And now I will tell you
    what I will do to my vineyard.
I will remove (A)its hedge,
    and it shall be devoured;[a]
(B)I will break down its wall,
    and it shall be trampled down.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 5:5 Or grazed over; compare Exodus 22:5

24 They will fall by the edge of the sword and (A)be led captive among all nations, and (B)Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, (C)until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

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15 “The Lord rejected
    all my mighty men in my midst;
he summoned an assembly against me
    to crush my young men;
(A)the Lord has trodden as in a winepress
    the virgin daughter of Judah.

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18 Then (A)your covenant with death will be annulled,
    and your agreement with Sheol will not stand;
when the overwhelming scourge passes through,
    you will be beaten down by it.

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but do not measure (A)the court outside the temple; leave that out, for (B)it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for (C)forty-two months.

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(A)The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim
    will be trodden underfoot;

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Against a (A)godless nation I send him,
    and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take (B)spoil and seize plunder,
    and to (C)tread them down like the mire of the streets.

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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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Come, (A)let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.”

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Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower (A)with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.”

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13 Then I heard (A)a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to the one who spoke, (B)“For how long is the vision concerning the regular burnt offering, (C)the transgression that makes desolate, and the giving over of the sanctuary and host to be trampled underfoot?”

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12 (A)The kings of the earth did not believe,
    nor any of the inhabitants of the world,
that foe or enemy could enter
    the gates of Jerusalem.

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(A)She weeps bitterly in the night,
    with tears on her cheeks;
(B)among all her lovers
    she has (C)none to comfort her;
(D)all her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
    they have become her enemies.

(E)Judah has gone into exile because of affliction[a]
    and hard servitude;
(F)she dwells now among the nations,
    (G)but finds no resting place;
her pursuers have all overtaken her
    in the midst of her distress.[b]

The roads to Zion mourn,
    for none come to (H)the festival;
(I)all her gates are desolate;
    her priests (J)groan;
her virgins have been afflicted,[c]
    and she herself suffers bitterly.

(K)Her foes have become the head;
    her (L)enemies prosper,
because (M)the Lord has afflicted her
    (N)for the multitude of her transgressions;
(O)her children have gone away,
    captives before the foe.

From the daughter of Zion
    all her majesty has departed.
Her princes have become like deer
    (P)that find no pasture;
they fled without strength
    before the pursuer.

Jerusalem remembers
    in the days of her affliction and wandering
(Q)all the precious things
    that were hers from (R)days of old.
When her people fell into the hand of the foe,
    and there was none to help her,
her foes gloated over her;
    they (S)mocked at her downfall.

(T)Jerusalem sinned grievously;
    therefore she became filthy;
all who honored her despise her,
    (U)for they have seen her nakedness;
she herself (V)groans
    and turns her face away.

Her uncleanness was (W)in her skirts;
    (X)she took no thought of her future;[d]
therefore her fall is terrible;
    (Y)she has no comforter.
“O Lord, behold my affliction,
    for the enemy has (Z)triumphed!”

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:3 Or under affliction
  2. Lamentations 1:3 Or in the narrow passes
  3. Lamentations 1:4 Septuagint, Old Latin dragged away
  4. Lamentations 1:9 Or end

10 (A)For the fortified city is solitary,
    a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness;
there the calf grazes;
    there it lies down and strips its branches.
11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken;
    women come and make a fire of them.
(B)For this is a people without discernment;
    therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them;
    he who formed them will show them no favor.

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10 For the hand of the Lord will rest (A)on this mountain,
    and (B)Moab shall be trampled down in his place,
    as straw is trampled down in a dunghill.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 25:10 The Hebrew words for dunghill and for the Moabite town Madmen (Jeremiah 48:2) sound alike

12 Why then have you (A)broken down its walls,
    so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
13 (B)The boar from the forest ravages it,
    and all that move in the field feed on it.

14 Turn again, O God of hosts!
    (C)Look down from heaven, and see;
have regard for this vine,
15     the stock that your right hand planted,
    and for the son whom you made strong for yourself.
16 They have (D)burned it with fire; they have (E)cut it down;
    may they perish at (F)the rebuke of your face!

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Arise, O God, Defend Your Cause

A Maskil[a] of (A)Asaph.

74 O God, why do you (B)cast us off forever?
    Why does your anger (C)smoke against (D)the sheep of your pasture?
(E)Remember your congregation, which you have (F)purchased of old,
    which you have (G)redeemed to be (H)the tribe of your heritage!
    Remember Mount Zion, (I)where you have dwelt.
Direct your steps to (J)the perpetual ruins;
    the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!

Your foes have (K)roared in the midst of your meeting place;
    (L)they set up their (M)own signs for (N)signs.
They were like those who swing (O)axes
    in a forest of trees.[b]
And all its (P)carved wood
    they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
They (Q)set your sanctuary on fire;
    they (R)profaned (S)the dwelling place of your name,
    bringing it down to the ground.
They (T)said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”;
    they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

We do not see our (U)signs;
    (V)there is no longer any prophet,
    and there is none among us who knows how long.
10 How long, O God, (W)is the foe to scoff?
    Is the enemy to revile your name forever?

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 74:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
  2. Psalm 74:5 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Jehoahaz his brother and carried him to Egypt.

(A)Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord his God. (B)Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon (C)and bound him in chains (D)to take him to Babylon. (E)Nebuchadnezzar also carried part of the vessels of the house of the Lord to Babylon and put them in his palace in Babylon. (F)Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and the abominations that he did, and what was found against him, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. And Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.

(G)Jehoiachin was eighteen[a] years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. 10 In (H)the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, (I)with the precious vessels of the house of the Lord, and made his brother (J)Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 36:9 Septuagint (compare 2 Kings 24:8); most Hebrew manuscripts eight

31 And I will (A)lay your cities waste and will (B)make your sanctuaries desolate, and (C)I will not smell your pleasing aromas. 32 And (D)I myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be (E)appalled at it. 33 And (F)I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

34 (G)“Then the land shall enjoy[a] its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies' land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths. 35 As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, the rest that it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were dwelling in it.

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  1. Leviticus 26:34 Or pay for; twice in this verse; also verse 43

I said to the king, (A)“Let the king live forever! Why should not my face be sad, (B)when the city, the place of my fathers' graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”

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