But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” Know for certain that the Lord has spoken.

Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted! Issue your orders, but they will not be executed! For God is with us!

Just a handful of archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be left.” Indeed, the Lord God of Israel has spoken.

The earth will be completely devastated and thoroughly ransacked. For the Lord has decreed this judgment.

For with mocking lips and a foreign tongue he will speak to these people.

The mind that acts rashly will possess discernment and the tongue that stutters will speak with ease and clarity.

What can I say? He has decreed and acted. I will walk slowly all my years because I am overcome with grief.

The splendor of the Lord will be revealed, and all people will see it at the same time. For the Lord has decreed it.”

Why do you say, Jacob, Why do you say, Israel, “The Lord is not aware of what is happening to me, My God is not concerned with my vindication”?

“Listen to me in silence, you coastlands! Let the nations find renewed strength! Let them approach and then speak; let us come together for debate!

For this reason my people will know my name, for this reason they will know at that time that I am the one who says, ‘Here I am.’”

For your hands are stained with blood and your fingers with sin; your lips speak lies, your tongue utters malicious words.

Before they even call out, I will respond; while they are still speaking, I will hear.

I answered, “Oh, Lord God, I really do not know how to speak well enough for that, for I am too young.”

You will not always be angry with me, will you? You will not be mad at me forever, will you?’ That is what you say, but you continually do all the evil that you can.”

No, a wind too strong for that will come at my bidding. Yes, even now I, myself, am calling down judgment on them.’

You people of Israel, listen to what the Lord has to say to you.

“Hear the terms of the covenant I made with Israel and pass them on to the people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem.

There are times, Jeremiah, when I threaten to uproot, tear down, and destroy a nation or kingdom.

The Lord told me, “Go down to the palace of the king of Judah. Give him a message from me there.