The Lord's Answer: Judgment Confirmed, Restoration Promised

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Then this word of ADONAI came to Yirmeyahu:

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"Look, I am ADONAI, the God of every living creature; is there anything too hard for me?

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Therefore, here is what ADONAI says: 'I will hand this city over to the Kasdim and to N'vukhadretzar king of Bavel; and he will capture it.

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The Kasdim who are fighting against this city will enter and set this city on fire; they will burn it down, including its houses, on whose roofs they offered to Ba'al and poured out drink offerings to other gods, in order to make me angry.

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For from their youth, the people of Isra'el and the people of Y'hudah have done only what is evil from my perspective; the people of Isra'el have done nothing but provoke me with what their hands make,' says ADONAI.

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'This city has so provoked my anger and fury from the day they built it to this day that I ought to remove it from my presence,

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because of all the evil that the people of Isra'el and the people of Y'hudah have done in order to make me angry - they, their kings, their leaders, their cohanim, their prophets, the men of Y'hudah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim.

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They have turned their backs on me, not their faces; and although I taught them, taught them frequently, they have not listened so as to receive instruction.

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Instead they put their detestable idols in the house that bears my name, to defile it;

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and they built the high places for Ba'al which are in the Ben-Hinnom Valley, to burn alive their sons and daughters to Molekh - something I did not order them to do, it never even entered my mind that they would do such an abominable thing - and thus they caused Y'hudah to sin.'

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"Therefore, thus says ADONAI the God of Isra'el concerning this city, of which you say that it is handed over to the king of Bavel by sword, famine and plague:

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