{"book":"Baruch","osis":"Bar","url":"https://driftbible.com/baruch","licence":"Public domain","editions":[{"code":"WEB","name":"World English Bible","language":"en","source":"World English Bible, public domain. \"World English Bible\" is a trademark of eBible.org","verses":[{"chapter":1,"verse":1,"text":"These are the words of the book which Baruch the son of Nerias, the son of Maaseas, the son of Sedekias, the son of Asadias, the son of Helkias, wrote in Babylon,"},{"chapter":1,"verse":2,"text":"in the fifth year, in the seventh day of the month, at the time when the Chaldeans took Jerusalem and burned it with fire."},{"chapter":1,"verse":3,"text":"Baruch read the words of this book in the hearing of Jechonias the son of Joakim king of Judah, and in the hearing of all the people who came to hear the book,"},{"chapter":1,"verse":4,"text":"and in the hearing of the mighty men, and of the kings’ sons, and in the hearing of the elders, and in the hearing of all the people, from the least to the greatest, even of all those who lived at Babylon by the river Sud."},{"chapter":1,"verse":5,"text":"Then they wept, fasted, and prayed before the Lord."},{"chapter":1,"verse":6,"text":"They also made a collection of money according to every man’s ability;"},{"chapter":1,"verse":7,"text":"and they sent it to Jerusalem to Joakim the high priest, the son of Helkias, the son of Salom, and to the priests and to all the people who were found with him at Jerusalem,"},{"chapter":1,"verse":8,"text":"at the same time when he took the vessels of the house of the Lord, that had been carried out of the temple, to return them into the land of Judah, the tenth day of Sivan—silver vessels which Sedekias the son of Josias king of Judah had made,"},{"chapter":1,"verse":9,"text":"after Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away Jechonias, the princes, the captives, the mighty men, and the people of the land from Jerusalem, and brought them to Babylon."},{"chapter":1,"verse":10,"text":"And they said: Behold, we have sent you money; therefore buy with the money burnt offerings, sin offerings, and incense, and prepare an oblation, and offer upon the altar of the Lord our God;"},{"chapter":1,"verse":11,"text":"and pray for the life of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and for the life of Baltasar his son, that their days may be as the days of heaven above the earth."},{"chapter":1,"verse":12,"text":"The Lord will give us strength and light to our eyes. We will live under the shadow of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon and under the shadow of Baltasar his son, and we shall serve them many days, and find favor in their sight."},{"chapter":1,"verse":13,"text":"Pray for us also to the Lord our God, for we have sinned against the Lord our God. To this day the wrath of the Lord and his indignation is not turned from us."},{"chapter":1,"verse":14,"text":"You shall read this book which we have sent to you, to make confession in the house of the Lord upon the day of the feast and on the days of the solemn assembly."},{"chapter":1,"verse":15,"text":"You shall say: To the Lord our God belongs righteousness, but to us confusion of face, as at this day—to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,"},{"chapter":1,"verse":16,"text":"to our kings, to our princes, to our priests, to our prophets, and to our fathers,"},{"chapter":1,"verse":17,"text":"because we have sinned before the Lord."},{"chapter":1,"verse":18,"text":"We have disobeyed him and have not listened to the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in the commandments of the Lord that he has set before us."},{"chapter":1,"verse":19,"text":"Since the day that the Lord brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt to this present day, we have been disobedient to the Lord our God, and we have been negligent in not listening to his voice."},{"chapter":1,"verse":20,"text":"Therefore the plagues have clung to us, along with the curse which the Lord declared through Moses his servant in the day that he brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt to give us a land that flows with milk and honey, as at this day."},{"chapter":1,"verse":21,"text":"Nevertheless we didn’t listen to the voice of the Lord our God, according to all the words of the prophets whom he sent to us,"},{"chapter":1,"verse":22,"text":"but we each walked in the imagination of his own wicked heart, to serve strange gods and to do what is evil in the sight of the Lord our God."},{"chapter":2,"verse":1,"text":"Therefore the Lord has made good his word which he pronounced against us, and against our judges who judged Israel, and against our kings, and against our princes, and against the men of Israel and Judah,"},{"chapter":2,"verse":2,"text":"to bring upon us great plagues such as never happened before under the whole heaven, as it came to pass in Jerusalem, according to the things that are written in the law of Moses,"},{"chapter":2,"verse":3,"text":"that we should each eat the flesh of our own son, and each eat the flesh of our own daughter."},{"chapter":2,"verse":4,"text":"Moreover he has given them to be in subjection to all the kingdoms that are around us, to be a reproach and a desolation among all the people around us, where the Lord has scattered them."},{"chapter":2,"verse":5,"text":"Thus they were cast down and not exalted, because we sinned against the Lord our God in not listening to his voice."},{"chapter":2,"verse":6,"text":"To the Lord our God belongs righteousness, but to us and to our fathers confusion of face, as at this day."},{"chapter":2,"verse":7,"text":"All these plagues have come upon us which the Lord has pronounced against us."},{"chapter":2,"verse":8,"text":"Yet have we not entreated the favor of the Lord by everyone turning from the thoughts of his wicked heart."},{"chapter":2,"verse":9,"text":"Therefore the Lord has kept watch over the plagues. The Lord has brought them upon us, for the Lord is righteous in all his works which he has commanded us."},{"chapter":2,"verse":10,"text":"Yet we have not listened to his voice, to walk in the commandments of the Lord that he has set before us."},{"chapter":2,"verse":11,"text":"And now, O Lord, you God of Israel who have brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, with signs, with wonders, with great power, and with a high arm, and have gotten yourself a name, as at this day:"},{"chapter":2,"verse":12,"text":"O Lord our God, we have sinned. We have been ungodly. We have done wrong in all your ordinances."},{"chapter":2,"verse":13,"text":"Let your wrath turn from us, for we are but a few left among the heathen where you have scattered us."},{"chapter":2,"verse":14,"text":"Hear our prayer, O Lord, and our petition, and deliver us for your own sake. Give us favor in the sight of those who have led us away captive,"},{"chapter":2,"verse":15,"text":"that all the earth may know that you are the Lord our God, because Israel and his posterity is called by your name."},{"chapter":2,"verse":16,"text":"O Lord, look down from your holy house and consider us. Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear."},{"chapter":2,"verse":17,"text":"Open your eyes, and see; for the dead that are in Hades, whose breath is taken from their bodies, will give to the Lord neither glory nor righteousness;"},{"chapter":2,"verse":18,"text":"but the soul who is greatly vexed, who goes stooping and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry soul, will declare your glory and righteousness, O Lord."},{"chapter":2,"verse":19,"text":"For we do not present our supplication before you, O Lord our God, for the righteousness of our fathers and of our kings."},{"chapter":2,"verse":20,"text":"For you have sent your wrath and your indignation upon us, as you have spoken by your servants the prophets, saying,"},{"chapter":2,"verse":21,"text":"“The Lord says, ‘Bow your shoulders to serve the king of Babylon, and remain in the land that I gave to your fathers."},{"chapter":2,"verse":22,"text":"But if you won’t hear the voice of the Lord to serve the king of Babylon,"},{"chapter":2,"verse":23,"text":"I will cause to cease out of the cities of Judah and from the region near Jerusalem the voice of mirth, the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride. The whole land will be desolate without inhabitant.’”"},{"chapter":2,"verse":24,"text":"But we wouldn’t listen to your voice, to serve the king of Babylon. Therefore you have made good your words that you spoke by your servants the prophets, that the bones of our kings and the bones of our fathers would be taken out of their places."},{"chapter":2,"verse":25,"text":"Behold, they are cast out to the heat by day and to the frost by night. They died in great miseries by famine, by sword, and by pestilence."},{"chapter":2,"verse":26,"text":"You have made the house that is called by your name as it is today because of the wickedness of the house of Israel and the house of Judah."},{"chapter":2,"verse":27,"text":"Yet, O Lord our God, you have dealt with us after all your kindness and according to all your great mercy,"},{"chapter":2,"verse":28,"text":"as you spoke by your servant Moses in the day when you commanded him to write your law in the presence of the children of Israel, saying,"},{"chapter":2,"verse":29,"text":"“If you won’t hear my voice, surely this very great multitude will be turned into a small number among the nations where I will scatter them."},{"chapter":2,"verse":30,"text":"For I know that they will not hear me, because they are a stiff-necked people; but in the land of their captivity they will take it to heart,"},{"chapter":2,"verse":31,"text":"and will know that I am the Lord their God. I will give them a heart and ears to hear."},{"chapter":2,"verse":32,"text":"Then they will praise me in the land of their captivity, and think about my name,"},{"chapter":2,"verse":33,"text":"and will return from their stiff neck and from their wicked deeds; for they will remember the way of their fathers who sinned before the Lord."},{"chapter":2,"verse":34,"text":"I will bring them again into the land which I promised to their fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and they will rule over it. I will increase them, and they won’t be diminished."},{"chapter":2,"verse":35,"text":"And I will make an everlasting covenant with them to be their God, and they will be my people. I will no more remove my people Israel out of the land that I have given them.”"},{"chapter":3,"verse":1,"text":"O Lord Almighty, you God of Israel, the soul in anguish and the troubled spirit cries to you."},{"chapter":3,"verse":2,"text":"Hear, O Lord, and have mercy; for you are a merciful God. Yes, have mercy upon us, because we have sinned before you."},{"chapter":3,"verse":3,"text":"For you are enthroned forever, and we keep perishing."},{"chapter":3,"verse":4,"text":"O Lord Almighty, you God of Israel, hear now the prayer of the dead Israelites, and of the children of those who were sinners before you, who didn’t listen to the voice of you their God; because of this, these plagues cling to us."},{"chapter":3,"verse":5,"text":"Don’t remember the iniquities of our fathers, but remember your power and your name at this time."},{"chapter":3,"verse":6,"text":"For you are the Lord our God, and we will praise you, O Lord."},{"chapter":3,"verse":7,"text":"For this cause, you have put your fear in our hearts, to the intent that we should call upon your name. We will praise you in our captivity, for we have called to mind all the iniquity of our fathers who sinned before you."},{"chapter":3,"verse":8,"text":"Behold, we are yet this day in our captivity where you have scattered us, for a reproach and a curse, and to be subject to penalty according to all the iniquities of our fathers who departed from the Lord our God."},{"chapter":3,"verse":9,"text":"Hear, O Israel, the commandments of life! Give ear to understand wisdom!"},{"chapter":3,"verse":10,"text":"How is it, O Israel, that you are in your enemies’ land, that you have become old in a strange country, that you are defiled with the dead,"},{"chapter":3,"verse":11,"text":"that you are counted with those who are in Hades?"},{"chapter":3,"verse":12,"text":"You have forsaken the fountain of wisdom."},{"chapter":3,"verse":13,"text":"If you had walked in the way of God, you would have dwelled in peace forever."},{"chapter":3,"verse":14,"text":"Learn where there is wisdom, where there is strength, and where there is understanding, that you may also know where there is length of days and life, where there is the light of the eyes and peace."},{"chapter":3,"verse":15,"text":"Who has found out her place? Who has come into her treasuries?"},{"chapter":3,"verse":16,"text":"Where are the princes of the heathen, and those who ruled the beasts that are on the earth,"},{"chapter":3,"verse":17,"text":"those who had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and those who hoarded up silver and gold, in which people trust, and of their getting there is no end?"},{"chapter":3,"verse":18,"text":"For those who diligently sought silver, and were so anxious, and whose works are past finding out,"},{"chapter":3,"verse":19,"text":"they have vanished and gone down to Hades, and others have come up in their place."},{"chapter":3,"verse":20,"text":"Younger men have seen the light and lived upon the earth, but they haven’t known the way of knowledge,"},{"chapter":3,"verse":21,"text":"nor understood its paths. Their children haven’t embraced it. They are far off from their way."},{"chapter":3,"verse":22,"text":"It has not been heard of in Canaan, neither has it been seen in Teman."},{"chapter":3,"verse":23,"text":"The sons also of Agar who seek understanding, which are in the land, the merchants of Merran and Teman, and the authors of fables, and the searchers out of understanding—none of these have known the way of wisdom or remembered her paths."},{"chapter":3,"verse":24,"text":"O Israel, how great is the house of God! How large is the place of his possession!"},{"chapter":3,"verse":25,"text":"It is great and has no end. It is high and unmeasurable."},{"chapter":3,"verse":26,"text":"Giants were born that were famous of old, great of stature, and expert in war."},{"chapter":3,"verse":27,"text":"God didn’t choose these, nor did he give the way of knowledge to them,"},{"chapter":3,"verse":28,"text":"so they perished, because they had no wisdom. They perished through their own foolishness."},{"chapter":3,"verse":29,"text":"Who has gone up into heaven, taken her, and brought her down from the clouds?"},{"chapter":3,"verse":30,"text":"Who has gone over the sea, found her, and will bring her for choice gold?"},{"chapter":3,"verse":31,"text":"There is no one who knows her way, nor any who comprehend her path."},{"chapter":3,"verse":32,"text":"But he that knows all things knows her, he found her out with his understanding. He who prepared the earth for all time has filled it with four-footed beasts."},{"chapter":3,"verse":33,"text":"It is he who sends forth the light, and it goes. He called it, and it obeyed him with fear."},{"chapter":3,"verse":34,"text":"The stars shone in their watches, and were glad. When he called them, they said, “Here we are.” They shone with gladness to him who made them."},{"chapter":3,"verse":35,"text":"This is our God. No other can be compared to him."},{"chapter":3,"verse":36,"text":"He has found out all the way of knowledge, and has given it to Jacob his servant and to Israel who is loved by him."},{"chapter":3,"verse":37,"text":"Afterward she appeared upon earth, and lived with men."},{"chapter":4,"verse":1,"text":"This is the book of God’s commandments and the law that endures forever. All those who hold it fast will live, but those who leave it will die."},{"chapter":4,"verse":2,"text":"Turn, O Jacob, and take hold of it. Walk toward the shining of its light."},{"chapter":4,"verse":3,"text":"Don’t give your glory to another, nor the things that are to your advantage to a foreign nation."},{"chapter":4,"verse":4,"text":"O Israel, we are happy; for the things that are pleasing to God are made known to us."},{"chapter":4,"verse":5,"text":"Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel."},{"chapter":4,"verse":6,"text":"You were not sold to the nations for destruction, but because you moved God to wrath, you were delivered to your adversaries."},{"chapter":4,"verse":7,"text":"For you provoked him who made you by sacrificing to demons and not to God."},{"chapter":4,"verse":8,"text":"You forgot the everlasting God who brought you up. You also grieved Jerusalem, who nursed you."},{"chapter":4,"verse":9,"text":"For she saw the wrath that came upon you from God, and said, “Listen, you who dwell near Zion; for God has brought upon me great mourning."},{"chapter":4,"verse":10,"text":"For I have seen the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting has brought upon them."},{"chapter":4,"verse":11,"text":"For with joy I nourished them, but sent them away with weeping and mourning."