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Rh and we will do every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart.'


 * Therefore thus saith the :
 * Ask ye now among the nations,
 * Who hath heard such things;
 * The virgin of Israel hath done
 * A very horrible thing.
 * Doth the snow of Lebanon fail
 * From the rock of the field?
 * Or are the strange cold flowing waters
 * Plucked up?
 * For My people hath forgotten Me,
 * They offer unto vanity;
 * And they have been made to stumble in their ways,
 * In the ancient paths,
 * To walk in bypaths,
 * In a way not cast up;
 * To make their land an astonishment,
 * And a perpetual hissing;
 * Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished,
 * And shake his head.
 * I will scatter them as with an east wind
 * Before the enemy;
 * I will look upon their back, and not their face,
 * In the day of their calamity.


 * Then said they:
 * 'Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah;
 * For instruction shall not perish from the priest,
 * Nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet.
 * Come, and let us smite him with the tongue,
 * And let us not give heed to any of his words.'
 * Give heed to me, O ,
 * And hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
 * Shall evil be recompensed for good?
 * For they have digged a pit for my soul.
 * Remember how I stood before Thee
 * To speak good for them,
 * To turn away Thy wrath from them.
 * Therefore deliver up their children to the famine,
 * And hurl them to the power of the sword;
 * And let their wives be bereaved of their children, and widows;
 * And let their men be slain of death,
 * And their young men smitten of the sword in battle.
 * Let a cry be heard from their houses,
 * When thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them;
 * For they have digged a pit to take me,
 * And hid snares for my feet.
 * Yet,, Thou knowest
 * All their counsel against me to slay me;
 * Forgive not their iniquity,
 * Neither blot out their sin from Thy sight;
 * But let them be made to stumble before Thee;
 * Deal Thou with them in the time of Thine anger.

Thus said the : Go, and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests; and go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee; and say: Hear ye the word of the, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; thus saith the of hosts, the God of Israel:

Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle; because they have