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Jeremiah 11:21

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"Because of this, thus says the Lord to the men of Anathoth, who are seeking your life, and who are saying: 'You shall not prophesy in the name of the Lord, and you shall not die by our hands.'

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They say to the seers, "Do not see," and to those who behold: "Do not behold for us the things that are right. Speak to us of pleasing things. See errors for us.

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

And they will make war against you, but they will not prevail. For I am with you, says the Lord, so that I may free you."

For I heard the insults of many, and terror all around: 'Persecute him!' and, 'Let us persecute him!' from all the men who had been at peace with me and who had kept watch by my side. 'If only there were some way that he might be deceived, and we might prevail against him and obtain vengeance from him!'

And when Jeremiah had completed speaking all that the Lord had instructed him to speak to all the people, then the priests, and the prophets, and all the people apprehended him, saying: "You shall be put to death."

Behold, Hanamel, the son of Shallum, your cousin, will come to you, saying: 'Buy for yourself my field, which is in Anathoth. For it is your right, as next of kin, to buy it.'

And I will give them into the hands of their enemies and into the hands of those who are seeking their life. And their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth.

Yet you would offer wine to the Nazirites, and you would command the prophets, saying: "Do not prophesy."

For the son acts with contempt for the father, and the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and a man's enemies are those of his own household.

And brother will hand over brother to death, and father will hand over son. And children will rise up against parents and bring about their deaths.

And the farmers apprehended his servants; they struck one, and killed another, and stoned yet another.

Yet truly, the rest took hold of his servants and, having treated them with contempt, killed them.

Then he said: "Amen I say to you, that no prophet is accepted in his own country.




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