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Hello, this is Father Paul, and I'm glad we're

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taking this journey together to read the Bible

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in a year. Today's reading is from the book of

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Jeremiah, chapters 19 and 20. Chapter 19 Thus

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says the Lord, Go and get a potter's earthen

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flask, and take some of the elders of the people

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and some of the elders of the priests, and go

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out to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which

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is by the entry of the potsherd gate, and proclaim

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there the words that I will tell you, and say,

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Hear the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah and

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inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the Lord

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of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring

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such a catastrophe on this place that whoever

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hears of it, his ears will tingle. Because they

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have forsaken me and made this an alien place,

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because they have burned incense in it to other

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gods, whom neither they, their fathers, nor the

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kings of Judah have known. and have filled this

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place with the blood of the innocents. They have

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also built the high places of Baal, to burn their

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sons with fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which

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I did not command or speak, nor did it come into

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my mind. Therefore, behold, the days are coming,

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says the Lord, that this place shall no more

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be called Tophet, or the valley of the son of

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Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter. And I will

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make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem

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in this place, and I will cause them to fall

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by the sword before their enemies and by the

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hands of those who seek their lives. Their corpses

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I will give as meat for the birds of the heaven

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and for the beasts of the earth. I will make

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this city desolate and hissing. Everyone who

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passes by it will be astonished and hiss because

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of all its plagues. And I will cause them to

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eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of

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their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh

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of his friend in the siege and in the desperation

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with which their enemies and those who seek their

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lives shall drive them to despair. Then you shall

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break the flask in the sight of the men who go

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with you and say to them, Thus says the Lord

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of hosts, Even so I will break this people and

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this city as one breaks a potter's vessel. which

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cannot be made whole again and they shall bury

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them in tophet till there is no place to bury

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Thus I will do to this place, says the Lord,

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and to its inhabitants, and make this city like

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Tophet. And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses

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of the kings of Judah shall be defiled like the

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place of Tophet, because of all the houses on

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whose roofs they have burned incense to all the

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hosts of heaven and poured out drink offerings

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to other gods. Then Jeremiah came from Tophet,

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where the Lord had sent him to prophesy, and

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he stood in the court of the Lord's house and

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said to all the people, Thus says the Lord of

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hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring

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on this city and on all her towns all the doom

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that I have pronounced against it, because they

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have stiffened their necks that they might not

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hear my words. Chapter 20 Now Peshur the son

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of Emer, the priest who was also chief governor

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in the house of the Lord, heard that Jeremiah

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prophesied these things. Then Pashur struck Jeremiah

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the prophet and put him in the stocks that were

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in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the

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house of the Lord. And it happened on the next

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day that Pashur brought Jeremiah out of the stocks.

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Then Jeremiah said to him, The Lord has not called

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your name Pashur, but Magor Mesabib. For thus

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says the Lord, Behold, I will make you a terror

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to yourself and to all your friends, and they

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shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and

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your eyes shall see it. I will give all Judah

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into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he

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shall carry them captive to Babylon and slay

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them with the sword. Moreover, I will deliver

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all the wealth of this city, all its produce,

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and all its precious things, all the treasures

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of the kings of Judah, I will give into the hand

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of their enemies, who will plunder them, seize

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them, and carry them to Babylon. And you, Peshur,

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and all who dwell in your house, shall go into

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captivity. You shall go to Babylon, and there

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you shall die, and be buried there, you and all

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your friends, to whom you have prophesied lies.

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O Lord, you induced me, and I was persuaded.

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You are stronger than I, and have prevailed.

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I am in derision daily. Everyone mocks me, for

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when I spoke, I cried out, I shouted, violence

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and plunder, because the word of the Lord was

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made to me a reproach and a derision daily. Then

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I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak

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any more in his name. But his word was in my

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heart like a burning fire, shut up in my bones.

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I was weary of holding it back, and I could not.

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For I heard many mocking. Fear on every side.

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Report, they say, and we will report it. All

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my acquaintances watched for my stumbling, saying,

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Perhaps he can be induced. Then we will prevail

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against him, and we will take our revenge on

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him. But the Lord is with me as a mighty, awesome

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one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble and

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will not prevail. They will be greatly ashamed,

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for they will not prosper. Their everlasting

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confusion will never be forgotten. But, O Lord

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of hosts, you who test the righteous and see

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the mind and heart, let me see your vengeance

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on them, for I have pleaded my cause before you.

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Sing to the Lord, praise the Lord, for he has

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delivered the life of the poor from the hand

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of evildoers. Cursed be the day in which I was

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born. Let the day not be blessed in which my

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mother bore me. Let the man be cursed who brought

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news to my father, saying, A male child has been

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born to you, making him very glad. And let that

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man be like the cities, which the Lord overthrew

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and did not relent. Let him hear the cry in the

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morning and the shouting at noon, because he

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did not kill me from the womb, that my mother

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might have been my grave, and her womb always

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enlarged. with me why did i come forth from the

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womb to see labor and sorrow that my days should

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be consumed with shame i hope you enjoyed today's

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reading as much as i did and i look forward to

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seeing you again tomorrow to continue on our

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journey god bless you and have a great day