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Jeremiah 12:7

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I loved my people and chose them as my very own. But now I will reject them and hand them over to their enemies.

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I will even get rid of my people who survive. They will be defeated and robbed by their enemies.

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

God took out his anger on his chosen ones and let them be killed by enemy swords.

Our LORD, you have deserted your people, Israel, because they follow customs of nations from the east. They worship Philistine gods and are close friends of foreigners.

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.

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.

You will lose the land that I gave you, and I will make you slaves in a foreign country, because you have made my anger blaze up like a fire that won't stop burning.

But if you ignore me, I promise in my own name that this palace will lie in ruins.

Jeremiah, when a prophet or a priest or anyone else comes to you and asks, “Does the LORD have news for us?” tell them, “You people are a nuisance to the LORD, and he will get rid of you.”

I will pick you up and throw you far away. And I will abandon this city of Jerusalem that I gave to your ancestors.

Everyone in Israel and Judah is guilty. But I, the LORD All-Powerful, their holy God, have not abandoned them.

Don't think this temple will protect you. Long ago I told your ancestors to build it and worship me here, but now I have decided to tear it down, just as I destroyed Shiloh.

Shave your head bald and throw away the hair. Sing a funeral song on top of a barren hill. You people have made me angry, and I have abandoned you.

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.

When Israel was a child, I loved him, and I called my son out of Egypt.

Israel, I first began to hate you because you did evil at Gilgal. Now I will chase you out of my house. No longer will I love you; your leaders betrayed me.

Sound the trumpet on Zion! Call the people together. Show your sorrow by going without food.

Then in Judgment Valley I will bring together the nations that scattered my people Israel everywhere in the world, and I will bring charges against those nations. They divided up my land

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.

The LORD Most High loves you, tribe of Benjamin. He will live among your hills and protect you.




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