Jeremiah 22:5

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Jeremiah 22:5

But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.

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saying, "By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, because thou hast done this thing and hast not spared thy only son,

Tell them that the LORD sayeth, 'As truly as I live, I will do unto you even as ye have spoken in mine ears.

For I will lift up my hand to heaven, and will say: I live ever.

Therefore I said unto them in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest.

"'The LORD God hath sworn even by himself,' sayeth the LORD God of hosts, 'I hate the pride of Jacob, and I abhor his palaces: and I will give over the city, with all that is therein:

The LORD hath sworn against the pride of Jacob, "These works of theirs will I never forget.

To whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but unto them that believed not?

For when God made promise to Abraham, because he had no greater thing to swear by, he sware by himself,

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And now, though ye have done all these deeds, sayeth the LORD, and I myself rose up ever betimes to warn you and to commune with you, yet would ye not hear me: I called, ye would not answer.

then will I do to this house, as I did unto Shiloh, and will make this city to be abhorred of all the people of the earth.'"

Moreover, the Chaldeans burnt up the king's palace, with the other houses of the people, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.

Therefore shall Zion, for your sakes, be plowed like a field: Jerusalem shall become a heap of stones, and the hill of the temple shall be turned to a high wood.