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as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil— to make your name known to your adversaries, so that the nations might tremble at your presence!

After all this, will you restrain yourself, O Lord ? Will you keep silent, and punish us so severely?

Thus says the Lord : As the wine is found in the cluster, and they say, "Do not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it," so I will do for my servants' sake, and not destroy them all.

All these things my hand has made, and so all these things are mine, says the Lord . But this is the one to whom I will look, to the humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at my word.

Hear the word of the Lord , you who tremble at his word: Your own people who hate you and reject you for my name's sake have said, "Let the Lord be glorified, so that we may see your joy"; but it is they who shall be put to shame.

As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, says the Lord ; so shall your descendants and your name remain.

As a thief is shamed when caught, so the house of Israel shall be shamed— they, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets,

How well you direct your course to seek lovers! So that even to wicked women you have taught your ways.

Because she took her whoredom so lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.

Instead, as a faithless wife leaves her husband, so you have been faithless to me, O house of Israel, says the Lord .

O Jerusalem, wash your heart clean of wickedness so that you may be saved. How long shall your evil schemes lodge within you?

Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look around and take note! Search its squares and see if you can find one person who acts justly and seeks truth— so that I may pardon Jerusalem.

And when your people say, "Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?" you shall say to them, "As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve strangers in a land that is not yours."

the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule as the prophets direct; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?

As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps fresh her wickedness; violence and destruction are heard within her; sickness and wounds are ever before me.

I have made you a tester and a refiner among my people so that you may know and test their ways.

But this command I gave them, "Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk only in the way that I command you, so that it may be well with you."

So you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall call to them, but they will not answer you.

O that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I might weep day and night for the slain of my poor people!