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         <div class="label">13</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Linen Belt</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me: &#8220;Go and buy a linen belt and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So I bought a belt, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> directed, and put it around my waist.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.13.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me a second time: </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Take the belt you bought and are wearing around your waist, and go now to Perath</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:4 </span><span class="ft">Or possibly </span><span class="fqa">to the Euphrates</span><span class="ft">; similarly in verses 5-7</span></span></span><span class="content"> and hide it there in a crevice in the rocks.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So I went and hid it at Perath, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> told me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.13.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Many days later the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;Go now to Perath and get the belt I told you to hide there.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So I went to Perath and dug up the belt and took it from the place where I had hidden it, but now it was ruined and completely useless.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.13.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8216;In the same way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">These wicked people, who refuse to listen to my words, who follow the stubbornness of their hearts and go after other gods to serve and worship them, will be like this belt&#8212;completely useless! </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For as a belt is bound around the waist, so I bound all the people of Israel and all the people of Judah to me,&#8217; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8216;to be my people for my renown and praise and honor. But they have not listened.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Wineskins</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.13.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Say to them: &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, says: Every wineskin should be filled with wine.&#8217; And if they say to you, &#8216;Don&#8217;t we know that every wineskin should be filled with wine?&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">then tell them, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: I am going to fill with drunkenness all who live in this land, including the kings who sit on David&#8217;s throne, the priests, the prophets and all those living in Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I will smash them one against the other, parents and children alike, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. I will allow no pity or mercy or compassion to keep me from destroying them.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Threat of Captivity</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.13.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Hear and pay attention,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.13.15"><span class="content">do not be arrogant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.13.15"><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has spoken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.13.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Give glory to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.13.16"><span class="content">before he brings the darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.13.16"><span class="content">before your feet stumble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.13.16"><span class="content">on the darkening hills.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.13.16"><span class="content">You hope for light,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.13.16"><span class="content">but he will turn it to utter darkness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.13.16"><span class="content">and change it to deep gloom.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.13.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.13.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">If you do not listen,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.13.17"><span class="content">I will weep in secret</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.13.17"><span class="content">because of your pride;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.13.17"><span class="content">my eyes will weep bitterly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.13.17"><span class="content">overflowing with tears,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.13.17"><span class="content">because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s flock will be taken captive.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.13.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.13.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Say to the king and to the queen mother,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.13.18"><span class="content">&#8220;Come down from your thrones,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.13.18"><span class="content">for your glorious crowns</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.13.18"><span class="content">will fall from your heads.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.13.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.13.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The cities in the Negev will be shut up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.13.19"><span class="content">and there will be no one to open them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.13.19"><span class="content">All Judah will be carried into exile,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.13.19"><span class="content">carried completely away.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.13.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.13.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Look up and see</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.13.20"><span class="content">those who are coming from the north.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.13.20"><span class="content">Where is the flock that was entrusted to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.13.20"><span class="content">the sheep of which you boasted?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.13.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.13.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">What will you say when the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> sets over you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.13.21"><span class="content">those you cultivated as your special allies?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.13.21"><span class="content">Will not pain grip you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.13.21"><span class="content">like that of a woman in labor?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.13.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.13.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">And if you ask yourself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.13.22"><span class="content">&#8220;Why has this happened to me?&#8221;&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.13.22"><span class="content">it is because of your many sins</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.13.22"><span class="content">that your skirts have been torn off</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.13.22"><span class="content">and your body mistreated.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.13.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.13.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Can an Ethiopian</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:23 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Cushite </span><span class="ft">(probably a person from the upper Nile region)</span></span></span><span class="content"> change his skin</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.13.23"><span class="content">or a leopard its spots?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.13.23"><span class="content">Neither can you do good</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.13.23"><span class="content">who are accustomed to doing evil.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.13.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.13.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will scatter you like chaff</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.13.24"><span class="content">driven by the desert wind.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.13.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.13.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">This is your lot,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.13.25"><span class="content">the portion I have decreed for you,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.13.25"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.13.25"><span class="content">&#8220;because you have forgotten me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.13.25"><span class="content">and trusted in false gods.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.13.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.13.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">I will pull up your skirts over your face</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.13.26"><span class="content">that your shame may be seen&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.13.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.13.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">your adulteries and lustful neighings,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.13.27"><span class="content">your shameless prostitution!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.13.27"><span class="content">I have seen your detestable acts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.13.27"><span class="content">on the hills and in the fields.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.13.27"><span class="content">Woe to you, Jerusalem!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.13.27"><span class="content">How long will you be unclean?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <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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      <div class="chapter ch15" data-usfm="JER.15">
