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11 Tremble, O ye that are at case; be ye disquieted, O yc

careless ones!

Strip ye, make ye bare; and gird ye sackcloth

12 Upon your loins, upon your breasts:

Mourn ye for the pleasant field, for the fruitful vine. 13 Over the land of my people the thorn and the brier shall come up;

Yea, over all the joyous houses, over the exulting city, 14 For the palace is deserted, the populous city is left desolate;

Ophel and the watch-tower shall for a long time be a den,

A joy of wild asses, a pasture for the flocks:

15 Till the Spirit from on high be poured out upon us;
And the wilderness become a fruitful field;

And the fruitful field be esteemed a forest:

16 And judgment shall dwell in the wilderness;

And in the fruitful field shall reside righteousness.

17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace;

And the effect of righteousness perpetual quiet and secu-
rity:

18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceful mansion,
And in habitations secure,

And in resting-places undisturbed.

19 But the hail shall fall, and the forest be brought down; And the city shall be laid level with the plain.

20 Blessed are ye, who sow your seed in every well watered place;

Who send forth the foot of the ox and the ass.

CHAP. 1 Wo unto thee, thou spoiler, who hast not been spoiled thyself;

XXXIII.

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And thou plunderer, who hast not been plundered:
When thou hast ceased to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled;
When thou art weary of plundering, they shall plunder
thee.

O JEHOVAH, have mercy on us; we have trusted in
thee;

Be thou our strength every morning;

Even our salvation in the time of distress.

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From thy terrible voice the peoples fled;

When thou didst raise thyself up, the nations were dispersed.

4 But your spoil shall be gathered, as the locust gathereth; As the caterpillar runneth to and fro, so shall they run, and seize it.

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JEHOVAH is exalted; yea, he dwelleth on high:

He hath filled Sion with judgment and justice.

6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times,

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The possession of continued salvation;

The fear of JEHOVAH, this shall be thy treasure.

Behold the mighty men raise a grievous cry;

The messengers of peace weep bitterly.

8 The highways are desolate; the traveller ceaseth :

He hath broken the covenant; he hath rejected the

offered cities;

Of men he maketh no account.

9 The land mourneth, it languisheth ;

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Libanus is put to shame, it withereth :

Sharon is become like a desert;

And Bashan and Carmel are stripped of their beauty.

Now will I arise, saith JEHOVAH;

Now will I lift myself up on high; now will I be exalted. 11 Ye shall conceive chaff; ye shall bring forth stubble; And my spirit like fire shall consume you.

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12 And the peoples shall be burned, as the lime is burned; As the thorns are cut up, and consumed in the fire. Hear, O ye that are afar off, my doings; And acknowledge, O ye that are near, my power. 14 The sinners in Sion are struck with dread; Terror hath seized the hypocrites:

Who among us can abide this consuming fire? Who among us can abide these continued burnings? 15 He who walketh in perfect righteousness, and speaketh

right things;

Who detesteth the lucre of oppression ;

Who shaketh his hands from bribery;

Who stoppeth his ears to the proposal of bloodshed;

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Who shutteth his eyes against the appearance of evil: 16 His dwelling shall be in the high places;

The strongholds of the rocks shall be his lofty fortress: His bread shall be duly furnished; his waters shall not fail.

17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty;

They shall see thine own land far extended. 18 Thine heart shall reflect on the past terror:

Where is now the accomptant? where the weigher of tribute?

Where is he, that numbered the towers?

19 Thou shalt see no more that barbarous people:

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The people of a deep speech, which thou couldst not hear;

And of a stammering tongue, which thou couldst not understand.

Thou shalt see Sion, the city of our solemn feasts;
Thine eyes shall behold Jerusalem,

The quiet habitation, the tabernacle unshaken:
Whose stakes shall not be plucked up for ever,
And of whose cords none shall be broken.

21 But the glorious name of JEHOVAH shall be unto us,
A place of confluent streams, of broad rivers;

Which no oared ship shall pass,

Neither shall any mighty vessel go through.

