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“The bodies of men will be falling like waste on the open fields, and like grain dropped by the grain-cutter, and no one will take them up.”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 9:22
“This is what you are to say to them: The gods who have not made the heavens and the earth will be cut off from the earth and from under the heavens. He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out.”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 10:11-12
“Sorrow is mine for I am wounded! my wound may not be made well; and I said, Cruel is my disease, I may not be free from it. My tent is pulled down and all my cords are broken: my children have gone from me, and they are not: no longer is there anyone to give help in stretching out my tent and hanging up my curtains. For the keepers of the sheep have become like beasts, not looking to the Lord for directions: so they have not done wisely and all their flocks have been put to flight. News is going about, see, it is coming, a great shaking is coming from the north country, so that the towns of…”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 10:19-25
“So that I may give effect to the oath which I made to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey as at this day. And I said in answer, So be it, O Lord.”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 11:5
“How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 12:4
“The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, I will send on this town and on all her towns all the evil which I have said; because they made their necks stiff, so that they might not give ear to my words.”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 19:15
“Then on the day after, Pashhur let Jeremiah loose. Then Jeremiah said to him, The Lord has given you the name of Magor-missabib (Cause-of-fear-on-every-side), not Pashhur. For the Lord has said, See, I will make you a cause of fear to yourself and to all your friends: they will come to their death by the sword of their haters, and your eyes will see it: and I will give all Judah into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will take them away prisoners into Babylon and put them to the sword.”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 20:3-4
“And after that, says the Lord, I will give up Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his servants and his people, even those in the town who have not come to their end from the disease and the sword and from need of food, into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of their haters, and into the hands of those desiring their death: he will put them to the sword; he will not let anyone get away, he will have no pity or mercy.”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 21:7
“And to this people you are to say, The Lord has said, See, I put before you the way of life and the way of death.”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 21:8
“For my face is turned to this town for evil and not for good, says the Lord: it will be given into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will have it burned with fire.”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 21:10
“About the family of the king of Judah. Give ear to the word of the Lord; O family of David, this is what the Lord has said: Do what is right in the morning, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away, or my wrath will go out like fire, burning so that no one may put it out, because of the evil of your doings.”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 21:11-12
“See, I am against you, you who are living on the rock of the valley, says the Lord; you who say, Who will come down against us? or who will get into our houses?”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 21:13
“I will send punishment on you in keeping with the fruit of your doings, says the Lord: and I will put a fire in her woodlands, burning up everything round about her.”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 21:14
“And say, Give ear to the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, seated on the seat of David, you and your servants and your people who come in by these doors. This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 22:2-3
“But if you do not give ear to these words, I give you my oath by myself, says the Lord, that this house will become a waste. For this is what the Lord has said about the family of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to me, and the top of Lebanon: but, truly, I will make you waste, with towns unpeopled.”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 22:5-6
“Then the Lord said to me, What do you see, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs are very good, and the bad very bad, and of no use for food, they are so bad.”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 24:3
“Saying, Come back now, everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your doings, and keep your place in the land which the Lord has given to you and to your fathers, from times long past even for ever:”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 25:5
“Do not go after other gods to be their servants and to give them worship, and do not make me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 25:6
“So, as a prophet, give out these words among them, and say to them, The voice of the Lord will be sounding like a lion from on high; he will send out his voice from his holy place, like the loud voice of a lion, against his flock; he will give a cry, like those who are crushing the grapes, against all the people of the earth. A noise will come, even to the end of the earth; for the Lord has a cause against the nations, he will give his decision against all flesh; as for the evil-doers, he will give them to the sword, says the Lord. This is what the Lord of armies has said: See, evil is going…”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 25:30-32
“And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: If you do not give ear to me and go in the way of my law which I have put before you, And give ear to the words of my servants the prophets whom I send to you, getting up early and sending them, though you gave no attention;”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 26:4-5
“Then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this town a curse to all the nations of the earth.”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 26:6
“Then Jeremiah said to all the rulers and to all the people, The Lord has sent me as his prophet to say against this house and against this town all the words which have come to your ears. So now, make a change for the better in your ways and your doings, and give ear to the voice of the Lord your God; then the Lord will let himself be turned from the decision he has made against you for evil. As for me, here I am in your hands: do with me whatever seems good and right in your opinion. Only be certain that, if you put me to death, you will make yourselves and your town and its people…”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 26:12-15
“This is what the Lord has said to me: Make for yourself bands and yokes and put them on your neck;”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 27:2
“And I said all this to Zedekiah, king of Judah, saying, Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon and become his servants and his people, so that you may keep your lives.”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 27:12
“Why are you desiring death, you and your people, by the sword, and because food is gone, and by disease, as the Lord has said of the nation which does not become the servant of the king of Babylon?”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 27:13
“For I have not sent them, says the Lord, but they are saying what is false in my name, so that I might send you out by force, causing destruction to come on you and on your prophets.”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 27:15
“And I said to the priests and to all the people, This is what the Lord has said: Give no attention to the words of your prophets who say to you, See, in a very little time now the vessels of the Lord's house will come back again from Babylon: for what they say to you is false.”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 27:16
“Give no attention to them; become servants of the king of Babylon and keep yourselves from death: why let this town become a waste?”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 27:17
“But if they are prophets, and if the word of the Lord is with them, let them now make request to the Lord of armies that the vessels which are still in the house of the Lord and in the house of the king of Judah and at Jerusalem, may not go to Babylon.”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 27:18
“For this is what the Lord has said about the rest of the vessels which are still in this town,”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 27:19
“Which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, did not take away, when he took Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, a prisoner from Jerusalem to Babylon, with all the great men of Judah and Jerusalem;”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 27:20
“For this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said about the rest of the vessels in the house of the Lord and in the house of the king of Judah and at Jerusalem:”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 27:21
“The prophet Jeremiah said, So be it: may the Lord do so: may the Lord give effect to the words which you have said, and let the vessels of the Lord's house, and all the people who have been taken away, come back from Babylon to this place. But still, give ear to this word which I am saying to you and to all the people: The prophets, who were before me and before you, from early times gave word to a number of countries and great kingdoms about war and destruction and disease. The prophet whose words are of peace, when his words come true, will be seen to be a prophet whom the Lord has sent.”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 28:6-9
“This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said to all those whom I have taken away prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon: Go on building houses and living in them, and planting gardens and using the fruit of them; Take wives and have sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may have sons and daughters; and be increased in number there and do not become less. And be working for the peace of the land to which I have had you taken away prisoners, and make prayer to the Lord for it: for in its peace you will have peace. For…”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 29:4-23
“Shemaiah the Nehelamite sent a letter in his name to Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 29:25
“And Jeremiah said, The word of the Lord came to me, saying,”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 32:6
“This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Take these papers, the witness of this business, the one which is rolled up and stamped, and the one which is open; and put them in a vessel of earth so that they may be kept for a long time.”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 32:14
“For the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, There will again be trading in houses and fields and vine-gardens in this land.”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 32:15
“These are the words of the Lord, who is doing it, the Lord who is forming it, to make it certain; the Lord is his name;”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 33:2
“Let your cry come to me, and I will give you an answer, and let you see great things and secret things of which you had no knowledge. For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said about the houses of this town and the houses of the kings of Judah, which have been broken down to make earthworks and ...; ... and to make them full of the dead bodies of men whom I have put to death in my wrath and in my passion, and because of whose evil-doing I have kept my face covered from this town.”— Jeremiah, Jeremiah 33:3-5
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