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Whether it is pleasant or unpleasant, we will listen to and honor the voice of the Lord our God to whom we are sending you, so that it may go well with us when we listen to the voice of the Lord our God.”
“Take him and look after him; do nothing to harm him, but rather deal with him just as he asks of you.”
They swarmed around me like bees;
They flare up and are extinguished like a fire of thorns;
In the name of the Lord I will surely cut them off.
“He (Cyrus) pursues them and passes along safely,
By a way his feet had not traveled before.
They have repaid me evil for good,
And hatred for my love.
They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,
And have fought against me without a cause.
Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,
At the presence of the God of Jacob (Israel),
For He will stand at the right hand of the needy,
To save him from those who judge his soul.
They forgot God their Savior,
Who had done such great things in Egypt,
For You are the glory of their strength [their proud adornment],
And by Your favor our horn is exalted.
O my God, make them like
Like chaff before the wind [worthless and without substance].
You have made us like sheep to be eaten [as mutton]
And have scattered us [in exile] among the nations.
In the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign this Passover was celebrated.
And in this way I will afflict the descendants of David for this (their sin), but not forever.’”
Then he brought me out by way of the north gate and led me around on the outside to the outer gate by the way of the gate that faces east. And behold, water was spurting out from the south side [of the gate].
Their relatives the Levites [who were not descended from Aaron] were appointed for all the other kinds of service of the tabernacle of the house of God.
and give the money, the ransom (redemption price) of those who outnumber the Levites to Aaron and to his sons.”
the priest shall go out of the house, to the doorway, and
and as the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni [from the tribe of Benjamin].
All the men who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the leaders of Israel counted by their families (clans) and by their fathers’ households,
He put the poles through the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it; he made it hollow with planks.
“Then heaven and earth and all that is in them
Will shout and sing for joy over Babylon,
For the
Says the Lord.
He made for the altar a grating of bronze mesh under its rim, extending halfway up it.
I will also strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they will die of a great virulent disease.
“Assyria is there with all her warriors; their graves are all around her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword,
“When I make the land of Egypt desolate,
And the country is stripped and deprived of all that which filled it,
When I strike all those who live in it,
Then they will know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord.
And that the fords [across the Euphrates] have been blocked and [the ferries] seized,
And they have set the [great] marshes on fire,
And the men of war are terrified.
“Give a gravestone to Moab,
For she will fall into ruins;
Her cities (pastures, farms) will be desolate,
Without anyone to live in them.
This I will do to this place,” says the Lord, “and to its inhabitants; and I will even make this city like Topheth.
But they who have harvested it will eat it and praise the Lord,
And they who have gathered it will drink it [at the feasts celebrated] in the courtyards of My sanctuary.
Who [faithfully] remembered us in our lowly condition,
For His lovingkindness endures forever;
So all the princes and all the people who had entered into the covenant agreed that everyone would let his male servant and his female servant go free, and that no one would keep them in bondage any longer; they obeyed, and set them free.
To Him who divided the
For His lovingkindness endures forever;
Because He has inclined His ear to me,
Therefore I will call on Him as long as I live.
The Lord is on my side, He is among those who help me;
Therefore I will look [in triumph] on those who hate me.
A productive land into a [barren] salt waste,
Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
Our feet are standing
Within your gates, O Jerusalem,
He led them by the straight way,
To an inhabited city [where they could establish their homes].
The strength of the King loves justice and righteous judgment;
You have established fairness;
You have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob (Israel).
His feet they hurt with shackles;
He will drink from the brook by the wayside;
Therefore He will lift up His head [triumphantly].
Let them give thanks to the Lord for His lovingkindness,
And for His wonderful acts to the children of men!
Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were unfaithful to the Lord God of their fathers, so that He made them a horror (lifeless, desolate), just as you see.
“It shall be established forever like the moon,
And the witness in the heavens is ever faithful.”
“Let there be no strange god among you,
Nor shall you worship any foreign god.
Moreover, He rejected the tent of Joseph,
And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim [in which the tabernacle stood].
“I said to the arrogant, ‘Do not boast;’
And to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up the horn [of self-glorification].
May You increase my greatness (honor)
And turn to comfort me.
All the temple servants and the sons of Solomon’s servants, totaled 392.
She said to her young men (servants), “Go on ahead of me; behold, I am coming after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
Be strong and let us show ourselves courageous for the sake of our people and for the cities of our God; and may the Lord do what is good in His sight.”
Then he placed the bases, five on the right [or south] side of the house and five on the left [or north] side; and he set the Sea [of cast metal] on the right side of the house toward the southeast.
David did not leave a man or a woman alive to bring news to Gath, saying [to himself], “Otherwise they will tell about us, saying, ‘This is what David has done, and this has been his practice all the time that he has lived in the country of the Philistines.’”
So the men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill about thirty men of Israel, for they said, “Certainly they are defeated before us as in the first battle!”
In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom it was purchased, to whom the land belonged [as his ancestral inheritance].
Abimelech was told that all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem were assembled together.
You shall take one leader from every tribe to divide the land for the inheritance.
The men who were numbered of the sons of Gershon, by their families (clans), and by their fathers’ households,
As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.
Because the priests ministered to them before their idols and became a stumbling block of sin to the house of Israel, therefore I have lifted up My hand and have sworn [an oath] against them,” says the Lord God, “that they shall bear the punishment for their sin and guilt.
When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without blemish and a ram from the flock without blemish.
and when we arrived at the inn [after leaving here], we opened our sacks and there was each man’s money [with which he had paid for grain], in full, returned in the mouth of his sack. So we have brought it back [this time].
I will make you an everlasting desolation and your
Opposite the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner courtyard, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer courtyard, was gallery (balcony) corresponding to gallery in three stories.
They will forget their disgrace and all their treachery (unfaithfulness) which they perpetuated against Me, when they live securely in their own land and there is no one who makes them afraid.
“They shall fall down dead in the land of the Chaldeans,
And wounded in her streets.”
‘So I will cause Elam to be shattered (dismayed) before their enemies
And before those who seek their lives;
And I will bring disaster on them,
Even My fierce anger,’ says the Lord.
‘And I will send the sword after them
Until I have consumed them.
To Him who made the great lights,
For His lovingkindness endures forever;
He clothed himself with cursing as with his garment,
And it seeped into his inner self like water
And like [anointing] oil into his bones.
You set a boundary [for the waters] that they may not cross over,
So that they will not return to cover the earth.
Egypt rises like the Nile,
Even like the rivers whose waters surge about.
And
I will certainly destroy the city and its inhabitants.”
Considering these [tragedies], will You restrain Yourself, O Lord [and not help us]?
Will You keep silent and humiliate and oppress us beyond measure?
Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you now fear [as if he were deity]; do not be afraid of him,’ says the Lord, ‘for [he is a mere man, but I am the living, omniscient God and] I am with you [always] to protect you and to deliver you from his hand.
But the nation which will bow its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, that nation I will let remain on its own land,” says the Lord, “to cultivate it and live in it.”’”
Where then are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you or against this land?’
Moreover, is it without the Lord that I have now come up against this land to destroy it? The Lord said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”’”
Then they were glad because of the calm,
And He guided them to their desired haven (harbor).
Therefore pride is their necklace;
Violence covers them like a garment [like a long, luxurious robe].
They pour out words, speaking arrogant things;
All who do evil boast proudly.
When he enters into dispute, let wickedness come about.
Let his prayer [for help] result [only] in sin.
Let them give thanks to the Lord for His lovingkindness,
And for His wonderful acts to the children of men!
For we have been consumed by Your anger
And by Your wrath we have been terrified.
For their heart was not steadfast toward Him,
Nor were they faithful to His covenant.
Make Your servant rejoice,
For to You, O Lord, I lift up my soul [all that I am—in prayer].
Fear and trembling have come upon me;
Horror has overwhelmed me.
As for me, You uphold me in my integrity,
And You set me in Your presence forever.
How long will you attack a man
So that you may murder him, all of you,
Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?
For the sin of their mouths and the words of their lips,
Let them even be trapped in their pride,
And on account of the curses and lies which they tell.
Then they gave it to the workmen who were appointed over the house of the Lord, and the workmen who were working in the house of the Lord gave it [to others] to repair and restore the house (temple).
He is like a lion eager to tear [his prey],
And like a young lion lurking in hiding places.
because the offender should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the high priest’s death the offender shall return to the land of his possession.
So now, get up early in the morning with your master’s servants who have come with you, and as soon as you are up in the morning and have light, leave.”
David answered, “Look, here is the king’s spear! Now let one of the young men come over and get it.
Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
They made two rings of gold and put them on the two ends of the breastpiece, on its inner edge which was next to the ephod.
These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob; [there were] fourteen persons in all [two sons and twelve grandchildren].
And they shall not sell any of it or exchange it, or allow this choice portion of land to pass to others; for it is holy to the Lord.
Alongside the border of the priests, the [other] Levites shall have 25,000 cubits in length and 10,000 in width. The whole length shall be 25,000 cubits and the width 10,000.
“At the feasts and the appointed festivals the grain offering shall be an ephah with a bull and an ephah with a ram, and with the lambs
He (the angel) measured the length of the building along the front of the separate area behind it, with a gallery on each side, a hundred cubits; he also measured the inner sanctuary and the porches (porticoes) of the courtyard.
