nkjv Jeremiah:16:1-17 SEEK
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The word of the LORD also came to me ,
saying ,
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You shall not take a wife ,
nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place ."
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For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place ,
and concerning their mothers who bore them and their fathers who begot them in this land :
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They shall die gruesome deaths ;
they shall not be lamented nor shall they be buried ,
but they shall be like refuse on the face of the earth .
They shall be consumed by the sword and by famine ,
and their corpses shall be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth ."
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For thus says the LORD : "
Do not enter the house of mourning ,
nor go to lament or bemoan them ;
for I have taken away My peace from this people ,"
says the LORD , "
lovingkindness and mercies .
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Both the great and the small shall die in this land .
They shall not be buried ;
neither shall men lament for them ,
cut themselves ,
nor make themselves bald for them .
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Nor shall men break bread in mourning for them ,
to comfort them for the dead ;
nor shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or their mother .
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Also you shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them ,
to eat and drink ."
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For thus says the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel : "
Behold ,
I will cause 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 .
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And it shall be ,
when you show this people all these words ,
and they say to you , "
Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us ?
Or what is our iniquity ?
Or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God ?'
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then you shall say to them , "
Because your fathers have forsaken Me ,'
says the LORD ; "
they have walked after other gods and have served them and worshiped them ,
and have forsaken Me and not kept My law .
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And you have done worse than your fathers ,
for behold ,
each one follows the dictates of his own evil heart ,
so that no one listens to Me .
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Therefore I will cast you out of this land into a land that you do not know ,
neither you nor your fathers ;
and there you shall serve other gods day and night ,
where I will not show you favor .'
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Therefore behold ,
the days are coming ,"
says the LORD , "
that it shall no more be said , "
The LORD lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt ,'
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but , "
The LORD lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where He had driven them .'
For I will bring them back into their land which I gave to their fathers .
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Behold ,
I will send for many fishermen ,"
says the LORD , "
and they shall fish them ;
and afterward I will send for many hunters ,
and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill ,
and out of the holes of the rocks .
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For My eyes are on all their ways ;
they are not hidden from My face ,
nor is their iniquity hidden from My eyes .