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| Jeremiah 7:1 |
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The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD,
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| Jeremiah 7:2 |
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Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim
there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter
in at these gates to worship the LORD. |
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| Jeremiah 7:3 |
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. |
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| Jeremiah 7:4 |
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Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple
of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these. |
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| Jeremiah 7:5 |
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For if ye throughly amend your ways and your
doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; |
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| Jeremiah 7:6 |
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If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless,
and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other
gods to your hurt: |
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| Jeremiah 7:7 |
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Then will I cause you to dwell in this place,
in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever. |
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| Jeremiah 7:8 |
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Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot
profit. |
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| Jeremiah 7:9 |
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Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery,
and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom
ye know not; |
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| Jeremiah 7:10 |
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And come and stand before me in this house,
which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? |
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| Jeremiah 7:11 |
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Is this house, which is called by my name, become
a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD. |
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| Jeremiah 7:12 |
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But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh,
where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness
of my people Israel. |
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| Jeremiah 7:13 |
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And now, because ye have done all these works,
saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard
not; and I called you, but ye answered not; |
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| Jeremiah 7:14 |
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Therefore will I do unto this house, which is
called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and
to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh. |
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| Jeremiah 7:15 |
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And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have
cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim. |
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| Jeremiah 7:16 |
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Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither
lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not
hear thee. |
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| Jeremiah 7:17 |
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Seest thou not what they do in the cities of
Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? |
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| Jeremiah 7:18 |
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The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle
the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven,
and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. |
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| Jeremiah 7:19 |
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Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD:
do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces? |
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| Jeremiah 7:20 |
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Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, mine
anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast,
and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall
burn, and shall not be quenched. |
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| Jeremiah 7:21 |
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. |
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| Jeremiah 7:22 |
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For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded
them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt
offerings or sacrifices: |
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| Jeremiah 7:23 |
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But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey
my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all
the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. |
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| Jeremiah 7:24 |
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But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear,
but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went
backward, and not forward. |
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| Jeremiah 7:25 |
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Since the day that your fathers came forth out
of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the
prophets, daily rising up early and sending them: |
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| Jeremiah 7:26 |
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Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined
their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. |
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| Jeremiah 7:27 |
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Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto
them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they
will not answer thee. |
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| Jeremiah 7:28 |
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But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation
that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth
is perished, and is cut off from their mouth. |
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| Jeremiah 7:29 |
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Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it
away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and
forsaken the generation of his wrath. |
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| Jeremiah 7:30 |
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For the children of Judah have done evil in
my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which
is called by my name, to pollute it. |
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| Jeremiah 7:31 |
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And they have built the high places of Tophet,
which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters
in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart. |
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| Jeremiah 7:32 |
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Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the
LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom,
but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place. |
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| Jeremiah 7:33 |
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And the carcases of this people shall be meat
for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray
them away. |
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| Jeremiah 7:34 |
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Then will I cause to cease from the cities of
Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of
gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land
shall be desolate. |
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