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Jeremiah

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