“What are you doing, you devastated one? Why dress yourself in scarlet and put on jewels of gold? Why highlight your eyes with makeup? You adorn yourself in vain. Your lovers despise you; they want to kill you.”
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Jeremiah 32:26-27
“Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: “I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?”
“You show love to thousands but bring the punishment for the parents’ sins into the laps of their children after them. Great and mighty God, whose name is the Lord Almighty.”
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Bible Love Quotes: Jeremiah 3:1
“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, should he return to her again? Would not the land be completely defiled? But you have lived as a prostitute with many lovers— would you now return to me?” declares the Lord.
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Bible Love Quotes: Jeremiah 3:2
“Look up to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been ravished? By the roadside you sat waiting for lovers, sat like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.”
“Do not run until your feet are bare and your throat is dry. But you said, ‘It’s no use! I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.”
Jeremiah 2:25
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Bible Love Quotes: Jeremiah 2:2
“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem:“This is what the Lord says:“‘I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the wilderness, through a land not sown.”
Jeremiah 2:2
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Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)
This is what the LORD says about this people: “They greatly loveto wander; they do not restrain their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; he will now remember their wickedness and punish them for their sins”.
For this is what the LORD says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal; do not go to mourn or show sympathy because I have withdrawn my blessing, my love and my pity from this people,” declares the LORD.