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chapter 4
1
If
thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, return to me: if thou wilt take
away thy stumblingblocks out of my sight, thou shalt not be moved.
2 And thou shalt swear: As the Lord liveth, in truth,
and in judgement, and in justice: and the Gentiles shall bless him, and shall
praise him.
3 For thus saith the Lord to the men of Juda and
Jerusalem: Break up anew your fallow ground, and sow not upon thorns:
4 Be circumcised to the Lord, and take away the
foreskins of your hearts, ye men of Juda, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest
my indignation come forth like fire, and burn, and there be none that can
quench it: because of the wickedness of your thoughts.
5 Declare ye in Juda, and make it heard in Jerusalem:
speak, and sound with the trumpet in the land: cry aloud, and say: Assemble
yourselves, and let us go into strong cities.
6 Set up the standard in Sion. Strengthen yourselves,
stay not: for I bring evil from the north, and great destruction.
7 The lion is come up out of his den, and the robber of
nations hath roused himself: he is come forth out of his place, to make thy
land desolate: thy cities shall be laid waste, remaining without an inhabitant.
8 For this gird yourselves with haircloth, lament and
howl: for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned away from us.
9 And it shall come to pass in 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 be amazed
10 And I said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, hast thou
then deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying: You shall have peace: and
behold the sword reacheth even to the soul?
11 At that time it shall be said to this people, and to
Jerusalem: A burning wind is in the ways that are in the desert of the way of
the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse.
12 A full wind from these places shall come to me: and
now I will speak my judgments with them.
13 Behold he shall come up as a cloud, and his chariots
as a tempest: his horses are swifter than eagles: woe unto us, for we are laid
waste.
14 Wash thy heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that
thou mayst be saved: how long shall hurtful thoughts abide in thee?
15 For a voice of one declaring from Dan, and giving
notice of the idol from mount Ephraim.
16 Say ye to the nations: Behold it is heard in
Jerusalem, that guards are coming from a far country, and give out their voice
against the cities of Juda.
17 They are set round about her, as keepers of fields:
because she hath provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord.
18 They ways, and thy devices have brought these things
upon thee: this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it hath
touched thy heart.
19 My bowels, my bowels are in pain, the senses of my
heart are troubled within me, I will not hold my peace, for my soul hath heard
the sound of the trumpet, the cry of battle.
20 Destruction upon destruction is called for, and all
the earth is laid waste: my tents are destroyed on a sudden, and my pavilions in
a moment.
21 How long shall I see men fleeing away, how long
shall I hear the sound of the trumpet?
22 For my foolish people have not known me: they are
foolish and senseless children: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they
have no knowledge.
23 I beheld the earth, and lo it was void, and nothing:
and the heavens, and there was no light in them.
24 I looked upon the mountains, and behold they
trembled: and all the hills were troubled.
25 I beheld, and lo there was no man: and all the birds
of the air were gone.
26 I looked, and behold Carmel was a wilderness: and
all its cities were destroyed at the presence of the Lord, and at the presence
of the wrath of his indignation.
27 For thus saith the Lord: All the land shall be
desolate, but yet I will not utterly destroy.
28 The earth shall mourn, and the heavens shall lament
from above: because I have spoken, I have purposed, and I have not repented,
neither am I turned away from it.
29 At the voice of the horsemen, and the archers, all
the city is fled away; they have entered into thickets and have climbed up the
rocks: all the cities are forsaken, and there dwelleth not a man in them.
30 But when thou art spoiled what wilt thou do? though
thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, and paintest thy eyes with stibic
stone, thou shalt dress thyself out in vain: thy lovers have despised thee,
they will seek thy life.
31 For I have heard the voice as of a woman in travail,
anguishes as of a woman in labor of a child. The voice of the daughter of Sion,
dying away, spreading her hands: Woe is me, for my soul hath fainted because of
them that are slain.
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