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Jeremiah 32

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¹ All of his transgressions which he has committed will not be remembered against him; because of his righteousness which he has practiced [for his moral and spiritual integrity in every area and relationship], he will live.

² Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked," says the Lord GOD, "rather than that he should turn [away] from his [malevolent] acts and live?

³ "But when the righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits sin and acts in accordance with all the repulsive things that the wicked man does, will he live? All of his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered because of the treachery that he has committed and for his sin which he has committed; for them he shall die.

⁴ Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not right.' Hear now, O house of Israel! Is My way not right? Is it not your ways that are not right?

⁵ When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits sin and dies because of it, it is for his sin which he has committed that he dies.

⁶ Again, when a wicked man turns away from his wickedness which he has committed and practices justice and righteousness, he will save his life.

⁷ Because he considered and turned away from all the transgressions which he had committed, he shall certainly live; he shall not die.

⁸ Yet the house of Israel says, 'The way of the Lord is not right!' O house of Israel, are My ways not right? Is it not your ways that are not right?

⁹ "Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each one in accordance with his conduct," says the Lord GOD. "Repent (change your way of thinking) and turn away from all your transgressions, so that sin may not become a stumbling block to you.

¹⁰ Cast away from you all your transgressions which you have committed [against Me], and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! For why should you die, O house of Israel?

¹¹ For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies," says the Lord GOD. "Therefore, repent and live!"

¹² "As for you, take up a dirge (funeral poem to be sung) for the princes of Israel

¹³ and say, 'What was your mother [Jerusalem and Judah]? A lioness among lions! She lay down among young lions, She reared her cubs.

¹⁴ 'When she [the royal mother-city] brought up [Jehoahaz] one of her cubs, He became a [young] lion, And he learned to catch and tear the prey; He devoured men.

¹⁵ 'The nations heard about him; He was captured in their pit, And they brought him with hooks To the land of Egypt.

¹⁶ 'When she saw, as she waited, That her hope was lost, She took[1] another of her cubs And made him a young lion.

¹⁷ 'And he moved among the lions; He became a young lion, He learned to tear the prey; He devoured men.

¹⁸ 'He destroyed their palaces And he flattened their cities; And the land and all who were in it were appalled By the sound of his roaring.

¹⁹ 'Then the nations set against him (the king) On every side from the provinces, And they spread their net over him; He was captured in their pit.

²⁰ 'They put him in a cage with hooks and chains And brought him to the king of Babylon; They brought him in hunting nets So that his voice would be heard no more On the mountains of Israel.

²¹ 'Your mother [Jerusalem] was like a vine in your[2] vineyard, Planted by the waters; It was fruitful and full of branches Because of abundant water.

²² 'And it had strong branches for the scepters of rulers, And its height was raised above the thick branches and into the clouds So that it was seen [easily] in its height with the mass of its branches.

²³ 'But the vine was uprooted in [godly] wrath [by His representative] And it was thrown down to the ground; The east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branch was broken off So that it withered; The fire [of God's judgment] consumed it.

²⁴ 'And now it is transplanted in the wilderness, In a dry and thirsty land [of Babylon].

²⁵ 'And the fire [of Zedekiah's rebellion] has gone out from its branch; It has consumed the vine's shoots and fruit, So that it has in it no [longer a] strong branch As a scepter to rule.'" This is a dirge (funeral poem to be sung), and has become a dirge.

²⁶ In the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month [after the beginning of the exile in Babylon], certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD and sat down before me.

²⁷ Then came the word of the LORD to me, saying,

²⁸ Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, Have you come to inquire of Me? As I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will not be inquired of by you."'

²⁹ Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Then make them know [accurately] and understand fully the repulsive acts of their fathers;

³⁰ and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "On the day when I chose Israel and lifted up My hand and swore to the descendants of the house of Jacob and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I swore to them, saying, I am the LORD your God,

³¹ on that day I swore to them to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had selected for them, [plentiful and][1] flowing with milk and honey, [a land] which is an ornament and a glory to all lands.

³² Then I said to them, 'Let every man throw away the detestable things on which he feasts his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.'

³³ But they rebelled against Me and were not willing to listen to Me; they did not throw away the detestable things on which they feasted their eyes, nor did they[2] give up the idols of Egypt. "Then I decided to pour out My wrath on them and finish My anger against them in the land of Egypt.

³⁴ But I acted for My Name's sake, that it would not be profaned in the sight of the [pagan] nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made Myself known to them by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

³⁵ So I made them leave the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.

³⁶ I gave them My statutes and explained My ordinances to them, which, if a man keeps, he will live.

³⁷ Also I gave them My Sabbaths to be a sign between Me and them, that they might know [without any doubt] that I am the LORD who sanctifies them (separates and sets them apart).

³⁸ But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not walk in My statutes and they despised and rejected My ordinances, which, if a man keeps, he will live; and they greatly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I decided to pour out My wrath on them in the wilderness, to annihilate them.

³⁹ But I acted for My Name's sake, that it would not be profaned in the sight of the [pagan] nations in whose sight I had brought them out [of slavery].

⁴⁰ I also swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, [a land of plenty][3] flowing with milk and honey, which is the ornament and glory of all lands,

⁴¹ because they rejected My ordinances, and as for My statutes, they did not walk in them; they even profaned My Sabbaths, for their heart continually went after their [worthless] idols.

⁴² Yet My eye [looked on them with compassion and] spared them instead of destroying them, and I did not annihilate them in the wilderness.

