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All the merry-hearted do sigh.

⁸The mirth of tabrets ceaseth,

The noise of them that rejoice endeth,

The joy of the harp ceaseth.

⁹They drink not wine with a song;

Strong drink is bitter to them that drink it.

¹⁰Broken down is the city of wasteness;

Every house is shut up, that none may come in.

¹¹There is a crying in the streets amidst the wine;

All joy is darkened,

The mirth of the land is gone.

¹²In the city is left desolation,

And the gate is smitten unto ruin.

¹³For thus shall it be in the midst of the earth, among the peoples,

As at the beating of an olive-tree,

As at the gleanings when the vintage is done.

¹⁴Those yonder lift up their voice, they sing for joy;

For the majesty of the Lord they shout from the sea:

¹⁵'Therefore glorify ye the Lord in the regions of light,

Even the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, in the isles of the sea.'

 

¹⁶From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs: 'Glory to the righteous.'

But I say: I waste away, I waste away, woe is me!

The treacherous deal treacherously;

Yea, the treacherous deal very treacherously.

¹⁷Terror, and the pit, and the trap, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.

¹⁸And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the terror shall fall into the pit;

And he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the trap;

For the windows on high are opened,

And the foundations of the earth do shake;

¹⁹The earth is broken, broken down,

The earth is crumbled in pieces,

The earth trembleth and tottereth;

²⁰The earth reeleth to and fro like a drunken man,

And swayeth to and fro as a lodge;

And the transgression thereof is heavy upon it,

And it shall fall, and not rise again.

²¹And it shall come to pass in that day,

That the Lord will punish the host of the high heaven on high,

And the kings of the earth upon the earth.

²²And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the dungeon,

And shall be shut up in the prison,

And after many days shall they be punished.

²³Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed;

For the Lord of hosts will reign in mount Zion,

And in Jerusalem, and before His elders shall be Glory.

 

25O Lord, Thou art my God,

I will exalt Thee, I will praise Thy name,

For Thou hast done wonderful things;

Even counsels of old, in faithfulness and truth.

²For Thou hast made of a city a heap,

Of a fortified city a ruin;

A castle of strangers to be no city,

It shall never be built.

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