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JEREMIAH
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- Their fields and their wives together;
- For I will stretch out My hand upon the inhabitants of the land,
- Saith the Lord.
- 13For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them
- Every one is greedy for gain;
- And from the prophet even unto the priest
- Every one dealeth falsely.
- 14They have healed also the hurt of My people lightly,
- Saying: 'Peace, peace', when there is no peace.
- 15They shall be put to shame because they have committed abomination;
- Yea, they are not at all ashamed,
- Neither know they how to blush;
- Therefore they shall fall among them that fall,
- At the time that I punish them they shall stumble,
- Saith the Lord.
- 16Thus saith the Lord:
- Stand ye in the ways and see,
- And ask for the old paths,
- Where is the good way, and walk therein,
- And ye shall find rest for your souls.
- But they said: 'We will not walk therein.'
- 17And I set watchmen over you:
- 'Attend to the sound of the horn',
- But they said: 'We will not attend.'
- 18Therefore hear, ye nations,
- And know, O congregation, what is against them.
- 19Hear, O earth:
- Behold, I will bring evil upon this people,
- Even the fruit of their thoughts,
- Because they have not attended unto My words,
- And as for My teaching, they have rejected it.
- 20To what purpose is to Me the frankincense that cometh from Sheba,
- And the sweet cane, from a far country?
- Your burnt-offerings are not acceptable,
- Nor your sacrifices pleasing unto Me.
- 21Therefore thus saith the Lord:
- Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people,
- And the fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them,
- The neighbour and his friend, and they shall perish.
- 22Thus saith the Lord:
- Behold, a people cometh from the north country,
- And a great nation shall be roused from the uttermost parts of the earth.
- 23They lay hold on bow and spear,
- They are cruel, and have no compassion;
- Their voice is like the roaring sea,
- And they ride upon horses;
- Set in array, as a man for war,
- Against thee, O daughter of Zion.
- 24'We have heard the fame thereof, our hands wax feeble,
- Anguish hath taken hold of us,
- And pain, as of a woman in travail.'
- 25Go not forth into the field,
- Nor walk by the way;
- For there is the sword of the enemy,
- And terror on every side.
- 26O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth,
- And wallow thyself in ashes;
- Make thee mourning, as for an only son,
- Most bitter lamentation;
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