I am for peace, but when I speak,
They are for war.

Whether it is pleasant or unpleasant, we will listen to the voice of the Lord our God to whom we are sending you, so that it may go well with us when we listen to the voice of the Lord our God.”

I pour out my complaint before Him;
I declare my trouble before Him.

“Take him and look after him, and do nothing harmful to him, but rather deal with him just as he tells you.”

They surrounded me like bees;
They were extinguished as a fire of thorns;
In the name of the Lord I will surely cut them off.

“He pursues them, passing on in safety,
By a way he had not been traversing with his feet.

Thus they have repaid me evil for good
And hatred for my love.

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,
And fought against me without cause.

Tremble, O earth, before the Lord,
Before the God of Jacob,

For He stands at the right hand of the needy,
To save him from those who judge his soul.

They forgot God their Savior,
Who had done great things in Egypt,

All day long my dishonor is before me
And my humiliation has overwhelmed me,

For You are the glory of their strength,
And by Your favor our horn is exalted.

O my God, make them like the whirling dust,
Like chaff before the wind.

You give us as sheep to be eaten
And have scattered us among the nations.

“When I select an appointed time,
It is I who judge with equity.

In the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign this Passover was celebrated.

Thus I will afflict the descendants of David for this, but not always.’”

He brought me out by way of the north gate and led me around on the outside to the outer gate by way of the gate that faces east. And behold, water was trickling from the south side.

Their kinsmen the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God.

and give the money, the ransom of those who are in excess among them, to Aaron and to his sons.”

then the priest shall come out of the house, to the doorway, and quarantine the house for seven days.

and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.

All the numbered men of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the leaders of Israel numbered, by their families and by their fathers’ households,

He inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks.

“Then heaven and earth and all that is in them
Will shout for joy over Babylon,
For the destroyers will come to her from the north,”
Declares the Lord.

He made for the altar a grating of bronze network beneath, under its ledge, reaching halfway up.

I will also strike down the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they will die of a great pestilence.

“Assyria is there and all her company; her graves are round about her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword,

“When I make the land of Egypt a desolation,
And the land is destitute of that which filled it,
When I smite all those who live in it,
Then they shall know that I am the Lord.

The fords also have been seized,
And they have burned the marshes with fire,
And the men of war are terrified.

“Give wings to Moab,
For she will flee away;
And her cities will become a desolation,
Without inhabitants in them.

This is how I will treat this place and its inhabitants,” declares the Lord, “so as to make this city like Topheth.

But those who garner it will eat it and praise the Lord;
And those who gather it will drink it in the courts of My sanctuary.

Who remembered us in our low estate,
For His lovingkindness is everlasting,

And all the officials and all the people obeyed who had entered into the covenant that each man should set free his male servant and each man his female servant, so that no one should keep them any longer in bondage; they obeyed, and set them free.

To Him who divided the Red Sea asunder,
For His lovingkindness is everlasting,

Because He has inclined His ear to me,
Therefore I shall call upon Him as long as I live.

The Lord is for me among those who help me;
Therefore I will look with satisfaction on those who hate me.

A fruitful land into a salt waste,
Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

Our feet are standing
Within your gates, O Jerusalem,

He led them also by a straight way,
To go to an inhabited city.

The strength of the King loves justice;
You have established equity;
You have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

They afflicted his feet with fetters,
He himself was laid in irons;

Rise up, O Judge of the earth,
Render recompense to the proud.

He will drink from the brook by the wayside;
Therefore He will lift up His head.

Let them give thanks to the Lord for His lovingkindness,
And for His wonders to the sons of men!

Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were unfaithful to the Lord God of their fathers, so that He made them a horror, as you see.

“It shall be established forever like the moon,
And the witness in the sky is faithful.” Selah.

“Let there be no strange god among you;
Nor shall you worship any foreign god.

He also rejected the tent of Joseph,
And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,

“I said to the boastful, ‘Do not boast,’
And to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up the horn;

to make designs for working in gold and in silver and in bronze,

May You increase my greatness
And turn to comfort me.

All the temple servants and the sons of Solomon’s servants were 392.

She said to her young men, “Go on before me; behold, I am coming after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

Be strong, and let us show ourselves courageous for the sake of our people and for the cities of our God; and may the Lord do what is good in His sight.”

Then he set the stands, five on the right side of the house and five on the left side of the house; and he set the sea of cast metal on the right side of the house eastward toward the south.

