# bible

id: d98b4033-34a6-4913-985e-696344c04a26
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “If you have raced with men on foot, and they have wearied you, how will you compete with horses? And if in a safe land you are so trusting, what will you do in the thicket of the Jordan?


id: 0b278e09-3f4a-45d1-bbaa-b11573289524
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For even your brothers and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; they are in full cry after you; do not believe them, though they speak friendly words to you.”


id: 86046f75-fe68-4aee-a135-4c7d9a1e4f53
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “I have forsaken my house; I have abandoned my heritage; I have given the beloved of my soul into the hands of her enemies.


id: 358489a4-f677-4fbc-9c69-b65e3895d081
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  My heritage has become to me like a lion in the forest; she has lifted up her voice against me; therefore I hate her.


id: dbdb883c-a023-4df5-9a3d-e64e21a5aa8b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Is my heritage to me like a hyena’s lair? Are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the wild beasts; bring them to devour.


id: abbba36c-67d3-4433-8988-9829fa480e8c
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard; they have trampled down my portion; they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.


id: 2b81d609-565b-4544-a05d-5a36fb02c720
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  They have made it a desolation; desolate, it mourns to me. The whole land is made desolate, but no man lays it to heart.


id: 936b1153-bb0a-48c9-9d0c-29611acb963f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Upon all the bare heights in the desert destroyers have come, for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the land to the other; no flesh has peace.


id: f499d7bb-144e-49f9-9014-8cea42d35427
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns; they have tired themselves out but profit nothing. They shall be ashamed of their harvests because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”


id: 547f6b4f-8522-4e2b-9f5f-be1ee678d524
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Thus says the LORD concerning all my evil neighbors who touch the heritage that I have given my people Israel to inherit: “Behold, I will pluck them up from their land, and I will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.


id: 68ca1dd6-5a78-4c60-860f-6c586671743b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And after I have plucked them up, I will again have compassion on them, and I will bring them again each to his heritage and each to his land.


id: 8ee71b83-b4a7-4e07-b2d8-c4ea75dc0da1
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, ‘As the LORD lives,’ even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they shall be built up in the midst of my people.


id: ba16aa6c-5764-4898-abd8-386689c441fb
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But if any nation will not listen, then I will utterly pluck it up and destroy it, declares the LORD.” 


id: bb5a7bc6-9c43-4d64-b2dc-87fcf233eb64
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Thus says the LORD to me, “Go and buy a linen loincloth and put it around your waist, and do not dip it in water.”


id: 65168aab-f83b-454d-a727-5092e3d099d2
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Take the loincloth that you have bought, which is around your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.”


id: 2609d0f4-cc09-45f9-ae4f-de58302e4b2b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And after many days the LORD said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from there the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.”


id: 9ca2ebe3-8d2b-4d52-a916-f12ad84f5aec
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and I took the loincloth from the place where I had hidden it. And behold, the loincloth was spoiled; it was good for nothing.


id: 57c0f920-ff3f-43d5-b776-9e8d0c3a666b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who stubbornly follow their own heart and have gone after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be like this loincloth, which is good for nothing.


id: 5c823e8e-bd46-45a4-a85d-afb714b2b8d5
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For as the loincloth clings to the waist of a man, so I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me, declares the LORD, that they might be for me a people, a name, a praise, and a glory, but they would not listen.


id: ade251b4-e070-4e58-9cd3-cd41a331ff9d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “You shall speak to them this word: ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, “Every jar shall be filled with wine.”’ And they will say to you, ‘Do we not indeed know that every jar will be filled with wine?’


id: 821154a7-ee80-476d-bdd4-395f24a3f2a8
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD: Behold, I will fill with drunkenness all the inhabitants of this land: the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


id: c22d5406-dca2-45d5-bf0e-167e8dcabf30
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And I will dash them one against another, fathers and sons together, declares the LORD. I will not pity or spare or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.’”


id: b762b940-d636-423e-88cd-a9d2e2e1137d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Give glory to the LORD your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the twilight mountains, and while you look for light he turns it into gloom and makes it deep darkness.


id: 553430bf-22fe-44c3-a797-7872ed665252
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But if you will not listen, my soul will weep in secret for your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.


id: e9287a35-669e-412d-989e-13f7cf8e23ea
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Say to the king and the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your beautiful crown has come down from your head.”


id: 1b846b95-1eb1-4258-bd64-3a1c596bde23
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The cities of the Negeb are shut up, with none to open them; all Judah is taken into exile, wholly taken into exile.


id: 8ca0a529-0fc0-4e46-a3a9-4b4aa72208dc
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Lift up your eyes and see those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock?


id: f06ab9e7-686b-426f-8550-107874d5e6b4
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  What will you say when they set as head over you those whom you yourself have taught to be friends to you? Will not pangs take hold of you like those of a woman in labor?


id: bcdc8015-5257-426c-9715-55c0b6b32ce1
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And if you say in your heart, ‘Why have these things come upon me?’ it is for the greatness of your iniquity that your skirts are lifted up and you suffer violence.


id: 92a32d2d-d099-4c23-afd3-6c21c6d45750
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.


id: 2bdeaff6-9135-4f20-a27d-bbd88554afb8
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  This is your lot, the portion I have measured out to you, declares the LORD, because you have forgotten me and trusted in lies.


id: 89ab0e01-1638-49f7-98fa-eb17e46e43d9
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your lewd whorings, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?” 


id: d80655b8-5c50-46e4-88d9-b067f71b03eb
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Judah mourns, and her gates languish; her people lament on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem goes up.


id: 11d07d04-de42-4124-88cd-e36f76857176
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Her nobles send their servants for water; they come to the cisterns; they find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are ashamed and confounded and cover their heads.


id: 578c2e65-db19-445a-a93e-aebce60227fe
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Because of the ground that is dismayed, since there is no rain on the land, the farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.


id: 2676d454-cc00-44b4-bb58-69a7f447a1f6
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no vegetation.


id: a722199b-a8d2-4f20-b15d-c3291785af3a
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O LORD, for your name’s sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.


id: b679e7a3-279d-41e0-827d-08ffefd1f817
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  O you hope of Israel, its savior in time of trouble, why should you be like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who turns aside to tarry for a night?


id: 175f4f96-e4d1-4bf2-ad04-d80eceffac6b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Why should you be like a man confused, like a mighty warrior who cannot save? Yet you, O LORD, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; do not leave us.”


id: 9d53d720-869b-4a0b-a260-afe82cbe5214
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Thus says the LORD concerning this people: “They have loved to wander thus; they have not restrained their feet; therefore the LORD does not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins.”


id: 58dcb3d6-aed3-4fbf-8e57-2fa32930aec8
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, and though they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”


id: 51bf61d8-3a3e-4571-b028-84080827c39e
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then I said: “Ah, Lord GOD, behold, the prophets say to them, ‘You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place.’”


id: dc2f1365-8534-4b85-9a7a-5058be3c0779
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And the LORD said to me: “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds.


id: 52bfecc4-7317-482d-b64e-d066bdb47c9e
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name although I did not send them, and who say, ‘Sword and famine shall not come upon this land’: By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed.


id: 9343894a-adc5-4717-b902-80e7d260a966
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and sword, with none to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out their evil upon them.


id: 113a11fd-75ad-4f64-9dc4-2f593c609f33
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “You shall say to them this word: ‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people is shattered with a great wound, with a very grievous blow.


id: 09f51816-9b7a-49f2-bf20-c8b66e250510
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  If I go out into the field, behold, those pierced by the sword! And if I enter the city, behold, the diseases of famine! For both prophet and priest ply their trade through the land and have no knowledge.’”


id: e3b46dd5-143f-4b6c-b27f-fd0c62b52984
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Have you utterly rejected Judah? Does your soul loathe Zion? Why have you struck us down so that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror.


id: 77a43889-a768-4002-8d82-156d47b167af
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, and the iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against you.


id: 24dbcbd8-bd37-4812-8a78-270b31ab8415
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Do not spurn us, for your name’s sake; do not dishonor your glorious throne; remember and do not break your covenant with us.


id: 014edda9-f937-4680-9b9a-f63cb18c3cc5
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are you not he, O LORD our God? We set our hope on you, for you do all these things. 


id: ca72f2da-393a-492e-897a-aeec000c0655
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then the LORD said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!


id: 1894dfdb-1ccf-4405-820c-510baa522c33
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD: “‘Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence, and those who are for the sword, to the sword; those who are for famine, to famine, and those who are for captivity, to captivity.’


id: e416e14a-fa36-4ee4-bb22-2fb71f2a72ab
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, and the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.


id: cf97e199-8ef0-4eb0-ab0d-f379b0ed6353
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.


id: 02141b4c-e423-4572-a383-4a5a0cbb469a
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem, or who will grieve for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?


id: a88337ac-6156-4989-a69f-3cec95d7be22
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  You have rejected me, declares the LORD; you keep going backward, so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you— I am weary of relenting.


id: 855988a9-673f-4928-8689-03c23e90d48a
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them; I have destroyed my people; they did not turn from their ways.


id: 9009b8da-9c8f-4bba-99b7-92faab7bcec7
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I have made their widows more in number than the sand of the seas; I have brought against the mothers of young men a destroyer at noonday; I have made anguish and terror fall upon them suddenly.


id: e6b6d950-f31b-4544-9f7f-d2699202d364
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  She who bore seven has grown feeble; she has fainted away; her sun went down while it was yet day; she has been shamed and disgraced. And the rest of them I will give to the sword before their enemies, declares the LORD.”


id: 753c1886-4a0c-4e14-a411-1026785456c1
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.


id: 61276cc6-84f0-4df8-952b-a346f96c064f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The LORD said, “Have I not set you free for their good? Have I not pleaded for you before the enemy in the time of trouble and in the time of distress?


id: 215230e4-3ab7-4754-8429-ec89e8a8a3de
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Your wealth and your treasures I will give as spoil, without price, for all your sins, throughout all your territory.


id: c52868b3-e445-4170-a866-771935804402
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever.”


id: d288a12b-5d45-45fe-8594-1103f78d730f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  O LORD, you know; remember me and visit me, and take vengeance for me on my persecutors. In your forbearance take me not away; know that for your sake I bear reproach.


id: 5fc170d5-6129-448a-8e28-3fcb0110d9a7
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O LORD, God of hosts.


id: e84accba-cdcf-4467-89de-ffe6352249cb
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I did not sit in the company of revelers, nor did I rejoice; I sat alone, because your hand was upon me, for you had filled me with indignation.


id: 7e28de34-932b-41a1-9b05-1133eb5c96e5
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?


id: 426dde0f-2c5a-4f5d-afc3-90f4c33fa16e
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Therefore thus says the LORD: “If you return, I will restore you, and you shall stand before me. If you utter what is precious, and not what is worthless, you shall be as my mouth. They shall turn to you, but you shall not turn to them.


id: a773dc11-b533-4bad-bb7e-ca47bda25295
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And I will make you to this people a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you, but they shall not prevail over you, for I am with you to save you and deliver you, declares the LORD.


id: f4f3d38e-1abf-4401-910a-748df21182cc
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place, and concerning the mothers who bore them and the fathers who fathered them in this land:


id: 8cd803d2-407d-4b35-80e6-5c2fcd3c2faa
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  They shall die of deadly diseases. They shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried. They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. They shall perish by the sword and by famine, and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth.


id: ee2fcb8e-21e9-4549-bff8-b9077b68da2a
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “For thus says the LORD: Do not enter the house of mourning, or go to lament or grieve for them, for I have taken away my peace from this people, my steadfast love and mercy, declares the LORD.


id: 9dce95fe-58aa-443f-a17a-2ae1a0176f24
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Both great and small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them or cut himself or make himself bald for them.


id: fca7cbab-0aae-40ab-9b76-a3813721d7d3
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  No one shall break bread for the mourner, to comfort him for the dead, nor shall anyone give him the cup of consolation to drink for his father or his mother.


id: 5c8b6d09-52d6-43e3-ba83-25dc41a5a03e
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will silence in this place, before 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.


id: 394ae674-b9fe-4f14-94db-f820e378dbc5
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “And when you tell this people all these words, and they say to you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’


id: d09bff06-a1f4-4122-b2fd-77ac028a040d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  then you shall say to them: ‘Because your fathers have forsaken me, declares the LORD, and have gone after other gods and have served and worshiped them, and have forsaken me and have not kept my law,


id: 6ee2e8a3-1831-472d-9479-6a5d4e4b06f7
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  and because you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, every one of you follows his stubborn, evil will, refusing to listen to me.


id: fc51590f-0b5e-4cb9-8795-a1b78c52bfda
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Therefore I will hurl you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’


id: d4ff11a3-4e8c-42c8-8d35-517827c6a585
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when it shall no longer be said, ‘As the LORD lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’


id: b96b31d2-6085-4b88-b7df-1b68dc44eb38
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  but ‘As the LORD lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them.’ For I will bring them back to their own land that I gave to their fathers.


id: 6722b241-53a5-44c4-9e1c-5167c85b4bd3
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Behold, I am sending for many fishers, declares the LORD, and they shall catch them. And afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.


id: 1d877be2-184a-4979-8baa-bf3b79fc0eb4
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from me, nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.


id: ba2891bb-42d0-49b5-accd-80cc233db2de
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But first I will doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”


id: 94a83e16-a590-4fdd-a943-2f2d6268b316
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  O LORD, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.


id: a5a9241e-ae76-40eb-8a29-84fbe91f2c32
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Therefore, behold, I will make them know, this once I will make them know my power and my might, and they shall know that my name is the LORD.” 


id: 6d02f1ea-c59d-4aca-82fd-d7b4a31740a4
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of their altars,


id: b364b4dc-7629-41c7-87c9-5c995c7248d3
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  while their children remember their altars and their Asherim, beside every green tree and on the high hills,


id: 26c321a2-5d8c-481c-b46a-39d79ef366b4
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  on the mountains in the open country. Your wealth and all your treasures I will give for spoil as the price of your high places for sin throughout all your territory.


id: 1a4ad01f-0ae7-4e46-9748-c077d625408e
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  You shall loosen your hand from your heritage that I gave to you, and I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever.”


id: e04fb78e-3eae-4c26-93c1-42552e044929
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Thus says the LORD: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD.


id: 1f8a1c4b-0d95-401f-8246-3a37092565f5
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.


id: 5e2b67cd-01a7-4976-9d7c-b54ddd3fa68f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”


id: 01b01833-4baa-4cfb-8e8a-a199e72e68c7
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”


id: 08282ef1-9e1c-47f6-bd02-887c16dac95b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by justice; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.


id: b5566ebf-933b-429d-b15e-eb8d22687fb3
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be put to shame; those who turn away from you shall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living water.


id: 565de2d8-8233-4f58-8c36-03a7d918a58a
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I have not run away from being your shepherd, nor have I desired the day of sickness. You know what came out of my lips; it was before your face.


id: 11aff4e5-a63c-4274-b61a-c735b0cc9972
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Let those be put to shame who persecute me, but let me not be put to shame; let them be dismayed, but let me not be dismayed; bring upon them the day of disaster; destroy them with double destruction!


id: d805e6dc-f9d9-420f-abbd-b3dfca727608
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Thus said the LORD to me: “Go and stand in the People’s Gate, by which the kings of Judah enter and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem,


id: bce643f4-f1f9-4104-9fbe-f802fd6b29ec
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  and say: ‘Hear the word of the LORD, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, who enter by these gates.


id: 4a565ca4-7ef1-4670-970b-4f41b92dc0b9
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Thus says the LORD: Take care for the sake of your lives, and do not bear a burden on the Sabbath day or bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem.


id: e9345a5c-9b8f-4e28-a636-eeb952326257
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And do not carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath or do any work, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.


id: fd137882-d53d-4154-a545-fd23709d316a
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck, that they might not hear and receive instruction.


id: 7441b566-9c43-4f2b-b2b0-f17f385b5870
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “‘But if you listen to me, declares the LORD, and bring in no burden by the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but keep the Sabbath day holy and do no work on it,


id: e90355dd-af42-45bc-bb76-0ccda7701f16
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  then there shall enter by the gates of this city kings and princes who sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their officials, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And this city shall be inhabited forever.


id: 01e78b89-576e-443a-b73d-e4759272a3e8
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And people shall come from the cities of Judah and the places around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from the Shephelah, from the hill country, and from the Negeb, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and frankincense, and bringing thank offerings to the house of the LORD.


id: fd8da4c9-211f-452e-8fe0-b0d304d45048
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But if you do not listen to me, to keep the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter by the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem and shall not be quenched.’” 


id: 6e4314af-e93e-4f93-b95e-2f166c49be06
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.


id: aa809a8e-9d8d-4079-a02e-6a9958a87503
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the LORD. Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.


id: a98d14c9-c0f6-4e13-885d-27b93b707264
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it,


id: 296bcb86-441e-44db-86e7-465acadb70d7
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it.


id: 035d91ca-67ff-4723-acc3-305c760dd173
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will relent of the good that I had intended to do to it.


id: b0b86a24-f829-4ea2-b543-1bdfa41cc118
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Now, therefore, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: ‘Thus says the LORD, Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Return, every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your deeds.’


id: 29347a61-7081-4457-a78a-e4eec412be7d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “But they say, ‘That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will every one act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’


id: 776d9147-77c8-42aa-a747-e0ea745866ff
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Therefore thus says the LORD: Ask among the nations, Who has heard the like of this? The virgin Israel has done a very horrible thing.


id: 8ff9dea8-2f75-4fd9-b0bf-5e835d73c9da
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Does the snow of Lebanon leave the crags of Sirion? Do the mountain waters run dry, the cold flowing streams?


id: d4e30962-d48c-47a1-9093-ba7234d164f2
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But my people have forgotten me; they make offerings to false gods; they made them stumble in their ways, in the ancient roads, and to walk into side roads, not the highway,


id: e7dba6c8-288e-4f47-bb20-bd583c300834
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  making their land a horror, a thing to be hissed at forever. Everyone who passes by it is horrified and shakes his head.


id: 3975b31e-598c-4bf5-8d32-27b40d847394
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Like the east wind I will scatter them before the enemy. I will show them my back, not my face, in the day of their calamity.”


id: 8e147895-cdb6-485e-a8a4-dcd3f63ebe0f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.”


id: 1a8602fa-80c2-4d29-89d7-ed97c56e5440
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.


id: d6f08db1-ffda-44e3-a5e7-e679fc4ecae8
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Therefore deliver up their children to famine; give them over to the power of the sword; let their wives become childless and widowed. May their men meet death by pestilence, their youths be struck down by the sword in battle.


id: ae11972e-a79b-46b0-9e63-407fa42e2c87
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  May a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring the plunderer suddenly upon them! For they have dug a pit to take me and laid snares for my feet.


id: 131d887e-8b46-4df2-b65b-7cf1c8f5ff89
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Yet you, O LORD, know all their plotting to kill me. Forgive not their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from your sight. Let them be overthrown before you; deal with them in the time of your anger. 


id: d182a0ee-50cc-4966-a0ab-d09572af06da
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Thus says the LORD, “Go, buy a potter’s earthenware flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests,


id: 5df4c478-f4f3-49fc-bbbf-8e3026fc52d8
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  and go out to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the entry of the Potsherd Gate, and proclaim there the words that I tell you.


id: 836424b4-04fd-439e-b14a-01cf892db9d8
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  You shall say, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing such disaster upon this place that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.


id: 7eba639a-3b2e-45fd-ac28-1e79db1afa18
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents,


id: b5d57276-6d2b-4a6c-9b8b-6b9686b0be66
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind—


id: adb37aac-9b50-4f35-a5a8-b7dd4c200831
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  therefore, behold, days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place shall no more be called Topheth, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.


id: 8681bc6a-2f3d-4e1c-a374-a9b412e9a362
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And in this place I will make void the plans of Judah and Jerusalem, and will cause their people to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the earth.


id: c6d82c04-cad6-44c9-81a4-9301bc5e601f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And I will make this city a horror, a thing to be hissed at. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its wounds.


id: 4f5808ff-41f7-482f-876f-46f64cad33c2
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his neighbor in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them.’


id: 6562870d-2c71-47af-97aa-12884accb952
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  and shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts: So will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, so that it can never be mended. Men shall bury in Topheth because there will be no place else to bury.


id: 144c4b47-8e84-4d70-9e41-640549d872b5
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Thus will I do to this place, declares the LORD, and to its inhabitants, making this city like Topheth.


id: 72b86e95-b77b-4c40-ac4d-a2ab4d317bd2
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah—all the houses on whose roofs offerings have been offered to all the host of heaven, and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods—shall be defiled like the place of Topheth.’”


id: e626b3bb-75b9-4602-a34f-c208817cb50c
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of the LORD’s house and said to all the people:


id: 3048ea62-b2fc-453e-ad0b-00cd438a6d99
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, behold, I am bringing upon this city and upon all its towns all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their neck, refusing to hear my words.” 


id: 9ac7bf41-9c40-47e6-ac56-b1debb1e4416
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Now Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer, who was chief officer in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.


id: 44aaa7b1-1d1f-4ed2-8091-494c235eff8e
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper Benjamin Gate of the house of the LORD.


id: a8f3f434-b68e-4b78-8f77-e4b1e70306f8
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD does not call your name Pashhur, but Terror on Every Side.


id: 2b3cd4e5-afd3-4201-8ab6-6b94a2cc4aa1
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For thus says the LORD: Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They shall fall by the sword of their enemies while you look on. And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon. He shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall strike them down with the sword.


id: fcf1040e-c5ef-46fd-9629-263580cbe69d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Moreover, I will give all the wealth of the city, all its gains, all its prized belongings, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hand of their enemies, who shall plunder them and seize them and carry them to Babylon.


id: 41fb5a90-e403-4218-9f96-32df67165f8d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And you, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house, shall go into captivity. To Babylon you shall go, and there you shall die, and there you shall be buried, you and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely.”


id: 830df554-0818-4b31-a6e3-ff77c6f3d2c4
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  O LORD, you have deceived me, and I was deceived; you are stronger than I, and you have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all the day; everyone mocks me.


id: c2890157-c892-4ac9-b2c5-556507e5027e
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For whenever I speak, I cry out, I shout, “Violence and destruction!” For the word of the LORD has become for me a reproach and derision all day long.


id: d3ceb35c-ee11-4ce7-a562-4c321a4aaf7d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  If I say, “I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,” there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.


id: 58e0ed28-8ff4-4378-895c-657ef7a7841f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For I hear many whispering. Terror is on every side! “Denounce him! Let us denounce him!” say all my close friends, watching for my fall. “Perhaps he will be deceived; then we can overcome him and take our revenge on him.”


id: 9c2f9c2a-93a0-4ac4-a4a9-6f32146b2810
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But the LORD is with me as a dread warrior; therefore my persecutors will stumble; they will not overcome me. They will be greatly shamed, for they will not succeed. Their eternal dishonor will never be forgotten.


id: e5955a2e-af48-401f-ba43-be0445a04fb8
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  O LORD of hosts, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause.


id: 4415f4a1-bf76-4a3e-b997-9c60f512521d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Sing to the LORD; praise the LORD! For he has delivered the life of the needy from the hand of evildoers.


id: 78910fab-aeb8-4f1d-892f-d1fb4761b580
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Let that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without pity; let him hear a cry in the morning and an alarm at noon,


id: 8722a2ff-72bc-4be6-827a-903ea6b31abb
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever great.


id: 63fb1757-3e0a-4ae8-9872-fb6632f20055
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchiah and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, saying,


id: 45f0419f-cca6-4b70-aa1a-5a1f88d2b14a
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Inquire of the LORD for us, for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is making war against us. Perhaps the LORD will deal with us according to all his wonderful deeds and will make him withdraw from us.”


id: bc298240-84ed-44a2-8732-6f5901ffd64a
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands and with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and against the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the walls. And I will bring them together into the midst of this city.


id: 3cb2a38f-d3ed-4352-9d43-6db3dad51cc9
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I myself will fight against you with outstretched hand and strong arm, in anger and in fury and in great wrath.


id: 1d4da0b7-28ca-415e-947b-48d4bf8c3fd8
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And I will strike down the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast. They shall die of a great pestilence.


id: d0480ed1-f510-400a-9076-45bdb3b108c6
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Afterward, declares the LORD, I will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people in this city who survive the pestilence, sword, and famine into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of their enemies, into the hand of those who seek their lives. He shall strike them down with the edge of the sword. He shall not pity them or spare them or have compassion.’


id: 6a1e56e4-9f67-4c5d-bad6-386df02b0562
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “And to this people you shall say: ‘Thus says the LORD: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.


id: b31a326b-1ca9-410e-8429-f2ee987bcc84
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  He who stays in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, but he who goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who are besieging you shall live and shall have his life as a prize of war.


id: 0ff02f63-bcd7-4a2a-bae9-2405a28d8ed6
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For I have set my face against this city for harm and not for good, declares the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.’


id: 08270337-82da-481d-9252-a90c329ac4c0
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  O house of David! Thus says the LORD: “‘Execute justice in the morning, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of your evil deeds.’”


id: 2181c3aa-667d-4609-8872-344521722c03
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, O rock of the plain, declares the LORD; you who say, ‘Who shall come down against us, or who shall enter our habitations?’


id: 9af76a27-8255-461d-8d67-fce7dc64af14
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds, declares the LORD; I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is around her.” 


id: c6d3e1e5-7f4a-4b13-ba0e-f3301e3ec557
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  and say, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people who enter these gates.


id: e100214e-8d14-45da-a0e6-e6aa0de4b9ed
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Thus says the LORD: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.


id: d71da7f0-7d43-4db0-b565-3506dbf9ec06
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For if you will indeed obey this word, then there shall enter the gates of this house kings who sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their servants and their people.


id: c3c79001-a0da-4b2b-845d-838a06606725
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But if you will not obey these words, I swear by myself, declares the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.


id: 816d6998-e960-45a6-932c-eb3c7f157bf9
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For thus says the LORD concerning the house of the king of Judah: “‘You are like Gilead to me, like the summit of Lebanon, yet surely I will make you a desert, an uninhabited city.


id: 49caec17-3cc3-4072-9f82-7e0cad8371d4
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I will prepare destroyers against you, each with his weapons, and they shall cut down your choicest cedars and cast them into the fire.