         <div class="label">15</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me: &#8220;Even if Moses and Samuel were to stand before me, my heart would not go out to this people. Send them away from my presence! Let them go! </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And if they ask you, &#8216;Where shall we go?&#8217; tell them, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.15.2"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Those destined for death, to death;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.15.2"><span class="content">those for the sword, to the sword;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.15.2"><span class="content">those for starvation, to starvation;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.15.2"><span class="content">those for captivity, to captivity.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.15.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.15.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will send four kinds of destroyers against them,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;the sword to kill and the dogs to drag away and the birds and the wild animals to devour and destroy. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.15.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I will make them abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.15.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.15.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Who will have pity on you, Jerusalem?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.15.5"><span class="content">Who will mourn for you?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.15.5"><span class="content">Who will stop to ask how you are?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.15.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.15.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You have rejected me,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.15.6"><span class="content">&#8220;You keep on backsliding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.15.6"><span class="content">So I will reach out and destroy you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.15.6"><span class="content">I am tired of holding back.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.15.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.15.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I will winnow them with a winnowing fork</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.15.7"><span class="content">at the city gates of the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.15.7"><span class="content">I will bring bereavement and destruction on my people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.15.7"><span class="content">for they have not changed their ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.15.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.15.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I will make their widows more numerous</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.15.8"><span class="content">than the sand of the sea.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.15.8"><span class="content">At midday I will bring a destroyer</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.15.8"><span class="content">against the mothers of their young men;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.15.8"><span class="content">suddenly I will bring down on them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.15.8"><span class="content">anguish and terror.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.15.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.15.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The mother of seven will grow faint</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.15.9"><span class="content">and breathe her last.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.15.9"><span class="content">Her sun will set while it is still day;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.15.9"><span class="content">she will be disgraced and humiliated.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.15.9"><span class="content">I will put the survivors to the sword</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.15.9"><span class="content">before their enemies,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.15.9"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.15.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.15.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Alas, my mother, that you gave me birth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.15.10"><span class="content">a man with whom the whole land strives and contends!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.15.10"><span class="content">I have neither lent nor borrowed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.15.10"><span class="content">yet everyone curses me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.15.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.15.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.15.11"><span class="content">&#8220;Surely I will deliver you for a good purpose;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.15.11"><span class="content">surely I will make your enemies plead with you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.15.11"><span class="content">in times of disaster and times of distress.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.15.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.15.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Can a man break iron&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.15.12"><span class="content">iron from the north&#8212;or bronze?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.15.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.15.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;Your wealth and your treasures</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.15.13"><span class="content">I will give as plunder, without charge,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.15.13"><span class="content">because of all your sins</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.15.13"><span class="content">throughout your country.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.15.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.15.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I will enslave you to your enemies</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.15.14"><span class="content">in</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:14 </span><span class="ft">Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Syriac (see also 17:4); most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">I will cause your enemies to bring you / into</span></span></span><span class="content"> a land you do not know,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.15.14"><span class="content">for my anger will kindle a fire</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.15.14"><span class="content">that will burn against you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.15.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.15.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you understand;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.15.15"><span class="content">remember me and care for me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.15.15"><span class="content">Avenge me on my persecutors.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.15.15"><span class="content">You are long-suffering&#8212;do not take me away;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.15.15"><span class="content">think of how I suffer reproach for your sake.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.15.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.15.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When your words came, I ate them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.15.16"><span class="content">they were my joy and my heart&#8217;s delight,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.15.16"><span class="content">for I bear your name,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.15.16"><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.15.