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Jeremiah 49:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Why do you boast about your valleys, your flowing valley, you faithless daughter – you who trust in your treasures and say, ‘Who can attack me? ’

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Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be arrogant  or to set their hope on the uncertainty of wealth, but on God,  who richly provides us with all things  to enjoy.


Beware! I am against you, you who sit above the valley, you on top of the rocky plateau – this is the  Lord’s declaration – you who say, ‘Who can come down against us? Who can enter our hiding places? ’


‘ “This is what the Lord says: The wise person should not boast in his wisdom; the strong should not boast in his strength; the wealthy should not boast in his wealth.


Because you trust in your works and treasures, you will be captured also. Chemosh  will go into exile with his priests and officials.


‘ “Return, you faithless children   #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #for I am your master,  , and I will take you,  one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.


As much as she glorified herself and indulged her sensual and excessive ways, give her that much torment and grief. For she says in her heart, ‘I sit as a queen; I am not a widow, and I will never see grief.’


For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn cow. Can the Lord now shepherd them like a lamb in an open meadow?


As to the terror you cause, your arrogant heart has deceived you. You who live in the clefts of the rock, you who occupy the mountain summit, though you elevate your nest like the eagles, even from there I will bring you down. This is the  Lord’s declaration.


Yet they didn’t listen or pay attention,  but followed their own advice and their own stubborn, evil heart. They went backwards and not forwards.


The wealth of the rich is his fortified city; the poverty of the poor is their destruction.


How long will you turn here and there, faithless daughter? For the Lord creates something new in the land   – a female  will shelter  a man.





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