},{"chapter":4,"verse":12,"text":"Let no man rejoice over me, a widow and forsaken by many. For the sins of my children, I am left desolate, because they turned away from the law of God"},{"chapter":4,"verse":13,"text":"and had no regard for his statutes. They didn’t walk in the ways of God’s commandments or tread in the paths of discipline in his righteousness."},{"chapter":4,"verse":14,"text":"Let those who dwell near Zion come and remember the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting has brought upon them."},{"chapter":4,"verse":15,"text":"For he has brought a nation upon them from afar, a shameless nation with a strange language, who didn’t respect old men or pity children."},{"chapter":4,"verse":16,"text":"They have carried away the dear beloved sons of the widow, and left her who was alone desolate of her daughters.”"},{"chapter":4,"verse":17,"text":"But I—how can I help you?"},{"chapter":4,"verse":18,"text":"For he who brought these calamities upon you will deliver you from the hand of your enemies."},{"chapter":4,"verse":19,"text":"Go your way, O my children. Go your way, for I am left desolate."},{"chapter":4,"verse":20,"text":"I have put off the garment of peace, and put on the sackcloth of my petition. I will cry to the Everlasting as long as I live."},{"chapter":4,"verse":21,"text":"Take courage, my children. Cry to God, and he will deliver you from the power and hand of the enemies."},{"chapter":4,"verse":22,"text":"For I have trusted in the Everlasting, that he will save you; and joy has come to me from the Holy One, because of the mercy that will soon come to you from your Everlasting Savior."},{"chapter":4,"verse":23,"text":"For I sent you out with mourning and weeping, but God will give you to me again with joy and gladness forever."},{"chapter":4,"verse":24,"text":"For as now those who dwell near Zion have seen your captivity, so they will shortly see your salvation from our God which will come upon you with great glory and brightness of the Everlasting."},{"chapter":4,"verse":25,"text":"My children, suffer patiently the wrath that has come upon you from God, for your enemy has persecuted you; but shortly you will see his destruction and will tread upon their necks."},{"chapter":4,"verse":26,"text":"My delicate ones have traveled rough roads. They were taken away like a flock carried off by enemies."},{"chapter":4,"verse":27,"text":"Take courage, my children, and cry to God; for you will be remembered by him who has brought this upon you."},{"chapter":4,"verse":28,"text":"For as it was your decision to go astray from God, return and seek him ten times more."},{"chapter":4,"verse":29,"text":"For he who brought these calamities upon you will bring you everlasting joy again with your salvation."},{"chapter":4,"verse":30,"text":"Take courage, O Jerusalem, for he who called you by name will comfort you."},{"chapter":4,"verse":31,"text":"Miserable are those who afflicted you and rejoiced at your fall."},{"chapter":4,"verse":32,"text":"Miserable are the cities which your children served. Miserable is she who received your sons."},{"chapter":4,"verse":33,"text":"For as she rejoiced at your fall and was glad of your ruin, so she will be grieved at her own desolation."},{"chapter":4,"verse":34,"text":"And I will take away her pride in her great multitude and her boasting will be turned into mourning."},{"chapter":4,"verse":35,"text":"For fire will come upon her from the Everlasting for many days; and she will be inhabited by demons for a long time."},{"chapter":4,"verse":36,"text":"O Jerusalem, look around you toward the east, and behold the joy that comes to you from God."},{"chapter":4,"verse":37,"text":"Behold, your sons come, whom you sent away. They come gathered together from the east to the west at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the glory of God."},{"chapter":5,"verse":1,"text":"Take off the garment of your mourning and affliction, O Jerusalem, and put on forever the beauty of the glory from God."},{"chapter":5,"verse":2,"text":"Put on the robe of the righteousness from God. Set on your head a diadem of the glory of the Everlasting."},{"chapter":5,"verse":3,"text":"For God will show your splendor everywhere under heaven."},{"chapter":5,"verse":4,"text":"For your name will be called by God forever “Righteous Peace, Godly Glory”."},{"chapter":5,"verse":5,"text":"Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand upon the height. Look around you toward the east and see your children gathered from the going down of the sun to its rising at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing that God has remembered them."},{"chapter":5,"verse":6,"text":"For they went from you on foot, being led away by their enemies, but God brings them in to you carried on high with glory, on a royal throne."},{"chapter":5,"verse":7,"text":"For God has appointed that every high mountain and the everlasting hills should be made low, and the valleys filled up to make the ground level, that Israel may go safely in the glory of God."},{"chapter":5,"verse":8,"text":"Moreover the woods and every sweet smelling tree have shaded Israel by the commandment of God."},{"chapter":5,"verse":9,"text":"For God will lead Israel with joy in the light of his glory with the mercy and righteousness that come from him."},{"chapter":6,"verse":1,"text":"A copy of a letter that Jeremy sent to those who were to be led captives into Babylon by the king of the Babylonians, to give them the message that God commanded him."},{"chapter":6,"verse":2,"text":"Because of the sins which you have committed before God, you will be led away captives to Babylon by Nabuchodonosor king of the Babylonians."},{"chapter":6,"verse":3,"text":"So when you come to Babylon, you will remain there many years, and for a long season, even for seven generations. After that, I will bring you out peacefully from there."},{"chapter":6,"verse":4,"text":"But now you will see in Babylon gods of silver, gold, and wood carried on shoulders, which cause the nations to fear."},{"chapter":6,"verse":5,"text":"Beware therefore that you in no way become like these foreigners. Don’t let fear take hold of you because of them when you see the multitude before them and behind them, worshiping them."},{"chapter":6,"verse":6,"text":"But say in your hearts, “O Lord, we must worship you.”"},{"chapter":6,"verse":7,"text":"For my angel is with you, and I myself care for your souls."},{"chapter":6,"verse":8,"text":"For their tongue is polished by the workman, and they themselves are overlaid with gold and with silver; yet they are only fake, and can’t speak."},{"chapter":6,"verse":9,"text":"And taking gold, as if it were for a virgin who loves to be happy, they make crowns for the heads of their gods."},{"chapter":6,"verse":10,"text":"Sometimes also the priests take gold and silver from their gods, and spend it on themselves."},{"chapter":6,"verse":11,"text":"They will even give some of it to the common prostitutes. They dress them like men with garments, even the gods of silver, gods of gold, and gods of wood."},{"chapter":6,"verse":12,"text":"Yet these gods can’t save themselves from rust and moths, even though they are covered with purple garments."},{"chapter":6,"verse":13,"text":"They wipe their faces because of the dust of the temple, which is thick upon them."},{"chapter":6,"verse":14,"text":"And he who can’t put to death one who offends against him holds a sceptre, as though he were judge of a country."},{"chapter":6,"verse":15,"text":"He has also a dagger in his right hand, and an axe, but can’t deliver himself from war and robbers."},{"chapter":6,"verse":16,"text":"By this they are known not to be gods. Therefore don’t fear them."},{"chapter":6,"verse":17,"text":"For like a vessel that a man uses is worth nothing when it is broken, even so it is with their gods. When they are set up in the temples, their eyes are full of dust through the feet of those who come in."},{"chapter":6,"verse":18,"text":"As the courts are secured on every side upon him who offends the king, as being committed to suffer death, even so the priests secure their temples with doors, with locks, and bars, lest they be carried off by robbers."},{"chapter":6,"verse":19,"text":"They light candles for them, yes, more than for themselves, even though they can’t see one."},{"chapter":6,"verse":20,"text":"They are like one of the beams of the temple. Men say their hearts are eaten out when things creeping out of the earth devour both them and their clothing. They don’t feel it"},{"chapter":6,"verse":21,"text":"when their faces are blackened through the smoke that comes out of the temple."},{"chapter":6,"verse":22,"text":"Bats, swallows, and birds land on their bodies and heads. So do the cats."},{"chapter":6,"verse":23,"text":"By this you may know that they are no gods. Therefore don’t fear them."},{"chapter":6,"verse":24,"text":"Notwithstanding the gold with which they are covered to make them beautiful, unless someone wipes off the tarnish, they won’t shine; for they didn’t even feel it when they were molten."},{"chapter":6,"verse":25,"text":"Things in which there is no breath are bought at any cost."},{"chapter":6,"verse":26,"text":"Having no feet, they are carried upon shoulders. By this, they declare to men that they are worth nothing."},{"chapter":6,"verse":27,"text":"Those who serve them are also ashamed, for if they fall to the ground at any time, they can’t rise up again by themselves. If they are bowed down, they can’t make themselves straight; but the offerings are set before them, as if they were dead men."},{"chapter":6,"verse":28,"text":"And the things that are sacrificed to them, their priests sell and spend. In like manner, their wives also lay up part of it in salt; but to the poor and to the impotent they give none of it."},{"chapter":6,"verse":29,"text":"The menstruous woman and the woman in childbed touch their sacrifices, knowing therefore by these things that they are no gods. Don’t fear them."},{"chapter":6,"verse":30,"text":"For how can they be called gods? Because women set food before the gods of silver, gold, and wood."},{"chapter":6,"verse":31,"text":"And in their temples the priests sit on seats, having their clothes torn and their heads and beards shaven, and nothing on their heads."},{"chapter":6,"verse":32,"text":"They roar and cry before their gods, as men do at the feast when one is dead."},{"chapter":6,"verse":33,"text":"The priests also take off garments from them and clothe their wives and children with them."},{"chapter":6,"verse":34,"text":"Whether it is evil or good what one does to them, they are not able to repay it. They can’t set up a king or put him down."},{"chapter":6,"verse":35,"text":"In like manner, they can neither give riches nor money. Though a man make a vow to them and doesn’t keep it, they will never exact it."},{"chapter":6,"verse":36,"text":"They can save no man from death. They can’t deliver the weak from the mighty."},{"chapter":6,"verse":37,"text":"They can’t restore a blind man to his sight, or deliver anyone who is in distress."},{"chapter":6,"verse":38,"text":"They can show no mercy to the widow, or do good to the fatherless."},{"chapter":6,"verse":39,"text":"They are like the stones that are cut out of the mountain, these gods of wood that are overlaid with gold and with silver. Those who minister to them will be confounded."},{"chapter":6,"verse":40,"text":"How could a man then think or say that they are gods, when even the Chaldeans themselves dishonor them?"},{"chapter":6,"verse":41,"text":"If they shall see one mute who can’t speak, they bring him and ask him to call upon Bel, as though he were able to understand."},{"chapter":6,"verse":42,"text":"Yet they can’t perceive this themselves, and forsake them; for they have no understanding."},{"chapter":6,"verse":43,"text":"The women also with cords around them sit in the ways, burning bran for incense; but if any of them, drawn by someone who passes by, lies with him, she reproaches her fellow, that she was not thought as worthy as herself and her cord wasn’t broken."},{"chapter":6,"verse":44,"text":"Whatever is done among them is false. How could a man then think or say that they are gods?"},{"chapter":6,"verse":45,"text":"They are fashioned by carpenters and goldsmiths. They can be nothing else than what the workmen make them to be."},{"chapter":6,"verse":46,"text":"And they themselves who fashioned them can never continue long. How then should the things that are fashioned by them?"},{"chapter":6,"verse":47,"text":"For they have left lies and reproaches to those who come after."},{"chapter":6,"verse":48,"text":"For when there comes any war or plague upon them, the priests consult with themselves, where they may be hidden with them."},{"chapter":6,"verse":49,"text":"How then can’t men understand that they are no gods, which can’t save themselves from war or from plague?"},{"chapter":6,"verse":50,"text":"For seeing they are only wood and overlaid with gold and silver, it will be known hereafter that they are false."},{"chapter":6,"verse":51,"text":"It will be manifest to all nations and kings that they are no gods, but the works of men’s hands, and that there is no work of God in them."},{"chapter":6,"verse":52,"text":"Who then may not know that they are not gods?"},{"chapter":6,"verse":53,"text":"For they can’t set up a king in a land or give rain to men."},{"chapter":6,"verse":54,"text":"They can’t judge their own cause, or redress a wrong, being unable; for they are like crows between heaven and earth."},{"chapter":6,"verse":55,"text":"For even when fire falls upon the house of gods of wood overlaid with gold or with silver, their priests will flee away, and escape, but they themselves will be burned apart like beams."},{"chapter":6,"verse":56,"text":"Moreover they can’t withstand any king or enemies. How could a man then admit or think that they are gods?"},{"chapter":6,"verse":57,"text":"Those gods of wood overlaid with silver or with gold aren’t able to escape from thieves or robbers."},{"chapter":6,"verse":58,"text":"The gold, silver, and garments with which they are clothed—those who are strong will take from them, and go away with them. They won’t be able to help themselves."},{"chapter":6,"verse":59,"text":"Therefore it is better to be a king who shows his manhood, or else a vessel in a house profitable for whatever the owner needs, than such false gods—or even a door in a house, to keep the things safe that are in it, than such false gods; or better to be a pillar of wood in a palace than such false gods."},{"chapter":6,"verse":60,"text":"For sun, moon, and stars, being bright and sent to do their jobs, are obedient."},{"chapter":6,"verse":61,"text":"Likewise also the lightning when it flashes is beautiful to see. In the same way, the wind also blows in every country."},{"chapter":6,"verse":62,"text":"And when God commands the clouds to go over the whole world, they do as they are told."},{"chapter":6,"verse":63,"text":"And the fire sent from above to consume mountains and woods does as it is commanded; but these are to be compared to them neither in show nor power."},{"chapter":6,"verse":64,"text":"Therefore a man shouldn’t think or say that they are gods, seeing they aren’t able to judge causes or to do good to men."},{"chapter":6,"verse":65,"text":"Knowing therefore that they are no gods, don’t fear them."},{"chapter":6,"verse":66,"text":"For they can neither curse nor bless kings."},{"chapter":6,"verse":67,"text":"They can’t show signs in the heavens among the nations, or shine as the sun, or give light as the moon."},{"chapter":6,"verse":68,"text":"The beasts are better than they, for they can find shelter and help themselves."},{"chapter":6,"verse":69,"text":"In no way then is it manifest to us that they are gods. Therefore don’t fear them."},{"chapter":6,"verse":70,"text":"For as a scarecrow in a garden of cucumbers that keeps nothing, so are their gods of wood overlaid with gold and silver."},{"chapter":6,"verse":71,"text":"Likewise also their gods of wood overlaid with gold and with silver are like a white thorn in an orchard that every bird sits upon. They are also like a dead body that is thrown out into the dark."},{"chapter":6,"verse":72,"text":"You will know them to be no gods by the bright purple that rots upon them. They themselves will be consumed afterwards, and will be a reproach in the country."},{"chapter":6,"verse":73,"text":"Better therefore is the just man who has no idols; for he will be far from reproach."}]},{"code":"BRENTON","name":"Brenton's Septuagint (1851)","language":"en","source":"Sir Lancelot C. L. Brenton, The Septuagint with Apocrypha (1851), public domain. Text from eBible.org","verses":[{"chapter":1,"verse":1,"text":"And these are the words of the book, which Baruch the son of Nerias, the son of Maasias, the son of Sedecias, the son of Asadias, the son of Chelcias, wrote in Babylon,"},{"chapter":1,"verse":2,"text":"in the fifth year, and in the seventh day of the month, what time as the Chaldeans took Jerusalem, and burnt it with fire."