Jeremiah:16-20
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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 bare them ,
and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land ;
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They shall die of grievous deaths ;
they shall not be lamented ;
neither shall they be buried ;
but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth :
and they shall be consumed by the sword ,
and by famine ra #
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and their carcases 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 nor bemoan them :
for I have taken away my peace from this people ,
saith the LORD ,
even lovingkindness and mercies .
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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 tear themselves 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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Thou shalt not also 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 Yisra #
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Behold ,
I will cause to cease out of this place in 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 shew 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 imagination of his evil heart ,
that they may not hearken unto me :
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Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not ,
neither ye nor your fathers ;
and there shall ye serve other gods day and night ;
where I will not shew you favour .
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Therefore ,
behold ,
the days come ,
saith the LORD ,
that it shall no more be said ,
The LORD liveth ,
that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt ;
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But ,
The LORD liveth ,
that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north ,
and from all the lands whither he had driven them :
and I will bring them again 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 after will I send for many hunters ,
and they shall hunt them from every mountain ,
and from every hill gib #
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and out of the holes 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 hid from mine eyes .
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And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double ;
because they have defiled my land ,
they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things tow #
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O LORD ,
my strength ,
and my fortress ma #
owz #,
and my refuge in the day of affliction ,
the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth ,
and shall say ,
Surely our fathers have inherited lies ,
vanity ,
and things wherein there is no profit .
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Shall a man make gods unto himself ,
and they are no gods ?
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Therefore ,
behold ,
I will this once cause them to know ,
I will cause them to know mine hand and my might ;
and they shall know that my name is The LORD .
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The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron ,
and with the point of a diamond :
it is graven upon the table of their heart ,
and upon the horns of your altars ;
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Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills gib #
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O my mountain in the field ,
I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil ,
and thy high places for sin chatta #
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throughout all thy borders .
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And thou ,
even thyself ,
shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee ;
and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not :
for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger ,
which shall burn for ever .
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Thus saith the LORD ;
Cursed be the man that trusteth in man ,
and maketh flesh his arm ,
and whose heart departeth from the LORD .
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For he shall be like the heath #
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in the desert ,
and shall not see when good cometh ;
but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness ,
in a salt land and not inhabited .
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Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD ,
and whose hope the LORD is .
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For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters ,
and that spreadeth out her roots by the river ,
and shall not see when heat cometh ,
but her leaf shall be green ra #
anan #;
and shall not be careful in the year of drought ,
neither shall cease from yielding fruit .
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The heart is deceitful above all things ,
and desperately wicked :
who can know it ?
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I the LORD search the heart ,
I try the reins ,
even to give every man according to his ways ,
and according to the fruit of his doings ma #
alal #.
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As the partridge sitteth on eggs ,
and hatcheth them not ;
so he that getteth riches ,
and not by right ,
shall leave them in the midst of his days ,
and at his end shall be a fool .
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A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary .
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O LORD ,
the hope of Israel Yisra #
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all that forsake thee shall be ashamed ,
and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth ,
because they have forsaken the LORD ,
the fountain of living waters .
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Heal me ,
O LORD ,
and I shall be healed ;
save me ,
and I shall be saved :
for thou art my praise .
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Behold ,
they say unto me ,
Where is the word of the LORD ?
let it come now .
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As for me ,
I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee :
neither have I desired the woeful day ;
thou knowest :
that which came out of my lips was right before thee .
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Be not a terror unto me :
thou art my hope in the day of evil .
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Let them be confounded that persecute me ,
but let not me be confounded :
let them be dismayed ,
but let not me be dismayed :
bring upon them the day of evil ,
and destroy them with double destruction .
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Thus said the LORD unto me ;
Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people ,
whereby the kings of Judah come in ,
and by the which they go out ,
and in all the gates of Jerusalem ;
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And say unto them ,
Hear ye the word of the LORD ,
ye kings of Judah ,
and all Judah ,
and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem ,
that enter in by these gates sha #
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Thus saith the LORD ;
Take heed to yourselves ,
and bear no burden on the sabbath day ,
nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem ;
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Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day ,
neither do ye any work m @
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but hallow ye the sabbath day ,
as I commanded your fathers .
