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Bible Reading for August 08

Jeremiah 9
[1] Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I
might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! [2] Oh
that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might
leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly
of treacherous men.
[3] And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not
valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil,
and they know not me, saith the LORD. [4] Take ye heed every one of his
neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly
supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
[5] And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the
truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to
commit iniquity.
[6] Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse
to know me, saith the LORD.
[7] Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and
try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people? [8] Their
tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably
to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait. [9] Shall
I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be
avenged on such a nation as this? [10] For the mountains will I take up a
weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a
lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through
them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the
heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone. [11] And I will make
Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah
desolate, without an inhabitant. [12] Who is the wise man, that may
understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken,
that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a
wilderness, that none passeth through? [13] And the LORD saith, Because
they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my
voice, neither walked therein; [14] But have walked after the imagination
of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: [15]
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will
feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to
drink.
[16] I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor
their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have
consumed them.
[17] Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning
women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:
[18] And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes
may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. [19] For a
voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly
confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have
cast us out.
[20] Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive
the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her
neighbour lamentation.
[21] For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our
palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the
streets. [22] Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall
fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman,
and none shall gather them.
[23] Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither
let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his
riches:
[24] But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and
knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and
righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.
[25] Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them
which are circumcised with the uncircumcised; [26] Egypt, and Judah, and
Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost
corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are
uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

Jeremiah 10
[1] Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
[2] Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not
dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. [3]
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the
forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. [4] They deck
it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers,
that it move not.
[5] They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be
borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do
evil, neither also is it in them to do good. [6] Forasmuch as there is none
like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
[7] Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it
appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all
their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee. [8] But they are altogether
brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
[9] Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from
Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and
purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men. [10] But
the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at
his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to
abide his indignation.
[11] Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens
and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these
heavens.
[12] He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by
his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion. [13] When
he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and
he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh
lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
[14] Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by
the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath
in them.
[15] They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their
visitation they shall perish.
[16] The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all
things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his
name.
[17] Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
[18] For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of
the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.
[19] Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is
a grief, and I must bear it.
[20] My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are
gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent
any more, and to set up my curtains. [21] For the pastors are become
brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper,
and all their flocks shall be scattered. [22] Behold, the noise of the
bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the
cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.
[23] O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man
that walketh to direct his steps.
[24] O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou
bring me to nothing.
[25] Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the
families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and
devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

Jeremiah 11
[1] The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, [2] Hear ye the
words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem;
[3] And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Cursed be
the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant, [4] Which I commanded
your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,
from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all
which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:
[5] That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to
give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then
answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD. [6] Then the LORD said unto me,
Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of
Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.
[7] For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought
them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and
protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
[8] Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in
the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all
the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do; but they did them
not. [9] And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of
Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. [10] They are turned back to
the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and
they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house
of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
[11] Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them,
which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me,
I will not hearken unto them.
[12] Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and
cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not save
them at all in the time of their trouble.
[13] For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and
according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars
to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal. [14]
Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer
for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for
their trouble.
[15] What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought
lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest
evil, then thou rejoicest.
[16] The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly
fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and
the branches of it are broken.
[17] For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against
thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which
they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering
incense unto Baal.
[18] And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou
shewedst me their doings.
[19] But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I
knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy
the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of
the living, that his name may be no more remembered. [20] But, O LORD of
hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let
me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
[21] Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy
life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by
our hand:
[22] Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them:
the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall
die by famine:
[23] And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the
men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.

Jeremiah 12
[1] Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk
with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper?
wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? [2] Thou hast
planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth
fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins. [3] But
thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward
thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the
day of slaughter.
[4] How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for
the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the
birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end. [5] If thou hast
run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou
contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst,
they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
[6] For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have
dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after
thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee. [7] I have
forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly
beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies. [8] Mine heritage is unto
me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I
hated it.
[9] Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are
against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.
[10] Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion
under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. [11]
They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the
whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart. [12] The
spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the
sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of the land even to the
other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace. [13] They have sown
wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall
not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the
fierce anger of the LORD. [14] Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil
neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel
to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the
house of Judah from among them.
[15] And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will
return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man
to his heritage, and every man to his land. [16] And it shall come to pass,
if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name,
The LORD liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they
be built in the midst of my people. [17] But if they will not obey, I will
utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD.

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