Jeremiah
1:1 The
words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in
the land of Benjamin:
1:2
To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah
the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
1:3
It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah
king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah
king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
1:4 Then
the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
1:5
Before I formed you in the belly I knew you; and before
you came forth out of the womb I sanctified you, and I ordained you a prophet
unto the nations.
1:6 Then
said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.
1:7
But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for you
shall go to all that I shall send you, and whatsoever I command you you shall
speak.
1:8 Be
not afraid of their faces: for I am with you to deliver you, says the LORD.
1:9 Then
the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me,
Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.
1:10
See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the
kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to
build, and to plant.
1:11
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah,
what see you? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.
1:12
Then said the LORD unto me, You have well seen: for I will
hasten my word to perform it.
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And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying,
What see you? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is toward
the north.
1:14 Then
the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the
inhabitants of the land.
1:15
For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of
the north, says the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his
throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof
round about, and against all the cities of Judah.
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And I will utter my judgments against them concerning all
their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods,
and worshipped the works of their own hands.
1:17
You therefore gird up your loins, and arise, and speak unto
them all that I command you: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound you
before them.
1:18 For,
behold, I have made you this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brazen
walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes
thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.
1:19 And
they shall fight against you; but they shall not prevail against you; for I am
with you, says the LORD, to deliver you.
2:1
Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
2:2 Go and
cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says the LORD; I remember you, the
kindness of your youth, the love of yours espousals, when you went after me in
the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
2:3
Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the first-fruits
of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them,
says the LORD.
2:4 Hear
all of you the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the
house of Israel:
2:5 Thus
says the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone
far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
2:6
Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up
out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of
deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through
a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
2:7
And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit
thereof and the goodness thereof; but when all of you entered, all of you defiled
my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
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The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle
the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets
prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
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Wherefore I will yet plead with you, says the LORD, and
with your children's children will I plead.
2:10
For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto
Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.
2:11
Has a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods?
but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
2:12 Be astonished,
O all of you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be all of you very desolate,
says the LORD.
2:13 For
my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living
waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
2:14 Is
Israel a servant? is he a native slave? why is he spoiled?
2:15
The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made
his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
2:16
Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the
crown of your head.
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Have you not procured this unto yourself, in that you have
forsaken the LORD your God, when he led you by the way?
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And now what have you to do in the way of Egypt, to drink
the waters of Sihor? or what have you to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the
waters of the river?
2:19
Yours own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings
shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter,
that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you, says
the Lord GOD of hosts.
2:20
For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your
bands; and you said, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under
every green tree you wander, playing the harlot.
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Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed:
how then are you turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
2:22 For
though you wash you with alkali, and take you much soap, yet yours iniquity is
marked before me, says the Lord GOD.
2:23
How can you say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after
Baalim? see your way in the valley, know what you have done: you are a swift dromedary
traversing her ways;
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A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind
at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her
will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
2:25
Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from
thirst: but you said, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after
them will I go.
2:26 As
the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they,
their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets.
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Saying to a stock, You are my father; and to a stone, You
have brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their
face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
2:28 But
where are your gods that you have made you? let them arise, if they can save you
in the time of your trouble: for according to the number of your cities are your
gods, O Judah.
2:29 Wherefore
will all of you plead with me? all of you all have transgressed against me, says
the LORD.
2:30 In
vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword
has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
2:31
O generation, see all of you the word of the LORD. Have
I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people,
We are lords; we will come no more unto you?
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Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire?
yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
2:33
Why trim you your way to seek love? therefore have you also
taught the wicked ones your ways.
2:34
Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the
poor innocent persons: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
2:35 Yet
you says, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold,
I will plead with you, because you says, I have not sinned.
2:36
Why arm you about so much to change your way? you also shall
be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assyria.
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Yea, you shall go forth from him, and yours hands upon yours
head: for the LORD has rejected your confidences, and you shall not prosper in
them.
3:1 They
say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's,
shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but you
have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, says the LORD.
3:2 Lift
up yours eyes unto the high places, and see where you have not been lien with.
In the ways have you sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and you have
polluted the land with your whoredoms and with your wickedness.
3:3
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has
been no latter rain; and you had a whore's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.
3:4 Will
you not from this time cry unto me, My father, you are the guide of my youth?
3:5 Will
he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken
and done evil things as you could.
3:6
The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king,
Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? she is gone up upon every
high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot.
3:7 And I
said after she had done all these things, Turn you unto me. But she returned not.
And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
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And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel
committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her
treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
3:9 And it
came to pass through the levity of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and
committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
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And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not
turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, says the LORD.
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And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel has justified
herself more than treacherous Judah.
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Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return,
you backsliding Israel, says the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall
upon you: for I am merciful, says the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.
3:13 Only
acknowledge yours iniquity, that you have transgressed against the LORD your God,
and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and all
of you have not obeyed my voice, says the LORD.
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Turn, O backsliding children, says the LORD; for I am married
unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring
you to Zion:
3:15 And
I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge
and understanding.
3:16
And it shall come to pass, when all of you be multiplied
and increased in the land, in those days, says the LORD, they shall say no more,
The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall
they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any
more.
3:17 At
that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations
shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall
they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
3:18
In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house
of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land
that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
3:19
But I said, How shall I put you among the children, and
give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said,
You shall call me, My father; and shall not turn away from me.
3:20
Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband,
so have all of you dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, says the LORD.
3:21 A
voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children
of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD
their God.
3:22 Return,
all of you backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we
come unto you; for you are the LORD our God.
3:23
Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and
from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of
Israel.
3:24 For
shame has devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and
their herds, their sons and their daughters.
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We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covers us: for
we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even
unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
4:1
If you will return, O Israel, says the LORD, return unto
me: and if you will put away yours abominations out of my sight, then shall you
not remove.
4:2 And
you shall swear, The LORD lives, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness;
and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
4:3 For thus
says the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground,
and sow not among thorns.
4:4
Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins
of your heart, all of you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury
come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of
your doings.
4:5 Declare
all of you in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow all of you the trumpet
in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go
into the defenced cities.
4:6
Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I
will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
4:7
The lion has come up from his thicket, and the destroyer
of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make your land
desolate; and your cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
4:8 For this
gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail: for the fierce anger of the LORD is
not turned back from us.
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And it shall come to pass at that day, says the LORD, that
the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests
shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.
4:10
Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely you have greatly deceived
this people and Jerusalem, saying, All of you shall have peace; whereas the sword
reachs unto the soul.
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At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem,
A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people,
not to fan, nor to cleanse,
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Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now
also will I give sentence against them.
4:13
Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall
be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are
spoiled.
4:14 O
Jerusalem, wash yours heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall
your vain thoughts lodge within you?
4:15
For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes affliction
from mount Ephraim.
4:16
Make all of you mention to the nations; behold, publish
against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice
against the cities of Judah.
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As keepers of a field, are they against her round about;
because she has been rebellious against me, says the LORD.
4:18
Your way and your doings have procured these things unto
you; this is your wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reachs unto yours
heart.
4:19 My
bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart makes a noise in me;
I cannot hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet,
the alarm of war.
4:20
Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land
is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
4:21 How
long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
4:22
For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are
foolish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil,
but to do good they have no knowledge.
4:23
I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void;
and the heavens, and they had no light.
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I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all
the hills moved lightly.
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I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of
the heavens were fled.
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I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness,
and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by
his fierce anger.
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For thus has the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate;
yet will I not make a full end.
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For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be
black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither
will I turn back from it.
4:29
The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen
and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city
shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
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And when you are spoiled, what will you do? Though you cloth
yourself with crimson, though you deck you with ornaments of gold, though you
rent your face with painting, in vain shall you make yourself fair; your lovers
will despise you, they will seek your life.
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For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the
anguish as of her that brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter
of Zion, that bewails herself, that spreads her hands, saying, Woe is me now!
for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
5:1
Run all of you back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem,
and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if all of you can
find a man, if there be any that executes judgment, that seeks the truth; and
I will pardon it.
5:2 And
though they say, The LORD lives; surely they swear falsely.
5:3
O LORD, are not yours eyes upon the truth? you have stricken
them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused
to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have
refused to return.
5:4
Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish:
for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.
5:5 I will
get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way
of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the
yoke, and burst the bonds.
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Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and
a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities:
every one that goes out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions
are many, and their backslidings are increased.
5:7
How shall I pardon you for this? your children have forsaken
me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they
then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
5:8 They
were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.
5:9 Shall
I not visit for these things? says the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged
on such a nation as this?
5:10
Go all of you up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not
a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD's.
5:11
For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt
very treacherously against me, says the LORD.
5:12
They have lied concerning the LORD, and said, It is not
he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:
5:13 And
the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be
done unto them.
5:14 Wherefore
thus says the LORD God of hosts, Because all of you speak this word, behold, I
will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour
them.
5:15 Lo,
I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, says the LORD: it
is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you know
not, neither understand what they say.
5:16
Their quiver is as an open tomb, they are all mighty men.
5:17 And
they shall eat up yours harvest, and your bread, which your sons and your daughters
should eat: they shall eat up your flocks and yours herds: they shall eat up your
vines and your fig trees: they shall impoverish your fenced cities, wherein you
trusted, with the sword.
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Nevertheless in those days, says the LORD, I will not make
a full end with you.
5:19
And it shall come to pass, when all of you shall say, Wherefore
does the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shall you answer them, Like
all of you have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall all
of you serve strangers in a land that is not your's.
5:20
Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah,
saying,
5:21 Hear
now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see
not; which have ears, and hear not:
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Fear all of you not me? says the LORD: will all of you not
tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by
a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss
themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass
over it?
5:23 But
this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
5:24 Neither
say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that gives rain, both
the former and the latter, in his season: he reserves unto us the appointed weeks
of the harvest.
5:25 Your
iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good things
from you.
5:26 For
among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that sets snares; they
set a trap, they catch men.
5:27
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of
deceit: therefore they are become great, and becoming rich.
5:28
They are becoming fat, they shine: yea, they pass over the
deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet
they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
5:29
Shall I not visit for these things? says the LORD: shall
not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
5:30
A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
5:31 The
prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people
love to have it so: and what will all of you do in the end thereof?
6:1
O all of you children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to
flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up
a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appears out of the north, and great destruction.
6:2 I
have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.
6:3
The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they
shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in
his place.
6:4 Prepare
all of you war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for
the day goes away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
6:5
Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
6:6 For
thus has the LORD of hosts said, Hew all of you down trees, and cast a mount against
Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst
of her.
6:7 As
a fountain casts out her waters, so she casts out her wickedness: violence and
spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.
6:8
Be you instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from
you; lest I make you desolate, a land not inhabited.
6:9
Thus says the LORD of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean
the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back yours hand as a grape-gatherer into
the baskets.
6:10 To
whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is
uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them
a reproach; they have no delight in it.
6:11
Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary
with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly
of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the
aged with him that is full of days.
6:12
And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their
fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants
of the land, says the LORD.
6:13
For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them
every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest
every one deals falsely.
6:14
They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people
slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
6:15
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay,
they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall
among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, says
the LORD.
6:16 Thus
says the LORD, Stand all of you in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths,
where is the good way, and walk therein, and all of you shall find rest for your
souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
6:17
Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound
of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
6:18
Therefore hear, all of you nations, and know, O congregation,
what is among them.
6:19
Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people,
even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words,
nor to my law, but rejected it.
6:20
To what purpose comes there to me incense from Sheba, and
the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor
your sacrifices sweet unto me.
6:21
Therefore thus says the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumbling
blocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon
them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
6:22
Thus says the LORD, Behold, a people comes from the north
country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
6:23 They
shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice
roars like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against
you, O daughter of Zion.
6:24
We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish
has taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
6:25
Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the
sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.
6:26
O daughter of my people, gird you with sackcloth, and wallow
yourself in ashes: make you mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation:
for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
6:27
I have set you for a tower and a fortress among my people,
that you may know and try their way.
6:28
They are all grievous apostates, walking with slanders:
they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
6:29
The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire;
the founder melts in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
6:30
Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD has
rejected them.
7:1 The
word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
7:2
Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there
this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah, that enter in
at these gates to worship the LORD.
7:3
Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your
ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
7:4
Trust all of you not in lying words, saying, The temple
of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.
7:5 For if
all of you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if all of you thoroughly
execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
7:6
If all of you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless,
and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other
gods to your hurt:
7:7
Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land
that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
7:8
Behold, all of you trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
7:9 Will
all of you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense
unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom all of you know not;
7:10
And come and stand before me in this house, which is called
by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
7:11
Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den
of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, says the LORD.
7:12
But go all of you now unto my place which was in Shiloh,
where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness
of my people Israel.
7:13
And now, because all of you have done all these works, says
the LORD, and I spoke unto you, rising up early and speaking, but all of you heard
not; and I called you, but all of you answered not;
7:14
Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by
my name, wherein all of you trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and
to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
7:15
And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out
all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
7:16
Therefore pray not you for this people, neither lift up
cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear
you.
7:17 See
you not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
7:18 The
children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their
dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto
other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
7:19
Do they provoke me to anger? says the LORD: do they not
provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
7:20
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and
my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon
the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and
shall not be quenched.
7:21
Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your
burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
7:22
For I spoke not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in
the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings
or sacrifices:
7:23 But
this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and
all of you shall be my people: and walk all of you in all the ways that I have
commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
7:24
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked
in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward,
and not forward.
7:25 Since
the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I
have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and
sending them:
7:26 Yet
they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they
did worse than their fathers.
7:27
Therefore you shall speak all these words unto them; but
they will not hearken to you: you shall also call unto them; but they will not
answer you.
7:28 But
you shall say unto them, This is a nation that obeys not the voice of the LORD
their God, nor receives correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their
mouth.
7:29 Cut
off yours hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high
places; for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
7:30 For
the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, says the LORD: they have set
their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
7:31 And
they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of
Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded
them not, neither came it into my heart.
7:32
Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that it
shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley
of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
7:33
And the carcasses of this people shall be food for the fowls
of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall frighten them away.
7:34 Then
will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem,
the voice of delight, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom,
and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
8:1
At that time, says the LORD, they shall bring out the bones
of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests,
and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
out of their graves:
8:2
And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon,
and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and
after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped:
they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face
of the earth.
8:3 And
death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain
of this evil family, which remain in all the places where I have driven them,
says the LORD of hosts.
8:4
Moreover you shall say unto them, Thus says the LORD; Shall
they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?
8:5
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slides back by a perpetual
backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
8:6
I hearkened and heard, but they spoke not aright: no man
repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to
his course, as the horse rushes into the battle.
8:7
Yea, the stork in the heaven knows her appointed times;
and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming;
but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
8:8
How do all of you say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD
is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
8:9 The
wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the
word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
8:10
Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their
fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto
the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every
one deals falsely.
8:11
For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people
slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
8:12
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay,
they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall
among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down,
says the LORD.
8:13 I
will surely consume them, says the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine,
nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have
given them shall pass away from them.
8:14
Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter
into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God has
put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned
against the LORD.
8:15
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of
health, and behold trouble!
8:16
The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole
land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come,
and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell
therein.
8:17 For,
behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed,
and they shall bite you, says the LORD.
8:18
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is
faint in me.
8:19 Behold
the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in
a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they
provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
8:20 The
harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
8:21
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am
black; astonishment has taken hold on me.
8:22
Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there?
why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
9:1
Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of
tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
9:2 Oh
that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of travelling men; that I might leave
my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous
men.
9:3 And
they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for
the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not
me, says the LORD.
9:4
Take all of you heed every one of his neighbour, and trust
all of you not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every
neighbour will walk with slanders.
9:5
And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will
not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves
to commit iniquity.
9:6
Yours habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit
they refuse to know me, says the LORD.
9:7
Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt
them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
9:8 Their
tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his
neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he lays his wait.
9:9
Shall I not visit them for these things? says the LORD:
shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
9:10
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing,
and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned
up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the
cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
9:11 And
I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities
of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
9:12
Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is
he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it, for what
the land perishes and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passes through?
9:13 And
the LORD says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and
have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
9:14
But have walked after the imagination of their own heart,
and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
9:15
Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water
of gall to drink.
9:16
I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither
they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I
have consumed them.
9:17
Thus says the LORD of hosts, Consider all of you, and call
for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they
may come:
9:18 And
let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down
with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
9:19
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we
spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because
our dwellings have cast us out.
9:20
Yet hear the word of the LORD, O all of you women, and let
your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and
every one her neighbour lamentation.
9:21
For death has come up into our windows, and is entered into
our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the
streets.
9:22 Speak,
Thus says the LORD, Even the carcasses of men shall fall as dung upon the open
field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
9:23 Thus
says the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty
man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
9:24
But let him that glories glory in this, that he understands
and knows me, that I am the LORD which exercise loving kindness, judgment, and
righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says the LORD.
9:25 Behold,
the days come, says the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised
with the uncircumcised;
9:26
Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and
Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for
all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised
in the heart.
10:1 Hear
all of you the word which the LORD speaks unto you, O house of Israel:
10:2 Thus
says the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs
of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
10:3
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree
out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
10:4 They
deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers,
that it move not.
10:5
They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must
essentially be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they
cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
10:6
Forasmuch as there is none like unto you, O LORD; you are
great, and your name is great in might.
10:7
Who would not fear you, O King of nations? in order to you
does it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in
all their kingdoms, there is none like unto you.
10:8
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is
a doctrine of vanities.
10:9
Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and
gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue
and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.
10:10
But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and
an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall
not be able to abide his indignation.
10:11
Thus shall all of you say unto them, The gods that have
not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and
from under these heavens.
10:12
He has made the earth by his power, he has established the
world by his wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
10:13 When
he utters his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causes
the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings with rain,
and brings forth the wind out of his treasures.
10:14
Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is
confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is
no breath in them.
10:15
They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of
their visitation they shall perish.
10:16
The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former
of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is
his name.
10:17 Gather
up your wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
10:18
For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants
of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.
10:19 Woe
is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly this is a grief, and
I must bear it.
10:20 My
tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone out of
me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to
set up my curtains.
10:21
For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought
the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
10:22 Behold,
the noise of the bruit has come, and a great commotion out of the north country,
to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.
10:23
O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it
is not in man that walks to direct his steps.
10:24
O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in yours anger,
lest you bring me to nothing.
10:25
Pour out your fury upon the heathen that know you not, and
upon the families that call not on your name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and
devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
11:1 The
word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying,
11:2
Hear all of you the words of this covenant, and speak unto
the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
11:3
And say you unto them, Thus says the LORD God of Israel;
Cursed be the man that obeys not the words of this covenant,
11:4
Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought
them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice,
and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall all of you be my people,
and I will be your God:
11:5
That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your
fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then
answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.
11:6
Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in
the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear all of you
the words of this covenant, and do them.
11:7
For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that
I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and
protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
11:8
Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked
every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon
them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do: but they did
them not.
11:9 And
the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among
the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
11:10
They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers,
which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them:
the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made
with their fathers.
11:11
Therefore thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil
upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto
me, I will not hearken unto them.
11:12
Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem
go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not save
them at all in the time of their trouble.
11:13
For according to the number of your cities were your gods,
O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have all of you
set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal.
11:14 Therefore
pray not you for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I
will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.
11:15 What
has my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she has wrought lewdness with many,
and the holy flesh is passed from you? when you do evil, then you rejoice.
11:16 The
LORD called your name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the
noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are
broken.
11:17 For
the LORD of hosts, that planted you, has pronounced evil against you, for the
evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against
themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.
11:18
And the LORD has given me knowledge of it, and I know it:
then you showed me their doings.
11:19
But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter;
and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy
the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living,
that his name may be no more remembered.
11:20
But, O LORD of hosts, that judge righteously, that try the
reins and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them: for unto you have I revealed
my cause.
11:21 Therefore
thus says the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that seek your life, saying, Prophesy
not in the name of the LORD, that you die not by our hand:
11:22
Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish
them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall
die by famine:
11:23 And
there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth,
even the year of their visitation.
12:1
Righteous are you, O LORD, when I plead with you: yet let
me talk with you of your judgments: Wherefore does the way of the wicked prosper?
wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
12:2
You have planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow,
yea, they bring forth fruit: you are near in their mouth, and far from their reins.
12:3 But
you, O LORD, know me: you have seen me, and tried mine heart toward you: pull
them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
12:4 How
long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness
of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they
said, He shall not see our last end.
12:5
If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied
you, then how can you contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein
you trusted, they wearied you, then how will you do in the swelling of Jordan?
12:6 For
even your brethren, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously
with you; yea, they have called a multitude after you: believe them not, though
they speak fair words unto you.
12:7
I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I
have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
12:8 Mine
heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it cries out against me: therefore
have I hated it.
12:9 Mine
heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her;
come all of you, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.
12:10 Many
pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they
have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
12:11
They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourns
unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.
12:12 The
spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of
the LORD shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the
land: no flesh shall have peace.
12:13
They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put
themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues
because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
12:14
Thus says the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that
touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold,
I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among
them.
12:15 And
it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have
compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and
every man to his land.
12:16
And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn
the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD lives; as they taught my
people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my people.
12:17 But
if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, says the
LORD.
13:1 Thus
says the LORD unto me, Go and get you a linen girdle, and put it upon your loins,
and put it not in water.
13:2
So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and
put it on my loins.
13:3
And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying,
13:4 Take
the girdle that you have got, which is upon your loins, and arise, go to Euphrates,
and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
13:5
So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded
me.
13:6 And
it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said unto me, Arise, go to Euphrates,
and take the girdle from thence, which I commanded you to hide there.
13:7 Then
I went to Euphrates, and dug, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid
it: and, behold, the girdle was ruined, it was profitable for nothing.
13:8 Then
the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
13:9
Thus says the LORD, After this manner will I ruin the pride
of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
13:10
This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk
in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and
to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.
13:11 For
as the girdle cleaves to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me
the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, says the LORD; that they
might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory:
but they would not hear.
13:12
Therefore you shall speak unto them this word; Thus says
the LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall
say unto you, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with
wine?
13:13 Then
shall you say unto them, Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants
of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and
the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
13:14 And
I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together,
says the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
13:15 Hear
all of you, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD has spoken.
13:16
Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness,
and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while all of you look
for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
13:17 But
if all of you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride;
and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock
is carried away captive.
13:18
Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit
down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
13:19 The
cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be
carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.
13:20 Lift
up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that
was given you, your beautiful flock?
13:21
What will you say when he shall punish you? for you have
taught them to be captains, and as chief over you: shall not sorrows take you,
as a woman in travail?
13:22
And if you say in yours heart, Wherefore come these things
upon me? For the greatness of yours iniquity are your skirts discovered, and your
heels made bare.
13:23
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
then may all of you also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
13:24
Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passes
away by the wind of the wilderness.
13:25
This is your lot, the portion of your measures from me,
says the LORD; because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
13:26 Therefore
will I discover your skirts upon your face, that your shame may appear.
13:27 I have
seen yours adulteries, and your neighings, the lewdness of your whoredom, and
yours abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto you, O Jerusalem! will
you not be made clean? when shall it once be?
14:1
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the
dearth.
14:2 Judah
mourns, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the
cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
14:3
And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters:
they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty;
they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.
14:4
Because the ground is cracked, for there was no rain in
the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
14:5
Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it,
because there was no grass.
14:6
And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed
up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.
14:7 O LORD,
though our iniquities testify against us, do you it for your name's sake: for
our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.
14:8
O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble,
why should you be as a stranger in the land, and as a travelling man that turns
aside to tarry for a night?
14:9
Why should you be as a man astonished, as a mighty man that
cannot save? yet you, O LORD, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your
name; leave us not.
14:10
Thus says the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved
to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD does not accept
them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
14:11
Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for
their good.
14:12 When
they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an
oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by
the famine, and by the pestilence.
14:13
Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto
them, All of you shall not see the sword, neither shall all of you have famine;
but I will give you assured peace in this place.
14:14
Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in
my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke unto them:
they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nothing,
and the deceit of their heart.
14:15
Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the prophets that
prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall
not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.
14:16 And
the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem
because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them,
their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness
upon them.
14:17 Therefore
you shall say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and
day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with
a great breach, with a very grievous blow.
14:18
If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with
the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine!
yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.
14:19 Have
you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you smitten us,
and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and
for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
14:20
We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity
of our fathers: for we have sinned against you.
14:21
Do not detest us, for your name's sake, do not disgrace
the throne of your glory: remember, break not your covenant with us.
14:22
Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can
cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? are not you he, O LORD our God? therefore
we will wait upon you: for you have made all these things.
15:1
Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood
before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight,
and let them go forth.
15:2
And it shall come to pass, if they say unto you, Where shall
we go forth? then you shall tell them, Thus says the LORD; Such as are for death,
to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the
famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.
15:3 And
I will appoint over them four kinds, says the LORD: the sword to slay, and the
dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour
and destroy.
15:4 And
I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh
the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
15:5 For
who shall have pity upon you, O Jerusalem? or who shall lament for you? or who
shall go aside to ask how you do?
15:6
You have forsaken me, says the LORD, you are gone backward:
therefore will I stretch out my hand against you, and destroy you; I am weary
with repenting.
15:7 And
I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children,
I will destroy my people since they return not from their ways.
15:8
Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas:
I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday:
I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
15:9 She
that has borne seven languishes: she has given up the spirit; her sun is gone
down while it was yet day: she has been ashamed and confounded: and the residue
of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, says the LORD.
15:10 Woe
is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention
to the whole earth! I have neither lent on interest, nor men have lent to me on
interest; yet every one of them does curse me.
15:11
The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with your remnant;
verily I will cause the enemy to plead you well in the time of evil and in the
time of affliction.
15:12
Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
15:13 Your
substance and your treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that
for all your sins, even in all your borders.
15:14
And I will make you to pass with yours enemies into a land
which you know not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon
you.
15:15 O
LORD, you know: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take
me not away in your longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered rebuke.
15:16 Your
words were found, and I did eat them; and your word was unto me the joy and rejoicing
of mine heart: for I am called by your name, O LORD God of hosts.
15:17
I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced;
I sat alone because of your hand: for you have filled me with indignation.
15:18 Why
is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will
you be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
15:19
Therefore thus says the LORD, If you return, then will I
bring you again, and you shall stand before me: and if you take forth the precious
from the vile, you shall be as my mouth: let them return unto you; but return
not you unto them.
15:20
And I will make you unto this people a fenced brazen wall:
and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you: for
I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says the LORD.
15:21
And I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and
I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.
16:1
The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,
16:2 You
shall not take you a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters in this place.
16:3 For
thus says the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born
in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their
fathers that brings forth them in this land;
16:4
They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented;
neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth:
and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcasses shall
be food for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
16:5
For thus says the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning,
neither go to lament nor lament for them: for I have taken away my peace from
this people, says the LORD, even loving kindness and mercies.
16:6
Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they
shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor
make themselves bald for them:
16:7
Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning,
to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation
to drink for their father or for their mother.
16:8
You shall not also go into the house of feasting, to sit
with them to eat and to drink.
16:9
For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold,
I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice
of delight, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice
of the bride.
16:10 And
it shall come to pass, when you shall show this people all these words, and they
shall say unto you, Wherefore has the LORD pronounced all this great evil against
us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against
the LORD our God?
16:11
Then shall you say unto them, Because your fathers have
forsaken me, says the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served
them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
16:12 And
all of you have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, all of you walk every
one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
16:13 Therefore
will I cast you out of this land into a land that all of you know not, neither
all of you nor your fathers; and there shall all of you serve other gods day and
night; where I will not show you favour.
16:14
Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that it
shall no more be said, The LORD lives, that brought up the children of Israel
out of the land of Egypt;
16:15
But, The LORD lives, that brought up the children of Israel
from the land of the north, and from all the lands where he had driven them: and
I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.
16:16 Behold,
I will send for many fishers, says the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after
will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and
from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
16:17
For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid
from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
16:18
And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin
double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with
the carcasses of their detestable and abominable things.
16:19
O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the
day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto you from the ends of the earth,
and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein
there is no profit.
16:20
Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?
16:21 Therefore,
behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand
and my might; and they shall know that my name is The LORD.
17:1
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with
the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the
horns of your altars;
17:2
Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves
by the green trees upon the high hills.
17:3
O my mountain in the field, I will give your substance and
all your treasures to the spoil, and your high places for sin, throughout all
your borders.
17:4 And
you, even yourself, shall discontinue from yours heritage that I gave you; and
I will cause you to serve yours enemies in the land which you know not: for all
of you have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever.
17:5
Thus says the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusts in man,
and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the LORD.
17:6
For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall
not see when good comes; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness,
in a salt land and not inhabited.
17:7
Blessed is the man that trusts in the LORD, and whose hope
the LORD is.
17:8 For
he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreads out her roots by
the river, and shall not see when heat comes, but her leaf shall be green; and
shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding
fruit.
17:9 The
heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
17:10 I
the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to
his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
17:11
As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so
he that gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days,
and at his end shall be a fool.
17:12
A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of
our sanctuary.
17:13 O
LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake you shall be ashamed, and they that
depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD,
the fountain of living waters.
17:14
Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall
be saved: for you are my praise.
17:15
Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD?
let it come now.
17:16
As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow
you: neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my
lips was right before you.
17:17
Be not a terror unto me: you are my hope in the day of evil.
17:18 Let
them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be
dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy
them with double destruction.
17:19
Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of
the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which
they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;
17:20
And say unto them, Hear all of you the word of the LORD,
all of you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
that enter in by these gates:
17:21
Thus says the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no
burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;
17:22 Neither
carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do all of
you any work, but hallow all of you the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
17:23 But
they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they
might not hear, nor receive instruction.
17:24
And it shall come to pass, if all of you diligently hearken
unto me, says the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on
the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;
17:25
Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings
and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses,
they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and
this city shall remain for ever.
17:26
And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the
places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and
from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices,
and food offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house
of the LORD.
17:27 But
if all of you will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear
a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then
will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of
Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
18:1
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
18:2 Arise,
and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.
18:3 Then
I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
18:4 And
the vessel that he made of clay was ruined in the hand of the potter: so he made
it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
18:5
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
18:6
O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter?
says the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are all of you
in mine hand, O house of Israel.
18:7
At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning
a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
18:8
If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from
their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
18:9 And
at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to
build and to plant it;
18:10
If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then
I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
18:11
Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against
you, and devise a device against you: return all of you now every one from his
evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
18:12
And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after
our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
18:13 Therefore
thus says the LORD; Ask all of you now among the heathen, who has heard such things:
the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.
18:14
Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which comes from the
rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place
be forsaken?
18:15 Because
my people has forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have
caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths,
in a road not properly built;
18:16
To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every
one that passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.
18:17
I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy;
I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
18:18 Then
said they, Come and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall
not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet.
Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of
his words.
18:19 Give
heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
18:20 Shall
evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember that
I stood before you to speak good for them, and to turn away your wrath from them.
18:21 Therefore
deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force
of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows;
and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in
battle.
18:22 Let
a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly upon them:
for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
18:23
Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to slay
me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight, but
let them be overthrown before you; deal thus with them in the time of yours anger.
19:1 Thus
says the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients
of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;
19:2
And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which
is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell
you,
19:3 And
say, Hear all of you the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of
Jerusalem; Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring
evil upon this place, the which whosoever hears, his ears shall tingle.
19:4 Because
they have forsaken me, and have cut off this place, and have burned incense in
it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings
of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocent persons;
19:5 They
have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt
offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spoke it, neither came it into
my mind:
19:6 Therefore,
behold, the days come, says the LORD, that this place shall no more be called
Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
19:7 And
I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will
cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them
that seek their lives: and their carcasses will I give to be food for the fowls
of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
19:8
And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every
one that passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues
thereof.
19:9 And
I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters,
and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and strictness,
wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
19:10 Then
shall you break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with you,
19:11
And shall say unto them, Thus says the LORD of hosts; Even
so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, that
cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be
no place to bury.
19:12
Thus will I do unto this place, says the LORD, and to the
inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:
19:13
And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings
of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon
whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured
out drink offerings unto other gods.
19:14
Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, where the LORD had sent
him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD's house; and said to all
the people,
19:15 Thus
says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city
and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because
they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.
20:1
Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief
governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.
20:2 Then
Pashur stroke Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the
high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
20:3
And it came to pass on the next day, that Pashur brought
forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD has not
called your name Pashur, but Magormissabib.
20:4
For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will make you a terror
to yourself, and to all your friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their
enemies, and yours eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand
of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall
slay them with the sword.
20:5
Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and
all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures
of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall
spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.
20:6
And you, Pashur, and all that dwell in yours house shall
go into captivity: and you shall come to Babylon, and there you shall die, and
shall be buried there, you, and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied
lies.
20:7 O
LORD, you have deceived me, and I was deceived; you are stronger than I, and have
prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocks me.
20:8
For since I spoke, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil;
because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.
20:9 Then
I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his
word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary
with forbearing, and I could not stay.
20:10
For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report,
say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying,
Possibly he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take
our revenge on him.
20:11
But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore
my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly
ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be
forgotten.
20:12 But,
O LORD of hosts, that try the righteous, and see the reins and the heart, let
me see your vengeance on them: for unto you have I opened my cause.
20:13
Sing unto the LORD, praise all of you the LORD: for he has
delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
20:14
Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein
my mother bare me be blessed.
20:15
Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying,
A male child is born unto you; making him very glad.
20:16
And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew,
and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at
noontide;
20:17 Because
he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and
her womb to be always great with me.
20:18
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and
sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
21:1
The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when king
Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah
the priest, saying,
21:2
Enquire, I pray you, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon makes war against us; if so be that the LORD will deal with us
according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.
21:3
Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall all of you say
to Zedekiah:
21:4 Thus
says the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that
are in your hands, wherewith all of you fight against the king of Babylon, and
against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble
them into the midst of this city.
21:5
And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched
hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.
21:6 And
I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die
of a great pestilence.
21:7
And afterward, says the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king
of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city
from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those
that seek their life: and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword; he
shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.
21:8
And unto this people you shall say, Thus says the LORD;
Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.
21:9
He that abides in this city shall die by the sword, and
by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goes out, and falls to the Chaldeans
that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.
21:10 For
I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, says the LORD:
it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with
fire.
21:11 And
concerning the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear all of you the word of the
LORD;
21:12 O
house of David, thus says the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver
him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like
fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
21:13 Behold,
I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, says the
LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?
21:14 But
I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says the LORD: and I
will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round
about it.
22:1 Thus
says the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this
word,
22:2 And
say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that sit upon the throne of David,
you, and your servants, and your people that enter in by these gates:
22:3 Thus
says the LORD; Execute all of you judgment and righteousness, and deliver the
spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the
stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
22:4 For
if all of you do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of
this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses,
he, and his servants, and his people.
22:5
But if all of you will not hear these words, I swear by
myself, says the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.
22:6
For thus says the LORD unto the king's house of Judah; You
are Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make you a wilderness,
and cities which are not inhabited.
22:7
And I will prepare destroyers against you, every one with
his weapons: and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the
fire.
22:8 And
many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour,
Wherefore has the LORD done thus unto this great city?
22:9
Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant
of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.
22:10
Weep all of you not for the dead, neither lament for him:
but weep sore for him that goes away: for he shall return no more, nor see his
native country.
22:11 For
thus says the LORD concerning Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned
instead of Josiah his father, which went forth out of this place; He shall not
return thither any more:
22:12
But he shall die in the place where they have led him captive,
and shall see this land no more.
22:13
Woe unto him that builds his house by unrighteousness, and
his chambers by wrong; that uses his neighbour's service without wages, and gives
him not for his work;
22:14
That says, I will build me a wide house and large chambers,
and cuts him out windows; and it is covered over with cedar, and painted with
vermilion.
22:15 Shall
you reign, because you close yourself in cedar? did not your father eat and drink,
and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?
22:16
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well
with him: was not this to know me? says the LORD.
22:17
But yours eyes and yours heart are not but for your covetousness,
and in order to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to
do it.
22:18 Therefore
thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They
shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not
lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
22:19
He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and
cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
22:20
Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan,
and cry from the passages: for all your lovers are destroyed.
22:21
I spoke unto you in your prosperity; but you said, I will
not hear. This has been your manner from your youth, that you obeyed not my voice.
22:22 The
wind shall eat up all your pastors, and your lovers shall go into captivity: surely
then shall you be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.
22:23
O inhabitant of Lebanon, that make your nest in the cedars,
how gracious shall you be when pangs come upon you, the pain as of a woman in
travail!
22:24 As
I live, says the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the
signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck you thence;
22:25
And I will give you into the hand of them that seek your
life, and into the hand of them whose face you fear, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
22:26
And I will cast you out, and your mother that bare you,
into another country, where all of you were not born; and there shall all of you
die.
22:27 But
to the land unto which they desire to return, thither shall they not return.
22:28 Is
this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure?
wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they
know not?
22:29 O
earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.
22:30
Thus says the LORD, Write all of you this man childless,
a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper,
sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.
23:1
Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep
of my pasture! says the LORD.
23:2
Therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel against the pastors
that feed my people; All of you have scattered my flock, and driven them away,
and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings,
says the LORD.
23:3 And
I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries where I have driven
them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and
increase.
23:4 And
I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no
more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, says the LORD.
23:5
Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will raise
unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute
judgment and justice in the earth.
23:6
In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell
safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
23:7 Therefore,
behold, the days come, says the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD lives,
which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
23:8
But, The LORD lives, which brought up and which led the
seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries where
I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.
23:9
Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets;
all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome,
because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.
23:10
For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing
the land mourns; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their
course is evil, and their force is not right.
23:11
For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house
have I found their wickedness, says the LORD.
23:12
Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways
in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil
upon them, even the year of their visitation, says the LORD.
23:13
And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied
in Baal, and caused my people Israel to go astray.
23:14
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible
thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands
of evildoers, that none does return from his wickedness; they are all of them
unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
23:15
Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets;
Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall:
for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.
23:16 Thus
says the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy
unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not
out of the mouth of the LORD.
23:17
They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD has said,
All of you shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walks after the
imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
23:18
For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD, and has perceived
and heard his word? who has marked his word, and heard it?
23:19
Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even
a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
23:20 The
anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed
the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days all of you shall consider it perfectly.
23:21 I
have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they
prophesied.
23:22 But
if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then
they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
23:23 Am
I a God at hand, says the LORD, and not a God far off?
23:24
Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see
him? says the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? says the LORD.
23:25
I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies
in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
23:26
How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that
prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;
23:27 Which
think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every
man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.
23:28 The
prophet that has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that has my word, let him
speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? says the LORD.
23:29 Is
not my word like a fire? says the LORD; and like a hammer that breaks the rock
in pieces?
23:30 Therefore,
behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, that steal my words every one
from his neighbour.
23:31
Behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, that use
their tongues, and say, He says.
23:32
Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, says
the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to go astray by their lies, and
by their levity; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall
not profit this people at all, says the LORD.
23:33
And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall
ask you, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? you shall then say unto them,
What burden? I will even forsake you, says the LORD.
23:34
And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people,
that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house.
23:35 Thus
shall all of you say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother,
What has the LORD answered? and, What has the LORD spoken?
23:36
And the burden of the LORD shall all of you mention no more:
for every man's word shall be his burden; for all of you have perverted the words
of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.
23:37
Thus shall you say to the prophet, What has the LORD answered
you? and, What has the LORD spoken?
23:38
But since all of you say, The burden of the LORD; therefore
thus says the LORD; Because all of you say this word, The burden of the LORD,
and I have sent unto you, saying, All of you shall not say, The burden of the
LORD;
23:39 Therefore,
behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city
that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence:
23:40
And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a
perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
24:1
The LORD showed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were
set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had
carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes
of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them
to Babylon.
24:2 One
basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other
basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
24:3 Then
said the LORD unto me, What see you, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs,
very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
24:4 Again
the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
24:5
Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs,
so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have
sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good.
24:6 For
I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land:
and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not
pluck them up.
24:7 And
I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my
people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole
heart.
24:8 And
as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus says the
LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue
of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:
24:9 And
I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their
hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where
I shall drive them.
24:10
And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence,
among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and
to their fathers.
25:1
The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people
of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that
was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;
25:2
The which Jeremiah the prophet spoke unto all the people
of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
25:3
From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king
of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of
the LORD has come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking;
but all of you have not hearkened.
25:4
And the LORD has sent unto you all his servants the prophets,
rising early and sending them; but all of you have not hearkened, nor inclined
your ear to hear.
25:5
They said, Turn all of you again now every one from his
evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD
has given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:
25:6
And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship
them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do
you no hurt.
25:7 Yet
all of you have not hearkened unto me, says the LORD; that all of you might provoke
me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
25:8
Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts; Because all of you
have not heard my words,
25:9
Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,
says the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring
them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these
nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment,
and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
25:10
Moreover I will take from them the voice of delight, and
the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride,
the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
25:11
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment;
and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
25:12
And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished,
that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, says the LORD, for their
iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
25:13 And
I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even
all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the
nations.
25:14 For
many nations and great kings shall make use of them also: and I will recompense
them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.
25:15 For
thus says the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my
hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.
25:16
And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because
of the sword that I will send among them.
25:17
Then took I the cup at the LORD's hand, and made all the
nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:
25:18
To know, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings
thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment,
an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
25:19
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes,
and all his people;
25:20
And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land
of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah,
and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
25:21
Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
25:22
And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon,
and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,
25:23
Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost
corners,
25:24 And
all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in
the desert,
25:25 And
all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,
25:26 And
all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms
of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall
drink after them.
25:27
Therefore you shall say unto them, Thus says the LORD of
hosts, the God of Israel; Drink all of you, and be drunken, and spew, and fall,
and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
25:28
And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at yours
hand to drink, then shall you say unto them, Thus says the LORD of hosts; All
of you shall certainly drink.
25:29
For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called
by my name, and should all of you be utterly unpunished? All of you shall not
be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth,
says the LORD of hosts.
25:30
Therefore prophesy you against them all these words, and
say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his
holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout,
as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.
25:31 A noise
shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD has a controversy with
the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to
the sword, says the LORD.
25:32
Thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth
from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts
of the earth.
25:33 And
the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto
the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor
buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.
25:34
Wail, all of you shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves
in the ashes, all of you principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter
and of your dispersions are accomplished; and all of you shall fall like a pleasant
vessel.
25:35 And
the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.
25:36 A
voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock,
shall be heard: for the LORD has spoiled their pasture.
25:37
And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the
fierce anger of the LORD.
25:38
He has forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land
is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce
anger.
