Do not eat the food of a stingy person, do not crave his delicacies;

Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries away to a place from which it rises again.

So do not be excessively righteous or excessively wise; otherwise you might be disappointed.

Do not be excessively wicked and do not be a fool; otherwise you might die before your time.

When one looks out over the land, he sees distress and darkness, gloom and anxiety, darkness and people forced from the land.

He will go back the way he came – he will not enter this city,’ says the Lord.

Look at Abraham, your father, and Sarah, who gave you birth. When I summoned him, he was a lone individual, but I blessed him and gave him numerous descendants.

Don’t allow him to rest until he reestablishes Jerusalem, until he makes Jerusalem the pride of the earth.

“I looked at the land and saw that it was an empty wasteland. I looked up at the sky, and its light had vanished.

So here is what the Lord has to say about Israel and Judah.

Now the Lord had spoken to Jeremiah while he was still confined in the courtyard of the guardhouse,

But how can it rest when I, the Lord, have given it orders? I have ordered it to attack the people of Ashkelon and the seacoast.

“Judgment will come on the cities on the high plain: on Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath,

You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it.

They will wear sackcloth, terror will cover them; shame will be on all their faces, and all of their heads will be shaved bald.

But those whose hearts are devoted to detestable things and abominations, I hereby repay them for what they have done, says the sovereign Lord.”

On its ruins all the birds of the sky will live, and all the wild animals will walk on its branches.

He measured the porch at 105 feet high; the gateway went all around to the jamb of the courtyard.

There were hooks three inches long, fastened in the house all around, and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.