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Jeremiah 18:13

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

So I, the LORD, command you to ask the nations, and find out if they have ever heard of such a horrible sin as what you have done.

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Who ever heard of such a thing or imagined it could happen? Can a nation be born in a day or come to life in a second? Jerusalem is like a mother who gave birth to her children as soon as she was in labour.

Jeremiah, go and tell the people how you feel about all this. So I told them: “Tears will flood my eyes both day and night, because my nation suffers from a deadly wound.

The snow on Lebanon's mountains never melts away, and the streams there never run dry.

And you prophets in Jerusalem are even worse. You're unfaithful in marriage and never tell the truth. You even lead others to sin instead of helping them turn back to me. You and the people of Jerusalem are evil like Sodom and Gomorrah.

You are precious to me, and so I will rebuild your nation. Once again you will dance for joy and play your tambourines.

Look at the terrible things going on in this country. I am shocked!

You, LORD, have turned back my warriors and crushed my young heroes. Judah was a woman untouched, but you let her be trampled like grapes in a wine-pit.

I have seen a terrible thing in Israel— you are unfaithful and unfit to worship me.

Listen, nation of Israel, to my mournful message:

you, dearest Israel, have fallen, never to rise again— you lie deserted in your own land, with no one to help you up.

I have heard terrible things about some of you. In fact, you are behaving worse than the Gentiles. A man is even sleeping with his own stepmother.

they were scared to death and said: The gods have come into their camp. Now we're in real trouble! Nothing like this has ever happened to us before.




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