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Jeremiah 3:25

New American Bible - revised edition

Let us lie down in our shame, let our disgrace cover us, for we have sinned against the Lord, our God, We and our ancestors, from our youth to this day; we did not listen to the voice of the Lord, our God.”

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I spoke to you when you were secure, but you answered, “I will not listen.” This has been your way from your youth, not to listen to my voice.

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;

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

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake; Some to everlasting life, others to reproach and everlasting disgrace.

Not for your sake do I act—oracle of the Lord God. Let this be known to you! Be ashamed and humbled because of your behavior, house of Israel.

They put on sackcloth, horror clothes them; shame is on all their faces, all their heads are shaved bald.

The crown has fallen from our head: woe to us that we sinned!

Our ancestors, who sinned, are no more; but now we bear their guilt.

Daughter of my people, dress in sackcloth, roll in the ashes. Mourn as for an only child with bitter wailing: “How suddenly the destroyer comes upon us!”

Your own wickedness chastises you, your own infidelities punish you. Know then, and see, how evil and bitter is your forsaking the Lord, your God, And your showing no fear of me, oracle of the Lord, the God of hosts.

Has not forsaking the Lord, your God, done this to you?

Go, cry out this message for Jerusalem to hear! I remember the devotion of your youth, how you loved me as a bride, Following me in the wilderness, in a land unsown.

All you who kindle flames and set flares alight, Walk by the light of your own fire and by the flares you have burnt! This is your fate from my hand: you shall lie down in a place of torment.

You never heard, you never knew, they never reached your ears beforehand. Yes, I know you are utterly treacherous, a rebel you were named from the womb.

Why did I not listen to the voice of my teachers, incline my ear to my instructors!

Clothe my accusers with disgrace; make them wear their shame like a mantle.

Our ancestors in Egypt did not attend to your wonders. They did not remember your manifold mercy; they defied the Most High at the Red Sea.

but you must not make a covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you must pull down their altars. But you did not listen to me. Look what you have done!

We have sinned like our ancestors; we have done wrong and are guilty.

Only admit your guilt: how you have rebelled against the Lord, your God, How you ran here and there to strangers under every green tree and would not listen to my voice—oracle of the Lord.

Why do we remain here? Let us assemble and flee to the fortified cities, where we will meet our doom; For the Lord our God has doomed us, he has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.

Even though our crimes bear witness against us, act, Lord, for your name’s sake— Even though our rebellions are many, and we have sinned against you.

We recognize our wickedness, Lord, the guilt of our ancestors: we have sinned against you.

Why did I come forth from the womb, to see sorrow and pain, to end my days in shame?

For after I turned away, I repented; after I came to myself, I struck my thigh; I was ashamed, even humiliated, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.

say to me: Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, a nation of rebels who have rebelled against me; they and their ancestors have been in revolt against me to this very day.

Poverty and shame befall those who let go of discipline, but those who hold on to reproof receive honor.

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

The sound of the dirge is heard from Zion: We are ruined and greatly ashamed; We have left the land, given up our dwellings!

For as many as your cities are your gods, O Judah! As many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars for sacrifice to Baal.

They have sown wheat and reaped thorns, they have tired themselves out for no purpose; They are shamed by their harvest, the burning anger of the Lord. Judah’s Neighbors.

They shall no longer come near to serve as my priests, nor shall they touch any of my sacred things or my most sacred offerings, for they must bear their shame, the abominations they committed.

Like grapes in the desert, I found Israel; Like the first fruits of the fig tree, its first to ripen, I looked on your ancestors. But when they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the Shameful One, they became as abhorrent as the thing they loved.

I will hem the people in till they walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the Lord; And their blood shall be poured out like dust, and their bowels like dung.




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