Hello, and welcome
to "His Words are Life."
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I'm Kelly Mowrer, and today
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we're going to be
reading in the Book of Jeremiah.
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But let's pray
together before we start.
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Dear God, thank you so
much for another opportunity
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to sit here and
to read Your word.
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Please, be with us now
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as we listen to
this message from You
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and You have
preserved it through the years
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for the time that
we're hearing it now.
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Please, show us
what You would have us
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to learn through
your Holy Spirit.
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Thank you for
hearing our prayer, amen.
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Reading in the Book
of Jeremiah Chapter 2,
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and starting with verse 18.
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This is the Kings James Version.
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"And now what hast thou
to do in the way of Egypt,
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to drink the waters of Sihor?
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Or what hast thou to
do in the way of Assyria,
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to drink the
waters of the river?
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Thine own
wickedness shall correct thee,
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and thy
backslidings shall reprove thee,
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know therefore and see that,
it is an evil thing and bitter,
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that thou hast
forsaken the Lord thy God,
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and that my fear is not in thee,
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saith the Lord God of hosts.
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For of old time I
have broken thy yoke,
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and burst thy
bands, and thou saidst,
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I will not transgress,
when upon every high hill
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and under every
green tree thou wanderest,
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playing the harlot.
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Yet I had planted
thee a noble vine,
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wholly a right seed,
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how then art thou
turned into the degenerate
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plant of a strange vine unto me?
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For though thou
wash thee with nitre,
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and take thee much soap,
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yet thine iniquity
is marked before me,
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saith the Lord God.
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How canst thou
say, I am not polluted,
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I have not gone after Baalim?
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See thy way in the valley,
know what thou hast done,
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thou art a swift
dromedary traversing her ways,
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A wild ass used
to the wilderness,
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that snuffeth up the
wind at her pleasure,
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in her occasion
who can turn her away?
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All they that seek her
will not weary themselves,
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in her month
they shall find her.
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Withhold thy foot
from being unshod,
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and thy throat from
thirst, but thou saidst,
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there is no hope, no,
for I have loved strangers,
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and after them will I go.
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As the thief is
ashamed when he is found,
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so is the house
of Israel ashamed,
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they, their
kings, their princes,
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and their priests,
and their prophets.
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Saying to a stock,
thou art my father,
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and to a stone, thou
hast brought me forth,
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for they have
turned their back unto me,
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and not their face,
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but in the time of
their trouble they will say,
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arise, and save us.
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But where are thy Gods
that thou hast made thee?
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Let them arise,
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if they can save thee
in the time of thy trouble,
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for according to the number
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of thy cities are
thy Gods, O Judah.
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Wherefore will ye plead with me?
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Ye all have transgressed
against me, saith the Lord.
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In vain have I
smitten your children,
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they received no correction,
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your own sword hath
devoured your prophets,
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like a destroying lion.
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O generation, see ye
the word of the Lord.
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Have I been a
wilderness unto Israel?
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A land of darkness?
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Wherefore say my people,
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We are Lords, we will
come no more unto thee?
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Can a maid forget her ornaments,
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or a bride her attire?
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Yet my people have forgotten
me days without number.
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Why trimmest thou
thy way to seek love?
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Therefore hast thou also taught
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the wicked ones thy ways?
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Also in thy skirts is found
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the blood of the
souls of the poor innocents,
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I have not found
it by secret search,
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but upon all these.
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Yet thou sayest,
because I am innocent,
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surely his anger
shall turn from me.
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Behold, I will plead with thee,
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because thou
sayest, I have not sinned.
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Why gaddest thou about
so much to change thy way?
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Thou also shalt
be ashamed of Egypt,
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as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
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Yea, thou shalt
go forth from him,
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and thine hands upon thine head,
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for the Lord hath
rejected thy confidences,
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and thou shalt
not prosper in them."
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Continuing in
Jeremiah Chapter 3,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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"They say, if a
man put away his wife,
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and she go from him,
and become another man's,
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shall he return unto her again?
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Shall not that land
be greatly polluted?
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But thou hast played
the harlot with many lovers,
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yet return again
to me, saith the Lord.
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Lift up thine eyes
unto the high places,
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and see where thou
hast not been lien with.
