Saith The Lord

• Covenant

And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:

• Firstborn
• Son

And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the lord, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:

And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the lord God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.

Thus saith the lord, In this thou shalt know that I am the LORD: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in mine hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.

And the LORD spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

• PHARAOH
• Character
• Pharoah

And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unto him, Thus saith the lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me. Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are. And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth. And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to morrow shall this sign be. read more And the LORD did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies. And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land. And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us? We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us. And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: intreat for me. And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will intreat the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD. And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD. And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; there remained not one. And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go. show less

Then the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith the lord God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

• Pharaoh
• Pharaoh
• PHARAOH

And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the lord God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me. For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth. For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth. And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth. read more As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go? Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now. Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die. He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses: And he that regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field. And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt. And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt. So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field. Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail. And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: the LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked. Intreat the LORD (for it is enough) that there be no more mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer. And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the LORD; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know how that the earth is the LORD'S. But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear the LORD God. And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled. But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up. And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto the LORD: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth. And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the children of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken by Moses. show less

And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the lord God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.

And Moses said, Thus saith the lord, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt:

And he said unto them, Thus saith the lord God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.

Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the lord, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the lord God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.

• Time

And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.

That the LORD sent a prophet unto the children of Israel, which said unto them, Thus saith the lord God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage;

And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith the lord, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house?

And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the lord God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, and of them that oppressed you:

Thus saith the lord of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.

Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the lord, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?

• David
• Shepherd

Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the lord of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:

• David
• Anointing

And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the lord God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;

Thus saith the lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

Go and say unto David, Thus saith the lord, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.

And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the lord, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:

Thus saith the lord, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD, and returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD.

• Prophecy

And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the lord; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.

And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the lord, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee,

Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the lord God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel,

• Prophecy

For thus saith the lord God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth.

And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the lord, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thine hand this day; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.

And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the lord, Even by the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall order the battle? And he answered, Thou.

And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the lord, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

• Prophecy
• Will

And he said unto him, Thus saith the lord, Because thou hast let go out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people.

• Dog

And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the lord, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the lord, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.

• Horn
• Iron

And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith the lord, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have consumed them.

Now therefore thus saith the lord, Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah departed.

And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the lord, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.

And he said unto him, Thus saith the lord, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron, is it not because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.

And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the lord, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.

And he said, Thus saith the lord, Make this valley full of ditches.

For thus saith the lord, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts.

And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the lord, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.

Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the lord, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.

Then take the box of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus saith the lord, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.

• Jehu
• Anointing

And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the lord God of Israel, I have anointed thee king over the people of the LORD, even over Israel.

• Jehu
• Anointing

And they said, It is false; tell us now. And he said, Thus and thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saith the lord, I have anointed thee king over Israel.

• Rulers

Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the lord; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the lord. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground, according to the word of the LORD.

And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the lord, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the lord God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.

Therefore thus saith the lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.

By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the lord.

In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the lord, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.

Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.

• Reproof

Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the lord.

Therefore thus saith the lord God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.

And she said unto them, Thus saith the lord God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me,

Thus saith the lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read:

But to the king of Judah which sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the lord God of Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard;

• Josiah
• Tender
• Heart

Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the lord.

Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the lord, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:

Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the lord of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:

Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the lord, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.

• Conviction
• Fire
• Government

So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the lord, Choose thee Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.

• Government

Thus saith the lord, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing is done of me. And they obeyed the words of the LORD, and returned from going against Jeroboam.

• Reproof

Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the lord, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.

• Iron

And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of iron, and said, Thus saith the lord, With these thou shalt push Syria until they be consumed.

And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the lord unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.

And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the lord God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

And she answered them, Thus saith the lord God of Israel, Tell ye the man that sent you to me,

Thus saith the lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:

And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the lord God of Israel concerning the words which thou hast heard;

• Josiah
• Humility

Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the lord.

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

• Reason
• Anthropomorphisms
• Snow

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Therefore saith the lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:

What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the lord GOD of hosts.

Thus saith the lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.

Therefore thus saith the lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.

For I will rise up against them, saith the lord of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the lord.

I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the lord of hosts.

The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the lord of hosts.

Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the lord God of Israel.

And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the lord, the LORD of hosts.

And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the lord GOD of hosts.

Thus saith the lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say,

In that day, saith the lord of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it.

• Cornerstone
• Figurative
• House

Therefore thus saith the lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

Therefore thus saith the lord, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.

