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Jeremiah 2:26

New American Bible - revised edition

As the thief is shamed when caught, so shall the house of Israel be shamed: They, their kings, their princes, their priests and their prophets;

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for all the evil the Israelites and Judahites have done to provoke me—they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

From the time of our ancestors even to this day our guilt has been great, and for our wicked deeds we have been delivered, we and our kings and our priests, into the hands of the kings of foreign lands, to the sword, to captivity, to pillage, and to disgrace, as is the case today.

But what profit did you get then from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Has Israel not been a laughingstock to you? Was he caught among thieves that you wag your heads whenever you speak of him?

How frivolous you have become in changing your course! By Egypt you will be shamed, just as you were shamed by Assyria.

You shall be ashamed of the terebinths which you desired, and blush on account of the gardens which you chose.

Thus you must bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you have done to bring them comfort.

Her priests violate my law and desecrate what I consider holy; they do not distinguish between holy and common, nor teach the difference between unclean and clean; they pay no attention to my sabbaths, so that I have been desecrated in their midst.

I will send it forth—oracle of the Lord of hosts—so that it will come to the house of the thief, and into the house of the one who swears falsely by my name. It shall lodge within each house, consuming it, timber and stones.” Sixth Vision: The Basket of Wickedness.

All who serve idols are put to shame, who glory in worthless things; all gods bow down before him.

Those who fashion idols are all nothing; their precious works are of no avail. They are their witnesses: they see nothing, know nothing, and so they are put to shame.

Look, all its company will be shamed; they are artisans, mere human beings! They all assemble and stand there, only to cower in shame.

In that day—oracle of the Lord— The king will lose heart, and the princes; the priests will be horrified, and the prophets stunned.

The wind shall shepherd all your shepherds, your lovers shall go into exile. Surely then you shall be ashamed and confounded because of all your wickedness.




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