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will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
25
This
is
thy lot,
the portion of thy measures from me, saith the L
ORD
; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted
in falsehood.
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Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.
27
I
have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom,
and
thine abominations
on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when
shall it
once
be?
CHAPTER 14
The word of the L
ORD
that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.
2
Judah mourneth, and the gates
thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
3
And their
nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits,
and
found no water; they
returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.
4
Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they
covered their heads.
5
Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook
it,
because there was no
grass.
6
And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their
eyes did fail, because
there was
no grass.
7
O L
ORD
, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou
it
for thy name’s sake: for our
backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
8
O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in
time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man
that
turneth
aside to tarry for a night?
9
Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man
that
cannot
save? yet thou, O L
ORD
,
art
in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.
10
Thus saith the L
ORD
unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained
their feet, therefore the L
ORD
doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit
their sins.
11
Then said the L
ORD
unto me, Pray not for this people for
their
good.
12
When they fast,
I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them:
but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
13
Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword,
neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.
14
Then the L
ORD
said
unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them,
neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought,
and the deceit of their heart.
15
Therefore thus saith the L
ORD
concerning the prophets that prophesy
in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword
and famine shall those prophets be consumed.
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And the people to whom they prophesy shall be
cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none
to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness
upon them.
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