Woe to the rebellious children, saith the lord, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:

For thus saith the lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.

And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the lord, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

Now will I rise, saith the lord; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.

And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the lord, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the lord God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:

Therefore thus saith the lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.

By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the lord.

In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the lord, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.

Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.

Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the lord.

Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the lord, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

Produce your cause, saith the lord; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.

But now thus saith the lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.

Ye are my witnesses, saith the lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.

I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the lord, that I am God.

Thus saith the lord, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships.

Thus saith the lord, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;

Thus saith the lord that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.

Thus saith the lord the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.

Thus saith the lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;

• Cyrus
• Anointing

Thus saith the lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;

Thus saith the lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.

I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the lord of hosts.

Thus saith the lord, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God.

For thus saith the lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.

Thus saith the lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.

There is no peace, saith the lord, unto the wicked.

And now, saith the lord that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.

Thus saith the lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.

Thus saith the lord, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;

Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the lord, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.

Thus saith the lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.

• Church

But thus saith the lord, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.

Thus saith the lord, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

For thus saith the lord, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.

For thus saith the lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

Now therefore, what have I here, saith the lord, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the lord; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.

Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the lord.

In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the lord thy Redeemer.

• Everlasting
• Covenant

For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the lord that hath mercy on thee.

No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the lord.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Thus saith the lord, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

For thus saith the lord unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;

I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the lord; and I will heal him.

• Redeemer

And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the lord.

• Covenant

As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the lord; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the lord, from henceforth and for ever.

Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the lord, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.

Thus saith the lord, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.

Therefore thus saith the lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:

The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the lord.

• Footstool
• FOOTSTOOL
• Stool

Thus saith the lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?

• Contrite
• Character
• Poor

For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the lord: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the lord: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.

For thus saith the lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.

They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the lord.

• Mule

And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the lord, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.

And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the lord.

For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the lord, so shall your seed and your name remain.

And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the lord.

Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the lord.

For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the lord; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.

And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the lord, to deliver thee.

Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the lord; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the lord.

• Vanity

Thus saith the lord, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the lord, and with your children's children will I plead.

Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the lord.

Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the lord GOD of hosts.

For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the lord GOD.

Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the lord.

They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the lord.

And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the lord.

Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the lord; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the lord, and I will not keep anger for ever.

Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the lord.

Turn, O backsliding children, saith the lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

• Ark

And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the lord, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.

Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the lord.

If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the lord, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.

• Agriculture

For thus saith the lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the lord, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.

As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the lord.

Shall I not visit for these things? saith the lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the lord.

Wherefore thus saith the lord God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the lord: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

Nevertheless in those days, saith the lord, I will not make a full end with you.

• Feared
• Power

Fear ye not me? saith the lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

Shall I not visit for these things? saith the lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Thus saith the lord of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.

And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the lord.

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the lord.

• Walking
• Way

Thus saith the lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

• Stumbling-block
• Stumbling

Therefore thus saith the lord, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.

Thus saith the lord, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.

Thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the lord.

And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the lord, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;

Do they provoke me to anger? saith the lord: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

Therefore thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

Thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.

For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the lord: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.

• Burial

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the lord, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.

• Robbed
• Burial

At that time, saith the lord, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:

And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the lord of hosts.

Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the lord; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the lord.

I will surely consume them, saith the lord: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.

For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the lord.

• War

And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the lord.

• Deceit

Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the lord.

• Refining

Therefore thus saith the lord of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Therefore thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

Thus saith the lord of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:

Speak, Thus saith the lord, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.

Thus saith the lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:

But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the lord.

Behold, the days come, saith the lord, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;

• Sorcery

Thus saith the lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

For thus saith the lord, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.

And say thou unto them, Thus saith the lord God of Israel; Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,

• Punishment

Therefore thus saith the lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.

Therefore thus saith the lord of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by our hand:

Therefore thus saith the lord of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:

Thus saith the lord against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.

But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the lord.

Thus saith the lord unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.

Thus saith the lord, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.

For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the lord; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.

Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the lord God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?

Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the lord, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.

And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the lord: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.

This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the lord; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.

Thus saith the lord unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

• Prophets

Therefore thus saith the lord concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.

And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the lord; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.

And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the lord: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.

Thou hast forsaken me, saith the lord, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.

• Symbolical
• Seven

She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the lord.

Therefore thus saith the lord, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.

And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the lord.