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But they obeyed not ,
neither inclined their ear ,
but made their neck stiff ,
that they might not hear ,
nor receive instruction .
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And it shall come to pass ,
if ye diligently hearken unto me ,
saith the LORD ,
to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day ,
but hallow the sabbath day ,
to do no work therein ;
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Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David ,
riding in chariots and on horses ,
they ,
and their princes ,
the men of Judah ,
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem :
and this city shall remain for ever .
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And they shall come from the cities of Judah ,
and from the places about Jerusalem ,
and from the land of Benjamin ,
and from the plain ,
and from the mountains ,
and from the south ,
bringing burnt offerings ,
and sacrifices ,
and meat offerings ,
and incense l @
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and bringing sacrifices of praise ,
unto the house of the LORD .
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But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day ,
and not to bear a burden ,
even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day ;
then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof ,
and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem ,
and it shall not be quenched .
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The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD ,
saying ,
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Arise ,
and go down to the potters house ,
and there I will cause thee to hear my words .
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Then I went down to the potters house ,
and ,
behold ,
he wrought a work on the wheels .
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And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter :
so he made it again another vessel ,
as seemed good to the potter to make it .
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Then the word of the LORD came to me ,
saying ,
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O house of Israel Yisra #
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cannot I do with you as this potter ?
saith the LORD .
Behold ,
as the clay is in the potters hand ,
so are ye in mine hand ,
O house of Israel Yisra #
el #.
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At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation ,
and concerning a kingdom ,
to pluck up ,
and to pull down ,
and to destroy it ;
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If that nation ,
against whom I have pronounced ,
turn from their evil ,
I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them .
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And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation ,
and concerning a kingdom ,
to build and to plant it ;
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If it do evil in my sight ,
that it obey not my voice ,
then I will repent of the good ,
wherewith I said I would benefit them .
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Now therefore go to ,
speak to the men of Judah ,
and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem ,
saying ,
Thus saith the LORD ;
Behold ,
I frame evil against you ,
and devise a device against you :
return ye now every one from his evil way ,
and make your ways and your doings good .
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And they said ,
There is no hope :
but we will walk after our own devices ,
and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart .
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Therefore thus saith the LORD ;
Ask ye now among the heathen ,
who hath heard such things :
the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing sha #
aruwrah #.
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Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field ?
or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken ?
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Because my people hath forgotten me ,
they have burned incense to vanity ,
and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths ,
to walk in paths ,
in a way not cast up ;
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To make their land desolate ,
and a perpetual hissing sh @;
every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished ,
and wag his head ro #
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I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy ;
I will shew them the back ,
and not the face ,
in the day of their calamity .
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Then said they ,
Come ,
and let us devise devices against Jeremiah ;
for the law shall not perish from the priest ,
nor counsel from the wise ,
nor the word from the prophet .
Come ,
and let us smite him with the tongue ,
and let us not give heed to any of his words .
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Give heed to me ,
O LORD ,
and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me .
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Shall evil be recompensed for good ?
for they have digged a pit for my soul .
Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them ,
and to turn away thy wrath from them .
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Therefore deliver up their children to the famine ra #
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and pour out their blood by the force of the sword ;
and let their wives be bereaved of their children ,
and be widows ;
and let their men be put to death ;
let their young men be slain by the sword in battle .
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Let a cry be heard from their houses ,
when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them :
for they have digged a pit to take me ,
and hid snares for my feet .
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Yet ,
LORD ,
thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me :
forgive not their iniquity ,
neither blot out their sin from thy sight ,
but let them be overthrown before thee ;
deal thus with them in the time of thine anger .
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Thus saith the LORD ,
Go and get a potters earthen bottle ,
and take of the ancients of the people ,
and of the ancients of the priests ;
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And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom ,
which is by the entry of the east gate sha #
ar #,
and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee ,
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And say ,
Hear ye the word of the LORD ,
O kings of Judah ,
and inhabitants of Jerusalem ;
Thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel Yisra #
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Behold ,
I will bring evil upon this place ,
the which whosoever heareth ,
his ears shall tingle .
