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         <div class="label">11</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Covenant Is Broken</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.11.1"><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.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Listen to the terms of this covenant and tell them to the people of Judah and to those who live in Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Tell them that this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, says: &#8216;Cursed is the one who does not obey the terms of this covenant&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">the terms I commanded your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, out of the iron-smelting furnace.&#8217; I said, &#8216;Obey me and do everything I command you, and you will be my people, and I will be your God. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then I will fulfill the oath I swore to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey&#8217;&#8212;the land you possess today.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.11.5"><span class="content">I answered, &#8220;Amen, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.11.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;Proclaim all these words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: &#8216;Listen to the terms of this covenant and follow them. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">From the time I brought your ancestors up from Egypt until today, I warned them again and again, saying, &#8220;Obey me.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But they did not listen or pay attention; instead, they followed the stubbornness of their evil hearts. So I brought on them all the curses of the covenant I had commanded them to follow but that they did not keep.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.11.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;There is a conspiracy among the people of Judah and those who live in Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They have returned to the sins of their ancestors, who refused to listen to my words. They have followed other gods to serve them. Both Israel and Judah have broken the covenant I made with their ancestors. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8216;I will bring on them a disaster they cannot escape. Although they cry out to me, I will not listen to them. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The towns of Judah and the people of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they will not help them at all when disaster strikes. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">You, Judah, have as many gods as you have towns; and the altars you have set up to burn incense to that shameful god Baal are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.11.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not pray for this people or offer any plea or petition for them, because I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their distress.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.11.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;What is my beloved doing in my temple</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.11.15"><span class="content">as she, with many others, works out her evil schemes?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.11.15"><span class="content">Can consecrated meat avert your punishment?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.11.15"><span class="content">When you engage in your wickedness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.11.15"><span class="content">then you rejoice.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Could consecrated meat avert your punishment? / Then you would rejoice</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.11.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> called you a thriving olive tree</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.11.16"><span class="content">with fruit beautiful in form.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.11.16"><span class="content">But with the roar of a mighty storm</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.11.16"><span class="content">he will set it on fire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.11.16"><span class="content">and its branches will be broken.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.11.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, who planted you, has decreed disaster for you, because the people of both Israel and Judah have done evil and aroused my anger by burning incense to Baal.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Plot Against Jeremiah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.11.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> revealed their plot to me, I knew it, for at that time he showed me what they were doing. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter; I did not realize that they had plotted against me, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.11.19"><span class="content">&#8220;Let us destroy the tree and its fruit;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.11.19"><span class="content">let us cut him off from the land of the living,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.11.19"><span class="content">that his name be remembered no more.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.11.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, who judge righteously</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.11.20"><span class="content">and test the heart and mind,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.11.20"><span class="content">let me see your vengeance on them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.11.20"><span class="content">for to you I have committed my cause.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.11.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.11.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says about the people of Anathoth who are threatening to kill you, saying, &#8220;Do not prophesy in the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> or you will die by our hands&#8221;&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.11.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty says: &#8220;I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.11.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Not even a remnant will be left to them, because I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="JER.12">
         <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jeremiah&#8217;s Complaint</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">You are always righteous, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.12.1"><span class="content">when I bring a case before you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.12.1"><span class="content">Yet I would speak with you about your justice:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.12.1"><span class="content">Why does the way of the wicked prosper?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.12.1"><span class="content">Why do all the faithless live at ease?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.12.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You have planted them, and they have taken root;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.12.2"><span class="content">they grow and bear fruit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.12.2"><span class="content">You are always on their lips</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.12.2"><span class="content">but far from their hearts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.12.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Yet you know me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.12.3"><span class="content">you see me and test my thoughts about you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.12.3"><span class="content">Drag them off like sheep to be butchered!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.12.3"><span class="content">Set them apart for the day of slaughter!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.12.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">How long will the land lie parched</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="content">and the grass in every field be withered?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="content">Because those who live in it are wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="content">the animals and birds have perished.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="content">Moreover, the people are saying,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="content">&#8220;He will not see what happens to us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God&#8217;s Answer</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;If you have raced with men on foot</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.12.5"><span class="content">and they have worn you out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.12.5"><span class="content">how can you compete with horses?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.12.5"><span class="content">If you stumble</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">you feel secure only</span></span></span><span class="content"> in safe country,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.12.5"><span class="content">how will you manage in the thickets by</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the flooding of</span></span></span><span class="content"> the Jordan?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.12.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Your relatives, members of your own family&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.12.6"><span class="content">even they have betrayed you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.12.6"><span class="content">they have raised a loud cry against you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.12.6"><span class="content">Do not trust them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.12.6"><span class="content">though they speak well of you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.12.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will forsake my house,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.12.7"><span class="content">abandon my inheritance;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.12.7"><span class="content">I will give the one I love</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.12.7"><span class="content">into the hands of her enemies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.12.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">My inheritance has become to me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.12.8"><span class="content">like a lion in the forest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.12.8"><span class="content">She roars at me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.12.8"><span class="content">therefore I hate her.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.12.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Has not my inheritance become to me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.12.9"><span class="content">like a speckled bird of prey</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.12.9"><span class="content">that other birds of prey surround and attack?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.12.9"><span class="content">Go and gather all the wild beasts;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.12.9"><span class="content">bring them to devour.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.12.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Many shepherds will ruin my vineyard</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.12.10"><span class="content">and trample down my field;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.12.10"><span class="content">they will turn my pleasant field</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.12.10"><span class="content">into a desolate wasteland.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.12.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">It will be made a wasteland,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.12.11"><span class="content">parched and desolate before me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.12.11"><span class="content">the whole land will be laid waste</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.12.11"><span class="content">because there is no one who cares.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.12.