For thus saith the lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;

For thus saith the lord, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the lord, even lovingkindness and mercies.

For thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.

Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the lord, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the lord, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the lord, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

• Heart

Thus saith the lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.

Thus saith the lord; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;

And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the lord, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;

O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the lord. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.

Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the lord; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.

Therefore thus saith the lord; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.

Thus saith the lord, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;

And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the lord, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.

And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the lord of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury.

Thus will I do unto this place, saith the lord, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:

Thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.

For thus saith the lord, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.

Thus saith the lord God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.

And afterward, saith the lord, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.

And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the lord; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.

For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the lord: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

O house of David, thus saith the lord; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

• Security

Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, saith the lord; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?

But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the lord: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.

Thus saith the lord; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,

• Strangers

Thus saith the lord; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the lord, that this house shall become a desolation.

For thus saith the lord unto the king's house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.

For thus saith the lord touching Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which went forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any more:

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the lord.

• Lamentations
• Mourning

Therefore thus saith the lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!

As I live, saith the lord, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;

Thus saith the lord, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.

Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the lord.

Therefore thus saith the lord God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the lord.

• SHEPHERDS

And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the lord.

• Branch
• Branch

Behold, the days come, saith the lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the lord, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the lord.

Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the lord.

Therefore thus saith the lord of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.

Thus saith the lord of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.

Am I a God at hand, saith the lord, and not a God afar off?

Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the lord.

• Dream

The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the lord.

• Judgments
• Fire

Is not my word like as a fire? saith the lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the lord, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.

Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the lord, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.

Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the lord, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the lord.

And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the lord.

But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus saith the lord; Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD;

Thus saith the lord, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good.

And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the lord, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:

Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the lord; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.

Therefore thus saith the lord of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words,

Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the lord, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.

For thus saith the lord God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.

Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the lord of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.

For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the lord of hosts.

A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the lord.

Thus saith the lord of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

• Temple

Thus saith the lord; Stand in the court of the LORD'S house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD'S house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word:

And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the lord; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,

Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the lord of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

Thus saith the lord to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,

And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your masters;

And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the lord, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith the lord; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.

For I have not sent them, saith the lord, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.

• Temple

Also I spake to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus saith the lord; Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD'S house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.

For thus saith the lord of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city,

Yea, thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that remain in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem;

They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith the lord; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.

And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that went into Babylon, saith the lord: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.

And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus saith the lord; Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.

Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the lord; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.

For thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also.

Therefore thus saith the lord; Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD.

Thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon;

• Dream

For thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.

For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the lord.

For thus saith the lord, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

And I will be found of you, saith the lord: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the lord; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.

Know that thus saith the lord of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;

Thus saith the lord of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.

Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the lord, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the lord.

Thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes;

• Israelites
• Adultery

Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the lord.

Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the lord concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie:

• Prophets

Therefore thus saith the lord; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the lord; because he hath taught rebellion against the LORD.

For, lo, the days come, saith the lord, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the lord: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.

For thus saith the lord; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:

Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the lord; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.

For I am with thee, saith the lord, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.

For thus saith the lord, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous.

For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the lord; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

Thus saith the lord; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.

And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the lord.

At the same time, saith the lord, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.

Thus saith the lord, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.

For thus saith the lord; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.

And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the lord.

• Prophecy

Thus saith the lord; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.

Thus saith the lord; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the lord; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.

And there is hope in thine end, saith the lord, that thy children shall come again to their own border.

• Bowels

Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the lord.

Thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.

Behold, the days come, saith the lord, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.

And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the lord.

Behold, the days come, saith the lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the lord:

But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

• Wisdom

And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Thus saith the lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:

If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.

Thus saith the lord; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the lord.

Behold, the days come, saith the lord, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.

For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the lord, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;

And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the lord: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper?

Thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days.

For thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.

Therefore thus saith the lord; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it:

For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the lord.

And now therefore thus saith the lord, the God of Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence;

For thus saith the lord; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.

Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the lord.

Thus saith the lord the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name;

• Fortifications
• Armies

For thus saith the lord, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;

Thus saith the lord; Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,

• Sacrifices

The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the lord.

Thus saith the lord of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.

In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that telleth them, saith the lord.

Behold, the days come, saith the lord, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.

For thus saith the lord; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;

Thus saith the lord; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;

Thus saith the lord; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;

Thus saith the lord, the God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the lord; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:

Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus saith the lord of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword:

But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the lord.

