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Today's Readings
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Friday, 26th April 2024 --- 18 Baramoudah 1740
Jeremiah 8 : 17 - 9 : 6
Chapter 8
| 17 | "For behold, I will send serpents among you, Vipers which cannot be charmed, And they shall bite you," says the LORD.
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| 18 | I would comfort myself in sorrow; My heart is faint in me.
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| 19 | Listen! The voice, The cry of the daughter of my people From a far country: "Is not the LORD in Zion? Is not her King in her?Why have they provoked Me to anger With their carved images--With foreign idols?"
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| 20 | "The harvest is past, The summer is ended, And we are not saved!"
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| 21 | For the hurt of the daughter of my people I am hurt. I am mourning; Astonishment has taken hold of me.
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| 22 | Is there no balm in Gilead, Is there no physician there? Why then is there no recovery For the health of the daughter of my people?
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Chapter 9
| 1 | Oh, that my head were waters, And my eyes a fountain of tears, That I might weep day and night For the slain of the daughter of my people!
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| 2 | Oh, that I had in the wilderness A lodging place for travelers; That I might leave my people, And go from them! For they are all adulterers, An assembly of treacherous men.
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| 3 | "And like their bow they have bent their tongues for lies. They are not valiant for the truth on the earth. For they proceed from evil to evil, And they do not know Me," says the LORD.
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| 4 | "Everyone take heed to his neighbor, And do not trust any brother; For every brother will utterly supplant, And every neighbor will walk with slanderers.
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| 5 | Everyone will deceive his neighbor, And will not speak the truth; They have taught their tongue to speak lies; They weary themselves to commit iniquity.
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| 6 | Your dwelling place is in the midst of deceit; Through deceit they refuse to know Me," says the LORD.
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