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"This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Write in a book all the words which I have spoken to you.

But they will serve the Lord their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.

‘And you will be My people, and I will be your God.'"

"At that time," says the Lord, "I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people."

For there will be a day when watchmen on the hills of Ephraim will call out, ‘Get up, and let us go up to Zion, to the Lord our God.'"

I have heard Ephraim crying in sorrow, ‘You have punished me, and I was punished, like a calf that has not learned. Bring me back that I may return to my place, for You are the Lord my God.

The Lord of All, the God of Israel, says, "When I bring them back to their own land, once again the people in the land of Judah and in its cities will speak these words: ‘May the Lord bring good to you, O place that is right with God, O holy hill!'

"This is the New Way of Worship that I will give to the Jews. When that day comes," says the Lord, "I will put My Law into their minds. And I will write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be My people.

At that time the army of the king of Babylon was around Jerusalem. And Jeremiah the man of God was shut up in the open space of the prison, in the house of the king of Judah.

‘This is what the Lord of All, the God of Israel, says: "Take these agreements, both the closed and open one, and put them in a clay jar so they may last a long time."

For the Lord of All, the God of Israel, says, "Houses and fields and grape-fields will again be bought in this land."'

‘O Lord God! See, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and by Your long arm! Nothing is too hard for You!

You show loving-kindness to thousands, but put punishment for the sins of fathers on their children after them. O great and powerful God, the Lord of All is Your name.

O Lord God, You have said to me, "Buy the field with money, and call in people to see you buy it," even though the city will be given over to the Babylonians."'"

"I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for Me?

They built the high places of the false god Baal in the valley of Ben-Hinnom, to give their sons and daughters as burnt gifts to Molech. I did not tell them to do this hated thing that made Judah sin. It did not even come into My mind.

"So now this is what the Lord God of Israel says about this city of which you say, ‘It is given over to the king of Babylon because of the sword, hunger, and disease.'

They will be My people, and I will be their God.

For this is what the Lord God of Israel says about the houses of this city and about the houses of the kings of Judah which have been torn down to make a strong wall to help in the battle against the Babylonians.

"The Lord God of Israel says, ‘Go and say to Zedekiah king of Judah, "This is what the Lord says: ‘See, I am giving this city to the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire.