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Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke secretly to Gedaliah at Mizpah, "Please let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah, and no one else will know. Why should he take your life, so that all the Judeans who are gathered around you would be scattered, and the remnant of Judah would perish?"

so that none of the remnant of Judah who have come to settle in the land of Egypt shall escape or survive or return to the land of Judah. Although they long to go back to live there, they shall not go back, except some fugitives.

A sword against the diviners, so that they may become fools! A sword against her warriors, so that they may be destroyed!

A sword against her horses and against her chariots, and against all the foreign troops in her midst, so that they may become women! A sword against all her treasures, that they may be plundered!

and say, ‘O Lord , you yourself threatened to destroy this place so that neither human beings nor animals shall live in it, and it shall be desolate forever.'

He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has put heavy chains on me;

you have wrapped yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through.

They dogged our steps so that we could not walk in our streets; our end drew near; our days were numbered; for our end had come.

As for you, mortal, cords shall be placed on you, and you shall be bound with them, so that you cannot go out among the people;

and I will make your tongue cling to the roof of your mouth, so that you shall be speechless and unable to reprove them; for they are a rebellious house.

See, I am putting cords on you so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege.

Wherever you live, your towns shall be waste and your high places ruined, so that your altars will be waste and ruined, your idols broken and destroyed, your incense stands cut down, and your works wiped out.

I will avert my face from them, so that they may profane my treasured place; the violent shall enter it, they shall profane it.

so that they may follow my statutes and keep my ordinances and obey them. Then they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

In their sight you shall lift the baggage on your shoulder, and carry it out in the dark; you shall cover your face, so that you may not see the land; for I have made you a sign for the house of Israel.

And the prince who is among them shall lift his baggage on his shoulder in the dark, and shall go out; he shall dig through the wall and carry it through; he shall cover his face, so that he may not see the land with his eyes.

But I will let a few of them escape from the sword, from famine and pestilence, so that they may tell of all their abominations among the nations where they go; then they shall know that I am the Lord .

You have not gone up into the breaches, or repaired a wall for the house of Israel, so that it might stand in battle on the day of the Lord .

I will break down the wall that you have smeared with whitewash, and bring it to the ground, so that its foundation will be laid bare; when it falls, you shall perish within it; and you shall know that I am the Lord .

so that the house of Israel may no longer go astray from me, nor defile themselves any more with all their transgressions. Then they shall be my people, and I will be their God, says the Lord God .