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Jeremiah 9:19

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The sound of loud crying is heard from Jerusalem: ‘We are truly ruined! We are truly ashamed! We must leave our land, because our houses are in ruins.’ ”

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You women who are calm now, stand up and listen to me. You women who feel safe now, hear what I say.

Then the Lord said to me: “I would not feel sorry for the people of Judah even if Moses and Samuel prayed for them. Send them away from me! Tell them to go!

Have the people of Israel become slaves? Have they become like someone who was born a slave? Why were they taken captive?

Look! The enemy rises up like a cloud, and his chariots come like a tornado. His horses are faster than eagles. How terrible it will be for us! We are ruined!

Disaster follows disaster; the whole country has been destroyed. My tents are destroyed in only a moment. My curtains are torn down quickly.

I will push you away from me just as I pushed away your relatives, the people of Israel!’

But I am not the one the people of Judah are really hurting, says the Lord. They are only hurting themselves and bringing shame upon themselves.

“ ‘Cut off your hair and throw it away. Go up to the bare hilltop and cry out, because the Lord has rejected these people. He has turned his back on them, and in his anger will punish them.

“Go away! You are unclean,” people shouted at them. “Get away! Get away! Don’t touch us!” So they ran away and wandered. Even the other nations said, “Don’t stay here.”

Our land has been turned over to strangers; our houses have been given to foreigners.

“Human, sing a funeral song for the city of Tyre.

The land has become unclean, and I punished it for its sins, so the land is throwing out those people who live there.

If you do these things, you will also make the land unclean, and it will throw you out as it threw out the nations before you.

“ ‘Remember all my laws and rules, and obey them. I am leading you to your own land, and if you obey my laws and rules, that land will not throw you out.

Get up and leave. This is not your place of rest anymore. You have made this place unclean, and it is doomed to destruction.

At that time people will make fun of you and sing this sad song about you: ‘We are completely ruined; the Lord has taken away my people’s land. Yes, he has taken it away from me and divided our fields among our enemies!’ ”

You will have to feel around in the daylight like a blind person. You will fail in everything you do. People will hurt you and steal from you every day, and no one will save you.




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