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But if you do not listen to Me, to keep the Day of Rest holy by not carrying a load when coming through the gates of Jerusalem on the Day of Rest, then I will start a fire in its gates. And it will burn up the beautiful houses of the kings of Jerusalem and will not be stopped."'"

But the pot he was making of clay did not come out like he wanted it. So the pot-maker used the clay to make another pot that pleased him.

But they will say, ‘There is no hope! For we are going to follow our own plans. Each of us will act in the strong-will of his sinful heart.'

But My people have forgotten Me. They burn special perfume to false gods of no worth. They have fallen in their ways, from the old paths, and have gone on side roads, not on the straight road.

On the next day, when Pashhur set Jeremiah free from the chains, Jeremiah said to him, "The Lord does not call you Pashhur, but Fear Everywhere.

But if I say, "I will not remember Him or speak any more in His name," then in my heart it is like a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am tired of holding it in, and I cannot do that.

But the Lord is with me like a powerful one who causes fear. So those who make it hard for me will fall and not have power over me. They will be put to much shame, because their plans have not gone well. Their shame will last forever and will not be forgotten.

He who lives in this city will die by the sword and by hunger and by disease. But he who goes out and gives himself up to the Babylonians whose armies shut you in will live, he will at least have his life.

But if you will not obey these words, I promise by Myself," says the Lord, "that this house will be destroyed."'"

Do not cry for the one who is dead or have sorrow for him. But cry all the time for the one who goes away, for he will never return or see the land of his birth again.

"But your eyes and heart are set only on what you can get by wrong-doing, and on killing those who are not guilty, and on making it hard for people and on hurting others."

I spoke to you when things were going well for you, but you said, ‘I will not listen!' This has been your way since you were young. You have not obeyed My voice.

You will want to return to this land again but you will not return."

But they will say, ‘As the Lord lives, Who brought up and led the children of the people of Israel back from the north country and from all the countries where He had driven them.' Then they will live in their own land."

But who among them has listened to the Lord, that he should see and hear His Word? Who has given thought to His Word and listened?

But if they had listened to Me, then they would have made My words known to My people. And they would have turned them back from their sinful way and from the sinful things they did."

The one who has a dream may tell about his dream, but let him who has My Word speak My Word in truth. How can straw be compared with grain?" says the Lord.

But you must not say, ‘The heavy load of the Lord,' any more. For every man's own word will be the weight upon himself. And you have made sinful the words of the living God, the Lord of All, our God.

But if you say, ‘The heavy load of the Lord,' then the Lord says, ‘You have said, "The heavy load of the Lord," when I told you not to say it.'

"But the Lord says, ‘Like the bad figs which are so bad they cannot be eaten, so I will give up Zedekiah king of Judah and his captains. And I will give up those left of Jerusalem who stay in this land, and those who live in the land of Egypt.