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A name you shall leave behind you to serve my chosen people as a curse; the Lord God takes full toll. For his own servants he will have a new name instead; (Isaiah 65, 15)
I will rejoice in Jerusalem, take pride in my people, and the sound of weeping and lament shall be heard among them no more. (Isaiah 65, 19)
that once built houses for others to occupy, planted what others should enjoy; my people shall live to the age of trees and see the work of their own hands wear out before them. (Isaiah 65, 22)
Not in vain they shall toil, these, my chosen, nor beget children to see them overwhelmed by calamity; their race the Lord blesses, their children shall be spared to them. (Isaiah 65, 23)
Never till now was such a tale heard, such a sight witnessed; should a nation’s pangs come upon it in a day, a whole people be born at once? Such are the pangs of Sion, such is the birth of her children. (Isaiah 66, 8)
Into a land of plenty I brought you, to enjoy the fruits and the blessings of it; and you had no sooner entered it than you must needs defile it, my own land, turn my chosen home into a place abominable. (Jeremiah 2, 7)
What nation ever changed its gods, though gods indeed they were not? And should my people barter away the glory that dwelt among them, for powers that power have none? (Jeremiah 2, 11)
Two wrongs this people of mine committed; me they forsook, the fountain of living water, and thereupon they dug cisterns of their own, leaking cisterns, that water had none to give them. (Jeremiah 2, 13)
Out upon this age! Here is the Lord’s message, give good heed to it. Have I shewn myself unfriendly to Israel, like a desert, like a land overcast by shadows, that my own people has resolved to keep its distance, and come my way no more? (Jeremiah 2, 31)
What, should maid forget her jewels, bride her stomacher? And my own people, all these long days, has forgotten me! (Jeremiah 2, 32)
Now, from yonder hill-passes, another cry is heard; a cry of mourning and lament from the sons of Israel, over the wrong path they have chosen in forgetting the Lord their God. (Jeremiah 3, 21)
Alas, alas, Lord God, said I,✻ can it be that thou hast deceived thy people, deceived Jerusalem, by telling them they should have peace, and here is the sword threatening our very lives? (Jeremiah 4, 10)
