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Jeremiah · read by E.A. Johnston
130 verses, in order. Only the verses E.A. read aloud are shown.
Jeremiah 1
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Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · Dial 333
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And the word of the LORD came to me, asking, "Jeremiah, what do you see?" "I see a branch of an almond tree," I replied.Read from KJV · A Seething Pot Ready to Spill Out Upon the Land
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"You have observed correctly," said the LORD, "for I am watching over My word to accomplish it."Read from KJV · A Seething Pot Ready to Spill Out Upon the Land
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Again the word of the LORD came to me, asking, "What do you see?" "I see a boiling pot," I replied, "and it is tilting toward us from the north."Read from KJV · A Seething Pot Ready to Spill Out Upon the Land
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Then the LORD said to me, "Disaster from the north will be poured out on all who live in the land.Read from KJV · A Seething Pot Ready to Spill Out Upon the Land
Jeremiah 2
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"Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: 'I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.Read from KJV · Polluted People in Perishing Nation
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I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but you came and defiled My land, and made My inheritance detestable.Read from KJV · Polluted People in Perishing Nation
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The priests did not ask, 'Where is the LORD?' The experts in the law no longer knew Me, and the leaders rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless idols.Read from KJV · Polluted People in Perishing Nation
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Therefore, I will contend with you again, declares the LORD, and I will bring a case against your children's children.Read from KJV · Pagan Nation Antinomian Church
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Has a nation ever changed its gods, though they are no gods at all? Yet My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.Read from KJV · Nation Divided from God
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Be stunned by this, O heavens; be shocked and utterly appalled," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · Polluted People in Perishing Nation
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"For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns— broken cisterns that cannot hold water.Read from KJV · Polluted People in Perishing Nation
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you say, 'I am innocent. Surely His anger will turn from me.' Behold, I will judge you, because you say, 'I have not sinned.'Read from KJV · Polluted People in Perishing Nation
Jeremiah 3
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But as a woman may betray her husband, so you have betrayed Me, O house of Israel," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · Crises in the Land
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A voice is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, because they have perverted their ways and forgotten the LORD their God.Read from KJV · Crises in the Land
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"Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness." "Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.Read from KJV · Crises in the Land
Jeremiah 4
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"If you will return, O Israel, return to Me," declares the LORD. "If you will remove your detestable idols from My sight and no longer waver,Read from KJV · Crises in the Land
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and if you can swear, 'As surely as the LORD lives,' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then the nations will be blessed by Him, and in Him they will glory."Read from KJV · Crises in the Land
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For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: "Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.Read from KJV · How to Witness by Rolfe Barnard
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Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil deeds."Read from KJV · Crises in the Land
Jeremiah 5
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Then I said, "They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.Read from KJV · One More Nail in America's Coffin
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I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God." But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.Read from KJV · One More Nail in America's Coffin
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Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down, a wolf from the desert will ravage them. A leopard will lie in wait near their cities, and everyone who ventures out will be torn to pieces. For their rebellious acts are many, and their unfaithful deeds are numerous.Read from KJV · Judgment on America
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"Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.Read from KJV · One More Nail in America's Coffin
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They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor's wife.Read from KJV · Judgment on America
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Should I not punish them for these things?" declares the LORD. "Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?Read from KJV · Five Marks of a Nation on the Eve of Destruction
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Go up through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not finish them off. Strip off her branches, for they do not belong to the LORD.Read from KJV · Five Marks of a Nation on the Eve of Destruction
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For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been utterly unfaithful to Me," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · Five Marks of a Nation on the Eve of Destruction
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They have lied about the LORD and said: "He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine.Read from KJV · Five Marks of a Nation on the Eve of Destruction
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The prophets are but wind, for the word is not in them. So let their own predictions befall them."Read from KJV · Five Marks of a Nation on the Eve of Destruction
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Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts says: "Because you have spoken this word, I will make My words a fire in your mouth and this people the wood it consumes.Read from KJV · Five Marks of a Nation on the Eve of Destruction
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Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel," declares the LORD. "It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose speech you do not understand.Read from KJV · A Silent Church Amidst a Sinful Nation
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Their quivers are like open graves; they are all mighty men.Read from KJV · A Silent Church Amidst a Sinful Nation
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They will devour your harvest and food; they will consume your sons and daughters; they will eat up your flocks and herds; they will feed on your vines and fig trees. With the sword they will destroy the fortified cities in which you trust."Read from KJV · Five Marks of a Nation on the Eve of Destruction
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Declare this in the house of Jacob and proclaim it in Judah:Read from KJV · America the Desolate!
