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 * The whole city fleeth;
 * They go into the thickets,
 * And climb up upon the rocks;
 * Every city is forsaken,
 * And not a man dwelleth therein.
 * And thou, that art spoiled, what doest thou,
 * That thou clothest thyself with scarlet,
 * That thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold,
 * That thou enlargest thine eyes with paint?
 * In vain dost thou make thyself fair;
 * Thy lovers despise thee, they seek thy life.
 * For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail,
 * The anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child,
 * The voice of the daughter of Zion, that gaspeth for breath,
 * That spreadeth her hands:
 * 'Woe is me, now! for my soul fainteth
 * Before the murderers.'


 * Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem,
 * And see now, and know,
 * And seek in the broad places thereof,
 * If ye can find a man,
 * If there be any that doeth justly, that seeketh truth;
 * And I will pardon her.
 * And though they say: 'As the liveth',
 * Surely they swear falsely.
 * O, are not Thine eyes upon truth?
 * Thou hast stricken them, but they were not affected;
 * Thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction;
 * They have made their faces harder than a rock;
 * They have refused to return.
 * And I said: 'Surely these are poor,
 * They are foolish, for they know not the way of the ,
 * Nor the ordinance of their God; I will get me unto the great men,
 * And will speak unto them;
 * For they know the way of the ,
 * And the ordinance of their God.'
 * But these had altogether broken the yoke,
 * And burst the bands.
 * Wherefore a lion out of the forest doth slay them,
 * A wolf of the deserts doth spoil them,
 * A leopard watcheth over their cities,
 * Every one that goeth out thence is torn in pieces;
 * Because their transgressions are many,
 * Their backslidings are increased.


 * Wherefore should I pardon thee?
 * The children have forsaken Me,
 * And sworn by no-gods;
 * And when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery,
 * And assembled themselves in troops at the harlots' houses.
 * They are become as well-fed horses, lusty stallions;
 * Every one neigheth after his neighbour's wife.
 * Shall I not punish for these things?
 * Saith the ;
 * And shall not My soul be avenged
 * On such a nation as this?


 * Go ye up into her rows, and destroy,
 * But make not a full end;
 * Take away her shoots;
 * For they are not the.
 * For the house of Israel and the house of Judah