The width of the entrance was ten cubits and the
I dealt with them in accordance with their uncleanness and their transgressions, and I hid My face from them.”’”
On the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner courtyard to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering,” says the Lord God.
“Put in it the pieces [of meat],
Every good piece (the people of Jerusalem), the thigh and the shoulder;
Fill it with choice bones.
I will
They have made a bed for her among the slain with all her hordes. Her graves are around it; they are all uncircumcised (barbaric, boorish, crude), slain by the sword (for their terror had been spread in the land of the living), and they bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit; they were laid among the slain.
You have borne [the penalty of] your lewdness and your repulsive acts,” says the Lord.
Look at their sitting and their rising [their actions and secret counsels];
I am their mocking song [the subject of their ridicule].
At Your rebuke they fled;
At the sound of Your thunder they hurried away.
“Moab will be
Because he has become arrogant and magnified himself against the Lord.
Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “when I will send to Moab those who will tip him over and who will empty his vessels and break his [earthenware] jars in pieces.
“Why have your strong ones been cut down?
They do not stand because the Lord drove them away.
But if you are going to say, “We will not stay in this land,” and [in so doing] do not listen to the voice of the Lord your God,
But they kept silent and did not say a word to him in reply, for King Hezekiah’s command was, “Do not answer him.”
The Israelites asked, and He brought quail,
And satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
and said to them, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your petition before Him:
But I will
Until the time that his word [of prophecy regarding his brothers] came true,
The word of the Lord tested and refined him.
The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful;
He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants [scorned, insulted, and disgraced];
How I bear in
For the arms of the wicked will be broken,
But the Lord upholds and sustains the righteous [who seek Him].
For Your servants find [melancholy] pleasure in the stones [of her ruins]
And feel pity for her dust.
All the horns of the wicked He will cut off,
But the horns of the righteous will be lifted up.
Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read from it in the presence of the king.
as well as the priests who were registered genealogically according to their fathers’ households, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, by their duties and by their divisions.
Now there were four supports at the four corners of each stand; the supports were part of the stand itself.
The garment, whether the warp or the woof, or anything made of leather from which the mildew has departed after washing, shall then be washed a second time and it will be [ceremonially] clean.”
If he does not redeem the field, but has sold it to another man, it may no longer be redeemed.
Their four support poles and their four sockets were bronze; their hooks were silver, and silver overlaid their tops and their connecting rings.
And for the north side [of the court the curtains were also] a hundred cubits; their twenty support poles and their twenty bronze sockets; the hooks of the support poles and their connecting rings were silver.
Nothing of theirs was missing whether small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything that had been taken; David recovered it all.
Furthermore, they made two [other] gold rings and attached them to the bottom of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, at the front of it, close to the place where it is joined, above the woven sash of the ephod.
Each curtain was thirty cubits long and four cubits wide; the eleven curtains were of equal size.
the table [for the bread] and its utensils, the pure gold lampstand with all its utensils, the [golden] altar of incense,
Then the sons of Israel did so; and Joseph gave them wagons according to the command of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey.
He will direct the [shocking] blow of his battering rams against your walls, and he will tear down your towers with his crowbars.
And one [son] went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn to pieces,” and I have not seen him since.
‘They put him in a cage with hooks and chains
And brought him to the king of Babylon;
They brought him in hunting nets
So that his voice would be heard no more
On the mountains of Israel.
There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; and a hundred pomegranates were on the lattice-work all around.
Then he [my guide] brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests, which faced the north; and behold, a place was there at their extreme westward end.
With you I shatter man and woman,
With you I shatter old man and youth,
With you I shatter young man and virgin,
“And the destroyer will come upon every city;
No city will escape.
The [Jordan] valley also will be ruined
And the plain will be devastated,
As the Lord has said.
Then Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, “Now put these old rags and worn-out clothes under your armpits, then place the ropes under the padding”; and Jeremiah did so.
Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth
If I do not remember you,
If I do not prefer Jerusalem
Above my chief joy.
“They cried there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is destroyed and is merely a loud noise;
He has let the appointed time [of opportunity] pass by!’
So all the people whom Ishmael had taken captive from Mizpah turned around and came back, and joined Johanan the son of Kareah.
Moreover, Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, “In what way have I sinned against you, or against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison?
For in that day every man will reject and throw away his idols of silver and his idols of gold [in disgust], which your own hands have sinfully made for you.
now therefore [continued the letter from Shemaiah in Babylon to Zephaniah in Jerusalem], why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who prophesies to you?
Like the striking
Or like the slaughter of His slain, have they been slain?
I am Your servant; give me understanding [the ability to learn and a teachable heart]
That I may know Your testimonies.
Then I will punish their transgression with the rod [of discipline],
And [correct] their wickedness with stripes.
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me;
They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
Ascribe strength to God;
His majesty is over Israel
And His strength is in the skies.
Let the sea thunder and roar, and all the things it contains,
The world and those who dwell in it.
As we have heard, so have we seen
In the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God:
God will establish her forever. Selah.
The stouthearted have been stripped of their spoil,
They have slept the sleep [of death];
And none of the warriors could use his hands.
then the priest shall order that they wash the thing in which the mark occurs, and he shall quarantine it for seven more days.
Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
and one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering.
and their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three-tenths [of an ephah] for the bull, two-tenths for the one ram,
The sons of Israel returned from their pursuit of the Philistines and plundered their camp.
The steward searched, beginning with the eldest and ending with the youngest, and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
You shall put the two twisted cords of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastpiece.
You shall set up the courtyard [curtains] all around and hang up the screen (curtain) for the gateway of the courtyard.
It is to have two shoulder pieces joined to its two [back and front] ends, so that it may be joined together.
We have also brought down with us additional money to buy food; we do not know who put our money [back] in our sacks [last time].”
but bring your youngest brother to me, so your words will be verified and you will not die.” And they did so.
And he shall provide a grain offering, an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he is able, and a hin of oil with an ephah.
The priests shall not eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or has been torn to pieces.
Yet I will appoint them as caretakers of the temple, for all its service and for all that shall be done in it.
And I will make the land [of Israel] a desolation and a ruin, and her pride in her power will be brought to an end; and the mountains of Israel will be so deserted that no one will pass through.
Then he measured the width from the front of the lower gate to the front of the exterior of the inner court, a hundred cubits [both] on the east and on the north.
‘Whom [among them] do you surpass in beauty?
Go down and make your bed with the uncircumcised (the barbaric, the boorish, the crude).’
‘For thus says the Lord God, “At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations among whom they were scattered.
Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you, you [infamous one] of ill repute, full of turmoil.
He spoke kindly to him and gave him a throne above the thrones of the kings who were [captives] with him in Babylon.
And He will redeem Israel
From all his sins.
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
But tossed Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea,
For His lovingkindness endures forever;
“The king of Babylon has heard the report about them,
And his hands fall limp and helpless;
Anguish has seized him,
And agony like that of a woman in childbirth.
Let the arrogant be ashamed and humiliated, for they sabotage me with a lie;
But I will meditate on Your precepts.
“This is My resting place forever” [says the Lord];
“Here will I dwell, for I have desired it.
In this way they became unclean in their practices;
They played the prostitute in their own deeds [by giving their worship, which belongs to God alone, to other “gods”].
I keep Your precepts and Your testimonies,
For all my ways are [fully known] before You.
He also loved cursing, and it came [back] to him;
He did not delight in blessing, so it was far from him.
Nevertheless they flattered Him with their mouths
And lied to Him with their tongues.
“My faithfulness and My steadfast lovingkindness shall be with him,
And in My name shall his horn be exalted [great power and prosperity shall be conferred upon him].
He established it for a testimony in
When He went throughout the land of Egypt.
I heard the language [of One whom] I did not know, saying,
Answer me, O Lord, for Your lovingkindness is sweet and good and comforting;
According to the greatness of Your compassion, turn to me.
He leveled a path for His anger [to give it free run];
He did not spare their souls from death,
But turned over their lives to the plague.
Righteousness will go before Him
And will make His footsteps into a way [in which to walk].
“The kings of the [enemies’] armies flee, they flee,
And the beautiful woman who remains at home divides the spoil [left behind].”
Then the men of Israel, other than Benjamin, assembled four hundred thousand men who drew the sword; all of these were men of war.
David said to Achish, “But what have I done? What have you found in your servant from the day when I [first] came before you to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”
with their grain offering and drink offerings for the bulls, the rams, and the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance,
The priest shall examine the mark and shall quarantine the article with the mark for seven days.
the pure gold lampstand and its lamps, with the lamps placed in order, all its utensils, and the oil for the light;
With it Bezalel made the sockets for the doorway of the Tent of Meeting, and the bronze altar and its bronze grating, and all the utensils of the altar,
He cast four rings for the four corners of the bronze grating as holders for the carrying poles.
They said to him, “Why does my lord speak these things? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!
We are all the sons of one man; we are honest men, your servants are not spies.”
And the man, the lord of the country, said to us, ‘By this [test] I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers here with me and take grain for your starving households and go.
And [beyond that] intermarry with us; give your daughters to us [as wives] and take our daughters for yourselves.
so that you [Judah] will bear your humiliation and disgrace, and be [thoroughly] ashamed for all [the wickedness] that you have done to console and comfort them.
The side chambers were three stories [high], one above another, and thirty chambers in each story; and the side chambers extended to the wall which stood on their inward side all around, so that they would be attached, but not attached to the wall of the temple itself.