id: 8b6e2e2e-f798-4380-9f86-74ac744d9fac
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “‘And many nations will pass by this city, and every man will say to his neighbor, “Why has the LORD dealt thus with this great city?”


id: 78f016c2-8672-4ca6-b49c-8a8678a02728
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And they will answer, “Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and worshiped other gods and served them.”’”


id: fdc8af00-5bc6-4625-924a-633ff7dd500b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Weep not for him who is dead, nor grieve for him, but weep bitterly for him who goes away, for he shall return no more to see his native land.


id: 60e2f1a6-683b-429b-acda-e7a46dd5c770
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For thus says the LORD concerning Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went away from this place: “He shall return here no more,


id: 3728db78-0c79-4380-babf-aec96528e905
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  but in the place where they have carried him captive, there shall he die, and he shall never see this land again.”


id: bcbc3e59-e0c3-4974-a23f-ef207de7e41c
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice, who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing and does not give him his wages,


id: 4c0a7858-4707-4bab-b6b9-79ad90b99e17
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  who says, ‘I will build myself a great house with spacious upper rooms,’ who cuts out windows for it, paneling it with cedar and painting it with vermilion.


id: d1e3a1f6-39bb-4162-88d0-9104909a3d93
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Do you think you are a king because you compete in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.


id: 2f9120b9-0c54-496b-8159-8463462e7763
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? declares the LORD.


id: 191ac57f-3eba-4924-bf13-c33af31629fd
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But you have eyes and heart only for your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence.”


id: c114a304-6414-441c-9419-db37702937b6
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: “They shall not lament for him, saying, ‘Ah, my brother!’ or ‘Ah, sister!’ They shall not lament for him, saying, ‘Ah, lord!’ or ‘Ah, his majesty!’


id: cb022707-d7ac-47d0-a83f-a73dd34f2d0c
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Go up to Lebanon, and cry out, and lift up your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers are destroyed.


id: f846b2af-9702-4f9c-89a9-4bc72c61ebf2
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I spoke to you in your prosperity, but you said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from your youth, that you have not obeyed my voice.


id: 273fc45c-fb54-48aa-bd4f-122dbb68c597
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The wind shall shepherd all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity; then you will be ashamed and confounded because of all your evil.


id: 9e8a29ba-369b-4de7-86a3-f32815a61bfa
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  O inhabitant of Lebanon, nested among the cedars, how you will be pitied when pangs come upon you, pain as of a woman in labor!”


id: 07ac28f3-f442-49b8-826f-74840f336ff5
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “As I live, declares the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were the signet ring on my right hand, yet I would tear you off


id: 96cfba84-21e0-4de7-824c-24c3bcce3021
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  and give you into the hand of those who seek your life, into the hand of those of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans.


id: ed739b56-45da-48e3-8068-a649705910b5
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I will hurl you and the mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born, and there you shall die.


id: e1faf1bc-c021-42c9-9ff4-7782dfba7d65
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Is this man Coniah a despised, broken pot, a vessel no one cares for? Why are he and his children hurled and cast into a land that they do not know?


id: 21293faa-1543-40b9-a9f5-7609439754e8
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Thus says the LORD: “Write this man down as childless, a man who shall not succeed in his days, for none of his offspring shall succeed in sitting on the throne of David and ruling again in Judah.” 


id: aa72b5c4-9ced-4cb6-9d32-ecd6eb4158f9
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who care for my people: “You have scattered my flock and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for your evil deeds, declares the LORD.


id: fa009b00-32b4-4c10-b002-3f753ca0c1c9
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their fold, and they shall be fruitful and multiply.


id: 12458686-c004-40ca-99be-a36d0dc5e0f2
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I will set shepherds over them who will care for them, and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be missing, declares the LORD.


id: af9896ff-e742-4238-9f0f-99a9396a26e2
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.


id: 1dc4a2e3-d6e0-4ef0-a2b3-2ec12188e55f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: ‘The LORD is our righteousness.’


id: ff39d55f-6bcf-4cd9-acae-9f218ef1938e
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they shall no longer say, ‘As the LORD lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’


id: 26123b61-336d-44cc-a917-362d90e3f0d9
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  but ‘As the LORD lives who brought up and led the offspring of the house of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them.’ Then they shall dwell in their own land.”


id: 5d298855-37eb-48a8-8354-4586cba1d13f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken within me; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, like a man overcome by wine, because of the LORD and because of his holy words.


id: 0ffa0314-5a0f-4bcd-94a9-0b70f5a1a10c
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For the land is full of adulterers; because of the curse the land mourns, and the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right.


id: 91d079c0-11a0-4085-b626-0b3343aa2780
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Therefore their way shall be to them like slippery paths in the darkness, into which they shall be driven and fall, for I will bring disaster upon them in the year of their punishment, declares the LORD.


id: b01e8c40-ebfe-46eb-8140-0995e415f0ae
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  In the prophets of Samaria I saw an unsavory thing: they prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.


id: 8e52935c-9343-4a3c-ba87-f96c61931c66
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from his evil; all of them have become like Sodom to me, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.”


id: 419ea05b-373c-475d-b46c-f16f6b55dbe7
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets: “Behold, I will feed them with bitter food and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”


id: 7f1d9934-0b76-4aa4-a75c-6625d81fd22d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Thus says the LORD of hosts: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, filling you with vain hopes. They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.


id: 75f4a118-f98d-4bcd-a13f-0e9f95eeee87
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  They say continually to those who despise the word of the LORD, ‘It shall be well with you’; and to everyone who stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, ‘No disaster shall come upon you.’”


id: 7200dd91-46af-4c53-9297-77a90f39e185
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For who among them has stood in the council of the LORD to see and to hear his word, or who has paid attention to his word and listened?


id: 0a5c33f5-8c7a-45b8-a21c-ec84636fcc66
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Behold, the storm of the LORD! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked.


id: 95210db9-c569-41ea-aa55-3f9d2634ab7a
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The anger of the LORD will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his heart. In the latter days you will understand it clearly.


id: 24652e0e-f152-4c13-9baf-6975524d16c0
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But if they had stood in my council, then they would have proclaimed my words to my people, and they would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their deeds.


id: 1b4659eb-fe86-4db4-9470-b00550aa3b24
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the LORD.


id: 0c22e6ad-fbb4-406b-af63-78b108bdd1fd
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed!’


id: f79dd9fb-e376-4279-9c57-84a5deac5f35
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  How long shall there be lies in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, and who prophesy the deceit of their own heart,


id: 2dd5e4e8-8d54-4c9f-a947-afa363eddc26
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  who think to make my people forget my name by their dreams that they tell one another, even as their fathers forgot my name for Baal?


id: f2fd26d7-40ce-479a-8b68-f7e3878e422e
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Let the prophet who has a dream tell the dream, but let him who has my word speak my word faithfully. What has straw in common with wheat? declares the LORD.


id: c7e6461d-757e-4405-b363-f4dfb634a4c9
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, declares the LORD, who steal my words from one another.


id: 1c4ebcae-bdf5-44bc-81b8-8aca71411dca
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Behold, I am against the prophets, declares the LORD, who use their tongues and declare, ‘declares the LORD.’


id: 547a5608-305d-4479-a628-4d92fe78edb9
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, declares the LORD, and who tell them and lead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when I did not send them or charge them. So they do not profit this people at all, declares the LORD.


id: 336afc4a-f314-4f38-8427-144d6fc31a63
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “When one of this people, or a prophet or a priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the LORD?’ you shall say to them, ‘You are the burden, and I will cast you off, declares the LORD.’


id: 3f8a3845-a104-4728-9e45-924758b2c812
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And as for the prophet, priest, or one of the people who says, ‘The burden of the LORD,’ I will punish that man and his household.


id: 4a4a7452-94ef-420c-8078-a66575c6b29f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Thus shall you say, every one to his neighbor and every one to his brother, ‘What has the LORD answered?’ or ‘What has the LORD spoken?’


id: 437125ca-2077-4746-8034-ac228dfbfe42
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But ‘the burden of the LORD’ you shall mention no more, for the burden is every man’s own word, and you pervert the words of the living God, the LORD of hosts, our God.


id: 28be1689-e206-428f-b860-11b0509ab03a
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But if you say, ‘The burden of the LORD,’ thus says the LORD, ‘Because you have said these words, “The burden of the LORD,” when I sent to you, saying, “You shall not say, ‘The burden of the LORD,’”


id: f7a4ebfa-f040-4490-93ec-73e5d40764eb
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  therefore, behold, I will surely lift you up and cast you away from my presence, you and the city that I gave to you and your fathers.


id: cb959a0f-73da-41a3-acd8-07b3a2fe965b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And I will bring upon you everlasting reproach and perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.’” 


id: 6f307625-7c3b-4aa6-a298-54a2f08eb052
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken into exile from Jerusalem Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, together with the officials of Judah, the craftsmen, and the metal workers, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me this vision: behold, two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the LORD.


id: 4bf4851a-54c7-4a1c-a6be-676fbc99fd79
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, but the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten.


id: c5f778e4-a600-4e53-abd1-48de9b1491de
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And the LORD said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I said, “Figs, the good figs very good, and the bad figs very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten.”


id: 43f04558-5bbf-43b6-852b-ab7021a17172
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.


id: 1d79bb4c-149f-469b-813c-ed8afa472ba1
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up, and not tear them down; I will plant them, and not pluck them up.


id: 5fb9daac-b930-49c1-a992-bc567165e687
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I will give them a heart to know that I am the LORD, and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart.


id: 4e902d2e-21be-4116-8e73-d66fa8f65e3a
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “But thus says the LORD: Like the bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten, so will I treat Zedekiah the king of Judah, his officials, the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.


id: 3955c2b2-94e3-44de-8480-95ffb166d085
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a reproach, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them.


id: a5977a72-e893-4638-9747-135c73894f17
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And I will send sword, famine, and pestilence upon them, until they shall be utterly destroyed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.” 


id: e44251c3-bd07-450c-bdbd-eddbef18bdf7
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (that was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon),


id: 2421cee7-7c62-42d9-a090-325cca42d1e2
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “For twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, to this day, the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken persistently to you, but you have not listened.


id: c59b0dc7-36ad-4401-b3b8-00b4e1fe8c87
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  You have neither listened nor inclined your ears to hear, although the LORD persistently sent to you all his servants the prophets,


id: 61723eca-3ee8-442e-bba0-615336972138
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  saying, ‘Turn now, every one of you, from his evil way and evil deeds, and dwell upon the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers from of old and forever.


id: e263e157-638e-4013-8d95-709219fad39b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Do not go after other gods to serve and worship them, or provoke me to anger with the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.’


id: 95334aba-10b8-49c2-b3c7-dd1b89c40dc8
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Yet you have not listened to me, declares the LORD, that you might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.


id: e0cf05a6-73fc-4269-bee0-662dc010907d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.


id: 849a1891-8fde-43b5-874a-6dcbd745f013
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Moreover, I will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the grinding of the millstones and the light of the lamp.


id: ce9ca80a-f3a0-48e6-9a6f-d50bd50badff
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.


id: e694648b-b8f0-41ed-b270-67e743c84c8b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the LORD, making the land an everlasting waste.


id: cbdfea5e-15f9-4358-9617-90950a3376a2
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I will bring upon that land all the words that I have uttered against it, everything written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.


id: 3fcfe11a-4411-4f75-a1b3-180c31f9b6c8
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them, and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.”


id: d6c10a45-373d-4879-8278-ee188165115d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Thus the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.


id: d30b6eda-1851-497b-983e-ac193b6ef673
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day;


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  and all the mixed tribes among them; all the kings of the land of Uz and all the kings of the land of the Philistines (Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod);


id: 3f3fa1fe-d9dc-4094-83c1-66688da114dc
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  all the kings of the north, far and near, one after another, and all the kingdoms of the world that are on the face of the earth. And after them the king of Babylon shall drink.


id: df13ce03-0dfb-4ba2-bbd1-6e40446e052f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink, be drunk and vomit, fall and rise no more, because of the sword that I am sending among you.’


id: 5c1e0380-4260-48b1-b425-26f9fc60cb64
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “And if they refuse to accept the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts: You must drink!


id: c75a0a18-9add-4a3b-8397-0a401fdb45db
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For behold, I begin to work disaster at the city that is called by my name, and shall you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the LORD of hosts.’


id: 5e1b38dc-e76b-4166-91ae-531f9b1511ec
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “You, therefore, shall prophesy against them all these words, and say to them: “‘The LORD will roar from on high, and from his holy habitation utter his voice; he will roar mightily against his fold, and shout, like those who tread grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.


id: 1be97589-553d-4aef-a2bb-0b24ffe23c5e
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The clamor will resound to the ends of the earth, for the LORD has an indictment against the nations; he is entering into judgment with all flesh, and the wicked he will put to the sword, declares the LORD.’


id: 9a0dc0b0-a329-448f-838a-b1c703fe0343
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, disaster is going forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth!


id: cc3a0e61-4cee-4b4d-871b-5c7a953fa897
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “And those pierced by the LORD on that day shall extend from one end of the earth to the other. They shall not be lamented, or gathered, or buried; they shall be dung on the surface of the ground.


id: b581e39e-a240-4b43-820b-af9ba850a6e4
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Wail, you shepherds, and cry out, and roll in ashes, you lords of the flock, for the days of your slaughter and dispersion have come, and you shall fall like a choice vessel.


id: ba1ded24-2f36-4b98-b7ae-d7b85474678f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  A voice—the cry of the shepherds, and the wail of the lords of the flock! For the LORD is laying waste their pasture,


id: eeed988f-7cdf-4163-997c-5294edc6b716
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Like a lion he has left his lair, for their land has become a waste because of the sword of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.” 


id: e60272e7-ccef-43ef-b584-2faf3d6c4271
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from the LORD:


id: 4ec8f0fe-24b3-479c-8342-e6e4e9aa092b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Thus says the LORD: Stand in the court of the LORD’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah that come to worship in the house of the LORD all the words that I command you to speak to them; do not hold back a word.


id: b10247f1-dbec-48c6-80e1-4ab67eb0fc36
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  It may be they will listen, and every one turn from his evil way, that I may relent of the disaster that I intend to do to them because of their evil deeds.


id: b32f4d11-99de-4d6e-a322-b63fdc1f39fb
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  You shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law that I have set before you,


id: 9c839833-640f-4b99-b0ad-66166f804503
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  and to listen to the words of my servants the prophets whom I send to you urgently, though you have not listened,


id: 4f1ab538-5cce-464e-8643-89e1230dbc8d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.’”


id: ccd87444-19df-4bdf-be44-23fb2617a4aa
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.


id: 5e3ade05-164d-479d-94be-6213f9befe36
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And when Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak to all the people, then the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold of him, saying, “You shall die!


id: 332386bb-424e-4b05-9cdd-67ba35ae2048
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Why have you prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, ‘This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant’?” And all the people gathered around Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.


id: c14803d2-9d2e-4084-b90a-d632b2c5927e
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  When the officials of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king’s house to the house of the LORD and took their seat in the entry of the New Gate of the house of the LORD.


id: ac9df458-16b8-4ee2-8c25-fc6c41f1a2f9
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then the priests and the prophets said to the officials and to all the people, “This man deserves the sentence of death, because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears.”


id: a2f939d2-aa78-4a52-8987-e862f2f1a795
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then Jeremiah spoke to all the officials and all the people, saying, “The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and this city all the words you have heard.


id: dc8d0c23-6008-4319-9ac0-63bf00a74761
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Now therefore mend your ways and your deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, and the LORD will relent of the disaster that he has pronounced against you.


id: 90b619cc-af81-4367-98b0-bf21edf55e74
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city and its inhabitants, for in truth the LORD sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”


id: f0eaf26d-6562-42b0-a152-61f9eaffd262
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, “This man does not deserve the sentence of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.”


id: f23a964f-d07b-4753-999a-6ecaa831a679
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and said to all the people of Judah: ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, “‘Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height.’


id: 996d7903-065f-4a63-b4ac-14fc4a8dc405
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Did he not fear the LORD and entreat the favor of the LORD, and did not the LORD relent of the disaster that he had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great disaster upon ourselves.”


id: fdb30f63-6ae3-46a4-aa52-68e3b102e464
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  There was another man who prophesied in the name of the LORD, Uriah the son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim. He prophesied against this city and against this land in words like those of Jeremiah.


id: d5c95c40-0251-46e0-90c1-f751e7a05bc9
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And when King Jehoiakim, with all his warriors and all the officials, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death. But when Uriah heard of it, he was afraid and fled and escaped to Egypt.


id: c729a4b0-dfb5-470c-94f4-7f5cb3055871
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  and they took Uriah from Egypt and brought him to King Jehoiakim, who struck him down with the sword and dumped his dead body into the burial place of the common people.


id: 60da5297-4b2d-428d-95a0-d793654f2629
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah so that he was not given over to the people to be put to death. 


id: 2dd3a25c-6f34-47ea-8362-05c1f4957b65
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  In the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD.


id: 04714a64-5787-4a24-95db-b99235639644
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Send word to the king of Edom, the king of Moab, the king of the sons of Ammon, the king of Tyre, and the king of Sidon by the hand of the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.


id: 2210dab5-2f9f-4782-89f2-25f6fda08204
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Give them this charge for their masters: ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: This is what you shall say to your masters:


id: a2dcac06-d41b-46a7-ad26-7dd237fa0f46
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “It is I who by my great power and my outstretched arm have made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, and I give it to whomever it seems right to me.


id: b6e7ed75-638d-43c3-9fd1-2097c3eaaf07
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant, and I have given him also the beasts of the field to serve him.


id: cbea5b09-e053-4131-bc08-d502ea762a83
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.


id: 76392909-53b9-423e-94c1-5dcd404bef17
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “‘“But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, declares the LORD, until I have consumed it by his hand.


id: 0a1d18e4-957c-46d5-a2d3-7d0d83fbd507
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your fortune-tellers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon.’


id: cbb2a859-8afb-451d-bbdd-cd4c2accce8a
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For it is a lie that they are prophesying to you, with the result that you will be removed far from your land, and I will drive you out, and you will perish.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But any nation that will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave on its own land, to work it and dwell there, declares the LORD.”’”


id: e36f92d7-7526-45d4-bb0c-82543ff30b7d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  To Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke in like manner: “Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people and live.


id: 40cee0c1-d29a-4a42-aafc-20cdc15d6653
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Why will you and your people die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, as the LORD has spoken concerning any nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?


id: 5f545230-2b79-4b9c-938b-057a9180e630
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon,’ for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you.


id: a020e203-c04b-4d81-9f73-238eb3f07f19
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I have not sent them, declares the LORD, but they are prophesying falsely in my name, with the result that I will drive you out and you will perish, you and the prophets who are prophesying to you.”


id: 1f0fd1f1-fbe1-4250-9875-fe426c45e51f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, “Thus says the LORD: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who are prophesying to you, saying, ‘Behold, the vessels of the LORD’s house will now shortly be brought back from Babylon,’ for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live. Why should this city become a desolation?


id: 4f429664-7c4c-483a-87e4-94cfef0c0667
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  If they are prophets, and if the word of the LORD is with them, then let them intercede with the LORD of hosts, that the vessels that are left in the house of the LORD, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem may not go to Babylon.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, the sea, the stands, and the rest of the vessels that are left in this city,


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take away, when he took into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem—


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of the LORD, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem:


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  They shall be carried to Babylon and remain there until the day when I visit them, declares the LORD. Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.” 


id: 245ebd75-da08-4fc6-9152-dd39352b4aa2
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  In that same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fifth month of the fourth year, Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and all the people, saying,


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Within two years I will bring back to this place all the vessels of the LORD’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon.


id: 2ebee225-1e65-4657-997b-88276ae5bc7d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I will also bring back to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the exiles from Judah who went to Babylon, declares the LORD, for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.”


id: bf644443-9c5b-4b76-b01e-e0b5052c8cf2
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then the prophet Jeremiah spoke to Hananiah the prophet in the presence of the priests and all the people who were standing in the house of the LORD,


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  and the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! May the LORD do so; may the LORD make the words that you have prophesied come true, and bring back to this place from Babylon the vessels of the house of the LORD, and all the exiles.


id: d3a101a6-8ab2-4c56-b58d-50b39399b32f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The prophets who preceded you and me from ancient times prophesied war, famine, and pestilence against many countries and great kingdoms.


id: 87b3bfc3-35bc-4d50-ade5-d392ff8471b6
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  As for the prophet who prophesies peace, when the word of that prophet comes to pass, then it will be known that the LORD has truly sent the prophet.”


id: eff30b39-6c34-407f-8cb1-8eefdc50a576
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, “Thus says the LORD: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all the nations within two years.” But Jeremiah the prophet went his way.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Sometime after the prophet Hananiah had broken the yoke-bars from off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:


id: 334af49e-11af-4061-b315-0c8a0cdb5244
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Go, tell Hananiah, ‘Thus says the LORD: You have broken wooden bars, but you have made in their place bars of iron.


id: e9ca5d1d-2368-4f5a-86ec-db4ccd88771f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put upon the neck of all these nations an iron yoke to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they shall serve him, for I have given to him even the beasts of the field.’”


id: 35c4e544-95be-4629-8f48-46a14db389ab
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And Jeremiah the prophet said to the prophet Hananiah, “Listen, Hananiah, the LORD has not sent you, and you have made this people trust in a lie.


id: 00281101-845f-4f7a-896e-13dcf8e5982f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Therefore thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, I will remove you from the face of the earth. This year you shall die, because you have uttered rebellion against the LORD.’”


id: 5e14d806-b4bb-4e4d-bf38-7a9cadc27a4e
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  These are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders of the exiles, and to the priests, the prophets, and all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  This was after King Jeconiah and the queen mother, the eunuchs, the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metal workers had departed from Jerusalem.


id: b35f13b5-9a5e-4990-8b29-1da380acfca0
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The letter was sent by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. It said:


id: 37421d2b-0f0e-4426-ae4c-f8f2195b3691
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon:


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.


id: df444a36-076e-4f98-baf5-383798e8bf14
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are among you deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams that they dream,


id: fc6b4995-c377-4f65-b371-75670613a927
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you in my name; I did not send them, declares the LORD.


id: 357cf296-583e-4227-ada6-0c324b162284
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “For thus says the LORD: When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place.


id: 28ba919a-0b1d-4c9d-a6cb-e320221b8145
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.


id: 4d590fb6-09ed-46f7-9a3f-7e3cb9634fd0
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.


id: 003d4b4b-3bfa-489c-b2fb-e2c7f30029fd
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  thus says the LORD concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your kinsmen who did not go out with you into exile:


id: 19015fea-617b-4952-a61c-f63b090badbe
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, behold, I am sending on them sword, famine, and pestilence, and I will make them like vile figs that are so rotten they cannot be eaten.


id: 72340218-14a3-45f7-8347-01d16a6e7fba
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I will pursue them with sword, famine, and pestilence, and will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, a terror, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,


id: dbbe4b8b-8de0-43f5-8a56-24823236f78b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  because they did not pay attention to my words, declares the LORD, that I persistently sent to you by my servants the prophets, but you would not listen, declares the LORD.’


id: 921c730c-2ab1-4d94-9b14-3db46d09d82e
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying a lie to you in my name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall strike them down before your eyes.


id: f978eb55-66c4-4f2c-a159-ce2446cda4d2
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Because of them this curse shall be used by all the exiles from Judah in Babylon: “The LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,”


id: fee49456-8f52-4385-b23f-65e958f45ead
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  because they have done an outrageous thing in Israel, they have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and they have spoken in my name lying words that I did not command them. I am the one who knows, and I am witness, declares the LORD.’”


id: 1c2b918c-ba50-44b5-b823-013ea62b6e5a
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: You have sent letters in your name to all the people who are in Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,


id: 7b775804-80b5-40cb-8db0-7e71bc8522e4
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  ‘The LORD has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, to have charge in the house of the LORD over every madman who prophesies, to put him in the stocks and neck irons.


id: e84d9ad6-f8d7-4ddf-b473-c86da5d780e1
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, “Your exile will be long; build houses and live in them, and plant gardens and eat their produce.”’”


id: 3b4e0285-c184-4a5a-8067-c4a72f67023d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Send to all the exiles, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD concerning Shemaiah of Nehelam: Because Shemaiah had prophesied to you when I did not send him, and has made you trust in a lie,


id: 9d7bd251-0a1b-423a-8bf6-4159bc317e01
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I will punish Shemaiah of Nehelam and his descendants. He shall not have anyone living among this people, and he shall not see the good that I will do to my people, declares the LORD, for he has spoken rebellion against the LORD.’” 


id: 63fcc86b-3d6e-412c-adfc-b5a2489a62fc
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For behold, days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will restore the fortunes of my people, Israel and Judah, says the LORD, and I will bring them back to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall take possession of it.”


id: 5195384d-5c02-4397-bf99-5e2c2d3dbfc2
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Ask now, and see, can a man bear a child? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor? Why has every face turned pale?


id: 62e68b21-1625-4dcf-9ad9-1a011c1a1459
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Alas! That day is so great there is none like it; it is a time of distress for Jacob; yet he shall be saved out of it.


id: 66b9017f-d08d-46a1-863f-999b09f5db00
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “And it shall come to pass in that day, declares the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and I will burst your bonds, and foreigners shall no more make a servant of him.


id: 60c954bb-0b0b-4a54-9c6a-d09b0ed760e5
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Then fear not, O Jacob my servant, declares the LORD, nor be dismayed, O Israel; for behold, I will save you from far away, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return and have quiet and ease, and none shall make him afraid.


id: 50a56073-ab12-48c6-8291-b8b694f53922
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.


id: f4ee6bb1-8c47-433b-90db-d01aedcc89dd
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  All your lovers have forgotten you; they care nothing for you; for I have dealt you the blow of an enemy, the punishment of a merciless foe, because your guilt is great, because your sins are flagrant.


id: aa0f0c78-05f9-468d-8ec7-5d0f773a36df
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Why do you cry out over your hurt? Your pain is incurable. Because your guilt is great, because your sins are flagrant, I have done these things to you.


id: bd057f3b-11e6-4e6d-b239-dfffcd92d37b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Therefore all who devour you shall be devoured, and all your foes, every one of them, shall go into captivity; those who plunder you shall be plundered, and all who prey on you I will make a prey.


