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2:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
2:2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I
 remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when
 thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
2:3 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his
 increase:  all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them,
 saith the LORD.
2:4 Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of
 the house of Israel:
2:5 Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that
 they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become
 vain?
2:6 Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the
 land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of
 deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death,
 through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
2:7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and
 the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made
 mine heritage an abomination.
2:8 The priests said not, Where is the LORD?  and they that handle the law
 knew me not:  the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets
 prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
2:9 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your
 children's children will I plead.
2:10 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and
 consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.
2:11 Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods?  but my
 people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
2:12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye
 very desolate, saith the LORD.
2:13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the
 fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns,
 that can hold no water.
2:14 Is Israel a servant?  is he a homeborn slave?  why is he spoiled?
2:15 The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land
 waste:  his cities are burned without inhabitant.
2:16 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy
 head.
2:17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken
 the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
2:18 And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters
 of Sihor?  or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the
 waters of the river?
2:19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall
 reprove thee:  know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and
 bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not
 in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
2:20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou
 saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every
 green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
2:21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed:  how then art
 thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
2:22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet
 thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
2:23 How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? 
 see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done:  thou art a swift
 dromedary traversing her ways;
2:24 A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her
 pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away?  all they that seek her
 will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
2:25 Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst:  but
 thou saidst, There is no hope:  no; for I have loved strangers, and after
 them will I go.
2:26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel
 ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their
 prophets,
2:27 Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast
 brought me forth:  for they have turned their back unto me, and not
 their face:  but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and
 save us.
2:28 But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee?  let them arise, if
 they can save thee in the time of thy trouble:  for according to the
 number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.
2:29 Wherefore will ye plead with me?  ye all have transgressed against me,
 saith the LORD.
2:30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: 
 your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
2:31 O generation, see ye the word of the LORD.  Have I been a wilderness
 unto Israel?  a land of darkness?  wherefore say my people, We are lords;
 we will come no more unto thee?
2:32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire?  yet my
 people have forgotten me days without number.
2:33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love?  therefore hast thou also
 taught the wicked ones thy ways.
2:34 Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor
 innocents:  I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
2:35 Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn
 from me.  Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not
 sinned.
2:36 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way?  thou also shalt be
 ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
2:37 Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: 
 for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in
 them.

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3:1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become
 another man's, shall he return unto her again?  shall not that land be
 greatly polluted?  but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet
 return again to me, saith the LORD.
3:2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not
 been lien with.  In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the
 wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy
 wickedness.
3:3 Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no
 latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be
 ashamed.
3:4 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the
 guide of my youth?
3:5 Will he reserve his anger for ever?  will he keep it to the end? 
 Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.
3:6 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou
 seen that which backsliding Israel hath done?  she is gone up upon every
 high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
3:7 And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. 
 But she returned not.  And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed
 adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her
 treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
3:9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she
 defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
3:10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto
 me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.
3:11 And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified
 herself more than treacherous Judah.
3:12 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou
 backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to
 fall upon you:  for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep
 anger for ever.
3:13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against
 the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every
 green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.
3:14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto
 you:  and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will
 bring you to Zion:
3:15 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed
 you with knowledge and understanding.
3:16 And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the
 land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the
 covenant of the LORD:  neither shall it come to mind:  neither shall they
 remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done
 any more.
3:17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all
 the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to
 Jerusalem:  neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their
 evil heart.
3:18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel,
 and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that
 I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
3:19 But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a
 pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations?  and I said, Thou
 shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.
3:20 Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye
 dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.
3:21 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of
 the children of Israel:  for they have perverted their way, and they have
 forgotten the LORD their God.
3:22 Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. 
 Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
3:23 Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the
 multitude of mountains:  truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of
 Israel.
3:24 For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their
 flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
3:25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us:  for we have
 sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even
 unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.