David did not leave a man or a woman alive to bring to Gath, saying, “Otherwise they will tell about us, saying, ‘So has David done and so has been his practice all the time he has lived in the country of the Philistines.’”

Then the men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill about thirty men of Israel, for they said, “Surely they are defeated before us, as in the first battle.”

In the year of jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom he bought it, to whom the possession of the land belongs.

It was told Abimelech that all the leaders of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.

You shall take one leader of every tribe to apportion the land for inheritance.

The numbered men of the sons of Gershon by their families and by their fathers’ households,

As soon as it was light, the men were sent away, they with their donkeys.

Because they ministered to them before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have sworn against them,” declares the Lord God, “that they shall bear the punishment for their iniquity.

When you have finished cleansing it, you shall present a young bull without blemish and a ram without blemish from the flock.

and it came about when we came to the lodging place, that we opened our sacks, and behold, each man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full. So we have brought it back in our hand.

I will make you an everlasting desolation and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Opposite the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery corresponding to gallery in three stories.

They will forget their disgrace and all their treachery which they perpetrated against Me, when they live securely on their own land with no one to make them afraid.

“They will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans,
And pierced through in their streets.”

‘So I will shatter Elam before their enemies
And before those who seek their lives;
And I will bring calamity upon them,
Even My fierce anger,’ declares the Lord,
‘And I will send out the sword after them
Until I have consumed them.

To Him who made the great lights,
For His lovingkindness is everlasting:

But he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment,
And it entered into his body like water
And like oil into his bones.

You set a boundary that they may not pass over,
So that they will not return to cover the earth.

Egypt rises like the Nile,
Even like the rivers whose waters surge about;
And He has said, “I will rise and cover that land;
I will surely destroy the city and its inhabitants.”

Will You restrain Yourself at these things, O Lord?
Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?

Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you are now fearing; do not be afraid of him,’ declares the Lord, ‘for I am with you to save you and deliver you from his hand.

But the nation which will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will let remain on its land,” declares the Lord, “and they will till it and dwell in it.”’”

Where then are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you or against this land’?

Have I now come up without the Lord’s approval against this land to destroy it? The Lord said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”’”

Then they were glad because they were quiet,
So He guided them to their desired haven.

Therefore pride is their necklace;
The garment of violence covers them.

They pour forth words, they speak arrogantly;
All who do wickedness vaunt themselves.

He pours contempt upon princes
And makes them wander in a pathless waste.

When he is judged, let him come forth guilty,
And let his prayer become sin.

Let them give thanks to the Lord for His lovingkindness,
And for His wonders to the sons of men!

For we have been consumed by Your anger
And by Your wrath we have been dismayed.

For their heart was not steadfast toward Him,
Nor were they faithful in His covenant.

Make glad the soul of Your servant,
For to You, O Lord, I lift up my soul.

Fear and trembling come upon me,
And horror has overwhelmed me.

As for me, You uphold me in my integrity,
And You set me in Your presence forever.

How long will you assail a man,
That you may murder him, all of you,
Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

On account of the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips,
Let them even be caught in their pride,
And on account of curses and lies which they utter.

Then they gave it into the hands of the workmen who had the oversight of the house of the Lord, and the workmen who were working in the house of the Lord used it to restore and repair the house.

He is like a lion that is eager to tear,
And as a young lion lurking in hiding places.

Look upon my affliction and my trouble,
And forgive all my sins.

Their horses were 736; their mules, 245;

because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest the manslayer shall return to the land of his possession.

Now then arise early in the morning with the servants of your lord who have come with you, and as soon as you have arisen early in the morning and have light, depart.”

David replied, “Behold the spear of the king! Now let one of the young men come over and take it.

and for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards,

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

For the rear of the tabernacle, to the west, he made six boards.

They made on the breastpiece chains like cords, of twisted cordage work in pure gold.

They made two gold rings and placed them on the two ends of the breastpiece, on its inner edge which was next to the ephod.

These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob; there were fourteen persons in all.

Moreover, they shall not sell or exchange any of it, or alienate this choice portion of land; for it is holy to the Lord.

Alongside the border of the priests the Levites shall have 25,000 cubits in length and 10,000 in width. The whole length shall be 25,000 cubits and the width 10,000.

“At the festivals and the appointed feasts the grain offering shall be an ephah with a bull and an ephah with a ram, and with the lambs as much as one is able to give, and a hin of oil with an ephah.

He measured the length of the building along the front of the separate area behind it, with a gallery on each side, a hundred cubits; he also measured the inner nave and the porches of the court.

