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Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh which He has counseled against Edom, and His purposes which He has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: surely they will drag them off, even the little ones of the flock; surely He will make their pasture desolate because of them.

"Because you are glad, because you exult,O you who plunder My inheritance,Because you skip about like a threshing heiferAnd neigh like valiant steeds,

Because of the wrath of Yahweh she will not be inhabited,But she will be completely desolate;Everyone who passes by Babylon will be in desolationAnd will hiss because of all her wounds.

Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh which He has counseled against Babylon, and His purposes which He has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: surely they will drag them off, even the little ones of the flock; surely He will make their pasture desolate because of them.

We are ashamed because we have heard reproach;Dishonor has covered our faces,For strangers have enteredThe holy places of the house of Yahweh.

and then you will say, ‘Just so shall Babylon sink down and not rise again because of the calamity that I am going to bring upon her; and they will become utterly weary.'" Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

Judah has gone into exile because of afflictionAnd because of great slavery;She sits among the nations,But she has found no rest;All her pursuers have overtaken herIn the midst of distress.

For these things I am weeping;My eyes run down with water;Because far from me is a comforter,One who restores my soul.My children are desolateBecause the enemy has prevailed."

My eyes fail because of tears;My inmost being is greatly disturbed;My heart is poured out on the earthBecause of the destruction of the daughter of my people,When infants and nursing babies faintIn the open squares of the city.

Arise, cry aloud in the nightAt the head of the night watches;Pour out your heart like waterBefore the presence of the Lord;Lift up your hands to HimFor the life of your infantsWho are faint because of hungerAt the head of every street."

Why should any living person or any manComplain because of his sins?

The tongue of the nursing baby cleavesTo the roof of its mouth because of thirst;The infants ask for bread,But no one breaks it for them.

Because of the sins of her prophetsAnd the iniquities of her priests,Who have shed in her midstThe blood of the righteous;

Because of this our heart is faint;Because of these things our eyes are dim;

Because of Mount Zion which lies desolate,Foxes walk about in it.

However, if you have warned the righteous man that the righteous should not sin and he does not sin, he shall surely live because he took warning; and you have delivered yourself."

because bread and water will be lacking; and they will be in desolation with one another and rot away in their iniquity.

Therefore, thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘Because you have more turmoil than the nations which are all around you and have not walked in My statutes, nor done My judgments, nor done the judgments of the nations which are all around you,'

And I will do among you what I have not done and the like of which I will never do again because of all your abominations.

So as I live,' declares Lord Yahweh, ‘surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominations, therefore I will also withdraw, and My eye will have no pity, and I will not spare.