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