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O guard my life, For, a man of lovingkindness, am I, - Save thy servant, O thou my God, Thy servant who trusteth in thee;

Set thou, O Yahweh, a watch at my mouth, Keep thou guard over the door of my lips.

To him that observeth the paths of justice, yea, the way of his men of lovingkindness, he doth guard.

My son, let them not depart from thine eyes, guard thou counsel, and purpose:

Do not forsake her, and she will guard thee, - love her and she will keep thee.

That thou mayest preserve discretion, - and, as for knowledge, that thy lips may guard it.

How happy the man that doth hearken to me, - keeping guard at my doors, day by day, watching at the posts of my gates;

Lovingkindness and faithfulness, will guard a king, - therefore should he support, with lovingkindness, his throne.

A purpose sustained, thou wilt guard, saying , Prosper! Prosper! Because in thee, hath he been led to trust.

For, not in haste, shall ye come forth, Nor, by flight, shall ye journey, - For, your van-guard, is Yahweh, And, your rear-guard, the God of Israel.

and, then, the forces of the king of Babylon were besieging Jerusalem, - and, Jeremiah the prophet, had been shut up in the guard-court, which was in the house of the king of Judah;

So Hanameel son of mine uncle, came unto me, according to the word of Yahweh into the guard-court, and said unto me, Buy, I pray thee my field that is in Anathoth which is in the land of Benjamin, for, thine, is the right of inheritance, and, thine, the redemption, - buy it for thyself. So I knew, that the word of Yahweh, it was.

and gave the scroll of purchase unto Baruch son of Neriah son of Mahseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle‘s son , and in the sight of the witnesses who subscribed the scroll of purchase, - in the sight of all the Jews who were sitting in the guard-court.

And the word of Yahweh came unto Jeremiah, the second time, when he was yet imprisoned in the guard-court, saying:

Then King Zedekiah gave command and they committed Jeremiah into the guard-court, and said that there should be given him a cake of bread daily, out of the bakers street, until all the bread out of the city should be spent, So Jeremiah remained in the guard-court.

Then took they Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah son of the king, which was in the guard-court, and they let Jeremiah down with ropes, - now, in the dungeon, was no water only mire, so Jeremiah sank in the mire.

Then drew they Jeremiah with the ropes, and lifted him up out of the dungeon, - and Jeremiah remained in the guard-court.

So Jeremiah remained in the guard-court, until the day when Jerusalem, was captured; thus it fell out when Jerusalem, was captured.

yea they sent and fetched Jeremiah out of the guard-court, and delivered him unto Gedaliah son of Ahikam son of Shaphan, to bring him forth into a home, so he dwelt in the midst of the people.

Now unto Jeremiah, had come the word of Yahweh, while he was yet shut up in the guard-court, saying: