Jeremiah 23:20

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Yahweh’s anger will not return until he has executed, and until he has performed the intents of his heart. In the latter days, you will understand it perfectly.

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17They say continually to those who despise me, ‘Yahweh has said, “You will have peace;” ’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, ‘No evil will come on you.’

18For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should perceive and hear his word? Who has listened to my word, and heard it?

19Behold, Yahweh’s storm, his wrath, has gone out. Yes, a whirling storm: It will burst on the head of the wicked.

20Yahweh’s anger will not return until he has executed, and until he has performed the intents of his heart. In the latter days, you will understand it perfectly.

21I didn’t send these prophets, yet they ran. I didn’t speak to them, yet they prophesied.

22But if they had stood in my council, then they would have caused my people to hear my words, and would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

23“Am I a God at hand,” says Yahweh, “and not a God afar off?

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