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Today's Bible Reading :: Jeremiah 1 - 3 (NIV)

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Jeremiah 1

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:1 - The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:2 - The word of the LORD came to him in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:3 - and through the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, down to the fifth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, when the people of Jerusalem went into exile.

The Call of Jeremiah

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:4 - The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:5 - “Before I formed you in the womb I knew[fn] you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:6 - “Alas, Sovereign LORD,” I said, “I do not know how to speak; I am too young.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:7 - But the LORD said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am too young.’ You must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:8 - Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you,” declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:9 - Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, “I have put my words in your mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:10 - See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:11 - The word of the LORD came to me: “What do you see, Jeremiah?” “I see the branch of an almond tree,” I replied.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:12 - The LORD said to me, “You have seen correctly, for I am watching[fn] to see that my word is fulfilled.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:13 - The word of the LORD came to me again: “What do you see?” “I see a pot that is boiling,” I answered. “It is tilting toward us from the north.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:14 - The LORD said to me, “From the north disaster will be poured out on all who live in the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:15 - I am about to summon all the peoples of the northern kingdoms,” declares the LORD. “Their kings will come and set up their thrones in the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem; they will come against all her surrounding walls and against all the towns of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:16 - I will pronounce my judgments on my people because of their wickedness in forsaking me, in burning incense to other gods and in worshiping what their hands have made.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:17 - “Get yourself ready! Stand up and say to them whatever I command you. Do not be terrified by them, or I will terrify you before them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:18 - Today I have made you a fortified city, an iron pillar and a bronze wall to stand against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests and the people of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:19 - They will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you and will rescue you,” declares the LORD.
NIV Footnotes
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The Hebrew for watching sounds like the Hebrew for almond tree.

Jeremiah 2

Israel Forsakes God

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:1 - The word of the LORD came to me:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:2 - “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: “This is what the LORD says: “ ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the wilderness, through a land not sown.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:3 - Israel was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of his harvest; all who devoured her were held guilty, and disaster overtook them,’ ”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:4 - Hear the word of the LORD, you descendants of Jacob, all you clans of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:5 - This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your ancestors find in me, that they strayed so far from me? They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:6 - They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD, who brought us up out of Egypt and led us through the barren wilderness, through a land of deserts and ravines, a land of drought and utter darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:7 - I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and rich produce. But you came and defiled my land and made my inheritance detestable.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:8 - The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?’ Those who deal with the law did not know me; the leaders rebelled against me. The prophets prophesied by Baal, following worthless idols.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:9 - “Therefore I bring charges against you again,”

declares the LORD.

“And I will bring charges against your children’s children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:10 - Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus and look, send to Kedar[fn] and observe closely; see if there has ever been anything like this:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:11 - Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But my people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:12 - Be appalled at this, you heavens, and shudder with great horror,”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:13 - “My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:14 - Is Israel a servant, a slave by birth? Why then has he become plunder?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:15 - Lions have roared; they have growled at him. They have laid waste his land; his towns are burned and deserted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:16 - Also, the men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have cracked your skull.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:17 - Have you not brought this on yourselves by forsaking the LORD your God when he led you in the way?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:18 - Now why go to Egypt to drink water from the Nile[fn]? And why go to Assyria to drink water from the Euphrates?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:19 - Your wickedness will punish you; your backsliding will rebuke you. Consider then and realize how evil and bitter it is for you when you forsake the LORD your God and have no awe of me,”

declares the Lord, the LORD Almighty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:20 - “Long ago you broke off your yoke and tore off your bonds; you said, ‘I will not serve you!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every spreading tree you lay down as a prostitute.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:21 - I had planted you like a choice vine of sound and reliable stock. How then did you turn against me into a corrupt, wild vine?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:22 - Although you wash yourself with soap and use an abundance of cleansing powder, the stain of your guilt is still before me,”

