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      <div class="chapter ch3" data-usfm="JER.3">
         <div class="label">3</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;If a man divorces his wife</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.3.1"><span class="content">and she leaves him and marries another man,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.3.1"><span class="content">should he return to her again?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.3.1"><span class="content">Would not the land be completely defiled?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.3.1"><span class="content">But you have lived as a prostitute with many lovers&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.3.1"><span class="content">would you now return to me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.3.1"><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 v1" data-usfm="JER.3.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Look up to the barren heights and see.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.3.2"><span class="content">Is there any place where you have not been ravished?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.3.2"><span class="content">By the roadside you sat waiting for lovers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.3.2"><span class="content">sat like a nomad in the desert.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.3.2"><span class="content">You have defiled the land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.3.2"><span class="content">with your prostitution and wickedness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.3.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Therefore the showers have been withheld,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.3.3"><span class="content">and no spring rains have fallen.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.3.3"><span class="content">Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.3.3"><span class="content">you refuse to blush with shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Have you not just called to me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.3.4"><span class="content">&#8216;My Father, my friend from my youth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">will you always be angry?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.3.5"><span class="content">Will your wrath continue forever?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.3.5"><span class="content">This is how you talk,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.3.5"><span class="content">but you do all the evil you can.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Unfaithful Israel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">During the reign of King Josiah, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has committed adultery there. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I thought that after she had done all this she would return to me but she did not, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and committed adultery. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Because Israel&#8217;s immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">In spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, but only in pretense,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;Faithless Israel is more righteous than unfaithful Judah. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Go, proclaim this message toward the north:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.3.12"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Return, faithless Israel,&#8217; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.3.12"><span class="content">&#8216;I will frown on you no longer,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.3.12"><span class="content">for I am faithful,&#8217; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.3.12"><span class="content">&#8216;I will not be angry forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Only acknowledge your guilt&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.3.13"><span class="content">you have rebelled against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.3.13"><span class="content">you have scattered your favors to foreign gods</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.3.13"><span class="content">under every spreading tree,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.3.13"><span class="content">and have not obeyed me,&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.3.13"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Return, faithless people,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;for I am your husband. I will choose you&#8212;one from a town and two from a clan&#8212;and bring you to Zion. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will lead you with knowledge and understanding. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">In those days, when your numbers have increased greatly in the land,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;people will no longer say, &#8216;The ark of the covenant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217; It will never enter their minds or be remembered; it will not be missed, nor will another one be made. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">At that time they will call Jerusalem The Throne of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and all nations will gather in Jerusalem to honor the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. No longer will they follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">In those days the people of Judah will join the people of Israel, and together they will come from a northern land to the land I gave your ancestors as an inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.3.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;I myself said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.3.19"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;How gladly would I treat you like my children</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.3.19"><span class="content">and give you a pleasant land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.3.19"><span class="content">the most beautiful inheritance of any nation.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.3.19"><span class="content">I thought you would call me &#8216;Father&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.3.19"><span class="content">and not turn away from following me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.3.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But like a woman unfaithful to her husband,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.3.20"><span class="content">so you, Israel, have been unfaithful to me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.3.20"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.3.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">A cry is heard on the barren heights,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.3.21"><span class="content">the weeping and pleading of the people of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.3.21"><span class="content">because they have perverted their ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.3.21"><span class="content">and have forgotten the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> their God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.3.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Return, faithless people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.3.22"><span class="content">I will cure you of backsliding.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.3.22"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, we will come to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.3.22"><span class="content">for you are the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.3.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Surely the idolatrous commotion on the hills</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.3.23"><span class="content">and mountains is a deception;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.3.23"><span class="content">surely in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.3.23"><span class="content">is the salvation of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.3.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.3.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">From our youth shameful gods have consumed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.3.24"><span class="content">the fruits of our ancestors&#8217; labor&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.3.24"><span class="content">their flocks and herds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.3.24"><span class="content">their sons and daughters.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.3.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.3.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Let us lie down in our shame,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.3.25"><span class="content">and let our disgrace cover us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.3.25"><span class="content">We have sinned against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.3.25"><span class="content">both we and our ancestors;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.3.25"><span class="content">from our youth till this day</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.3.25"><span class="content">we have not obeyed the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch1" data-usfm="ZEP.1">
         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ZEP.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> that came to Zephaniah son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, during the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah:</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Judgment on the Whole Earth in the Day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ZEP.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEP.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will sweep away everything</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEP.1.2"><span class="content">from the face of the earth,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEP.1.2"><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 v2" data-usfm="ZEP.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEP.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will sweep away both man and beast;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEP.1.3"><span class="content">I will sweep away the birds in the sky</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEP.1.3"><span class="content">and the fish in the sea&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEP.1.3"><span class="content">and the idols that cause the wicked to stumble.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:3 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEP.1.3"><span class="content">&#8220;When I destroy all mankind</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEP.1.3"><span class="content">on the face of the earth,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEP.1.3"><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 v3" data-usfm="ZEP.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ZEP.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will stretch out my hand against Judah</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ZEP.1.4"><span class="content">and against all who live in Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ZEP.1.4"><span class="content">I will destroy every remnant of Baal worship in this place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ZEP.1.4"><span class="content">the very names of the idolatrous priests&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ZEP.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEP.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">those who bow down on the roofs</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEP.1.5"><span class="content">to worship the starry host,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEP.1.5"><span class="content">those who bow down and swear by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEP.1.5"><span class="content">and who also swear by Molek,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:5 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Malkam</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEP.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEP.