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For this cause, I said - Look away from me, Bitterly, will I weep, - Do not press to comfort me, For the ruin of the daughter of my people. For a day of confusion and downtreading and perplexity, pertaineth to My Lord, Yahweh of hosts, in the valley of vision, an undermining of walls, and a crying for help to the mountain.
Then came Isaiah the prophet, unto King Hezekiah, - and said unto him - What said these men? and whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, From a land far away, came they unto me, from Babylon! And he said, What have they seen in thy house? Then said Hezekiah, - All that is in my house, have they seen, there is nothing which I shewed them not among my treasures. Then said Isaiah unto Hezekiah, - Hear thou the word of Yahweh of hosts: read more.
Lo! days are coming, when all that is in thy house, and that which thy fathers have treasured up until this day, shall be carried away unto Babylon, - nothing, shall be left, Saith Yahweh. And of thy sons who shall issue from thee whom thou shalt beget, shall they take away, - and they shall become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
Lo! days are coming, when all that is in thy house, and that which thy fathers have treasured up until this day, shall be carried away unto Babylon, - nothing, shall be left, Saith Yahweh. And of thy sons who shall issue from thee whom thou shalt beget, shall they take away, - and they shall become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
Church » Love for
By the rivers of Babylon, there, we sat down, yea we wept - when we remembered Zion: Upon the willows - in the midst thereof, hanged we our lyres: For, there, our captors asked of us words of song, and our plunderers - gladness, - Sing us of the songs of Zion! read more.
How shall we sing the song of Yahweh, on a foreign soil? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right-hand forget: Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember thee! if I do not lift up Jerusalem above the head of mine own gladness.
How shall we sing the song of Yahweh, on a foreign soil? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right-hand forget: Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember thee! if I do not lift up Jerusalem above the head of mine own gladness.
Seeing that thy servants, take pleasure, in her stones, And, her dust, they favour:
Ask ye for the peace of Jerusalem, They shall prosper, who love thee!
Yahweh will bless thee, out of Zion, - and behold thou the welfare of Jerusalem, all the days of thy life! And behold thou thy children's children, - Prosperity on Israel!
For this cause, I said - Look away from me, Bitterly, will I weep, - Do not press to comfort me,
And they who come of thee shall build the wastes of age-past times, And as for the foundations of generation after generation, thou shall rear them up, - So shalt thou be called - A Repairer of broken walls, A Restorer of paths leading home.
For Zion's sake, will I not hold my peace, And for Jerusalem's sake, will I not rest, - Until her righteousness, go forth as brightness, And her salvation, as a torch that is lighted.
Upon thy walls O Jerusalem, have I appointed watchmen, All the day and all the night through, let them not hold their peace, - O ye that put Yahweh in mind, Do not take rest to yourselves, Neither give rest, unto him, Until he establish and until he set forth Jerusalem as a praise in the earth!
Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and exult over her All ye who love her, - Joy with her right joyfully, All ye who used to mourn over her:
As one whom, his mother, consoleth, So, will, I, console you, And in Jerusalem, shall ye be consoled. As soon as ye have seen it, your heart, shall be joyful, And your bones, like green herbage, shall thrive, - So shall be known The hand of Yahweh with his servants, But indignation with his foes!
Oh that my head were waters, And mine eyes a fountain of tears, - That I might weep day and night, For the slain of the daughter of my people!
Therefore shalt thou say unto them this word, Let mine eyes, run down with tears night and day, And let them not rest, - For with a grievous injury, hath been injured the virgin the daughter of my people, With a wound, severe indeed!
Ye that have escaped the sword, depart do not stand still, - Remember, from afar Yahweh, Let, Jerusalem, come up on your heart:- We have turned pale for we have heard a reproach, Confusion, hath covered our faces, - For aliens have entered upon the hallowed places of the house of Yahweh!
Blinded with tears are mine eyes, In ferment is my body, Poured out to the earth is my grief, for the sore hurt of the daughter of my people, - when child and suckling are swooning, in the broadways of the city.
With streams of water, mine eye runneth down, over the grievous injury of the daughter of my people. Mine eye, poureth itself out and ceaseth not, without relief; Until Yahweh out of the heavens shall look forth, and see, read more.
Mine eye dealeth severely with my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
Mine eye dealeth severely with my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
Compassion and sympathy » Exercise towards » The chastened
For this cause, I said - Look away from me, Bitterly, will I weep, - Do not press to comfort me,
Oh that my head were waters, And mine eyes a fountain of tears, - That I might weep day and night, For the slain of the daughter of my people!
Isaiah » Prophecies, reproofs, and exhortations of » Concerning the conquest of jerusalem, the captivity of shebna, and the promotion of eliakim
The oracle on the valley of vision, - What aileth thee, then, That thou art wholly gone up to the house-tops? With tumults, art thou filled, thou citadel in commotion! city exultant! Thy slain, are Not the slain, of the sword, Nor the dead in battle. All thy ruler, having fled, together, by the bow, are taken captive: All found in thee have been taken captive, together, Far away, have they fled. read more.
