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The Prophecy
of Jeremias 17
The sin of Juda is written with a pen of iron, with
the point of a diamond, it is graven upon the table
of their heart, upon the horns of their altars.
When their children shall remember their altars, and
their groves, and their green trees upon high mountains,
Sacrificing in the field: I will give thy strength,
and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places
for sin in all thy borders.
And thou shalt be left stripped of thy inheritance,
which I gave thee: and I will make thee serve thy enemies
in a land which thou knowest not: because thou hast
kindled a fire in my wrath, it shall burn for ever.
Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth
in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth
from the Lord.
For he shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall
not see when good shall come: but he shall dwell in
dryness in the desert in a salt land, and not inhabited.
Blessed be the man that trusteth in the Lord, and the
Lord shall be his confidence.
And he shall be as a tree that is planted by the waters,
that spreadeth out its roots towards moisture: and it
shall not fear when the heat cometh. And the leaf thereof
shall be green, and in the time of drought it shall
not be solicitous, neither shall it cease at any time
to bring forth fruit.
The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable,
who can know it?
I am the Lord who search the heart and prove the reins:
who give to every one according to his way, and according
to the fruit of his devices.
As the partridge hath hatched eggs which she did not
lay: so is he that hath gathered riches, and not by
right: in the midst of his days he shall leave them,
and in his latter end he shall be a fool.
A high and glorious throne from the beginning is the
place of our sanctification:
O Lord the hope of Israel: all that forsake thee shall
be confounded: they that depart from thee, shall be
written in the earth: because they have forsaken the
Lord, the vein of living waters.
Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed: save me, and
I shall be saved, for thou art my praise.
Behold they say to me: Where is the word of the Lord?
let it come.
And I am not troubled, following thee for my pastor,
and I have not desired the day of man, thou knowest.
That which went out of my lips, hath been right in thy
sight.
Be not thou a terror unto me, thou art my hope in the
day of affliction.
Let them be confounded that persecute me, and let not
me be confounded: let them be afraid, and let not me
be afraid: bring upon them the day of affliction, and
with a double destruction, destroy them.
Thus saith the Lord to me: Go, and stand in the gate
of the children of the people, by which the kings of
Juda come in, and go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem:
And thou shalt say to them: Hear the word of the Lord,
ye kings of Juda, and all Juda, and all the inhabitant
of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates.
Thus saith the Lord: Take heed to your souls and carry
no burdens on the Sabbath day: and bring them not in
by the gates of Jerusalem.
And do not bring burdens out of your houses on the sabbath
day, neither do ye any work: sanctify the sabbath day,
as I commanded your fathers.
But they did not hear, nor incline their ear: but hardened
their neck, that they might not hear me, and might not
receive instruction.
And it shall come to pass: if you will hearken to me,
saith the Lord, to bring in no burdens by the gates
of this city on the sabbath day: and if you will sanctify
the sabbath day, to do no work therein:
Then shall there enter in by the gates of this city
kings and princes, sitting upon the throne of David,
and riding in chariots and on horses, they and their
princes, the men of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem:
and this city shall be inhabited forever.
And they shall come from the cities of Juda, and from
the places round about Jerusalem, and from the land
of Benjamin, and from the plains, and from the mountains,
and from the south, bringing holocausts, and victims,
and sacrifices, and frankincense, and they shall bring
in an offering into the house of the Lord.
But if you will not hearken to me, to sanctify the sabbath
day, and not to carry burdens, and not to bring them
in by the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day: I will
kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour
the houses of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched. |
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