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1 | The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, |
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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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3 | 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. |
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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. |
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5 | For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye
throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; |
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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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7 | 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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8 | Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. |
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9 | 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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10 | 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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11 | 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. |
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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. |
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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; |
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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. |
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15 | And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all
your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim. |
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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. |
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17 | Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the
streets of Jerusalem? |
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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. |
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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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20 | 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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21 | Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your
burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. |
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22 | 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: |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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26 | Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but
hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. |
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27 | 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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33 | 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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34 | 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. |
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