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Jeremiah 20:8

Lighthouse Bible 2006

For since I spoke, I cried out, I cried violence and plunder; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach to me, and a derision, daily.

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And he went up from there to Bethel: and as he was going up on the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, you bald head; go up, you bald head.

But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and mistreated his prophets, until the anger of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

Against whom do you make sport? against whom do you make a wide mouth, and stick out the tongue? are you not children of transgression, the offspring of falsehood,

Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent at interest, nor have men lent to me at interest; yet every one of them curses me.

O LORD, you know: remember me, and visit me, and avenge me on my persecutors; take me not away in your longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered rebuke.

But if you will not listen to me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

O LORD, you have deceived me, and I was deceived: you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocks me.

The prophets that have been before me and before you of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.

Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man, if there be any who executes justice, who seeks the truth; and I will pardon it.

Therefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall plunder them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goes out from there shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.

To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot listen: behold, the word of the LORD is to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you know not;

Why do you show me iniquity, and cause me to behold wrongdoing? for destruction and violence are before me: and there are those who raise up strife and contention.

Then answered one of the lawyers, and said to him, Master, thus saying you reproach us also.

Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he looked to the recompense of the reward.

Let us go out therefore to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, happy are you; for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: by them he is evil spoken of, but by you he is glorified.




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