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Jeremiah 9:6

Bible in Basic English 1965

There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.

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Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand;

For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:

And my hand will again be on you, washing away what is unclean as with soap, and taking away all your false metal;

Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me.

When Zion has been washed from her sin by the Lord, and Jerusalem made clean from her blood by a judging and a burning wind.

They are turned back to the sins of their fathers, who would not give ear to my words; they have gone after other gods and become their servants: the people of Israel and the people of Judah have not kept the agreement which I made with their fathers.

But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.

These evil people who say they will not give ear to my words, who go on in the pride of their hearts and have become servants and worshippers of other gods, will become like this band which is of no use for anything.

Then they said, Come, let us make a design against Jeremiah; for teaching will never be cut off from the priest, or wisdom from the wise, or the word from the prophet. Come, let us make use of his words for an attack on him, and let us give attention with care to what he says.

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.

As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.

Why do these people of Jerusalem go back, for ever turning away? they will not give up their deceit, they will not come back.

How may I give you up, O Ephraim? how may I be your saviour, O Israel? how may I make you like Admah? how may I do to you as I did to Zeboim? My heart is turned in me, it is soft with pity.

Destruction has overtaken my people because they have no knowledge; because you have given up knowledge, I will give you up, so that you will be no priest to me, because you have not kept in mind the law of your God, I will not keep your children in my memory.

And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.

And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;

Be awake to righteousness and keep yourselves from sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I say this to put you to shame.

Now the sons of Eli were evil and good-for-nothing men, having no knowledge of the Lord.




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