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Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,

"Behold, I am the LORD, the ^(C1)God of all flesh; is anything ^(C2)too difficult for Me?"

Therefore this is what the LORD says: "Behold, I am going to ^(C1)hand this city over to the Chaldeans and to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will take it.

"And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will enter and ^(C1)set this city on fire and burn it, with the ^(C2)houses where people have offered incense to Baal on their roofs and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke Me to anger.

"For the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have been doing only ^(C1)evil in My sight since their youth; for the sons of Israel have been only ^(C2)provoking Me to anger by the work of their hands," declares the LORD.

"Indeed this city has been to Me a ^(C1)provocation of My anger and My wrath since the day that they built it, even to this day, so that it should be ^(C2)removed from My sight,

because of all the evil of the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah which they have done to provoke Me to anger—they, their ^(C1)kings, their leaders, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

"They have turned their back to Me and not their face; though I taught them, ^(C1)teaching again and again, they would not listen to accept discipline.

"But they ^(C1)put their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.

"They built the ^(C1)high places of Baal that are in the Valley of Ben-hinnom to make their sons and their daughters pass through the fire to ^(C2)Molech, which I had not commanded them, nor had it ^(F1)entered My mind that they should do this abomination, to mislead Judah to sin.