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As the cattle that go down into the valley, the Spirit of Yahweh caused them to rest; so you led your people, to make yourself a glorious name.

Thus says Yahweh, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, Don't destroy it, for a blessing is in it: so I will do for my slaves' sake, that I may not destroy them all.

so that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.

For all these things my hand has made, and [so] all these things had come to be, says Yahweh: but to this man I will look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and that trembles at my word.

As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, says Yahweh, so shall your seed and your name remain.

As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets;

Why do you want to go away so much to change your course? You shall be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.

Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, says Yahweh.

Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; or else my wrath will go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

And it shall come to pass, when you shall say, Why has Yahweh our God done all these things to us? then you shall say to them, Like you have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

As a cage is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit: therefore they have become great, and waxed rich.

the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end thereof?

As a well casts forth its waters, so she casts forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.

For the mountains I will lift: a weeping and a wailing; and for the pastures of the wilderness: a lamentation; because they are burned up, so that none passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled, they are gone.

Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and [who is] he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? why has the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passes through?

which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so you shall be my people, and I will be your God;

So I bought a girdle according to the word of Yahweh, and put it on my loins.

So I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as Yahweh commanded me.

For as the girdle cleaves to the loins of a man, so I have caused to cleave to me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, says Yahweh; that they may be to me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.