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Jeremiah 44:21

New American Bible - revised edition

As for the sacrifices you offered in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem—you, your ancestors, your kings and princes, and the people of the land—did not the Lord remember them? Did it not enter his mind?

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So she said to Elijah, “Why have you done this to me, man of God? Have you come to me to call attention to my guilt and to kill my son?”

Do not remember against us the iniquities of our forefathers; let your compassion move quickly ahead of us, for we have been brought very low.

Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become wilderness, Jerusalem desolation!

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.

Thus says the Lord about this people: They so love to wander that they cannot restrain their feet. The Lord takes no pleasure in them; now he remembers their guilt, and will punish their sins.

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.

Rather we will go on doing what we proposed; we will offer incense to the Queen of Heaven and pour out libations to her, just as we have done, along with our ancestors, our kings and princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. Then we had plenty to eat, we prospered, and we suffered no misfortune.

To all the people, men and women, who gave him this answer, Jeremiah said:

Have you forgotten the evil of your ancestors, the evil of the kings of Judah, the evil of their wives, and your own evil and the evil of your wives—all that they did in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

you built yourself a platform and raised up a dais in every public place.

Yet they do not call to mind that I remember all their wickedness. Now their crimes surround them, present to my sight.

The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob: Never will I forget a thing they have done!

The Lord saw and was filled with loathing, provoked by his sons and daughters.

Is not this stored up with me, sealed up in my storehouses?

The great city was split into three parts, and the gentile cities fell. But God remembered great Babylon, giving it the cup filled with the wine of his fury and wrath.

for her sins are piled up to the sky, and God remembers her crimes.

Go, now, attack Amalek, and put under the ban everything he has. Do not spare him; kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.”




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