acv - Jeremiah:16:1-17:18

acv@Jeremiah:16:1 @ The word of LORD came also to me, saying,

acv@Jeremiah:16:2 @ Thou shall not take thee a wife, nor shall thou have sons or daughters, in this place.

acv@Jeremiah:16:3 @ For thus says LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who begot them in this land:

acv@Jeremiah:16:4 @ They shall die grievous deaths. They shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried; they shall be as dung upon the face of the ground. And they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine. And their dead bodies shall be food fo

acv@Jeremiah:16:5 @ For thus says LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, nor go to lament, nor bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people, says LORD, even loving kindness and tender mercies.

acv@Jeremiah:16:6 @ Both great and small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried, nor shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them,

acv@Jeremiah:16:7 @ nor shall men break [bread] for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead, nor shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

acv@Jeremiah:16:8 @ And thou shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.

acv@Jeremiah:16:9 @ For thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the brid

acv@Jeremiah:16:10 @ And it shall come to pass, when thou shall show this people all these words, and they shall say to thee, Why has LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? Or what is our iniquity? Or what is our sin that we have committed aga

acv@Jeremiah:16:11 @ Then thou shall say to them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, says LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law.

acv@Jeremiah:16:12 @ And ye have done evil more than your fathers, for, behold, ye walk each one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that ye hearken not to me.

acv@Jeremiah:16:13 @ Therefore I will cast you forth out of this land into the land that ye have not known, neither ye nor your fathers, and there ye shall serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.

acv@Jeremiah:16:14 @ Therefore, behold, the days come, says LORD, that it shall no more be said, As LORD lives who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt,

acv@Jeremiah:16:15 @ but, As LORD lives who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had driven them. And I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers.

acv@Jeremiah:16:16 @ Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says LORD, and they shall fish them up. And afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

acv@Jeremiah:16:17 @ For my eyes are upon all their ways. They are not hid from my face, nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.

acv@Jeremiah:16:18 @ And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.

acv@Jeremiah:16:19 @ O LORD, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to thee the nations shall come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, [even] vanity and things in whic

acv@Jeremiah:16:20 @ Shall a man make to himself gods, which yet are no gods?

acv@Jeremiah:16:21 @ Therefore, behold, I will cause them to know, this once I will cause them to know my hand and my might, and they shall know that my name is LORD.

acv@Jeremiah:17:1 @ The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, [and] with the point of a diamond. It is engraved upon the tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars,

acv@Jeremiah:17:2 @ while their sons remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills.

acv@Jeremiah:17:3 @ O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures for a spoil, [and] thy high places, because of sin, throughout all thy borders.

acv@Jeremiah:17:4 @ And thou, even of thyself, shall discontinue from thy heritage that I gave thee, and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou know not. For ye have kindled a fire in my anger which shall burn forever.

acv@Jeremiah:17:5 @ Thus says LORD: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from LORD.

acv@Jeremiah:17:6 @ For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

acv@Jeremiah:17:7 @ Blessed is the man who trusts in LORD, and whose trust LORD is.

acv@Jeremiah:17:8 @ For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, that spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green, and shall not be worried in the year of drought, nor shall cease from yieldi

acv@Jeremiah:17:9 @ The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

acv@Jeremiah:17:10 @ I, LORD, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

acv@Jeremiah:17:11 @ As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.

acv@Jeremiah:17:12 @ A glorious throne, [set] on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.

acv@Jeremiah:17:13 @ O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake thee shall be put to shame. Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken LORD, the fountain of living waters.

acv@Jeremiah:17:14 @ Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed. Save me, and I shall be saved, for thou are my praise.

acv@Jeremiah:17:15 @ Behold, they say to me, Where is the word of LORD? Let it come now.

acv@Jeremiah:17:16 @ As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd after thee, nor have I desired the woeful day. Thou know. That which came out of my lips was before thy face.

acv@Jeremiah:17:17 @ Be not a terror to me. Thou are my refuge in the day of evil.

acv@Jeremiah:17:18 @ Let them be put to shame who persecute me, but let me not be put to shame. Let them be dismayed, but let me not be dismayed. Bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.