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The word of the Lord came to me: What do you see, Jeremiah? “I see a branch of the almond tree,” I replied.
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Long ago you broke your yoke, you tore off your bonds. You said, “I will not serve.” On every high hill, under every green tree, you sprawled and served as a prostitute.
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Judah and Israel. The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: Do you see what rebellious Israel has done? She has gone up every high mountain, and under every green tree she has played the prostitute.
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Only admit your guilt: how you have rebelled against the Lord, your God, How you ran here and there to strangers under every green tree and would not listen to my voice—oracle of the Lord.
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They will devour your harvest and your bread, devour your sons and your daughters, Devour your sheep and cattle, devour your vines and fig trees; With their swords they will beat down the fortified cities in which you trust.
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For thus says the Lord of hosts: Hew down her trees, throw up a siege mound against Jerusalem. Woe to the city marked for punishment; there is nothing but oppression within her!
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Therefore, thus says the Lord God: my anger and my wrath will pour out upon this place, upon human being and beast, upon the trees of the field and the fruits of the earth; it will burn and not be quenched.
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Threats of Punishment
I will gather them all in—oracle of the Lord: no grapes on the vine, No figs on the fig trees, foliage withered! Whatever I have given them is gone.
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when you hear the great tumult? The Lord has named you “a spreading olive tree, a pleasure to behold”; Now he sets fire to it, its branches burn.
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Yet I was like a trusting lamb led to slaughter, not knowing that they were hatching plots against me: “Let us destroy the tree in its vigor; let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will no longer be remembered.”
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when their children remember their altars and their asherahs, beside the green trees, on the high hills,
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They are like a tree planted beside the waters that stretches out its roots to the stream: It does not fear heat when it comes, its leaves stay green; In the year of drought it shows no distress, but still produces fruit.
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Her voice is like a snake! Yes, they come in force; They attack her with axes, like those who fell trees.