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Bible Reading for August 06

Jeremiah 3
[1] They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become
another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be
greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet
return again to me, saith the LORD. [2] Lift up thine eyes unto the high
places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou
sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the
land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
[3] Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no
latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be
ashamed.
[4] Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide
of my youth?
[5] Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold,
thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest. [6] The LORD said
also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which
backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and
under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot. [7] And I said
after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned
not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. [8] And I saw, when for all
the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her
away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah
feared not, but went and played the harlot also. [9] And it came to pass
through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and
committed adultery with stones and with stocks. [10] And yet for all this
her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart,
but feignedly, saith the LORD. [11] And the LORD said unto me, The
backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah. [12]
Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou
backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall
upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for
ever.
[13] Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against
the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every
green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD. [14] Turn, O
backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will
take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
[15] And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed
you with knowledge and understanding. [16] And it shall come to pass, when
ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD,
they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall
it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit
it; neither shall that be done any more.
[17] At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all
the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to
Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their
evil heart.
[18] In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel,
and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that
I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers. [19] But I said, How
shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a
goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My
father; and shalt not turn away from me. [20] Surely as a wife
treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously
with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD. [21] A voice was heard upon the
high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they
have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.
[22] Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings.
Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God. [23] Truly in
vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of
mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
[24] For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth;
their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. [25] We lie
down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned
against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this
day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.

Jeremiah 4
[1] If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if
thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not
remove.
[2] And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in
righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him
shall they glory.
[3] For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up
your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns. [4] Circumcise yourselves to
the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and
inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that
none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
[5] Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the
trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves,
and let us go into the defenced cities. [6] Set up the standard toward
Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great
destruction. [7] The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of
the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy
land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
[8] For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger
of the LORD is not turned back from us. [9] And it shall come to pass at
that day, saith the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the
heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets
shall wonder. [10] Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly
deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas
the sword reacheth unto the soul.
[11] At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry
wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people,
not to fan, nor to cleanse,
[12] Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I
give sentence against them.
[13] Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a
whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are
spoiled.
[14] O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be
saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee? [15] For a voice
declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.
[16] Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem,
that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the
cities of Judah.
[17] As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she
hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD. [18] Thy way and thy
doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness,
because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart. [19] My bowels,
my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I
cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the
trumpet, the alarm of war. [20] Destruction upon destruction is cried; for
the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains
in a moment. [21] How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of
the trumpet? [22] For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they
are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do
evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
[23] I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the
heavens, and they had no light.
[24] I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
[25] I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
[26] I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the
cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his
fierce anger.
[27] For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet
will I not make a full end.
[28] For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black:
because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither
will I turn back from it.
[29] The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen;
they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall
be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein. [30] And when thou art spoiled,
what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou
deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with
painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise
thee, they will seek thy life. [31] For I have heard a voice as of a woman
in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child,
the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth
her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of
murderers.

Jeremiah 5
[1] Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and
know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there
be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon
it.
[2] And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely. [3] O
LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they
have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive
correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have
refused to return.
[4] Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they
know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God. [5] I will get
me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the
way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether
broken the yoke, and burst the bonds. [6] Wherefore a lion out of the
forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a
leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence
shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their
backslidings are increased. [7] How shall I pardon thee for this? thy
children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had
fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled
themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
[8] They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his
neighbour's wife.
[9] Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my
soul be avenged on such a nation as this? [10] Go ye up upon her walls, and
destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are
not the LORD's. [11] For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have
dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD. [12] They have belied
the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither
shall we see sword nor famine: [13] And the prophets shall become wind, and
the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
[14] Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this
word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood,
and it shall devour them.
[15] Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith
the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose
language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say. [16] Their
quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men. [17] And they
shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters
should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up
thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities,
wherein thou trustedst, with the sword. [18] Nevertheless in those days,
saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.
[19] And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD
our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye
have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve
strangers in a land that is not yours. [20] Declare this in the house of
Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying, [21] Hear now this, O foolish
people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have
ears, and hear not: [22] Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not
tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea
by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof
toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they
not pass over it? [23] But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious
heart; they are revolted and gone.
[24] Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God,
that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he
reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest. [25] Your iniquities
have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things
from you.
[26] For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that
setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. [27] As a cage is full of
birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great,
and waxen rich. [28] They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the
deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless,
yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge. [29] Shall
I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged
on such a nation as this? [30] A wonderful and horrible thing is committed
in the land; [31] The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule
by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in
the end thereof?

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