⁴³ "But I said to their children in the wilderness, 'Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers nor observe their ordinances nor defile yourselves with their idols.

⁴⁴ I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and observe them.

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1	All of his transgressions which he has committed will not be remembered against him; because of his righteousness which he has practiced [for his moral and spiritual integrity in every area and relationship], he will live.
2	Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked," says the Lord GOD, "rather than that he should turn [away] from his [malevolent] acts and live?
3	"But when the righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits sin and acts in accordance with all the repulsive things that the wicked man does, will he live? All of his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered because of the treachery that he has committed and for his sin which he has committed; for them he shall die.
4	Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not right.' Hear now, O house of Israel! Is My way not right? Is it not your ways that are not right?
5	When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits sin and dies because of it, it is for his sin which he has committed that he dies.
6	Again, when a wicked man turns away from his wickedness which he has committed and practices justice and righteousness, he will save his life.
7	Because he considered and turned away from all the transgressions which he had committed, he shall certainly live; he shall not die.
8	Yet the house of Israel says, 'The way of the Lord is not right!' O house of Israel, are My ways not right? Is it not your ways that are not right?
9	"Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each one in accordance with his conduct," says the Lord GOD. "Repent (change your way of thinking) and turn away from all your transgressions, so that sin may not become a stumbling block to you.
10	Cast away from you all your transgressions which you have committed [against Me], and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! For why should you die, O house of Israel?
11	For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies," says the Lord GOD. "Therefore, repent and live!"
12	"As for you, take up a dirge (funeral poem to be sung) for the princes of Israel
13	and say, 'What was your mother [Jerusalem and Judah]? A lioness among lions! She lay down among young lions, She reared her cubs.
14	'When she [the royal mother-city] brought up [Jehoahaz] one of her cubs, He became a [young] lion, And he learned to catch and tear the prey; He devoured men.
15	'The nations heard about him; He was captured in their pit, And they brought him with hooks To the land of Egypt.
16	'When she saw, as she waited, That her hope was lost, She took[1] another of her cubs And made him a young lion.
17	'And he moved among the lions; He became a young lion, He learned to tear the prey; He devoured men.
18	'He destroyed their palaces And he flattened their cities; And the land and all who were in it were appalled By the sound of his roaring.
19	'Then the nations set against him (the king) On every side from the provinces, And they spread their net over him; He was captured in their pit.
20	'They put him in a cage with hooks and chains And brought him to the king of Babylon; They brought him in hunting nets So that his voice would be heard no more On the mountains of Israel.
21	'Your mother [Jerusalem] was like a vine in your[2] vineyard, Planted by the waters; It was fruitful and full of branches Because of abundant water.
22	'And it had strong branches for the scepters of rulers, And its height was raised above the thick branches and into the clouds So that it was seen [easily] in its height with the mass of its branches.
23	'But the vine was uprooted in [godly] wrath [by His representative] And it was thrown down to the ground; The east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branch was broken off So that it withered; The fire [of God's judgment] consumed it.
24	'And now it is transplanted in the wilderness, In a dry and thirsty land [of Babylon].
25	'And the fire [of Zedekiah's rebellion] has gone out from its branch; It has consumed the vine's shoots and fruit, So that it has in it no [longer a] strong branch As a scepter to rule.'" This is a dirge (funeral poem to be sung), and has become a dirge.
26	In the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month [after the beginning of the exile in Babylon], certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD and sat down before me.
27	Then came the word of the LORD to me, saying,
28	Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, Have you come to inquire of Me? As I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will not be inquired of by you."'
29	Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Then make them know [accurately] and understand fully the repulsive acts of their fathers;
30	and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "On the day when I chose Israel and lifted up My hand and swore to the descendants of the house of Jacob and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I swore to them, saying, I am the LORD your God,
31	on that day I swore to them to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had selected for them, [plentiful and][1] flowing with milk and honey, [a land] which is an ornament and a glory to all lands.
32	Then I said to them, 'Let every man throw away the detestable things on which he feasts his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.'
33	But they rebelled against Me and were not willing to listen to Me; they did not throw away the detestable things on which they feasted their eyes, nor did they[2] give up the idols of Egypt. "Then I decided to pour out My wrath on them and finish My anger against them in the land of Egypt.
34	But I acted for My Name's sake, that it would not be profaned in the sight of the [pagan] nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made Myself known to them by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
35	So I made them leave the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.
36	I gave them My statutes and explained My ordinances to them, which, if a man keeps, he will live.
37	Also I gave them My Sabbaths to be a sign between Me and them, that they might know [without any doubt] that I am the LORD who sanctifies them (separates and sets them apart).
38	But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not walk in My statutes and they despised and rejected My ordinances, which, if a man keeps, he will live; and they greatly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I decided to pour out My wrath on them in the wilderness, to annihilate them.
39	But I acted for My Name's sake, that it would not be profaned in the sight of the [pagan] nations in whose sight I had brought them out [of slavery].
40	I also swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, [a land of plenty][3] flowing with milk and honey, which is the ornament and glory of all lands,
41	because they rejected My ordinances, and as for My statutes, they did not walk in them; they even profaned My Sabbaths, for their heart continually went after their [worthless] idols.
42	Yet My eye [looked on them with compassion and] spared them instead of destroying them, and I did not annihilate them in the wilderness.
43	"But I said to their children in the wilderness, 'Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers nor observe their ordinances nor defile yourselves with their idols.
44	I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and observe them.

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