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
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from the book of Jeremiah.
But let's pray before we start.
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Dear heavenly Father, I ask your
forgiveness for all the times
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that I have turned aside from
leaning on you and trusting in
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you. For all of us who are about
to read your word together to
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Israel through the prophet
Jeremiah, let us also see the
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ways that today we trust and we
take confidence in things apart
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from you. And please help us
to learn to trust completely and
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to turn to you for guidance
every step of the way. We love
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you so much and thank you for
loving us. I pray in the name of
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your Son Jesus, Amen.
Reading in the book of Jeremiah
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and it is a continuing discourse
and review of how God's people
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turn aside time and again
from following his word, from
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trusting in him and they turn to
other gods, they turn to other
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false prophets, looking to hear
and to find something that would
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give them security and give them
assurance. And God keeps calling
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them back to himself
and pronouncing judgments on
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them saying your own ways
are going to bring upon you your
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downfall. We will pick up
now in Jeremiah chapter 16,
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verse 13 and this is
the King James Version.
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Therefore will I cast you out
of this land into a land that ye
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know not, neither ye nor
your fathers; and there shall ye
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serve other gods day and night;
where I will not shew you favor.
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Therefore, behold, the days
come, saith the Lord, that it
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shall no more be said, The
Lord liveth, that brought up the
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children of Israel out of
the land of Egypt; but, the Lord
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liveth, that brought up the
children of Israel from the land
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of the north, and from all
the lands whither he had driven
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them: and I will bring them
again into their land that I
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gave unto their fathers. Behold,
I will send for many fishers,
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saith the Lord, and they shall
fish them; and after will I send
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for many hunters, and they shall
hunt them from every mountain,
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and from every hill, and
out of the holes of the rocks.
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For mine eyes are upon all their
ways: they are not hid from my
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face; neither is
their iniquity hid from mine
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eyes. And first I will
recompense their iniquity
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and their sin double; because
they have defiled my land, they
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have filled mine inheritance
with the carcasses of their
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detestable and abominable
things. O Lord, my strength, and
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my fortress, and my refuge
in the day of affliction, the
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Gentiles shall come unto thee
from the ends of the earth, and
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shall say, Surely our fathers
have inherited lies, vanity, and
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things wherein there is no
profit. Shall a man make gods
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unto himself, and they are no
gods? Therefore, behold I will
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this once cause them to know,
I will cause them to know mine
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hand and my might; and they
shall know that my name is the
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Lord. Continuing
in Jeremiah chapter
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17 and this is the
King James Version.
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The sin of Judah is written
with a pen of iron, and with the
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point of a diamond: it is graven
upon the table of their heart,
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and upon the horns of your
altars; whilst their children
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remember their altars and their
groves by the green trees upon
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the high hills. O my mountain
in the field, I will give thy
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substance and all thy treasures
to the spoil, and thy high
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places for sin, throughout
all thy borders. And thou, even
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thyself, shalt discontinue from
thine heritage that I gave thee;
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and I will cause thee to serve
thine enemies in the land which
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thou knowest not: for ye have
kindled a fire in mine anger,
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which shall burn forever. Thus
saith the Lord; Cursed be the
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man that trusteth in man, and
maketh flesh his arm, and whose
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heart departeth from the Lord.
For he shall be like the heath
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in the desert, and shall
not see when good cometh; but
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shall inhabit the parched places
in the wilderness, in a salt
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land and not inhabited. Blessed
is the man that trusteth in the
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Lord, and whose hope the Lord
is. For he shall be as a tree
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planted by the waters, and that
spreadeth out her roots by the
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river, and shall not see when
heat cometh, but her leaf shall
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be green; and shall not be
careful in the year of drought,
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neither shall cease from
yielding fruit. The heart is
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deceitful above all things,
and desperately wicked: who can
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know it? I the Lord search the
heart, I try the reins, even to
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give every man according to his
ways, and according to the fruit
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of is his doings. As the
partridge setteth on eggs,
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and hatcheth them not; so he
that getteth riches, and not by
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right, shall leave them in the
midst of his days, and at his
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end shall be a fool. A glorious
high throne from the beginning
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is the place of our sanctuary.