},{"chapter":1,"verse":3,"text":"And Baruch did read the words of this book in the hearing of Jechonias the son of Joachim king of Juda, and in the ears of all the people that came to hear the book,"},{"chapter":1,"verse":4,"text":"and in the hearing of the nobles, and of the king's sons, and in the hearing of the elders, and of all the people, from the lowest unto the highest, even of all them that dwelt at Babylon by the river Sud."},{"chapter":1,"verse":5,"text":"Whereupon they wept, fasted, and prayed before the Lord."},{"chapter":1,"verse":6,"text":"They made also a collection of money according to every man's power:"},{"chapter":1,"verse":7,"text":"and they sent it to Jerusalem unto Joachim the high priest, the son of Chelcias, son of Salom, and to the priests, and to all the people which were found with him at Jerusalem,"},{"chapter":1,"verse":8,"text":"at the same time when he received the vessels of the house of the Lord, that were carried out of the temple, to return them into the land of Juda, the tenth day of [the month] Sivan, [namely], silver vessels, which Sedecias the son of Josias king of Juda had made,"},{"chapter":1,"verse":9,"text":"after that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away Jechonias, and the princes, and the captives, and the mighty men, and the people of the land, from Jerusalem, and brought them unto Babylon."},{"chapter":1,"verse":10,"text":"And they said, Behold, we have sent you money to buy you burnt offerings, and sin offerings, and incense, and prepare ye manna, and offer upon the altar of the Lord our God;"},{"chapter":1,"verse":11,"text":"and pray for the life of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and for the life of Balthasar his son, that their days may be upon earth as the days of heaven:"},{"chapter":1,"verse":12,"text":"and the Lord will give us strength, and lighten our eyes, and we shall live under the shadow of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and under the shadow of Balthasar his son, and we shall serve them many days, and find favour in their sight."},{"chapter":1,"verse":13,"text":"Pray for us also unto the Lord our God, for we have sinned against the Lord our God; and unto this day the fury of the Lord and his wrath is not turned from us."},{"chapter":1,"verse":14,"text":"And ye shall read this book which we have sent unto you, to make confession in the house of the Lord, upon the feasts and solemn days."},{"chapter":1,"verse":15,"text":"And ye shall say, To the Lord our God [belongeth] righteousness, but unto us the confusion of faces, as [it is come to pass] this day, unto them of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,"},{"chapter":1,"verse":16,"text":"and to our kings, and to our princes, and to our priests, and to our prophets, and to our fathers:"},{"chapter":1,"verse":17,"text":"for we have sinned before the Lord,"},{"chapter":1,"verse":18,"text":"and disobeyed him, and have not hearkened unto the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in the commandments that he gave us openly:"},{"chapter":1,"verse":19,"text":"since the day that the Lord brought our forefathers out of the land of Egypt, unto this present day, we have been disobedient unto the Lord our God, and we have been negligent in not hearing his voice."},{"chapter":1,"verse":20,"text":"Wherefore the evils cleaved unto us, and the curse, which the Lord appointed by Moses his servant at the time that he brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to give us a land that floweth with milk and honey, like as [it is to see] this day."},{"chapter":1,"verse":21,"text":"Nevertheless we have not hearkened unto the voice of the Lord our God, according unto all the words of the prophets, whom he sent unto us:"},{"chapter":1,"verse":22,"text":"but every man followed the imagination of his own wicked heart, to serve strange gods, and to do evil in the sight of the Lord our God."},{"chapter":2,"verse":1,"text":"Therefore the Lord hath made good his word, which he pronounced against us, and against our judges that judged Israel, and against our kings, and against our princes, and against the men of Israel and Juda,"},{"chapter":2,"verse":2,"text":"to bring upon us great plagues, such as never happened under the whole heaven, as it came to pass in Jerusalem, according to the things that were written in the law of Moses;"},{"chapter":2,"verse":3,"text":"that a man should eat the flesh of his own son, and the flesh of his own daughter."},{"chapter":2,"verse":4,"text":"Moreover he hath delivered them to be in subjection to all the kingdoms that are round about us, to be as a reproach and desolation among all the people round about, where the Lord hath scattered them."},{"chapter":2,"verse":5,"text":"Thus we were cast down, and not exalted, because we have sinned against the Lord our God, and have not been obedient unto his voice."},{"chapter":2,"verse":6,"text":"To the Lord our God [appertaineth] righteousness: but unto us and to our fathers open shame, as [appeareth] this day."},{"chapter":2,"verse":7,"text":"[For] all these plagues are come upon us, which the Lord hath pronounced against us."},{"chapter":2,"verse":8,"text":"Yet have we not prayed before the Lord, that we might turn every one from the imaginations of his wicked heart."},{"chapter":2,"verse":9,"text":"Wherefore the Lord watched over us for evil, and the Lord hath brought it upon us: for the Lord is righteous in all his works which he hath commanded us."},{"chapter":2,"verse":10,"text":"Yet we have not hearkened unto his voice, to walk in the commandments of the Lord, that he hath set before us."},{"chapter":2,"verse":11,"text":"And now, O Lord God of Israel, that hast brought thy people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and high arm, and with signs, and with wonders, and with great power, and hast gotten thyself a name, as [appeareth] this day:"},{"chapter":2,"verse":12,"text":"O Lord our God, we have sinned, we have done ungodly, we have dealt unrighteously in all thine ordinances."},{"chapter":2,"verse":13,"text":"Let thy wrath turn from us: for we are but a few left among the heathen, where thou hast scattered us."},{"chapter":2,"verse":14,"text":"Hear our prayers, O Lord, and our petitions, and deliver us for thine own sake, and give us favour in the sight of them which have led us away:"},{"chapter":2,"verse":15,"text":"that all the earth may know that thou art the Lord our God, because Israel and his posterity is called by thy name."},{"chapter":2,"verse":16,"text":"O Lord, look down from thine holy house, and consider us: bow down thine ear, O Lord, to hear us."},{"chapter":2,"verse":17,"text":"Open thine eyes, and behold; for the dead that are in the graves, whose souls are taken from their bodies, will give unto the Lord neither praise nor righteousness:"},{"chapter":2,"verse":18,"text":"but the soul that is greatly vexed, which goeth stooping and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry soul, will give thee praise and righteousness, O Lord."},{"chapter":2,"verse":19,"text":"Therefore we do not make our humble supplication before thee, O Lord our God, for the righteousness of our fathers, and of our kings,"},{"chapter":2,"verse":20,"text":"for thou hast sent out thy wrath and indignation upon us, as thou hast spoken by thy servants the prophets, [saying],"},{"chapter":2,"verse":21,"text":"Thus saith the Lord, Bow down your shoulders to serve the king of Babylon: so shall ye remain in the land that I gave unto your fathers."},{"chapter":2,"verse":22,"text":"But if ye will not hear the voice of the Lord, to serve the king of Babylon,"},{"chapter":2,"verse":23,"text":"I will cause to cease out of the cities of Juda, and from without Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: and the whole land shall be desolate of inhabitants."},{"chapter":2,"verse":24,"text":"But we would not hearken unto thy voice, to serve the king of Babylon: therefore hast thou made good the words that thou spakest by thy servants the prophets, namely, that the bones of our kings, and the bones of our fathers, should be taken out of their places."},{"chapter":2,"verse":25,"text":"And lo, they are cast out to the heat of the day, and to the frost of the night, and they died in great miseries by famine, by sword, and by pestilence."},{"chapter":2,"verse":26,"text":"And the house which is called by thy name hast thou laid waste, as [it is to be seen] this day, for the wickedness of the house of Israel and the house of Juda."},{"chapter":2,"verse":27,"text":"O Lord our God, thou hast dealt with us after all thy goodness, and according to all that great mercy of thine,"},{"chapter":2,"verse":28,"text":"as thou spakest by thy servant Moses in the day when thou didst command him to write thy law before the children of Israel, saying,"},{"chapter":2,"verse":29,"text":"If ye will not hear my voice, surely this very great multitude shall be turned into a small [number] among the nations, where I will scatter them."},{"chapter":2,"verse":30,"text":"For I knew that they would not hear me, because it is a stiffnecked people: but in the land of their captivities they shall remember themselves,"},{"chapter":2,"verse":31,"text":"and shall know that I am the Lord their God: for I will give them an heart, and ears to hear:"},{"chapter":2,"verse":32,"text":"and they shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and think upon my name,"},{"chapter":2,"verse":33,"text":"and return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which sinned before the Lord."},{"chapter":2,"verse":34,"text":"And I will bring them again into the land which I promised with an oath unto their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and they shall be lords of it: and I will increase them, and they shall not be diminished."},{"chapter":2,"verse":35,"text":"And I will make an everlasting covenant with them to be their God, and they shall be my people: and I will no more drive my people of Israel out of the land that I have given them."},{"chapter":3,"verse":1,"text":"O Lord Almighty, God of Israel, the soul in anguish, the troubled spirit, crieth unto thee."},{"chapter":3,"verse":2,"text":"Hear, O Lord, and have mercy; for thou art merciful: and have pity upon us, because we have sinned before thee."},{"chapter":3,"verse":3,"text":"For thou endurest for ever, and we perish utterly."},{"chapter":3,"verse":4,"text":"O Lord Almighty, thou God of Israel, hear now the prayers of the dead Israelites, and of their children, which have sinned before thee, and not hearkened unto the voice of thee their God: for the which cause these plagues cleave unto us."},{"chapter":3,"verse":5,"text":"Remember not the iniquities of our forefathers: but think upon thy power and thy name now at this time."},{"chapter":3,"verse":6,"text":"For thou art the Lord our God, and thee, O Lord, will we praise."},{"chapter":3,"verse":7,"text":"And for this cause thou hast put thy fear in our hearts, to the intent that we should call upon thy name, and praise thee in our captivity: for we have called to mind all the iniquity of our forefathers, that sinned before thee."},{"chapter":3,"verse":8,"text":"Behold, we are yet this day in our captivity, where thou hast scattered us, for a reproach and a curse, and to be subject to payments, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, which departed from the Lord our God."},{"chapter":3,"verse":9,"text":"Hear, Israel, the commandments of life: give ear to understand wisdom."},{"chapter":3,"verse":10,"text":"How happeneth it, Israel, that thou art in thine enemies' land, that thou art waxen old in a strange country, that thou art defiled with the dead,"},{"chapter":3,"verse":11,"text":"that thou art counted with them that go down into the grave?"},{"chapter":3,"verse":12,"text":"Thou hast forsaken the fountain of wisdom."},{"chapter":3,"verse":13,"text":"For if thou hadst walked in the way of God, thou shouldest have dwelled in peace for ever."},{"chapter":3,"verse":14,"text":"Learn where is wisdom, where is strength, where is understanding; that thou mayest know also where is length of days, and life, where is the light of the eyes, and peace."},{"chapter":3,"verse":15,"text":"Who hath found out her place? or who hath come into her treasures?"},{"chapter":3,"verse":16,"text":"Where are the princes of the heathen, and such as ruled the beasts upon the earth;"},{"chapter":3,"verse":17,"text":"they that had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and they that hoarded up silver and gold, wherein men trust, and made no end of their getting?"},{"chapter":3,"verse":18,"text":"For they that wrought in silver, and were so careful, and whose works are unsearchable,"},{"chapter":3,"verse":19,"text":"they are vanished and gone down to the grave, and others are come up in their stead."},{"chapter":3,"verse":20,"text":"Young men have seen light, and dwelt upon the earth; but the way of knowledge have they not known,"},{"chapter":3,"verse":21,"text":"nor understood the paths thereof, nor laid hold of it: their children were far off from that way."},{"chapter":3,"verse":22,"text":"It hath not been heard of in Chanaan, neither hath it been seen in Theman."},{"chapter":3,"verse":23,"text":"The Agarenes that seek wisdom upon earth, the merchants of Meran and of Theman, the authors of fables, and searchers out of understanding; none of these have known the way of wisdom, or remembered her paths."},{"chapter":3,"verse":24,"text":"O Israel, how great is the house of God! and how large is the place of his possession!"},{"chapter":3,"verse":25,"text":"Great, and hath none end; high, and unmeasurable."},{"chapter":3,"verse":26,"text":"There were the giants famous from the beginning, that were of so great stature, and so expert in war."},{"chapter":3,"verse":27,"text":"Those did not the Lord choose, neither gave he the way of knowledge unto them:"},{"chapter":3,"verse":28,"text":"but they were destroyed, because they had no wisdom, and perished through their own foolishness."},{"chapter":3,"verse":29,"text":"Who hath gone up into heaven, and taken her, and brought her down from the clouds?"},{"chapter":3,"verse":30,"text":"Who hath gone over the sea, and found her, and will bring her for pure gold?"},{"chapter":3,"verse":31,"text":"No man knoweth her way, nor thinketh of her path."},{"chapter":3,"verse":32,"text":"But he that knoweth all things knoweth her, and hath found her out with his understanding: he that prepared the earth for evermore hath filled it with fourfooted beasts:"},{"chapter":3,"verse":33,"text":"he that sendeth forth light, and it goeth, calleth it [again], and it obeyeth him with fear."},{"chapter":3,"verse":34,"text":"The stars shined in their watches, and rejoiced: when he calleth them, they say, Here we be; and so with cheerfulness they shewed light unto him that made them."},{"chapter":3,"verse":35,"text":"This is our God, and there shall none other be accounted of in comparison of him."},{"chapter":3,"verse":36,"text":"He hath found out all the way of knowledge, and hath given it unto Jacob his servant, and to Israel his beloved."},{"chapter":3,"verse":37,"text":"Afterward did he shew himself upon earth, and conversed with men."},{"chapter":4,"verse":1,"text":"This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law that endureth for ever: all they that keep it [shall come] to life; but such as leave it shall die."},{"chapter":4,"verse":2,"text":"Turn thee, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk in the presence of the light thereof, that thou mayest be illuminated."},{"chapter":4,"verse":3,"text":"Give not thine honour to another, nor the things that are profitable unto thee to a strange nation."},{"chapter":4,"verse":4,"text":"O Israel, happy are we: for things that are pleasing to God are made known unto us."},{"chapter":4,"verse":5,"text":"Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel."},{"chapter":4,"verse":6,"text":"Ye were sold to the nations, not for [your] destruction: but because ye moved God to wrath, ye were delivered unto the enemies."},{"chapter":4,"verse":7,"text":"For ye provoked him that made you by sacrificing unto devils and not to God."},{"chapter":4,"verse":8,"text":"Ye have forgotten the everlasting God, that brought you up; and ye have grieved Jerusalem, that nursed you."},{"chapter":4,"verse":9,"text":"For when she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, she said, Hearken, O ye that dwell about Sion: God hath brought upon me great mourning;"},{"chapter":4,"verse":10,"text":"for I saw the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting brought upon them."},{"chapter":4,"verse":11,"text":"With joy did I nourish them; but sent them away with weeping and mourning."},{"chapter":4,"verse":12,"text":"Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and forsaken of many, who for the sins of my children am left desolate; because they departed from the law of God."