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Jeremiah 4:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

With all your hearts, keep the agreement I made with you. But if you are stubborn and keep on sinning, my anger will burn like a fire that cannot be put out.

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The people of Judah and Israel have rejected me. They have offered sacrifices to foreign gods and have worshipped their own idols. I can't stand it any longer. I am furious.

The holy God, who is the light of Israel, will turn into a fire, and in one day you will go up in flames, just like a thorn bush.

Long ago the LORD got a place ready for burning the body of the dead king. The place for the fire is deep and wide, the wood is piled high, and the LORD will start the fire by breathing out flaming sulphur.

Jerusalem, wake up! Stand up! You've drunk too much from the cup filled with the LORD's anger. You have swallowed every drop, and you can't walk straight.

My anger is a fire that cannot be put out, so I will make you slaves of your enemies in a foreign land.

They are evil! So in my anger I will strike them like a violent storm.

The LORD is furious, and if the people hear how he is going to punish them, perhaps they will ask to be forgiven.

And when he could no longer put up with your disgusting sins, he placed a curse on your land and turned it into a desert, as it is today.

Some day I will punish the nations of Egypt, Edom, Ammon, and Moab, and the tribes of the desert. The men of these nations are circumcised, but they don't worship me. And it's the same with you people of Judah. Your bodies are circumcised, but your hearts are unchanged.

The LORD was so fiercely angry that he burnt the city of Zion to the ground.

I will find you guilty of being an unfaithful wife and a murderer, and in my fierce anger I will sentence you to death!

Give up your evil ways and start thinking pure thoughts. And be faithful to me! Do you really want to be put to death for your sins?

As surely as I am the living LORD God, I will rule over you with my powerful arm. You will feel my fierce anger

Then I will stop being angry, and I will clap my hands in victory. I, the LORD, have spoken.

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.

But I have seen that blood, and it cries out for me to take revenge.

My temple has been disgraced, because you have let godless, stubborn foreigners come here when sacrifices are being offered to me. You have sinned and have broken our solemn agreement.

Those who live far away will be struck with deadly diseases. Those who live nearby will be killed in war. And the ones who are left will starve to death. I will let loose my anger on them!

So in my fierce anger, I will punish them without mercy and refuse to help them when they cry out to me.”

I'll really get furious and punish you terribly for your sins!

Turn back to the LORD, you descendants of Joseph, and you will live. If you don't, the LORD will attack like fire. Bethel will burn to the ground, and no one can save it.

before it's too late. The LORD has set a time when his fierce anger will strike like a storm and sweep you away.

Being circumcised is worthwhile, if you obey the Law. But if you don't obey the Law, you are no better off than people who are not circumcised.

Remember your agreement with the LORD and stop being so stubborn.

You and your descendants are stubborn, but the LORD will make you willing to obey him and love him with all your heart and soul, and you will enjoy a long life.

“My people, I will breathe out fire that sends you down to the world of the dead. It will scorch your farmlands and burn deep down under the mountains.

Christ has also taken away your selfish desires, just as circumcision removes flesh from the body.




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