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Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,
Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.
At that time Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.
So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.
For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,
The gold for things of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and for all manner of work to be made by the hands of artificers. And who then is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the LORD?
That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly.
And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,
And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
