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For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because the word of Yahweh has been a reproach to me, and a derision, all the day.

But Yahweh is with me as a mighty one [and] a terrible: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be completely put to shame, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten.

because he didn't slay me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always pregnant.

O house of David, thus says Yahweh, Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him that is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, or else my wrath will go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Then they shall answer, Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh their God, and worshiped other gods, and served them.

Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? then it was well with him.

Concerning the prophets. My heart inside me is broken, all my bones shake; I am like a drunk man, and like an [able-bodied] man whom wine has overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of his holy words.

For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. And their course is evil, and their might is not right;

But if you say, The burden of Yahweh; therefore thus says Yahweh: Because you say this word, The burden of Yahweh, and I have sent to you, saying, You shall not say, The burden of Yahweh;

Therefore this is what Yahweh of Hosts says: Because you haven't heard my words,

And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be insane, because of the sword that I will send among them.

And you shall say to them, Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink, and be drunk, and spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

And the peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.

He has left his covert, as the lion; for their land has become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppressing [sword], and because of his fierce anger.

It may be they will listen, and turn every man from his evil way; that I may repent of the evil which I purpose to do to them because of the evil of their doings.

Therefore thus says Yahweh, Look, I will send you away from off the face of the earth: this year you shall die, because you have spoken rebellion against Yahweh.

Because you have said, Yahweh has raised us up prophets in Babylon;

because they haven't listened to my words, says Yahweh, with which I sent to them my slaves the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but you would not hear, says Yahweh.

because they have wrought folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I did not command them; and I am he that knows, and am witness, says Yahweh.

Thus speaks Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,