And now a number of nations have come together against you, and they say, Let her be made unclean and let our eyes see the fate of Zion.
The best of them is like a waste plant, and their upright ones are like a wall of thorns. Sorrow! the day of their fate has come; now will trouble come on them.
But even she has been taken away, she has gone away as a prisoner: even her young children are smashed to bits at the top of all the streets: the fate of her honoured men is put to the decision of chance, and all her great men are put in chains.
If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.
I the Lord have said it, and this I will certainly do to all this evil people who have come together against me: in this waste land destruction will come on them, and death will be their fate.
If these men have the common death of men, or if the natural fate of all men overtakes them, then the Lord has not sent me.
And the children of Israel said to Moses, Truly, destruction has come on us; an evil fate has overtaken us all.
Sorrow is yours, O Moab! Destruction is your fate, O people of Chemosh: his sons have gone in flight, and his daughters are prisoners, in the hands of Sihon, king of the Amorites.
But ships will come from the direction of Kittim, troubling Asshur and troubling Eber, and like the others their fate will be destruction.
Because you were there watching when men from other lands took away his goods, and strange men came into his doors, and put the fate of Jerusalem to the decision of chance; you were like one of them.
Do not see with pleasure your brother's evil day, the day of his fate, and do not be glad over the children of Judah on the day of their destruction, or make wide your mouth on the day of trouble.
Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.
Need and shame will be the fate of him who is uncontrolled by training; but he who takes note of teaching will be honoured.
There is bitter punishment for him who is turned from the way; and death will be the fate of the hater of teaching.
He who keeps the law keeps his soul; but death will be the fate of him who takes no note of the word.
<A Song of the going up.> When the Lord made a change in Zion's fate, we were like men in a dream.
Let our fate be changed, O Lord, like the streams in the South.
O daughter of Babylon, whose fate is destruction; happy is the man who does to you what you have done to us.
May the salvation of Israel come out of Zion! when the fate of his people is changed by the Lord, Jacob will have joy and Israel will be glad.
Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?
Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.
May the salvation of Israel come out of Zion! When the fate of his people is changed by God, Jacob will have joy, and Israel will be glad.
They are not in trouble as others are; they have no part in the unhappy fate of men.
<To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah.> Lord, you were good to your land: changing the fate of Jacob.
My eyes have seen trouble come on my haters; my ears have news of the fate of the evil-doers who have come up against me.
Who, though they have knowledge of the law of God, that the fate of those who do these things is death, not only go on doing these things themselves, but give approval to those who do them.
And she said to them, Do not let my name be Naomi, but Mara, for the Ruler of all has given me a bitter fate.
And the angel who was talking to me said to me, Let your voice be loud and say, These are the words of the Lord of armies: I am greatly moved about the fate of Jerusalem and of Zion.
And I said, I will not take care of you: If death comes to any, let death be its fate; if any is cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest take one another's flesh for food.
These are the words of the Lord of armies: I am angry about the fate of Zion, I am angry about her with great wrath.
This will be their fate because of their pride, because they have said evil, lifting themselves up against the people of the Lord of armies.
The land by the sea will be for the rest of the children of Judah; by the sea they will give their flocks food: in the houses of Ashkelon they will take their rest in the evening; for the Lord their God will take them in hand and their fate will be changed.
See, at that time I will put an end to all who have been troubling you: I will give salvation to her whose steps are uncertain, and get together her who has been sent in flight; and I will make them a cause of praise and an honoured name in all the earth, when I let their fate be changed.
At that time I will make you come in, at that time I will get you together: for I will make you a name and a praise among all the peoples of the earth when I let your fate be changed before your eyes, says the Lord.
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