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And upon their hearts will I write it;

And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 8. And they shall teach no more,

Every man his neighbor, and every man his brother,
Saying, "Know ye the LORD!" for they shall all know me,
From the least of them even to the greatest of them, saith the
the LORD;

For I will forgive their iniquity,

And I will remember their sin no more.

9. Thus saith the LORD, who made the sun for a light by day, And the ordinances of the moon and stars for a light by night, Who stirreth up the sea, so that the waves thereof roar,

The LORD of hosts is his name:

10. If these ordinances shall depart from before me,

Then shall the race of Israel also cease from being a nation before me forever.

11. Thus saith the LORD: If the heavens above can be measured, Or the foundations of the earth beneath searched out, Then will I cast off all the race of Israel

For all which they have done, saith the LORD.

(Chap. XXXI; 27-47.)

XV.

Jeremiah's lament over the destruction of the State.

1. I am the man that has seen affliction under the rod of His

wrath;

2. He has led me and brought me into darkness, and not into

light;

3. Yea, against me does He again and again turn his hand all day

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long.

Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall!

5. Yea, thou wilt remember them, for my soul sinketh within me! 6. This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope;

7. It is of the mercy of the LORD that we are not consumed; yea, his compassion faileth not;

8. It is new every morning; great is thy faithfulness.

9. The LORD is my portion, saith my soul, therefore do I hope in

him.

10. The LORD is good to them that trust in him, to the soul that

seeketh him.

11. It is good that a man hope, and quietly wait for salvation from

the LORD.

12. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth;

13. That he sit alone and keep silence, since He layeth it upon him; 14. That he put his mouth in the dust, [saying to himself,]

haps there may be hope!"

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15. That he offer his cheek to the smiter; that he be filled with reproach

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For the LORD will not cast off forever;

17. For though he cause grief, yet doth he have compassion according to his great mercy;

18. For he doth not willingly afflict and grieve the children of men. 19. Doth one trample under foot all the prisioners of the earth, 20. Doth he bend the right of a man before the face of the Most

High,

21. Doth he subvert a man in his cause, and shall not the LORD be

hold it?

22. Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the LORD hath not commanded?

23. Cometh not evil, as well as good, from the mouth of the Most High?

24. Wherefore then murmureth the living man? Let him murmur at his own sin!

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Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the
LORD!

26. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens ! 27. We have transgressed; we have rebelled; thou hast not for(Lam Chap. III; 1-8, 19-42.)

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given!

But thou, O LORD, sittest as king forever;

Thy throne endureth from generation to generation.

29. Wherefore dost thou wholly forget us,

And abandon us, for so long a time?

30. Turn us again to thee, O LORD, that we may be restored!

Renew our days as of old!

(Lam. Chap. V; 19-21)

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OBADIAH.

About 585., B. C. E.

The destruction of Edom announced, on account of his unbrotherly conduct against Judah.

THE prophecy of Obadiah.

Thus saith the LORD Eternal concerning Edom.
We have heard a message from the LORD,

And an ambassador hath been sent among the nations
"Arise ye, and let us rise up against her to war."
2. Behold, I will make thee small among the nations ;
Thou shalt be greatly despised.

3. The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee,
Thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock,
Whose habitation is high, who sayest in thine heart,
"Who shall bring me down to the ground?"

4. Though thou lift thyself up as the eagle,
And though thou set thy nest among the stars,
Thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.

5. For slaughter and for oppression of thy brother Jacob shall shame cover thee,

And thou shalt be destroyed forever.

6. In the day when thou stoodest over against him,

In the day when strangers carried away captive his forces,
And when foreigners entered his gates,

And when they cast lots upon Jerusalem,

Thou also wast as one of them.

7. But thou shouldst not have looked with delight on theday of thy brother in the day of his calamity;

Nor shouldst thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction,

Nor have spoken haughtily in the day of his distress.

8. Thou shouldst not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity,

Nor have looked with delight on their affliction in the day of their calamity,

Nor have laid hand on their substance in the day of their

calamity,

9. Nor have stood in the cross-way to cut off their fugitives, Nor have delivered up those that remained in the day of distress ! 10. For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations: As thou hast done, so shall it be done to thee; Thy dealing shall return upon thine own head.

(Chap. I; 1-4, 10-15.)

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EZEKIEL,

594-572, B. C. E.

I.

The call of Ezekiel to the prophetic office.-Responsibility of the preacher of repentance.

2.

Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. On the fifth day of the mouth, in the fifth year of the captivity of King Jehoiachin the word of the LORD came to Ezekiel, the son of Buzi, the priest, in the land of the Chaldaeans, by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him. (Chap. 1; 1-3.)

And the word of the LORD came to me, and said: Son of man, I have set thee as a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from 3. me! When I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die! and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, so that he may live, that wicked man shall die for his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thy hand. 4. Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, and from his wicked way, he shall die for his iniquity, but 5. thou hast delivered thy soul. Again when a righteous man turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, and he shall die because thou hast not given warning, he will die for his sin; and his righteousness which he hath done will not be remembered; but his blood 6. will I require at thy hand. Yet if thou warn the righteous man. that he sin not, and the righteous man doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he hath received warning; and thou hast delivered thy soul. (Chap. III, 17-21.) 7. Thou, therefore, O son of man, say to the house of Israel: Rightly do ye say, "Our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and through them we pine away. How then can we live?" 8. Say to them, As I live, saith the Lord Eternal, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn ye, turn ye, from your evil ways for why will ye die, O house of Israel? (Chap. XXXIIIX; 10-11.) As for thee, O son of man, the sons of thy people speak concerning thee by the walls, and in the doors of houses; and speak

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one to another, every man to his neighbor, saying, “Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that goeth from the LORD." 10. And they come to thee, as the people assembleth, and they sit before thee, as my people, and they hear thy words, but will not do them; for with their mouth they do what is lovely, but their 11. heart goeth after gain. And behold, thou art to them a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear thy words, but do them not. 12. But when this cometh to pass, (and behold, it shall come to pass,) then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them. (Chap. XXXIII; 30-33.

II.

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Against unjust and oppressive rulers, the faithless shepherds. THUS saith the Lord Eternal: Woe to the shepherds of Israel, who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed 2. the flocks? Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, kill that which is fatted; but ye feed not the flock. The weak do ye not strengthen, and the sick do ye not heal and the wounded do ye not bind up; ye bring not back that which hath been driven away, neither seek ye that which hath been lost; but with force and with cruelty do ye rule them. Therefore 4. are they scattered abroad, because there is no shepherd, and they are food to all the beasts of the field, or are scattered 5. abroad. My sheep wander through all the mountains, and upon every high hill; yea, over the whole face of the land is my flock scattered, and none careth for them, or seeketh them. 6. Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD: As 7. I live, saith the Lord Eternal, surely, because my flock is become a prey, and my flock is become meat to all the beasts of the field because there is no shepherd, and because my shepherds search not for my flock, and feed themselves, and feed not my 8. flock, therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD. 9. Thus saith the Lord Eternal: Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their 10. mouth, and they shall not be meat for them. For thus saith

the LORD: Behold I, even I, will seek my flock, and look after 11. them; as a shepherd looketh after his flock in the day when he

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