Jeremiah 40:2 References
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Now the captain of the bodyguard had taken Jeremiah and said to him, "The aLord your God promised this calamity against this place;
a Leviticus 26:14-38, Deuteronomy 28:15-68, Deuteronomy 29:24-28, Deuteronomy 31:17, Deuteronomy 32:19-25, Jeremiah 22:8, Jeremiah 22:9
Leviticus 26
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if, instead, you areject My statutes, and if your soul abhors My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, and so bbreak My covenant,
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I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a asudden terror, consumption and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the bsoul to pine away; also, cyou will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it up.
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'I will set My face against you so that you will be struck down before your enemies; and athose who hate you will rule over you, and byou will flee when no one is pursuing you.
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'If also after these things you do not obey Me, then I will punish you aseven times more for your sins.
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'I will also abreak down your pride of power; I will also make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze.
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'aYour strength will be spent uselessly, for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit.
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'If then, you aact with hostility against Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you bseven times according to your sins.
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'aI will let loose among you the beasts of the field, which will bereave you of your children and destroy your cattle and reduce your number so that byour roads lie deserted.
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then I will aact with hostility against you; and I, even I, will strike you bseven times for your sins.
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'I will also bring upon you a sword which will execute avengeance for the covenant; and when you gather together into your cities, I will send bpestilence among you, so that you shall be delivered into enemy hands.
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'aWhen I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread in rationed amounts, so that you will beat and not be satisfied.
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'Yet if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but act with hostility against Me,
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then aI will act with wrathful hostility against you, and I, even I, will punish you seven times for your sins.
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'I then awill destroy your high places, and cut down your bincense altars, and heap your remains on the remains of your idols, for My soul shall abhor you.
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'I will lay awaste your cities as well and will make your bsanctuaries desolate, and I will not csmell your soothing aromas.
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'You, however, I awill scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste.
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'aThen the land will enjoy its sabbaths all the days of the desolation, while you are in your enemies' land; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
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'All the days of its desolation it will observe the rest which it did not observe on your sabbaths, while you were living on it.
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'As for those of you who may be left, I will also bring aweakness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a driven leaf will chase them, and even when no one is pursuing they will flee as though from the sword, and they will fall.
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'aThey will therefore stumble over each other as if running from the sword, although no one is pursuing; and you will have no strength to stand up before your enemies.
Deuteronomy 28
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"aBut it shall come about, if you do not obey the Lord your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes with which I charge you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
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"aCursed shall be the offspring of your body and the produce of your ground, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.
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"aThe Lord will send upon you curses, confusion, and brebuke, in all you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and until cyou perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken Me.
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"aThe Lord will make the pestilence cling to you until He has consumed you from the land where you are entering to possess it.
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"aThe Lord will smite you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with the sword and bwith blight and with mildew, and they will pursue you until cyou perish.
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"The heaven which is over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you, iron.
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"aThe Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.
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"aThe Lord shall cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you will go out one way against them, but you will flee seven ways before them, and you will bbe an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
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"aYour carcasses will be food to all birds of the sky and to the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.
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"aThe Lord will smite you with the boils of Egypt and with btumors and with the scab and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.
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"The Lord will smite you with madness and with blindness and with bewilderment of heart;
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and you will agrope at noon, as the blind man gropes in darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways; but you shall only be oppressed and robbed continually, with none to save you.
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"aYou shall betroth a wife, but another man will violate her; byou shall build a house, but you will not live in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but you will not use its fruit.
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"Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat of it; your donkey shall be torn away from you, and will not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you will have none to save you.
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"aYour sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and yearn for them continually; but there will be nothing you can do.
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"aA people whom you do not know shall eat up the produce of your ground and all your labors, and you will never be anything but oppressed and crushed continually.
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"You shall be driven mad by the sight of what you see.
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"aThe Lord will strike you on the knees and legs with sore boils, from which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
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"aThe Lord will bring you and your king, whom you set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods, bwood and stone.
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"aYou shall become a horror, a proverb, and a taunt among all the people where the Lord drives you.
