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• When that time comes, verdict shall be passed on this people of mine, and on Jerusalem: My people’s wanton ways are like the hot wind✻ that blows from the desert slopes, that will neither winnow nor sift. (Jeremiah 4, 11)

• Ah, reckless people of mine, that would not acknowledge me; blind fools, for mischief so shrewd, in well-doing so untutored!✻ (Jeremiah 4, 22)

• Vain words; but not vainly the Lord, the God of hosts, has spoken; flaming words of his he has entrusted to my lips, and fuel this people shall be for their devouring. (Jeremiah 5, 14)

• A faithless heart, a rebellious heart this people of mine has; in a moment they swerve aside from the path, and are gone; (Jeremiah 5, 23)

• Godless men there are among my people that lie in wait like any fowler, but noose and trap of theirs is set to catch men. (Jeremiah 5, 26)

• here are prophets that utter a lying message, priests that clap their hands in applause, and this people of mine is well content. And what shift will you make when the end comes? (Jeremiah 5, 31)

• here lies my people grievously hurt, and they tend her unconcernedly; All’s well, they say, all’s well, when in truth all goes amiss. (Jeremiah 6, 14)

• all earth shall hear it. I mean to bring upon this people of mine the punishment their scheming wickedness has earned, so deaf to my calls, of my law so defiant. (Jeremiah 6, 19)

• This doom the Lord pronounces; I mean so to entangle this people of mine that they shall stumble to their undoing all of them, father and son together, neighbour with neighbour, friend with friend. (Jeremiah 6, 21)

• Here is a people marching from the north country, the Lord says, a great nation from the world’s end. (Jeremiah 6, 22)

• I have a task for thee to perform among my people; thou shalt be my trusty assayer, putting the quality of their lives to the test. (Jeremiah 6, 27)

• Go and visit that sanctuary of mine at Silo, where of old my power rested; look well, what havoc I have made of it, to punish the misdeeds of Israel, that was my people too. (Jeremiah 7, 12)