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Jeremiah 14:21

Contemporary English Version 1995

If you save us, it will show how great you are. Don't let our enemies disgrace your temple, your beautiful throne. Don't forget that you promised to rescue us.

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We rejected you and did evil, so we deserve to be punished. But if you rescue us, Lord, everyone will see how great you are.

You kept your agreement and were so merciful

The whole city of Jerusalem will be my throne. All nations will come here to worship me, and they will no longer follow their stubborn, evil hearts.

Our Lord, your temple is a glorious throne that has stood on a mountain from the beginning.

But don't measure the courtyard outside the temple building. Leave it out. It has been given to those people who don't know God, and they will trample all over the holy city for 42 months.

God did this so in the future world he could show how truly good and kind he is to us because of what Christ Jesus has done.

Some of them will be killed by swords. Others will be carried off to foreign countries. Jerusalem will be overrun by foreign nations until their time comes to an end.

God said he would be kind to our people and keep his sacred promise.

The Lord God All-Powerful has sworn by his own name: “You descendants of Jacob make me angry by your pride, and I hate your fortresses. And so I will surrender your city and possessions to your enemies.”

Everything you do is right, our Lord. But still we suffer public disgrace because we have been unfaithful and have sinned against you. This includes all of us, both far and near—the people of Judah, Jerusalem, and Israel, as well as those you dragged away to foreign lands,

Ezekiel, son of man, this temple is my throne on earth. I will live here among the people of Israel forever. They and their kings will never again disgrace me by worshiping idols at local shrines or by setting up memorials to their dead kings.

Now I will show mercy to the people of Israel and bring them back from the nations where they are living. They are Jacob's descendants, so I will bless them and show that I am holy.

he is ready to destroy the temple in which you take such pride and which makes you feel so safe. Your children who now live in Jerusalem will be killed.

Think about it, Lord! Have you ever been this cruel to anyone before? Is it right for mothers to eat their children, or for priests and prophets to be killed in your temple?

Zion's treasures were stolen. Jerusalem saw foreigners enter her place of worship, though the Lord had forbidden them to belong to his people.

Have you rejected Judah, Lord? Do you hate Jerusalem? Why did you strike down Judah with a fatal wound? We had hoped for peace and a time of healing, but all we got was terror.

Finally, Lord, you were angry and terribly disgusted with your people.

Don't chase me away from you or take your Holy Spirit away from me.

You were the Lord's children, but you made him angry. Then he rejected you

I will live among you and never again look on you with disgust.

Remember the solemn promise you made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You promised that someday they would have as many descendants as there are stars in the sky and that you would give them land.

But the Lord has chosen you to be his own people. He will always take care of you so that everyone will know how great he is.

Be true to your name, Lord, by forgiving each one of my terrible sins.

They will tell about your marvelous kingdom and your power.

Jerusalem, on your walls I have stationed guards, whose duty it is to speak out day and night, without resting. They must remind the Lord

But I did not. That would have disgraced me in front of the nations that had seen me bring the Israelites out of Egypt.




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