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“My people have committed two sins:
They have forsaken me, the spring of living water,

and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that
cannot hold water.

Jeremiah 2:13

Have you not brought this on yourselves by forsaking
the Lord your God when he led you in the way?

Jeremiah 2:17

Your wickedness will punish you; your backsliding will
rebuke you. Consider then and realize how evil and bitter
it is for you when you forsake the Lord your God and have
no awe of me,” declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

Jeremiah 2:19

They say to wood, ‘You are my father,’ and to stone, ‘You
gave me birth.’ They have turned their backs to me and not
their faces; yet when they are in trouble, they say, ‘Come
and save us !’

Jeremiah 2:27

Where then are the gods you made for yourselves?

Jeremiah 2:28a

Let them come if they can save you when you are in trouble!

Jeremiah 2:28b

… ” ‘Return… ‘I will frown on you no longer, for I am merciful,’ declares the Lord, ‘I will not be angry forever.

Jeremiah 3:12

Only acknowledge your guilt- you have rebelled against the Lord your God, you have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every spreading tree, and have not obeyed me,’ ” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:13

Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will lead you with knowledge and understanding.

Jeremiah 3: 15

O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth?

“You struck them, but they felt no pain; you crushed them, but they refused correction. They made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.”

Jeremiah 5:3

“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 yolk and torn off the bonds.

Jeremiah 5:5

“Should I not punish them for this?” declares the Lord. Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?

Jeremiah 5:9

” From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit. They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. ‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when there is no peace.

Jeremiah 6:13,14

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

Jeremiah 6:15

Hear, O earth: I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their schemes, because they have not listened to my words and have rejected my law.

Jeremiah 6: 19

“Say to them, ‘This is what the Lord says: ” ‘When men fall down, do they not get up? When a man turns away, does he not return?

Jeremiah 8:4

Why then have these people turned away?

Jeremiah 5:5a

I have listened attentively, but they do not say what is right.
No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?”

Each pursues his own course like a horse charging into battle.

Jeremiah 8:6

Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons,

and the dove, the swift and the thrush observe the time of their migration.

But my people do not know the requirements of the Lord.

Jeremiah 8:7

” ‘How can you say, “We are wise, for we have the law of the Lord,”
when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely?

Jeremiah 8:8

The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the Lord, what kind of wisdom do they have?

Jeremiah 8:9

No one is like you, O Lord; you are great, and your name is mighty in power.

Jeremiah 10:6

Who should not revere you, O King of the nations? This is your due. Among all the wise men of the nations and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like you.

Jeremiah 10:7

They are all senseless and foolish; they are taught by worthless wooden idols.

Jeremiah 10:8

But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God, the eternal King.

When he is angry, the earth trembles; the nations cannot endure his wrath.

Jeremiah 10:10