Bible Reading for August 14

Bible Reading for August 14

Jeremiah Chapter 7

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

2 Stand in the gate of the LORD'S house, and proclaim there this word, 
and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at 
these gates to worship the LORD.

3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and 
your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The 
temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.

5 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly 
execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;

6 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and 
shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to 
your hurt:

7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave 
to your fathers, for ever and ever.

8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and 
burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;

10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my 
name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?

11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in 
your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.

12 But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name 
at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people 
Israel.

13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I 
spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I 
called you, but ye answered not;

14 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, 
wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your 
fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your 
brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.

16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor 
prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.

17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets 
of Jerusalem?

18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the 
women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to 
pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke 
themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury 
shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon 
the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall 
burn, and shall not be quenched.

21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt 
offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.

22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that 
I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or 
sacrifices:

23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be 
your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I 
have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.

24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the 
counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, 
and not forward.

25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt 
unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, 
daily rising up early and sending them:

26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened 
their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will 
not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not 
answer thee.

28 But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the 
voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is 
perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a 
lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the 
generation of his wrath.

30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: 
they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my 
name, to pollute it.

31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley 
of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the 
fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.

32 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no 
more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the 
valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.

33 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the 
heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.

34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the 
streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the 
voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall 
be desolate.

Jeremiah Chapter 8

1 At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the 
kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the 
priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants 
of Jerusalem, out of their graves:

2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the 
host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and 
after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they 
have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall 
be for dung upon the face of the earth.

3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them 
that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither 
I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.

4 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they 
fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?

5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual 
backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

6 I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him 
of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his 
course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.

7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the 
turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; 
but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.

8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, 
certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.

9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have 
rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?

10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to 
them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the 
greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest 
every one dealeth falsely.

11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, 
saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were 
not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall 
among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast 
down, saith the LORD.

13 I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes 
on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the 
things that I have given them shall pass away from them.

14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the 
defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath 
put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have 
sinned against the LORD.

15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and 
behold trouble!

16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land 
trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are 
come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and 
those that dwell therein.

17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will 
not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of 
them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her 
king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven 
images, and with strange vanities?

20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; 
astonishment hath taken hold on me.

22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is 
not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

Jeremiah Chapter 9

1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I 
might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that 
I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, 
an assembly of treacherous men.

3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not 
valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to 
evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.

4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any 
brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour 
will walk with slanders.

5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the 
truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves 
to commit iniquity.

6 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse 
to know me, saith the LORD.

7 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and 
try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh 
peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.

9 Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my 
soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the 
habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, 
so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of 
the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they 
are gone.

11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will 
make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom 
the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the 
land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth 
through?

13 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set 
before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;

14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after 
Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I 
will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of 
gall to drink.

16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor 
their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I 
have consumed them.

17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning 
women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:

18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes 
may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we 
are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our 
dwellings have cast us out.

20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive 
the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one 
her neighbour lamentation.

21 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our 
palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from 
the streets.

22 Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as 
dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and 
none shall gather them.

23 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, 
neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man 
glory in his riches:

24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and 
knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, 
and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith 
the LORD.

25 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them 
which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;

26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and 
all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for 
all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are 
uncircumcised in the heart.

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