1: The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with
the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and
upon the horns of your altars; |
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2: Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves
by the green trees upon the high hills. |
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3:
O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all
thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all
thy borders. |
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4: And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage
that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the
land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger,
which shall burn for ever. |
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5: Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man,
and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. |
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6: For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not
see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the
wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. |
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7: Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope
the LORD is. |
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8: For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that
spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat
cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the
year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. |
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9: The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately
wicked: who can know it? |
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10: I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give
every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his
doings. |
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11: As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so
he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst
of his days, and at his end shall be a fool. |
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12: A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our
sanctuary. |
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13: O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be
ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth,
because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
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14: Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall
be saved: for thou art my praise. |
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15: Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let
it come now. |
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16: As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow
thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which
came out of my lips was right before thee. |
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17: Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil.
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18: Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be
confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon
them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction. |
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19: Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the
children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the
which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem; |
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20: And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of
Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter
in by these gates: |
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21: Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no
burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;
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22: Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the
sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I
commanded your fathers. |
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23: But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made
their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.
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24: And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me,
saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on
the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein; |
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25: Then shall there enter into the gates of this city
kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding
in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men
of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city
shall remain for ever. |
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26: And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the
places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the
plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt
offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing
sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the LORD. |
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27: But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day,
and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on
the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it
shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched. |