Thursday, July 24, 2014

Judgment of God


'Then you shall say to them, 
Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: 

Drink, be drunk, vomit, and fall to rise no more 
because of the sword which I am sending among you. 

And if they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, 

Thus says the Lord of hosts: 
You shall surely drink! 
For behold, I am beginning to work evil in the city which is called by My Name, 
and shall you go unpunished? 
You shall not go unpunished, 
for I am calling for a sword against 
all the inhabitants of the earth, says the Lord of hosts.
[Jer. 7:10.] 

Therefore prophesy against them 
all these words and say to them: 
The Lord shall roar from on high and 
utter His voice from His holy habitation; 

He shall roar mightily against His fold and pasture. 
He shall give a shout like those who tread grapes [in the winepress, 
but His shout will be] 
against all the inhabitants of the earth. 

A noise will come even to the ends of the earth, 
for the Lord has a controversy and an indictment against the nations; 

He will enter into judgment with all mankind; 
as for the wicked, He will give them to the sword, says the Lord. 

Thus says the Lord of hosts: 
Behold, evil will go forth from nation to nation, 
and a great whirling tempest will rise from the uttermost parts of the earth. 
And those slain by the Lord shall be 
at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. 

They shall not be lamented or gathered or buried; 
their [dead bodies] shall be dung upon the ground. 
[Jer. 8:2; 16:4.] 

Wail, you shepherds, and cry; 
and roll in ashes, you principal ones of the flock. 

For the days of your slaughter 
and of your dispersions have fully come, 
and you shall fall 
and be dashed into pieces like a choice vessel. 

And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, 
nor the principal ones of the flock any means of escape. 

A voice! 
The cry of the shepherds and 
the wailing of the principal ones of the flock! 

For the Lord is laying waste and destroying their pasture. 
And the peaceable folds are devastated and brought to silence 

because of the fierce anger of the Lord. 
He has left His shelter like the lion; 

for their land has become a waste and an astonishment 
because of the fierceness of the oppressor and 
because of [the Lord's] fierce anger. 
(‭Jeremiah‬ ‭25‬:‭27-38‬ AMP)'

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