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Revelation 4
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Revelation 4
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The Throne in Heaven
4 After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me (A)like a trumpet, said, (B)“Come up here, and (C)I will show you what must take place after this.” 2 At once (D)I was in the Spirit, and behold, (E)a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne. 3 And he who sat there had the appearance of (F)jasper and carnelian, and around the throne was (G)a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald. 4 Around the throne were (H)twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, (I)clothed in white garments, with (J)golden crowns on their heads. 5 From the throne came (K)flashes of lightning, and rumblings[a] and peals of thunder, and before the throne were burning (L)seven torches of fire, (M)which are the seven spirits of God, 6 and before the throne there was (N)as it were a sea of glass, like crystal.
And around the throne, on each side of the throne, are (O)four living creatures, (P)full of eyes in front and behind: 7 (Q)the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like an eagle in flight. 8 And the four living creatures, (R)each of them with six wings, are (S)full of eyes all around and within, and (T)day and night they never cease to say,
9 And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, (W)who lives forever and ever, 10 the twenty-four elders (X)fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast (Y)their crowns before the throne, saying,
11 (Z)“Worthy are you, our Lord and God,
to receive glory and honor and power,
for (AA)you created all things,
and (AB)by your will they existed and were created.”
Footnotes
- Revelation 4:5 Or voices, or sounds
Revelation 4
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Revelation 4
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The Throne in Heaven
4 After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open(A) in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet(B) said, “Come up here,(C) and I will show you what must take place after this.”(D) 2 At once I was in the Spirit,(E) and there before me was a throne in heaven(F) with someone sitting on it. 3 And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper(G) and ruby.(H) A rainbow(I) that shone like an emerald(J) encircled the throne. 4 Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were twenty-four elders.(K) They were dressed in white(L) and had crowns of gold on their heads. 5 From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder.(M) In front of the throne, seven lamps(N) were blazing. These are the seven spirits[a](O) of God. 6 Also in front of the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass,(P) clear as crystal.
In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures,(Q) and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back.(R) 7 The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle.(S) 8 Each of the four living creatures(T) had six wings(U) and was covered with eyes all around,(V) even under its wings. Day and night(W) they never stop saying:
9 Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne(Z) and who lives for ever and ever,(AA) 10 the twenty-four elders(AB) fall down before him(AC) who sits on the throne(AD) and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say:
Footnotes
- Revelation 4:5 That is, the sevenfold Spirit
- Revelation 4:8 Isaiah 6:3
Psalm 125
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Psalm 125
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The Lord Surrounds His People
A Song of (A)Ascents.
125 Those who (B)trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion,
which (C)cannot be moved, but abides forever.
2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem,
so (D)the Lord surrounds his people,
from this time forth and forevermore.
3 For (E)the scepter of wickedness shall not (F)rest
on (G)the land allotted to the righteous,
lest the righteous (H)stretch out
their hands to do wrong.
4 (I)Do good, O Lord, to those who are good,
and to those who are (J)upright in their hearts!
5 But those who (K)turn aside to their (L)crooked ways
the Lord will lead away with (M)evildoers!
(N)Peace be upon Israel!
Psalm 125
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Psalm 125
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Psalm 125
A song of ascents.
1 Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion,(A)
which cannot be shaken(B) but endures forever.
2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem,(C)
so the Lord surrounds(D) his people
both now and forevermore.
3 The scepter(E) of the wicked will not remain(F)
over the land allotted to the righteous,
for then the righteous might use
their hands to do evil.(G)
4 Lord, do good(H) to those who are good,
to those who are upright in heart.(I)
5 But those who turn(J) to crooked ways(K)
the Lord will banish(L) with the evildoers.
Peace be on Israel.(M)
Jeremiah 16-18
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Jeremiah 16-18
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Famine, Sword, and Death
16 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “You shall not take a wife, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place. 3 For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place, and concerning the mothers who bore them and the fathers who fathered them in this land: 4 (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.
