So the children went in and took the land, and you overcame before them the people of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them up into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them whatever it was their pleasure to do.
And so you gave them up into the hands of their haters who were cruel to them: and in the time of their trouble, when they made their prayer to you, you gave ear to them from heaven; and in your great mercy gave them saviours, who made them free from the hands of their haters.
But when they had rest, they did evil again before you: so you gave them into the hands of their haters, who had rule over them: but when they came back and made their prayer to you, you gave ear to them from heaven; again and again, in your mercy, you gave them salvation;
Year after year you put up with them, and gave witness against them by your spirit through your prophets: still they did not give ear: and so you gave them up into the hands of the peoples of the lands.
Have you yourself not put a wall round him and his house and all he has on every side, blessing the work of his hands, and increasing his cattle in the land?
And the Lord said to the Satan, See, I give all he has into your hands, only do not put a finger on the man himself. And the Satan went out from before the Lord.
And the Lord said to the Satan, See, he is in your hands, only do not take his life.
Truly, you have been a helper to others, and you have made feeble hands strong;
For after his punishment he gives comfort, and after wounding, his hands make you well.
If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap;
What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?
Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands?
Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction.
But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him;
If you put far away the evil of your hands, and let no wrongdoing have a place in your tent;
With him are strength and wise designs; he who is guided into error, together with his guide, are in his hands;
At the sound of your voice I would give an answer, and you would have a desire for the work of your hands.
God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.
I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.
Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.
Still the upright keeps on his way, and he who has clean hands gets new strength.
His children are hoping that the poor will be kind to them, and his hands give back his wealth.
The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath.
He makes safe the man who is free from sin, and if your hands are clean, salvation will be yours.
The rulers kept quiet, and put their hands on their mouths;
Of what use is the strength of their hands to me? all force is gone from them.
If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;
Truly I would take up the book in my hands; it would be to me as a crown;
Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.
He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark.
<Shiggaion of David; a song which he made to the Lord, about the words of Cush the Benjamite.> O Lord my God, I put my faith in you; take me out of the hands of him who is cruel to me, and make me free;
O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong;
You have made him ruler over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet;
The Lord has given knowledge of himself through his judging: the evil-doer is taken in the net which his hands had made. (Higgaion. Selah.)
He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.
Their sorrows will be increased who go after another god: I will not take drink offerings from their hands, or take their names on my lips.
The Lord gives me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean before him.
Because of this the Lord has given me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean in his eyes.
He makes my hands expert in war, so that a bow of brass is bent by my arms.
<To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> The heavens are sounding the glory of God; the arch of the sky makes clear the work of his hands.
I was in your hands even before my birth; you are my God from the time when I was in my mother's body.
Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.
He who has clean hands and a true heart; whose desire has not gone out to foolish things, who has not taken a false oath.
I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;
In whose hands are evil designs, and whose right hands take money for judging falsely.
Do not give me into their hands, because false witnesses have come out against me, and men breathing destruction.
Give ear to the voice of my prayer, when I am crying to you, when my hands are lifted up to your holy place.
Give them the right reward of their acts, and of their evil doings: give them punishment for the works of their hands, let them have their full reward.
Because they have no respect for the works of the Lord, or for the things which his hands have made, they will be broken down and not lifted up by him.
Into your hands I give my spirit; you are my saviour, O Lord God for ever true.
The chances of my life are in your hand; take me out of the hands of my haters, and of those who go after me.
All my bones will say, Lord, who is like you? The saviour of the poor man from the hands of the strong, of him who is poor and in need from him who takes his goods.
Put your life in the hands of the Lord; have faith in him and he will do it.
The Lord will not give him into their hands, or be against him when he is judged.
And the Lord will be their help, and keep them safe: he will take them out of the hands of the evil-doers, and be their saviour, because they had faith in him.
If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god,
<To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah.> O make a glad noise with your hands, all you peoples; letting your voices go up to God with joy.
The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.
<To the chief music-maker; put to At-tashheth. Michtam. Of David. When Saul sent, and they were watching the house, to put him to death.> Take me out of the hands of the cruel ones, O my God; keep me safe from those who come up against me.
