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The word that came to Jeremiah from the
5 For if you truly amend your ways and your doings, if you truly act justly one with another, 6 if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own hurt, 7 then I will dwell with you in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your ancestors forever and ever.
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Here you are, trusting in deceptive words to no avail.
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Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known,
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and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, "We are safe!"--only to go on doing all these abominations?
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Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your sight? You know, I too am watching, says the
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As for you, do not pray for this people, do not raise a cry or prayer on their behalf, and do not intercede with me, for I will not hear you.
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Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
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The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.
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Is it I whom they provoke? says the
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Thus says the
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So you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall call to them, but they will not answer you.
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You shall say to them: This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the
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Cut off your hair and throw it away;
raise a lamentation on the bare heights, 3
for the
the generation that provoked his wrath.