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For you shall go to all to whom I send Against the kings of Judah,
you, Against its princes,
And whatever I command you, you Against its priests,
shall speak. And against the people of the land.
8 Do not be afraid of their faces, 19 They will fight against you,
For I am with you to deliver you,” says But they shall not prevail against you.
the LORD. For I am with you,” says the LORD, “to
deliver you.”
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Then the LORD put forth His hand and
touched my mouth, and the LORD said to me: Moreover the word of the LORD came to
2 me, saying, “Go and cry in the hearing of
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“Behold, I have put My words in your Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD:
mouth.
10 See, I have this day set you over the “I remember you,
nations and over the kingdoms, The kindness of your youth,
To root out and to pull down, The love of your betrothal,
To destroy and to throw down, When you went after Me in the
To build and to plant.” wilderness,
In a land not sown.
Moreover the word of the LORD came to 3 Israel was holiness to the LORD,
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me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” The firstfruits of His increase.
And I said, “I see a branch of an almond All that devour him will offend;
tree.” Disaster will come upon them,” says
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Then the LORD said to me, “You have seen the LORD.’ ”
well, for I am ready to perform My word.”
4 Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob
13 And the word of the LORD came to me the
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second time, saying, “What do you see?” and all the families of the house of Israel. Thus
And I said, “I see a boiling pot, and it is fac- says the LORD:
ing away from the north.” “What injustice have your fathers found
14 Then the LORD said to me: in Me,
That they have gone far from Me,
“Out of the north calamity shall break
forth Have followed idols,
On all the inhabitants of the land. 6 And have become idolaters?
For behold, I am calling LORD,
15 Neither did they say, ‘Where is the
All the families of the kingdoms of the Who brought us up out of the land of
north,” says the LORD;
Egypt,
“They shall come and each one set his Who led us through the wilderness,
throne Through a land of deserts and pits,
At the entrance of the gates of Through a land of drought and the
Jerusalem, shadow of death,
Against all its walls all around, Through a land that no one crossed
And against all the cities of Judah. And where no one dwelt?’
I will utter My judgments 7 I brought you into a bountiful country,
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Against them concerning all their To eat its fruit and its goodness.
wickedness, But when you entered, you defiled My
Because they have forsaken Me, land
Burned incense to other gods, And made My heritage an
And worshiped the works of their own abomination.
hands. 8 The priests did not say, ‘Where is the
17 “Therefore prepare yourself and arise, LORD?’
And speak to them all that I command And those who handle the law did not
you. know Me;
Do not be dismayed before their faces, The rulers also transgressed against Me;
Lest I dismay you before them. The prophets prophesied by Baal,
For behold, I have made you this day
18 And walked after things that do not
A fortified city and an iron pillar, profit.
And bronze walls against the whole 9 “Therefore I will yet bring charges
land— against you,” says the LORD,

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