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if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a
man and his neighbour;
6
If
ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not
innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
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Then will I cause you to
dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
8
Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
9
Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery,
and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
10
And
come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to
do all these abominations?
11
Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers
in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen
it,
saith the L
ORD
.
12
But go ye now unto my place which
was
in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my
people Israel.
13
And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the L
ORD
, and I spake unto
you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;
14
Therefore will I do unto
this
house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the
place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
15
And I will cast you out
of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren,
even
the whole seed of Ephraim.
16
Therefore pray
not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me:
for I will not hear thee.
17
Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18
The
children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead
their
dough, to make
cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke
me to anger.
19
Do they provoke me to anger? saith the L
ORD
:
do they
not
provoke
themselves to
the confusion of their own faces?
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and
my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the
field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
21
Thus saith the L
ORD
of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices,
and eat flesh.
22
For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought
them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
23
But this thing commanded
I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in
all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
24
But they hearkened not,
nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels
and
in the imagination of their evil heart, and
went backward, and not forward.
25
Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of
Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early
and sending
them:
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Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their
neck: they did worse than their fathers.
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Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them;
but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.
28
But thou shalt say unto them, This
is
a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the L
ORD
their God,
nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
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