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Jeremiah 6:8

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Take warning, Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you and make your land desolate so no one can live in it.”

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Therefore, you kings, be wise; be warned, you rulers of the earth.

You hate my instruction and cast my words behind you.

Blessed is the one you discipline, Lord, the one you teach from your law;

Listen to advice and accept discipline, and at the end you will be counted among the wise.

Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; guard it well, for it is your life.

Yet they did not listen or pay attention; they were stiff-necked and would not listen or respond to discipline.

Lions have roared; they have growled at him. They have laid waste his land; his towns are burned and deserted.

After I strayed, I repented; after I came to understand, I beat my breast. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’

They turned their backs to me and not their faces; though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.

Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart and be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts?

“ ‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: My anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place—on man and beast, on the trees of the field and on the crops of your land—and it will burn and not be quenched.

Therefore say to them, ‘This is the nation that has not obeyed the Lord its God or responded to correction. Truth has perished; it has vanished from their lips.

I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride and bridegroom in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, for the land will become desolate.

“I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals; and I will lay waste the towns of Judah so no one can live there.”

When she carried on her prostitution openly and exposed her naked body, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister.

Their mother has been unfaithful and has conceived them in disgrace. She said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my food and my water, my wool and my linen, my olive oil and my drink.’

Even if they rear children, I will bereave them of every one. Woe to them when I turn away from them!

Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate and you are in the country of your enemies; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

Of Jerusalem I thought, ‘Surely you will fear me and accept correction!’ Then her place of refuge would not be destroyed, nor all my punishments come upon her. But they were still eager to act corruptly in all they did.

If only they were wise and would understand this and discern what their end will be!




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