Then he said to me, “These are the
When I scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them through the lands, then they will know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord.’”
The nations have heard of your disgrace and shame,
And your cry [of distress] has filled the earth.
For warrior has stumbled against warrior,
And both of them have fallen together.
Beside them the birds of the heavens have their nests;
They lift up their voices and sing among the branches.
that the Lord your God may show us the way in which we should walk and the thing that we should do.”
For I am suffering and needy,
And my heart is wounded within me.
Be exalted [in majesty], O God, above the heavens,
And Your glory above all the earth.
For they provoked Him to [righteous] anger with their high places [devoted to idol worship]
And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images [by denying Him the love, worship, and obedience that is rightfully and uniquely His].
You have fed them the bread of tears,
And You have made them drink [bitter] tears in abundance.
So that they might observe His precepts
And keep His laws [obediently accepting and honoring and valuing them].
Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)
O God, arrogant and insolent men have risen up against me;
A band of violent men have sought my life,
And they have not set You before them.
Turn to me, and be gracious to me;
Grant Your strength [Your might and the power to resist temptation] to Your servant,
And save the son of Your handmaid.
And she answered them, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: ‘Tell the man who sent you to me,
They were also in charge of the burden bearers [who carried heavy loads], and supervised all the workmen in any kind of service; and some of the Levites were scribes and officials and gatekeepers.
and his acts, from the first to the last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. Cross references: 2 Chronicles 35:25 : Lam 4:20 end of crossrefs
So there was great joy in Jerusalem, because there had been nothing like this in Jerusalem since the time of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel.
From the other side [east] of the Jordan River, of [the tribes of] Reuben and Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, 120,000 men, armed with all kinds of weapons of war for the battle.
Who also brings me out from my enemies.
You even lift me above those who rise up against me;
You rescue me from the violent man.
All the gold of the offering which they presented to the Lord from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds was 16,750 shekels.
So out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe were selected, twelve thousand armed for war.
Kedemoth and Mephaath with their pasture lands;
“If the priest looks and the mark has faded after it is washed, he shall tear it out of the garment, or the leather, or out of the warp or woof.
They made two settings of gold filigree and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastpiece.
He cast four rings of gold for it and fastened the rings to the four corners that were at its four legs.
Bezalel joined five curtains by themselves and [the other] six curtains by themselves.
With whomever of your servants your master’s cup is found, let him die, and the rest of us will be my lord’s slaves.”
But if you do not listen to us and refuse to be circumcised, then we will take our daughter [Dinah] and go.”
You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes with you, you shall not see my face again.’
The holy allotment shall be for these, namely for the priests, toward the north 25,000 cubits in length, and toward the west 10,000 in width, and toward the east 10,000 in width, and toward the south 25,000 in length; and the sanctuary of the Lord shall be in the midst of it.
Its guardrooms, three on each side, and its side pillars and its porches had the same measurement as the first gate. Its length was fifty cubits and the width was twenty-five cubits.
Along the length, one hundred cubits, was the north door; and the width was fifty cubits.
He made [the measurement of] the side pillars sixty cubits high; the gate extended all around to the side pillar of the courtyard.
He does not eat [food set before idols] at the mountain shrines or raise his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, or defile his neighbor’s wife,
“I know his [insolent] wrath,” says the Lord,
“But it is futile;
His idle boasts [in his deeds] have accomplished nothing.
Now it happened on the second day after the killing of Gedaliah, before anyone knew about it,
Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men and to the women and to all the people who had given him that answer,
Then he called for Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces that were with him and all the people from the least to the greatest,
Therefore the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
To Him who stretched out the earth upon the waters,
For His lovingkindness endures forever;
Yet they say, “The Lord does not see,
Nor does the God of Jacob (Israel) notice it.”
All the kings of the land will give thanks and praise You, O Lord,
When they have heard of the promises of Your mouth [which were fulfilled].
Remember how fleeting my lifetime is;
For what vanity, [for what emptiness, for what futility, for what wisp of smoke] You have created all the sons of men!
God has spoken in His
“I will rejoice, I will portion out Shechem [as I divide Canaan among My people],
And measure out the Valley of Succoth.
He who instructs the nations,
Does He not rebuke and punish,
He who teaches man knowledge?
My enemies have trampled upon me all day long,
For they are many who fight proudly against me.
The youngest is there, Benjamin, ruling them,
The princes of Judah and their company [the southern tribes],
The princes of Zebulun and the princes of Naphtali [the northern tribes].
The wicked lies in wait for the righteous
And seeks to kill him.
But God will break you down forever;
He will take you away and tear you away from your tent,
And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.
and one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, and its grain offering, and its drink offering.
but the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
According to the commandment of the Lord through Moses, they were numbered, each assigned to his work of serving and carrying. Thus they were numbered by him, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end; he made the cherubim [of one piece] with the mercy seat at the two ends.
But only on this condition will the men consent to our request that they live among us and become one people: that every male among us become circumcised just as they are circumcised.
Beside the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, Manasseh, one portion.
The allotment [of land] that you shall set apart and offer to the Lord shall be 25,000 cubits in length and 10,000 in width.
And another portion of land 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits wide shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the temple (house), and they shall possess it as a place in which to live.
He measured the length [of the interior of the inner sanctuary], twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits,
Who among all the gods of these lands have rescued their land from my hand, that [you should think that] the Lord would rescue Jerusalem from my hand?’”
On that day the prince shall provide for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering.
Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits [thick, to accommodate side chambers]; and the width of every side chamber, four cubits, all around the temple on every side.
“If your children will keep My covenant
And My testimony which I will teach them,
Their children also shall sit upon your throne forever.”
But when a wicked man turns back from his wickedness and practices what is just (fair) and right, he will live because of it.
They staggered and trembled like a drunken man,
And were at their wits’ end [all their wisdom was useless].
I have sworn [an oath] and have confirmed it,
That I will keep Your righteous ordinances.
Set me free and rescue me from the hand of [hostile] foreigners,
Whose mouth speaks deceit [without restraint],
And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
The covenant which He made with Abraham,
And His sworn oath to Isaac,
They encourage themselves in [their pursuit of] an evil agenda;
They talk of laying snares secretly;
They say, “Who will discover us?”
Let them give thanks to the Lord for His lovingkindness,
And for His wonderful acts to the children of men!
I was afflicted and close to death from my youth on;
I suffer Your terrors; I am overcome.
He divided the [Red] Sea and allowed them to pass through it,
And He made the waters stand up like [water behind] a dam.
When there were only a few men in number,
Very few [in fact], and strangers in it;
Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked (godless),
From the grasp of the unrighteous and ruthless man.
You have made the land quake, You have split it open;
Heal its rifts, for it shakes and totters.
He [my companion] has put out his hands against those who were at peace with him;
He has
You, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel,
Arise to punish all the nations;
Spare no one and do not be merciful to any who treacherously plot evil. Selah.
And his servants said even more against the Lord God and against His servant Hezekiah.
Shaphan brought the book to the king, but [first] reported further to him, “Your servants are doing everything that was entrusted to them.
Who [was there] among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed who was able to rescue his people from my hand, that your God should be able to rescue you from my hand?
They track us down and have now surrounded us in our steps;
They set their eyes to force us to the ground,
but if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not journey on until the day when it was taken up.
He cast four rings of gold for it on its four feet, two rings on one side and two rings on the other side.
and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur [from the tribe of Manasseh].
They tied a blue cord to it, to fasten it on the turban above, just as the Lord commanded Moses.
then we will give our daughters to you [in marriage], and we will take your daughters for ourselves, and we will live with you and become one people.
Leah also approached with her children, and they bowed down. Afterward Joseph and Rachel approached, and they bowed down.
There were latticed windows and palm decorations on one side and on the other, on the sides of the porch. Thus were the side chambers and the
The people said to me, “These things that you are doing—tell us, what do they mean for us?”
I will give into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their lives. And [like the body of the calf] their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.
He has also established them forever and ever;
He has made a decree which shall not pass away.
The proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords;
They have spread a net by the wayside;
They have set traps for me. Selah.
Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you. Now hear me, I will pray to the Lord your God in accordance with your words; and I will declare to you whatever message the Lord answers; I will keep nothing back from you.”
Rescue me, O Lord, from my enemies;
I take refuge in You.
They mock and wickedly speak of oppression;
They speak loftily [with malice].
I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes
Forever, even to the end.
The right hand of the Lord is exalted;
The right hand of the Lord does valiantly.
Be gracious to us, O Lord, be gracious and favorable toward us,
For we are greatly filled with contempt.
Establish Your word and confirm Your promise to Your servant,
As that which produces [awe-inspired] reverence for You.
Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against His people
And He detested His own
The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness;
The Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
For behold, Your enemies, O Lord,
For behold, Your enemies will perish;
All who do evil will be scattered.
In Your name they rejoice all the day,
And in Your righteousness they are exalted.
Let those be ashamed and humiliated
Who seek my life;
Let them be turned back and humiliated
Who delight in my hurt.
For He has rescued me from every trouble,
And my eye has looked with satisfaction (triumph) on my enemies.
But as for me, I shall walk in my integrity;
Redeem me and be merciful and gracious to me.
Prepare yourselves according to your fathers’ (ancestors’) households by your divisions, in accordance with the instructions of David king of Israel, and the instructions of his son Solomon.
