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OCTOBER 15
14 “Therefore behold, the days are coming,”
says the LORD, “that it shall no more be said,
‘The LORD lives who brought up the children of
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16:2 You shall not take a wife. Since destruc- Israel from the land of Egypt,’ but, ‘The LORD
tion and exile are soon to fall on Judah, the lives who brought up the children of Israel
prophet must not have a wife and family. from the land of the north and from all the
God’s kindness will keep him from anxiety lands where He had driven them.’ For I will
over them in the awful situation of suffering bring them back into their land which I gave to
and death (v. 4). their fathers.
“Behold, I will send for many fishermen,”
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says the LORD, “and they shall fish them; and
and daughters who are born in this place, and afterward I will send for many hunters, and
concerning their mothers who bore them and they shall hunt them from every mountain
their fathers who begot them in this land: and every hill, and out of the holes of the
“They shall die gruesome deaths; they shall rocks. For My eyes are on all their ways; they
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not be lamented nor shall they be buried, but are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniq-
they shall be like refuse on the face of the earth. uity hidden from My eyes. And first I will
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They shall be consumed by the sword and by repay double for their iniquity and their sin,
famine, and their corpses shall be meat for the because they have defiled My land; they have
birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.” filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their
For thus says the LORD: “Do not enter the detestable and abominable idols.”
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house of mourning, nor go to lament or
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bemoan them; for I have taken away My peace O LORD, my strength and
from this people,” says the LORD, “lovingkind- my fortress,
ness and mercies. Both the great and the My refuge in the day of affliction,
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small shall die in this land. They shall not be The Gentiles shall come to You
buried; neither shall men lament for them, cut From the ends of the earth and say,
themselves, nor make themselves bald for “Surely our fathers have inherited lies,
them. Nor shall men break bread in mourning Worthlessness and unprofitable things.”
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for them, to comfort them for the dead; nor 20 Will a man make gods for himself,
shall men give them the cup of consolation to Which are not gods?
drink for their father or their mother. Also 21 “Therefore behold, I will this once
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you shall not go into the house of feasting to cause them to know,
sit with them, to eat and drink.” I will cause them to know
For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God My hand and My might;
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of Israel: “Behold, I will cause to cease from And they shall know that My name is
this place, before your eyes and in your days, the LORD.
the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the
voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the Psalm 118:21–24
bride. 21 I will praise You,
“And it shall be, when you show this peo- For You have answered me,
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ple all these words, and they say to you, ‘Why And have become my salvation.
has the LORD pronounced all this great disas-
ter against us? Or what is our iniquity? Or 22 The stone which the builders
what is our sin that we have committed rejected
against the LORD our God?’ then you shall say Has become the chief cornerstone.
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to them, ‘Because your fathers have forsaken 23 This was the LORD’s doing;
Me,’ says the LORD; ‘they have walked after It is marvelous in our eyes.
other gods and have served them and wor- 24 This is the day the LORD has made;
shiped them, and have forsaken Me and not We will rejoice and be glad in it.
kept My law. And you have done worse than
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your fathers, for behold, each one follows the Proverbs 27:10
dictates of his own evil heart, so that no one 10 Do not forsake your own friend or your
listens to Me. Therefore I will cast you out of father’s friend,
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this land into a land that you do not know, nei- Nor go to your brother’s house in the
ther you nor your fathers; and there you shall day of your calamity;
serve other gods day and night, where I will Better is a neighbor nearby than a
not show you favor.’ brother far away.
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