The Lord has not called you as a deserted and faint-hearted woman, nor as a woman hated from [her] youth, says your God.

But Zion said, The Lord has forsaken me, and, The Lord has forgotten me.

Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that have drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of His fury; for you have drunk out and drained the cup of calamity, the cup of wrath;

Wherefore these things are against you; who shall sympathize with you in your grief? Downfall and destruction, famine and sword; who shall comfort you?

Awake, awake, Zion; put on your strength, O Zion; and put on your glory, O Jerusalem the holy city; for the uncircumcised and unclean shall pass through you no more.

For thus says the Lord, You have been sold for nought; and you shall not be ransomed with silver.

And now why are you here? Thus says the Lord: Because My people were taken for nothing, wonder and howl. Thus says the Lord: On account of you My name is continually blasphemed among the Gentiles.

Because you have become desolate and hated, and there was no helper, therefore I will make you a perpetual gladness, a joy of many generations.

And in those days after a length of time, the king of Egypt died. And the children of Israel groaned because of their tasks, and cried, and their cry because of their tasks went up to God.

And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in flaming fire out of the bush, and he saw that the bush burned with fire, but the bush was not consumed.

And the Lord said to Moses, I have surely seen the affliction of My people that is in Egypt, and I have heard their cry [caused] by their taskmasters; for I know their affliction.

And I will be very angry with them in that day, and I will leave them and turn My face away from them, and they shall be devoured. And many evils and afflictions shall come upon them, and they shall say in that day, Because the Lord my God is not with me, these evils have come upon me.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but out of them all the Lord shall deliver them.

A Song of Degrees. Many a time have they warred against me from my youth, let Israel now say:

The sinners wrought upon my back: they prolonged their iniquity.

For I will bring about your healing, I will heal you of your grievous wound, says the Lord; for you are called Dispersed: she is your prey, for no one seeks after her.

Most assuredly I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; and you will be grieved, but your grief will be turned into joy.

Therefore you also now have sorrow; but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one will take from you.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, urging [them] to continue in the faith, [saying], "Through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God."

And I will give [power] to My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, having been clothed in sackcloth."

And if anyone wants to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouth and devours their enemies. And if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this way.

And when they finish their testimony, the Beast who ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war with them, and will overcome them, and will kill them.

Then some of the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations saw their corpse three-and-a-half days, and they will not allow their corpses to be put into a tomb.

Now when the dragon saw that he was cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male [Child].

And the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a river after the woman, so that he might cause her to be carried off by the river.

And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went off to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus.

And behold, a great tempest arose on the sea, so that the boat was covered by waves; but He was sleeping.

And because we were exceedingly tempest-tossed, the next day they lightened the ship.

And neither the sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small storm pressed on us, finally all hope for us to be saved was taken away.

And it came to pass, after Israel was taken captive, and Jerusalem made desolate, [that] Jeremiah sat weeping, and lamented with this lamentation over Jerusalem, and said: ALEPH. How does the city that was filled with people sit solitary! She has become as a widow: she that was magnified among the nations, and princess among the provinces, has become tributary.

BETH. She weeps sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; and there is none of all her lovers to comfort her: all that were her friends have dealt deceitfully with her, they have become her enemies.

AIN. My eye has poured out water, because He that should comfort me, that should restore my soul, has been removed far from me. My sons have been destroyed, because the enemy has prevailed.

PHE. Zion has spread out her hand, and there is none to comfort her: the Lord has commanded concerning Jacob, his oppressors are round about him: Jerusalem has become among them as a removed woman.

CHSEN. Hear, I pray you, for I groan: there is none to comfort me: all my enemies have heard of my afflictions and rejoiced, because You have done it: You have brought on the day, You have called the time: they have become like to me.

[This translation omits this verse.]

I have prepared according to all [my] might for the house of my God, gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, onyx stones, and costly and variegated stones for setting, and every precious stone, and much Parian [marble].