Their offspring You will destroy from the earth,
And their descendants from the sons of men.
Afterward the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the sons of Aaron, were busy offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night; so the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.
“Behold, I will gather you to your fathers [in death], and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the evil which I am going to bring on this place and on its inhabitants.”’” So they brought back word to the king.
Close by the rim were the rings, the holders for the poles [to pass through] to carry the table.
So she left Joseph’s [outer] robe beside her until his master came home.
The poles shall be inserted through the rings on the two sides of the altar so that it may be carried.
Each board had two tenons (dovetails), fitted to one another; he did this for all the boards of the tabernacle.
On the day of the New Moon he shall offer a young bull without blemish, also six lambs and a ram, without blemish.
There was a row of masonry all around inside them, around [each of] the four courtyards, and it was made with cooking hearths under the rows all around.
The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the door posts of the temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner courtyard.
and the outer chambers was a width of twenty cubits all around the temple on every side.
“They will elect men who will constantly go through the land, [men commissioned] to bury those who were passing through, those bodies that lie unburied on the surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will do a search.
‘So it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches;
For its roots extended [downward] to great waters.
“For behold, [Edom] I have made you small among the nations
And despised among men.
therefore you will no longer devour people, and no longer bereave your nation of children,’ says the Lord God.
“Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, to you, O Baruch:
Behold, I am going to command [the Chaldeans who rule Babylon],’ says the Lord, ‘and I will bring them back to this city; and they will fight against it and take it and set it on fire. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without inhabitant.’”
Then the princes said to Baruch, “Go and hide, you and Jeremiah, and do not let anyone know where you are.”
Yes, they will sing of the ways of the Lord [joyfully celebrating His wonderful acts],
For great is the glory and majesty of the Lord.
“Her priests also I will clothe with salvation,
And her godly ones will shout aloud for joy.
he will die in the place where they led him captive and not see this land again.
How he swore to the Lord
And vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:
You cleared away the ground before it,
And it took deep root and filled the land.
And they forgot His [incredible] works
And His miraculous wonders that He had shown them.
For behold, those who are far from You will perish;
You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful and have abandoned You.
You have withdrawn all Your wrath,
You have turned away from Your burning anger.
For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah,
That His servants may remain there and possess it.
Because of the voice of the enemy,
Because of the pressure of the wicked;
For they bring down trouble on me,
And in anger they persecute me.
Foreigners lose heart,
And come trembling out of their strongholds.
But you shall say the following to King Josiah of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the Lord: ‘Thus says the Lord God of Israel, concerning the words which you have heard,
The Assyrian king also wrote letters insulting and taunting the Lord God of Israel, and speaking against Him, saying, “As the gods of the nations of other lands have not rescued their people from my hand, so the God of Hezekiah will not rescue His people from my hand.”
They have emptied out the money that was found in the house of the Lord, and have delivered it into the hands of the overseers and the workmen.”
Yet the people still sacrificed on the high places, but only to the Lord their God.
All the assembly of Judah rejoiced, with the priests and the Levites and all the assembly that came from Israel, both the sojourners (resident aliens, foreigners) who came from the land of Israel and those living in Judah.
and I will not again remove Israel from the land which I appointed for your fathers, if they will only be careful to do everything that I have commanded them in regard to all the law, the statutes, and the ordinances given through Moses.”
and the sockets of the court all around and the sockets of the court gate, and all the pegs of the tabernacle and all the pegs around the court.
So Moses numbered all the firstborn among the Israelites, just as the Lord had commanded him;
For if we had not delayed like this, surely by now we would have returned the second time.”
We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no longer alive, and the youngest is with our father today in the land of Canaan.’
Its windows and its porches and its palm tree decorations had the same measurements as the gate that faced toward the east. It was reached by going up seven steps, and its porch was in front of them.
In the width of the wall of the courtyard toward the east, facing the separate area and facing the building, were chambers;
So all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.
‘You said, “Woe is me! For the Lord has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning and sighing and I find no rest.”’
“And they will be desolate
In the midst of countries that are desolated;
And her cities will be
Among cities that are devastated [by plunder and slavery].
“I will also destroy all its cattle from beside its great waters;
And the foot of man will not muddy them anymore
Nor will the hoofs of the animals muddy them.
‘Then the nations set against him (the king)
On every side from the provinces,
And they spread their net over him;
He was captured in their pit.
Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
This is what the king says, ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to rescue you;
“The smoking sacrifices (incense) that you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem—you and your forefathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land—did not the Lord remember [in detail your idolatry] and did it not all come into His mind?
For He has strengthened the bars of your gates,
He has blessed your children within you.
Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Let no man know about this conversation and you will not die.
Yes, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the articles which remain in the house of the Lord, in the house of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem,
“The [enemies, like] plowers plowed on my back;
They made their furrows [of suffering] long [in Israel].”
“Do not let a slanderer be established in the earth;
Let evil quickly hunt the violent man [to overthrow him and stop his evil acts].”
For the sake of my brothers and my friends,
I will now say, “May peace be within you.”
Let my lips speak praise [with thanksgiving],
For You teach me Your statutes.
All Your commandments are faithful and trustworthy.
They have persecuted me with a lie; help me [Lord]!
The arrogant utterly ridicule me,
Yet I do not turn away from Your law.
Because they had rebelled against the precepts of God
And spurned the counsel of the Most High.
But as for us, we will bless and affectionately and gratefully praise the Lord
From this time forth and forever.
Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)
I will give great praise and thanks to the Lord with my mouth;
And in the midst of many I will praise Him.
Why have You broken down its
So that all who pass by pick its fruit?
Israel sent out its branches to the [Mediterranean] Sea,
And its branches to the [Euphrates] River.
So He brought them to His holy land,
To this mountain [Zion] which His right hand had acquired.
They consult only to throw him down from his high position [to dishonor him];
They delight in lies.
They bless with [the words of] their mouths,
But inwardly they curse. Selah.
Like a dream [which seems real] until one awakens,
O Lord, when stirred, [You observe the wicked], You will despise their image.
In Your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
Incline Your ear to me and save me.
Bless God in the congregations, [give thanks, gratefully praise Him],
The Lord, you who are from [Jacob] the fountain of Israel.
“Save me from all my transgressions;
Do not make me the scorn and reproach of the [self-righteous, arrogant] fool.
‘Then on the third day [of the Feast of Booths]: eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without blemish,
Thus eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell, all of these brave and able warriors.
and he shall kill one of the birds in an earthenware container over running water,
likewise for the north side there shall be curtains, a hundred cubits long, and its twenty pillars and twenty bronze sockets; but the hooks of the pillars and their fasteners shall be silver.
He overlaid the boards and the bars with gold and made their rings of gold as holders for the bars.
the court’s curtains, its support poles and their sockets, and the curtain for the gate of the courtyard;
So you will eat fat until you are filled and drink blood till you are drunk, at the sacrificial feast which I have prepared for you.
I saw in my [second] dream, seven ears [of grain], plump and good, growing on a single stalk;
I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the produce of the field, so that you will not suffer again the disgrace of famine among the nations.
Then they will know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord, when I make the land a desolation and a ruin because of all the atrocities which they have committed.”’
“The one who flees from the terror
Will fall into the pit,
And the one who gets up out of the pit
Will be taken and caught in the trap;
For I shall bring upon it, even upon Moab,
The year of their punishment,” says the Lord.
Also Tyre’s daughters (towns, villages)
“Moab has been made desolate and his cities have gone up [in smoke and flame];
And his chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter,”
Says the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live! Why should this city become a ruin?
Indeed, may you see your [family perpetuated in your] children’s children.
Peace be upon Israel!
I hate and detest falsehood,
But I love Your law.
“Moab is My washbowl;
Over Edom I will throw My shoe [to show Edom is Mine];
Over Philistia I will shout [in triumph].”
Who can put into words the mighty deeds of the Lord?
Or who can proclaim all His praise [that is due Him]?
You have with Your [great] arm redeemed Your people,
The sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
Those who hate the Lord would pretend obedience to Him and cringe before Him,
And their time of punishment would be forever.
Zion heard this and was glad,
And the daughters (cities) of Judah rejoiced [in relief]
Because of Your judgments, O Lord.
Restore us, O Lord God of hosts;
Cause Your face to shine on us [in favor and approval], and we shall be saved.
To rescue their lives from death
And keep them alive in famine.
He also drove out the nations before the sons of Israel
And allotted their land as an inheritance, measured out and partitioned;
And He had the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents [the tents of those who had been dispossessed].
When he heard me screaming, he left his robe with me and ran outside [the house].”
Because they have no regard for the works of the Lord
Nor the deeds of His hands,
He will tear them down and not rebuild them.
For strangers have risen against me
And violent men have sought my life;
They have not set God before them. Selah.
They made attaching shoulder pieces for the ephod; it was attached at its two [upper] edges.
and he made under the twenty boards forty silver sockets; two sockets under one board for its two tenons (dovetails), and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
On the west side, 4,500 cubits, three gates: one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali.
Now when he had finished measuring the inner temple, he brought me out toward the gate which faced east and measured the outer area all around.
The inner courtyard had a gate toward the south; and he measured from gate to gate toward the south, a hundred cubits.
On each side a border (barrier wall) one cubit wide stood in front of the guardrooms on each side; and the guardrooms were six cubits square on each side.
