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293 : Basic English : Jeremiah 17,18; Colossians 1 1. The sin of Judah is recorded with a pen of iron, and with the sharp point of a jewel it is cut on their hearts of stone, and on the horns of their altars for a sign to them:
2. Their altars and their wood pillars under every branching tree, on the high hills and the mountains in the field.
3. I will give your wealth and all your stores to be taken away in war without a price, because of your sins in every part of your land.
4. And your hand will have to let go your heritage which I gave you; and I will make you a servant to your haters in a land which is strange to you: for you have put my wrath on fire with a flame which will go on burning for ever.
5. This is what the Lord has said: Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart is turned away from the Lord.
; AB church Lausanne

292 : Basic English : Jeremiah 15,16; Philippians 4 1. Then the Lord said to me, Even if Moses and Samuel came before me, I would have no desire for this people: send them away from before me, and let them go.
2. And it will be, when they say to you, Where are we to go? then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are to be in need of food, to need of food; and such as are to be taken away prisoners, to be taken away.
3. And I will put over them four divisions, says the Lord: the sword causing death, dogs pulling the dead bodies about, and the birds of heaven, and the beasts of the earth to take their bodies for food and put an end to them.
4. And I will make them a cause of fear to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and what he did in Jerusalem.
5. For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? and who will have sorrow for you? or who will go out of his way to see how you are?
; AB church Lausanne

291 : Basic English : Jeremiah 13,14; Philippians 3 1. This is what the Lord said to me: Go and get yourself a linen band and put it round you and do not put it in water.
2. So, as the Lord said, I got a band for a price and put it round my body.
3. And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying,
4. Take the band which you got for a price, which is round your body, and go to Parah and put it in a secret place there in a hole of the rock.
5. So I went and put it in a secret place by Parah, as the Lord had said to me.
; AB church Lausanne

290 : Basic English : Jeremiah 11,12; Philippians 2 1. The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
2. Give ear to the words of this agreement, and say to the men of Judah and to the people of Jerusalem,
3. The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Let that man be cursed who does not give ear to the words of this agreement,
4. To the order which I gave your fathers on the day when I took them out of the land of Egypt, out of the oven of iron, saying, Give ear to my voice, and do all the orders I have given you: so you will be my people, and I will be your God:
5. So that I may give effect to the oath which I made to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey as at this day. And I said in answer, So be it, O Lord.
; AB church Lausanne

289 : Basic English : Jeremiah 9,10; Philippians 1 1. If only my head was a stream of waters and my eyes fountains of weeping, so that I might go on weeping day and night for the dead of the daughter of my people!
2. If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.
3. Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.
4. Let everyone keep watch on his neighbour, and put no faith in any brother: for every brother will certainly be tricking his brother, and every neighbour will go about saying evil.
5. Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.
; AB church Lausanne