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While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they revel. Then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up. This is the Lord 's declaration.

You must say, ‘ Lord , You have threatened to cut off this place so that no one will live in it—man or beast. Indeed, it will remain desolate forever.'

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that the people of the land had no food.

The king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah went into exile from its land.

So Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes, and he dined regularly in the presence of the king of Babylon for the rest of his life.

שׁ Shin People have heard me groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my misfortune; they are glad that You have caused it. Bring on the day You have announced, so that they may become like me.

מ Mem What can I say on your behalf? What can I compare you to, Daughter Jerusalem? What can I liken you to, so that I may console you, Virgin Daughter Zion? For your ruin is as vast as the sea. Who can heal you?

נ Nun Your prophets saw visions for you that were empty and deceptive; they did not reveal your guilt and so restore your fortunes. They saw oracles for you that were empty and misleading.

ג Gimel He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.

You have covered Yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through.

נ Nun Blind, they stumbled in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.

ס Samek "Stay away! Unclean!" people shouted at them. "Away, away! Don't touch us!" So they wandered aimlessly. It was said among the nations, "They can stay here no longer."

צ Tsade Our steps were closely followed so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end drew near; our time ran out. Our end had come!

שׂ Sin So rejoice and be glad, Daughter Edom, you resident of the land of Uz! Yet the cup will pass to you as well; you will get drunk and expose yourself.

Lord , restore us to Yourself, so we may return; renew our days as in former times,

So when the living creatures moved, the wheels moved beside them, and when the creatures rose from the earth, the wheels also rose.

So I looked and saw a hand reaching out to me, and there was a written scroll in it.

So I opened my mouth, and He fed me the scroll.

"Son of man," He said to me, "eat and fill your stomach with this scroll I am giving you." So I ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.

So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away. I left in bitterness and in an angry spirit, and the Lord 's hand was on me powerfully.