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988 Prophecy of Jeremias

this day. 31 For this city hath been to me a provocation
21 And hast brought forth thy people Israel, and indignation from the day that they built it,
out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with until this day, in which it shall be taken out of
wonders, and with a strong hand, and a stretched my sight.
out arm, and with great terror. 32 Because of all the evil of the children of Is-
22 And hast given them this land which thou rael, and of the children of Juda, which they have
didst swear to their fathers, to give them a land done, provoking me to wrath, they and their
flowing with milk and honey. kings, their princes, and their priests, and their
23 And they came in, and possessed it: but prophets, the men of Juda, and the inhabitants
they obeyed not thy voice, and they walked not of Jerusalem.
in thy law: and they did not any of those things 33 And they have turned their backs to me,
that thou didst command them to do, and all and not their faces: when I taught them early
these evils are come upon them. in the morning, and instructed them, and they
24 Behold works are built up against the city would not hearken to receive instruction.
to take it: and the city is given into the hands 34 And they have set their idols in the house,
of the Chaldeans, who fight against it, by the in which my name is called upon, to defile it.
sword, and the famine, and the pestilence: and 35 And they have built the high places of Baal,
what thou hast spoken, is all come to pass, as which are in the valley of the son of Ennom,
thou thyself seest. to consecrate their sons and their daughters to
25 And sayest thou to me, O Lord God: Buy a Moloch: which I commanded them not, neither
field for money, and take witnesses, whereas the entered it into my heart, that they should do this
city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans? abomination, and cause Juda to sin.
26 And the word of the Lord came to 36 And now, therefore, thus saith the Lord the
Jeremias, saying: God of Israel to this city, whereof you say that
27 Behold I am the Lord the God of all flesh: it shall be delivered into the hands of the king
shall any thing be hard for me? of Babylon by the sword, and by famine, and by
28 Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold pestilence:
I will deliver this city into the hands of the 37 Behold I will gather them together out of
Chaldeans, and into the hands of the king of all the lands to which I have cast them out in
Babylon, and they shall take it. my anger, and in my wrath, and in my great
29 And the Chaldeans that fight against this indignation: and I will bring them again into
city, shall come and set it on fire, and burn it, this place, and will cause them to dwell securely.
with the houses upon whose roofs they offered 38 And they shall be my people, and I will be
sacrifice to Baal, and poured out drink offerings their God.
to strange gods, to provoke me to wrath. 39 And I will give them one heart, and one
30 For the children of Israel, and the children way, that they may fear me all days: and that it
of Juda, have continually done evil in my eyes may be well with them, and with their children
from their youth: the children of Israel who even after them.
till now provoke me with the work of their hands, 40 And I will make an everlasting covenant
saith the Lord. with them, and will not cease to do them good: