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Jeremiah:3:6 @
Therefore a lion from the forest will slay them ,
A wolf of the deserts will destroy them ,
A leopard is watching their cities .
Everyone who goes out of them will be torn in pieces ,
Because their transgressions are many ,
Their apostasies are numerous .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:7 " @
Why should I pardon you ?
Your sons have forsaken Me And sworn by those who are not gods .
When I had fed them to the full ,
They committed adultery And trooped to the harlot '
s house .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:8 " @
They were well-fed lusty horses ,
Each one neighing after his neighbor '
s wife .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:9 " @
Shall I not punish these people ,"
declares the LORD , "
And on a nation such as this Shall I not avenge Myself ?
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:10 " @
Go up through her vine rows and destroy ,
But do not execute a complete destruction ;
Strip away her branches ,
For they are not the LORD '
S .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:11 " @
For the house of Israel and the house of Judah Have dealt very treacherously with Me ,"
declares the LORD .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:12 @
They have lied about the LORD And said , "
Not He ;
Misfortune will not come on us ,
And we will not see sword or famine .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:13 " @
The prophets are as wind ,
And the word is not in them .
Thus it will be done to them !"
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:14 @
Therefore ,
thus says the LORD ,
the God of hosts , "
Because you have spoken this word ,
Behold ,
I am making My words in your mouth fire And this people wood ,
and it will consume them .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:15 " @
Behold ,
I am bringing a nation against you from afar ,
O house of Israel ,"
declares the LORD . "
It is an enduring nation ,
It is an ancient nation ,
A nation whose language you do not know ,
Nor can you understand what they say .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:16 " @
Their quiver is like an open grave ,
All of them are mighty men .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:17 " @
They will devour your harvest and your food ;
They will devour your sons and your daughters ;
They will devour your flocks and your herds ;
They will devour your vines and your fig trees ;
They will demolish with the sword your fortified cities in which you trust .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:18 " @
Yet even in those days ,"
declares the LORD , "
I will not make you a complete destruction .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:19 " @
It shall come about when they say , '
Why has the LORD our God done all these things to us ?'
then you shall say to them , '
As you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land ,
so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours .'
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:20 " @
Declare this in the house of Jacob And proclaim it in Judah ,
saying ,
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:21 @'
Now hear this ,
O foolish and senseless people ,
Who have eyes but do not see ;
Who have ears but do not hear .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:22 @'
Do you not fear Me ?'
declares the LORD . '
Do you not tremble in My presence ?
For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea ,
An eternal decree ,
so it cannot cross over it .
Though the waves toss ,
yet they cannot prevail ;
Though they roar ,
yet they cannot cross over it .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:23 @'
But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart ;
They have turned aside and departed .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:24 @'
They do not say in their heart , "
Let us now fear the LORD our God ,
Who gives rain in its season ,
Both the autumn rain and the spring rain ,
Who keeps for us The appointed weeks of the harvest ."
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:25 @'
Your iniquities have turned these away ,
And your sins have withheld good from you .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:26 @'
For wicked men are found among My people ,
They watch like fowlers lying in wait ;
They set a trap ,
They catch men .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:27 @'
Like a cage full of birds ,
So their houses are full of deceit ;
Therefore they have become great and rich .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:28 @'
They are fat ,
they are sleek ,
They also excel in deeds of wickedness ;
They do not plead the cause ,
The cause of the orphan ,
that they may prosper ;
And they do not defend the rights of the poor .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:29 @'
Shall I not punish these people ?'
declares the LORD , '
On a nation such as this Shall I not avenge Myself ?'
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:30 " @
An appalling and horrible thing Has happened in the land -
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:31 @
The prophets prophesy falsely ,
And the priests rule on their own authority ;
And My people love it so !
But what will you do at the end of itNULL
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:6 " @
Flee for safety ,
O sons of Benjamin ,
From the midst of Jerusalem !
