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1 The word of the LORD came also unto me, say­ing, 2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, nei­ther shalt thou have sons or daugh­ters in this place. 3 For thus saith the LORD con­cern­ing the sons and con­cern­ing the daugh­ters that are born in this place, and con­cern­ing their moth­ers that bare them, and con­cern­ing their fa­thers that be­gat them in this land; 4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lament­ed; nei­ther shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be con­sumed by the sword, and by famine; and their car­cas­es shall be meat for the fowls of heav­en, and for the beasts of the earth. 5 For thus saith the LORD, En­ter not into the house of mourn­ing, nei­ther go to lament nor be­moan them: for I have tak­en away my peace from this peo­ple, saith the LORD, even lov­ingkind­ness and mer­cies. 6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, nei­ther shall men lament for them, nor cut them­selves, nor make them­selves bald for them: 7 Nei­ther shall men tear themselves for them in mourn­ing, to com­fort them for the dead; nei­ther shall men give them the cup of con­so­la­tion to drink for their fa­ther or for their moth­er. 8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feast­ing, to sit with them to eat and to drink. 9 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Is­rael; Be­hold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of glad­ness, the voice of the bride­groom, and the voice of the bride. 10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this peo­ple all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Where­fore hath the LORD pro­nounced all this great evil against us? or what is our in­iq­ui­ty? or what is our sin that we have com­mit­ted against the LORD our God? 11 Then shalt thou say unto them, Be­cause your fa­thers have for­sak­en me, saith the LORD, and have walked af­ter oth­er gods, and have served them, and have wor­shipped them, and have for­sak­en me, and have not kept my law; 12 And ye have done worse than your fa­thers; for, be­hold, ye walk ev­ery one af­ter the imag­i­na­tion of his evil heart, that they may not hear­ken unto me: 13 There­fore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fa­thers; and there shall ye serve oth­er gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour. 14 There­fore, be­hold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the chil­dren of Is­rael out of the land of Egypt; 15 But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the chil­dren of Is­rael from the land of the north, and from all the lands whith­er he had driv­en them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fa­thers. 16 Be­hold, I will send for many fish­ers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and af­ter will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from ev­ery moun­tain, and from ev­ery hill, and out of the holes of the rocks. 17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, nei­ther is their in­iq­ui­ty hid from mine eyes. 18 And first I will rec­om­pense their in­iq­ui­ty and their sin dou­ble; be­cause they have de­filed my land, they have filled mine in­her­i­tance with the car­cas­es of their de­testable and abom­inable things. 19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of af­flic­tion, the Gen­tiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Sure­ly our fa­thers have in­her­it­ed lies, van­i­ty, and things where­in there is no prof­it. 20 Shall a man make gods unto him­self, and they are no gods? 21 There­fore, be­hold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is The LORD.