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Why have we fasted, [they say], and you don't see? [why] have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge? Look, in the day of your fast you find [your own] pleasure, and exact all your labors.

Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast out to your house? when you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you don't hide yourself from your own flesh?

Therefore justice is far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

Lift up your eyes round about, and see: they all gather themselves together, they come to you; your sons shall come from far, and your daughters shall be carried in the arms.

Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart shall thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you.

And their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples; all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which Yahweh has blessed.

And the nations shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name, which the mouth of Yahweh shall name.

Don't be angry very intensely, O Yahweh, neither remember iniquity forever: see, look, we urge you, we are all your people.

Hear the word of Yahweh, you that tremble at his word: Your brothers that hate you, that cast you out for my name's sake, have said, Let Yahweh be glorious, that we may see your joy; but it is those that shall be put to shame.

And you shall see [it], and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like the tender grass: and the hand of Yahweh shall be known toward his slaves; and he will have indignation against his enemies.

As for me, given their works and their thoughts: [the time] comes that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and shall see my glory.

see, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.

Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what do you see? And I said, I see a rod of an almond-tree.

And the word of Yahweh came to me the second time, saying, What do you see? And I said, I see a boiling cauldron; and the face thereof is from the north.

For pass over to the isles of Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there has been such a thing.

Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord, Yahweh of hosts.

How can you say, I am not defiled, I haven't gone after the Baalim? see your way in the valley, know what you have done: [you are] a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

O generation, see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? or a land of thick darkness? why do my people say, We have broken loose; we will come no more to you?

Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see; where haven't you been lain with? By the ways you have sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.

How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?