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.15.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I never sat in the company of revelers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.15.17"><span class="content">never made merry with them;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.15.17"><span class="content">I sat alone because your hand was on me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.15.17"><span class="content">and you had filled me with indignation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.15.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.15.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Why is my pain unending</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.15.18"><span class="content">and my wound grievous and incurable?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.15.18"><span class="content">You are to me like a deceptive brook,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.15.18"><span class="content">like a spring that fails.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.15.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.15.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.15.19"><span class="content">&#8220;If you repent, I will restore you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.15.19"><span class="content">that you may serve me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.15.19"><span class="content">if you utter worthy, not worthless, words,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.15.19"><span class="content">you will be my spokesman.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.15.19"><span class="content">Let this people turn to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.15.19"><span class="content">but you must not turn to them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.15.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.15.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">I will make you a wall to this people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.15.20"><span class="content">a fortified wall of bronze;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.15.20"><span class="content">they will fight against you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.15.20"><span class="content">but will not overcome you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.15.20"><span class="content">for I am with you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.15.20"><span class="content">to rescue and save you,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.15.20"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.15.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.15.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will save you from the hands of the wicked</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.15.21"><span class="content">and deliver you from the grasp of the cruel.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkJER">
      <div class="chapter ch16" data-usfm="JER.16">
         <div class="label">16</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Day of Disaster</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;You must not marry and have sons or daughters in this place.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says about the sons and daughters born in this land and about the women who are their mothers and the men who are their fathers: </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;They will die of deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried but will be like dung lying on the ground. They will perish by sword and famine, and their dead bodies will become food for the birds and the wild animals.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.16.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8220;Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal; do not go to mourn or show sympathy, because I have withdrawn my blessing, my love and my pity from this people,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Both high and low will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned, and no one will cut themselves or shave their head for the dead. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">No one will offer food to comfort those who mourn for the dead&#8212;not even for a father or a mother&#8212;nor will anyone give them a drink to console them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.16.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;And do not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down to eat and drink. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Before your eyes and in your days I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride and bridegroom in this place.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.16.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;When you tell these people all this and they ask you, &#8216;Why has the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> decreed such a great disaster against us? What wrong have we done? What sin have we committed against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God?&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.16.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">then say to them, &#8216;It is because your ancestors forsook me,&#8217; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8216;and followed other gods and served and worshiped them. They forsook me and did not keep my law. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.16.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But you have behaved more wickedly than your ancestors. See how all of you are following the stubbornness of your evil hearts instead of obeying me. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.16.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So I will throw you out of this land into a land neither you nor your ancestors have known, and there you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.16.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.16.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;However, the days are coming,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;when it will no longer be said, &#8216;As surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> lives, who brought the Israelites up out of Egypt,&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.16.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">but it will be said, &#8216;As surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north and out of all the countries where he had banished them.&#8217; For I will restore them to the land I gave their ancestors.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.16.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.16.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;But now I will send for many fishermen,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and from the crevices of the rocks. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.16.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from me, nor is their sin concealed from my eyes. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.16.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I will repay them double for their wickedness and their sin, because they have defiled my land with the lifeless forms of their vile images and have filled my inheritance with their detestable idols.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.16.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.16.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, my strength and my fortress,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.16.19"><span class="content">my refuge in time of distress,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.16.19"><span class="content">to you the nations will come</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.16.19"><span class="content">from the ends of the earth and say,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.16.19"><span class="content">&#8220;Our ancestors possessed nothing but false gods,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.16.19"><span class="content">worthless idols that did them no good.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.16.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.16.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Do people make their own gods?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.16.20"><span class="content">Yes, but they are not gods!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.16.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.16.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore I will teach them&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.16.21"><span class="content">this time I will teach them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.16.21"><span class="content">my power and might.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.16.21"><span class="content">Then they will know</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.16.21"><span class="content">that my name is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">17</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Judah&#8217;s sin is engraved with an iron tool,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.17.1"><span class="content">inscribed with a flint point,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.17.1"><span class="content">on the tablets of their hearts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.17.1"><span class="content">and on the horns of their altars.