Jeremiah 23:39
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therefore I will surely forget you and will cast you out of My presence, both you and the city that I gave to you and your fathers.
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“Now when this people or a prophet or priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the LORD?’ you are to say to them, ‘What burden? I will forsake you, declares the LORD.’
Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.”
See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.
Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will bring to Judah and to all the residents of Jerusalem all the disaster I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to them but they have not obeyed, and I have called to them but they have not answered.’”
“I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?
For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself will search for My flock and seek them out.
They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,
Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?
I will punish him and his descendants and servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the residents of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the calamity about which I warned them but they did not listen.”