Jeremiah:31-35
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At the same time ,
saith the LORD ,
will I be the God of all the families of Israel ,
and they shall be my people .
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Thus saith the LORD ,
The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness ;
even Israel ,
when I went to cause him to rest .
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The LORD hath appeared of old unto me ,
saying ,
Yea ,
I have loved thee with an everlasting love :
therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee .
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Again I will build thee ,
and thou shalt be built ,
O virgin of Israel :
thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets ,
and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry .
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Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria :
the planters shall plant ,
and shall eat them as common things .
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For there shall be a day ,
that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry ,
Arise ye ,
and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God .
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For thus saith the LORD ;
Sing with gladness for Jacob ,
and shout among the chief of the nations :
publish ye ,
praise ye ,
and say ,
O LORD ,
save thy people ,
the remnant of Israel .
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Behold ,
I will bring them from the north country ,
and gather them from the coasts of the earth ,
and with them the blind and the lame ,
the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together :
a great company shall return thither .
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They shall come with weeping ,
and with supplications will I lead them :
I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way ,
wherein they shall not stumble :
for I am a father to Israel ,
and Ephraim is my firstborn .
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Hear the word of the LORD ,
O ye nations ,
and declare it in the isles afar off ,
and say ,
He that scattered Israel will gather him ,
and keep him ,
as a shepherd doth his flock .
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For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob ,
and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he .
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Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion ,
and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD ,
for wheat ,
and for wine ,
and for oil ,
and for the young of the flock and of the herd :
and their soul shall be as a watered garden ;
and they shall not sorrow any more at all .
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Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance ,
both young men and old together :
for I will turn their mourning into joy ,
and will comfort them ,
and make them rejoice from their sorrow .
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And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness ,
and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness ,
saith the LORD .
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Thus saith the LORD ;
A voice was heard in Ramah ,
lamentation ,
and bitter weeping ;
Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children ,
because they were not .
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Thus saith the LORD ;
Refrain thy voice from weeping ,
and thine eyes from tears :
for thy work shall be rewarded ,
saith the LORD ;
and they shall come again from the land of the enemy .
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And there is hope in thine end ,
saith the LORD ,
that thy children shall come again to their own border .
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I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus ;
Thou hast chastised me ,
and I was chastised ,
as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke :
turn thou me ,
and I shall be turned ;
for thou art the LORD my God .
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Surely after that I was turned ,
I repented ;
and after that I was instructed ,
I smote upon my thigh :
I was ashamed ,
yea ,
even confounded ,
because I did bear the reproach of my youth .
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Is Ephraim my dear son ?
is he a pleasant child ?
for since I spake against him ,
I do earnestly remember him still :
therefore my bowels are troubled for him ;
I will surely have mercy upon him ,
saith the LORD .
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Set thee up waymarks ,
make thee high heaps :
set thine heart toward the highway ,
even the way which thou wentest :
turn again ,
O virgin of Israel ,
turn again to these thy cities .
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How long wilt thou go about ,
O thou backsliding daughter ?
for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth ,
A woman shall compass a man .
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel ;
As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof ,
when I shall bring again their captivity ;
The LORD bless thee ,
O habitation of justice ,
and mountain of holiness .
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And there shall dwell in Judah itself ,
and in all the cities thereof together ,
husbandmen ,
and they that go forth with flocks .
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For I have satiated the weary soul ,
and I have replenished every sorrowful soul .
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Upon this I awaked ,
and beheld ;
and my sleep was sweet unto me .
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Behold ,
the days come ,
saith the LORD ,
that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man ,
and with the seed of beast .
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And it shall come to pass ,
that like as I have watched over them ,
to pluck up ,
and to break down ,
and to throw down ,
and to destroy ,
and to afflict ;
so will I watch over them ,
to build ,
and to plant ,
saith the LORD .
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In those days they shall say no more ,
The fathers have eaten a sour grape ,
and the children '
s teeth are set on edge .
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But every one shall die for his own iniquity :
every man that eateth the sour grape ,
his teeth shall be set on edge .
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Behold ,
the days come ,
saith the LORD ,
that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel ,
and with the house of Judah :
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Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt ;
which my covenant they brake ,
although I was an husband unto them ,
saith the LORD :
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But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel ;
After those days ,
saith the LORD ,
I will put my law in their inward parts ,
and write it in their hearts ;
and will be their God ,
and they shall be my people .
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And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour ,
and every man his brother ,
saying ,
Know the LORD :
for they shall all know me ,
from the least of them unto the greatest of them ,
saith the LORD :
for I will forgive their iniquity ,
and I will remember their sin no more .
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Thus saith the LORD ,
which giveth the sun for a light by day ,
and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night ,
which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar ;
The LORD of hosts is his name :
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If those ordinances depart from before me ,
saith the LORD ,
then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever .
