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Jeremiah 11:21

Bible in Basic English 1965

So this is what the Lord of armies has said about the men of Anathoth who have made designs against your life, saying, You are not to be a prophet in the name of the Lord, or death will overtake you by our hands:

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Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not give us word of what is true, but say false things to give us pleasure:

The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:

They will be fighting against you, but they will not overcome you: for I am with you, says the Lord, to give you salvation.

For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing there is fear on every side: they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

Now, when Jeremiah had come to the end of saying everything the Lord had given him orders to say to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people took him by force, saying, Death will certainly be your fate.

See, Hanamel, the son of Shallum, your father's brother, will come to you and say, Give the price and get for yourself my property in Anathoth: for you have the right of the nearest relation.

Even these I will give up into the hands of their haters and into the hands of those who have designs against their lives: and their dead bodies will become food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.

But to those who were separate you gave wine for drink; and to the prophets you said, Be prophets no longer.

For the son puts shame on his father, the daughter goes against her mother and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man's haters are those of his family.

And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child: and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.

And the workmen made an attack on his servants, giving blows to one, putting another to death, and stoning another.

And the rest put violent hands on his servants, and did evil to them, and put them to death.

And he said to them, Truly I say to you, No prophet is honoured in his country.




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