See to Behold

24-JER/01.usfm

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 \v 17 Get yourself ready! Stand up and say to them whatever I command you. Do not be shattered before them, or I will shatter you before them!
-\v 18 See! Today I have made you a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.
+\v 18 Behold! Today I have made you a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.
 \v 19 They will fight against you, but they will not defeat you, for I will be with you to rescue you—this is Yahweh's declaration."

24-JER/04.usfm

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 \v 19 My heart! My heart! I am in anguish in my heart. My heart is turbulent within me. I cannot keep quiet for I hear the sound of the horn, an alarm for battle.
-\v 20 Collapse after collapse is proclaimed, for all the land is suddenly devastated. They devastate my tabernacle and my tent abruptly.
+\v 20 Disaster follows after disaster; for all the land lies in ruins. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, my curtains in a moment.
 
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 \v 21 How long will I see the standard? Will I hear the sound of the horn?
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-\v 23 I saw the land, and see! It was formless and empty. For there was no light for the heavens.
+\v 23 I saw the land. Behold! It was formless and empty. For there was no light for the heavens.
 \v 24 I looked at the mountains. Behold, they were trembling, and all the hills were shaking about.
 \v 25 I looked. Behold, there was no one, and all the birds of the heavens had fled.
 \v 26 I looked. Behold, the orchards were a wilderness and all the cities had been pulled down before Yahweh, before the fury of his wrath."

24-JER/05.usfm

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 \v 14 So Yahweh, the God of hosts says this, "Because you have said this, see,
 \q I am about to place my word in your mouth. It will be like a fire, and this people will be like wood! For it will consume them.
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-\v 15 See! I am about to bring a nation against you from far away, house of Israel—this is Yahweh's declaration—
+\v 15 Behold! I am about to bring a nation against you from far away, house of Israel—this is Yahweh's declaration—
 \q it is a lasting nation, an ancient nation! It is a nation whose language you do not know,
 \q nor will you understand what they say.
 

24-JER/08.usfm

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 \q Indeed, see! The deceitful pen of the scribes has created deceit.
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 \v 9 The wise men will be ashamed. They are dismayed and trapped.
-\q See! They reject Yahweh's word, so what use is their wisdom?
+\q Behold! They reject Yahweh's word, so what use is their wisdom?
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 \v 10 So I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who will possess them,
 \q for from the youngest to the greatest, all of them are exceedingly greedy! From the prophet to the priest, all of them practice deceit.
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 \v 18 My sorrow has no end, and my heart is sick.
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-\v 19 See! The screaming voice of the daughter of my people from a far distant land! Is not Yahweh in Zion?
+\v 19 Behold! The screaming voice of the daughter of my people from a far distant land! Is not Yahweh in Zion?
 \q Or is not her king in her? Why then would they offend me with their carved figures and foreign worthless idols?
 
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24-JER/14.usfm

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-\v 13 Then I said, "Oh, Lord Yahweh! See! The prophets are saying to the people, 'You will not see the sword; there will be no famine for you, for I will give you true security in this place.'"
+\v 13 Then I said, "Oh, Lord Yahweh! Behold! The prophets are saying to the people, 'You will not see the sword; there will be no famine for you, for I will give you true security in this place.'"
 \v 14 Yahweh said to me, "The prophets prophesy deceit in my name. I did not send them out, nor did I give them any command or speak to them. But deceitful visions and useless, deceitful divination coming from their own minds are what they are prophesying to you."
 
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24-JER/16.usfm

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-\v 16 See! I will send for many fishermen—this is Yahweh's declaration—so they will fish the people out. After this I will send for many hunters so they will hunt for them among all the mountains and hills, and in rock crevices.
+\v 16 Behold! I will send for many fishermen—this is Yahweh's declaration—so they will fish the people out. After this I will send for many hunters so they will hunt for them among all the mountains and hills, and in rock crevices.
 \v 17 For my eye is on all their ways; they cannot be hidden from before me. Their iniquity cannot be concealed from before my eyes.
 \v 18 I will first pay back double for their iniquity and sin for their polluting of my land with their disgusting idol figures, and for their filling my inheritance with their disgusting idols."
 

24-JER/18.usfm

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 \v 5 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
-\v 6 "Should I not be able to act like this potter with you, house of Israel?—this is Yahweh's declaration. See! Like clay in a potter's hand—that is how you are in my hand, house of Israel.
+\v 6 "Should I not be able to act like this potter with you, house of Israel?—this is Yahweh's declaration. Behold! Like clay in a potter's hand—that is how you are in my hand, house of Israel.
 \v 7 At one moment, I may proclaim something about a nation or a kingdom, that I will drive it out, tear it down, or destroy it.
 \v 8 But if the nation about which I have made that proclamation turns from its evil, then I will relent from the disaster that I was planning to bring upon it.