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Jeremiah 6:7

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As a well keeps its water fresh, so Jerusalem keeps its evil fresh. Violence and destruction can be heard in it. I see that it is sick and wounded.

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Guard your heart more than anything else, because the source of your life flows from it.

From the bottom of your feet to the top of your head there is no healthy spot left on your ⌞body⌟— only bruises, sores, and fresh wounds. They haven’t been cleansed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.

But the wicked are like the churning sea. It isn’t quiet, and its water throws up mud and slime.

Their webs can’t be used for clothes, nor can they cover themselves with their works. Their works are evil. Their hands have committed acts of violence.

Each time I speak, I have to cry out and shout, “Violence and destruction!” The Lord’s word has made me the object of insults and contempt all day long.

“This is what the Lord says: Your wound is incurable. Your injury is beyond healing.

No one argues that you should be healed. No medicine will heal you.

Why do you cry about your wound, your injury that can’t be cured? I’ve done this to you. You are very wicked, and you have many sins.

“The people in this city have made me so angry and furious from the day they built it to this day. So now I must remove this city from my presence.

Isn’t there medicine in Gilead? Aren’t there doctors there? Then why hasn’t the health of my dear people been restored?

People see false visions about you and prophesy lies about you. The sword will be placed on the necks of dishonest, wicked people, for whom the time of final punishment has come.

Blood is still in that city. The blood was poured on a bare rock. It wasn’t poured on the ground where dust would cover it.

“ ‘This is what the Almighty Lord says: I’ve had enough of you, you princes of Israel. Stop your violence and looting, and do what is fair and right. Stop evicting my people, declares the Almighty Lord.

Violence has grown into a weapon for punishing wickedness. None of the people will be left. None of that crowd, none of their wealth, and nothing of value will be left.

“Get the chains ready! The land is filled with murder, and the city is filled with violence.

How horrible it will be for that rebellious and corrupt place, the city of violence.




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