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Your gates will always be open; they will never be shut day or night so that the wealth of the nations may be brought into you, with their kings being led in procession.

Then all your people will be righteous; they will possess the land forever; they are the branch I planted, the work of My hands, so that I may be glorified.

and led them through the depths like a horse in the wilderness, so that they did not stumble.

If only You would tear the heavens open and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence—

as fire kindles the brushwood, and fire causes water to boil— to make Your name known to Your enemies, so that nations will tremble at Your presence!

You who tremble at His word, hear the word of the Lord : "Your brothers who hate and exclude you because of Me have said, ‘Let the Lord be glorified so that we can see your joy!' But they will be put to shame."

so that you may nurse and be satisfied from her comforting breast and drink deeply and delight yourselves from her glorious breasts.

Wash the evil from your heart, Jerusalem, so that you will be delivered. How long will you harbor malicious thoughts within you?

The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and they pour out drink offerings to other gods so that they provoke Me to anger.

However, I did give them this command: Obey Me, and then I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must follow every way I command you so that it may go well with you.

Let them come quickly to raise a lament over us so that our eyes may overflow with tears, our eyelids soaked with weeping.

for I was like a docile lamb led to slaughter. I didn't know that they had devised plots against me: "Let's destroy the tree with its fruit; let's cut him off from the land of the living so that his name will no longer be remembered."

Just as underwear clings to one's waist, so I fastened the whole house of Israel and of Judah to Me"—this is the Lord 's declaration—"so that they might be My people for My fame, praise, and glory, but they would not obey.

I will pull your skirts up over your face so that your shame might be seen.

For I have heard the gossip of many people, "Terror is on every side! Report him; let's report him!" Everyone I trusted watches for my fall. "Perhaps he will be deceived so that we might prevail against him and take our vengeance on him."

because he didn't kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, her womb eternally pregnant.

"Ask the Lord on our behalf, since Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is making war against us. Perhaps the Lord will perform for us something like all His past wonderful works so that Nebuchadnezzar will withdraw from us."

Perhaps they will listen and return—each from his evil way of life—so that I might relent concerning the disaster that I plan to do to them because of the evil of their deeds.

So now, correct your ways and deeds and obey the voice of the Lord your God so that He might relent concerning the disaster that He warned about.

for they prophesy a lie to you so that you will be removed from your land. I will banish you, and you will perish.