id: 0c2b7d00-9887-46eb-a469-3e982e05fb07
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the LORD, because they have called you an outcast: ‘It is Zion, for whom no one cares!’


id: 52c376e0-c32c-408f-ad2e-f1cb2d69f68f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Thus says the LORD: Behold, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob and have compassion on his dwellings; the city shall be rebuilt on its mound, and the palace shall stand where it used to be.


id: 1734d9eb-0f5b-4b65-8dc4-1839605ccf06
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Out of them shall come songs of thanksgiving, and the voices of those who celebrate. I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will make them honored, and they shall not be small.


id: 8a6afb38-8650-4d5e-ad24-1247efc3ecb2
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Their children shall be as they were of old, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all who oppress them.


id: 5c91618e-320a-4ad1-857f-50e2c44e8eb2
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Their prince shall be one of themselves; their ruler shall come out from their midst; I will make him draw near, and he shall approach me, for who would dare of himself to approach me? declares the LORD.


id: 0612fd81-aaa2-4c16-b356-e4ba62f20c83
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Behold the storm of the LORD! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked.


id: fc03e6c5-4d15-4e1d-8210-31f72a2e5c35
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The fierce anger of the LORD will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intentions of his mind. In the latter days you will understand this. 


id: 79662eda-2c36-4a99-9c80-97a8bdb9c170
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “At that time, declares the LORD, I will be the God of all the clans of Israel, and they shall be my people.”


id: a6e5f658-8811-465f-9b3b-582424116f5a
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Thus says the LORD: “The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness; when Israel sought for rest,


id: 9c3d7b60-0607-4bb6-b84e-9b31d9533d47
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  the LORD appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.


id: 8432fe21-9168-4a57-b601-01868ce98410
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin Israel! Again you shall adorn yourself with tambourines and shall go forth in the dance of the merrymakers.


id: 0ab67e92-0463-4388-96ae-db048619fa6a
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Again you shall plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant and shall enjoy the fruit.


id: f6b9391a-3b44-4f7e-936c-1a54f5068105
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For there shall be a day when watchmen will call in the hill country of Ephraim: ‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God.’”


id: b38be988-223f-4f7a-bd45-2db6577bb586
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For thus says the LORD: “Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, ‘O LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel.’


id: dd3eb0bf-a064-4d1e-a591-83c3a71d6263
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Behold, I will bring them from the north country and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, among them the blind and the lame, the pregnant woman and she who is in labor, together; a great company, they shall return here.


id: c5be795b-885f-43d6-88e3-b239823a300e
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  With weeping they shall come, and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back, I will make them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble, for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.


id: ac80cccc-05c4-4eef-be05-3b25959e5f19
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, and declare it in the coastlands far away; say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.’


id: 9d69d819-93a2-4084-b21e-78a457d78b80
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Zion, and they shall be radiant over the goodness of the LORD, over the grain, the wine, and the oil, and over the young of the flock and the herd; their life shall be like a watered garden, and they shall languish no more.


id: 0fb0aeba-f7c9-4c14-a42e-b132b3827aaa
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old shall be merry. I will turn their mourning into joy; I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow.


id: 714b9307-adc4-4ad2-bb6b-80b9041c3e88
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I will feast the soul of the priests with abundance, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, declares the LORD.”


id: 4d69c164-c48c-4370-94fe-b976088f34a6
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Thus says the LORD: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”


id: 88f824dc-7f1a-4b76-be3c-03e2102c26c1
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Thus says the LORD: “Keep your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears, for there is a reward for your work, declares the LORD, and they shall come back from the land of the enemy.


id: 60a3bc96-7e5d-44be-bc3d-8bd390b14e89
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  There is hope for your future, declares the LORD, and your children shall come back to their own country.


id: 2fbac242-6a09-4554-ba97-a3ff2e07a911
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I have heard Ephraim grieving, ‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like an untrained calf; bring me back that I may be restored, for you are the LORD my God.


id: 3de4f163-476f-41a8-ac4f-17b84039fa55
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For after I had turned away, I relented, and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh; I was ashamed, and I was confounded, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’


id: 220427ca-b25f-4be3-a8fd-68d4688a6e5e
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he my darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do remember him still. Therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, declares the LORD.


id: 448e33fd-412b-4159-be4d-97085f7b1de3
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Set up road markers for yourself; make yourself guideposts; consider well the highway, the road by which you went. Return, O virgin Israel, return to these your cities.


id: 64019360-e123-4804-b95f-4a30bfde8464
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  How long will you waver, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing on the earth: a woman encircles a man.”


id: 2b24986f-d9c3-4358-97d9-5f6f80c700b1
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: “Once more they shall use these words in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I restore their fortunes: “‘The LORD bless you, O habitation of righteousness, O holy hill!’


id: b735f54b-60f3-4c04-960f-9db82ff7746d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And Judah and all its cities shall dwell there together, and the farmers and those who wander with their flocks.


id: cfbe5b0d-7121-4d94-8550-54385c6176b2
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast.


id: 5bc96214-f1c9-413d-82a8-f4a22f898907
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And it shall come to pass that as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring harm, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, declares the LORD.


id: 17fc4d94-f563-47e8-9f36-b7a3fde24e79
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  In those days they shall no longer say: “‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’


id: 65330792-4063-416d-8802-b5102e6f7c8f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But everyone shall die for his own iniquity. Each man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.


id: 928e8865-98e7-4cc7-8c67-94bb1dbce49a
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah,


id: 4c195c56-dd5b-43f2-ab33-2b76327dab49
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the LORD.


id: 4bdb8c29-37b9-4bc4-b918-0f0c17b35477
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.


id: 20d3a1b5-f78b-4024-84e0-c861c4372737
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”


id: c825b100-fa53-471d-b945-040fb83b23d0
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the LORD of hosts is his name:


id: 96328089-cb30-4b9d-962e-a3db5e56ca70
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “If this fixed order departs from before me, declares the LORD, then shall the offspring of Israel cease from being a nation before me forever.”


id: 13777e71-2703-4b9c-828a-2558cc5fecf2
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Thus says the LORD: “If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth below can be explored, then I will cast off all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done, declares the LORD.”


id: 4d8bfa03-3348-4f08-bb87-542f65069665
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when the city shall be rebuilt for the LORD from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.


id: 32e09a25-166a-4fa0-8219-a5f32c0f3ffd
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And the measuring line shall go out farther, straight to the hill Gareb, and shall then turn to Goah.


id: 823f801a-3017-4307-b479-e3cedb362968
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The whole valley of the dead bodies and the ashes, and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, shall be sacred to the LORD. It shall not be plucked up or overthrown anymore forever.” 


id: f13f7206-dde6-44a7-8392-ed39c341827f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.


id: 5b7818e0-1499-42e5-906d-abc62b968841
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard that was in the palace of the king of Judah.


id: 16f56ea9-cb18-467a-a71a-02247a811214
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him, saying, “Why do you prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the LORD: Behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall capture it;


id: c6f6c563-fe27-4b01-8b40-506347e29ead
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye.


id: a03bf3c6-4196-4ee7-8911-c28e86d5ac5f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And he shall take Zedekiah to Babylon, and there he shall remain until I visit him, declares the LORD. Though you fight against the Chaldeans, you shall not succeed’?”


id: f8cfb440-6f0e-4ca2-bd9c-9b2dd4a36f7a
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you and say, ‘Buy my field that is at Anathoth, for the right of redemption by purchase is yours.’


id: 88bcfff8-d2ad-4f2a-b3be-011d8b6a1f70
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then Hanamel my cousin came to me in the court of the guard, in accordance with the word of the LORD, and said to me, ‘Buy my field that is at Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for the right of possession and redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.’ Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.


id: cad66b83-6d83-4802-9d0d-f60a5d148587
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “And I bought the field at Anathoth from Hanamel my cousin, and weighed out the money to him, seventeen shekels of silver.


id: 9e0a07d1-d195-4617-909e-c6e29d11f8c5
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And I gave the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my cousin, in the presence of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, and in the presence of all the Judeans who were sitting in the court of the guard.


id: 5a1e02aa-0238-44ad-b63b-dae8eeccc947
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Take these deeds, both this sealed deed of purchase and this open deed, and put them in an earthenware vessel, that they may last for a long time.


id: 74b7c0f7-701d-4238-aeda-e3eebf132546
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall again be bought in this land.’


id: 3b5fb079-1330-41c2-b5af-95a3fd760f9a
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  ‘Ah, Lord GOD! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.


id: 3ba2ff68-264d-443c-89c5-1a57a3766ba2
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  You show steadfast love to thousands, but you repay the guilt of fathers to their children after them, O great and mighty God, whose name is the LORD of hosts,


id: fe09a9a3-d140-44ac-93a8-bb365a209169
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of man, rewarding each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.


id: 847f95ca-a7ca-4c8b-937c-38acd5198150
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  You have shown signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and to this day in Israel and among all mankind, and have made a name for yourself, as at this day.


id: f90b5e7e-9b8c-4bc5-81f7-d426031fafe7
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  You brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and outstretched arm, and with great terror.


id: 9f572a3a-b65c-4520-8274-f00e0b8dbd6a
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And you gave them this land, which you swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.


id: 37b1e12e-e3eb-4ca2-aaab-5e07e45e8224
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And they entered and took possession of it. But they did not obey your voice or walk in your law. They did nothing of all you commanded them to do. Therefore you have made all this disaster come upon them.


id: 3784209b-5535-4cd5-b3c8-ba42c4a89253
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Behold, the siege mounds have come up to the city to take it, and because of sword and famine and pestilence the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What you spoke has come to pass, and behold, you see it.


id: bc690588-6219-473d-8b59-f35a8f5f8988
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Yet you, O Lord GOD, have said to me, “Buy the field for money and get witnesses”—though the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans.’”


id: 8ef31623-bed4-4756-9440-d7de888f5310
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Therefore, thus says the LORD: Behold, I am giving this city into the hands of the Chaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall capture it.


id: 18b9d1b0-8d4a-4e23-a234-28c09bd16cc7
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city shall come and set this city on fire and burn it, with the houses on whose roofs offerings have been made to Baal and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods, to provoke me to anger.


id: 144bc43d-6915-4cc7-8dfe-4d08721f975e
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done nothing but evil in my sight from their youth. The children of Israel have done nothing but provoke me to anger by the work of their hands, declares the LORD.


id: 8dd65d55-c5ff-4044-a67a-482a4831a380
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  This city has aroused my anger and wrath, from the day it was built to this day, so that I will remove it from my sight


id: 098d2199-212f-4da9-9fbe-663825bb9166
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  because of all the evil of the children of Israel and the children of Judah that they did to provoke me to anger—their kings and their officials, their priests and their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


id: 25382be7-922d-4ff9-b3af-c5efdf79dfb2
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  They have turned to me their back and not their face. And though I have taught them persistently, they have not listened to receive instruction.


id: 42e8c1f5-147a-4e22-8e79-e71cc5149a13
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  They built the high places of Baal in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.


id: c523a086-0f3c-4461-93cc-5094e1e55b9f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Now therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city of which you say, ‘It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword, by famine, and by pestilence’:


id: d653798d-b58e-453a-bb38-c821600689d4
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Behold, I will gather them from all the countries to which I drove them in my anger and my wrath and in great indignation. I will bring them back to this place, and I will make them dwell in safety.


id: cb0757b6-839a-4c8a-b479-76354e60884a
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their own good and the good of their children after them.


id: 741edbcc-48b3-4eb0-9e86-a35fd553258f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me.


id: 92d9d62e-8a41-4390-a435-0c950c141a7e
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul.


id: 1fbd76d2-ef13-40a0-aef4-293629211d50
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “For thus says the LORD: Just as I have brought all this great disaster upon this people, so I will bring upon them all the good that I promise them.


id: d938003e-4bd3-4ec1-b267-f4fefebbe0b9
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Fields shall be bought in this land of which you are saying, ‘It is a desolation, without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’


id: 1133e008-b2ce-432b-9e18-0c1faa6caecd
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Fields shall be bought for money, and deeds shall be signed and sealed and witnessed, in the land of Benjamin, in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the Shephelah, and in the cities of the Negeb; for I will restore their fortunes, declares the LORD.” 


id: e805e3ea-f313-4b38-853a-0469a6eb8d44
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah a second time, while he was still shut up in the court of the guard:


id: 07f997c5-5e9a-474a-a021-df49a9e33d43
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD who formed it to establish it—the LORD is his name:


id: 21be3e43-80f6-4539-b1a6-4df51ed85df2
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.


id: 003a843b-6ed3-4ca8-918d-50fa934f0b65
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and the houses of the kings of Judah that were torn down to make a defense against the siege mounds and against the sword:


id: a4570a17-fa05-435e-b170-d38ac856581b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  They are coming in to fight against the Chaldeans and to fill them with the dead bodies of men whom I shall strike down in my anger and my wrath, for I have hidden my face from this city because of all their evil.


id: 036ac72f-981a-4afb-9c16-bc8083363280
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security.


id: d166d559-5205-4702-8d6e-e72fe13654a6
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I will restore the fortunes of Judah and the fortunes of Israel, and rebuild them as they were at first.


id: d38a32f5-9739-4a7c-a495-e493f8e0fe12
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I will cleanse them from all the guilt of their sin against me, and I will forgive all the guilt of their sin and rebellion against me.


id: df2d90b0-74ad-4eb8-875c-5aa78a361e93
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And this city shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for them. They shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for it.


id: 9bc86d96-d110-49d3-a8af-4991ae9edd73
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Thus says the LORD: In this place of which you say, ‘It is a waste without man or beast,’ in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man or inhabitant or beast, there shall be heard again


id: 719686c0-0373-4e3f-9f46-b0517e171de5
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who sing, as they bring thank offerings to the house of the LORD: “‘Give thanks to the LORD of hosts, for the LORD is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!’ For I will restore the fortunes of the land as at first, says the LORD.


id: 9233f398-626d-491c-b7b4-f0d8e44a51cb
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Thus says the LORD of hosts: In this place that is waste, without man or beast, and in all of its cities, there shall again be habitations of shepherds resting their flocks.


id: 19e6a5a1-2302-42f8-a6ec-5bca8db7cc79
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the Shephelah, and in the cities of the Negeb, in the land of Benjamin, the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, flocks shall again pass under the hands of the one who counts them, says the LORD.


id: 71ddd126-6d83-4156-b05c-863fc59b58c7
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah.


id: d4ccd893-eb9d-4a26-8f2e-0601e1ac6d0a
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David, and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.


id: 7226e807-60d4-4bcc-8e88-22aa2a306229
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely. And this is the name by which it will be called: ‘The LORD is our righteousness.’


id: a009079a-4d22-473d-87f7-81cfb617b982
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  and the Levitical priests shall never lack a man in my presence to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings, and to make sacrifices forever.”


id: fde7b916-4b64-4de7-bda6-7813ed7c9cf1
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Thus says the LORD: If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night will not come at their appointed time,


id: 1dffe300-81d2-4313-965c-f50d1b53c68e
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  then also my covenant with David my servant may be broken, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and my covenant with the Levitical priests my ministers.


id: 09ce7c08-a7cf-4359-a990-939b59a06eb2
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  As the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant, and the Levitical priests who minister to me.”


id: d9c0ec5c-3b07-4d41-9d3e-022ffeb2ccea
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Have you not observed that these people are saying, ‘The LORD has rejected the two clans that he chose’? Thus they have despised my people so that they are no longer a nation in their sight.


id: 0e180056-e400-4491-b16f-c593c37cf91e
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Thus says the LORD: If I have not established my covenant with day and night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,


id: 90389e12-9005-4fba-9fcc-74593500117c
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  then I will reject the offspring of Jacob and David my servant and will not choose one of his offspring to rule over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore their fortunes and will have mercy on them.” 


id: 7224ff2f-cad6-4bcb-b535-d3aaa8fdcfb1
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army and all the kingdoms of the earth under his dominion and all the peoples were fighting against Jerusalem and all of its cities:


id: 857977ad-51a0-4c45-96f2-e63a1a63963a
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD: Behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.


id: a8ce022a-1b38-462b-b2c0-b471b18e8be2
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  You shall not escape from his hand but shall surely be captured and delivered into his hand. You shall see the king of Babylon eye to eye and speak with him face to face. And you shall go to Babylon.’


id: d6e9947e-27a0-40e9-9348-39e0b8153379
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah! Thus says the LORD concerning you: ‘You shall not die by the sword.


id: 6eb86799-e422-4dc7-8549-faf8ee058aff
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  You shall die in peace. And as spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so people shall burn spices for you and lament for you, saying, “Alas, lord!”’ For I have spoken the word, declares the LORD.”


id: 821d9686-9d2f-44c3-acc3-fa8f1cd797fc
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  when the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left, Lachish and Azekah, for these were the only fortified cities of Judah that remained.


id: b9ed0f6e-6be2-4e3f-a55d-e68c8e694b83
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to make a proclamation of liberty to them,


id: fcc7ae8a-67fa-4385-86c8-78e724287e52
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  that everyone should set free his Hebrew slaves, male and female, so that no one should enslave a Jew, his brother.


id: 13a491b6-b59d-4d16-adbb-1abda7793a9d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And they obeyed, all the officials and all the people who had entered into the covenant that everyone would set free his slave, male or female, so that they would not be enslaved again. They obeyed and set them free.


id: d9347a93-15af-496c-b922-9691a2ec8819
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But afterward they turned around and took back the male and female slaves they had set free, and brought them into subjection as slaves.


id: 61e677de-3b85-4202-b64f-bb792bcbdf19
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: I myself made a covenant with your fathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, saying,


id: 7760cf75-67c0-4ec9-86c8-d30cac00f1e0
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  ‘At the end of seven years each of you must set free the fellow Hebrew who has been sold to you and has served you six years; you must set him free from your service.’ But your fathers did not listen to me or incline their ears to me.


id: fc18d6ea-1fe9-4f3c-8d2c-3852474fc9fe
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  You recently repented and did what was right in my eyes by proclaiming liberty, each to his neighbor, and you made a covenant before me in the house that is called by my name,


id: 412bfc7a-5df1-4158-83c5-e38d5b8b3832
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  but then you turned around and profaned my name when each of you took back his male and female slaves, whom you had set free according to their desire, and you brought them into subjection to be your slaves.


id: 2df422ed-e336-4f18-9efe-3eb74914b43e
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Therefore, thus says the LORD: You have not obeyed me by proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and to his neighbor; behold, I proclaim to you liberty to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine, declares the LORD. I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.


id: 3db33c25-ae9b-445c-a6f7-780b4b259a89
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And the men who transgressed my covenant and did not keep the terms of the covenant that they made before me, I will make them like the calf that they cut in two and passed between its parts—


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label: Jer
content:
  the officials of Judah, the officials of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf.


id: dc00b7bd-3803-4201-aff5-d3ff33574fe5
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their lives. Their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials I will give into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their lives, into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon which has withdrawn from you.


id: dead7d75-e5ca-4e7b-b67c-9446556ea80f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Behold, I will command, declares the LORD, and will bring them back to this city. And they will fight against it and take it and burn it with fire. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without inhabitant.” 


id: 43d11fc0-3a4c-40eb-864e-aa139163d8c3
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Go to the house of the Rechabites and speak with them and bring them to the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers; then offer them wine to drink.”


id: 5784f20c-16cd-4039-83dc-06fdea521205
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  So I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, son of Habazziniah and his brothers and all his sons and the whole house of the Rechabites.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I brought them to the house of the LORD into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was near the chamber of the officials, above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, keeper of the threshold.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But they answered, “We will drink no wine, for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, ‘You shall not drink wine, neither you nor your sons forever.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  You shall not build a house; you shall not sow seed; you shall not plant or have a vineyard; but you shall live in tents all your days, that you may live many days in the land where you sojourn.’


id: adba5279-89e6-4654-bde2-2e1bd35f82db
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, ourselves, our wives, our sons, or our daughters,


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against the land, we said, ‘Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans and the army of the Syrians.’ So we are living in Jerusalem.”


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Go and say to the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will you not receive instruction and listen to my words? declares the LORD.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The command that Jonadab the son of Rechab gave to his sons, to drink no wine, has been kept, and they drink none to this day, for they have obeyed their father’s command. I have spoken to you persistently, but you have not listened to me.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, sending them persistently, saying, ‘Turn now every one of you from his evil way, and amend your deeds, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to you and your fathers.’ But you did not incline your ear or listen to me.


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label: Jer
content:
  The sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have kept the command that their father gave them, but this people has not obeyed me.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Therefore, thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing upon Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the disaster that I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to them and they have not listened, I have called to them and they have not answered.”


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But to the house of the Rechabites Jeremiah said, “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the command of Jonadab your father and kept all his precepts and done all that he commanded you,


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Jonadab the son of Rechab shall never lack a man to stand before me.” 


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD:


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and Judah and all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah until today.


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label: Jer
content:
  It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the disaster that I intend to do to them, so that every one may turn from his evil way, and that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.”


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote on a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD that he had spoken to him.


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label: Jer
content:
  so you are to go, and on a day of fasting in the hearing of all the people in the LORD’s house you shall read the words of the LORD from the scroll that you have written at my dictation. You shall read them also in the hearing of all the men of Judah who come out of their cities.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  It may be that their plea for mercy will come before the LORD, and that every one will turn from his evil way, for great is the anger and wrath that the LORD has pronounced against this people.”


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And Baruch the son of Neriah did all that Jeremiah the prophet ordered him about reading from the scroll the words of the LORD in the LORD’s house.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  In the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem proclaimed a fast before the LORD.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then, in the hearing of all the people, Baruch read the words of Jeremiah from the scroll, in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the secretary, which was in the upper court, at the entry of the New Gate of the LORD’s house.


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label: Jer
content:
  he went down to the king’s house, into the secretary’s chamber, and all the officials were sitting there: Elishama the secretary, Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, Elnathan the son of Achbor, Gemariah the son of Shaphan, Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the officials.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And Micaiah told them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the scroll in the hearing of the people.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then all the officials sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, son of Shelemiah, son of Cushi, to say to Baruch, “Take in your hand the scroll that you read in the hearing of the people, and come.” So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand and came to them.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  When they heard all the words, they turned one to another in fear. And they said to Baruch, “We must report all these words to the king.”


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then they asked Baruch, “Tell us, please, how did you write all these words? Was it at his dictation?”


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Baruch answered them, “He dictated all these words to me, while I wrote them with ink on the scroll.”


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then the officials said to Baruch, “Go and hide, you and Jeremiah, and let no one know where you are.”


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  So they went into the court to the king, having put the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the secretary, and they reported all the words to the king.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Elishama the secretary. And Jehudi read it to the king and all the officials who stood beside the king.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  It was the ninth month, and the king was sitting in the winter house, and there was a fire burning in the fire pot before him.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  As Jehudi read three or four columns, the king would cut them off with a knife and throw them into the fire in the fire pot, until the entire scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the fire pot.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Yet neither the king nor any of his servants who heard all these words was afraid, nor did they tear their garments.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Even when Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son and Seraiah the son of Azriel and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel to seize Baruch the secretary and Jeremiah the prophet, but the LORD hid them.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Now after the king had burned the scroll with the words that Baruch wrote at Jeremiah’s dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Take another scroll and write on it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Thus says the LORD, You have burned this scroll, saying, “Why have you written in it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cut off from it man and beast?”


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit on the throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat by day and the frost by night.


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label: Jer
content:
  And I will punish him and his offspring and his servants for their iniquity. I will bring upon them and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem and upon the people of Judah all the disaster that I have pronounced against them, but they would not hear.’”


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote on it at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them. 


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Zedekiah the son of Josiah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah, reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land listened to the words of the LORD that he spoke through Jeremiah the prophet.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  King Zedekiah sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, to Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “Please pray for us to the LORD our God.”


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The army of Pharaoh had come out of Egypt. And when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news about them, they withdrew from Jerusalem.


id: 4a0c6236-669d-436a-9cb2-fdc6110c311d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Thus says the LORD, God of Israel: Thus shall you say to the king of Judah who sent you to me to inquire of me, ‘Behold, Pharaoh’s army that came to help you is about to return to Egypt, to its own land.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And the Chaldeans shall come back and fight against this city. They shall capture it and burn it with fire.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Thus says the LORD, Do not deceive yourselves, saying, “The Chaldeans will surely go away from us,” for they will not go away.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For even if you should defeat the whole army of Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and there remained of them only wounded men, every man in his tent, they would rise up and burn this city with fire.’”


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Jeremiah set out from Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin to receive his portion there among the people.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  When he was at the Benjamin Gate, a sentry there named Irijah the son of Shelemiah, son of Hananiah, seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans.”


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And Jeremiah said, “It is a lie; I am not deserting to the Chaldeans.” But Irijah would not listen to him, and seized Jeremiah and brought him to the officials.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And the officials were enraged at Jeremiah, and they beat him and imprisoned him in the house of Jonathan the secretary, for it had been made a prison.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  King Zedekiah sent for him and received him. The king questioned him secretly in his house and said, “Is there any word from the LORD?” Jeremiah said, “There is.” Then he said, “You shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.”


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Jeremiah also said to King Zedekiah, “What wrong have I done to you or your servants or this people, that you have put me in prison?


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land’?


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Now hear, please, O my lord the king: let my humble plea come before you and do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the secretary, lest I die there.”


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  So King Zedekiah gave orders, and they committed Jeremiah to the court of the guard. And a loaf of bread was given him daily from the bakers’ street, until all the bread of the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard. 


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Now Shephatiah the son of Mattan, Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchiah heard the words that Jeremiah was saying to all the people:


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Thus says the LORD: He who stays in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, but he who goes out to the Chaldeans shall live. He shall have his life as a prize of war, and live.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Thus says the LORD: This city shall surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon and be taken.”


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then the officials said to the king, “Let this man be put to death, for he is weakening the hands of the soldiers who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking such words to them. For this man is not seeking the welfare of this people, but their harm.”


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. And there was no water in the cistern, but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  When Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern—the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate—


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they did to Jeremiah the prophet by casting him into the cistern, and he will die there of hunger, for there is no bread left in the city.”


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, “Take thirty men with you from here, and lift Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies.”