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"Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.Read from KJV · America the Desolate!
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Do you not fear Me?" declares the LORD. "Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.Read from KJV · America the Desolate!
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But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone away.Read from KJV · A Silent Church Amidst a Sinful Nation
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They have not said in their hearts, 'Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.'Read from KJV · A Silent Church Amidst a Sinful Nation
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Your iniquities have diverted these from you; your sins have deprived you of My bounty.Read from KJV · A Silent Church Amidst a Sinful Nation
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For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.Read from KJV · America the Desolate!
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Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.Read from KJV · America and an Avenging God
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They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.Read from KJV · A Silent Church Amidst a Sinful Nation
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Should I not punish them for these things?" declares the LORD. "Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?Read from KJV · America the Desolate!
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A horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land.Read from KJV · A Silent Church Amidst a Sinful Nation
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The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?Read from KJV · America and an Avenging God
Jeremiah 6
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Be forewarned, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitant."Read from KJV · America the Desolate!
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But I am full of the LORD's wrath; I am tired of holding it back. "Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old and the very old alike.Read from KJV · Crises in the Land
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"For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.Read from KJV · Butcher of Souls
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They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, 'Peace, peace,' when there is no peace at all.Read from KJV · Butcher of Souls
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Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse," says the LORD.Read from KJV · The Fall of the Wicked
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This is what the LORD says: "Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: 'Where is the good way?' Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it!'Read from KJV · On the Front Line of the Battle
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They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them."Read from KJV · If There's a Hell I Ain'T Going
Jeremiah 7
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then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.Read from NKJV · Nation That Refuses Correction
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But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.Read from KJV · Nation That Refuses Correction
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Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,Read from KJV · Nation That Refuses Correction
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and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, 'We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations'?Read from KJV · Nation That Refuses Correction
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Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD.Read from KJV · Nation That Refuses Correction
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But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.Read from KJV · Nation That Refuses Correction
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And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer,Read from KJV · Nation That Refuses Correction
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therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers.Read from KJV · Nation That Refuses Correction
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As for you, do not pray for these people, do not offer a plea or petition on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you.Read from KJV · A Presumptuous People
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Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished.Read from KJV · Nation That Refuses Correction
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Therefore you must say to them, 'This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips.Read from KJV · Nation That Refuses Correction
Jeremiah 8
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Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.Read from KJV · Society Crumbles and the Church Lol
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I have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, 'What have I done?' Everyone has pursued his own course like a horse charging into battle.Read from KJV · Society Crumbles and the Church Lol
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Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.Read from KJV · Perpetual Backsliders and a Harvest Past
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How can you say, 'We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,' when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?Read from KJV · Perpetual Backsliders and a Harvest Past
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The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?Read from KJV · Perpetual Backsliders and a Harvest Past
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Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.Read from KJV · Society Crumbles and the Church Lol
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They dress the wound of the daughter of My people with very little care, saying, 'Peace, peace,' when there is no peace at all.Read from NKJV · Perpetual Backsliders and a Harvest Past
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Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD.Read from KJV · Society Crumbles and the Church Lol
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I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the tree, and even the leaf will wither. Whatever I have given them will be lost to them."Read from KJV · Perpetual Backsliders and a Harvest Past
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Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.Read from KJV · Perpetual Backsliders and a Harvest Past
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We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.Read from KJV · Perpetual Backsliders and a Harvest Past
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The snorting of enemy horses is heard from Dan. At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds, the whole land quakes. They come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who dwell in it.Read from KJV · Perpetual Backsliders and a Harvest Past
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"For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · Perpetual Backsliders and a Harvest Past
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My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.Read from KJV · Perpetual Backsliders and a Harvest Past
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Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: "Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?" "Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?"Read from KJV · Perpetual Backsliders and a Harvest Past
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"The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved."Read from ESV · Locked Out of Heaven
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For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.Read from KJV · Society Crumbles and the Church Lol
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Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?Read from KJV · Perpetual Backsliders and a Harvest Past
Jeremiah 9
