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Look, the tempest of Yahweh, [even his] wrath, has gone forth, a sweeping tempest: it shall burst on the head of the wicked.

The fierce anger of Yahweh shall not return, until he has executed, and until he has performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand it.

Hear the word of Yahweh, O you nations, and declare it in the isles far off; and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.

But every one shall die for his own iniquity: any among man that eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Yahweh: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.

Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that the waves thereof roar; Yahweh of hosts is his name:

and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall look at his eyes;

who show loving-kindness to thousands, and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their sons after them; the great, the mighty God, Yahweh of hosts is his name;

great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of man, to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:

Thus says Yahweh that does it, Yahweh that forms it to establish it; Yahweh is his name:

the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those that say, Give thanks to Yahweh of hosts, for Yahweh is good, for his loving-kindness [endures] forever; [and of them] that bring [sacrifices of] thanksgiving into the house of Yahweh. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first, says Yahweh.

then may also my covenant be broken with David my slave, that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.

then I will also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my slave, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and will have mercy on them.

The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying:

and you shall not escape out of his hand, but shall surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and your eyes shall look at the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with you mouth to mouth, and you shall go to Babylon.

that every man should let his male slave, and every man his female slave, that is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should make slaves of them, [to wit], of a Jew his brother.

And all the princes and all the people obeyed, that had entered into the covenant, that every one should let his male slave, and every one his female slave, go free, that none should make slaves of them anymore; they obeyed, and let them go:

At the end of the seven year period you shall let go every man his brother that is a Hebrew, that has been sold to you, and has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you: but your fathers did not listen to me, neither inclined their ear.

And you had now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and you had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:

but you turned and profaned my name, and caused every man his male slave, and every man his female slave, whom you had let go free at their pleasure, to return; and you brought them into subjection, to be to you for male slaves and for female slaves.