5 “For thus says the Lord: (F)Do not enter the house of mourning, or go to lament or grieve for them, for I have taken away my peace from this people, my steadfast love and mercy, declares the Lord. 6 Both great and small shall die in this land. (G)They shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them or (H)cut himself (I)or make himself bald for them. 7 No one shall (J)break bread for the mourner, to comfort him for the dead, nor shall anyone give him the cup of consolation to drink for his father or his mother. 8 You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and drink. 9 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: (K)Behold, I will silence in this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
10 “And when you tell this people all these words, and they say to you, (L)‘Why has the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?’ 11 then you shall say to them: (M)‘Because your fathers have forsaken me, declares the Lord, and (N)have gone after other gods and have served and worshiped them, and have forsaken me and have not kept my law, 12 and because (O)you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, (P)every one of you follows his stubborn, evil will, refusing to listen to me. 13 Therefore (Q)I will hurl you out of this land into (R)a land that neither you nor your fathers have known, (S)and there you shall serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’
The Lord Will Restore Israel
14 (T)“Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when it shall no longer be said, (U)‘As the Lord lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’ 15 but (V)‘As the Lord lives who brought up the people of Israel (W)out of the north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them.’ For (X)I will bring them back to their own land that I gave to their fathers.
16 “Behold, (Y)I am sending for many fishers, declares the Lord, and they shall catch them. And afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out (Z)of the clefts of the rocks. 17 For (AA)my eyes are on all their ways. (AB)They are not hidden from me, (AC)nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes. 18 But first (AD)I will doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and (AE)have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”
19 (AF)O Lord, my strength and my stronghold,
(AG)my refuge in the day of trouble,
(AH)to you shall the nations come
from the ends of the earth and say:
“Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies,
(AI)worthless things in which there is no profit.
20 Can man make for himself (AJ)gods?
Such are not gods!”
21 “Therefore, behold, I will make them know, this once I will make them know my power and my might, and they shall know that (AK)my name is the Lord.”
The Sin of Judah
17 “The sin of Judah is written with (AL)a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it is engraved on (AM)the tablet of their heart, and on (AN)the horns of their altars, 2 while (AO)their children remember their altars and their (AP)Asherim, (AQ)beside every green tree and on the high hills, 3 (AR)on the mountains in the open country. (AS)Your wealth and all your treasures I will give for spoil as the price of your high places for sin throughout all your territory. 4 You shall loosen your hand from your heritage that I gave to you, (AT)and I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, (AU)for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever.”
5 Thus says the Lord:
“Cursed is the man (AV)who trusts in man
and makes flesh his strength,[a]
whose heart turns away from the Lord.
6 (AW)He is like a shrub in the desert,
(AX)and shall not see any good come.
He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness,
in (AY)an uninhabited salt land.
7 (AZ)“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,
(BA)whose trust is the Lord.
8 (BB)He is like a tree planted by water,
that sends out its roots by the stream,
and does not fear when heat comes,
for its leaves remain green,
and is not anxious in the year of drought,
for it does not cease to bear fruit.”
9 The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately sick;
who can understand it?
10 (BC)“I the Lord search the heart
(BD)and test the mind,[b]
(BE)to give every man according to his ways,
according to the fruit of his deeds.”
11 Like the (BF)partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch,
so is (BG)he who gets riches but not by justice;
(BH)in the midst of his days they will leave him,
(BI)and at his end he will be a fool.
12 A glorious throne set on high from the beginning
is the place of our sanctuary.
13 O Lord, (BJ)the hope of Israel,
(BK)all who forsake you shall be put to shame;
those who turn away from you[c] (BL)shall be written in the earth,
for (BM)they have forsaken (BN)the Lord, the fountain of living water.
Jeremiah Prays for Deliverance
14 (BO)Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed;
save me, and I shall be saved,
for (BP)you are my praise.
15 (BQ)Behold, they say to me,
“Where is the word of the Lord?
Let it come!”
16 I have not run away from being your shepherd,
nor have I desired the day of sickness.
(BR)You know (BS)what came out of my lips;
it was before your face.
17 Be not a terror to me;
(BT)you are my refuge in the day of disaster.
18 (BU)Let those be put to shame who persecute me,
but let me not be put to shame;
(BV)let them be dismayed,
but let me not be dismayed;
(BW)bring upon them the day of disaster;
destroy them with double destruction!
Keep the Sabbath Holy
19 Thus said the Lord to me: “Go and stand in the People's Gate, by which (BX)the kings of Judah enter and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem, 20 and say: ‘Hear the word of the Lord, (BY)you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, who enter by these gates. 21 Thus says the Lord: Take care for the sake of your lives, and (BZ)do not bear a burden on the Sabbath day or bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem. 22 And do not carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath (CA)or do any work, but (CB)keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers. 23 Yet (CC)they did not listen or incline their ear, (CD)but stiffened their neck, that they (CE)might not hear and receive instruction.
