Jeremiah:6-8
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O ye children of Benjamin ,
gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem ,
and blow the trumpet in Tekoa ,
and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem Beyth hak-Kerem #:
for evil appeareth out of the north ,
and great destruction .
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I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman .
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The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her ;
they shall pitch their tents against her round about ;
they shall feed every one in his place .
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Prepare ye war against her ;
arise ,
and let us go up at noon .
Woe unto us !
for the day goeth away ,
for the shadows of the evening are stretched out .
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Arise ,
and let us go by night ,
and let us destroy her palaces .
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For thus hath the LORD of hosts said ,
Hew ye down trees ,
and cast a mount against Jerusalem :
this is the city to be visited ;
she is wholly oppression in the midst of her .
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As a fountain casteth out her waters ,
so she casteth out her wickedness :
violence and spoil is heard in her ;
before me continually is grief and wounds .
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Be thou instructed ,
O Jerusalem ,
lest my soul depart from thee ;
lest I make thee desolate ,
a land not inhabited .
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine :
turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets .
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To whom shall I speak ,
and give warning ,
that they may hear ?
behold ,
their ear is uncircumcised ,
and they cannot hearken :
behold ,
the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach ;
they have no delight in it .
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Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD ;
I am weary with holding in :
I will pour it out upon the children abroad ,
and upon the assembly of young men together :
for even the husband with the wife shall be taken ,
the aged with him that is full of days .
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And their houses shall be turned unto others ,
with their fields and wives together :
for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land ,
saith the LORD .
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For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness ;
and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely .
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They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly ,
saying ,
Peace ,
peace ;
when there is no peace .
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Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination tow #
ebah #?
nay ,
they were not at all ashamed ,
neither could they blush :
therefore they shall fall among them that fall :
at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down ,
saith the LORD .
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Thus saith the LORD ,
Stand ye in the ways ,
and see ,
and ask for the old paths ,
where is the good way ,
and walk therein ,
and ye shall find rest for your souls .
But they said ,
We will not walk therein .
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Also I set watchmen over you ,
saying ,
Hearken to the sound of the trumpet .
But they said ,
We will not hearken .
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Therefore hear ,
ye nations ,
and know ,
O congregation ,
what is among them .
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Hear ,
O earth :
behold ,
I will bring evil upon this people ,
even the fruit of their thoughts ,
because they have not hearkened unto my words ,
nor to my law ,
but rejected it .
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To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba ,
and the sweet cane from a far country ?
your burnt offerings are not acceptable ,
nor your sacrifices sweet unto me .
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Therefore thus saith the LORD ,
Behold ,
I will lay stumblingblocks before this people ,
and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them ;
the neighbour and his friend shall perish .
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Thus saith the LORD ,
Behold ,
a people cometh from the north country ,
and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth .
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They shall lay hold on bow and spear ;
they are cruel ,
and have no mercy ;
their voice roareth like the sea ;
and they ride upon horses ,
set in array as men for war against thee ,
O daughter of Zion .
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We have heard the fame thereof :
our hands wax feeble :
anguish hath taken hold of us ,
and pain ,
as of a woman in travail .
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Go not forth into the field ,
nor walk by the way ;
for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side .
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O daughter of my people ,
gird thee with sackcloth ,
and wallow thyself in ashes :
make thee mourning ,
as for an only son ,
most bitter lamentation :
for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us .
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I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people ,
that thou mayest know and try their way .
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They are all grievous revolters ,
walking with slanders :
they are brass and iron ;
they are all corrupters .
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The bellows are burned ,
the lead is consumed of the fire #
H784 ;
the founder melteth in vain :
for the wicked are not plucked away .
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Reprobate silver shall men call them ,
because the LORD hath rejected them .
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The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD ,
saying ,
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Stand in the gate of the LORDS house ,
and proclaim there this word ,
and say ,
Hear the word of the LORD ,
all ye of Judah ,
that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD .
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel Yisra #
el #,
Amend your ways and your doings ma #
alal #,
and I will cause you to dwell in this place .
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Trust ye not in lying words ,
saying ,
The temple of the LORD ,
The temple of the LORD ,
The temple of the LORD ,
are these .
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For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings ma #
alal #;
if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour ;
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If ye oppress not the stranger ,
the fatherless ,
and the widow ,
and shed not innocent blood in this place ,
neither walk after other gods to your hurt :
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Then will I cause you to dwell in this place ,
in the land that I gave to your fathers ,
for ever and ever .
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Behold ,
ye trust in lying words ,
that cannot profit .
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Will ye steal ,
murder ,
and commit adultery ,
and swear falsely ,
and burn incense unto Baal Ba #
al #,
and walk after other gods whom ye know not ;
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And come and stand before me in this house ,
which is called by my name ,
and say ,
We are delivered to do all these abominations tow #
ebah #?
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Is this house ,
which is called by my name ,
become a den of robbers in your eyes ?
Behold ,
even I have seen it ,
saith the LORD .
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But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh ,
where I set my name at the first ri #
shown #,
and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel Yisra #
el #.
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And now ,
because ye have done all these works ma #
aseh #,
saith the LORD ,
and I spake unto you ,
rising up early and speaking ,
but ye heard not ;
and I called you ,
but ye answered not ;
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Therefore will I do unto this house ,
which is called by my name ,
wherein ye trust 8802 ),
and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers ,
as I have done to Shiloh .
