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Jeremiah 3:25Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God.Jeremiah 4:1If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith Jehovah, if thou wilt return unto me, and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight; then shalt thou not be removed;Jeremiah 4:2and thou shalt swear, As Jehovah liveth, in truth, in justice, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.Jeremiah 4:14O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thine evil thoughts lodge within thee?Jeremiah 5:1Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that doeth justly, that seeketh truth; and I will pardon her.Jeremiah 5:2And though they say, As Jehovah liveth; surely they swear falsely.Jeremiah 5:3O Jehovah, do not thine eyes look upon truth? thou hast stricken them, but they were not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.Jeremiah 5:4Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they know not the way of Jehovah, nor the law of their God:Jeremiah 5:5I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they know the way of Jehovah, and the law of their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.Jeremiah 5:6Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.Jeremiah 5:7How can I pardon thee? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots’ houses;Jeremiah 5:8they were as fed horses roaming at large; every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife.Jeremiah 5:9Shall I not visit for these things? saith Jehovah; and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?Jeremiah 5:10Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her branches; for they are not Jehovah’s.Jeremiah 5:11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith Jehovah.Jeremiah 5:12They have denied Jehovah, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:Jeremiah 5:13and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.Jeremiah 5:14Wherefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.Jeremiah 5:15Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.Jeremiah 5:16Their quiver is an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.Jeremiah 5:17And they shall eat up thy harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat; they shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds; they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig-trees; they shall beat down thy fortified cities, wherein thou trustest, with the sword.Jeremiah 5:18But even in those days, saith Jehovah, I will not make a full end with you.Jeremiah 5:19And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah our God done all these things unto us? then shalt thou say unto them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.Jeremiah 5:20Declare ye this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,Jeremiah 5:21Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; that have eyes, and see not; that have ears, and hear not:Jeremiah 5:22Fear ye not me? saith Jehovah: will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it? and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it.Jeremiah 5:23But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.Jeremiah 5:24Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear Jehovah our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; that preserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.Jeremiah 5:25Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good from you.Jeremiah 5:26For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.Jeremiah 5:27As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxed rich.Jeremiah 5:28They are waxed fat, they shine: yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.Jeremiah 5:29Shall I not visit for these things? saith Jehovah; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?Jeremiah 5:30A wonderful and horrible thing is come to pass in the land:Jeremiah 5:31the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?Jeremiah 6:16Thus saith Jehovah, Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk therein.Jeremiah 6:30Refuse silver shall men call them, because Jehovah hath rejected them.Jeremiah 7:12But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.Jeremiah 7:13And now, because ye have done all these works, saith Jehovah, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not:Jeremiah 7:14therefore will I do unto the house which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.Jeremiah 7:15And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.Jeremiah 7:16Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me; for I will not hear thee.Jeremiah 7:17Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?Jeremiah 7:18The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.Jeremiah 7:19Do they provoke me to anger? saith Jehovah; do they not provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?Jeremiah 7:20Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, mine anger and my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.Jeremiah 7:21Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat ye flesh.Jeremiah 7:22For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices:Jeremiah 7:23but this thing I commanded them, saying, Hearken unto my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people; and walk ye in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.Jeremiah 7:24But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.Jeremiah 7:25Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day, I have sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:Jeremiah 7:26yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.Jeremiah 7:27And thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.Jeremiah 7:28And thou shalt say unto them, This is the nation that hath not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah their God, nor received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.Jeremiah 7:29Cut off thy hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Jehovah hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.Jeremiah 7:30For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight, saith Jehovah: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.Jeremiah 7:31And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded not, neither came it into my mind.Jeremiah 7:32Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter: for they shall bury in Topheth, till there be no place to bury.Jeremiah 7:33And the dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall frighten them away.Jeremiah 7:34Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.