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Jeremiah 9:9

Good News Translation

Will I not punish them for these things? Will I not take revenge on a nation like this? I, the Lord, have spoken.”

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So now, listen to what the Lord Almighty, Israel's powerful God, is saying: “I will take revenge on you, my enemies, and you will cause me no more trouble.

What will you do when God punishes you? What will you do when he brings disaster on you from a distant country? Where will you run to find help? Where will you hide your wealth?

You take smooth stones from there and worship them as gods. You pour out wine as offerings to them and bring them grain offerings. Do you think I am pleased with all this?

They have made it a wasteland; it lies desolate before me. The whole land has become a desert, and no one cares.

How long will our land be dry, and the grass in every field be withered? Animals and birds are dying because of the wickedness of our people, people who say, ‘God doesn't see what we are doing.’”

I saw that there were no people; even the birds had flown away.

“But I, the Lord, will punish them for these things; I will take revenge on this nation.

Shouldn't I punish them for these things and take revenge on a nation such as this?

And so the land will dry up, and everything that lives on it will die. All the animals and birds, and even the fish, will die.”

I cry out to you, Lord, because the pastures and trees are dried up, as though a fire had burned them.

Listen, people of Israel, to this funeral song which I sing over you:

Virgin Israel has fallen, Never to rise again! She lies abandoned on the ground, And no one helps her up.




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