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Because they have forsaken me ,
and have estranged this place ,
and have burned incense in it unto other gods ,
whom neither they nor their fathers have known ,
nor the kings of Judah ,
and have filled this place with the blood of innocents ;
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They have built also the high places of Baal Ba #
al #,
to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal Ba #
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which I commanded not ,
nor spake it ,
neither came it into my mind :
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Therefore ,
behold ,
the days come ,
saith the LORD ,
that this place shall no more be called Tophet ,
nor The valley of the son of Hinnom ,
but The valley of slaughter .
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And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place ;
and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies ,
and by the hands of them that seek their lives :
and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven ,
and for the beasts of the earth .
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And I will make this city desolate ,
and an hissing ;
every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof .
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And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters ,
and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness ,
wherewith their enemies ,
and they that seek their lives ,
shall straiten them .
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Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee ,
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And shalt say unto them ,
Thus saith the LORD of hosts ;
Even so will I break this people and this city ,
as one breaketh a potters vessel ,
that cannot be made whole again :
and they shall bury them in Tophet ,
till there be no place to bury .
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Thus will I do unto this place ,
saith the LORD ,
and to the inhabitants thereof ,
and even make this city as Tophet :
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And the houses of Jerusalem ,
and the houses of the kings of Judah ,
shall be defiled as the place of Tophet ,
because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven ,
and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods .
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Then came Jeremiah from Tophet ,
whither the LORD had sent him to prophesy ;
and he stood in the court of the LORDS house ;
and said to all the people ,
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel Yisra #
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Behold ,
I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it ,
because they have hardened their necks ,
that they might not hear my words .
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Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest ,
who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD ,
heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things .
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Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet ,
and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin ,
which was by the house of the LORD .
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And it came to pass on the morrow ,
that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks .
Then said Jeremiah unto him ,
The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur ,
but Magormissabib Magowr mic-Cabiyb #.
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For thus saith the LORD ,
Behold ,
I will make thee a terror to thyself ,
and to all thy friends :
and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies ,
and thine eyes shall behold it :
and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon ,
and he shall carry them captive into Babylon ,
and shall slay them with the sword .
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Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city ,
and all the labours thereof ,
and all the precious things thereof ,
and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies ,
which shall spoil them ,
and take them ,
and carry them to Babylon .
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And thou ,
Pashur ,
and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity :
and thou shalt come to Babylon ,
and there thou shalt die ,
and shalt be buried there ,
thou ,
and all thy friends ,
to whom thou hast prophesied lies .
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O LORD ,
thou hast deceived me ,
and I was deceived :
thou art stronger than I ,
and hast prevailed :
I am in derision daily ,
every one mocketh me .
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For since I spake ,
I cried out ,
I cried violence and spoil ;
because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me ,
and a derision ,
daily .
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Then I said ,
I will not make mention of him ,
nor speak any more in his name .
But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones ,
and I was weary with forbearing ,
and I could not stay .
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For I heard the defaming of many ,
fear on every side .
Report ,
say they ,
and we will report it .
All my familiars #
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saying ,
Peradventure he will be enticed ,
and we shall prevail against him ,
and we shall take our revenge on him .
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But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one :
therefore my persecutors shall stumble ,
and they shall not prevail :
they shall be greatly ashamed ;
for they shall not prosper :
their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten .
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But ,
O LORD of hosts ,
that triest the righteous ,
and seest the reins and the heart ,
let me see thy vengeance on them :
for unto thee have I opened my cause .
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Sing unto the LORD ,
praise ye the LORD :
for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers .
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Cursed be the day wherein I was born :
let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed .
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Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father ,
saying ,
A man child is born unto thee ;
making him very glad .
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And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew ,
and repented not :
and let him hear the cry in the morning ,
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Because he slew me not from the womb ;
or that my mother might have been my grave ,
and her womb to be always great with me .
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Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow ,
that my days should be consumed with shame ?
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The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD ,
when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah ,
and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest ,
saying ,