24 “‘But if you listen to me, declares the Lord, and (CF)bring in no burden by the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but (CG)keep the Sabbath day holy and do no work on it, 25 then (CH)there shall enter by the gates of this city kings and princes who sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their officials, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And this city shall be inhabited forever. 26 And people shall come from (CI)the cities of Judah (CJ)and the places around Jerusalem, (CK)from the land of Benjamin, (CL)from the Shephelah, from the hill country, (CM)and from (CN)the Negeb, bringing (CO)burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and frankincense, and (CP)bringing thank offerings to the house of the Lord. 27 But if you do not listen to me, to (CQ)keep the Sabbath day holy, (CR)and not to bear a burden and enter by the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will (CS)kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall (CT)devour the palaces of Jerusalem and (CU)shall not be quenched.’”
The Potter and the Clay
18 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 “Arise, and go down to (CV)the potter's house, and there I will let you hear[d] my words.” 3 So I went down to (CW)the potter's house, and there he was working at his wheel. 4 And the vessel he was making of clay was (CX)spoiled in the potter's hand, and (CY)he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.
5 Then the word of the Lord came to me: 6 “O house of Israel, (CZ)can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the Lord. (DA)Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. 7 If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will (DB)pluck up and break down and destroy it, 8 and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, (DC)turns from its evil, (DD)I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it. 9 And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will (DE)build and plant it, 10 and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will relent of the good that I had intended to do to it. 11 Now, therefore, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: ‘Thus says the Lord, Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. (DF)Return, every one from his evil way, and (DG)amend your ways and your deeds.’
12 “But they say, (DH)‘That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will every one act according to (DI)the stubbornness of his evil heart.’
13 “Therefore thus says the Lord:
(DJ)Ask among the nations,
Who has heard the like of this?
The virgin Israel
has done (DK)a very horrible thing.
14 Does the snow of Lebanon leave
the crags of Sirion?[e]
Do the mountain waters run dry,[f]
the cold flowing streams?
15 (DL)But my people have forgotten me;
they make offerings to (DM)false gods;
they made them stumble in their ways,
(DN)in the ancient roads,
and to walk into side roads,
(DO)not the highway,
16 making their land (DP)a horror,
a thing (DQ)to be hissed at forever.
(DR)Everyone who passes by it is horrified
(DS)and shakes his head.
17 (DT)Like the east wind (DU)I will scatter them
before the enemy.
(DV)I will show them my back, not my face,
in the day of their calamity.”
18 Then they said, (DW)“Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, (DX)for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. (DY)Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.”
19 Hear me, O Lord,
and (DZ)listen to the voice of my adversaries.
20 (EA)Should good be repaid with evil?
Yet (EB)they have dug a pit for my life.
(EC)Remember how I stood before you
to speak good for them,
to turn away your wrath from them.
21 Therefore (ED)deliver up their children to famine;
give them over to the power of the sword;
let their wives become childless (EE)and widowed.
May their men meet death by pestilence,
their youths be struck down by the sword in battle.
22 (EF)May a cry be heard from their houses,
when you bring the plunderer suddenly upon them!
For (EG)they have dug a pit to take me
(EH)and laid snares for my feet.
23 Yet (EI)you, O Lord, know
all their plotting to kill me.
(EJ)Forgive not their iniquity,
nor blot out their sin from your sight.
Let them be overthrown before you;
deal with them in the time of your anger.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 17:5 Hebrew arm
- Jeremiah 17:10 Hebrew kidneys
- Jeremiah 17:13 Hebrew me
- Jeremiah 18:2 Or will cause you to hear
- Jeremiah 18:14 Hebrew of the field
- Jeremiah 18:14 Hebrew Are foreign waters plucked up
Jeremiah 16-18
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Jeremiah 16-18
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Day of Disaster
16 Then the word of the Lord came to me: 2 “You must not marry(A) and have sons or daughters in this place.” 3 For this is what the Lord says about the sons and daughters born in this land and about the women who are their mothers and the men who are their fathers:(B) 4 “They will die of deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried(C) but will be like dung lying on the ground.(D) They will perish by sword and famine,(E) and their dead bodies will become food for the birds and the wild animals.”(F)
5 For this is what the Lord says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal; do not go to mourn or show sympathy, because I have withdrawn my blessing, my love and my pity(G) from this people,” declares the Lord. 6 “Both high and low will die in this land.(H) They will not be buried or mourned,(I) and no one will cut(J) themselves or shave(K) their head for the dead. 7 No one will offer food(L) to comfort those who mourn(M) for the dead—not even for a father or a mother—nor will anyone give them a drink to console(N) them.
