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August is flat and still, with ever-thickening green
Leaves, clipped in their richness; hoarse sighs in
the grass,
Moments of mowing, mark out the
lengthening summer. The ground
We children…
Alas!
Lonely sits the city
Once great with people!
She that was great among nations
Is become like a widow;
The princess among states
Is become a thrall.
Bitterly she weeps in the night…
Listen to Me, you who pursue justice,
You who seek the Lord:
Look to the rock you were hewn from,
To the quarry you were dug from.
Look back to Abraham your father
And to Sarah who brought you…
The word of the Lord came to me, saying, Go proclaim to Jerusalem: Thus said the Lord:
I accounted to your favor
The devotion of your youth,
Your love as a bride—
How you followed Me in…
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget itself.Give us the land we have wandered in timeThrough foreign parts, far, so far and then,Every year at Passover we repeat the lineNext year…
Ha!
Assyria, rod of My anger,
In whose hand, as a staff, is My fury!
I send him against an ungodly nation,
I charge him against a people that provokes Me,
To take its spoil and to seize its booty
A…
The word of the Lord that came to Zephaniah son of Cushi son of Gedaliah son of Amariah son of Hezekiah, during the reign of King Josiah son of Amon of Judah.
I will sweep everything away
From the…
Ah, sullied, polluted,
Overbearing city!
She has been disobedient,
Has learned no lesson;
She has not trusted in the Lord,
Has not drawn near to her God.
The officials within her
Are roaring lions…
For then I will make the peoples pure of speech,
So that they all invoke the Lord by name
And serve Him with one accord.
From beyond the rivers of Cush, My suppliants
Shall bring offerings to Me…
Shout, O heavens, and rejoice, O earth!
Break into shouting, O hills!
For the Lord has comforted His people,
And has taken back His afflicted ones in love. [ . . . ]
Swiftly your children are…