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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“At that time,” declares the LORD, “the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of the officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2They will be exposed to the sun and moon, and to all the host of heaven which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered up or buried, but will become like dung lying on the ground. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4So you are to tell them this is what the LORD says: “Do men fall and not get up again? Does one turn away and not return? |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6I have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone has pursued his own course like a horse charging into battle. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception? |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have? |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11They dress the wound of the daughter of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the tree, and even the leaf will wither. Whatever I have given them will be lost to them.” |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16The snorting of enemy horses is heard from Dan. At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds, the whole land quakes. They come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who dwell in it. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17“For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?” |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20“The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved.” |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored? |
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