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1At that time, says the Lord , the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of its officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be brought out of their tombs,[#Ezek 6.5]
2and they shall be spread before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, which they have followed, and which they have inquired of and worshiped, and they shall not be gathered or buried; they shall be like dung on the surface of the ground.[#Jer 22.19; Acts 7.42]
3Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family in all the places where I have driven them, says the Lord of hosts.[#Job 3.21; 7.15, 16; Jer 23.3, 8; Rev 9.6]
4You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord :[#Prov 24.16]
When people fall, do they not get up again?
If they go astray, do they not turn back?
5Why then has this people turned away[#Jer 5.6, 27; 7.24; 9.6; #8.5 Heb ms Gk: MT this people, Jerusalem,]
in perpetual faithlessness?
They have held fast to deceit;
they have refused to return.
6I have given heed and listened,[#Job 39.21–25; Ps 14.2; Ezek 22.30; Rev 9.20]
but they do not speak honestly;
no one repents of wickedness,
saying, “What have I done!”
All of them turn to their own course
like a horse plunging headlong into battle.
7Even the stork in the heavens[#Song 2.12; Isa 1.3; Jer 5.4, 5]
knows its times,
and the turtledove, swallow, and crane
observe the time of their coming,
but my people do not know
the ordinance of the Lord .
8How can you say, “We are wise,[#Jer 4.22; Rom 2.17]
and the law of the Lord is with us,”
when, in fact, the false pen of the scribes
has made it into a lie?
9The wise shall be put to shame;[#Jer 6.15, 19]
they shall be dismayed and taken;
since they have rejected the word of the Lord ,
what wisdom is in them?
10Therefore I will give their wives to others[#Deut 28.30; Isa 56.11]
and their fields to conquerors,
because from the least to the greatest
everyone is greedy for unjust gain;
from prophet to priest,
everyone deals falsely.
11They have treated the wound of the daughter of my people carelessly,[#Jer 6.14; Ezek 13.10]
saying, “Peace, peace,”
when there is no peace.
12They acted shamefully; they committed abomination,[#Jer 3.3; 6.21; 10.15]
yet they were not at all ashamed;
they did not know how to blush.
Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;
at the time when I punish them, they shall be overthrown, says the Lord .
13I will surely gather them, says the Lord ;[#Isa 5.2; Jer 14.12; Ezek 22.20, 21; Joel 1.7; Mt 21.19; #8.13 Or make an end to them]
there are no grapes on the vine
nor figs on the fig tree;
even the leaves are withered,
and what I gave them has passed away from them.
14Why do we sit still?[#Jer 3.25; 4.5; 9.15; 14.20; 35.11; Mt 27.34]
Gather together; let us go into the fortified cities
and perish there,
for the Lord our God has doomed us to perish
and has given us poisoned water to drink
because we have sinned against the Lord .
15We look for peace but find no good,[#Jer 14.19]
for a time of healing, but there is terror instead.
16The snorting of their horses is heard from Dan;[#Judg 5.22; Jer 3.24; 4.15; 10.25]
at the sound of the neighing of their stallions
the whole land quakes.
They come and devour the land and all that fills it,
the city and those who live in it.
17See, I am letting snakes loose among you,[#Num 21.6; Ps 58.4, 5]
adders that cannot be charmed,
and they shall bite you, says the Lord .
18My joy is gone; grief is upon me;
my heart is sick.
19Listen! The cry of the daughter of my people[#Deut 32.21; Ps 31.6; Isa 39.3; Jer 4.16; 14.19]
from far and wide in the land:
“Is the Lord not in Zion?
Is her King not in her?”
(“Why have they provoked me to anger with their images,
with their foreign idols?”)
20“The harvest is past, the summer is ended,
and we are not saved.”
21For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am broken,[#Jer 14.17; Joel 2.6; Nah 2.10]
I mourn, and horror has seized me.
22Is there no balm in Gilead?[#Gen 37.25; Jer 14.19; 30.13]
Is there no physician there?
Why then has the health of the daughter of my people
not been restored?