Having therefore, brothers, boldness for  ¹entering the Holy of Holies in the blood of Jesus,

Which entrance He initiated for us as a  ¹new and living way through the  ²veil, that is, His flesh,

And having a great Priest over the house of God,

Let us  ¹come forward to the Holy of Holies with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and having our  ²bodies washed with  ²pure water.

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope unwavering, for He who has promised is faithful;

And let us consider one another so as to incite one another to love and good works,

Not  ¹abandoning our own  ²assembling together, as the custom with some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more as you see the day drawing near.

For when we  ¹sin willfully after receiving the knowledge of the  ²truth, there  ³no longer remains a sacrifice of bulls and goats for sins,

But a certain fearful expectation of judgment and fervor of fire, which is to consume the adversaries.

Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without compassion on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

By how much do you think he will be thought worthy of  ¹worse punishment who has  ²trampled underfoot the Son of God and has  ³considered the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing and has  ⁴insulted the Spirit of grace?

For we know Him who said,  ¹“Vengeance is Mine; I will repay”; and again, “The Lord will judge His people.”

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

But call to mind the former days, in which, having been enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings;

On one hand, being made a  ¹spectacle both in reproaches and in afflictions, and on the other, having become partakers with those who are treated the same.

For you both sympathized with those in bonds and accepted with joy the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you yourselves have a  ¹better possession and one that abides.

Do not cast away therefore your boldness, which has great  ¹reward.

For you have need of endurance in order that, having done the  ¹will of God, you may obtain the  ²promise.

"For in yet a very little while the Coming One will come and will not delay.

But My righteous one shall live by  ¹faith; and if he shrinks back, My soul does not delight in him.”

But we are not of those who  ¹shrink back to  ²ruin but of those who have faith to the  ³gaining of the soul.

 ¹How the city sits alone
That was full of people!
She who was once great among the nations
Has become like a widow;
She who was a princess among the provinces
Has become tributary.

Bitterly she weeps in the night,
And her tears are on her cheeks.
There is no one to comfort her
Among all her lovers;
All her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
They have become her enemies.

Judah has gone into exile, away from affliction
And away from great servitude;
She dwells among the nations
But finds no rest;
All her pursuers have overtaken her
In the midst of distress.

The ways of Zion mourn,
For no one comes to the appointed feast;
All her gates are desolate;
Her priests groan;
Her virgins are afflicted,
And she is in bitterness.

Her adversaries have become the head;
Her enemies prosper;
For Jehovah has afflicted her
Because of the multitude of her transgressions;
Her little ones have gone into captivity
Before the adversary.

And all her majesty has departed
From the daughter of Zion;
Her princes have become like deer
That find no pasture,
And they have fled without strength
Before the pursuer.

In the days of her affliction and her  ¹wanderings,
Jerusalem remembers
All her precious things
Which were in the days of old,
When her people fell into the hand of the adversary,
And there was no one to help her.
The adversaries saw her;
They mocked at her downfall.

Jerusalem has sinned grievously;
Therefore she has become an impurity.
All who honored her despise her,
Because they have seen her nakedness;
And she groans
And turns backwards.

Her uncleanness is in her skirts;
She did not remember her latter end;
Therefore she has come down astonishingly;
There is no one to comfort her.
O Jehovah, see my affliction,
For the enemy has magnified himself.

The adversary has spread out his hand
Over all her precious things,
For she has seen the nations
Enter her sanctuary,
Concerning whom You commanded that they should not enter
Into Your assembly.

All her people groan;
They have given their precious things for food
To restore their soul.
See, O Jehovah, and look,
For I have become despised.

Is it nothing to you, all who pass by the way?
Look and see
If there is any pain like my pain
Which is dealt to me,
Whom Jehovah has afflicted
In the day of His burning anger.

He has sent fire from on high
Into my bones, and it prevails against them;
He has spread out a net for my feet;
He has turned me back;
He has made me a desolation
And faint all the day.

The yoke of my transgressions is bound by His hand;
They are knit together;
They have come up upon my neck;
He has made my strength fail;
The Lord has delivered me into hands
From which I am not able to rise up.

The Lord has made light of all my mighty men
In my midst;
He has called an assembly against me
To crush my young men.
The Lord has trodden, as in a winepress,
The virgin daughter of Judah.

For these things I weep;
My eye, my eye runs down with water,
For the comforter who should revive my soul
Is far from me;
My children have become desolate,
Because the enemy has prevailed.

Zion stretches out her hands,
Yet there is no one to comfort her.
Jehovah has commanded concerning Jacob
That those around him should be his adversaries;
Jerusalem has become an impurity
Among them.

Jehovah is righteous,
For I have rebelled against His commandment.
Hear now, all the peoples,
And see my pain;
My virgins and my young men
Have gone into captivity.