The width of the entrance was ten cubits and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on each side. And he measured the length of the nave, forty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits.

According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I dealt with them, and I hid My face from them.”’”

On the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering,” declares the Lord God.

Put in it the pieces,
Every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder;
Fill it with choice bones.

therefore I will give it into the hand of a despot of the nations; he will thoroughly deal with it. According to its wickedness I have driven it away.

They have made a bed for her among the slain with all her hordes. Her graves are around it, they are all uncircumcised, slain by the sword (although their terror was instilled in the land of the living), and they bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit; they were put in the midst of the slain.

You have borne the penalty of your lewdness and abominations,” the Lord declares.

You have heard their reproach, O Lord,
All their schemes against me.

Look on their sitting and their rising;
I am their mocking song.

At Your rebuke they fled,
At the sound of Your thunder they hurried away.

“Moab will be destroyed from being a people
Because he has become arrogant toward the Lord.

Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will send to him those who tip vessels, and they will tip him over, and they will empty his vessels and shatter his jars.

“Why have your mighty ones become prostrate?
They do not stand because the Lord has thrust them down.

But if you are going to say, “We will not stay in this land,” so as not to listen to the voice of the Lord your God,

But they were silent and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Do not answer him.”

They asked, and He brought quail,
And satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

and said to them, “Thus says the Lord the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your petition before Him:

But I will deliver you on that day,” declares the Lord, “and you will not be given into the hand of the men whom you dread.

Until the time that his word came to pass,
The word of the Lord tested him.

Who will bring me into the besieged city?
Who will lead me to Edom?

He is the Lord our God;
His judgments are in all the earth.

The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit;
He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants;
How I bear in my bosom the reproach of all the many peoples,

For the arms of the wicked will be broken,
But the Lord sustains the righteous.

Surely Your servants find pleasure in her stones
And feel pity for her dust.

You have held my eyelids open;
I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

And all the horns of the wicked He will cut off,
But the horns of the righteous will be lifted up.

their camels, 435; their donkeys, 6,720.

Save, O Lord;
May the King answer us in the day we call.

Moreover, Shaphan the scribe told the king saying, “Hilkiah the priest gave me a book.” And Shaphan read from it in the presence of the king.

as well as the priests who were enrolled genealogically according to their fathers’ households, and the Levites from twenty years old and upwards, by their duties and their divisions.

Now there were four supports at the four corners of each stand; its supports were part of the stand itself.

The garment, whether the warp or the woof, or any article of leather from which the mark has departed when you washed it, it shall then be washed a second time and will be clean.”

Yet if he will not redeem the field, but has sold the field to another man, it may no longer be redeemed;

Their four pillars and their four sockets were of bronze; their hooks were of silver, and the overlaying of their tops and their bands were of silver.

For the north side there were one hundred cubits; their twenty pillars and their twenty sockets were of bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver.

But nothing of theirs was missing, whether small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything that they had taken for themselves; David brought it all back.

Furthermore, they made two gold rings and placed them on the bottom of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, on the front of it, close to the place where it joined, above the woven band of the ephod.

The length of each curtain was thirty cubits and four cubits the width of each curtain; the eleven curtains had the same measurements.

the table also and its utensils, and the pure gold lampstand with all its utensils, and the altar of incense,

Then the sons of Israel did so; and Joseph gave them wagons according to the command of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey.

The blow of his battering rams he will direct against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.

and the one went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces,” and I have not seen him since.

‘They put him in a cage with hooks
And brought him to the king of Babylon;
They brought him in hunting nets
So that his voice would be heard no more
On the mountains of Israel.

There were ninety-six exposed pomegranates; all the pomegranates numbered a hundred on the network all around.

Then he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests, which faced north; and behold, there was a place at the extreme rear toward the west.

And with you I shatter man and woman,
And with you I shatter old man and youth,
And with you I shatter young man and virgin,

“A destroyer will come to every city,
So that no city will escape;
The valley also will be ruined
And the plateau will be destroyed,
As the Lord has said.

Then Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, “Now put these worn-out clothes and rags under your armpits under the ropes”; and Jeremiah did so.

May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth
If I do not remember you,
If I do not exalt Jerusalem
Above my chief joy.

“They cried there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a big noise;
He has let the appointed time pass by!’

So all the people whom Ishmael had taken captive from Mizpah turned around and came back, and went to Johanan the son of Kareah.

Moreover Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, “In what way have I sinned against you, or against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison?