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4:1 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me:  and if
 thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not
 remove.
4:2 And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in
 righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him
 shall they glory.
4:3 For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your
 fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
4:4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your
 heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem:  lest my fury come
 forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of
 your doings.
4:5 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the
 trumpet in the land:  cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves,
 and let us go into the defenced cities.
4:6 Set up the standard toward Zion:  retire, stay not:  for I will bring
 evil from the north, and a great destruction.
4:7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles
 is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate;
 and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
4:8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl:  for the fierce anger
 of the LORD is not turned back from us.
4:9 And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, that the heart
 of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests
 shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.
4:10 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD!  surely thou hast greatly deceived this
 people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword
 reacheth unto the soul.
4:11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry
 wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people,
 not to fan, nor to cleanse,
4:12 Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me:  now also
 will I give sentence against them.
4:13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a
 whirlwind:  his horses are swifter than eagles.  Woe unto us!  for we are
 spoiled.
4:14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be
 saved.  How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
4:15 For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount
 Ephraim.
4:16 Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem,
 that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against
 the cities of Judah.
4:17 As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she
 hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.
4:18 Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this
 is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine
 heart.
4:19 My bowels, my bowels!  I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a
 noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul,
 the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
4:20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: 
 suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
4:21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
4:22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish
 children, and they have none understanding:  they are wise to do evil,
 but to do good they have no knowledge.
4:23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the
 heavens, and they had no light.
4:24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved
 lightly.
4:25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens
 were fled.
4:26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the
 cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his
 fierce anger.
4:27 For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will
 I not make a full end.
4:28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: 
 because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent,
 neither will I turn back from it.
4:29 The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen;
 they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks:  every city
 shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
4:30 And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do?  Though thou clothest
 thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold,
 though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself
 fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
4:31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as
 of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of
 Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe
 is me now!  for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

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5:1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and
 know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there
 be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon
 it.
5:2 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.
5:3 O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth?  thou hast stricken them,
 but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused
 to receive correction:  they have made their faces harder than a rock; they
 have refused to return.
5:4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish:  for they
 know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.
5:5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they
 have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God:  but these
 have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
5:6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the
 evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities:  every
 one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces:  because their
 transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
5:7 How shall I pardon thee for this?  thy children have forsaken me, and
 sworn by them that are no gods:  when I had fed them to the full, they
 then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots'
 houses.
5:8 They were as fed horses in the morning:  every one neighed after his
 neighbour's wife.
5:9 Shall I not visit for these things?  saith the LORD:  and shall not my
 soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
5:10 Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end:  take
 away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S.
5:11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very
 treacherously against me, saith the LORD.
5:12 They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil
 come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:
5:13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: 
 thus shall it be done unto them.
5:14 Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word,
 behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and
 it shall devour them.
5:15 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith
 the LORD:  it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation
 whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.
5:16 Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
5:17 And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons
 and thy daughters should eat:  they shall eat up thy flocks and thine
 herds:  they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees:  they shall
 impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
5:18 Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end
 with you.
5:19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD
 our God all these things unto us?  then shalt thou answer them, Like as
 ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye
 serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
5:20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
5:21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have
 eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
5:22 Fear ye not me?  saith the LORD:  will ye not tremble at my presence,
 which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual
 decree, that it cannot pass it:  and though the waves thereof toss
 themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not
 pass over it?
5:23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are
 revolted and gone.
5:24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that
 giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season:  he reserveth
 unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
5:25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have
 withholden good things from you.
5:26 For among my people are found wicked men:  they lay wait, as he that
 setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
5:27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: 
 therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
5:28 They are waxen fat, they shine:  yea, they overpass the deeds of the
 wicked:  they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they
 prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
5:29 Shall I not visit for these things?  saith the LORD:  shall not my
 soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
5:30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
5:31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their
 means; and my people love to have it so:  and what will ye do in the end
 thereof?

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6:1 O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of
 Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in
 Bethhaccerem:  for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
6:2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.
6:3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch
 their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his
 place.
6:4 Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon.  Woe unto
 us!  for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched
 out.
6:5 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
6:6 For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a
 mount against Jerusalem:  this is the city to be visited; she is wholly
 oppression in the midst of her.
6:7 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness:
  violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and
 wounds.
6:8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I
 make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
6:9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of
 Israel as a vine:  turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the
 baskets.
6:10 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear?  behold,
 their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken:  behold, the word of
 the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
6:11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding
 in:  I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of
 young men together:  for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the
 aged with him that is full of days.
6:12 And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and
 wives together:  for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the
 land, saith the LORD.
6:13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one
 is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every
 one dealeth falsely.
6:14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly,
 saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
6:15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?  nay, they were
 not at all ashamed, neither could they blush:  therefore they shall fall
 among them that fall:  at the time that I visit them they shall be cast
 down, saith the LORD.
6:16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old
 paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest
 for your souls.  But they said, We will not walk therein.
6:17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the
 trumpet.  But they said, We will not hearken.
6:18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among
 them.
6:19 Hear, O earth:  behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the
 fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor
 to my law, but rejected it.
6:20 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet
 cane from a far country?  your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor
 your sacrifices sweet unto me.
6:21 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks
 before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon
 them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
6:22 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country,
 and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
6:23 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no
 mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in
 array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.
6:24 We have heard the fame thereof:  our hands wax feeble:  anguish hath
 taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
6:25 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the
 enemy and fear is on every side.
6:26 O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself
 in ashes:  make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter
 lamentation:  for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
6:27 I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that
 thou mayest know and try their way.
6:28 They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders:  they are
 brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
6:29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder
 melteth in vain:  for the wicked are not plucked away.
6:30 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected
 them.

