Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
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15 We looked for peace and no good came: for a time of healing, and behold fear.
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We hoped for peace but no good has come, for a time of healing but there is only terror.
16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan, all the land was moved at the sound of the neighing of his warriors: and they came and devoured the land, and all that was in it: the city and its inhabitants.
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The snorting of the enemy’s horses is heard from Dan; at the neighing of their stallions the whole land trembles. They have come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who live there.
17 For behold I will send among you serpents, basilisks, against which there is no charm: and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.
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“See, I will send venomous snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.
18 My sorrow is above sorrow, my heart mourneth within me.
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You who are my Comforter in sorrow, my heart is faint within me.
19 Behold the voice of the daughter of my people from a far country: Is not the Lord in Sion, or is not her king in her? why then have they provoked me to wrath with their idols, and strange vanities?
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Listen to the cry of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they aroused my anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?”
20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
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“The harvest is past, the summer has ended, and we are not saved.”
21 For the affliction of the daughter of my people I am afflicted, and made sorrowful, astonishment hath taken hold on me.
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Since my people are crushed, I am crushed; I mourn, and horror grips me.
22 Is there no balm in Galaad? or is there no physician there? Why then is not the wound of the daughter of my people closed?
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Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is there no healing for the wound of my people?
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