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Jeremiah Chapter 8

Jeremiah
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Jeremiah

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Jeremiah describes the people's continued idolatry and moral corruption, showing that their hearts are hardened and they ignore God's warnings. He warns that their rebellion will bring swift judgment and that their covenant with God will be broken, leading to destruction.

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(1) At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
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Jeremiah 7:32Jeremiah 7:33Jeremiah 7:34I Kings 13:2II Kings 23:16II Kings 23:20II Chronicles 34:4II Chronicles 34:5Ezekiel 6:5Ezekiel 37:1Amos 2:1

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II Samuel 21:13II Kings 23:18Exodus 13:19II Samuel 21:12I Kings 13:31Job 40:18

(2) And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
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Jeremiah 19:13Jeremiah 44:17Jeremiah 44:18Jeremiah 44:19Deuteronomy 4:19Deuteronomy 17:3II Kings 17:16II Kings 21:3II Kings 21:5II Kings 23:5II Chronicles 33:3II Chronicles 33:4

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Deuteronomy 17:3II Kings 21:21Numbers 11:32Exodus 16:18Jeremiah 25:33Deuteronomy 4:19

(3) And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.
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Jeremiah 20:14Jeremiah 20:15Jeremiah 20:16Jeremiah 20:17Jeremiah 20:18I Kings 19:4Job 3:20Job 3:21Job 3:22Job 7:15Job 7:16Jonah 4:3

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Numbers 26:58Isaiah 66:22Jeremiah 27:19John 15:16Numbers 3:27Jeremiah 29:14

(4) Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?
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Proverbs 24:16Hosea 14:1Amos 5:2Micah 7:8Jeremiah 3:1Jeremiah 3:22Jeremiah 4:1Jeremiah 23:14Jeremiah 36:3I Kings 8:38Isaiah 44:22Isaiah 55:7

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Song of Solomon 6:13II Chronicles 30:9Jeremiah 15:19Jeremiah 44:14Ezekiel 16:55Malachi 3:7

(5) Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
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Jeremiah 2:32Jeremiah 3:11Jeremiah 3:12Jeremiah 3:13Jeremiah 3:14Jeremiah 7:24Jeremiah 7:25Jeremiah 7:26Hosea 4:16Hosea 11:7Jeremiah 9:6Proverbs 4:13

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Song of Solomon 6:13Mark 2:18Zechariah 8:19II Samuel 12:23Jeremiah 15:19Jeremiah 44:14

(6) I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
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Job 33:27Job 33:28Psalms 14:2Isaiah 30:18Malachi 3:16II Peter 3:9Jeremiah 5:1Isaiah 59:16Ezekiel 22:30Micah 7:2Job 10:2Ezekiel 18:28

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Jeremiah 44:9I Kings 20:25I Chronicles 27:4

(7) Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
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Proverbs 6:6Proverbs 6:7Proverbs 6:8Isaiah 1:3Song of Solomon 2:12Jeremiah 5:4Isaiah 5:12Jeremiah 5:5

(8) How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
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Job 5:12Job 5:13Job 11:12Job 12:20John 9:41Romans 1:22Romans 2:17Romans 2:18Romans 2:19Romans 2:20Romans 2:21Romans 2:22

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Exodus 20:7Deuteronomy 5:11I Samuel 12:21Psalms 39:6Psalms 127:1Isaiah 49:4

(9) The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
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Jeremiah 6:15Jeremiah 49:7Job 5:12Isaiah 19:11Ezekiel 7:26I Corinthians 1:26I Corinthians 1:27I Corinthians 1:28I Corinthians 1:29Deuteronomy 4:6Psalms 19:7Psalms 119:98

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Ecclesiastes 1:16I Kings 4:30

(10) Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
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Jeremiah 6:12Deuteronomy 28:30Deuteronomy 28:31Deuteronomy 28:32Amos 5:11Zephaniah 1:13Jeremiah 6:13Isaiah 56:10Isaiah 56:11Isaiah 56:12Ezekiel 33:31Micah 3:5

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Jeremiah 6:13Jeremiah 6:12Jeremiah 28:9Jeremiah 28:12Mark 6:15