So will I go on blessing you all my life, lifting up my hands in your name.
Kings will give you offerings, they will come out of Egypt; from Pathros will come offerings of silver; Ethiopia will be stretching out her hands to God.
As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness;
And he let his strength be taken prisoner, and gave his glory into the hands of his hater.
So he gave them food with an upright heart, guiding them by the wisdom of his hands.
Why are its walls broken down by your hands, so that all who go by may take its fruit?
I took the weight from his back; his hands were made free from the baskets.
My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you.
Let the pleasure of the Lord our God be on us: O Lord, give strength to the work of our hands.
Because you have said, I am in the hands of the Lord, the Most High is my safe resting-place;
In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone.
For you, O Lord, have made me glad through your work; I will have joy in the works of your hands.
O God, in whose hands is punishment, O God of punishment, let your shining face be seen.
The sea is his, and he made it; and the dry land was formed by his hands.
Let the streams make sounds of joy with their hands; let the mountains be glad together,
In the past you put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
And he took them safely out of the hands of their haters, and kept them from the attacks of those who were against them.
And he gave them into the hands of the nations; and they were ruled by their haters.
By them they were crushed, and made low under their hands.
Let those whose cause the Lord has taken up say so, his people whom he has taken out of the hands of their haters;
For he is ever at the right hand of the poor, to take him out of the hands of those who go after his soul.
The works of his hands are faith and righteousness; all his laws are unchanging.
He has given with open hands to the poor; his righteousness is for ever; his horn will be lifted up with honour.
Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
They have hands without feeling, and feet without power of walking; and no sound comes from their throat.
And so that my hands may be stretched out to you; and I will give thought to your rules.
<JOD> Your hands have made me, and given me form: give me wisdom, so that I may have knowledge of your teaching.
<AIN> I have done what is good and right: you will not give me into the hands of those who are working against me.
See! as the eyes of servants are turned to the hands of their masters, and the eyes of a servant-girl to her owner, so our eyes are waiting for the Lord our God, till he has mercy on us.
For the rod of sinners will not be resting on the heritage of the upright; so that the upright may not put out their hands to evil.
You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you.
Give praise to the Lord, lifting up your hands in his holy place.
The images of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
And has taken us out of the hands of our haters: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
The Lord will make all things complete for me: O Lord, your mercy is eternal; do not give up the works of your hands.
O Lord, take me out of the hands of sinners; keep me safe from the violent man: for they are designing my downfall.
Let my prayer be ordered before you like a sweet smell; and let the lifting up of my hands be like the evening offering.
Give ear to my cry, for I am made very low: take me out of the hands of my haters, for they are stronger than I.
I keep in mind the early days of the past, giving thought to all your acts, even to the work of your hands.
My hands are stretched out to you: my soul is turned to you, like a land in need of water. (Selah.)
O Lord, take me out of the hands of my haters; my soul is waiting for you.
<A Psalm. Of David.> praise be to the God of my strength, teaching my hands the use of the sword, and my fingers the art of fighting:
Put out your hand from on high; make me free, take me safely out of the great waters, and out of the hands of strange men;
Make me free, and take me out of the hands of strange men, in whose mouths are false words, and whose right hand is a right hand of deceit.
All the works of your hands give praise to you, O Lord; and your saints give you blessing.
Let the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a two-edged sword in their hands;
She is a tree of life to all who take her in their hands, and happy is everyone who keeps her.
Take learning in your hands, do not let her go: keep her, for she is your life.
A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:
Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause;
Wealth and honour are in my hands, even wealth without equal and righteousness.
From the fruit of his mouth will a man have good food in full measure, and the work of a man's hands will be rewarded.
Wealth quickly got will become less; but he who gets a store by the work of his hands will have it increased.
Wisdom is building her house, but the foolish woman is pulling it down with her hands.
Put your works into the hands of the Lord, and your purposes will be made certain.
The king's heart in the hands of the Lord is like the water streams, and by him it is turned in any direction at his pleasure.
The desire of the hater of work is death to him, for his hands will do no work.
