16 (A)I hear, and (B)my body trembles;
    my lips quiver at the sound;
(C)rottenness enters into my bones;
    my legs tremble beneath me.
Yet (D)I will quietly wait for the day of trouble
    to come upon people who invade us.

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Lying Prophets

Concerning the prophets:

(A)My heart is broken within me;
    (B)all my bones shake;
I am like a drunken man,
    like a man overcome by wine,
because of the Lord
    and because of his holy words.

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O Lord, (A)I have heard the report of you,
    and (B)your work, O Lord, do I fear.
In the midst of the years (C)revive it;
    in the midst of the years make it known;
    (D)in wrath remember mercy.

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So I was left alone and saw this great vision, and (A)no strength was left in me. My radiant appearance was fearfully changed,[a] (B)and I retained no strength.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 10:8 Hebrew My splendor was changed to ruin

since indeed God considers it (A)just (B)to repay with affliction those who afflict you, and to grant (C)relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when (D)the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven (E)with his mighty angels (F)in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those (G)who do not know God and on those who (H)do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will suffer the punishment of (I)eternal destruction, (J)away from[a] the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Thessalonians 1:9 Or destruction that comes from

The Lord's Answer

(A)“Look among the nations, and see;
    wonder and be astounded.
(B)For I am doing a work in your days
    that you would not believe if told.
For behold, (C)I am raising up the Chaldeans,
    that bitter and hasty nation,
(D)who march through the breadth of the earth,
    (E)to seize dwellings not their own.
They are dreaded and fearsome;
    (F)their justice and dignity go forth from themselves.
(G)Their horses are swifter than leopards,
    more fierce than (H)the evening wolves;
    their horsemen press proudly on.
Their horsemen come from afar;
    (I)they fly like an eagle swift to devour.
They all come (J)for violence,
    all their faces forward.
    They gather captives (K)like sand.
10 At kings they scoff,
    and at rulers they laugh.
(L)They laugh at every fortress,
    for (M)they pile up earth and take it.
11 Then they sweep by like the wind and go on,
    (N)guilty men, (O)whose own might is their god!”

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You said, (A)‘Woe is me! For the Lord has added sorrow to my pain. (B)I am weary with my groaning, (C)and I find no rest.’ Thus shall you say to him, Thus says the Lord: (D)Behold, what I have built I am breaking down, and what I have planted I am plucking up—that is, the whole land. And (E)do you seek great things for yourself? Seek them not, for behold, (F)I am bringing disaster upon all flesh, declares the Lord. But I will give you (G)your life as a prize of war in all places to which you may go.”

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(A)behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, (B)my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, (C)and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation. 10 Moreover, (D)I will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, (E)the grinding of the millstones and (F)the light of the lamp. 11 (G)This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and (H)these nations shall serve the king of Babylon (I)seventy years.

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120 My flesh (A)trembles for fear of you,
    and I am afraid of your judgments.

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12 (A)Blessed is the man whom you (B)discipline, O Lord,
    and whom you teach out of your law,
13 to give him (C)rest from (D)days of trouble,
    until (E)a pit is dug for the wicked.

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Jeremiah's Complaint

10 (A)Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! (B)I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me. 11 The Lord said, “Have I not[a] set you free for their good? Have I not pleaded for you before the enemy in the time of trouble and in the time of distress?

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 15:11 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

15 When he (A)calls to me, I will answer him;
    I will be with him in trouble;
    I will rescue him and (B)honor him.

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27 And (A)I, Daniel, was overcome and lay sick for some days. Then I rose and went about the king's business, but I was appalled by the vision (B)and did not understand it.

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And the Lord said to him, “Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and (A)put a mark on the foreheads of the men who (B)sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it.” And to (C)the others he said in my hearing, “Pass through the city after him, and strike. (D)Your eye shall not spare, and you shall show no pity. (E)Kill old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but (F)touch no one on whom is the mark. And (G)begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the house.

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14 (A)The Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, the (B)hand of the Lord being strong upon me.

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20 Come, my people, enter your chambers,
    and shut your doors behind you;
hide yourselves (A)for a little while
    until the fury has passed by.
21 (B)For behold, the Lord is coming out from his place
    to punish the inhabitants of (C)the earth for their iniquity,
and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it,
    and will no more cover its slain.

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24 (A)In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him. And the Lord sent against him bands of the (B)Chaldeans and (C)bands of the Syrians and bands of the Moabites and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, (D)according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by his servants the prophets.

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49 (A)The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, (B)swooping down like the eagle, a nation (C)whose language you do not understand, 50 a hard-faced nation (D)who shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young. 51 It shall (E)eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.

52 “They shall (F)besiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the Lord your God has given you.

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