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Jeremiah 48:27

Bible in Basic English 1965

For did you not make sport of Israel? was he taken among thieves? for whenever you were talking about him, you were shaking your head over him.

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It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you:

You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us.

The evil of their tongues is the cause of their fall; all those who see them are shaking their heads at them.

We are looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and made sport of by those who are round us.

Making their land a thing of wonder, causing sounds of surprise for ever; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, shaking his head.

As the thief is shamed when he is taken, so is Israel shamed; they, their kings and their rulers, their priests and their prophets;

Come to me, all you who go by! Keep your eyes on me, and see if there is any pain like the pain of my wound, which the Lord has sent on me in the day of his burning wrath.

Jerusalem keeps in mind, in the days of her sorrow and of her wanderings, all the desired things which were hers in days gone by; when her people came into the power of her hater and she had no helper, her attackers saw their desire effected on her and made sport of her destruction.

This is what the Lord has said: Because Moab and Seir are saying, See, the people of Judah are like all the nations;

You will become a waste, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

This is what the Lord has said: Because your hater has said against you, Aha! and, The old waste places are our heritage, we have taken them:

For this reason, you mountains of Israel, give ear to the word of the Lord; this is what the Lord has said to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, to the unpeopled wastes and to the towns where no one is living, from which the goods have been taken and which have been put to shame by the rest of the nations who are round about:

This will be their fate because of their pride, because they have said evil, lifting themselves up against the people of the Lord of armies.

My ears have been open to the bitter words of Moab and the words of shame of the children of Ammon, which they have said against my people, lifting themselves up against the limit of their land.

In that hour Jesus said to the people, Have you come out as against a thief with swords and sticks to take me? I was teaching every day in the Temple and you took me not.

Then two thieves were put on crosses with him, one on the right and one on the left.

For as you have been judging, so you will be judged, and with your measure will it be measured to you.




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