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Jeremiah 11:23

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

And when I have finished, no one from their families will be left alive.

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Now I will punish you with disaster, and you will slip and fall in the darkness. I, the LORD, have spoken.

Instead of watching over you, I will watch for chances to harm you. Some of you will die in war, and others will starve to death.

The foreign soldiers you hired will turn and run. But they are doomed, like well-fed calves being led to the butcher.

If you are terrified and run, you will fall into a pit; and if you crawl out of the pit, you'll get caught in a trap. The time has come for you to be punished.

You need to be punished, and so I will take revenge.

Why shouldn't I punish the people of Judah?

Kill the soldiers of Babylonia, because the time has come for them to be punished.

I will tell your enemies to leave your nation bare like a vine stripped of grapes. I, the LORD All-Powerful, have spoken.

They should be ashamed of their disgusting sins, but they don't even blush. And so, when I punish Judah, they will end up on the ground, dead like everyone else.

Israel, the time has come. You will get what you deserve, and you will know it. “Prophets are fools,” you say. “And God's messengers are mad.” Your terrible guilt has filled you with hatred.

Israel will be a fire, and Edom will be straw going up in flames. The LORD has spoken!

The most honest of them is worse than a thorn patch. Your doom has come! Lookouts sound the warning, and everyone panics.

They will level you to the ground and kill your people. Not one stone in your buildings will be left on top of another. This will happen because you did not see that God had come to save you.




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