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Jeremiah 3:25We have lain down in our shame, and cover us doth our confusion, For against Jehovah our God we have sinned, We, and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, Nor have we hearkened to the voice of Jehovah our God!Jeremiah 4:1If thou dost turn back, O Israel, An affirmation of Jehovah, unto Me turn back, And if thou dost turn aside Thine abominations from My face, Then thou dost not bemoan.Jeremiah 4:2And thou hast sworn—Jehovah liveth, In truth, in judgment, and in righteousness, And blessed themselves in Him have nations, And in Him they boast themselves.Jeremiah 4:14Wash from evil thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved, Till when dost thou lodge in thy heart Thoughts of thy strength?Jeremiah 5:1Go to and fro in streets of Jerusalem, And see, I pray you, and know, And seek in her broad places, if ye find a man, If there be one doing judgment, seeking stedfastness—Then am I propitious to her.Jeremiah 5:2And if they say, ‘Jehovah liveth,’ Surely to a falsehood they swear.Jeremiah 5:3Jehovah, Thine eyes, are they not on stedfastness? Thou hast smitten them, and they have not grieved, Thou hast consumed them, They have refused to receive instruction, They made their faces harder than a rock, They have refused to turn back.Jeremiah 5:4And I—I said, ‘Surely these are poor, They have been foolish, For they have not known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.Jeremiah 5:5I get me to the great, and I speak with them, For they have known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.’ Surely they together have broken the yoke, They have drawn away the bands.Jeremiah 5:6Therefore smitten them hath a lion out of the forest, A wolf of the deserts doth spoil them, A leopard is watching over their cities, Every one who is going out of them is torn, For many have been their transgressions, Mighty have been their backslidings.Jeremiah 5:7For this I am not propitious to thee, Thy sons have forsaken Me, And are satisfied by that which is not god, I satisfy them, and they commit adultery, And at the house of a harlot They gather themselves together.Jeremiah 5:8Fed horses—they have been early risers, Each to the wife of his neighbour they neigh.Jeremiah 5:9For these do I not lay a charge? An affirmation of Jehovah, And on a nation such as this, Doth not My soul avenge itself?Jeremiah 5:10Go ye up on her walls, and destroy, And a completion make not, Turn aside her branches, for they are not Jehovah’s,Jeremiah 5:11For dealt treacherously against Me have the house of Israel, And the house of Judah, an affirmation of Jehovah.Jeremiah 5:12They have lied against Jehovah, And they say, ‘It is not He, Nor come in against us doth evil, Yea, sword and famine we do not see.Jeremiah 5:13And the prophets become wind, And the word is not in them,’—thus it is done by them.Jeremiah 5:14Therefore, thus said Jehovah, God of Hosts, Because of your speaking this word, Lo, I am making My words in thy mouth become fire, And this people wood, and it hath devoured them.Jeremiah 5:15Lo, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah, A nation—strong it is, a nation—from of old it is, A nation—thou knowest not its tongue, Nor understandest what it speaketh.Jeremiah 5:16Its quiver is as an open sepulchre, All of them—mighty ones.Jeremiah 5:17And it hath consumed thy harvest and thy bread, They consume thy sons, and thy daughters, It consumeth thy flock, and thy herd, It consumeth thy vine, and thy fig-tree, It maketh poor thy fenced cities, In which thou art trusting—by the sword.Jeremiah 5:18And even in those days, an affirmation of Jehovah, I do not make you a completion.Jeremiah 5:19And it hath come to pass, when ye say, ‘For what hath Jehovah our God done to us all these?’ That thou hast said unto them, ‘As ye have forsaken Me, And serve the gods of a foreigner in your land, So do ye serve strangers in a land not yours.Jeremiah 5:20Declare ye this in the house of Jacob, And sound ye it in Judah, saying,Jeremiah 5:21Hear ye, I pray you, this, O people, foolish and without heart, Eyes they have, and they see not, Ears they have, and they hear not.Jeremiah 5:22Me do ye not fear, an affirmation of Jehovah? From My presence are ye not pained? Who hath made sand the border of the sea, A limit age-during, and it passeth not over it, They shake themselves, and they are not able, Yea, sounded have its billows, and they pass not over.Jeremiah 5:23And this people hath an apostate and rebellious heart, They have turned aside, and they go on.Jeremiah 5:24And they have not said in their heart, ‘Let us fear, we pray you, Jehovah our God, who is giving rain, The sprinkling and the gathered, in its season, The appointed weeks of harvest He keepeth for us.’Jeremiah 5:25Your iniquities have turned these away, And your sins have kept the good from you.Jeremiah 5:26For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap—men they capture.Jeremiah 5:27As a cage full of fowls, So their