Indeed, all his days are filled with grief, and his task is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile.

Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they …

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.

From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness—only wounds and welts and festering sores neither …

I will turn My hand against you; I will thoroughly purge your dross; I will remove all your impurities.

I will restore your judges as at first, and your counselors as at the beginning. After that you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.”

Zion will be redeemed with justice, her repentant ones with righteousness.

Whoever remains in Zion and whoever is left in Jerusalem will be called holy—all in Jerusalem who are recorded among the living—

when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains from the heart of Jerusalem by …

a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and the rain.

They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.

So the LORD will cut off Israel’s head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day.

For in just a little while My fury against you will subside, and My anger will turn to their destruction.”

… will be a sign and a witness to the LORD of Hosts in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the …

… plague; He will strike them but heal them. They will turn to the LORD, and He will hear their prayers and heal them.

On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.

But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us …

Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—

The earth will be utterly laid waste and thoroughly plundered. For the LORD has spoken this word.

The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.

Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.

The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.

The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent.

They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it.

The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.