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Then you will answer them: Because your fathers abandoned Me"—this is the Lord 's declaration—"and followed other gods, served them, and worshiped them. Indeed, they abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction.

I will first repay them double for their guilt and sin because they have polluted My land. They have filled My inheritance with the lifelessness of their detestable and abhorrent idols."

My mountains in the countryside. I will give up your wealth and all your treasures as plunder because of the sin of your high places in all your borders.

because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in it to other gods that they, their fathers, and the kings of Judah have never known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.

I will make this city desolate, an object of scorn. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and scoff because of all its wounds.

and you are to proclaim to them: This is what the Lord of Hosts says: I will shatter these people and this city, like one shatters a potter's jar that can never again be mended. They will bury the dead in Topheth because there is no other place for burials.

For whenever I speak, I cry out, I proclaim, "Violence and destruction!" because the word of the Lord has become for me constant disgrace and derision.

because he didn't kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, her womb eternally pregnant.

House of David, this is what the Lord says: Administer justice every morning, and rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor, or My anger will flare up like fire and burn unquenchably because of their evil deeds.

They will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh their God and worshiped and served other gods.'"

Are you a king because you excel in cedar? Didn't your father eat and drink and administer justice and righteousness? Then it went well with him.

The wind will take charge of all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Then you will be ashamed and humiliated because of all your evil.

"Therefore, this is what the Lord , the God of Israel, says about the shepherds who shepherd My people: You have scattered My flock, banished them, and have not attended to them. I will attend to you because of your evil acts"—this is the Lord 's declaration.

Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken within me, and all my bones tremble. I have become like a drunkard, like a man overcome by wine, because of the Lord , because of His holy words.

For the land is full of adulterers; the land mourns because of the curse, and the grazing lands in the wilderness have dried up. Their way of life has become evil, and their power is not rightly used

because both prophet and priest are ungodly, even in My house I have found their evil. This is the Lord 's declaration.

But if you say, ‘The burden of the Lord ,' then this is what the Lord says: Because you have said, ‘The burden of the Lord ,' and I specifically told you not to say, ‘The burden of the Lord ,'

I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am Yahweh. They will be My people, and I will be their God because they will return to Me with all their heart.

"Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts says: ‘Because you have not obeyed My words,

They will drink, stagger, and go out of their minds because of the sword I am sending among them."