And this will be the sign to you,’ says the Lord, ‘that I am going to punish you in this place, so that you may know that My words will surely stand against you for harm.’
But they sulked and complained in their tents;
They did not listen to the voice of the Lord.
You broke open fountains and streams;
You dried up ever-flowing rivers.
and gave them this land, which You swore to their forefathers to give them, a land [of plenty]
That Your beloved [ones] may be rescued,
Save with Your right hand, and answer me!
No, in your heart you devise wrongdoing;
On earth you deal out the violence of your hands.
You have spurned and repudiated the covenant with Your servant;
You have profaned his crown [by casting it] in the dust.
These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites;
They put the [other] two ends of the two cords on the two filigree settings, and put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it.
The curtains for one side of the court gate were fifteen cubits, with their three support poles and their three sockets;
These were numbered men of the families of the sons of Gershon, everyone who served in the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle), whom Moses and Aaron numbered just as the Lord had commanded.
Then you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me that I may actually see him.’
For seven days you shall prepare daily a goat for a sin offering; also a young bull and a ram from the flock, without blemish, shall be prepared.
And you have not kept charge of My holy things yourselves, but you have chosen foreigners [to please yourselves] and have set them in charge of My sanctuary.”
From the front of the entrance gate [on the outside] to the front of the inner porch (portico) of the gate [the distance] was fifty cubits.
They have mouths, but they cannot speak;
They have eyes, but they cannot see;
Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes, and he dined regularly at the king’s table all the days of his life.
Stretch out Your hand from above;
Set me free and rescue me from great waters,
Out of the hands of [hostile] foreigners [who surround us]
then you are to say to them, ‘I was presenting my [humble] petition and plea to the king so that he would not send me back to Jonathan’s house to die there.’”
“May peace be within your walls
And prosperity within your palaces.”
“Let burning coals fall upon them;
Let them be thrown into the fire,
Into deep [water] pits from which they cannot rise.
Deal with Your servant according to Your [gracious] lovingkindness,
And teach me Your statutes.
This is the gate of the Lord;
The righteous will enter through it.
You [my enemy] pushed me violently so that I was falling,
But the Lord helped me.
To hear the sighing of the prisoner,
To set free those who were doomed to death,
My knees are unsteady from fasting;
And my flesh is gaunt and without fatness.
Because of the sound of my groaning [in suffering and trouble]
My bones cling to my flesh.
Therefore, when the Lord heard, He was full of wrath;
A fire was kindled against Jacob,
And His anger mounted up against Israel,
Let them be ashamed and dismayed forever;
Yes, let them be humiliated and perish,
So pursue them with Your tempest
And terrify them with [the violence of] Your storm.
Make us glad in proportion to the days You have afflicted us,
And the years we have suffered evil.
The mountains were covered with its shadow,
And its branches were like the cedars of God.
They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground;
They have profaned the dwelling place of Your
Then all men will fear [God’s judgment];
They will declare the work of God,
And they will consider and wisely acknowledge what He has done.
Look! They lie in wait for my life;
Fierce and powerful men [are uniting together to] launch an attack against me,
Not for my wrongdoing nor for any sin of mine, O Lord.
But You, O Lord, will laugh at them [in scorn];
You scoff at and deride all the nations.
In every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, provoking to anger the Lord, the God of his fathers.
Consider her ramparts,
Go through her palaces,
That you may tell the next generation [about her glory].
So now, please listen to the voice of your maidservant, and let me set a piece of bread before you, and eat, so that you may have strength when you go on your way.”
from thirty years and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered the service for work in the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle);
He made fifty bronze hooks to join the tent together into a unit.
Moses mounted and lighted the lamps [on the lampstand] before the Lord, just as the Lord commanded him.
It shall be the holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to the Lord, and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.
for they were in three stories and did not have pillars like the pillars of the [outer] courtyards; therefore the upper chambers were
Then he brought me to the north gate and he measured it; the measurements were the same as those of the other gates,
He measured the gate from the roof of one guardroom to the roof of the other, a width of twenty-five cubits from one door to the opposite door.
They are worthless (empty, false, futile), a work of delusion and worthy of derision;
In the time of their inspection and punishment they will perish.
“Then I will make their waters quiet and clear;
I will make their rivers run [slowly and smoothly] like oil,”
Says the Lord God.
“He and his people with him,
The most violent and ruthless of the nations,
Will be brought in to destroy the land,
And they will draw their swords against Egypt
And fill the land with the slain.
“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
Like rams together with male goats.
“How it is broken down! How they have wailed! How Moab has turned his back in shame! So Moab will become a laughingstock and a [horrifying] terror to all who are around him.”
Then the word of the Lord came to the prophet Jeremiah:
Then Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard when Baruch read from the scroll to all the people.
He sends out His word and melts the ice;
He causes His wind to blow and the waters to flow.
They continue this day according to Your ordinances,
For all things [all parts of the universe] are Your servants.
They exhibited His wondrous signs among them,
Great miracles in the land of Ham (Egypt).
Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed and weak within me [wrapped in darkness];
My heart grows numb within me.
The arrogant have forged a lie against me,
But I will keep Your precepts with all my heart.
Let Your compassion come to me that I may live,
For Your law is my delight.
Hide me from the secret counsel and conspiracy of the ungodly,
From the scheming of those who do wrong,
I long for Your precepts;
Renew me through Your righteousness.
With whom My hand shall be established and steadfast;
My arm also shall strengthen him.
Let my attackers be clothed with dishonor,
And let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
So that people may declare the name of the Lord in Zion
And His praise in Jerusalem,
My wounds are loathsome and foul
Because of my foolishness.
He has exhausted my strength [humbling me with sorrow] in the way;
He has shortened my days.
“I would wander far away,
I would lodge in the [peace of the] wilderness. Selah.
He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud;
They kept His testimonies
And the statutes that He gave them.
There He broke the flaming arrows,
The shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah.
Let their way be dark and slippery,
With the angel of the Lord pursuing and harassing them.
He shall go to the generation of his fathers;
They shall never again see the light.
Do not let the foot of the proud [person] overtake me,
And do not let the hand of the wicked drive me away.
If it still appears in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or on anything made of leather, it is an outbreak; you shall burn the marked part in the fire.
that Your eyes may be open to the supplication of Your servant and to the supplication of Your people Israel, to listen to them and be attentive to them whenever they call to You.
Then the thin ears swallowed the seven plump and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and it was a dream.
his offering was one silver dish, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;
Then they put the two twisted cords of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breastpiece.
He made fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain of the second set.
Bezalel joined five curtains one to another, and [the other] five curtains he joined one to another.
Beside the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, Ephraim, one portion.
“Now beware so that you do not lose heart,
And so that you are not afraid at the rumor that will be heard in the land—
For the rumor shall come one year,
And after that another rumor in another year,
And violence shall be in the land,
Ruler against ruler—
Beside the border of Asher, from the east side to the west side, Naphtali, one portion.
My heart has been struck like grass and withered,
Indeed, [absorbed by my heartache] I forget to eat my food.
And murder the fatherless.
Yes, all the people of the land will bury them; and it will be to their renown on the day that I appear in My glory and brilliance,” says the Lord God.
Thus says the Lord God, “While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you a wasteland.
Ebed-melech went out of the king’s palace and spoke to the king, saying,
And I commanded Baruch in their presence, saying,
Who struck the firstborn of Egypt,
Both of man and animal;
To shepherd Jacob His people,
And Israel His inheritance.
Blessed be the Lord from Zion,
Who dwells [with us] at Jerusalem.
Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)
The pastures of the wilderness drip [with dew],
And the hills are encircled with joy.
He sent among them swarms of flies which devoured them,
And frogs which destroyed them.
My eye has looked on my foes;
My ears hear of the evildoers who rise up against me.
Turn your footsteps [quickly] toward the perpetual ruins;
The enemy has damaged everything within the sanctuary.
And it will please the Lord better than an ox
Or a young bull with horns and hoofs.
All who hate me whisper together about me;
Against me they devise my hurt [imagining the worst for me], saying,
They spoke to him, saying, “If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them and grant their request, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.”
“Among these the land shall be divided as an inheritance according to the number of names.
then as soon as I raised my voice and screamed, he left his robe with me and ran outside [the house].”
So return now and go in peace [to your place], so that you do not displease the Philistine lords.”
Bezalel made the carrying poles of acacia wood to carry the table and overlaid them with gold.
Bezalel made bars of acacia wood, five for the [frame] boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
On the east side, 4,500 cubits, also three gates: one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan.
In front of the [attached] chambers was an inner walkway ten cubits wide
In the four corners of the courtyard there were enclosed courtyards, forty cubits long and thirty wide; these four in the corners were the same size.
The doorways of the side chambers toward the free space were one doorway toward the north and another doorway toward the south; and the width of the free space was five cubits all around.
To those who honor and keep His covenant,
And remember to do His commandments [imprinting His word on their hearts].
The doorposts of the nave were square; as for the front of the sanctuary, the appearance of one doorpost was like that of the other.
O Lord, why do You reject me?
Why do You hide Your face from me?
The upright see it and rejoice;
But all unrighteousness shuts its mouth.
For all the day long have I been stricken,
And punished every morning.
My enemies taunt me all day long;
Those who ridicule me use my name as a curse.
“The Daughter of Egypt has been shamed,
Given over to the power of the people of the north [the Chaldeans of Babylonia].”