Now blow a trumpet in Tekoa And raise a signal over Beth-haccerem ;
For evil looks down from the north ,
And a great destruction .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:2 " @
The comely and dainty one ,
the daughter of Zion ,
I will cut off .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:3 " @
Shepherds and their flocks will come to her ,
They will pitch their tents around her ,
They will pasture each in his place .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:4 " @
Prepare war against her ;
Arise ,
and let us attack at noon .
Woe to us ,
for the day declines ,
For the shadows of the evening lengthen !
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:5 " @
Arise ,
and let us attack by night And destroy her palaces !"
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:6 @
For thus says the LORD of hosts , "
Cut down her trees And cast up a siege against Jerusalem .
This is the city to be punished ,
In whose midst there is only oppression .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:7 " @
As a well keeps its waters fresh ,
So she keeps fresh her wickedness .
Violence and destruction are heard in her ;
Sickness and wounds are ever before Me .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:8 " @
Be warned ,
O Jerusalem ,
Or I shall be alienated from you ,
And make you a desolation ,
A land not inhabited ."
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:9 @
Thus says the LORD of hosts , "
They will thoroughly glean as the vine the remnant of Israel ;
Pass your hand again like a grape gatherer Over the branches ."
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:10 @
To whom shall I speak and give warning That they may hear ?
Behold ,
their ears are closed And they cannot listen .
Behold ,
the word of the LORD has become a reproach to them ;
They have no delight in it .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:11 @
But I am full of the wrath of the LORD ;
I am weary with holding it in . "
Pour it out on the children in the street And on the gathering of young men together ;
For both husband and wife shall be taken ,
The aged and the very old .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:12 " @
Their houses shall be turned over to others ,
Their fields and their wives together ;
For I will stretch out My hand Against the inhabitants of the land ,"
declares the LORD .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:13 " @
For from the least of them even to the greatest of them ,
Everyone is greedy for gain ,
And from the prophet even to the priest Everyone deals falsely .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:14 " @
They have healed the brokenness of My people superficially ,
Saying , '
Peace ,
peace ,'
But there is no peace .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:15 " @
Were they ashamed because of the abomination they have done ?
They were not even ashamed at all ;
They did not even know how to blush .
Therefore they shall fall among those who fall ;
At the time that I punish them ,
They shall be cast down ,"
says the LORD .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:16 @
Thus says the LORD , "
Stand by the ways and see and ask for the ancient paths ,
Where the good way is ,
and walk in it ;
And you will find rest for your souls .
But they said , '
We will not walk in it .'
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:17 " @
And I set watchmen over you ,
saying , '
Listen to the sound of the trumpet !'
But they said , '
We will not listen .'
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:18 " @
Therefore hear ,
O nations ,
And know ,
O congregation ,
what is among them .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:19 " @
Hear ,
O earth -
behold ,
I am bringing disaster on this people ,
The fruit of their plans ,
Because they have not listened to My words ,
And as for My law ,
they have rejected it also .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:20 " @
For what purpose does frankincense come to Me from Sheba And the sweet cane from a distant land ?
Your burnt offerings are not acceptable And your sacrifices are not pleasing to Me ."
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:21 @
Therefore ,
thus says the LORD , "
Behold ,
I am laying stumbling blocks before this people .
And they will stumble against them ,
Fathers and sons together ;
Neighbor and friend will perish ."
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:22 @
Thus says the LORD , "
Behold ,
a people is coming from the north land ,
And a great nation will be aroused from the remote parts of the earth .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:23 " @
They seize bow and spear ;
They are cruel and have no mercy ;
Their voice roars like the sea ,
And they ride on horses ,
Arrayed as a man for the battle Against you ,
O daughter of Zion !"
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:24 @
We have heard the report of it ;
Our hands are limp .
Anguish has seized us ,
Pain as of a woman in childbirth .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:25 @
Do not go out into the field And do not walk on the road ,
For the enemy has a sword ,
Terror is on every side .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:26 @
O daughter of my people ,
put on sackcloth And roll in ashes ;
Mourn as for an only son ,
A lamentation most bitter .
For suddenly the destroyer Will come upon us .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:27 " @
I have made you an assayer and a tester among My people ,
That you may know and assay their way ."
