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Jeremiah 25:8
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Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Because you have not obeyed My words,
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¶ Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words,
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Therefore the LORD of Armies says: “Because you have not heard my words,
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Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Because ye have not heard my words,
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Jeremiah 25
6 Do not follow other gods to serve and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.’
7 ‘But to your own harm, you have not listened to Me,’ declares the LORD, ‘so you have provoked Me to anger with the works of your hands.’
8 Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Because you have not obeyed My words,
9 behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.
10 Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.
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