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In the ways hast
thou sat for them,
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as the Arabian
in the wilderness,
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and thou hast polluted
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the land with thy whoredoms
and with thy wickedness.
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Therefore the
showers have been withholden,
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and there hath
been no latter rain,
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and thou hadst a
whore's forehead,
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thou refused to be ashamed.
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Wilt thou not from
this time cry unto me,
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my father, thou art
the guide of my youth?
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Will he reserve
his anger for ever?
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Will he keep it to the end?
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Behold, thou hast spoken
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and done evil
things as thou couldest.
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The Lord said also unto me
in the days of Josiah the king,
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Hast thou seen that which
backsliding Israel hath done?
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She is gone up
upon every high mountain
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and under every green tree,
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and there hath
played the harlot.
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And I said after she
had done all these things,
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turn thou unto me.
But she returned not.
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And her treacherous
sister Judah saw it.
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And I saw, when
for all the causes
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whereby backsliding
Israel committed adultery
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I had put her away, and
given her a bill of divorce,
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yet her treacherous
sister Judah feared not,
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but went and
played the harlot also.
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And it came to pass through
the lightness of her whoredom,
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that she defiled the land,
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and committed adultery
with stones and with stocks.
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And yet for all this
her treacherous sister Judah
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hath not turned unto
me with her whole heart,
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but feignedly, saith the Lord.
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And the Lord said unto me,
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the backsliding
Israel hath justified herself
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more than treacherous Judah.
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Go and proclaim these
words toward the north,
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and say, return,
thou backsliding Israel,
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saith the Lord,
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and I will not cause
mine anger to fall upon you,
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for I am
merciful, saith the Lord,
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and I will not
keep anger for ever.
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Only acknowledge thine iniquity,
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that thou hast transgressed
against the Lord thy God,
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and hast scattered
thy ways to the strangers
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under every green tree,
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and ye have not obeyed my voice,
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saith the Lord.
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Turn, O backsliding
children, saith the Lord,
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for I am married unto you,
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and I will take
you one of a city,
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and two of a family, and
I will bring you to Zion,
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and I will give you
pastors according to mine heart,
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which shall feed you with
knowledge and understanding.
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And it shall come to pass,
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when ye be multiplied
and increased in the land,
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in those days, saith the Lord,
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they shall say no more,
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The ark of the
covenant of the Lord,
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neither shall it come to mind,
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neither shall they remember it,
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neither shall they visit it,
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neither shall
that be done any more.
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At that time they
shall call Jerusalem
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the throne of the Lord,
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and all the nations
shall be gathered unto it,
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to the name of the Lord,
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to Jerusalem,
neither shall they walk
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any more after the imagination
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of their evil heart.
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In those days the house of Judah
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shall walk with
the house of Israel,
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and they shall come
together out of the land
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of the north to the
land that I have given
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for an
inheritance unto your fathers.
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But I said, How shall I
put thee among the children,
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and give thee a pleasant land,
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a goodly heritage of
the hosts of nations?
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And I said, thou shalt call me,
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my father, and shalt
not turn away from me.
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Surely as a wife treacherously
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departeth from her husband,
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so have ye dealt
treacherously with me,
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O house of
Israel, saith the Lord.
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A voice was heard
upon the high places,
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weeping and supplications
of the children of Israel,
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for they have
perverted their way,
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and they have
forgotten the Lord their God.
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Return, ye backsliding children,
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and I will heal
your backslidings.
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Behold, we come unto thee,
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for thou art the Lord our God.
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Truly in vain is salvation
hoped for from the hills,
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and from the
multitude of mountains,
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truly in the Lord our God
is the salvation of Israel.
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For shame hath devoured
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the labor of our
fathers from our youth,
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their flocks and their herds,
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their sons and their daughters.
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We lie down in our shame,
and our confusion covereth us,
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for we have sinned
against the Lord our God,
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we and our fathers,
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from our youth
even unto this day,
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and have not obeyed the
voice of the Lord our God."
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Continuing to read
in Jeremiah Chapter 4,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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"If thou wilt return, O Israel,
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saith the Lord, return unto me,
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and if thou wilt put away
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thine
abominations out of my sight,
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then shalt thou not remove?
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And thou shalt swear,
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The Lord liveth, in truth,
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in judgment, and
in righteousness,
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and the nations shall
bless themselves in him,
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and in him shall they glory.
