At the cry, Babylon is taken! the earth is shaking, and the cry comes to the ears of the nations.
He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out:
At the sound of his voice there is a massing of the waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain and sends out the wind from his store-houses.
See, I am against you, says the Lord, O mountain of destruction, causing the destruction of all the earth: and my hand will be stretched out on you, rolling you down from the rocks, and making you a burned mountain.
How is Babylon taken! and the praise of all the earth surprised! how has Babylon become a cause of wonder among the nations!
And the heaven and the earth and everything in them, will make a song of joy over Babylon: for those who make her waste will come from the north, says the Lord.
Babylon has been a gold cup in the hand of the Lord, which has made all the earth overcome with wine: the nations have taken of her wine, and for this cause the nations have gone off their heads.
Give ear, O earth: see, I will make evil come on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not given attention to my words, and they would have nothing to do with my law.
The Lord has said, See, a people is coming from the north country, a great nation will be put in motion from the inmost parts of the earth.
So this is what the Lord God has said: See, my wrath and my passion will be let loose on this place, on man and beast, and on the trees of the field, and on the produce of the earth; it will be burning and will not be put out.
For this cause, the days are coming, says the Lord, when it will no longer be named Topheth, or, The valley of the son of Hinnom, but, The valley of Death: for they will put the dead into the earth in Topheth till there is no more room.
And the bodies of this people will be food for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth; and there will be no one to send them away.
And they will put them out before the sun and the moon and all the stars of heaven, whose lovers and servants they have been, after whom they have gone, to whom they have made prayers, and to whom they have given worship: they will not be put together or placed in the earth; they will be waste on the face of the earth.
But if any man has pride, let it be in this, that he has the wisdom to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord, working mercy, giving true decisions, and doing righteousness in the earth: for in these things I have delight, says the Lord.
O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?
Longer in measure than the earth, and wider than the sea.
Then Job got up, and after parting his clothing and cutting off his hair, he went down on his face to the earth, and gave worship, and said,
Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.
He takes away the wisdom of the rulers of the earth, and sends them wandering in a waste where there is no way.
Or to the things which go flat on the earth, and they will give you wisdom; and the fishes of the sea will give you news of it.
Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.
The stones are crushed small by the force of the waters; the dust of the earth is washed away by their overflowing: and so you put an end to the hope of man.
Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;
He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.
His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.
O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place!
And the Lord said to the Satan, Where do you come from? And the Satan said in answer, From wandering this way and that on the earth, and walking about on it.
If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;
And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil?
The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.
Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.
His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.
But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?
The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him.
Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth,
And they took their seats on the earth by his side for seven days and seven nights: but no one said a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.
The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him.
And the Lord said to the Satan, Where do you come from? And the Satan said in answer, From wandering this way and that on the earth, and walking about on it.
And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil? and he still keeps his righteousness, though you have been moving me to send destruction on him without cause.
They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.
The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.
By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.
When those of his house who are still living come to their end by disease, they are not put into the earth, and their widows are not weeping for them.
Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone is changed into brass by the fire.
For his eyes go to the ends of the earth, and he sees everything under heaven.
He makes a deep mine far away from those living in the light of day; when they go about on the earth, they have no knowledge of those who are under them, who are hanging far from men, twisting from side to side on a cord.
As for the earth, bread comes out of it; but under its face it is turned up as if by fire.
For he has made loose the cord of my bow, and put me to shame; he has sent down my flag to the earth before me.
Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.
They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.
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