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952 Prophecy of Jeremias

these things upon thee: this is thy wickedness, do? though thou clothest thyself with scar-
because it is bitter, because it hath touched thy let, though thou deckest thee with ornaments
heart. of gold, and paintest thy eyes with stibic stone,
19 My bowels, my bowels are in part, the thou shalt dress thyself out in vain: thy lovers
senses of my heart are troubled within me, I will have despised thee, they will seek thy life.
not hold my peace, for my soul hath heard the 31 For I have heard the voice as of a woman
sound of the trumpet, the cry of battle. in travail, anguishes as of a woman in labour of
20 Destruction upon destruction is called for, a child. The voice of the daughter of Sion, dying
and all the earth is laid waste: my tents are de- away, spreading her hands: Woe is me, for my
stroyed on a sudden, and my pavilions in a mo- soul hath fainted because of them that are slain.
ment.
21 How long shall I see men fleeing away, how
long shall I hear the sound of the trumpet? Chapter 5
22 For my foolish people have not known me:
they are foolish and senseless children: they are Go about through the streets of Jerusalem, and
wise to do evil, but to do good they have no see, and consider, and seek in the broad places
knowledge. thereof, if you can find a man that executeth
23 I beheld the earth, and lo it was void, and judgment, and seeketh faith: and I will be mer-
nothing: and the heavens, and there was no light ciful unto it.
in them. 2 And though they say: The Lord liveth; this
24 I looked upon the mountains, and behold also they will swear falsely.
they trembled: and all the hills were troubled. 3 O Lord, thy eyes are upon truth: thou hast
25 I beheld, and lo there was no man: and all struck them, and they have not grieved: thou
the birds of the air were gone. hast bruised them, and they have refused to
26 I looked, and behold Carmel was a wilder- receive correction: they have made their faces
ness: and all its cities were destroyed at the harder than the rock, and they have refused to
presence of the Lord, and at the presence of the return.
wrath of his indignation. 4 But I said: Perhaps these are poor and fool-
27 For thus saith the Lord: All the land shall ish, that know not the way of the Lord, the judg-
be desolate, but yet I will not utterly destroy. ment of their God.
28 The Earth shall mourn, and the heavens 5 I will go therefore to the great men, and will
shall lament from above: because I have spoken, speak to them: for they have known the way of
I have purposed, and I have not repented, neither the Lord, the judgment of their God: and behold
am I turned away from it. these have altogether broken the yoke more, and
29 At the voice of the horsemen, and the have burst the bonds.
archers, all the city is fled away: they have en- 6 Wherefore a lion out of the wood hath slain
tered into thickets and climbed up the rocks: all them, a wolf in the evening hath spoiled them, a
the cities are forsaken, and there dwelleth not a leopard watcheth for their cities: every one that
man in them. shall go out thence shall be taken, because their
30 But when thou art spoiled what wilt thou transgressions are multiplied, their rebellions are