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And I will cast you out of my sight ,
as I have cast out all your brethren ,
even the whole seed of Ephraim .
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Therefore pray not thou for this people ,
neither lift up cry nor prayer for them b @#
ad #,
neither make intercession to me :
for I will not hear thee .
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Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem ?
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The children gather wood ,
and the fathers kindle the fire ,
and the women knead their dough ,
to make cakes to the queen of heaven ,
and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods ,
that they may provoke me to anger .
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Do they provoke me to anger ?
saith the LORD :
do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces ?
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD ;
Behold ,
mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place ,
upon man ,
and upon beast ,
and upon the trees of the field ,
and upon the fruit of the ground ;
and it shall burn ,
and shall not be quenched .
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel Yisra #
el #;
Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices ,
and eat flesh .
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For I spake not unto your fathers ,
nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt ,
concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices :
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But this thing commanded I them ,
saying ,
Obey my voice ,
and I will be your God ,
and ye shall be my people :
and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you ,
that it may be well unto you .
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But they hearkened not ,
nor inclined their ear ,
but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart ,
and went backward ,
and not forward .
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Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets ,
daily rising up early and sending them :
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Yet they hearkened not unto me ,
nor inclined their ear ,
but hardened their neck :
they did worse than their fathers .
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Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them ;
but they will not hearken to thee :
thou shalt also call unto them ;
but they will not answer thee .
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But thou shalt say unto them ,
This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God ,
nor receiveth correction :
truth is perished ,
and is cut off from their mouth .
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Cut off thine hair ,
O Jerusalem ,
and cast it away ,
and take up a lamentation on high places ;
for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath .
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For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight ,
saith the LORD :
they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name ,
to pollute it .
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And they have built the high places of Tophet ,
which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom ,
to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire ;
which I commanded them not ,
neither came it into my heart .
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Therefore ,
behold ,
the days come ,
saith the LORD ,
that it shall no more be called Tophet ,
nor the valley of the son of Hinnom ,
but the valley of slaughter :
for they shall bury in Tophet ,
till there be no place .
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And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven ,
and for the beasts of the earth ;
and none shall fray them away .
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Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah ,
and from the streets of Jerusalem ,
the voice of mirth ,
and the voice of gladness ,
the voice of the bridegroom ,
and the voice of the bride :
for the land shall be desolate .
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At that time ,
saith the LORD ,
they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah ,
and the bones of his princes ,
and the bones of the priests ,
and the bones of the prophets ,
and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem ,
out of their graves :
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And they shall spread them before the sun ,
and the moon ,
and all the host of heaven ,
whom they have loved ,
and whom they have served ,
and after whom they have walked ,
and whom they have sought ,
and whom they have worshipped :
they shall not be gathered ,
nor be buried ;
they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth .
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And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family ,
which remain in all the places whither I have driven them ,
saith the LORD of hosts .
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Moreover thou shalt say unto them ,
Thus saith the LORD ;
Shall they fall ,
and not arise ?
shall he turn away ,
and not return ?
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Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding ?
they hold fast deceit ,
they refuse to return .
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I hearkened and heard ,
but they spake not aright :
no man repented him of his wickedness ,
saying ,
What have I done ?
every one turned to his course ,
as the horse rusheth into the battle .
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Yea ,
the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times mow #
ed #;
and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming ;
but my people know not the judgment of the LORD .
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How do ye say ,
We are wise ,
and the law of the LORD is with us ?
Lo ,
certainly in vain made he it ;
the pen of the scribes is in vain .
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The wise men are ashamed ,
they are dismayed and taken :
lo ,
they have rejected the word of the LORD ;
and what wisdom is in them ?
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Therefore will I give their wives unto others ,
and their fields to them that shall inherit them :
for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness ,
from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely .
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For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly ,
saying ,
Peace ,
peace ;
when there is no peace .
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Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination tow #
ebah #?
nay ,
they were not at all ashamed ,
neither could they blush :
therefore shall they fall among them that fall :
in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down ,
saith the LORD .
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I will surely consume them ,
saith the LORD :
there shall be no grapes on the vine ,
nor figs on the fig tree t @#
en #,
and the leaf shall fade ;
and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them .
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Why do we sit still ?
assemble yourselves ,
and let us enter into the defenced cities ,
and let us be silent there :
for the LORD our God hath put us to silence ,
and given us water of gall to drink ,
because we have sinned against the LORD .
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We looked for peace ,
but no good came ;
and for a time of health ,
and behold trouble b @#
athah #!
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The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan :
the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones ;
for they are come ,
and have devoured the land ,
and all that is in it ;
the city ,
and those that dwell therein .
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For ,
behold ,
I will send serpents ,
cockatrices ,
among you ,
which will not be charmed ,
and they shall bite you ,
saith the LORD .
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When I would comfort myself against sorrow ,
my heart is faint in me .
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Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country :
Is not the LORD in Zion ?
is not her king in her ?
Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images ,
and with strange vanities ?
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The harvest is past ,
the summer is ended ,
and we are not saved .
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For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt ;
I am black ;
astonishment hath taken hold on me .
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Is there no balm in Gilead Gil #
ad #;
is there no physician there ?
why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered ?
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Oh that my head were waters ,
and mine eyes a fountain of tears dim #
ah #,
that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people !
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