Jer 33
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IN THE BEGINNING OF THE REIGN OF KING JOAKIM SON OF JOSIAS THERE CAME THIS WORD FROM
THE LORD.
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Thus said the Lord; Stand in the court of the Lord’s house, and you shall declare
to all the Jews, and to all that come to worship in the house of the Lord, all the
words which I commanded you to speak to them; abate not one word.
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Peradventure they will hear, and turn every one from his evil way: then I will cease
from the evils which I purpose to do to them, because of their evil practices.
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And you shall say, Thus said the Lord; If you will not hearken to me, to walk in my
statutes which I set before you,
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to hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send to you early in the
morning; yea, I sent them, but you hearkened not to me;
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then will I make this house as Selo, and I will make this city a curse to all the
nations of all the earth.
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And the priests, and the false prophets, and all the people heard Jeremias speaking
these words in the house of the Lord.
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And it came to pass, when Jeremias had ceased speaking all that the Lord had ordered
him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the false prophets and all the
people took him, saying,
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You shall surely die, because you have prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying,
This house shall be as Selo, and this city shall be made quite destitute of inhabitants.
And all the people assembled against Jeremias in the house of the Lord.
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And the princes of Juda heard this word, and they went up out of the house of the
king to the house of the Lord, and sat in the entrance of the new gate.
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Then the priests and the false prophets said to the princes and to all the people,
The judgement of death is due to this man; because he has prophesied against this
city, as you have heard with your ears.
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Then Jeremias spoke to the princes, and to all the people, saying, The Lord sent me
to prophesy against this house and against this city, all the words which you have
heard.
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And now amend your ways and your works, and hearken to the voice of the Lord; and
the Lord shall cease from the evils which he has pronounced against you.
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And behold, I am in your hands; do to me as is expedient, and as it is best for you.
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But know for a certainty, that if you slay me, you bring innocent blood upon yourselves,
and upon this city, and upon them that dwell in it; for in truth the Lord has sent
me to you to speak in your ears all these words.
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Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the false prophets;
Judgment of death is not due to this man; for he has spoken to us in the name of the
Lord our God.
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And there rose up men of the elders of the land, and said to all the assembly of the
people,
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Michaeas the Morathite lived in the days of Ezekias king of Juda, and said to all
the people of Juda, Thus says the Lord; Sion shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem
shall become a desolation, and the mountain of the house shall be a thicket of trees.
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Did Ezekias and all Juda in any way slay him? Or, did they not fear, etc. Was it not that they feared the Lord, and they made
supplication before the Lord,
and the Lord ceased from the evils which he had pronounced against them? whereas we
have wrought great evil against our own souls.
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And there was another man prophesying in the name of the Lord, Urias the son of Samaeas
of Cariathiarim; and he prophesied concerning this land according to all the words
of Jeremias.
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And king Joakim and all the princes heard all his words, and sought to slay him; and
Urias heard it and went into Egypt.
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And the king sent men into Egypt;
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and they brought him thence, and brought him into the king; and he smote him with
the sword, and cast him into the sepulcher of the children of his people.
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Nevertheless the hand of Achicam son of Saphan was with Jeremias, to prevent his being
delivered into the hands of the people, or being killed.