Book 13 : NEVIIM - JEREMIAH - Chapter 016
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The word of HaShem came also unto me, saying
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Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have
sons or daughters in this place
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For thus saith HaShem concerning the sons and concerning
the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that
bore them, and concerning their fathers that begot them in this land
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They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be
lamented, neither shall they be buried, they shall be as dung upon the face of
the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their
carcasses shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the
earth
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For thus saith HaShem: Enter not into the house of
mourning, neither go to lament, neither bemoan them; for I have taken away My
peace from this people, saith HaShem, even mercy and compassion
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Both the great and the small shall die in this land; they
shall not be buried; neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor
make themselves bald for them
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neither shall men break bread for them in mourning, to
comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to
drink for their father or for their mother
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And thou shalt not go into the house of feasting to sit
with them, to eat and to drink
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For thus saith HaShem of hosts, the G-d of Israel: Behold,
I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the
voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the
voice of the bride
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And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt tell this
people all these words, and they shall say unto thee: 'Wherefore hath HaShem
pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is
our sin that we have committed against HaShem our G-d?
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then shalt thou say unto them: 'Because your fathers have
forsaken Me, saith HaShem, and have walked after other gods, and have served
them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken Me, and have not kept My law
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and ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye
walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that ye hearken not
unto Me
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therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land
that ye have not known, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve
other gods day and night; forasmuch as I will show you no favour.
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Therefore, behold, the days come, saith HaShem, that it
shall no more be said: 'As HaShem liveth, that brought up the children of Israel
out of the land of Egypt,
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but: 'As HaShem liveth, that brought up the children of
Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries whither He had
driven them'; and I will bring them back into their land that I gave unto their
fathers
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Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith HaShem, and
they shall fish them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall
hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the
rocks
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For Mine eyes are upon all their ways, they are not hid
from My face; neither is their iniquity concealed from Mine eyes
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And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin
double; because they have profaned My land; they have filled Mine inheritance
with the carcasses of their detestable things and their abominations
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O HaShem, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge,
in the day of affliction, unto Thee shall the nations come from the ends of the
earth, and shall say: 'Our fathers have inherited nought but lies, vanity and
things wherein there is no profit.
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Shall a man make unto himself gods, and they are no gods
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Therefore, behold, I will cause them to know, this once
will I cause them to know My hand and My might; and they shall know that My name
is HaShem
Book 13 : NEVIIM - JEREMIAH - Chapter 016
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