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Are you also confused?
    Is our champion helpless to save us?
You are right here among us, Lord.
    We are known as your people.
    Please don’t abandon us now!”

10 So this is what the Lord says to his people:
“You love to wander far from me
    and do not restrain yourselves.
Therefore, I will no longer accept you as my people.
    Now I will remember all your wickedness
    and will punish you for your sins.”

The Lord Forbids Jeremiah to Intercede

11 Then the Lord said to me, “Do not pray for these people anymore.

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Why are you like a man taken by surprise,
    like a warrior powerless to save?(A)
You are among(B) us, Lord,
    and we bear your name;(C)
    do not forsake(D) us!

10 This is what the Lord says about this people:

“They greatly love to wander;
    they do not restrain their feet.(E)
So the Lord does not accept(F) them;
    he will now remember(G) their wickedness
    and punish them for their sins.”(H)

11 Then the Lord said to me, “Do not pray(I) for the well-being of this people.

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