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"aYou shall bring out much seed to the field but you will gather in little, for bthe locust will consume it.
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"aYou shall plant and cultivate vineyards, but you will neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm will devour them.
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"aYou shall have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.
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"aThe alien who is among you shall rise above you higher and higher, but you will go down lower and lower.
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"aHe shall lend to you, but you will not lend to him; bhe shall be the head, and you will be the tail.
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"So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you auntil you are destroyed, because you would not obey the Lord your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.
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"aBecause you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and a glad heart, for the abundance of all things;
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therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, ain hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and He bwill put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
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"aThe Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, bas the eagle swoops down, a nation whose language you shall not understand,
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a nation of fierce countenance who will ahave no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young.
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"Moreover, it shall eat the offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who also leaves you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the increase of your herd or the young of your flock until they have caused you to perish.
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"aIt shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout your land, and it shall besiege you in all your towns throughout your land which the Lord your God has given you.
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"aThen you shall eat the offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you.
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"The man who is refined and very delicate among you shall be hostile toward his brother and toward the wife he cherishes and toward the rest of his children who remain,
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so that he will not give even one of them any of the flesh of his children which he will eat, since he has nothing else left, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you in all your towns.
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"aThe refined and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and refinement, shall be hostile toward the husband she cherishes and toward her son and daughter,
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and toward her afterbirth which issues from between her legs and toward her children whom she bears; for ashe will eat them secretly for lack of anything else, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you in your towns.
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"If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law which are written in this book, to afear this honored and awesome bname, the Lord your God,
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then the Lord will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, even severe and lasting plagues, and miserable and chronic sicknesses.
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"aHe will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you.
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"Also every sickness and every plague which, not written in the book of this law, the Lord will bring on you auntil you are destroyed.
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"Then you shall be left few in number, awhereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not obey the Lord your God.
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"It shall come about that as the Lord adelighted over you to prosper you, and multiply you, so the Lord will bdelight over you to make you perish and destroy you; and you will be ctorn from the land where you are entering to possess it.
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"Moreover, the Lord will ascatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you shall bserve other gods, wood and stone, which you or your fathers have not known.
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"aAmong those nations you shall find no rest, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there bthe Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul.
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"So your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you will be in dread night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life.
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"aIn the morning you shall say, 'Would that it were evening!' And at evening you shall say, 'Would that it were morning!' because of the dread of your heart which you dread, and for the sight of your eyes which you will see.
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"The Lord will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way about which I spoke to you, 'You will never see it again!' And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer."
Deuteronomy 29
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"All the nations will say, 'aWhy has the Lord done thus to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?'
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"Then men will say, 'aBecause they forsook the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.
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'They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they have not known and whom He had not allotted to them.
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'Therefore, the anger of the Lord burned against that land, ato bring upon it every curse which is written in this book;
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and athe Lord uprooted them from their land in anger and in fury and in great wrath, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.'
Deuteronomy 31
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"aThen My anger will be kindled against them in that day, and bI will forsake them and chide My face from them, and they will be consumed, and many evils and troubles will come upon them; so that they will say in that day, 'dIs it not because our God is not among us that these evils have come upon us?'
Deuteronomy 32
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"Then He said, 'I will hide My face from them, aI will see what their end shall be; bFor they are a perverse generation, cSons in whom is no faithfulness.
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'aThey have made Me jealous with what is not God; They have provoked Me to anger with their bidols. cSo I will make them jealous with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation,
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aFor a fire is kindled in My anger, And burns to the lowest part of Sheol, bAnd consumes the earth with its yield, And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
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'aThey will be wasted by famine, and consumed by plague bAnd bitter destruction; cAnd the teeth of beasts I will send upon them, dWith the venom of crawling things of the dust.
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'aOutside the sword will bereave, And inside terror-- bBoth young man and virgin, The nursling with the man of gray hair.
Jeremiah 22
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"Many nations will pass by this city; and they will asay to one another, 'Why has the Lord done thus to this great city?'