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1 This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law that endureth for ever: all they that keep it
shall come to life; but such as leave it shall die.
2 Turn thee, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk in the presence of the light thereof, that thou mayest
be illuminated.
3 Give not thine honour to another, nor the things that are profitable unto thee to a strange nation.
6 Ye were sold to the nations, not for
your destruction: but because ye moved God to wrath, ye were delivered unto the enemies.
8 Ye have forgotten the everlasting God, that brought you up; and ye have grieved Jerusalem, that nursed
you.
9 For when she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, she said, Hearken, O ye that dwell about Sion: God
hath brought upon me great mourning;
12 Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and forsaken of many, who for the sins of my children am left desolate;
because they departed from the law of God.
13 They knew not his statutes, nor walked in the ways of his commandments, nor trod in the paths of discipline
in his righteousness.
14 Let them that dwell about Sion come, and remember ye the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the
Everlasting hath brought upon them.
15 For he hath brought a nation upon them from far, a shameless nation, and of a strange language, who neither
reverenced old man, nor pitied child.
16 These have carried away the dear beloved children of the widow, and left her that was alone desolate
without daughters.
20 I have put off the clothing of peace, and put upon me the sackcloth of my prayer: I will cry unto the
Everlasting in my days.
21 Be of good cheer, O my children, cry unto the Lord, and he will deliver you from the power and hand of
the enemies.
22 For my hope is in the Everlasting, that he will save you; and joy is come unto me from the Holy One,
because of the mercy which shall soon come unto you from the Everlasting our Saviour.
23 For I sent you out with mourning and weeping: but God will give you to me again with joy and gladness
for ever.
24 Like as now the neighbours of Sion have seen your captivity: so shall they see shortly your salvation
from our God which shall come upon you with great glory, and brightness of the Everlasting.
25 My children, suffer patiently the wrath that is come upon you from God: for thine enemy hath persecuted
thee; but shortly thou shalt see his destruction, and shalt tread upon his neck.
27 Be of good comfort, O my children, and cry unto God: for ye shall be remembered of him that brought these
things upon you.
29 For he that hath brought these plagues upon you shall bring you everlasting joy with your salvation.
33 For as she rejoiced at thy ruin, and was glad of thy fall: so shall she be grieved for her own desolation.
34 For I will take away the rejoicing of her great multitude, and her pride shall be turned into mourning.