For in that day every man will cast away his silver idols and his gold idols, which your sinful hands have made for you as a sin.

now then, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth who prophesies to you?

Like the striking of Him who has struck them, has He struck them?
Or like the slaughter of His slain, have they been slain?

I am Your servant; give me understanding,
That I may know Your testimonies.

Why should the nations say,
“Where, now, is their God?”

Then I will punish their transgression with the rod
And their iniquity with stripes.

For they have opened the wicked and deceitful mouth against me;
They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

Ascribe strength to God;
His majesty is over Israel
And His strength is in the skies.

Let the sea roar and all it contains,
The world and those who dwell in it.

As we have heard, so have we seen
In the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God;
God will establish her forever. Selah.

The stouthearted were plundered,
They sank into sleep;
And none of the warriors could use his hands.

then the priest shall order them to wash the thing in which the mark occurs and he shall quarantine it for seven more days.

Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,

and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its grain offering and its drink offering.

and their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths for the one ram,

The sons of Israel returned from chasing the Philistines and plundered their camps.

He searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest, and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.

You shall put the two cords of gold on the two rings at the ends of the breastpiece.

You shall set up the court all around and hang up the veil for the gateway of the court.

It shall have two shoulder pieces joined to its two ends, that it may be joined.

We have also brought down other money in our hand to buy food; we do not know who put our money in our sacks.”

and bring your youngest brother to me, so your words may be verified, and you will not die.” And they did so.

And he shall provide a grain offering, an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he is able, and a hin of oil with an ephah.

The priests shall not eat any bird or beast that has died a natural death or has been torn to pieces.

Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of the house, of all its service and of all that shall be done in it.

I will make the land a desolation and a waste, and the pride of her power will cease; and the mountains of Israel will be desolate so that no one will pass through.

Then he measured the width from the front of the lower gate to the front of the exterior of the inner court, a hundred cubits on the east and on the north.

‘Whom do you surpass in beauty?
Go down and make your bed with the uncircumcised.’

‘For thus says the Lord God, “At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered.

Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you, you of ill repute, full of turmoil.

Then he spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the thrones of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

And He will redeem Israel
From all his iniquities.

Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

But He overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea,
For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

“The king of Babylon has heard the report about them,
And his hands hang limp;
Distress has gripped him,
Agony like a woman in childbirth.

May the Lord bless you from Zion,
He who made heaven and earth.

May the arrogant be ashamed, for they subvert me with a lie;
But I shall meditate on Your precepts.

“This is My resting place forever;
Here I will dwell, for I have desired it.

Thus they became unclean in their practices,
And played the harlot in their deeds.

I keep Your precepts and Your testimonies,
For all my ways are before You.

The mountains skipped like rams,
The hills, like lambs.

He also loved cursing, so it came to him;
And he did not delight in blessing, so it was far from him.

But they deceived Him with their mouth
And lied to Him with their tongue.

Through God we will do valiantly,
And it is He who shall tread down our adversaries.

“My faithfulness and My lovingkindness will be with him,
And in My name his horn will be exalted.

He established it for a testimony in Joseph
When he went throughout the land of Egypt.
I heard a language that I did not know:

Answer me, O Lord, for Your lovingkindness is good;
According to the greatness of Your compassion, turn to me,

He leveled a path for His anger;
He did not spare their soul from death,
But gave over their life to the plague,

My enemies speak evil against me,
“When will he die, and his name perish?”

Righteousness will go before Him
And will make His footsteps into a way.

“Kings of armies flee, they flee,
And she who remains at home will divide the spoil!”

Then the men of Israel besides Benjamin were numbered, 400,000 men who draw the sword; all these were men of war.

David said to Achish, “But what have I done? And what have you found in your servant from the day when I came before you to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”

and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;

and a tenth for each of the fourteen lambs;

Then the priest shall look at the mark and shall quarantine the article with the mark for seven days.

the pure gold lampstand, with its arrangement of lamps and all its utensils, and the oil for the light;

With it he made the sockets to the doorway of the tent of meeting, and the bronze altar and its bronze grating, and all the utensils of the altar,

He cast four rings on the four ends of the bronze grating as holders for the poles.

Ten cubits was the length of each board and one and a half cubits the width of each board.

They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing.

So he overtook them and spoke these words to them.

We are all sons of one man; we are honest men, your servants are not spies.”

The man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me and take grain for the famine of your households, and go.

