The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, says the LORD, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him.
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and measured out heaven with his fingers, and held the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
It is he that sits upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in:
Thus says God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread out the earth, and that which comes out of it; he that gives breath to the people upon it, and spirit to those who walk therein:
Thus says the LORD, your redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb, I am the LORD who makes all things; who stretches out the heavens alone; who spreads abroad the earth by myself;
For thus says the LORD who created the heavens; God himself who formed the earth and made it; he has established it, he did not create it in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none other.
And forget the LORD your maker, who has stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and have feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?
Therefore fear not, O my servant Jacob, says the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save you from afar, and your descendents from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be at rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and those who plunder you shall be a plunder, and all who prey upon you will I give for a prey.
So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, As the LORD lives, that made for us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men that seek your life.
Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
Your prophets have seen vain and foolish things for you: and they have not revealed your iniquity, to turn away your captivity; but have seen for you false messages and causes of banishment.
Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the place it will rest: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD.
And they fell on their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we showed them respect: shall we not much more be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?