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">those who turn back from following the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEP.1.6"><span class="content">and neither seek the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> nor inquire of him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEP.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEP.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Be silent before the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEP.1.7"><span class="content">for the day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is near.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEP.1.7"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has prepared a sacrifice;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEP.1.7"><span class="content">he has consecrated those he has invited.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEP.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEP.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;On the day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s sacrifice</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEP.1.8"><span class="content">I will punish the officials</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEP.1.8"><span class="content">and the king&#8217;s sons</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEP.1.8"><span class="content">and all those clad</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEP.1.8"><span class="content">in foreign clothes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEP.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEP.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">On that day I will punish</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEP.1.9"><span class="content">all who avoid stepping on the threshold,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:9 </span><span class="ft">See 1 Samuel 5:5.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEP.1.9"><span class="content">who fill the temple of their gods</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEP.1.9"><span class="content">with violence and deceit.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEP.1.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ZEP.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;On that day,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ZEP.1.10"><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 v10" data-usfm="ZEP.1.10"><span class="content">&#8220;a cry will go up from the Fish Gate,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ZEP.1.10"><span class="content">wailing from the New Quarter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ZEP.1.10"><span class="content">and a loud crash from the hills.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ZEP.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ZEP.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Wail, you who live in the market district</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the Mortar</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ZEP.1.11"><span class="content">all your merchants will be wiped out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ZEP.1.11"><span class="content">all who trade with</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in</span></span></span><span class="content"> silver will be destroyed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ZEP.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ZEP.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ZEP.1.12"><span class="content">and punish those who are complacent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ZEP.1.12"><span class="content">who are like wine left on its dregs,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ZEP.1.12"><span class="content">who think, &#8216;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will do nothing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ZEP.1.12"><span class="content">either good or bad.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ZEP.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ZEP.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Their wealth will be plundered,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ZEP.1.13"><span class="content">their houses demolished.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ZEP.1.13"><span class="content">Though they build houses,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ZEP.1.13"><span class="content">they will not live in them;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ZEP.1.13"><span class="content">though they plant vineyards,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ZEP.1.13"><span class="content">they will not drink the wine.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ZEP.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ZEP.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The great day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is near&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ZEP.1.14"><span class="content">near and coming quickly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ZEP.1.14"><span class="content">The cry on the day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is bitter;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ZEP.1.14"><span class="content">the Mighty Warrior shouts his battle cry.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ZEP.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ZEP.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">That day will be a day of wrath&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ZEP.1.15"><span class="content">a day of distress and anguish,</span></span></div><div class="q3"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ZEP.1.15"><span class="content">a day of trouble and ruin,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ZEP.1.15"><span class="content">a day of darkness and gloom,</span></span></div><div class="q3"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ZEP.1.15"><span class="content">a day of clouds and blackness&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ZEP.1.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ZEP.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">a day of trumpet and battle cry</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ZEP.1.16"><span class="content">against the fortified cities</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ZEP.1.16"><span class="content">and against the corner towers.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ZEP.1.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ZEP.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will bring such distress on all people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ZEP.1.17"><span class="content">that they will grope about like those who are blind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ZEP.1.17"><span class="content">because they have sinned against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ZEP.1.17"><span class="content">Their blood will be poured out like dust</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ZEP.1.17"><span class="content">and their entrails like dung.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ZEP.1.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ZEP.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Neither their silver nor their gold</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ZEP.1.18"><span class="content">will be able to save them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ZEP.1.18"><span class="content">on the day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s wrath.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ZEP.1.18"><span class="content">In the fire of his jealousy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ZEP.1.18"><span class="content">the whole earth will be consumed,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ZEP.1.18"><span class="content">for he will make a sudden end</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ZEP.1.18"><span class="content">of all who live on the earth.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Judah and Jerusalem Judged Along With the Nations</span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Judah Summoned to Repent</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ZEP.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Gather together, gather yourselves together,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ZEP.2.1"><span class="content">you shameful nation,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ZEP.2.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEP.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">before the decree takes effect</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEP.2.2"><span class="content">and that day passes like windblown chaff,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEP.2.2"><span class="content">before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s fierce anger</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEP.2.2"><span class="content">comes upon you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEP.2.2"><span class="content">before the day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s wrath</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEP.2.2"><span class="content">comes upon you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEP.2.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEP.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Seek the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, all you humble of the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEP.2.3"><span class="content">you who do what he commands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEP.2.3"><span class="content">Seek righteousness, seek humility;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEP.2.3"><span class="content">perhaps you will be sheltered</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEP.2.3"><span class="content">on the day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s anger.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Philistia</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEP.2.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ZEP.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Gaza will be abandoned</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ZEP.2.4"><span class="content">and Ashkelon left in ruins.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ZEP.2.4"><span class="content">At midday Ashdod will be emptied</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ZEP.2.4"><span class="content">and Ekron uprooted.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ZEP.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEP.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Woe to you who live by the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEP.2.5"><span class="content">you Kerethite people;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEP.2.5"><span class="content">the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is against you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEP.2.5"><span class="content">Canaan, land of the Philistines.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEP.2.5"><span class="content">He says, &#8220;I will destroy you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEP.2.5"><span class="content">and none will be left.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEP.2.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEP.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The land by the sea will become pastures</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEP.2.6"><span class="content">having wells for shepherds</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEP.2.6"><span class="content">and pens for flocks.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEP.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEP.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">That land will belong</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEP.2.7"><span class="content">to the remnant of the people of Judah;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEP.2.7"><span class="content">there they will find pasture.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEP.2.7"><span class="content">In the evening they will lie down</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEP.2.7"><span class="content">in the houses of Ashkelon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEP.2.7"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> their God will care for them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEP.2.7"><span class="content">he will restore their fortunes.