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14 and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and a pleasant land was made desolate.”(A)

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64 The Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.(A)

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33 A people whom you do not know shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors; you shall be continually abused and crushed(A)

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19 Look, the storm of the Lord!
    Wrath has gone forth,
a whirling tempest;
    it will burst upon the head of the wicked.(A)

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27 The Lord will scatter you among the peoples; only a few of you will be left among the nations where the Lord will lead you.(A)

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Interlude: An Appeal to the Exiles

Up, up! Flee from the land of the north, says the Lord, for I have spread you abroad like the four winds of heaven, says the Lord.(A)

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I have cut off nations;
    their battlements are in ruins;
I have laid waste their streets
    so that no one walks in them;
their cities have been made desolate,
    without people, without inhabitants.(A)

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14 Then the Lord will appear over them,
    and his arrow go forth like lightning;
the Lord God will sound the trumpet
    and march forth in the whirlwinds of the south.(A)

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14 You pierced with their[a] own arrows the head of his warriors,[b]
    who came like a whirlwind to scatter us,[c]
    gloating as if ready to devour the poor who were in hiding.

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Footnotes

  1. 3.14 Heb his
  2. 3.14 Gk Vg Syr: Meaning of Heb uncertain
  3. 3.14 Heb me

The Lord is slow to anger but great in power,
    and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty.

His way is in whirlwind and storm,
    and the clouds are the dust of his feet.(A)

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14 So I will kindle a fire against the wall of Rabbah,
    and it shall devour its strongholds,
with shouting on the day of battle,
    with a storm on the day of the whirlwind;(A)

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16 O Lord, in view of all your righteous acts, let your anger and wrath, we pray, turn away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because of our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors, Jerusalem and your people have become a disgrace among all our neighbors.(A) 17 Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his supplication, and for your own sake, Lord,[a] let your face shine upon your desolated sanctuary.(B) 18 Incline your ear, O my God, and hear. Open your eyes and look at our desolation and the city that bears your name. We do not present our supplication before you on the ground of our righteousness but on the ground of your great mercies.(C)

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  1. 9.17 Theodotion Vg Compare Syr: Heb for the Lord’s sake

Out of one of them came another[a] horn, a little one, which grew exceedingly great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the beautiful land.(A)

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  1. 8.9 Cn: Heb one

30 in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took into exile of the Judeans seven hundred forty-five persons; all the persons were four thousand six hundred.(A)

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So my wrath and my anger were poured out and kindled in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, and they became a waste and a desolation, as they still are today.(A)

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19 Then the officials said to Baruch, “Go and hide, you and Jeremiah, and let no one know where you are.”(A)

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23 Look, the storm of the Lord!
    Wrath has gone forth,
a whirling[a] tempest;
    it will burst upon the head of the wicked.(A)

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  1. 30.23 Meaning of Heb uncertain

32 Thus says the Lord of hosts:
See, disaster is spreading
    from nation to nation,
and a great tempest is stirring
    from the farthest parts of the earth!

33 Those slain by the Lord on that day shall extend from one end of the earth to the other. They shall not be lamented or gathered or buried; they shall become dung on the surface of the ground.(A)

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15 I am going to bring upon you
    a nation from far away, O house of Israel,
            says the Lord.
It is an enduring nation;
    it is an ancient nation,
a nation whose language you do not know,
    nor can you understand what they say.(A)

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11 At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem: A hot wind comes from me out of the bare heights[a] in the desert toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow or cleanse,(A) 12 a wind too strong for that. Now it is I who speak in judgment against them.(B)

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  1. 4.11 Or the trails

Oracles concerning Babylon, Edom, and Arabia

21 The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea.

As whirlwinds in the Negeb sweep on,
    it comes from the desert,
    from a terrible land.(A)

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13 [[When the nations roar like the roaring of many waters,]][a]
    he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away,
chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind
    and like whirling dust before the storm.(A)

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  1. 17.13 Heb mss Syr lack When . . . waters

Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns,
    whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!(A)

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21 to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had made up for its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.(A)

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49 The Lord will bring a nation from far away, from the end of the earth, to swoop down on you like an eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand,(A)

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