Thus saith the lord, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,

Therefore thus saith the lord; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

Behold, I will command, saith the lord, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.

Thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith the lord.

Therefore thus saith the lord God of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I have spoken unto them, but they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered.

And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you:

Therefore thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.

And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the lord; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?

Therefore thus saith the lord of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.

Thus saith the lord, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to inquire of me; Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land.

Thus saith the lord; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.

Thus saith the lord, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.

Thus saith the lord, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which shall take it.

Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house:

Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished in that day before thee.

But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the lord: and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art afraid.

For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee: because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the lord.

And said unto them, Thus saith the lord, the God of Israel, unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him;

Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not afraid of him, saith the lord: for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.

And now therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye remnant of Judah; Thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel; If ye wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there;

For thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.

And say unto them, Thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.

Thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,

Therefore now thus saith the lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;

Therefore thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.

• Libations
• Idolatry

Thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.

Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the lord, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth.

And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the lord, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:

Thus saith the lord; Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.

Thus saith the lord, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch;

And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the lord: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.

Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the lord.

They shall cut down her forest, saith the lord, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.

And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the lord.

Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the lord: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.

Thus saith the lord; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.

Against Moab thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the lord, that I will send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles.

The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the lord.

I know his wrath, saith the lord; but it shall not be so; his lies shall not so effect it.

• Idolatry

Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the lord, him that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his gods.

There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the lord.

For thus saith the lord; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.

Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the lord.

He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the lord.

Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith the lord. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.

Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the lord; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the lord, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the lord.

Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the lord GOD of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth.

And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith the lord.

Concerning Edom, thus saith the lord of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?

For thus saith the lord; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it.

For I have sworn by myself, saith the lord, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.

• Heart
• Security

Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the lord.

As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the lord, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.

Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the lord of hosts.

Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the lord; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east.

Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the lord; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you.

Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care, saith the lord, which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell alone.

And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the lord.

• Bow

Thus saith the lord of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.

For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith the lord; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:

And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the lord.

But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the lord.

In those days, and in that time, saith the lord, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.

And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the lord.

Therefore thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.

In those days, and in that time, saith the lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.

Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the lord, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.

Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the lord.

Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.

Thus saith the lord of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.

A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the lord, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.

As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the lord; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.

Thus saith the lord; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind;

And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the lord.

Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the lord, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.

• House

And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the lord.

For thus saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.

Therefore thus saith the lord; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the lord.

Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the lord.

Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the lord, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan.

• Fortifications
• Armies

Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the lord.

Thus saith the lord of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.

• Impudent
• Character
• Stiff-hearted

For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the lord GOD.

And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.

But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the lord GOD; He that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.

Thus saith the lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.

Therefore thus saith the lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;

Therefore thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.

Wherefore, as I live, saith the lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.

And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

Thus saith the lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.

Also, thou son of man, thus saith the lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.

Thus saith the lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.

And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the lord; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them.

Therefore thus saith the lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.

Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the lord GOD.

Therefore say, Thus saith the lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.

Therefore say, Thus saith the lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the lord GOD.

Say thou unto them, Thus saith the lord GOD; This burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that are among them.

And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.

Tell them therefore, Thus saith the lord GOD; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision.

For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the lord GOD.

Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the lord GOD; There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the lord GOD.

Thus saith the lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

Therefore thus saith the lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the lord GOD.

Therefore thus saith the lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.

To wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the lord GOD.

• Pillow

And say, Thus saith the lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?

• Pillow

Wherefore thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly.

Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;

Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the lord GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the lord GOD.

Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the lord GOD.

Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate.

Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves.

Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.

For thus saith the lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?

And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the lord GOD.

Therefore thus saith the lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the lord GOD.

And say, Thus saith the lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.

Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.

And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the lord GOD.

• Idolatry

My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the lord GOD.

• Blood
• Covenant
• Falsehood

And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the lord GOD;) That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.

How weak is thine heart, saith the lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;

Thus saith the lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;

Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.

As I live, saith the lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.

Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the lord.

• Covenant
• Falsehood

For thus saith the lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the lord GOD.

And say, Thus saith the lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:

Say thou, Thus saith the lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.

As I live, saith the lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.

Therefore thus saith the lord GOD; As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head.

Thus saith the lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent:

As I live, saith the lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.

Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the lord GOD.

Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?

Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.

For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.

• Government

Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the lord GOD; Are ye come to inquire of me? As I live, saith the lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.

