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And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah a second time -- and he [is] yet detained in the court of the prison -- saying:
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Thus said Jehovah its maker, Jehovah its former, at establishing it, Jehovah [is] His name :
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Call unto Me, and I do answer thee, yea, I declare to thee great and fenced things -- thou hast not known them.
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For thus said Jehovah , God of Israel , concerning the houses of this city , and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah , that are broken down for the mounts, and for the tool;
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they are coming in to fight with the Chaldeans , and to fill them with the carcases of men, whom I have smitten in Mine anger , and in My fury , and [for] whom I have hidden My face from this city , because of all their evil :
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Lo, I am increasing to it health and cure , And have healed them, and revealed to them The abundance of peace and truth .
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And I have turned back the captivity of Judah , And the captivity of Israel , And I have built them as at the first ,
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And cleansed them from all their iniquity , That they have sinned against Me, And I have pardoned all their iniquities , That they have sinned against Me, And that they transgressed against Me.
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And it hath been to Me for a name of joy, For praise, and for beauty, to all nations of the earth , Who hear of all the good that I am doing them, And they have feared, And they have trembled for all the good , And for all the peace , that I am doing to it.
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Thus said Jehovah : Again heard in this place of which ye are saying, Waste it [is], without man and without beast , In cities of Judah , and in streets of Jerusalem , That are desolated, without man, And without inhabitant, and without beast ,
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Is a voice of joy and a voice of gladness, voice of bridegroom , and voice of bride , The voice of those saying, Thank Jehovah of Hosts , for Jehovah [is] good , For His kindness [is] to the age, Who are bringing in thanksgiving to the house of Jehovah , For I turn back the captivity of the land , As at the first , said Jehovah .
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Thus said Jehovah of Hosts : Again there is in this place -- that is waste, Without man and beast , And in all its cities -- a habitation of shepherds , Causing the flock to lie down.
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In the cities of the hill -country , In the cities of the low country , And in the cities of the south , And in the land of Benjamin , And in the suburbs of Jerusalem , And in the cities of Judah , Again doth the flock pass by under the hands of the numberer, said Jehovah .
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Lo, days are coming , an affirmation of Jehovah , And I have established the good word That I spake unto the house of Israel , And concerning the house of Judah .
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In those days , and at that time , I cause to shoot up to David a shoot of righteousness , And he hath done judgment and righteousness in the earth .
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In those days is Judah saved , And Jerusalem doth dwell confidently, And this [is] he whom Jehovah proclaimeth to her: `Our Righteousness .'
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For thus said Jehovah : `Not cut off to David is one sitting on the throne of the house of Israel ,
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And to the priests -- the Levites, Not cut off from before Me is one, Causing a burnt-offering to ascend, And perfuming a present , and making sacrifice -- all the days .'
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And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah , saying,
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`Thus said Jehovah : If ye do break My covenant of the day , And My covenant of the night , So that they are not daily and nightly in their season,
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Also My covenant is broken with David My servant , So that he hath not a son reigning on his throne , And with the Levites the priests , My ministers .
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As the host of the heavens is not numbered, Nor the sand of the sea measured , So I multiply the seed of David My servant , And the Levites My ministers .'
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And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah , saying:
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`Hast thou not considered what this people have spoken , saying: The two families on which Jehovah fixed, He doth reject them, And my people they despise -- So that they are no more a people before them!
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Thus said Jehovah : If My covenant [is] not daily and nightly, The statutes of heaven and earth I have not appointed --
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Also the seed of Jacob , and David My servant , I reject, Against taking from his seed rulers For the seed of Abraham , Isaac , and Jacob , For I turn back [to] their captivity , and have pitied them.'