Jer 16
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And you shall not take a wife, says the Lord God of Israel:
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and there shall be no son born to you, nor daughter in this place.
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For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born
in this place, and concerning their mothers that have born them, and concerning their
fathers that have engendered them in this land;
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They shall die of grievous death; they shall not be lamented, nor buried; they shall
be for an example on the face of the earth; and they shall be for the wild beasts
of the land, and for the birds of the sky: they shall fall by the sword, and shall
be consumed with famine.
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Thus says the Lord, Enter not into their mourning feast, and go not to lament, and
mourn not for them: for I have removed my peace from this people.
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They shall not bewail them, nor make cuttings for them, and they shall not shave themselves
for them:
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and there shall be no bread broken in mourning for them for consolation over the dead:
they shall not give one to drink a cup for consolation over his father or his mother.
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You shall not enter into the banquet-house, to sit with them to eat and to drink.
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For thus says the Lord God of Israel; Behold, I will make to cease out of this place
before your eyes, and in your days, the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the
voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
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And it shall come to pass, when you shall report to this people all these words, and
they shall say to you, Wherefore has the Lord pronounced against us all these evils?
what is our unrighteousness? and what is our sin which we have sinned before the Lord
our God?
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Then you shall say to them, Because your fathers forsook me, says the Lord, and went
after strange gods and served them, and worshiped them, and forsook me, and kept not
my law;
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(and you sinned worse than your fathers; for, behold, you walk every one after the
lusts of your own evil heart, so as not to hearken to me);
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therefore I will cast you off from this good land into Gr. the land a land which neither you nor your fathers have known;
and you shall serve there other
gods, who shall have no mercy upon you.
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Therefore, behold, the days come, says the Lord, when they shall no more say, The
Lord lives, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
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but, The Lord lives, who brought up the house of Israel from the land of the north,
and from all countries where they were thrust out: and I will restore them to their
own land, which I gave to their fathers.
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Behold, I will send Gr. the many many fishers, says the Lord, and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send
many hunters, and they shall hunt them upon every mountain, and upon every hill, and
out of the holes of the rocks.
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For mine eyes are upon all their ways; and their iniquities have not been hidden from
mine eyes.
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And I will recompense their mischiefs doubly, and their sins, whereby they have profaned
my land with the carcases of their abominations, and with their iniquities, whereby
they have trespassed against mine inheritance.
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O Lord, you are my strength, and mine help, and my refuge in days of evil: to you
the Gentiles shall come from the end of the earth, and shall say, How vain were the
idols which our fathers procured to themselves, and there is no help in them.
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Will a man make gods for himself, whereas these are no gods?
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Therefore, behold, I will at this time manifest my hand to them, and will make known
to them my power; and they shall know that my name is the Lord.