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Jeremiah 8:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Death will be chosen over life  by all the survivors of this evil family, those who remain wherever I have banished them.’  This is the declaration of the Lord of Armies.

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In those days people will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.


I will be found by you’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #‘and I will restore your fortunes  , and gather you from all the nations and places where I banished you’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration. ‘I will restore you to the place from which I deported you.’


but, “As the Lord lives, who brought and led the descendants of the house of Israel from the land of the north and from all the other countries where I  had banished them.” They will dwell once more in their own land.’


‘I will gather the remnant of my flock from all the lands where I have banished them,  and I will return them to their grazing land. They will become fruitful and numerous.


Even if your exiles are at the farthest horizon, he will gather you and bring you back from there.


And now, Lord, take my life from me,  for it is better for me to die than to live.’


Lord, righteousness belongs to you,  but this day public shame belongs to us: the men of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, and all Israel #– #those who are near and those who are far, in all the countries where you have banished them because of the disloyalty they have shown towards you.


‘When all these things happen to you #– #the blessings and curses I have set before you #– #and you come to your senses while you are in all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you,


And they said to the mountains and to the rocks, ‘Fall on us and hide us  from the face of the one seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb,


they all returned from all the places where they had been banished  and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and harvested a great amount of wine and summer fruit.


For he has sent word to us in Babylon, claiming, ‘The exile will be long. Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat their produce.’ ” ’


but he went on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree  and prayed that he might die. He said, ‘I have had enough! Lord, take my life,  for I’m no better than my ancestors.’


This is what the Lord of Armies says: Glean the remnant of Israel as thoroughly as a vine. Pass your hand once more like a grape gatherer over the branches.


Listen to this message that the Lord has spoken against you, Israelites, against the entire clan that I brought from the land of Egypt:


Therefore, the Lord says: I am now planning  a disaster against this nation; you cannot free your necks from it. Then you will not walk so proudly because it will be an evil time.


But I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword to chase after you. So your land will become desolate, and your cities will become ruins.


‘This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: You have seen all the disaster I brought against Jerusalem and all Judah’s cities. Look, they are a ruin today without an inhabitant in them


So my fierce wrath poured out and burned in Judah’s cities and Jerusalem’s streets  so that they became the desolate ruin they are today.





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