Jeremiah:16

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* The word of the LORD came also unto me , saying : * Thou shalt not take thee a wife , neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place . * 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 : * 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 . * 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 . * 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 ; * 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 . * And thou shalt not go into the house of feasting to sit with them , to eat and to drink . * 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 . * 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 ?' * 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 ; * 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 ; * 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 .' * 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 ,' * 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 . * 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 . * For Mine eyes are upon all their ways , they are not hid from My face ; Neither is their iniquity concealed from Mine eyes . * And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double ; because they have profaned My land ; they have filled Mine inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable things and their abominations . * O LORD , my strength , and my stronghold , and my refuge , in the day of affliction , unto Thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth , and shall say : 'Our fathers have inherited nought but lies , vanity and things wherein there is no profit .' * Shall a man make unto himself gods , and they are no gods ? * Therefore , behold , I will cause them to know , this once will I cause them to know My hand and My might ; and they shall know that My name is the LORD .

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