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Jeremiah 9:16

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I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.

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  1. Jeremiah 9:14

    But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

  2. Jeremiah 9:15

    Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

  3. Jeremiah 9:17

    Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:

  4. Jeremiah 9:18

    And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

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