Be not one of those who give their hands in an agreement, or of those who make themselves responsible for debts:
A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:
Who has gone up to heaven and come down? who has taken the winds in his hands, prisoning the waters in his robe? by whom have all the ends of the earth been fixed? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you are able to say?
You may take the lizard in your hands, but it is in kings' houses.
She gets wool and linen, working at the business of her hands.
She puts her hands to the cloth-working rod, and her fingers take the wheel.
Her hands are stretched out to the poor; yes, she is open-handed to those who are in need.
Give her credit for what her hands have made: let her be praised by her works in the public place.
Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.
The foolish man, folding his hands, takes the flesh of his body for food.
One hand full of rest is better than two hands full of trouble and desire for wind.
Let not your mouth make your flesh do evil. And say not before the angel, It was an error. So that God may not be angry with your words and put an end to the work of your hands.
And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.
When no work is done the roof goes in, and when the hands do nothing water comes into the house.
I was but a little way from them, when I came face to face with him who is the love of my soul. I took him by the hands, and did not let him go, till I had taken him into my mother's house, and into the room of her who gave me birth.
I got up to let my loved one in; and my hands were dropping with myrrh, and my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the lock of the door.
His hands are as rings of gold ornamented with beryl-stones; his body is as a smooth plate of ivory covered with sapphires.
How beautiful are your feet in their shoes, O king's daughter! The curves of your legs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a good workman:
I said, Let me go up the palm-tree, and let me take its branches in my hands: your breasts will be as the fruit of the vine, and the smell of your breath like apples;
And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.
Their land is full of images; they give worship to the work of their hands, even to that which their fingers have made.
And in that day seven women will put their hands on one man, saying, There will be no need for you to give us food or clothing, only let us go under your name, so that our shame may be taken away.
And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord, and they are not interested in what his hands are doing.
The sound of their armies will be like the voice of a lion, and their war-cry like the noise of young lions: with loud cries they will come down on their food and will take it away safely, and there will be no one to take it out of their hands.
For to us a child has come, to us a son is given; and the government has been placed in his hands; and he has been named wise Guide, Strong God, Father for ever, prince of Peace.
And I have put my hands on the wealth of the peoples, as on the place where a bird has put her eggs; and as a man may take the eggs from which a bird has gone, so I have taken all the earth for myself: and not a wing was moved, and not a mouth gave out a sound.
For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water;
In their hands are bows and spears; they are cruel, violently putting the young men to death, and crushing the young women; they have no pity for children, and no mercy for the fruit of the body.
He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his fingers have made.
Because of the blessing of the Lord of armies which he has given them, saying, A blessing on Egypt my people, and on Assyria the work of my hands, and on Israel my heritage.
And if he puts out his hands, like a man stretching out his hands in swimming, the Lord will make low his pride, however expert his designs.
But when they, the children of Jacob, see the work of my hands among them, they will give honour to my name; yes, they will give honour to the Holy One of Jacob, and go in fear of the God of Israel.
He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;
Make strong the feeble hands, give support to the shaking knees.
And do not let Hezekiah make you put your faith in the Lord, saying, The Lord will certainly keep us safe, and this town will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.
Give no attention to Hezekiah when he says to you, The Lord will keep us safe. Has any one of the gods of the nations kept his land from falling into the hands of the king of Assyria?
This is what you are to say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: Let not your God, in whom is your faith, give you a false hope, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.
And Hezekiah took the letter from the hands of those who had come with it; and after reading it, Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, opening the letter there before the Lord,
And have given their gods to the fire: for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.
And I will keep you and this town safe from the hands of the king of Assyria: and I will keep watch over this town.
Who sent out from the east one who is right wherever he goes? he gives the nations into his hands, and makes him ruler over kings; he gives them as the dust to his sword, as dry stems before the wind to his bow.
The Lord, the holy One of Israel, and his Maker, says, Will you put a question to me about the things which are to come, or will you give me orders about my sons, and the work of my hands?
I have made the earth, forming man on it: by my hands the heavens have been stretched out, and all the stars put in their ordered places.
