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

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Jeremiah 1

Jeremiah Called to Be a Priest

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:1 - The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:2 - to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:3 - It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
The Prophet Is Called

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:4 - Then 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 you;
Before you were born I sanctified you;
I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:6 - Then said I:

“Ah, Lord GOD!
Behold, I cannot speak, for I am a youth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:7 - But the LORD said to me:

“Do not say, ‘I am a youth,’
For you shall go to all to whom I send you,
And whatever I command you, you shall speak.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:8 - Do not be afraid of their faces,
For I am with you to deliver you,” says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:9 - Then the LORD put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and the LORD said to me:

“Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:10 - See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms,
To root out and to pull down,
To destroy and to throw down,
To build and to plant.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:11 - Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” And I said, “I see a branch of an almond tree.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:12 - Then the LORD said to me, “You have seen well, for I am ready to perform My word.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:13 - And the word of the LORD came to me the second time, saying, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see a boiling pot, and it is facing away from the north.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:14 - Then the LORD said to me:

“Out of the north calamity shall break forth
On all the inhabitants of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:15 - For behold, I am calling
All the families of the kingdoms of the north,” says the LORD;
“They shall come and each one set his throne
At the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem,
Against all its walls all around,
And against all the cities of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:16 - I will utter My judgments
Against them concerning all their wickedness,
Because they have forsaken Me,
Burned incense to other gods,
And worshiped the works of their own hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:17 - “Therefore prepare yourself and arise,
And speak to them all that I command you.
Do not be dismayed before their faces,
Lest I dismay you before them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:18 - For behold, I have made you this day
A fortified city and an iron pillar,
And bronze walls against the whole land—
Against the kings of Judah,
Against its princes,
Against its priests,
And against the people of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:19 - They will fight against you,
But they shall not prevail against you.
For I am with you,” says the LORD, “to deliver you.”

Jeremiah 2

God’s Case Against Israel
Israel’s Sufferings the Result of Sin

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:1 - Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:2 - “Go and cry in the hearing of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD:

“I remember you,
The kindness of your youth,
The love of your betrothal,
When you went after Me in the wilderness,
In a land not sown.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:3 - Israel was holiness to the LORD,
The firstfruits of His increase.
All that devour him will offend;
Disaster will come upon them,” says the LORD.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:4 - Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob and all the families of the house of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:5 - Thus says the LORD:

“What injustice have your fathers found in Me,
That they have gone far from Me,
Have followed idols,
And have become idolaters?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:6 - Neither did they say, ‘Where is the LORD,
Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt,
Who led us through the wilderness,
Through a land of deserts and pits,
Through a land of drought and the shadow of death,
Through a land that no one crossed
And where no one dwelt?’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:7 - I brought you into a bountiful country,
To eat its fruit and its goodness.
But when you entered, you defiled My land
And made My heritage an abomination.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:8 - The priests did not say, ‘Where is the LORD?’
And those who handle the law did not know Me;
The rulers also transgressed against Me;
The prophets prophesied by Baal,
And walked after things that do not profit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:9 - “Therefore I will yet bring charges against you,” says the LORD,
“And against your children’s children I will bring charges.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:10 - For pass beyond the coasts of Cyprus[fn] and see,
Send to Kedar[fn] and consider diligently,
And see if there has been such a thing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:11 - Has a nation changed its gods,
Which are not gods?
But My people have changed their Glory
For what does not profit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:12 - Be astonished, O heavens, at this,
And be horribly afraid;
Be very desolate,” says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:13 - “For My people have committed two evils:
They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters,
And hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:14 - “Is Israel a servant?
Is he a homeborn slave?
Why is he plundered?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:15 - The young lions roared at him, and growled;
They made his land waste;
His cities are burned, without inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:16 - Also the people of Noph[fn] and Tahpanhes
Have broken the crown of your head.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:17 - Have you not brought this on yourself,
In that you have forsaken the LORD your God
When He led you in the way?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:18 - And now why take the road to Egypt,
To drink the waters of Sihor?
Or why take the road to Assyria,
To drink the waters of the River?[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:19 - Your own wickedness will correct you,
And your backslidings will rebuke you.
Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing
That you have forsaken the LORD your God,
And the fear of Me is not in you,”
Says the Lord GOD of hosts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:20 - “For of old I have broken your yoke and burst your bonds;
And you said, ‘I will not transgress,’
When on every high hill and under every green tree
You lay down, playing the harlot.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:21 - Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a seed of highest quality.
How then have you turned before Me
Into the degenerate plant of an alien vine?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:22 - For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap,
Yet your iniquity is marked before Me,” says the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:23 - “How can you say, ‘I am not polluted,
I have not gone after the Baals’?
See your way in the valley;
Know what you have done:
You are a swift dromedary breaking loose in her ways,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:24 - A wild donkey used to the wilderness,
That sniffs at the wind in her desire;
In her time of mating, who can turn her away?
All those who seek her will not weary themselves;
In her month they will find her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:25 - Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst.
But you said, ‘There is no hope.
No! For I have loved aliens, and after them I will go.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:26 - “As the thief is ashamed when he is found out,
So is the house of Israel ashamed;
They and their kings and their princes, and their priests and their prophets,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:27 - Saying to a tree, ‘You are my father,’
And to a stone, ‘You gave birth to me.’
For they have turned their back to Me, and not their face.
But in the time of their trouble
They will say, ‘Arise and save us.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:28 - But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves?
Let them arise,
If they can save you in the time of your trouble;
For according to the number of your cities
Are your gods, O Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:29 - “Why will you plead with Me?
You all have transgressed against Me,” says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:30 - “In vain I have chastened your children;
They received no correction.
Your sword has devoured your prophets
Like a destroying lion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:31 - “O generation, see the word of the LORD!
Have I been a wilderness to Israel,
Or a land of darkness?
Why do My people say, ‘We are lords;
We will come no more to You’?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:32 - Can a virgin forget her ornaments,
Or a bride her attire?
Yet My people have forgotten Me days without number.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:33 - “Why do you beautify your way to seek love?
Therefore you have also taught
The wicked women your ways.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:34 - Also on your skirts is found
The blood of the lives of the poor innocents.
I have not found it by secret search,
But plainly on all these things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:35 - Yet you say, ‘Because I am innocent,
Surely His anger shall turn from me.’
Behold, I will plead My case against you,
Because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:36 - Why do you gad about so much to change your way?
Also you shall be ashamed of Egypt as you were ashamed of Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:37 - Indeed you will go forth from him
With your hands on your head;
For the LORD has rejected your trusted allies,
And you will not prosper by them.
NKJV Footnotes
Hebrew Kittim, western lands, especially Cyprus
In the northern Arabian desert, representative of the eastern cultures
That is, Memphis in ancient Egypt
That is, the Euphrates