I have called to my lovers;
They have deceived me;
My priests and my elders
Have perished in the city,
While they sought food for themselves
To restore their souls.

See, O Jehovah, for I am in distress,
My bowels are in ferment;
My heart is overturned within me,
For I have been very rebellious.
In the street the sword bereaves;
In the house it is like death.

They have heard that I groan;
There is no one to comfort me;
All my enemies have heard of my trouble;
They are glad that You have done it.
You will bring the day that You have proclaimed,
And they will be like me.

Let all their wickedness come before You,
And deal with them
As You have dealt with me
For all my transgressions;
For my sighs are many,
And my heart is faint.

How the Lord in His anger
Has covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud!
He has cast from heaven to earth
The glory of Israel,
And has not remembered His footstool
In the day of His anger.

The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob;
He has not spared;
He has torn down in His overflowing wrath
The strongholds of the daughter of Judah.
He has brought them down to the ground;
He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

He has cut off in fierce anger
All the horn of Israel.
He has withdrawn His right hand
From before the enemy.
He has burned among Jacob like a flame of fire;
It consumes all around.

He has bent His bow like an enemy;
He has set His right hand like an adversary
And has slain all that was pleasant to the eye.
In the tent of the daughter of Zion
He has poured out His wrath like fire.

The Lord has become like an enemy;
He has swallowed up Israel;
He has swallowed up all her palaces;
He has destroyed her strongholds
And multiplied in the daughter of Judah
Mourning and lamentation.

And He has violently taken away His  ¹pavilion like a garden;
He has destroyed the place of His assembly;
Jehovah has caused the appointed feast and the Sabbath
To be forgotten in Zion;
He has despised, in the indignation of His anger,
The king and the priest.

The Lord has cast off His altar;
He has abhorred His sanctuary;
He has delivered up into the hand of the enemy
The walls of her palaces.
They have made a noise in the house of Jehovah
As though it were the day of an appointed feast.

Jehovah has thought to destroy
The walls of the daughter of Zion;
He has stretched out the line
And has not withdrawn His hand from destroying;
And He has made the rampart and the wall to mourn;
They languish together.

Her gates have sunk into the ground;
He has destroyed and broken her bars;
Her king and her princes are among nations
Where there is no law;
Her prophets also do not find
A vision from Jehovah.

The elders of the daughter of Zion
Sit on the ground; they are silent.
They have cast dust upon their head;
They have girded themselves with sackcloth.
The virgins of Jerusalem
Hang down their head to the ground.

My eyes are consumed with tears;
My bowels are in ferment;
My liver is poured out on the earth,
Because of the brokenness of the daughter of my people,
Because the little ones and the nursing children
Faint in the streets of the city.

They say to their mothers,
Where is the grain and the wine?
When they faint like one wounded
In the streets of the city,
When they pour out their soul
Into their mothers' bosom.

What shall I testify to you? What shall I liken you to,
O daughter of Jerusalem?
What shall I compare you to, that I may comfort you,
O virgin daughter of Zion?
For your breach is great like a sea.
Who will heal you?

You're prophets have seen for you
Vanity and folly,
And they have not uncovered your iniquity
To turn again your captivity;
But they have seen for you burdens
Of vanity and of causes of banishment.

All those who pass on the way
Clap their hands at you;
They hiss and wag their head
At the daughter of Jerusalem, saying,
Is this the city which they called,
The perfection of beauty,
The joy of the whole earth?

All your enemies
Have opened their mouth against you;
They hiss and gnash the teeth;
They say, We have swallowed her up.
This is certainly the day that we have looked for;
We have found it; we have seen it.

Jehovah has done what He purposed;
He has fulfilled His word,
Which He commanded from the days of old;
He has torn down and has not spared,
And He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you;
He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.

Their heart cried out to the Lord:
O wall of the daughter of Zion,
Let tears run down like a stream
Day and night;
Give yourself no respite;
Let not the pupil of your eye cease.

Arise, cry out in the night
At the beginning of the watches;
Pour out your heart like water
Before the face of the Lord;
Lift up your hands toward Him
For the life of your little ones,
Who faint because of famine
At the head of every street.

See, O Jehovah, and look,
With whom You have dealt thus?
Shall the women eat their fruit,
The little ones nursed by them?
Shall the priest and the prophet be slain
In the sanctuary of the Lord?

The youth and the old man
Lie on the ground in the streets;
My virgins and my young men
Have fallen by the sword;
You have slain them in the day of Your anger;
You have slaughtered; You have not spared.

You have called for, as though in the day of an appointed feast,
My terrors on every side,
And in the day of Jehovah's anger
There was none who escaped or remained;
Those whom I have nursed and brought up
My enemy has consumed.