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SEPTEMBER 29
15 “Can a woman forget her nursing child, Or the captives of the righteous be
And not have compassion on the son delivered?
of her womb? 25
Surely they may forget, But thus says the LORD:
Yet I will not forget you. “Even the captives of the mighty shall
16 See, I have inscribed you on the palms be taken away,
of My hands; And the prey of the terrible be
Your walls are continually before Me. delivered;
17 Your sons shall make haste; For I will contend with him who
Your destroyers and those who laid contends with you,
you waste And I will save your children.
Shall go away from you. 26 I will feed those who oppress you with
18 Lift up your eyes, look around and see; their own flesh,
All these gather together and come And they shall be drunk with their own
to you. blood as with sweet wine.
As I live,” says the LORD, All flesh shall know
“You shall surely clothe yourselves with That I, the LORD, am your Savior,
them all as an ornament, And your Redeemer, the Mighty One
And bind them on you as a bride does. of Jacob.”
19 “For your waste and desolate places, 50 Thus says the LORD:
And the land of your destruction,
Will even now be too small for the “Where is the certificate of your mother’s
inhabitants; divorce,
And those who swallowed you up will Whom I have put away?
be far away. Or which of My creditors is it to whom
20 The children you will have, I have sold you?
After you have lost the others, For your iniquities you have sold
Will say again in your ears, yourselves,
‘The place is too small for me; And for your transgressions your
Give me a place where I may dwell.’ mother has been put away.
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21 Then you will say in your heart, Why, when I came, was there no man?
‘Who has begotten these for me, Why, when I called, was there none to
Since I have lost my children answer?
and am desolate, Is My hand shortened at all that it
A captive, and wandering to and fro? cannot redeem?
And who has brought these up? Or have I no power to deliver?
There I was, left alone; Indeed with My rebuke I dry up the sea,
But these, where were they?’ ” I make the rivers a wilderness;
Their fish stink because there is no
22 Thus says the Lord GOD: water,
“Behold, I will lift My hand in an oath And die of thirst.
to the nations, 3 I clothe the heavens with blackness,
And set up My standard for the peoples; And I make sackcloth their covering.”
They shall bring your sons in their 4 “The Lord GOD has given Me
arms, The tongue of the learned,
And your daughters shall be carried on That I should know how to speak
their shoulders; A word in season to him who is weary.
23 Kings shall be your foster fathers, He awakens Me morning by morning,
And their queens your nursing He awakens My ear
mothers; To hear as the learned.
They shall bow down to you with their 5 The Lord GOD has opened My ear;
faces to the earth, And I was not rebellious,
And lick up the dust of your feet. Nor did I turn away.
Then you will know that I am the LORD, 6 I gave My back to those who struck
For they shall not be ashamed who Me,
wait for Me.”
And My cheeks to those who plucked
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, out the beard;
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