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For with a difficult speech and with an alien tongue will he speak to this people.

For I have said to them, This is the place of my rest, wherewith I may cause the weary to rest; and this is the place of tranquillity; but they would not listen.

Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have made an agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come to us; for we have placed our hope in lies, and under falsehood we have hid ourselves;

From the time that it passes through, it shall take you; for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night; and it shall be a terror only to understand the report.

For the cloth is too short, and the warp grows weak and is insufficient for a garment.

For the LORD shall rise up as in a mountain pass, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his works, his strange works, and bring to pass his acts, his strange acts.

Now therefore do not mock, lest your chastisement be severe; for I have heard from the LORD of hosts that he will bring destruction and judgment upon the whole earth.

For his God does instruct him to discretion, and does teach him.

For dill is not threshed under the feet of oxen, nor is a threshing instrument turned about upon cummin, but dill is beaten out with a staff, and cummin with a rod.

Grain is threshed for our sakes because man would not otherwise be threshing it, nor break it with many wheels of his threshing instruments, nor crush it under the feet of his oxen.

For the LORD has poured out upon them a spirit of deep sleep, and it has closed their eyes, and also the eyes of the prophets and rulers, and the seers, who see the hidden things.

And the vision of all is become to them as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is learned, saying, Read this, and he says, I cannot; for it is sealed:

Surely you are esteemed as the potters clay; for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? Or shall the thing formed say of him that formed it, He has not fashioned me wisely?

For the oppressor is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that incite to iniquity are cut off,

Those who cause men to sin by the word, and lay a snare for him that reproves, and turn aside the righteous into darkness.

For while Pharaoh is in Zoan, his princes and ambassadors shall act deceitfully.

For the Egyptians shall help in vain and in falsehood; therefore I have warned them, for this their trust is in vain.

Now come, write it on these tablets and on the book of their covenant, that it may be for the time to come, for a testimony for ever and ever;

For this is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of the LORD;

But you said, Not so, for we will ride upon horses, and will flee upon swift ones; therefore you shall flee, and your pursuers shall be swift.