Jeremiah 7:34
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I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.”
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The light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.”
I will put an end to all her exultation: her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths— all her appointed feasts.
So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the music of your lyres will no longer be heard.
Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you— a desolation demolished by strangers.
Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.
But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.
Then the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds.
For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.
For this is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.
And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.