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\q2 If you get rid of those detestable idols,
\q2 if you do not go away from me again,
\q1
\v 2 and if you declare, 'Just as surely as Yahweh lives,'
\v 2 if you declare 'Just as surely as Yahweh lives'
\q1 when you take your oaths,
\q2 and if you are truthful, just, and righteous,
\q1 then the people in the other nations of the world
\q1 will ask me to bless them as I have blessed you,
\q1 and they will all come and honor me."
\p
\v 3 This is what Yahweh says to the people of Jerusalem and the other cities in Judah,
\q1 "Cause your inner beings to be ready to receive my messages
\q2 like farmers plow up hard ground in order that they can plant seed in it.
\v 3 This is what Yahweh says to the people of Jerusalem and the other cities in Judah:
\q1 "Cause your inner beings to be ready to receive my messages,
\q2 as farmers plow up hard ground so that they can plant seed in it.
\q1 Just as farmers do not waste good seed by sowing seeds among thorny plants,
\q2 I do not want to waste my time telling you messages that you are not ready to receive.
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\q1
\v 13 And the people in Jerusalem will say, "Our enemies are about to rush down on us; their chariots are like whirlwinds.
\q2 Their horses are faster than eagles.
\q1 It will be terrible for us!
\q1 It will be terrible for us!"
\q1
\v 14 You people of Jerusalem cleanse your inner beings,
\q2 in order that Yahweh will rescue you.
\v 14 You people of Jerusalem, cleanse your inner beings
\q2 so that Yahweh will rescue you.
\q1 How long will you continue to think about doing evil deeds?
\q1
\v 15 From the city of Dan in the far north to the hills of Ephraim a few miles north of Jerusalem messengers are proclaiming that disasters are coming."
\v 15 From the city of Dan in the far north to the hills of Ephraim a few miles north of Jerusalem, messengers are proclaiming that disasters are coming.
\s5
\q1
\v 16 So I said this to the people in other nations,
\q2 and also announced it in Jerusalem,
\v 16 So I said this to the people in other nations
\q2 and also announced it in Jerusalem:
\q1 "Yahweh says that an army is coming to Jerusalem from far away;
\q2 they will shout a battle cry against the cities of Judah.
\q1
\v 17 They will set up tents around Jerusalem like people set up temporary shelters around a field at harvest time.
\v 17 They will set up tents around Jerusalem as people set up temporary shelters around a field at harvest time.
\q2 That will happen because the people of Judah have rebelled against me.
\q1
\v 18 You will be punished very severely;
\q2 it will be as though a sword has stabbed your hearts.
\q1 But you are causing those things to happen to you
\q2 because of the evil things that you have done."
\q2 because of the evil things you have done."
\s5
\q1
\v 19 Then I said to myself, "I am extremely anguished;
\q2 the pain in my inner being is very severe.
\q2 My heart beats wildly!
\q1 But I cannot remain silent
\q1 But I cannot remain silent,
\q2 because I have heard our enemies blowing their trumpets
\q2 to announce that the battle against Judah will start immediately!
\q1
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\v 24 I looked at the mountains and hills,
\q2 and they shook and moved from side to side.
\q1
\v 25 I looked and saw that all there were no more people
\v 25 I looked and saw that there were no more people,
\q2 and all the birds had flown away.
\q1
\v 26 I looked and saw that the fields that previously were fertile had become a desert.
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\s5
\p
\v 27 This is what Yahweh is saying,
\q1 "the entire land of Judah will be ruined,
\v 27 This is what Yahweh is saying:
\q1 "The entire land of Judah will be ruined,
\q2 but I will not destroy it completely.
\q1
\v 28 I will do to my people what I said that I would do,
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\v 29 When the people hear the sound of the enemy cavalry and archers marching,
\q2 they will be terrified as they flee from their cities.
\q1 Some of them will find places to hide in the bushes,
\q2 and others will run toward the quarries to escape being killed by their enemies.
\q2 and others will run toward the rocky cliffs to escape being killed by their enemies.
\q1 All the cities in Judah will be abandoned;
\q2 not one person will remain in them.
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\q1 They do not know the way Yahweh wants them to conduct their lives;
\q2 they do not know what God requires them to do.
\q1
\v 5 So, I will go and talk to their leaders,
\v 5 So, I will go and talk to their leaders
\q2 because they surely know how God wants them to conduct their lives."
\q1 But they also have stopped obeying Yahweh,
\q2 and they will not allow him to lead them.
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\v 7 Yahweh says, "I cannot forgive these people;
\q2 even their children have abandoned me.
\q1 When they solemnly declare something, they ask their gods to show that what they say is true.
\q1 I gave my people everything that they needed,
\q1 I gave my people everything they needed,
\q2 but they often went to the high places on the hills, where they worshiped their idols and committed adultery there.