I was angry with my people, I put shame on my heritage, and gave them into your hands: you had no mercy on them; you put a cruel yoke on those who were old;
See, your name is marked on my hands; your walls are ever before me.
This is the word of the Lord: Where is the statement which I gave your mother when I put her away? or to which of my creditors have I given you for money? It was for your sins that you were given into the hands of others, and for your evil-doing was your mother put away.
If keeping from food makes you quickly angry, ready for fighting and giving blows with evil hands; your holy days are not such as to make your voice come to my ears on high.
For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.
Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands.
Your people will all be upright, the land will be their heritage for ever; the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, to be for my glory.
All day my hands have been stretched out to an uncontrolled people, who go in an evil way, after the purposes of their hearts;
They will no longer be building for the use of others, or planting for others to have the fruit: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my loved ones will have joy in full measure in the work of their hands.
And I will give my decision against them on account of all their evil-doing; because they have given me up, burning perfumes to other gods and worshipping the works of their hands.
For in the past, your yoke was broken by your hands and your cords parted; and you said, I will not be your servant; for on every high hill and under every branching tree, your behaviour was like that of a loose woman
Truly, you will go out from him with your hands on your head: for the Lord has given up those in whom you have put your faith, and they will be of no help to you.
A voice has come to my ears like the voice of a woman in birth-pains, the pain of one giving birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, fighting for breath, stretching out her hands, saying, Now sorrow is mine! for my strength is gone from me before the takers of life.
Bows and spears are in their hands; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice is like the thunder of the sea, and they go on horses; everyone in his place like men going to the fight, against you, O daughter of Zion.
The news of it has come to our ears; our hands have become feeble: trouble has come on us and pain, like the pain of a woman in childbirth.
For that which is feared by the people is foolish: it is the work of the hands of the workman; for a tree is cut down by him out of the woods with his axe.
Silver hammered into plates is sent from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the expert workman and of the hands of the gold-worker; blue and purple is their clothing, all the work of expert men.
So this is what the Lord of armies has said about the men of Anathoth who have made designs against your life, saying, You are not to be a prophet in the name of the Lord, or death will overtake you by our hands:
I have given up my house, I have let my heritage go; I have given the loved one of my soul into the hands of her haters.
This is what the Lord has said against all my evil neighbours, who put their hands on the heritage which I gave my people Israel: See, I will have them uprooted from their land, uprooting the people of Judah from among them.
I will keep you safe from the hands of the evil-doers, and I will give you salvation from the hands of the cruel ones.
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.
I will make the purpose of Judah and Jerusalem come to nothing in this place; I will have them put to the sword by their haters, and by the hands of those who have designs on their life; and their dead bodies I will give to be food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.
For the Lord has said, See, I will make you a cause of fear to yourself and to all your friends: they will come to their death by the sword of their haters, and your eyes will see it: and I will give all Judah into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will take them away prisoners into Babylon and put them to the sword.
And more than this, I will give all the wealth of this town and all its profits and all its things of value, even all the stores of the kings of Judah will I give into the hands of their haters, who will put violent hands on them and take them away to Babylon.
Make melody to the Lord, give praise to the Lord: for he has made the soul of the poor man free from the hands of the evil-doers.
The Lord God of Israel has said, See, I am turning back the instruments of war in your hands, with which you are fighting against the king of babylon and the Chaldaeans, who are outside the walls and shutting you in; and I will get them together inside this town.
And after that, says the Lord, I will give up Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his servants and his people, even those in the town who have not come to their end from the disease and the sword and from need of food, into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of their haters, and into the hands of those desiring their death: he will put them to the sword; he will not let anyone get away, he will have no pity or mercy.
For my face is turned to this town for evil and not for good, says the Lord: it will be given into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will have it burned with fire.
O family of David, this is what the Lord has said: Do what is right in the morning, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away, or my wrath will go out like fire, burning so that no one may put it out, because of the evil of your doings.
This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.
And I will give you into the hands of those desiring your death, and into the hands of those whom you are fearing, even into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of the Chaldaeans.
And in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a shocking thing; they are untrue to their wives, walking in deceit, and they make strong the hands of evil-doers, so that a man may not be turned back from his evil-doing: they have all become like sodom to me, and its people like Gomorrah.
