“Fallen, no more to rise,
    is (A)the virgin Israel;
forsaken on her land,
    with none to raise her up.”

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17 “You shall say to them this word:
(A)‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day,
    and let them not cease,
for the virgin (B)daughter of my people is shattered with a great wound,
    (C)with a very grievous blow.

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The Restoration of Israel

11 “In that day (A)I will raise up
    the booth of David that is fallen
and repair its breaches,
    and raise up its ruins
    and rebuild it as in the days of old,

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14 Those who swear by (A)the Guilt of Samaria,
    and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’
and, ‘As (B)the Way of (C)Beersheba lives,’
    they shall fall, and never rise again.”

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When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,

“O Lord God, please forgive!
    (A)How can Jacob stand?
    He is so small!”
(B)The Lord relented concerning this:
    “It shall not be,” said the Lord.

(C)This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, the Lord God was calling (D)for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land. Then I said,

“O Lord God, please cease!
    (E)How can Jacob stand?
    He is so small!”

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A Plea to Return to the Lord

14 (A)Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
    for (B)you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

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After two days (A)he will revive us;
    on the third day he will raise us up,
    that we may live before him.

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36 Thus says the Lord God, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, (A)and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them, 37 therefore, behold, (B)I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and (C)all those you hated. (D)I will gather them against you from every side (E)and will uncover your nakedness to them, that (F)they may see all your nakedness.

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13 What can I say for you, (A)to what compare you,
    O daughter of Jerusalem?
(B)What can I liken to you, that I may comfort you,
    O virgin daughter of Zion?
(C)For your ruin is vast as the sea;
    who can heal you?

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16 “For these things (A)I weep;
    my eyes flow with tears;
for (B)a comforter is far from me,
    one to (C)revive my spirit;
my children are desolate,
    for the enemy has prevailed.”

17 (D)Zion stretches out her hands,
    but (E)there is none to comfort her;
the Lord has commanded against Jacob
    that his neighbors should be his foes;
Jerusalem has become
    a filthy thing among them.

18 (F)“The Lord is in the right,
    (G)for I have rebelled against his word;
but hear, all you peoples,
    and see my suffering;
(H)my young women and my young men
    have gone into captivity.

19 “I called to (I)my lovers,
    but they deceived me;
my priests and elders
    perished in the city,
while (J)they sought food
    to revive their strength.

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64 and say, (A)‘Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disaster that I am bringing upon her, (B)and they shall become exhausted.’”

Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

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32 (A)The proud one shall stumble and fall,
    with none to raise him up,
(B)and I will kindle a fire in his cities,
    and it will devour all that is around him.

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(A)Again I will build you, and you shall be built,
    O virgin Israel!
(B)Again you shall adorn yourself with tambourines
    and shall go forth in (C)the dance of the merrymakers.

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12 “For thus says the Lord:
(A)Your hurt is incurable,
    (B)and your wound is grievous.
13 There is none to uphold your cause,
    no medicine for your wound,
    (C)no healing for you.
14 (D)All your lovers have forgotten you;
    they care nothing for you;
for I have dealt you the blow of (E)an enemy,
    the punishment (F)of a merciless foe,
because your guilt is great,
    (G)because your sins are flagrant.

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13 “Therefore thus says the Lord:
(A)Ask among the nations,
    Who has heard the like of this?
The virgin Israel
    has done (B)a very horrible thing.

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20 (A)Crash follows hard on crash;
    the whole land is laid waste.
(B)Suddenly my tents are laid waste,
    my curtains in a moment.

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27 who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’
    and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’
For they have turned their back to me,
    and not their face.
But (A)in the time of their trouble they say,
    ‘Arise and save us!’

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17 (A)Wake yourself, wake yourself,
    stand up, O Jerusalem,
(B)you who have drunk from the hand of the Lord
    the cup of his wrath,
who have drunk to the dregs
    the bowl, (C)the cup of staggering.
18 (D)There is none to guide her
    among all the sons she has borne;
there is none to take her by the hand
    among all the sons she has brought up.

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17 who (A)brings forth chariot and horse,
    army and warrior;
they lie down, they cannot rise,
    (B)they are extinguished, (C)quenched like a wick:

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22 this is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him:

“‘She despises you, she scorns you—
    (A)the virgin daughter of Zion;
she wags her head behind you—
    the daughter of Jerusalem.

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20 The earth (A)staggers like a drunken man;
    it sways like a hut;
(B)its transgression lies heavy upon it,
    and it falls, and will not rise again.

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21 Prepare slaughter for his sons
    (A)because of the guilt of their fathers,
lest they rise and possess the earth,
    and fill the face of the world with cities.”

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For Jerusalem has stumbled,
    and Judah has fallen,
because their (A)speech and their deeds are against the Lord,
    (B)defying his glorious presence.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 3:8 Hebrew the eyes of his glory

16 And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves metal images of (A)two calves; and they (B)made an Asherah and (C)worshiped all the host of heaven and served (D)Baal.

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29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel, (A)Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured (B)Ijon, (C)Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, (D)Kedesh, (E)Hazor, Gilead, and (F)Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.

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