26:1 In
the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this
word from the LORD, saying,
26:2
Thus says the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD's house,
and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD's house,
all the words that I command you to speak unto them; diminish not a word:
26:3 If so
be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent
me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.
26:4 And
you shall say unto them, Thus says the LORD; If all of you will not hearken to
me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,
26:5
To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom
I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them, but all of you have not
hearkened;
26:6 Then
will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the
nations of the earth.
26:7
So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard
Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.
26:8
Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking
all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests
and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, You shall surely die.
26:9 Why
have you prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like
Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people
were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
26:10
When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they
came up from the king's house unto the house of the LORD, and sat down in the
entry of the new gate of the LORD's house.
26:11
Then spoke the priests and the prophets unto the princes
and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy to die; for he has prophesied
against this city, as all of you have heard with your ears.
26:12
Then spoke Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the
people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this
city all the words that all of you have heard.
26:13
Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey
the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that
he has pronounced against you.
26:14
As for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as seems
good and meet unto you.
26:15
But know all of you for certain, that if all of you put
me to death, all of you shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and
upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for truthfully the LORD has
sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.
26:16
Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests
and to the prophets; This man is not worthy to die: for he has spoken to us in
the name of the LORD our God.
26:17
Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spoke
to all the assembly of the people, saying,
26:18
Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah
king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says the LORD
of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps,
and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
26:19
Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all
to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented
him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great
evil against our souls.
26:20
And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of
the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who prophesied against
this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah.
26:21 And
when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his
words, the king sought to put him to death: but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid,
and fled, and went into Egypt;
26:22
And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely, Elnathan
the son of Achbor, and certain men with him into Egypt.
26:23
And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought
him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body
into the graves of the common people.
26:24
Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with
Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him
to death.
27:1 In
the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this
word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
27:2
Thus says the LORD to me; Make you bonds and yokes, and
put them upon your neck,
27:3
And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab,
and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of
Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king
of Judah;
27:4 And
command them to say unto their masters, Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel; Thus shall all of you say unto your masters;
27:5
I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon
the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto
whom it seemed meet unto me.
27:6
And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar
the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him
also to serve him.
27:7
And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's
son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings
shall make use of him.
27:8
And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which
will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not
put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish,
says the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until
I have consumed them by his hand.
27:9
Therefore hearken not all of you to your prophets, nor to
your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers,
which speak unto you, saying, All of you shall not serve the king of Babylon:
27:10 For
they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should
drive you out, and all of you should perish.
27:11
But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of
the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own
land, says the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.
27:12
I spoke also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all
these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and
serve him and his people, and live.
27:13
Why will all of you die, you and your people, by the sword,
by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD has spoken against the nation
that will not serve the king of Babylon?
27:14
Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that
speak unto you, saying, All of you shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they
prophesy a lie unto you.
27:15
For I have not sent them, says the LORD, yet they prophesy
a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that all of you might perish,
all of you, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.
27:16
Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying,
Thus says the LORD; Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto
you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD's house shall now shortly be brought
again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.
27:17
Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live:
wherefore should this city be laid waste?
27:18
But if they be prophets, and if the word of the LORD be
with them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of hosts, that the vessels
which are left in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah,
and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.
27:19
For thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars,
and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of
the vessels that remain in this city.
27:20
Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried
away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon,
and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;
27:21
Yea, thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning
the vessels that remain in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king
of Judah and of Jerusalem;
27:22
They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be
until the day that I visit them, says the LORD; then will I bring them up, and
restore them to this place.
28:1
And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the
reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in the fifth month, that
Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which was of Gibeon, spoke unto me in the
house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,
28:2 Thus
speaks the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of
the king of Babylon.
28:3
Within two full years will I bring again into this place
all the vessels of the LORD's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took
away from this place, and carried them to Babylon:
28:4
And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of
Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that went into Babylon,
says the LORD: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.
28:5
Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah
in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood
in the house of the LORD,
28:6
Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so: the
LORD perform your words which you have prophesied, to bring again the vessels
of the LORD's house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this
place.
28:7 Nevertheless
hear you now this word that I speak in yours ears, and in the ears of all the
people;
28:8 The
prophets that have been before me and before you of old prophesied both against
many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
28:9 The
prophet which prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to
pass, then shall the prophet be known, that the LORD has truly sent him.
28:10 Then
Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake
it.
28:11 And
Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus says the LORD;
Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck
of all nations within the space of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah went
his way.
28:12 Then
the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the prophet, after that Hananiah the prophet
had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
28:13 Go
and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus says the LORD; You have broken the yokes of wood;
but you shall make for them yokes of iron.
28:14
For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have
put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of
the field also.
28:15 Then
said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD
has not sent you; but you make this people to trust in a lie.
28:16
Therefore thus says the LORD; Behold, I will cast you from
off the face of the earth: this year you shall die, because you have taught rebellion
against the LORD.
28:17
So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh
month.
29:1 Now
these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem
unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests,
and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away
captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;
29:2
(After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs,
the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed
from Jerusalem;)
29:3 By
the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom
Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying,
29:4 Thus
says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives,
whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon;
29:5
Build all of you houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens,
and eat the fruit of them;
29:6
Take all of you wives, and brought forth sons and daughters;
and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may
bear sons and daughters; that all of you may be increased there, and not diminished.
29:7 And
seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captives,
and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall all of you have
peace.
29:8 For
thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your
diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams
which all of you cause to be dreamed.
29:9
For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not
sent them, says the LORD.
29:10
For thus says the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished
at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you
to return to this place.
29:11
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the
LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
29:12 Then
shall all of you call upon me, and all of you shall go and pray unto me, and I
will hearken unto you.
29:13
And all of you shall seek me, and find me, when all of you
shall search for me with all your heart.
29:14
And I will be found of you, says the LORD: and I will turn
away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all
the places where I have driven you, says the LORD; and I will bring you again
into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.
29:15
Because all of you have said, The LORD has raised us up
prophets in Babylon;
29:16
Know that thus says the LORD of the king that sits upon
the throne of David, and of all the people that dwells in this city, and of your
brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;
29:17
Thus says the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them
the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs,
that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
29:18
And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine,
and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms
of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach,
among all the nations where I have driven them:
29:19
Because they have not hearkened to my words, says the LORD,
which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending
them; but all of you would not hear, says the LORD.
29:20
Hear all of you therefore the word of the LORD, all you
of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon:
29:21
Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab
the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie
unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes;
29:22
And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity
of Judah which are in Babylon, saying, The LORD make you like Zedekiah and like
Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;
29:23
Because they have committed villainy in Israel, and have
committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in
my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, says
the LORD.
29:24 Thus
shall you also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying,
29:25
Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying,
Because you have sent letters in your name unto all the people that are at Jerusalem,
and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,
29:26 The
LORD has made you priest in the position of Jehoiada the priest, that all of you
should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man that is mad, and makes
himself a prophet, that you should put him in prison, and in the stocks.
29:27 Now
therefore why have you not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which makes himself
a prophet to you?
29:28
For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This captivity
is long: build all of you houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat
the fruit of them.
29:29
And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of
Jeremiah the prophet.
29:30
Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
29:31 Send
to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus says the LORD concerning Shemaiah the
Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah has prophesied unto you, and I sent him not,
and he caused you to trust in a lie:
29:32
Therefore thus says the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah
the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people;
neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, says the LORD;
because he has taught rebellion against the LORD.
30:1
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
30:2 Thus
speaks the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write you all the words that I have spoken
unto you in a book.
30:3
For, lo, the days come, says the LORD, that I will bring
again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, says the LORD: and I will cause
them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess
it.
30:4 And
these are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
30:5 For
thus says the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
30:6 Ask
all of you now, and see whether a man does travail with child? wherefore do I
see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces
are turned into paleness?
30:7
Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it
is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.
30:8 For
it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD of hosts, that I will break his
yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds, and strangers shall no more
make use of him:
30:9 But
they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up
unto them.
30:10 Therefore
fear you not, O my servant Jacob, says the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel:
for, lo, I will save you from far, and your seed from the land of their captivity;
and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make
him afraid.
30:11 For
I am with you, says the LORD, to save you: though I make a full end of all nations
where I have scattered you, yet I will not make a full end of you: but I will
correct you in measure, and will not leave you altogether unpunished.
30:12 For
thus says the LORD, Your bruise is incurable, and your wound is grievous.
30:13 There
is none to plead your cause, that you may be bound up: you have no healing medicines.
30:14 All
your lovers have forgotten you; they seek you not; for I have wounded you with
the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude
of yours iniquity; because your sins were increased.
30:15
Why cry you for yours affliction? your sorrow is incurable
for the multitude of yours iniquity: because your sins were increased, I have
done these things unto you.
30:16
Therefore all they that devour you shall be devoured; and
all yours adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that
spoil you shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon you will I give for a prey.
30:17 For
I will restore health unto you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says the LORD;
because they called you an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeks after.
30:18 Thus
says the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and
have mercy on his dwelling places; and the city shall be built upon her own heap,
and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.
30:19
And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice
of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few;
I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
30:20
Their children also shall be as in old times, and their
congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress
them.
30:21 And
their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the
midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me:
for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? says the LORD.
30:22 And
all of you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
30:23
Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goes forth with fury,
a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.
30:24 The
fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he has done it, and until he
have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days all of you shall consider
it.
31:1 At
the same time, says the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel,
and they shall be my people.
31:2
Thus says the LORD, The people which were left of the sword
found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
31:3 The
LORD has appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved you with an everlasting
love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.
31:4
Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin
of Israel: you shall again be adorned with your timbrels, and shall go forth in
the dances of them that make merry.
31:5
You shall yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria:
the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.
31:6
For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount
Ephraim shall cry, Arise all of you, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our
God.
31:7 For
thus says the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of
the nations: publish all of you, praise all of you, and say, O LORD, save your
people, the remnant of Israel.
31:8
Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather
them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman
with child and her that labors with child together: a great company shall return
thither.
31:9 They
shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause
them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not
stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
31:10
Hear the word of the LORD, O all of you nations, and declare
it in the isles far off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and
keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.
31:11
For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the
hand of him that was stronger than he.
31:12
Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion,
and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine,
and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall
be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
31:13
Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men
and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them,
and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
31:14
And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness,
and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says the LORD.
31:15
Thus says the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation,
and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for
her children, because they were not.
31:16
Thus says the LORD; Refrain your voice from weeping, and
yours eyes from tears: for your work shall be rewarded, says the LORD; and they
shall come again from the land of the enemy.
31:17
And there is hope in yours end, says the LORD, that your
children shall come again to their own border.
31:18
I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You
have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock is not accustomed to the
yoke: turn you me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God.
31:19 Surely
after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I stroke
upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach
of my youth.
31:20 Is
Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I
do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will
surely have mercy upon him, says the LORD.
31:21
Set you up guideposts, make you high heaps: set yours heart
toward the highway, even the way which you went: return, O virgin of Israel, return
to these your cities.
