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Ecclesiastes Chapter 6

2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate

3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall

4 Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe

5 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

6 For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast

7 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her

8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee;

9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the

10 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear?

11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with

12 And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields

13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every

14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people

15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they

16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for

17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the

18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is

19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even

20 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the

21 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks

22 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north

23 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no

24 We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish

25 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword

26 O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow

27 I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that

28 They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are

29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the

30 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath