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Prophecy of Jeremias 967

10 And when thou shalt tell this people all 19 O Lord, my might, and my strength, and
these words, and they shall say to thee: Where- my refuge in the day of tribulation: to thee the
fore hath the Lord pronounced against us all this Gentiles shall come from the ends of the earth,
great evil? what is our iniquity? and what is our and shall say: Surely our fathers have possessed
sin, that we have sinned against the Lord our lies, a vanity which hath not profited them.
God? 20 Shall a man make gods unto himself and
11 Thou shalt say to them: Because your fa- they are no gods?
thers forsook me, saith the Lord: and went after 21 Therefore behold I will this once cause
strange gods, and served them, and adored them: them to know, I will shew them my hand and
and they forsook me, and kept not my law. my power: and they shall know that my name is
12 And you also have done worse than your the Lord.
fathers: for behold every one of you walketh after
the perverseness of his evil heart, so as not to
hearken to me. Chapter 17
13 So I will cast you forth out of this land, into
a land which you know not, nor your fathers: and The sin of Juda is written with a pen of iron,
there you shall serve strange gods day and night, with the point of a diamond, it is graven upon
which shall not give you any rest. the table of their heart, upon the horns of their
14 Therefore behold the days come, saith the altars.
Lord, when it shall be said no more: The Lord 2 When their children shall remember their
liveth, that brought forth the children of Israel altars, and their groves, and their green trees
out of the land of Egypt. upon the high mountains,
15 But, The Lord liveth, that brought the chil- 3 Sacrificing in the field: I will give thy
dren of Israel out of the land of the north, and strength, and all thy treasures to the spoil, and
out of all the lands to which I cast them out: and thy high places for sin in all thy borders.
I will bring them again into their land, which I 4 And thou shalt be left stripped of thy inher-
gave to their fathers. itance, which I gave thee: and I will make thee
16 Behold I will send many fishers, saith the serve thy enemies in a land which thou know-
Lord, and they shall fish them: and after this est not: because thou hast kindled a fire in my
I will send them many hunters, and they shall wrath, it shall burn for ever.
hunt them from every mountain, and from every 5 Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man
hill and out of the holes of the rocks. that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm,
17 For my eyes are upon all their ways: they and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
are not hid from my face, and their iniquity hath 6 For he shall be like tamaric in the desert,
not been hid from my eyes. and he shall not see when good shall come: but
18 And I will repay first their double iniqui- he shall dwell in dryness in the desert in a salt
ties, and their sins: because they have defiled my land, and not inhabited.
land with the carcasses of their idols, and they 7 Blessed be the man that trusteth in the
have filled my inheritance with their abomina- Lord, and the Lord shall be his confidence.
tions. 8 And he shall be as a tree that is planted by