31:22
How long will you go about, O you backsliding daughter?
for the LORD has created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
31:23 Thus
says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in
the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity;
The LORD bless you, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.
31:24 And
there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen,
and they that go forth with flocks.
31:25
For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished
every sorrowful soul.
31:26
Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto
me.
31:27 Behold,
the days come, says the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house
of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.
31:28
And it shall come to pass, that like I have watched over
them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to
afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, says the LORD.
31:29 In
those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the
children's teeth are set on edge.
31:30
But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man
that eats the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
31:31
Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will make a
new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
31:32
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers
in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt;
which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, says the LORD:
31:33 But
this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those
days, says the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in
their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
31:34
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and
every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from
the least of them unto the greatest of them, says the LORD: for I will forgive
their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
31:35
Thus says the LORD, which gives the sun for a light by day,
and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divides
the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
31:36
If those ordinances depart from before me, says the LORD,
then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
31:37 Thus
says the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth
searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that
they have done, says the LORD.
31:38
Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that the city shall
be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.
31:39 And
the measuring line shall yet go forth opposite to it upon the hill Gareb, and
shall compass about to Goath.
31:40
And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes,
and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate
toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor
thrown down any more for ever.
32:1
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth
year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.
32:2 For
then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was
shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.
32:3 For
Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore do you prophesy, and
say, Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king
of Babylon, and he shall take it;
32:4
And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand
of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon,
and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;
32:5 And
he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, says
the LORD: though all of you fight with the Chaldeans, all of you shall not prosper.
32:6 And
Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
32:7
Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum yours uncle shall come
unto you saying, Buy you my field that is in Anathoth: for the right of redemption
is yours to buy it.
32:8
So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of
the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field,
I pray you, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the
right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.
Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
32:9
And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that
was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.
32:10 And
I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him
the money in the balances.
32:11
So I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which
was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open:
32:12
And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the
son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's son,
and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase,
before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.
32:13
And I charged Baruch before them, saying,
32:14
Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these
evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence
which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many
days.
32:15 For
thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards
shall be possessed again in this land.
32:16
Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto
Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying,
32:17
Ah Lord GOD! behold, you have made the heaven and the earth
by your great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for you:
32:18 You
show loving kindness unto thousands, and recompence the iniquity of the fathers
into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD
of hosts, is his name,
32:19
Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for yours eyes are
open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his
ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
32:20
Which have set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even
unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men; and have made you a name, as
at this day;
32:21 And
have brought forth your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and
with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great
terror;
32:22 And
have given them this land, which you did swear to their fathers to give them,
a land flowing with milk and honey;
32:23
And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not
your voice, neither walked in your law; they have done nothing of all that you
commandedst them to do: therefore you have caused all this evil to come upon them:
32:24 Behold
the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into
the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of
the famine, and of the pestilence: and what you have spoken has come to pass;
and, behold, you see it.
32:25
And you have said unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy you the field
for money, and take witnesses; for the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
32:26 Then
came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
32:27
Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any
thing too hard for me?
32:28
Therefore thus says the LORD; Behold, I will give this city
into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,
and he shall take it:
32:29
And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come
and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they
have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings unto other gods,
to provoke me to anger.
32:30
For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have
only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only
provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, says the LORD.
32:31
For this city has been to me as a provocation of mine anger
and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should
remove it from before my face,
32:32
Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of
the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their
kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah,
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
32:33
And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face:
though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened
to receive instruction.
32:34
But they set their abominations in the house, which is called
by my name, to defile it.
32:35
And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the
valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through
the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind,
that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
32:36
And now therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel,
concerning this city, whereof all of you say, It shall be delivered into the hand
of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence;
32:37 Behold,
I will gather them out of all countries, where I have driven them in mine anger,
and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place,
and I will cause them to dwell safely:
32:38
And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
32:39 And
I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the
good of them, and of their children after them:
32:40
And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that
I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their
hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
32:41
Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will
plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.
32:42 For
thus says the LORD; Like I have brought all this great evil upon this people,
so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.
32:43
And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof all of
you say, It is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the
Chaldeans.
32:44 Men
shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses
in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities
of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley,
and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, says
the LORD.
33:1 Moreover
the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut
up in the court of the prison, saying,
33:2
Thus says the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed
it, to establish it; the LORD is his name;
33:3
Call unto me, and I will answer you, and show you great
and mighty things, which you know not.
33:4
For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the
houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are
thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;
33:5
They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill
them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury,
and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.
33:6
Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure
them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
33:7
And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity
of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.
33:8
And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby
they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they
have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.
33:9
And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour
before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto
them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity
that I procure unto it.
33:10
Thus says the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place,
which all of you say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in
the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without
man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,
33:11
The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of
the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say,
Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endures for ever:
and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD.
For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, says the
LORD.
33:12 Thus
says the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and
without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds
causing their flocks to lie down.
33:13
In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale,
and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places
about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under
the hands of him that tells them, says the LORD.
33:14
Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will perform
that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house
of Judah.
33:15 In
those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow
up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.
33:16 In
those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is
the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.
33:17
For thus says the LORD; David shall never lack a man to
sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;
33:18
Neither shall the priests the Levites lack a man before
me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle food offerings, and to do sacrifice
continually.
33:19 And
the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,
33:20
Thus says the LORD; If all of you can break my covenant
of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and
night in their season;
33:21
Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant,
that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the
priests, my ministers.
33:22
As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand
of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the
Levites that minister unto me.
33:23
Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
33:24 Consider
you not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD
has chosen, he has even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that
they should be no more a nation before them.
33:25
Thus says the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night,
and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
33:26
Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob and David my servant,
so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on
them.
34:1 The
word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,
and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the
people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying,
34:2 Thus
says the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and
tell him, Thus says the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the
king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:
34:3
And you shall not escape out of his hand, but shall surely
be taken, and delivered into his hand; and yours eyes shall behold the eyes of
the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with you mouth to mouth, and you shall
go to Babylon.
34:4 Yet
hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus says the LORD of you,
You shall not die by the sword:
34:5
But you shall die in peace: and with the burnings of your
fathers, the former kings which were before you, so shall they burn odours for
you; and they will lament you, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word,
says the LORD.
34:6 Then
Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,
34:7 When
the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities
of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah: for these defenced
cities remained of the cities of Judah.
34:8
This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD,
after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were
at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;
34:9
That every man should let his manservant, and every man
his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve
himself of them, to know, of a Jew his brother.
34:10
Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had
entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and
every one his maidservant, go free, that none should make use of them any more,
then they obeyed, and let them go.
34:11
But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the
handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection
for servants and for handmaids.
34:12
Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the
LORD, saying,
34:13 Thus
says the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day
that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen,
saying,
34:14 At
the end of seven years let all of you go every man his brother an Hebrew, which
has been sold unto you; and when he has served you six years, you shall let him
go free from you: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their
ear.
34:15 And
all of you were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty
every man to his neighbour; and all of you had made a covenant before me in the
house which is called by my name:
34:16
But all of you turned and polluted my name, and caused every
man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom he had set at liberty at their
pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants
and for handmaids.
34:17
Therefore thus says the LORD; All of you have not hearkened
unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his
neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, says the LORD, to the sword,
to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all
the kingdoms of the earth.
34:18
And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant,
which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before
me, when they cut the calf in two, and passed between the parts thereof,
34:19 The
princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests,
and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;
34:20 I will
even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that
seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for food unto the fowls of the
heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.
34:21
And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into
the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and
into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which are gone up from you.
34:22 Behold,
I will command, says the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they
shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the
cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.
35:1
The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days
of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,
35:2
Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them,
and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give
them wine to drink.
35:3
Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah,
and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites;
35:4 And
I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan,
the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which
was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door:
35:5 And
I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups,
and I said unto them, Drink all of you wine.
35:6
But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son
of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, All of you shall drink no wine, neither
all of you, nor your sons for ever:
35:7
Neither shall all of you build house, nor sow seed, nor
plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days all of you shall dwell in tents;
that all of you may live many days in the land where all of you be strangers.
35:8 Thus
have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he
has charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our
daughters;
35:9 Nor
to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
35:10 But
we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab
our father commanded us.
35:11
But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon
came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear
of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians: so we dwell
at Jerusalem.
35:12 Then
came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
35:13
Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell
the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will all of you not receive
instruction to hearken to my words? says the LORD.
35:14
The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded
his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none,
but obey their father's commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising
early and speaking; but all of you hearkened not unto me.
35:15
I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets,
rising up early and sending them, saying, Return all of you now every man from
his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them,
and all of you shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers:
but all of you have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.
35:16
Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed
the commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but this people has
not hearkened unto me:
35:17
Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel;
Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all
the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I have spoken unto them,
but they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered.
35:18 And
Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus says the LORD of hosts, the
God of Israel; Because all of you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your
father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he has commanded
you:
35:19 Therefore
thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall
not lack a man to stand before me for ever.
36:1
And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the
son of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD,
saying,
36:2 Take
you a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto
you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day
I spoke unto you, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.
36:3
It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil
which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil
way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
36:4
Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch
wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken
unto him, upon a roll of a book.
36:5
And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot
go into the house of the LORD:
36:6
Therefore go you, and read in the roll, which you have written
from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD's house
upon the fasting day: and also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah that
come out of their cities.
36:7
It may be they will present their supplication before the
LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great is the anger and
the fury that the LORD has pronounced against this people.
36:8
And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah
the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD's
house.
36:9 And
it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah,
in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people
in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.
36:10 Then
read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the
chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the
entry of the new gate of the LORD's house, in the ears of all the people.
36:11 When
Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all
the words of the LORD,
36:12
Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's
chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, even Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah
the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan,
and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.
36:13
Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had
heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
36:14
Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah,
the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in yours hand
the roll wherein you have read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch
the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them.
36:15
And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our
ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.
36:16
Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words,
they were afraid both one and the other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely
tell the king of all these words.
36:17
And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How did you
write all these words at his mouth?
36:18
Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words
unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.
36:19
Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide you, you and
Jeremiah; and let no man know where all of you be.
36:20
And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid
up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the
ears of the king.
36:21
So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it
out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king,
and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.
36:22
Now the king sat in the winter-house in the ninth month:
and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
36:23
And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or
four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on
the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.
36:24 Yet
they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his
servants that heard all these words.
36:25
Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made
intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear
them.
36:26 But
the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel,
and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet:
but the LORD hid them.
36:27
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the
king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah,
saying,
36:28 Take
you again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the
first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.
36:29
And you shall say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus says
the LORD; You have burned this roll, saying, Why have you written therein, saying,
The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause
to cease from thence man and beast?
36:30
Therefore thus says the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah;
He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be
cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
36:31
And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for
their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but
they hearkened not.
36:32
Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the
scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the
words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there
were added besides unto them many like words.