},{"chapter":4,"verse":13,"text":"They knew not his statutes, nor walked in the ways of his commandments, nor trod in the paths of discipline in his righteousness."},{"chapter":4,"verse":14,"text":"Let them that dwell about Sion come, and remember ye the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting hath brought upon them."},{"chapter":4,"verse":15,"text":"For he hath brought a nation upon them from far, a shameless nation, and of a strange language, who neither reverenced old man, nor pitied child,"},{"chapter":4,"verse":16,"text":"and they have carried away the dear beloved children of the widow, and left her that was alone desolate without daughters."},{"chapter":4,"verse":17,"text":"But what can I help you?"},{"chapter":4,"verse":18,"text":"For he that brought these plagues upon you will deliver you from the hands of your enemies."},{"chapter":4,"verse":19,"text":"Go your way, O my children, go your way: for I am left desolate."},{"chapter":4,"verse":20,"text":"I have put off the clothing of peace, and put upon me the sackcloth of my prayer: I will cry unto the Everlasting in my days."},{"chapter":4,"verse":21,"text":"Be of good cheer, O my children, cry unto the Lord, and he shall deliver you from the power and hand of the enemies."},{"chapter":4,"verse":22,"text":"For my hope is in the Everlasting, that he will save you: and joy is come unto me from the Holy One, because of the mercy which shall soon come unto you from the Everlasting your Saviour."},{"chapter":4,"verse":23,"text":"For I sent you out with mourning and weeping: but God will give you to me again with joy and gladness for ever."},{"chapter":4,"verse":24,"text":"Like as now the neighbours of Sion have seen your captivity: so shall they see shortly your salvation from your God, which shall come upon you with great glory, and brightness of the Everlasting."},{"chapter":4,"verse":25,"text":"My children, suffer patiently the wrath that is come upon you from God: for thine enemy hath persecuted thee; but shortly thou shalt see his destruction, and shalt tread upon his neck."},{"chapter":4,"verse":26,"text":"My delicate ones have gone rough ways, and were taken away as a flock caught of the enemies."},{"chapter":4,"verse":27,"text":"Be of good comfort, O my children, and cry unto God: for ye shall be remembered of him that brought these things upon you."},{"chapter":4,"verse":28,"text":"For as it was your mind to go astray from God: so, being returned, seek him ten times more."},{"chapter":4,"verse":29,"text":"For he that hath brought these plagues upon you shall bring you everlasting joy again with your salvation."},{"chapter":4,"verse":30,"text":"Take a good heart, O Jerusalem: for he that gave thee that name will comfort thee."},{"chapter":4,"verse":31,"text":"Miserable are they that afflicted thee, and rejoiced at thy fall."},{"chapter":4,"verse":32,"text":"Miserable are the cities which thy children served: miserable is she that received thy sons."},{"chapter":4,"verse":33,"text":"For as she rejoiced at thy ruin, and was glad of thy fall: so shall she be grieved for her own desolation."},{"chapter":4,"verse":34,"text":"For I will take away the rejoicing of her great multitude, and her pride shall be turned into mourning."},{"chapter":4,"verse":35,"text":"For fire shall come upon her from the Everlasting, long to endure; and she shall be inhabited of devils for a great time."},{"chapter":4,"verse":36,"text":"O Jerusalem, look about thee toward the east, and behold the joy that cometh unto thee from God."},{"chapter":4,"verse":37,"text":"Lo, thy sons come, whom thou sentest away, they come gathered together from the east to the west by the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the glory of God."},{"chapter":5,"verse":1,"text":"Put off, O Jerusalem, the garment of thy mourning and affliction, and put on the comeliness of the glory that cometh from God for ever."},{"chapter":5,"verse":2,"text":"Cast about thee a double garment of the righteousness which cometh from God; and set a diadem on thine head of the glory of the Everlasting."},{"chapter":5,"verse":3,"text":"For God will shew thy brightness unto every country under heaven."},{"chapter":5,"verse":4,"text":"For thy name shall be called of God for ever The peace of righteousness, and The glory of God's worship."},{"chapter":5,"verse":5,"text":"Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand on high, and look about toward the east, and behold thy children gathered from the west unto the east by the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the remembrance of God."},{"chapter":5,"verse":6,"text":"For they departed from thee on foot, and were led away of their enemies: but God bringeth them unto thee exalted with glory, as children of the kingdom."},{"chapter":5,"verse":7,"text":"For God hath appointed that every high hill, and banks of long continuance, should be cast down, and vallies filled up, to make even the ground, that Israel may go safely in the glory of God."},{"chapter":5,"verse":8,"text":"Moreover even the woods and every sweetsmelling tree shall overshadow Israel by the commandment of God."},{"chapter":5,"verse":9,"text":"For God shall lead Israel with joy in the light of his glory with the mercy and righteousness that cometh from him."},{"chapter":6,"verse":1,"text":"A copy of an epistle, which Jeremy sent unto them which were to be led captives into Babylon by the king of the Babylonians, to certify them, as it was commanded him of God."},{"chapter":6,"verse":2,"text":"Because of the sins which ye have committed before God, ye shall be led away captives into Babylon by Nabuchodonosor king of the Babylonians."},{"chapter":6,"verse":3,"text":"So when ye be come unto Babylon, ye shall remain there many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations: and after that I will bring you away peaceably from thence."},{"chapter":6,"verse":4,"text":"Now shall ye see in Babylon gods of silver, and of gold, and of wood, borne upon shoulders, which cause the nations to fear."},{"chapter":6,"verse":5,"text":"Beware therefore that ye in no wise be like to strangers, neither be ye afraid of them, when ye see the multitude before them and behind them, worshipping them."},{"chapter":6,"verse":6,"text":"But say ye in your hearts, O Lord, we must worship thee."},{"chapter":6,"verse":7,"text":"For mine angel is with you, and I myself caring for your souls."},{"chapter":6,"verse":8,"text":"As for their tongue, it is polished by the workman, and they themselves are gilded and laid over with gold; yet are they but false, and cannot speak."},{"chapter":6,"verse":9,"text":"And taking gold, as it were for a virgin that loveth to go gay, they make crowns for the heads of their gods."},{"chapter":6,"verse":10,"text":"Sometimes also the priests convey from their gods gold and silver, and bestow it upon themselves."},{"chapter":6,"verse":11,"text":"Yea, they will give thereof to the common harlots, and deck them as men with garments, [being] gods of silver, and gods of gold, and wood."},{"chapter":6,"verse":12,"text":"Yet cannot these gods save themselves from rust and moths, though they be covered with purple raiment."},{"chapter":6,"verse":13,"text":"They wipe their faces because of the dust of the temple, when there is much upon them."},{"chapter":6,"verse":14,"text":"And he that cannot put to death one that offendeth him holdeth a sceptre, as though he were a judge of the country."},{"chapter":6,"verse":15,"text":"He hath also in his right hand a dagger and an axe: but cannot deliver himself from war and thieves."},{"chapter":6,"verse":16,"text":"Whereby they are known not to be gods: therefore fear them not."},{"chapter":6,"verse":17,"text":"For like as a vessel that a man useth is nothing worth when it is broken; even so it is with their gods: when they be set up in the temple, their eyes be full of dust through the feet of them that come in."},{"chapter":6,"verse":18,"text":"And as the doors are made sure on every side upon him that offendeth the king, as being committed to suffer death; even so the priests make fast their temples with doors, with locks, and bars, lest [their gods] be spoiled with robbers."},{"chapter":6,"verse":19,"text":"They light them candles, yea, more than for themselves, whereof they cannot see one."},{"chapter":6,"verse":20,"text":"They are as one of the beams of the temple, yet they say their hearts are gnawed upon by things creeping out of the earth; and when they eat them and their clothes, they feel it not."},{"chapter":6,"verse":21,"text":"Their faces are blacked through the smoke that cometh out of the temple."},{"chapter":6,"verse":22,"text":"Upon their bodies and heads sit bats, swallows, and birds, and the cats also."},{"chapter":6,"verse":23,"text":"By this ye may know that they are no gods: therefore fear them not."},{"chapter":6,"verse":24,"text":"Notwithstanding the gold that is about them to make them beautiful, except they wipe off the rust, they will not shine: for neither when they were molten did they feel it."},{"chapter":6,"verse":25,"text":"The things wherein there is no breath are bought for a most high price."},{"chapter":6,"verse":26,"text":"They are borne upon shoulders, having no feet, whereby they declare unto men that they be nothing worth."},{"chapter":6,"verse":27,"text":"They also that serve them are ashamed: for if they fall to the ground at any time, they cannot rise up again of themselves: neither, if one set them upright, can they move of themselves: neither, if they be bowed down, can they make themselves straight: but they set gifts before them, as unto dead men."},{"chapter":6,"verse":28,"text":"As for the things that are sacrificed unto them, their priests sell and abuse; in like manner their wives lay up part thereof in salt; but unto the poor and impotent they give nothing of it."},{"chapter":6,"verse":29,"text":"Menstruous women and women in childbed eat their sacrifices: by these things ye may know that they are no gods: fear them not."},{"chapter":6,"verse":30,"text":"For how can they be called gods? because women set meat before the gods of silver, gold, and wood."},{"chapter":6,"verse":31,"text":"And the priests sit in their temples, having their clothes rent, and their heads and beards shaven, and nothing upon their heads."},{"chapter":6,"verse":32,"text":"They roar and cry before their gods, as men do at the feast when one is dead."},{"chapter":6,"verse":33,"text":"The priests also take off their garments, and clothe their wives and children."},{"chapter":6,"verse":34,"text":"Whether it be evil that one doeth unto them, or good, they are not able to recompense it: they can neither set up a king, nor put him down."},{"chapter":6,"verse":35,"text":"In like manner, they can neither give riches nor money: though a man make a vow unto them, and keep it not, they will not require it."},{"chapter":6,"verse":36,"text":"They can save no man from death, neither deliver the weak from the mighty."},{"chapter":6,"verse":37,"text":"They cannot restore a blind man to his sight, nor help any man in his distress."},{"chapter":6,"verse":38,"text":"They can shew no mercy to the widow, nor do good to the fatherless."},{"chapter":6,"verse":39,"text":"Their gods of wood, and which are overlaid with gold and silver, are like the stones that be hewn out of the mountain: they that worship them shall be confounded."},{"chapter":6,"verse":40,"text":"How should a man then think and say that they are gods, when even the Chaldeans themselves dishonour them?"},{"chapter":6,"verse":41,"text":"Who if they shall see one dumb that cannot speak, they bring him, and intreat Bel that he may speak, as though he were able to understand."},{"chapter":6,"verse":42,"text":"Yet they cannot understand this themselves, and leave them: for they have no knowledge."},{"chapter":6,"verse":43,"text":"The women also with cords about them, sitting in the ways, burn bran for perfume: but if any of them, drawn by some that passeth by, lie with him, she reproacheth her fellow, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken."},{"chapter":6,"verse":44,"text":"Whatsoever is done among them is false: how may it then be thought or said that they are gods?"},{"chapter":6,"verse":45,"text":"They are made of carpenters and goldsmiths: they can be nothing else than the workmen will have them to be."},{"chapter":6,"verse":46,"text":"And they themselves that made them can never continue long; how should then the things that are made of them be gods?"},{"chapter":6,"verse":47,"text":"For they left lies and reproaches to them that come after."},{"chapter":6,"verse":48,"text":"For when there cometh any war or plague upon them, the priests consult with themselves, where they may be hidden with them."},{"chapter":6,"verse":49,"text":"How then cannot men perceive that they be no gods, which can neither save themselves from war, nor from plague?"},{"chapter":6,"verse":50,"text":"For seeing they be but of wood, and overlaid with silver and gold, it shall be known hereafter that they are false:"},{"chapter":6,"verse":51,"text":"and it shall manifestly appear to all nations and kings that they are no gods, but the works of men's hands, and that there is no work of God in them."},{"chapter":6,"verse":52,"text":"Who then may not know that they are no gods?"},{"chapter":6,"verse":53,"text":"For neither can they set up a king in the land, nor give rain unto men."},{"chapter":6,"verse":54,"text":"Neither can they judge their own cause, nor redress a wrong, being unable: for they are as crows between heaven and earth."},{"chapter":6,"verse":55,"text":"Whereupon when fire falleth upon the house of gods of wood, or laid over with gold or silver, their priests will flee away, and escape: but they themselves shall be burned asunder like beams."},{"chapter":6,"verse":56,"text":"Moreover they cannot withstand any king or enemies: how can it then be thought or said that they be gods?"},{"chapter":6,"verse":57,"text":"Neither are those gods of wood, and laid over with silver or gold, able to escape either from thieves or robbers."},{"chapter":6,"verse":58,"text":"Whose gold, and silver, and garments wherewith they are clothed, they that are strong do take, and go away withal: neither are they able to help themselves."},{"chapter":6,"verse":59,"text":"Therefore it is better to be a king that sheweth his power, or else a profitable vessel in an house, which the owner shall have use of, than such false gods; or to be a door in an house, to keep such things safe as be therein, than such false gods; or a pillar of wood in a palace, than such false gods."},{"chapter":6,"verse":60,"text":"For sun, moon, and stars, being bright, and sent to do their offices, are obedient."},{"chapter":6,"verse":61,"text":"In like manner the lightning when it breaketh forth is easy to be seen: and after the same manner the wind bloweth in every country."},{"chapter":6,"verse":62,"text":"And when God commandeth the clouds to go over the whole world, they do as they are bidden."},{"chapter":6,"verse":63,"text":"And the fire sent from above to consume hills and woods doeth as it is commanded: but these are like unto them neither in shew nor power."},{"chapter":6,"verse":64,"text":"Wherefore it is neither to be supposed nor said that they are gods, seeing they are able neither to judge causes, nor to do good unto men."},{"chapter":6,"verse":65,"text":"Knowing therefore that they are no gods, fear them not."},{"chapter":6,"verse":66,"text":"For they can neither curse nor bless kings:"},{"chapter":6,"verse":67,"text":"neither can they shew signs in the heavens among the heathen, nor shine as the sun, nor give light as the moon."},{"chapter":6,"verse":68,"text":"The beasts are better than they: for they can get under a covert, and help themselves."},{"chapter":6,"verse":69,"text":"It is then by no means manifest unto us that they are gods: therefore fear them not."},{"chapter":6,"verse":70,"text":"For as a scarecrow in a garden of cucumbers keepeth nothing: so are their gods of wood, and laid over with silver and gold."},{"chapter":6,"verse":71,"text":"And likewise their gods of wood, and laid over with silver and gold, are like to a white thorn in an orchard, that every bird sitteth upon; as also to a dead body, that is cast into the dark."},{"chapter":6,"verse":72,"text":"And ye shall know them to be no gods by the bright purple that rotteth upon them: and they themselves afterward shall be eaten, and shall be a reproach in the country."},{"chapter":6,"verse":73,"text":"Better therefore is the just man that hath no idols: for he shall be far from reproach."}]},{"code":"KJV","name":"King James Version","language":"en","source":"King James Version (1769), public domain. Text from eBible.org","verses":[{"chapter":1,"verse":1,"text":"And these are the words of the book, which Baruch the son of Nerias, the son of Maasias, the son of Sedecias, the son of Asadias, the son of Chelcias, wrote in Babylon,"},{"chapter":1,"verse":2,"text":"In the fifth year, and in the seventh day of the month, what time as the Chaldeans took Jerusalem, and burnt it with fire."