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5:10-21
J eremiah
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“Go down the rows of the vineyards and destroy the grapevines,
leaving a scattered few alive.
Strip the branches from the vines,
for these people do not belong to the Lord.
The people of Israel and Judah
are full of treachery against me,”
says the Lord.
“They have lied about the Lord
and said, ‘He won’t bother us!
No disasters will come upon us.
There will be no war or famine.
God’s prophets are all windbags
who don’t really speak for him.
Let their predictions of disaster fall on themselves!’”
Therefore, this is what the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies says:
“Because the people are talking like this,
my messages will flame out of your mouth
and burn the people like kindling wood.
O Israel, I will bring a distant nation against you,”
says the Lord.
“It is a mighty nation,
an ancient nation,
a people whose language you do not know,
whose speech you cannot understand.
Their weapons are deadly;
their warriors are mighty.
They will devour the food of your harvest;
they will devour your sons and daughters.
They will devour your flocks and herds;
they will devour your grapes and figs.
And they will destroy your fortified towns,
which you think are so safe.
“Yet even in those days I will not blot you out completely,” says the
Lord. “And when your people ask, ‘Why did the Lord our God do all
this to us?’ you must reply, ‘You rejected him and gave yourselves to for
eign gods in your own land. Now you will serve foreigners in a land that
is not your own.’
“Make this announcement to Israel,
and say this to Judah:
Listen, you foolish and senseless people,
