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Old Testament – Major Prophets

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    <div class="book bkDEU">
        <div class="chapter ch6" data-usfm="DEU.6">
            <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Love the </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading"> Your God</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DEU.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">These are the commands, decrees and laws the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DEU.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DEU.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Hear, Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of your ancestors, promised you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DEU.6.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DEU.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Hear, O Israel: The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is one.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">The <span class="nd">Lord</span> our God is one <span class="nd">Lord</span></span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">The <span class="nd">Lord</span> is our God, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> is one</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">The <span class="nd">Lord</span> is our God, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> alone</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DEU.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Love the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DEU.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DEU.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DEU.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DEU.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DEU.6.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you&#8212;a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant&#8212;then when you eat and are satisfied, </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DEU.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">be careful that you do not forget the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DEU.6.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Fear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you; </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DEU.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, who is among you, is a jealous God and his anger will burn against you, and he will destroy you from the face of the land. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DEU.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Do not put the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God to the test as you did at Massah. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DEU.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Be sure to keep the commands of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God and the stipulations and decrees he has given you. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DEU.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Do what is right and good in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s sight, so that it may go well with you and you may go in and take over the good land the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> promised on oath to your ancestors, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DEU.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">thrusting out all your enemies before you, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DEU.6.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DEU.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">In the future, when your son asks you, &#8220;What is the meaning of the stipulations, decrees and laws the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God has commanded you?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DEU.6.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">tell him: &#8220;We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DEU.6.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Before our eyes the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> sent signs and wonders&#8212;great and terrible&#8212;on Egypt and Pharaoh and his whole household. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DEU.6.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But he brought us out from there to bring us in and give us the land he promised on oath to our ancestors. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="DEU.6.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God, so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="DEU.6.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">And if we are careful to obey all this law before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkJER">
        <div class="chapter ch14" data-usfm="JER.14">
            <div class="label">14</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Drought, Famine, Sword</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.14.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.14.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.14.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Judah mourns,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.14.2"><span class="content">her cities languish;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.14.2"><span class="content">they wail for the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.14.2"><span class="content">and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.14.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.14.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The nobles send their servants for water;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.14.3"><span class="content">they go to the cisterns</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.14.3"><span class="content">but find no water.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.14.3"><span class="content">They return with their jars unfilled;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.14.3"><span class="content">dismayed and despairing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.14.3"><span class="content">they cover their heads.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.14.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.14.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The ground is cracked</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.14.4"><span class="content">because there is no rain in the land;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.14.4"><span class="content">the farmers are dismayed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.14.4"><span class="content">and cover their heads.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.14.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.14.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Even the doe in the field</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.14.5"><span class="content">deserts her newborn fawn</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.14.5"><span class="content">because there is no grass.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.14.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.14.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Wild donkeys stand on the barren heights</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.14.6"><span class="content">and pant like jackals;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.14.6"><span class="content">their eyes fail</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.14.6"><span class="content">for lack of food.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.14.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.14.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Although our sins testify against us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.14.7"><span class="content">do something, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, for the sake of your name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.14.7"><span class="content">For we have often rebelled;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.14.7"><span class="content">we have sinned against you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.14.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.14.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">You who are the hope of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.14.8"><span class="content">its Savior in times of distress,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.14.8"><span class="content">why are you like a stranger in the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.14.8"><span class="content">like a traveler who stays only a night?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.14.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.14.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Why are you like a man taken by surprise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.14.9"><span class="content">like a warrior powerless to save?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.14.9"><span class="content">You are among us, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.14.9"><span class="content">and we bear your name;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.14.9"><span class="content">do not forsake us!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.14.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.14.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says about this people:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.14.10"><span class="content">&#8220;They greatly love to wander;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.14.10"><span class="content">they do not restrain their feet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.14.10"><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> does not accept them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.14.10"><span class="content">he will now remember their wickedness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.14.10"><span class="content">and punish them for their sins.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.14.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.14.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;Do not pray for the well-being of this people. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.14.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Although they fast, I will not listen to their cry; though they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will destroy them with the sword, famine and plague.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.14.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.14.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But I said, &#8220;Alas, Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">! The prophets keep telling them, &#8216;You will not see the sword or suffer famine. Indeed, I will give you lasting peace in this place.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.14.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.14.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">visions, worthless divinations</span></span></span><span class="content"> and the delusions of their own minds. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.14.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says about the prophets who are prophesying in my name: I did not send them, yet they are saying, &#8216;No sword or famine will touch this land.&#8217; Those same prophets will perish by sword and famine. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.14.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And the people they are prophesying to will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them, their wives, their sons and their daughters. I will pour out on them the calamity they deserve.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.14.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.14.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Speak this word to them:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.14.17"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Let my eyes overflow with tears</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.14.17"><span class="content">night and day without ceasing;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.14.17"><span class="content">for the Virgin Daughter, my people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.14.17"><span class="content">has suffered a grievous wound,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.14.17"><span class="content">a crushing blow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.14.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.14.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">If I go into the country,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.14.18"><span class="content">I see those slain by the sword;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.14.18"><span class="content">if I go into the city,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.14.18"><span class="content">I see the ravages of famine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.14.18"><span class="content">Both prophet and priest</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.14.18"><span class="content">have gone to a land they know not.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.14.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.14.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Have you rejected Judah completely?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.14.19"><span class="content">Do you despise Zion?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.14.19"><span class="content">Why have you afflicted us</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.14.19"><span class="content">so that we cannot be healed?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.14.19"><span class="content">We hoped for peace</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.14.19"><span class="content">but no good has come,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.14.19"><span class="content">for a time of healing</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.14.19"><span class="content">but there is only terror.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.14.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.14.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">We acknowledge our wickedness, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.14.20"><span class="content">and the guilt of our ancestors;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.14.20"><span class="content">we have indeed sinned against you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.14.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.14.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For the sake of your name do not despise us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.14.21"><span class="content">do not dishonor your glorious throne.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.14.21"><span class="content">Remember your covenant with us</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.14.21"><span class="content">and do not break it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.14.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.14.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Do any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.14.22"><span class="content">Do the skies themselves send down showers?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.14.22"><span class="content">No, it is you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.14.22"><span class="content">Therefore our hope is in you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.14.22"><span class="content">for you are the one who does all this.</span></span></div>
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