Jer 16
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The word of YHWH came also to me, saying,
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You shall not take you a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.
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For thus says YHWH concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born
in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers
that engendered them in this land:
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They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be
buried; they shall be as dung upon the face of the ground; and they shall be consumed
by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of
the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth.
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For thus says YHWH, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament, neither
bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this people, says YHWH, even lovingkindness
and tender mercies.
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Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, neither shall
men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them;
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neither shall men break [bread] for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead;
neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for
their mother.
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And you shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.
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For thus says YHWH of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out
of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth 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 show this people all these words, and they
shall say to you, Wherefore has YHWH pronounced all this great evil against us? or
what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against YHWH our God?
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Then shall you say to them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, says YHWH, and
have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have
forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
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and you have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, you walk every one after
the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you hearken not to me:
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therefore will I cast you forth out of this land into the land that you have not known,
neither you nor your fathers; and there shall you serve other gods day and night;
for I will show you no favor.
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Therefore, behold, the days come, says YHWH, that it shall no more be said, As YHWH
lives, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
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but, As YHWH lives, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north,
and from all the countries where he had driven them. And I will bring them again into
their land that I gave to their fathers.
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Behold, I will send for many fishers, says YHWH, and they shall fish them up; and
afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain,
and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
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For mine eyes are upon all their ways; they are not hid from my face, neither is their
iniquity concealed from mine eyes.
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And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have
polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled mine
inheritance with their abominations.
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O YHWH, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to
you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers
have inherited nothing but lies, [even] vanity and things wherein there is no profit.
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Shall a man make to himself gods, which yet are no gods?
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Therefore, behold, I will cause them to know, this once will I cause them to know
my hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is YHWH.