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Jeremiah 9:6

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Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know Me, says the Lord.

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Because I have called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand and no one heeded,

because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord.

And I will turn My hand against you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and take away all your impurities.

the ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib, but Israel does not know; My people do not consider.

When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and has purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst by the spirit of justice and by the spirit of burning,

They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers who refused to hear My words. And they have gone after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I made with their fathers.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is brought to the slaughter, and I did not know that they had devised plots against me, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with the fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living so that his name may be remembered no more.”

This evil people, who refuse to hear My words, who walk in the imagination of their hearts, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall be even as this waistband which is good for nothing.

Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah. For the law will not be lost from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”

For I heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce him. Yes, denounce him!” All my familiar friends who watch for my fall, say, “Perhaps he will be enticed so that we can prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great and rich.

Why then is this people of Jerusalem turned away by a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return.

How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboyim? My heart churns within Me; My compassion is stirred.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will reject you from being My priest. And because you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

And I will bring this one-third left into the fire, and will refine them as the refinement of silver, and will test them as the testing of gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, “They are My people”; and they will say, “The Lord is my God.”

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not proper.

Awake to righteousness and do not sin, for some do not have the knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

Now the sons of Eli were corrupt. They did not know the Lord.




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