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16 So I will cause their land to become a terrible place.
    People will always see how disgusting my people are.
Everybody who goes near there
    will be very surprised.
    They will shake their heads and they will insult my people.
17 I will send enemies to attack them.
They will chase my people away,
    like an east wind that blows away dust.
I will turn away from them
    when that day of great trouble arrives.
I will refuse to help them.’

The people turn against Jeremiah[a]

18 Then some people said, ‘We must find a way to stop Jeremiah. We do not need him. The priests will still be here to teach us. Wise men will still be here to give us advice. The prophets will still be here to give us God's messages. We should speak bad things against Jeremiah. Then we will not have to listen to him any more.’

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Footnotes

  1. 18:18 Jeremiah had made the people angry. So they wanted to attack him.