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">will bring back their captives</span></span></span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Moab and Ammon</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEP.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEP.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have heard the insults of Moab</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEP.2.8"><span class="content">and the taunts of the Ammonites,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEP.2.8"><span class="content">who insulted my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEP.2.8"><span class="content">and made threats against their land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEP.2.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEP.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Therefore, as surely as I live,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEP.2.9"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEP.2.9"><span class="content">the God of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEP.2.9"><span class="content">&#8220;surely Moab will become like Sodom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEP.2.9"><span class="content">the Ammonites like Gomorrah&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEP.2.9"><span class="content">a place of weeds and salt pits,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEP.2.9"><span class="content">a wasteland forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEP.2.9"><span class="content">The remnant of my people will plunder them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEP.2.9"><span class="content">the survivors of my nation will inherit their land.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEP.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ZEP.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">This is what they will get in return for their pride,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ZEP.2.10"><span class="content">for insulting and mocking</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ZEP.2.10"><span class="content">the people of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ZEP.2.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ZEP.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will be awesome to them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ZEP.2.11"><span class="content">when he destroys all the gods of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ZEP.2.11"><span class="content">Distant nations will bow down to him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ZEP.2.11"><span class="content">all of them in their own lands.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Cush</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ZEP.2.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ZEP.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;You Cushites,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:12 </span><span class="ft">That is, people from the upper Nile region</span></span></span><span class="content"> too,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ZEP.2.12"><span class="content">will be slain by my sword.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Assyria</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ZEP.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ZEP.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He will stretch out his hand against the north</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ZEP.2.13"><span class="content">and destroy Assyria,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ZEP.2.13"><span class="content">leaving Nineveh utterly desolate</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ZEP.2.13"><span class="content">and dry as the desert.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ZEP.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ZEP.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Flocks and herds will lie down there,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ZEP.2.14"><span class="content">creatures of every kind.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ZEP.2.14"><span class="content">The desert owl and the screech owl</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ZEP.2.14"><span class="content">will roost on her columns.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ZEP.2.14"><span class="content">Their hooting will echo through the windows,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ZEP.2.14"><span class="content">rubble will fill the doorways,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ZEP.2.14"><span class="content">the beams of cedar will be exposed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ZEP.2.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ZEP.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">This is the city of revelry</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ZEP.2.15"><span class="content">that lived in safety.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ZEP.2.15"><span class="content">She said to herself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ZEP.2.15"><span class="content">&#8220;I am the one! And there is none besides me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ZEP.2.15"><span class="content">What a ruin she has become,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ZEP.2.15"><span class="content">a lair for wild beasts!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ZEP.2.15"><span class="content">All who pass by her scoff</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ZEP.2.15"><span class="content">and shake their fists.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch3" data-usfm="ZEP.3">
         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Jerusalem</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ZEP.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Woe to the city of oppressors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ZEP.3.1"><span class="content">rebellious and defiled!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ZEP.3.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEP.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">She obeys no one,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEP.3.2"><span class="content">she accepts no correction.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEP.3.2"><span class="content">She does not trust in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEP.3.2"><span class="content">she does not draw near to her God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEP.3.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEP.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Her officials within her</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEP.3.3"><span class="content">are roaring lions;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEP.3.3"><span class="content">her rulers are evening wolves,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEP.3.3"><span class="content">who leave nothing for the morning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEP.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ZEP.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Her prophets are unprincipled;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ZEP.3.4"><span class="content">they are treacherous people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ZEP.3.4"><span class="content">Her priests profane the sanctuary</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ZEP.3.4"><span class="content">and do violence to the law.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ZEP.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEP.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> within her is righteous;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEP.3.5"><span class="content">he does no wrong.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEP.3.5"><span class="content">Morning by morning he dispenses his justice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEP.3.5"><span class="content">and every new day he does not fail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEP.3.5"><span class="content">yet the unrighteous know no shame.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Jerusalem Remains Unrepentant</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEP.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEP.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have destroyed nations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEP.3.6"><span class="content">their strongholds are demolished.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEP.3.6"><span class="content">I have left their streets deserted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEP.3.6"><span class="content">with no one passing through.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEP.3.6"><span class="content">Their cities are laid waste;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEP.3.6"><span class="content">they are deserted and empty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEP.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEP.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Of Jerusalem I thought,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEP.3.7"><span class="content">&#8216;Surely you will fear me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEP.3.7"><span class="content">and accept correction!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEP.3.7"><span class="content">Then her place of refuge</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">her sanctuary</span></span></span><span class="content"> would not be destroyed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEP.3.7"><span class="content">nor all my punishments come upon</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">all those I appointed over</span></span></span><span class="content"> her.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEP.3.7"><span class="content">But they were still eager</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEP.3.7"><span class="content">to act corruptly in all they did.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEP.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEP.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Therefore wait for me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEP.3.8"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEP.3.8"><span class="content">&#8220;for the day I will stand up to testify.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:8 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint and Syriac; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">will rise up to plunder</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEP.3.8"><span class="content">I have decided to assemble the nations,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEP.3.8"><span class="content">to gather the kingdoms</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEP.3.8"><span class="content">and to pour out my wrath on them&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEP.3.8"><span class="content">all my fierce anger.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEP.3.8"><span class="content">The whole world will be consumed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEP.3.8"><span class="content">by the fire of my jealous anger.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Restoration of Israel&#8217;s Remnant</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEP.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEP.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then I will purify the lips of the peoples,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEP.3.9"><span class="content">that all of them may call on the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEP.3.9"><span class="content">and serve him shoulder to shoulder.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEP.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ZEP.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">From beyond the rivers of Cush</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:10 </span><span class="ft">That is, the upper Nile region</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ZEP.3.10"><span class="content">my worshipers, my scattered people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ZEP.3.10"><span class="content">will bring me offerings.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ZEP.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ZEP.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">On that day you, Jerusalem, will not be put to shame</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ZEP.3.11"><span class="content">for all the wrongs you have done to me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ZEP.3.11"><span class="content">because I will remove from you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ZEP.3.11"><span class="content">your arrogant boasters.