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:28 @
All of them are stubbornly rebellious ,
Going about as a talebearer .
They are bronze and iron ;
They ,
all of them ,
are corrupt .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:29 @
The bellows blow fiercely ,
The lead is consumed by the fire ;
In vain the refining goes on ,
But the wicked are not separated .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:30 @
They call them rejected silver ,
Because the LORD has rejected them .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:7 @
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD ,
saying ,
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:2 " @
Stand in the gate of the LORD '
S house and proclaim there this word and say , '
Hear the word of the LORD ,
all you of Judah ,
who enter by these gates to worship the LORD !'"
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:3 @
Thus says the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel , "
Amend your ways and your deeds ,
and I will let you dwell in this place .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:4 " @
Do not trust in deceptive words ,
saying , '
This is the temple of the LORD ,
the temple of the LORD ,
the temple of the LORD .'
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:5 " @
For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds ,
if you truly practice justice between a man and his neighbor ,
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:6 @
if you do not oppress the alien ,
the orphan ,
or the widow ,
and do not shed innocent blood in this place ,
nor walk after other gods to your own ruin ,
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:7 @
then I will let you dwell in this place ,
in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:8 " @
Behold ,
you are trusting in deceptive words to no avail .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:9 " @
Will you steal ,
murder ,
and commit adultery and swear falsely ,
and offer sacrifices to Baal and walk after other gods that you have not known ,
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:10 @
then come and stand before Me in this house ,
which is called by My name ,
and say , '
We are delivered !'--
that you may do all these abominations ?
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:11 " @
Has this house ,
which is called by My name ,
become a den of robbers in your sight ?
Behold ,
I ,
even I ,
have seen it ,"
declares the LORD .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:12 " @
But go now to My place which was in Shiloh ,
where I made My name dwell at the first ,
and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:13 " @
And now ,
because you have done all these things ,"
declares the LORD , "
and I spoke to you ,
rising up early and speaking ,
but you did not hear ,
and I called you but you did not answer ,
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:14 @
therefore ,
I will do to the house which is called by My name ,
in which you trust ,
and to the place which I gave you and your fathers ,
as I did to Shiloh .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:15 " @
I will cast you out of My sight ,
as I have cast out all your brothers ,
all the offspring of Ephraim .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:16 " @
As for you ,
do not pray for this people ,
and do not lift up cry or prayer for them ,
and do not intercede with Me ;
for I do not hear you .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:17 " @
Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem ?
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:18 " @
The children gather wood ,
and the fathers kindle the fire ,
and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven ;
and they pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to spite Me .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:19 " @
Do they spite Me ?"
declares the LORD . "
Is it not themselves they spite ,
to their own shame ?"
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:20 @
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD , "
Behold ,
My anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place ,
on man and on beast and on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground ;
and it will burn and not be quenched ."
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:21 @
Thus says the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel , "
Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:22 " @
For I did not speak to your fathers ,
or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt ,
concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:23 " @
But this is what I commanded them ,
saying , '
Obey My voice ,
and I will be your God ,
and you will be My people ;
and you will walk in all the way which I command you ,
that it may be well with you .'
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:24 " @
Yet they did not obey or incline their ear ,
but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart ,
and went backward and not forward .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:25 " @
Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day ,
I have sent you all My servants the prophets ,
daily rising early and sending them .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:26 " @
Yet they did not listen to Me or incline their ear ,
but stiffened their neck ;
they did more evil than their fathers .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:27 " @
You shall speak all these words to them ,
but they will not listen to you ;
and you shall call to them ,
but they will not answer you .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:28 " @
You shall say to them , '
This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God or accept correction ;
truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:29 @'
Cut off your hair and cast it away ,
And take up a lamentation on the bare heights ;
For the LORD has rejected and forsaken The generation of His wrath .'