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  So Ebed-melech took the men with him and went to the house of the king, to a wardrobe in the storehouse, and took from there old rags and worn-out clothes, which he let down to Jeremiah in the cistern by ropes.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, “Put the rags and clothes between your armpits and the ropes.” Jeremiah did so.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then they drew Jeremiah up with ropes and lifted him out of the cistern. And Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and received him at the third entrance of the temple of the LORD. The king said to Jeremiah, “I will ask you a question; hide nothing from me.”


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If I tell you, will you not surely put me to death? And if I give you counsel, you will not listen to me.”


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then King Zedekiah swore secretly to Jeremiah, “As the LORD lives, who made our souls, I will not put you to death or deliver you into the hand of these men who seek your life.”


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “Thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: If you will surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon, then your life shall be spared, and this city shall not be burned with fire, and you and your house shall live.


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label: Jer
content:
  But if you do not surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon, then this city shall be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape from their hand.”


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Judeans who have deserted to the Chaldeans, lest I be handed over to them and they deal cruelly with me.”


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Jeremiah said, “You shall not be given to them. Obey now the voice of the LORD in what I say to you, and it shall be well with you, and your life shall be spared.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Behold, all the women left in the house of the king of Judah were being led out to the officials of the king of Babylon and were saying, “‘Your trusted friends have deceived you and prevailed against you; now that your feet are sunk in the mud, they turn away from you.’


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label: Jer
content:
  All your wives and your sons shall be led out to the Chaldeans, and you yourself shall not escape from their hand, but shall be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city shall be burned with fire.”


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  If the officials hear that I have spoken with you and come to you and say to you, ‘Tell us what you said to the king and what the king said to you; hide nothing from us and we will not put you to death,’


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  then you shall say to them, ‘I made a humble plea to the king that he would not send me back to the house of Jonathan to die there.’”


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then all the officials came to Jeremiah and asked him, and he answered them as the king had instructed him. So they stopped speaking with him, for the conversation had not been overheard.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and besieged it.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then all the officials of the king of Babylon came and sat in the middle gate: Nergal-sar-ezer of Samgar, Nebu-sar-sekim the Rab-saris, Nergal-sar-ezer the Rab-mag, with all the rest of the officers of the king of Babylon.


id: dad6f6ac-c63e-4006-818e-8fd7312236fe
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  When Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled, going out of the city at night by way of the king’s garden through the gate between the two walls; and they went toward the Arabah.


id: bdced665-b82b-4cbc-a5ca-f33a223919e3
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. And when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, at Riblah, in the land of Hamath; and he passed sentence on him.


id: 71c5c112-1c99-426a-9b4a-b95c537a59d9
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah at Riblah before his eyes, and the king of Babylon slaughtered all the nobles of Judah.


id: 1e52d622-f2b7-4db9-b7e5-b00bba5b8221
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The Chaldeans burned the king’s house and the house of the people, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.


id: 50854bfa-1390-4ba8-984f-ccaa26ad8d54
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, carried into exile to Babylon the rest of the people who were left in the city, those who had deserted to him, and the people who remained.


id: 1349d7d4-d9a9-40e4-a549-ae158bc88b8c
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, left in the land of Judah some of the poor people who owned nothing, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.


id: ebe5dc3d-da3d-4464-9faa-331685187651
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon gave command concerning Jeremiah through Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, saying,


id: b2a14605-6945-454f-acd8-b193757e8cc1
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, Nebushazban the Rab-saris, Nergal-sar-ezer the Rab-mag, and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon


id: 8b16157d-4634-4492-8c7a-6e357c377927
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  sent and took Jeremiah from the court of the guard. They entrusted him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, that he should take him home. So he lived among the people.


id: 29deb077-fc54-4de0-9499-bc885b5376e6
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Go, and say to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will fulfill my words against this city for harm and not for good, and they shall be accomplished before you on that day.


id: d1e41d18-fd4c-4ca0-9f37-cd613535f569
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But I will deliver you on that day, declares the LORD, and you shall not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid.


id: d9c82509-a035-4bf7-b342-9a45b87f6d90
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For I will surely save you, and you shall not fall by the sword, but you shall have your life as a prize of war, because you have put your trust in me, declares the LORD.’” 


id: 4eaed41d-23a3-4124-b21a-cf85011ef1a8
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he took him bound in chains along with all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.


id: 0d55303d-af9d-4b60-92c9-34306716ecab
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said to him, “The LORD your God pronounced this disaster against this place.


id: 0c566b2d-f44a-4308-b70c-c2f11bd5e735
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The LORD has brought it about, and has done as he said. Because you sinned against the LORD and did not obey his voice, this thing has come upon you.


id: f1f441fa-cd50-4f7d-a7e2-dfad74d5da22
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Now, behold, I release you today from the chains on your hands. If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will look after you well, but if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, do not come. See, the whole land is before you; go wherever you think it good and right to go.


id: da748797-730a-4fcb-b035-9ac88d7d37bd
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  If you remain, then return to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon appointed governor of the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people. Or go wherever you think it right to go.” So the captain of the guard gave him an allowance of food and a present, and let him go.


id: 25ba04a8-5786-4b23-a87c-8b02e912b45f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then Jeremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, at Mizpah, and lived with him among the people who were left in the land.


id: 3abf8974-e9e0-4108-a2ae-42c0697dcdb9
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  When all the captains of the forces in the open country and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land and had committed to him men, women, and children, those of the poorest of the land who had not been taken into exile to Babylon,


id: 5518eb99-7ac0-44a4-8ef4-27a6fb15b52c
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  they went to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan the son of Kareah, Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.


id: d776bafc-a7bd-490d-a839-7e40658a7fee
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, swore to them and their men, saying, “Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Dwell in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.


id: 75964062-c2d9-4cde-966e-6ec413b39ce7
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  As for me, I will dwell at Mizpah, to represent you before the Chaldeans who will come to us. But as for you, gather wine and summer fruits and oil, and store them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken.”


id: caadc2f0-3946-48f6-bb26-512bd2e5823b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Likewise, when all the Judeans who were in Moab and among the Ammonites and in Edom and in other lands heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, as governor over them,


id: bbe6979a-4ede-4ebf-8702-2752ffb0b7dc
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  then all the Judeans returned from all the places to which they had been driven and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah. And they gathered wine and summer fruits in great abundance.


id: c0005ee6-bacf-4311-9763-cacbcc184e96
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Now Johanan the son of Kareah and all the leaders of the forces in the open country came to Gedaliah at Mizpah


id: 19e4385b-43bb-4db4-aeb4-3acc2e89aa8f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  and said to him, “Do you know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life?” But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam would not believe them.


id: a3a95cb3-cd93-4455-8ae8-be4d2403578b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke secretly to Gedaliah at Mizpah, “Please let me go and strike down Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no one will know it. Why should he take your life, so that all the Judeans who are gathered about you would be scattered, and the remnant of Judah would perish?”


id: 894c9c62-ee80-4f3a-9760-1ef33f90c0b2
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, “You shall not do this thing, for you are speaking falsely of Ishmael.” 


id: 31951070-08c9-4c5b-9715-bf10073a62e1
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  In the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, of the royal family, one of the chief officers of the king, came with ten men to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, at Mizpah. As they ate bread together there at Mizpah,


id: 217ffaac-759a-4ac5-a3a6-d0e83ff216db
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the ten men with him rose up and struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, with the sword, and killed him, whom the king of Babylon had appointed governor in the land.


id: 94d54e9b-5096-4933-bd05-91cce678dfbd
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Ishmael also struck down all the Judeans who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah, and the Chaldean soldiers who happened to be there.


id: f8ec9d9e-2eb6-40c2-aae4-8a2829655735
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  eighty men arrived from Shechem and Shiloh and Samaria, with their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and their bodies gashed, bringing grain offerings and incense to present at the temple of the LORD.


id: 0a0078e8-cc50-47c4-b96a-884c7787a7a5
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah came out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he came. As he met them, he said to them, “Come in to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.”


id: 26e772b8-2877-4b16-be86-b8d836b48da8
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  When they came into the city, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the men with him slaughtered them and cast them into a cistern.


id: 8d43f962-9f33-4ad8-847d-f15ea3759ea4
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But there were ten men among them who said to Ishmael, “Do not put us to death, for we have stores of wheat, barley, oil, and honey hidden in the fields.” So he refrained and did not put them to death with their companions.


id: 314786b5-2723-4bbb-9aa5-0cbb5f33efc7
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Now the cistern into which Ishmael had thrown all the bodies of the men whom he had struck down along with Gedaliah was the large cistern that King Asa had made for defense against Baasha king of Israel; Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.


id: c85eb5df-32d0-4040-b8d5-ec2beba183f0
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then Ishmael took captive all the rest of the people who were in Mizpah, the king’s daughters and all the people who were left at Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah took them captive and set out to cross over to the Ammonites.


id: 2266bb77-ae52-435e-8fe7-b24db1f009c9
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But when Johanan the son of Kareah and all the leaders of the forces with him heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,


id: c5d40f64-6471-48c6-bc38-f4bdf7629593
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  they took all their men and went to fight against Ishmael the son of Nethaniah. They came upon him at the great pool that is in Gibeon.


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And when all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah and all the leaders of the forces with him, they rejoiced.


id: b8a4d58f-3cb8-4634-9899-ce3bba9fc97b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  So all the people whom Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah turned around and came back, and went to Johanan the son of Kareah.


id: 3942d18c-1f25-4be1-9f92-71c7ed4c4b25
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then Johanan the son of Kareah and all the leaders of the forces with him took from Mizpah all the rest of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, after he had struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam—soldiers, women, children, and eunuchs, whom Johanan brought back from Gibeon.


id: 343a3084-943c-4cbf-ba32-c82150af74fe
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  because of the Chaldeans. For they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land. 


id: f066957c-ef1c-4a8e-b4cb-891d088332ee
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then all the commanders of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least to the greatest, came near


id: 1ea64993-f778-4adc-8594-9a6d0ed8dfe3
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Let our plea for mercy come before you, and pray to the LORD your God for us, for all this remnant—because we are left with but a few, as your eyes see us—


id: 408ab611-5f02-44c0-a078-a115507d58d1
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you. Behold, I will pray to the LORD your God according to your request, and whatever the LORD answers you I will tell you. I will keep nothing back from you.”


id: 8a34e1ff-dfcb-4967-9109-c62cae978b62
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act according to all the word with which the LORD your God sends you to us.


id: 30f7083f-4eec-4bc7-a404-f94f89ec2c4a
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Whether it is good or bad, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God to whom we are sending you, that it may be well with us when we obey the voice of the LORD our God.”


id: 95d6a0c0-187b-4a9b-ac89-0fc5d903968e
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then he summoned Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces who were with him, and all the people from the least to the greatest,


id: 0f1a3f92-9af9-42f2-8fd2-79688db6375b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  and said to them, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your plea for mercy before him:


id: 29c271f9-bdb7-4a18-9c66-f65a25359d91
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  If you will remain in this land, then I will build you up and not pull you down; I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I relent of the disaster that I did to you.


id: 63ecd5eb-d6ea-414f-ad2b-f2f673fd7df2
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Do not fear the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid. Do not fear him, declares the LORD, for I am with you, to save you and to deliver you from his hand.


id: 5a34e344-fb70-4c86-92c6-23c3856e9556
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  and saying, ‘No, we will go to the land of Egypt, where we shall not see war or hear the sound of the trumpet or be hungry for bread, and we will dwell there,’


id: 2c5d90b4-826a-4ec5-b16c-a06862aa820c
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  then hear the word of the LORD, O remnant of Judah. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: If you set your faces to enter Egypt and go to live there,


id: fded3107-fe5a-4287-9f26-54a83b055ad0
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  then the sword that you fear shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine of which you are afraid shall follow close after you to Egypt, and there you shall die.


id: 654e633e-6a0d-4bcb-857e-aaed3f2dd6cc
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  All the men who set their faces to go to Egypt to live there shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. They shall have no remnant or survivor from the disaster that I will bring upon them.


id: ca8eef66-d08b-406e-a352-78ec61b81ec2
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: As my anger and my wrath were poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you when you go to Egypt. You shall become an execration, a horror, a curse, and a taunt. You shall see this place no more.


id: 2197d133-c084-46cc-84d5-556b5932734c
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The LORD has said to you, O remnant of Judah, ‘Do not go to Egypt.’ Know for a certainty that I have warned you this day


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  that you have gone astray at the cost of your lives. For you sent me to the LORD your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to the LORD our God, and whatever the LORD our God says, declare to us and we will do it.’


id: aee12ac0-f62d-49ec-a17e-75ff513c0932
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And I have this day declared it to you, but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God in anything that he sent me to tell you.


id: f53d20a4-34e9-402c-adcb-2bf9dc0b7b2d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Now therefore know for a certainty that you shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence in the place where you desire to go to live.” 


id: d4c6facf-7cdd-451d-bc72-5260699dc5b0
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  When Jeremiah finished speaking to all the people all these words of the LORD their God, with which the LORD their God had sent him to them,


id: f034c907-d3e4-4a6d-ad43-62d36296d75a
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Azariah the son of Hoshaiah and Johanan the son of Kareah and all the insolent men said to Jeremiah, “You are telling a lie. The LORD our God did not send you to say, ‘Do not go to Egypt to live there,’


id: e7945ee1-891e-4f68-ac69-37cba644f161
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  but Baruch the son of Neriah has set you against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may kill us or take us into exile in Babylon.”


id: 6c81d7c4-487b-46f0-92e3-4705d4a0c5c1
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  So Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces and all the people did not obey the voice of the LORD, to remain in the land of Judah.


id: e2ba970d-5bb0-43d5-9f13-f949c42af233
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces took all the remnant of Judah who had returned to live in the land of Judah from all the nations to which they had been driven—


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book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  the men, the women, the children, the princesses, and every person whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan; also Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch the son of Neriah.


id: 60f5ea3e-0593-4eab-bec3-5661bda03b0b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And they came into the land of Egypt, for they did not obey the voice of the LORD. And they arrived at Tahpanhes.


id: 5ba26250-8f46-4e27-a0be-019254120eef
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Take in your hands large stones and hide them in the mortar in the pavement that is at the entrance to Pharaoh’s palace in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah,


id: febda02b-d265-40f4-9de1-6885d1929461
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  and say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will set his throne above these stones that I have hidden, and he will spread his royal canopy over them.


id: fc04c2b9-9733-48dd-a63c-1ac44e1a0c94
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  He shall come and strike the land of Egypt, giving over to the pestilence those who are doomed to the pestilence, to captivity those who are doomed to captivity, and to the sword those who are doomed to the sword.


id: 3e40158a-4d71-4992-879a-ed1c29dac444
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I shall kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them and carry them away captive. And he shall clean the land of Egypt as a shepherd cleans his cloak of vermin, and he shall go away from there in peace.


id: 74b31f58-5089-4513-a79c-6ff0fd56fbe0
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  He shall break the obelisks of Heliopolis, which is in the land of Egypt, and the temples of the gods of Egypt he shall burn with fire.’” 


id: 805076b6-29d9-4c9e-a1d3-cc5e1613e4c8
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Judeans who lived in the land of Egypt, at Migdol, at Tahpanhes, at Memphis, and in the land of Pathros,


id: 78234cdd-3389-42ab-ad75-4eeffdd1ef23
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: You have seen all the disaster that I brought upon Jerusalem and upon all the cities of Judah. Behold, this day they are a desolation, and no one dwells in them,


id: 365571c0-45e3-43c7-9e81-122defa69711
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  because of the evil that they committed, provoking me to anger, in that they went to make offerings and serve other gods that they knew not, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers.


id: 45c8906a-9627-4a92-9237-3f27b5201e49
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, ‘Oh, do not do this abomination that I hate!’


id: fb614ec7-04ca-4b8f-b294-2ad783706d22
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But they did not listen or incline their ear, to turn from their evil and make no offerings to other gods.


id: 8867ba23-5ffc-4040-9dc5-07aca008f819
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Therefore my wrath and my anger were poured out and kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, and they became a waste and a desolation, as at this day.


id: 746baf13-3dc9-430b-ae4a-1dbb043d688f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And now thus says the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why do you commit this great evil against yourselves, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and child, from the midst of Judah, leaving you no remnant?


id: b42f0d20-81f8-4bf4-9d1f-0042583a5121
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, making offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to live, so that you may be cut off and become a curse and a taunt among all the nations of the earth?


id: f0064e7d-c014-45a1-9135-d72672540f61
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Have you forgotten the evil of your fathers, the evil of the kings of Judah, the evil of their wives, your own evil, and the evil of your wives, which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?


id: d4a5b455-a728-40a7-a9e8-de56202a52f7
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  They have not humbled themselves even to this day, nor have they feared, nor walked in my law and my statutes that I set before you and before your fathers.


id: 77e88bfc-a1d5-4014-9196-7af8d7887296
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will set my face against you for harm, to cut off all Judah.


id: e4299a3f-b0f7-4bff-916c-449831ec5122
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I will take the remnant of Judah who have set their faces to come to the land of Egypt to live, and they shall all be consumed. In the land of Egypt they shall fall; by the sword and by famine they shall be consumed. From the least to the greatest, they shall die by the sword and by famine, and they shall become an oath, a horror, a curse, and a taunt.


id: 037545b1-c73d-4a00-ae7d-4a45d8cc00d9
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence,


id: 00fc800c-8c8d-48fb-9020-f1392d483490
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  so that none of the remnant of Judah who have come to live in the land of Egypt shall escape or survive or return to the land of Judah, to which they desire to return to dwell there. For they shall not return, except some fugitives.”


id: 51faffe6-3d8c-449f-8eba-096a7380c62f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then all the men who knew that their wives had made offerings to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, all the people who lived in Pathros in the land of Egypt, answered Jeremiah:


id: a7a76674-605a-4b45-8e7b-2d383c866977
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no disaster.


id: deebfa3f-7dd4-4b87-b9fe-e689862e3776
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But since we left off making offerings to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine.”


id: 599208fb-fef9-4c58-b718-abf12a5b7d8d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And the women said, “When we made offerings to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands’ approval that we made cakes for her bearing her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”


id: f64e8710-a70d-4b4b-abab-fe05a81cdbf7
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “As for the offerings that you offered in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your officials, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them? Did it not come into his mind?


id: 42c34757-83f4-4228-8f83-2c96f5b4c1ee
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The LORD could no longer bear your evil deeds and the abominations that you committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation and a waste and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.


id: b60fe29e-edc7-4540-b777-74283efcf361
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  It is because you made offerings and because you sinned against the LORD and did not obey the voice of the LORD or walk in his law and in his statutes and in his testimonies that this disaster has happened to you, as at this day.”


id: 73707738-eab2-48a6-9d9d-ca8bf8cd6b90
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Jeremiah said to all the people and all the women, “Hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah who are in the land of Egypt.


id: b31d79a0-2685-4dc4-a815-13c2d6839a0f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: You and your wives have declared with your mouths, and have fulfilled it with your hands, saying, ‘We will surely perform our vows that we have made, to make offerings to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her.’ Then confirm your vows and perform your vows!


id: a2cfffb7-d334-4cbc-a27d-50d788234413
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Therefore hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by my great name, says the LORD, that my name shall no more be invoked by the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, ‘As the Lord GOD lives.’


id: 632ca955-a6b1-4939-85f8-f85396a60773
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Behold, I am watching over them for disaster and not for good. All the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, until there is an end of them.


id: 271966e2-773d-495e-b297-b56d9ec1c227
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And those who escape the sword shall return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant of Judah, who came to the land of Egypt to live, shall know whose word will stand, mine or theirs.


id: 3832e916-4d48-447e-ac6b-c5dee4a8c898
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  This shall be the sign to you, declares the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, in order that you may know that my words will surely stand against you for harm:


id: a95dcf6d-15d0-4b26-9d1d-fd70f6a52be4
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies and into the hand of those who seek his life, as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy and sought his life.” 


id: 81003ddd-5d18-4c7c-ad93-bcaee3be92b3
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he wrote these words in a book at the dictation of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:


id: bec76945-053f-4afd-bfcf-9e218f6902d5
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  You said, ‘Woe is me! For the LORD has added sorrow to my pain. I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.’


id: 4e6fbf34-f741-45cc-b5d7-41f9e8ed83a3
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Thus shall you say to him, Thus says the LORD: Behold, what I have built I am breaking down, and what I have planted I am plucking up—that is, the whole land.


id: 661db74d-6d61-46c6-ba6e-e30fe92b316d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And do you seek great things for yourself? Seek them not, for behold, I am bringing disaster upon all flesh, declares the LORD. But I will give you your life as a prize of war in all places to which you may go.” 


id: 1c5e7ff2-ac12-4451-91fa-e6af8c84bae5
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  About Egypt. Concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates at Carchemish and which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:


id: 01ee1d15-c471-425a-bcc4-80ad6f9e324f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Harness the horses; mount, O horsemen! Take your stations with your helmets, polish your spears, put on your armor!


id: c665e14e-8ce1-4a9e-a980-e20b15d435e1
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Why have I seen it? They are dismayed and have turned backward. Their warriors are beaten down and have fled in haste; they look not back— terror on every side! declares the LORD.


id: b13acd42-837e-458e-a7b4-d8af6154dd4d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “The swift cannot flee away, nor the warrior escape; in the north by the river Euphrates they have stumbled and fallen.


id: d093462b-43bf-4c76-a135-47a13dcd1716
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Egypt rises like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge. He said, ‘I will rise, I will cover the earth, I will destroy cities and their inhabitants.’


id: 2f65b974-396e-4ff3-bbad-74cca2fc2534
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Advance, O horses, and rage, O chariots! Let the warriors go out: men of Cush and Put who handle the shield, men of Lud, skilled in handling the bow.


id: a2ad4f93-c58b-43ef-a945-4e10cd4eb6b3
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  That day is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, to avenge himself on his foes. The sword shall devour and be sated and drink its fill of their blood. For the Lord GOD of hosts holds a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.


id: 64e1bbaf-f367-4979-8091-49808feefa35
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Go up to Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you have used many medicines; there is no healing for you.


id: d1f14bdb-749b-4854-a679-b2bd6e7edfdd
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for warrior has stumbled against warrior; they have both fallen together.”


id: 6561aee2-acce-4bb3-a112-7b05384eecba
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to strike the land of Egypt:


id: 64718967-4720-4e88-a357-3d9e731b3316
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Declare in Egypt, and proclaim in Migdol; proclaim in Memphis and Tahpanhes; say, ‘Stand ready and be prepared, for the sword shall devour around you.’


id: 867266b0-8694-496f-8d05-994a56b47dd2
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  He made many stumble, and they fell, and they said one to another, ‘Arise, and let us go back to our own people and to the land of our birth, because of the sword of the oppressor.’


id: d65499cc-75bf-4636-81b0-bf8b4dc32b46
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “As I live, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea, shall one come.


id: e11a52c2-033a-429a-8f02-4a8efa70d102
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Prepare yourselves baggage for exile, O inhabitants of Egypt! For Memphis shall become a waste, a ruin, without inhabitant.


id: 6f6fc93a-4494-4158-842b-9f3f5e3f694f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Even her hired soldiers in her midst are like fattened calves; yes, they have turned and fled together; they did not stand, for the day of their calamity has come upon them, the time of their punishment.


id: 18da032c-c308-446a-acb5-e23fe6e320de
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “She makes a sound like a serpent gliding away; for her enemies march in force and come against her with axes like those who fell trees.


id: e449e21c-b544-4308-862b-876b4e2e9872
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  They shall cut down her forest, declares the LORD, though it is impenetrable, because they are more numerous than locusts; they are without number.


id: 25a0f4ef-ae26-4273-bf91-f89cc932a868
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame; she shall be delivered into the hand of a people from the north.”


id: 68145f43-27a0-49c7-bb73-bf522ca6a2c7
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, said: “Behold, I am bringing punishment upon Amon of Thebes, and Pharaoh and Egypt and her gods and her kings, upon Pharaoh and those who trust in him.


id: 9d9aeb4e-3802-42a5-968c-f16d6cceb6f6
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their life, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his officers. Afterward Egypt shall be inhabited as in the days of old, declares the LORD.


id: 3f31b1d1-aaf6-4830-9e01-2bea1d3c7f6e
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “But fear not, O Jacob my servant, nor be dismayed, O Israel, for behold, I will save you from far away, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return and have quiet and ease, and none shall make him afraid.


id: 7e2676d8-118d-408a-97fc-a72ef5268013
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Fear not, O Jacob my servant, declares the LORD, for I am with you. I will make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.” 


id: 93c4355e-5e28-4795-9354-9797f37f32f5
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck down Gaza.


id: 3a752987-3522-4030-b643-301ebe04a2b7
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Thus says the LORD: Behold, waters are rising out of the north, and shall become an overflowing torrent; they shall overflow the land and all that fills it, the city and those who dwell in it. Men shall cry out, and every inhabitant of the land shall wail.


id: bbc5425b-ac90-4ba8-8c35-49736be845c7
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of their wheels, the fathers look not back to their children, so feeble are their hands,


id: 71d5f84f-0fb9-477f-80cf-e7045fd273b3
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  because of the day that is coming to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that remains. For the LORD is destroying the Philistines, the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.


id: 8e4b7fc6-73e1-48b4-af12-9d8cd0b4a295
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon has perished. O remnant of their valley, how long will you gash yourselves?


id: 74723fc3-8ac8-451e-afae-34f3ba7cb8e3
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Ah, sword of the LORD! How long till you are quiet? Put yourself into your scabbard; rest and be still!


id: 878bb3bf-dea3-49f8-9c45-ef42b0e3296d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  How can it be quiet when the LORD has given it a charge? Against Ashkelon and against the seashore he has appointed it.” 


id: 9d4054a2-b3ea-47ac-99ab-bdb55b3d52c0
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Concerning Moab. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: “Woe to Nebo, for it is laid waste! Kiriathaim is put to shame, it is taken; the fortress is put to shame and broken down;


id: 9901e7e7-adff-439c-b249-92c8b7394e3d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  the renown of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they planned disaster against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from being a nation!’ You also, O Madmen, shall be brought to silence; the sword shall pursue you.


id: 2b105e84-7e75-475a-be4c-6595bb4078b0
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distressed cry of destruction.


id: cd2cc768-1707-4802-bf6c-7f5ba847825b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For, because you trusted in your works and your treasures, you also shall be taken; and Chemosh shall go into exile with his priests and his officials.


