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Bible Reading for August 06
Jeremiah 3
[1] They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become
another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly
polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again
to me, saith the LORD. [2] Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see
where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the
Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms
and with thy wickedness.
[3] Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter
rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
[4] Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of
my youth?
[5] Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold,
thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest. [6] The LORD said also
unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding
Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every
green tree, and there hath played the harlot. [7] And I said after she had
done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her
treacherous sister Judah saw it. [8] And I saw, when for all the causes
whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given
her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went
and played the harlot also. [9] And it came to pass through the lightness of
her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones
and with stocks. [10] And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath
not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD. [11]
And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more
than treacherous Judah. [12] Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and
say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause
mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not
keep anger for ever.
[13] Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the
LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green
tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD. [14] Turn, O
backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will
take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
[15] And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you
with knowledge and understanding. [16] And it shall come to pass, when ye be
multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they
shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come
to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither
shall that be done any more.
[17] At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all
the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem:
neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
[18] In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and
they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have
given for an inheritance unto your fathers. [19] But I said, How shall I put
thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of
the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not
turn away from me. [20] Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her
husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the
LORD. [21] A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications
of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have
forgotten the LORD their God.
[22] Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings.
Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God. [23] Truly in vain
is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains:
truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
[24] For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their
flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. [25] We lie down in
our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD
our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not
obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
Jeremiah 4
[1] If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou
wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
[2] And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in
righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall
they glory.
[3] For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your
fallow ground, and sow not among thorns. [4] Circumcise yourselves to the
LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and
inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that
none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
[5] Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the
trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and
let us go into the defenced cities. [6] Set up the standard toward Zion:
retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great
destruction. [7] The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of
the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land
desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant. [8] For
this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the
LORD is not turned back from us. [9] And it shall come to pass at that day,
saith the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the
princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.
[10] Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people
and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto
the soul.
[11] At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind
of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to
fan, nor to cleanse,
[12] Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I
give sentence against them.
[13] Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a
whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.
[14] O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved.
How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee? [15] For a voice declareth
from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.
[16] Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that
watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities
of Judah.
[17] As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath
been rebellious against me, saith the LORD. [18] Thy way and thy doings have
procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter,
because it reacheth unto thine heart. [19] My bowels, my bowels! I am pained
at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace,
because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of
war. [20] Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is
spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment. [21] How
long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet? [22] For my
people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they
have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no
knowledge.
[23] I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the
heavens, and they had no light.
[24] I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved
lightly.
[25] I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens
were fled.
[26] I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the
cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce
anger.
[27] For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I
not make a full end.
[28] For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I
have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn
back from it.
[29] The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they
shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be
forsaken, and not a man dwell therein. [30] And when thou art spoiled, what
wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest
thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in
vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will
seek thy life. [31] For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the
anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the
daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying,
Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
Jeremiah 5
[1] Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know,
and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any
that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
[2] And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely. [3] O
LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they
have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive
correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused
to return.
[4] Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know
not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God. [5] I will get me unto
the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the
LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the
yoke, and burst the bonds. [6] Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay
them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over
their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because
their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased. [7] How
shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them
that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed
adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
[8] They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his
neighbour's wife.
[9] Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul
be avenged on such a nation as this? [10] Go ye up upon her walls, and
destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not
the LORD's. [11] For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt
very treacherously against me, saith the LORD. [12] They have belied the LORD,
and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see
sword nor famine: [13] And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not
in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
[14] Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word,
behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it
shall devour them.
[15] Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the
LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language
thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say. [16] Their quiver is as
an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men. [17] And they shall eat up thine
harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they
shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy
fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst,
with the sword. [18] Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not
make a full end with you.
[19] And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD
our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have
forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers
in a land that is not yours. [20] Declare this in the house of Jacob, and
publish it in Judah, saying, [21] Hear now this, O foolish people, and without
understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
[22] Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which
have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it
cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not
prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it? [23] But this people
hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
[24] Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that
giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto
us the appointed weeks of the harvest. [25] Your iniquities have turned away
these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
[26] For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that
setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. [27] As a cage is full of
birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great,
and waxen rich. [28] They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the
deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless,
yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge. [29] Shall I
not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on
such a nation as this? [30] A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the
land; [31] The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their
means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end
thereof?
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