Proud beasts have never walked on it;
no lion has ever prowled over it.

Yet no one would stretch out his hand
against a ruined man
when he cries out to him for help
because of his distress.

I paid close attention to you.
Yet no one proved Job wrong;
not one of you refuted his arguments.

Yet no one knows what will happen because who can tell him what will happen?

Now a poor wise man was found in the city, and he delivered the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

The fragrance of your perfume is intoxicating;
your name is perfume poured out.
No wonder young women adore you.

Who told about this from the beginning,
so that we might know,
and from times past,
so that we might say: He is right?
No one announced it,
no one told it,
no one heard your words.

Fire has gone out from its main branch
and has devoured its fruit,
so that it no longer has a strong branch,
a scepter for ruling.

This is a lament and should be used as a lament.”

How sad for me!
For I am like one who—
when the summer fruit has been gathered
after the gleaning of the grape harvest—
finds no grape cluster to eat,
no early fig, which I crave.

He testifies to what He has seen and heard, yet no one accepts His testimony.

Just then His disciples arrived, and they were amazed that He was talking with a woman. Yet no one said, “What do You want?” or “Why are You talking with her?”

Then they tried to seize Him. Yet no one laid a hand on Him because His hour had not yet come.

But as it is written:

What eye did not see and ear did not hear,
and what never entered the human mind—
God prepared this for those who love Him.

Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness—without it no one will see the Lord.

Nothing profane will ever enter it: no one who does what is vile or false, but only those written in the Lamb’s book of life.

“Who then are you like in glory and greatness among Eden’s trees? You also will be brought down to the underworld to be with the trees of Eden. You will lie among the uncircumcised with those slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his hordes”—the declaration of the Lord God.

The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there He placed the man He had formed.

A river went out from Eden to water the garden. From there it divided and became the source of four rivers.

The Lord God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden to work it and watch over it.

So the Lord God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

He drove man out and stationed the cherubim and the flaming, whirling sword east of the garden of Eden to guard the way to the tree of life.

Then Cain went out from the Lord’s presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

Then the Levites stood up:

Mahath son of Amasai and Joel son of Azariah from the Kohathites;
Kish son of Abdi and Azariah son of Jehallelel from the Merarites;
Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah from the Gershonites;

Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah in the cities of the priests were to faithfully distribute it under his authority to their brothers by divisions, whether large or small.

For the Lord will comfort Zion;
He will comfort all her waste places,
and He will make her wilderness like Eden,
and her desert like the garden of the Lord.
Joy and gladness will be found in her,
thanksgiving and melodious song.

Haran, Canneh, Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad traded with you.

You were in Eden, the garden of God.
Every kind of precious stone covered you:
carnelian, topaz, and diamond,
beryl, onyx, and jasper,
sapphire, turquoise and emerald.
Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold;
they were prepared on the day you were created.

I made it beautiful with its many limbs,
and all the trees of Eden,
which were in God’s garden, envied it.

I made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I threw it down to Sheol to be with those who descend to the Pit. Then all the trees of Eden, all the well-watered trees, the choice and best of Lebanon, were comforted in the underworld.

Then they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and destroyed are now fortified and inhabited.’

A fire destroys in front of them,
and behind them a flame devours.
The land in front of them
is like the Garden of Eden,
but behind them,
it is like a desert wasteland;
there is no escape from them.

I will break down the gates of Damascus.
I will cut off the ruler from the Valley of Aven,
and the one who wields the scepter from Beth-eden.
The people of Aram will be exiled to Kir.
The Lord has spoken.