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And the whole house of Judah, saith JEHOVAH;
To be unto me a people,

And a name, and a praise, and a glory;

But they hearkened not.

THOU shalt also speak unto them this word, Thus saith JEHOVAH, the God of Israel;

Every vessel shall be filled with wine.

And they will say unto thee, Do we not know assuredly

That every vessel shall be filled with wine?

13 Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith JEHOVAH,

Behold I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, And the kings that sit in David's stead upon his throne,

And the priests, and the prophets,

And all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunk

enness:

14 And I will dash them one against another,

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And the fathers and the children together, saith
JEHOVAH;

I will not pity, neither will I spare,

Neither will I shew mercy so as not to destroy
them,

Hear ye, and attend; be not lifted up;
Surely JEHOVAH hath spoken:

16 Give ye glory unto JEHOVAH your God,

Before it grows dark,

And before your feet stumble upon the mountains

of gloominess;

And when ye look for light,

It there be turned into the shadow of death, even gross darkness.

17 But if ye will not hear it, whilst ye are in secure

places;

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My soul shall mourn from forth of its body, and shall weep sorely,

And mine eye shall run down with tears,

Because the flock of JEHOVAH is carried into captivity.

Say to the king and to the

selves, sit ye down;

queen, humble your

For he will cause to fall from your heads the diadem of your glory.

19 The cities of the south are shut up, and none open

eth;

The captivity of Judah is fully effected, the captivity of one and all.

20 Lift up your eyes, and see those that are coming from the north;

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Where is the flock that was given thee, the sheep of thy glory?

What wilt thou say, when visitation shall come
upon thee?
Seeing it is thou that teachest them to be rulers
in chief over thee;

Shall not pangs seize thee, like as a woman in
travail?

And when thou shalt say in thine heart, Wherefore have these things befallen me?

For the abundance of thine iniquity thy skirts are uncovered, thy heels are left bare.

23 Can a Cushite change his skin, or a leopard his spots?

Then may ye prevail with them to do good who have learned to do evil.

24 I have therefore scattered them as the stubble

passing before the wind of the desart.

25 This is thy lot, thy measured portion from me, saith JEHOVAH,

Who hast forgotten me, and hast trusted in falsehood:

26 Therefore have I uncovered thy skirts before thee, may be seen, thine adulteries, and

That thy shame

thy neighings.

27 Thou hast devised thy whoredom upon the hills, In the fields I have seen thine abominations :

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Wo unto thee, O Jerusalem! thou wilt not be clean;

How much longer yet shall it be before thou wilt?

CHAP. XIV.

THE WORD OF Jehovah which CAME TO JEREMIAH.

BECAUSE of the drought Judah mourneth,
And the gates thereof languish;

They are in deep mourning for the land;
And the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

3 The nobles also have sent their younger ones for water;

They came to the pits; they found no water;
They returned with their vessels empty;

They were ashamed and confounded,

They covered their heads.

4 Because the ground is crumbled to dust, Forasmuch as there hath been no rain in the land, The husbandmen were ashamed;

They covered their heads.

5 When the hind also had calved in the fields,

Then it was deserted, because there was no grass.

6 And the wild asses stood on the plains,

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They snuffed up the wind like dragons;
Their eyes were wasted,

Because there was no herbage.

Though our iniquities have testified against us,

O JEHOVAH, do thou act with a regard to thine

own name;

For our apostasies have been many;

We have sinned against thee. 8 O thou hope of Israel,

His saviour in time of distress,

Wherefore wilt thou be as a stranger in the land?

And as a traveller that turneth in for a night's lodging?

9 Wherefore wilt thou be as one in a deep sleep? As a man that hath no power to save?

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Seeing thou art in the midst of us, O JEHOVAH,
And we are called by thy name,

Desert us not.

Thus hath JEHOVAH said concerning this
ple,

They have so loved to wander,

Their feet have they not refrained,

When JEHOVAH bruised them not:

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Now will he call their iniquity to remembrance,
And will take account of their sins.

11 Therefore said JEHOVAH unto me,

Pray not for this people in a friendly manner. 12 When they fast, I will not hearken to their cry`; And when they offer a burnt-offering or a meatoffering, I will not accept them;

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But by sword, and by famine, and by pestilence,
I will make an end of them.

Then said I, Alas! O Lord JEHOVAH!
Behold the prophets say unto them,

Ye shall not see the sword,

Neither shall famine come unto you;

But peace will I assuredly give you in this place.

14 Then said JEHOVAH unto me;

The prophets prophesy falsely in my name:

I have not sent them, nor commissioned them
Neither have I spoken unto them;

A false vision, and divination, and vanity,
And the guile of their own heart, do these pro-

phesy unto you.

15 Therefore thus saith JEHOVAH;

As concerning the prophets who prophesy in my

name,

Though I have not sent them, but they say of themselves,

Sword and famine shall not be in this land;

By sword and by famine shall those prophets be consumed.

16 And the people, to whom these prophesy,

Shall be cast forth in the streets of Jerusalem
By means of the famine and the sword;
And they shall have none to bury them;

They, their wives, and their sons, and their daugh-
ters;

And I will pour upon them their own wickedness. 17 And thou shalt say unto them this word;

Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day,
And let them not cease;

Because a great hurt hath she received,
The virgin daughter of my people,

A blow that is exceedingly painful.

18 If I go out into the fields,

Then behold those that are slain by the sword!
And when I enter the city,

Then behold those that pine with famine!
Yet both the prophet and also the priest

Go trafficking about the city, and take no know-
ledge.

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