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Jeremiah 16

16 This message from the Eternal came to me, 2 “You must not marry a wife, you must not have sons or daughters in this place. 3 For this is the Eternal’s sentence upon sons and daughters born in this place, on the mothers who bore them, and on their fathers in this place: 4 ‘They shall die of the pestilence, with none to wail for them and none to bury them; they shall lie like dung upon the surface of the ground. They shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, and their corpses shall be food for wild birds and wild beasts.’ 5 This is the Eternal’s order:

Never enter a house of mourning,

never go to lament or bemoan them;

for I withdraw my goodwill from this people

says the Eternal.

Throughout the land both high and low shall di

and all unburied lie,

with none to lament or gash themselves

or cut their hair for them,

with none to press the mourner to take food

on their account,

with none to hand a cup of comfort

for a father or a mother’s death.

Nor shall you enter any house of feasting,

to eat and drink in company.

For thus declares the Lord of hosts,

the God of Israel:

Before your eyes and in your day

I banish from this place

the sound of mirth and gladness, the voice of bridegroom and of bride. 10 Now, when you tell all this to the people, and they ask you, ‘Why has the Eternal decreed all this terrible misery against us? What is our crime? What sin have we committed against the Eternal, our God?’ 11 then tell them, ‘It is because your fathers forsook me, the Eternal says, because they followed foreign gods, serving them and worshipping them, because they forsook me and did not keep my law; 12 and because you have done worse than your fathers, each of you following his own evil, stubborn mind, and refusing to listen to me-- 13 that is why I expel you from this land to a land that neither you nor your fathers ever knew, where you will have to serve foreign gods day and night, who will show you no favour.’ 16 I am sending for many a fisherman, says the Eternal, to capture this people. After that, I will send for many a huntsman, to hunt them out of every mountain and hill and cranny of the rocks.

For mine eye is on all they do,

nothing is hidden from me;

their guilt does not escape me.

I will doubly punish their guilt and sin,

for desecrating my land with dead, detestable idols,

for filling up my heritage with their abominations.

So I will let them feel,

this once I will let them feel,

the full force of my power,

to teach them that my name is the Eternal.” * * * 19 O thou Eternal, my strength, my stronghold, my refuge in the hour of trouble, nations shall come from the ends of the earth to thee, saying, “All the traditions our fathers inherited were lies, vain and profitless. 20 Is man to make gods for himself--gods that are no gods at all?” * * *

[[Like a partridge hatching eggs it never laid,

so is the man who makes money unfairly;

it leaves him ere his life is over,

and in the end he proves himself a fool.]]

12 [[The site of our sanctuary is a glorious throne, exalted from the very first. 13 O thou Eternal, Israel’s hope, all who forsake thee shall be disappointed, those who abandon thee in the land shall be reduced to shame, because they have forsaken the Eternal, the fresh fountain of water.]]

Deep is a man’s mind, deeper than all else

on evil bent;

who can fathom it?

“I the Eternal search the mind,

I test the heart

rewarding every man as he has lived,

and as his deeds deserve.”

Then heal me, O Eternal, and I shall be healed,

save me, and I shall be saved;

for it is thou to whom I render praise.

Men taunt me, crying,

“Where is the Eternal’s word?

Come on with it!”

Yet never would I press thee

to bring on calamity;

I never longed--thou knowest--

for a judgment day;

all that I ever said,

is known to thee.

So be not thou a terror to me,

O thou my refuge on the day of evil.

Terrify my tormentors,

terrify them, not me;

bring on them the day of evil,

double ruin for them. * * * 19 This is what the Eternal said to me. “Go and stand at the gate of Benjamin, where the kings of Judah pass in and out, and at all the gates of Jerusalem, 20 saying: ‘Listen to the word of the Eternal, you kings of Judah, all you men of Judah, and all citizens of Jerusalem who enter by these gates. 21 This is what the Eternal says: 22 For the sake of your fives, never carry a load on the sabbath, or bring anything in through the gates of Jerusalem; never carry any load out of your houses on the sabbath, nor do any work, but keep the sabbath sacred, as I ordered your fathers-- 23 though they would not listen, they would not lend an ear, but obstinately refused to listen and take warning. 24 But if you attend to me carefully, says the Eternal, and bring in no load through the gates of this city on the sabbath, if you keep the sabbath sacred by doing no work, 25 then kings of David’s dynasty, riding in chariots and on horses, with the men of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem, shall pass the gates of this city, and this city shall always be inhabited; 26 men shall come from the towns of Judah and the districts round Jerusalem and the land of Benjamin and the lowlands and the highlands and the south, bringing burnt-offerings and sacrifices and cereal-offerings and incense and thank-offerings to the house of the Eternal. 27 But if you will not listen to me, as I bid you keep the sabbath sacred and forbid you to carry in loads through the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath, then I will fight a fire in the city-gates that will burn up the buildings of Jerusalem and never be put out.’ ”