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Thus saith the LORD ;
If heaven above can be measured ,
and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath ,
I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done ,
saith the LORD .
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Behold ,
the days come ,
saith the LORD ,
that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner .
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And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb ,
and shall compass about to Goath .
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And the whole valley of the dead bodies ,
and of the ashes ,
and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron ,
unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east ,
shall be holy unto the LORD ;
it shall not be plucked up ,
nor thrown down any more for ever .
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The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah ,
which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar .
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For then the king of Babylon '
s army besieged Jerusalem :
and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison ,
which was in the king of Judah '
s house .
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For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up ,
saying ,
Wherefore dost thou prophesy ,
and say ,
Thus saith the LORD ,
Behold ,
I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon ,
and he shall take it ;
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And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans ,
but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon ,
and shall speak with him mouth to mouth ,
and his eyes shall behold his eyes ;
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And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon ,
and there shall he be until I visit him ,
saith the LORD :
though ye fight with the Chaldeans ,
ye shall not prosper .
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And Jeremiah said ,
The word of the LORD came unto me ,
saying ,
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Behold ,
Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee ,
saying ,
Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth :
for the right of redemption is thine to buy it .
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So Hanameel mine uncle '
s son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD ,
and said unto me ,
Buy my field ,
I pray thee ,
that is in Anathoth ,
which is in the country of Benjamin :
for the right of inheritance is thine ,
and the redemption is thine ;
buy it for thyself .
Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD .
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And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle '
s son ,
that was in Anathoth ,
and weighed him the money ,
even seventeen shekels of silver .
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And I subscribed the evidence ,
and sealed it ,
and took witnesses ,
and weighed him the money in the balances .
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So I took the evidence of the purchase ,
both that which was sealed according to the law and custom ,
and that which was open :
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And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah ,
the son of Maaseiah ,
in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle '
s son ,
and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase ,
before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison .
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And I charged Baruch before them ,
saying ,
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel ;
Take these evidences ,
this evidence of the purchase ,
both which is sealed ,
and this evidence which is open ;
and put them in an earthen vessel ,
that they may continue many days .
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For thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel ;
Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land .
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Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah ,
I prayed unto the LORD ,
saying ,
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Ah Lord GOD !
behold ,
thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm ,
and there is nothing too hard for thee :
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Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands ,
and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them :
the Great ,
the Mighty God ,
the LORD of hosts ,
is his name ,
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Great in counsel ,
and mighty in work :
for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men :
to give every one according to his ways ,
and according to the fruit of his doings :
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Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt ,
even unto this day ,
and in Israel ,
and among other men ;
and hast made thee a name ,
as at this day ;
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And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs ,
and with wonders ,
and with a strong hand ,
and with a stretched out arm ,
and with great terror ;
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And hast given them this land ,
which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them ,
a land flowing with milk and honey ;
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And they came in ,
and possessed it ;
but they obeyed not thy voice ,
neither walked in thy law ;
they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do :
therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them :
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Behold the mounts ,
they are come unto the city to take it ;
and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans ,
that fight against it ,
because of the sword ,
and of the famine ,
and of the pestilence :
and what thou hast spoken is come to pass ;
and ,
behold ,
thou seest it .
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And thou hast said unto me ,
O Lord GOD ,
Buy thee the field for money ,
and take witnesses ;
for the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans .
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Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah ,
saying ,
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Behold ,
I am the LORD ,
the God of all flesh :
is there any thing too hard for me ?
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Therefore thus saith the LORD ;
Behold ,
I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans ,
and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon ,
and he shall take it :
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And the Chaldeans ,
that fight against this city ,
shall come and set fire on this city ,
and burn it with the houses ,
upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal ,
and poured out drink offerings unto other gods ,
to provoke me to anger .
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For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth :
for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands ,
saith the LORD .
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For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day ;
that I should remove it from before my face ,
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Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah ,
which they have done to provoke me to anger ,
they ,
their kings ,
their princes ,
their priests ,
and their prophets ,
and the men of Judah ,
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem .
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And they have turned unto me the back ,
and not the face :
though I taught them ,
rising up early and teaching them ,
yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction .
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But they set their abominations in the house ,
which is called by my name ,
to defile it .
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And they built the high places of Baal ,
which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom ,
to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech ;
which I commanded them not ,
neither came it into my mind ,
that they should do this abomination ,
to cause Judah to sin .
