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"Heaven is my throne," says Adonai , "and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house could you build for me? What sort of place could you devise for my rest?

so I will enjoy making fools of them, and bring on them the very things they fear. For when I called, no one answered; when I spoke, they did not hear. Instead they did what was evil in my sight and chose what did not please me."

Who ever heard of such a thing? Who has ever seen such things? Is a country born in one day? Is a nation brought forth all at once? For as soon as Tziyon went into labor, she brought forth her children.

Rejoice with Yerushalayim! Be glad with her, all you who love her! Rejoice, rejoice with her, all of you who mourned for her;

For Adonai says, "I will spread shalom over her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream; you will nurse and be carried in her arm and cuddled in her lap.

For — look! — Adonai will come in fire, and his chariots will be like the whirlwind, to render his anger furiously, his rebuke with blazing fire.

For Adonai will judge all humanity with fire and with the sword, and those slain by Adonai will be many.

"For I [know] their deeds and their thoughts. "[The time] is coming when I will gather together all nations and languages. They will come and see my glory,

"For just as the new heavens and the new earth that I am making will continue in my presence," says Adonai , "so will your descendants and your name continue.

"As they leave, they will look on the corpses of the people who rebelled against me. For their worm will never die, and their fire will never be quenched; but they will be abhorrent to all humanity." ["Every month on Rosh-Hodesh and every week on Shabbat, everyone living will come to worship in my presence," says Adonai .]

"Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you; before you were born, I separated you for myself. I have appointed you to be a prophet to the nations."

But Adonai said to me, "Don't say, ‘I'm just a child.' "For you will go to whomever I send you, and you will speak whatever I order you.

Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you, says Adonai , to rescue you."

I will pronounce my judgments against them for all their wickedness in abandoning me, offering incense to other gods and worshipping what their own hands made.

"But you, dress for action; stand up and tell them everything I order you to say. When you confront them, don't break down; or I will break you down in front of them!

For today, you see, I have made you into a fortified city, a pillar of iron, a wall of bronze against the whole land — against the kings of Y'hudah, against its princes, against its cohanim and the people of the land.

They will fight against you, but they will not overcome you, for I am with you," says Adonai , "to rescue you."

"‘Isra'el is set aside for Adonai , the firstfruits of his harvest; all who devour him will incur guilt; evil will befall them," says Adonai .

has a nation ever exchanged its gods (and theirs are not gods at all!)? Yet my people have exchanged their Glory for something without value.

"For my people have committed two evils: they have abandoned me, the fountain of living water, and dug themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water!