(11) For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
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Jeremiah 6:14Jeremiah 14:14Jeremiah 14:15Jeremiah 27:9Jeremiah 27:10Jeremiah 28:3Jeremiah 28:4Jeremiah 28:5Jeremiah 28:6Jeremiah 28:7Jeremiah 28:8Jeremiah 28:9

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Jeremiah 6:14Luke 12:53Jeremiah 8:21Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:17

(12) Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
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Jeremiah 3:3Jeremiah 6:15Psalms 52:1Psalms 52:7Isaiah 3:9Zephaniah 3:5Philippians 3:19Isaiah 9:13Isaiah 9:14Isaiah 9:15Isaiah 9:16Isaiah 9:17

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Jeremiah 6:15II Samuel 24:14I Chronicles 21:13Esther 6:13Isaiah 31:3Jeremiah 51:49

(13) I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.
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Isaiah 24:21Isaiah 24:22Ezekiel 22:19Ezekiel 22:20Ezekiel 22:21Ezekiel 24:3Ezekiel 24:4Ezekiel 24:5Ezekiel 24:6Ezekiel 24:7Ezekiel 24:8Ezekiel 24:9

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Joel 1:12Isaiah 34:4Isaiah 41:19Ezekiel 17:24Joel 2:22Haggai 2:19

(14) Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
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II Kings 7:3II Kings 7:4Jeremiah 4:5Jeremiah 4:6Jeremiah 35:11II Samuel 20:6Leviticus 10:3Psalms 39:2Lamentations 3:27Lamentations 3:28Amos 6:10Habakkuk 2:20

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I Samuel 1:8I Corinthians 6:7Isaiah 8:9Jeremiah 4:5Ezekiel 39:17Joel 3:11

(15) We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
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Jeremiah 4:10Jeremiah 14:19Micah 1:12I Thessalonians 5:3

(16) The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
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Jeremiah 4:15Jeremiah 4:16Judges 18:29Judges 20:1Jeremiah 4:24Habakkuk 3:10Jeremiah 6:23Jeremiah 47:3Judges 5:22Nahum 1:4Nahum 1:5Nahum 3:2

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Joshua 19:47Revelation 10:6Revelation 9:9Isaiah 28:7Haggai 2:4

(17) For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
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Deuteronomy 32:24Isaiah 14:29Amos 5:19Amos 9:3Revelation 9:19Psalms 58:4Psalms 58:5Ecclesiastes 10:11

(18) When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
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Jeremiah 6:24Jeremiah 10:19Jeremiah 10:20Jeremiah 10:21Jeremiah 10:22Job 7:13Job 7:14Isaiah 22:4Lamentations 1:16Lamentations 1:17Daniel 10:16Daniel 10:17

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Job 6:10

(19) Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
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Jeremiah 4:16Jeremiah 4:17Jeremiah 4:30Jeremiah 4:31Isaiah 13:5Isaiah 39:3Jeremiah 14:19Jeremiah 31:6Psalms 135:21Isaiah 12:6Isaiah 52:1Joel 2:32

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Lamentations 2:1Luke 12:53Deuteronomy 32:16Deuteronomy 32:21Psalms 78:58I Samuel 1:8

(20) The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
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Proverbs 10:5Luke 13:25Luke 19:44Hebrews 3:7Hebrews 3:8Hebrews 3:9Hebrews 3:10Hebrews 3:11Hebrews 3:12Hebrews 3:13Hebrews 3:14Hebrews 3:15

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Luke 10:2

(21) For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
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Jeremiah 4:19Jeremiah 9:1Jeremiah 14:17Jeremiah 17:16Nehemiah 2:3Psalms 137:3Psalms 137:4Psalms 137:5Psalms 137:6Luke 19:41Romans 9:1Romans 9:2

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Daniel 6:22Revelation 11:5Luke 12:53Jeremiah 6:14Jeremiah 8:11Luke 4:35

(22) Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
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Jeremiah 46:11Jeremiah 51:8Genesis 37:25Genesis 43:11Matthew 9:11Matthew 9:12Luke 5:31Luke 5:32Luke 8:43Jeremiah 30:12Jeremiah 30:13Jeremiah 30:14

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Luke 12:53I Samuel 1:8Psalms 42:11Psalms 43:5Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:17

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