37:1
And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah
the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land
of Judah.
37:2 But
neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did hearken unto the
words of the LORD, which he spoke by the prophet Jeremiah.
37:3
And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah
and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
Pray now unto the LORD our God for us.
37:4
Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for
they had not put him into prison.
37:5
Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when
the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from
Jerusalem.
37:6 Then
came the word of the LORD unto the prophet Jeremiah saying,
37:7
Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus shall all of
you say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to enquire of me; Behold,
Pharaoh's army, which has come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their
own land.
37:8 And
the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and
burn it with fire.
37:9
Thus says the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The
Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.
37:10
For though all of you had smitten the whole army of the
Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them,
yet should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.
37:11 And
it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem
for fear of Pharaoh's army,
37:12
Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the
land of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of the people.
37:13 And
when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name
was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the
prophet, saying, You fall away to the Chaldeans.
37:14
Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the
Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him
to the princes.
37:15 Wherefore
the princes were angry with Jeremiah, and stroke him, and put him in prison in
the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
37:16
When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the
cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
37:17
Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king
asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the LORD? And
Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, you shall be delivered into the hand of
the king of Babylon.
37:18
Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended
against you, or against your servants, or against this people, that all of you
have put me in prison?
37:19
Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying,
The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?
37:20 Therefore
hear now, I pray you, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray you, be
accepted before you; that you cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan
the scribe, lest I die there.
37:21
Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit
Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece
of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent.
Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
38:1
Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son
of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard
the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying,
38:2
Thus says the LORD, He that remains in this city shall die
by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goes forth to
the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.
38:3 Thus
says the LORD, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon's
army, which shall take it.
38:4
Therefore the princes said unto the king, We plead to you,
let this man be put to death: for thus he weakens the hands of the men of war
that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words
unto them: for this man seeks not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
38:5 Then
Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that
can do any thing against you.
38:6
Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of
Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let
down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so
Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
38:7
Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which
was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the
king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
38:8
Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spoke
to the king saying,
38:9
My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they
have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he
is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread
in the city.
38:10 Then
the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from behind thirty men
with you, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.
38:11 So
Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the
treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down
by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
38:12
And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now
these old cast clouts and rotten rags under yours armholes under the cords. And
Jeremiah did so.
38:13
So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out
of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
38:14
Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet
unto him into the third entry that is in the house of the LORD: and the king said
unto Jeremiah, I will ask you a thing; hide nothing from me.
38:15
Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto you,
will you not surely put me to death? and if I give you counsel, will you not hearken
unto me?
38:16 So
Zedekiah the king swore secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As the LORD lives, that
made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the
hand of these men that seek your life.
38:17
Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus says the LORD, the
God of hosts, the God of Israel; If you will assuredly go forth unto the king
of Babylon's princes, then your soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned
with fire; and you shall live, and yours house:
38:18
But if you will not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes,
then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn
it with fire, and you shall not escape out of their hand.
38:19
And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of
the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand,
and they mock me.
38:20
But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver you. Obey, I plead
to you, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto you: so it shall be well unto
you, and your soul shall live.
38:21
But if you refuse to go forth, this is the word that the
LORD has showed me:
38:22
And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of
Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those
women shall say, Your friends have set you on, and have prevailed against you:
your feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.
38:23
So they shall bring out all your wives and your children
to the Chaldeans: and you shall not escape out of their hand, but shall be taken
by the hand of the king of Babylon: and you shall cause this city to be burned
with fire.
38:24 Then
said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and you shall not
die.
38:25 But
if the princes hear that I have talked with you, and they come unto you, and say
unto you, Declare unto us now what you have said unto the king, hide it not from
us, and we will not put you to death; also what the king said unto you:
38:26 Then
you shall say unto them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he
would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to die there.
38:27
Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him:
and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So
they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.
38:28
So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day
that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.
39:1
In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth
month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem,
and they besieged it.
39:2
And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month,
the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.
39:3
And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and
sat in the middle gate, even Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris,
Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon.
39:4 And
it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men
of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of
the king's garden, by the gate between the two walls: and he went out the way
of the plain.
39:5 But
the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of
Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.
39:6 Then
the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also
the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.
39:7
Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with
chains, to carry him to Babylon.
39:8
And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses
of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.
39:9
Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive
into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and those that
fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people that remained.
39:10 But
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, which had
nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same
time.
39:11 Now
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan
the captain of the guard, saying,
39:12
Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but
do unto him even as he shall say unto you.
39:13
So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushasban,
Rabsaris, and Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, and all the king of Babylon's princes;
39:14 Even
they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him
unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home:
so he dwelt among the people.
39:15
Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was
shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
39:16
Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus says
the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my words upon this
city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished in that day before
you.
39:17 But
I will deliver you in that day, says the LORD: and you shall not be given into
the hand of the men of whom you are afraid.
39:18
For I will surely deliver you, and you shall not fall by
the sword, but your life shall be for a prey unto you: because you have put your
trust in me, says the LORD.
40:1
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken
him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem
and Judah, which were carried away captive unto Babylon.
40:2
And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto
him, The LORD your God has pronounced this evil upon this place.
40:3
Now the LORD has brought it, and done according as he has
said: because all of you have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed his
voice, therefore this thing has come upon you.
40:4
And now, behold, I loose you this day from the chains which
were upon yours hand. If it seem good unto you to come with me into Babylon, come;
and I will look well unto you: but if it seem ill unto you to come with me into
Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land is before you: where it seems good and
convenient for you to go, thither go.
40:5
Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also
to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has
made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people: or
go where ever it seems convenient unto you to go. So the captain of the guard
gave him victuals and a reward, and let him go.
40:6
Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah;
and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.
40:7
Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the
fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah
the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women,
and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away
captive to Babylon;
40:8
Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son
of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son
of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of
a Maachathite, they and their men.
40:9
And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore
unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in
the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.
40:10 As
for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to serve the Chaldeans, which will come
unto us: but all of you, gather all of you wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and
put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that all of you have taken.
40:11 Likewise
when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and
that were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant
of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of
Shaphan;
40:12 Even
all the Jews returned out of all places where they were driven, and came to the
land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very
much.
40:13 Moreover
Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were in the
fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,
40:14
And said unto him, Do you certainly know that Baalis the
king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay you? But Gedaliah
the son of Ahikam believed them not.
40:15
Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah
secretly saying, Let me go, I pray you, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah,
and no man shall know it: wherefore should he slay you, that all the Jews which
are gathered unto you should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?
40:16 But
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah, You shall not
do this thing: for you speak falsely of Ishmael.
41:1
Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the
son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the
king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and
there they did eat bread together in Mizpah.
41:2
Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men
that were with him, and stroke Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with
the sword, and slew him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.
41:3 Ishmael
also slew all the Jews that were with him, even with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and
the Chaldeans that were found there, and the men of war.
41:4
And it came to pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah,
and no man knew it,
41:5
That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from
Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent,
and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring
them to the house of the LORD.
41:6
And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah
to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it came to pass, as he met them,
he said unto them, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.
41:7
And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city,
that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the midst of the
pit, he, and the men that were with him.
41:8
But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael,
Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and
of oil, and of honey. So he ceased, and slew them not among their brethren.
41:9 Now
the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain
because of Gedaliah, was it which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king
of Israel: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with them that were slain.
41:10 Then
Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that were in Mizpah,
even the king's daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan
the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael
the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the
Ammonites.
41:11 But
when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with
him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,
41:12 Then
they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and
found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon.
41:13
Now it came to pass, that when all the people which were
with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces
that were with him, then they were glad.
41:14
So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive
from Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan the son of Kareah.
41:15 But
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to
the Ammonites.
41:16 Then
took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with
him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son
of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam,
even mighty men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom
he had brought again from Gibeon:
41:17
And they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham,
which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt,
41:18
Because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them,
because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom
the king of Babylon made governor in the land.
42:1
Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son
of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least
even unto the greatest, came near,
42:2
And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we plead to you,
our supplication be accepted before you, and pray for us unto the LORD your God,
even for all this remnant; (for we are left but a few of many, as yours eyes do
behold us:)
42:3 That
the LORD your God may show us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that
we may do.
42:4 Then
Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray unto
the LORD your God according to your words; and it shall come to pass, that whatsoever
thing the LORD shall answer you, I will declare it unto you; I will keep nothing
back from you.
42:5 Then
they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if
we do not even according to all things for the which the LORD your God shall send
you to us.
42:6 Whether
it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God,
to whom we send you; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the
LORD our God.
42:7 And
it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah.
42:8 Then
called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces which
were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,
42:9 And
said unto them, Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, unto whom all of you sent
me to present your supplication before him;
42:10
If all of you will still abide in this land, then will I
build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up:
for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.
42:11
Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom all of you
are afraid; be not afraid of him, says the LORD: for I am with you to save you,
and to deliver you from his hand.
42:12
And I will show mercies unto you, that he may have mercy
upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.
42:13
But if all of you say, We will not dwell in this land, neither
obey the voice of the LORD your God,
42:14
Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where
we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread;
and there will we dwell:
42:15
And now therefore hear the word of the LORD, all of you
remnant of Judah; Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; If all of you
wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there;
42:16
Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which all of
you feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof
all of you were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there
all of you shall die.
42:17
So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to
go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and
by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that
I will bring upon them.
42:18
For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine
anger and my fury has been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so
shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when all of you shall enter into Egypt:
and all of you shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a
reproach; and all of you shall see this place no more.
42:19
The LORD has said concerning you, O all of you remnant of
Judah; Go all of you not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you
this day.
42:20 For
all of you dissembled in your hearts, when all of you sent me unto the LORD your
God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all that the
LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it.
42:21
And now I have this day declared it to you; but all of you
have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any thing for the which he
has sent me unto you.
42:22
Now therefore know certainly that all of you shall die by
the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place where all of you
desire to go and to sojourn.
43:1
And it came to pass, that when Jeremiah had made an end
of speaking unto all the people all the words of the LORD their God, for which
the LORD their God had sent him to them, even all these words,
43:2
Then spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the
son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, You speak falsely:
the LORD our God has not sent you to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there:
43:3 But
Baruch the son of Neriah sets you on against us, in order to deliver us into the
hand of the Chaldeans, that they might put us to death, and carry us away captives
into Babylon.
43:4 So
Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people,
obeyed not the voice of the LORD, to dwell in the land of Judah.
43:5
But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the
forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from all nations, where
they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah;
43:6
Even men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters,
and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah
the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the
son of Neriah.
43:7 So
they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: thus
came they even to Tahpanhes.
43:8
Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes,
saying,
43:9 Take
great stones in yours hand, and hide them in the clay in the brick-kiln, which
is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;
43:10 And
say unto them, Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will
send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his
throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion
over them.
43:11 And
when he comes, he shall strike the land of Egypt, and deliver such as are for
death to death; and such as are for captivity to captivity; and such as are for
the sword to the sword.
43:12
And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt;
and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself
with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his garment; and he shall go forth
from thence in peace.