O Lord, the hope of Israel, all
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that forsake thee shall be
ashamed, and they that depart
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from me shall be written in
the earth, because they have
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forsaken the Lord, the fountain
of living waters. Heal me, O
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Lord, and I shall be healed;
save me, and I shall be saved:
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for thou art my praise. Behold,
they say unto me, Where is the
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word of the Lord? let it
come now. As for me, I have not
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hastened from being a pastor
to follow thee: neither have I
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desired the woeful day; thou
knowest: that which came out of
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my lips was right before thee.
Be not a terror unto me: thou
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art my hope in the day of evil.
Let them be confounded that
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persecute me, but let not me be
confounded: let them be dismayed
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but let not me be dismayed:
bring upon them the day of evil,
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and destroy them with double
destruction. Thus said the Lord
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unto me; Go and stand in
the gate of the children of the
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people, whereby the kings of
Judah come in, and by the which
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they go out, and in all
the gates of Jerusalem; and say
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unto them, Hear ye the word of
the Lord, ye kings of Judah, and
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all Judah and all the
inhabitants of Jerusalem
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that enter in by these gates.
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Thus saith the Lord; Take
heed to yourselves, and bear no
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burden on the Sabbath day,
nor bring it in by the gates of
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Jerusalem; Neither carry forth
a burden out of your houses on
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the Sabbath day, neither do
ye any work, but hallow ye the
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Sabbath day, as I commanded your
fathers. But they obeyed not,
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neither inclined their ear, but
made their neck stiff, that they
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might not hear, nor receive
instruction. And it shall come
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to pass, if ye diligently
hearken unto me, saith the Lord,
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to bring in no burden through
the gates of the city on the
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Sabbath day, but hallow
the Sabbath day, to do no work
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therein; then shall there enter
into the gates of this city
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kings and princes sitting upon
the throne of David, riding in
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chariots and on horses, they
and their princes, the men of
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Judah, and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem: and this city shall
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remain forever. And they shall
come from the cities of Judah,
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and from the places about
Jerusalem, and from the land of
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Benjamin, and from the plain,
and from the mountains, and from
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the south, bringing burnt
offerings, and sacrifices, and
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meat offerings, and incense, and
bringing sacrifices of praise,
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unto the house of the Lord. But
if ye will not hearken unto me
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to hallow the Sabbath day,
and not to bear a burden, even
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entering in at the gates of
Jerusalem on the Sabbath day;
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then will I kindle a fire in
the gates thereof, and it shall
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devour the palaces of Jerusalem
and it shall not be quenched.
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Continuing with
Jeremiah chapter 18
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and this is the
King James Version.
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The word which came to Jeremiah
from the Lord, saying, Arise,
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and go down to the potter's
house, and there I will cause
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thee to hear my words. Then I
went down to the potter's house,
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and, behold, he wrought a work
on the wheels. And the vessel
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that he made of clay was marred
in the hand of the potter: so he
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made it again another vessel,
as seemed good to the potter to
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make it. Then the word of
the Lord came to me, saying,
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O house of Israel, cannot I do
with you as this potter? saith
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the Lord. Behold, as the clay
is in the potter's hand, so are
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ye in mine hand, O house of
Israel. At what instant I shall
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speak concerning a nation, and
concerning a kingdom, to pluck
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up, and to pull down, and
to destroy it; if that nation,
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against whom I have pronounced,
turn from their evil, I will
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repent of the evil that
I thought to do unto them.
