Jeremiah:4:5-31
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Declare ye in Juda ,
and let it be heard in Jerusalem :
say ye ,
Sound the trumpet in the land ;
cry ye aloud :
say ye ,
Gather yourselves together ,
and let us enter into the fortified cities .
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Gather up your wares and flee to Sion :
hasten ,
stay not :
for I will bring evils from the north ,
an great destruction .
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The lion is gone up from his lair ,
he has roused himself to the destruction of the nations ,
and has gone forth out of his place ,
to make the land desolate ;
and the cities shall be destroyed ,
so as to be without inhabitant .
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For these things gird yourselves with sackclothes ,
and lament ,
and howl :
for the anger of the Lord is not turned away from you .
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And it shall come to pass in that day ,
saith the Lord ,
that the heart of the king shall perish ,
and the heart of the princes ;
and the priests shall be amazed ,
and the prophets shall wonder .
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And I said ,
O sovereign Lord ,
verily thou hast deceived this people and Jerusalem ,
saying ,
There shall be peace ;
whereas behold ,
the sword has reached even to their soul .
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At that time they shall say to this people and to Jerusalem ,
There is a spirit of error in the wilderness :
the way of the daughter of my people is not to purity ,
nor to holiness .
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But a spirit of (
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Gr .
accomplishment (:
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full vengeance shall come upon me ;
and now I declare my judgements against them .
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Behold ,
he shall come up as a cloud ,
and his chariots as a tempest :
his horses are swifter than eagles .
Woe unto us !
for we are in misery .
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Cleanse thine heart from wickedness ,
O Jerusalem ,
that thou mayest be saved :
how long will thy grievous thoughts be within thee ?
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For a voice of one publishing from Dan shall come ,
and trouble out of mount Ephraim shall be heard of .
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Remind ye the nations ;
behold ,
they are come :
proclaim it in Jerusalem ,
that bands are approaching from a land afar off ,
and have uttered their voice against the cities of Juda .
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As keepers of a field ,
they have surrounded her ;
because thou ,
saith the Lord ,
has neglected me .
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Thy ways and thy devices have brought these things upon thee ;
this is thy wickedness ,
for it is bitter ,
for it has reached to thy heart .
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I am pained in my bowels ,
my bowels ,
and the sensitive powers of my heart ;
my soul is in great commotion ,
my heart is torn :
I will not be silent ,
for my soul has heard the sound of a trumpet ,
the cry of war ,
and of distress :
it calls on destruction ;
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for all the land is distressed :
suddenly my tabernacle is distressed ,
my curtains have been rent asunder .
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How long shall I see fugitives ,
and hear the sound of the trumpet ?
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For the princes of my people have not known me ,
they are foolish and unwise children :
they are wise to do evil ,
but how to do good they have not known .
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I looked upon the earth ,
and ,
behold ,
it was not ;
and to the sky ,
an there was no light in it .
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I beheld the mountains ,
and they trembled ,
and I saw all the hills in commotion .
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I looked ,
and behold ,
there was no man ,
and all the birds of the sky were scared .
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I saw ,
and ,
behold ,
Carmel was desert ,
and all the cities were burnt with fire at the presence of the Lord ,
and at the presence of his fierce anger they were utterly destroyed .
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Thus saith the Lord ,
The whole land shall be desolate ;
but I will not make a full end .
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For these things let the earth mourn ,
and let the sky be dark above :
for I have spoken ,
and I will not repent ;
I have (
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Lit .
rushed forward (:
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purposed ,
and I will not turn back from it .
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The whole land has recoiled from the noise of the horseman and the bent bow ;
they have gone into the caves ,
and have hidden themselves in the groves ,
and have gone up upon the rocks :
every city was abandoned ,
no man dwelt in them .
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And what wilt thou do ?
Though thou clothe thyself with scarlet ,
and adorn thyself with golden ornaments ;
though thou adorn thine eyes with stibium ,
thy (
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Lit .
beautifying (:
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beauty will be in vain :
thy lovers have rejected thee ,
they seek thy life .
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For I have heard thy groaning as the voice of a woman in travail ,
as of her that brings forth her first child ;
the voice of the daughter of Zion shall fail through weakness ,
and she shall lose the strength of her hands ,
saying ,
Woe is me !
for my soul faints because of the slain .
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