},{"chapter":1,"verse":3,"text":"And Baruch did read the words of this book in the hearing of Jechonias the son of Joachim king of Juda, and in the ears of all the people that came to hear the book,"},{"chapter":1,"verse":4,"text":"And in the hearing of the nobles, and of the king’s sons, and in the hearing of the elders, and of all the people, from the lowest unto the highest, even of all them that dwelt at Babylon by the river Sud."},{"chapter":1,"verse":5,"text":"Whereupon they wept, fasted, and prayed before the Lord."},{"chapter":1,"verse":6,"text":"They made also a collection of money according to every man’s power:"},{"chapter":1,"verse":7,"text":"And they sent it to Jerusalem unto Joachim the high priest, the son of Chelcias, son of Salom, and to the priests, and to all the people which were found with him at Jerusalem,"},{"chapter":1,"verse":8,"text":"At the same time when he received the vessels of the house of the Lord, that were carried out of the temple, to return them into the land of Juda, the tenth day of the month Sivan, namely, silver vessels, which Sedecias the son of Josias king of Juda had made,"},{"chapter":1,"verse":9,"text":"After that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away Jechonias, and the princes, and the captives, and the mighty men, and the people of the land, from Jerusalem, and brought them unto Babylon."},{"chapter":1,"verse":10,"text":"And they said, Behold, we have sent you money to buy you burnt offerings, and sin offerings, and incense, and prepare ye manna, and offer upon the altar of the Lord our God;"},{"chapter":1,"verse":11,"text":"And pray for the life of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and for the life of Balthasar his son, that their days may be upon earth as the days of heaven:"},{"chapter":1,"verse":12,"text":"And the Lord will give us strength, and lighten our eyes, and we shall live under the shadow of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and under the shadow of Balthasar his son, and we shall serve them many days, and find favour in their sight."},{"chapter":1,"verse":13,"text":"Pray for us also unto the Lord our God, for we have sinned against the Lord our God; and unto this day the fury of the Lord and his wrath is not turned from us."},{"chapter":1,"verse":14,"text":"And ye shall read this book which we have sent unto you, to make confession in the house of the Lord, upon the feasts and solemn days."},{"chapter":1,"verse":15,"text":"And ye shall say, To the Lord our God belongeth righteousness, but unto us the confusion of faces, as it is come to pass this day, unto them of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,"},{"chapter":1,"verse":16,"text":"And to our kings, and to our princes, and to our priests, and to our prophets, and to our fathers:"},{"chapter":1,"verse":17,"text":"For we have sinned before the Lord,"},{"chapter":1,"verse":18,"text":"And disobeyed him, and have not hearkened unto the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in the commandments that he gave us openly:"},{"chapter":1,"verse":19,"text":"Since the day that the Lord brought our forefathers out of the land of Egypt, unto this present day, we have been disobedient unto the Lord our God, and we have been negligent in not hearing his voice."},{"chapter":1,"verse":20,"text":"Wherefore the evils cleaved unto us, and the curse, which the Lord appointed by Moses his servant at the time that he brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to give us a land that floweth with milk and honey, like as it is to see this day."},{"chapter":1,"verse":21,"text":"Nevertheless we have not hearkened unto the voice of the Lord our God, according unto all the words of the prophets, whom he sent unto us:"},{"chapter":1,"verse":22,"text":"But every man followed the imagination of his own wicked heart, to serve strange gods, and to do evil in the sight of the Lord our God."},{"chapter":2,"verse":1,"text":"Therefore the Lord hath made good his word, which he pronounced against us, and against our judges that judged Israel, and against our kings, and against our princes, and against the men of Israel and Juda,"},{"chapter":2,"verse":2,"text":"To bring upon us great plagues, such as never happened under the whole heaven, as it came to pass in Jerusalem, according to the things that were written in the law of Moses;"},{"chapter":2,"verse":3,"text":"That a man should eat the flesh of his own son, and the flesh of his own daughter."},{"chapter":2,"verse":4,"text":"Moreover he hath delivered them to be in subjection to all the kingdoms that are round about us, to be as a reproach and desolation among all the people round about, where the Lord hath scattered them."},{"chapter":2,"verse":5,"text":"Thus we were cast down, and not exalted, because we have sinned against the Lord our God, and have not been obedient unto his voice."},{"chapter":2,"verse":6,"text":"To the Lord our God appertaineth righteousness: but unto us and to our fathers open shame, as appeareth this day."},{"chapter":2,"verse":7,"text":"For all these plagues are come upon us, which the Lord hath pronounced against us"},{"chapter":2,"verse":8,"text":"Yet have we not prayed before the Lord, that we might turn every one from the imaginations of his wicked heart."},{"chapter":2,"verse":9,"text":"Wherefore the Lord watched over us for evil, and the Lord hath brought it upon us: for the Lord is righteous in all his works which he hath commanded us."},{"chapter":2,"verse":10,"text":"Yet we have not hearkened unto his voice, to walk in the commandments of the Lord, that he hath set before us."},{"chapter":2,"verse":11,"text":"And now, O Lord God of Israel, that hast brought thy people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and high arm, and with signs, and with wonders, and with great power, and hast gotten thyself a name, as appeareth this day:"},{"chapter":2,"verse":12,"text":"O Lord our God, we have sinned, we have done ungodly, we have dealt unrighteously in all thine ordinances."},{"chapter":2,"verse":13,"text":"Let thy wrath turn from us: for we are but a few left among the heathen, where thou hast scattered us."},{"chapter":2,"verse":14,"text":"Hear our prayers, O Lord, and our petitions, and deliver us for thine own sake, and give us favour in the sight of them which have led us away:"},{"chapter":2,"verse":15,"text":"That all the earth may know that thou art the Lord our God, because Israel and his posterity is called by thy name."},{"chapter":2,"verse":16,"text":"O Lord, look down from thine holy house, and consider us: bow down thine ear, O Lord, to hear us."},{"chapter":2,"verse":17,"text":"Open thine eyes, and behold; for the dead that are in the graves, whose souls are taken from their bodies, will give unto the Lord neither praise nor righteousness:"},{"chapter":2,"verse":18,"text":"But the soul that is greatly vexed, which goeth stooping and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry soul, will give thee praise and righteousness, O Lord."},{"chapter":2,"verse":19,"text":"Therefore we do not make our humble supplication before thee, O Lord our God, for the righteousness of our fathers, and of our kings."},{"chapter":2,"verse":20,"text":"For thou hast sent out thy wrath and indignation upon us, as thou hast spoken by thy servants the prophets, saying,"},{"chapter":2,"verse":21,"text":"Thus saith the Lord, Bow down your shoulders to serve the king of Babylon: so shall ye remain in the land that I gave unto your fathers."},{"chapter":2,"verse":22,"text":"But if ye will not hear the voice of the Lord, to serve the king of Babylon,"},{"chapter":2,"verse":23,"text":"I will cause to cease out of the cites of Judah, and from without Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: and the whole land shall be desolate of inhabitants."},{"chapter":2,"verse":24,"text":"But we would not hearken unto thy voice, to serve the king of Babylon: therefore hast thou made good the words that thou spakest by thy servants the prophets, namely, that the bones of our kings, and the bones of our fathers, should be taken out of their place."},{"chapter":2,"verse":25,"text":"And, lo, they are cast out to the heat of the day, and to the frost of the night, and they died in great miseries by famine, by sword, and by pestilence."},{"chapter":2,"verse":26,"text":"And the house which is called by thy name hast thou laid waste, as it is to be seen this day, for the wickedness of the house of Israel and the house of Juda."},{"chapter":2,"verse":27,"text":"O Lord our God, thou hast dealt with us after all thy goodness, and according to all that great mercy of thine,"},{"chapter":2,"verse":28,"text":"As thou spakest by thy servant Moses in the day when thou didst command him to write the law before the children of Israel, saying,"},{"chapter":2,"verse":29,"text":"If ye will not hear my voice, surely this very great multitude shall be turned into a small number among the nations, where I will scatter them."},{"chapter":2,"verse":30,"text":"For I knew that they would not hear me, because it is a stiffnecked people: but in the land of their captivities they shall remember themselves."},{"chapter":2,"verse":31,"text":"And shall know that I am the Lord their God: for I will give them an heart, and ears to hear:"},{"chapter":2,"verse":32,"text":"And they shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and think upon my name,"},{"chapter":2,"verse":33,"text":"And return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which sinned before the Lord."},{"chapter":2,"verse":34,"text":"And I will bring them again into the land which I promised with an oath unto their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and they shall be lords of it: and I will increase them, and they shall not be diminished."},{"chapter":2,"verse":35,"text":"And I will make an everlasting covenant with them to be their God, and they shall be my people: and I will no more drive my people of Israel out of the land that I have given them."},{"chapter":3,"verse":1,"text":"O Lord Almighty, God of Israel, the soul in anguish the troubled spirit, crieth unto thee."},{"chapter":3,"verse":2,"text":"Hear, O Lord, and have mercy; for thou art merciful: and have pity upon us, because we have sinned before thee."},{"chapter":3,"verse":3,"text":"For thou endurest for ever, and we perish utterly."},{"chapter":3,"verse":4,"text":"O Lord Almighty, thou God of Israel, hear now the prayers of the dead Israelites, and of their children, which have sinned before thee, and not hearkened unto the voice of thee their God: for the which cause these plagues cleave unto us."},{"chapter":3,"verse":5,"text":"Remember not the iniquities of our forefathers: but think upon thy power and thy name now at this time."},{"chapter":3,"verse":6,"text":"For thou art the Lord our God, and thee, O Lord, will we praise."},{"chapter":3,"verse":7,"text":"And for this cause thou hast put thy fear in our hearts, to the intent that we should call upon thy name, and praise thee in our captivity: for we have called to mind all the iniquity of our forefathers, that sinned before thee."},{"chapter":3,"verse":8,"text":"Behold, we are yet this day in our captivity, where thou hast scattered us, for a reproach and a curse, and to be subject to payments, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, which departed from the Lord our God."},{"chapter":3,"verse":9,"text":"Hear, Israel, the commandments of life: give ear to understand wisdom."},{"chapter":3,"verse":10,"text":"How happeneth it Israel, that thou art in thine enemies’ land, that thou art waxen old in a strange country, that thou art defiled with the dead,"},{"chapter":3,"verse":11,"text":"That thou art counted with them that go down into the grave?"},{"chapter":3,"verse":12,"text":"Thou hast forsaken the fountain of wisdom."},{"chapter":3,"verse":13,"text":"For if thou hadst walked in the way of God, thou shouldest have dwelled in peace for ever."},{"chapter":3,"verse":14,"text":"Learn where is wisdom, where is strength, where is understanding; that thou mayest know also where is length of days, and life, where is the light of the eyes, and peace."},{"chapter":3,"verse":15,"text":"Who hath found out her place? or who hath come into her treasures?"},{"chapter":3,"verse":16,"text":"Where are the princes of the heathen become, and such as ruled the beasts upon the earth;"},{"chapter":3,"verse":17,"text":"They that had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and they that hoarded up silver and gold, wherein men trust, and made no end of their getting?"},{"chapter":3,"verse":18,"text":"For they that wrought in silver, and were so careful, and whose works are unsearchable,"},{"chapter":3,"verse":19,"text":"They are vanished and gone down to the grave, and others are come up in their steads."},{"chapter":3,"verse":20,"text":"Young men have seen light, and dwelt upon the earth: but the way of knowledge have they not known,"},{"chapter":3,"verse":21,"text":"Nor understood the paths thereof, nor laid hold of it: their children were far off from that way."},{"chapter":3,"verse":22,"text":"It hath not been heard of in Chanaan, neither hath it been seen in Theman."},{"chapter":3,"verse":23,"text":"The Agarenes that seek wisdom upon earth, the merchants of Meran and of Theman, the authors of fables, and searchers out of understanding; none of these have known the way of wisdom, or remember her paths."},{"chapter":3,"verse":24,"text":"O Israel, how great is the house of God! and how large is the place of his possession!"},{"chapter":3,"verse":25,"text":"Great, and hath none end; high, and unmeasurable."},{"chapter":3,"verse":26,"text":"There were the giants famous from the beginning, that were of so great stature, and so expert in war."},{"chapter":3,"verse":27,"text":"Those did not the Lord choose, neither gave he the way of knowledge unto them:"},{"chapter":3,"verse":28,"text":"But they were destroyed, because they had no wisdom, and perished through their own foolishness."},{"chapter":3,"verse":29,"text":"Who hath gone up into heaven, and taken her, and brought her down from the clouds?"},{"chapter":3,"verse":30,"text":"Who hath gone over the sea, and found her, and will bring her for pure gold?"},{"chapter":3,"verse":31,"text":"No man knoweth her way, nor thinketh of her path."},{"chapter":3,"verse":32,"text":"But he that knoweth all things knoweth her, and hath found her out with his understanding: he that prepared the earth for evermore hath filled it with fourfooted beasts:"},{"chapter":3,"verse":33,"text":"He that sendeth forth light, and it goeth, calleth it again, and it obeyeth him with fear."},{"chapter":3,"verse":34,"text":"The stars shined in their watches, and rejoiced: when he calleth them, they say, Here we be; and so with cheerfulness they shewed light unto him that made them."},{"chapter":3,"verse":35,"text":"This is our God, and there shall none other be accounted of in comparison of him"},{"chapter":3,"verse":36,"text":"He hath found out all the way of knowledge, and hath given it unto Jacob his servant, and to Israel his beloved."},{"chapter":3,"verse":37,"text":"Afterward did he shew himself upon earth, and conversed with men."},{"chapter":4,"verse":1,"text":"This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law that endureth for ever: all they that keep it shall come to life; but such as leave it shall die."},{"chapter":4,"verse":2,"text":"Turn thee, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk in the presence of the light thereof, that thou mayest be illuminated."},{"chapter":4,"verse":3,"text":"Give not thine honour to another, nor the things that are profitable unto thee to a strange nation."},{"chapter":4,"verse":4,"text":"O Israel, happy are we: for things that are pleasing to God are made known unto us."},{"chapter":4,"verse":5,"text":"Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel."},{"chapter":4,"verse":6,"text":"Ye were sold to the nations, not for [your] destruction: but because ye moved God to wrath, ye were delivered unto the enemies."},{"chapter":4,"verse":7,"text":"For ye provoked him that made you by sacrificing unto devils, and not to God."},{"chapter":4,"verse":8,"text":"Ye have forgotten the everlasting God, that brought you up; and ye have grieved Jerusalem, that nursed you."},{"chapter":4,"verse":9,"text":"For when she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, she said, Hearken, O ye that dwell about Sion: God hath brought upon me great mourning;"},{"chapter":4,"verse":10,"text":"For I saw the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting brought upon them."},{"chapter":4,"verse":11,"text":"With joy did I nourish them; but sent them away with weeping and mourning."},{"chapter":4,"verse":12,"text":"Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and forsaken of many, who for the sins of my children am left desolate; because they departed from the law of God."