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And great destruction. Fields and wives together;
2 I have likened the daughter of Zion For I will stretch out My hand
To a lovely and delicate woman. Against the inhabitants of the land,”
The shepherds with their flocks shall says the LORD.
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come to her. 13 “Because from the least of them even to
They shall pitch their tents against her the greatest of them,
all around. Everyone is given to covetousness;
Each one shall pasture in his own place.” And from the prophet even to the
priest,
“Prepare war against her; Everyone deals falsely.
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Arise, and let us go up at noon. 14 They have also healed the hurt of My
Woe to us, for the day goes away, people slightly,
For the shadows of the evening are Saying, ‘Peace, peace!’
lengthening. When there is no peace.
5 Arise, and let us go by night,
And let us destroy her palaces.”
For thus has the LORD of hosts said:
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“Cut down trees, 6:14 ‘Peace, peace!’ Wicked leaders among
And build a mound against Jerusalem. the prophets and priests (v. 13) proclaimed
This is the city to be punished. peace falsely and gave weak and brief com-
She is full of oppression in her midst. fort.They provided no true healing from the
7 spiritual wound, not having discernment to
As a fountain wells up with water, deal with the sin and its effects (v. 15). The
So she wells up with her wickedness. need was to return to obedience (v. 16).
Violence and plundering are heard in
her.
Before Me continually are grief and
wounds. 15 Were they ashamed when they had
Be instructed, O Jerusalem, committed abomination?
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Lest My soul depart from you; No! They were not at all ashamed;
Lest I make you desolate, Nor did they know how to blush.
A land not inhabited.” Therefore they shall fall among those
who fall;
Thus says the LORD of hosts:
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At the time I punish them,
“They shall thoroughly glean as a vine They shall be cast down,” says the
the remnant of Israel; LORD.
As a grape-gatherer, put your hand 16 Thus says the LORD:
back into the branches.”
“Stand in the ways and see,
To whom shall I speak and give warning, And ask for the old paths, where the
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That they may hear? good way is,
Indeed their ear is uncircumcised, And walk in it;
And they cannot give heed. Then you will find rest for your souls.
Behold, the word of the LORD is a But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
reproach to them; 17 Also, I set watchmen over you, saying,
They have no delight in it. ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’
11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the But they said, ‘We will not listen.’
LORD. 18 Therefore hear, you nations,
I am weary of holding it in. And know, O congregation, what is
“I will pour it out on the children among them.
outside, 19 Hear, O earth!
And on the assembly of young men Behold, I will certainly bring calamity
together; on this people—
For even the husband shall be taken The fruit of their thoughts,
with the wife, Because they have not heeded My
The aged with him who is full of days. words
And their houses shall be turned over Nor My law, but rejected it.
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to others, 20 For what purpose to Me

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