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“ But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely. 008:009 The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of Yahweh; and what manner of wisdom is in them? 008:010 Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall possess them: for everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest every one deals falsely. 008:011 They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. ”

“ The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together; and all who took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go. 050:034 Their Redeemer is strong; Yahweh of Armies is his name: he will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. 050:035 A sword is on the Chaldeans, says Yahweh, and on the inhabitants of Babylon, and on her princes, and on her wise men. 050:036 A sword is on the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is on her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed. ”

“ If you will go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then your soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and you shall live, and your house. 038:018 But if you will not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape out of their hand. 038:019 Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews who are fallen away to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me. ”

“ I can't go into the house of Yahweh: 036:006 therefore go you, and read in the scroll, which you have written from my mouth, the words of Yahweh in the ears of the people in Yahweh's house on the fast day; and also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities. 036:007 It may be they will present their supplication before Yahweh, and will return everyone from his evil way; for great is the anger and the wrath that Yahweh has pronounced against this people. ”

“ Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall become an overflowing stream, and shall overflow the land and all that is therein, the city and those who dwell therein; and the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail. 047:003 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers don't look back to their children for feebleness of hands ”

“ Don't be afraid of them; for they can't do evil, neither is it in them to do good." 010:006 There is none like you, Yahweh; you are great, and your name is great in might. 010:007 Who should not fear you, King of the nations? for to you does it appertain; because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like you. ”

“ Arise you, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east. 049:029 Their tents and their flocks shall they take; they shall carry away for themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry to them, Terror on every side! 049:030 Flee you, wander far off, dwell in the depths, you inhabitants of Hazor, says Yahweh; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you, and has conceived a purpose against you. 049:031 Arise, go up to a nation that is at ease, that dwells without care, says Yahweh ”

“ Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is ungodliness gone forth into all the land. 023:016 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Don't listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Yahweh. 023:017 They say continually to those who despise me, Yahweh has said, You shall have peace; and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall come on you. ”

“ Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall one turn away, and not return? 008:005 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. 008:006 I listened and heard, but they didn't speak aright: no man repents him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle. 008:007 Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times; and the turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don't know Yahweh's law. ”

“ I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful, says Yahweh, I will not keep [anger] forever. 003:013 Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice, says Yahweh. 003:014 Return, backsliding children, says Yahweh; for I am a husband to you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: 003:015 and I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. ”

“ I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly. 015:009 She who has borne seven languishes; she has given up the spirit; her sun is gone down while it was yet day; she has been disappointed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, says Yahweh. 015:010 Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me ”

“ Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, that can't be made whole again; and they shall bury in Topheth, until there be no place to bury. 019:012 Thus will I do to this place, says Yahweh, and to the inhabitants of it, even making this city as Topheth: 019:013 and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods. ”

“ But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam didn't believe them. 040:015 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Please let me go, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: why should he take your life, that all the Jews who are gathered to you should be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish? 040:016 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, You shall not do this thing; for you speak falsely of Ishmael. ”

“ Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way. 003:006 Moreover Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? she is gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute. 003:007 I said after she had done all these things, She will return to me; but she didn't return: and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. ”

“ In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire. 038:007 Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin) , 038:008 Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spoke to the king, saying, 038:009 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city. ”

“ Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil news, they are melted away: there is sorrow on the sea; it can't be quiet. 049:024 Damascus has grown feeble, she turns herself to flee, and trembling has seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail. 049:025 How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy? 049:026 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh of Armies. ”

“ Yet again there shall be heard in this place, about which you say, It is waste, without man and without animal, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without animal, 033:011 the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his loving kindness endures forever ”

“ You have seen all the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, and on all the cities of Judah; and behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwells therein, 044:003 because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, [and] to serve other gods, that they didn't know, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers. ”

“ Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry. 051:037 Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant. 051:038 They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' cubs. 051:039 When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says Yahweh. 051:040 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats. ”

“ Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh. 017:006 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited. 017:007 Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose trust Yahweh is. ”

“ A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more. 031:016 Thus says Yahweh: Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work shall be rewarded, says Yahweh; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. 031:017 There is hope for your latter end, says Yahweh; and [your] children shall come again to their own border. ”

“ Judah is carried away captive, all of it; it is wholly carried away captive. 013:020 Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the north: where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock? 013:021 What will you say, when he shall set over you as head those whom you have yourself taught to be friends to you? shall not sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman in travail? 013:022 If you say in your heart, Why are these things come on me? for the greatness of your iniquity are your skirts uncovered, and your heels suffer violence. ”

“ Surely they shall drag them away, [even] the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them. 049:021 The earth trembles at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise which is heard in the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}. 049:022 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah: and the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. ”

“ Yahweh of Armies is his name. 051:020 You are my battle axe and weapons of war: and with you will I break in pieces the nations; and with you will I destroy kingdoms; 051:021 and with you will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; 051:022 and with you will I break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein; and with you will I break in pieces man and woman; and with you will I break in pieces the old man and the youth; and with you will I break in pieces the young man and the virgin ”

“ Ashkelon is brought to nothing, the remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself? 047:006 You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before you be quiet? put up yourself into your scabbard; rest, and be still. 047:007 How can you be quiet, seeing Yahweh has given you a charge? Against Ashkelon, and against the seashore, there has he appointed it. 048:001 Of Moab. ”

“ But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds. 005:006 Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [and] their backsliding is increased. 005:007 How can I pardon you? your 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 prostitutes' houses. ”

“ I will surely have mercy on him, says Yahweh. 031:021 Set up road signs, make guideposts; set your heart toward the highway, even the way by which you went: turn again, virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities. 031:022 How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? for Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall encompass a man. ”

“ I am weary with repenting. 015:007 I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved [them] of children, I have destroyed my people; they didn't return from their ways. 015:008 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas ”