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Jeremiah Spared from Death

16 (A)Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, (B)“This man does not deserve the sentence of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.” 17 (C)And certain of (D)the elders of the land arose and spoke to all the assembled people, saying, 18 “Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and said to all the people of Judah: ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts,

(E)“‘Zion shall be ploughed as a field;
    Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins,
    and the mountain of the house a wooded height.’

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