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Jeremiah 33:4

New American Bible - revised edition

Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are being torn down because of the siegeworks and the sword:

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You numbered the houses of Jerusalem, tearing some down to strengthen the wall;

For the soil of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers; For all the joyful houses, the exultant city.

The castle will be forsaken, the noisy city deserted; Citadel and tower will become wasteland forever, the joy of wild donkeys, the pasture of flocks;

See, the siegeworks have arrived at this city to capture it; the city is handed over to the Chaldeans who are attacking it, with sword, starvation, and disease. What you threatened has happened—you can see it for yourself.

For thus says the Lord of hosts: Hew down her trees, throw up a siege mound against Jerusalem. Woe to the city marked for punishment; there is nothing but oppression within her!

The Lord has rejected his altar, spurned his sanctuary; He has handed over to the enemy the walls of its strongholds. They shout in the house of the Lord as on a feast day.

Then I, too, shall clap my hands, and spend my fury. I, the Lord, have spoken. Nebuchadnezzar at the Crossroads.

Your daughter cities on the mainland he shall slay with the sword. He shall build a siege wall around you, throw up a ramp against you, and raise his shields about you.

Lay siege to it: build up siege works, raise a ramp against it, pitch camps and set up battering rams all around it.

They scoff at kings, ridicule princes; They laugh at any fortress, heap up an earthen ramp, and conquer it.

However, those trees which you know are not fruit trees you may destroy. You may cut them down to build siegeworks against the city that is waging war with you, until it falls.




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