8 “And do not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down to eat and drink.(O) 9 For this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Before your eyes and in your days I will bring an end to the sounds(P) of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride(Q) and bridegroom in this place.(R)
10 “When you tell these people all this and they ask you, ‘Why has the Lord decreed such a great disaster against us? What wrong have we done? What sin have we committed against the Lord our God?’(S) 11 then say to them, ‘It is because your ancestors forsook me,’ declares the Lord, ‘and followed other gods and served and worshiped(T) them. They forsook me and did not keep my law.(U) 12 But you have behaved more wickedly than your ancestors.(V) See how all of you are following the stubbornness of your evil hearts(W) instead of obeying me. 13 So I will throw you out of this land(X) into a land neither you nor your ancestors have known,(Y) and there you will serve other gods(Z) day and night, for I will show you no favor.’(AA)
14 “However, the days are coming,”(AB) declares the Lord, “when it will no longer be said, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the Israelites up out of Egypt,’(AC) 15 but it will be said, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north(AD) and out of all the countries where he had banished them.’(AE) For I will restore(AF) them to the land I gave their ancestors.(AG)
16 “But now I will send for many fishermen,” declares the Lord, “and they will catch them.(AH) After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt(AI) them down on every mountain and hill and from the crevices of the rocks.(AJ) 17 My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden(AK) from me, nor is their sin concealed from my eyes.(AL) 18 I will repay(AM) them double(AN) for their wickedness and their sin, because they have defiled my land(AO) with the lifeless forms of their vile images(AP) and have filled my inheritance with their detestable idols.(AQ)”(AR)
19 Lord, my strength and my fortress,
my refuge(AS) in time of distress,
to you the nations will come(AT)
from the ends of the earth and say,
“Our ancestors possessed nothing but false gods,(AU)
worthless idols(AV) that did them no good.(AW)
20 Do people make their own gods?
Yes, but they are not gods!”(AX)
21 “Therefore I will teach them—
this time I will teach them
my power and might.
Then they will know
that my name(AY) is the Lord.
17 “Judah’s sin is engraved with an iron tool,(AZ)
inscribed with a flint point,
on the tablets of their hearts(BA)
and on the horns(BB) of their altars.
2 Even their children remember
their altars and Asherah poles[a](BC)
beside the spreading trees
and on the high hills.(BD)
3 My mountain in the land
and your[b] wealth and all your treasures
I will give away as plunder,(BE)
together with your high places,(BF)
because of sin throughout your country.(BG)
4 Through your own fault you will lose
the inheritance(BH) I gave you.
I will enslave you to your enemies(BI)
in a land(BJ) you do not know,
for you have kindled my anger,
and it will burn(BK) forever.”
5 This is what the Lord says:
“Cursed is the one who trusts in man,(BL)
who draws strength from mere flesh
and whose heart turns away from the Lord.(BM)
6 That person will be like a bush in the wastelands;
they will not see prosperity when it comes.
They will dwell in the parched places(BN) of the desert,
in a salt(BO) land where no one lives.
7 “But blessed(BP) is the one who trusts(BQ) in the Lord,
whose confidence is in him.
8 They will be like a tree planted by the water
that sends out its roots by the stream.(BR)
It does not fear when heat comes;
its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought(BS)
and never fails to bear fruit.”(BT)
9 The heart(BU) is deceitful above all things
and beyond cure.
Who can understand it?
10 “I the Lord search the heart(BV)
and examine the mind,(BW)
to reward(BX) each person according to their conduct,
according to what their deeds deserve.”(BY)
11 Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay
are those who gain riches by unjust means.
When their lives are half gone, their riches will desert them,
and in the end they will prove to be fools.(BZ)
12 A glorious throne,(CA) exalted from the beginning,
is the place of our sanctuary.
13 Lord, you are the hope(CB) of Israel;
all who forsake(CC) you will be put to shame.
Those who turn away from you will be written in the dust(CD)
because they have forsaken the Lord,
the spring of living water.(CE)
14 Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed;(CF)
save(CG) me and I will be saved,
for you are the one I praise.(CH)
15 They keep saying to me,
“Where is the word of the Lord?
Let it now be fulfilled!”(CI)
16 I have not run away from being your shepherd;
you know I have not desired the day of despair.
What passes my lips(CJ) is open before you.