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ZEP.3.11"><span class="content">Never again will you be haughty</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ZEP.3.11"><span class="content">on my holy hill.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ZEP.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ZEP.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But I will leave within you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ZEP.3.12"><span class="content">the meek and humble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ZEP.3.12"><span class="content">The remnant of Israel</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ZEP.3.12"><span class="content">will trust in the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ZEP.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ZEP.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They will do no wrong;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ZEP.3.13"><span class="content">they will tell no lies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ZEP.3.13"><span class="content">A deceitful tongue</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ZEP.3.13"><span class="content">will not be found in their mouths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ZEP.3.13"><span class="content">They will eat and lie down</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ZEP.3.13"><span class="content">and no one will make them afraid.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ZEP.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ZEP.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Sing, Daughter Zion;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ZEP.3.14"><span class="content">shout aloud, Israel!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ZEP.3.14"><span class="content">Be glad and rejoice with all your heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ZEP.3.14"><span class="content">Daughter Jerusalem!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ZEP.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ZEP.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has taken away your punishment,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ZEP.3.15"><span class="content">he has turned back your enemy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ZEP.3.15"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the King of Israel, is with you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ZEP.3.15"><span class="content">never again will you fear any harm.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ZEP.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ZEP.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">On that day</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ZEP.3.16"><span class="content">they will say to Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ZEP.3.16"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not fear, Zion;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ZEP.3.16"><span class="content">do not let your hands hang limp.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ZEP.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ZEP.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God is with you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ZEP.3.17"><span class="content">the Mighty Warrior who saves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ZEP.3.17"><span class="content">He will take great delight in you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ZEP.3.17"><span class="content">in his love he will no longer rebuke you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ZEP.3.17"><span class="content">but will rejoice over you with singing.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ZEP.3.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ZEP.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will remove from you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ZEP.3.18"><span class="content">all who mourn over the loss of your appointed festivals,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ZEP.3.18"><span class="content">which is a burden and reproach for you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ZEP.3.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ZEP.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">At that time I will deal</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ZEP.3.19"><span class="content">with all who oppressed you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ZEP.3.19"><span class="content">I will rescue the lame;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ZEP.3.19"><span class="content">I will gather the exiles.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ZEP.3.19"><span class="content">I will give them praise and honor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ZEP.3.19"><span class="content">in every land where they have suffered shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ZEP.3.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ZEP.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">At that time I will gather you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ZEP.3.20"><span class="content">at that time I will bring you home.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ZEP.3.20"><span class="content">I will give you honor and praise</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ZEP.3.20"><span class="content">among all the peoples of the earth</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ZEP.3.20"><span class="content">when I restore your fortunes</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:20 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">I bring back your captives</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ZEP.3.20"><span class="content">before your very eyes,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ZEP.3.20"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bk2KI">
      <div class="chapter ch23" data-usfm="2KI.23">
         <div class="label">23</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Josiah Renews the Covenant</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2KI.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then the king called together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2KI.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He went up to the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> with the people of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests and the prophets&#8212;all the people from the least to the greatest. He read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant, which had been found in the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2KI.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The king stood by the pillar and renewed the covenant in the presence of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;to follow the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and keep his commands, statutes and decrees with all his heart and all his soul, thus confirming the words of the covenant written in this book. Then all the people pledged themselves to the covenant.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2KI.23.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2KI.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the priests next in rank and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> all the articles made for Baal and Asherah and all the starry hosts. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron Valley and took the ashes to Bethel. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2KI.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He did away with the idolatrous priests appointed by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the towns of Judah and on those around Jerusalem&#8212;those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations and to all the starry hosts. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2KI.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He took the Asherah pole from the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem and burned it there. He ground it to powder and scattered the dust over the graves of the common people. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2KI.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the quarters where women did weaving for Asherah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2KI.23.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2KI.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Josiah brought all the priests from the towns of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He broke down the gateway at the entrance of the Gate of Joshua, the city governor, which was on the left of the city gate. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2KI.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Although the priests of the high places did not serve at the altar of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2KI.23.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2KI.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He desecrated Topheth, which was in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, so no one could use it to sacrifice their son or daughter in the fire to Molek. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2KI.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">He removed from the entrance to the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:11 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> near the room of an official named Nathan-Melek. Josiah then burned the chariots dedicated to the sun.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2KI.23.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2KI.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He pulled down the altars the kings of Judah had erected on the roof near the upper room of Ahaz, and the altars Manasseh had built in the two courts of the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. He removed them from there, smashed them to pieces and threw the rubble into the Kidron Valley. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2KI.23.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The king also desecrated the high places that were east of Jerusalem on the south of the Hill of Corruption&#8212;the ones Solomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the vile goddess of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the vile god of Moab, and for Molek the detestable god of the people of Ammon. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2KI.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Josiah smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles and covered the sites with human bones.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2KI.23.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2KI.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Even the altar at Bethel, the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin&#8212;even that altar and high place he demolished. He burned the high place and ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole also. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2KI.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then Josiah looked around, and when he saw the tombs that were there on the hillside, he had the bones removed from them and burned on the altar to defile it, in accordance with the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> proclaimed by the man of God who foretold these things.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2KI.23.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2KI.23.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The king asked, &#8220;What is that tombstone I see?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2KI.23.17"><span class="content">The people of the city said, &#8220;It marks the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and pronounced against the altar of Bethel the very things you have done to it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2KI.23.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2KI.23.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Leave it alone,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Don&#8217;t let anyone disturb his bones.&#8221; So they spared his bones and those of the prophet who had come from Samaria.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2KI.23.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2KI.23.