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Jeremiah 9:9

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Should I not punish them for this?” says the Lord. “Should I not avenge myself against such a nation?”

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Therefore, the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says, “I will take revenge on my enemies and pay back my foes!

What will you do when I punish you, when I send disaster upon you from a distant land? To whom will you turn for help? Where will your treasures be safe?

Your gods are the smooth stones in the valleys. You worship them with liquid offerings and grain offerings. They, not I, are your inheritance. Do you think all this makes me happy?

They have made it an empty wasteland; I hear its mournful cry. The whole land is desolate, and no one even cares.

How long must this land mourn? Even the grass in the fields has withered. The wild animals and birds have disappeared because of the evil in the land. For the people have said, “The Lord doesn’t see what’s ahead for us!”

I looked, and all the people were gone. All the birds of the sky had flown away.

Should I not punish them for this?” says the Lord. “Should I not avenge myself against such a nation?

Should I not punish them for this?” says the Lord. “Should I not avenge myself against such a nation?

That is why your land is in mourning, and everyone is wasting away. Even the wild animals, the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea are disappearing.

Lord, help us! The fire has consumed the wilderness pastures, and flames have burned up all the trees.

Listen, you people of Israel! Listen to this funeral song I am singing:

“The virgin Israel has fallen, never to rise again! She lies abandoned on the ground, with no one to help her up.”




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