Now the city was spread out and large, and there were not a lot of people in it. At that time houses had not been rebuilt.

Now the day came when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord – and Satan also arrived among them.

Job took a shard of broken pottery to scrape himself with while he was sitting among the ashes.

My strength drains away like water; all my bones are dislocated; my heart is like wax; it melts away inside me.

They have prepared a net to trap me; I am discouraged. They have dug a pit for me. They will fall into it! (Selah)

A servant who acts wisely will rule over an heir who behaves shamefully, and will share the inheritance along with the relatives.

If you should pound the fool in the mortar among the grain with the pestle, his foolishness would not depart from him.

Its posts were made of silver; its back was made of gold. Its seat was upholstered with purple wool; its interior was inlaid with leather by the maidens of Jerusalem.

They say, “Let’s attack Judah, terrorize it, and conquer it. Then we’ll set up the son of Tabeel as its king.”

At that time there will be an altar for the Lord in the middle of the land of Egypt, as well as a sacred pillar dedicated to the Lord at its border.

They do one act of violence after another, and one deceitful thing after another. They refuse to pay attention to me,” says the Lord.

(Now Jeremiah had not yet been put in prison. So he was still free to come and go among the people as he pleased.

Jeremiah started to leave Jerusalem to go to the territory of Benjamin. He wanted to make sure he got his share of the property that was being divided up among his family there.

“People of Judah, get out of Babylon quickly! Leave the land of Babylonia! Be the first to depart! Be like the male goats that lead the herd.

“Get out of Babylon, my people! Flee to save your lives from the fierce anger of the Lord!

In the fire were what looked like four living beings. In their appearance they had human form,

As for you, son of man, they will put ropes on you and tie you up with them, so you cannot go out among them.

“This is what the sovereign Lord says: This is Jerusalem; I placed her in the center of the nations with countries all around her.

As for their appearance, all four of them looked the same, something like a wheel within a wheel.

‘But I will take you out of the city. And I will hand you over to foreigners. I will execute judgments on you.