17 Do not be a terror(CK) to me;
you are my refuge(CL) in the day of disaster.(CM)
18 Let my persecutors be put to shame,
but keep me from shame;
let them be terrified,
but keep me from terror.
Bring on them the day of disaster;
destroy them with double destruction.(CN)
Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy
19 This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and stand at the Gate of the People,[c] through which the kings of Judah go in and out; stand also at all the other gates of Jerusalem.(CO) 20 Say to them, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah and all people of Judah and everyone living in Jerusalem(CP) who come through these gates.(CQ) 21 This is what the Lord says: Be careful not to carry a load on the Sabbath(CR) day or bring it through the gates of Jerusalem. 22 Do not bring a load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your ancestors.(CS) 23 Yet they did not listen or pay attention;(CT) they were stiff-necked(CU) and would not listen or respond to discipline.(CV) 24 But if you are careful to obey me, declares the Lord, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy(CW) by not doing any work on it, 25 then kings who sit on David’s throne(CX) will come through the gates of this city with their officials. They and their officials will come riding in chariots and on horses, accompanied by the men of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, and this city will be inhabited forever.(CY) 26 People will come from the towns of Judah and the villages around Jerusalem, from the territory of Benjamin and the western foothills, from the hill country and the Negev,(CZ) bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and incense, and bringing thank offerings to the house of the Lord. 27 But if you do not obey(DA) me to keep the Sabbath(DB) day holy by not carrying any load as you come through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire(DC) in the gates of Jerusalem that will consume her fortresses.’”(DD)
At the Potter’s House
18 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” 3 So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. 4 But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.
5 Then the word of the Lord came to me. 6 He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Like clay(DE) in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand,(DF) Israel. 7 If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted,(DG) torn down and destroyed, 8 and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent(DH) and not inflict on it the disaster(DI) I had planned. 9 And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built(DJ) up and planted, 10 and if it does evil(DK) in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider(DL) the good I had intended to do for it.(DM)
11 “Now therefore say to the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, ‘This is what the Lord says: Look! I am preparing a disaster(DN) for you and devising a plan(DO) against you. So turn(DP) from your evil ways,(DQ) each one of you, and reform your ways and your actions.’(DR) 12 But they will reply, ‘It’s no use.(DS) We will continue with our own plans; we will all follow the stubbornness of our evil hearts.(DT)’”
13 Therefore this is what the Lord says:
“Inquire among the nations:
Who has ever heard anything like this?(DU)
A most horrible(DV) thing has been done
by Virgin(DW) Israel.
14 Does the snow of Lebanon
ever vanish from its rocky slopes?
Do its cool waters from distant sources
ever stop flowing?[d]
15 Yet my people have forgotten(DX) me;
they burn incense(DY) to worthless idols,(DZ)
which made them stumble(EA) in their ways,
in the ancient paths.(EB)
They made them walk in byways,
on roads not built up.(EC)
16 Their land will be an object of horror(ED)
and of lasting scorn;(EE)
all who pass by will be appalled(EF)
and will shake their heads.(EG)
17 Like a wind(EH) from the east,
I will scatter them before their enemies;
I will show them my back and not my face(EI)
in the day of their disaster.”
18 They said, “Come, let’s make plans(EJ) against Jeremiah; for the teaching of the law by the priest(EK) will not cease, nor will counsel from the wise,(EL) nor the word from the prophets.(EM) So come, let’s attack him with our tongues(EN) and pay no attention to anything he says.”
19 Listen to me, Lord;
hear what my accusers(EO) are saying!
20 Should good be repaid with evil?(EP)
Yet they have dug a pit(EQ) for me.
Remember that I stood(ER) before you
and spoke in their behalf(ES)
to turn your wrath away from them.
21 So give their children over to famine;(ET)
hand them over to the power of the sword.(EU)
Let their wives be made childless and widows;(EV)
let their men be put to death,
their young men(EW) slain by the sword in battle.
22 Let a cry(EX) be heard from their houses
when you suddenly bring invaders against them,
for they have dug a pit(EY) to capture me
and have hidden snares(EZ) for my feet.
23 But you, Lord, know
all their plots to kill(FA) me.
Do not forgive(FB) their crimes
or blot out their sins from your sight.
Let them be overthrown before you;
deal with them in the time of your anger.(FC)
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 17:2 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah
- Jeremiah 17:3 Or hills / 3 and the mountains of the land. / Your
- Jeremiah 17:19 Or Army
- Jeremiah 18:14 The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.
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