Jeremiah:22-24
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Thus saith the LORD ;
Go down to the house of the king of Judah ,
and speak there this word ,
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And say ,
Hear the word of the LORD ,
O king of Judah ,
that sittest upon the throne of David ,
thou ,
and thy servants ,
and thy people that enter in by these gates sha #
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Thus saith the LORD ;
Execute ye judgment and righteousness ,
and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor :
and do no wrong ,
do no violence to the stranger ,
the fatherless ,
nor the widow ,
neither shed innocent blood in this place .
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For if ye do this thing indeed ,
then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David ,
riding in chariots and on horses ,
he ,
and his servants ,
and his people .
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But if ye will not hear these words ,
I swear by myself ,
saith the LORD ,
that this house shall become a desolation .
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For thus saith the LORD unto the kings house of Judah ;
Thou art Gilead unto me ,
and the head of Lebanon :
yet srely I will make thee a wilderness ,
and cities which are not inhabited (
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And I will prepare destroyers against thee ,
every one with his weapons :
and they shall cut down thy choice cedars ,
and cast them into the fire .
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And many nations shall pass by this city ,
and they shall say every man to his neighbour ,
Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this great city ?
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Then they shall answer ,
Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God ,
and worshipped other gods ,
and served them .
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Weep ye not for the dead ,
neither bemoan him :
but weep sore for him that goeth away :
for he shall return no more ,
nor see his native country .
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For thus saith the LORD touching Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah ,
which reigned instead of Josiah his father ,
which went forth out of this place ;
He shall not return thither any more :
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But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive ,
and shall see this land no more .
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Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness ,
and his chambers by wrong ;
that useth his neighbours service without wages ,
and giveth him not for his work po #
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That saith ,
I will build me a wide house and large chambers ,
and cutteth him out windows ;
and it is cieled with cedar ,
and painted with vermilion .
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Shalt thou reign ,
because thou closest thyself in cedar ?
did not thy father eat and drink ,
and do judgment and justice ,
and then it was well with him ?
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He judged the cause of the poor and needy ;
then it was well with him :
was not this to know me ?
saith the LORD .
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But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness ,
and for to shed innocent blood ,
and for oppression ,
and for violence ,
to do it .
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Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah ;
They shall not lament for him ,
saying ,
Ah my brother !
or ,
Ah sister !
they shall not lament for him ,
saying ,
Ah lord !
or ,
Ah his glory !
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He shall be buried with the burial of an ass ,
drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem .
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Go up to Lebanon ,
and cry ;
and lift up thy voice in Bashan ,
and cry from the passages :
for all thy lovers are destroyed .
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I spake unto thee in thy prosperity ;
but thou saidst ,
I will not hear .
This hath been thy manner from thy youth na #
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that thou obeyedst not my voice .
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The wind shall eat up all thy pastors ,
and thy lovers shall go into captivity :
surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness .
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O inhabitant of Lebanon ,
that makest thy nest in the cedars ,
how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee ,
the pain as of a woman in travail !
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As I live ,
saith the LORD ,
though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand ,
yet would I pluck thee thence ;
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And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life ,
and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest ,
even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon ,
and into the hand of the Chaldeans .
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And I will cast thee out ,
and thy mother that bare thee ,
into another country ,
where ye were not born ;
and there shall ye die .
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But to the land whereunto they desire (
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to return ,
thither shall they not return .
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Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol ?
is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure ?
wherefore are they cast out ,
he and his seed ,
and are cast into a land which they know not ?
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O earth ,
earth ,
earth ,
hear the word of the LORD .
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Thus saith the LORD ,
Write ye this man childless ,
a man that shall not prosper in his days :
for no man of his seed shall prosper ,
sitting upon the throne of David ,
and ruling any more in Judah .
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Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture mir #
iyth #!
saith the LORD .
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Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people ;
Ye have scattered my flock tso #
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and driven them away ,
and have not visited them :
behold ,
I will visit upon you the evil of your doings ma #
alal #,
saith the LORD .
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And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them ,
and will bring them again to their folds ;
and they shall be fruitful and increase .
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And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them :
and they shall fear no more ,
nor be dismayed ,
neither shall they be lacking ,
saith the LORD .
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Behold ,
the days come ,
saith the LORD ,
that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch ,
and a King shall reign and prosper ,
and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth .
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In his days Judah shall be saved ,
and Israel shall dwell safely :
and this is his name whereby he shall be called ,
THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS Y @
hovah .
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Therefore ,
behold ,
the days come ,
saith the LORD ,
that they shall no more say ,
The LORD liveth ,
which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt ;
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But ,
The LORD liveth ,
which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country ,
and from all countries whither I had driven them ;
and they shall dwell in their own land .
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Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets ;
all my bones shake ;
I am like a drunken man ,
and like a man whom wine hath overcome ,
because of the LORD ,
and because of the words of his holiness .
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For the land is full of adulterers ;
for because of swearing the land mourneth ;
the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up ,
and their course is evil ,
and their force is not right .
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For both prophet and priest are profane ;
yea ,
in my house have I found their wickedness ,
saith the LORD .
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Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness :
they shall be driven on ,
and fall therein :
for I will bring evil upon them ,
even the year of their visitation ,
saith the LORD .
