THE CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES Old Testament Prophecy - Angelfire

after strange gods, resulting in wickedness for you, 7 I will cause you to reside in this
place, in the land which I gave to your fathers from eternity and for eternity.
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But if you have trusted in lying words, by which you will not be benefited, and you
murder, commit adultery, steal, and swear to injustice, and you have burned incense to
Baal and gone after strange gods with whom you were not acquainted, so that it goes
wickedly for you, 10 and you have come and stood in my sight in the house over which
my name is invoked, and have said, `We refrained from doing all these abominations,´
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is not my house over which my name is invoked a den of robbers in your sight?
Behold, I have seen it," says the Lord. 12 "For go to my place which is in Shiloh, where I
caused my name to dwell there previously, and see what I did to it due to the presence
of the wickedness of my people Israel. 13 Now, because you performed all these works,
and I spoke to you yet you did not listen to me, and I called you yet you did not
answer, 14 I will also do to this house over which my name is invoked, in which you have
trusted, and to the place which I gave to you and your fathers, just as I did to Shiloh.
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I will throw you away from my presence, just as I threw away your brothers, all the
seed of Ephraim.
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Do not pray concerning this people, and do not expect them to be shown mercy.
Do not make a vow, and do not approach me concerning them, for I will not listen. 17 Do
you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the ways of Jerusalem?
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Their sons gather wood, their fathers kindle fire, and their women knead dough to
make cakes for the host of heaven. They offered libations to strange gods, so that they
might provoke me. 19 They don't provoke me, do they?" says the Lord. "Is it not
themselves, in order that their faces may be ashamed?" 20 Because of this, thus says the
Lord: "Behold, my wrath and anger will be poured out on this place, on the men, on the
livestock, on every tree of their field, and on the produce of the land; it will burn and
will not be quenched."
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Thus says the Lord: "Gather your whole burnt offerings with your sacrifices, and
eat meat. 22 For I did not speak to your fathers, and I did not command them on the
day on which I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, concerning whole burnt
offerings and sacrifice. 23 Instead, I commanded them this statement, saying, `Hear my
voice, and I will be God for you, and you will be a people for me. Go on all my ways on
which I may command you, in order that it may be well with you.´ 24 They did not listen
to me, and their ear paid no attention. Instead, they went in the considerations of their
wicked hearts; they were backwards and not forwards. 25 From the day their fathers
came out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, I sent forth to you all my slaves, the
prophets, during the day and early in the morning. I sent forth, 26 yet they did not listen
to me, and their ear paid no attention; they stiffened their neck more than their fathers.
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You will say this word to them: `This is the nation which did not listen to the voice
of the Lord and did not accept correction; the faith failed from their mouths.´
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Cut off your hair and throw it away; take up a lamentation on your lips. For the
Lord disqualified and rejected the generation which did these things. 30 For the sons of
Judah did what was evil before me," says the Lord. "They arranged their abominations
in the house over which my name was invoked in order to defile it. 31 They built the
platform of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, in order to burn up