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Ask a QuestionBreak forth into joy, sing together, You waste places of Jerusalem! For the LORD has comforted His people, He has redeemed Jerusalem.
Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, And the sons of the foreigner Shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit; So He turned Himself against them as an enemy, And He fought against them.
"And they will drink and stagger and go mad because of the sword that I will send among them."
Then I took the cup from the LORD's hand, and made all the nations drink, to whom the LORD had sent me:
And the shepherds will have no way to flee, Nor the leaders of the flock to escape.
"I clothed you in embroidered cloth and gave you sandals of badger skin; I clothed you with fine linen and covered you with silk.
"Then it was so, after all your wickedness - 'Woe, woe to you!' says the Lord GOD -
"that you also built for yourself a shrine, and made a high place for yourself in every street.
"You also committed harlotry with the Egyptians, your very fleshly neighbors, and increased your acts of harlotry to provoke Me to anger.
"How degenerate is your heart!" says the Lord GOD, "seeing you do all these things, the deeds of a brazen harlot.
"For your sister Sodom was not a byword in your mouth in the days of your pride,
'For thus says the Lord GOD: "I will deal with you as you have done, who despised the oath by breaking the covenant.
"Nevertheless I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
"But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations wherever they went.
"Therefore, behold, I will allure her, Will bring her into the wilderness, And speak comfort to her.
"And it shall be, in that day," Says the LORD, "That you will call Me 'My Husband,' And no longer call Me 'My Master,'
As they called them, So they went from them; They sacrificed to the Baals, And burned incense to carved images.
"A cunning Canaanite! Deceitful scales are in his hand; He loves to oppress.
By a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, And by a prophet he was preserved.