Hello and welcome
back to His Words Are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer and today we're
going to be reading together in
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the book of Jeremiah. But
let's pray before we start.
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Dear heavenly Father, thank you
again that we can come into your
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presence, come apart from
our lives for a few minutes and
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listen to your very word. Thank
you for preserving it for us
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and now please send the Holy
Spirit to bring understanding as
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we listen. We love you so much
and thank you for loving us Amen
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We are reading in the book of
Jeremiah and this is chapter 7
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beginning with verse 16 and
this is the King James Version.
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Therefore pray not thou for this
people, neither lift up cry nor
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prayer for them, neither make
intercession to me: for I will
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not hear thee. Seest thou not
what they do in the cities of
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Judah and in the streets of
Jerusalem? The children gather
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wood, and the fathers kindle
the fire, and the women knead
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their dough, to make cakes to
the queen of heaven, and to pour
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out drink offerings unto other
gods, that they may provoke me
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to anger. Do they provoke me to
anger? saith the Lord: do they
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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
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fury shall be poured out upon
this place, upon man, and upon
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beast, and upon the trees of
the field, and upon the fruit of
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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
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burnt offerings unto your
sacrifices, and eat flesh.
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For I spake not unto your
fathers, nor commanded them in
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the day that I brought them out
of the land of Egypt, concerning
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burnt offerings or sacrifices:
but this thing commanded I them,
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saying, Obey my voice, and I
will be your God, and ye shall
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be my people: and walk ye
in all the ways that I have
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commanded you, that it
may be well unto you. But they
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hearkened not, nor inclined
their ear, but walked in the
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counsels and in the imagination
of their evil heart, and went
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backward, and not forward.
Since the day that your fathers
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came forth out of the land of
Egypt unto this day I have even
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sent unto you all my servants
the prophets, daily rising up
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early and sending them: yet
they hearkened not unto me, nor
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inclined their ear, but hardened
their neck: they did worse than
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their fathers. Therefore thou
shalt speak all these words unto
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them; but they will not hearken
to thee: thou shalt also call
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unto them; but they will
not answer thee. But thou shalt
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say unto them, This is a nation
that obeyeth not the voice of
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the Lord their God,
nor receiveth correction:
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truth is perished, and is cut
off from their mouth. Cut off
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thine hair, O Jerusalem,
and cast it away, and take up a
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lamentation on high places;
for the Lord hath rejected and
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forsaken the generation of his
wrath. For the children of Judah
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have done evil in my sight,
saith the Lord: they have set
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their abominations in the house
which is called by my name, to
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pollute it. And they have built
the high places of Tophet, which
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is in the valley of the son of
Hinnom, to burn their sons and
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their daughters in the fire;
which I commanded them not,
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neither came it into my heart.
Therefore, behold, the days come
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saith the Lord, that it shall no
more be called Tophet, nor the
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valley of the son of Hinnom,
but the valley of slaughter: for
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they shall bury in Tophet,
till there be no place. And the
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carcases of this people shall be
meat for the fowls of the heaven
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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
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the streets of Jerusalem, the
voice of mirth, and the voice
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of gladness, the voice of
the bridegroom, and the voice of
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the bride: for the
land shall be desolate.
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We're continuing to
read in Jeremiah chapter 8.
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This is the King James Version.
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At that time, saith the Lord,
they shall bring out the bones
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of the kings of Judah, and the
bones of his princes, and the
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bones of the priests, and the
bones of the prophets, and the
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bones of the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, out of their graves:
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and they shall spread them
before the sun, and the moon,
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and all the hosts of heaven,
whom they have loved, and whom
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they have served, and after
whom they have walked, and whom
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they have sought, and whom they
have worshipped: they shall not
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be gathered, nor be buried;
they shall be for dung upon the
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face of the earth. And death
shall be chosen rather than life
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by all the residue of them
that remain of this evil family,
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which remain in all the places
whither I have driven them,
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saith the Lord of
hosts. Moreover thou shalt say
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unto them, Thus saith the Lord;
Shall they fall, and not arise?
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shall he turn away, and not
return? Why then is this people
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of Jerusalem slidden back by a
perpetual backsliding? they hold
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fast deceit, they refuse to
return. I hearkened and heard,
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but they spake not aright:
no man repented him of his
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wickedness, saying, What have
I done? every one turned to his
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course, as the horse rusheth
into the battle. Yea, the stork
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in the heaven knoweth her
appointed times; and the turtle
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and the crane and the swallow
observe the time of their
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coming; but my people know not
the judgment of the Lord. How do
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ye say, We are wise, and
the law of the Lord is with us?
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Lo certainly in vain made he
it; the pen of the scribes is in
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vain. The wise men are ashamed,
they are dismayed and taken:
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lo, they have rejected the word
of the Lord; and what wisdom
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is in them? Therefore will I
give their wives unto others,
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and their fields to them that
shall inherit them: for every
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one from the least even
unto the greatest is given to
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covetousness, from the prophet
even unto the priest every
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one dealeth falsely. For
they have healed the hurt of the
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daughter of my people slightly,
saying, Peace, peace; when there
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is no peace. Were they
ashamed when they had committed
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abomination? nay, they were not
at all ashamed, neither could
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they blush: therefore shall they
fall among them that fall: in
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the time of their visitation
they shall be cast down, saith
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the Lord. I will surely consume
them, saith the Lord: there
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shall be no grapes on the vine,
nor figs on the fig tree, and
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the leaf shall fade; and the
things that I have given them
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shall pass away from them.
