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Lamentations 2:22

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

You summon those who terrorise me  on every side, as if for an appointed festival day; on the day of the  Lord’s anger no one escaped or survived. My enemy has destroyed those I nurtured  and brought up.

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Don’t go out to the fields; don’t walk on the road. For the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.


Why have I seen this? They are terrified, they are retreating, their warriors are crushed, they flee headlong, they never look back, terror is on every side! This is the  Lord’s declaration.


The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, ‘The Lord does not call you Pashhur, but Terror Is on Every Side,


Your offspring will be cursed, and your land’s produce, the young of your herds, and the newborn of your flocks.


Every time it passes through, it will carry you away; it will pass through every morning – every day and every night. Only terror  will cause you to understand the message.


‘Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I am about to bring on them disaster that they cannot escape.  They will cry out to me, but I will not hear them.


‘So now, this is what the Lord, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Why are you doing such terrible harm to yourselves? You are cutting off man and woman, infant and nursing baby  from Judah, leaving yourselves without a remnant.


So he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans,  who killed their fit young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary. He had no pity on young men or young women, elderly or aged; he handed them all over to him.


Have you completely rejected Judah? Do you detest   Zion? Why do you strike us with no hope of healing for us? We hoped for peace, but there was nothing good; for a time of healing, but there was only terror.


Afterwards #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #King Zedekiah of Judah, his officers, and the people #– #those in this city who survive the plague, the sword, and the famine #– #I will hand over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon,  to their enemies, yes, to those who intend to take their lives. He will put them to the sword; he won’t spare them or show pity or compassion.”





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