Now when they had heard all the words, they turned one to another in fear and said to Baruch, “We must surely report all these words to the king.”
Will You be angry with us forever?
Will You prolong Your anger to all generations?
He led them safely, so that they did not fear;
But the sea engulfed their enemies.
then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven Your dwelling place, and maintain their right and defend their cause,
They return at evening, they howl and snarl like dogs,
And go [prowling] around the city.
“A wicked thing is poured out upon him and holds him;
And when he lies down, he will not rise up again.”
Let Mount Zion be glad,
Let the daughters of Judah rejoice
Because of Your [righteous] judgments.
For I pray, “May they not rejoice over me,
Who, when my foot slips, would boast against me.”
Then I beat them fine as the dust before the wind;
I emptied them out as the dirt of the streets.
Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and Levites about the heaps.
When the men of Israel turned back again, the men of Benjamin were terrified, for they saw that disaster had fallen upon them.
For the men of war had taken plunder, every man for himself.
For the east side [the front of the courtyard, there were curtains of] fifty cubits.
He made two rings of gold for it under its rim, on its two opposite sides, as holders for the poles [to pass through] to carry it.
Beside the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side, Judah, one portion.
Joseph said, “Give up your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock, since the money is gone.”
He spoke, and the [migratory] locusts came,
And the young locusts, even without number,
In the morning it flourishes and springs up;
In the evening it wilts and withers away.
“Therefore, her young men will fall in her streets,
And all her men of war will be destroyed in that day,” says the Lord of hosts.
Kings of the earth and all people;
Princes and all judges of the earth;
So He saved them from the hand of the one that hated them,
And redeemed them from the hand of the [Egyptian] enemy.
Save my life, O Lord, for Your name’s sake;
In Your righteousness bring my life out of trouble.
Will Your wonders be known in the darkness?
And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness [where the dead forget and are forgotten]?
Let the groaning and sighing of the prisoner come before You;
According to the greatness of Your power keep safe those who are doomed to die.
Oh, do not hand over the soul of your turtledove to the wild beast;
Do not forget the life of Your afflicted forever.
And gave up His strength and power (the ark of the covenant) into captivity,
And His glory into the hand of the enemy (the Philistines).
He turned the sea into dry land;
They crossed through the river on foot;
There we rejoiced in Him.
So that it does not listen to the voice of charmers,
Or of the skillful enchanter casting [cunning] spells.
Have workers of wickedness no knowledge or no understanding?
They eat up My people as though they ate bread
And have not called upon God.
For when he dies he will carry nothing away;
His glory will not descend after him.
Again he measured a thousand [cubits] and led me through the water, water that was knee-deep. Again he measured a thousand [cubits] and led me through the water, water reaching the hips.
From the wicked who despoil and deal violently with me,
My deadly enemies who surround me.
In the third month [at the end of wheat harvest] they began to make the heaps, and they finished them in the seventh month.
his offering was one silver dish, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;
Yet he said to them, “No, you have come to see the undefended parts of our land.”
Beside the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, Issachar, one portion.
‘On the second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish for a sin offering, and they shall cleanse the altar as they cleansed it with the bull.
And they shall not come near to Me to serve as priests to Me, nor come near to any of My holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they shall bear their shame and their disgrace and [the consequences of] their repulsive acts which they have committed.
Its guardrooms also, its side pillars and its porches
so that the face of a man was toward the palm decoration on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm decoration on the other side. It was carved [this way] on the entire house (temple) all around.
To execute on them the judgment written.
This is the honor for all His godly ones.
Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)
But they did not listen or turn [obediently] from their wickedness, and stop burning sacrifices and incense to other gods.
Whose mouths speak deceit [without restraint],
And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
He brought them out of darkness and the deep (deathly) darkness
And broke their bonds apart.
They have given the dead bodies of Your servants as food to the birds of the heavens,
The flesh of Your godly ones to the beasts of the earth.
With which Your enemies have taunted, O Lord,
With which they have mocked the footsteps of Your anointed.
Has God forgotten to be gracious?
Or has He in anger withdrawn His compassion? Selah.
I opened my mouth and panted [with anticipation],
Because I longed for Your commandments.
When I made sackcloth my clothing [as one in mourning],
I became a byword [a mere object of scorn] to them.
For without cause they hid their net for me;
Without cause they dug a pit [of destruction] for my life.
For they planned evil against You;
They devised a [malevolent] plot
And they will not succeed.
Let them flow away like water that runs off;
When he aims his arrows, let them be as headless shafts.
And his servants conspired against him and killed him in his own house (palace).
He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a border of gold for it all around [its top].
And he made the middle bar pass through [horizontally] halfway up the boards from one end to the other.
Let our cattle bear
Without mishap and without loss,
And let there be no outcry in our streets!
When the prince enters, he shall enter by way of the porch of the gate and go out by the same way.
And the outer wall, by the side of the chambers, toward the outer courtyard facing the chambers, was fifty cubits long.
But I will strengthen and hold up the arms of the king of Babylon and the arms of Pharaoh will fall down. Then the people [of Egypt] will know that I am the Lord, when I put My sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt.
Because they did not believe in God [they did not rely on Him, they did not adhere to Him],
And they did not trust in His salvation (His power to save).
Accept and take pleasure in the freewill offerings of my mouth, O Lord,
And teach me Your ordinances.
He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens
And by His [unlimited] power He guided the south wind.
He has turned back their own wickedness upon them
And will destroy them by means of their own evil;
The Lord our God will wipe them out.
I have remembered [carefully] Your ancient ordinances, O Lord,
And I have taken comfort.
‘Do not lift up your [defiant and aggressive] horn on high,
Do not speak with a stiff neck.’”
Do not hide Your face from Your servant,
For I am in distress; answer me quickly.
When God arose to [establish] judgment,
To save all the humble of the earth. Selah.
But God will shoot them with an [unexpected] arrow;
Suddenly they will be wounded.
I am as a wonder to many,
For You are my strong refuge.
So that he should live on eternally,
That he should never see the pit (grave) and undergo decay.
“Remove Your plague from me;
I am wasting away because of the conflict and opposition of Your hand.
All this has come upon us, yet we have not forgotten You,
Nor have we been false to Your covenant [which You made with our fathers].
He put the carrying poles through the rings at the sides of the ark, to carry it.
On the other side [of the gate] the curtains shall be fifteen cubits with three pillars and three sockets.
Take hold of shield and buckler (
And stand up for my help.
and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle’s other side, and five bars for the boards at the rear side to the west.
“When your fathers tested Me,
They tried Me, even though they had seen My work [of miracles].
Beside the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad, one portion.
For [the name of] your sister Sodom was not mentioned by you [except as a byword] in the day of your pride [when David ruled],
Which He confirmed to Jacob as a statute,
To Israel as an everlasting covenant,
And this [land offering] shall be an allotment to them from the allotment of the land, a most holy portion beside the border of the [other] Levites.
Let his children wander and beg;
Let them seek their food and be driven far from their ruined homes.
“Therefore her young men will fall in her streets,
And all her soldiers will be destroyed on that day,” says the Lord.
Your righteous testimonies are everlasting;
Give me understanding [the ability to learn and a teachable heart] that I may live.
Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If I tell you, will you not certainly put me to death? Even if I do give you advice, you will not listen to me.”
They did not remember [the miracles worked by] His [powerful] hand,
Nor the day when He redeemed them from the enemy,
“The enemy will not outwit him,
Nor will the wicked man afflict or humiliate him.
and their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil; three-tenths [of an ephah] for each bull, two-tenths for the one ram,
But my [numerous] enemies are vigorous and strong,
And those who hate me without cause are many.
their grain offering and drink offerings for the bull, the ram, and the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance,
And the steward said, “Now let it be as you say; he with whom the cup is found will be my slave, but the rest of you shall be blameless.”
For seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and purify it; so the priests shall consecrate it [to receive offerings].
The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. But the free space between the side chambers belonging to the temple
There were three guardrooms on each side of the gate toward the east; the three were the same size, and the side pillars on each side measured the same.
So they prepared the present [of tribute] for Joseph before his arrival at noon; for they had heard that they were to eat a meal there.
They turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers;
They were twisted like a warped bow [that will not respond to the archer’s aim].
“Behold, He struck the rock so that waters gushed out
And the streams overflowed;
Can He give bread also?
Or will He provide meat for His people?”
All the birds of the sky will nest in its ruins, and all the animals of the field will rest on its fallen branches
Do good, O Lord, to those who are good
And to those who are upright in their hearts.
You give it to them, they gather it up;
You open Your hand, they are filled and satisfied with good [things].
But if you keep refusing to go out and surrender to them, this is the word [and the vision] which the Lord has shown me:
The wrath of God rose against them
And killed some of the strongest of them,
And subdued the choice young men of Israel.
Add [unforgiven] iniquity to their iniquity [in Your book],
And may they not come into Your
Pour out Your indignation on them,
And let [the fierceness of] Your burning anger overtake them.
So they will be caused to stumble;
Their own tongue is against them;
All who gaze at them will shake the head [in scorn].
Destruction is within her;
Oppression and deceit do not depart from her streets and market places.
The Lord said, “I will bring your enemies back from Bashan;
I will bring them back from the depths of the [Red] Sea,
I cried aloud to Him;
He was highly praised with my tongue.