declares the Sovereign LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:23 - “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? See how you behaved in the valley; consider what you have done. You are a swift she-camel running here and there,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:24 - a wild donkey accustomed to the desert, sniffing the wind in her craving— in her heat who can restrain her? Any males that pursue her need not tire themselves; at mating time they will find her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:25 - Do not run until your feet are bare and your throat is dry. But you said, ‘It’s no use! I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:26 - “As a thief is disgraced when he is caught, so the people of Israel are disgraced— they, their kings and their officials, their priests and their prophets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:27 - They say to wood, ‘You are my father,’ and to stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ They have turned their backs to me and not their faces; yet when they are in trouble, they say, ‘Come and save us!’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:28 - Where then are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them come if they can save you when you are in trouble! For you, Judah, have as many gods as you have towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:29 - “Why do you bring charges against me? You have all rebelled against me,”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:30 - “In vain I punished your people; they did not respond to correction. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a ravenous lion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:31 - “You of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a desert to Israel or a land of great darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to you no more’?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:32 - Does a young woman forget her jewelry, a bride her wedding ornaments? Yet my people have forgotten me, days without number.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:33 - How skilled you are at pursuing love! Even the worst of women can learn from your ways.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:34 - On your clothes is found the lifeblood of the innocent poor, though you did not catch them breaking in. Yet in spite of all this

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:35 - you say, ‘I am innocent; he is not angry with me.’ But I will pass judgment on you because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:36 - Why do you go about so much, changing your ways? You will be disappointed by Egypt as you were by Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:37 - You will also leave that place with your hands on your head, for the LORD has rejected those you trust; you will not be helped by them.
NIV Footnotes
In the Syro-Arabian desert
Hebrew Shihor; that is, a branch of the Nile

Jeremiah 3

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:1 - “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, should he return to her again? Would not the land be completely defiled? But you have lived as a prostitute with many lovers— would you now return to me?”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:2 - “Look up to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been ravished? By the roadside you sat waiting for lovers, sat like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:3 - Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to blush with shame.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:4 - Have you not just called to me: ‘My Father, my friend from my youth,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:5 - will you always be angry? Will your wrath continue forever?’ This is how you talk, but you do all the evil you can.”

Unfaithful Israel

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:6 - During the reign of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has committed adultery there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:7 - I thought that after she had done all this she would return to me but she did not, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:8 - I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and committed adultery.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:9 - Because Israel’s immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:10 - In spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:11 - The LORD said to me, “Faithless Israel is more righteous than unfaithful Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:12 - Go, proclaim this message toward the north: “ ‘Return, faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will frown on you no longer, for I am faithful,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will not be angry forever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:13 - Only acknowledge your guilt— you have rebelled against the LORD your God, you have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every spreading tree, and have not obeyed me,’ ”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:14 - “Return, faithless people,” declares the LORD, “for I am your husband. I will choose you—one from a town and two from a clan—and bring you to Zion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:15 - Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will lead you with knowledge and understanding.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:16 - In those days, when your numbers have increased greatly in the land,” declares the LORD, “people will no longer say, ‘The ark of the covenant of the LORD.’ It will never enter their minds or be remembered; it will not be missed, nor will another one be made.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:17 - At that time they will call Jerusalem The Throne of the LORD, and all nations will gather in Jerusalem to honor the name of the LORD. No longer will they follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:18 - In those days the people of Judah will join the people of Israel, and together they will come from a northern land to the land I gave your ancestors as an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:19 - “I myself said, “ ‘How gladly would I treat you like my children and give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful inheritance of any nation.’ I thought you would call me ‘Father’ and not turn away from following me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:20 - But like a woman unfaithful to her husband, so you, Israel, have been unfaithful to me,”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 3:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:21 - A cry is heard on the barren heights, the weeping and pleading of the people of Israel, because they have perverted their ways and have forgotten the LORD their God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:22 - “Return, faithless people; I will cure you of backsliding.” “Yes, we will come to you, for you are the LORD our God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:23 - Surely the idolatrous commotion on the hills and mountains is a deception; surely in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:24 - From our youth shameful gods have consumed the fruits of our ancestors’ labor— their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:25 - Let us lie down in our shame, and let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our ancestors; from our youth till this day we have not obeyed the LORD our God.”
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