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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)
For all this, how should I pardon thee? Thy sons have deserted me, by gods that are no gods their vows are taken; full-fed with my bounty, they left their wedded troth, to wanton in the bower of a mistress; (Jeremiah 5, 7)
A nation from far away I am summoning, even now, Israel, to the attack; a warlike nation, of ancient lineage, whose very tongue shall be strange to thee, no word of it well understood; (Jeremiah 5, 15)
Deceitful tongues, treacherous as the hidden archer’s bow, hearts that lord it over their fellow-countrymen, wrong leading to wrong, and my claims forgotten! the Lord says. (Jeremiah 9, 3)
Tongues that wound like an arrow, with deceit for poison, ever the smooth word of friend laying snare for friend; (Jeremiah 9, 8)
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)
out upon the prophets, I say, who let their tongues wag and then cry, Oracle. (Jeremiah 23, 31)
Remember the prophet Michaeas of Morasthi, they said, in the days of king Ezechias, who told the people of Juda: Sion shall be no better than a ploughed field, says the Lord of hosts, Jerusalem but a heap of stones, the temple height only a hanging wood.✻ (Jeremiah 26, 18)
Take a load of great stones with thee, and go to the vault✻ under the brick wall by the gate of Pharao’s palace at Taphnis; there bury them, with Jewish folk by to watch thee. (Jeremiah 43, 9)
And this message thou shalt give them from the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I mean to summon one that is my servant, Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and set up a throne for him on these foundations; where these stones lie buried, his canopy shall rise. (Jeremiah 43, 10)
From the furthest confines of the land draw near; open a way for the spoilers; pile up stones from the road in heaps; make an end of her, leave nothing to survive.✻ (Jeremiah 50, 26)
that never corner-stone, never foundation-stone shall yield; the Lord dooms thee to lie for ever desolate. (Jeremiah 51, 26)
