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We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless to redeem them because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”

…and you have even appointed prophets in Jerusalem to proclaim on your behalf: ‘There is a king in Judah.’ Soon these rumors will reach the ears of the king. So come, let us confer together.”

For they were all trying to frighten us, saying, “Their hands will be weakened in the work, and it will never be finished.” But now, my God, strengthen my hands.

So now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God who keeps His gracious covenant, do not view lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, and upon our kings and leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.

For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest

But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.

For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas—no wonder my words have been rash.

For now you are of no help; you see terror, and you are afraid.

But now, please look at me. Would I lie to your face?

Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”

…if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate.

Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die.

For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.

Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.

Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.

“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs.

And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.

And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction grip me.

…and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!

Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.

My ears had heard of You, but now my eyes have seen You.

So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken accurately about Me, as My servant Job has.”

Therefore be wise, O kings; be admonished, O judges of the earth.

“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”

They have tracked us down, and now surround us; their eyes are set to cast us to the ground,

Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed; He answers him from His holy heaven with the saving power of His right hand.

Then my head will be held high above my enemies around me. At His tabernacle I will offer sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing and make music to the LORD.

And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.

…and smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks.

Blessed be the name of the LORD both now and forevermore.

But it is we who will bless the LORD, both now and forevermore. Hallelujah!

Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I keep Your word.

The LORD will watch over your coming and going, both now and forevermore.

As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds His people, both now and forevermore.

O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, both now and forevermore.

So now, my sons, listen to me, and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.

Now, my sons, listen to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.

Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers!

“And now, O dwellers of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I exhort you to judge between Me and My vineyard.

Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.

Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.

And now the LORD says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few and feeble.”

So now, do not mock, or your shackles will become heavier. Indeed, I have heard from the Lord GOD of Hosts a decree of destruction against the whole land.

Therefore the LORD who redeemed Abraham says of the house of Jacob: “No longer will Jacob be ashamed and no more will his face grow pale.

Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence and inscribe it on a scroll; it will be for the days to come, a witness forever and ever.

“Now I will arise,” says the LORD. “Now I will lift Myself up. Now I will be exalted.