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the commandment which I enjoined on your fathers when I rescued them from Egypt’s furnace of iron. Give heed to my call, I told them, and do as I bid you; then you shall be my people, and I will be your God. (Jeremiah 11, 4)
Nor do thou, Jeremias, think to intercede for this people of mine, or take up in their name the burden of praise and prayer; when they cry to me in their distress, hearing they shall have none. (Jeremiah 11, 14)
A people so well beloved, that so haunts my house, yet stained with crime! What, dost thou think the consecrated flesh will avail to rid thee of thy wanton guilt?✻ (Jeremiah 11, 15)
Farewell, my home; I have done with my chosen people; the life that was so dear to me I have handed over to its enemies.✻ (Jeremiah 12, 7)
My people grown strange to me, as lion snarling in its forest lair; what marvel if I am weary of it? (Jeremiah 12, 8)
My people grown strange to me as carrion-bird, its mottled plumage all bathed in blood!✻ Gather here, beasts that roam the earth, eager for your prey. (Jeremiah 12, 9)
And this message comes from the Lord to those ill neighbours of his, that encroach upon the domain he has granted to his people of Israel: I mean to uproot them from their homes, when I uproot the men of Juda from the land that lies between them. (Jeremiah 12, 14)
Then, if they will but learn the traditions of my own people, and take their oaths by the Lord, the living God, as they once taught my people to take oaths by Baal, their fortunes shall be founded anew in the midst of Juda. (Jeremiah 12, 16)
But wherever my call goes unheeded, the Lord says, that people’s uprooting shall be that people’s undoing. (Jeremiah 12, 17)
Here is a rebellious people that will not listen to my call; they must needs take their own false path, courting alien gods and submitting to their worship. No better, then, than yonder useless girdle; (Jeremiah 13, 10)
close as a man’s girdle fits about his loins I had bound Israel and Juda to myself; my people they were to be, my renown and prize and pride; but no, they would not listen.✻ (Jeremiah 13, 11)
give them this message from the Lord: Ay, but the people of this land, king of David’s line sitting on David’s throne, priest and prophet and citizens of Jerusalem every one, are flagons waiting to be filled. I mean to bemuse them, as with wine, (Jeremiah 13, 13)