},{"chapter":4,"verse":13,"text":"They knew not his statutes, nor walked in the ways of his commandments, nor trod in the paths of discipline in his righteousness."},{"chapter":4,"verse":14,"text":"Let them that dwell about Sion come, and remember ye the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting hath brought upon them."},{"chapter":4,"verse":15,"text":"For he hath brought a nation upon them from far, a shameless nation, and of a strange language, who neither reverenced old man, nor pitied child."},{"chapter":4,"verse":16,"text":"These have carried away the dear beloved children of the widow, and left her that was alone desolate without daughters."},{"chapter":4,"verse":17,"text":"But what can I help you?"},{"chapter":4,"verse":18,"text":"For he that brought these plagues upon you will deliver you from the hands of your enemies."},{"chapter":4,"verse":19,"text":"Go your way, O my children, go your way: for I am left desolate."},{"chapter":4,"verse":20,"text":"I have put off the clothing of peace, and put upon me the sackcloth of my prayer: I will cry unto the Everlasting in my days."},{"chapter":4,"verse":21,"text":"Be of good cheer, O my children, cry unto the Lord, and he will deliver you from the power and hand of the enemies."},{"chapter":4,"verse":22,"text":"For my hope is in the Everlasting, that he will save you; and joy is come unto me from the Holy One, because of the mercy which shall soon come unto you from the Everlasting our Saviour."},{"chapter":4,"verse":23,"text":"For I sent you out with mourning and weeping: but God will give you to me again with joy and gladness for ever."},{"chapter":4,"verse":24,"text":"Like as now the neighbours of Sion have seen your captivity: so shall they see shortly your salvation from our God which shall come upon you with great glory, and brightness of the Everlasting."},{"chapter":4,"verse":25,"text":"My children, suffer patiently the wrath that is come upon you from God: for thine enemy hath persecuted thee; but shortly thou shalt see his destruction, and shalt tread upon his neck."},{"chapter":4,"verse":26,"text":"My delicate ones have gone rough ways, and were taken away as a flock caught of the enemies."},{"chapter":4,"verse":27,"text":"Be of good comfort, O my children, and cry unto God: for ye shall be remembered of him that brought these things upon you."},{"chapter":4,"verse":28,"text":"For as it was your mind to go astray from God: so, being returned, seek him ten times more."},{"chapter":4,"verse":29,"text":"For he that hath brought these plagues upon you shall bring you everlasting joy with your salvation."},{"chapter":4,"verse":30,"text":"Take a good heart, O Jerusalem: for he that gave thee that name will comfort thee."},{"chapter":4,"verse":31,"text":"Miserable are they that afflicted thee, and rejoiced at thy fall."},{"chapter":4,"verse":32,"text":"Miserable are the cities which thy children served: miserable is she that received thy sons."},{"chapter":4,"verse":33,"text":"For as she rejoiced at thy ruin, and was glad of thy fall: so shall she be grieved for her own desolation."},{"chapter":4,"verse":34,"text":"For I will take away the rejoicing of her great multitude, and her pride shall be turned into mourning."},{"chapter":4,"verse":35,"text":"For fire shall come upon her from the Everlasting, long to endure; and she shall be inhabited of devils for a great time."},{"chapter":4,"verse":36,"text":"O Jerusalem, look about thee toward the east, and behold the joy that cometh unto thee from God."},{"chapter":4,"verse":37,"text":"Lo, thy sons come, whom thou sentest away, they come gathered together from the east to the west by the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the glory of God."},{"chapter":5,"verse":1,"text":"Put off, O Jerusalem, the garment of mourning and affliction, and put on the comeliness of the glory that cometh from God for ever."},{"chapter":5,"verse":2,"text":"Cast about thee a double garment of the righteousness which cometh from God; and set a diadem on thine head of the glory of the Everlasting."},{"chapter":5,"verse":3,"text":"For God will shew thy brightness unto every country under heaven."},{"chapter":5,"verse":4,"text":"For thy name shall be called of God for ever The peace of righteousness, and The glory of God’s worship."},{"chapter":5,"verse":5,"text":"Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand on high, and look about toward the east, and behold thy children gathered from the west unto the east by the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the remembrance of God."},{"chapter":5,"verse":6,"text":"For they departed from thee on foot, and were led away of their enemies: but God bringeth them unto thee exalted with glory, as children of the kingdom."},{"chapter":5,"verse":7,"text":"For God hath appointed that every high hill, and banks of long continuance, should be cast down, and valleys filled up, to make even the ground, that Israel may go safely in the glory of God,"},{"chapter":5,"verse":8,"text":"Moreover even the woods and every sweetsmelling tree shall overshadow Israel by the commandment of God."},{"chapter":5,"verse":9,"text":"For God shall lead Israel with joy in the light of his glory with the mercy and righteousness that cometh from him."},{"chapter":6,"verse":1,"text":"A copy of an epistle, which Jeremy sent unto them which were to be led captives into Babylon by the king of the Babylonians, to certify them, as it was commanded him of God."},{"chapter":6,"verse":2,"text":"Because of the sins which ye have committed before God, ye shall be led away captives into Babylon by Nabuchodonosor king of the Babylonians."},{"chapter":6,"verse":3,"text":"So when ye be come unto Babylon, ye shall remain there many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations: and after that I will bring you away peaceably from thence."},{"chapter":6,"verse":4,"text":"Now shall ye see in Babylon gods of silver, and of gold, and of wood, borne upon shoulders, which cause the nations to fear."},{"chapter":6,"verse":5,"text":"Beware therefore that ye in no wise be like to strangers, neither be ye afraid of them, when ye see the multitude before them and behind them, worshipping them."},{"chapter":6,"verse":6,"text":"But say ye in your hearts, O Lord, we must worship thee."},{"chapter":6,"verse":7,"text":"For mine angel is with you, and I myself caring for your souls."},{"chapter":6,"verse":8,"text":"As for their tongue, it is polished by the workman, and they themselves are gilded and laid over with silver; yet are they but false, and cannot speak."},{"chapter":6,"verse":9,"text":"And taking gold, as it were for a virgin that loveth to go gay, they make crowns for the heads of their gods."},{"chapter":6,"verse":10,"text":"Sometimes also the priests convey from their gods gold and silver, and bestow it upon themselves."},{"chapter":6,"verse":11,"text":"Yea, they will give thereof to the common harlots, and deck them as men with garments, [being] gods of silver, and gods of gold, and wood."},{"chapter":6,"verse":12,"text":"Yet cannot these gods save themselves from rust and moth, though they be covered with purple raiment."},{"chapter":6,"verse":13,"text":"They wipe their faces because of the dust of the temple, when there is much upon them."},{"chapter":6,"verse":14,"text":"And he that cannot put to death one that offendeth him holdeth a sceptre, as though he were a judge of the country."},{"chapter":6,"verse":15,"text":"He hath also in his right hand a dagger and an ax: but cannot deliver himself from war and thieves."},{"chapter":6,"verse":16,"text":"Whereby they are known not to be gods: therefore fear them not."},{"chapter":6,"verse":17,"text":"For like as a vessel that a man useth is nothing worth when it is broken; even so it is with their gods: when they be set up in the temple, their eyes be full of dust through the feet of them that come in."},{"chapter":6,"verse":18,"text":"And as the doors are made sure on every side upon him that offendeth the king, as being committed to suffer death: even so the priests make fast their temples with doors, with locks, and bars, lest their gods be spoiled with robbers."},{"chapter":6,"verse":19,"text":"They light them candles, yea, more than for themselves, whereof they cannot see one."},{"chapter":6,"verse":20,"text":"They are as one of the beams of the temple, yet they say their hearts are gnawed upon by things creeping out of the earth; and when they eat them and their clothes, they feel it not."},{"chapter":6,"verse":21,"text":"Their faces are blacked through the smoke that cometh out of the temple."},{"chapter":6,"verse":22,"text":"Upon their bodies and heads sit bats, swallows, and birds, and the cats also."},{"chapter":6,"verse":23,"text":"By this ye may know that they are no gods: therefore fear them not."},{"chapter":6,"verse":24,"text":"Notwithstanding the gold that is about them to make them beautiful, except they wipe off the rust, they will not shine: for neither when they were molten did they feel it."},{"chapter":6,"verse":25,"text":"The things wherein there is no breath are bought for a most high price."},{"chapter":6,"verse":26,"text":"They are borne upon shoulders, having no feet whereby they declare unto men that they be nothing worth."},{"chapter":6,"verse":27,"text":"They also that serve them are ashamed: for if they fall to the ground at any time, they cannot rise up again of themselves: neither, if one set them upright, can they move of themselves: neither, if they be bowed down, can they make themselves straight: but they set gifts before them as unto dead men."},{"chapter":6,"verse":28,"text":"As for the things that are sacrificed unto them, their priests sell and abuse; in like manner their wives lay up part thereof in salt; but unto the poor and impotent they give nothing of it."},{"chapter":6,"verse":29,"text":"Menstruous women and women in childbed eat their sacrifices: by these things ye may know that they are no gods: fear them not."},{"chapter":6,"verse":30,"text":"For how can they be called gods? because women set meat before the gods of silver, gold, and wood."},{"chapter":6,"verse":31,"text":"And the priests sit in their temples, having their clothes rent, and their heads and beards shaven, and nothing upon their heads."},{"chapter":6,"verse":32,"text":"They roar and cry before their gods, as men do at the feast when one is dead."},{"chapter":6,"verse":33,"text":"The priests also take off their garments, and clothe their wives and children."},{"chapter":6,"verse":34,"text":"Whether it be evil that one doeth unto them, or good, they are not able to recompense it: they can neither set up a king, nor put him down."},{"chapter":6,"verse":35,"text":"In like manner, they can neither give riches nor money: though a man make a vow unto them, and keep it not, they will not require it."},{"chapter":6,"verse":36,"text":"They can save no man from death, neither deliver the weak from the mighty."},{"chapter":6,"verse":37,"text":"They cannot restore a blind man to his sight, nor help any man in his distress."},{"chapter":6,"verse":38,"text":"They can shew no mercy to the widow, nor do good to the fatherless."},{"chapter":6,"verse":39,"text":"Their gods of wood, and which are overlaid with gold and silver, are like the stones that be hewn out of the mountain: they that worship them shall be confounded."},{"chapter":6,"verse":40,"text":"How should a man then think and say that they are gods, when even the Chaldeans themselves dishonour them?"},{"chapter":6,"verse":41,"text":"Who if they shall see one dumb that cannot speak, they bring him, and intreat Bel that he may speak, as though he were able to understand."},{"chapter":6,"verse":42,"text":"Yet they cannot understand this themselves, and leave them: for they have no knowledge."},{"chapter":6,"verse":43,"text":"The women also with cords about them, sitting in the ways, burn bran for perfume: but if any of them, drawn by some that passeth by, lie with him, she reproacheth her fellow, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken."},{"chapter":6,"verse":44,"text":"Whatsoever is done among them is false: how may it then be thought or said that they are gods?"},{"chapter":6,"verse":45,"text":"They are made of carpenters and goldsmiths: they can be nothing else than the workmen will have them to be."},{"chapter":6,"verse":46,"text":"And they themselves that made them can never continue long; how should then the things that are made of them be gods?"},{"chapter":6,"verse":47,"text":"For they left lies and reproaches to them that come after."},{"chapter":6,"verse":48,"text":"For when there cometh any war or plague upon them, the priests consult with themselves, where they may be hidden with them."},{"chapter":6,"verse":49,"text":"How then cannot men perceive that they be no gods, which can neither save themselves from war, nor from plague?"},{"chapter":6,"verse":50,"text":"For seeing they be but of wood, and overlaid with silver and gold, it shall be known hereafter that they are false:"},{"chapter":6,"verse":51,"text":"And it shall manifestly appear to all nations and kings that they are no gods, but the works of men’s hands, and that there is no work of God in them."},{"chapter":6,"verse":52,"text":"Who then may not know that they are no gods?"},{"chapter":6,"verse":53,"text":"For neither can they set up a king in the land, nor give rain unto men."},{"chapter":6,"verse":54,"text":"Neither can they judge their own cause, nor redress a wrong, being unable: for they are as crows between heaven and earth."},{"chapter":6,"verse":55,"text":"Whereupon when fire falleth upon the house of gods of wood, or laid over with gold or silver, their priests will flee away, and escape; but they themselves shall be burned asunder like beams."},{"chapter":6,"verse":56,"text":"Moreover they cannot withstand any king or enemies: how can it then be thought or said that they be gods?"},{"chapter":6,"verse":57,"text":"Neither are those gods of wood, and laid over with silver or gold, able to escape either from thieves or robbers."},{"chapter":6,"verse":58,"text":"Whose gold, and silver, and garments wherewith they are clothed, they that are strong take, and go away withal: neither are they able to help themselves."},{"chapter":6,"verse":59,"text":"Therefore it is better to be a king that sheweth his power, or else a profitable vessel in an house, which the owner shall have use of, than such false gods; or to be a door in an house, to keep such things therein, than such false gods. or a pillar of wood in a palace, than such false gods."},{"chapter":6,"verse":60,"text":"For sun, moon, and stars, being bright and sent to do their offices, are obedient."},{"chapter":6,"verse":61,"text":"In like manner the lightning when it breaketh forth is easy to be seen; and after the same manner the wind bloweth in every country."},{"chapter":6,"verse":62,"text":"And when God commandeth the clouds to go over the whole world, they do as they are bidden."},{"chapter":6,"verse":63,"text":"And the fire sent from above to consume hills and woods doeth as it is commanded: but these are like unto them neither in shew nor power."},{"chapter":6,"verse":64,"text":"Wherefore it is neither to be supposed nor said that they are gods, seeing, they are able neither to judge causes, nor to do good unto men."},{"chapter":6,"verse":65,"text":"Knowing therefore that they are no gods, fear them not,"},{"chapter":6,"verse":66,"text":"For they can neither curse nor bless kings:"},{"chapter":6,"verse":67,"text":"Neither can they shew signs in the heavens among the heathen, nor shine as the sun, nor give light as the moon."},{"chapter":6,"verse":68,"text":"The beasts are better than they: for they can get under a cover and help themselves."},{"chapter":6,"verse":69,"text":"It is then by no means manifest unto us that they are gods: therefore fear them not."},{"chapter":6,"verse":70,"text":"For as a scarecrow in a garden of cucumbers keepeth nothing: so are their gods of wood, and laid over with silver and gold."},{"chapter":6,"verse":71,"text":"And likewise their gods of wood, and laid over with silver and gold, are like to a white thorn in an orchard, that every bird sitteth upon; as also to a dead body, that is cast into the dark."},{"chapter":6,"verse":72,"text":"And ye shall know them to be no gods by the bright purple that rotteth upon them: and they themselves afterward shall be eaten, and shall be a reproach in the country."},{"chapter":6,"verse":73,"text":"Better therefore is the just man that hath none idols: for he shall be far from reproach."}]},{"code":"LXX","name":"Septuagint (Greek)","language":"grc","source":"Greek Septuagint as printed by Brenton (1851), public domain. Text from eBible.org","verses":[{"chapter":1,"verse":1,"text":"ΚΑΙ οὗτοι οἱ λόγοι τοῦ βιβλίου, οὓς ἔγραψε Βαροὺχ υἱὸς Νηρίου, υἱοῦ Μαασαίου, υἱοῦ Σεδεκίου, υἱοῦ Ἀσαδίου, υἱοῦ Χελκίου ἐν Βαβυλῶνι,"},{"chapter":1,"verse":2,"text":"ἐν τῷ ἔτει τῷ πέμπτῳ, ἐν ἑβδόμῃ τοῦ μηνὸς, ἐν τῷ καιρῷ ᾧ ἔλαβον οἱ Χαλδαῖοι τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ, καὶ ἐνέπρησαν αὐτὴν ἐν πυρί."