Hello and welcome back
to "His words are life."
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I'm Kelly Mowrer and today
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we're going to read together
in the Book of Jeremiah.
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But before we start let's pray.
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Dear heavenly
Father, thank You again
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for time apart to
listen to Your voice.
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In the words that You've spoken
all these thousands of years ago
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have power in our lives today.
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Please send the Holy
Spirit to bring understanding
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to our heart as we
hear now Your words to us.
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Pray in the name of Jesus.
Thank You for loving us, amen.
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Reading in Jeremiah Chapter
19, picking up with verse 10.
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This is the King James Version.
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Then shalt thou break the
bottle in the sight of the men
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that go with thee,
and shalt say unto them,
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thus saith the Lord of hosts.
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Even so will I break
this people and this city,
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as one breaketh
a potter's vessel,
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that cannot be made whole again,
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and they shall
bury them in Tophet,
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till there be no place to bury.
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Thus will I do unto
this place, saith the Lord,
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and to the inhabitants thereof,
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and even make
this city as Tophet.
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And the houses of
Jerusalem, and the houses of
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the kings of Judah, shall be
defiled as the place of Tophet,
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because of all the houses
upon whose roofs they have
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burned incense unto
all the host of heaven,
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and have poured out drink
offerings unto other gods.
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Then came Jeremiah from Tophet,
whither the Lord had sent him
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to prophesy, and he stood in
the court of the Lord's house,
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and said to all the people,
thus saith the Lord of hosts,
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the God of Israel, Behold,
I will bring upon this city
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and upon all her towns
all the evil that I have
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pronounced against it,
because they have hardened
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their necks, that they
might not hear my words.
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Continuing in
Jeremiah Chapter 20
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and this is the
King James Version.
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Now Pashur the son
of Immer the priest,
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who was also chief governor
in the house of the Lord,
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heard that Jeremiah
prophesied these things.
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Then Pashur smote
Jeremiah the prophet,
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and put him in the
stocks that were in
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the high gate of Benjamin,
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which was by the
house of the Lord.
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And it came to
pass on the morrow,
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that Pashur brought forth
Jeremiah out of the stocks.
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Then said Jeremiah unto
him, the Lord hath not called
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thy name Pashur,
but Magormissabib.
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For thus saith the Lord, Behold,
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I will make thee
a terror to thyself,
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and to all thy friends and
they shall fall by the sword
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of their enemies, and
thine eyes shall behold it,
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and I will give all Judah into
the hand of the king of Babylon,
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and he shall carry
them captive into Babylon,
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and shall slay
them with the sword.
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Moreover I will deliver
all the strength of this city,
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and all the labors thereof, and
all the precious things thereof,
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and all the
treasures of the kings of Judah
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will I give into the
hand of their enemies,
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which shall spoil
them, and take them,
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and carry them to Babylon.
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And thou, Pashur, and all that
dwell in thine house shall go
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into captivity and
thou shalt come to Babylon,
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and there thou shalt die,
and shalt be buried there, thou,
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and all thy friends, to
whom thou hast prophesied lies.
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O Lord, thou hast
deceived me, and I was deceived,
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thou art stronger
than I, and hast prevailed,
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I am in derision
daily, every one mocketh me.
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For since I spake, I cried
out, I cried violence and spoil,
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because the word of the Lord
was made a reproach unto me,
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and a derision, daily.
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Then I said, I will
not make mention of him,
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nor speak any more in his name.
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But his word was in
mine heart as a burning fire
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shut up in my bones, and
I was weary with forbearing,
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and I could not stay.
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For I heard the defaming
of many, fear on every side.
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Report, say they,
and we will report it.
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All my familiars
watched for my halting, saying,
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Peradventure he will be enticed,
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and we shall
prevail against him,
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and we shall take
our revenge on him.
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But the Lord is with me
as a mighty terrible one,
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therefore my
persecutors shall stumble,
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and they shall not prevail,
they shall be greatly ashamed,
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for they shall not prosper,
their everlasting confusion
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shall never be forgotten.
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But, O Lord of hosts,
that triest the righteous,
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and seest the
reins and the heart,
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let me see thy
vengeance on them,
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for unto thee
have I opened my cause.