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And now therefore thus saith the LORD ,
the God of Israel ,
concerning this city ,
whereof ye say ,
It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword ,
and by the famine ,
and by the pestilence ;
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Behold ,
I will gather them out of all countries ,
whither I have driven them in mine anger ,
and in my fury ,
and in great wrath ;
and I will bring them again unto this place ,
and I will cause them to dwell safely :
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And they shall be my people ,
and I will be their God :
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And I will give them one heart ,
and one way ,
that they may fear me for ever ,
for the good of them ,
and of their children after them :
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And I will make an everlasting covenant with them ,
that I will not turn away from them ,
to do them good ;
but I will put my fear in their hearts ,
that they shall not depart from me .
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Yea ,
I will rejoice over them to do them good ,
and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul .
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For thus saith the LORD ;
Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people ,
so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them .
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And fields shall be bought in this land ,
whereof ye say ,
It is desolate without man or beast ;
it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans .
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Men shall buy fields for money ,
and subscribe evidences ,
and seal them ,
and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin ,
and in the places about Jerusalem ,
and in the cities of Judah ,
and in the cities of the mountains ,
and in the cities of the valley ,
and in the cities of the south :
for I will cause their captivity to return ,
saith the LORD .
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Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time ,
while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison ,
saying ,
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Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof ,
the LORD that formed it ,
to establish it ;
the LORD is his name ;
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Call unto me ,
and I will answer thee ,
and shew thee great and mighty things ,
which thou knowest not .
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For thus saith the LORD ,
the God of Israel ,
concerning the houses of this city ,
and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah ,
which are thrown down by the mounts ,
and by the sword ;
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They come to fight with the Chaldeans ,
but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men ,
whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury ,
and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city .
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Behold ,
I will bring it health and cure ,
and I will cure them ,
and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth .
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And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return ,
and will build them ,
as at the first .
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And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity ,
whereby they have sinned against me ;
and I will pardon all their iniquities ,
whereby they have sinned ,
and whereby they have transgressed against me .
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And it shall be to me a name of joy ,
a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth ,
which shall hear all the good that I do unto them :
and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it .
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Thus saith the LORD ;
Again there shall be heard in this place ,
which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast ,
even in the cities of Judah ,
and in the streets of Jerusalem ,
that are desolate ,
without man ,
and without inhabitant ,
and without beast ,
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The voice of joy ,
and the voice of gladness ,
the voice of the bridegroom ,
and the voice of the bride ,
the voice of them that shall say ,
Praise the LORD of hosts :
for the LORD is good ;
for his mercy endureth for ever :
and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD .
For I will cause to return the captivity of the land ,
as at the first ,
saith the LORD .
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts ;
Again in this place ,
which is desolate without man and without beast ,
and in all the cities thereof ,
shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down .
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In the cities of the mountains ,
in the cities of the vale ,
and in the cities of the south ,
and in the land of Benjamin ,
and in the places about Jerusalem ,
and in the cities of Judah ,
shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that telleth them ,
saith the LORD .
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Behold ,
the days come ,
saith the LORD ,
that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah .
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In those days ,
and at that time ,
will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David ;
and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land .
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In those days shall Judah be saved ,
and Jerusalem shall dwell safely :
and this is the name wherewith she shall be called ,
The LORD our righteousness .
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For thus saith the LORD ;
David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel ;
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Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings ,
and to kindle meat offerings ,
and to do sacrifice continually .
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And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah ,
saying ,
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Thus saith the LORD ;
If ye can break my covenant of the day ,
and my covenant of the night ,
and that there should not be day and night in their season ;
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Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant ,
that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne ;
and with the Levites the priests ,
my ministers .
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As the host of heaven cannot be numbered ,
neither the sand of the sea measured :
so will I multiply the seed of David my servant ,
and the Levites that minister unto me .
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Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah ,
saying ,
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Considerest thou not what this people have spoken ,
saying ,
The two families which the LORD hath chosen ,
he hath even cast them off ?
thus they have despised my people ,
that they should be no more a nation before them .
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Thus saith the LORD ;
If my covenant be not with day and night ,
and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth ;
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Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob ,
and David my servant ,
so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham ,
Isaac ,
and Jacob :
for I will cause their captivity to return ,
and have mercy on them .
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The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD ,
when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon ,
and all his army ,
and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion ,
and all the people ,
fought against Jerusalem ,
and against all the cities thereof ,
saying ,
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Thus saith the LORD ,
the God of Israel ;
Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah ,
and tell him ,
Thus saith the LORD ;
Behold ,
I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon ,
and he shall burn it with fire :
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And thou shalt not escape out of his hand ,
but shalt surely be taken ,
and delivered into his hand ;
and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon ,
and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth ,
and thou shalt go to Babylon .
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Yet hear the word of the LORD ,
O Zedekiah king of Judah ;
Thus saith the LORD of thee ,
Thou shalt not die by the sword :
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But thou shalt die in peace :
and with the burnings of thy fathers ,
the former kings which were before thee ,
so shall they burn odours for thee ;
and they will lament thee ,
saying ,
Ah lord !
for I have pronounced the word ,
saith the LORD .
