rsv Jeremiah:16:1-17:18
rsv@Jeremiah:16:1 @ The word of the LORD came to me:
rsv@Jeremiah:16:2 @ "You shall not take a wife, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place.
rsv@Jeremiah:16:3 @ For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place, and concerning the mothers who bore them and the fathers who begot them in this land:
rsv@Jeremiah:16:4 @ They shall die of deadly diseases. They shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. They shall perish by the sword and by famine, and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth.
rsv@Jeremiah:16:5 @ "For thus says the LORD: Do not enter the house of mourning, or go to lament, or bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the LORD, my steadfast love and mercy.
rsv@Jeremiah:16:6 @ Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them or cut himself or make himself bald for them.
rsv@Jeremiah:16:7 @ No one shall break bread for the mourner, to comfort him for the dead; nor shall any one give him the cup of consolation to drink for his father or his mother.
rsv@Jeremiah:16:8 @ You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and drink.
rsv@Jeremiah:16:9 @ For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will make to cease from this place, before 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.
rsv@Jeremiah:16:10 @ "And when you tell this people all these words, and they say to you, `Why has the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?'
rsv@Jeremiah:16:11 @ then you shall say to them: `Because your fathers have forsaken me, says the LORD, and have gone after other gods and have served and worshiped them, and have forsaken me and have not kept my law,
rsv@Jeremiah:16:12 @ and because you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, every one of you follows his stubborn evil will, refusing to listen to me;
rsv@Jeremiah:16:13 @ therefore I will hurl you out of this land into a land which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.'
rsv@Jeremiah:16:14 @ "Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when it shall no longer be said, `As the LORD lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,'
rsv@Jeremiah:16:15 @ but `As the LORD lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them.' For I will bring them back to their own land which I gave to their fathers.
rsv@Jeremiah:16:16 @ "Behold, I am sending for many fishers, says the LORD, and they shall catch them; and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
rsv@Jeremiah:16:17 @ For my eyes are upon all their ways; they are not hid from me, nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.
rsv@Jeremiah:16:18 @ And I will doubly recompense their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations."
rsv@Jeremiah:16:19 @ O LORD, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: "Our fathers have inherited nought but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.
rsv@Jeremiah:16:20 @ Can man make for himself gods? Such are no gods!"
rsv@Jeremiah:16:21 @ "Therefore, behold, I will make them know, this once I will make them know my power and my might, and they shall know that my name is the LORD."
rsv@Jeremiah:17:1 @ "The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of their altars,
rsv@Jeremiah:17:2 @ while their children remember their altars and their Ashe'rim, beside every green tree, and on the high hills,
rsv@Jeremiah:17:3 @ on the mountains in the open country. Your wealth and all your treasures I will give for spoil as the price of your sin throughout all your territory.
rsv@Jeremiah:17:4 @ You shall loosen your hand from your heritage which I gave to you, and I will make you serve your enemies in a land which you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled which shall burn for ever."
rsv@Jeremiah:17:5 @ Thus says the LORD: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm, whose heart turns away from the LORD.
rsv@Jeremiah:17:6 @ He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.
rsv@Jeremiah:17:7 @ "Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD.
rsv@Jeremiah:17:8 @ He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit."
rsv@Jeremiah:17:9 @ The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt; who can understand it?
rsv@Jeremiah:17:10 @ "I the LORD search the mind and try the heart, to give to every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings."
rsv@Jeremiah:17:11 @ Like the partridge that gathers a brood which she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by right; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.
rsv@Jeremiah:17:12 @ A glorious throne set on high from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.
rsv@Jeremiah:17:13 @ O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake thee shall be put to shame; those who turn away from thee shall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living water.
rsv@Jeremiah:17:14 @ Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved; for thou art my praise.
rsv@Jeremiah:17:15 @ Behold, they say to me, "Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come!"
rsv@Jeremiah:17:16 @ I have not pressed thee to send evil, nor have I desired the day of disaster, thou knowest; that which came out of my lips was before thy face.
rsv@Jeremiah:17:17 @ Be not a terror to me; thou art my refuge in the day of evil.
rsv@Jeremiah:17:18 @ Let those be put to shame who persecute me, but let me not be put to shame; let them be dismayed, but let me not be dismayed; bring upon them the day of evil; destroy them with double destruction!
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