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954 Prophecy of Jeremias

have not judged the cause of the widow, they shall be heard in her, infirmity and stripes are
have not managed the cause of the fatherless, continually before me.
and they have not judged the judgment of the 8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my
poor. soul depart from thee, lest I make thee desolate,
29 Shall I not visit for these things, saith the a land uninhabited.
Lord? or shall not my soul take revenge on such 9 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: They shall
a nation? gather the remains of Israel, as in a vine, even
30 Astonishing and wonderful things have to one cluster: turn back thy hand, as a grape-
been done in the land. gatherer into the basket.
31 The prophets prophesied falsehood, and 10 To whom shall I speak? and to whom shall
the priests clapped their hands: and my peo- I testify, that he may hear? behold, their ears
ple loved such things: what then shall be done are uncircumcised, and they cannot hear: be-
in the end thereof? hold the word of the Lord is become unto them
a reproach: and they will not receive it.
11 Therefore am I full of the fury of the Lord,
Chapter 6 I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon

the child abroad, and upon the council of the
Strengthen yourselves, ye sons of Benjamin, in young men together: for man and woman shall
the midst of Jerusalem, and sound the trum- be taken, the ancient and he that is full of days.
pet in Thecua, and set up the standard over 12 And their houses shall be turned over to
Bethacarem: for evil is seen out of the north, others, with their lands and their wives together:
and a great destruction. for I will stretch forth my hand upon the inhab-
2 I have likened the daughter of Sion to a beau- itants of the land, saith the Lord.
tiful and delicate woman. 13 For from the least of them even to the
3 The shepherds shall come to her with their greatest, all are given to covetousness: and from
flocks: they have pitched their tents against her the prophet even to the priest, all are guilty of
round about: every one shall feed them that are deceit.
under his hand. 14 And they healed the breach of the daughter
4 Prepare ye war against her: arise, and let of my people disgracefully, saying: Peace, peace:
us go up at midday: woe unto us, for the day and there was no peace.
is declined, for the shadows of the evening are 15 They were confounded, because they com-
grown longer. mitted abomination: yea, rather they were not
5 Arise, and let us go up in the night, and confounded with confusion, and they knew not
destroy her houses. how to blush: wherefore they shall fall among
6 For thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hew down them that fall: in the time of their visitation
her trees, cast up a trench about Jerusalem: this they shall fall down, saith the Lord.
is the city to be visited, all oppression is in the 16 Thus saith the Lord: Stand ye on the ways,
midst of her. and see, and ask for the old paths, which is the
7 As a cistern maketh its water cold, so hath good way, and walk ye in it: and you shall find
she made her wickedness cold: violence and spoil refreshment for your souls. And they said: We