11 But I am full of the LORD’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old and the very old alike. 12 Their houses will be turned over to others, their fields and wives as well, for I will stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land,” declares the LORD. 13 “For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.
Jeremiah 6:11–13
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Jeremiah 8:9–11
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Jeremiah 23:9–11
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Jeremiah 13:13–15
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Jeremiah 22:16–18
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Jeremiah 18:20–22
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