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saying, "No, but we will go to the land of Egypt, where we will not see war or hear the sound of a trumpet or hunger for bread, and we will stay there,"

For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "As My anger and wrath have been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so My wrath will be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. And you will become a curse, an object of horror, an imprecation, and a reproach; and you will see this place no more."

Then Jeremiah said to Seraiah, "As soon as you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words aloud,

Her uncleanness was in her skirts;She did not remember her future.Therefore she has gone down astonishingly;She has no comforter."See, O Yahweh, my affliction,For the enemy has magnified himself!"

All her people are sighing, seeking bread;They have given their desirable things for foodTo restore their souls."See, O Yahweh, and look,For I am despised."

"Is it nothing to all you who pass this way?Look and see if there is any pain like my painWhich was dealt severely to me,Which Yahweh grieved me with on the day of His burning anger.

See, O Yahweh, for I am in distress;My inmost being is greatly disturbed;My heart is overturned within me,For I have been very rebellious.In the street the sword bereaves;In the house it is like death.

See, O Yahweh, and look!With whom have You dealt thus?Should women eat their offspring,The infants who were born healthy?Should priest and prophet be killedIn the sanctuary of the Lord?

To defraud a man in his legal case—These things the Lord does not see with approval.

Remember, O Yahweh, what has happened to us;Look, and see our reproach!

Then He said to me, "See, I will set for you cow's dung in place of human dung over which you will prepare your bread."

And He said to me, "Son of man, are you seeing what they are doing, the great abominations which the house of Israel is doing here, so that I would be far from My sanctuary? But yet you will see still greater abominations."

And He said to me, "Go in and see the evil abominations that they are doing here."

Then He said to me, "Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each man in the room of his carved images? For they say, ‘Yahweh does not see us; Yahweh has forsaken the land.'"

And He said to me, "Yet you will see still greater abominations which they are doing."

He said to me, "Do you see this, son of man? Yet you will see still greater abominations than these."

He said to me, "Do you see this, son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to do the abominations which they have done here, that they have filled the land with violence and provoked Me to anger still more? For behold, they are sending forth the twig to their nose.

Then He said to me, "The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is filled with bloodshed, and the city is full of perversion; for they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh does not see!'

"Son of man, you live in the midst of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see but do not see, ears to hear but do not hear; for they are a rebellious house.

Now as for you, son of man, prepare for yourself baggage for exile and go into exile by day in their sight; even go into exile from your place to another place in their sight. Perhaps they will see, though they are a rebellious house.