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Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.

The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,

And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:

And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.

And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.

Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.

Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.

Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.

It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.

The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.

Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.

Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.

Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.

Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.

This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.

Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.

With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.

False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.