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For your name's sake, do not spurn us; do not dishonor your glorious throne. Remember your covenant with us; do not break it.

Among the nations' idols, can any make it rain? Can the skies, of themselves, send showers? Aren't you the one, Adonai , our God? Don't we look to you? For you do all these things.

And when they ask you where they should go, tell them that this is what Adonai says: ‘Those destined for death — to death! Those destined for the sword — to the sword! Those destined for famine — to famine! Those destined for captivity — to captivity!'

"Who will take pity on you, Yerushalayim? Who will grieve for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?

Adonai said, "I promise to release you for good, I promise to make your enemies appeal to you when calamity and trouble come.

I will give away your wealth and your treasures as plunder, and you will not be paid for them, because of all your sins throughout your territory;

and I will make you pass together with your enemies into a land you do not know. For my anger has become a blazing fire, and it will flare up against you."

Adonai , you know. Remember me, think of me, and take vengeance for me on my persecutors. Because you are patient, don't banish me; know that for your sake I suffer insults.

I have never kept company with merrymakers, I could not celebrate; with your hand on me I sat by myself, for you filled me with indignation.

Why is my pain unending, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you be for me like a deceptive vadi, which is only sometimes filled with water?

Toward this people I will make you a fortified wall of bronze — they will fight against you but not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and rescue you," says Adonai .

For this is what Adonai says concerning the sons and daughters born here, as well as their mothers who gave birth to them and their fathers who conceived them in this land:

‘They will die terrible deaths without being mourned or buried; they will be left on the ground like dung. They will die by the sword and by famine, and their corpses will be food for the birds in the air and the wild animals.'

"For here is what Adonai says: ‘Do not enter any house where there is mourning; don't lament them, and don't grieve for them; for I have removed my shalom from this people, as well as my grace and compassion,' says Adonai .

‘Great and small alike will die in this land; they will not be buried, people will not lament them; nor will they cut their flesh or shave their heads for them.

No one will prepare a meal for those in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; and no one will give them a cup to drink, to console them for their father or mother.'

For here is what Adonai -Tzva'ot, the God of Isra'el, says: ‘In this place, while you are still alive, before your very eyes, I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the voices of bridegroom and bride.'

And you have done worse than your ancestors, for — look! — each of you lives according to the stubbornness of his own evil heart, so that you don't listen to me.

Therefore I am thrusting you out of this land into a land you have not known, neither you nor your ancestors; and there you will serve other gods day and night; for I will show you no favor.'

but, "As Adonai lives, who brought the people of Isra'el out of the land to the north and out of all the countries where he drove them"; for I will bring them back to their own land, which I gave to their ancestors.