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They have not known nor understood; for the vision of their eyes is shut that they cannot see, and the understanding of their hearts, so that they cannot understand.

And you said, I shall be a mighty one for ever; so that you did not lay these things to your heart, neither did remember the end thereof.

Whereas you have been forsaken and hated so that no man passed through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.

I have set watchmen upon your walls, O Jerusalem, every day, who shall not hold their peace day or night continually; so that those who make mention of the LORD may not keep silence, nor be still,

That they might melt as wax melts before the fire, and that fire might devour thy enemies, that thy name might be made known to thy enemies, so that the nations might tremble at thy presence!

So that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from my presence.

Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath come forth like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Also I set watchmen over you, so that you might hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But you said, We will not hearken.

It is not I that they provoke, says the LORD, but they provoke themselves so that they may be ashamed.

Take up weeping and wailing for the mountains and a lamentation for the camps of the shepherds in the wilderness, because they are desolate so that none can pass through them; neither can any one hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the air and the beast have fled and they are gone.

Who is the wise man that may understand this? And who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it, why is the land perished and become desolate like a wilderness so that no one passes through it?

And let them make haste and take up lamentations for us, so that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

They are decked with silver and with gold; men fasten them with hammers and nails, so that they may not fall apart.

For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will perplex the inhabitants of this land at this very time, so that they may seek me and find me.

But I was like an innocent lamb that is brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had conspired against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name may not be remembered.

Then they said, Come and let us devise plots against Jeremiah; so that the law shall not perish from the priests nor counsel from the wise nor the word from the prophets. Come and let us smite him in his tongue, and let us not listen to any of his words.

And I will make this city desolate and a hissing; so that every one who passes by it shall be horrified and hiss because of all its catastrophes.

And say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts: Even so will I break this people and this city, as this potters vessel is broken, so that it cannot be mended again; and they shall bury the dead in Taphat because of the lack of burial space.

Because he did not slay me in the womb, so that my mother might have been my grave, and my conception would have remained in the womb for ever.

Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is oppressed from the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.