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Jeremiah 22:22

New American Bible - revised edition

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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There are none who call upon your name, none who rouse themselves to take hold of you; For you have hidden your face from us and have delivered us up to our crimes.

therefore thus says the Lord God: My servants shall eat, but you shall go hungry; My servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; My servants shall rejoice, but you shall be put to shame;

How stupid are the shepherds! The Lord they have not sought; For this reason they have failed, and all their flocks scattered.

Many shepherds have ravaged my vineyard, have trampled down my heritage; My delightful portion they have turned into a desert waste.

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

From there too you will go out, your hands upon your head; For the Lord has rejected those in whom you trust, with them you will have no success.

The priests did not ask, “Where is the Lord?” The experts in the law did not know me: the shepherds rebelled against me. The prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after useless idols.

But the Lord is with me, like a mighty champion: my persecutors will stumble, they will not prevail. In their failure they will be put to utter shame, to lasting, unforgettable confusion.

All your lovers have forgotten you, they do not seek you out. I struck you as an enemy would strike, punishing you cruelly.

You now who are doomed, what are you doing dressing in purple, bedecking yourself with gold, Enlarging your eyes with kohl? You beautify yourself in vain! Your lovers reject you, they seek your life.

The prophets are wind, and the word is not with them. Let it be done to them!”

Are they really offending me—oracle of the Lord—or rather themselves, to their own disgrace?

Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, the house of Israel, with deceit; Judah still wanders about with gods, and is faithful to holy ones.

Though Ephraim may flourish among his brothers, an east wind will come, a wind from the Lord, rising from the wilderness, That will dry up his spring, and leave his fountain dry. It will loot his treasury of every precious thing.

A wind has bound them up in its wings; they shall be ashamed because of their altars.

Ah! my worthless shepherd who forsakes the flock! May the sword fall upon his arm and upon his right eye; His arm will surely wither, and his right eye surely go blind!

In a single month, I did away with the three shepherds, for I wearied of them, and they disdained me.




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