The Bible, King James version, Book 24: Jeremiah. Unknown
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make it gross darkness.
24:013:017 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock is carried away captive.
24:013:018 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
24:013:019 The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.
24:013:020 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
24:013:021 What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?
24:013:022 And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.
24:013:023 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
24:013:024 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
24:013:025 This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
24:013:026 Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.
24:013:027 I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?
24:014:001 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.
24:014:002 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
24:014:003 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.
24:014:004 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
24:014:005 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.
24:014:006 And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.
24:014:007 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
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