And say unto them, Thus saith the lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God;

Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.

Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the lord GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations?

• Idolatry
• Israelites
• Offerings

For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.

As I live, saith the lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you:

Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the lord GOD.

As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.

For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.

And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have wrought with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the lord GOD.

And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the lord; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.

And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the lord GOD.

Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the lord; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:

Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the lord GOD.

Therefore thus saith the lord GOD; Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.

Thus saith the lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.

And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:

Then say thou, Thus saith the lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.

In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the lord GOD.

Therefore thus saith the lord GOD; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

• Mortar
• Sorcery

And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.

Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the lord GOD.

Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;

For thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated:

Thus saith the lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.

Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the lord GOD.

Therefore thus saith the lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

For thus saith the lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.

And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it:

Wherefore thus saith the lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.

Therefore thus saith the lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.

I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the lord GOD.

Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.

• Ammonites
• Scoffing

And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity;

For thus saith the lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel;

Thus saith the lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen;

• Revenge

Thus saith the lord GOD; Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;

Therefore thus saith the lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.

And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the lord GOD.

• Heart
• Revenge

Thus saith the lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;

Therefore thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.

Therefore thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up.

It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.

For thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people.

And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the lord GOD.

Thus saith the lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee?

For thus saith the lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee;

I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the lord GOD.

• Merchant
• Cities

And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.

• Pride
• Self-exaltation

Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:

Therefore thus saith the lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;

Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the lord GOD.

Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

And say, Thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.

Thus saith the lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.

Speak, and say, Thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.

Therefore thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.

• Forty

Yet thus saith the lord GOD; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered:

Therefore thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.

I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the lord GOD.

Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth the day!

Thus saith the lord; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the lord GOD.

Thus saith the lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.

Thus saith the lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.

Therefore thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

Therefore thus saith the lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

Thus saith the lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the lord GOD.

Thus saith the lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.

All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the lord GOD.

For thus saith the lord GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.

Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the lord GOD.

This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the lord GOD.

Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the lord GOD.

For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the lord GOD.

Say unto them, As I live, saith the lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?

• Fortifications
• Armies

Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the lord GOD; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.

Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?

As I live, saith the lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;

Thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.

For thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.

• Church

I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the lord GOD.

And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.

Therefore thus saith the lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.

Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the lord GOD.

And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the lord GOD.

And say unto it, Thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.

• Blood

Therefore, as I live, saith the lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.

Therefore, as I live, saith the lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.

Thus saith the lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.

Thus saith the lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:

Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:

Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;

Therefore thus saith the lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.

Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen:

Therefore thus saith the lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.

Thus saith the lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations;

Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the lord GOD.

Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the lord GOD.

Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went.

And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

Not for your sakes do I this, saith the lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.

Thus saith the lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.

Thus saith the lord GOD; I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.

Thus saith the lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:

Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.

Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.

• Reviving

And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the lord.

Say unto them, Thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.

And say unto them, Thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:

And say, Thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:

Thus saith the lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:

Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?

Thus saith the lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?

And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.

And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the lord GOD: every man's sword shall be against his brother.

Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:

Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the lord GOD.

Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the lord GOD.

Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the lord GOD.

And, thou son of man, thus saith the lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.

Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the lord GOD.

Therefore thus saith the lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;

Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the lord GOD.

• Blood

And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the lord GOD; These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.

And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the lord GOD, a young bullock for a sin offering.

And when these days are expired, it shall be, that upon the eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, saith the lord GOD.

And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,

Thus saith the lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.

Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity.

But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the lord GOD:

• Priest

And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, saith the lord GOD.

Thus saith the lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the lord GOD.

And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the lord GOD.

Thus saith the lord GOD; In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary:

• Temple

Thus saith the lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

Thus saith the lord GOD; If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons'; it shall be their possession by inheritance.

Thus saith the lord GOD; This shall be the border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions.

And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the lord GOD.

This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the lord GOD.

And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the lord.

And it shall be at that day, saith the lord, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.

And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;

They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the lord.

Therefore also now, saith the lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

• Iron
• Threshing

Thus saith the lord; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:

I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the lord.

Thus saith the lord; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:

And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the lord GOD.

• Alliances

Thus saith the lord; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:

Thus saith the lord; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:

• Captive
• Prisoners

Thus saith the lord; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:

And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the lord.

Thus saith the lord; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:

And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the lord.