Intermarry with us; give your daughters to us and take our daughters for yourselves.

in order that you may bear your humiliation and feel ashamed for all that you have done when you become a consolation to them.

The side chambers were in three stories, one above another, and thirty in each story; and the side chambers extended to the wall which stood on their inward side all around, that they might be fastened, and not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself.

Then he said to me, “These are the boiling places where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifices of the people.”

When I scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands, then they will know that I am the Lord.’”

The nations have heard of your shame,
And the earth is full of your cry of distress;
For one warrior has stumbled over another,
And both of them have fallen down together.

Beside them the birds of the heavens dwell;
They lift up their voices among the branches.

“How can you say, ‘We are mighty warriors,
And men valiant for battle’?

that the Lord your God may tell us the way in which we should walk and the thing that we should do.”

For they speak against You wickedly,
And Your enemies take Your name in vain.

For I am afflicted and needy,
And my heart is wounded within me.

Be exalted, O God, above the heavens,
And Your glory above all the earth.

For they provoked Him with their high places
And aroused His jealousy with their graven images.

You have fed them with the bread of tears,
And You have made them to drink tears in large measure.

So that they might keep His statutes
And observe His laws,
Praise the Lord!

O God, arrogant men have risen up against me,
And a band of violent men have sought my life,
And they have not set You before them.

Turn to me, and be gracious to me;
Oh grant Your strength to Your servant,
And save the son of Your handmaid.

She said to them, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Tell the man who sent you to Me,

They were also over the burden bearers, and supervised all the workmen from job to job; and some of the Levites were scribes and officials and gatekeepers.

and his acts, first to last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.

So there was great joy in Jerusalem, because there was nothing like this in Jerusalem since the days of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel.

From the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites and the Gadites and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, there were 120,000 with all kinds of weapons of war for the battle.

Who also brings me out from my enemies;
You even lift me above those who rise up against me;
You rescue me from the violent man.

All the gold of the offering which they offered up to the Lord, from the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, was 16,750 shekels.

So there were furnished from the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

Kedemoth with its pasture lands and Mephaath with its pasture lands;

“Then if the priest looks, and if the mark has faded after it has been washed, then he shall tear it out of the garment or out of the leather, whether from the warp or from the woof;

They made two gold filigree settings and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastpiece.

one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;

He made two boards for the corners of the tabernacle at the rear.

He cast four gold rings for it and put the rings on the four corners that were on its four feet.

He joined five curtains by themselves and the other six curtains by themselves.

With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves.”

But if you will not listen to us to be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and go.”

You said to your servants, however, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.’

The holy allotment shall be for these, namely for the priests, toward the north 25,000 cubits in length, toward the west 10,000 in width, toward the east 10,000 in width, and toward the south 25,000 in length; and the sanctuary of the Lord shall be in its midst.

It had three guardrooms on each side; and its side pillars and its porches had the same measurement as the first gate. Its length was fifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits.

Along the length, which was a hundred cubits, was the north door; the width was fifty cubits.

He made the side pillars sixty cubits high; the gate extended round about to the side pillar of the courtyard.

You have seen all their vengeance,
All their schemes against me.

He does not eat at the mountain shrines or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, or defile his neighbor’s wife,

“I know his fury,” declares the Lord,
“But it is futile;
His idle boasts have accomplished nothing.

Now it happened on the next day after the killing of Gedaliah, when no one knew about it,

Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men and women—even to all the people who were giving him such an answer—saying,

Then he called for Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces that were with him, and for all the people both small and great,

Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

To Him who spread out the earth above the waters,
For His lovingkindness is everlasting;

They have said, “The Lord does not see,
Nor does the God of Jacob pay heed.”

All the kings of the earth will give thanks to You, O Lord,
When they have heard the words of Your mouth.

Remember what my span of life is;
For what vanity You have created all the sons of men!

Fire goes before Him
And burns up His adversaries round about.

God has spoken in His holiness:
“I will exult, I will portion out Shechem
And measure out the valley of Succoth.

He who chastens the nations, will He not rebuke,
Even He who teaches man knowledge?

My foes have trampled upon me all day long,
For they are many who fight proudly against me.

There is Benjamin, the youngest, ruling them,
The princes of Judah in their throng,
The princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali.

The wicked spies upon the righteous
And seeks to kill him.

But God will break you down forever;
He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent,
And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.

