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The word that came to Jeremiah from LORD ,
saying ,
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Stand in the gate of LORD '
s house ,
and proclaim there this word ,
and say ,
Hear the word of LORD ,
all ye of Judah ,
who enter in at these gates to worship LORD .
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Thus says LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel :
Amend your ways and your doings ,
and I will cause you to dwell in this place .
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Trust ye not in lying words ,
saying ,
The temple of LORD ,
the temple of LORD ,
the temple of LORD ,
are these .
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For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings ,
if ye thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor ,
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if ye do not oppress the sojourner ,
the fatherless ,
and the widow ,
and shed not innocent blood in this place ,
nor walk after other gods to your own hurt ,
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then I will cause you to dwell in this place ,
in the land that I gave to your fathers from of old even for evermore .
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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 to Baal ,
and walk after other gods that ye have not known ,
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and [
then ]
come and stand before me in this house ,
which is called by my name ,
and say ,
We are delivered ,
that ye may do all these abominations ?
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Has this house ,
which is called by my name ,
become a den of robbers in your eyes ?
Behold ,
I ,
even I ,
have seen it ,
says LORD .
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But go ye now to my place which was in Shiloh ,
where I caused my name to dwell at the first ,
and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel .
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And now ,
because ye have done all these works ,
says LORD .
And I spoke to you ,
rising up early and speaking ,
but ye heard not ,
and I called you ,
but ye answered not ,
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therefore I will do to the house ,
which is called by my name ,
in which ye trust ,
and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers ,
as I did to Shiloh .
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And I will cast you out of my sight ,
as I have cast out all your brothers ,
even the whole seed of Ephraim .
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Therefore pray thou not for this people ,
nor lift up cry nor prayer for them .
Neither make intercession to me ,
for I will not hear thee .
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See thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem ?
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The sons gather wood ,
and the fathers kindle the fire ,
and the women knead the dough ,
to make cakes to the queen of heaven ,
and to pour out drink-offerings to other gods ,
that they may provoke me to anger .
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Do they provoke me to anger ?
says LORD , [
and ]
not themselves ,
to the confusion of their own faces ?
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Therefore thus says lord LORD :
Behold ,
my anger and my wrath 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 quen
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Thus says LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel :
Add your burnt-offerings to your sacrifices ,
and eat ye flesh .
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For I spoke not to 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 I commanded them ,
saying ,
Hearken to my voice ,
and I will be your God ,
and ye shall be my people .
And walk ye in all the way that I command you ,
that it may be well with you .
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But they hearkened not ,
nor inclined their ear ,
but walked in [
their own ]
counsels ,
in the stubbornness 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 to this day ,
I have sent to you all my servants the prophets ,
daily rising up early and sending them .
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Yet they hearkened not to me ,
nor inclined their ear ,
but made their neck stiff .
They did worse than their fathers .
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And thou shall speak all these words to them ,
but they will not hearken to thee .
Thou shall also call to them ,
but they will not answer thee .
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And thou shall say to them ,
This is the nation that has not hearkened to the voice of LORD their God ,
nor received instruction .
Truth has perished ,
and is cut off from their mouth .
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Cut off thy hair , [
O Jerusalem ],
and cast it away ,
and take up a lamentation on the bare heights .
For LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath .