O Israel, am I not able to do with you as this potter does? says the Lord. See, like earth in the potter's hand are you in my hands, O Israel.
Then the Lord put out his hand, touching my mouth; and the Lord said to me, See, I have put my words in your mouth:
And I myself will be fighting against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even with angry feeling and passion and in great wrath.
By my life, says the Lord, even if Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, was the ring on my right hand, even from there I would have you pulled off;
For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said to me: Take the cup of the wine of this wrath from my hand, and make all the nations to whom I send you take of it.
Then I took the cup from the Lord's hand, and gave a drink from it to all the nations to whom the Lord sent me;
And it will be, if they will not take of the cup in your hand, then you are to say to them, This is what the Lord of armies has said: You will certainly take of it.
By the hand of Elasah, the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah, the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah, king of Judah, sent to Babylon, to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon,) saying,
Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; which agreement was broken by them, and I gave them up, says the Lord.
And have taken your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and with wonders and with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, causing great fear;
In the towns of the hill-country, in the towns of the lowland, and in the towns of the South and in the land of Benjamin and in the country round Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah, the flocks will again go under the hand of him who is numbering them, says the Lord.
So all the rulers sent Jehudi, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, Take in your hand the book from which you have been reading to the people and come. So Baruch, the son of Neriah, took the book in his hand and came down to them.
But when he was at the Benjamin door, a captain of the watch named Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, who was stationed there, put his hand on Jeremiah the prophet, saying, You are going to give yourself up to the Chaldaeans.
Take in your hand some great stones, and put them in a safe place in the paste in the brickwork which is at the way into Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, before the eyes of the men of Judah;
For everywhere the hair of the head and the hair of the face is cut off: on every hand there are wounds, and haircloth on every body.
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.
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.
And as for the pillars, one pillar was eighteen cubits high, and twelve cubits measured all round, and it was as thick as a man's hand: it was hollow.
And their houses will be handed over to others, their fields and their wives together: for my hand will be stretched out against the people of the land, says the Lord.
The fair and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will be cut off by my hand.
This is what the Lord of armies has said: Everything will be taken from the rest of Israel as the last grapes are taken from the vine; let your hand be turned to the small branches, like one pulling off grapes.
But now, put out your hand against all he has, and he will be cursing you to your face.
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all flesh of man.
Who does not see by all these that the hand of the Lord has done this?
I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.
Take your hand far away from me; and let me not be overcome by fear of you.
Let your eyes be turned away from him, and take your hand from him, so that he may have pleasure at the end of his day, like a servant working for payment.
Because his hand is stretched out against God, and his heart is lifted up against the Ruler of all,
Be pleased, now, to be responsible for me to yourself; for there is no other who will put his hand in mine.
Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.
Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him.
Take note of me and be full of wonder, put your hand on your mouth.
Even today my outcry is bitter; his hand is hard on my sorrow.
I am looking for him on the left hand, but there is no sign of him; and turning to the right, I am not able to see him.
But now, if you only put your hand on his bone and his flesh, he will certainly be cursing you to your face.
By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.
By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.
I will give you teaching about the hand of God; I will not keep secret from you what is in the mind of the Ruler of all.
God sends his arrows against him without mercy; he goes in flight before his hand.
Man puts out his hand on the hard rock, overturning mountains by the roots.
My glory will be ever new, and my bow will be readily bent in my hand.
As I was in my flowering years, when my tent was covered by the hand of God;
You have become cruel to me; the strength of your hand is hard on me.
Has not my hand been stretched out in help to the poor? have I not been a saviour to him in his trouble?
If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;
If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store;
A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth;
Fear of me will not overcome you, and my hand will not be hard on you.
Suddenly they come to an end, even in the middle of the night: the blow comes on the men of wealth, and they are gone, and the strong are taken away without the hand of man.
The evil-doers are broken by his wrath, he puts his hand on them with force before the eyes of all onlookers.
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