All your leaders ran away together – they fled to a distant place; all your refugees were captured together – they were captured without a single arrow being shot.

You must not plow with an ox and a donkey harnessed together.

You must not wear clothing made with wool and linen meshed together.

“Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.

Hide them in the dust together, imprison them in the grave.

Sinful rebels are totally destroyed; evil men have no future.

And now they are tearing down all its engravings with axes and crowbars.

Let the rivers clap their hands! Let the mountains sing in unison

Jerusalem is a city designed to accommodate an assembly.

Indeed, he says: “Are not my officials all kings?

The Babylonians are all like lions roaring for prey. They are like lion cubs growling for something to eat.

Do two walk together without having met?

But the land could not support them while they were living side by side. Because their possessions were so great, they were not able to live alongside one another.

You may eat it in your villages, whether you are ritually impure or clean, just as you would eat a gazelle or an ibex.

When the Arameans realized that they had been defeated by Israel, they consolidated their forces.

So Saul and his three sons died; his whole household died together.

There the prisoners relax together; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.

“Oh, if only my grief could be weighed, and my misfortune laid on the scales too!

For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment.

Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?”