Wisdom & Truth Verses

Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,

Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, and {even} make this city as Tophet:

For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.

Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But {his word} was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not {stay}.

Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.

He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.

Behold, I {am} against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, {and} rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations? {inhabitant: Heb. inhabitress}

But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.

And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast {them} into the fire.

And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this great city?

But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.