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Cut off thine hair,
O Jerusalem,
and cast
it
away, and take up a lamentation on high places;
for the L
ORD
hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
30
For the children of Judah
have done evil in my sight, saith the L
ORD
: they have set their abominations in the house which is
called by my name, to pollute it.
31
And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the
valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded
them
not, neither came it into my heart.
32
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the L
ORD
, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor
the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there
be no place.
33
And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for
the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray
them
away.
34
Then will I cause to cease from the cities
of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice
of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
CHAPTER 8
At that time, saith the L
ORD
, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of
his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
2
And they shall spread them before the sun, and the
moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after
whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall
not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
3
And death shall
be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain
in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the L
ORD
of hosts.
4
Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the L
ORD
; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall
he turn away, and not return?
5
Why
then
is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual
backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
6
I hearkened and heard,
but
they spake
not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to
his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
7
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed
times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people
know not the judgment of the L
ORD
.
8
How do ye say, We
are
wise, and the law of the L
ORD
is
with
us? Lo, certainly in vain made he
it;
the pen of the scribes
is
in vain.
9
The wise
men
are ashamed,
they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the L
ORD
; and what wisdom
is
in
them?
10
Therefore will I give their wives unto others,
and
their fields to them that shall inherit
them:
for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet
even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
11
For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of
my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when
there is
no peace.
12
Were they ashamed when they
had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore
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