Jeremiah 16
The LORD's Judgment on the People |
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The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,
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Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither
shalt thou have sons nor daughters in this place.
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For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters
that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare
them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this
land;
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They shall die of grievous deaths; they
shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they
shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be
consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcasses shall be
meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the
earth.
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For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go
to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this
people, saith the LORD, even loving-kindness and mercies.
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Both the great and the small shall die in
this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament
for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for
them:
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neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the
dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to
drink for their father or for their mother.
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Thou shalt not also go into the house of
feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.
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For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause
to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice
of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom,
and the voice of the bride. Jer. 7.34 ; 25.10 · Rev. 18.23
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And it shall come to pass, when thou
shalt show this people all these words, and they shall say unto
thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all
this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?
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Then shalt thou say unto them, Because
your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD,
and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have
worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my
law;
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and ye have done worse than your fathers;
for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil
heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
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therefore will I cast you out of this
land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your
fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I
will not show you favor.
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Therefore, behold, the days come, saith
the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The
LORD liveth, that brought up the children of
Israel out of the land of Egypt;
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but, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the
north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will
bring them again into their land that I gave unto their
fathers.
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Behold, I will send for many fishers,
saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and
after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from
every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the
rocks.
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For mine eyes are upon all their
ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid
from mine eyes.
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And first I will recompense their
iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land,
they have filled mine inheritance with the carcasses of their
detestable and abominable things.
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O LORD, my
strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction,
the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and
shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
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Shall a man make gods unto himself, and
they are no gods?
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Therefore, behold, I will this once
cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my
might; and they shall know that my name is The LORD.
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