Destroy them in wrath, destroy them so that they may be no more;
Let them know that God rules over Jacob (Israel)
To the ends of the earth. Selah.
Thus the [decision to set a] new time pleased the king and the entire assembly.
nor have we built ourselves houses to live in; nor do we have vineyards or fields or seed.
the ark of the Testimony, its carrying poles and the mercy seat;
So the sons of Israel gave to the Levites these cities with their pasture lands.
Then he led me toward the south, and behold, there was a gate toward the south; and he measured its side pillars and its porches,
But we said, ‘We cannot go down [to Egypt]. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down [there]; for we [were sternly told that we] cannot see the man’s face unless our youngest brother is with us.’
The city shall have open country: toward the north 250 cubits, and toward the south 250, toward the east 250, and toward the west 250.
For the sake of Your servant David,
Do not turn away the face of Your anointed.
Flash lightning and scatter my enemies;
Send out Your arrows and confuse and embarrass and frustrate them.
Then Isaiah said, “What have they seen in your house?” And Hezekiah answered, “They have seen everything that is in my house; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.”
They detested all kinds of food,
And they drew near to the gates of death.
Also He blesses them so that they multiply greatly,
And He does not let [the number of] their cattle decrease.
I see the treacherous and loathe them,
Because they do not respect Your law.
I sought Your favor with all my heart;
Be merciful and gracious to me according to Your promise.
Many times He rescued them;
But they were rebellious in their counsel,
And sank down in their wickedness.
Therefore his people return to this place,
And waters of abundance [offered by the irreverent] are [blindly] drunk by them.
or without seeing him hit him [accidentally] with a stone object that could kill him, and he died, and [the offender] was not his enemy nor intending to harm him,
At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob,
Both rider and horse were cast into a dead sleep [of death].
I have considered the ancient days,
The years [of prosperity] of long, long ago.
But as for me, I will declare it and rejoice forever;
I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
But You have saved us from our enemies,
And You have put them to shame and humiliated those who hate us.
Further, he made all who were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin stand [with him, in confirmation of it]. So the inhabitants of Jerusalem acted in accordance with the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
He will pay back the evil to my enemies;
In Your faithfulness destroy them.
Let those be appalled and desolate because of their shame
Who say to me, “Aha, aha [rejoicing in my misfortune]!”
Let those be ashamed and humiliated together who rejoice at my distress;
Let those be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves over me.
The remainder of the length alongside the holy allotment shall be 10,000 cubits to the east and 10,000 to the west; and it shall be beside the holy allotment. The produce from it shall be food for the workers of the city.
his offering was one silver dish, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;
After he is cleansed [from the defilement of a corpse], seven days more shall elapse for him [before returning to the temple].
And he measured the width of the
Nevertheless, listen now to this word which I am about to speak in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people!
My zeal has [completely] consumed me,
Because my enemies have forgotten Your words.
They attack, they hide and lurk,
They watch my steps,
As they have [expectantly] waited to take my life.
Consider how I love Your precepts;
Revive me and give me life, O Lord, according to Your lovingkindness.
“I will also
And his right hand on the rivers [the tributaries of the Euphrates].
“I would hurry to my refuge [my tranquil shelter far away]
From the stormy wind and from the tempest.”
Let those who attack my life be ashamed and consumed;
Let them be covered with reproach and dishonor, who seek to injure me.
Because of the voice of the taunter and reviler,
Because of the presence of the enemy and the avenger.
You make us turn back from the enemy,
And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves.
Now the king of
and a calyx was under the first pair of branches coming out of it, and a calyx under the second pair of branches, coming out of it, and a calyx under the third pair of branches coming out of it, for the six branches coming out of the lampstand.
Beside the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side, Asher, one portion.
Let our barns be full, supplying every kind of produce,
And our flocks bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields;
Behold, for so shall the man be blessed and divinely favored
Who fears the Lord [and worships Him with obedience].
But you will be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised and you will lie [without honors] with those who are slain by the sword.
Now therefore know for certain that you will die by the sword, by famine, and by virulent disease in the land [of Egypt] where you wish to reside [temporarily].
The Lord is righteous;
He has cut in two the [thick] cords of the wicked [which enslaved the people of Israel].
Arise, O God, plead Your own cause;
Remember how the foolish man scoffs at You all day long.
Salvation is far from the wicked,
For they do not seek Your statutes.
Plead my cause and redeem me;
Revive me and give me life according to [the promise of] Your word.
The descendants of His servants will inherit it,
And those who love His name will dwell in it.
And return into the lap of our neighbors sevenfold
The taunts with which they have taunted You, O Lord.
They will be given over to the power of the sword;
They will be a prey for foxes.
Look how they belch out [insults] with their mouths;
Swords [of sarcasm, ridicule, slander, and lies] are in their lips,
For they say, “Who hears us?”
Cast them out because of their wickedness.
In anger bring down the peoples, O God!
Wake Yourself up, and arise to my right
And to my cause, my God and my Lord.
When Hezekiah and the rulers came and saw the heaps, they blessed the Lord and His people Israel.
Its side pillars faced the outer courtyard, and palm tree decorations were [carved] on them on either side. And its stairway had eight steps.
For the wind passes over it and it is no more,
And its place knows it no longer.
his offering was one silver dish, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;
“I will destroy your cities
And you will become a wasteland.
Then you shall know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord.
As for My flock (the righteous), they must feed on what you trample with your feet and drink what you muddy with your feet!’”
With which the reaper does not fill his hand,
Nor the binder of sheaves his arms,
“In this way I will bring judgment and punishment on Egypt.
Then they shall know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord.”’”
In your lovingkindness, silence and destroy my enemies
And destroy all those who afflict my life,
For I am Your servant.
To which the [twelve] tribes go up, even the tribes of the Lord,
[As was decreed as] an ordinance for Israel,
To give thanks to the name of the Lord.
Be the guarantee for Your servant for good [as Judah was the guarantee for Benjamin];
Do not let the arrogant oppress me.
According to Your steadfast love refresh me and give me life,
So that I may keep and obey the testimony of Your mouth.
The cords of the wicked have encircled and ensnared me,
But I have not forgotten Your law.
Thus they provoked Him to anger with their practices,
And a plague broke out among them.
He rained meat upon them like the dust,
And winged birds (quail) like the sand of the seas.
Consider the covenant [You made with Abraham],
For the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
They wander around for food [to devour]
And growl all night if they are not satisfied.
Day and night they go around her walls;
Wickedness and mischief are in her midst.
He will cut off the spirit of princes;
He is awesome and feared by the kings of the earth.
I will fill its mountains with its slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills, and in your valleys, and in all your ravines.
Exclusive of the property of the Levites and of the property of the city, which are in the middle of that which belongs to the prince, everything between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin shall be for the prince.
And like the entrances of the chambers that were toward the south there was an entrance at the head of the walkway, the walkway in front of the
Then he brought me out into the outer courtyard and led me across to the four corners of the courtyard; and behold, in every corner of the courtyard there was a small courtyard.
For I will punish all the inhabitants of the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, with the sword, with famine, and with virulent disease;
It is burned with fire, it is cut down;
They perish at the rebuke of Your [angry] appearance.
Until I find a place for the Lord,
A dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob (Israel).”
He also gave their crops to the grasshopper,
And the fruit of their labor to the locust.
He brought streams also from the rock [at Rephidim and Kadesh]
And caused waters to run down like rivers.
I behaved as if grieving for my friend or my brother;
I bowed down in mourning, as one who sorrows for his mother.
Then all the princes (court officials) came to Jeremiah and asked him [just what King Zedekiah had anticipated they would ask], and he reported to them in accordance with all that the king had commanded. So they stopped questioning him, since the conversation [with the king] had not been overheard.
I hope and wait [with complete confidence] for Your salvation, O Lord,
And I do Your commandments.
Let the wickedness of his fathers be remembered by the Lord;
And do not let the sin of his mother be blotted out.
That your foot may crush them in blood,
That the tongue of your dogs may have its share from your enemies.”
Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and his deeds of devotion and godly achievements as written in the Law of the Lord,
his offering was one silver dish the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;
Its porches faced the outer courtyard; and palm tree decorations were [carved] on either side of its side pillars, and its stairway had eight steps.
If you will send our brother with us, we will go down [to Egypt] and buy you food.
Beside the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, Simeon, one portion.
To make known to the sons of men Your mighty acts
And the glorious majesty of Your kingdom.
The pavement (that is, the lower pavement) was by the
And I will show you compassion, so that he will have compassion on you and restore you to your own land.
The arrogant (godless) have dug pits for me,
Men who do not conform to Your law.
And they asked Baruch, “Tell us now, how did you write all these words? At his (Jeremiah’s) dictation?”
His heart is upheld, he will not fear
While he looks [with satisfaction] on his adversaries.
“Do not grant, O Lord, the desires of the wicked;
Do not further their evil device, that they not be exalted. Selah.
Their heart is insensitive like fat [their minds are dull and brutal],
But I delight in Your law.
Because of Your indignation and Your wrath,
For You have lifted me up and thrown me away.
Morning after morning I will destroy all the wicked in the land,
That I may cut off from the city of the Lord all those who do evil.
For they do not speak peace,
But they devise deceitful words [half-truths and lies] against those who are quiet in the land.
For judgment will again be righteous,
And all the upright in heart will follow it.
