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Then the word of the LORDcame to Jeremiah, saying,
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"Behold, I am the LORD, the 1God of allflesh; is anything*2toodifficult for Me?"
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Thereforethussays the LORD, "Behold, I am about to 3givethiscity into the hand of the Chaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzarking of Babylon, and he will take it.
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"The Chaldeans who are fightingagainstthiscity will enter and 4setthiscity on fire and burn it, with the 5houseswhere people have offeredincense to Baal on their roofs and poured out drinkofferings to othergods to provoke Me to anger.
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"Indeed the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have been doingonly6evil in My sight from their youth; for the sons of Israel have been only7provoking Me to anger by the work of their hands," declares the LORD.
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"Indeedthiscity has been to Me a 8provocation of My anger and My wrath from the day that they built it, even to thisday, so that it should be 9removed from before My face,
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because of all the evil of the sons of Israel and the sons of Judahwhich they have done to provoke Me to anger -they, their 10kings, their leaders, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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"They have turned their back to Me and not their face; though I taught them, 11teachingagain and again, they would not listen and receiveinstruction.
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"But they 12put their detestablethings in the housewhich is called by My name, to defile it.
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"They built the 13highplaces of Baal that are in the valley of Ben-hinnom* to cause their sons and their daughters to passthrough the fire to 14Molech, which I had not commanded them nor had it entered My mind that they should dothisabomination, to cause Judah to sin.
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"Nowthereforethussays the LORDGod of Israelconcerningthiscity of which you say, 'It is 15given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword, by famine and by pestilence.'