Do not go after other gods to be their servants and to give them worship, and do not make me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.
But you have not given ear to me, says the Lord; so that you have made me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.
For a number of nations and great kings will make servants of them, even of them: and I will give them the reward of their acts, even the reward of the work of their hands.
As for me, here I am in your hands: do with me whatever seems good and right in your opinion.
But Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, gave Jeremiah his help, so that he was not given into the hands of the people to be put to death.
And now I have given all these lands into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant; and I have given the beasts of the field to him for his use.
And it will come about, that if any nation does not become a servant to this same Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and does not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, then I will send punishment on that nation, says the Lord, by the sword and need of food and by disease, till I have given them into his hands.
Then hananiah the prophet took the yoke from the neck of the prophet Jeremiah and it was broken by his hands.
This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said about Ahab, the son of Kolaiah, and about Zedekiah, the son of Maaseiah, who are saying to you what is false in my name: See, I will give them up into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and he will put them to death before your eyes.
Put the question and see if it is possible for a man to have birth-pains: why do I see every man with his hands gripping his sides, as a woman does when the pains of birth are on her, and all faces are turned green?
For the Lord has given a price for Jacob, and made him free from the hands of him who was stronger than he.
For Zedekiah, king of Judah, had had him shut up, saying, Why have you, as a prophet, been saying, The Lord has said, See, I will give this town into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will take it;
And Zedekiah, king of Judah, will not get away from the hands of the Chaldaeans, but will certainly be given up into the hands of the king of Babylon, and will have talk with him, mouth to mouth, and see him, eye to eye.
See, they have made earthworks against the town to take it; and the town is given into the hands of the Chaldaeans who are fighting against it, because of the sword and need of food and disease: and what you have said has taken place, and truly you see it.
And you have said to me, Give the money to get yourself a property, and have the business witnessed; though the town is given into the hands of the Chaldaeans.
So this is what the Lord has said: See, I am giving this town into the hands of the Chaldaeans and into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, the king of Babylon, and he will take it:
For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done nothing but evil in my eyes from their earliest years: the children of Israel have only made me angry with the work of their hands, says the Lord.
And now the Lord, the God of Israel, has said of this town, about which you say, It is given into the hands of the king of Babylon by the sword and by need of food and by disease:
And there will be trading in fields in this land of which you say, It is a waste, without man or beast; it is given into the hands of the Chaldaeans.
The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Go and say to Zedekiah, king of Judah, This is what the Lord has said: See, I will give this town into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will have it burned with fire:
And you will not get away from him, but will certainly be taken and given up into his hands; and you will see the king of Babylon, eye to eye, and he will have talk with you, mouth to mouth, and you will go to Babylon.
Even these I will give up into the hands of their haters and into the hands of those who have designs against their lives: and their dead bodies will become food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.
And Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his rulers I will give into the hands of their haters and into the hands of those who have designs against their lives, and into the hands of the king of Babylon's army which has gone away from you.
Then King Zedekiah sent and got him out: and the king, questioning him secretly in his house, said, Is there any word from the Lord? And Jeremiah said, There is. Then he said, You will be given up into the hands of the king of Babylon.
The Lord has said, This town will certainly be given into the hands of the army of the king of Babylon, and he will take it.
Then Zedekiah the king said, See, he is in your hands: for the king was not able to do anything against them.
But if you do not go out to the king of Babylon's captains, then this town will be given into the hands of the Chaldaeans and they will put it on fire, and you will not get away from them.
And they will take all your wives and your children out to the Chaldaeans: and you will not get away out of their hands, but will be taken by the hands of the king of Babylon: and this town will be burned with fire.
But I will keep you safe on that day, says the Lord: you will not be given into the hands of the men you are fearing.
For I will certainly let you go free, and you will not be put to the sword, but your life will be given to you out of the hands of your attackers: because you have put your faith in me, says the Lord.
