1: Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood
before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of
my sight, and let them go forth. |
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2: And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither
shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such
as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword;
and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the
captivity, to the captivity. |
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And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the
sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and
the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy. |
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4: And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the
earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that
which he did in Jerusalem. |
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5: For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall
bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest? |
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6: Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward:
therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I
am weary with repenting. |
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7: And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I
will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they
return not from their ways. |
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8: Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I
have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at
noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon
the city. |
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9: She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the
ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed
and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword
before their enemies, saith the LORD. |
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10: Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife
and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on
usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth
curse me. |
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11: The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant;
verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil
and in the time of affliction. |
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12: Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
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13: Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil
without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders. |
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14: And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land
which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall
burn upon you. |
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15: O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge
me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that
for thy sake I have suffered rebuke. |
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16: Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was
unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy
name, O LORD God of hosts. |
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17: I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat
alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.
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18: Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which
refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as
waters that fail? |
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19: Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I
bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth
the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return
unto thee; but return not thou unto them. |
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20: And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall:
and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against
thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the
LORD. |
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21: And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I
will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible. |