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7 —-xg ]EREMIAH. 20 JI J2 24 ::6 28 pour drink offerings to the ‘ Gods of Seducti0¤!’ They insult Me thus! asks the Do they not shame themselves openly thus says the AL-

My anger and wrath shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast; and upon the trees of the Held; and upon the fruits of the ground, and shall not be quenched. The EvEr<—L1v1NG also says this;

‘ Cease your burnbofferings, with your sacrifices, and eating of flesh, for did I not speak to your ancestors and did I not command them, at the time they came out from the land of the Mitzeraim, about the matters of bumt—of’fe1·ing and sacrifice ? Never- theless 1 commanded them this mes- sage, saying, ‘ Listen to My voice, and I will be a Goo to you, and you shall be My People. But walk in all the paths that I instruct you ;—-—be— cause it will beneiit yourselves} But you would not listen, nor apply your ears, and you walked after your own bad ideas and rules ;———therefore you are the last, and not the first, from the day your ancestors came from the land of the Mitzeraim to this day! Although I sent all My servants, the Preac;hers,·——rising and sending at early dawn,—·but you would not listen to Me, nor apply your ears, but stiffened your neck ;———-you were bad like your ancestors I ‘ But although you address to them

all these speeches, yet they will never listen to you,~—-when you call to them, they will not answer you; therefore I`his is a nation that will not listen to the voice of its l+;vaR—1.1v1N<; Goo, and will not ac- cept correction,—~whose faithfulness has perished! Therefore I will cut them off from My Presence} Blzremialy lhurlnixns the Message { . 30 as ®rh2reh. Cut off your long hair, and iiing it

away! Mount the heights. Weep! for the EVER—L1V1NG has rejected and Be- cause the Children of judah have says the 'I`hey have placed their abominations in the House, upon which my NAME was invoked, to defile it. And they have built columns at '1`hopheth in the vale of Ben-hinon, burning their sons and their daughters in the fire,-—-although 1 commanded them not,—-—and not to let it enter their hearts. says 32 when it shall no more be called T hopheth, and the vale of Ben-hinon, but only the VALLEY OF MURDER,-—and they shall bury in Thopheth for want of other room; when the carcases of this People 33 shall be food to the birds of the skies, and the beasts of the earth, without fear. And I will expel from the cities 34 of judah, and from the streets of jerusalem the sound of joy, and the sound of happiness, the sound of wedding, and the sound of dying, for the land shall be a desert! says the EVER-

they will bring out the bones of the kings of judah, and the bones of its nobles, and the bones of itspriests, and the bones of its preachers, and the bones of the in- habitants of jerusalem, from their tombs, and scatter them to the sun, and the moon, and all the host of the skies, whom they loved, and whom they served, and by whom they were seduced, and whom they sought, and whom they worshipped,~·—none shall collect them, and none shall bury them,~——they shall be dung on the face of the ground. Then death will be preferred to life by all the fragments of the remnants of this wicked tribe in every place where the splintered says the LORD oF Hosts. says

Does the fallen never rise? Does the departed never return? Then why has this People of jerusalem gone away with a per- petual departure? Why do they persist in desertion, and refuse to return? I attended and listened. However none spoke. No man sighed over his wickedness, or said, ‘ Why did I do it? ’ They all stuck to their course like horses whipped to the battle! ‘Even the stork knows her time

for assembly and migration, and the crane and swallow keep the season of their coming, but My People know not the decrees of the Evan-Lzvmc. ‘ How can you say ‘ We are edu-

cated for we possess the laws of the Evaiz»LiviN_o?’ Why then is the 499