Azariah the son of (A)Hoshaiah and (B)Johanan the son of Kareah and (C)all the insolent men said to Jeremiah, “You are telling a lie. The Lord our God did not send you to say, (D)‘Do not go to Egypt to live there,’

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And the head of Ephraim is Samaria,
    and the head of Samaria is (A)the son of Remaliah.
(B)If you[a] are not firm in faith,
    you will not be firm at all.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 7:9 The Hebrew for you is plural in verses 9, 13, 14

13 (A)He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. (B)He stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the Lord, the God of Israel.

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Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. (A)Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for (B)“God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

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But (A)he gives more grace. Therefore it says, (B)“God opposes the proud but (C)gives grace to the humble.”

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“Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him,
    but (A)the righteous shall live by his faith.[a]

“Moreover, wine[b] is (B)a traitor,
    an arrogant man who is never at rest.[c]
His greed is as wide as Sheol;
    like death (C)he has never enough.
(D)He gathers for himself all nations
    and collects as his own all peoples.”

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 2:4 Or faithfulness
  2. Habakkuk 2:5 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll wealth
  3. Habakkuk 2:5 The meaning of the Hebrew of these two lines is uncertain

Jeremiah Taken to Egypt

43 When Jeremiah finished speaking to all the people all these words of the Lord their God, with which the Lord their God had sent him to them,

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Warning Against Going to Egypt

42 Then (A)all the commanders of the forces, and (B)Johanan the son of Kareah and Jezaniah the son of (C)Hoshaiah, and all the people (D)from the least to the greatest, came near

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they went to Gedaliah at (A)Mizpah—(B)Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, (C)Johanan the son of Kareah, Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, (D)Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.

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Exile Threatened

15 Hear and give ear; be not proud,
    for the Lord has spoken.

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12 They have spoken falsely of the Lord
    and have said, ‘He will do nothing;
(A)no disaster will come upon us,
    (B)nor shall we see sword or famine.
13 The prophets will become wind;
    the word is not in them.
Thus shall it be done to them!’”

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18 (A)Pride goes before destruction,
    and a haughty spirit before a fall.
19 (B)It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor
    than to (C)divide the spoil with the proud.

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Everyone who is arrogant in heart is (A)an abomination to the Lord;
    (B)be assured, he will not go unpunished.

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16 Then Johanan the son of Kareah and (A)all the leaders of the forces with him took from Mizpah all the rest of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, after he had struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam—soldiers, (B)women, children, and eunuchs, whom Johanan brought back from (C)Gibeon.

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13 Now (A)Johanan the son of Kareah and (B)all the leaders of the forces in the open country came to Gedaliah at Mizpah 14 and said to him, “Do you know that Baalis the king of (C)the Ammonites has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life?” But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam would not believe them. 15 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke secretly to Gedaliah at Mizpah, “Please let me go and strike down Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no one will know it. Why should he take your life, so that all the Judeans who are gathered about you would be scattered, (D)and the remnant of Judah would perish?” 16 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, “You shall not do this thing, for you are speaking falsely of Ishmael.”

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and all the people will know,
    (A)Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria,
    who say in pride and in arrogance of heart:
10 “The bricks have fallen,
    but we will build with dressed stones;
the sycamores have been cut down,
    but we will put cedars in their place.”

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lest I be (A)full and (B)deny you
    and say, (C)“Who is the Lord?”
or lest I be poor and steal
    (D)and profane the name of my God.

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13 (A)The fear of the Lord is (B)hatred of evil.
(C)Pride and arrogance and the way of evil
    and (D)perverted speech I hate.

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Our soul has had more than enough
    of (A)the scorn of (B)those who are at ease,
    of the contempt of (C)the proud.

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21 You rebuke (A)the insolent, (B)accursed ones,
    who (C)wander from your commandments.

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May the Lord cut off all (A)flattering lips,
    the tongue that makes (B)great boasts,

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In the pride of his face[a] the wicked does not (A)seek him;[b]
    all his thoughts are, (B)“There is no God.”
His ways prosper at all times;
    your judgments are on high, (C)out of his sight;
    as for all his foes, he (D)puffs at them.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 10:4 Or of his anger
  2. Psalm 10:4 Or the wicked says, “He will not call to account”

17 (A)You are still exalting yourself against my people and will not let them go.

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But Pharaoh said, (A)“Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and moreover, (B)I will not let Israel go.”

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