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Jeremiah 11:21

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Therefore this is what the Lord says about the people of Anathoth who are threatening to kill you, saying, “Do not prophesy in the name of the Lord or you will die by our hands”—

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They say to the seers, “See no more visions!” and to the prophets, “Give us no more visions of what is right! Tell us pleasant things, prophesy illusions.

The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.

They will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you and will rescue you,” declares the Lord.

I hear many whispering, “Terror on every side! Denounce him! Let’s denounce him!” All my friends are waiting for me to slip, saying, “Perhaps he will be deceived; then we will prevail over him and take our revenge on him.”

But as soon as Jeremiah finished telling all the people everything the Lord had commanded him to say, the priests, the prophets and all the people seized him and said, “You must die!

Hanamel son of Shallum your uncle is going to come to you and say, ‘Buy my field at Anathoth, because as nearest relative it is your right and duty to buy it.’

I will deliver into the hands of their enemies who want to kill them. Their dead bodies will become food for the birds and the wild animals.

“But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.

For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises up against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law— a man’s enemies are the members of his own household.

“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.

“The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.

The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them.

“Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown.




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