Jeremiah:17-18
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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 .
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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 ,
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 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 ;
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 .
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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 ,
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 :
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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 ,
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 ,
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 potter '
s house ,
and there I will cause thee to hear my words .
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Then I went down to the potter '
s 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 ,
cannot I do with you as this potter ?
saith the LORD .
Behold ,
as the clay is in the potter '
s hand ,
so are ye in mine hand ,
O house of Israel .
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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 .
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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 ;
every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished ,
and wag his head .
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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 ,
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 potter '
s earthen bottle ,
and take of the ancients of the people ,
and of the ancients of the priests ;