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\v 1 Then Yahweh said this to me: "Even if Moses and Samuel could come back from their graves and stand in front of me and plead with me for these Israelite people, I would not act mercifully toward these people. I would tell you to send them away from me. Cause them to leave me!
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\v 2 And if they ask you, 'Where shall we go?', tell them, 'This is what Yahweh says:
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\q1 The ones that I say must die, will die:
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\q1 The ones that I say must die in wars, will die in wars.
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\q1 The ones that I say must die from hunger, will die from hunger.
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\q1 The ones that I say must be captured and taken to other countries, will be captured and taken to other countries.
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\v 3 I will send four things that will get rid of them: I will send enemy soldiers using swords to kill them. I will send wild dogs to drag away their corpses. I will send vultures to eat their corpses. And I will send other wild animals to eat what remains of their corpses.
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\v 4 Because of the wicked things that King Manasseh did in Jerusalem, I will cause people in all the kingdoms of the earth to be horrified concerning what will happen in Judah to my people.
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\v 5 You people of Jerusalem, no one will feel sorry for you.
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\q2 No one will weep for you.
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\q2 No one will wish that you would not be hurt.
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\q1
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\v 6 You people have abandoned me;
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\q2 you have continued to walk away from me.
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\q1 So, I will lift up my fist to smash you;
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\q2 I am tired of acting mercifully toward.
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\q1
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\v 7 At the gates of your cities, I will scatter you like a farmer scatters the chaff from his grain by winnowing it.
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\q2 You, my people, have refused to turn away from your evil behavior.
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\q1 So, I will get rid of you,
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\q2 and I will even cause your children to be killed.
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\v 8 I will cause there to be more widows in Judah
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\q2 than there are grains of sand on the seashore.
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\q1 I will bring on you an enemy army
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\q2 that will destroy your young men and cause their mothers to weep.
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\q1 I will cause you to suddenly experience great suffering and become very terrified.
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\q1
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\v 9 A woman who has seven children will become faint and gasp for breath;
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\q2 it will be as though her daylight will become darkness,
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\q1 because most of her children will be dead,
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\q2 and she will be disgraced and humiliated.
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\q1 And her children who are still alive, I will enable your enemies to kill them.
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\q2 That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it.'"
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\v 10 I said to my mother, "I am very sad;
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\q1 I wish that you had not given birth to me;
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\q2 everyone in this land opposes me and quarrels with me.
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\q1 I have not made anyone angry by lending or borrow money and then quarreling about it,
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\q2 but everyone curses me anyway."
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\v 11 But Yahweh replied to me,
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\q1 "Jeremiah, I will take care of you.
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\q1 And at times when you have the most troubles,
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\q2 I will come on your behalf and protect you from your enemy.
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\v 12 But Judah's enemies, who are as strong as iron or bronze, will attack Judah from the north,
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\q2 no one will be able to stop them.
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\v 13 I will give all the valuable possessions of your people to their enemies,
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\q2 without them paying for it.
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\q1 Your people will lose everything valuable
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\q2 because of all the sins that they have committed throughout the country.
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\v 14 I will tell their enemies to force them to become their prisoners,
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\q2 to take them to other lands that they have not experienced,
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\q2 and force them to become their slaves.
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\q1 That will happen because I am extremely angry with your people;
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\q2 my anger is like a burning fire."
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\v 15 Then I said, "Yahweh, you know what is happening to me.
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\q2 Please come and help me.
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\q2 Punish those who are persecuting me.
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\q1 Please do not continue to be patient with them
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\q2 and do not allow me to die now.
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\q1 It is for your sake that I am suffering.
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\v 16 Yahweh my God, you are the commander of the angel armies;
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\q1 when you spoke to me,
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\q2 I was delighted with your message; it caused me to be joyful,
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\q1 and I eagerly accepted what you said
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\q2 because I belong to you.
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\v 17 When the people were carousing together,
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\q2 I never joined them;
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\q1 I sat alone, because you are the one who controls what I do.
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\q2 I was very angry with those people because of their sins.
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\v 18 So, why do you allow me to continue to suffer?
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\q2 It seems that my wounds cannot be healed.
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\q1 Sometimes you help me, sometimes you do not help me.
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\q2 It seems that you are as undependable as a brook that has water in it only during certain seasons;
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\q2 you are like a spring that has dried up."
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\v 19 Then Yahweh replied to me saying this:
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\q1 "If you begin again to trust in me,
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\q1 I will restore you,
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\q2 in order that you can continue to serve me.
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\q1 If you proclaim good messages and not worthless ones,
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\q2 you will continue to be the one who speaks what I tell you to say.
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\q1 You must cause the people to pay attention to what you say;
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\q2 you must not pay attention to what they say.
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\v 20 They will fight against you,
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\q2 but I will protect you, like people are protected from their enemies by a bronze wall.
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\q1 They will not defeat you,
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\q2 because I will be with you,
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\q2 and I will protect and rescue you.
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\v 21 Truly, I will keep you safe from those wicked people,
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\q2 I will rescue you when you are seized by cruel people.
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\q1 That will happen because I, Yahweh, have said it."
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