Though while he lives he counts himself happy and prosperous—
And though people praise you when you do well for yourself—
They open their mouths wide against me;
They say, “Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it!”
their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, the rams, and the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance,
He overlaid it with pure gold, its top, its sides all around and its horns; he also made a rim of gold around it.
But they said to him, “No, my lord, for your servants have [only] come to buy food.
They give drink to every beast of the field;
The wild donkeys quench their thirst there.
My eyes fail [with longing, watching] for [the fulfillment of] Your promise,
Saying, “When will You comfort me?”
And so I have told you today, but you have not listened to the voice of the Lord your God, in anything that He has sent me to tell you.
Now the Lord has brought it about and has done just as He promised. Because you [people of Judah] have sinned against the Lord and did not listen to and honor His voice, therefore this thing has happened to you.
And they said to him, “Sit down now and read it to us.” So Baruch read it to them.
By the way that he came, by the same way he will return, and he will not come into this city,’ declares the Lord.
For there the thrones of judgment were set,
The thrones of the house of David.
They devise acts of injustice, saying,
“We are ready with a well-conceived plan.”
For the inward thought and the heart of a man are deep (mysterious, unsearchable).
When they are diminished and bowed down (humbled)
Through oppression, misery, and sorrow,
Saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan
As the measured portion of your inheritance.”
They band themselves together against the life of the righteous
And condemn the innocent to death.
That You may grant him [power to calm himself and find] peace in the days of adversity,
Until the pit is dug for the wicked and ungodly.
You caused judgment to be heard from heaven;
The earth feared and was quiet
“Then I would quickly subdue and humble their enemies
And turn My hand against their adversaries;
Let not the oppressed return dishonored;
Let the afflicted and needy praise Your name.
How they are destroyed in a moment!
They are completely swept away by sudden terrors!
‘Then on the sixth day [of the Feast of Booths]: eight bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs one year old without blemish;
Let them be turned back because of their shame and disgrace
Who say, “Aha, aha!”
With gladness and rejoicing will they be led;
They will enter into the King’s palace.
Make haste to help me,
O Lord, my Salvation.
and the same for the other side [of the court gate]. Left and right of the court gate there were curtains of fifteen cubits; with their three support poles and their three sockets.
Then every man quickly lowered his sack to the ground and each man opened his sack [confident the cup would not be found among them].
But we said to my lord, ‘The
When they go in, the prince shall go in among them; and when they go out, he shall go out.
Its porches faced the outer courtyard; and palm tree decorations were [carved] on its side pillars, and its stairway had eight steps.
He brought me into the inner courtyard toward the east, and he measured the gate; it measured the same as the others.
There were seven steps going up to the gate, and its porches were in front of them; and it had palm tree decorations [carved] on its side pillars, one on each side.
They went up toward the heavens [on the crest of the wave], they went down again to the depths [of the watery trough];
Their courage melted away in their misery.
With a strong hand and with an outstretched arm,
For His lovingkindness endures forever;
“Those who surround me raise their heads;
May the mischief of their own lips come upon them.
Thus says the Lord, ‘This city will certainly be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon and he will take it.’”
Blessed be the Lord,
Who has not given us as prey to be torn by their teeth.
He also struck down all the firstborn in their land,
The first fruits and chief substance of all their strength.
Therefore He lifted up His hand [swearing] to them,
That He would cause them to fall in the wilderness,
Let this be the reward of my attackers from the Lord,
And of those who speak evil against my life.
He spoke, and there came swarms of flies
And gnats in all their territory.
Therefore the earth opened and swallowed Dathan,
And engulfed the company of Abiram.
There the Lord greatly increased [the number of] His people,
And made them more powerful than their enemies.
The fire [of war] devoured His young men,
And His [bereaved] virgins had no wedding songs.
For my enemies have spoken against me;
Those who watch for my life have consulted together,
For they have persecuted him whom You have struck,
And they tell of the pain of those whom You have pierced and wounded.
And I saw that you had indeed sinned against the Lord your God. You had made for yourselves a molten
Draw near to my soul and redeem it;
Ransom me because of my enemies [so that they do not delight in my distress].
You will prolong the king’s life [adding days upon days];
His years will be like many generations.
Judge me, O Lord my God, according to Your righteousness and justice;
And do not let them rejoice over me.
Have You not rejected us, O God?
And will You not go out with our armies?
and a passage in front of them was like the appearance of the [attached] chambers on the north, and they had the same length and width, and all their exits were like both their
You shall also take the bull for the sin offering, and it shall be burned in the appointed place of the temple, outside the sanctuary.
The gate and its porches had windows all around like those windows [in the other gateways]; the length was fifty cubits and the width was twenty-five cubits.
But if the princes (court officials) hear that I have talked with you, and they come to you and say, ‘Tell us now what you said to the king and what he said to you; do not hide it from us and we will not execute you,’
For the sake of the house of the Lord our God [which is Jerusalem],
I will seek your (the city’s) good.
Let my soul live that it may praise You,
And let Your ordinances help me.
Uphold me that I may be safe,
That I may have regard for Your statutes continually.
O Lord, I remember Your name in the night,
And keep Your law.
Because the man did not remember to show kindness,
But persecuted the suffering and needy man,
And the brokenhearted, to put them to death.
I am Yours, save me [as Your own];
For I have [diligently] sought Your precepts and required them [as my greatest need].
Let his descendants be cut off,
And in the following generation let their name be blotted out.
In the courts of the Lord’s house (temple)—
In the midst of you, O Jerusalem.
Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)
Let the creditor seize all that he has,
And let strangers plunder the product of his labor.
Have You not rejected us, O God?
And will You not go out, O God, with our armies?
and one male goat as a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering.
Thus they shall provide the lamb, the grain offering and the oil every morning as a continual burnt offering.”
Redeem me from the oppression of man;
That I may keep Your precepts.
When the peoples are gathered together,
And the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.
Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand [from judging the enemy]?
Remove Your hand from Your chest, destroy them!
Oh let those who [reverently] fear the Lord, say,
“His lovingkindness endures forever.”
You make us an object of contention to our neighbors,
And our enemies laugh [at our suffering] among themselves.
In the midst of Your meeting place Your enemies have roared [with their battle cry];
They have set up their own emblems for signs [of victory].
My tongue also will speak of Your righteousness all day long;
For they are ashamed, for they are humiliated who seek my injury.
Each of the doors had two leaves, two swinging (folding) leaves; two leaves for the one door and two leaves for the other.
Let the wicked fall into their own nets,
While I pass by and safely escape [from danger].
You who stand in the house of the Lord,
In the courts of the house of our God,
“Many times they have persecuted me from my youth,
Yet they have not prevailed against me.
Our soul is greatly filled
With the scoffing of those who are at ease,
And with the contempt of the proud [who disregard God’s law].
Nevertheless He looked [sympathetically] at their distress
When He heard their cry;
Many are my persecutors and my adversaries,
Yet I do not turn away from Your testimonies.
And they wandered from one nation to another,
From one kingdom to another people,
For I have eaten ashes like bread,
And have mingled my drink with tears
He gave over their cattle also to the hailstones,
And their flocks and herds to thunderbolts.
Yet he passed away, and lo, he was no more;
I sought him, but he could not be found.
They return at evening, they howl and snarl like dogs,
And go [prowling] around the city.
He sent [thick, oppressive] darkness and made the land dark;
And Moses and Aaron did not rebel against His words.
Beside the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, Zebulun, one portion.
Beside the border of Ephraim, from the east side to the west side, Reuben, one portion.
The workers of the city, from all the tribes of Israel shall cultivate it.
Mountains and all hills;
Fruitful trees and all cedars;
You have broken down all his [city] walls;
You have brought his strongholds to ruin.
My soul keeps Your testimonies [hearing and accepting and obeying them];
I love them greatly.
This has become mine [as the gift of Your grace],
That I observe Your precepts [accepting them with loving obedience].
In whose hands is a wicked scheme,
And whose right hand is full of bribes.
‘And as for the bad figs, which are so rotten that they cannot be eaten,’ surely thus says the Lord, ‘so I will abandon Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land and those who live in the land of Egypt.
Therefore He consumed their days like a breath [in emptiness and futility]
And their years in sudden terror.
Hear my voice according to Your [steadfast] lovingkindness;
O Lord, renew and refresh me according to Your ordinances.
They encompassed me, yes, they surrounded me [on every side];
In the name of the Lord I will cut them off.
Saying, “God has abandoned him;
Pursue and seize him, for there is no one to rescue him.”
Sihon, king of the Amorites,
For His lovingkindness endures forever;
Then the waters would have engulfed us,
The torrent would have swept over our soul;
Who sent signs and wonders into your midst, O Egypt,
Upon Pharaoh and all his servants.
That I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones,
That I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation,
That I may glory with Your inheritance.
He gave them the lands of the nations [of Canaan],
So that they would possess the fruits of those peoples’ labor,
The sword [of the ungodly] will enter their own heart,
And their bow will be broken.
You have shortened the days of his youth;
You have covered him with shame. Selah.
Let destruction come upon my enemy by surprise;
Let the net he hid for me catch him;
Into that very destruction let him fall.
his offering was one silver dish, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;
So the man did as Joseph said, and brought the men to Joseph’s house.
For the length of the chambers which were in the outer courtyard was fifty cubits,
Keep me from the jaws of the trap which they have set for me,
And from the snares of those who do evil.