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¹²I, even I, am He that comforteth you:

Who art thou, that thou art afraid of man that shall die,

And of the son of man that shall be made as grass;

¹³And hast forgotten the Lord thy Maker,

That stretched forth the heavens,

And laid the foundations of the earth;

And fearest continually all the day

Because of the fury of the oppressor,

As he maketh ready to destroy?

And where is the fury of the oppressor?

¹⁴He that is bent down shall speedily be loosed;

And he shall not go down dying into the pit,

Neither shall his bread fail.

¹⁵For I am the Lord thy God,

Who stirreth up the sea, that the waves thereof roar;

The Lord of hosts is His name.

¹⁶And I have put My words in thy mouth,

And have covered thee in the shadow of My hand,

That I may plant the heavens,

And lay the foundations of the earth,

And say unto Zion: 'Thou art My people.'

 

¹⁷Awake, awake,

Stand up, O Jerusalem,

That hast drunk at the hand of the Lord

The cup of His fury;

Thou hast drunken the beaker, even the cup of staggering,

And drained it.

¹⁸There is none to guide her

Among all the sons whom she hath brought forth;

Neither is there any that taketh her by the hand

Of all the sons that she hath brought up.

¹⁹These two things are befallen thee;

Who shall bemoan thee?

Desolation and destruction,

And the famine and the sword;

How shall I comfort thee?

²⁰Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets,

As an antelope in a net;

They are full of the fury of the Lord,

The rebuke of thy God.

²¹Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted,

And drunken, but not with wine;

²²Thus saith thy Lord the Lord,

And thy God that pleadeth the cause of His people:

Behold, I have taken out of thy hand

The cup of staggering;

The beaker, even the cup of My fury,

Thou shalt no more drink it again;

²³And I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee;

That have said to thy soul:

'Bow down, that we may go over';

And thou hast laid thy back as the ground,

And as the street, to them that go over.

 

52Awake, awake,

Put on thy strength, O Zion;

Put on thy beautiful garments,

O Jerusalem, the holy city;

For henceforth there shall no more come into thee

The uncircumcised and the unclean.

²Shake thyself from the dust;

Arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem;

Loose thyself from the bands of thy neck,

O captive daughter of Zion.

 

³For thus saith the Lord:

Ye were sold for nought;

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