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Bible Reading for August 07
Jeremiah 6
[1] O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of
Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in
Beth-haccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction. [2]
I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman. [3] The
shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents
against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place. [4] Prepare
ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day
goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
[5] Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces. [6] For
thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against
Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the
midst of her.
[7] As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness:
violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.
[8] Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I
make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. [9] Thus saith the LORD of hosts,
They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine
hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets. [10] To whom shall I speak, and give
warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they
cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they
have no delight in it. [11] Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am
weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon
the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall
be taken, the aged with him that is full of days. [12] And their houses shall
be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will
stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.
[13] For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is
given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one
dealeth falsely.
[14] They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly,
saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. [15] Were they ashamed when they
had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could
they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I
visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
[16] Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old
paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for
your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein. [17] Also I set watchmen
over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will
not hearken. [18] Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what
is among them.
[19] Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit
of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my
law, but rejected it.
[20] To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane
from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your
sacrifices sweet unto me.
[21] Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before
this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the
neighbour and his friend shall perish. [22] Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a
people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from
the sides of the earth. [23] They shall 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 men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion. [24] We
have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of
us, and pain, as of a woman in travail. [25] Go not forth into the field, nor
walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.
[26] O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in
ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for
the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us. [27] I have set thee for a tower and
a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
[28] They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass
and iron; they are all corrupters.
[29] The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder
melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. [30] Reprobate silver
shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.
Jeremiah 7
[1] The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, [2] Stand in the
gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word
of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.
[3] Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your
doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. [4] Trust ye not in lying
words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of
the LORD, are these. [5] For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings;
if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; [6] If ye
oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent
blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
[7] Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to
your fathers, for ever and ever.
[8] Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. [9] Will ye steal,
murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal,
and walk after other gods whom ye know not; [10] And come and stand before me
in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all
these abominations? [11] Is this house, which is called by my name, become a
den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD. [12]
But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the
first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel. [13]
And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake
unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you,
but ye answered not;
[14] Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein
ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I
have done to Shiloh.
[15] And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your
brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim. [16] Therefore pray not thou for
this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make
intercession to me: for I will not hear thee. [17] Seest thou not what they do
in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
[18] The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women
knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink
offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. [19] Do they
provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the
confusion of their own faces? [20] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold,
mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon
beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and
it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
[21] Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings
unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. [22] For I spake not unto your fathers,
nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,
concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
[23] But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be
your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have
commanded you, that it may be well unto you. [24] But they hearkened not, nor
inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their
evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
[25] Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto
this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising
up early and sending them:
[26] Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened
their neck: they did worse than their fathers. [27] Therefore thou shalt speak
all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also
call unto them; but they will not answer thee.
[28] But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice
of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut
off from their mouth.
[29] Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a
lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the
generation of his wrath.
[30] For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD:
they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to
pollute it.
[31] And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of
the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I
commanded them not, neither came it into my heart. [32] Therefore, behold, the
days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the
valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury
in Tophet, till there be no place. [33] And the carcases of this people shall
be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none
shall fray them away. [34] Then will I cause to cease from the cities of
Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of
gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the
land shall be desolate.
Jeremiah 8
[1] At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings
of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the
bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of
their graves:
[2] And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host
of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom
they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped:
they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the
face of the earth.
[3] And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that
remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have
driven them, saith the LORD of hosts. [4] Moreover thou shalt say unto them,
Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and
not return? [5] Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a
perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. [6] I
hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his
wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the
horse rusheth into the battle.
[7] Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle
and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people
know not the judgment of the LORD. [8] How do ye say, We are wise, and the law
of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the
scribes is in vain. [9] The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken:
lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them? [10]
Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that
shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is
given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth
falsely.
[11] For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly,
saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. [12] Were they ashamed when they
had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could
they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of
their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
[13] I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on
the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things
that I have given them shall pass away from them. [14] Why do we sit still?
assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be
silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water
of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
[15] We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and
behold trouble!
[16] The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at
the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have
devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell
therein.
[17] For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not
be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD. [18] When I would comfort
myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me. [19] Behold the voice of the
cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country:
Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to
anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
[20] The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. [21] For
the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath
taken hold on me. [22] Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician
there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
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