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JEREMIAH
thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land. 19And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; For I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee.'
2And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 2Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying: Thus saith the Lord:
- I remember for thee the affection of thy youth,
- The love of thine espousals;
- How thou wentest after Me in the wilderness,
- In a land that was not sown.
- 3Israel is the Lord's hallowed portion,
- His first-fruits of the increase;
- All that devour him shall be held guilty,
- Evil shall come upon them,
- Saith the Lord.
- 4Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob,
- And all the families of the house of Israel;
- 5Thus saith the Lord:
- What unrighteousness have your fathers found in Me,
- That they are gone far from Me,
- And have walked after things of nought, and are become nought?
- 6Neither said they:
- 'Where is the Lord that brought us up
- Out of the land of Egypt;
- That led us through the wilderness,
- Through a land of deserts and of pits,
- Through a land of drought and of the shadow of death,
- Through a land that no man passed through,
- And where no man dwelt?'
- 7And I brought you into a land of fruitful fields,
- To eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof;
- But when ye entered, ye defiled My land,
- And made My heritage an abomination.
- 8The priests said not: 'Where is the Lord?'
- And they that handle the law knew Me not,
- And the rulers transgressed against Me;
- The prophets also prophesied by Baal,
- And walked after things that do not profit.
- 9Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord,
- And with your children's children will I plead.
- 10For pass over to the isles of the Kittites, and see,
- And send unto Kedar, and consider diligently,
- And see if there hath been such a thing.
- 11Hath a nation changed its gods,
- Which yet are no gods?
- But My people hath changed its glory
- For that which doth not profit.
- 12Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this,
- And be horribly afraid, be ye exceeding amazed,
- Saith the Lord.
- 13For My people have committed two evils:
- They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters,
- And hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns,
- That can hold no water.
- 14Is Israel a servant?
- Is he a home-born slave?
- Why is he become a prey?
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