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25 That is how I have decided to punish you.
It is what you deserve
    because you have forgotten me.
You have trusted in false gods.
26 So I will cause you to be very ashamed,
    like a woman whose dress they have removed.
27 People of Jerusalem,
    you are in terrible trouble!
I have seen the disgusting things that you do.
You are like a woman who has not been faithful to her husband.
    Like a prostitute, you look for other gods to serve.
You cannot control yourselves,
    as you do disgusting things on the hills and in the fields.
Will you never be clean and pure again?’[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 13:27 Jeremiah is telling the people in Jerusalem that God will use their enemies to punish them. God sees all the wrong things that they are doing. He knows that they do not respect him.

25 This is your lot,
    the portion(A) I have decreed for you,”
declares the Lord,
“because you have forgotten(B) me
    and trusted in false gods.(C)
26 I will pull up your skirts over your face
    that your shame may be seen(D)
27 your adulteries and lustful neighings,
    your shameless prostitution!(E)
I have seen your detestable acts
    on the hills and in the fields.(F)
Woe to you, Jerusalem!
    How long will you be unclean?”(G)

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