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will not walk. way.
17 And I appointed watchmen over you, say- 28 All these princes go out of the way, they
ing: Hearken ye to the sound of the trumpet. walk deceitfully, they are brass and iron: they
And they said: We will not hearken. are all corrupted.
18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O 29 The bellows have failed, the lead is con-
congregation, what great things I will do to sumed in the fire, the founder hath melted in
them. vain: for their wicked deeds are not consumed.
19 Hear, O earth: Behold I will bring 30 Call them reprobate silver, for the Lord
evils upon this people, the fruits of their own hath rejected them.
thoughts: because they have not heard my
words, and they have cast away my law.
20 To what purpose do you bring me frank- Chapter 7
incense from Saba, and the sweet smelling cane
The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord,
from a far country? your holocausts are not ac-
ceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me. saying:
21 Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I 2 Stand in the gate of the house of the Lord,
will bring destruction upon this people, by which and proclaim there this word, and say: Hear ye
fathers and sons together shall fall, neighbour the word of the Lord, all ye men of Juda, that
and kinsman shall perish. enter in at these gates, to adore the Lord.
22 Thus saith the Lord: Behold a people 3 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of
cometh from the land of the north, and a great Israel: Make your ways and your doings good:
nation shall rise up from the ends of the earth. and I will dwell with you in this place.
23 They shall lay hold on arrow and shield: 4 Trust not in lying words, saying: The temple
they are cruel, and will have no mercy. Their of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, it is the
voice shall roar like the sea: and they shall temple of the Lord.
mount upon horses, prepared as men for war, 5 For if you will order well your ways, and your
against thee, O daughter of Sion. doings: if you will execute judgment between a
24 We have heard the fame thereof, our hands man and his neighbour,
grow feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, as a 6 If you oppress not the stranger, the father-
woman in labour. less, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood
25 Go not out into the fields, nor walk in the in this place, and walk not after strange gods to
highway: for the sword of the enemy, and fear is your own hurt,
on every side. 7 I will dwell with you in this place: in the
26 Gird thee with sackcloth, O daughter of my land, which I gave to your fathers from the be-
people, and sprinkle thee with ashes: make thee ginning and for evermore.
mourning as for an only son, a bitter lamenta- 8 Behold you put your trust in lying words,
tion, because the destroyer shall suddenly come which shall not profit you:
upon us. 9 To steal, to murder, to commit adultery, to
27 I have set thee for a strong trier among my swear falsely, to offer to Baalim, and to go after
people: and thou shalt know, and prove their strange gods, which you know not.