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Jeremiah 4:10

Good News Translation

Then I said, “Sovereign Lord, you have completely deceived the people of Jerusalem! You have said there would be peace, but a sword is at their throats.”

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Then Moses turned to the Lord again and said, “Lord, why do you mistreat your people? Why did you send me here?

This time I will punish not only your officials and your people, but I will punish you as well, so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the world.

They tell the prophets to keep quiet. They say, “Don't talk to us about what's right. Tell us what we want to hear. Let us keep our illusions.

I will defend this city and protect it, for the sake of my own honor and because of the promise I made to my servant David.’”

Why do you let us stray from your ways? Why do you make us so stubborn that we turn away from you? Come back, for the sake of those who serve you, for the sake of the people who have always been yours.

I answered, “Sovereign Lord, I don't know how to speak; I am too young.”

To the people who refuse to listen to what I have said, they keep saying that all will go well with them. And they tell everyone who is stubborn that disaster will never touch them.”

“Sovereign Lord, you made the earth and the sky by your great power and might; nothing is too difficult for you.

Judah, you have brought this on yourself by the way you have lived and by the things you have done. Your sin has caused this suffering; it has stabbed you through the heart.

The Lord's people have denied him and have said, “He won't really do anything. We won't have hard times; we won't have war or famine.”

They act as if my people's wounds were only scratches. ‘All is well,’ they say, when all is not well.

They act as if my people's wounds were only scratches. ‘All is well,’ they say, when all is not well.

Young and old alike lie dead in the streets, Young men and women, killed by enemy swords. You slaughtered them without mercy on the day of your anger.

While I was prophesying, Pelatiah dropped dead. I threw myself face downward on the ground and shouted, “No, Sovereign Lord! Are you going to kill everyone left in Israel?”

And so God has given those people over to do the filthy things their hearts desire, and they do shameful things with each other.

Because they do this, God has given them over to shameful passions. Even the women pervert the natural use of their sex by unnatural acts.

Because those people refuse to keep in mind the true knowledge about God, he has given them over to corrupted minds, so that they do the things that they should not do.




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