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Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem ,
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When the king of Babylon '
s army fought against Jerusalem ,
and against all the cities of Judah that were left ,
against Lachish ,
and against Azekah :
for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah .
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This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD ,
after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem ,
to proclaim liberty unto them ;
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That every man should let his manservant ,
and every man his maidservant ,
being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess ,
go free ;
that none should serve himself of them ,
to wit ,
of a Jew his brother .
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Now when all the princes ,
and all the people ,
which had entered into the covenant ,
heard that every one should let his manservant ,
and every one his maidservant ,
go free ,
that none should serve themselves of them any more ,
then they obeyed ,
and let them go .
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But afterward they turned ,
and caused the servants and the handmaids ,
whom they had let go free ,
to return ,
and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids .
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Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD ,
saying ,
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Thus saith the LORD ,
the God of Israel ;
I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt ,
out of the house of bondmen ,
saying ,
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At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew ,
which hath been sold unto thee ;
and when he hath served thee six years ,
thou shalt let him go free from thee :
but your fathers hearkened not unto me ,
neither inclined their ear .
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And ye were now turned ,
and had done right in my sight ,
in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour ;
and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name :
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But ye turned and polluted my name ,
and caused every man his servant ,
and every man his handmaid ,
whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure ,
to return ,
and brought them into subjection ,
to be unto you for servants and for handmaids .
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Therefore thus saith the LORD ;
Ye have not hearkened unto me ,
in proclaiming liberty ,
every one to his brother ,
and every man to his neighbour :
behold ,
I proclaim a liberty for you ,
saith the LORD ,
to the sword ,
to the pestilence ,
and to the famine ;
and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth .
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And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant ,
which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me ,
when they cut the calf in twain ,
and passed between the parts thereof ,
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The princes of Judah ,
and the princes of Jerusalem ,
the eunuchs ,
and the priests ,
and all the people of the land ,
which passed between the parts of the calf ;
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I will even give them into the hand of their enemies ,
and into the hand of them that seek their life :
and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven ,
and to the beasts of the earth .
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And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies ,
and into the hand of them that seek their life ,
and into the hand of the king of Babylon '
s army ,
which are gone up from you .
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Behold ,
I will command ,
saith the LORD ,
and cause them to return to this city ;
and they shall fight against it ,
and take it ,
and burn it with fire :
and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant .
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The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah ,
saying ,
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Go unto the house of the Rechabites ,
and speak unto them ,
and bring them into the house of the LORD ,
into one of the chambers ,
and give them wine to drink .
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Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah ,
the son of Habaziniah ,
and his brethren ,
and all his sons ,
and the whole house of the Rechabites ;
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And I brought them into the house of the LORD ,
into the chamber of the sons of Hanan ,
the son of Igdaliah ,
a man of God ,
which was by the chamber of the princes ,
which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum ,
the keeper of the door :
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And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine ,
and cups ,
and I said unto them ,
Drink ye wine .
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But they said ,
We will drink no wine :
for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us ,
saying ,
Ye shall drink no wine ,
neither ye ,
nor your sons for ever :
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Neither shall ye build house ,
nor sow seed ,
nor plant vineyard ,
nor have any :
but all your days ye shall dwell in tents ;
that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers .
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Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us ,
to drink no wine all our days ,
we ,
our wives ,
our sons ,
nor our daughters ;
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Nor to build houses for us to dwell in :
neither have we vineyard ,
nor field ,
nor seed :
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But we have dwelt in tents ,
and have obeyed ,
and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us .
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But it came to pass ,
when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land ,
that we said ,
Come ,
and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans ,
and for fear of the army of the Syrians :
so we dwell at Jerusalem .
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Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah ,
saying ,
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel ;
Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem ,
Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words ?
saith the LORD .
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The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab ,
that he commanded his sons not to drink wine ,
are performed ;
for unto this day they drink none ,
but obey their father '
s commandment :
notwithstanding I have spoken unto you ,
rising early and speaking ;
but ye hearkened not unto me .
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I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets ,
rising up early and sending them ,
saying ,
Return ye now every man from his evil way ,
and amend your doings ,
and go not after other gods to serve them ,
and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers :
but ye have not inclined your ear ,
nor hearkened unto me .
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Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father ,
which he commanded them ;
but this people hath not hearkened unto me :
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Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts ,
the God of Israel ;
Behold ,
I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them :
because I have spoken unto them ,
but they have not heard ;
and I have called unto them ,
but they have not answered .
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And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites ,
Thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel ;
Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father ,
and kept all his precepts ,
and done according unto all that he hath commanded you :
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Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel ;
Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever .
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And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah ,
that this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD ,
saying ,
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