And Jeremiah uttered a lament for Josiah, and all the male and female singers have spoken in their laments about Josiah to this day. And they made them a requirement in Israel, and behold, they are written in the laments.

For you are sent from the king and his seven counselors to enquire about Judah and Jerusalem concerning the law of your God, which is in your hand.

and one of my brothers, Hanani, came with some men from Judah. I asked them about the Jews who had escaped the captivity and about Jerusalem.

So Yahweh said to Satan, "From where have you come?" Then Satan answered Yahweh and said, "From roaming on the earth and from walking about in it."

So Yahweh {asked} Satan, "From where have you come?" And Satan answered Yahweh and said, "From roaming on the earth and from walking about in it."

"I [am] blameless; I do not care about myself; I loathe my life.

Thick clouds [are] a covering for him, so that he does not see; and he walks about on [the] dome of heaven.'

They go about naked, without clothing, and hungry, they carry [the] sheaves.

because morning likewise is to them deep darkness; indeed, they know about [the] terrors of deep darkness.

"I will teach you about God's hand; I will not conceal that [which is] with Shaddai.

then he saw it and talked about it; he established it, and moreover, he explored it.

You lift me up to [the] wind--you make me ride [it], and you toss me about [in] the storm.

I go [about] in mourning garb, [but] not in sunlight; I stand up in the assembly, [and] I cry for help.

His thundering tells about him; [the] livestock also [tell] {concerning what rises}.

"About this also my heart trembles, and it leaps from its place.

Do you know about the hovering of the clouds, {the marvelous works of the one with perfect knowledge}?

Lay your hands on it; think about [the] battle--you will not do [it] again!

Many [are] saying about my soul, "There is no deliverance for him from God. Selah

for [the] wicked boasts about the desire of his {heart}, and [the] one greedy for gain curses [and] treats Yahweh with contempt.

[The] wicked prowl about when vileness [is] exalted among [the] children of humankind.

Yahweh looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind to see whether there is one who has insight, one who cares about God.

He made darkness his hiding place; all about him his covering [was] a darkness of waters, {thick clouds}.

Because your loyal love [is] before my eyes, and I walk about in your faithfulness.

I do not sit with deceitful people, nor will I go about with hypocrites.

I will wash my hands in innocence, and I will walk about your altar, O Yahweh,

And now my head will be high over my enemies round about me. And I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.

Be quiet before Yahweh and wait for him. Do not fret about one who succeeds [in] his way, about a man making plots.

I am bowed down; I am bent over greatly. All the day I go about mourning.

Surely a man walks about as a [mere] {shadow}; surely in vain they bustle about. He heaps up [possessions] but does not know who [will] gather them [in].

My enemies speak evil about me, "When will he die and his name perish?"

I say to God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I walk about mourning because of [the] oppression of [the] enemy?"

because you [are] the God of my refuge. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning because of [the] oppression of [the] enemy?

Walk about Zion and circle it; count her towers.

those who trust their wealth and boast about the abundance of their riches?

Why do you boast about evil, O mighty man? The loyal love of God [endures] {continually}.

Those sitting at [the] gate talk about me [as] also [the] songs of [the] drunkards.

When I thought about [how] to understand this, it [was] troubling in my eyes

I think about [the] days from long ago, [the] years of ancient times.

[The] clouds poured out water. [The] skies {thundered}. Your arrows also {flew about}.

So they ate and were well filled, and he brought about [what] they craved.

They do not know or consider. They go about in the darkness, [so that] all [the] foundations of [the] earth are shaken.

Glorious things [are] spoken about you, O city of God. Selah

They surround me like water all the day; they circle about me altogether.

Blessed [are] the people who know [the] joyful shout; O Yahweh, they walk about in the light of your countenance.

Fire goes before him, and devours his enemies round about.

Let all who serve an image be ashamed, those who boast about idols. Worship him, all you gods.

You make darkness, and it is night, when all [the] animals of the forest creep about.

Boast about his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.

and they wandered about {among the nations}, from [one] kingdom to another people,

Until [the] time his word came about, the word of Yahweh tested him.

Fulfill your word to your servant, which [is] to [bring about] a reverence for you.

And I will go about {freely}, for I have sought your precepts.

I think about my ways, and turn my feet to your testimonies.

[As] mountains [are] round about Jerusalem, so Yahweh [is] round about his people, from now until forever.

Your wife [will be] like a fruitful vine {within} your house. Your children [will be] like olive shoots about your table.

O daughter of Babylon, about to be devastated, happy [shall be he] who pays back to you {what you paid out to us}.

A gossip walks [about] telling a secret, but the trustworthy in spirit keeps [the] matter.

He reveals a secret, he who walks [about with] gossip, and do not associate with a babbler's lips.

Do not boast {about tomorrow}, for you do not know what the day will bring.

So {I dedicated myself} to learn about wisdom and [to] learn about delusion and folly. However, I discovered that this also [is] chasing wind.

I saw all the living who move about under the sun with the youth; the second who will stand in his place.

Whatever your hand finds to do--do [it] with [all] your might; for in Sheol--where you are going--no one works, plans, knows, or thinks about anything.