},{"chapter":1,"verse":3,"text":"Καὶ ἀνέγνω Βαροὺχ τοὺς λόγους τοῦ βιβλίου τούτου ἐν ὠσὶν Ἰεχονίου υἱοῦ Ἰωακεὶμ βασιλέως Ἰούδα, καὶ ἐν ὠσὶ παντὸς τοῦ λαοῦ τῶν ἐρχομένων πρὸς τὴν βίβλον,"},{"chapter":1,"verse":4,"text":"καὶ ἐν ὠσὶ τῶν δυνατῶν, καὶ υἱῶν τῶν βασιλέων, καὶ ἐν ὠσὶ τῶν πρεσβυτέρων, καὶ ἐν ὠσὶ παντὸς τοῦ λαοῦ, ἀπὸ μικροῦ ἕως μεγάλου, πάντων τῶν κατοικούντων ἐν Βαβυλῶνι ἐπὶ ποταμοῦ Σούδ."},{"chapter":1,"verse":5,"text":"Καὶ ἔκλαιον, καὶ ἐνήστευον, καὶ ηὔχοντο ἐναντίον Κυρίου."},{"chapter":1,"verse":6,"text":"Καὶ συνήγαγον ἀργύριον, καθὸ ἑκάστου ἠδύνατο ἡ χεὶρ,"},{"chapter":1,"verse":7,"text":"καὶ ἀπέστειλαν εἰς Ἱερουσαλὴμ πρὸς Ἰωακεὶμ υἱὸν Χελκίου, υἱοῦ Σαλὼμ, τὸν ἱερέα, καὶ πρὸς τοὺς ἱερεῖς, καὶ πρὸς πάντα τὸν λαὸν, τοὺς εὑρεθέντας μετʼ αὐτοῦ ἐν Ἱερουσαλὴμ,"},{"chapter":1,"verse":8,"text":"ἐν τῷ λαβεῖν αὐτὸν τὰ σκεύη οἴκου Κυρίου, τὰ ἐξενεχθέντα ἐκ τοῦ ναοῦ, ἀποστρέψαι εἰς γῆν Ἰούδα, τῇ δεκάτῃ τοῦ Σειουὰλ, σκεύη ἀργυρᾶ, ἃ ἐποίησε Σεδεκίας υἱὸς Ἰωσία βασιλεὺς Ἰούδα,"},{"chapter":1,"verse":9,"text":"μετὰ τὸ ἀποικίσαι Ναβουχοδονόσορ βασιλέα Βαβυλῶνος τὸν Ἰεχονίαν, καὶ τοὺς ἄρχοντας, καὶ τοὺς δεσμώτας, καὶ τοὺς δυνατοὺς, καὶ τὸν λαὸν τῆς γῆς ἀπὸ Ἱερουσαλὴμ, καὶ ἤγαγεν αὐτὸν εἰς Βαβυλῶνα."},{"chapter":1,"verse":10,"text":"Καὶ εἶπαν, ἰδοὺ ἀπεστείλαμεν πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἀργύριον, καὶ ἀγοράσατε τοῦ ἀργυρίου ὁλοκαυτώματα, καὶ περὶ ἁμαρτίας, καὶ λίβανον, καὶ ποιήσατε μάννα, καὶ ἀνοίσατε ἐπὶ τὸ θυσιαστήριον Κυρίου τοῦ Θεοῦ ἡμῶν,"},{"chapter":1,"verse":11,"text":"καὶ προσεύξασθε περὶ τῆς ζωῆς Ναβουχοδονόσορ βασιλέως Βαβυλῶνος, καὶ εἰς ζωὴν Βαλτάσαρ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ, ἵνα ὦσιν αἱ ἡμέραι αὐτῶν ὡς αἱ ἡμέραι τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς."},{"chapter":1,"verse":12,"text":"Καὶ δώσει Κύριος ἰσχὺν ἡμῖν, καὶ φωτίσει τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ἡμῶν, καὶ ζησόμεθα ὑπὸ τὴν σκιὰν Ναβουχοδονόσορ βασιλέως Βαβυλῶνος, καὶ ὑπὸ τὴν σκιὰν Βαλτάσαρ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ, καὶ δουλεύσομεν αὐτοῖς ἡμέρας πολλὰς, καὶ εὑρήσομεν χάριν ἐναντίον αὐτῶν."},{"chapter":1,"verse":13,"text":"Καὶ προσεύξασθε περὶ ἡμῶν πρὸς Κύριον τὸν Θεὸν ἡμῶν, ὅτι ἡμάρτομεν τῷ Κυρίῳ Θεῷ ἡμῶν, καὶ οὐκ ἀπέστρεψεν ὁ θυμὸς Κυρίου καὶ ἡ ὀργὴ αὐτοῦ ἀφʼ ἡμῶν, ἕως τῆς ἡμέρας ταύτης."},{"chapter":1,"verse":14,"text":"Καὶ ἀναγνώσεσθε τὸ βιβλίον τοῦτο ὃ ἀπεστείλαμεν πρὸς ὑμᾶς, ἐξαγορεῦσαι ἐν οἴκῳ Κυρίου, ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ἑορτῆς, καὶ ἐν ἡμέραις καιροῦ,"},{"chapter":1,"verse":15,"text":"Καὶ ἐρεῖτε, τῷ Κυρίῳ Θεῷ ἡμῶν ἡ δικαιοσύνη, ἡμῖν δὲ αἰσχύνη τῶν προσώπων, ὡς ἡ ἡμέρα αὕτη, ἀνθρώπῳ Ἰούδα, καὶ τοῖς κατοικοῦσιν Ἱερουσαλὴμ,"},{"chapter":1,"verse":16,"text":"καὶ τοῖς βασιλεῦσιν ἡμῶν, καὶ τοῖς ἄρχουσιν ἡμῶν, καὶ τοῖς ἱερεῦσιν ἡμῶν, καὶ τοῖς προφήταις ἡμῶν, καὶ τοῖς πατράσιν ἡμῶν,"},{"chapter":1,"verse":17,"text":"ὧν ἡμάρτομεν ἔναντι Κυρίου,"},{"chapter":1,"verse":18,"text":"καὶ ἠπειθήσαμεν αὐτῷ, καὶ οὐκ ἠκούσαμεν τῆς φωνῆς Κυρίου Θεοῦ ἡμῶν, πορεύεσθαι τοῖς προστάγμασι Κυρίου, οἷς ἔδωκε κατὰ πρόσωπον ἡμῶν,"},{"chapter":1,"verse":19,"text":"ἀπὸ τῆς ἡμέρας ἧς ἐξήγαγε Κύριος τοὺς πατέρας ἡμῶν ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου· καὶ ἕως τῆς ἡμέρας ταύτης ἤμεθα ἀπειθοῦντες πρὸς Κύριον Θεὸν ἡμῶν, καὶ ἐσχεδιάζομεν πρὸς τὸ μὴ ἀκούειν τῆς φωνῆς αὐτοῦ."},{"chapter":1,"verse":20,"text":"Καὶ ἐκολλήθη εἰς ἡμᾶς τὰ κακὰ, καὶ ἡ ἀρὰ ἣν συνέταξε Κύριος τῷ Μωυσῇ παιδὶ αὐτοῦ, ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ᾗ ἐξήγαγε τοὺς πατέρας ἡμῶν ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου, δοῦναι ἡμῖν γῆν ῥέουσαν γάλα καὶ μέλι, ὡς ἡ ἡμέρα αὐτη."},{"chapter":1,"verse":21,"text":"Καὶ οὐκ ἠκούσαμεν τῆς φωνῆς Κυρίου τοῦ Θεοῦ ἡμῶν, κατὰ πάντας τοὺς λόγους τῶν προφητῶν, ὧν ἀπέστειλε πρὸς ἡμᾶς."},{"chapter":1,"verse":22,"text":"Καὶ ᾠχόμεθα ἕκαστος ἐν διανοίᾳ καρδίας αὐτοῦ τῆς πονηρᾶς, ἐργάζεσθαι θεοῖς ἑτέροις ποιῆσαι τὰ κακὰ κατʼ ὀφθαλμοὺς Κυρίου Θεοῦ ἡμῶν."},{"chapter":2,"verse":1,"text":"Καὶ ἔστησε Κύριος τὸν λόγον αὐτοῦ, ὃν ἐλάλησεν ἐφʼ ἡμᾶς, καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺς δικαστὰς ἡμῶν, τοὺς δικάσαντας τὸν Ἰσραὴλ, καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺς βασιλεῖς ἡμῶν, καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺς ἄρχοντας ἡμῶν,"},{"chapter":2,"verse":2,"text":"καὶ ἐπὶ ἄνθρωπον Ἰσραὴλ καὶ Ἰούδα, τοῦ ἀγαγεῖν ἐφʼ ἡμᾶς κακὰ μεγάλα, ἃ οὐκ ἐποιήθη ὑποκάτω παντὸς τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, καθὰ ἐποίησεν ἐν Ἱερουσαλὴμ, κατὰ τὰ γεγραμμένα ἐν τῷ νόμῳ Μωυσῆ,"},{"chapter":2,"verse":3,"text":"τοῦ φαγεῖν ἡμᾶς, ἄνθρωπον σάρκας υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἄνθρωπον σάρκας θυγατρὸς αὐτοῦ."},{"chapter":2,"verse":4,"text":"Καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτοὺς ὑποχειρίους πάσαις ταῖς βασιλείαις ταῖς κύκλῳ ἡμῶν, εἰς ὀνειδισμὸν, καὶ ἄβατον ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς λαοῖς τοῖς κύκλῳ, οὗ διέσπειρεν αὐτοὺς Κύριος ἐκεῖ."},{"chapter":2,"verse":5,"text":"Καὶ ἐγενήθησαν ὑποκάτω καὶ οὐκ ἐπάνω, ὅτι ἡμάρτομεν Κυρίῳ Θεῷ ἡμῶν, πρὸς τὸ μὴ ἀκούειν τῆς φωνῆς αὐτοῦ."},{"chapter":2,"verse":6,"text":"Τῷ Κυρίῳ Θεῷ ἡμῶν ἡ δικαιοσύνη, ἡμῖν δὲ καὶ τοῖς πατράσιν ἡμῶν ἡ αἰσχύνη τῶν προσώπων, ὡς ἡ ἡμέρα αὕτη."},{"chapter":2,"verse":7,"text":"Ἃ ἐλάλησε Κύριος ἐφʼ ἡμᾶς, πάντα τὰ κακὰ ταῦτα ἃ ἦλθεν ἐφʼ ἡμᾶς,"},{"chapter":2,"verse":8,"text":"καὶ οὐκ ἐδεήθημεν τοῦ προσώπου Κυρίου, τοῦ ἀποστρέψαι ἕκαστον ἀπὸ τῶν νοημάτων τῆς καρδίας αὐτῶν τῆς πονηρᾶς."},{"chapter":2,"verse":9,"text":"Καὶ ἐγρηγόρησε Κύριος ἐπὶ τοῖς κακοῖς, καὶ ἐπήγαγε Κύριος ἐφʼ ἡμᾶς, ὅτι δίκαιος ὁ Κύριος ἐπὶ πάντα τὰ ἔργα αὐτοῦ, ἃ ἐνετείλατο ἡμῖν."},{"chapter":2,"verse":10,"text":"Καὶ οὐκ ἠκούσαμεν τῆς φωνῆς αὐτοῦ, πορεύεσθαι τοῖς προστάγμασι Κυρίου, οἷς ἔδωκε κατὰ πρόσωπον ἡμῶν·"},{"chapter":2,"verse":11,"text":"Καὶ νῦν Κύριε ὁ Θεὸς Ἰσραὴλ, ὃς ἐξήγαγες τὸν λαόν σου ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου, ἐν χειρὶ κραταιᾷ, καὶ ἐν σημείοις, καὶ ἐν τέρασι, καὶ ἐν δυνάμει μεγάλῃ, καὶ ἐν βραχίονι ὑψηλῷ, καὶ ἐποίησας σεαυτῷ ὄνομα, ὡς ἡ ἡμέρα αὕτη,"},{"chapter":2,"verse":12,"text":"ἡμάρτομεν, ἠσεβήσαμεν, ἠδικήσαμεν, Κύριε ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, ἐπὶ πᾶσι τοῖς δικαιώμασί σου."},{"chapter":2,"verse":13,"text":"Ἀποστραφήτω ὁ θυμός σου ἀφʼ ἡμῶν, ὅτι κατελείφθημεν ὀλίγοι ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν οὗ διέσπειρας ἡμᾶς ἐκεῖ."},{"chapter":2,"verse":14,"text":"Εἰσάκουσον Κύριε τῆς προσευχῆς ἡμῶν καὶ τῆς δεήσεως ἡμῶν, καὶ ἐξελοῦ ἡμᾶς ἕνεκέν σου, καὶ δὸς ἡμῖν χάριν κατὰ πρόσωπον τῶν ἀποικισάντων ἡμᾶς,"},{"chapter":2,"verse":15,"text":"ἵνα γνῷ πᾶσα ἡ γῆ, ὅτι σὺ Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, ὅτι τὸ ὄνομά σου ἐπεκλήθη ἐπὶ Ἰσραὴλ, καὶ ἐπὶ τὸ γένος αὐτοῦ."},{"chapter":2,"verse":16,"text":"Κύριε κάτιδε ἐκ τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ ἁγίου σου, καὶ ἐννόησον εἰς ἡμᾶς, καὶ κλῖνον Κύριε τὸ οὖς σου, καὶ ἄκουσον."},{"chapter":2,"verse":17,"text":"Ἄνοιξον ὀφθαλμούς σου, καὶ ἴδε, ὅτι οὐχ οἱ τεθνηκότες ἐν τῷ ᾅδῃ, ὧν ἐλήφθη τὸ πνεῦμα αὐτῶν ἀπὸ τῶν σπλάγχνων αὐτῶν, δώσουσι δόξαν καὶ δικαίωμα τῷ Κυρίῳ·"},{"chapter":2,"verse":18,"text":"ἀλλὰ ἡ ψυχὴ ἡ λυπουμένη ἐπὶ τὸ μέγεθος, ὃ βαδίζει κύπτον καὶ ἀσθενοῦν, καὶ οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ οἱ ἐκλείποντες, καὶ ἡ ψυχὴ ἡ πεινῶσα, δώσουσί σοι δόξαν, καὶ δικαιοσύνην, Κύριε."},{"chapter":2,"verse":19,"text":"Ὅτι οὐκ ἐπὶ τὰ δικαιώματα τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν καὶ τῶν βασιλέων ἡμῶν ἡμεῖς καταβάλλομεν τὸν ἔλεον κατὰ πρόσωπόν σου, Κύριε ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν·"},{"chapter":2,"verse":20,"text":"ὅτι ἐνῆκας τὸν θυμόν σου καὶ τὴν ὀργήν σου εἰς ἡμᾶς, καθάπερ ἐλάλησας ἐν χειρὶ τῶν παίδων σου τῶν προφητῶν·"},{"chapter":2,"verse":21,"text":"Οὕτως εἶπε Κύριος, κλίνατε τὸν ὦμον ὑμῶν, καὶ ἐργάσασθε τῷ βασιλεῖ Βαβυλῶνος, καὶ καθίσατε ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, ἣν δέδωκα τοῖς πατράσιν ὑμῶν."},{"chapter":2,"verse":22,"text":"Καὶ ἐὰν μὴ ἀκούσητε τῆς φωνῆς Κυρίου, ἐργάσασθαι τῷ βασιλεῖ Βαβυλῶνος,"},{"chapter":2,"verse":23,"text":"ἐκλείψειν ποιήσω ἐκ πόλεων Ἰούδα καὶ ἔξωθεν Ἱερουσαλὴμ φωνὴν εὐφροσύνης, καὶ φωνὴν χαρμοσύνης, φωνὴν νυμφίου, καὶ φωνὴν νύμφης, καὶ ἔσται πᾶσα ἡ γῆ εἰς ἄβατον ἀπὸ ἐνοικούντων."},{"chapter":2,"verse":24,"text":"Καὶ οὐκ ἠκούσαμεν τῆς φωνῆς σου, ἐργάσασθαι τῷ βασιλεῖ Βαβυλῶνος· καὶ ἔστησας τοὺς λόγους σου, οὓς ἐλάλησας ἐν χερσὶ τῶν παίδων σου τῶν προφητῶν, τοῦ ἐξενεχθῆναι τὰ ὀστᾶ βασιλέων ἡμῶν καὶ τὰ ὀστᾶ τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν ἐκ τοῦ τόπου αὐτῶν."},{"chapter":2,"verse":25,"text":"Καὶ ἰδού ἐστιν ἐξεῤῥιμμένα τῷ καύματι τῆς ἡμέρας, καὶ τῷ παγετῷ τῆς νυκτός· καὶ ἀπεθάνοσαν ἐν πόνοις πονηροῖς, ἐν λιμῷ, καὶ ἐν ῥομφαίᾳ, καὶ ἐν ἀποστολῇ."},{"chapter":2,"verse":26,"text":"Καὶ ἔθηκας τὸν οἶκον, οὗ ἐπεκλήθη τὸ ὄνομά σου ἐπʼ αὐτῷ, ὡς ἡ ἡμέρα αὕτη, διὰ πονηρίαν οἴκου Ἰσραὴλ καὶ οἴκου Ἰούδα."},{"chapter":2,"verse":27,"text":"Καὶ ἐποίησας εἰς ἡμᾶς, Κύριε ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, κατὰ πᾶσαν ἐπιείκειάν σου, καὶ κατὰ πάντα οἰκτιρμόν σου τὸν μέγαν,"},{"chapter":2,"verse":28,"text":"καθὰ ἐλάλησας ἐν χειρὶ παιδός σου Μωυσῆ, ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ἐντειλαμένου σου αὐτῷ γράψαι τὸν νόμον σου ἐναντίον υἱῶν Ἰσραὴλ, λέγων."},{"chapter":2,"verse":29,"text":"Ἐὰν μὴ ἀκούσητε τῆς φωνῆς μου, ἦ μὴν ἡ βόμβησις ἡ μεγάλη ἡ πολλὴ αὕτη ἀποστρέψει εἰς μικρὰν ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν, οὗ διασπερῶ αὐτοὺς ἐκεῖ·"},{"chapter":2,"verse":30,"text":"Ὅτι ἔγνων ὅτι οὐ μὴ ἀκούσωσί μου, ὅτι λαὸς σκληροτράχηλός ἐστι· καὶ ἐπιστρέψουσιν ἐπὶ καρδίαν αὐτῶν ἐν γῇ ἀποικισμοῦ αὐτῶν,"},{"chapter":2,"verse":31,"text":"καὶ γνώσονται ὅτι ἐγὼ Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς αὐτῶν· καὶ δώσω αὐτοῖς καρδίαν καὶ ὦτα ἀκούοντα,"},{"chapter":2,"verse":32,"text":"καὶ αἰνέσουσί με ἐν γῇ ἀποικισμοῦ αὐτῶν· καὶ μνησθήσονται τοῦ ὀνόματός μου,"},{"chapter":2,"verse":33,"text":"καὶ ἀποστρέψουσιν ἀπὸ τοῦ νώτου αὐτῶν τοῦ σκληροῦ, καὶ ἀπὸ πονηρῶν προσταγμάτων αὐτῶν, ὅτι μνησθήσονται τῆς ὁδοῦ πατέρων αὐτῶν τῶν ἁμαρτόντων ἔναντι Κυρίου."},{"chapter":2,"verse":34,"text":"Καὶ ἀποστρέψω αὐτοὺς εἰς τὴν γῆν, ἣν ὤμοσα τοῖς πατράσιν αὐτῶν, τῷ Ἁβραὰμ, καὶ τῷ Ἰσαὰκ, καὶ τῷ Ἰακὼβ, καὶ κυριεύσουσιν αὐτῆς· καὶ πληθυνῶ αὐτοὺς, καὶ οὐ μὴ σμικρυνθῶσι."},{"chapter":2,"verse":35,"text":"Καὶ στήσω αὐτοῖς διαθήκην αἰώνιον, τοῦ εἶναί με αὐτοῖς εἰς Θεὸν, καὶ αὐτοὶ ἔσονταί μοι εἰς λαόν· καὶ οὐ κινήσω ἔτι τὸν λαόν μου Ἰσραὴλ ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς, ἧς ἔδωκα αὐτοῖς."},{"chapter":3,"verse":1,"text":"Κύριε παντοκράτωρ ὁ Θεὸς Ἰσραὴλ, ψυχὴ ἐν στενοῖς καὶ πνεῦμα ἀκηδιῶν κέκραγε πρὸς σέ."},{"chapter":3,"verse":2,"text":"Ἄκουσον, Κύριε, καὶ ἐλέησον, ὅτι ἡμάρτομεν ἐναντίον σου·"},{"chapter":3,"verse":3,"text":"ὅτι σὺ καθήμενος τὸν αἰῶνα, καὶ ἡμεῖς ἀπολλύμενοι τὸν αἰῶνα."},{"chapter":3,"verse":4,"text":"Κύριε παντοκράτωρ ὁ Θεὸς Ἰσραὴλ, ἄκουσον δὴ τῆς προσευχῆς τῶν τεθνηκότων Ἰσραὴλ, καὶ υἱῶν τῶν ἁμαρτανόντων ἐναντίον σου, οἳ οὐκ ἤκουσαν τῆς φωνῆς σου Θεοῦ αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐκολλήθη ἡμῖν τὰ κακά."},{"chapter":3,"verse":5,"text":"Μὴ μνησθῇς ἀδικιῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν, ἀλλὰ μνήσθητι χειρός σου καὶ ὀνόματός σου ἐν τῷ καιρῷ τούτῳ·"},{"chapter":3,"verse":6,"text":"ὅτι σὺ Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, καὶ αἰνέσομέν σε Κύριε·"},{"chapter":3,"verse":7,"text":"Ὅτι διὰ τοῦτο ἔδωκας τὸν φόβον σου ἐπὶ καρδίαν ἡμῶν, καὶ ἐπικαλεῖσθαι τὸ ὄνομά σου· καὶ αἰνέσομέν σε ἐν τῇ ἀποικίᾳ ἡμῶν, ὅτι ἀπεστρέψαμεν ἀπὸ καρδίας ἡμῶν πᾶσαν ἀδικίαν πατέρων ἡμῶν, τῶν ἡμαρτηκότων ἐναντίον σου."},{"chapter":3,"verse":8,"text":"Ἰδοὺ ἡμεῖς σήμερον ἐν τῇ ἀποικίᾳ ἡμῶν, οὗ διέσπειρας ἡμᾶς ἐκεῖ εἰς ὀνειδισμὸν, καὶ εἰς ἀρὰν, καὶ εἰς ὀφλησιν κατὰ πάσας τὰς ἀδικίας πατέρων ἡμῶν, οἳ ἀπέστησαν ἀπὸ Κυρίου Θεοῦ ἡμῶν."},{"chapter":3,"verse":9,"text":"Ἄκουε Ἰσραὴλ ἐντολὰς ζωῆς, ἐνωτίσασθε γνῶναι φρόνησιν."},{"chapter":3,"verse":10,"text":"Τί ἐστιν Ἰσραήλ; τί ὅτι ἐν γῇ τῶν ἐχθρῶν εἶ; ἐπαλαιώθης ἐν γῇ ἀλλοτρίᾳ, συνεμιάνθης τοῖς νεκροῖς,"},{"chapter":3,"verse":11,"text":"προσελογίσθης μετὰ τῶν εἰς ᾅδου,"},{"chapter":3,"verse":12,"text":"ἐγκατέλιπες τὴν πηγὴν τῆς σοφίας."},{"chapter":3,"verse":13,"text":"Τῇ ὁδῷ τοῦ Θεοῦ εἰ ἐπορεύθης, κατῴκεις ἂν ἐν εἰρήνῃ τὸν αἰῶνα."},{"chapter":3,"verse":14,"text":"Μάθε ποῦ ἐστι φρόνησις, ποῦ ἐστιν ἰσχὺς, ποῦ ἐστιν σύνεσις, τοῦ γνῶναι ἅμα ποῦ ἐστι μακροβίωσις καὶ ζωὴ, ποῦ ἐστι φῶς ὀφθαλμῶν καὶ εἰρήνη."},{"chapter":3,"verse":15,"text":"Τίς εὗρε τὸν τόπον αὐτῆς, καὶ τίς εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τοὺς θησαυροὺς αὐτῆς;"},{"chapter":3,"verse":16,"text":"Ποῦ εἰσιν οἱ ἄρχοντες τῶν ἐθνῶν, καὶ οἱ κυριεύοντες τῶν θηρίων τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς,"},{"chapter":3,"verse":17,"text":"οἱ ἐν τοῖς ὀρνέοις τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἐμπαίζοντες, καὶ τὸ ἀργύριον θησαυρίζοντες, καὶ τὸ χρυσίον ᾧ ἐπεποίθεισαν ἄνθρωποι, καὶ οὐκ ἔστι τέλος τῆς κτήσεως αὐτῶν;"},{"chapter":3,"verse":18,"text":"Ὅτι οἱ τὸ ἀργύριον τεκταίνοντες καὶ μεριμνῶντες, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ἐξεύρεσις τῶν ἔργων αὐτῶν."},{"chapter":3,"verse":19,"text":"Ἠφανίσθησαν, καὶ εἰς ᾅδου κατέβησαν, καὶ ἄλλοι ἀνέστησαν ἀντʼ αὐτῶν."},{"chapter":3,"verse":20,"text":"Νεώτεροι εἶδον φῶς, καὶ κατῴκησαν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, ὁδὸν δὲ ἐπιστήμης οὐκ ἔγνωσαν,"},{"chapter":3,"verse":21,"text":"οὐδὲ συνῆκαν τρίβους αὐτῆς, οὐδὲ ἀντελάβοντο αὐτῆς· οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτῶν ἀπὸ τῆς ὁδοῦ αὐτῶν πόῤῥω ἐγενήθησαν."},{"chapter":3,"verse":22,"text":"Οὐδὲ ἠκούσθη ἐν Χαναὰν, οὐδὲ ὤφθη ἐν Θαιμάν."},{"chapter":3,"verse":23,"text":"Οἵτε υἱοὶ Ἄγαρ οἱ ἐκζητοῦντες τὴν σύνεσιν οἱ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, οἱ ἔμποροι τῆς Μεῤῥὰν, καὶ Θαιμὰν, καὶ οἱ μυθολόγοι, καὶ οἱ ἐκζητηταὶ τῆς συνέσεως, ὁδὸν δὲ σοφίας οὐκ ἔγνωσαν, οὐδὲ ἐμνήσθησαν τὰς τρίβους αὐτῆς."},{"chapter":3,"verse":24,"text":"Ὦ Ἰσραὴλ, ὡς μέγας ὁ οἶκος τοῦ Θεοῦ; καὶ ἐπιμήκης ὁ τόπος τῆς κτήσεως αὐτοῦ;"},{"chapter":3,"verse":25,"text":"Μέγας, καὶ οὐκ ἔχει τελευτὴν, ὑψηλὸς καὶ ἀμέτρητος."},{"chapter":3,"verse":26,"text":"Ἐκεῖ ἐγεννήθησαν οἱ γίγαντες οἱ ὀνομαστοὶ, ἀπʼ ἀρχῆς γενόμενοι εὐμεγέθεις, ἐπιστάμενοι πόλεμον."},{"chapter":3,"verse":27,"text":"Οὐ τούτους ἐξελέξατο ὁ Θεὸς, οὐδὲ ὁδὸν ἐπιστήμης ἔδωκεν αὐτοῖς."},{"chapter":3,"verse":28,"text":"Καὶ ἀπώλοντο παρὰ τὸ μὴ ἔχειν φρόνησιν, ἀπώλοντο διὰ τὴν ἀβουλίαν αὐτῶν."},{"chapter":3,"verse":29,"text":"Τίς ἀνέβη εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν, καὶ ἔλαβεν αὐτὴν, καὶ κατεβίβασεν αὐτὴν ἐκ τῶν νεφελῶν;"},{"chapter":3,"verse":30,"text":"Τίς διέβη πέραν τῆς θαλάσσης, καὶ εὗρεν αὐτὴν, καὶ οἴσει αὐτὴν χρυσίου ἐκλεκτοῦ;"},{"chapter":3,"verse":31,"text":"Οὐκ ἔστιν ὁ γινώσκων τὴν ὁδὸν αὐτῆς, οὐδὲ ὁ ἐνθυμούμενος τὴν τρίβον αὐτῆς."},{"chapter":3,"verse":32,"text":"Ἀλλʼ ὁ εἰδὼς τὰ πάντα γινώσκει αὐτὴν, ἐξεῦρεν αὐτὴν τῇ συνέσει αὐτοῦ· ὁ κατασκευάσας τὴν γῆν εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα χρόνον, ἐνέπλησεν αὐτὴν κτηνῶν τετραπόδων."},{"chapter":3,"verse":33,"text":"Ὁ ἀποστέλλων τὸ φῶς καὶ πορεύεται, ἐκάλεσεν αὐτὸ, καὶ ὑπήκουσεν αὐτῷ τρόμῳ·"},{"chapter":3,"verse":34,"text":"Οἱ δὲ ἀστέρες ἔλαμψαν ἐν ταῖς φυλακαῖς αὐτῶν, καὶ εὐφράνθησαν· ἐκάλεσεν αὐτοὺς, καὶ εἶπον, πάρεσμεν· ἔλαμψαν μετʼ εὐφροσύνης τῷ ποιήσαντι αὐτούς."},{"chapter":3,"verse":35,"text":"Οὗτος ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, οὐ λογισθήσεται ἕτερος πρὸς αὐτόν."},{"chapter":3,"verse":36,"text":"Ἐξεῦρε πᾶσαν ὁδὸν ἐπιστήμης, καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτὴν Ἰακὼβ τῷ παιδὶ αὐτοῦ, καὶ Ἰσραὴλ τῷ ἠγαπημένῳ ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ."},{"chapter":3,"verse":37,"text":"Μετὰ τοῦτο ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ὤφθη, καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἀνθρώποις συνανεστράφη."},{"chapter":4,"verse":1,"text":"Αὑτὴ ἡ βίβλος τῶν προσταγμάτων τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ ὁ νόμος ὁ ὑπάρχων εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα· πάντες οἱ κρατοῦντες αὐτὴν, εἰς ζωήν· οἱ δὲ καταλείποντες αὐτὴν, ἀποθανοῦνται."},{"chapter":4,"verse":2,"text":"Ἐπιστρέφου Ἱακὼβ, καὶ ἐπιλαβοῦ αὐτῆς, διόδευσον πρὸς τὴν λάμψιν κατέναντι τοῦ φωτὸς αὐτῆς."},{"chapter":4,"verse":3,"text":"Μὴ δῷς ἑτέρῳ τὴν δόξαν σου, καὶ τὰ συμφέροντά σοι ἔθνει ἀλλοτρίῳ."},{"chapter":4,"verse":4,"text":"Μακάριοι ἐσμὲν Ἰσραὴλ, ὅτι τὰ ἀρεστὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἡμῖν γνωστά ἐστι."},{"chapter":4,"verse":5,"text":"Θαρσεῖτε λαός μου, μνημόσυνον Ἰσραήλ."},{"chapter":4,"verse":6,"text":"Ἐπράθητε τοῖς ἔθνεσιν οὐκ εἰς ἀπώλειαν, διὰ τὸ παροργίσαι ὑμᾶς τὸν Θεόν· παρεδόθητε τοῖς ὑπεναντίοις."},{"chapter":4,"verse":7,"text":"Παρωξύνατε γὰρ τὸν ποιήσαντα ὑμᾶς, θύσαντες δαιμονίοις, καὶ οὐ Θεῷ."},{"chapter":4,"verse":8,"text":"Ἐπελάθεσθε τὸν τροφεύσαντα ὑμᾶς Θεὸν αἰώνιον, ἐλυπήσατε δὲ καὶ τὴν ἐκθρέψασαν ἡμᾶς Ἱερουσαλήμ."