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Over all the barren heights in the desert</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.12.12"><span class="content">destroyers will swarm,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.12.12"><span class="content">for the sword of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will devour</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.12.12"><span class="content">from one end of the land to the other;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.12.12"><span class="content">no one will be safe.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.12.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They will sow wheat but reap thorns;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.12.13"><span class="content">they will wear themselves out but gain nothing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.12.13"><span class="content">They will bear the shame of their harvest</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.12.13"><span class="content">because of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s fierce anger.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.12.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8220;As for all my wicked neighbors who seize the inheritance I gave my people Israel, I will uproot them from their lands and I will uproot the people of Judah from among them. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But after I uproot them, I will again have compassion and will bring each of them back to their own inheritance and their own country. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And if they learn well the ways of my people and swear by my name, saying, &#8216;As surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> lives&#8217;&#8212;even as they once taught my people to swear by Baal&#8212;then they will be established among my people. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But if any nation does not listen, I will completely uproot and destroy it,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">13</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Linen Belt</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.13.1"><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"> said to me: &#8220;Go and buy a linen belt and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So I bought a belt, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> directed, and put it around my waist.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.13.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.13.3"><span class="label">3</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 a second time: </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Take the belt you bought and are wearing around your waist, and go now to Perath</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:4 </span><span class="ft">Or possibly </span><span class="fqa">to the Euphrates</span><span class="ft">; similarly in verses 5-7</span></span></span><span class="content"> and hide it there in a crevice in the rocks.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So I went and hid it at Perath, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> told me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.13.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Many days later the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;Go now to Perath and get the belt I told you to hide there.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So I went to Perath and dug up the belt and took it from the place where I had hidden it, but now it was ruined and completely useless.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.13.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.13.8"><span class="label">8</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 v9" data-usfm="JER.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8216;In the same way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">These wicked people, who refuse to listen to my words, who follow the stubbornness of their hearts and go after other gods to serve and worship them, will be like this belt&#8212;completely useless! </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For as a belt is bound around the waist, so I bound all the people of Israel and all the people of Judah to me,&#8217; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8216;to be my people for my renown and praise and honor. But they have not listened.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Wineskins</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.13.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Say to them: &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, says: Every wineskin should be filled with wine.&#8217; And if they say to you, &#8216;Don&#8217;t we know that every wineskin should be filled with wine?&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">then tell them, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: I am going to fill with drunkenness all who live in this land, including the kings who sit on David&#8217;s throne, the priests, the prophets and all those living in Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I will smash them one against the other, parents and children alike, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. I will allow no pity or mercy or compassion to keep me from destroying them.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Threat of Captivity</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.13.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Hear and pay attention,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.13.15"><span class="content">do not be arrogant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.13.15"><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has spoken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.13.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Give glory to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.13.16"><span class="content">before he brings the darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.13.16"><span class="content">before your feet stumble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.13.16"><span class="content">on the darkening hills.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.13.16"><span class="content">You hope for light,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.13.16"><span class="content">but he will turn it to utter darkness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.13.16"><span class="content">and change it to deep gloom.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.13.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.13.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">If you do not listen,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.13.17"><span class="content">I will weep in secret</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.13.17"><span class="content">because of your pride;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.13.17"><span class="content">my eyes will weep bitterly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.13.17"><span class="content">overflowing with tears,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.13.17"><span class="content">because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s flock will be taken captive.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.13.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.13.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Say to the king and to the queen mother,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.13.18"><span class="content">&#8220;Come down from your thrones,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.13.18"><span class="content">for your glorious crowns</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.13.18"><span class="content">will fall from your heads.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.13.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.13.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The cities in the Negev will be shut up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.13.19"><span class="content">and there will be no one to open them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.13.19"><span class="content">All Judah will be carried into exile,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.13.19"><span class="content">carried completely away.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.13.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.13.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Look up and see</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.13.20"><span class="content">those who are coming from the north.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.13.20"><span class="content">Where is the flock that was entrusted to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.13.20"><span class="content">the sheep of which you boasted?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.13.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.13.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">What will you say when the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> sets over you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.13.21"><span class="content">those you cultivated as your special allies?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.13.21"><span class="content">Will not pain grip you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.13.21"><span class="content">like that of a woman in labor?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.13.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.13.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">And if you ask yourself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.13.22"><span class="content">&#8220;Why has this happened to me?&#8221;&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.13.22"><span class="content">it is because of your many sins</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.13.22"><span class="content">that your skirts have been torn off</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.13.22"><span class="content">and your body mistreated.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.13.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.13.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Can an Ethiopian</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:23 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Cushite </span><span class="ft">(probably a person from the upper Nile region)</span></span></span><span class="content"> change his skin</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.13.23"><span class="content">or a leopard its spots?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.13.23"><span class="content">Neither can you do good</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.13.23"><span class="content">who are accustomed to doing evil.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.13.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.13.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will scatter you like chaff</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.13.24"><span class="content">driven by the desert wind.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.13.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.13.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">This is your lot,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.13.25"><span class="content">the portion I have decreed for you,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.13.25"><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 v25" data-usfm="JER.13.25"><span class="content">&#8220;because you have forgotten me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.13.25"><span class="content">and trusted in false gods.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.13.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.13.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">I will pull up your skirts over your face</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.13.26"><span class="content">that your shame may be seen&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.13.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.13.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">your adulteries and lustful neighings,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.13.27"><span class="content">your shameless prostitution!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.13.27"><span class="content">I have seen your detestable acts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.13.27"><span class="content">on the hills and in the fields.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.13.27"><span class="content">Woe to you, Jerusalem!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.13.27"><span class="content">How long will you be unclean?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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