id: 717bb345-e237-4938-90f1-c381cd970222
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The destroyer shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape; the valley shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD has spoken.


id: 4064b5da-8ea4-4566-9eb4-976e876298a7
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Give wings to Moab, for she would fly away; her cities shall become a desolation, with no inhabitant in them.


id: e99ce8d8-b321-43a3-b88c-c36eed89acd0
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Cursed is he who does the work of the LORD with slackness, and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from bloodshed.


id: b4db8a61-1ced-4884-a5cb-9ff9accb4cd1
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Moab has been at ease from his youth and has settled on his dregs; he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into exile; so his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.


id: d8f1b9c1-9120-4eb5-b68f-9df3c5f47b33
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I shall send to him pourers who will pour him, and empty his vessels and break his jars in pieces.


id: 3c87b7dc-2f8b-48f0-b680-60a81fb3278f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.


id: 38ebee2a-9c11-4600-9f04-8a69f1704c71
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The destroyer of Moab and his cities has come up, and the choicest of his young men have gone down to slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.


id: 3fa64ea0-c13d-4386-97dc-5de835c64c62
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Grieve for him, all you who are around him, and all who know his name; say, ‘How the mighty scepter is broken, the glorious staff.’


id: 72bd88fb-c0d5-456a-857c-d106c9d03aea
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Come down from your glory, and sit on the parched ground, O inhabitant of Dibon! For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you; he has destroyed your strongholds.


id: 520efb52-c55f-43a3-9c1f-76da1ef7d790
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Stand by the way and watch, O inhabitant of Aroer! Ask him who flees and her who escapes; say, ‘What has happened?’


id: 3bd3b104-1fd1-4db5-96fd-1bb60ed3d64d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Moab is put to shame, for it is broken; wail and cry! Tell it beside the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.


id: de375339-6ecd-468a-8a4f-5aad28d84fa5
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Make him drunk, because he magnified himself against the LORD, so that Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he too shall be held in derision.


id: 884bcdd6-8bd8-4724-b205-0b0efb6a9e0d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him you wagged your head?


id: 79a8e44f-9f6c-4373-b583-a734aadff953
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, O inhabitants of Moab! Be like the dove that nests in the sides of the mouth of a gorge.


id: 207a50a0-51f0-4072-a7d4-219d6507ef57
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  We have heard of the pride of Moab— he is very proud— of his loftiness, his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.


id: d944adc6-4123-437d-bdf3-ab3b6be7aef6
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  More than for Jazer I weep for you, O vine of Sibmah! Your branches passed over the sea, reached to the Sea of Jazer; on your summer fruits and your grapes the destroyer has fallen.


id: d90ae2de-9215-47e2-8152-517365c845ce
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Gladness and joy have been taken away from the fruitful land of Moab; I have made the wine cease from the winepresses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; the shouting is not the shout of joy.


id: 9b0f54a1-d5a8-4783-8bd4-4beca0c2bb9c
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “From the outcry at Heshbon even to Elealeh, as far as Jahaz they utter their voice, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah. For the waters of Nimrim also have become desolate.


id: cd4d887a-c20d-4099-9baf-87f8ce51e016
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And I will bring to an end in Moab, declares the LORD, him who offers sacrifice in the high place and makes offerings to his god.


id: e17bb67f-d4b9-402c-ad4d-1f72513f934e
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Therefore my heart moans for Moab like a flute, and my heart moans like a flute for the men of Kir-hareseth. Therefore the riches they gained have perished.


id: ebfccb79-2a36-45b5-bc6f-b701bcecb83c
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “For every head is shaved and every beard cut off. On all the hands are gashes, and around the waist is sackcloth.


id: 5fb36691-2852-443f-ae13-61aeb5184e27
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  On all the housetops of Moab and in the squares there is nothing but lamentation, for I have broken Moab like a vessel for which no one cares, declares the LORD.


id: 0ef1b7a1-f371-4b36-a247-115d27c289a2
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  How it is broken! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! So Moab has become a derision and a horror to all that are around him.”


id: f8241839-773d-4e78-888c-0456b824c5e7
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For thus says the LORD: “Behold, one shall fly swiftly like an eagle and spread his wings against Moab;


id: bb3b3ab5-8f02-408a-8060-c9745702d56b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  the cities shall be taken and the strongholds seized. The heart of the warriors of Moab shall be in that day like the heart of a woman in her birth pains;


id: 70cb39e7-b69c-47da-bf44-78f56882b91e
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  He who flees from the terror shall fall into the pit, and he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For I will bring these things upon Moab, the year of their punishment, declares the LORD.


id: 2dccdedc-d1a4-430f-b34c-d1f9239d3dcf
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “In the shadow of Heshbon fugitives stop without strength, for fire came out from Heshbon, flame from the house of Sihon; it has destroyed the forehead of Moab, the crown of the sons of tumult.


id: c3253ec3-88c8-4838-bb7d-033cdc3bd110
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh are undone, for your sons have been taken captive, and your daughters into captivity.


id: 0d8202aa-ca17-492d-816f-c1b98906744f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the latter days, declares the LORD.” Thus far is the judgment on Moab. 


id: 1320b71e-fd36-4b83-898b-842fab3a9202
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Concerning the Ammonites. Thus says the LORD: “Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then has Milcom dispossessed Gad, and his people settled in its cities?


id: 630af661-00b9-499d-87b6-4eaacebbf106
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will cause the battle cry to be heard against Rabbah of the Ammonites; it shall become a desolate mound, and its villages shall be burned with fire; then Israel shall dispossess those who dispossessed him, says the LORD.


id: b9898b35-478b-4b2d-b69c-f78dcabff012
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste! Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth, lament, and run to and fro among the hedges! For Milcom shall go into exile, with his priests and his officials.


id: 74934cb3-e701-4d69-9d48-0c8aacc37e9b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Why do you boast of your valleys, O faithless daughter, who trusted in her treasures, saying, ‘Who will come against me?’


id: 49d4b6d1-22f8-40b1-bcd2-972f204069cc
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Behold, I will bring terror upon you, declares the Lord GOD of hosts, from all who are around you, and you shall be driven out, every man straight before him, with none to gather the fugitives.


id: 0ccf422b-42f0-492a-85c2-1db48708fd56
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Concerning Edom. Thus says the LORD of hosts: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?


id: 03c13346-fc4f-4a61-8b2f-68ccf67396ef
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan! For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time when I punish him.


id: e544941b-6509-4690-8203-ab74f16e9eb9
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves came by night, would they not destroy only enough for themselves?


id: 2a605d88-b1ee-4ef4-be2a-a20dbd65c040
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But I have stripped Esau bare; I have uncovered his hiding places, and he is not able to conceal himself. His children are destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more.


id: af70a968-4dd1-447a-83eb-e92bd07904c0
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For thus says the LORD: “If those who did not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, will you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you must drink.


id: 47261bbd-326f-4ef9-9467-d2983fbba45b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For I have sworn by myself, declares the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a horror, a taunt, a waste, and a curse, and all her cities shall be perpetual wastes.”


id: 8d5ec914-d46c-4beb-9c37-3ea1f839e313
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I have heard a message from the LORD, and an envoy has been sent among the nations: “Gather yourselves together and come against her, and rise up for battle!


id: 552f6fd7-cdfd-4623-b135-8f560006851e
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The horror you inspire has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, you who live in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as the eagle’s, I will bring you down from there, declares the LORD.


id: 4162c013-d708-4560-a420-aadbc8ff76e9
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Edom shall become a horror. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters.


id: 85ec2089-4850-47a2-b266-d66b5fbca10e
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities were overthrown, says the LORD, no man shall dwell there, no man shall sojourn in her.


id: e8e90f95-a8d4-4187-a2d1-0127bfee518c
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Behold, like a lion coming up from the jungle of the Jordan against a perennial pasture, I will suddenly make him run away from her. And I will appoint over her whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who will summon me? What shepherd can stand before me?


id: 065a7aa4-fbf9-418e-a69c-748801006194
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Therefore hear the plan that the LORD has made against Edom and the purposes that he has formed against the inhabitants of Teman: Even the little ones of the flock shall be dragged away. Surely their fold shall be appalled at their fate.


id: ed9aae31-7445-4dbb-86b5-1f2885c0e127
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  At the sound of their fall the earth shall tremble; the sound of their cry shall be heard at the Red Sea.


id: 5ed85eff-341d-419e-bcaf-d8245ee896a7
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Behold, one shall mount up and fly swiftly like an eagle and spread his wings against Bozrah, and the heart of the warriors of Edom shall be in that day like the heart of a woman in her birth pains.”


id: 784ed262-4cfc-419d-9079-00de7d9c60fc
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Concerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are confounded, for they have heard bad news; they melt in fear, they are troubled like the sea that cannot be quiet.


id: bedb68f1-56cf-4386-8123-2113bd11b8e5
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Damascus has become feeble, she turned to flee, and panic seized her; anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in labor.


id: 43169cee-c3de-4f25-987d-8a48c1331f38
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Therefore her young men shall fall in her squares, and all her soldiers shall be destroyed in that day, declares the LORD of hosts.


id: 5df8a66d-b849-4039-9e8f-e52eb436475b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad.”


id: 09c25f92-9d03-42d2-ae71-cf1e6477ab5b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck down. Thus says the LORD: “Rise up, advance against Kedar! Destroy the people of the east!


id: 105493ec-be53-4f6b-b77f-dff16490847b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Their tents and their flocks shall be taken, their curtains and all their goods; their camels shall be led away from them, and men shall cry to them: ‘Terror on every side!’


id: 768d67dd-540a-41a6-adce-0b0663ce10bd
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Flee, wander far away, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Hazor! declares the LORD. For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has made a plan against you and formed a purpose against you.


id: 8a05b2de-117d-46ae-b6da-f1de4606cae4
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Rise up, advance against a nation at ease, that dwells securely, declares the LORD, that has no gates or bars, that dwells alone.


id: 42d8862a-562c-46fc-b00c-157af0d6c384
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Their camels shall become plunder, their herds of livestock a spoil. I will scatter to every wind those who cut the corners of their hair, and I will bring their calamity from every side of them, declares the LORD.


id: 42a0aebd-77fc-4156-970b-0cb209d08197
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Hazor shall become a haunt of jackals, an everlasting waste; no man shall dwell there; no man shall sojourn in her.”


id: 845566df-934f-4c0d-86e6-ea05463ee077
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah.


id: 6eb35ba9-3671-4a5a-9446-18a7a6d800fe
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four quarters of heaven. And I will scatter them to all those winds, and there shall be no nation to which those driven out of Elam shall not come.


id: 12ed2bfc-6a14-4821-b6a3-bddf92bc263a
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I will terrify Elam before their enemies and before those who seek their life. I will bring disaster upon them, my fierce anger, declares the LORD. I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them,


id: dcda3be2-c02e-4853-879b-0b9db247dd9d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The word that the LORD spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet:


id: bac511e5-7417-4923-a422-d55d7a118be8
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Declare among the nations and proclaim, set up a banner and proclaim, conceal it not, and say: ‘Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed. Her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.’


id: 5eb94a19-1ae4-488f-be37-b02e3cadb7df
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “For out of the north a nation has come up against her, which shall make her land a desolation, and none shall dwell in it; both man and beast shall flee away.


id: 3f7cb16a-7d43-4183-bc32-8fbe41552c56
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “In those days and in that time, declares the LORD, the people of Israel and the people of Judah shall come together, weeping as they come, and they shall seek the LORD their God.


id: 1b0e13c3-949e-4f88-b333-2090474acc32
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, let us join ourselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.’


id: dd877110-ca03-45f0-96a1-89f8abacbe29
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray, turning them away on the mountains. From mountain to hill they have gone. They have forgotten their fold.


id: 5fd4c06c-4348-4f7c-814e-42759b142390
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  All who found them have devoured them, and their enemies have said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their habitation of righteousness, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’


id: 6ce2c5ad-b4d7-46af-8aa3-44c429428027
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Flee from the midst of Babylon, and go out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as male goats before the flock.


id: c67d17ed-1a6c-48fb-aa7a-e869dc0cdc64
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For behold, I am stirring up and bringing against Babylon a gathering of great nations, from the north country. And they shall array themselves against her. From there she shall be taken. Their arrows are like a skilled warrior who does not return empty-handed.


id: b2dab72b-6336-456d-a225-6db1182efc05
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Though you rejoice, though you exult, O plunderers of my heritage, though you frolic like a heifer in the pasture, and neigh like stallions,


id: db4ca63f-3113-4e4f-8420-442280b72743
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  your mother shall be utterly shamed, and she who bore you shall be disgraced. Behold, she shall be the last of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.


id: 517ef922-4b2e-4384-90f4-13193537b55b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Because of the wrath of the LORD she shall not be inhabited but shall be an utter desolation; everyone who passes by Babylon shall be appalled, and hiss because of all her wounds.


id: 056a7da2-5b3e-4445-a0ca-abe3ed3202e5
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows, for she has sinned against the LORD.


id: 46e2efe5-8abb-4d7d-bb7e-8a6775065494
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Raise a shout against her all around; she has surrendered; her bulwarks have fallen; her walls are thrown down. For this is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance on her; do to her as she has done.


id: 46adcc0e-07d8-4033-9207-97c1b0b931f6
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Cut off from Babylon the sower, and the one who handles the sickle in time of harvest; because of the sword of the oppressor, every one shall turn to his own people, and every one shall flee to his own land.


id: c07d97de-e16b-4764-8c58-f6f58243ed0d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Israel is a hunted sheep driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has gnawed his bones.


id: 912d3cea-5859-42a9-bc6f-87d967a31ad2
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing punishment on the king of Babylon and his land, as I punished the king of Assyria.


id: 1e328c72-68f2-4c18-b1ac-dfd2546d19d2
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I will restore Israel to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and in Bashan, and his desire shall be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.


id: e20921f3-42ca-4fbb-b381-049a7ed214a1
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  In those days and in that time, declares the LORD, iniquity shall be sought in Israel, and there shall be none, and sin in Judah, and none shall be found, for I will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant.


id: 74e2a8eb-1ee1-4450-9abd-73ed37addf44
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Go up against the land of Merathaim, and against the inhabitants of Pekod. Kill, and devote them to destruction, declares the LORD, and do all that I have commanded you.


id: 8baaef31-bbff-4a97-8709-5e5dc7ded9b4
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  How the hammer of the whole earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!


id: 2633eb44-f5fc-4375-9551-ed9a96dd80b7
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I set a snare for you and you were taken, O Babylon, and you did not know it; you were found and caught, because you opposed the LORD.


id: 875ed943-e78b-4bd0-94f0-e1266751027d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The LORD has opened his armory and brought out the weapons of his wrath, for the Lord GOD of hosts has a work to do in the land of the Chaldeans.


id: c0ce81db-88eb-4d76-b905-dc58c8ca132d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Come against her from every quarter; open her granaries; pile her up like heaps of grain, and devote her to destruction; let nothing be left of her.


id: a6e7d1ee-f339-4af6-8ac5-c5f101ca5c6b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.


id: f85f9bad-8356-4bf2-b8bd-30539a50ac18
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “A voice! They flee and escape from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, vengeance for his temple.


id: 87055b08-cf75-4a57-b5cf-2e03537065d8
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her according to all that she has done. For she has proudly defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.


id: 365660a9-ee72-4b3e-b20c-5c2340368814
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Therefore her young men shall fall in her squares, and all her soldiers shall be destroyed on that day, declares the LORD.


id: e8d6a6c1-fe9e-4a54-9443-3a7dbe36cbaa
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Behold, I am against you, O proud one, declares the Lord GOD of hosts, for your day has come, the time when I will punish you.


id: 98c00606-5581-4097-a2b2-2fdb44885540
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The proud one shall stumble and fall, with none to raise him up, and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it will devour all that is around him.


id: a4b135b6-c516-49d2-8d7a-1bafa79dc04b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Thus says the LORD of hosts: The people of Israel are oppressed, and the people of Judah with them. All who took them captive have held them fast; they refuse to let them go.


id: 5dbd8820-450f-4be1-96b9-58163afe95c3
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name. He will surely plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, but unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon.


id: 6c621a5f-4636-45c3-9bff-d36ebc34f142
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “A sword against the Chaldeans, declares the LORD, and against the inhabitants of Babylon, and against her officials and her wise men!


id: 5de8bbf1-9b6b-46cc-b42b-8eda69092297
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  A sword against the diviners, that they may become fools! A sword against her warriors, that they may be destroyed!


id: f7379050-8a0b-4023-9a03-f1d85fc604e3
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  A sword against her horses and against her chariots, and against all the foreign troops in her midst, that they may become women! A sword against all her treasures, that they may be plundered!


id: cb527589-f36d-4879-a9d7-90ed4c2dcf37
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  A drought against her waters, that they may be dried up! For it is a land of images, and they are mad over idols.


id: b886f4ab-501c-4af6-a24d-37704c36b04a
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Therefore wild beasts shall dwell with hyenas in Babylon, and ostriches shall dwell in her. She shall never again have people, nor be inhabited for all generations.


id: 0800fdc0-a9b2-4b4b-a71b-7c1cd09cc81b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, declares the LORD, so no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn in her.


id: 6347fa37-4f98-433d-a24d-926c577897ed
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Behold, a people comes from the north; a mighty nation and many kings are stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.


id: 5c4ca511-86bc-40c6-9222-cb4c41a13603
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  They lay hold of bow and spear; they are cruel and have no mercy. The sound of them is like the roaring of the sea; they ride on horses, arrayed as a man for battle against you, O daughter of Babylon!


id: 923f5084-768c-4110-9598-da874c1721f1
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “The king of Babylon heard the report of them, and his hands fell helpless; anguish seized him, pain as of a woman in labor.


id: 832ff0b8-9abd-477b-b115-60811269ec10
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Behold, like a lion coming up from the thicket of the Jordan against a perennial pasture, I will suddenly make them run away from her, and I will appoint over her whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who will summon me? What shepherd can stand before me?


id: e972a5a9-a39e-494b-974a-0fb5268111f3
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Therefore hear the plan that the LORD has made against Babylon, and the purposes that he has formed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the little ones of their flock shall be dragged away; surely their fold shall be appalled at their fate.


id: 7607b95c-82a9-48bf-a3dc-8bd30c912eaa
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  At the sound of the capture of Babylon the earth shall tremble, and her cry shall be heard among the nations.” 


id: edd94175-f621-4bba-81ab-680f1871274d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Thus says the LORD: “Behold, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon, against the inhabitants of Leb-kamai,


id: 0538ea5c-5fd8-419c-bb0a-d38ad1d85fdb
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  and I will send to Babylon winnowers, and they shall winnow her, and they shall empty her land, when they come against her from every side on the day of trouble.


id: fa54bbd1-effb-4e94-b503-24c99b3dd9ff
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Let not the archer bend his bow, and let him not stand up in his armor. Spare not her young men; devote to destruction all her army.


id: 1d7b92a3-3bab-4940-9fab-e76eba3d3160
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken by their God, the LORD of hosts, but the land of the Chaldeans is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.


id: 18ae86cd-97ba-4458-aec1-424b6e652918
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Flee from the midst of Babylon; let every one save his life! Be not cut off in her punishment, for this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance, the repayment he is rendering her.


id: 502bb853-fc1d-48ab-a32a-530e630a04d2
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Babylon was a golden cup in the LORD’s hand, making all the earth drunken; the nations drank of her wine; therefore the nations went mad.


id: a388e628-ce43-4fd8-bf71-6dea21d52770
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken; wail for her! Take balm for her pain; perhaps she may be healed.


id: 633ad242-596d-4222-8ae9-5d65bfddd4aa
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  We would have healed Babylon, but she was not healed. Forsake her, and let us go each to his own country, for her judgment has reached up to heaven and has been lifted up even to the skies.


id: 413d7042-728e-49dc-8ed2-b6c9c18a72d9
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The LORD has brought about our vindication; come, let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.


id: 6da7f008-37ec-4612-9b6c-69834721689d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Sharpen the arrows! Take up the shields! The LORD has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it, for that is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance for his temple.


id: 3e291f36-11ff-4dcc-8100-024fffa6dbf2
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon; make the watch strong; set up watchmen; prepare the ambushes; for the LORD has both planned and done what he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.


id: d754375c-b440-4046-a7df-6bcebed53011
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  O you who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut.


id: c5ac1c51-c16d-4c7e-97a5-77afebeb5753
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The LORD of hosts has sworn by himself: Surely I will fill you with men, as many as locusts, and they shall raise the shout of victory over you.


id: 7024a6ab-a469-462b-8305-38fa18cf4b4b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.


id: 4f8e3249-2db9-4922-8e2b-2e1990446490
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  When he utters his voice there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses.


id: 7f8c593b-57ae-42f8-bc92-adf889b33d0f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “You are my hammer and weapon of war: with you I break nations in pieces; with you I destroy kingdoms;


id: 34e4a713-bb75-4755-b2b2-4f66db1b21b9
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  with you I break in pieces the horse and his rider; with you I break in pieces the chariot and the charioteer;


id: 9d818328-7e09-4c8c-a016-53d8bb32207d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  with you I break in pieces man and woman; with you I break in pieces the old man and the youth; with you I break in pieces the young man and the young woman;


id: 5d934855-553f-4e31-8585-9ee0d5437852
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  with you I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; with you I break in pieces the farmer and his team; with you I break in pieces governors and commanders.


id: 90001355-5eec-415d-b99c-ca22402d752d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion, declares the LORD.


id: 13135fa5-0833-487d-9d8b-3b4ce75b28df
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, declares the LORD, which destroys the whole earth; I will stretch out my hand against you, and roll you down from the crags, and make you a burnt mountain.


id: 9cb62fac-8afb-4848-aa21-fc9879071afd
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  No stone shall be taken from you for a corner and no stone for a foundation, but you shall be a perpetual waste, declares the LORD.


id: 455de189-a081-481e-a554-9e6ecaf53639
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Set up a standard on the earth; blow the trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations for war against her; summon against her the kingdoms, Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a marshal against her; bring up horses like bristling locusts.


id: acd74d96-9de8-49fd-9517-29bf8dac089b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Prepare the nations for war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and deputies, and every land under their dominion.


id: 1655e1b0-52c7-4dc3-9807-3c6e7a202d73
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The land trembles and writhes in pain, for the LORD’s purposes against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.


id: 2481e97e-5b37-43a7-8864-a78080701a00
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting; they remain in their strongholds; their strength has failed; they have become women; her dwellings are on fire; her bars are broken.


id: bbb3daf8-5682-4654-aa92-3bf3a2be8427
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  One runner runs to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every side;


id: f89431b6-f909-4cb8-ac8e-eb71b60b4925
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while and the time of her harvest will come.”


id: c47d9b22-059b-4b66-9864-c3a27dd14c38
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he has filled his stomach with my delicacies; he has rinsed me out.


id: dde8841b-2418-4c91-88f1-2d9aeeaa2582
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The violence done to me and to my kinsmen be upon Babylon,” let the inhabitant of Zion say. “My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,” let Jerusalem say.


id: 6b0528da-1b2d-41ef-8282-de7f14956ad7
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Therefore thus says the LORD: “Behold, I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her fountain dry,


id: 175aea22-240b-4279-9194-affb07126cbb
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, the haunt of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant.


id: 83d48523-fc5b-4150-9394-27b8b4d7e6e0
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  While they are inflamed I will prepare them a feast and make them drunk, that they may become merry, then sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the LORD.


id: abf44be1-da44-4b16-9fd7-b00c78596f19
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “How Babylon is taken, the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!


id: 8a372ac7-def7-4382-adbb-60f89588ba83
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Her cities have become a horror, a land of drought and a desert, a land in which no one dwells, and through which no son of man passes.


id: a83eb7ef-64e2-45ec-aab3-6e07661cb086
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what he has swallowed. The nations shall no longer flow to him; the wall of Babylon has fallen.


id: c095013a-5055-4c7d-a12b-6495c5da253a
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Go out of the midst of her, my people! Let every one save his life from the fierce anger of the LORD!


id: ad5372d1-9b24-4436-9158-77e09ef7e121
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Let not your heart faint, and be not fearful at the report heard in the land, when a report comes in one year and afterward a report in another year, and violence is in the land, and ruler is against ruler.


id: 82764229-6057-417f-8a32-3ed962178632
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the images of Babylon; her whole land shall be put to shame, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.


id: 3861d040-b4b2-4283-be5e-fa8db1e4960c
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is in them, shall sing for joy over Babylon, for the destroyers shall come against them out of the north, declares the LORD.


id: da6978bf-1baa-4c1d-bb2a-ebc79d869848
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Babylon must fall for the slain of Israel, just as for Babylon have fallen the slain of all the earth.


id: 05ac3e88-d5c5-4ff2-9a3c-f913b3e89bcc
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “You who have escaped from the sword, go, do not stand still! Remember the LORD from far away, and let Jerusalem come into your mind:


id: 47733c34-6af2-42b2-8335-536cc6f4ef83
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  ‘We are put to shame, for we have heard reproach; dishonor has covered our face, for foreigners have come into the holy places of the LORD’s house.’


id: aa91bb4e-deec-4f43-88d5-f75797bd60e0
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will execute judgment upon her images, and through all her land the wounded shall groan.


id: 89ab9ad6-f12f-4719-aa32-5676dec2e8c3
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify her strong height, yet destroyers would come from me against her, declares the LORD.


id: 56764c77-2dc9-4bfa-b8a1-6e702f420580
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For the LORD is laying Babylon waste and stilling her mighty voice. Their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is raised,


id: 075d5a9f-699d-435f-81bf-7e0123083340
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  for a destroyer has come upon her, upon Babylon; her warriors are taken; their bows are broken in pieces, for the LORD is a God of recompense; he will surely repay.


id: aaede184-5f09-40f3-94f7-36f4c2beb5b7
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  I will make drunk her officials and her wise men, her governors, her commanders, and her warriors; they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.


id: d8979ed3-5ff6-4d58-94a6-27d3e9065eea
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  “Thus says the LORD of hosts: The broad wall of Babylon shall be leveled to the ground, and her high gates shall be burned with fire. The peoples labor for nothing, and the nations weary themselves only for fire.”


id: 2166ce0c-2777-4379-8499-1781af57e185
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign. Seraiah was the quartermaster.


