Book 13 : NEVIIM - JEREMIAH - Chapter 015
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Then said HaShem unto me: 'Though Moses and Samuel stood
before Me, yet My mind could not be toward this people; cast them out of My
sight, and let them go forth
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And it shall come to pass, when they say unto thee: Whither
shall we go forth? then thou shall tell them: Thus saith HaShem: Such as are for
death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are
for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity
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And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith HaShem: the
sword to slay, and the dogs to drag, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts
of the earth, to devour and to destroy
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And I will cause them to be a horror among all the kingdoms
of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that
which he did in Jerusalem
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For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? Or who
shall bemoan thee? Or who shall turn aside to ask of thy welfare
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Thou hast cast Me off, saith HaShem, thou art gone
backward; therefore do I stretch out My hand against thee, and destroy thee; I
am weary with repenting
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And I fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I
bereave them of children, I destroy My people, since they return not from their
ways
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Their widows are increased to Me above the sand of the
seas; I bring upon them, against the mother, a chosen one, even a spoiler at
noonday; I cause anguish and terrors to fall upon her suddenly
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She that hath borne seven languisheth; her spirit droopeth;
her sun is gone down while it was yet day, she is ashamed and confounded; and
the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith
HaShem.
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Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of
strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have
men lent to me; yet every one of them doth curse me
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HaShem said: 'Verily I will release thee for good; verily
I will cause the enemy to make supplication unto thee in the time of evil and in
the time of affliction
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Can iron break iron from the north and brass
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Thy substance and thy treasures will I give for a spoil
without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders
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And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a
land which thou knowest not; for a fire is kindled in My nostril, which shall
burn upon you.
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Thou, O HaShem, knowest; remember me, and think of me, and
avenge me of my persecutors; take me not away because of Thy long-suffering;
know that for Thy sake I have suffered taunts
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Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and Thy words
were unto me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart; because Thy name was called on
me, O HaShem G-d of hosts
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I sat not in the assembly of them that make merry, nor
rejoiced; I sat alone because of Thy hand; for Thou hast filled me with
indignation
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Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, so that
it refuseth to be healed? Wilt Thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful brook, as
waters that fail
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Therefore thus saith HaShem: if thou return, and I bring
thee back, thou shalt stand before Me; and if thou bring forth the precious out
of the vile, thou shalt be as My mouth; let them return unto thee, but thou
shalt not return unto them
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And I will make thee unto this people a fortified brazen
wall; and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against
thee; for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith HaShem
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And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and
I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible
Book 13 : NEVIIM - JEREMIAH - Chapter 015
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