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Sing unto the
Lord, praise ye the Lord,
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for he hath
delivered the soul of the poor
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from the hand of evildoers.
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Cursed be the day
wherein I was born,
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let not the day wherein
my mother bare me be blessed.
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Cursed be the man who brought
tidings to my father, saying,
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a man child is born unto
thee, making him very glad.
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And let that
man be as the cities
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which the lord
overthrew, and repented not,
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and let him hear
the cry in the morning,
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and the shouting at
noontide, because he slew me not
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from the womb, or
that my mother might have
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been my grave, and her
womb to be always great with me.
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Wherefore came I
forth out of the womb to see
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labor and sorrow, that my days
should be consumed with shame?
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Continuing in
Jeremiah Chapter 21.
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The word which came
unto Jeremiah from the Lord,
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when king Zedekiah sent unto
him Pashur the son of Melchiah,
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and Zephaniah the son of
Maaseiah the priest, saying,
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enquire, I pray
thee, of the Lord for us,
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for Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon maketh war against us,
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if so be that the Lord will deal
with us according to all his
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wondrous works, that
he may go up from us.
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Then said Jeremiah unto them,
Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah.
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Thus saith the
Lord God of Israel,
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Behold, I will turn
back the weapons of war
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that are in your hands,
wherewith ye fight against
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the king of Babylon,
and against the Chaldeans,
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which besiege you
without the walls,
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and I will assemble them
into the midst of this city.
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And I myself will
fight against you with an
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outstretched hand
and with a strong arm,
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even in anger, and in
fury, and in great wrath.
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And I will smite the
inhabitants of this city,
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both man and beast, they
shall die of a great pestilence.
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And afterward, saith the Lord,
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I will deliver
Zedekiah king of Judah,
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and his
servants, and the people,
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and such as are
left in this city
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from the
pestilence, from the sword,
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from the famine, into
the hand of Nebuchadrezzar
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king of Babylon, and into
the hand of their enemies,
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and into the hand of
those that seek their life
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and he shall smite them
with the edge of the sword,
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he shall not spare them, neither
have pity, nor have mercy.
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And unto this
people thou shalt say,
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thus saith the Lord, Behold,
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I set before you the way
of life and the way of death.
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He that abideth in this
city shall die by the sword,
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and by the famine,
and by the pestilence
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but he that goeth out,
and falleth to the Chaldeans
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that besiege you, he shall live,
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and his life shall
be unto him for a prey.
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For I have set my face
against this city for evil,
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and not for
good, saith the Lord,
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it shall be given into the
hand of the king of Babylon,
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and he shall burn it with fire.
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And touching the house
of the king of Judah, say,
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Hear ye the word of the Lord.
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O house of David,
thus saith the Lord,
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Execute judgment in the morning,
and deliver him that is spoiled
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out of the hand
of the oppressor,
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lest my fury go out like fire,
and burn that none can quench it
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because of the
evil of your doings.
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Behold, I am against thee,
O inhabitant of the valley,
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and rock of the
plain, saith the Lord,
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which say, who shall
come down against us?
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Or who shall enter
into our habitations?
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But I will punish you according
to the fruit of your doings,
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saith the Lord and I will kindle
a fire in the forest thereof,
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and it shall devour
all things round about it.
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Continuing with
Jeremiah Chapter 22
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and this is the
King James Version.
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Thus saith the LORD, Go down to
the house of the king of Judah,
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and speak there this word, and
say, Hear the word of the Lord,
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O king of Judah, that sittest
upon the throne of David, thou,
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and thy servants, and thy people
that enter in by these gates.
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Thus saith the Lord, execute ye
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judgment and righteousness,
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and deliver the spoiled out
of the hand of the oppressor,
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and do no wrong, do no
violence to the stranger,
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the fatherless, nor the widow,
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neither shed
innocent blood in this place.
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For if ye do this thing indeed,
then shall there enter in
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by the gates of this house
kings sitting upon the throne of
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David, riding in
chariots and on horses,
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he, and his
servants, and his people.
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But if ye will not hear
these words, I swear by myself,
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saith the Lord, that this
house shall become a desolation.