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And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria ;
they prophesied in Baal Ba #
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and caused my people Israel to err .
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I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing sha #
aruwrah #:
they commit adultery ,
and walk in lies :
they strengthen also the hands of evildoers ,
that none doth return from his wickedness :
they are all of them unto me as Sodom ,
and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah .
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Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets ;
Behold ,
I will feed them with wormwood la #
anah #,
and make them drink the water of gall ro #
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for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land .
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you :
they make you vain :
they speak a vision of their own heart ,
and not out of the mouth of the LORD .
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They say still unto them that despise me ,
The LORD hath said ,
Ye shall have peace ;
and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart ,
No evil shall come upon you .
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For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD ,
and hath perceived and heard his word ?
who hath marked his word ,
and heard it ?
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Behold ,
a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury ,
even a grievous whirlwind ca #
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it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked .
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The anger of the LORD shall not return ,
until he have executed ,
and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart :
in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly .
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I have not sent these prophets ,
yet they ran :
I have not spoken to them ,
yet they prophesied .
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But if they had stood in my counsel ,
and had caused my people to hear my words ,
then they should have turned them from their evil way ,
and from the evil of their doings ma #
alal #.
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Am I a God at hand ,
saith the LORD ,
and not a God afar off ?
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Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him ?
saith the LORD .
Do not I fill heaven and earth ?
saith the LORD .
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I have heard what the prophets said ,
that prophesy lies in my name ,
saying ,
I have dreamed ,
I have dreamed .
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How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies ?
yea ,
they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart ;
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Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour ,
as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal Ba #
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The prophet that hath a dream ,
let him tell a dream ;
and he that hath my word ,
let him speak my word faithfully .
What is the chaff to the wheat ?
saith the LORD .
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Is not my word like as a fire ?
saith the LORD ;
and like a hammer that breaketh #
the rock in pieces ?
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Therefore ,
behold ,
I am against the prophets ,
saith the LORD ,
that steal my words every one from his neighbour .
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Behold ,
I am against the prophets ,
saith the LORD ,
that use their tongues ,
and say ,
He saith .
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Behold ,
I am against them that prophesy false dreams ,
saith the LORD ,
and do tell them ,
and cause my people to err by their lies ,
and by their lightness ;
yet I sent them not ,
nor commanded them :
therefore they shall not profit this people at all ,
saith the LORD .
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And when this people ,
or the prophet ,
or a priest ,
shall ask thee ,
saying ,
What is the burden of the LORD ?
thou shalt then say unto them ,
What burden ?
I will even forsake you ,
saith the LORD .
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And as for the prophet ,
and the priest ,
and the people ,
that shall say ,
The burden of the LORD ,
I will even punish that man and his house .
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Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour ,
and every one to his brother ,
What hath the LORD answered ?
and ,
What hath the LORD spoken ?
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And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more :
for every mans word shall be his burden ;
for ye have perverted the words of the living God ,
of the LORD of hosts our God .
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Thus shalt thou say to the prophet ,
What hath the LORD answered thee ?
and ,
What hath the LORD spoken ?
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But since ye say ,
The burden of the LORD ;
therefore thus saith the LORD ;
Because ye say this word ,
The burden of the LORD ,
and I have sent unto you ,
saying ,
Ye shall not say ,
The burden of the LORD ;
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Therefore ,
behold ,
I ,
even I ,
will utterly forget you ,
and I will forsake you ,
and the city that I gave you and your fathers ,
and cast you out of my presence :
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And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you ,
and a perpetual shame ,
which shall not be forgotten .
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The LORD shewed me ,
and ,
behold ,
two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD ,
after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah ,
and the princes of Judah ,
with the carpenters and smiths ,
from Jerusalem ,
and had brought them to Babylon .
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One basket had very good figs t @#
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even like the figs that are first ripe :
and the other basket had very naughty figs t @#
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which could not be eaten ,
they were so bad .
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Then said the LORD unto me ,
What seest thou ,
Jeremiah ?
And I said ,
Figs t @#
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the good figs t @#
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very good ;
and the evil ,
very evil ,
that cannot be eaten ,
they are so evil .
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Again the word of the LORD came unto me ,
saying ,
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Thus saith the LORD ,
the God of Israel Yisra #
el #;
Like these good figs t @#
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so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah ,
whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good .
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For I will set mine eyes upon them for good ,
and I will bring them again to this land :
and I will build them ,
and not pull them down ;
and I will plant them ,
and not pluck them up .
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And I will give them an heart to know me ,
that I am the LORD :
and they shall be my people ,
and I will be their God :
for they shall return unto me with their whole heart .
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And as the evil figs t @#
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which cannot be eaten ,
they are so evil ;
surely thus saith the LORD ,
So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah ,
and his princes ,
and the residue of Jerusalem ,
that remain in this land ,
and them that dwell in the land of Egypt :
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And I will deliver them to be removed za #
into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt ,
to be a reproach and a proverb ,
a taunt and a curse ,
in all places whither I shall drive them .
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And I will send the sword ,
the famine ra #
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and the pestilence ,
among them ,
till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers .
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The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah ,
that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon ;