1. Woe be unto thee, Babylon, and Asia! woe be unto thee, Egypt and Syria!

2. Gird up yourselves with cloths of sack and hair, bewail your children, and be sorry; for your destruction is at hand.

3. A sword is sent upon you, and who may turn it back?

4. A fire is sent among you, and who may quench it?

5. Plagues are sent unto you, and what is he that may drive them away?

6. May any man drive away an hungry lion in the wood? or may any one quench the fire in stubble, when it hath begun to burn?

7. May one turn again the arrow that is shot of a strong archer?

8. The mighty Lord sendeth the plagues and who is he that can drive them away?

9. A fire shall go forth from his wrath, and who is he that may quench it?

10. He shall cast lightnings, and who shall not fear? he shall thunder, and who shall not be afraid?

11. The Lord shall threaten, and who shall not be utterly beaten to powder at his presence?

12. The earth quaketh, and the foundations thereof; the sea ariseth up with waves from the deep, and the waves of it are troubled, and the fishes thereof also, before the Lord, and before the glory of his power:

13. For strong is his right hand that bendeth the bow, his arrows that he shooteth are sharp, and shall not miss, when they begin to be shot into the ends of the world.

14. Behold, the plagues are sent, and shall not return again, until they come upon the earth.

15. The fire is kindled, and shall not be put out, till it consume the foundation of the earth.

16. Like as an arrow which is shot of a mighty archer returneth not backward: even so the plagues that shall be sent upon earth shall not return again.

17. Woe is me! woe is me! who will deliver me in those days?

18. The beginning of sorrows and great mournings; the beginning of famine and great death; the beginning of wars, and the powers shall stand in fear; the beginning of evils! what shall I do when these evils shall come?

19. Behold, famine and plague, tribulation and anguish, are sent as scourges for amendment.

20. But for all these things they shall not turn from their wickedness, nor be always mindful of the scourges.

21. Behold, victuals shall be so good cheap upon earth, that they shall think themselves to be in good case, and even then shall evils grow upon earth, sword, famine, and great confusion.

22. For many of them that dwell upon earth shall perish of famine; and the other, that escape the hunger, shall the sword destroy.

23. And the dead shall be cast out as dung, and there shall be no man to comfort them: for the earth shall be wasted, and the cities shall be cast down.

24. There shall be no man left to till the earth, and to sow it

25. The trees shall give fruit, and who shall gather them?

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What is Scripture?

Scripture is a browser-based reader for sixteen sacred texts spanning multiple religious and literary traditions. It provides chapter-by-chapter navigation, full-text search across all works, word concordance with frequency analysis, verse-linked notes, text-to-speech, and deep linking to any chapter or verse.

Traditions Represented

The collection spans Abrahamic, East Asian, Zoroastrian, Buddhist, Finnish, and Norse traditions. It includes King James biblical text and Apocrypha, Pickthall's Quran, the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, Legge's Four Books, Tao Te Ching, and Book of Poetry, Chamberlain's Kojiki, West's Bundahishn, Kern's Lotus Sutra, Haug and West's Arda Viraf, Crawford's Kalevala, and Bellows' Poetic Edda.

The committed manifests and chapter files currently describe 121 books, 2,724 chapters, and 63,141 verse records. In poetry and prose works, a verse record can represent a line or paragraph rather than a canonically numbered scriptural verse.

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Concordance and Related Passages

The concordance is an exact-word occurrence index with linked records grouped by work. Related Passages is separate: a TF-IDF (term frequency-inverse document frequency) cosine-similarity index compares chapter vocabulary after stop-word removal and stores up to five cross-book matches above its threshold. It is a lexical discovery aid, not a claim of historical or theological equivalence.

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