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         <div class="label">18</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">At the Potter&#8217;s House</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go down to the potter&#8217;s house, and there I will give you my message.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So I went down to the potter&#8217;s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.18.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He said, &#8220;Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. &#8220;Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.18.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.18.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.18.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.18.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.18.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now therefore say to the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Look! I am preparing a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. So turn from your evil ways, each one of you, and reform your ways and your actions.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.18.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But they will reply, &#8216;It&#8217;s no use. We will continue with our own plans; we will all follow the stubbornness of our evil hearts.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.18.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.18.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.18.13"><span class="content">&#8220;Inquire among the nations:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.18.13"><span class="content">Who has ever heard anything like this?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.18.13"><span class="content">A most horrible thing has been done</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.18.13"><span class="content">by Virgin Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.18.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.18.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Does the snow of Lebanon</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.18.14"><span class="content">ever vanish from its rocky slopes?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.18.14"><span class="content">Do its cool waters from distant sources</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.18.14"><span class="content">ever stop flowing?</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:14 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.18.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.18.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Yet my people have forgotten me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.18.15"><span class="content">they burn incense to worthless idols,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.18.15"><span class="content">which made them stumble in their ways,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.18.15"><span class="content">in the ancient paths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.18.15"><span class="content">They made them walk in byways,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.18.15"><span class="content">on roads not built up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.18.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.18.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Their land will be an object of horror</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.18.16"><span class="content">and of lasting scorn;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.18.16"><span class="content">all who pass by will be appalled</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.18.16"><span class="content">and will shake their heads.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.18.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.18.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Like a wind from the east,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.18.17"><span class="content">I will scatter them before their enemies;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.18.17"><span class="content">I will show them my back and not my face</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.18.17"><span class="content">in the day of their disaster.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.18.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.18.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They said, &#8220;Come, let&#8217;s make plans against Jeremiah; for the teaching of the law by the priest will not cease, nor will counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophets. So come, let&#8217;s attack him with our tongues and pay no attention to anything he says.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.18.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.18.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Listen to me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.18.19"><span class="content">hear what my accusers are saying!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.18.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.18.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Should good be repaid with evil?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.18.20"><span class="content">Yet they have dug a pit for me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.18.20"><span class="content">Remember that I stood before you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.18.20"><span class="content">and spoke in their behalf</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.18.20"><span class="content">to turn your wrath away from them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.18.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.18.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So give their children over to famine;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.18.21"><span class="content">hand them over to the power of the sword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.18.21"><span class="content">Let their wives be made childless and widows;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.18.21"><span class="content">let their men be put to death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.18.21"><span class="content">their young men slain by the sword in battle.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.18.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.18.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Let a cry be heard from their houses</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.18.22"><span class="content">when you suddenly bring invaders against them,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.18.22"><span class="content">for they have dug a pit to capture me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.18.22"><span class="content">and have hidden snares for my feet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.18.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.18.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, know</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.18.23"><span class="content">all their plots to kill me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.18.23"><span class="content">Do not forgive their crimes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.18.23"><span class="content">or blot out their sins from your sight.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.18.23"><span class="content">Let them be overthrown before you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.18.23"><span class="content">deal with them in the time of your anger.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">19</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8220;Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take along some of the elders of the people and of the priests </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">and go out to the Valley of Ben Hinnom, near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. There proclaim the words I tell you, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and say, &#8216;Hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you kings of Judah and people of Jerusalem. This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Listen! I am going to bring a disaster on this place that will make the ears of everyone who hears of it tingle. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For they have forsaken me and made this a place of foreign gods; they have burned incense in it to gods that neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah ever knew, and they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They have built the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal&#8212;something I did not command or mention, nor did it enter my mind. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So beware, the days are coming, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, when people will no longer call this place Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.19.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;In this place I will ruin</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:7 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">ruin </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">jar </span><span class="ft">(see verses 1 and 10).</span></span></span><span class="content"> the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, at the hands of those who want to kill them, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds and the wild animals. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I will devastate this city and make it an object of horror and scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and will scoff because of all its wounds. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another&#8217;s flesh because their enemies will press the siege so hard against them to destroy them.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.19.