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Jeremiah 13:27

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So I'll rip off your clothes and leave you naked and ashamed for everyone to see. You are doomed! Will you ever be worthy to worship me again?

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All of those cruel people strut and boast,

Can't you fools see? Won't you ever learn?

"How much longer will you enjoy being stupid fools? Won't you ever stop sneering and laughing at knowledge?

You have spread out your beds on the tops of high mountains, where you sacrifice to idols.

I, the LORD, will make them pay for their sins and for those of their ancestors-- they have disgraced me by burning incense on mountains.

Then the LORD told me to say to the people of Judah: You are my chosen people, but you have no right to be here in my temple, doing such terrible things. The sacrifices you offer me won't protect you from disaster, so stop celebrating.

When Josiah was king, the LORD said: Jeremiah, the kingdom of Israel was like an unfaithful wife who became a prostitute on the hilltops and in the shade of large trees.

Now I, the LORD God, say you are doomed! Not only did you do these evil things,

The hand opened the scroll, and both sides of it were filled with words of sadness, mourning, and grief.

by offering sacrifices, incense, and wine to gods on every hill and under every large tree. I was very angry, because they did these things in the land I had given them!

I've tried everything else. Now the rust must be burned away.

Jerusalem is so full of sin and evil that I can't get it clean, even though I have tried. It will stay filthy until I let loose my fierce anger against it.

These words mean that Jerusalem is doomed! The city is filled with murderers and is like an old, rusty pot. The meat is taken out piece by piece, and no one cares what happens to it.

I will sprinkle you with clean water, and you will be clean and acceptable to me. I will wash away everything that makes you unclean, and I will remove your disgusting idols.

I will once again answer your prayers, and I will let your nation grow until you are like a large flock of sheep.

These people used to offer incense to idols at altars built on hills and mountaintops and in the shade of large oak trees. But when they see dead bodies lying around those altars, they will know that I am the LORD.

The LORD said, "Hosea, Israel has betrayed me like an unfaithful wife. Marry such a woman and have children by her."

Cursing, dishonesty, murder, robbery, unfaithfulness-- these happen all the time. Violence is everywhere.

City of Samaria, I'm angry because of your idol in the shape of a calf. When will you ever be innocent again?

Too bad for that disgusting, corrupt, and lawless city!

You people of Chorazin are in for trouble! You people of Bethsaida are in for trouble too! If the miracles that took place in your towns had happened in Tyre and Sidon, the people there would have turned to God long ago. They would have dressed in sackcloth and put ashes on their heads.

I am afraid God will make me ashamed when I visit you again. I will feel like crying because many of you have never given up your old sins. You are still doing things that are immoral, indecent, and shameful.

My friends, God has made us these promises. So we should stay away from everything that keeps our bodies and spirits from being clean. We should honor God and try to be completely like him.

You people aren't faithful to God! Don't you know that if you love the world, you are God's enemies? And if you decide to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God.

Then I looked and saw a lone eagle flying across the sky. It was shouting, "Trouble, trouble, trouble to everyone who lives on earth! The other three angels are now going to blow their trumpets."




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