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For thus saith the Lord
unto the king's house of Judah,
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thou art Gilead unto
me, and the head of Lebanon,
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yet surely I will
make thee a wilderness,
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and cities which
are not inhabited.
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And I will prepare
destroyers against thee,
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every one with his
weapons, and they shall cut down
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thy choice cedars, and
cast them into the fire.
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And many nations
shall pass by this city,
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and they shall say
every man to his neighbor,
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wherefore hath the Lord
done thus unto this great city?
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Then they shall answer,
because they have forsaken
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the covenant of
the Lord their God,
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and worshipped other
gods, and served them.
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Weep ye not for the
dead, neither bemoan him,
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but weep sore for
him that goeth away,
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for he shall return no more,
nor see his native country.
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For thus saith the Lord touching
Shallum the son of Josiah
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king of Judah, which reigned
instead of Josiah his father,
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which went forth
out of this place,
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He shall not
return thither any more,
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but he shall die in the
place whither they have led him
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captive, and shall
see this land no more.
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Woe unto him that buildeth
his house by unrighteousness,
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and his chambers by
wrong, that useth his neighbor's
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service without wages, and
giveth him not for his work.
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That saith, I will build me a
wide house and large chambers,
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and cutteth him out windows,
and it is cieled with cedar,
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and painted with vermilion.
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Shalt thou reign, because
thou closest thyself in cedar?
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Did not thy
father eat and drink,
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and do judgment and justice,
and then it was well with him?
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He judged the cause
of the poor and needy,
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then it was well with
him, was not this to know me?
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Saith the Lord.
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But thine eyes and thine heart
are not but for thy covetousness
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and for to shed innocent
blood, and for oppression,
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and for violence, to do it.
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Therefore thus saith the
Lord concerning Jehoiakim
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the son of Josiah king of Judah,
They shall not lament for him,
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saying, Ah my
brother! or, Ah sister!
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They shall not
lament for him, saying,
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Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
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He shall be buried
with the burial of an ass,
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drawn and cast forth
beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
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Go up to Lebanon, and cry,
and lift up thy voice in Bashan,
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and cry from the passages, for
all thy lovers are destroyed.
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I spake unto thee
in thy prosperity,
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but thou
saidst, I will not hear.
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This hath been thy
manner from thy youth,
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that thou obeyedst not my voice.
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The wind shall eat
up all thy pastors,
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and thy lovers
shall go into captivity,
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surely then shalt thou
be ashamed and confounded
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for all thy wickedness.
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O inhabitant of Lebanon, that
makest thy nest in the cedars,
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how gracious shalt thou
be when pangs come upon thee,
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the pain as of a
woman in travail!
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As I live, saith
the Lord, though Coniah
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the son of
Jehoiakim king of Judah
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were the signet
upon my right hand,
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yet would I pluck thee thence,
and I will give thee into
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the hand of them
that seek thy life,
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and into the hand of
them whose face thou fearest,
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even into the hand of
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,
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and into the
hand of the Chaldeans.
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And I will cast thee out,
and thy mother that bare thee,
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into another country,
where ye were not born,
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and there shall ye die.
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But to the land
whereunto they desire to return,
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thither shall they not return.
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Is this man Coniah a
despised broken idol?
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Is he a vessel
wherein is no pleasure?
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wherefore are they
cast out, he and his seed,
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and are cast into a
land which they know not?
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O earth, earth, earth,
hear the word of the Lord.
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Thus saith the Lord,
write ye this man childless,
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a man that shall
not prosper in his days,
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for no man of his
seed shall prosper,
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sitting upon
the throne of David,
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and ruling any more in Judah.
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Continuing in
Jeremiah Chapter 23.
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Woe be unto the pastors
that destroy and scatter
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the sheep of my
pasture! saith the Lord.
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Therefore thus saith
the Lord God of Israel
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against the pastors
that feed my people.
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Ye have scattered my
flock, and driven them away,
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and have not
visited them, behold,
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I will visit upon you the evil
of your doings, saith the Lord.
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And I will gather the remnant
of my flock out of all countries
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whither I have driven
them, and will bring them again
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to their folds, and they
shall be fruitful and increase.
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Good bye.
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