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And at what instant I shall
speak concerning a nation, and
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concerning a kingdom, to build
and to plant it; if it do evil
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in my sight, that it obey not my
voice, then I will repent of the
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good, wherewith I said I would
benefit them. Now therefore go
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to speak to the men of
Judah, and to the inhabitants of
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Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith
the Lord; Behold, I frame evil
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against you, and devise a device
against you: return ye now every
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one from his evil way, and make
your ways and your doings good.
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And they said, There is no hope:
but we will walk after our own
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devices, and we will every one
do the imagination of his evil
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heart. Therefore thus saith
the Lord; Ask ye now among the
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heathen, who hath heard such
things: the virgin of Israel
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hath done a very horrible thing.
Will a man leave the snow of
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Lebanon which cometh from the
rock of the field? or shall the
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cold flowing waters that come
from another place be forsaken?
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Because my people hath
forgotten me, they have
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burned incense to vanity, and
they have caused them to stumble
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in their ways from the ancient
paths, to walk in paths, in a
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way not cast up; to make their
land desolate, and a perpetual
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hissing; every one that passeth
thereby shall be astonished, and
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wag his head. I will scatter
them as with an east wind before
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the enemy; I will shew them the
back, and not the face, in the
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day of their calamity. Then said
they, Come and let us devise
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devices against Jeremiah; for
the law shall not perish from
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the priest, nor counsel from
the wise, nor the word from the
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prophet. Come, and let us smite
him with the tongue, and let us
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not give heed to any of his
words. Give heed to me, O Lord,
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and hearken to the voice of them
that contend with me. Shall evil
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be recompensed for good? for
they have digged a pit for my
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soul. Remember that I stood
before thee to speak good for
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them, and to turn away thy wrath
from them. Therefore deliver up
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their children to the famine,
and pour out their blood by the
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force of the sword; and let
their wives be bereaved of their
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children, and be widows; and let
their men be put to death; let
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their young men be slain by the
sword in battle. Let a cry be
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heart from their houses,
when thou shalt bring a troop
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suddenly upon them: for they
have digged a pit to take me,
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and hid snares for my feet. Yet,
Lord, thou knowest all their
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counsel against me to slay
me: forgive not their iniquity,
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neither blot out their sin
from thy sight, but let them be
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overthrown before thee; deal
thus with them in the time of
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thine anger.
Continuing to read in Jeremiah
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chapter 19 and this is
the King James Version.
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Thus saith the Lord, Go and get
a potter's earthen bottle, and
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take of the ancients of the
people, and of the ancients of
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the priests; and go forth unto
the valley of the son of Hinnom,
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which is by the entry of the
east gate, and proclaim there
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the words that I shall tell thee
and say, Hear ye the word of the
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Lord, O kings of Judah, and
inhabitants of Jerusalem; thus
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saith the Lord of hosts, the God
of Israel; Behold, I will bring
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evil upon this place, the which
whosoever heareth, his ears
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shall tingle. Because they have
forsaken me, and have estranged
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this place, and have burned
incense in it unto other gods,
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whom neither they nor their
fathers have known, nor the
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kings of Judah, and have filled
this place with the blood of
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innocents; they have built also
the high places of Baal, to burn
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their sons with fire for burnt
offerings unto Baal, which I
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commanded not, nor spake it,
neither came it into my mind:
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therefore, behold, the days come
saith the Lord, that this place
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shall no more be called Tophet,
nor The valley of the son of
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Hinnom, but The valley of
slaughter. And I will make void
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the counsel of Judah and
Jerusalem in this place; and I
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cause them to fall by the sword
before their enemies, and by
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the hands of them that seek
their lives: and their carcases
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will I give to be meat for the
fowls of the heaven, and for the
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beasts of the earth. And I will
make this city desolate, and an
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hissing; every one that passeth
thereby shall be astonished and
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hiss because of all the
plagues thereof. And I will
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cause them to eat the flesh
of their sons and the flesh of
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their daughters, and they shall
eat every one the flesh of his
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friend in the siege and
straitness, wherewith their
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enemies, and they
that seek their lives,
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shall straiten them.
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