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…lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.

Do not rebuke a mocker, or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.

…or you may learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

…or the LORD will see and disapprove, and turn His wrath away from him.

…do not bring hastily to court. Otherwise, what will you do in the end when your neighbor puts you to shame?

…lest he who hears you bring shame upon you, and your infamy never go away.

If you find honey, eat just what you need, lest you have too much and vomit it up.

Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house, lest he grow weary and hate you.

Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be like him.

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he become wise in his own eyes.

Do not add to His words, lest He rebuke you and prove you a liar.

Otherwise, I may have too much and deny You, saying, ‘Who is the LORD?’ Or I may become poor and steal, profaning the name of my God.

Do not slander a servant to his master, or he will curse you, and you will bear the guilt.

…lest they drink and forget what is decreed, depriving all the oppressed of justice.

Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”

I, the LORD, am its keeper; I water it continually. I guard it night and day so no one can disturb it;

So now, do not mock, or your shackles will become heavier. Indeed, I have heard from the Lord GOD of Hosts a decree of destruction against the whole land.

Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’ Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

Therefore I declared it to you long ago; I announced it before it came to pass, so that you could not claim, ‘My idol has done this; my carved image and molten god has ordained it.’

They are created now, and not long ago; you have not heard of them before today. So you cannot claim, ‘I already knew them!’

Get yourself ready. Stand up and tell them everything that I command you. Do not be intimidated by them, or I will terrify you before them.

Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil deeds.”

Be forewarned, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitant.”

Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice—not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.

O house of David, this is what the LORD says: ‘Administer justice every morning, and rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor, or My wrath will go forth like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it because of their evil deeds.

But King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Jews who have deserted to the Chaldeans, for the Chaldeans may deliver me into their hands to abuse me.”

Do not let your heart grow faint, and do not be afraid when the rumor is heard in the land; for a rumor will come one year—and then another the next year—of violence in the land and of ruler against ruler.

Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.

Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.

And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.”