For this cause, I said - Look away from me, Bitterly, will I weep, - Do not press to comfort me, For the ruin of the daughter of my people. For a day of confusion and downtreading and perplexity, pertaineth to My Lord, Yahweh of hosts, in the valley of vision, an undermining of walls, and a crying for help to the mountain. Yea, Elam, beareth the quiver, With trams of men, and horsemen, - And, Kir, hath uncovered the shield. And it hath come to pass that the choice of thy vales, are full of chariots; Yea, the horsemen, have set themselves, in array, at the gate. Then removed he the veil of Judah, - Yea thou didst peer on that day, into the armoury of the forest-house; And the breaches in the city of David, ye beheld for they were many, - So ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool; And the houses of Jerusalem, ye counted, - And brake down the houses, to fortify the wall; And a reservoir, ye made between the two walls, for the waters of the ancient pool, - And had no regard unto him that made it, Nor unto him that formed it long ago, had ye respect. And, when My Lord Yahweh of hosts called in that day, - for weeping, and for lamentation, and for shaving bare and for girding with sackcloth, Then lo! joy and rejoicing, killing oxen and slaughtering sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine, - Let us eat and drink, For to-morrow, we may die! Therefore did Yahweh reveal himself in mine ears. Surely there shall be no propitiatory-covering put over this iniquity for you until ye die, Saith My Lord Yahweh of hosts. Thus, said My Lord Yahweh, of hosts, Come go in unto this steward, Unto Shebna, who is over the house: What doest thou here? And whom hast thou here? That thou hast hewn for thyself here a sepulchre, - As one hewing on high his sepulchre, Cutting out in the cliff a habitation for himself? Lo! Yahweh, is about to hurl thee, with a hurl, O mighty man, - And roll thee with a roll; He will, toss, thee, with a toss, like a ball, into a country wide on both hands, - There, shalt thou die, And there shall thy glorious chariots be the contempt of the house of thy lord. Thus will I thrust thee out from thine office, - And from thy station, shall one tear thee down. And it shall come to pass in that day, That I will call for my servant, for Eliakim son of Hilkiah, And will clothe him with thy tunic And with thy girdle, will I gird him, And thine authority, will I deliver into his hand, - So shall he become a father To the inhabitant of Jerusalem and To the house of Judah. And I will lay the key of the house of David upon his shoulder, - And he shall open and none shall shut, And shut and none shall open;
For this cause, I said - Look away from me, Bitterly, will I weep, - Do not press to comfort me, For the ruin of the daughter of my people. For a day of confusion and downtreading and perplexity, pertaineth to My Lord, Yahweh of hosts, in the valley of vision, an undermining of walls, and a crying for help to the mountain. Yea, Elam, beareth the quiver, With trams of men, and horsemen, - And, Kir, hath uncovered the shield. And it hath come to pass that the choice of thy vales, are full of chariots; Yea, the horsemen, have set themselves, in array, at the gate. Then removed he the veil of Judah, - Yea thou didst peer on that day, into the armoury of the forest-house; And the breaches in the city of David, ye beheld for they were many, - So ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool; And the houses of Jerusalem, ye counted, - And brake down the houses, to fortify the wall; And a reservoir, ye made between the two walls, for the waters of the ancient pool, - And had no regard unto him that made it, Nor unto him that formed it long ago, had ye respect. And, when My Lord Yahweh of hosts called in that day, - for weeping, and for lamentation, and for shaving bare and for girding with sackcloth, Then lo! joy and rejoicing, killing oxen and slaughtering sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine, - Let us eat and drink, For to-morrow, we may die! Therefore did Yahweh reveal himself in mine ears. Surely there shall be no propitiatory-covering put over this iniquity for you until ye die, Saith My Lord Yahweh of hosts. Thus, said My Lord Yahweh, of hosts, Come go in unto this steward, Unto Shebna, who is over the house: What doest thou here? And whom hast thou here? That thou hast hewn for thyself here a sepulchre, - As one hewing on high his sepulchre, Cutting out in the cliff a habitation for himself? Lo! Yahweh, is about to hurl thee, with a hurl, O mighty man, - And roll thee with a roll; He will, toss, thee, with a toss, like a ball, into a country wide on both hands, - There, shalt thou die, And there shall thy glorious chariots be the contempt of the house of thy lord. Thus will I thrust thee out from thine office, - And from thy station, shall one tear thee down. And it shall come to pass in that day, That I will call for my servant, for Eliakim son of Hilkiah, And will clothe him with thy tunic And with thy girdle, will I gird him, And thine authority, will I deliver into his hand, - So shall he become a father To the inhabitant of Jerusalem and To the house of Judah. And I will lay the key of the house of David upon his shoulder, - And he shall open and none shall shut, And shut and none shall open;
Tears » Of solicitude over sinners
Wherefore, be on the watch, remembering that, for three years, night and day, I gave myself no rest, with tears, admonishing each one.
And, when he drew near, beholding the city, he wept over it, saying -
He that, doth indeed go forth, and weep, bearing seed enough to trail along, doth, surely come in, with shouting, bringing his sheaves.
For this cause, I said - Look away from me, Bitterly, will I weep, - Do not press to comfort me,
Oh that my head were waters, And mine eyes a fountain of tears, - That I might weep day and night, For the slain of the daughter of my people!
Therefore shalt thou say unto them this word, Let mine eyes, run down with tears night and day, And let them not rest, - For with a grievous injury, hath been injured the virgin the daughter of my people, With a wound, severe indeed!
doing service unto the Lord, with all humility and tears, and temptations which befell me through the plots of the Jews:
But if ye will not hear it, In secret places, shall my soul weep Because of the pride, And mine eye, shall flow over, and run down with tears, Because captive hath been taken the flock of Yahweh.
Yea let them make haste, and lift up over us a wailing, - That our eyes, may run down, with tears, And, our eyelashes, stream down with water; -