<p class="poetry">Let your clothes always be white,p> <p class="poetry">and do not spare precious ointment on your head.p>

<p class="poetry">Your navel<n id="1" /> is a round mixing bowl<n id="2" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">may it never lack<n id="3" /> mixed wine!<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">Your belly<n id="5" /> is a mound of wheat,p> <p class="poetry">encircled<n id="6" /> by lilies.p>

This is what the king says: &#8216;Don&#8217;t let Hezekiah mislead you, for he is not able to rescue you!

<p class="poetry">For I am the <sc>Lordsc> your God,p> <p class="poetry">the one who takes hold of your right hand,p> <p class="poetry">who says to you, &#8216;Don&#8217;t be afraid, I am helping you.&#8217;p>

<p class="poetry">Don&#8217;t be afraid, for I am with you.p> <p class="poetry">From the east I will bring your descendants;p> <p class="poetry">from the west I will gather you.p>

<p class="poetry">I will say to the north, &#8216;Hand them over!&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">and to the south, &#8216;Don&#8217;t hold any back!&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">Bring my sons from distant lands,p> <p class="poetry">and my daughters from the remote regions of the earth,p>

<p class="poetry">Make your tent larger,p> <p class="poetry">stretch your tent curtains farther out!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Spare no effort,p> <p class="poetry">lengthen your ropes,p> <p class="poetry">and pound your stakes deep.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Don&#8217;t allow him to rest until he reestablishes Jerusalem,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">until he makes Jerusalem the pride<n id="2" /> of the earth.p>

Do not be afraid of those to whom I send you,<n id="1" /> for I will be with you to protect<n id="2" /> you,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>.

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> commanded the enemy,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;March through the vineyards of Israel and Judah and ruin them.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">But do not destroy them completely.p> <p class="poetry">Strip off their branchesp> <p class="poetry">for these people do not belong to the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then the <sc>Lordsc> said to me, &#8220;Do not pray for good to come to these people!<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">Cursed be the day I was born!p> <p class="poetry">May that day not be blessed when my mother gave birth to me.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Zedekiah told Jeremiah, &#8220;Do not let anyone know about the conversation we have had.<n id="1" /> If you do, you will die.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">Do not fear, my land!p> <p class="poetry">Rejoice and be glad,p> <p class="poetry">because the <sc>Lordsc> has accomplished great things!p>

<p class="poetry">&#8216;Don&#8217;t preach with such impassioned rhetoric,&#8217; they say excitedly.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;These prophets should not preach of such things;p> <p class="poetry">we will not be overtaken by humiliation.&#8217;<n id="2" />p>

&#8216;Do not fear, because I made a promise to your ancestors when they left Egypt, and my spirit<n id="1" /> even now testifies to you.&#8217;<n id="2" />

When they had brought them outside, they<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Run<n id="2" /> for your lives! Don&#8217;t look<n id="3" /> behind you or stop anywhere in the valley!<n id="4" /> Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!&#8221;p>

&#8220;Do not harm the boy!&#8221;<n id="1" /> the angel said.<n id="2" /> &#8220;Do not do anything to him, for now I know<n id="3" /> that you fear<n id="4" /> God because you did not withhold your son, your only son, from me.&#8221;p>

No one is to come up with you; do not let anyone be seen anywhere on the mountain; not even the flocks or the herds may graze in front of that mountain.&#8221;

Look, he<n id="1" /> has placed the land in front of you!<n id="2" /> Go up, take possession of it, just as the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of your ancestors, said to do. Do not be afraid or discouraged!&#8221;