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The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah
The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah
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The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2
Stand in the gate of the LORD’S house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all
ye of
Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
4
Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD,
are
these.
5
For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
6
If
ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
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Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
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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 unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
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And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
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Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen
it,
saith the LORD.
12
But go ye now unto my place which
was
in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
13
And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;
14
Therefore will I do unto
this
house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
15
And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren,
even
the whole seed of Ephraim.
16
Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.
17
Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead
their
dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
19
Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD:
do they
not
provoke
themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury 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 quenched.
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
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For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
23
But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
24
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels
and
in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
25
Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending
them:
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Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
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Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.
28
But thou shalt say unto them, This
is
a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
29
Cut off thine hair,
O Jerusalem,
and cast
it
away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
30
For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
31
And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded
them
not, neither came it into my heart.
32
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
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And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray
them
away.
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Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
8
At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
2
And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
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And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.
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Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?
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Why
then
is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
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I hearkened and heard,
but
they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
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Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
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How do ye say, We
are
wise, and the law of the LORD
is
with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he
it;
the pen of the scribes
is
in vain.
9
The wise
men
are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom
is
in them?
10
Therefore will I give their wives unto others,
and
their fields to them that shall inherit
them:
for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
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For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when
there is
no peace.
12
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
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I will surely consume them, saith the LORD:
there shall be
no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and
the things that
I have given them shall pass away from them.
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Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
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We looked for peace, but no good
came; and
for a time of health, and behold trouble!
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The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
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For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which
will
not
be
charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
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When
I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart
is
faint in me.
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Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country:
Is
not the LORD in Zion?
is
not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images,
and
with strange vanities?
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The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
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For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
22
Is there
no balm in Gilead;
is there
no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
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Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
2
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they
be
all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
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And they bend their tongues
like
their bow
for
lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
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Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
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And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies,
and
weary themselves to commit iniquity.
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Thine habitation
is
in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
7
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
8
Their tongue
is as
an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit:
one
speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
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Shall I not visit them for these
things?
saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
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For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through
them;
neither can
men
hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
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And I will make Jerusalem heaps,
and
a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
12
Who
is
the wise man, that may understand this? and
who is he
to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth
and
is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
13
And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
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But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
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Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them,
even
this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
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I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning
women,
that they may come:
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And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
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For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast
us
out.
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Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
21
For death is come up into our windows,
and
is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without,
and
the young men from the streets.
22
Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather
them.
23
Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise
man
glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty
man
glory in his might, let not the rich
man
glory in his riches:
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But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I
am
the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these
things
I delight, saith the LORD.
25
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all
them which are
circumcised with the uncircumcised;
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Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all
that are
in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all
these
nations
are
uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel
are
uncircumcised in the heart.
10
Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
2
Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3
For the customs of the people
are
vain: for
one
cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4
They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
5
They
are
upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also
is it
in them to do good.
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Forasmuch as
there is
none like unto thee, O LORD; thou
art
great, and thy name is great in might.
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Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise
men
of the nations, and in all their kingdoms,
there is
none like unto thee.
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But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock
is
a doctrine of vanities.
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Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they
are
all the work of cunning
men.
10
But the LORD
is
the true God, he
is
the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
11
Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth,
even
they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
12
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
13
When he uttereth his voice,
there is
a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
14
Every man is brutish in
his
knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and
there is
no breath in them.
15
They
are
vanity,
and
the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
16
The portion of Jacob
is
not like them: for he
is
the former of all
things;
and Israel
is
the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts
is
his name.
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Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
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For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find
it
so.
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Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this
is
a grief, and I must bear it.
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My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they
are
not:
there is
none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
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For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
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Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate,
and
a den of dragons.
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O LORD, I know that the way of man
is
not in himself:
it is
not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
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O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
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Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
11
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2
Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
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And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Cursed
be
the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,
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Which I commanded your fathers in the day
that
I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:
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That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as
it is
this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.
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Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.
7
For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day
that
I brought them up out of the land of Egypt,
even
unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
8
Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded
them
to do; but they did
them
not.
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And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
10
They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
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Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.
12
Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.
13
For
according to
the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and
according to
the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to
that
shameful thing,
even
altars to burn incense unto Baal.
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Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear
them
in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.
15
What hath my beloved to do in mine house,
seeing
she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
16
The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair,
and
of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
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For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.
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And the LORD hath given me knowledge
of it,
and I know
it:
then thou shewedst me their doings.
19
But I
was
like a lamb
or
an ox
that
is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me,
saying,
Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
20
But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
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Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by our hand:
22
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:
23
And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth,
even
the year of their visitation.
12
Righteous
art
thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of
thy
judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper?
wherefore
are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
2
Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou
art
near in their mouth, and far from their reins.
3
But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
4
How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.
5
If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and
if
in the land of peace,
wherein
thou trustedst,
they wearied thee,
then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
6
For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.
7
I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
8
Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.
9
Mine heritage
is
unto me
as
a speckled bird, the birds round about
are
against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.
10
Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
11
They have made it desolate,
and being
desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth
it
to heart.
12
The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the
one
end of the land even to the
other
end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.
13
They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain,
but
shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
14
Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.
15
And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
16
And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my people.
17
But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD.
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