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here am I beginning my work of vengeance with that city which is the shrine of my name, and shall you be acquitted, you others, and go scot-free? That shall never be, says the Lord of hosts; to the sword if I appeal, it is for a whole world’s punishment. (Jeremiah 25, 29)
With such words as these thou shalt prophesy to them: From on high, from his holy dwelling-place, the Lord makes his voice heard, terrible as lion roaring; as roar of lion against sheep-fold, and that fold his own! Loud echoes his vintage-cry as he treads down all the dwellers on earth; (Jeremiah 25, 30)
to the ends of the world it must echo; a whole world he calls to account, impleads the whole race of men; The sword’s point for my adversaries, the Lord says. (Jeremiah 25, 31)
From nation to nation, says the Lord of hosts, calamity will spread, like a great whirlwind sprung up from the corners of the earth, (Jeremiah 25, 32)
and from end to end of it the bodies of the Lord’s foes, unwept, ungathered, unburied, shall lie like dung on the ground. (Jeremiah 25, 33)
hark how they lament, shepherds and pride of the flock, for pasture-grounds the Lord has laid waste! (Jeremiah 25, 36)
Silent they lie now, once happy fields, under ban of the Lord’s vengeance. (Jeremiah 25, 37)
Lion springs not from his lair more suddenly; all their land lies waste, so pitiless the invader’s onset,✻ so pitiless the Lord’s anger. (Jeremiah 25, 38)
At the beginning of Joachim’s reign in Juda, that was son to Josias, word came from the Lord, (Jeremiah 26, 1)
and when he had thus done the Lord’s errand for all the people to hear, priests and prophets and townsfolk laid hands upon him, crying out, His life must pay for it! (Jeremiah 26, 8)
What, would he threaten in the Lord’s name that this temple is to share Silo’s doom, this city to be left forlorn, uninhabited? There, in the Lord’s house, Jeremias must confront the anger of a whole people. (Jeremiah 26, 9)
To nobles and to people Jeremias had but one defence: Nothing have I said against temple or city but what the Lord’s errand bade me. (Jeremiah 26, 12)