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Just as he had done at Bethel, Josiah removed all the shrines at the high places that the kings of Israel had built in the towns of Samaria and that had aroused the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s anger. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2KI.23.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Josiah slaughtered all the priests of those high places on the altars and burned human bones on them. Then he went back to Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2KI.23.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2KI.23.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The king gave this order to all the people: &#8220;Celebrate the Passover to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2KI.23.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Neither in the days of the judges who led Israel nor in the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah had any such Passover been observed. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.23.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was celebrated to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.23.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2KI.23.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Furthermore, Josiah got rid of the mediums and spiritists, the household gods, the idols and all the other detestable things seen in Judah and Jerusalem. This he did to fulfill the requirements of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.23.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Neither before nor after Josiah was there a king like him who turned to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> as he did&#8212;with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, in accordance with all the Law of Moses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.23.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2KI.23.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Nevertheless, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> did not turn away from the heat of his fierce anger, which burned against Judah because of all that Manasseh had done to arouse his anger. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2KI.23.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;I will remove Judah also from my presence as I removed Israel, and I will reject Jerusalem, the city I chose, and this temple, about which I said, &#8216;My Name shall be there.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:27 </span><span class="ft">1 Kings 8:29</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2KI.23.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2KI.23.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">As for the other events of Josiah&#8217;s reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2KI.23.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2KI.23.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">While Josiah was king, Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt went up to the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah marched out to meet him in battle, but Necho faced him and killed him at Megiddo. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2KI.23.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Josiah&#8217;s servants brought his body in a chariot from Megiddo to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jehoahaz King of Judah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2KI.23.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2KI.23.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother&#8217;s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2KI.23.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">He did evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, just as his predecessors had done. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="2KI.23.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Pharaoh Necho put him in chains at Riblah in the land of Hamath so that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:33 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 3 3/4 tons or about 3.4 metric tons</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver and a talent</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:33 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 75 pounds or about 34 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of gold. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="2KI.23.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Pharaoh Necho made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah and changed Eliakim&#8217;s name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt, and there he died. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="2KI.23.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Jehoiakim paid Pharaoh Necho the silver and gold he demanded. In order to do so, he taxed the land and exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land according to their assessments.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jehoiakim King of Judah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="2KI.23.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="2KI.23.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother&#8217;s name was Zebidah daughter of Pedaiah; she was from Rumah. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="2KI.23.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">And he did evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, just as his predecessors had done.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">35</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Josiah Celebrates the Passover</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.35.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Josiah celebrated the Passover to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in Jerusalem, and the Passover lamb was slaughtered on the fourteenth day of the first month. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.35.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He appointed the priests to their duties and encouraged them in the service of 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="2CH.35.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He said to the Levites, who instructed all Israel and who had been consecrated to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">: &#8220;Put the sacred ark in the temple that Solomon son of David king of Israel built. It is not to be carried about on your shoulders. Now serve the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God and his people Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.35.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Prepare yourselves by families in your divisions, according to the instructions written by David king of Israel and by his son Solomon.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.35.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.35.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Stand in the holy place with a group of Levites for each subdivision of the families of your fellow Israelites, the lay people. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.35.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Slaughter the Passover lambs, consecrate yourselves and prepare the lambs for your fellow Israelites, doing what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded through Moses.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.35.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.35.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Josiah provided for all the lay people who were there a total of thirty thousand lambs and goats for the Passover offerings, and also three thousand cattle&#8212;all from the king&#8217;s own possessions.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.35.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.35.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">His officials also contributed voluntarily to the people and the priests and Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah and Jehiel, the officials in charge of God&#8217;s temple, gave the priests twenty-six hundred Passover offerings and three hundred cattle. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.35.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Also Konaniah along with Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah, Jeiel and Jozabad, the leaders of the Levites, provided five thousand Passover offerings and five hundred head of cattle for the Levites.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.35.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.35.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The service was arranged and the priests stood in their places with the Levites in their divisions as the king had ordered. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.35.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The Passover lambs were slaughtered, and the priests splashed against the altar the blood handed to them, while the Levites skinned the animals. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.35.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They set aside the burnt offerings to give them to the subdivisions of the families of the people to offer to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, as it is written in the Book of Moses. They did the same with the cattle. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.35.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They roasted the Passover animals over the fire as prescribed, and boiled the holy offerings in pots, caldrons and pans and served them quickly to all the people. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.35.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">After this, they made preparations for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the descendants of Aaron, were sacrificing the burnt offerings and the fat portions until nightfall. So the Levites made preparations for themselves and for the Aaronic priests.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.35.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.35.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The musicians, the descendants of Asaph, were in the places prescribed by David, Asaph, Heman and Jeduthun the king&#8217;s seer. The gatekeepers at each gate did not need to leave their posts, because their fellow Levites made the preparations for them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.35.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.35.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So at that time the entire service of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was carried out for the celebration of the Passover and the offering of burnt offerings on the altar of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, as King Josiah had ordered. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.35.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The Israelites who were present celebrated the Passover at that time and observed the Festival of Unleavened Bread for seven days. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.35.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The Passover had not been observed like this in Israel since the days of the prophet Samuel; and none of the kings of Israel had ever celebrated such a Passover as did Josiah, with the priests, the Levites and all Judah and Israel who were there with the people of Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.35.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">This Passover was celebrated in the eighteenth year of Josiah&#8217;s reign.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Death of Josiah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.35.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CH.35.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">After all this, when Josiah had set the temple in order, Necho king of Egypt went up to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah marched out to meet him in battle. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.35.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But Necho sent messengers to him, saying, &#8220;What quarrel is there, king of Judah, between you and me? It is not you I am attacking at this time, but the house with which I am at war. God has told me to hurry; so stop opposing God, who is with me, or he will destroy you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.35.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2CH.35.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Josiah, however, would not turn away from him, but disguised himself to engage him in battle. He would not listen to what Necho had said at God&#8217;s command but went to fight him on the plain of Megiddo.