The Misuse of 'The Burden of the LORD'

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When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? Then you shall tell them, What burden! I will cast you off, says the LORD.

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As for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, who shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house.

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You shall say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, What has the LORD answered? and, What has the LORD spoken?

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You shall mention the burden of the LORD no more: for every man’s own word shall be his burden; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of Hosts our God.

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You shall say to the prophet, What has the LORD answered you? and, What has the LORD spoken?

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But if you say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus says the LORD: Because you say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent to you, saying, You shall not say, The burden of the LORD;

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therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence:

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and I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

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