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then break the jar while those who go with you are watching, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and say to them, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty says: I will smash this nation and this city just as this potter&#8217;s jar is smashed and cannot be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">This is what I will do to this place and to those who live here, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. I will make this city like Topheth. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The houses in Jerusalem and those of the kings of Judah will be defiled like this place, Topheth&#8212;all the houses where they burned incense on the roofs to all the starry hosts and poured out drink offerings to other gods.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.19.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Jeremiah then returned from Topheth, where the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had sent him to prophesy, and stood in the court of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s temple and said to all the people, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, the God of Israel, says: &#8216;Listen! I am going to bring on this city and all the villages around it every disaster I pronounced against them, because they were stiff-necked and would not listen to my words.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">20</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jeremiah and Pashhur</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.20.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When the priest Pashhur son of Immer, the official in charge of the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.20.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin at the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s temple. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.20.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The next day, when Pashhur released him from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s name for you is not Pashhur, but Terror on Every Side. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.20.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8216;I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends; with your own eyes you will see them fall by the sword of their enemies. I will give all Judah into the hands of the king of Babylon, who will carry them away to Babylon or put them to the sword. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.20.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I will deliver all the wealth of this city into the hands of their enemies&#8212;all its products, all its valuables and all the treasures of the kings of Judah. They will take it away as plunder and carry it off to Babylon. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.20.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house will go into exile to Babylon. There you will die and be buried, you and all your friends to whom you have prophesied lies.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jeremiah&#8217;s Complaint</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.20.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.20.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You deceived</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">persuaded</span></span></span><span class="content"> me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and I was deceived</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">persuaded</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.20.7"><span class="content">you overpowered me and prevailed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.20.7"><span class="content">I am ridiculed all day long;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.20.7"><span class="content">everyone mocks me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.20.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.20.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Whenever I speak, I cry out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.20.8"><span class="content">proclaiming violence and destruction.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.20.8"><span class="content">So the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has brought me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.20.8"><span class="content">insult and reproach all day long.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.20.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.20.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But if I say, &#8220;I will not mention his word</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.20.9"><span class="content">or speak anymore in his name,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.20.9"><span class="content">his word is in my heart like a fire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.20.9"><span class="content">a fire shut up in my bones.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.20.9"><span class="content">I am weary of holding it in;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.20.9"><span class="content">indeed, I cannot.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.20.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.20.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I hear many whispering,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.20.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Terror on every side!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.20.10"><span class="content">Denounce him! Let&#8217;s denounce him!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.20.10"><span class="content">All my friends</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.20.10"><span class="content">are waiting for me to slip, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.20.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Perhaps he will be deceived;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.20.10"><span class="content">then we will prevail over him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.20.10"><span class="content">and take our revenge on him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.20.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.20.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is with me like a mighty warrior;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.20.11"><span class="content">so my persecutors will stumble and not prevail.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.20.11"><span class="content">They will fail and be thoroughly disgraced;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.20.11"><span class="content">their dishonor will never be forgotten.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.20.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.20.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, you who examine the righteous</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.20.12"><span class="content">and probe the heart and mind,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.20.12"><span class="content">let me see your vengeance on them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.20.12"><span class="content">for to you I have committed my cause.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.20.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.20.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Sing to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.20.13"><span class="content">Give praise to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.20.13"><span class="content">He rescues the life of the needy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.20.13"><span class="content">from the hands of the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.20.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.20.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Cursed be the day I was born!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.20.14"><span class="content">May the day my mother bore me not be blessed!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.20.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.20.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Cursed be the man who brought my father the news,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.20.15"><span class="content">who made him very glad, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.20.15"><span class="content">&#8220;A child is born to you&#8212;a son!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.20.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.20.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">May that man be like the towns</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.20.16"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> overthrew without pity.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.20.16"><span class="content">May he hear wailing in the morning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.20.16"><span class="content">a battle cry at noon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.20.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.20.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For he did not kill me in the womb,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.20.17"><span class="content">with my mother as my grave,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.20.17"><span class="content">her womb enlarged forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.20.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.20.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Why did I ever come out of the womb</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.20.18"><span class="content">to see trouble and sorrow</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.20.18"><span class="content">and to end my days in shame?</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">21</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God Rejects Zedekiah&#8217;s Request</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The word came to Jeremiah from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur son of Malkijah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah. They said: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Inquire now of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> for us because Nebuchadnezzar</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:2 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Nebuchadrezzar, </span><span class="ft">of which </span><span class="fqa">Nebuchadnezzar </span><span class="ft">is a variant; here and often in Jeremiah and Ezekiel</span></span></span><span class="content"> king of Babylon is attacking us. Perhaps the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will perform wonders for us as in times past so that he will withdraw from us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.21.