Thus saith the lord; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:

Thus saith the lord; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;

And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the lord.

And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the lord.

For they know not to do right, saith the lord, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

Therefore thus saith the lord GOD; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.

Thus saith the lord; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.

Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the lord GOD, the God of hosts,

• House

And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the lord.

And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the lord.

• Bread
• Offerings

And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the lord GOD.

And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the lord.

So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the lord.

I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the lord.

I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the lord.

I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the lord.

For thus saith the lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.

For thus saith the lord unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:

And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the lord.

Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the lord, whose name is The God of hosts.

The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the lord the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.

But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the lord the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.

The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the lord.

The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the lord GOD.

• Cord

Therefore thus saith the lord; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.

And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.

• Darkness
• Sun

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:

Behold, the days come, saith the lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:

Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the lord. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

• Government

Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the lord.

That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the lord that doeth this.

Behold, the days come, saith the lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.

And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the lord thy God.

The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the lord GOD concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.

Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the lord.

Shall I not in that day, saith the lord, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?

Therefore thus saith the lord; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.

Thus saith the lord concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

In that day, saith the lord, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the lord, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots:

Thus saith the lord; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.

Behold, I am against thee, saith the lord of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.

Behold, I am against thee, saith the lord of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.

I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the lord.

• Stumbling-block
• Stumbling

I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the lord.

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the lord, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.

Therefore as I live, saith the lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.

Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the lord, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the lord.

Now therefore thus saith the lord of hosts; Consider your ways.

Thus saith the lord of hosts; Consider your ways.

Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the lord.

Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the lord of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.

Then spake Haggai the LORD'S messenger in the LORD'S message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the lord.

Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the lord; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the lord, and work: for I am with you, saith the lord of hosts:

For thus saith the lord of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;

And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the lord of hosts.

The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the lord of hosts.

The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the lord of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the lord of hosts.

Thus saith the lord of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,

Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the lord; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.

I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the lord.

• Zerubbabel
• Predestination

In that day, saith the lord of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the lord, and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the lord of hosts.

Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the lord of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the lord of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the lord of hosts.

Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the lord of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the lord.

So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the lord of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.

• Temple

Therefore thus saith the lord; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the lord of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.

Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the lord of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.

For I, saith the lord, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.

Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the lord: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the lord.

For thus saith the lord of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.

Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the lord.

Thus saith the lord of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by.

• Seven

For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the lord of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

In that day, saith the lord of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.

Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the lord of hosts.

• Punishment

I will bring it forth, saith the lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.

Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the lord of hosts:

Thus saith the lord of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.

• Church

Thus saith the lord; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.

Thus saith the lord of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age.

Thus saith the lord of hosts; If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith the lord of hosts.

Thus saith the lord of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;

• Resumed
• Temple

Thus saith the lord of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.

But now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith the lord of hosts.

For thus saith the lord of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the lord of hosts, and I repented not:

And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the lord.

Thus saith the lord of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.

Thus saith the lord of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:

Thus saith the lord of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.

And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the lord.

Thus saith the lord my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;

For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the lord: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.

The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the lord, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.

In that day, saith the lord, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the lord of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

• Shepherd
• Sword

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the lord of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.

And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.

I have loved you, saith the lord. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the lord: yet I loved Jacob,

Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the lord of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.

A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the lord of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the lord of hosts.

• Incense
• Presumption
• FIGURATIVE

And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us: this hath been by your means: will he regard your persons? saith the lord of hosts. Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the lord of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand. For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the lord of hosts. But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible. read more Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the lord of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the lord. But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the lord of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen. show less

Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the lord of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

• Incense

For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the lord of hosts.

Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the lord of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the lord.

But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the lord of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.

If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the lord of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.

• Altar
• Covenant
• Priest

And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the lord of hosts. My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name. The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.

But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the lord of hosts.

For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

• Temple

Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the lord of hosts.

• Servant

And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the lord of hosts.

Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the lord of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?

Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the lord of hosts.

And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the lord of hosts.

• Presumption

Your words have been stout against me, saith the lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?

• Righteous

And they shall be mine, saith the lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.

• Furnace
• Stubble
• Stubble

For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the lord of hosts.

• Footstool
• FOOTSTOOL
• Stool

Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the lord: or what is the place of my rest?

That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the lord, who doeth all these things.

Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the lord.

For it is written, As I live, saith the lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the lord.

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the lord Almighty.

For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

• Covenant

Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the lord.

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

• Almighty

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.