<p class="poetry">Yet the children born during your time of bereavementp> <p class="poetry">will say within your hearing,p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;This place is too cramped for us,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">make room for us so we can live here.&#8217;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says this,p> <p class="poetry">the one who gathers the dispersed of Israel:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I will still gather them up.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Jerusalem will bring me joy,p> <p class="poetry">and my people will bring me happiness.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The sound of weeping or cries of sorrowp> <p class="poetry">will never be heard in her again.p>

<p class="poetry">Before they even call out,<n id="1" /> I will respond;p> <p class="poetry">while they are still speaking, I will hear.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;So, once more I will state my case<n id="1" /> against you,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>.p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I will also state it against your children and grandchildren.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;When that time comes, people will no longer say, &#8216;The parents have eaten sour grapes, but the children&#8217;s teeth have grown numb.&#8217;<n id="1" />

The boundary line will extend beyond that, straight west from there to the Hill of Gareb and then turn southward to Goah.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> spoke<n id="1" /> to Jeremiah a second time while he was still confined in the courtyard of the guardhouse.<n id="2" />

He said to me, &#8220;You will see them practicing even greater abominations!&#8221;p>

He said to me, &#8220;Do you see this, son of man? You will see even greater abominations than these!&#8221;p>

For there will no longer be any false visions or flattering omens amidst the house of Israel.

I will exhaust my rage on you, and then my fury will turn from you. I will calm down and no longer be angry.p>

Moreover, they have done this to me: In the very same day<n id="1" /> they desecrated my sanctuary and profaned my Sabbaths.

I will bring terrors on you, and you will be no more! Though you are sought after, you will never be found again, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;p>

I will save my sheep; they will no longer be prey. I will judge between one sheep and another.p>

Now I have come to help you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision pertains to future days.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">For<n id="1" /> I will remove the names of the Baal idols<n id="2" /> from your lips,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">so that you will never again utter their names!&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;I am the <sc>Lordsc> your God<n id="1" /> who brought you<n id="2" /> out of Egypt;p> <p class="poetry">I will make you live in tents again as in the days of old.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Residents of Mareshah,<n id="1" /> a conqueror will attack you,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the leaders of Israel shall flee to Adullam.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">I will remove your idols and sacred pillars from your midst;p> <p class="poetry">you will no longer worship what your own hands made.p>