},{"chapter":4,"verse":9,"text":"Εἶδε γὰρ τὴν ἐπελθοῦσαν ὑμῖν ὀργὴν παρὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ εἶπεν, ἀκούσατε αἱ πάροικοι Σιὼν, ἐπήγαγέ μοι ὁ Θεὸς πένθος μέγα."},{"chapter":4,"verse":10,"text":"Εἶδον γὰρ τὴν αἰχμαλωσίαν τῶν υἱῶν μου καὶ τῶν θυγατέρων, ἣν ἐπήγαγεν αὐτοῖς ὁ αἰώνιος."},{"chapter":4,"verse":11,"text":"Ἔθρεψα γὰρ αὐτοὺς μετʼ εὐφροσύνης, ἐξαπέστειλα δὲ μετὰ κλαυθμοῦ καὶ πένθους."},{"chapter":4,"verse":12,"text":"Μηδεὶς ἐπιχαιρέτω μοι τῇ χήρᾳ καὶ καταλειφθήσῃ ὑπὸ πολλῶν, ἠρημώθην διὰ τὰς ἁμαρτίας τῶν τέκνων μου, διότι ἐξέκλιναν ἐκ νόμου Θεοῦ,"},{"chapter":4,"verse":13,"text":"καὶ δικαιώματα αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἔγνωσαν, οὐδὲ ἐπορεύθησαν ὁδοῖς ἐντολῶν Θεοῦ, οὐδὲ τρίβους παιδείας ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ αὐτοῦ ἐπέβησαν."},{"chapter":4,"verse":14,"text":"Ἐλθέτωσαν αἱ πάροικοι Σιὼν, καὶ μνήσθητε τὴν αἰχμαλωσίαν τῶν υἱῶν μου καὶ θυγατέρων, ἣν ἐπήγαγεν αὐτοῖς ὁ αἰώνιος."},{"chapter":4,"verse":15,"text":"Ἐπήγαγε γὰρ ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς ἔθνος μακρόθεν, ἔθνος ἀναιδὲς καὶ ἀλλόγλωσσον· ὅτι οὐκ ᾐσχύνθησαν πρεσβύτην, οὐδὲ παιδίον ἠλέησαν,"},{"chapter":4,"verse":16,"text":"καὶ ἀπήγαγον τοὺς ἀγαπητοὺς τῆς χήρας, καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν θυγατέρων τὴν μόνην ἠρήμωσαν."},{"chapter":4,"verse":17,"text":"Ἐγὼ δὲ τί δυνατὴ βοηθῆσαι ὑμῖν; Ὁ γὰρ ἐπαγαγὼν τὰ κακὰ, ἐξελεῖται ὑμᾶς ἐκ χειρὸς ἐχθρῶν ὑμῶν."},{"chapter":4,"verse":18,"text":"Βαδίζετε τέκνα, βαδίζετε, ἐγὼ γὰρ κατελείφθην ἔρημος."},{"chapter":4,"verse":19,"text":"Ἐξεδυσάμην τὴν στολὴν τῆς εἰρήνης,"},{"chapter":4,"verse":20,"text":"ἐνεδυσάμην δὲ σάκκον τῆς δεήσεώς μου· κεκράξομαι πρὸς τὸν αἰώνιον ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις μου."},{"chapter":4,"verse":21,"text":"Θαῤῥεῖτε τέκνα, βοήσατε πρὸς τὸν Θεὸν, καὶ ἐξελεῖται ὑμᾶς ἐκ δυναστείας, ἐκ χειρος ἐχθρῶν."},{"chapter":4,"verse":22,"text":"Ἐγὼ γὰρ ἤλπισα ἐπὶ τῷ αἰωνίῳ τὴν σωτηρίαν ὑμῶν· καὶ ἦλθέ μοι χαρὰ παρὰ τοῦ ἁγίου ἐπὶ τῇ ἐλεημοσύνῃ, ἣ ἥξει ὑμῖν ἐν τάχει παρὰ τοῦ αἰωνίου σωτῆρος ὑμῶν."},{"chapter":4,"verse":23,"text":"Ἐξέπεμψα γὰρ ὑμᾶς μετὰ κλαυθμοῦ καὶ πένθους, ἀποδώσει δέ μοι ὁ Θεὸς ὑμᾶς μετὰ χαρμοσύνης καὶ εὐφροσύνης εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα."},{"chapter":4,"verse":24,"text":"Ὥσπερ γὰρ νῦν ἑωράκασιν αἱ πάροικοι Σιὼν τὴν ὑμετέραν αἰχμαλωσίαν, οὕτως ὄψονται ἐν τάχει τὴν παρὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ ὑμῶν σωτηρίαν, ἣ ἐπελεύσεται ὑμῖν μετὰ δόξης μεγάλης καὶ λαμπρότητος τοῦ αἰωνίου."},{"chapter":4,"verse":25,"text":"Τέκνα μακροθυμήσατε τὴν παρὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐπελθοῦσαν ὑμῖν ὀργήν, κατεδίωξέ σε ὁ ἐχθρὸς, καὶ ὄψει αὐτοῦ τὴν ἀπώλειαν ἐν τάχει, καὶ ἐπὶ τραχήλους αὐτῶν ἐπιβήσῃ."},{"chapter":4,"verse":26,"text":"Οἱ τρυφεροί μου ἐπορεύθησαν ὁδοὺς τραχείας, ᾔρθησαν ὡς ποίμνιον ἡρπασμένον ὑπὸ ἐχθρῶν."},{"chapter":4,"verse":27,"text":"Θαρσήσατε τέκνα καὶ βοήσατε πρὸς τὸν Θεὸν, ἔσται γὰρ ὑμῶν ὑπὸ τοῦ ἐπάγοντος μνεία."},{"chapter":4,"verse":28,"text":"Ὥσπερ γὰρ ἐγένετο ἡ διάνοια ὑμῶν εἰς τὸ πλανηθῆναι ἀπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ, δεκαπλασιάσατε ἐπιστραφέντες ζητῆσαι αὐτόν."},{"chapter":4,"verse":29,"text":"Ὁ γὰρ ἐπαγαγὼν ὑμῖν τὰ κακὰ, ἐπάξει ὑμῖν τὴν αἱώνιον εὐφροσύνην μετὰ τῆς σωτηρίας ὑμῶν."},{"chapter":4,"verse":30,"text":"Θάρσει Ἱερουσαλήμ, παρακαλέσει σε ὁ ὀνομάσας σε."},{"chapter":4,"verse":31,"text":"Δείλαιοι οἱ σὲ κακώσαντες, καὶ ἐπιχαρέντες τῇ σῇ πτώσει·"},{"chapter":4,"verse":32,"text":"Δείλαιαι αἱ πόλεις αἷς ἐδούλευσαν τὰ τέκνα σου, δειλαία ἡ δεξαμένη τοὺς υἱούς σου."},{"chapter":4,"verse":33,"text":"Ὥσπερ γὰρ ἐχάρη ἐπὶ τῇ σῇ πτώσει, καὶ εὐφράνθη ἐπὶ τῷ πτώματί σου, οὕτως λυπηθήσεται ἐπὶ τῇ ἑαυτῆς ἐρημίᾳ."},{"chapter":4,"verse":34,"text":"Καὶ περιελῶ αὐτῆς τὸ ἀγαλλίαμα τῆς πολυοχλίας καὶ τὸ γαυρίαμα αὐτῆς εἰς πένθος."},{"chapter":4,"verse":35,"text":"Πῦρ γὰρ ἐπελεύσεται αὐτῇ παρὰ τοῦ αἰωνίου εἰς ἡμέρας μακρὰς, καὶ κατοικηθήσεται ὑπὸ δαιμονίων τὸν πλείονα χρόνον."},{"chapter":4,"verse":36,"text":"Περίβλεψον πρὸς ἀνατολὰς Ἱερουσαλὴμ, καὶ ἴδε τὴν εὐφροσύνην τὴν παρὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ σοι ἐρχομένην."},{"chapter":4,"verse":37,"text":"Ἰδοὺ ἔρχονται οἱ υἱοί σου οὓς ἐξαπέστειλας, ἔρχονται συνηγμένοι ἀπὸ ἀνατολῶν ἕως δυσμῶν τῷ ῥήματι τοῦ ἁγίου, χαίροντες τῇ τοῦ Θεοῦ δόξῃ."},{"chapter":5,"verse":1,"text":"Ἔκδυσαι Ἱερουσαλὴμ, τὴν στολὴν τοῦ πένθους καὶ τῆς κακώσεώς σου, καὶ ἔνδυσαι τὴν εὐπρέπειαν τῆς παρὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ δόξης εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα."},{"chapter":5,"verse":2,"text":"Περιβαλοῦ τὴν διπλοΐδα τῆς παρὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ δικαιοσύνης, ἐπίθου τὴν μίτραν ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλήν σου τῆς δόξης τοῦ αἰωνίου."},{"chapter":5,"verse":3,"text":"Ὁ γὰρ Θεὸς δείξει τῇ ὑπʼ οὐρανὸν πάσῃ τὴν σὴν λαμπρότητα."},{"chapter":5,"verse":4,"text":"Κληθήσεται γάρ σου τὸ ὄνομα παρὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα, εἰρήνη δικαιοσύνης, καὶ δόξα θεοσεβείας."},{"chapter":5,"verse":5,"text":"Ἀνάστηθι Ἱερουσαλὴμ, καὶ στῆθι ἐπὶ τοῦ ὑψηλοῦ, καὶ περίβλεψαι πρὸς ἀνατολὰς, καὶ ἴδε συνηγμένα τὰ τέκνα σου ἀπὸ ἡλίου δυσμῶν ἕως ἀνατολῶν τῷ ῥήματι τοῦ ἁγίου, χαίροντας τῇ τοῦ Θεοῦ μνείᾳ."},{"chapter":5,"verse":6,"text":"Ἐξῆλθον γὰρ παρὰ σοῦ πεζοὶ ἀγόμενοι ὑπὸ ἐχθρῶν, εἰσάγει δὲ αὐτοὺς ὁ Θεὸς πρὸς σὲ αἰρομένους μετὰ δόξης ὡς θρόνον βασιλείας."},{"chapter":5,"verse":7,"text":"Συνέταξε γὰρ ὁ Θεὸς ταπεινοῦσθαι πᾶν ὄρος ὑψηλὸν, καὶ θῖνας ἀεννάους, καὶ φάραγγας πληροῦσθαι εἰς ὁμαλισμὸν τῆς γῆς, ἵνα βαδίσῃ Ἰσραὴλ ἀσφαλῶς τῇ τοῦ Θεοῦ δόξῃ."},{"chapter":5,"verse":8,"text":"Ἐσκίασαν δὲ καὶ οἱ δρυμοὶ καὶ πᾶν ξύλον εὐωδίας τῷ Ἰσραὴλ προστάγματι τοῦ Θεοῦ."},{"chapter":5,"verse":9,"text":"Ἡγήσεται γὰρ ὁ Θεὸς Ἰσραὴλ μετʼ εὐφροσύνης τῷ φωτὶ τῆς δόξης αὐτοῦ, σὺν ἐλεημοσύνῃ καὶ δικαιοσύνῃ τῇ παρʼ αὐτοῦ."},{"chapter":6,"verse":1,"text":"ΑΝΤΙΓΡΑΦΟΝ ἐπιστολῆς ἧς ἀπέστειλεν Ἱερεμίας πρὸς τοὺς ἀχθησομένους αἰχμαλώτους εἰς Βαβυλῶνα ὑπὸ τοῦ βασιλέως τῶν Βαβυλωνίων, ἀναγγεῖλαι αὐτοῖς καθότι ἐπετάγη αὐτῷ ὑπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ."},{"chapter":6,"verse":2,"text":"Διὰ τὰς ἁμαρτίας ἃς ἡμαρτήκατε ἐναντίον τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἀχθήσεσθε εἰς Βαβυλῶνα αἰχμάλωτοι ὑπὸ Ναβουχοδονόσορ βασιλέως τῶν Βαβυλωνίων."},{"chapter":6,"verse":3,"text":"Εἰσελθόντες οὖν εἰς Βαβυλῶνα, ἔσεσθε ἐκεῖ ἔτη πλείονα καὶ χρόνον μακρὸν, ἕως γενεῶν ἑπτά· μετὰ τοῦτο δὲ ἐξάξω ὑμᾶς ἐκεῖθεν μετʼ εἰρήνης."},{"chapter":6,"verse":4,"text":"Νυνὶ δὲ ὄψεσθε ἐν Βαβυλῶνι θεοὺς ἀργυροῦς καὶ χρυσοῦς καὶ ξυλίνους ἐπʼ ὤμοις αἰρομένους, δεικνύντας φόβον τοῖς ἔθνεσιν."},{"chapter":6,"verse":5,"text":"Εὐλαβήθητε οὖν μὴ καὶ ὑμεῖς ἀφομοιωθέντες τοῖς ἀλλοφύλοις ἀφομοιωθῆτε, καὶ φόβος ὑμᾶς λὰβῃ ἐπʼ αὐτοῖς, ἰδόντας ὄχλον ἔμπροσθεν καὶ ὄπισθεν αὐτῶν προσκυνοῦντας αὐτά."},{"chapter":6,"verse":6,"text":"Εἴπατε δὲ τῇ διανοίᾳ, σοὶ δεῖ προσκυνεῖν, δέσποτα."},{"chapter":6,"verse":7,"text":"Ὁ γὰρ ἄγγελός μου μεθʼ ὑμῶν ἐστιν, αὐτός τε ἐκζητῶν τὰς ψυχὰς ὑμῶν."},{"chapter":6,"verse":8,"text":"Γλῶσσα γὰρ αὐτῶν ἐστι κατεξυσμένη ὑπὸ τέκτονος, αὐτά τε περίχρυσα καὶ περιάργυρα, ψευδῆ δʼ ἐστὶ, καὶ οὐ δύνανται λαλεῖν."},{"chapter":6,"verse":9,"text":"Καὶ ὥσπερ παρθένῳ φιλοκόσμῳ λαμβάνοντες χρυσίον, κατασκευάζουσι στεφάνους ἐπὶ τὰς κεφαλὰς τῶν θεῶν αὐτῶν."},{"chapter":6,"verse":10,"text":"Ἔστι δὲ καὶ ὅτε ὑφαιρούμενοι οἱ ἱερεῖς ἀπὸ τῶν θεῶν αὐτῶν χρυσίον καὶ ἀργύριον εἰς ἑαυτοὺς καταναλοῦσι."},{"chapter":6,"verse":11,"text":"Δώσουσι δὲ ἀπʼ αὐτῶν καὶ ταῖς ἐπὶ τοῦ στέγους πόρναις· κοσμοῦσί τε αὐτοὺς, ὡς ἀνθρώπους, τοῖς ἐνδύμασι, θεοὺς ἀργυροῦς, καὶ θεοὺς χρυσοῦς, καὶ ξυλίνους."},{"chapter":6,"verse":12,"text":"Οὗτοι δὲ οὐ διασώζονται ἀπὸ ἰοῦ καὶ βρωμάτων, περιβεβλημένων αὐτῶν ἱματισμὸν πορφυροῦν."},{"chapter":6,"verse":13,"text":"Ἐκμάσσονται τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτῶν διὰ τὸν ἐκ τῆς οἰκίας κονιορτὸν, ὅς ἐστι πλείων ἐπʼ αὐτοῖς."},{"chapter":6,"verse":14,"text":"Καὶ σκῆπτρον ἔχει ὡς ἄνθρωπος κριτὴς χώρας, ὃς τὸν εἰς αὐτὸν ἁμαρτάνοντα οὐκ ἀνελεῖ."},{"chapter":6,"verse":15,"text":"Ἔχει δὲ ἐγχειρίδιον δεξιᾷ, καὶ πέλεκυν· ἑαυτὸν δὲ ἐκ πολέμον καὶ λῃστῶν οὐκ ἐξελεῖται."},{"chapter":6,"verse":16,"text":"Ὅθεν γνώριμοί εἰσιν οὐκ ὄντες θεοί· μὴ οὖν φοβηθῆτε αὐτούς."},{"chapter":6,"verse":17,"text":"Ὥσπερ γὰρ σκεῦος ἀνθρώπου συντριβὲν ἀχρεῖον γῖνεται, τοιοῦτοι ὑπάρχουσιν οἱ θεοὶ αὐτῶν, καθιδρυμένων αὐτῶν ἐν τοῖς οἴκοις· οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ αὐτῶν πλήρεις εἰσὶ κονιορτοῦ ἀπὸ τῶν ποδῶν τῶν εἰσπορευομένων."},{"chapter":6,"verse":18,"text":"Καὶ ὥσπερ τινὶ ἠδικηκότι βασιλέα, περιπεφραγμέναι εἰσὶν αἱ αὐλαὶ, ὡς ἐπὶ θανάτῳ ἀπηγμένῳ· τοὺς οἴκους αὐτῶν ὀχυροῦσιν οἱ ἱερεῖς θυρώμασί τε καὶ κλείθροις καὶ μοχλοῖς, ὅπως ὑπὸ τῶν λῃστῶν μὴ συληθῶσι."},{"chapter":6,"verse":19,"text":"Λύχνους καίουσι, καὶ πλείους ἢ ἑαυτοῖς, ὧν οὐδένα δύνανται ἰδεῖν."},{"chapter":6,"verse":20,"text":"Ἔστι μὲν ὥσπερ δοκὸς τῶν ἐκ τῆς οἰκίας, τὰς δὲ καρδίας αὐτῶν φασιν ἐκλείχεσθαι τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς ἑρπετῶν, κατεσθόντων αὐτούς τε καὶ τὸν ἱματισμὸν αὐτῶν οὐκ αἰσθάνονται·"},{"chapter":6,"verse":21,"text":"Μεμελανωμένοι τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτῶν ἀπὸ τοῦ καπνοῦ τοῦ ἐκ τῆς οἰκίας."},{"chapter":6,"verse":22,"text":"Ἐπὶ τὸ σῶμα αὐτῶν καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτῶν ἐφίπτανται νυκτερίδες, χελιδόνες, καὶ τὰ ὄρνεα, ὡσαύτως δὲ καὶ οἱ αἴλουροι."},{"chapter":6,"verse":23,"text":"Ὅθεν γνώσεσθε ὅτι οὐκ εἰσὶ θεοί· μὴ οὖν φοβεῖσθε αὐτά."},{"chapter":6,"verse":24,"text":"Τὸ γὰρ χρυσίον ὃ περίκεινται εἰς κάλλος, ἐὰν μή τις ἐκμάξῃ τὸν ἰὸν, οὐ μὴ στίλψωσιν, οὐδὲ γὰρ ὅτε ἐχωνεύοντο, ᾐσθάνοντο."},{"chapter":6,"verse":25,"text":"Ἐκ πάσης τιμῆς ἠγορασμένα ἐστὶν, ἐν οἷς οὐκ ἔστι πνεῦμα."},{"chapter":6,"verse":26,"text":"Ἄνευ ποδῶν ἐπʼ ὤμοις φέρονταὶ, ἐνδεικνύμενοι τὴν ἑαυτῶν ἀτιμίαν τοῖς ἀνθρώποις."},{"chapter":6,"verse":27,"text":"Αἰσχύνονταί τε καὶ οἱ θεραπεύοντες αὐτὰ, διὰ τὸ, εἴποτε ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν πέσῃ, μὴ διʼ αὐτῶν ἀνίστασθαι, μήτε ἐάν τις αὐτὸ ὀρθὸν στήσῃ, διʼ ἑαυτοῦ κινηθήσεται, μητε ἐὰν κλιθῇ, οὐ μὴ ὀρθωθῇ, ἀλλʼ ὥσπερ νεκροῖς τὰ δῶρα αὐτοῖς παρατίθεται."},{"chapter":6,"verse":28,"text":"Τὰς δὲ θυσίας αὐτῶν ἀποδόμενοι οἱ ἱερεῖς αὐτῶν καταχρῶνται· ὡσαύτως δὲ καὶ αἱ γυναῖκες ἀπʼ αὐτῶν ταριχεύουσαι, οὐτε πτωχῷ οὔτε ἀδυνάτῳ μὴ μεταδῶσι."},{"chapter":6,"verse":29,"text":"Τῶν θυσιῶν αὐτῶν ἀποκαθημένη καὶ λεχὼ ἅπτονται· γνόντες οὖν ἀπὸ τούτων ὅτι οὐκ εἰσὶ θεοὶ, μὴ φοβηθῆτε αὐτούς."},{"chapter":6,"verse":30,"text":"Πόθεν γὰρ κληθείησαν θεοί; ὅτι γυναῖκες παρατιθέασι θεοῖς ἀργυροῖς και χρυσοῖς καὶ ξυλίνοις."},{"chapter":6,"verse":31,"text":"Καὶ ἐν τοῖς οἴκοις αὐτῶν οἱ ἱερεῖς διφρεύουσιν, ἔχοντες τοὺς χιτῶνας διεῤῥωγότας, καὶ τὰς κεφαλὰς καὶ τοὺς πώγωνας ἐξυρημένους, ὧν αἱ κεφαλαὶ ἀκάλυπτοί εἰσιν."},{"chapter":6,"verse":32,"text":"Ὠρύονται δὲ βοῶντες ἐναντίον τῶν θεῶν αὐτῶν, ὥσπερ τινὲς ἐν περιδείπνῳ νεκροῦ."},{"chapter":6,"verse":33,"text":"Ἀπὸ τοῦ ἱματισμοῦ αὐτῶν ἀφελόμενοι οἱ ἱερεῖς, ἐνδύσουσι τὰς γυναῖκας αὐτῶν καὶ τὰ παιδία."},{"chapter":6,"verse":34,"text":"Οὔτε ἐὰν κακὸν πάθωσιν ὑπό τινος, οὔτε ἐὰν ἀγαθὸν, δυνήσονται ἀνταποδοῦναι· οὔτε καταστῆσαι βασιλέα δύνανται, οὔτε ἀφελέσθαι."},{"chapter":6,"verse":35,"text":"Ὡσαύτως οὔτε πλοῦτον οὔτε χαλκὸν οὐ μὴ δύνωνται διδόναι· ἐάν τις εὐχὴν αὐτοῖς εὐξάμενος μὴ ἀποδῷ, οὐ μὴ ἐπιζητήσωσιν."},{"chapter":6,"verse":36,"text":"Ἐκ θανάτου ἄνθρωπον οὐ μὴ ῥύσωνται, οὔτε ἥττονα ἀπὸ ἰσχυροῦ μὴ ἐξέλωνται."},{"chapter":6,"verse":37,"text":"Ἄνθρωπον τυφλὸν εἰς ὅρασιν οὐ μὴ περιστήσωσιν, ἐν ἀνάγκῃ ἄνθρωπον ὄντα οὐ μὴ ἐξέλωνται."},{"chapter":6,"verse":38,"text":"Χήραν οὐ μὴ ἐλεήσωσιν, οὔτε ὀρφανὸν εὖ ποιήσωσι."},{"chapter":6,"verse":39,"text":"Τοῖς ἀπὸ τοῦ ὄρους λίθοις ὡμοιωμὲνοι εἰσὶ τὰ ξύλινα, καὶ τὰ περίχρυσα, καὶ τὰ περιάργυρα, οἱ δὲ θεραπεύοντες αὐτὰ καταισχυνθήσονται."},{"chapter":6,"verse":40,"text":"Πῶς οὖν νομιστέον ἢ κλητέον ὑπάρχειν αὐτοὺς θεοὺς, ἔτι δὲ καὶ αὐτῶν τῶν Χαλδαίων ἀτιμαζόντων αὐτά;"},{"chapter":6,"verse":41,"text":"Οἳ ὅταν ἴδωσιν ἐνεὸν μὴ δυνάμενον λαλῆσαι, προσενεγκάμενοι τὸν Βῆλον, ἀξιοῦσι φωνῆσαι, ὠς δυνατοῦ ὄντος αὐτοῦ αἰσθὲσθαι."},{"chapter":6,"verse":42,"text":"Καὶ οὐ δύνανται αὐτοὶ νοήσαντες καταλιπεῖν αὐτὰ, αἴσθησιν γὰρ οὐκ ἐχουσιν."},{"chapter":6,"verse":43,"text":"Αἱ δὲ γυναῖκες περιθέμεναι σχοινὶα, ἐν ταῖς ὁδοῖς ἐγκάθηνται, θυμιῶσαι τὰ πίτυρα· ὅτας δέ τις αὐτῶν ἐφελκυσθεῖσα ὑπό τινος τῶν παραπορευομένων κοιμηθῇ, τὴν πλησίον ὀνειδίζει, ὅτι οὐκ ἠξίωται ὥσπερ καὶ αὐτὴ, οὔτε τὸ σχοινίον αὐτῆς διεῤῥάγη."},{"chapter":6,"verse":44,"text":"Πάντα τὰ γενόμενα ἐν αὐτοῖς ἐστι ψευδῆ· πῶς οὖν νομιστέον ἢ κλητέον ὡς θεοὺς αὐτοὺς ὑπάρχειν;"},{"chapter":6,"verse":45,"text":"Ὑπὸ τεκτόνων καὶ χρυσοχόων κατεσκευασμένα εἰσίν· οὐθὲν ἄλλο μὴ γὲνηται, ἢ ὃ βούλονται οἱ τεχνίται αὐτὰ γενέσθαι."},{"chapter":6,"verse":46,"text":"Αὐτοί τε οἱ κατασκευάζοντες αὐτὰ οὐ μὴ γένωνται πολυχρόνιοι· πῶς τε δὴ μέλλει τὰ ὑπʼ αὐτῶν κατασκευασθέντα;"},{"chapter":6,"verse":47,"text":"Κατέλιπον γὰρ ψεύδη καὶ ὄνειδος τοῖς ἐπιγινομένοις."},{"chapter":6,"verse":48,"text":"Ὅταν γὰρ ἐπέλθῃ ἐπʼ αὐτὰ πόλεμος καὶ κακὰ, βουλεύονται πρὸς ἑαυτοὺς οἱ ἱερεῖς, ποῦ συναποκρυβῶσι μετʼ αὐτῶν."},{"chapter":6,"verse":49,"text":"Πῶς οὖν οὐκ ἔστιν αἰσθέσθαι ὅτι οὐκ εἰσί θεοί, οἳ οὔτε σώζουσιν ἑαυτοὺς ἐκ πολέμου, οὔτε ἐκ κακῶν;"},{"chapter":6,"verse":50,"text":"Ὑπάρχοντα γὰρ ξύλινα καὶ περίχρυσα καὶ περιάργυρα, γνωσθήσεται μετὰ ταῦτα ὅτι ἐστὶ ψευδῆ."},{"chapter":6,"verse":51,"text":"Τοῖς ἔθνεσι πᾶσι τοῖς τε βασιλεῦσι φανερὸν ἔσται ὃτι οὐκ εἰσὶ θεοὶ, ἀλλὰ ἔργα χειρῶν ἀνθρώπων, καὶ οὐδὲν Θεοῦ ἔργον ἐν αὐτοῖς ἐστι."},{"chapter":6,"verse":52,"text":"Τίνι οὖν γνωστέον ἐστὶν ὅτι οὐκ εἰσὶ θεοί;"},{"chapter":6,"verse":53,"text":"Βασιλὲα γὰρ χώρας οὐ μὴ ἀναστήσωσιν, οὔτε ὑετὸν ἀνθρώποις οὐ μὴ δῶσι."},{"chapter":6,"verse":54,"text":"Κρίσιν τε οὐ μὴ διακρίνωσιν ἑαυτῶν, οὐδὲ μὴ ῥύσωνται ἀδίκημα, ἀδὺνατοι ὄντες· ὥσπερ γὰρ κορῶναι ἀναμέσον τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ τῆς γῆς."},{"chapter":6,"verse":55,"text":"Καὶ γὰρ ὅταν ἐμπέσῃ εἰς οἰκίαν θεῶν ξυλίνων ἡ περιχρύσων ἢ περιαργύρων πῦρ, οἱ μὲν ἱερεῖν φεύξονται καὶ διασωθήσονται, αὐτοὶ δὲ ὥσπερ δοκοὶ μέσοι κατακαυθήσονται."},{"chapter":6,"verse":56,"text":"Βασιλεῖ δὲ καὶ πολεμίοις οὐ μὴ ἀντιστῶσι· πῶς οὖν ἐκδεκτέον ἢ νομιστέον ὅτι εἰσὶ θεοί;"},{"chapter":6,"verse":57,"text":"Οὔτε ἀπὸ κλεπτῶν, οὔτε ἀπὸ λῃστῶν οὐ μὴ διασωθῶσι θεοὶ ξύλινον, καὶ περιάργυροι, καὶ περίχρυσοι·"},{"chapter":6,"verse":58,"text":"ὧν οἱ ἰσχύοντες περιελοῦνται τὸ χρυσίον καὶ τὸ ἀργύριον, καὶ τὸν ἱματισμὸν τὸν περικείμενον αὐτοῖς ἀπελεύσονται ἔχοντες, οὔτε ἑαυτοῖς οὐ μὴ βοηθήσωσιν."},{"chapter":6,"verse":59,"text":"Ὥστε κρεῖσσον εἶναι βασιλέα ἐπιδεικνύμενον τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ἀνδρείαν, ἢ σκεῦος ἐν οἰκίᾳ χρήσιμον ἐφʼ ᾧ κεχρήσεται ὁ κεκτημένος, ἢ οἱ ψευδεῖς θεοί· ἢ καὶ θύρα ἐν οἰκίᾳ διασώζουσα τὰ ἐν αὐτῇ ὄντα, ἢ οἱ ψευδεῖς θεοί· καὶ ξύλινος στύλος ἐν βασιλείοις, ἤ οἱ ψευδεῖς θεοί."},{"chapter":6,"verse":60,"text":"Ἥλιος μὲν γὰρ καὶ σελήνη καὶ ἄστρα ὄντα λαμπρὰ, καὶ ἀποστελλόμενα ἐπὶ χρείας, εὐήκοά εἰσιν."},{"chapter":6,"verse":61,"text":"Ὡσαύτως καὶ ἀστραπὴ ὅταν ἐπιφανῇ, εὔοπτός ἐστι· τὸ δʼ αὐτὸ καὶ πνεῦμα ἐν πάσῃ χώρᾳ πνεῖ."},{"chapter":6,"verse":62,"text":"Καὶ νεφέλαις ὅταν ἐπιταγῆ ὑπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐπιπορεύεσθαι ἐπιπορεύεσθαι ἐφʼ ὅλην τὴν οἰκουμένην, συντελοῦσι τὸ ταχθέν."},{"chapter":6,"verse":63,"text":"Τό, τε πῦρ ἐξαποσταλὲν ἄνωθεν ἐξαναλῶσαι ὄρη καὶ δρυμοὺς, ποιεῖ τὸ συνταχθὲν· ταῦτα δὲ οὔτε ταῖς εἰδέαις οὔτε ταῖς δυνάμεσιν αὐτῶν ἀφωμοιωμένα ἐστίν."},{"chapter":6,"verse":64,"text":"Ὅθεν οὔτε νομιστέον οὔτε κλητέον ὑπάρχειν αὐτοὺς θεοὺς, οὐ δυνατῶν ὄντων αὐτῶν οὔτε κλητέον κρίναι, οὔτε εὖ ποιῆσαι ἀνθρώποις."},{"chapter":6,"verse":65,"text":"Γνόντες οὖν ὅτι οὐκ εἰσὶ θεοί, μὴ φοβηθῆτε αὐτούς·"},{"chapter":6,"verse":66,"text":"Οὔτε γὰρ βασιλεῦσιν οὐ μὴ καταράσωνται, οὔτε μὴ εὐλογήσωσι."},{"chapter":6,"verse":67,"text":"Σημεῖά τε ἐν ἔθνεσιν ἐν οὐρανῷ οὐ μὴ δείξωσιν, οὐδὲ ὡς ὁ ἥλιος λάμψουσιν, οὔτε φωτιοῦσιν ὡς ἡ σελήνη."},{"chapter":6,"verse":68,"text":"Τὰ θηρία αὐτῶν ἐστι κρείττω, ἃ δύνανται ἐκφυγόντα εἰς σκέπην ἑαυτὰ ὠφελῆσαι."},{"chapter":6,"verse":69,"text":"Κατʼ οὐδένα οὖν τρόπον ἡμῖν ἑστι φανερὸν ὅτι εἰσὶ θεοί· διὸ μὴ φοβηθῆτε αὐτούς."},{"chapter":6,"verse":70,"text":"Ὥσοερ γὰρ ἐν σικυηράτῳ προβασκάνιον οὐδὲν φυλάσσον, οὕτως οἱ θεοὶ αὐτῶν εἰσι ξύλινοι καὶ περίχρυσον καὶ περιάργυροι."},{"chapter":6,"verse":71,"text":"τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον καὶ τῇ. ἐν κήπῳ ῥάμνῳ, ἐφʼ ἧς πᾶν ὄρνεον ἐπικάθηται, ὡσαύτως δὲ καὶ νεκρῷ ἐῤῥιμμένῳ ἐν σκότει ἀφωμοίωνται οἱ θεοὶ αὐτῶν ξύλινοι καὶ περίχρυσοι καὶ περιάργυροι."},{"chapter":6,"verse":72,"text":"Ἀπό τε τῆς πορφύρας καὶ τῆς μαρμάρου τῆς ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς σηπομένης γνωσθήσονται ὅτι οὐκ εἰσὶ θεοί· αὐτά τε ἐξ ὑστέρου βρωθήσονται, καὶ ἔσται ὄνειδος ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ."},{"chapter":6,"verse":73,"text":"Κρεῖσσον οὖ ἄνθρωπος δίκαιος οὐκ ἔχων εἴδωλα, ἔσται γὰρ μακρὰν ἀπὸ ὀνειδισμοῦ."}]}]}