id: 876e95e5-6799-4ec8-b895-3e3e71e143c1
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Jeremiah wrote in a book all the disaster that should come upon Babylon, all these words that are written concerning Babylon.


id: c459bff7-e8b4-43b6-8955-39979ab4b256
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  and say, ‘O LORD, you have said concerning this place that you will cut it off, so that nothing shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, and it shall be desolate forever.’


id: b5169bf3-839e-4564-92bf-5786c0d283ac
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  and say, ‘Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disaster that I am bringing upon her, and they shall become exhausted.’” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah. 


id: c79079db-c9bb-4d4d-879b-0f2a29e5bb81
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  For because of the anger of the LORD it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.


id: 98f5c257-7f5d-4713-9883-a0960882fd89
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem, and laid siege to it. And they built siegeworks all around it.


id: c4ed7970-55aa-4209-b3b9-8f5c5ed8c48a
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled and went out from the city by night by the way of a gate between the two walls, by the king’s garden, and the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah.


id: 71655a23-a4e9-43fd-8a83-830790c2776b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him.


id: 4cc5b9bc-c448-4994-aa15-da90fd69072f
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him.


id: e91af2e1-9b19-436a-889b-64e703c37986
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  The king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and also slaughtered all the officials of Judah at Riblah.


id: c107bf62-b1df-473e-97cf-e5dda5f6a359
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  He put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in chains, and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.


id: bb8db693-4cad-4832-8728-9f0e6cdc00d4
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  In the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month—that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, who served the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.


id: e5ec7ce6-a191-4647-acf4-15a69e29a009
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And he burned the house of the LORD, and the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.


id: 02ff0d23-5d7e-40f9-9e1b-d8105364d8f6
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.


id: 8c5a3671-dde9-414c-86cb-2aa8b3544753
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive some of the poorest of the people and the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the artisans.


id: 9de80bae-9eae-439b-a633-5835ae73dd94
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.


id: 4bb73081-58fb-47a0-9488-066944ae582d
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the LORD, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried all the bronze to Babylon.


id: c5af11ba-872e-40f5-b65e-c5e9890b5e28
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And they took away the pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the basins and the dishes for incense and all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service;


id: e65f9979-3903-44ca-be94-944d7cf7f47b
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  also the small bowls and the fire pans and the basins and the pots and the lampstands and the dishes for incense and the bowls for drink offerings. What was of gold the captain of the guard took away as gold, and what was of silver, as silver.


id: 84a3414a-f395-4906-9da9-8f7cf18d2ffd
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  As for the two pillars, the one sea, the twelve bronze bulls that were under the sea, and the stands, which Solomon the king had made for the house of the LORD, the bronze of all these things was beyond weight.


id: 09c029ed-333f-4513-bd7a-def9569ef125
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, its circumference was twelve cubits, and its thickness was four fingers, and it was hollow.


id: 0159d0ad-bd2a-4f92-8480-3d24e05ceb84
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  On it was a capital of bronze. The height of the one capital was five cubits. A network and pomegranates, all of bronze, were around the capital. And the second pillar had the same, with pomegranates.


id: 22a818dc-7d2d-4b0c-994a-e0a76b894df6
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were a hundred upon the network all around.


id: 4cde38f0-6089-4870-a1f1-aa71029a5202
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest and the three keepers of the threshold;


id: 64489133-908f-4e55-af58-bf6a603df7ca
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  and from the city he took an officer who had been in command of the men of war, and seven men of the king’s council, who were found in the city; and the secretary of the commander of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city.


id: 80656572-fc98-473d-95d2-0f006d3dcf1e
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, 3,023 Judeans;


id: 96d1f286-7473-42ea-9fc0-399227a7998e
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Judeans 745 persons; all the persons were 4,600.


id: af52b963-8a70-48a0-b6d7-8295746a7c2e
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  And in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, graciously freed Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.


id: 3ed2a3ea-109e-4315-87ec-66fab4149697
book: Jeremiah
label: Jer
content:
  and for his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king, according to his daily needs, until the day of his death, as long as he lived. 


id: 68bfa671-1c2d-4a29-88c4-0c87588c6ebf
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow has she become, she who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave.


id: 36d60e75-ef5c-4d38-8492-ee7e9aebe96c
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  She weeps bitterly in the night, with tears on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they have become her enemies.


id: d070be93-7885-4877-8e2a-e02673101dc4
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  Judah has gone into exile because of affliction and hard servitude; she dwells now among the nations, but finds no resting place; her pursuers have all overtaken her in the midst of her distress.


id: f2ebb66c-d84a-4375-b590-97c08d34bba8
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  The roads to Zion mourn, for none come to the festival; all her gates are desolate; her priests groan; her virgins have been afflicted, and she herself suffers bitterly.


id: 330ba966-b5c9-4e46-8413-fb88f962c7ae
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  Her foes have become the head; her enemies prosper, because the LORD has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions; her children have gone away, captives before the foe.


id: 617a6886-21fd-4085-812b-38d20566feed
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  From the daughter of Zion all her majesty has departed. Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture; they fled without strength before the pursuer.


id: 057079fa-10d0-4fcd-9de0-98576ed478f0
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and wandering all the precious things that were hers from days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the foe, and there was none to help her, her foes gloated over her; they mocked at her downfall.


id: ebf163ea-d4b3-45ba-910a-200930c6dd34
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  Jerusalem sinned grievously; therefore she became filthy; all who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns her face away.


id: 6e1002d4-1c99-4e48-8ca6-6239d96c2978
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  Her uncleanness was in her skirts; she took no thought of her future; therefore her fall is terrible; she has no comforter. “O LORD, behold my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!”


id: fb7013fa-72f4-45b0-8553-d9e9d908ec45
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  The enemy has stretched out his hands over all her precious things; for she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary, those whom you forbade to enter your congregation.


id: aebbbe7c-ebd8-4172-a345-a04fc4e1e0b0
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  All her people groan as they search for bread; they trade their treasures for food to revive their strength. “Look, O LORD, and see, for I am despised.”


id: 6319f320-0a16-4325-b4fd-8788c4a2b882
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which was brought upon me, which the LORD inflicted on the day of his fierce anger.


id: 9e82f76a-3c23-4e33-9ea3-13221b6dc1b0
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  “From on high he sent fire; into my bones he made it descend; he spread a net for my feet; he turned me back; he has left me stunned, faint all the day long.


id: 882db216-1935-4ee8-a2e8-d419da82036a
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  “My transgressions were bound into a yoke; by his hand they were fastened together; they were set upon my neck; he caused my strength to fail; the Lord gave me into the hands of those whom I cannot withstand.


id: 3bf377e7-e47e-4677-bf2e-38a3023aba8a
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  “The Lord rejected all my mighty men in my midst; he summoned an assembly against me to crush my young men; the Lord has trodden as in a winepress the virgin daughter of Judah.


id: bea6ece8-833f-47a6-b01e-cea9323f8214
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  “For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears; for a comforter is far from me, one to revive my spirit; my children are desolate, for the enemy has prevailed.”


id: 5d51a5d6-bd68-47f9-9e8c-fa3b9d194820
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  Zion stretches out her hands, but there is none to comfort her; the LORD has commanded against Jacob that his neighbors should be his foes; Jerusalem has become a filthy thing among them.


id: e5826465-2dd1-429e-9449-2e9e295ef6ac
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  “The LORD is in the right, for I have rebelled against his word; but hear, all you peoples, and see my suffering; my young women and my young men have gone into captivity.


id: 12263ed9-e31e-40a6-a689-66c68253bc63
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  “I called to my lovers, but they deceived me; my priests and elders perished in the city, while they sought food to revive their strength.


id: 76a0a734-e7a2-488f-9d97-2dfda6d91765
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  “Look, O LORD, for I am in distress; my stomach churns; my heart is wrung within me, because I have been very rebellious. In the street the sword bereaves; in the house it is like death.


id: 6bdaf247-3049-41ac-bd29-42a174a65b65
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  “They heard my groaning, yet there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it. You have brought the day you announced; now let them be as I am.


id: 5648cc3a-9ffa-494d-98f0-0319b57fb330
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  “Let all their evildoing come before you, and deal with them as you have dealt with me because of all my transgressions; for my groans are many, and my heart is faint.” 


id: 6b3e2e5b-f975-46f1-93f0-dc6dd6a20347
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  How the Lord in his anger has set the daughter of Zion under a cloud! He has cast down from heaven to earth the splendor of Israel; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.


id: d0295166-4f23-4a3e-87ea-1fb61e0beb63
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  The Lord has swallowed up without mercy all the habitations of Jacob; in his wrath he has broken down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought down to the ground in dishonor the kingdom and its rulers.


id: 501d708c-ef69-47d6-a6d3-97ca991cd40b
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  He has cut down in fierce anger all the might of Israel; he has withdrawn from them his right hand in the face of the enemy; he has burned like a flaming fire in Jacob, consuming all around.


id: cbdf9d18-5b0d-4aff-9d6d-d881ebea2f55
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  He has bent his bow like an enemy, with his right hand set like a foe; and he has killed all who were delightful in our eyes in the tent of the daughter of Zion; he has poured out his fury like fire.


id: aa14304d-abbb-4bd5-b5dc-3577f49a2711
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  The Lord has become like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel; he has swallowed up all its palaces; he has laid in ruins its strongholds, and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.


id: 6686bd52-4ddb-4fdb-bd40-c53d0eec48d9
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  He has laid waste his booth like a garden, laid in ruins his meeting place; the LORD has made Zion forget festival and Sabbath, and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.


id: 1bb15b94-1e28-4f1c-a313-cc92c7cc8b81
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  The Lord has scorned his altar, disowned his sanctuary; he has delivered into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they raised a clamor in the house of the LORD as on the day of festival.


id: b3856e38-b316-4e53-841e-b7a21ed41a32
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  The LORD determined to lay in ruins the wall of the daughter of Zion; he stretched out the measuring line; he did not restrain his hand from destroying; he caused rampart and wall to lament; they languished together.


id: 032f4336-f183-4597-9b8c-65cb53bc6b31
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has ruined and broken her bars; her king and princes are among the nations; the law is no more, and her prophets find no vision from the LORD.


id: b900b143-91ed-4814-bcdc-f15c8df722fe
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth; the young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.


id: b097f639-8bf9-46f4-979b-cd22dbf74ad4
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  My eyes are spent with weeping; my stomach churns; my bile is poured out to the ground because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and babies faint in the streets of the city.


id: 430c5833-c8ec-43e8-98ff-d4b1733fddf6
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  They cry to their mothers, “Where is bread and wine?” as they faint like a wounded man in the streets of the city, as their life is poured out on their mothers’ bosom.


id: cfa63999-d747-45ed-81a4-f2ec3a0bdcd1
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  What can I say for you, to what compare you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What can I liken to you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your ruin is vast as the sea; who can heal you?


id: c2c708b8-4701-430e-96ac-ce8ef1f7e348
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  Your prophets have seen for you false and deceptive visions; they have not exposed your iniquity to restore your fortunes, but have seen for you oracles that are false and misleading.


id: 8372a56d-d7fe-4a4b-900e-f0c9f632729a
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”


id: 4a80d674-1418-4b51-9fb4-76837a66c87b
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  All your enemies rail against you; they hiss, they gnash their teeth, they cry: “We have swallowed her! Ah, this is the day we longed for; now we have it; we see it!”


id: 77c3ea49-3d4b-484b-b730-60578254e5d6
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  The LORD has done what he purposed; he has carried out his word, which he commanded long ago; he has thrown down without pity; he has made the enemy rejoice over you and exalted the might of your foes.


id: d361148b-ef88-4aef-867c-e6ed80df0536
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears stream down like a torrent day and night! Give yourself no rest, your eyes no respite!


id: f07f4267-63fc-44b7-aa69-cd86b4a70c5f
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  “Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches! Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord! Lift your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.”


id: e44a8205-0bd8-4861-a59a-16daf7e24e1d
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  Look, O LORD, and see! With whom have you dealt thus? Should women eat the fruit of their womb, the children of their tender care? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?


id: 09c6644f-fc12-4b18-b93d-06eeab2224c9
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  In the dust of the streets lie the young and the old; my young women and my young men have fallen by the sword; you have killed them in the day of your anger, slaughtering without pity.


id: 7832fc84-8464-496d-a3bb-954df718e201
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  You summoned as if to a festival day my terrors on every side, and on the day of the anger of the LORD no one escaped or survived; those whom I held and raised my enemy destroyed. 


id: 68942d65-5d0b-47bb-9163-21023335dbde
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love;


id: 00b443da-7e2e-479a-aeec-94265ad35b6c
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  How the gold has grown dim, how the pure gold is changed! The holy stones lie scattered at the head of every street.


id: d10cc919-e269-4439-8579-12f08fb7bfed
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  The precious sons of Zion, worth their weight in fine gold, how they are regarded as earthen pots, the work of a potter’s hands!


id: 82bcfc8a-7154-466b-8ecd-583e48bd6621
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  Even jackals offer the breast; they nurse their young; but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.


id: a198faef-746f-47f6-ba6f-b71c85499bcf
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  The tongue of the nursing infant sticks to the roof of its mouth for thirst; the children beg for food, but no one gives to them.


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book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  Those who once feasted on delicacies perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple embrace ash heaps.


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book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  For the chastisement of the daughter of my people has been greater than the punishment of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment, and no hands were wrung for her.


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book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  Her princes were purer than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than coral, the beauty of their form was like sapphire.


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book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  Now their face is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as wood.


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book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  Happier were the victims of the sword than the victims of hunger, who wasted away, pierced by lack of the fruits of the field.


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book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people.


id: e5ddce13-90ec-4ec7-99f6-6f05e09c7674
book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  The LORD gave full vent to his wrath; he poured out his hot anger, and he kindled a fire in Zion that consumed its foundations.


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book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any of the inhabitants of the world, that foe or enemy could enter the gates of Jerusalem.


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book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  This was for the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed in the midst of her the blood of the righteous.


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book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  They wandered, blind, through the streets; they were so defiled with blood that no one was able to touch their garments.


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book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  “Away! Unclean!” people cried at them. “Away! Away! Do not touch!” So they became fugitives and wanderers; people said among the nations, “They shall stay with us no longer.”


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book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  The LORD himself has scattered them; he will regard them no more; no honor was shown to the priests, no favor to the elders.


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book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; in our watching we watched for a nation which could not save.


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book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  They dogged our steps so that we could not walk in our streets; our end drew near; our days were numbered, for our end had come.


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book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles in the heavens; they chased us on the mountains; they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.


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book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  The breath of our nostrils, the LORD’s anointed, was captured in their pits, of whom we said, “Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.”


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book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz; but to you also the cup shall pass; you shall become drunk and strip yourself bare.


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book: Lamentations
label: Lam
content:
  The punishment of your iniquity, O daughter of Zion, is accomplished; he will keep you in exile no longer; but your iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he will punish; he will uncover your sins. 


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the exiles by the Chebar canal, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  the word of the LORD came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the Chebar canal, and the hand of the LORD was upon him there.


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  As I looked, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, and a great cloud, with brightness around it, and fire flashing forth continually, and in the midst of the fire, as it were gleaming metal.


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  And from the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had a human likeness,


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content:
  Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the sole of a calf’s foot. And they sparkled like burnished bronze.


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content:
  Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands. And the four had their faces and their wings thus:


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  their wings touched one another. Each one of them went straight forward, without turning as they went.


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label: Ezek
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  As for the likeness of their faces, each had a human face. The four had the face of a lion on the right side, the four had the face of an ox on the left side, and the four had the face of an eagle.


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  Such were their faces. And their wings were spread out above. Each creature had two wings, each of which touched the wing of another, while two covered their bodies.


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content:
  And each went straight forward. Wherever the spirit would go, they went, without turning as they went.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches moving to and fro among the living creatures. And the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.


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  Now as I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, one for each of the four of them.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  As for the appearance of the wheels and their construction: their appearance was like the gleaming of beryl. And the four had the same likeness, their appearance and construction being as it were a wheel within a wheel.


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label: Ezek
content:
  And when the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures rose from the earth, the wheels rose.


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  Wherever the spirit wanted to go, they went, and the wheels rose along with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.


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  When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those rose from the earth, the wheels rose along with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.


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label: Ezek
content:
  Over the heads of the living creatures there was the likeness of an expanse, shining like awe-inspiring crystal, spread out above their heads.


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content:
  And under the expanse their wings were stretched out straight, one toward another. And each creature had two wings covering its body.


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content:
  And when they went, I heard the sound of their wings like the sound of many waters, like the sound of the Almighty, a sound of tumult like the sound of an army. When they stood still, they let down their wings.


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  And there came a voice from above the expanse over their heads. When they stood still, they let down their wings.


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label: Ezek
content:
  And above the expanse over their heads there was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like sapphire; and seated above the likeness of a throne was a likeness with a human appearance.


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content:
  And upward from what had the appearance of his waist I saw as it were gleaming metal, like the appearance of fire enclosed all around. And downward from what had the appearance of his waist I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him.


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content:
  Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard the voice of one speaking. 


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label: Ezek
content:
  And as he spoke to me, the Spirit entered into me and set me on my feet, and I heard him speaking to me.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And he said to me, “Son of man, I send you to the people of Israel, to nations of rebels, who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  The descendants also are impudent and stubborn: I send you to them, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD.’


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  And whether they hear or refuse to hear (for they are a rebellious house) they will know that a prophet has been among them.


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  And you, son of man, be not afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you and you sit on scorpions. Be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.


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  And you shall speak my words to them, whether they hear or refuse to hear, for they are a rebellious house.


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  “But you, son of man, hear what I say to you. Be not rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you.”


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  And when I looked, behold, a hand was stretched out to me, and behold, a scroll of a book was in it.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And he spread it before me. And it had writing on the front and on the back, and there were written on it words of lamentation and mourning and woe. 


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And he said to me, “Son of man, eat whatever you find here. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.”


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And he said to me, “Son of man, feed your belly with this scroll that I give you and fill your stomach with it.” Then I ate it, and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey.


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  not to many peoples of foreign speech and a hard language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I sent you to such, they would listen to you.


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  But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me: because all the house of Israel have a hard forehead and a stubborn heart.


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  Like emery harder than flint have I made your forehead. Fear them not, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.”


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book: Ezekiel
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content:
  Moreover, he said to me, “Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.


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  And go to the exiles, to your people, and speak to them and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD,’ whether they hear or refuse to hear.”


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content:
  Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great earthquake: “Blessed be the glory of the LORD from its place!”


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content:
  It was the sound of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one another, and the sound of the wheels beside them, and the sound of a great earthquake.


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label: Ezek
content:
  The Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, the hand of the LORD being strong upon me.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And I came to the exiles at Tel-abib, who were dwelling by the Chebar canal, and I sat where they were dwelling. And I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  If I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked person shall die for his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.


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  But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, or from his wicked way, he shall die for his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul.


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  Again, if a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits injustice, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. Because you have not warned him, he shall die for his sin, and his righteous deeds that he has done shall not be remembered, but his blood I will require at your hand.


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  But if you warn the righteous person not to sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning, and you will have delivered your soul.”


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And the hand of the LORD was upon me there. And he said to me, “Arise, go out into the valley, and there I will speak with you.”


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
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  So I arose and went out into the valley, and behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, like the glory that I had seen by the Chebar canal, and I fell on my face.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  But the Spirit entered into me and set me on my feet, and he spoke with me and said to me, “Go, shut yourself within your house.


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book: Ezekiel
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  And you, O son of man, behold, cords will be placed upon you, and you shall be bound with them, so that you cannot go out among the people.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And I will make your tongue cling to the roof of your mouth, so that you shall be mute and unable to reprove them, for they are a rebellious house.


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  But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD.’ He who will hear, let him hear; and he who will refuse to hear, let him refuse, for they are a rebellious house. 


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label: Ezek
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  And put siegeworks against it, and build a siege wall against it, and cast up a mound against it. Set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around.


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label: Ezek
content:
  And you, take an iron griddle, and place it as an iron wall between you and the city; and set your face toward it, and let it be in a state of siege, and press the siege against it. This is a sign for the house of Israel.


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label: Ezek
content:
  “Then lie on your left side, and place the punishment of the house of Israel upon it. For the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their punishment.


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label: Ezek
content:
  For I assign to you a number of days, 390 days, equal to the number of the years of their punishment. So long shall you bear the punishment of the house of Israel.


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  And when you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the punishment of the house of Judah. Forty days I assign you, a day for each year.


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label: Ezek
content:
  And you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm bared, and you shall prophesy against the city.


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label: Ezek
content:
  And behold, I will place cords upon you, so that you cannot turn from one side to the other, till you have completed the days of your siege.


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content:
  “And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer, and put them into a single vessel and make your bread from them. During the number of days that you lie on your side, 390 days, you shall eat it.


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  And your food that you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from day to day you shall eat it.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And the LORD said, “Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.”


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label: Ezek
content:
  Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I have never defiled myself. From my youth up till now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has tainted meat come into my mouth.”


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label: Ezek
content:
  Then he said to me, “See, I assign to you cow’s dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread.”


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content:
  Moreover, he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.


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  I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and look at one another in dismay, and rot away because of their punishment. 


id: a8f5a041-6028-4350-a8f0-63e471fe8714
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label: Ezek
content:
  “And you, O son of man, take a sharp sword. Use it as a barber’s razor and pass it over your head and your beard. Then take balances for weighing and divide the hair.


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  A third part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are completed. And a third part you shall take and strike with the sword all around the city. And a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them.


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  And of these again you shall take some and cast them into the midst of the fire and burn them in the fire. From there a fire will come out into all the house of Israel.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Thus says the Lord GOD: This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, and have not even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you,


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content:
  therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, even I, am against you. And I will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.


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label: Ezek
content:
  And because of all your abominations I will do with you what I have never yet done, and the like of which I will never do again.


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label: Ezek
content:
  Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds.


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content:
  Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will withdraw. My eye will not spare, and I will have no pity.


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label: Ezek
content:
  A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in your midst; a third part shall fall by the sword all around you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Thus shall my anger spend itself, and I will vent my fury upon them and satisfy myself. And they shall know that I am the LORD—that I have spoken in my jealousy—when I spend my fury upon them.


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label: Ezek
content:
  Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of reproach among the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by.


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content:
  You shall be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations all around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and with furious rebukes—I am the LORD; I have spoken—


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  when I send against you the deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon you and break your supply of bread.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
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  I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will rob you of your children. Pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I am the LORD; I have spoken.” 


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.


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content:
  Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain before your idols.


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label: Ezek
content:
  And I will lay the dead bodies of the people of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Wherever you dwell, the cities shall be waste and the high places ruined, so that your altars will be waste and ruined, your idols broken and destroyed, your incense altars cut down, and your works wiped out.


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label: Ezek
content:
  “Yet I will leave some of you alive. When you have among the nations some who escape the sword, and when you are scattered through the countries,


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  then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Thus says the Lord GOD: “Clap your hands and stamp your foot and say, Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.


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  He who is far off shall die of pestilence, and he who is near shall fall by the sword, and he who is left and is preserved shall die of famine. Thus I will spend my fury upon them.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And you shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, wherever they offered pleasing aroma to all their idols.


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content:
  And I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land desolate and waste, in all their dwelling places, from the wilderness to Riblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.” 


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “And you, O son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.


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content:
  Now the end is upon you, and I will send my anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations.


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content:
  And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity, but I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the LORD.


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content:
  Your doom has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. The time has come; the day is near, a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting on the mountains.


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label: Ezek
content:
  Now I will soon pour out my wrath upon you, and spend my anger against you, and judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the LORD, who strikes.


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content:
  Violence has grown up into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, nor their abundance, nor their wealth; neither shall there be preeminence among them.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  The time has come; the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all their multitude.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  For the seller shall not return to what he has sold, while they live. For the vision concerns all their multitude; it shall not turn back; and because of his iniquity, none can maintain his life.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but none goes to battle, for my wrath is upon all their multitude.


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label: Ezek
content:
  The sword is without; pestilence and famine are within. He who is in the field dies by the sword, and him who is in the city famine and pestilence devour.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity.


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label: Ezek
content:
  They put on sackcloth, and horror covers them. Shame is on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing. Their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity.


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label: Ezek
content:
  His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore I make it an unclean thing to them.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And I will give it into the hands of foreigners for prey, and to the wicked of the earth for spoil, and they shall profane it.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  I will turn my face from them, and they shall profane my treasured place. Robbers shall enter and profane it.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  I will bring the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the strong, and their holy places shall be profaned.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Disaster comes upon disaster; rumor follows rumor. They seek a vision from the prophet, while the law perishes from the priest and counsel from the elders.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  The king mourns, the prince is wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of the land are paralyzed by terror. According to their way I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, and they shall know that I am the LORD.” 


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, with the elders of Judah sitting before me, the hand of the Lord GOD fell upon me there.


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label: Ezek
content:
  Then I looked, and behold, a form that had the appearance of a man. Below what appeared to be his waist was fire, and above his waist was something like the appearance of brightness, like gleaming metal.


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label: Ezek
content:
  He put out the form of a hand and took me by a lock of my head, and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the gateway of the inner court that faces north, where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Then he said to me, “Son of man, lift up your eyes now toward the north.” So I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and behold, north of the altar gate, in the entrance, was this image of jealousy.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And he said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel are committing here, to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see still greater abominations.”


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content:
  And he brought me to the entrance of the court, and when I looked, behold, there was a hole in the wall.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Then he said to me, “Son of man, dig in the wall.” So I dug in the wall, and behold, there was an entrance.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  So I went in and saw. And there, engraved on the wall all around, was every form of creeping things and loathsome beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel.


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label: Ezek
content:
  And before them stood seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had his censer in his hand, and the smoke of the cloud of incense went up.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in his room of pictures? For they say, ‘The LORD does not see us, the LORD has forsaken the land.’”


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  Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the LORD, and behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.


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content:
  Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? You will see still greater abominations than these.”


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label: Ezek
content:
  And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the LORD. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east, worshiping the sun toward the east.


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label: Ezek
content:
  Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations that they commit here, that they should fill the land with violence and provoke me still further to anger? Behold, they put the branch to their nose.


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content:
  Therefore I will act in wrath. My eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.” 


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label: Ezek
content:
  Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, “Bring near the executioners of the city, each with his destroying weapon in his hand.”