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7:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
7:2 Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this word, and
 say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these
 gates to worship the LORD.
7:3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and
 your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
7:4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple
 of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.
7:5 For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly
 execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
7:6 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and
 shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to
 your hurt:
7:7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to
 your fathers, for ever and ever.
7:8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
7:9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn
 incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
7:10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name,
 and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
7:11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in
 your eyes?  Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.
7:12 But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name
 at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people
 Israel.
7:13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I
 spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I
 called you, but ye answered not;
7:14 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name,
 wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your
 fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
7:15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your
 brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
7:16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer
 for them, neither make intercession to me:  for I will not hear thee.
7:17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets
 of Jerusalem?
7:18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the
 women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to
 pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to
 anger.
7:19 Do they provoke me to anger?  saith the LORD:  do they not provoke
 themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
7:20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall
 be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees
 of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and
 shall not be quenched.
7:21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt
 offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
7:22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I
 brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or
 sacrifices:
7:23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be
 your God, and ye shall be my people:  and walk ye in all the ways that I
 have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the
 counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward,
 and not forward.
7:25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt
 unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily
 rising up early and sending them:
7:26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened
 their neck:  they did worse than their fathers.
7:27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not
 hearken to thee:  thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer
 thee.
7:28 But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the
 voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction:  truth is perished,
 and is cut off from their mouth.
7:29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a
 lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the
 generation of his wrath.
7:30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: 
 they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name,
 to pollute it.
7:31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley
 of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire;
 which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
7:32 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more
 be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of
 slaughter:  for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
7:33 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the
 heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.
7:34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the
 streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the
 voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride:  for the land shall be
 desolate.

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8:1 At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the
 kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests,
 and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of
 Jerusalem, out of their graves:
8:2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the
 host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after
 whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have
 worshipped:  they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for
 dung upon the face of the earth.
8:3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them
 that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I
 have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.
8:4 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall,
 and not arise?  shall he turn away, and not return?
8:5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual
 backsliding?  they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
8:6 I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright:  no man repented him
 of his wickedness, saying, What have I done?  every one turned to his
 course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
8:7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle
 and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my
 people know not the judgment of the LORD.
8:8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us?  Lo,
 certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
8:9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken:  lo, they have
 rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
8:10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to
 them that shall inherit them:  for every one from the least even unto the
 greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest
 every one dealeth falsely.
8:11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly,
 saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
8:12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?  nay, they were
 not at all ashamed, neither could they blush:  therefore shall they fall
 among them that fall:  in the time of their visitation they shall be cast
 down, saith the LORD.
8:13 I will surely consume them, saith the LORD:  there shall be no grapes
 on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the
 things that I have given them shall pass away from them.
8:14 Why do we sit still?  assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the
 defenced cities, and let us be silent there:  for the LORD our God hath put
 us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned
 against the LORD.
8:15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and
 behold trouble!
8:16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan:  the whole land trembled
 at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and
 have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that
 dwell therein.
8:17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will
 not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
8:18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in
 me.
8:19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of
 them that dwell in a far country:  Is not the LORD in Zion?  is not her
 king in her?  Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images,
 and with strange vanities?
8:20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
8:21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black;
 astonishment hath taken hold on me.
8:22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there?  why then
 is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

