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Jeremiah 22:5

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But if you will not hearken to these words, I swear by myself, saith the Lord, that this house shall become a desolation.

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The Lord God hath sworn by his own soul, saith the Lord the God of hosts: I detest the pride of Jacob, and I hate his houses, and I will deliver up the city with the inhabitants thereof.

For God making promise to Abraham, because he had no one greater by whom he might swear, swore by himself,

But if you will not hearken to me, to sanctify the sabbath day, and not to carry burdens, and not to bring them in by the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day: I will kindle a fire in the gates thereof. And it shall devour the houses of Jerusalem: and it shall not be quenched.

By my own self have I sworn, saith the Lord: Because thou hast done this thing, and hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake:

And the Chaldeans burnt the king's house and the houses of the people, with fire, and they threw down the wall of Jerusalem.

But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

Wherein God, meaning more abundantly to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed an oath:

And to whom did he swear, that they should not enter into his rest: but to them that were incredulous?

Therefore, because of you, Sion shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a heap of stones, and the mountain of the temple as the high places of the forests.

Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad, let the sea be moved, and the fulness thereof:

And they shall answer: Because they forsook the Lord the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on strange gods, and adored them, and worshipped them: therefore all these evils are come upon them.

But if you turn away, and forsake my justices, and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve strange gods, and adore them,

Behold, you house shall be left to you, desolate.

And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: If you will not hearken to me to walk in my law which I have given to you:

Therefore hear ye the word of the Lord, all Juda, you that dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the Lord, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Juda, in the land of Egypt, saying: The Lord God liveth.

And this house shall be for a proverb to all that pass by, and they shall be astonished and say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?

I have forsaken my house, I have left my inheritance, I have given my dear soul into the land of her enemies.




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