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label: Ezek
content:
  And behold, six men came from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with his weapon for slaughter in his hand, and with them was a man clothed in linen, with a writing case at his waist. And they went in and stood beside the bronze altar.


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label: Ezek
content:
  Now the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherub on which it rested to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writing case at his waist.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And the LORD said to him, “Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it.”


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content:
  And to the others he said in my hearing, “Pass through the city after him, and strike. Your eye shall not spare, and you shall show no pity.


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label: Ezek
content:
  Kill old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but touch no one on whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the house.


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content:
  Then he said to them, “Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out.” So they went out and struck in the city.


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label: Ezek
content:
  And while they were striking, and I was left alone, I fell upon my face, and cried, “Ah, Lord GOD! Will you destroy all the remnant of Israel in the outpouring of your wrath on Jerusalem?”


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label: Ezek
content:
  Then he said to me, “The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of blood, and the city full of injustice. For they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD does not see.’


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content:
  And behold, the man clothed in linen, with the writing case at his waist, brought back word, saying, “I have done as you commanded me.” 


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content:
  Then I looked, and behold, on the expanse that was over the heads of the cherubim there appeared above them something like a sapphire, in appearance like a throne.


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content:
  And he said to the man clothed in linen, “Go in among the whirling wheels underneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city.” And he went in before my eyes.


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  Now the cherubim were standing on the south side of the house, when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.


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content:
  And the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub to the threshold of the house, and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the LORD.


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content:
  And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.


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content:
  And when he commanded the man clothed in linen, “Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim,” he went in and stood beside a wheel.


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content:
  And a cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took some of it and put it into the hands of the man clothed in linen, who took it and went out.


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content:
  And I looked, and behold, there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one beside each cherub, and the appearance of the wheels was like sparkling beryl.


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content:
  When they went, they went in any of their four directions without turning as they went, but in whatever direction the front wheel faced, the others followed without turning as they went.


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content:
  And their whole body, their rims, and their spokes, their wings, and the wheels were full of eyes all around—the wheels that the four of them had.


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content:
  And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of the cherub, and the second face was a human face, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.


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label: Ezek
content:
  And when the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them. And when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels did not turn from beside them.


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content:
  When they stood still, these stood still, and when they mounted up, these mounted up with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in them.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And the cherubim lifted up their wings and mounted up from the earth before my eyes as they went out, with the wheels beside them. And they stood at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the LORD, and the glory of the God of Israel was over them.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  These were the living creatures that I saw underneath the God of Israel by the Chebar canal; and I knew that they were cherubim.


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label: Ezek
content:
  And as for the likeness of their faces, they were the same faces whose appearance I had seen by the Chebar canal. Each one of them went straight forward. 


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the house of the LORD, which faces east. And behold, at the entrance of the gateway there were twenty-five men. And I saw among them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And he said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity and who give wicked counsel in this city;


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and he said to me, “Say, Thus says the LORD: So you think, O house of Israel. For I know the things that come into your mind.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of it, they are the meat, and this city is the cauldron, but you shall be brought out of the midst of it.


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content:
  And I will bring you out of the midst of it, and give you into the hands of foreigners, and execute judgments upon you.


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label: Ezek
content:
  You shall fall by the sword. I will judge you at the border of Israel, and you shall know that I am the LORD.


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label: Ezek
content:
  This city shall not be your cauldron, nor shall you be the meat in the midst of it. I will judge you at the border of Israel,


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  and you shall know that I am the LORD. For you have not walked in my statutes, nor obeyed my rules, but have acted according to the rules of the nations that are around you.”


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And it came to pass, while I was prophesying, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then I fell down on my face and cried out with a loud voice and said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?”


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, your kinsmen, the whole house of Israel, all of them, are those of whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Go far from the LORD; to us this land is given for a possession.’


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: Though I removed them far off among the nations, and though I scattered them among the countries, yet I have been a sanctuary to them for a while in the countries where they have gone.’


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.’


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label: Ezek
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  And when they come there, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations.


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label: Ezek
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  And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,


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content:
  that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  But as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their deeds upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”


id: b9d19643-e2bf-4fab-84db-894602559732
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, with the wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel was over them.


id: 4c3eac15-fad8-4726-8c96-ed8aebebfb9a
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city and stood on the mountain that is on the east side of the city.


id: 370f88f3-d762-406b-adb7-72358fc9b01a
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to the exiles. Then the vision that I had seen went up from me.


id: ac26abb2-0bf9-4102-8b04-fcd409eab04c
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, but see not, who have ears to hear, but hear not, for they are a rebellious house.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  As for you, son of man, prepare for yourself an exile’s baggage, and go into exile by day in their sight. You shall go like an exile from your place to another place in their sight. Perhaps they will understand, though they are a rebellious house.


id: f82098e8-f869-4021-bff6-ff1fdfd04e09
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  You shall bring out your baggage by day in their sight, as baggage for exile, and you shall go out yourself at evening in their sight, as those do who must go into exile.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  In their sight you shall lift the baggage upon your shoulder and carry it out at dusk. You shall cover your face that you may not see the land, for I have made you a sign for the house of Israel.”


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And I did as I was commanded. I brought out my baggage by day, as baggage for exile, and in the evening I dug through the wall with my own hands. I brought out my baggage at dusk, carrying it on my shoulder in their sight.


id: b718db9d-2cfd-4b37-8544-8bb8552551d1
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: This oracle concerns the prince in Jerusalem and all the house of Israel who are in it.’


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Say, ‘I am a sign for you: as I have done, so shall it be done to them. They shall go into exile, into captivity.’


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And the prince who is among them shall lift his baggage upon his shoulder at dusk, and shall go out. They shall dig through the wall to bring him out through it. He shall cover his face, that he may not see the land with his eyes.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare. And I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, yet he shall not see it, and he shall die there.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And I will scatter toward every wind all who are around him, his helpers and all his troops, and I will unsheathe the sword after them.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among the countries.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  But I will let a few of them escape from the sword, from famine and pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they go, and may know that I am the LORD.”


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And say to the people of the land, Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with anxiety, and drink water in dismay. In this way her land will be stripped of all it contains, on account of the violence of all those who dwell in it.


id: 607fda23-7f53-4abe-aeb3-062985300fb0
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And the inhabited cities shall be laid waste, and the land shall become a desolation; and you shall know that I am the LORD.”


id: 8e460ead-c3d2-4c29-ab4e-4d8cbb9fd798
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Son of man, what is this proverb that you have about the land of Israel, saying, ‘The days grow long, and every vision comes to nothing’?


id: 6ac3135a-056f-4eb6-a877-d59d9c9a8e8f
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Tell them therefore, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: I will put an end to this proverb, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel.’ But say to them, The days are near, and the fulfillment of every vision.


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label: Ezek
content:
  For I am the LORD; I will speak the word that I will speak, and it will be performed. It will no longer be delayed, but in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak the word and perform it, declares the Lord GOD.”


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, ‘The vision that he sees is for many days from now, and he prophesies of times far off.’


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: None of my words will be delayed any longer, but the word that I speak will be performed, declares the Lord GOD.” 


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel, who are prophesying, and say to those who prophesy from their own hearts: ‘Hear the word of the LORD!’


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Thus says the Lord GOD, Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  You have not gone up into the breaches, or built up a wall for the house of Israel, that it might stand in battle in the day of the LORD.


id: e6a9e67b-12cd-4062-b435-75e3a327603d
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  They have seen false visions and lying divinations. They say, ‘Declares the LORD,’ when the LORD has not sent them, and yet they expect him to fulfill their word.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Have you not seen a false vision and uttered a lying divination, whenever you have said, ‘Declares the LORD,’ although I have not spoken?”


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Because you have uttered falsehood and seen lying visions, therefore behold, I am against you, declares the Lord GOD.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who give lying divinations. They shall not be in the council of my people, nor be enrolled in the register of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Precisely because they have misled my people, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and because, when the people build a wall, these prophets smear it with whitewash,


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  say to those who smear it with whitewash that it shall fall! There will be a deluge of rain, and you, O great hailstones, will fall, and a stormy wind break out.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And when the wall falls, will it not be said to you, ‘Where is the coating with which you smeared it?’


id: 2b0d5dc1-db73-4cb6-9ab3-e9f27e7ec14b
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: I will make a stormy wind break out in my wrath, and there shall be a deluge of rain in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to make a full end.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And I will break down the wall that you have smeared with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be laid bare. When it falls, you shall perish in the midst of it, and you shall know that I am the LORD.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Thus will I spend my wrath upon the wall and upon those who have smeared it with whitewash, and I will say to you, The wall is no more, nor those who smeared it,


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  the prophets of Israel who prophesied concerning Jerusalem and saw visions of peace for her, when there was no peace, declares the Lord GOD.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “And you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own hearts. Prophesy against them


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the women who sew magic bands upon all wrists, and make veils for the heads of persons of every stature, in the hunt for souls! Will you hunt down souls belonging to my people and keep your own souls alive?


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, putting to death souls who should not die and keeping alive souls who should not live, by your lying to my people, who listen to lies.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against your magic bands with which you hunt the souls like birds, and I will tear them from your arms, and I will let the souls whom you hunt go free, the souls like birds.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Your veils also I will tear off and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand as prey, and you shall know that I am the LORD.


id: 8eac0437-f1d5-4123-b700-49c1a9c05baa
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Because you have disheartened the righteous falsely, although I have not grieved him, and you have encouraged the wicked, that he should not turn from his evil way to save his life,


id: 0d59dde4-7bdd-4f72-844d-27e0ee08e2db
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  therefore you shall no more see false visions nor practice divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand. And you shall know that I am the LORD.” 


id: c87ec9f8-62db-4de6-95cc-576d6b973a83
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their hearts, and set the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces. Should I indeed let myself be consulted by them?


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Therefore speak to them and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Any one of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and sets the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to the prophet, I the LORD will answer him as he comes with the multitude of his idols,


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  that I may lay hold of the hearts of the house of Israel, who are all estranged from me through their idols.


id: ca932258-a980-4a43-860b-d2b573d5ec94
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: Repent and turn away from your idols, and turn away your faces from all your abominations.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  For any one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from me, taking his idols into his heart and putting the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to a prophet to consult me through him, I the LORD will answer him myself.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And I will set my face against that man; I will make him a sign and a byword and cut him off from the midst of my people, and you shall know that I am the LORD.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And if the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, the LORD, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And they shall bear their punishment—the punishment of the prophet and the punishment of the inquirer shall be alike—


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, nor defile themselves anymore with all their transgressions, but that they may be my people and I may be their God, declares the Lord GOD.”


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Son of man, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it and break its supply of bread and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast,


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord GOD.


id: b09635b9-f935-4a92-a469-f483f94d7263
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no one may pass through because of the beasts,


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label: Ezek
content:
  even if these three men were in it, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.


id: ecabfd03-dbe8-4a93-8a33-aa4bd7fd2380
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Or if I bring a sword upon that land and say, Let a sword pass through the land, and I cut off from it man and beast,


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  though these three men were in it, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they alone would be delivered.


id: 2c2de141-6e10-48f1-ade0-4c8fdc3edc47
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my wrath upon it with blood, to cut off from it man and beast,


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, they would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “For thus says the Lord GOD: How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four disastrous acts of judgment, sword, famine, wild beasts, and pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  But behold, some survivors will be left in it, sons and daughters who will be brought out; behold, when they come out to you, and you see their ways and their deeds, you will be consoled for the disaster that I have brought upon Jerusalem, for all that I have brought upon it.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  They will console you, when you see their ways and their deeds, and you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, declares the Lord GOD.” 


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Son of man, how does the wood of the vine surpass any wood, the vine branch that is among the trees of the forest?


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Behold, it is given to the fire for fuel. When the fire has consumed both ends of it, and the middle of it is charred, is it useful for anything?


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label: Ezek
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  Behold, when it was whole, it was used for nothing. How much less, when the fire has consumed it and it is charred, can it ever be used for anything!


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label: Ezek
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  Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
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  And I will set my face against them. Though they escape from the fire, the fire shall yet consume them, and you will know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  and say, Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth are of the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.


id: f7eb4beb-ae3c-4a93-a70c-bd5e32135894
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And as for your birth, on the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you out of compassion for you, but you were cast out on the open field, for you were abhorred, on the day that you were born.


id: e602c8a6-0d3b-4648-8eb7-e39037a6c145
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “And when I passed by you and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’


id: 396ca190-3421-4797-94a2-f780f30c4b60
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  I made you flourish like a plant of the field. And you grew up and became tall and arrived at full adornment. Your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare.


id: 91a30ec9-9138-4ba9-98b3-9c6532b7601d
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord GOD, and you became mine.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  I clothed you also with embroidered cloth and shod you with fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.


id: 251bfdc6-0853-4674-8be4-30db4bbd110a
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour and honey and oil. You grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord GOD.


id: a3dc2270-b307-4b33-b310-b3d227d466bd
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “But you trusted in your beauty and played the whore because of your renown and lavished your whorings on any passerby; your beauty became his.


id: 46842e35-ec02-462f-aa5a-608045fb1302
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be.


id: 77a60224-ed14-4d2e-ad4a-c15b915f132e
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Also my bread that I gave you—I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey—you set before them for a pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord GOD.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.


id: 74789901-2984-4b17-8b24-e5e5510dd2dd
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  At the head of every street you built your lofty place and made your beauty an abomination, offering yourself to any passerby and multiplying your whoring.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  You also played the whore with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, multiplying your whoring, to provoke me to anger.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you and diminished your allotted portion and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.


id: 92d9a997-bedb-40c8-81b3-3181e6b2fb29
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  You played the whore also with the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied; yes, you played the whore with them, and still you were not satisfied.


id: 452654a8-74f8-47e3-804c-e73ac4cde116
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  You multiplied your whoring also with the trading land of Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied.


id: 3c7657a4-6610-4794-a125-8d2543ec5314
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “How sick is your heart, declares the Lord GOD, because you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute,


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label: Ezek
content:
  building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.


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label: Ezek
content:
  Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  So you were different from other women in your whorings. No one solicited you to play the whore, and you gave payment, while no payment was given to you; therefore you were different.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Thus says the Lord GOD, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,


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label: Ezek
content:
  therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from every side and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.


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label: Ezek
content:
  And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.


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label: Ezek
content:
  And I will give you into their hands, and they shall throw down your vaulted chamber and break down your lofty places. They shall strip you of your clothes and take your beautiful jewels and leave you naked and bare.


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label: Ezek
content:
  They shall bring up a crowd against you, and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And they shall burn your houses and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women. I will make you stop playing the whore, and you shall also give payment no more.


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label: Ezek
content:
  So will I satisfy my wrath on you, and my jealousy shall depart from you. I will be calm and will no more be angry.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things, therefore, behold, I have returned your deeds upon your head, declares the Lord GOD. Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations?


id: 4c498194-5bc2-486c-84cf-15ee742c019d
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.


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label: Ezek
content:
  And your elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  As I live, declares the Lord GOD, your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Samaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than they, and have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.


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label: Ezek
content:
  “I will restore their fortunes, both the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and I will restore your own fortunes in their midst,


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label: Ezek
content:
  that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all that you have done, becoming a consolation to them.


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label: Ezek
content:
  As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, and you and your daughters shall return to your former state.


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label: Ezek
content:
  before your wickedness was uncovered? Now you have become an object of reproach for the daughters of Syria and all those around her, and for the daughters of the Philistines, those all around who despise you.


id: 072b43ac-4eb1-4229-9340-58b18fc20f94
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label: Ezek
content:
  “For thus says the Lord GOD: I will deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant,


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label: Ezek
content:
  yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant.


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label: Ezek
content:
  Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you take your sisters, both your elder and your younger, and I give them to you as daughters, but not on account of the covenant with you.


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label: Ezek
content:
  that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord GOD.” 


id: e51e3c1e-139e-47a6-ba1b-33cf26db4170
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  say, Thus says the Lord GOD: A great eagle with great wings and long pinions, rich in plumage of many colors, came to Lebanon and took the top of the cedar.


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label: Ezek
content:
  He broke off the topmost of its young twigs and carried it to a land of trade and set it in a city of merchants.


id: e4750ea0-8162-496a-9a6e-7242590e9394
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Then he took of the seed of the land and planted it in fertile soil. He placed it beside abundant waters. He set it like a willow twig,


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  and it sprouted and became a low spreading vine, and its branches turned toward him, and its roots remained where it stood. So it became a vine and produced branches and put out boughs.


id: cbd1b2b6-0f89-4f4a-bdb3-f5910abcad11
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “And there was another great eagle with great wings and much plumage, and behold, this vine bent its roots toward him and shot forth its branches toward him from the bed where it was planted, that he might water it.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  It had been planted on good soil by abundant waters, that it might produce branches and bear fruit and become a noble vine.


id: 1523ddc6-ca0e-4889-9097-81c8f9c21933
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Will it thrive? Will he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, so that it withers, so that all its fresh sprouting leaves wither? It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it from its roots.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Behold, it is planted; will it thrive? Will it not utterly wither when the east wind strikes it—wither away on the bed where it sprouted?”


id: 3137eead-957b-4af0-9ee5-80c6d38672fc
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Say now to the rebellious house, Do you not know what these things mean? Tell them, behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took her king and her princes and brought them to him to Babylon.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And he took one of the royal offspring and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath (the chief men of the land he had taken away),


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  But he rebelled against him by sending his ambassadors to Egypt, that they might give him horses and a large army. Will he thrive? Can one escape who does such things? Can he break the covenant and yet escape?


id: 7e571ef4-d25a-42b1-a687-0a67b1ae720a
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “As I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant with him he broke, in Babylon he shall die.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company will not help him in war, when mounds are cast up and siege walls built to cut off many lives.


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label: Ezek
content:
  He despised the oath in breaking the covenant, and behold, he gave his hand and did all these things; he shall not escape.


id: 8ad79802-f6d3-49cf-87d7-4f6e11cdb96c
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: As I live, surely it is my oath that he despised, and my covenant that he broke. I will return it upon his head.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon and enter into judgment with him there for the treachery he has committed against me.


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label: Ezek
content:
  And all the pick of his troops shall fall by the sword, and the survivors shall be scattered to every wind, and you shall know that I am the LORD; I have spoken.”


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Thus says the Lord GOD: “I myself will take a sprig from the lofty top of the cedar and will set it out. I will break off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  On the mountain height of Israel will I plant it, that it may bear branches and produce fruit and become a noble cedar. And under it will dwell every kind of bird; in the shade of its branches birds of every sort will nest.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the LORD; I bring low the high tree, and make high the low tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish. I am the LORD; I have spoken, and I will do it.” 


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  if he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman in her time of menstrual impurity,


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label: Ezek
content:
  does not oppress anyone, but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,


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label: Ezek
content:
  does not lend at interest or take any profit, withholds his hand from injustice, executes true justice between man and man,


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  walks in my statutes, and keeps my rules by acting faithfully—he is righteous; he shall surely live, declares the Lord GOD.


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label: Ezek
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  (though he himself did none of these things), who even eats upon the mountains, defiles his neighbor’s wife,


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label: Ezek
content:
  oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore the pledge, lifts up his eyes to the idols, commits abomination,


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label: Ezek
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  lends at interest, and takes profit; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon himself.


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label: Ezek
content:
  “Now suppose this man fathers a son who sees all the sins that his father has done; he sees, and does not do likewise:


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label: Ezek
content:
  he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  does not oppress anyone, exacts no pledge, commits no robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,


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label: Ezek
content:
  withholds his hand from iniquity, takes no interest or profit, obeys my rules, and walks in my statutes; he shall not die for his father’s iniquity; he shall surely live.


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label: Ezek
content:
  As for his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what is not good among his people, behold, he shall die for his iniquity.


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label: Ezek
content:
  “Yet you say, ‘Why should not the son suffer for the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done what is just and right, and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.


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label: Ezek
content:
  “But if a wicked person turns away from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is just and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die.


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label: Ezek
content:
  None of the transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him; for the righteousness that he has done he shall live.


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label: Ezek
content:
  Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord GOD, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live?


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label: Ezek
content:
  But when a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice and does the same abominations that the wicked person does, shall he live? None of the righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, for them he shall die.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is my way not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?


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label: Ezek
content:
  When a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it; for the injustice that he has done he shall die.


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label: Ezek
content:
  Again, when a wicked person turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he shall save his life.


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label: Ezek
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  Because he considered and turned away from all the transgressions that he had committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ O house of Israel, are my ways not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?


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label: Ezek
content:
  “Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin.


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  Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel?


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label: Ezek
content:
  and say: What was your mother? A lioness! Among lions she crouched; in the midst of young lions she reared her cubs.


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label: Ezek
content:
  And she brought up one of her cubs; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured men.


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label: Ezek
content:
  The nations heard about him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.


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label: Ezek
content:
  When she saw that she waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.


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label: Ezek
content:
  and seized their widows. He laid waste their cities, and the land was appalled and all who were in it at the sound of his roaring.


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label: Ezek
content:
  Then the nations set against him from provinces on every side; they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.


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label: Ezek
content:
  With hooks they put him in a cage and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into custody, that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.


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label: Ezek
content:
  Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard planted by the water, fruitful and full of branches by reason of abundant water.


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label: Ezek
content:
  Its strong stems became rulers’ scepters; it towered aloft among the thick boughs; it was seen in its height with the mass of its branches.


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label: Ezek
content:
  But the vine was plucked up in fury, cast down to the ground; the east wind dried up its fruit; they were stripped off and withered. As for its strong stem, fire consumed it.


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label: Ezek
content:
  And fire has gone out from the stem of its shoots, has consumed its fruit, so that there remains in it no strong stem, no scepter for ruling. This is a lamentation and has become a lamentation. 


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label: Ezek
content:
  In the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and sat before me.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD, Is it to inquire of me that you come? As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.


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label: Ezek
content:
  Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Let them know the abominations of their fathers,


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label: Ezek
content:
  and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: On the day when I chose Israel, I swore to the offspring of the house of Jacob, making myself known to them in the land of Egypt; I swore to them, saying, I am the LORD your God.


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label: Ezek
content:
  On that day I swore to them that I would bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most glorious of all lands.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And I said to them, ‘Cast away the detestable things your eyes feast on, every one of you, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.’


id: 9cbe1f58-9c0a-4f63-8da1-a2e7f4779124
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  But they rebelled against me and were not willing to listen to me. None of them cast away the detestable things their eyes feasted on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. “Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.


id: aece9635-a6f2-4d7b-8b2d-e069f792eb78
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label: Ezek
content:
  But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made myself known to them in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.


id: cc22f060-c6f0-4cbf-9308-712d5268fb19
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label: Ezek
content:
  I gave them my statutes and made known to them my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live.


id: 391d1697-d6a2-441d-9de4-6f8991acef8b
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Moreover, I gave them my Sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.


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content:
  But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. “Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them.


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  But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.


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  Moreover, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most glorious of all lands,


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  because they rejected my rules and did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.


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  Nevertheless, my eye spared them, and I did not destroy them or make a full end of them in the wilderness.


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  “And I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, nor defile yourselves with their idols.


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  and keep my Sabbaths holy that they may be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’


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  But the children rebelled against me. They did not walk in my statutes and were not careful to obey my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; they profaned my Sabbaths. “Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  But I withheld my hand and acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.


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  Moreover, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries,


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label: Ezek
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  because they had not obeyed my rules, but had rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were set on their fathers’ idols.


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  and I defiled them through their very gifts in their offering up all their firstborn, that I might devastate them. I did it that they might know that I am the LORD.


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content:
  “Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: In this also your fathers blasphemed me, by dealing treacherously with me.


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label: Ezek
content:
  For when I had brought them into the land that I swore to give them, then wherever they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices and there they presented the provocation of their offering; there they sent up their pleasing aromas, and there they poured out their drink offerings.


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label: Ezek
content:
  (I said to them, ‘What is the high place to which you go?’ So its name is called Bamah to this day.)


id: aae25b10-fda0-4e6d-8be8-4a29ab1f9ae1
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content:
  “Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: Will you defile yourselves after the manner of your fathers and go whoring after their detestable things?


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content:
  When you present your gifts and offer up your children in fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “What is in your mind shall never happen—the thought, ‘Let us be like the nations, like the tribes of the countries, and worship wood and stone.’


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label: Ezek
content:
  “As I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out I will be king over you.


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  I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you are scattered, with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out.


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  And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.


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  As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord GOD.


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  I will purge out the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against me. I will bring them out of the land where they sojourn, but they shall not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.


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content:
  “As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord GOD: Go serve every one of you his idols, now and hereafter, if you will not listen to me; but my holy name you shall no more profane with your gifts and your idols.


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content:
  “For on my holy mountain, the mountain height of Israel, declares the Lord GOD, there all the house of Israel, all of them, shall serve me in the land. There I will accept them, and there I will require your contributions and the choicest of your gifts, with all your sacred offerings.


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  As a pleasing aroma I will accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered. And I will manifest my holiness among you in the sight of the nations.


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  And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I bring you into the land of Israel, the country that I swore to give to your fathers.


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  And there you shall remember your ways and all your deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, and you shall loathe yourselves for all the evils that you have committed.


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  And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I deal with you for my name’s sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt deeds, O house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD.”


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  “Son of man, set your face toward the southland; preach against the south, and prophesy against the forest land in the Negeb.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
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  Say to the forest of the Negeb, Hear the word of the LORD: Thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you and every dry tree. The blazing flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from south to north shall be scorched by it.


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  “Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuaries. Prophesy against the land of Israel


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
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  and say to the land of Israel, Thus says the LORD: Behold, I am against you and will draw my sword from its sheath and will cut off from you both righteous and wicked.


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  Because I will cut off from you both righteous and wicked, therefore my sword shall be drawn from its sheath against all flesh from south to north.


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label: Ezek
content:
  And all flesh shall know that I am the LORD. I have drawn my sword from its sheath; it shall not be sheathed again.


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  And when they say to you, ‘Why do you groan?’ you shall say, ‘Because of the news that it is coming. Every heart will melt, and all hands will be feeble; every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it is coming, and it will be fulfilled,’” declares the Lord GOD.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord, say: “A sword, a sword is sharpened and also polished,


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  sharpened for slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! (Or shall we rejoice? You have despised the rod, my son, with everything of wood.)


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  So the sword is given to be polished, that it may be grasped in the hand. It is sharpened and polished to be given into the hand of the slayer.


