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Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.
Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year without blemish:
Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.
And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-meon,
And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.
Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
And the arches thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof: and the going up to it had eight steps.
Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work made he them.
He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him.
Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.
