16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and sword, (A)with none to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out their evil upon them.

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And when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord:

(A)“‘Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence,
    and those who are for the sword, to the sword;
those who are for famine, to famine,
    and those who are for captivity, to captivity.’

(B)I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the Lord: the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, and (C)the birds of the air (D)and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

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33 (A)And the dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the air, and for the beasts of the earth, (B)and none will frighten them away.

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31 therefore they shall eat (A)the fruit of their way,
    and have (B)their fill of their own devices.

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They have given (A)the bodies of your servants
    to the birds of the heavens for food,
    the flesh of your (B)faithful to (C)the beasts of the earth.
They have poured out their blood like water
    all around Jerusalem,
    and there was (D)no one to bury them.

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21 Therefore (A)deliver up their children to famine;
    give them over to the power of the sword;
let their wives become childless (B)and widowed.
    May their men meet death by pestilence,
    their youths be struck down by the sword in battle.

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(A)They shall die of deadly diseases. (B)They shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried. (C)They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. (D)They shall perish by the sword and by famine, (E)and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth.

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22 And if you say in your heart,
    (A)‘Why have these things come upon me?’
it is for the greatness of your iniquity
    that (B)your skirts are lifted up
    and you suffer violence.
23 (C)Can the Ethiopian change his skin
    or (D)the leopard his spots?
Then also you can do good
    who are accustomed to do evil.
24 I will scatter you[a] (E)like chaff
    driven by the wind from the desert.
25 (F)This is your lot,
    the portion I have measured out to you, declares the Lord,
because (G)you have forgotten me
    and trusted in lies.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 13:24 Hebrew them

The Seven Bowls of God's Wrath

16 Then I heard a loud voice from the temple telling (A)the seven angels, “Go and (B)pour out on the earth (C)the seven bowls of the wrath of God.”

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14 Let them alone; (A)they are blind guides.[a] And (B)if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 15:14 Some manuscripts add of the blind

therefore, (A)behold, days are coming, declares the Lord, when this place shall no more be called Topheth, or (B)the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. And in this place (C)I will make void the plans of Judah and Jerusalem, (D)and will cause their people to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. (E)I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the earth.

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22 Speak: “Thus declares the Lord,
(A)‘The dead bodies of men shall fall
    like dung upon the open field,
(B)like sheaves after the reaper,
    and none shall gather them.’”

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31 (A)the prophets prophesy falsely,
    and the priests rule at their direction;
(B)my people love to have it so,
    but what will you do when the end comes?

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18 Your ways and your deeds
    have brought this upon you.
This is your doom, and (A)it is bitter;
    it has reached your very heart.”

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17 (A)Have you not brought this upon yourself
    by forsaking the Lord your God,
    when (B)he led you in the way?
18 (C)And now what do you gain by going to Egypt
    to drink the waters of (D)the Nile?
(E)Or what do you gain by going to Assyria
    to drink the waters of (F)the Euphrates?[a]
19 (G)Your evil will chastise you,
    and (H)your apostasy will reprove you.
Know and see that it is evil and (I)bitter
    for (J)you to forsake the Lord your God;
    the fear of me is not in you,
declares the Lord God of hosts.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:18 Hebrew the River

16 for those who guide this people have been leading them astray,
    and those who are guided by them are swallowed up.

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