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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1These are the words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests in Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3and through the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, until the fifth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, when the people of Jerusalem went into exile. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The word of the LORD came to me, saying: |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I surely do not know how to speak, for I am only a child!” |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7But the LORD told me: “Do not say, ‘I am only a child.’ For to everyone I send you, you must go, and all that I command you, you must speak. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you,” declares the LORD. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Then the LORD reached out His hand, touched my mouth, and said to me: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10See, I have appointed you today over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and plant.” |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11And the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” “I see a branch of an almond tree,” I replied. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12“You have observed correctly,” said the LORD, “for I am watching over My word to accomplish it.” |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Again the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “What do you see?” “I see a boiling pot,” I replied, “and it is tilting toward us from the north.” |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Then the LORD said to me, “Disaster from the north will be poured out on all who live in the land. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15For I am about to summon all the clans and kingdoms of the north,” declares the LORD. “Their kings will come and set up their thrones at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem. They will attack all her surrounding walls and all the other cities of Judah. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16I will pronounce My judgments against them for all their wickedness, because they have forsaken Me to burn incense to other gods and to worship the works of their own hands. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Get yourself ready. Stand up and tell them everything that I command you. Do not be intimidated by them, or I will terrify you before them. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Now behold, this day I have made you like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19They will fight against you but will never overcome you, since I am with you to deliver you,” declares the LORD. |
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