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.17.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Even their children remember</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.17.2"><span class="content">their altars and Asherah poles</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:2 </span><span class="ft">That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.17.2"><span class="content">beside the spreading trees</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.17.2"><span class="content">and on the high hills.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">My mountain in the land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.17.3"><span class="content">and your</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:2,3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">hills / </span><span class="fv">3 </span><span class="fqa">and the mountains of the land. / Your</span></span></span><span class="content"> wealth and all your treasures</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.17.3"><span class="content">I will give away as plunder,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.17.3"><span class="content">together with your high places,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.17.3"><span class="content">because of sin throughout your country.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.17.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Through your own fault you will lose</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.17.4"><span class="content">the inheritance I gave you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.17.4"><span class="content">I will enslave you to your enemies</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.17.4"><span class="content">in a land you do not know,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.17.4"><span class="content">for you have kindled my anger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.17.4"><span class="content">and it will burn forever.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.17.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.17.5"><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed is the one who trusts in man,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.17.5"><span class="content">who draws strength from mere flesh</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.17.5"><span class="content">and whose heart turns away from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.17.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">That person will be like a bush in the wastelands;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.17.6"><span class="content">they will not see prosperity when it comes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.17.6"><span class="content">They will dwell in the parched places of the desert,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.17.6"><span class="content">in a salt land where no one lives.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.17.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;But blessed is the one who trusts in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.17.7"><span class="content">whose confidence is in him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.17.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They will be like a tree planted by the water</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.17.8"><span class="content">that sends out its roots by the stream.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.17.8"><span class="content">It does not fear when heat comes;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.17.8"><span class="content">its leaves are always green.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.17.8"><span class="content">It has no worries in a year of drought</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.17.8"><span class="content">and never fails to bear fruit.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.17.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The heart is deceitful above all things</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.17.9"><span class="content">and beyond cure.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.17.9"><span class="content">Who can understand it?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.17.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;I the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> search the heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.17.10"><span class="content">and examine the mind,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.17.10"><span class="content">to reward each person according to their conduct,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.17.10"><span class="content">according to what their deeds deserve.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.17.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.17.11"><span class="content">are those who gain riches by unjust means.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.17.11"><span class="content">When their lives are half gone, their riches will desert them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.17.11"><span class="content">and in the end they will prove to be fools.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.17.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">A glorious throne, exalted from the beginning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.17.12"><span class="content">is the place of our sanctuary.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.17.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you are the hope of Israel;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.17.13"><span class="content">all who forsake you will be put to shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.17.13"><span class="content">Those who turn away from you will be written in the dust</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.17.13"><span class="content">because they have forsaken the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.17.13"><span class="content">the spring of living water.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.17.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Heal me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and I will be healed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.17.14"><span class="content">save me and I will be saved,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.17.14"><span class="content">for you are the one I praise.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">They keep saying to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.17.15"><span class="content">&#8220;Where is the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.17.15"><span class="content">Let it now be fulfilled!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.17.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I have not run away from being your shepherd;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.17.16"><span class="content">you know I have not desired the day of despair.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.17.16"><span class="content">What passes my lips is open before you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.17.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.17.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Do not be a terror to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.17.17"><span class="content">you are my refuge in the day of disaster.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.17.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.17.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Let my persecutors be put to shame,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.17.18"><span class="content">but keep me from shame;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.17.18"><span class="content">let them be terrified,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.17.18"><span class="content">but keep me from terror.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.17.18"><span class="content">Bring on them the day of disaster;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.17.18"><span class="content">destroy them with double destruction.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.17.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.17.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me: &#8220;Go and stand at the Gate of the People,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Army</span></span></span><span class="content"> through which the kings of Judah go in and out; stand also at all the other gates of Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.17.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Say to them, &#8216;Hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you kings of Judah and all people of Judah and everyone living in Jerusalem who come through these gates. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.17.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Be careful not to carry a load on the Sabbath day or bring it through the gates of Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.17.