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At that time, saith the LORD, bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem from their graves; |
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and they shall spread them before the sun and the moon, and all the host of heaven, which they loved and served, and after whom they have walked, which sought and worshiped; not be gathered nor be buried: they shall be as dung on the ground. |
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And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the rest, that will remain of this evil family in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.
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And tell them: Thus saith the Lord: Is a fall, and not rise up, Doth one turn away, and not return? |
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Why then is this people of Jerusalem, is the stubborn apostasy? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. |
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I hearkened and heard: they do not speak the truth, no one repents of his wickedness, no one says, 'I did'; every one turned to his course, like a horse rushing into battle. |
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Stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord. |
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As you say, `We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us'? And, behold, the false pen of the scribes [and] is in vain. |
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Wise men are ashamed, dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; what wisdom is in them? |
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Their wives will give to others, their fields - shall inherit because all of them, from the least to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even unto the priest - every one deals falsely. |
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And they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, `Peace, peace ', there is no peace. |
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Are they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. For that they will fall among the fallen; during the visit they will be cast down, saith the LORD.
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I will surely consume them, saith the Lord, there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade, and that I have given them shall pass away from them. |
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`What do we sit? Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities and perish there; for the LORD our God has put us to silence, and gives us to drink water of gall, because we have sinned against the Lord. " |
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We looked for peace, but no good, --vremeni healing, and behold trouble. |
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From Dan is heard snorting of his horses from the loud neighing of stallions his whole land trembled; and they come and devour the land and all that is in it; the city and those who dwell in it. |
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For, behold, I will send serpents, basilisks, against which there is no charm, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD. |
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When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my! my heart is faint in me. |
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Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? Is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, with foreign vanities? |
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The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. |
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For the hurt of the daughter of my people I am broken, go gloomy horror has overwhelmed me. |
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Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is not the daughter of my people recovered? |
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