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But Jeremiah answered them, &#8220;Tell Zedekiah, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, says: I am about to turn against you the weapons of war that are in your hands, which you are using to fight the king of Babylon and the Babylonians</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldeans</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 9</span></span></span><span class="content"> who are outside the wall besieging you. And I will gather them inside this city. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and a mighty arm in furious anger and in great wrath. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I will strike down those who live in this city&#8212;both man and beast&#8212;and they will die of a terrible plague. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">After that, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, I will give Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials and the people in this city who survive the plague, sword and famine, into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who want to kill them. He will put them to the sword; he will show them no mercy or pity or compassion.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.21.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Furthermore, tell the people, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: See, I am setting before you the way of life and the way of death. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, famine or plague. But whoever goes out and surrenders to the Babylonians who are besieging you will live; they will escape with their lives. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I have determined to do this city harm and not good, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. It will be given into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will destroy it with fire.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.21.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Moreover, say to the royal house of Judah, &#8216;Hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says to you, house of David:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.21.12"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Administer justice every morning;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.21.12"><span class="content">rescue from the hand of the oppressor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.21.12"><span class="content">the one who has been robbed,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.21.12"><span class="content">or my wrath will break out and burn like fire</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.21.12"><span class="content">because of the evil you have done&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.21.12"><span class="content">burn with no one to quench it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.21.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I am against you, Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.21.13"><span class="content">you who live above this valley</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.21.13"><span class="content">on the rocky plateau, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.21.13"><span class="content">you who say, &#8220;Who can come against us?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.21.13"><span class="content">Who can enter our refuge?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.21.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I will punish you as your deeds deserve,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.21.14"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.21.14"><span class="content">I will kindle a fire in your forests</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.21.14"><span class="content">that will consume everything around you.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">22</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Judgment Against Wicked Kings</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8220;Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and proclaim this message there: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8216;Hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> to you, king of Judah, you who sit on David&#8217;s throne&#8212;you, your officials and your people who come through these gates. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For if you are careful to carry out these commands, then kings who sit on David&#8217;s throne will come through the gates of this palace, riding in chariots and on horses, accompanied by their officials and their people. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But if you do not obey these commands, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, I swear by myself that this palace will become a ruin.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says about the palace of the king of Judah:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.22.6"><span class="content">&#8220;Though you are like Gilead to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.22.6"><span class="content">like the summit of Lebanon,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.22.6"><span class="content">I will surely make you like a wasteland,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.22.6"><span class="content">like towns not inhabited.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.22.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I will send destroyers against you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.22.7"><span class="content">each man with his weapons,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.22.7"><span class="content">and they will cut up your fine cedar beams</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.22.7"><span class="content">and throw them into the fire.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.22.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;People from many nations will pass by this city and will ask one another, &#8216;Why has the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> done such a thing to this great city?&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And the answer will be: &#8216;Because they have forsaken the covenant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> their God and have worshiped and served other gods.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.22.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Do not weep for the dead king or mourn his loss;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.22.10"><span class="content">rather, weep bitterly for him who is exiled,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.22.10"><span class="content">because he will never return</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.22.10"><span class="content">nor see his native land again.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.22.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says about Shallum</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:11 </span><span class="ft">Also called </span><span class="fqa">Jehoahaz</span></span></span><span class="content"> son of Josiah, who succeeded his father as king of Judah but has gone from this place: &#8220;He will never return. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He will die in the place where they have led him captive; he will not see this land again.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.22.13"><span class="content">his upper rooms by injustice,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.22.13"><span class="content">making his own people work for nothing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.22.13"><span class="content">not paying them for their labor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.22.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He says, &#8216;I will build myself a great palace</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.22.14"><span class="content">with spacious upper rooms.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.22.14"><span class="content">So he makes large windows in it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.22.14"><span class="content">panels it with cedar</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.22.14"><span class="content">and decorates it in red.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.22.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Does it make you a king</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.22.15"><span class="content">to have more and more cedar?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.22.15"><span class="content">Did not your father have food and drink?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.22.15"><span class="content">He did what was right and just,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.22.15"><span class="content">so all went well with him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.22.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He defended the cause of the poor and needy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.22.16"><span class="content">and so all went well.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.22.16"><span class="content">Is that not what it means to know me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.22.16"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.22.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;But your eyes and your heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.22.17"><span class="content">are set only on dishonest gain,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.22.17"><span class="content">on shedding innocent blood</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.22.17"><span class="content">and on oppression and extortion.