22 For JEHOVAH is our judge; JEHOVAH is our lawgiver; JEHOVAH is our king: he shall save us.

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Thy sails are loose; they cannot make them fast: Thy mast is not firm; they cannot spread the ensign. Then shall a copious spoil be divided;

Even the lame shall seize the prey.

24 Neither shall the inhabitant say, I am disabled with sickness:

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The people, that dwelleth therein, is freed from the punishment of their iniquity.

DRAW near, O ye nations, and hearken;
And attend unto me, O ye peoples!

Let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof;
The world, and all that spring from it.

CHAP. XXXIV.

2 For the wrath of JEHOVAH is kindled against all the

nations;

And his anger against all the orders thereof:

He hath devoted them; he hath given them up to slaughter.

3 And their slain shall be cast out;

And from their carcasses their stink shall ascend; And the mountains shall melt down with their blood. 4 And all the host of heaven shall waste away; And the heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll: And all their host shall wither;

As the withered leaf falleth from the vine, And as the blighted fruit from the fig-tree. 5 For my sword is made bare in the heavens: Behold, on Edom it shall descend;

And on the people justly by me devoted to destruction. 6 The sword of JEHOVAH is glutted with blood; It is pampered with fat;

With the blood of lambs, and of goats;
With the fat of the reins of rams:

For JEHOVAH celebrateth a sacrifice in Botsrah,
And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

7 And the wild goats shall fall down with them;

And the bullocks, together with the bulls:

And their own land shall be drunken with their blood,
And their dust shall be enriched with fat.

8 For it is the day of vengeance to JEHOVAH;

The year of recompense to the defenders of the cause of
Sion.

9 And her torrents shall be turned into pitch,
And her dust into sulphur;

And her whole land shall become burning pitch; 10 By night or by day it shall not be extinguished; For ever shall her smoke ascend:

From generation to generation she shall lie desert; To everlasting ages no one shall pass through her; 11 But the pelican and the porcupine shall inherit her; And the owl and the raven shall inhabit there:

And he shall stretch over her the line of devastation, And the plummet of emptiness over her scorched plains. 12 No more shall they boast the renown of the kingdom; And all her princes shall utterly fail.

13 And in her palaces shall spring up thorns;
The nettle and the bramble, in her fortresses;
And she shall become an habitation for dragons,

A court for the daughters of the ostrich.

14 And the jackals and the mountain-cats shall meet one another;

And the satyr shall call to his fellow:

There also the screech-owl shall pitch;

And shall find for herself a place of rest.

15 There shall the night-raven make her nest, and lay her eggs;

And she shall hatch them, and gather her young under
her shadow:

There also shall the vultures be gathered together;
Every one of them shall join her mate.

16 Consult ye the book of JEHOVAH, and read :
Not one of these shall be missed;

Not a female shall lack her mate:

For the mouth of JEHOVAH hath given the command;
And his spirit itself hath gathered them.

17 And he hath cast the lot for them;

CHAP. 1
XXXV.

And his hand hath meted out their portion by the line:
They shall possess the land for a perpetual inheritance;
From generation to generation shall they dwell therein.

THE desert, and the waste, shall be glad ; And the wilderness shall rejoice, and flourish : 2 Like the rose shall it beautifully flourish ;

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And the well-watered plain of Jordan shall also rejoice:
The glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it,

The beauty of Carmel and of Sharon :

These shall behold the glory of JEHOVAH,
The majesty of our God.

Strengthen ye the feeble hands,

And confirm ye the tottering knees.
4 Say ye to the faint-hearted: Be ye strong;
Fear ye not; behold your God!

Vengeance will come; the retribution of God
He himself will come, and will deliver you.
5 Then shall be unclosed the eyes of the blind;
And the ears of the deaf shall be opened:
6 Then shall the lame bound like the hart,
And the tongue of the dumb shall sing :

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