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2CH.35.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2CH.35.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Archers shot King Josiah, and he told his officers, &#8220;Take me away; I am badly wounded.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2CH.35.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">So they took him out of his chariot, put him in his other chariot and brought him to Jerusalem, where he died. He was buried in the tombs of his ancestors, and all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2CH.35.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2CH.35.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Jeremiah composed laments for Josiah, and to this day all the male and female singers commemorate Josiah in the laments. These became a tradition in Israel and are written in the Laments.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2CH.35.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2CH.35.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The other events of Josiah&#8217;s reign and his acts of devotion in accordance with what is written in the Law of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2CH.35.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">all the events, from beginning to end, are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">36</div><div class="nb"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.36.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">And the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jehoahaz King of Judah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.36.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.36.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Jehoahaz</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">36:2 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Joahaz, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Jehoahaz</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 4</span></span></span><span class="content"> was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.36.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The king of Egypt dethroned him in Jerusalem and imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">36:3 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 3 3/4 tons or about 3.4 metric tons</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver and a talent</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">36:3 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 75 pounds or about 34 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of gold. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.36.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The king of Egypt made Eliakim, a brother of Jehoahaz, king over Judah and Jerusalem and changed Eliakim&#8217;s name to Jehoiakim. But Necho took Eliakim&#8217;s brother Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jehoiakim King of Judah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.36.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.36.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. He did evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> his God. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.36.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon attacked him and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.36.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Nebuchadnezzar also took to Babylon articles from the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and put them in his temple</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">36:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">palace</span></span></span><span class="content"> there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.36.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.36.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The other events of Jehoiakim&#8217;s reign, the detestable things he did and all that was found against him, are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. And Jehoiachin his son succeeded him as king.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jehoiachin King of Judah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.36.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.36.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Jehoiachin was eighteen</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">36:9 </span><span class="ft">One Hebrew manuscript, some Septuagint manuscripts and Syriac (see also 2 Kings 24:8); most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">eight</span></span></span><span class="content"> years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months and ten days. He did evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.36.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">In the spring, King Nebuchadnezzar sent for him and brought him to Babylon, together with articles of value from the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and he made Jehoiachin&#8217;s uncle,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">36:10 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">brother, </span><span class="ft">that is, relative (see 2 Kings 24:17)</span></span></span><span class="content"> Zedekiah, king over Judah and Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Zedekiah King of Judah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.36.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.36.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.36.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He did evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> his God and did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.36.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him take an oath in God&#8217;s name. He became stiff-necked and hardened his heart and would not turn to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.36.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people became more and more unfaithful, following all the detestable practices of the nations and defiling the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, which he had consecrated in Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Fall of Jerusalem</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.36.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.36.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of their ancestors, sent word to them through his messengers again and again, because he had pity on his people and on his dwelling place. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.36.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But they mocked God&#8217;s messengers, despised his words and scoffed at his prophets until the wrath of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was aroused against his people and there was no remedy. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.36.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He brought up against them the king of the Babylonians,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">36:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldeans</span></span></span><span class="content"> who killed their young men with the sword in the sanctuary, and did not spare young men or young women, the elderly or the infirm. God gave them all into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.36.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He carried to Babylon all the articles from the temple of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s temple and the treasures of the king and his officials. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.36.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">They set fire to God&#8217;s temple and broke down the wall of Jerusalem; they burned all the palaces and destroyed everything of value there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.36.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CH.36.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">He carried into exile to Babylon the remnant, who escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and his successors until the kingdom of Persia came to power. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.36.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The land enjoyed its sabbath rests; all the time of its desolation it rested, until the seventy years were completed in fulfillment of the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> spoken by Jeremiah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.36.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2CH.36.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> spoken by Jeremiah, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> moved the heart of Cyrus king of Persia to make a proclamation throughout his realm and also to put it in writing:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2CH.36.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2CH.36.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what Cyrus king of Persia says:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2CH.36.23"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah. Any of his people among you may go up, and may the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> their God be with them.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch7" data-usfm="JER.7">
         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">False Religion Worthless</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.7.1"><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.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Stand at the gate of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s house and there proclaim this message:</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.7.2"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, all you people of Judah who come through these gates to worship the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.7.3"><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"> Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Reform your ways and your actions, and I will let you live in this place. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Do not trust in deceptive words and say, &#8220;This is the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and swear by false gods</span></span></span><span class="content"> burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my Name, and say, &#8220;We are safe&#8221;&#8212;safe to do all these detestable things? </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for my Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">While you were doing all these things, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, I spoke to you again and again, but you did not listen; I called you, but you did not answer. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Therefore, what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears my Name, the temple you trust in, the place I gave to you and your ancestors. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I will thrust you from my presence, just as I did all your fellow Israelites, the people of Ephraim.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.7.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;So do not pray for this people nor offer any plea or petition for them; do not plead with me, for I will not listen to you. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough and make cakes to offer to the Queen of Heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods to arouse my anger. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But am I the one they are provoking? declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. Are they not rather harming themselves, to their own shame?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.7.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Therefore this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: My anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place&#8212;on man and beast, on the trees of the field and on the crops of your land&#8212;and it will burn and not be quenched.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.7.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Go ahead, add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves! </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">For when I brought your ancestors out of Egypt and spoke to them, I did not just give them commands about burnt offerings and sacrifices, </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">but I gave them this command: Obey me, and I will be your God and you will be my people. Walk in obedience to all I command you, that it may go well with you. