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The Prophecy
of Jeremias 16
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou
have thee sons and daughters in this place.
For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and daughters,
that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers
that bore them: and concerning their fathers, of whom
they were born in this land:
They shall die by the death of grievous illnesses: they
shall not be lamented, and they shall not be buried,
they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and
they shall be consumed with the sword, and with famine:
and their carcasses shall be meat for the fowls of the
air, and for the beasts of the earth.
For thus saith the Lord: Enter not into the house of
feasting, neither go thou to mourn, nor to comfort them:
because I have taken away my peace from this people,
saith the Lord, my mercy and commiserations.
Both the great and the little shall die in the land:
they shall not be buried nor lamented, and men shall
not cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them.
And they shall not break bread among them to him that
mourneth, to comfort him for the dead: neither shall
they give them to drink of the cup, to comfort them
for their father and mother.
And do not thou go into the house of feasting, to sit
with them, and to eat and drink.
For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:
Behold I will take away out of this place in your sight,
and in your days the voice of mirth, and the voice of
gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice
of the bride.
And when thou shalt tell this people all these words,
and they shall say to thee: Wherefore hath the Lord
pronounced against us all this great evil? what is our
iniquity? and what is our sin, that we have sinned against
the Lord our God?
Thou shalt say to them: Because your fathers forsook
me, saith the Lord: and went after strange gods, and
served them, and adored them: and they forsook me, and
kept not my law.
And you also have done worse than your fathers: for
behold every one of you walketh after the perverseness
of his evil heart, so as not to hearken to me.
So I will cast you forth out of this land, into a land
which you know not, nor you fathers: and there you shall
serve strange gods day and night, which shall not give
you any rest.
Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, when
it shall be said no more: The Lord liveth, that brought
for the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt:
But, the Lord liveth, that brought the children of Israel
out of the land of the north, and out of all the lands
to which I cast them out: and I will bring them again
into their land, which I gave to their fathers.
Behold I will send many fishers, saith the Lord, and
they shall fish them: and after this I will send them
many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain,
and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
For my eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid
from my face, and their iniquity hath not been hid from
my eyes.
And I will repay first their double iniquities, and
their sins: because they have defiled my land with the
carcasses of their idols, and they have filled my inheritance
with their abominations.
O Lord, my might, and my strength, and my refuge in
the day of tribulation: to thee the Gentiles shall come
from the ends of the earth, and shall say: Surely our
fathers have possessed lies, a vanity which hath not
profited them.
Shall a man make gods unto himself, and there are no
gods?
Therefore, behold I will this once cause them to know,
I will shew them my hand and my power: and they shall
know that my name is the Lord. |
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