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Nothing you see about you but I fashioned it, the Lord says; my hand gave it being. From whom, then, shall I accept an offering?✻ Patient he must be and humbled, one who stands in dread of my warnings. (Isaiah 66, 2)
What, is the race of Israel a slave, a chattel, that it should pass from hand to hand as the prize of war? (Jeremiah 2, 14)
What is the law of common life? Let wife that has been put away by her husband marry a second, can she afterwards return to the first? That were shame and defilement.✻ And thou with many lovers hast played the wanton; yet come back to me, the Lord says, and thou shalt find welcome. (Jeremiah 3, 1)
So wayward, so wanton, she defiled all that land of hers, giving herself to lovers made of wood and stone! (Jeremiah 3, 9)
After all the warnings I had given, Juda, the treacherous, would never come back to me in good earnest, only with lying professions, the Lord says. (Jeremiah 3, 10)
Lie we down with shame for our bed, and let reproach be all our covering; sinners from our youth upwards, we and our fathers before us, against the Lord our God; the Lord our God, and we would not listen to his voice! (Jeremiah 3, 25)
Ill deeds and ill counsel of thine have brought all this upon thee; the due reward of thy wickedness, how bitter the taste of it, how it wrings thy heart! (Jeremiah 4, 18)
Earthward I looked, and all was void and empty; heavenward, and in heaven no light shone; (Jeremiah 4, 23)
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)
greedily as the tomb their quivers gape, and they are warriors all. (Jeremiah 5, 16)
Jerusalem, be warned in time; else my love thou shalt forfeit, and I will make a ruin of thee, a land uninhabited. (Jeremiah 6, 8)
Nay, but the divine anger burns within me, I can forbear no longer. I must blurt out my message to all, children playing in the streets, no less than warriors met in council; none shall be spared, husband or wife, greybeard or man of many summers. (Jeremiah 6, 11)