“Nevertheless you will die like men
And fall like any one of the princes.”

and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its grain offering and its drink offering.

but the fields of the city and its villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

According to the commandment of the Lord through Moses, they were numbered, everyone by his serving or carrying; thus these were his numbered men, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

the table, all its utensils, and the bread of the Presence;

one cherub at the one end and one cherub at the other end; he made the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at the two ends.

Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people: that every male among us be circumcised as they are circumcised.

Beside the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, Manasseh, one portion.

The allotment that you shall set apart to the Lord shall be 25,000 cubits in length and 10,000 in width.

An area 25,000 cubits in length and 10,000 in width shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, and for their possession cities to dwell in.

He measured its length, twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the nave; and he said to me, “This is the most holy place.”

Who among all the gods of these lands have delivered their land from my hand, that the Lord would deliver Jerusalem from my hand?’”

On that day the prince shall provide for himself and all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering.

Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits; and the width of the side chambers, four cubits, all around about the house on every side.

“If your sons will keep My covenant
And My testimony which I will teach them,
Their sons also shall sit upon your throne forever.”

But when the wicked turns from his wickedness and practices justice and righteousness, he will live by them.

Too long has my soul had its dwelling
With those who hate peace.

They reeled and staggered like a drunken man,
And were at their wits’ end.

I have sworn and I will confirm it,
That I will keep Your righteous ordinances.

Rescue me and deliver me out of the hand of aliens,
Whose mouth speaks deceit
And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

The covenant which He made with Abraham,
And His oath to Isaac.

I have not turned aside from Your ordinances,
For You Yourself have taught me.

They hold fast to themselves an evil purpose;
They talk of laying snares secretly;
They say, “Who can see them?”

Let them give thanks to the Lord for His lovingkindness,
And for His wonders to the sons of men!

I was afflicted and about to die from my youth on;
I suffer Your terrors; I am overcome.

He divided the sea and caused them to pass through,
And He made the waters stand up like a heap.

When they were only a few men in number,
Very few, and strangers in it.

Rescue me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked,
Out of the grasp of the wrongdoer and ruthless man,

You have made the land quake, You have split it open;
Heal its breaches, for it totters.

He has put forth his hands against those who were at peace with him;
He has violated his covenant.

You, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel,
Awake to punish all the nations;
Do not be gracious to any who are treacherous in iniquity. Selah.

“Shall I eat the flesh of bulls
Or drink the blood of male goats?

Do not forsake me, O Lord;
O my God, do not be far from me!

His servants spoke further against the Lord God and against His servant Hezekiah.

Redeem Israel, O God,
Out of all his troubles.

Then Shaphan brought the book to the king and reported further word to the king, saying, “Everything that was entrusted to your servants they are doing.

Who was there among all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed who could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you from my hand?

They have now surrounded us in our steps;
They set their eyes to cast us down to the ground.

but if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out until the day when it was taken up.

He cast four rings of gold for it on its four feet; even two rings on one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.

and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

They fastened a blue cord to it, to fasten it on the turban above, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters for ourselves, and we will live with you and become one people.

Leah likewise came near with her children, and they bowed down; and afterward Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed down.

He measured on the north side five hundred reeds by the measuring reed.

There were latticed windows and palm trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the porch; thus were the side chambers of the house and the thresholds.

So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

The people said to me, “Will you not tell us what these things that you are doing mean for us?”

I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life. And their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.

He has also established them forever and ever;
He has made a decree which will not pass away.

The proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords;
They have spread a net by the wayside;
They have set snares for me. Selah.

Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you. Behold, I am going to pray to the Lord your God in accordance with your words; and I will tell you the whole message which the Lord will answer you. I will not keep back a word from you.”

Deliver me, O Lord, from my enemies;
I take refuge in You.

They mock and wickedly speak of oppression;
They speak from on high.

I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes
Forever, even to the end.

The right hand of the Lord is exalted;
The right hand of the Lord does valiantly.

Be gracious to us, O Lord, be gracious to us,
For we are greatly filled with contempt.

Establish Your word to Your servant,
As that which produces reverence for You.

Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against His people
And He abhorred His inheritance.

The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness;
The Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

For, behold, Your enemies, O Lord,
For, behold, Your enemies will perish;
All who do iniquity will be scattered.

In Your name they rejoice all the day,
And by Your righteousness they are exalted.

Let those be ashamed and humiliated
Who seek my life;
Let those be turned back and dishonored
Who delight in my hurt.

Panic seized them there,
Anguish, as of a woman in childbirth.

For He has delivered me from all trouble,
And my eye has looked with satisfaction upon my enemies.

