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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and saith, 'By Myself I have sworn -- the affirmation of Jehovah -- that because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only one --

say unto them, I live -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- if, as ye have spoken in Mine ears -- so I do not to you;

For I lift up unto the heavens My hand, And have said, I live -- to the age!

Where I sware in Mine anger, 'If they come in unto My rest !'

Sworn hath the Lord Jehovah by Himself, An affirmation of Jehovah, God of Hosts: I am abominating the excellency of Jacob, And his high places I have hated, And I have delivered up the city and its fulness.

Sworn hath Jehovah by the excellency of Jacob: 'I forget not for ever any of their works.

and to whom did He swear that they shall not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe? --

For to Abraham God, having made promise, seeing He was able to swear by no greater, did swear by Himself,

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And now, because of your doing all these works, An affirmation of Jehovah, And I speak unto you, rising early and speaking, And ye have not hearkened, And I call you, and ye have not answered,

Then I have given up this house as Shiloh, and this city I give up for a reviling to all nations of the earth.'

And the house of the king, and the house of the people, have the Chaldeans burnt with fire, and the walls of Jerusalem they have broken down.

Therefore, for your sake, Zion is ploughed a field, and Jerusalem is heaps, And the mount of the house is for high places of a forest!