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so I also will choose harsh treatment for them and will bring on them what they dread. For when I called, no one answered, when I spoke, no one listened. They did evil in my sight and chose what displeases me."

As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted over Jerusalem."

"As the new heavens and the new earth that I make will endure before me," declares the Lord , "so will your name and descendants endure.

This is what the Lord says: "What fault did your ancestors find in me, that they strayed so far from me? They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves.

"As a thief is disgraced when he is caught, so the people of Israel are disgraced— they, their kings and their officials, their priests and their prophets.

Why do you go about so much, changing your ways? You will be disappointed by Egypt as you were by Assyria.

Because Israel's immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.

But like a woman unfaithful to her husband, so you, Israel, have been unfaithful to me," declares the Lord .

So put on sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of the Lord has not turned away from us.

So I will go to the leaders and speak to them; surely they know the way of the Lord , the requirements of their God." But with one accord they too had broken off the yoke and torn off the bonds.

The prophets are but wind and the word is not in them; so let what they say be done to them."

And when the people ask, ‘Why has the Lord our God done all this to us?' you will tell them, ‘As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your own land, so now you will serve foreigners in a land not your own.'

I will destroy Daughter Zion, so beautiful and delicate.

So arise, let us attack at night and destroy her fortresses!"

As a well pours out its water, so she pours out her wickedness. Violence and destruction resound in her; her sickness and wounds are ever before me.

Take warning, Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you and make your land desolate so no one can live in it."

To whom can I speak and give warning? Who will listen to me? Their ears are closed so they cannot hear. The word of the Lord is offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.

Are they ashamed of their detestable conduct? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; they will be brought down when I punish them," says the Lord .

"So do not pray for this people nor offer any plea or petition for them; do not plead with me, for I will not listen to you.

So beware, the days are coming, declares the Lord , when people will no longer call it Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter, for they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.