But as for me, I shall walk in my integrity;
Redeem me, and be gracious to me.

Prepare yourselves by your fathers’ households in your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel and according to the writing of his son Solomon.

Their offspring You will destroy from the earth,
And their descendants from among the sons of men.

Afterwards they prepared for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the sons of Aaron, were offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.

Behold, I will gather you to your fathers and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, so your eyes will not see all the evil which I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants.”’” And they brought back word to the king.

Close by the rim were the rings, the holders for the poles to carry the table.

So she left his garment beside her until his master came home.

and 30,500 donkeys,

Its poles shall be inserted into the rings, so that the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar when it is carried.

There were two tenons for each board, fitted to one another; thus he did for all the boards of the tabernacle.

On the day of the new moon he shall offer a young bull without blemish, also six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish.

There was a row of masonry round about in them, around the four of them, and boiling places were made under the rows round about.

The priest shall take some of the blood from the sin offering and put it on the door posts of the house, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar and on the posts of the gate of the inner court.

and the outer chambers was twenty cubits in width all around the temple on every side.

“They will set apart men who will constantly pass through the land, burying those who were passing through, even those left on the surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search.

You will fall on the open field; for it is I who have spoken,” declares the Lord God.

‘So it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches;
For its roots extended to many waters.

“For behold, I have made you small among the nations,
Despised among men.

therefore you will no longer devour men and no longer bereave your nation of children,’ declares the Lord God.

“Thus says the Lord the God of Israel to you, O Baruch:

Behold, I am going to command,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will bring them back to this city; and they will fight against it and take it and burn it with fire; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without inhabitant.’”

Then the officials said to Baruch, “Go, hide yourself, you and Jeremiah, and do not let anyone know where you are.”

And they will sing of the ways of the Lord,
For great is the glory of the Lord.

“Her priests also I will clothe with salvation,
And her godly ones will sing aloud for joy.

And it was reckoned to him for righteousness,
To all generations forever.

but in the place where they led him captive, there he will die and not see this land again.

How he swore to the Lord
And vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob,

You cleared the ground before it,
And it took deep root and filled the land.

They forgot His deeds
And His miracles that He had shown them.

For, behold, those who are far from You will perish;
You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to You.

You withdrew all Your fury;
You turned away from Your burning anger.

For God will save Zion and build the cities of Judah,
That they may dwell there and possess it.

Because of the voice of the enemy,
Because of the pressure of the wicked;
For they bring down trouble upon me
And in anger they bear a grudge against me.

Foreigners fade away,
And come trembling out of their fortresses.

But to the king of Judah who sent you to inquire of the Lord, thus you will say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord God of Israel regarding the words which you have heard,

He also wrote letters to insult the Lord God of Israel, and to speak against Him, saying, “As the gods of the nations of the lands have not delivered their people from my hand, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver His people from my hand.”

They have also emptied out the money which was found in the house of the Lord, and have delivered it into the hands of the supervisors and the workmen.”

Nevertheless the people still sacrificed in the high places, although only to the Lord their God.

All the assembly of Judah rejoiced, with the priests and the Levites and all the assembly that came from Israel, both the sojourners who came from the land of Israel and those living in Judah.

and I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them according to all the law, the statutes and the ordinances given through Moses.”

and the ten stands with the ten basins on the stands;

and the sockets of the court all around and the sockets of the gate of the court, and all the pegs of the tabernacle and all the pegs of the court all around.

and the lean and ugly cows ate up the first seven fat cows.

So Moses numbered all the firstborn among the sons of Israel, just as the Lord had commanded him;

For if we had not delayed, surely by now we could have returned twice.”

We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no longer alive, and the youngest is with our father today in the land of Canaan.’

Its windows and its porches and its palm tree ornaments had the same measurements as the gate which faced toward the east; and it was reached by seven steps, and its porch was in front of them.

I saw that she had defiled herself; they both took the same way.

In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, facing the separate area and facing the building, there were chambers.

So all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.

‘You said, “Ah, woe is me! For the Lord has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning and have found no rest.”’

“They will be desolate
In the midst of the desolated lands;
And her cities will be
In the midst of the devastated cities.

“I will also destroy all its cattle from beside many waters;
And the foot of man will not muddy them anymore
And the hoofs of beasts will not muddy them.

‘Then nations set against him
On every side from their provinces,
And they spread their net over him;
He was captured in their pit.

Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Thus says the king, ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you;

“The noise of battle is in the land,
And great destruction.