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9:1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I
 might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
9:2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I
 might leave my people, and go from them!  for they be all adulterers, an
 assembly of treacherous men.
9:3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies:  but they are
 not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to
 evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
9:4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any
 brother:  for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will
 walk with slanders.
9:5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the
 truth:  they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves
 to commit iniquity.
9:6 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse
 to know me, saith the LORD.
9:7 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and
 try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
9:8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit:  one
 speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth
 his wait.
9:9 Shall I not visit them for these things?  saith the LORD:  shall not
 my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
9:10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the
 habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so
 that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the
 cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
9:11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will
 make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
9:12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this?  and who is he to
 whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what
 the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth
 through?
9:13 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set
 before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
9:14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after
 Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
9:15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I
 will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of
 gall to drink.
9:16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their
 fathers have known:  and I will send a sword after them, till I have
 consumed them.
9:17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning
 women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may
 come:
9:18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes
 may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
9:19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled!  we
 are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our
 dwellings have cast us out.
9:20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the
 word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her
 neighbour lamentation.
9:21 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our
 palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the
 streets.
9:22 Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung
 upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none
 shall gather them.
9:23 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom,
 neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man
 glory in his riches:
9:24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and
 knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment,
 and righteousness, in the earth:  for in these things I delight, saith
 the LORD.
9:25 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them
 which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
9:26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and
 all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness:  for
 all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are
 uncircumcised in the heart.

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10:1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
10:2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not
 dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
10:3 For the customs of the people are vain:  for one cutteth a tree out
 of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax.
10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and
 with hammers, that it move not.
10:5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not:  they must needs be
 borne, because they cannot go.  Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do
 evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
10:6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great,
 and thy name is great in might.
10:7 Who would not fear thee, O King of nations?  for to thee doth it
 appertain:  forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in
 all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.
10:8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish:  the stock is a doctrine
 of vanities.
10:9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from
 Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder:  blue and
 purple is their clothing:  they are all the work of cunning men.
10:10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an
 everlasting king:  at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations
 shall not be able to abide his indignation.
10:11 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens
 and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under
 these heavens.
10:12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by
 his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
10:13 When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the
 heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth;
 he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his
 treasures.
10:14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge:  every founder is confounded
 by the graven image:  for his molten image is falsehood, and there is
 no breath in them.
10:15 They are vanity, and the work of errors:  in the time of their
 visitation they shall perish.
10:16 The portion of Jacob is not like them:  for he is the former of
 all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance:  The LORD of
 hosts is his name.
10:17 Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
10:18 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of
 the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.
10:19 Woe is me for my hurt!  my wound is grievous:  but I said, Truly this
 is a grief, and I must bear it.
10:20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken:  my children
 are gone forth of me, and they are not:  there is none to stretch forth
 my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
10:21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: 
 therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
10:22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of
 the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of
 dragons.
10:23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself:  it is not
 in man that walketh to direct his steps.
10:24 O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou
 bring me to nothing.
10:25 Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the
 families that call not on thy name:  for they have eaten up Jacob, and
 devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

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11:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
11:2 Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah,
 and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
11:3 And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Cursed be
 the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,
11:4 Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth
 out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and
 do them, according to all which I command you:  so shall ye be my people,
 and I will be your God:
11:5 That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to
 give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day.  Then
 answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.
11:6 Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of
 Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this
 covenant, and do them.
11:7 For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought
 them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and
 protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
11:8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in
 the imagination of their evil heart:  therefore I will bring upon them all
 the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do; but they did
 them not.
11:9 And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of
 Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
11:10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which
 refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: 
 the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I
 made with their fathers.
11:11 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them,
 which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me,
 I will not hearken unto them.
11:12 Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and
 cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense:  but they shall not save
 them at all in the time of their trouble.
11:13 For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah;
 and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up
 altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal.
11:14 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or
 prayer for them:  for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto
 me for their trouble.
11:15 What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought
 lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee?  when thou
 doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
11:16 The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly
 fruit:  with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and
 the branches of it are broken.
11:17 For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against
 thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which
 they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering
 incense unto Baal.
11:18 And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it:  then
 thou showedst me their doings.
11:19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter;
 and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us
 destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the
 land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
11:20 But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins
 and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them:  for unto thee have I
 revealed my cause.
11:21 Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy
 life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by
 our hand:
11:22 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: 
 the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall
 die by famine:
11:23 And there shall be no remnant of them:  for I will bring evil upon the
 men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.