Jeremiah 15
The LORD's Unrepenting Anger with Judah |
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Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses Ex. 32.11-14 · Num.
14.13-19 and Samuel 1 Sam. 7.5-9 stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and
let them go forth.
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And it shall come to pass, if they say
unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them,
Thus saith the LORD; Such as are for
death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword;
and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity. Rev. 13.10
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And I will appoint over them four kinds,
saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs
to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth,
to devour and destroy. Rev. 6.8
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And I will cause them to be removed into
all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manas'seh the son of Hezeki'ah
king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem. 2 Kgs.
21.1-16 · 2
Chr. 33.1-9
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For who shall have pity upon thee, O
Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask
how thou doest?
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Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch
out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with
repenting.
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And I will fan them with a fan in the
gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will
destroy my people, since they return not from their
ways.
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Their widows are increased to me above
the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of
the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall
upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
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She that hath borne seven languisheth:
she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it
was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the
residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies,
saith the LORD.
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Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast
borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth!
I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
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The LORD said,
Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the
enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the
time of affliction.
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Shall iron break the northern iron and
the steel?
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Thy substance and thy treasures will I
give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins,
even in all thy borders.
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And I will make thee to pass with
thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not: for a fire
is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon
you.
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The LORD's Assurance to Jeremiah |
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O LORD, thou
knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my
persecutors; take me not away in thy long-suffering: know that for
thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
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Thy words were found, and I did eat them;
and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I
am called by thy name, O LORD God of
hosts.
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I sat not in the assembly of the mockers,
nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled
me with indignation.
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Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound
incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be
altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
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Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the
precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return
unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
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And I will make thee unto this people a
fenced brazen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they
shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save
thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
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And I will deliver thee out of the hand
of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the
terrible.
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