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Jeremiah 22:5

Bible in Basic English 1965

But if you do not give ear to these words, I give you my oath by myself, says the Lord, that this house will become a waste.

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Saying, I have taken an oath by my name, says the Lord, because you have done this and have not kept back from me your dearly loved only son,

But if you are turned away from me, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods, giving them worship:

And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, and will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?

And their answer will be, Because they were turned away from the Lord, the God of their fathers, who took them out of the land of Egypt, and took for themselves other gods and gave them worship and became their servants: that is why he has sent all this evil on them.

And I made an oath in my wrath, that they might not come into my place of rest.

But if your hearts are turned against me, I will send destruction on you by the sword; so the Lord has said.

I have given up my house, I have let my heritage go; I have given the loved one of my soul into the hands of her haters.

But if you do not give ear to me, to keep the Sabbath day holy, and to let no weight be lifted and taken through the doors of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: then I will put a fire in its doorways, burning up the great houses of Jerusalem, and it will never be put out.

And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: If you do not give ear to me and go in the way of my law which I have put before you,

And the Chaldaeans put the king's house on fire, as well as the houses of the people, and had the walls of Jerusalem broken down.

And now give ear to the word of the Lord, all you of Judah who are living in the land of Egypt: Truly, I have taken an oath by my great name, says the Lord, that my name is no longer to be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, By the life of the Lord God.

The Lord God has taken an oath by himself, says the Lord, the God of armies: the pride of Jacob is disgusting to me, and I have hate for his great houses: so I will give up the town with everything in it.

For this reason, Zion will be ploughed like a field because of you, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like a high place in the woods.

For I say to you, You will not see me from this time till you say, A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord.

And to whom did he make an oath that they might not come into his rest? was it not to those who went against his orders?

For when God made his oath to Abraham, because there was no greater oath, he made it by himself,

So that when it was God's desire to make it specially clear to those who by his word were to have the heritage, that his purpose was fixed, he made it more certain with an oath;




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