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Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD'S house, in the ears of all the people.
My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.
And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.
Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.
He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite.
The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision.
In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.
And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ.
Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about.
Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD God, even thou only.
Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:
And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.
For our God is a consuming fire.
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.
Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
