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which I commanded your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, ‘Obey Me, and do everything I command you, and you will be My people, and I will be your God.’
— Jeremiah 11:4
But You know me, O LORD; You see me and test my heart toward You. Drag away the wicked like sheep to the slaughter and set them apart for the day of carnage.
— Jeremiah 12:3
My inheritance has become to Me like a lion in the forest. She has roared against Me; therefore I hate her.
— Jeremiah 12:8
Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.
— Jeremiah 12:10
But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.
— Jeremiah 13:17
This is your lot, the portion I have measured to you,” declares the LORD, “because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.
— Jeremiah 13:25
Why are You like a man taken by surprise, like a warrior powerless to save? Yet You are among us, O LORD, and we are called by Your name. Do not forsake us!
— Jeremiah 14:9
And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.
— Jeremiah 16:12
A glorious throne, exalted from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.
— Jeremiah 17:12
But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
— Jeremiah 18:12
They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.
— Jeremiah 18:16
and go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you,
— Jeremiah 19:2