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JEREMIAH
- And before your feet stumble
- Upon the mountains of twilight,
- And, while ye look for light,
- He turn it into the shadow of death,
- And make it gross darkness.
- 17But if ye will not hear it,
- My soul shall weep in secret for your pride;
- And mine eyes shall weep sore, and run down with tears,
- Because the Lord's flock is carried away captive.
- 18Say thou unto the king and to the queen-mother:
- 'Sit ye down low;
- For your headtires are come down,
- Even your beautiful crown.'
- 19The cities of the South are shut up,
- And there is none to open them;
- Judah is carried away captive all of it;
- It is wholly carried away captive.
- 20Lift up your eyes, and behold
- Them that come from the north;
- Where is the flock that was given thee,
- Thy beautiful flock?
- 21What wilt thou say, when He shall set the friends over thee as head,
- Whom thou thyself hast trained against thee?
- Shall not pangs take hold of thee,
- As of a woman in travail?
- 22And if thou say in thy heart:
- 'Wherefore are these things befallen me?'—
- For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts uncovered,
- And thy heels suffer violence.
- 23Can the Ethiopian change his skin,
- Or the leopard his spots?
- Then may ye also do good,
- That are accustomed to do evil.
- 24Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passeth away
- By the wind of the wilderness.
- 25This is thy lot, the portion measured unto thee from Me,
- Saith the Lord;
- Because thou hast forgotten Me,
- And trusted in falsehood.
- 26Therefore will I also uncover thy skirts upon thy face,
- And thy shame shall appear.
- 27Thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy harlotry,
- On the hills in the field have I seen thy detestable acts.
- Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! thou wilt not be made clean!
- When shall it ever be?
14The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the droughts.
- 2Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish,
- They bow down in black unto the ground;
- And the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
- 3And their nobles send their lads for water:
- They come to the pits, and find no water;
- Their vessels return empty;
- They are ashamed and confounded, and cover their heads.
- 4Because of the ground which is cracked,
- For there hath been no rain in the land,
- The plowmen are ashamed, they cover their heads.
- 5Yea, the hind also in the field calveth, and forsaketh her young,
- Because there is no grass,
- 6And the wild asses stand on the high hills,
- They gasp for air like jackals;
- Their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.
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