Jer 37
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THE WORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAS FROM THE LORD, SAYING,
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Thus speaks the Lord God of Israel, saying, Write all the words which I have spoken
to you in a book.
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For, behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will bring back the captivity of
my people Israel and Juda, said the Lord: and I will bring them back to the land which
I gave to their fathers, and they shall be lords of it.
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AND THESE ARE THE WORDS WHICH THE LORD SPOKE CONCERNING ISRAEL AND JUDA;
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Thus said the Lord: You shall hear a sound of fear, there is fear, and there is not
peace.
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Enquire, and see if a male has born a child? and ask concerning the fear, wherein
they shall hold their loins, and look for safety: for I have seen every man, and his
hands are on his loins; their faces are turned to i. e. that produced by scorching paleness.
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For that day is great, and there is not such another; and it is a time of straitness
to Jacob; but he shall be saved out of it.
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In that day, said the Lord, I will break the yoke off their neck, and will burst their
bonds, and they shall no longer serve strangers:
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but they shall serve the Lord their God; and I will raise up to them David their king.
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Thus says the Lord; I have brought on you destruction; your stroke is painful.
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There is none to judge your cause: you have been painfully treated for healing, there
is no help for you.
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All your friends have forgotten you; they shall not ask about you at all, for I have
smitten you with he stroke of an enemy, even severe correction: your sins have abounded
above all your iniquity.
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Your sins have abounded beyond the multitude of your iniquities, therefore they have
done these things to you. Therefore all that devour you shall be eaten, and all your
enemies shall eat all their own flesh.
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And they that spoil you shall become a spoil, and I will give up Gr. to plunder, subs to be plundered all that have plundered
you.
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For I will bring about your healing, I will heal you of your grievous wound, says
the Lord; for you are called Dispersed: she is your prey, for no one seeks after her.
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Thus said the Lord; Behold, I will turn the captivity of Jacob, and will have pity
upon his prisoners; and the city shall be built upon her Gr. height hill, and the people shall settle after their Or, lit.
judgement; See Isa 5:17 manner.
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And there shall go forth from them singers, even the sound of men making merry: and
I will multiply them, and they shall not at all be diminished.
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And their sons shall go in as before, and their testimonies shall be established before
me, and I will visit them that afflict them.
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And their mighty ones shall be over them, and their prince shall proceed of themselves;
and I will gather them, and they shall return to me: for who is this that has set
his heart to return to me? says the Lord.
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For the wrathful anger of the lord has gone forth, even a whirlwind of anger has gone
forth: it shall come upon the ungodly.
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The fierce anger of the Lord shall not return, until he shall execute it, and until
he shall establish the purpose of his heart: in the latter days you shall know these
things.