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They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat. For the days of my people shall be like the days of a tree, and my chosen ones shall enjoy the work of their hands.

They shall not labor for nothing, and they shall not give birth to horror, for they shall be offspring blessed by Yahweh, and their descendants with them.

Thus says Yahweh: "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is the footstool for my feet. Where is this house that you would build for me? And where is this resting place for me?

The one who slaughters a bull strikes a man; the one who slaughters a lamb for sacrifice breaks the neck of a dog. The one who offers an offering, the blood of swine; the one who offers frankincense blesses an idol. Indeed, they themselves have chosen their ways, and their soul delights in their abhorrence.

Hear the word of Yahweh, you who are frightened at his word: Your brothers who hate you, who exclude you for my name's sake have said, "Let Yahweh be honored so that we may see your joy!" But they themselves shall be ashamed.

For thus says Yahweh: "Look! I am about to spread prosperity out to her like a river, and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing stream, and you shall suck and be carried on the hip; and you shall you shall be played with on the knees.

For look! Yahweh will come in fire, and his chariots like the storm wind, to give back his anger in wrath, and his rebuke in flames of fire.

For Yahweh enters into judgment on all flesh with fire and his sword, and those slain by Yahweh shall be many.

"For just as the new heavens and earth that I am about to make shall stand before me," declares Yahweh, "so shall your descendants and your name stand.

"And they shall go out and look at the corpses of the people who have rebelled against me, for their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh."

Then I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh! Look, I do not know how to speak, for I am a youth."

But Yahweh said to me, "You must not say, ‘I am a youth,' for to whomever I send you, you will go, and whatever I command you, you will speak.

Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you," declares Yahweh.

Then Yahweh said to me, "You did well to see, for I am watching over my word to perform it."

For, look, I am calling to all the clans of the kingdoms of the north," declares Yahweh, "and they will come and set each one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its surrounding walls, and against all the cities of Judah.

And they will fight against you but they will not prevail against you, for I am with you," declares Yahweh, "to deliver you."

For go over to the coasts of Cyprus and look, and send to Kedar and consider very closely, and see if there has been a thing like this:

Has a nation exchanged gods? And they are not gods! But my people have exchanged their glory for that which does not profit.

"For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the source of living water, to hew out for themselves cisterns, cracked cisterns that can hold no water.

"For from long ago you have broken your yoke, you tore to pieces your bonds. And you said, ‘I will not serve!' But on every high hill and under every leafy tree you were lying down as a prostitute.