Jeremiah 44:16

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Jeremiah 44:16

As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.

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By the life of Yahweh, who hath brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of the North, and out of all the lands whither he had driven them, - So will I bring them back upon their own soil, which I gave to their fathers.

I hearkened and heard - Not aright, did they speak, - Not a man, repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done! They have every one, turned to their course again, Like a horse sweeping on through the battle.

Then said they, - Come ye and let us devise against Jeremiah devices, For the law shall not perish from the priest, Nor, counsel, from the wise, Nor, the word from the prophet: Come and let as smite him with the tongue, And let us not give ear to any of his words!

Then said the princes unto the king, - Let this man we pray thee, be put to death, for in this way, is he weakening the hands of the men of war who are left in this, city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking unto them such words as these; for, this man, is not seeking prosperity for this people but misfortune.

Then said Pharaoh, Who is Yahweh that I should hearken to his voice, to let Israel go? I know not Yahweh, and certainly. Israel, will I not let go!

Because he had stretched out - against GOD - his hand, and, against the Almighty, had been wont to behave himself proudly;

Yet they said unto GOD, Depart from us, and, In the knowledge of thy ways, find we no pleasure.

Let us break asunder their bonds, - and cast from us their cords!

They mock, and wickedly command oppression, From on high, they command;

The show of their face, hath answered against them, And their sin - like Sodom, have they told, they have not concealed it. Alas for their souls! For they have requited to themselves, calamity.

Now, if ye be ready, at what time ye shall hear the sound of the cornet, the pipe, the lyre, the harp, the psaltery and the bagpipes, and all the instruments of music, ye shall fall down and adore the image which I have made, but, if ye shall not adore, instantly, shall ye be cast into the midst of the burning furnace of fire, - and who is the god that shall deliver you out of my hands?

But, his citizens, hated him, and sent off an embassy after him, saying - We desire not, this, man, to be made king over us!

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Though thou pound a fool in a mortar, amidst grain, with a pestle, his folly, will not depart from him.

But, since ye are saying, - We will not dwell in this land, - nor hearken unto the voice of Yahweh your God:

Son of man, say to her. Thou, art a land, that is not to be rained upon, nor to receive fruitful showers, in the day of indignation.

Because, if any is, a word-hearer, and not a doer, the same, is like unto a man observing his natural face in a mirror, -