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The Prophecy
of Jeremias 8
At that time, saith the Lord, they shall cast out the
bones of the kings of Juda, and the bones of the princes
thereof, and the bones of the priests, and the bones
of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves.
And they shall spread them abroad to the sun, and the
moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved,
and whom they have served, and after whom they have
walked, and whom they have sought, and adored: they
shall not be gathered, and they shall not be buried:
they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth.
And death shall be chosen rather than life by all that
shall remain of this wicked kindred in all places, which
are left, to which I have cast them out, saith the Lord
of hosts.
And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: Shall
not he that falleth, rise again? and he that is turned
away, shall he not turn again?
Why then is this people in Jerusalem turned away with
a stubborn revolting? they have laid hold on lying,
and have refused to return.
I attended, and hearkened; no man speaketh what is good,
there is none that doth penance for his sin, saying:
What have I done? They are all turned to their own course,
as a horse rushing to the battle.
The kite in the air hath known her time: the turtle,
and the swallow, and the stork have observed the time
of their coming: but my people have not known the judgment
of the Lord.
How do you say: We are wise, and the law of the Lord
is with us? Indeed the lying pen of the scribes hath
wrought falsehood.
The wise men are confounded, they are dismayed, and
taken: for they have cast away the word of the Lord,
and there is no wisdom in them.
Therefore I will give their women to strangers, their
fields to others for an inheritance: because from the
least even to the greatest all follow covetousness:
from the prophet even to the priest, all deal deceitfully.
And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people
disgracefully, saying Peace, peace: when there was no
peace.
They are confounded, because they have committed abomination:
yea rather they are not confounded with confusion, and
they have not know how to blush: therefore shall they
fall among them that fall; in the time of their visitation
they shall fall, saith the Lord.
Gathering I will gather them together, saith the Lord,
there is no grape on the vines, and there are no figs
on the fig tree, the leaf is fallen: and I have given
them the things that are passed away.
Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us
enter into the fenced city, and let us be silent there:
for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and hath
given us water of gall to drink: for we have sinned
against the Lord.
We looked for peace and no good came: for a time of
healing, and behold fear.
The snorting of his horse was heard from Dan, all the
land was moved at the sound of the neighing of his warriors:
and they came and devoured the land, and all that was
in it: the city and its inhabitants.
For behold I will send among you serpents, basilisks,
against which there is no charm: and they shall bite
you, saith the Lord.
My sorrow is above sorrow, my heart mourneth within
me.
Behold the voice of the daughter my people from a far
country: Is not the Lord in Sion, or is not her king
in her? why then have they provoked me to wrath with
their idols, and strange vanities?
The harvest is passed, the summer is ended, and we are
not saved.
For the affliction of the daughter of my people I am
afflicted, and made sorrowful, astonishment hath taken
hold on me.
Is there no balm in Galaad? or is no physician there?
Why then is not the wound of the daughter of my people
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