O God, and did not abandon
those who love you." 39 Daniel arose and ate. The messenger of God immediately
returned Habakkuk to his place. 40 The king came on the seventh day to mourn for
Daniel. He came to the pit and looked in, and behold, Daniel was sitting there. 41 He
cried out in a loud voice, "You are great, O Lord God of Daniel, and there is no other
beside you!" 42 He pulled him up, and he threw into the pit those who were responsible
for his plight. They were immediately devoured before him.
A Or, "spirit" (pneuma)
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