Jeremiah 29:16-20 (New Revised Standard)
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Thus says the Lord concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who live in this city, your kinsfolk who did not go out with you into exile:
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Thus says the Lord of hosts, I am going to let loose on them sword, famine, and pestilence, and I will make them like rotten figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten.
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I will pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, and will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of cursing, and horror, and hissing, and a derision among all the nations where I have driven them,
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because they did not heed my words, says the Lord, when I persistently sent to you my servants the prophets, but they a would not listen, says the Lord.
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But now, all you exiles whom I sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon, hear the word of the Lord:
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Jeremiah 29:19 - Syr: Heb [you]