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chapter 16
1
And
the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou
have thee sons and daughters in this place.
3 For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and
daughters, that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bore
them: and concerning their fathers, of whom they were born in this land:
4 They shall die by the death of grievous illnesses:
they shall not be lamented, and they shall not be buried, they shall be as dung
upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed with the sword, and with
famine: and their carcasses shall be meat for the fowls of the air, and for the
beasts of the earth.
5 For thus saith the Lord: Enter not into the house of
feasting, neither go thou to mourn, nor to comfort them: because I have taken
away my peace from this people, saith the Lord, my mercy and commiserations.
6 Both the great and the little shall die in the land:
they shall not be buried nor lamented, and men shall not cut themselves, nor
make themselves bald for them.
7 And they shall not break bread among them to him that
mourneth, to comfort him for the dead: neither shall they give them to drink of
the cup, to comfort them for their father and mother.
8 And do not thou go into the house of feasting, to sit
with them, and to eat and drink.
9 For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:
Behold I will take away out of this place in your sight, and in your days the
voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the
voice of the bride.
10 And when thou shalt tell this people all these
words, and they shall say to thee: Wherefore hath the Lord pronounced against
us all this great evil? what is our iniquity? and what is our sin, that we have
sinned against the Lord our God?
11 Thou shalt say to them: Because your fathers forsook
me, saith the Lord: and went after strange gods, and served them, and adored
them: and they forsook me, and kept not my law.
12 And you also have done worse than your fathers: for
behold every one of you walketh after the perverseness of his evil heart, so as
not to hearken to me.
13 So I will cast you forth out of this land, into a
land which you know not, nor you fathers: and there you shall serve strange
gods day and night, which shall not give you any rest.
14 Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, when
it shall be said no more: The Lord liveth, that brought for the children of
Israel out of the land of Egypt:
15 But, the Lord liveth, that brought the children of
Israel out of the land of the north, and out of all the lands to which I cast
them out: and I will bring them again into their land, which I gave to their
fathers.
16 Behold I will send many fishers, saith the Lord, and
they shall fish them: and after this I will send them many hunters, and they
shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes
of the rocks.
17 For my eyes are upon all their ways: they are not
hid from my face, and their iniquity hath not been hid from my eyes.
18 And I will repay first their double iniquities, and
their sins: because they have defiled my land with the carcasses of their
idols, and they have filled my inheritance with their abominations.
19 O Lord, my might, and my strength, and my refuge in
the day of tribulation: to thee the Gentiles shall come from the ends of the
earth, and shall say: Surely our fathers have possessed lies, a vanity which
hath not profited them.
20 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and there are no
gods?
21 Therefore, behold I will this once cause them to
know, I will shew them my hand and my power: and they shall know that my name
is the Lord.
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