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Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity.Read from KJV · The Sin of Lying Will Send You to Hell
Jeremiah 13
Jeremiah 14
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This is what the LORD says about this people: "Truly they love to wander; they have not restrained their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember their guilt and call their sins to account."Read from KJV · Aggravated Sin
Jeremiah 17
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But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him.Read from KJV · Crossing Your Rubicon
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The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?Read from NKJV · Jesus a Faithful Friend
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Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool."Read from KJV · Bit Coin Bug
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O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.Read from KJV · Ernest Wakefield 1973 Wheaton
Jeremiah 18
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"Go down at once to the potter's house, and there I will reveal My message to you."Read from KJV · God Wants His Best for You
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So I went down to the potter's house and saw him working at the wheel.Read from KJV · Just a Lump of Clay
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But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand; so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do.Read from KJV · Just a Lump of Clay
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At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.Read from KJV · Just a Lump of Clay
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But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.Read from KJV · Just a Lump of Clay
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And if at another time I announce that I will build up and establish a nation or kingdom,Read from KJV · Just a Lump of Clay
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and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it.Read from KJV · Just a Lump of Clay
Jeremiah 22
Jeremiah 23
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"For both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in My house I have found their wickedness," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · The Rev Lost Soul Dd
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"Therefore their path will become slick; they will be driven away into the darkness and fall into it. For I will bring disaster upon them in the year of their punishment," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · The Damning Nature of a Natural Condition
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This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are filling you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.Read from KJV · God of the Bible Vs Your God
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They keep saying to those who despise Me, 'The LORD says that you will have peace,' and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, 'No harm will come to you.'Read from KJV · God of the Bible Vs Your God
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I did not send these prophets, yet they have run with their message; I did not speak to them, yet they have prophesied.Read from NKJV · Can I Get Saved in Church Today
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But if they had stood in My council, they would have proclaimed My words to My people and turned them back from their evil ways and deeds."Read from KJV · God of the Bible Vs Your God
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Let the prophet who has a dream retell it, but let him who has My word speak it truthfully. For what is straw compared to grain?" declares the LORD.Read from KJV · God of the Bible Vs Your God
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"Is not My word like fire," declares the LORD, "and like a hammer that smashes a rock?"Read from KJV · Fire Hammer Laughter Applause
Jeremiah 24
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One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early, but the other basket contained very poor figs, so bad they could not be eaten.Read from KJV · Nation of Naughty Figs
Jeremiah 25
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And the LORD has sent all His servants the prophets to you again and again, but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear.Read from KJV · Tears Before the Altar
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Do not follow other gods to serve and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.'Read from KJV · Tears Before the Altar
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'But to your own harm, you have not listened to Me,' declares the LORD, 'so you have provoked Me to anger with the works of your hands.'Read from KJV · Tears Before the Altar
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The tumult will resound to the ends of the earth because the LORD brings a charge against the nations. He brings judgment on all mankind and puts the wicked to the sword,'" declares the LORD.Read from KJV · A Controversy with the Nations
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This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Behold! Disaster is spreading from nation to nation; a mighty storm is rising from the ends of the earth."Read from KJV · A Controversy with the Nations
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Those slain by the LORD on that day will be spread from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned, gathered, or buried. They will be like dung lying on the ground.Read from KJV · A Controversy with the Nations
Jeremiah 26
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Perhaps they will listen and turn—each from his evil way of life—so that I may relent of the disaster I am planning to bring upon them because of the evil of their deeds.Read from KJV · A Controversy with the Nations
Jeremiah 29
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For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.Read from KJV · Broken Alabaster Boxes
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Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.Read from KJV · At His Right Hand
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You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.Read from KJV · Lock Stock and Barrel
Jeremiah 31
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The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: "I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.Read from KJV · Cord of Love Stained in Blood
Jeremiah 32
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"Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too difficult for Me?Read from NKJV · The Beguiler
Jeremiah 33
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While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD came to him a second time:Read from KJV · A God Filled Channel
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Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.Read from KJV · Drawing Nearer to God
Jeremiah 44
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Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying: 'Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.'Read from KJV · Spiritually Cold in Sinful Society
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But they did not listen or incline their ears; they did not turn from their wickedness or stop burning incense to other gods.Read from KJV · Spiritually Cold in Sinful Society
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To this day they have not humbled themselves or shown reverence, nor have they followed My instruction or the statutes that I set before you and your fathers.Read from KJV · Spiritually Cold in Sinful Society
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Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I will set My face to bring disaster and to cut off all Judah.Read from KJV · Spiritually Cold in Sinful Society
Jeremiah 49
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The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down," declares the LORD.Read from KJV · Three Battles Every Christian Must Face
Jeremiah 50
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A drought is upon her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and the people go mad over idols.Read from KJV · Mad Upon Their Idols