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"Be patient with me and take me not away, see what reproaches I endure for thy sake. I have to suffer those who despise thy words, but thy word is joy and happiness to me, for thou hast named me thine, O Lord, God of Hosts. I have never kept company with any gang of roisterers, or made merry with them; because I felt thy hand upon me I have sat alone; for thou hast filled me with indignation. Why then is my pain unending, my wound desperate and incurable? Thou art to me like a brook that is not to be trusted, whose waters fail. This was the Lord's answer: If you will turn back to Me, I will take you back and you shall stand before Me. If you choose noble utterance and reject the base,* you shall be My spokesman. This people will turn again to you, but you will not turn to them. To withstand them I will make you impregnable, a wall of bronze. They will attack you but they will not prevail, for I am with you to deliver you and save you, says the Lord; I will deliver you from the wicked, I will rescue you from the ruthless."  (Jer 15:15  21 NEB).  (* Low in the moral scale.  Of language: Debased).

"These are the words of the Lord of Hosts the God of Israel: I will bring on this place a disaster which shall ring in the ears of all who hear of it. For they have forsaken Me, and treated this place as if it were not Mine, burning sacrifices to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known, and filling this place with the blood of the innocent. They have built shrines to baal, where they burn their sons as whole-offerings to baal. It was no command of Mine; I never spoke of it; it never entered My thought. Therefore, says the Lord, the time is coming when this place shall no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. In this place I will shatter the plans of Judah and Jerusalem as a jar is shattered; I will make the people fall by the sword before their enemies, at the hands of those who would kill them, and I will give their corpses to the birds and beasts to devour. I will make this city a scene of horror and contempt, so that every passer-by will be horror-struck and jeer in contempt at the sight of its wounds. I will compel men to eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters; they shall devour one another's flesh in the dire straits to which their enemies and those who would kill them will reduce them in the siege. Then you must shatter the jar before the eyes of the men who have come with you and say to them, These are the words of the Lord of Hosts: Thus will I shatter this people and this city as one shatters an earthen vessel so that it cannot be mended, and the dead shall be buried in Topheth because there is no room elsewhere to bury them. This is what I will do to this place, says the Lord, and to those who live there: I will make this city like Topheth. Because of their defilement, the houses of Jerusalem and those of the kings of Judah shall be like Topheth".  (From Jer 19:3-13 NEB).

"The Lord came and stood there, and called, 'Samuel, Samuel', as before. Samuel answered, 'Speak; thy servant hears thee.' The Lord said, 'Soon I shall do something in Israel which will ring in the ears of all who hear it. When that day comes I will make good every word I have spoken against Eli and his family from beginning to end. You are to tell him that My Judgement on his house shall stand for ever because he knew of his sons' blasphemies against God and did not rebuke them."  (1 Sam 3:10-13 NEB).

"This is the word of the Lord the God of Israel: I will bring disaster on Jerusalem and Judah, disaster which will ring in the ears of all who hear of it. I will mark down every stone of Jerusalem with the plumb line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab; I will wipe away Jerusalem as when a man wipes his plate and turns it upside down, and I will cast off what is left of My people, My own possession, and hand them over to their enemies. They shall be plundered and fall a prey to all their enemies;  for they have done what is wrong in My eyes and have provoked My anger…"  (2 Kings 21:12-15 NEB).

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