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Jeremiah - ch 6 v 21 - 30
- Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall over them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
- Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation is stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
- They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as a man for the battle, against thee, daughter of Zion.
- We have heard the report thereof: our hands are grown feeble; anguish hath taken hold of us, pain as of a woman that travaileth.
- Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for there is the sword of the enemy, terror is on every side.
- Daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and roll thyself in ashes: make mourning, as for an only son -- bitter lamentation; for the spoiler cometh suddenly upon us.
- I have set thee among my people as an assayer, a fortress, that thou mayest know and try their way.
- They are all the most rebellious of rebels, going about with slander: they are bronze and iron; they are all corrupters.
- The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed by the fire; they have melted, and melted in vain; and the bad are not plucked away.
- Reprobate silver shall they call them, for Jehovah hath rejected them.
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