Now see, this day I am freeing you from the chains which are on your hands. If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, then come, and I will keep an eye on you; but if it does not seem good to you to come with me to Babylon, then do not come: see, all the land is before you; if it seems good and right to you to go on living in the land,
Some people came from Shechem, from Shiloh and Samaria, eighty men, with the hair of their faces cut off and their clothing out of order, and with cuts on their bodies, and in their hands meal offerings and perfumes which they were taking to the house of the Lord.
Have no fear of the king of Babylon, of whom you are now in fear; have no fear of him, says the Lord: for I am with you to keep you safe and to give you salvation from his hands.
But Baruch, the son of Neriah, is moving you against us, to give us up into the hands of the Chaldaeans so that they may put us to death, and take us away prisoners into Babylon.
Moving me to wrath with the work of your hands, burning perfumes to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to make a place for yourselves, so that you may become a curse and a name of shame among all the nations of the earth?
This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: You women have said with your mouths, and with your hands you have done what you said, We will certainly give effect to the oaths we have made, to have perfumes burned to the queen of heaven and drink offerings drained out to her: then give effect to your oaths and do them.
The Lord has said, See, I will give up pharaoh Hophra, king of Egypt, into the hands of those who are fighting against him and desiring to take his life, as I gave Zedekiah, king of Judah, into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, his hater, who had designs against his life.
The daughter of Egypt will be put to shame; she will be given up into the hands of the people of the north.
And I will give them up into the hands of those who will take their lives, and into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of his servants: and later, it will be peopled as in the past, says the Lord.
At the noise of the stamping of the feet of his war-horses, at the rushing of his carriages and the thunder of his wheels, fathers will give no thought to their children, because their hands are feeble;
And their camels will be taken from them by force, and their great herds will come into the hands of their attackers: those who have the ends of their hair cut I will send in flight to all the winds; and I will send their fate on them from every side, says the Lord.
And the wealth of Chaldaea will come into the hands of her attackers: all those who take her wealth will have enough, says the Lord.
Bows and spears are in their hands; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice is like the thunder of the sea, and they go on horses; everyone in his place like men going to the fight, against you, O daughter of Babylon.
The king of Babylon has had news of them, and his hands have become feeble: trouble has come on him and pain like the pain of a woman in childbirth.
A watch is kept on my sins; they are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he has made my strength give way: the Lord has given me up into the hands of those against whom I have no power.
Zion's hands are outstretched; she has no comforter; the Lord has given orders to the attackers of Jacob round about him: Jerusalem has become like an unclean thing among them.
The Lord has given up his altar and has been turned in hate from his holy place; he has given up into the hands of the attacker the walls of her great houses: their voices have been loud in the house of the Lord as in the day of a holy meeting.
All who go by make a noise with their hands at you; they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?
Up! give cries in the night, at the starting of the night-watches; let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of the Lord, lifting up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down, feeble for need of food, at the top of every street.
Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens.
You will give them their reward, O Lord, answering to the work of their hands.
The valued sons of Zion, whose price was the best gold, are looked on as vessels of earth, the work of the hands of the potter!
The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
We have given our hands to the egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.
Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.
Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.
And they had the hands of a man under their wings; the four of them had faces on their four sides.
All hands will be feeble and all knees without strength, like water.
And I will give it into the hands of men from strange lands who will take it by force, and to the evil-doers of the earth to have for themselves; and they will make it unholy.
The king will give himself up to sorrow, and the ruler will be clothed with wonder, and the hands of the people of the land will be troubled: I will give them punishment for their ways, judging them as it is right for them to be judged; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.
And he said to the man clothed in linen, Go in between the wheels, under the winged ones, and get your two hands full of burning coals from between the winged ones and send them in a shower over the town. And he went in before my eyes.
And I saw the form of a man's hands among the winged ones under their wings.
Every one had four faces and every one had four wings; and hands like a man's hands were under their wings.
I will make you come out from inside the town and will give you up into the hands of men from other lands, and will be judge among you.
And I will have your veils violently parted in two, and will make my people free from your hands, and they will no longer be in your power for you to go after them; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
Because with your false words you have given pain to the heart of the upright man when I had not made him sad; in order to make strong the hands of the evil-doer so that he may not be turned from his evil way and get life:
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