Jeremiah 3

Israel Is Shameless
Israel and Judah Urged to Repent

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:1 - “They say, ‘If a man divorces his wife,
And she goes from him
And becomes another man’s,
May he return to her again?’
Would not that land be greatly polluted?
But you have played the harlot with many lovers;
Yet return to Me,” says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:2 - “Lift up your eyes to the desolate heights and see:
Where have you not lain with men?
By the road you have sat for them
Like an Arabian in the wilderness;
And you have polluted the land
With your harlotries and your wickedness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:3 - Therefore the showers have been withheld,
And there has been no latter rain.
You have had a harlot’s forehead;
You refuse to be ashamed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:4 - Will you not from this time cry to Me,
‘My Father, You are the guide of my youth?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:5 - Will He remain angry forever?
Will He keep it to the end?’
Behold, you have spoken and done evil things,
As you were able.”
A Call to Repentance

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:6 - The LORD said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: “Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there played the harlot.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:7 - “And I said, after she had done all these things, ‘Return to Me.’ But she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:8 - “Then I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:9 - “So it came to pass, through her casual harlotry, that she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:10 - “And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart, but in pretense,” says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:11 - Then the LORD said to me, “Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:12 - “Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say:

‘Return, backsliding Israel,’ says the LORD;
‘I will not cause My anger to fall on you.
For I am merciful,’ says the LORD;
‘I will not remain angry forever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:13 - Only acknowledge your iniquity,
That you have transgressed against the LORD your God,
And have scattered your charms
To alien deities under every green tree,
And you have not obeyed My voice,’ says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:14 - “Return, O backsliding children,” says the LORD; “for I am married to you. I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:15 - “And I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:16 - “Then it shall come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land in those days,” says the LORD, “that they will say no more, ‘The ark of the covenant of the LORD.’ It shall not come to mind, nor shall they remember it, nor shall they visit it, nor shall it be made anymore.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:17 - “At that time Jerusalem shall be called The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem. No more shall they follow the dictates of their evil hearts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:18 - “In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given as an inheritance to your fathers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:19 - “But I said:

‘How can I put you among the children
And give you a pleasant land,
A beautiful heritage of the hosts of nations?’
“And I said:

‘You shall call Me, “My Father,”
And not turn away from Me.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:20 - Surely, as a wife treacherously departs from her husband,
So have you dealt treacherously with Me,
O house of Israel,” says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:21 - A voice was heard on the desolate heights,
Weeping and supplications of the children of Israel.
For they have perverted their way;
They have forgotten the LORD their God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:22 - “Return, you backsliding children,
And I will heal your backslidings.”

“Indeed we do come to You,
For You are the LORD our God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:23 - Truly, in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills,
And from the multitude of mountains;
Truly, in the LORD our God
Is the salvation of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:24 - For shame has devoured
The labor of our fathers from our youth—
Their flocks and their herds,
Their sons and their daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:25 - We lie down in our shame,
And our reproach covers us.
For we have sinned against the LORD our God,
We and our fathers,
From our youth even to this day,
And have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”
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