houses are full of deceit, Therefore they have been great, and are rich.Jeremiah 5:28They have been fat, they have shone, Yea, they have overpassed the acts of the evil, Judgment they have not judged, The judgment of the fatherless—and they prosper, And the judgment of the needy they have not judged.Jeremiah 5:29For these do not I inspect, an affirmation of Jehovah, On a nation such as this, Doth not My soul avenge itself?Jeremiah 5:30An astonishing and horrible thing hath been in the land.Jeremiah 5:31The prophets have prophesied falsely, And the priests bear rule by their means, And My people have loved it so, And what do they at its latter end?Jeremiah 6:16Thus said Jehovah: Stand ye by the ways and see, and ask for paths of old, Where is this—the good way? and go ye in it, And find rest for yourselves. And they say, ‘We do not go.’Jeremiah 6:30‘Silver rejected,’ they have called to them, For Jehovah hath kicked against them!Jeremiah 7:12But go ye, I pray you, Unto My place that is in Shiloh, Where I caused My name to dwell at first, And see that which I have done to it, For the wickedness of My people Israel.Jeremiah 7:13And now, because of your doing all these works, An affirmation of Jehovah, And I speak unto you, rising early and speaking, And ye have not hearkened, And I call you, and ye have not answered,Jeremiah 7:14I also to the house on which My name is called, In which ye are trusting, And to the place that I gave to you, and to your fathers, Have done, as I have done to Shiloh.Jeremiah 7:15And I have cast you from before My face, As I have cast out all your brethren, The whole seed of Ephraim.Jeremiah 7:16And thou dost not pray for this people, Nor lift up for them crying and prayer, Nor intercede with Me, for I hear thee not.Jeremiah 7:17Art thou not seeing what they are doing In cities of Judah, and in streets of Jerusalem?Jeremiah 7:18The sons are gathering wood, And the fathers are causing the fire to burn, And the women are kneading dough, To make cakes to the queen of the heavens, And to pour out libations to other gods, So as to provoke Me to anger.Jeremiah 7:19Me are they provoking to anger? an affirmation of Jehovah, Is it not themselves, For the shame of their own faces?Jeremiah 7:20Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah, Lo, Mine anger and My fury is poured out on this place, On man, and beast, and on tree of the field, And on fruit of the ground, And it hath burned, and it is not quenched.Jeremiah 7:21Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Your burnt-offerings add to your sacrifices, And eat ye flesh.Jeremiah 7:22For I did not speak with your fathers, Nor did I command them in the day of My bringing them out of the land of Egypt, Concerning the matters of burnt-offering and sacrifice,Jeremiah 7:23But this thing I commanded them, saying: Hearken to My voice, And I have been to you for God, And ye—ye are to Me for a people, And have walked in all the way that I command you, So that it is well for you.Jeremiah 7:24And they have not hearkened, nor inclined their ear, And they walk in the counsels, In the stubbornness, of their evil heart, And are for backward, and not for forward.Jeremiah 7:25Even from the day when your fathers Went out of the land of Egypt till this day, I send to you all my servants the prophets, Daily rising early and sending,Jeremiah 7:26And they have not hearkened unto Me, Nor inclined their ear, and harden their neck, They have done evil above their fathers.Jeremiah 7:27And thou hast spoken unto them all these words, And they do not hearken to thee, And thou hast called unto them, And they do not answer thee.Jeremiah 7:28And thou hast said unto them: This is the nation that hath not hearkened, To the voice of Jehovah its God, Nor have they accepted instruction, Perished hath stedfastness, Yea, it hath been cut off from their mouth.Jeremiah 7:29Cut off thy crown, and cast it away, And lift up on high places lamentation, For Jehovah hath rejected, And He leaveth the generation of His wrath.Jeremiah 7:30For the sons of Judah Have done the evil thing in Mine eyes, An affirmation of Jehovah, They have set their abominations in the house On which My name is called—to defile it,Jeremiah 7:31And have built the high places of Tophet, That are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, To burn their sons and their daughters with fire, Which I did not command, Nor did it come up on My heart.Jeremiah 7:32Therefore, lo, days are coming, An affirmation of Jehovah, And it is not said any more, ‘The Tophet,’ And ‘Valley of the son of Hinnom,’ But ‘Valley of the slaughter,’ And they have buried in Tophet—without place.Jeremiah 7:33And the carcase of this people hath been for food To a fowl of the heavens, and to a beast of the earth, And there is none troubling.Jeremiah 7:34And I have caused to cease from cities of Judah, And from streets of Jerusalem, The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, Voice of bridegroom, and voice of bride, For the land doth become a desolation!