“As for the smoking sacrifices that you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your forefathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the Lord remember them and did not all this come into His mind?

For He has strengthened the bars of your gates;
He has blessed your sons within you.

Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Let no man know about these words and you will not die.

Yes, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of the Lord and in the house of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem,

“The plowers plowed upon my back;
They lengthened their furrows.”

“May a slanderer not be established in the earth;
May evil hunt the violent man speedily.”

For the sake of my brothers and my friends,
I will now say, “May peace be within you.”

Let my lips utter praise,
For You teach me Your statutes.

All Your commandments are faithful;
They have persecuted me with a lie; help me!

The arrogant utterly deride me,
Yet I do not turn aside from Your law.

When the sun rises they withdraw
And lie down in their dens.

Because they had rebelled against the words of God
And spurned the counsel of the Most High.

But as for us, we will bless the Lord
From this time forth and forever.
Praise the Lord!

He opened the rock and water flowed out;
It ran in the dry places like a river.

With my mouth I will give thanks abundantly to the Lord;
And in the midst of many I will praise Him.

Why have You broken down its hedges,
So that all who pass that way pick its fruit?

Who were destroyed at En-dor,
Who became as dung for the ground.

It was sending out its branches to the sea
And its shoots to the River.

So He brought them to His holy land,
To this hill country which His right hand had gained.

They have counseled only to thrust him down from his high position;
They delight in falsehood;
They bless with their mouth,
But inwardly they curse. Selah.

Like a dream when one awakes,
O Lord, when aroused, You will despise their form.

In Your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
Incline Your ear to me and save me.

Bless God in the congregations,
Even the Lord, you who are of the fountain of Israel.

“Deliver me from all my transgressions;
Make me not the reproach of the foolish.

‘Then on the third day: eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without defect;

Now it was told Saul that David had fled to Gath, so he no longer searched for him.

Thus 18,000 men of Benjamin fell; all these were valiant warriors.

and he shall slaughter the one bird in an earthenware vessel over running water.

Likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, and its twenty pillars with their twenty sockets of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their bands shall be of silver.

He overlaid the boards with gold and made their rings of gold as holders for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

the hangings of the court, its pillars and its sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court;

So you will eat fat until you are glutted, and drink blood until you are drunk, from My sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.

I saw also in my dream, and behold, seven ears, full and good, came up on a single stalk;

I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the produce of the field, so that you will not receive again the disgrace of famine among the nations.

Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I make the land a desolation and a waste because of all their abominations which they have committed.”’

“The one who flees from the terror
Will fall into the pit,
And the one who climbs up out of the pit
Will be caught in the snare;
For I shall bring upon her, even upon Moab,
The year of their punishment,” declares the Lord.

Also her daughters who are on the mainland will be slain by the sword, and they will know that I am the Lord.’”

“Moab has been destroyed and men have gone up to his cities;
His choicest young men have also gone down to the slaughter,”
Declares the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live! Why should this city become a ruin?

Indeed, may you see your children’s children.
Peace be upon Israel!

I hate and despise falsehood,
But I love Your law.

“Moab is My washbowl;
Over Edom I shall throw My shoe;
Over Philistia I will shout aloud.”

Who can speak of the mighty deeds of the Lord,
Or can show forth all His praise?

You have by Your power redeemed Your people,
The sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

Your burning anger has passed over me;
Your terrors have destroyed me.

If they violate My statutes
And do not keep My commandments,

“Those who hate the Lord would pretend obedience to Him,
And their time of punishment would be forever.

Zion heard this and was glad,
And the daughters of Judah have rejoiced
Because of Your judgments, O Lord.

O Lord God of hosts, restore us;
Cause Your face to shine upon us, and we will be saved.

To deliver their soul from death
And to keep them alive in famine.

He also drove out the nations before them
And apportioned them for an inheritance by measurement,
And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.

When he heard that I raised my voice and screamed, he left his garment beside me and fled and went outside.”

Because they do not regard the works of the Lord
Nor the deeds of His hands,
He will tear them down and not build them up.

For strangers have risen against me
And violent men have sought my life;
They have not set God before them. Selah.

They made attaching shoulder pieces for the ephod; it was attached at its two upper ends.

and he made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.

On the west side, 4,500 cubits, shall be three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.

Now when he had finished measuring the inner house, he brought me out by the way of the gate which faced toward the east and measured it all around.

The inner court had a gate toward the south; and he measured from gate to gate toward the south, a hundred cubits.