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label: Ezek
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  Cry out and wail, son of man, for it is against my people. It is against all the princes of Israel. They are delivered over to the sword with my people. Strike therefore upon your thigh.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “As for you, son of man, prophesy. Clap your hands and let the sword come down twice, yes, three times, the sword for those to be slain. It is the sword for the great slaughter, which surrounds them,


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  that their hearts may melt, and many stumble. At all their gates I have given the glittering sword. Ah, it is made like lightning; it is taken up for slaughter.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
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  “As for you, son of man, mark two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come. Both of them shall come from the same land. And make a signpost; make it at the head of the way to a city.


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content:
  Mark a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the Ammonites and to Judah, into Jerusalem the fortified.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
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  For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shakes the arrows; he consults the teraphim; he looks at the liver.


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label: Ezek
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  Into his right hand comes the divination for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth with murder, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build siege towers.


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  But to them it will seem like a false divination. They have sworn solemn oaths, but he brings their guilt to remembrance, that they may be taken.


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label: Ezek
content:
  “Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have made your guilt to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your deeds your sins appear—because you have come to remembrance, you shall be taken in hand.


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  And you, O profane wicked one, prince of Israel, whose day has come, the time of your final punishment,


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label: Ezek
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  thus says the Lord GOD: Remove the turban and take off the crown. Things shall not remain as they are. Exalt that which is low, and bring low that which is exalted.


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  A ruin, ruin, ruin I will make it. This also shall not be, until he comes, the one to whom judgment belongs, and I will give it to him.


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label: Ezek
content:
  “And you, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites and concerning their reproach; say, A sword, a sword is drawn for the slaughter. It is polished to consume and to flash like lightning—


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  while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies for you—to place you on the necks of the profane wicked, whose day has come, the time of their final punishment.


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label: Ezek
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  Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.


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label: Ezek
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  And I will pour out my indignation upon you; I will blow upon you with the fire of my wrath, and I will deliver you into the hands of brutish men, skillful to destroy.


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  You shall be fuel for the fire. Your blood shall be in the midst of the land. You shall be no more remembered, for I the LORD have spoken.” 


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label: Ezek
content:
  “And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to her all her abominations.


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label: Ezek
content:
  You shall say, Thus says the Lord GOD: A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that her time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself!


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label: Ezek
content:
  You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought your days near, the appointed time of your years has come. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries.


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label: Ezek
content:
  Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you; your name is defiled; you are full of tumult.


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label: Ezek
content:
  “Behold, the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood.


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content:
  Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you.


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label: Ezek
content:
  There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you who eat on the mountains; they commit lewdness in your midst.


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label: Ezek
content:
  In you men uncover their fathers’ nakedness; in you they violate women who are unclean in their menstrual impurity.


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label: Ezek
content:
  One commits abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; another in you violates his sister, his father’s daughter.


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  In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and profit and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.


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label: Ezek
content:
  “Behold, I strike my hand at the dishonest gain that you have made, and at the blood that has been in your midst.


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content:
  Can your courage endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I the LORD have spoken, and I will do it.


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content:
  I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will consume your uncleanness out of you.


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content:
  And you shall be profaned by your own doing in the sight of the nations, and you shall know that I am the LORD.”


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content:
  “Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace; they are dross of silver.


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content:
  Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.


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  As one gathers silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into a furnace, to blow the fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will put you in and melt you.


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  I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst of it.


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  As silver is melted in a furnace, so you shall be melted in the midst of it, and you shall know that I am the LORD; I have poured out my wrath upon you.”


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content:
  “Son of man, say to her, You are a land that is not cleansed or rained upon in the day of indignation.


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label: Ezek
content:
  The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst.


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content:
  Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have disregarded my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.


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label: Ezek
content:
  Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.


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  And her prophets have smeared whitewash for them, seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD,’ when the LORD has not spoken.


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content:
  The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy, and have extorted from the sojourner without justice.


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label: Ezek
content:
  And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.


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  Therefore I have poured out my indignation upon them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have returned their way upon their heads, declares the Lord GOD.” 


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content:
  They played the whore in Egypt; they played the whore in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms handled.


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content:
  Oholah was the name of the elder and Oholibah the name of her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.


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label: Ezek
content:
  “Oholah played the whore while she was mine, and she lusted after her lovers the Assyrians, warriors


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  clothed in purple, governors and commanders, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.


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  She bestowed her whoring upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them, and she defiled herself with all the idols of everyone after whom she lusted.


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content:
  She did not give up her whoring that she had begun in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her and handled her virgin bosom and poured out their whoring lust upon her.


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  Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted.


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  These uncovered her nakedness; they seized her sons and her daughters; and as for her, they killed her with the sword; and she became a byword among women, when judgment had been executed on her.


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content:
  “Her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became more corrupt than her sister in her lust and in her whoring, which was worse than that of her sister.


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  She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and commanders, warriors clothed in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.


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label: Ezek
content:
  But she carried her whoring further. She saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion,


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  wearing belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them having the appearance of officers, a likeness of Babylonians whose native land was Chaldea.


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  And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoring lust. And after she was defiled by them, she turned from them in disgust.


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  When she carried on her whoring so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned in disgust from her sister.


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  Yet she increased her whoring, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt


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  and lusted after her lovers there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses.


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  Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom and pressed your young breasts.”


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  Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I will stir up against you your lovers from whom you turned in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side:


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  the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, governors and commanders all of them, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.


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  And they shall come against you from the north with chariots and wagons and a host of peoples. They shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler, shield, and helmet; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.


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content:
  And I will direct my jealousy against you, that they may deal with you in fury. They shall cut off your nose and your ears, and your survivors shall fall by the sword. They shall seize your sons and your daughters, and your survivors shall be devoured by fire.


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  Thus I will put an end to your lewdness and your whoring begun in the land of Egypt, so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.


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  “For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will deliver you into the hands of those whom you hate, into the hands of those from whom you turned in disgust,


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  and they shall deal with you in hatred and take away all the fruit of your labor and leave you naked and bare, and the nakedness of your whoring shall be uncovered. Your lewdness and your whoring


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  have brought this upon you, because you played the whore with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.


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content:
  Thus says the Lord GOD: “You shall drink your sister’s cup that is deep and large; you shall be laughed at and held in derision, for it contains much;


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  you will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow. A cup of horror and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria;


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  you shall drink it and drain it out, and gnaw its shards, and tear your breasts; for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.


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label: Ezek
content:
  Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, you yourself must bear the consequences of your lewdness and whoring.”


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label: Ezek
content:
  The LORD said to me: “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Declare to them their abominations.


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  For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. With their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even offered up to them for food the children whom they had borne to me.


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  Moreover, this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day and profaned my Sabbaths.


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  For when they had slaughtered their children in sacrifice to their idols, on the same day they came into my sanctuary to profane it. And behold, this is what they did in my house.


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  They even sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came. For them you bathed yourself, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments.


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  You sat on a stately couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed my incense and my oil.


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  The sound of a carefree multitude was with her; and with men of the common sort, drunkards were brought from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on the hands of the women, and beautiful crowns on their heads.


id: 6099a9df-8b05-45ab-8d46-a107e1bb0450
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label: Ezek
content:
  “Then I said of her who was worn out by adultery, ‘Now they will continue to use her for a whore, even her!’


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  For they have gone in to her, as men go in to a prostitute. Thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, lewd women!


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  But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.”


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  For thus says the Lord GOD: “Bring up a vast host against them, and make them an object of terror and a plunder.


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  And the host shall stone them and cut them down with their swords. They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses.


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  Thus will I put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not commit lewdness as you have done.


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  And they shall return your lewdness upon you, and you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry, and you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.” 


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  In the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:


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label: Ezek
content:
  “Son of man, write down the name of this day, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day.


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label: Ezek
content:
  And utter a parable to the rebellious house and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: “Set on the pot, set it on; pour in water also;


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  put in it the pieces of meat, all the good pieces, the thigh and the shoulder; fill it with choice bones.


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label: Ezek
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  Take the choicest one of the flock; pile the logs under it; boil it well; seethe also its bones in it.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose corrosion is in it, and whose corrosion has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece, without making any choice.


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  For the blood she has shed is in her midst; she put it on the bare rock; she did not pour it out on the ground to cover it with dust.


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label: Ezek
content:
  To rouse my wrath, to take vengeance, I have set on the bare rock the blood she has shed, that it may not be covered.


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  Heap on the logs, kindle the fire, boil the meat well, mix in the spices, and let the bones be burned up.


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  Then set it empty upon the coals, that it may become hot, and its copper may burn, that its uncleanness may be melted in it, its corrosion consumed.


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label: Ezek
content:
  She has wearied herself with toil; its abundant corrosion does not go out of it. Into the fire with its corrosion!


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label: Ezek
content:
  On account of your unclean lewdness, because I would have cleansed you and you were not cleansed from your uncleanness, you shall not be cleansed anymore till I have satisfied my fury upon you.


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label: Ezek
content:
  I am the LORD. I have spoken; it shall come to pass; I will do it. I will not go back; I will not spare; I will not relent; according to your ways and your deeds you will be judged, declares the Lord GOD.”


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Son of man, behold, I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you at a stroke; yet you shall not mourn or weep, nor shall your tears run down.


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label: Ezek
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  Sigh, but not aloud; make no mourning for the dead. Bind on your turban, and put your shoes on your feet; do not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.”


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label: Ezek
content:
  So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died. And on the next morning I did as I was commanded.


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label: Ezek
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  And the people said to me, “Will you not tell us what these things mean for us, that you are acting thus?”


id: 7d281a44-aaed-40a8-98b2-d05e575e732c
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  ‘Say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the yearning of your soul, and your sons and your daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.


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  Your turbans shall be on your heads and your shoes on your feet; you shall not mourn or weep, but you shall rot away in your iniquities and groan to one another.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Thus shall Ezekiel be to you a sign; according to all that he has done you shall do. When this comes, then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.’


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “As for you, son of man, surely on the day when I take from them their stronghold, their joy and glory, the delight of their eyes and their soul’s desire, and also their sons and daughters,


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  On that day your mouth will be opened to the fugitive, and you shall speak and be no longer mute. So you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am the LORD.” 


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Say to the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord GOD, Because you said, ‘Aha!’ over my sanctuary when it was profaned, and over the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and over the house of Judah when they went into exile,


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  therefore behold, I am handing you over to the people of the East for a possession, and they shall set their encampments among you and make their dwellings in your midst. They shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk.


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label: Ezek
content:
  I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and Ammon a fold for flocks. Then you will know that I am the LORD.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  For thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet and rejoiced with all the malice within your soul against the land of Israel,


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  therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand against you, and will hand you over as plunder to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Thus says the Lord GOD: Because Moab and Seir said, ‘Behold, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,’


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
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  therefore I will lay open the flank of Moab from the cities, from its cities on its frontier, the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim.


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  I will give it along with the Ammonites to the people of the East as a possession, that the Ammonites may be remembered no more among the nations,


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Thus says the Lord GOD: Because Edom acted revengefully against the house of Judah and has grievously offended in taking vengeance on them,


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  therefore thus says the Lord GOD, I will stretch out my hand against Edom and cut off from it man and beast. And I will make it desolate; from Teman even to Dedan they shall fall by the sword.


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label: Ezek
content:
  And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath, and they shall know my vengeance, declares the Lord GOD.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Thus says the Lord GOD: Because the Philistines acted revengefully and took vengeance with malice of soul to destroy in never-ending enmity,


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  therefore thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I will stretch out my hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and destroy the rest of the seacoast.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I lay my vengeance upon them.” 


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Son of man, because Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, ‘Aha, the gate of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste,’


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label: Ezek
content:
  therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.


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label: Ezek
content:
  They shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers, and I will scrape her soil from her and make her a bare rock.


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label: Ezek
content:
  She shall be in the midst of the sea a place for the spreading of nets, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. And she shall become plunder for the nations,


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label: Ezek
content:
  and her daughters on the mainland shall be killed by the sword. Then they will know that I am the LORD.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, and with horsemen and a host of many soldiers.


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  He will kill with the sword your daughters on the mainland. He will set up a siege wall against you and throw up a mound against you, and raise a roof of shields against you.


id: 3b4745ac-a258-42d8-bf8d-655811a7b5ed
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label: Ezek
content:
  He will direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  His horses will be so many that their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen and wagons and chariots, when he enters your gates as men enter a city that has been breached.


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  With the hoofs of his horses he will trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword, and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground.


id: e540d7a5-24ea-4453-8b0f-33a878f858c5
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label: Ezek
content:
  They will plunder your riches and loot your merchandise. They will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses. Your stones and timber and soil they will cast into the midst of the waters.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  I will make you a bare rock. You shall be a place for the spreading of nets. You shall never be rebuilt, for I am the LORD; I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre: Will not the coastlands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when slaughter is made in your midst?


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Then all the princes of the sea will step down from their thrones and remove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on the ground and tremble every moment and be appalled at you.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And they will raise a lamentation over you and say to you, “‘How you have perished, you who were inhabited from the seas, O city renowned, who was mighty on the sea; she and her inhabitants imposed their terror on all her inhabitants!


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book: Ezekiel
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content:
  Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your fall, and the coastlands that are on the sea are dismayed at your passing.’


id: 169ceffc-12ca-4f49-b6e2-f45af7e9a6f6
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “For thus says the Lord GOD: When I make you a city laid waste, like the cities that are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you, and the great waters cover you,


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
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  then I will make you go down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you to dwell in the world below, among ruins from of old, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set beauty in the land of the living.


id: e097bbda-979a-4d41-9e9b-fe305e9c7521
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  I will bring you to a dreadful end, and you shall be no more. Though you be sought for, you will never be found again, declares the Lord GOD.” 


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
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  and say to Tyre, who dwells at the entrances to the sea, merchant of the peoples to many coastlands, thus says the Lord GOD: “O Tyre, you have said, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  They made all your planks of fir trees from Senir; they took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.


id: 5cb747d5-1f7d-46c9-bce7-ab19aadc30f9
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Of oaks of Bashan they made your oars; they made your deck of pines from the coasts of Cyprus, inlaid with ivory.


id: 90be7de8-c434-4fc4-9ca5-ca11176a3fcc
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Of fine embroidered linen from Egypt was your sail, serving as your banner; blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah was your awning.


id: d5a3077f-3255-4117-99ec-a7bb48bed8a8
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers; your skilled men, O Tyre, were in you; they were your pilots.


id: 1c74127f-86d0-4f97-b8f3-65b93c9a1b7a
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  The elders of Gebal and her skilled men were in you, caulking your seams; all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to barter for your wares.


id: 3269b396-9fe1-45fb-b125-108150a02ab2
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Persia and Lud and Put were in your army as your men of war. They hung the shield and helmet in you; they gave you splendor.


id: 88db3b1b-a2ad-4d45-a58a-c3f89d87bca8
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Men of Arvad and Helech were on your walls all around, and men of Gamad were in your towers. They hung their shields on your walls all around; they made perfect your beauty.


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label: Ezek
content:
  “Tarshish did business with you because of your great wealth of every kind; silver, iron, tin, and lead they exchanged for your wares.


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label: Ezek
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  Javan, Tubal, and Meshech traded with you; they exchanged human beings and vessels of bronze for your merchandise.


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  The men of Dedan traded with you. Many coastlands were your own special markets; they brought you in payment ivory tusks and ebony.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
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  Syria did business with you because of your abundant goods; they exchanged for your wares emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and ruby.


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  Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, meal, honey, oil, and balm.


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  Damascus did business with you for your abundant goods, because of your great wealth of every kind; wine of Helbon and wool of Sahar


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  and casks of wine from Uzal they exchanged for your wares; wrought iron, cassia, and calamus were bartered for your merchandise.


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label: Ezek
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  Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your favored dealers in lambs, rams, and goats; in these they did business with you.


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  The traders of Sheba and Raamah traded with you; they exchanged for your wares the best of all kinds of spices and all precious stones and gold.


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label: Ezek
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  In your market these traded with you in choice garments, in clothes of blue and embroidered work, and in carpets of colored material, bound with cords and made secure.


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label: Ezek
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  The ships of Tarshish traveled for you with your merchandise. So you were filled and heavily laden in the heart of the seas.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Your rowers have brought you out into the high seas. The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas.


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label: Ezek
content:
  Your riches, your wares, your merchandise, your mariners and your pilots, your caulkers, your dealers in merchandise, and all your men of war who are in you, with all your crew that is in your midst, sink into the heart of the seas on the day of your fall.


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  and down from their ships come all who handle the oar. The mariners and all the pilots of the sea stand on the land


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  they make themselves bald for you and put sackcloth on their waist, and they weep over you in bitterness of soul, with bitter mourning.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  In their wailing they raise a lamentation for you and lament over you: ‘Who is like Tyre, like one destroyed in the midst of the sea?


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label: Ezek
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  When your wares came from the seas, you satisfied many peoples; with your abundant wealth and merchandise you enriched the kings of the earth.


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label: Ezek
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  Now you are wrecked by the seas, in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and all your crew in your midst have sunk with you.


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label: Ezek
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  All the inhabitants of the coastlands are appalled at you, and the hair of their kings bristles with horror; their faces are convulsed.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
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  The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more forever.’” 


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord GOD: “Because your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas,’ yet you are but a man, and no god, though you make your heart like the heart of a god—


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label: Ezek
content:
  by your wisdom and your understanding you have made wealth for yourself, and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries;


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label: Ezek
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  by your great wisdom in your trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart has become proud in your wealth—


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
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  therefore, behold, I will bring foreigners upon you, the most ruthless of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and defile your splendor.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  They shall thrust you down into the pit, and you shall die the death of the slain in the heart of the seas.


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label: Ezek
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  Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who kill you, though you are but a man, and no god, in the hands of those who slay you?


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of foreigners; for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.”


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Son of man, raise a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord GOD: “You were the signet of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, sardius, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle; and crafted in gold were your settings and your engravings. On the day that you were created they were prepared.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  You were an anointed guardian cherub. I placed you; you were on the holy mountain of God; in the midst of the stones of fire you walked.


id: e405d9a2-f160-45ae-975b-948749a90b6c
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created, till unrighteousness was found in you.


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label: Ezek
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  In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence in your midst, and you sinned; so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and I destroyed you, O guardian cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.


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label: Ezek
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  Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your trade you profaned your sanctuaries; so I brought fire out from your midst; it consumed you, and I turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all who saw you.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
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  All who know you among the peoples are appalled at you; you have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more forever.”


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  and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I am against you, O Sidon, and I will manifest my glory in your midst. And they shall know that I am the LORD when I execute judgments in her and manifest my holiness in her;


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  for I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets; and the slain shall fall in her midst, by the sword that is against her on every side. Then they will know that I am the LORD.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
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  “And for the house of Israel there shall be no more a brier to prick or a thorn to hurt them among all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
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  “Thus says the Lord GOD: When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and manifest my holiness in them in the sight of the nations, then they shall dwell in their own land that I gave to my servant Jacob.


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  And they shall dwell securely in it, and they shall build houses and plant vineyards. They shall dwell securely, when I execute judgments upon all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God.” 


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  In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt;


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  speak, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his streams, that says, ‘My Nile is my own; I made it for myself.’


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
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  I will put hooks in your jaws, and make the fish of your streams stick to your scales; and I will draw you up out of the midst of your streams, with all the fish of your streams that stick to your scales.


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label: Ezek
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  And I will cast you out into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your streams; you shall fall on the open field, and not be brought together or gathered. To the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the heavens I give you as food.


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  Then all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD. “Because you have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel,


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  when they grasped you with the hand, you broke and tore all their shoulders; and when they leaned on you, you broke and made all their loins to shake.


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  Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will bring a sword upon you, and will cut off from you man and beast,


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  and the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste. Then they will know that I am the LORD. “Because you said, ‘The Nile is mine, and I made it,’


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
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  therefore, behold, I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Cush.


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label: Ezek
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  No foot of man shall pass through it, and no foot of beast shall pass through it; it shall be uninhabited forty years.


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label: Ezek
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  And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated countries, and her cities shall be a desolation forty years among cities that are laid waste. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.


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  “For thus says the Lord GOD: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered,


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  and I will restore the fortunes of Egypt and bring them back to the land of Pathros, the land of their origin, and there they shall be a lowly kingdom.


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  It shall be the most lowly of the kingdoms, and never again exalt itself above the nations. And I will make them so small that they will never again rule over the nations.


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label: Ezek
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  And it shall never again be the reliance of the house of Israel, recalling their iniquity, when they turn to them for aid. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.”


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label: Ezek
content:
  In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:


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  “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was rubbed bare, yet neither he nor his army got anything from Tyre to pay for the labor that he had performed against her.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall carry off its wealth and despoil it and plunder it; and it shall be the wages for his army.


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label: Ezek
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  I have given him the land of Egypt as his payment for which he labored, because they worked for me, declares the Lord GOD.


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label: Ezek
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  “On that day I will cause a horn to spring up for the house of Israel, and I will open your lips among them. Then they will know that I am the LORD.” 


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label: Ezek
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  For the day is near, the day of the LORD is near; it will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.


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label: Ezek
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  A sword shall come upon Egypt, and anguish shall be in Cush, when the slain fall in Egypt, and her wealth is carried away, and her foundations are torn down.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Cush, and Put, and Lud, and all Arabia, and Libya, and the people of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.


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label: Ezek
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  “Thus says the LORD: Those who support Egypt shall fall, and her proud might shall come down; from Migdol to Syene they shall fall within her by the sword, declares the Lord GOD.


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  And they shall be desolated in the midst of desolated countries, and their cities shall be in the midst of cities that are laid waste.


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label: Ezek
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  Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have set fire to Egypt, and all her helpers are broken.


id: 1e0a0ad2-7bd6-4515-9de6-a25dfafd0ba1
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “On that day messengers shall go out from me in ships to terrify the unsuspecting people of Cush, and anguish shall come upon them on the day of Egypt’s doom; for, behold, it comes!


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Thus says the Lord GOD: “I will put an end to the wealth of Egypt, by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.


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label: Ezek
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  He and his people with him, the most ruthless of nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land, and they shall draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.


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label: Ezek
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  And I will dry up the Nile and will sell the land into the hand of evildoers; I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it, by the hand of foreigners; I am the LORD; I have spoken.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Thus says the Lord GOD: “I will destroy the idols and put an end to the images in Memphis; there shall no longer be a prince from the land of Egypt; so I will put fear in the land of Egypt.


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  And I will pour out my wrath on Pelusium, the stronghold of Egypt, and cut off the multitude of Thebes.


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  And I will set fire to Egypt; Pelusium shall be in great agony; Thebes shall be breached, and Memphis shall face enemies by day.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  The young men of On and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword, and the women shall go into captivity.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  At Tehaphnehes the day shall be dark, when I break there the yoke bars of Egypt, and her proud might shall come to an end in her; she shall be covered by a cloud, and her daughters shall go into captivity.


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label: Ezek
content:
  In the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:


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  “Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and behold, it has not been bound up, to heal it by binding it with a bandage, so that it may become strong to wield the sword.


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  Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt and will break his arms, both the strong arm and the one that was broken, and I will make the sword fall from his hand.


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  And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put my sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before him like a man mortally wounded.


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  I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall. Then they shall know that I am the LORD, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt.


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  And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they will know that I am the LORD.” 


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label: Ezek
content:
  In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
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  “Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: “Whom are you like in your greatness?


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches and forest shade, and of towering height, its top among the clouds.


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  The waters nourished it; the deep made it grow tall, making its rivers flow around the place of its planting, sending forth its streams to all the trees of the field.


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  So it towered high above all the trees of the field; its boughs grew large and its branches long from abundant water in its shoots.


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label: Ezek
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  All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and under its shadow lived all great nations.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its roots went down to abundant waters.


id: 5ad9cc78-cca1-4472-886f-e0068f4e5cb6
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it, nor the fir trees equal its boughs; neither were the plane trees like its branches; no tree in the garden of God was its equal in beauty.


id: 58a64e9a-1e95-4ce0-9efa-8a1527395c57
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  I made it beautiful in the mass of its branches, and all the trees of Eden envied it, that were in the garden of God.


id: 45f8eb92-0f4b-4750-97e7-f7dbdd9bdd6f
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because it towered high and set its top among the clouds, and its heart was proud of its height,


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  I will give it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations. He shall surely deal with it as its wickedness deserves. I have cast it out.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Foreigners, the most ruthless of nations, have cut it down and left it. On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land, and all the peoples of the earth have gone away from its shadow and left it.


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  On its fallen trunk dwell all the birds of the heavens, and on its branches are all the beasts of the field.


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label: Ezek
content:
  All this is in order that no trees by the waters may grow to towering height or set their tops among the clouds, and that no trees that drink water may reach up to them in height. For they are all given over to death, to the world below, among the children of man, with those who go down to the pit.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Thus says the Lord GOD: On the day the cedar went down to Sheol I caused mourning; I closed the deep over it, and restrained its rivers, and many waters were stopped. I clothed Lebanon in gloom for it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit. And all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the world below.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
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  They also went down to Sheol with it, to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were its arm, who lived under its shadow among the nations.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? You shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the world below. You shall lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. “This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord GOD.” 


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “Son of man, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: “You consider yourself a lion of the nations, but you are like a dragon in the seas; you burst forth in your rivers, trouble the waters with your feet, and foul their rivers.


id: 466d7c31-bc43-40c9-b9d8-ee4014b4ba54
book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  Thus says the Lord GOD: I will throw my net over you with a host of many peoples, and they will haul you up in my dragnet.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  And I will cast you on the ground; on the open field I will fling you, and will cause all the birds of the heavens to settle on you, and I will gorge the beasts of the whole earth with you.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  I will drench the land even to the mountains with your flowing blood, and the ravines will be full of you.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  When I blot you out, I will cover the heavens and make their stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over you, and put darkness on your land, declares the Lord GOD.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  “I will trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries that you have not known.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  I will make many peoples appalled at you, and the hair of their kings shall bristle with horror because of you, when I brandish my sword before them. They shall tremble every moment, every one for his own life, on the day of your downfall.


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book: Ezekiel
label: Ezek
content:
  I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of mighty ones, all of them most ruthless of nations. “They shall bring to ruin the pride of Egypt, and all its multitude shall perish.


