but, The Lord lives, who brought up the house of Israel from the land of the north, and from all countries in which they were thrust out. And I will restore them to their own land, which I gave to their fathers.

For My eyes are upon all their ways; and their iniquities have not been hidden from My eyes.

Hearken, I pray, and hear: will they not speak thus, There is no man that repents of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? The runner has failed from his course, as a tired horse in his neighing.

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Then they said, Come, and let us devise a plan against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us attack him with the tongue, and we will hear all his words.

And they said to the king, Let that man be slain, for he weakens the hands of the fighting men that are left in the city, and the hands of all the people, speaking to them according to these words; for this man does not prophesy peace to this people, but evil.

And Pharaoh said, Who is He that I should listen to His voice, so that I should send away the children of Israel? I do not know the Lord, and I will not let Israel go.

For he has lifted his hands against the Lord, and he has hardened his neck against the Almighty Lord.

For he has covered his face with his fat, and made layers of fat upon his thighs.

Yet [such a man] says to the Lord, Depart from me; I desire not to know Your ways.

What is the Mighty One, that we should serve Him? And what profit is there that we should approach Him?

[saying], Let us break through Their bonds, and cast away Their yoke from us.

They have taken counsel and spoken in wickedness; they have uttered unrighteousness loftily.

They have set their mouth against heaven, and their tongue has gone through upon the earth.

Wherefore now their glory has been brought low, and the shame of their countenance has withstood them, and they have proclaimed their sin as Sodom, and made it manifest.

Now then, if you are ready, whenever you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, pipe, harp, sackbut, psaltery, harmony, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the golden image which I have made, [fine;] but if you will not worship, in the same hour you shall be cast into the burning fiery furnace; and who is the God that shall deliver you out of my hand?

But his citizens hated him, and sent a delegation after him, saying, 'We will not have this man to reign over us.'

Nevertheless bring here those enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, and slay [them] before me.'"