Jeremiah:16:1-17
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The word of the LORD came also unto me ,
saying :
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Thou shalt not take thee a wife ,
neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place .
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For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place ,
and concerning their mothers that bore them ,
and concerning their fathers that begot them in this land :
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They shall die of grievous deaths ;
they shall not be lamented ,
neither 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 carcasses shall be meat for the fowls of heaven ,
and for the beasts of the earth .
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For thus saith the LORD :
Enter not into the house of mourning ,
neither go to lament ,
neither bemoan them ;
for I have taken away My peace from this people ,
saith the LORD ,
even mercy and compassion .
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Both the great and the small shall die in this land ;
they shall not be buried ;
neither shall men lament for them ,
nor cut themselves ,
nor make themselves bald for them ;
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neither shall men break bread for them in mourning ,
to comfort them for the dead ;
neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother .
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And thou shalt not go into the house of feasting to sit with them ,
to eat and to drink .
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For thus saith the 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 bride .
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And it shall come to pass ,
when thou shalt tell this people all these words ,
and they shall say unto thee : '
Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us ?
or what is our iniquity ?
or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God ?'
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then shalt thou say unto them : '
Because your fathers have forsaken Me ,
saith the 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 ;
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and ye have done worse than your fathers ;
for ,
behold ,
ye walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart ,
so that ye hearken not unto Me ;
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therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye have not known ,
neither ye nor your fathers ;
and there shall ye serve other gods day and night ;
forasmuch as I will show you no favour .'
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Therefore ,
behold ,
the days come ,
saith the LORD ,
that it shall no more be said : '
As the LORD liveth ,
that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt ,'
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but : '
As the LORD liveth ,
that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north ,
and from all the countries whither He had driven them ';
and I will bring them back into their land that I gave unto their fathers .
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Behold ,
I will send for many fishers ,
saith the LORD ,
and they shall fish them ;
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 .
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For Mine eyes are upon all their ways ,
they are not hid from My face ;
Neither is their iniquity concealed from Mine eyes .