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OCTOBER 18
13 “Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant
of the valley,
OCTOBER 18 And rock of the plain,” says the LORD,
“Who say, ‘Who shall come down
against us?
Jeremiah 21:1–22:30
Or who shall enter our dwellings?’
The word which came to Jeremiah from 14 But I will punish you according to the
21 the LORD when King Zedekiah sent to fruit of your doings,” says the LORD;
him Pashhur the son of Melchiah, and “I will kindle a fire in its forest,
Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, say- And it shall devour all things around
ing, “Please inquire of the LORD for us, for it.”’”
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Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon makes war
against us. Perhaps the LORD will deal with us Thus says the LORD: “Go down to the
according to all His wonderful works, that the 22 house of the king of Judah, and there
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king may go away from us.” speak this word, and say, ‘Hear the word of
Then Jeremiah said to them, “Thus you
3 the LORD, O king of Judah, you who sit on the
shall say to Zedekiah, ‘Thus says the LORD God throne of David, you and your servants and
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your people who enter these gates! Thus says
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of Israel: “Behold, I will turn back the weapons the LORD: “Execute judgment and righteous-
of war that are in your hands, with which you ness, and deliver the plundered out of the
fight against the king of Babylon and the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong and do no
Chaldeans who besiege you outside the walls;
and I will assemble them in the midst of this violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the
city. I Myself will fight against you with an out- widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
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4 For if you indeed do this thing, then shall
stretched hand and with a strong arm, even in
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anger and fury and great wrath. I will strike enter the gates of this house, riding on horses
the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; and in chariots, accompanied by servants and
people, kings who sit on the throne of David.
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they shall die of a great pestilence. And after- 5 But if you will not hear these words, I swear
ward,” says the LORD, “I will deliver Zedekiah by Myself,” says the LORD, “that this house
king of Judah, his servants and the people, and shall become a desolation.” ’ ”
such as are left in this city from the pestilence
6 For thus says the LORD to the house of the
and the sword and the famine, into the hand of king of Judah:
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, into the
hand of their enemies, and into the hand of “You are Gilead to Me,
those who seek their life; and he shall strike The head of Lebanon;
them with the edge of the sword. He shall not Yet I surely will make you
spare them, or have pity or mercy.” ’ a wilderness,
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“Now you shall say to this people, ‘Thus Cities which are not inhabited.
says the LORD: “Behold, I set before you the 7 I will prepare destroyers
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way of life and the way of death. He who re- against you,
mains in this city shall die by the sword, by Everyone with his weapons;
famine, and by pestilence; but he who goes They shall cut down your choice
out and defects to the Chaldeans who besiege cedars
you, he shall live, and his life shall be as a And cast them into the fire.
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prize to him. For I have set My face against
8 And many nations will pass by this city; and
this city for adversity and not for good,” says
the LORD. “It shall be given into the hand of everyone will say to his neighbor, ‘Why has
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the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with the LORD done so to this great city?’ Then
fire.” ’ they will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken
11 the covenant of the LORD their God, and wor-
“And concerning the house of the king of
Judah, say, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O shiped other gods and served them.’ ”
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house of David! Thus says the LORD: 10 Weep not for the dead, nor bemoan
him;
“Execute judgment in the morning; Weep bitterly for him who
And deliver him who is plundered goes away,
Out of the hand of the oppressor, For he shall return no more,
Lest My fury go forth like fire Nor see his native country.
And burn so that no one can quench it,
Because of the evil of your doings. 11 For thus says the LORD concerning Shallum
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