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Jeremiah 9:19

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The sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How ruined we are! How great is our shame! We must leave our land because our houses are in ruins.’ ”

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You women who are so complacent, rise up and listen to me; you daughters who feel secure, hear what I have to say!

Then the Lord said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel were to stand before me, my heart would not go out to this people. Send them away from my presence! Let them go!

Is Israel a servant, a slave by birth? Why then has he become plunder?

Look! He advances like the clouds, his chariots come like a whirlwind, his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! We are ruined!

Disaster follows disaster; the whole land lies in ruins. In an instant my tents are destroyed, my shelter in a moment.

I will thrust you from my presence, just as I did all your fellow Israelites, the people of Ephraim.’

But am I the one they are provoking? declares the Lord. Are they not rather harming themselves, to their own shame?

“ ‘Cut off your hair and throw it away; take up a lament on the barren heights, for the Lord has rejected and abandoned this generation that is under his wrath.

“Go away! You are unclean!” people cry to them. “Away! Away! Don’t touch us!” When they flee and wander about, people among the nations say, “They can stay here no longer.”

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.

“Son of man, take up a lament concerning Tyre.

Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.

And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.

“ ‘Keep all my decrees and laws and follow them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.

Get up, go away! For this is not your resting place, because it is defiled, it is ruined, beyond all remedy.

In that day people will ridicule you; they will taunt you with this mournful song: ‘We are utterly ruined; my people’s possession is divided up. He takes it from me! He assigns our fields to traitors.’ ”

At midday you will grope about like a blind person in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue you.




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