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">But they did not listen or pay attention; instead, they followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts. They went backward and not forward. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">From the time your ancestors left Egypt until now, day after day, again and again I sent you my servants the prophets. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.7.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">But they did not listen to me or pay attention. They were stiff-necked and did more evil than their ancestors.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.7.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.7.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;When you tell them all this, they will not listen to you; when you call to them, they will not answer. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JER.7.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Therefore say to them, &#8216;This is the nation that has not obeyed the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> its God or responded to correction. Truth has perished; it has vanished from their lips.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JER.7.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JER.7.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Cut off your hair and throw it away; take up a lament on the barren heights, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has rejected and abandoned this generation that is under his wrath.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Valley of Slaughter</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JER.7.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JER.7.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The people of Judah have done evil in my eyes, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. They have set up their detestable idols in the house that bears my Name and have defiled it. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JER.7.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to burn their sons and daughters in the fire&#8212;something I did not command, nor did it enter my mind. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JER.7.32"><span class="label">32</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 it Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter, for they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JER.7.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Then the carcasses of this people will become food for the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JER.7.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride and bridegroom in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, for the land will become desolate.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkJER">
      <div class="chapter ch8" data-usfm="JER.8">
         <div class="label">8</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;At that time, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the bones of the kings and officials of Judah, the bones of the priests and prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">They will be exposed to the sun and the moon and all the stars of the heavens, which they have loved and served and which they have followed and consulted and worshiped. They will not be gathered up or buried, but will be like dung lying on the ground. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Wherever I banish them, all the survivors of this evil nation will prefer death to life, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Sin and Punishment</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.8.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.8.4"><span class="label">4</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"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.8.4"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;When people fall down, do they not get up?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.8.4"><span class="content">When someone turns away, do they not return?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Why then have these people turned away?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.8.5"><span class="content">Why does Jerusalem always turn away?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.8.5"><span class="content">They cling to deceit;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.8.5"><span class="content">they refuse to return.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I have listened attentively,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.8.6"><span class="content">but they do not say what is right.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.8.6"><span class="content">None of them repent of their wickedness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.8.6"><span class="content">saying, &#8220;What have I done?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.8.6"><span class="content">Each pursues their own course</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.8.6"><span class="content">like a horse charging into battle.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.8.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Even the stork in the sky</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.8.7"><span class="content">knows her appointed seasons,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.8.7"><span class="content">and the dove, the swift and the thrush</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.8.7"><span class="content">observe the time of their migration.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.8.7"><span class="content">But my people do not know</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.8.7"><span class="content">the requirements of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.8.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;How can you say, &#8220;We are wise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.8.8"><span class="content">for we have the law of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.8.8"><span class="content">when actually the lying pen of the scribes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.8.8"><span class="content">has handled it falsely?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The wise will be put to shame;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.8.9"><span class="content">they will be dismayed and trapped.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.8.9"><span class="content">Since they have rejected the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.8.9"><span class="content">what kind of wisdom do they have?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Therefore I will give their wives to other men</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.8.10"><span class="content">and their fields to new owners.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.8.10"><span class="content">From the least to the greatest,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.8.10"><span class="content">all are greedy for gain;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.8.10"><span class="content">prophets and priests alike,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.8.10"><span class="content">all practice deceit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.8.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They dress the wound of my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.8.11"><span class="content">as though it were not serious.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.8.11"><span class="content">&#8220;Peace, peace,&#8221; they say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.8.11"><span class="content">when there is no peace.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.8.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Are they ashamed of their detestable conduct?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.8.12"><span class="content">No, they have no shame at all;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.8.12"><span class="content">they do not even know how to blush.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.8.12"><span class="content">So they will fall among the fallen;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.8.12"><span class="content">they will be brought down when they are punished,</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.8.12"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.8.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;I will take away their harvest,</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.8.13"><span class="content">declares 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.8.13"><span class="content">There will be no grapes on the vine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.8.13"><span class="content">There will be no figs on the tree,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.8.13"><span class="content">and their leaves will wither.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.8.13"><span class="content">What I have given them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.8.13"><span class="content">will be taken from them.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:13 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.8.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Why are we sitting here?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.8.14"><span class="content">Gather together!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.8.14"><span class="content">Let us flee to the fortified cities</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.8.14"><span class="content">and perish there!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.8.14"><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God has doomed us to perish</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.8.14"><span class="content">and given us poisoned water to drink,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.8.14"><span class="content">because we have sinned against him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.8.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">We hoped for peace</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.8.15"><span class="content">but no good has come,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.8.15"><span class="content">for a time of healing</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.8.15"><span class="content">but there is only terror.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.8.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The snorting of the enemy&#8217;s horses</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.8.16"><span class="content">is heard from Dan;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.8.16"><span class="content">at the neighing of their stallions</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.8.16"><span class="content">the whole land trembles.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.8.16"><span class="content">They have come to devour</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.8.16"><span class="content">the land and everything in it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.8.16"><span class="content">the city and all who live there.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.8.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;See, I will send venomous snakes among you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.8.17"><span class="content">vipers that cannot be charmed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.8.17"><span class="content">and they will bite you,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.8.17"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.8.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">You who are my Comforter</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:18 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> in sorrow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.8.18"><span class="content">my heart is faint within me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.8.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Listen to the cry of my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.8.19"><span class="content">from a land far away:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.8.19"><span class="content">&#8220;Is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> not in Zion?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.8.19"><span class="content">Is her King no longer there?