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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"At that time," declares the LORD, "the bones of the king of Judah, the bones of his officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the residents of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2They'll be spread out to the sun, the moon, and all the stars of the heavens, which they loved and served, and which they followed, consulted, and worshipped. Their bones won't be collected, nor will they be buried. They'll be like dung on the surface of the ground. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"In all the places where the people remain, where I've banished them, death will be chosen over life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family," declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"You are to say to them, 'This is what the LORD says: "Will a person fall down and then not get up? Will someone turn away and then not turn back again? |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Why has this people turned away? Why does Jerusalem continue in apostasy? They hold on to deceit and refuse to repent. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6I've listened and I've heard, and what they say is not right. No one repents of his evil and says, 'What have I done?' "They all turn to their own course like a horse racing into battle. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Even the stork in the sky knows its seasons, and the dove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time for migration. But my people don't know the requirements of the LORD. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8How can you say, 'We're wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,' when, in fact, the deceitful pen of the scribe has made it into something that deceives. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9The wise men will be put to shame. They'll be dismayed and taken captive. Look, they have rejected the message from the LORD! So what kind of wisdom do they have? |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Therefore, I'll give their wives to others, and their fields to new owners. Indeed, from the least important to the most important, they're all greedy for dishonest gain. From prophet to priest, they all act deceitfully. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11They have treated my people's wound superficially, telling them, 'Peace, peace,' when there is no peace. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Are they ashamed because they have done what is repugnant to God? They weren't ashamed at all; they don't even know how to blush! Therefore they'll fall with those who fall. When I punish them, they'll be brought down," says the LORD. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"I would have gathered them," declares the LORD, "but there were no grapes on the vine, and no figs on the fig tree, and their leaves were withered. What I've given them has been taken away."'" |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Why are we sitting here? Join together! Let's go to the fortified cities and perish there! For the LORD our God has condemned us to perish and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against him. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15We waited for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but instead there was terror. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"The snorting of their horses is heard from Dan. At the neighing of their stallions, the whole earth quakes. They're coming to devour the land and all it contains, the city and all who live in it. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Look, I'll send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they'll bite you." |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Incurable sorrow has overwhelmed me, my heart is sick within me. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Listen! My people cry from a distant land: "Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her king no longer there?" "Why did they provoke me to anger with their images, with their worthless foreign gods?" |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20The harvest is past, the summer has ended, and we haven't been delivered. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Because my people are crushed, I'm crushed. I mourn, and dismay overwhelms me. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? So why is there no healing for my people? |
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