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Jeremiah 6:7

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She spouts evil like a fountain. Her streets echo with the sounds of violence and destruction. I always see her sickness and sores.

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Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.

You are battered from head to foot— covered with bruises, welts, and infected wounds— without any soothing ointments or bandages.

“But those who still reject me are like the restless sea, which is never still but continually churns up mud and dirt.

Their webs can’t be made into clothing, and nothing they do is productive. All their activity is filled with sin, and violence is their trademark.

When I speak, the words burst out. “Violence and destruction!” I shout. So these messages from the Lord have made me a household joke.

This is what the Lord says: “Your injury is incurable— a terrible wound.

There is no one to help you or to bind up your injury. No medicine can heal you.

Why do you protest your punishment— this wound that has no cure? I have had to punish you because your sins are many and your guilt is great.

“From the time this city was built until now, it has done nothing but anger me, so I am determined to get rid of it.

Is there no medicine in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why is there no healing for the wounds of my people?

Your prophets have given false visions, and your fortune-tellers have told lies. The sword will fall on the necks of the wicked for whom the day of final reckoning has come.

For the blood of her murders is splashed on the rocks. It isn’t even spilled on the ground, where the dust could cover it!

“For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Enough, you princes of Israel! Stop your violence and oppression and do what is just and right. Quit robbing and cheating my people out of their land. Stop expelling them from their homes, says the Sovereign Lord.

Their violence has grown into a rod that will beat them for their wickedness. None of these proud and wicked people will survive. All their wealth and prestige will be swept away.

“Prepare chains for my people, for the land is bloodied by terrible crimes. Jerusalem is filled with violence.

What sorrow awaits rebellious, polluted Jerusalem, the city of violence and crime!




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