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.8.19"><span class="content">&#8220;Why have they aroused my anger with their images,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.8.19"><span class="content">with their worthless foreign idols?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.8.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;The harvest is past,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.8.20"><span class="content">the summer has ended,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.8.20"><span class="content">and we are not saved.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.8.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Since my people are crushed, I am crushed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.8.21"><span class="content">I mourn, and horror grips me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.8.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Is there no balm in Gilead?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.8.22"><span class="content">Is there no physician there?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.8.22"><span class="content">Why then is there no healing</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.8.22"><span class="content">for the wound of my people?</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">9</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 9:1 is numbered 8:23, and 9:2-26 is numbered 9:1-25.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Oh, that my head were a spring of water</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.9.1"><span class="content">and my eyes a fountain of tears!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.9.1"><span class="content">I would weep day and night</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.9.1"><span class="content">for the slain of my people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.9.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Oh, that I had in the desert</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.9.2"><span class="content">a lodging place for travelers,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.9.2"><span class="content">so that I might leave my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.9.2"><span class="content">and go away from them;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.9.2"><span class="content">for they are all adulterers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.9.2"><span class="content">a crowd of unfaithful people.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.9.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;They make ready their tongue</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.9.3"><span class="content">like a bow, to shoot lies;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.9.3"><span class="content">it is not by truth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.9.3"><span class="content">that they triumph</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">lies; / they are not valiant for truth</span></span></span><span class="content"> in the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.9.3"><span class="content">They go from one sin to another;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.9.3"><span class="content">they do not acknowledge me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.9.3"><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 v3" data-usfm="JER.9.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Beware of your friends;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.9.4"><span class="content">do not trust anyone in your clan.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.9.4"><span class="content">For every one of them is a deceiver,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">a deceiving Jacob</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.9.4"><span class="content">and every friend a slanderer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.9.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Friend deceives friend,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.9.5"><span class="content">and no one speaks the truth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.9.5"><span class="content">They have taught their tongues to lie;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.9.5"><span class="content">they weary themselves with sinning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.9.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:6 </span><span class="ft">That is, Jeremiah (the Hebrew is singular)</span></span></span><span class="content"> live in the midst of deception;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.9.6"><span class="content">in their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.9.6"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.9.7"><span class="content">&#8220;See, I will refine and test them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.9.7"><span class="content">for what else can I do</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.9.7"><span class="content">because of the sin of my people?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.9.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Their tongue is a deadly arrow;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.9.8"><span class="content">it speaks deceitfully.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.9.8"><span class="content">With their mouths they all speak cordially to their neighbors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.9.8"><span class="content">but in their hearts they set traps for them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.9.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Should I not punish them for this?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.9.9"><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 v9" data-usfm="JER.9.9"><span class="content">&#8220;Should I not avenge myself</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.9.9"><span class="content">on such a nation as this?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.9.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I will weep and wail for the mountains</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.9.10"><span class="content">and take up a lament concerning the wilderness grasslands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.9.10"><span class="content">They are desolate and untraveled,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.9.10"><span class="content">and the lowing of cattle is not heard.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.9.10"><span class="content">The birds have all fled</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.9.10"><span class="content">and the animals are gone.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.9.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.9.11"><span class="content">a haunt of jackals;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.9.11"><span class="content">and I will lay waste the towns of Judah</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.9.11"><span class="content">so no one can live there.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.9.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Who is wise enough to understand this? Who has been instructed by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and can explain it? Why has the land been ruined and laid waste like a desert that no one can cross?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.9.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;It is because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them; they have not obeyed me or followed my law. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts; they have followed the Baals, as their ancestors taught them.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, the God of Israel, says: &#8220;See, I will make this people eat bitter food and drink poisoned water. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known, and I will pursue them with the sword until I have made an end of them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.9.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.9.17"><span class="content">&#8220;Consider now! Call for the wailing women to come;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.9.17"><span class="content">send for the most skillful of them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.9.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Let them come quickly</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.9.18"><span class="content">and wail over us</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.9.18"><span class="content">till our eyes overflow with tears</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.9.18"><span class="content">and water streams from our eyelids.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.9.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The sound of wailing is heard from Zion:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.9.19"><span class="content">&#8216;How ruined we are!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.9.19"><span class="content">How great is our shame!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.9.19"><span class="content">We must leave our land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.9.19"><span class="content">because our houses are in ruins.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.9.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Now, you women, hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.9.20"><span class="content">open your ears to the words of his mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.9.20"><span class="content">Teach your daughters how to wail;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.9.20"><span class="content">teach one another a lament.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.9.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.9.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Death has climbed in through our windows</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.9.21"><span class="content">and has entered our fortresses;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.9.21"><span class="content">it has removed the children from the streets</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.9.21"><span class="content">and the young men from the public squares.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.9.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.9.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Say, &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> declares:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.9.22"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Dead bodies will lie</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.9.22"><span class="content">like dung on the open field,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.9.22"><span class="content">like cut grain behind the reaper,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.9.22"><span class="content">with no one to gather them.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.9.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.9.23"><span class="label">23</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 v23" data-usfm="JER.9.23"><span class="content">&#8220;Let not the wise boast of their wisdom</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.9.23"><span class="content">or the strong boast of their strength</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.9.23"><span class="content">or the rich boast of their riches,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.9.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">but let the one who boasts boast about this:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">that they have the understanding to know me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who exercises kindness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">justice and righteousness on earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">for in these I delight,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.9.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;The days are coming,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.9.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab and all who live in the wilderness in distant places.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">wilderness and who clip the hair by their foreheads</span></span></span><span class="content"> For all these nations are really uncircumcised, and even the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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