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Jeremiah 9:19

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Now those of us on Zion cry, ‘We are ruined! We can't stand the shame. Our homes have been destroyed, and we must leave our land.’

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Listen to what I say, you women who are carefree and careless!

The LORD said to me: Even if Moses and Samuel were here, praying with you, I wouldn't change my mind. So send the people of Judah away.

People of Israel, you weren't born slaves; you were captured in war.

Look! The enemy army swoops down like an eagle; their cavalry and chariots race faster than storm clouds blown by the wind.” Then you will answer, “We are doomed!”

I see the enemy defeating us time after time, leaving everything in ruins. Even my own home is destroyed in a moment.

And as for you, people of Judah, I'm going to send you away from my land, just as I sent away the people of Ephraim and the other northern tribes.

But they are not only insulting me; they are also insulting themselves by doing these shameful things.

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.

Instead, everyone shouted, “Go away! Don't touch us! You're filthy and unfit to belong to God's people!” So they had to leave and become refugees. But foreign nations told them, “You can't stay here!”

Foreigners and strangers have taken our land and our homes.

Ezekiel, son of man, sing a funeral song for Tyre,

and the land so unclean, that I punished the land because of their sins, and I made it vomit them up.

Then the land won't become sick of you and vomit you up, just as it did them.

Obey my laws and teachings. Or else the land I am giving you will become sick of you and throw you out.

Get out of here, you crooks! You'll find no rest here. You're not fit to belong to the LORD's people, and you will be destroyed.

When that happens, this sorrowful song will be sung about you: “Ruined! Completely ruined! The LORD has taken our land and given it to traitors.”

that even in bright sunshine you will have to feel your way around like a blind person, who cannot tell day from night. For the rest of your life, people will beat and rob you, and no one will be able to stop them.




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