One Year Chronological Bible Sampler - Flipbook - Page 180
JULY 30
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This is what the LORD says:
“ The whole land will be ruined,
but I will not destroy it completely.
The earth will mourn
and the heavens will be draped in black
because of my decree against my people.
I have made up my mind and will not change it.”
At the noise of charioteers and archers,
the people flee in terror.
They hide in the bushes
and run for the mountains.
All the towns have been abandoned—
not a person remains!
What are you doing,
you who have been plundered?
Why do you dress up in beautiful clothing
and put on gold jewelry?
Why do you brighten your eyes with mascara?
Your primping will do you no good!
The allies who were your lovers
despise you and seek to kill you.
I hear a cry, like that of a woman in labor,
the groans of a woman giving birth to her first child.
It is beautiful Jerusalem*
gasping for breath and crying out,
“Help! I’m being murdered!”
The Sins of Judah / Jeremiah 5:1-19
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“Run up and down every street in Jerusalem,” says the LORD.
“Look high and low; search throughout the city!
If you can find even one just and honest person,
I will not destroy the city.
But even when they are under oath,
saying, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’
they are still telling lies!”
3
LORD, you are searching for honesty.
You struck your people,
but they paid no attention.
You crushed them,
but they refused to be corrected.
They are determined, with faces set like stone;
they have refused to repent.
4
Then I said, “But what can we expect from the poor?
They are ignorant.
They don’t know the ways of the LORD.
4:31 Hebrew the daughter of Zion.
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