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Jeremiah 22:5

A Conservative Version

But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, says LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.

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Lord LORD has sworn by himself, says LORD, the God of hosts: I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces, therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is therein.

For God who promised to Abraham, since he had none greater to swear by, swore by himself,

But if ye will not hearken to me to hallow the Sabbath day, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in the gates of it, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusa

and said, By myself I have sworn, says LORD, because thou have done this thing, and have not withheld thy son, thine only son,

And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword, for the mouth of LORD has spoken it.

By which God, wanting to demonstrate more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutableness of his resolve, confirmed it by an oath.

And to whom did he swear were not going to enter into his rest, if not to those who were disobedient?

Therefore for your sake Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

Therefore I swore in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

And they shall answer, Because they forsook LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them; therefore he has brought all this evil

But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them,

Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

And thou shall say to them, Thus says LORD: If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,

Therefore hear ye the word of LORD, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by my great name, says LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying,

And this house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say, Why has LORD done thus to this land, and to this house?

I have forsaken my house. I have cast off my heritage. I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.




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