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.22.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says about Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.22.18"><span class="content">&#8220;They will not mourn for him:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.22.18"><span class="content">&#8216;Alas, my brother! Alas, my sister!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.22.18"><span class="content">They will not mourn for him:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.22.18"><span class="content">&#8216;Alas, my master! Alas, his splendor!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.22.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He will have the burial of a donkey&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.22.19"><span class="content">dragged away and thrown</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.22.19"><span class="content">outside the gates of Jerusalem.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.22.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go up to Lebanon and cry out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.22.20"><span class="content">let your voice be heard in Bashan,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.22.20"><span class="content">cry out from Abarim,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.22.20"><span class="content">for all your allies are crushed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.22.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">I warned you when you felt secure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.22.21"><span class="content">but you said, &#8216;I will not listen!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.22.21"><span class="content">This has been your way from your youth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.22.21"><span class="content">you have not obeyed me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.22.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The wind will drive all your shepherds away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.22.22"><span class="content">and your allies will go into exile.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.22.22"><span class="content">Then you will be ashamed and disgraced</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.22.22"><span class="content">because of all your wickedness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.22.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">You who live in &#8216;Lebanon,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:23 </span><span class="ft">That is, the palace in Jerusalem (see 1 Kings 7:2)</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.22.23"><span class="content">who are nestled in cedar buildings,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.22.23"><span class="content">how you will groan when pangs come upon you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.22.23"><span class="content">pain like that of a woman in labor!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.22.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;As surely as I live,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;even if you, Jehoiachin</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:24 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Koniah, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Jehoiachin</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 28</span></span></span><span class="content"> son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on my right hand, I would still pull you off. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">I will deliver you into the hands of those who want to kill you, those you fear&#8212;Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the Babylonians.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:25 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldeans</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.22.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another country, where neither of you was born, and there you both will die. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.22.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">You will never come back to the land you long to return to.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.22.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JER.22.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Is this man Jehoiachin a despised, broken pot,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JER.22.28"><span class="content">an object no one wants?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JER.22.28"><span class="content">Why will he and his children be hurled out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JER.22.28"><span class="content">cast into a land they do not know?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JER.22.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JER.22.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">O land, land, land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JER.22.29"><span class="content">hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JER.22.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JER.22.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JER.22.30"><span class="content">&#8220;Record this man as if childless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JER.22.30"><span class="content">a man who will not prosper in his lifetime,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JER.22.30"><span class="content">for none of his offspring will prosper,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JER.22.30"><span class="content">none will sit on the throne of David</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JER.22.30"><span class="content">or rule anymore in Judah.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">52</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 52</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 52:1-9 is numbered 52:3-11.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">maskil</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> of David. When Doeg the Edomite had gone to Saul and told him: &#8220;David has gone to the house of Ahimelek.&#8221;</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.52.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Why do you boast of evil, you mighty hero?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.52.1"><span class="content">Why do you boast all day long,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.52.1"><span class="content">you who are a disgrace in the eyes of God?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.52.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.52.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You who practice deceit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.52.2"><span class="content">your tongue plots destruction;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.52.2"><span class="content">it is like a sharpened razor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.52.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.52.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You love evil rather than good,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.52.3"><span class="content">falsehood rather than speaking the truth.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">52:3 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 5.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.52.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.52.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You love every harmful word,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.52.4"><span class="content">you deceitful tongue!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.52.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.52.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.52.5"><span class="content">He will snatch you up and pluck you from your tent;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.52.5"><span class="content">he will uproot you from the land of the living.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.52.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.52.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The righteous will see and fear;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.52.6"><span class="content">they will laugh at you, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.52.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.52.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Here now is the man</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.52.7"><span class="content">who did not make God his stronghold</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.52.7"><span class="content">but trusted in his great wealth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.52.7"><span class="content">and grew strong by destroying others!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.52.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.52.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But I am like an olive tree</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.52.8"><span class="content">flourishing in the house of God;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.52.8"><span class="content">I trust in God&#8217;s unfailing love</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.52.8"><span class="content">for ever and ever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.52.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.52.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For what you have done I will always praise you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.52.9"><span class="content">in the presence of your faithful people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.52.9"><span class="content">And I will hope in your name,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.52.9"><span class="content">for your name is good.</span></span></div>
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