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heart; my heart beateth tumultuously in me; I can not remain silent ; 

 because the sound of the shofar hast thou heard, O my soul, t lie alarm 

 of war." (Jeremiah, IV, l ( ->.) 



"How long - shall I see the standard, hear the sound of the shofar?" 

 (Jeremiahj iv, 21.) 



"Assemble, () ye children of Benjamin, to tiee out of the midst of 

 Jerusalem, and in Thekoa, blow the shofar and on Bethhakkerem set 

 set up a fire signal; for evil is seen (coming) out of the north, and 

 great havoc/' (Jeremiah, vt, 1.) 



"Then did I set watchmen over you, (saying) Listen to the sound of 

 the shofar. But they said, We will not listen.'' (Jeremiah, vi, 17.) 



" Saying, No; but into the land of Egypt will we go, that we may not 

 see war, nor hear the sound of the shofar, and that Ave may not have 

 hunger for bread; and there will we dwell." (Jeremiah, xlii, 14.) 



"Lift ye up a standard in the land, blow ye the shofar among the 

 nations." (Jeremiah, li. 27.) 



" And if he see the sword coming over the land, and blow the shofar 

 and warn the people." (Ezekiel, xxxni, 3.) 



"And whosoever heareth the sound of the shofar and taketh no 

 warning; and the sword cometh, and taketh him away, his blood shall 

 be upon his own head." (Ezekiel, xxxni, 4.) 



" The sound of the shofar hath he heard, and he hath taken no warn- 

 ing; his blood shall be upon him. But had he taken warning he would 

 have delivered his soul." (Ezekiel, xxxni, 5.) 



"But if the watchman see the sword coming, and blow not the shofar 

 so thai the people be not warned, and the sword cometh, and taketh 

 away from among them some person, this one is taken away for his 

 iniquity; but his blood will I require from the watchman's hand. 

 (Ezekiel, xxxni, 6.) 



• ldow ye the shofar in Gib'ah, the trumpet in Bamah; bio w the alarm 

 at Beth-aven. (The enemy is) after thee, O Benjamin." (Hosea, v, 8.) 



"Set the shofar to thy mouth. (Let the enemy come) like the eagle 

 against the house of the Lord; because they have transgressed my 

 covenant, and against my law have they trespassed." (Hosea, vm, 1.) 



" Blow ye the shofar in Zion, and sound an alarm on my Holy Mount ; 

 let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; for the day of the Lord 

 cometh, for it is nigh." (Joel, n, 1.) 



" And I will send a tire against Moab, which shall devour the palaces 

 of Keriyoth; and Moab shall die in the tumult, in the shouting, amidst 

 the sound of the shofar." [Amos, u, 2.) 



"Shall a shofar be blown in a city and the people not become afraid? 

 Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord have not done it." 1 (Amos. 

 in, 6.) 



"A day of the shofar and alarm, against the fenced cities, and 

 against the high battlements." (Zephaniah, r, 16.) 



"With impatient noise and rage he holloweth (with his hoof) the 