\q1
\v 8 Just like well fed male horses neigh, wanting to mate with female horses,
\v 8 Just like well-fed male horses neigh, wanting to mate with female horses,
\q2 each of the men desires to sleep with his neighbor's wife.
\q1
\v 9 Should I not punish them for this?
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\q1 and get rid of most of the people,
\q2 but do not kill all of them.
\q1 These people do not belong to me,
\q1 so get rid of them,
\q2 like a gardener lops off branches from a vine.
\q1 so get rid of them
\q2 as a gardener lops off branches from a vine.
\q1
\v 11 The people of Israel and Judah have turned away from me completely.
\q1
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\q2 We will not experience wars or famines!
\q1
\v 13 What God's prophets say is nothing but wind!
\q2 They do not have messages from God!
\q2 And because they have not believed me, all of these things will happen to them!'"
\q2 They do not have messages from God!'
\q2 And because they have not believed me, all of these things will happen to them!"
\s5
\p
\v 14 So, this is what Yahweh, the commander of the armies of angels in heaven, has said to me,
\v 14 So, this is what Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, has said to me:
\q1 "Because my people are saying those things,
\q2 I will give you a message to tell them that will be like a fire,
\q2 and these people will be like wood that the fire will burn up completely!
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\v 15 Listen to Yahweh's declaration, you people of Israel:
\q1 I will bring the army of a distant nation to attack you.
\q2 It is a very powerful nation that has existed for a long time.
\q1 They speak a language that you do not know,
\q2 and which you will not be able to understand.
\q1 They speak a language that you do not know
\q2 and you will not be able to understand.
\s5
\q1
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\q1
\v 20 Yahweh instructed me to proclaim this message to the people of Israel and Judah,
\q1
\v 21 "Listen to this, you people who so are foolish, and you who have no understanding!
\v 21 "Listen to this, you people who are foolish, and you who have no understanding!
\q2 You have eyes, but you cannot see.
\q1 Yes, you have ears, but you cannot hear anything.
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\q1
\v 23 But you people are not like the waves that obey me.
\q2 You people are very stubborn and rebellious,
\q2 and have constantly turned away from me.
\q2 and you have constantly turned away from me.
\q1
\v 24 You do not say to yourselves,
\q2 'Let us have an awesome respect for Yahweh our God,
\q2 the one who sends us rain at the times that we need it,
\q2 the one who causes the grain to become ripe at the harvest season.'
\q1
\v 25 It is because of the wrong things that you have done, that those good things have not happened.
\q2 It is because of the sins that you have committed that you have been prevented from receiving those blessings.
\v 25 It is because of the wrong things you have done that those good things have not happened.
\q2 It is because of the sins you have committed that you have been prevented from receiving those blessings.
\s5
\q1
\v 26 Among my people are wicked people who hide along the roads to ambush people
\q2 like men who hunt birds put nets to catch them.
\v 26 Among my people are wicked people who hide along the roads to ambush people,
\q2 as men who hunt birds put out nets to catch them.
\q1
\v 27 Like a hunter has a cage full of birds that he has captured,
\q2 their homes are full of things that they have gotten by deceiving others
\q2 their homes are full of things that they have gotten by deceiving others,
\q1 so now they are very rich and powerful.
\q1
\v 28 They are big and fat
\q2 because they eat rich food, and there is no limit to the evil deeds that they have done.
\q2 because they eat rich food, and there is no limit to the evil deeds they have done.
\q2 In court, they do not help ordinary people get judges to decide fairly for them, and they do not try to defend orphans.
\q2 They do not even want to listen to them in court.
\q1
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\v 1 You people in Jerusalem who are from the tribe of Benjamin,
\q2 flee from this city!
\q1 Blow the trumpets in the city of Tekoa south of Jerusalem!
\q1 Send up a smoke signal in the city of Beth Hakerem
\q1 Send up a smoke signal in the city of Beth Hakkerem
\q2 to warn the people of the coming danger!
\q1 A powerful army will come against you from the north,
\q2 and they will cause great destruction.
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\q2 but it will soon be destroyed.
\q1
\v 3 Enemy kings, the shepherds of foreign peoples, will come with their armies and set up their tents around the city,
\q2 and each king will choose a part of the city for his soldiers to destroy as shepherds divide their pastures for their flocks of sheep.
\q2 and each king will choose a part of the city for his soldiers to destroy, as shepherds divide their pastures for their flocks of sheep.
\s5
\q1
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\s5
\p
\v 6 Yahweh, the commander of the armies of angels in heaven, says this,
\v 6 Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, says this:
\q1 "I will command those soldiers to cut down the trees outside Jerusalem
\q2 and to build ramps up to the top of the city walls!