And it came to pass in the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the first month, on the tenth [day] of the month, in the fourteenth year after the taking of the city, in that day the hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me

And He brought me in there, and behold, [there was] a man, and the appearance of him was as the appearance of shining brass, and in his hand was a builder's line, and a measuring reed; and he stood at the gate.

And behold, a wall round about the house outside, and in the man's hand was a reed, the measure [of it was] six cubits by the cubit, and a span. And he measured across the front wall; the breadth was equal to the reed, and the length of it equal to the reed.

And the chamber was equal in length to the reed, and equal in breadth to the reed; and the porch between the chambers [was] six cubits; and the second chamber equal in breadth to the reed, and equal in length to the reed, and the porch [was] five cubits.

And the porch of the gateway [near the porch of the gate] [was] eight cubits; and the posts there of two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.

And he measured the breadth of the door of the gateway, ten cubits; and the breadth of the gateway [was] thirteen cubits.

And he measured the gate from the wall of one chamber to the wall of the other chamber. The breadth was twenty-five cubits, the one gate over against the other gate.

And the open space of the gate outside to the open space of the porch of the gate within was fifty cubits.

And he brought me into the inner court, and behold, [there were] chambers, and peristyles round about the court; thirty chambers within the ranges of columns.

And he measured the breadth of the court, from the open space of the outer gate inwards to the open space of the gate looking outwards: a hundred cubits [was the distance to the place] of the gate looking eastward. And he brought me to the north.

and the chambers, three on this side and three on that; and the posts, and the porches, and the palm trees thereof: and they were according to the measures of the gate that looks eastward: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof was twenty-five cubits.

And [there was] a gate to the inner court looking toward the north gate, after the manner of the gate looking toward the east; and he measured the court from gate to gate, a hundred cubits.

And its windows and its porches round about were according to the windows of the porch: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof was twenty-five cubits.

And [there was] a gate opposite the gate of the inner court southward. And he measured the court from gate to gate, a hundred cubits in breadth southward.

and the chambers, and the posts, and the porches, according to these measures; and [there were] windows to it and to the porches round about: its length was fifty cubits, and [its] breadth [was] twenty-five cubits,

from the porch to the outer court: and [there were] palm trees to the post [thereof], and eight steps.

and the chambers, and the posts, and the porches according to these measures: and [there were] windows to it, and porches round about: the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth of it [was] twenty-five cubits.

And he brought me in at the northern gate, and measured [it] according to these measures:

And its porches were toward the inner court; and [there were] palm trees to the posts on this side and on that side; and it [had] eight steps.

that they might slay in it the sin offerings and the trespass offerings.

Four on one side and four on the other side behind the gate; [and] upon them they kill the victims, in front of the eight tables of sacrifices.

being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone,

Coming to Him as to a living stone, having been rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious,

For it is also contained in the Scripture, "Behold, I place in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen, precious, and he who believes on Him shall by no means be put to shame."

And the construction of its wall was of jasper; and the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.

And they saw the place where the God of Israel stood; and under His feet was as it were a work of sapphire slabs, and as it were the appearance of the firmament of heaven in its purity.

And you shall interweave with it a texture of four rows of stone; there shall be a row of stones: a sardius, a topaz, and an emerald: [this shall be] the first row.

And the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst.

round about; and the bronze appendage of the altar, and all the vessels of the altar, and all the instruments of the tabernacle of witness.

And of the gold that remained of the offering they made vessels to minister with before the Lord.

and they brought the garments to Moses, and the tabernacle, and its furniture, its bases and its bars and the posts;

His hands are as turned gold set with beryl: his belly is an ivory tablet on a sapphire stone.

that was over their head, there was as the appearance of a sapphire stone, [and] the likeness of a throne upon it. And upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as an appearance of a man above.

Then I looked, and behold, over the firmament that was above the head of the cherubim [there was] a likeness of a throne over them, as a sapphire stone.