Hey there, this is Mary DeMuth and this is Pray Every Day, where I pray you through the Bible verse by verse.

So happy to have you here on this 17th day of December.

We're getting super close to Christmas and I hope this finds you peaceful, maybe sipping a cup of tea and enjoying the day.

Today I'm reading from Jeremiah 32 versus 24 through 44 in the World English Bible,

and this is what it says. Behold, siege ramps have been built against the city to take it.

The city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans who fight against it because of the sword,

of the famine, and of the pestilence. What you have spoken has happened.

Behold, you see it.

You have said to me, Lord Yahweh, buy the field for money and call witnesses, whereas

the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

Then Yahweh's word came to Jeremiah saying, behold, I'm Yahweh, the God of all flesh.

Is there anything too hard for me? Therefore, Yahweh says, Behold, I will give the city into the hand of the Chaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and he will take it. The Chaldeans who fight against this city will come and set the city on fire and burn it with the houses on whose roofs they have offered incense to

bail and poured out drink offerings to other gods to provoke me to anger. For the children of Israel and the

children of Judah have done only that which was evil in my sight from their youth. For the children

of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, says Yahweh.

For this city has been to me a provocation of my anger and of my wrath from the day that they built it even to this day so that I should remove it from before my face because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah which they have done to provoke me in anger

they their kings their princes their priests their prophets the men of Judah and the inhabitants of

Jerusalem they have turned their backs to me and not their faces although I taught them

rising up early and teaching them yet they have not listened to receive instruction.

But they have set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.

They built the high places of Bail, which are in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through fire to Molok, which I didn't command them. It didn't even come

into my mind that they should do this abomination to cause Judah to sin. Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of

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