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Do you not fear Me?' declares Yahweh.‘Do you not tremble in My presence?For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea,A perpetual statute, so it cannot cross over it.Though the waves toss, yet they cannot prevail;Though they roar, yet they cannot cross over it.

Like a cage full of birds,So their houses are full of deceit;Therefore they have become great and rich.

The prophets prophesy with lying,And the priests have dominion by their own hand;And My people love it so!But what will you do at the end of it?

Like a well keeps its waters fresh,So she keeps fresh her evil.Violence and devastation are heard in her;Sickness and wounds are continually before Me.

"For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing,And for the pastures of the wilderness a funeral lamentation,Because they are turned into ruin so that no one passes through,And the lowing of the cattle is not heard;Both the birds of the sky and the beasts have fled; they are gone.

Who is the wise man that may understand this? And who is he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished, turned into ruin like a desert, so that no one passes through?

which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, ‘Listen to My voice, and do according to all which I command you; so you shall be My people, and I will be your God,'

And Yahweh said to me, "Call out all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Hear the words of this covenant so that you will do them.

What possession has My beloved in My houseWhen she has done many schemes of wickedness?Can the flesh, which is set apart as holy, take away from you your calamity,So that you can exult?"

Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, "Do not prophesy in the name of Yahweh, so that you will not die at our hand";

So I bought the belt in accordance with the word of Yahweh and put it around my loins.

So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as Yahweh had commanded me.

"Thus says Yahweh, ‘Just so will I ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

For as the belt clings to the loins of a man, so I made the whole household of Israel and the whole household of Judah cling to Me,' declares Yahweh, ‘that they might be for Me a people, for a name, for praise, and for beauty; but they did not listen.'

I will shatter them against each other, both the fathers and the sons together," declares Yahweh. "I will not spare nor show pity nor have compassion so as not to ruin them."'"

So I Myself have also stripped your skirts off over your face,That your disgrace may be seen.

Thus says Yahweh to this people, "Even so they have loved to wander; they have not kept their feet in check. Therefore Yahweh does not accept them; now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins."

So Yahweh said to me, "Do not pray for the good of this people.

Have You completely rejected Judah?Or have You loathed Zion?Why have You stricken us so that there is no healing for us?We hoped for peace, but there was no good;And for a time of healing, but behold, terror!

"So I will deliver you from the hand of the evil ones,And I will redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless ones."