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Thus saith the LORD;Stand in the court of the LORD'Shouse, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD'Shouse, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word:
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If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evilway, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.
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Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the peopletook him, saying, Thou shalt surelydie.
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Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD,saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
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When the princes of Judahheard these things, then they came up from the king'shouse unto the house of the LORD, and sat down in the entry of the newgate of the LORD'S house.
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Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people,saying, This man is worthy to die; for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.
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Then spakeJeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people,saying, The LORDsent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.
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Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.
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As for me, behold, I am in your hand:do with me as seemethgood and meet unto you.
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But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bringinnocentblood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.
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Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets; This man is not worthy to die: for he hath spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.
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Micah the Morasthiteprophesied in the days of Hezekiahking of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah,saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts;Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
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Did Hezekiahking of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD*, and the LORDrepented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procuregreatevil against our souls.
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And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the LORD,Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah:
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And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes,heard his words, the kingsought to put him to death: but when Urijahheard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt;
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And they fetched forthUrijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the commonpeople.
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Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.