7 For (A)they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it shall yield no flour; if it were to yield, (B)strangers would devour it. 8 (C)Israel is swallowed up; already they are among the nations as (D)a useless vessel.
8 (A)Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. (B)Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and (C)purify your hearts, (D)you double-minded.9 (E)Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
13 “But woe (A)to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you (B)shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you (C)neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.[a]
Matthew 23:13Some manuscripts add here (or after verse 12) verse 14: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses and for a pretense you make long prayers; therefore you will receive the greater condemnation
9 Rejoice not, O Israel! Exult not like the peoples; (A)for you have played the whore, forsaking your God. (B)You have loved a prostitute's wages on all threshing floors.
16 (A)All your enemies rail against you; they hiss, they gnash their teeth, they cry: “We (B)have swallowed her! Ah, this is the day we longed for; now we have it; (C)we see it!”
44 And I will punish (A)Bel in Babylon, and (B)take out of his mouth (C)what he has swallowed. (D)The nations shall no longer flow to him; (E)the wall of Babylon has fallen.
34 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon (A)has devoured me; he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel; (B)he has swallowed me like (C)a monster; he has filled his stomach with my delicacies; he has rinsed me out.[a]
13 (A)“Woe to him who builds his house by (B)unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice, (C)who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing and does not give him his wages,
15 (A)What right has my beloved in my house, (B)when she has done many vile deeds? Can even sacrificial flesh avert your doom? (C)Can you then exult?16 The Lord once called you (D)‘a green olive tree, beautiful with good fruit.’ But (E)with the roar of a great tempest he will set fire to it, and (F)its branches will be consumed.
7 (A)The wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted sigh. 8 (B)The mirth of the tambourines is stilled, the noise of the jubilant has ceased, the mirth of the lyre is stilled. 9 No more do they drink wine (C)with singing; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it. 10 (D)The wasted city is broken down; (E)every house is shut up so that none can enter. 11 (F)There is an outcry in the streets for lack of wine; (G)all joy has grown dark; the gladness of the earth is banished.