Why do we sit still? assemble
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yourselves, and let us enter
into the defenced cities, and
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let us be silent there: for
the Lord our God hath put us to
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silence, and given us water of
gall to drink, because we have
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sinned against the Lord. We
looked for peace, but no good
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came; and for a time of health,
and behold trouble! The snorting
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of his horses was heard from
Dan: the whole land trembled
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at the sound of the neighing
of his strong ones; for they
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are come, and have devoured the
land, and all that is in it; the
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city, and those that dwell
therein. For, behold, I will
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send serpents, cockatrices,
among you, which will not be
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charmed, and they shall bite
you saith the Lord. When I would
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comfort myself against sorrow,
my heart is faint in me. Behold
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the voice of the cry of the
daughter of my people because
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of them that dwell in a
far country: Is not the Lord in
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Zion? is not her king in her?
Why have they provoked me to
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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;
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astonishment hath taken hold on
me. Is there no balm in Gilead;
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is there no physician there? why
then is not the health of the
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daughter of my people recovered?
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Continuing in the
book of Jeremiah chapter 9.
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This is the King James Version
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Oh that my head were waters,
and mine eyes a fountain of
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tears, that I might weep day
and night for the slain of the
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daughter of my people! Oh that I
had in the wilderness a lodging
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place of wayfaring men; that
I might leave my people, and go
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from them! for they be
all adulterers, an assembly of
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treacherous men. And they bend
their tongues like their bow for
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lies: but they are not valiant
for the truth upon the earth;
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for they proceed from evil
to evil, and they know not me,
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saith the Lord. Take ye heed
every one of his neighbor, and
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trust ye not in any brother:
for every brother will utterly
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supplant, and every neighbor
will walk with slanders.
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And they will deceive every one
his neighbor, and will not speak
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the truth: they have taught
their tongue to speak lies, and
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weary themselves to commit
iniquity. Thine habitation is in
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midst of deceit; through deceit
they refuse to know me, saith
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the Lord. Therefore thus saith
the Lord of hosts, Behold, I
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will melt them, and try
them; for how shall I do for the
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daughter of my people? Their
tongue is as an arrow shot out;
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it speaketh deceit: one speaketh
peaceably to his neighbor with
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his mouth, but in heart he
layeth his wait. Shall I not
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visit them for these things?
saith the Lord: shall not my
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soul be avenged on such
a nation as this? For the
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mountains will I take up a
weeping and wailing, and for the
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habitations of the wilderness
a lamentation, because they are
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burned up, so that none can pass
through them; neither can men
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hear the voice of the cattle;
both the fowl of the heavens
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and the beast are fled; they are
gone. And I will make Jerusalem
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heaps, and a den of dragons;
and I will make the cities of
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Judah desolate, without an
inhabitant. Who is the wise man,
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that may understand this? and
who is he to whom the mouth of
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the Lord hath spoken, that
he may declare it, for what the
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land perisheth and is burned
up like a wilderness, that none
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passeth through? And the
Lord saith, Because they have
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forsaken my law which I set
before them, and have not obeyed
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my voice, neither walked
therein; but have walked after
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the imagination of their own
heart, and after Baalim, which
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their fathers taught them:
Therefore thus saith the Lord
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of hosts, the God of Israel;
Behold, I will feed them, even
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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
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nor their fathers have known:
and I will send a sword after
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them, till I have consumed them.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts,
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Consider ye, and call for the
mourning women, that they may
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come; and send for cunning women
that they may come: and let them
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make haste, and take up a
wailing for us, that our eyes
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may run down with tears, and
our eyelids gush out with water.
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For a voice of wailing is heard
out of Zion, How are we spoiled!
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we are greatly confounded,
because we have forsaken the
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land, because our dwellings have
cast us out. Yet hear the word
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of the Lord, O ye women, and let
your ear receive the word of his
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mouth, and teach your daughters
wailing, and every one her
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neighbor lamentation. For death
is come up into our windows, and
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is entered into our palaces,
to cut off the children from
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without, and the young men from
the streets. Speak, Thus saith
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the Lord, Even the carcases of
men shall fall as dung upon the
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open field, and as the handful
after the harvestman, and none
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shall gather them. Thus saith
the Lord, Let not the wise man
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glory in his wisdom, neither
let the mighty man glory in his
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might, let not the rich man
glory in his riches: But let him
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that glorieth glory in
this, that he understandeth and
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knoweth me, that I am the Lord
which exercise lovingkindness,
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judgment, and righteousness, in
the earth: for in these things I
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delight, saith the Lord. Behold
the days come, saith the Lord,
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that I will punish all them
which are circumcised with the
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uncircumcised; Egypt, and Judah,
and Edom, and the children of
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Ammon, and Moab, and all that
are in the utmost corners, that
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dwell in the wilderness: for all
these nations are uncircumcised,
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and all the house of Israel
are uncircumcised in the heart.
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Thank you for joining with
me today to read the book of
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Jeremiah. That passage we just
finished is one of my favorites
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that God is saying to each one
of us, don't take confidence in
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your wisdom, don't take
confidence in your wealth,
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don't take confidence in your
strength, but if you are going
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to be confident, if you
are going to trust in anything
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worthwhile, let your confidence
be in knowing me, knowing me as
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the God of love, and
righteousness and truth
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and grace and mercy; knowing
God with all our hearts. Please
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join me again
next time. Good bye.
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