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For thus saith the
Lord to the men of Judah
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and Jerusalem, break
up your fallow ground,
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and sow not among thorns.
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Circumcise
yourselves to the Lord,
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and take away the
foreskins of your heart,
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ye men of Judah and
inhabitants of Jerusalem,
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lest my fury
come forth like fire,
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and burn that
none can quench it,
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because of the
evil of your doings.
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Declare ye in Judah,
and publish in Jerusalem,
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and say, blow ye
the trumpet in the land,
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cry, gather together,
and say, assemble yourselves,
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and let us go into
the defenced cities.
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Set up the standard toward Zion,
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retire, stay not,
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for I will bring
evil from the north,
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and a great destruction.
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The lion is come
up from his thicket,
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and the destroyer of
the Gentiles is on his way,
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he is gone forth from his place
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to make thy land desolate,
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and thy cities
shall be laid waste,
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without an inhabitant.
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For this gird
you with sackcloth,
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lament and howl,
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for the fierce anger of the Lord
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is not turned back from us.
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And it shall come
to pass at that day,
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saith the Lord, that the
heart of the king shall perish,
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and the heart of the princes,
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and the priests
shall be astonished,
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and the prophets shall wonder.
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Then said I, Ah, Lord God!
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Surely thou hast
greatly deceived this people
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and Jerusalem,
saying, ye shall have peace,
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whereas the sword
reacheth unto the soul.
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At that time shall it
be said to this people
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and to Jerusalem,
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a dry wind of the high
places in the wilderness
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toward the
daughter of my people,
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not to fan, nor to cleanse,
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even a full wind from
those places shall come unto me,
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now also will I give
sentence against them.
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Behold, he shall
come up as clouds,
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and his chariots
shall be as a whirlwind,
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his horses are
swifter than eagles.
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Woe unto us, for we are spoiled.
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O Jerusalem, wash
thine heart from wickedness,
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that thou mayest be saved.
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How long shall thy vain
thoughts lodge within thee?
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For a voice declareth from Dan,
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and publisheth
affliction from mount Ephraim.
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Make ye mention to the nations,
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behold, publish
against Jerusalem,
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that watchers come
from a far country,
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and give out their voice
against the cities of Judah.
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As keepers of a field,
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are they
against her round about,
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because she hath been
rebellious against me,
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saith the Lord.
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Thy way and thy doings
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have procured
these things unto thee,
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this is thy wickedness,
because it is bitter,
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because it
reacheth unto thine heart.
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My bowels, my bowels!
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I am pained at my very heart,
my heart maketh a noise in me,
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I cannot hold my peace,
because thou hast heard,
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O my soul, the
sound of the trumpet,
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the alarm of war.
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Destruction upon
destruction is cried,
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for the whole land is spoiled,
suddenly are my tents spoiled,
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and my curtains in a moment.
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How long shall I
see the standard,
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and hear the
sound of the trumpet?
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For my people is
foolish, they have not known me,
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they are sottish children,
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and they have
none understanding,
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they are wise to do evil,
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but to do good
they have no knowledge.
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I beheld the earth, and, lo,
it was without form and void,
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and the heavens,
and they had no light
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I beheld the mountains,
and, lo, they trembled,
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and all the hills moved lightly.
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I beheld, and,
lo, there was no man,
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and all the birds of
the heavens were fled.
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I beheld, and, lo,
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the fruitful
place was a wilderness,
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and all the cities
thereof were broken down
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at the presence of the
Lord, and by his fierce anger.
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For thus hath the Lord said,
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the whole land
shall be desolate,
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yet will I not make a full end.
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For this shall the earth mourn,
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and the heavens above be black,
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because I have spoken
it, I have purposed it,
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and will not repent,
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neither will I
turn back from it.
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The whole city shall flee
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for the noise of
the horsemen and bowmen,
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they shall go into thickets,
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and climb up upon the rocks,
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every city shall be forsaken,
and not a man dwell therein.
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And when thou art
spoiled, what wilt thou do?
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Though thou closest
thyself with crimson,
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though thou deckest
thee with ornaments of gold,
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though thou rentest
thy face with painting,
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in vain shalt
thou make thyself fair,
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thy lovers will despise
thee, they will seek thy life."
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