We Are Not Consumed…

"It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is Thy faithfulness. The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in Him." Lamentations 3:22-24 (KJV) It would be good to remember Hebrews 12:29, as we think of these …

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102611 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens

"Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.  Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.  We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.  We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.   Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have …

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102511 For I will pardon them whom I reserve

"Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.  Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; 'Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have …

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102311 If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you

"And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah.  Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces which were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, and said unto them, 'Thus saith the LORD, …

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102211 Because thou hast put thy trust in Me

"Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,  'Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, 'Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; 'Behold, I will bring My words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and …

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102111 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely

"Behold, the days come,' saith the LORD, 'that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.  In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and He shall execute judgment and righteousness …

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102011 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you

"For thus saith the LORD, 'That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform My good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.  For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,' saith the LORD, 'thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you …

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101911 Therefore now amend your ways and your doings

"Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, 'The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.  Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent …

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101811 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!

"Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture! saith the LORD.  Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed My people; 'Ye have scattered My flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of …

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101711 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked

"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?  I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.  As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth …

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101611 If thou return, then will I bring thee again

"Therefore thus saith the LORD, 'If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before Me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as My mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.  And I will make thee unto this people …

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