And the Lord shall scatter you among all nations, and you shall be left few in number among all the nations, among which the Lord shall bring you.

Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will visit upon all the circumcised their uncircumcision:

on Egypt, Edom, Edom, on the children of Ammon, on the children of Moab, and everyone that shaves his face round about, [even] them that dwell in the wilderness; for all the Gentiles are uncircumcised in flesh, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised [in] their hearts.

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And they shall drink, and vomit, and be mad, because of the sword which I send among them.

Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings of Judah, and his princes, to make them a desert place, a desolation, and a hissing.

and all the mixed multitude, and all the kings of the Philistines, [namely] Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Azotus,

and the kings of Tyre, and the kings of Sidon, and the kings in the [country] beyond the sea,

and all the mixed multitude dwelling in the wilderness,

and all the kings from the north, the far and the near, each one with his brother, and all the kingdoms which are on the face of the earth.

And it shall come to pass, when they refuse to take the cup out of your hand, to drink it, that you shall say, Thus said the Lord; You shall surely drink.

Therefore behold, I will proceed to remove this people, and I will remove them; and I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will hide the understanding of the prudent.

LAMED. The kings of the earth, even all that dwell in the world, believed not that an enemy and oppressor would enter through the gates of Jerusalem.

And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, [by] bringing upon us great evils, such as have not happened under the whole heaven, according to what has happened in Jerusalem.

Watch therefore, lest there come upon you that which was spoken of in the prophets:

"Behold, you despisers, and marvel and perish! For I will work a work in your days which you will by no means believe, though one were to declare it to you.'"

The Lord shall rise up as [against] a mountain of ungodly [men], and shall be in the valley of Gibeon; He shall perform His works with wrath, [even] a work of bitterness, and His wrath shall deal strangely, and His destruction shall be strange.

Therefore do not rejoice, neither let your bands be made strong; for I have heard of works finished and cut short by the Lord of hosts, which He will execute upon all the earth.

have lied to their Lord, and they have said, These things are not so; no evils shall come upon us; and we shall not see sword or famine.

Our prophets became wind, and the word of the Lord was not in them.

Then they said, Come, and let us devise a plan against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us attack him with the tongue, and we will hear all his words.

Son of man, what is your parable on the land of Israel, that you say, The days are long, [and] the vision has perished?

For there shall no more be any false vision, nor anyone prophesying flatteries in the midst of the children of Israel.

Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord: Henceforth none of My words shall linger, which I shall speak: I will speak and do, says the Lord.

Let there be an utter cutting off from the face of the land, says the Lord.

And they put forward false witnesses saying, "This man does not cease to speak blasphemous words against the holy place and the law;

for we have heard him saying that this Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place and change the customs which Moses handed down to us."