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Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:
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Thus saith the L
ORD
God of Israel; Behold, I
will turn back the weapons of war that
are
in your hands, wherewith ye fight
against
the king of
Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them
into the midst of this city.
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And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with
a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.
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And I will smite the inhabitants of
this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
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And afterward, saith the L
ORD
,
I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this
city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life:
and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor
have mercy.
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And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the L
ORD
; Behold, I set before you the way of
life, and the way of death.
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He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine,
and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall
live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.
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For I have set my face against this city for evil,
and not for good, saith the L
ORD
: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall
burn it with fire.
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And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye the word of the L
ORD
;
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O house
of David, thus saith the L
ORD
; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver
him that is
spoiled
out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench
it,
because of the evil of your doings.
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Behold, I
am
against thee, O inhabitant of the valley,
and
rock of the plain, saith the L
ORD
; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter
into our habitations?
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But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the L
ORD
:
and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.
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Thus saith the L
ORD
; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,
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And
say, Hear the word of the L
ORD
, O king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and
thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates:
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Thus saith the L
ORD
; Execute ye judgment
and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do
no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
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For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon
the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.
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But if
ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the L
ORD
, that this house shall become a
desolation.
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For thus saith the L
ORD
unto the king’s house of Judah; Thou
art
Gilead unto me,
and
the head of Lebanon:
yet
surely I will make thee a wilderness,
and
cities
which
are not inhabited.
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