They are afraid of heights, and terrors [are] on the road. The almond tree blossoms, and the grasshopper draws itself along, and desire fails because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about in the streets.

My son, be careful {about anything beyond these things}. For the writing of books is endless, and too much study {is wearisome}.

Now I will arise, and I will go about in the city, in the streets and in the squares; I will seek him whom my {heart} loves. I sought him, but I did not find him.

The sentinels who go about in the city found me. "Have you seen the one whom my {heart} loves?"

And now let me tell you what I myself am about to do to my vineyard. [I will] remove its hedge, and it shall become a devastation. [I will] break down its wall, and it shall become a trampling.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look! the virgin [is] with child and she is about to give birth [to] a son, and she shall call his name 'God with us.'

For the Lord Yahweh of hosts [is] about to make a complete destruction and a determined end in the midst of all the earth.

Look! The Lord Yahweh of hosts is about to lop off [the] branches with great power, and {the towering trees} will be felled, and the {tall trees} will be brought low.

Bare places by [the] Nile will be dried up, by the edge of [the] Nile and all the sown land of [the] Nile; it will be driven about, and {it will be no more}.

Look! Yahweh [is] about to {really hurl} you, man! And he [is] about to grasp you firmly;

and I will clothe him [with] your tunic, and I will bind your sash firmly about him, and I will put your authority into his hand, and he shall be like a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.

When [the] report [comes] to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report {about} Tyre.

Look! Yahweh [is] about to lay the earth waste and [is] about to devastate it, and he will twist her surface, and he will scatter her inhabitants.

We became pregnant, we writhed; we gave birth [to] wind. We cannot bring about deliverance [on the] earth, and no inhabitants of [the] world are born.

For look! Yahweh [is] about to come out from his place to punish the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth against him, and the earth will disclose her blood and will no longer cover her slain.

And his God instructs him about the prescription; he teaches him.

therefore this iniquity shall come for you like a breach about to fall, bulging out on a high wall {that breaks} suddenly, [in] an instant.

And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called the way of holiness. [The] unclean shall not travel through it, but it [is] for them, he who walks [on the] way; and fools shall not wander about.

Look! I [am] about to {put} a spirit in him {so that} he shall hear a rumor and he shall return to his land, and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his land." '"

Have you not heard from {a long time ago}? I have made it from days of primeval time, and I formed it. Now I have brought it [about], and it is for fortified cities to collapse into heaps of destroyed stones.

In those days, Hezekiah became sick to death, and Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, came to him and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh: 'Order your house, for you [are] about to die, and you shall not recover.'"

Look! I [am] about to do a new thing! Now it sprouts! Do you not perceive it? Indeed, I will {make} a way in the wilderness, rivers in [the] desert.

Thus says Yahweh, the holy one of Israel, and its {maker}: "Ask me of the things to come {about} my children, and you command me about the work of my hands.

All of us have wandered about like sheep; we each have turned to his own way; and Yahweh let fall on him the iniquity of us all.

"O afflicted [one], driven away, [who] is not consoled. Look! I [am] about to set your stones in hard mortar, and I will lay your foundation with sapphires.

For look! I [am] about to create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered, and they shall not {come to mind}.

But rejoice and shout in exultation forever and ever [over] what I [am] about to create! For look! I [am] about to create Jerusalem [as a source of] rejoicing, and her people [as a source of] joy.

For thus says Yahweh: "Look! I [am] about to spread prosperity out to her like a river, and [the] wealth of [the] nations like an overflowing stream, and you shall suck and be carried on the hip; and you shall you shall be played with on the knees.

"And I--their works and thoughts!--[am] about to come to gather all nations and tongues, and they shall come and see my glory.

"For just as the new heavens and earth that I [am] about to make shall stand before me," {declares} Yahweh, "so shall your descendants and your name stand.

O generation, you see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a desert to Israel? Or a land of great darkness? Why do my people say, 'We roam about freely, we will not come again to you'?

How you go about so much changing your way! Also by Egypt you will be put to shame, just as you were put to shame by Assyria.

"Roam about through the streets of Jerusalem, and look please, and take note, and search at its public squares, if you can find a person [who] does justice, [who] seeks honesty, so that I may forgive it.

Look, I [am] about to bring on you a nation from afar, house of Israel," {declares} Yahweh. "It [is] an enduring nation, it [is] {an ancient nation}. A nation whose language you do not know, and you cannot understand what they speak.

Hear, O earth, look, I [am] about to bring disaster to this people, the fruit of their plans, because they have not listened attentively to my words, and my teaching, they have rejected it also.

{Therefore} thus says Yahweh: "Look, I [am] about to put before this people stumbling blocks, and they will stumble against them, fathers and children together, neighbor and his friend will perish."

O daughter of my people, gird yourself [with] sackcloth, and roll about in the ashes in mourning, a mourning ceremony [as for] an only child. Make for yourself wailing of bitterness, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

All of them [are] stubborn rebels, going about [talking] slander. [They are] bronze and iron, they [are] all behaving corruptly.