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:30 " @
For the sons of Judah have done that which is evil in My sight ,"
declares the LORD , "
they have set their detestable things in the house which is called by My name ,
to defile it .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:31 " @
They have built the high places of Topheth ,
which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom ,
to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire ,
which I did not command ,
and it did not come into My mind .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:32 " @
Therefore ,
behold ,
days are coming ,"
declares the LORD , "
when it will no longer be called Topheth ,
or the valley of the son of Hinnom ,
but the valley of the Slaughter ;
for they will bury in Topheth because there is no other place .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:33 " @
The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth ;
and no one will frighten them away .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:34 " @
Then I will make to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of joy and the voice of gladness ,
the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride ;
for the land will become a ruin .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:8 " @
At that time ,"
declares the LORD , "
they will bring out the bones of the kings of Judah and the bones of its princes ,
and the bones of the priests and the bones of the prophets ,
and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem from their graves .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:2 " @
They will spread them out to the sun ,
the moon and to all the host of heaven ,
which they have loved and which they have served ,
and which they have gone after and which they have sought ,
and which they have worshiped .
They will not be gathered or buried ;
they will be as dung on the face of the ground .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:3 " @
And death will be chosen rather than life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family ,
that remains in all the places to which I have driven them ,"
declares the LORD of hosts .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:4 " @
You shall say to them , '
Thus says the LORD , "
Do men fall and not get up again ?
Does one turn away and not repent ?
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:5 " @
Why then has this people ,
Jerusalem ,
Turned away in continual apostasy ?
They hold fast to deceit ,
They refuse to return .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:6 " @
I have listened and heard ,
They have spoken what is not right ;
No man repented of his wickedness ,
Saying , '
What have I done ?'
Everyone turned to his course ,
Like a horse charging into the battle .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:7 " @
Even the stork in the sky Knows her seasons ;
And the turtledove and the swift and the thrush Observe the time of their migration ;
But My people do not know The ordinance of the LORD .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:8 " @
How can you say , '
We are wise ,
And the law of the LORD is with us '?
But behold ,
the lying pen of the scribes Has made it into a lie .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:9 " @
The wise men are put to shame ,
They are dismayed and caught ;
Behold ,
they have rejected the word of the LORD ,
And what kind of wisdom do they have ?
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:10 " @
Therefore I will give their wives to others ,
Their fields to new owners ;
Because from the least even to the greatest Everyone is greedy for gain ;
From the prophet even to the priest Everyone practices deceit .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:11 " @
They heal the brokenness of the daughter of My people superficially ,
Saying , '
Peace ,
peace ,'
But there is no peace .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:12 " @
Were they ashamed because of the abomination they had done ?
They certainly were not ashamed ,
And they did not know how to blush ;
Therefore they shall fall among those who fall ;
At the time of their punishment they shall be brought down ,"
Says the LORD .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:13 " @
I will surely snatch them away ,"
declares the LORD ; "
There will be no grapes on the vine And no figs on the fig tree ,
And the leaf will wither ;
And what I have given them will pass away ."'"
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:14 @
Why are we sitting still ?
Assemble yourselves ,
and let us go into the fortified cities And let us perish there ,
Because the LORD our God has doomed us And given us poisoned water to drink ,
For we have sinned against the LORD .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:15 @
We waited for peace ,
but no good came ;
For a time of healing ,
but behold ,
terror !
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:16 @
From Dan is heard the snorting of his horses ;
At the sound of the neighing of his stallions The whole land quakes ;
For they come and devour the land and its fullness ,
The city and its inhabitants .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:17 " @
For behold ,
I am sending serpents against you ,
Adders ,
for which there is no charm ,
And they will bite you ,"
declares the LORD .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:18 @
My sorrow is beyond healing ,
My heart is faint within me !
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:19 @
Behold ,
listen !
The cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land - "
Is the LORD not in Zion ?
Is her King not within her ?" "
Why have they provoked Me with their graven images ,
with foreign idols ?"
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:20 " @
Harvest is past ,
summer is ended ,
And we are not saved ."
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:21 @
For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am broken ;
I mourn ,
dismay has taken hold of me .
nasb @
Jeremiah:3:22 @
Is there no balm in GileadNULL Is there no physician thereNULL Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people been restoredNULL