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Do not bring a load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your ancestors. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.17.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Yet they did not listen or pay attention; they were stiff-necked and would not listen or respond to discipline. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.17.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">But if you are careful to obey me, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy by not doing any work on it, </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.17.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">then kings who sit on David&#8217;s throne will come through the gates of this city with their officials. They and their officials will come riding in chariots and on horses, accompanied by the men of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, and this city will be inhabited forever. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.17.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">People will come from the towns of Judah and the villages around Jerusalem, from the territory of Benjamin and the western foothills, from the hill country and the Negev, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and incense, and bringing thank offerings to the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.17.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">But if you do not obey me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying any load as you come through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in the gates of Jerusalem that will consume her fortresses.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">18</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">At the Potter&#8217;s House</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go down to the potter&#8217;s house, and there I will give you my message.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So I went down to the potter&#8217;s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.18.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He said, &#8220;Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. &#8220;Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.18.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.18.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.18.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.18.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.18.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now therefore say to the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Look! I am preparing a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. So turn from your evil ways, each one of you, and reform your ways and your actions.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.18.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But they will reply, &#8216;It&#8217;s no use. We will continue with our own plans; we will all follow the stubbornness of our evil hearts.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.18.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.18.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.18.13"><span class="content">&#8220;Inquire among the nations:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.18.13"><span class="content">Who has ever heard anything like this?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.18.13"><span class="content">A most horrible thing has been done</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.18.13"><span class="content">by Virgin Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.18.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.18.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Does the snow of Lebanon</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.18.14"><span class="content">ever vanish from its rocky slopes?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.18.14"><span class="content">Do its cool waters from distant sources</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.18.14"><span class="content">ever stop flowing?</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:14 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.18.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.18.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Yet my people have forgotten me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.18.15"><span class="content">they burn incense to worthless idols,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.18.15"><span class="content">which made them stumble in their ways,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.18.15"><span class="content">in the ancient paths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.18.15"><span class="content">They made them walk in byways,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.18.15"><span class="content">on roads not built up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.18.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.18.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Their land will be an object of horror</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.18.16"><span class="content">and of lasting scorn;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.18.16"><span class="content">all who pass by will be appalled</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.18.16"><span class="content">and will shake their heads.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.18.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.18.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Like a wind from the east,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.18.17"><span class="content">I will scatter them before their enemies;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.18.17"><span class="content">I will show them my back and not my face</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.18.17"><span class="content">in the day of their disaster.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.18.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.18.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They said, &#8220;Come, let&#8217;s make plans against Jeremiah; for the teaching of the law by the priest will not cease, nor will counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophets. So come, let&#8217;s attack him with our tongues and pay no attention to anything he says.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.18.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.18.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Listen to me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.18.19"><span class="content">hear what my accusers are saying!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.18.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.18.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Should good be repaid with evil?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.18.20"><span class="content">Yet they have dug a pit for me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.18.20"><span class="content">Remember that I stood before you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.18.20"><span class="content">and spoke in their behalf</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.18.20"><span class="content">to turn your wrath away from them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.18.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.18.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So give their children over to famine;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.18.21"><span class="content">hand them over to the power of the sword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.18.21"><span class="content">Let their wives be made childless and widows;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.18.21"><span class="content">let their men be put to death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.18.21"><span class="content">their young men slain by the sword in battle.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.18.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.18.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Let a cry be heard from their houses</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.18.22"><span class="content">when you suddenly bring invaders against them,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.18.22"><span class="content">for they have dug a pit to capture me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.18.22"><span class="content">and have hidden snares for my feet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.18.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.18.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, know</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.18.23"><span class="content">all their plots to kill me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.18.23"><span class="content">Do not forgive their crimes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.18.23"><span class="content">or blot out their sins from your sight.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.18.23"><span class="content">Let them be overthrown before you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.18.23"><span class="content">deal with them in the time of your anger.</span></span></div>
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