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JEREMIAH
- 28They are waxen fat, they are become sleek;
- Yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness;
- They plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless,
- That they might make it to prosper;
- And the right of the needy do they not judge.
- 29Shall I not punish for these things?
- Saith the Lord;
- Shall not My soul be avenged
- On such a nation as this?
- 30An appalling and horrible thing
- Is come to pass in the land:
- 31The prophets prophesy in the service of falsehood,
- And the priests bear rule at their beck;
- And My people love to have it so;
- What then will ye do in the end thereof?
- 6Put yourselves under covert, ye children of Benjamin,
- Away from the midst of Jerusalem,
- And blow the horn in Tekoa,
- And set up a signal on Beth-cherem;
- For evil looketh forth from the north,
- And a great destruction.
- 2The comely and delicate one,
- The daughter of Zion, will I cut off.
- 3Shepherds with their flocks come unto her;
- They pitch their tents against her round about;
- They feed bare every one what is nigh at hand.
- 4'Prepare ye war against her;
- Arise, and let us go up at noon! '
- 'Woe unto us! for the day declineth,
- For the shadows of the evening are stretched out! '
- 5'Arise, and let us go up by night,
- And let us destroy her palaces.'
- 6For thus hath the Lord of hosts said:
- Hew ye down her trees,
- And cast up a mound against Jerusalem;
- This is the city to be punished;
- Everywhere there is oppression in the midst of her.
- 7As a cistern welleth with her waters,
- So she welleth with her wickedness;
- Violence and spoil is heard in her;
- Before Me continually is sickness and wounds.
- 8Be thou corrected, O Jerusalem,
- Lest My soul be alienated from thee,
- Lest I make thee desolate,
- A land not inhabited.
- 9Thus saith the Lord of hosts:
- They shall thoroughly glean as a vine
- The remnant of Israel;
- Turn again thy hand
- As a grape-gatherer upon the shoots.
- 10To whom shall I speak and give warning,
- That they may hear?
- Behold, their ear is dull,
- And they cannot attend;
- Behold, the word of the Lord is become unto them a reproach,
- They have no delight in it.
- 11Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord,
- I am weary with holding in:
- Pour it out upon the babes in the street,
- And upon the assembly of young men together;
- For even the husband with the wife shall be taken,
- The aged with him that is full of days.
- 12And their houses shall be turned unto others,
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