\q1 This city must be punished
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\s5
\p
\v 9 Yahweh, the commander of the angel armies, says this,
\v 9 Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, says this:
\q2 "Your enemies will cause your country to become as desolate as a vineyard from which all the grapes have been completely stripped from the vines.
\q1 Their soldiers will seize the possessions of those who remain in Israel after the others have been exiled
\q2 like farmers go to the vines again to pick any grapes that were left.
\q1 Their soldiers will seize the possessions of those who remain in Israel after the others have been exiled,
\q2 as farmers go to the vines again to pick any grapes that were left."
\q1
\v 10 Who can I, Jeremiah, speak to? Who would listen to me, even if I spoke to them?
\q2 The ears of the Israelite people are unable to hear what I have to tell them.
\q1 See! the message Yahweh gave me to tell them is offensive to them.
\q2 When they hear the message of Yahweh, they hate what I tell them!"
\q2 When they hear the message of Yahweh, they hate what I tell them!
\s5
\q1
\v 11 After hearing this I became very angry,
\q2 as Yahweh is angry, and I could not hold myself back any longer.
\q1 So Yahweh said to me,
\q2 "Tell the children in the streets and the young men who gather together.
\q1 Tell the men and their wives;
\q2 tell the very old people, also.
\q2 "Tell everyone that you are very angry with them—
\q1 tell the children in the streets and the young men who gather together;
\q1 tell the men and their wives;
\q2 tell the very old people also.
\q1
\v 12 Tell the men that I will give their houses to their enemies,
\q2 and I will give their property and their wives to them, also,
\q2 and I will give their property and their wives to them also,
\q1 when I punish the people who live in this land!
\s5
\q1
\v 13 Everyone is trying to get money by tricking others,
\q2 from the the least important people to the most important people.
\q1 Even my prophets and priests, they all lie to get what they want.
\q2 from the least important people to the most important people.
\q1 Even my prophets and priests all lie to get what they want.
\q1
\v 14 They act as though the sins of my people are like small wounds that they can easily treat.
\q They tell the people that everything will go well with them, but that is not true; things will not go well with them.
\q
\v 15 They should be ashamed about the disgusting things that they do, but they are not ashamed at all. They do not even know how to blush.
\v 15 They should be ashamed about the disgusting things they do, but they are not ashamed at all. They do not even know how to blush.
\q So, they also will be among those who will be killed. They will be destroyed when I punish them."
\s5
\p
\v 16 This is also what Yahweh said to the Israelite people,
\v 16 This is also what Yahweh said to the Israelite people:
\q1 "Stand at the crossroads and look at the people who pass by.
\q2 Ask them what was the good behavior that their ancestors had long ago.
\q1 And when they tell you, behave that way.
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\q2 Men and their sons and people's neighbors and friends will stumble over those obstacles and fall down;
\q1 everyone will die."
\p
\v 22 Yahweh also says this,
\v 22 Yahweh also says this:
\q1 "You will see a huge army marching toward you from the north.
\q2 An army of a great nation very far away is preparing to attack you.
\s5
\q1
\v 23 They have bows and arrows and spears;
\q2 they are very cruel, and do not act mercifully to anyone.
\q2 they are very cruel and do not act mercifully to anyone.
\q1 As they ride along on their horses,
\q2 the horses' feet sound like the roaring of the ocean waves;
\q1 they are riding in battle formation
\q2 to attack you people of Jerusalem."
\q1
\v 24 The people of Jerusalem say to each other,
\q1 "We have heard reports about the enemy;
\q1 "We have heard reports about the enemy,
\q2 so we are very frightened, with the result that we are weak.
\q1 We are very afraid, and worried,
\q1 We are very afraid and worried,
\q2 like women who are about to give birth to babies.
\s5
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\q1 "Jeremiah, I have caused you to become like someone who heats metal very hot to completely burn the impurities.
\q2 You will examine my people's behavior.
\q1
\v 28 You will find out that they are very stubborn rebels:
\v 28 You will find out that they are very stubborn rebels;
\q2 they are always slandering others.
\q1 Their inner beings are as hard as bronze or iron;
\q2 they all continually deceive others.
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\s5
\p
\v 21 Therefore, this is what Yahweh, commander of the armies of angels, the God of Israel, says: "Take away your offerings that you bring to burn completely on your altars and your other sacrifices;
\v 21 Therefore, this is what Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, the God of Israel, says: "Take away your offerings that you bring to burn completely on your altars and your other sacrifices;
do not give them to me; eat them yourselves!
\v 22 When I led your ancestors out of Egypt, it was not offerings to be completely burned on the altar or other sacrifices that I wanted from them.
\v 23 What I told them was, 'Obey me; if you do that, I will be your God and you will be my people. If you do the things that I want you to do, everything will go well for you.'