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Jeremiah 9:6

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Your dwelling place is in the midst of deceit; Through deceit they refuse to know Me,” says the Lord.

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Because I have called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded,

Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of the Lord,

I will turn My hand against you, And thoroughly purge away your dross, And take away all your alloy.

The ox knows its owner And the donkey its master’s crib; But Israel does not know, My people do not consider.”

When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and purged the blood of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning,

They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers who refused to hear My words, and they have gone after other gods to serve them; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I made with their fathers.”

But I was like a docile lamb brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had devised schemes against me, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”

This evil people, who refuse to hear My words, who follow the dictates of their hearts, and walk after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be just like this sash which is profitable for nothing.

Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us attack him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”

For I heard many mocking: “Fear on every side!” “Report,” they say, “and we will report it!” All my acquaintances watched for my stumbling, saying, “Perhaps he can be induced; Then we will prevail against him, And we will take our revenge on him.”

As a cage is full of birds, So their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become great and grown rich.

Why has this people slidden back, Jerusalem, in a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit, They refuse to return.

“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I set you like Zeboiim? My heart churns within Me; My sympathy is stirred.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

I will bring the one–third through the fire, Will refine them as silver is refined, And test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, And I will answer them. I will say, ‘This is My people’; And each one will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’ ”

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

Awake to righteousness, and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.

Now the sons of Eli were corrupt; they did not know the Lord.




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