43:13
He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that is in
the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with
fire.
44:1 The
word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of
Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country
of Pathros, saying,
44:2
Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; All of you
have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities
of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwells therein,
44:3 Because
of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that
they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, whom they knew not, neither
they, all of you, nor your fathers.
44:4
Nevertheless I sent unto you all my servants the prophets,
rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I
hate.
44:5 But
they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn
no incense unto other gods.
44:6
Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was
kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted
and desolate, as at this day.
44:7
Therefore now thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the
God of Israel; Wherefore commit all of you this great evil against your souls,
to cut off from you man and woman, child and nursing infant, out of Judah, to
leave you none to remain;
44:8
In that all of you provoke me unto wrath with the works
of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, where all
of you be gone to dwell, that all of you might cut yourselves off, and that all
of you might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
44:9 Have
all of you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the
kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and
the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah,
and in the streets of Jerusalem?
44:10
They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they
feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before
your fathers.
44:11 Therefore
thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against
you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.
44:12
And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their
faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed,
and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by
the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword
and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a
curse, and a reproach.
44:13
For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt,
as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:
44:14 So
that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn
there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah,
to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return
but such as shall escape.
44:15
Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned
incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even
all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah,
saying,
44:16 As
for the word that you have spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not
hearken unto you.
44:17
But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goes forth out
of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink
offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes,
in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty
of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
44:18
But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven,
and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have
been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
44:19
And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured
out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out
drink offerings unto her, without our men?
44:20
Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and
to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying,
44:21 The
incense that all of you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem,
all of you, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of
the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it not into his mind?
44:22 So
that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because
of the abominations which all of you have committed; therefore is your land a
desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this
day.
44:23 Because
all of you have burned incense, and because all of you have sinned against the
LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in
his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you,
as at this day.
44:24 Moreover
Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of the
LORD, all Judah that are in the land of Egypt:
44:25
Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying;
All of you and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with
your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn
incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: all
of you will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.
44:26 Therefore
hear all of you the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt;
Behold, I have sworn by my great name, says the LORD, that my name shall no more
be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The
Lord GOD lives.
44:27 Behold,
I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that
are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until
there be an end of them.
44:28
Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out
of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that
are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall
stand, mine, or their's.
44:29
And this shall be a sign unto you, says the LORD, that I
will punish you in this place, that all of you may know that my words shall surely
stand against you for evil:
44:30
Thus says the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra king
of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his
life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.
45:1
The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke unto Baruch the
son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah,
in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,
45:2 Thus
says the LORD, the God of Israel, unto you, O Baruch:
45:3
You did say, Woe is me now! for the LORD has added grief
to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.
45:4
Thus shall you say unto him, The LORD says thus; Behold,
that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will
pluck up, even this whole land.
45:5
And seek you great things for yourself? seek them not: for,
behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, says the LORD: but your life will I
give unto you for a prey in all places where you go.
46:1
The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet
against the Gentiles;
46:2
Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of
Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king
of Babylon stroke in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.
46:3 Order
all of you the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.
46:4
Harness the horses; and get up, all of you horsemen, and
stand forth with your helmets; polish the spears, and put on the protective armor.
46:5 Wherefore
have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten
down, and are fled swiftly, and look not back: for fear was round about, says
the LORD.
46:6 Let
not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall
toward the north by the river Euphrates.
46:7
Who is this that comes up as a flood, whose waters are moved
as the rivers?
46:8 Egypt
rises up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he says,
I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants
thereof.
46:9 Come
up, all of you horses; and rage, all of you chariots; and let the mighty men come
forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians,
that handle and bend the bow.
46:10
For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance,
that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it
shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts has
a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
46:11
Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter
of Egypt: in vain shall you use many medicines; for you shall not be cured.
46:12 The
nations have heard of your shame, and your cry has filled the land: for the mighty
man has stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together.
46:13 The
word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon
should come and strike the land of Egypt.
46:14
Declare all of you in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and
publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say all of you, Stand fast, and prepare you;
for the sword shall devour round about you.
46:15
Why are your valiant men swept away? they stood not, because
the LORD did drive them.
46:16
He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they
said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity,
from the oppressing sword.
46:17
They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise;
he has passed the time appointed.
46:18
As I live, says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts,
Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he
comes.
46:19 O
you daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity: for Noph
shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
46:20
Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction comes;
it comes out of the north.
46:21
Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks;
for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand,
because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
46:22 The
voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and
come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
46:23
They shall cut down her forest, says the LORD, though it
cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
46:24 The
daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of
the people of the north.
46:25
The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, says; Behold, I will
punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their
kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him:
46:26
And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek
their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the
hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old,
says the LORD.
46:27 But
fear not you, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold,
I will save you from far off, and your seed from the land of their captivity;
and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
46:28 Fear
you not, O Jacob my servant, says the LORD: for I am with you; for I will make
a full end of all the nations where I have driven you: but I will not make a full
end of you, but correct you in measure; yet will I not leave you wholly unpunished.
47:1 The
word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before
that Pharaoh stroke Gaza.
47:2
Thus says the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north,
and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is
therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all
the inhabitants of the land shall wail.
47:3
At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong
horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the
fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;
47:4 Because
of the day that comes to spoil all the Philistines, and to cut off from Tyrus
and Zidon every helper that remains: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines,
the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
47:5
Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the
remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself?
47:6
O you sword of the LORD, how long will it be before you
be quiet? put up yourself into your scabbard, rest, and be still.
47:7
How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD has given it a charge
against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there has he appointed it.
48:1 Against
Moab thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is
spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.
48:2 There
shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it;
come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also you shall be cut down, O
Madmen; the sword shall pursue you.
48:3
A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great
destruction.
48:4 Moab
is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
48:5
For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go
up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.
48:6 Flee,
save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
48:7
For because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures,
you shall also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests
and his princes together.
48:8
And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city
shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed,
as the LORD has spoken.
48:9
Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for
the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.
48:10
Cursed be he that does the work of the LORD deceitfully,
and cursed be he that keeps back his sword from blood.
48:11
Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled
on his sediments of wine, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither
has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent
is not changed.
48:12 Therefore,
behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will send unto him wanderers, that
shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles.
48:13 And
Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel
their confidence.
48:14
How say all of you, We are mighty and strong men for the
war?
48:15 Moab
is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down
to the slaughter, says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
48:16
The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction
hastes fast.
48:17 All
you that are about him, lament for him; and all you that know his name, say, How
is the strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod!
48:18
You daughter that do inhabit Dibon, come down from your
glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon you, and he
shall destroy your strong holds.
48:19
O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and monitor; ask
him that flees, and her that escapes, and say, What is done?
48:20
Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: wail and cry;
tell all of you it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,
48:21
And judgment has come upon the plain country; upon Holon,
and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath,
48:22
And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Bethdiblathaim,
48:23 And
upon Kiriathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmeon,
48:24
And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities
of the land of Moab, far or near.
48:25
The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, says
the LORD.
48:26 Make
all of you him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall
wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
48:27
For was not Israel a derision unto you? was he found among
thieves? for since you spoke of him, you skipped for joy.
48:28
O all of you that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell
in the rock, and be like the dove that makes her nest in the sides of the hole's
mouth.
48:29 We
have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy,
and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.
48:30
I know his wrath, says the LORD; but it shall not be so;
his lies shall not so effect it.
48:31
Therefore will I wail for Moab, and I will cry out for all
Moab; mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.
48:32
O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for you with the weeping of
Jazer: your plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer:
the spoiler is fallen upon your summer fruits and upon your vintage.
48:33
And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field,
and from the land of Moab, and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses:
none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.
48:34
From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto
Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer
of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.
48:35
Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, says the LORD, him
that offers in the high places, and him that burns incense to his gods.
48:36 Therefore
mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes
for the men of Kirheres: because the riches that he has got are perished.
48:37 For
every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be
cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
48:38
There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops
of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein
is no pleasure, says the LORD.
48:39
They shall wail, saying, How is it broken down! how has
Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to
all them about him.
48:40
For thus says the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle,
and shall spread his wings over Moab.
48:41
Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and
the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in
her pangs.
48:42 And
Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself
against the LORD.
48:43
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon you, O inhabitant
of Moab, says the LORD.
48:44
He that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and
he that gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon
it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, says the LORD.
48:45
They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because
of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the
midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head
of the tumultuous ones.
48:46
Woe be unto you, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perishes:
for your sons are taken captives, and your daughters captives.
48:47
Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter
days, says the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
49:1
Concerning the Ammonites, thus says the LORD; Has Israel
no sons? has he no heir? why then does their king inherit Gad, and his people
dwell in his cities?
49:2
Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I
will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall
be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel
be heir unto them that were his heirs, says the LORD.
49:3
Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, all of you daughters
of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run back and forth by the hedges;
for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.
49:4 Wherefore
glory you in the valleys, your flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted
in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me?
49:5
Behold, I will bring a fear upon you, says the Lord GOD
of hosts, from all those that be about you; and all of you shall be driven out
every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wanders.
49:6
And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children
of Ammon, says the LORD.
49:7
Concerning Edom, thus says the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom
no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?
49:8 Flee
all of you, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the
calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.
49:9
If grape-gatherers come to you, would they not leave some
gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.
49:10 But
I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be
able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours,
and he is not.
49:11 Leave
your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust
in me.
49:12 For
thus says the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have
assuredly drunken; and are you he that shall altogether go unpunished? you shall
not go unpunished, but you shall surely drink of it.
49:13
For I have sworn by myself, says the LORD, that Bozrah shall
become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof
shall be perpetual wastes.
49:14
I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is
sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather all of you together, and come against her,
and rise up to the battle.
49:15
For, lo, I will make you small among the heathen, and despised
among men.
49:16 Your
terribleness has deceived you, and the pride of yours heart, O you that dwell
in the clefts of the rock, that hold the height of the hill: though you should
make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from thence, says the
LORD.
49:17 Also
Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goes by it shall be astonished, and
shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
49:18
As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour
cities thereof, says the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of
man dwell in it.
49:19
Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of
Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run
away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is
like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will
stand before me?
49:20
Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken
against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of
Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make
their habitations desolate with them.
49:21
The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry
the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.
49:22
Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread
his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom
be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
49:23
Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for
they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;
it cannot be quiet.
49:24
Damascus is waxed feeble, and turns herself to flee, and
fear has seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
49:25 How
is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
49:26
Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all
the men of war shall be cut off in that day, says the LORD of hosts.
49:27
And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it
shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.
49:28
Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor,
which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall strike, thus says the LORD; Arise all
of you, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east.
49:29
Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they
shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels;
and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.
49:30
Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O all of you inhabitants
of Hazor, says the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel
against you, and has conceived a purpose against you.
49:31
Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwells without
care, says the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell alone.
49:32 And
their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and
I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will
bring their calamity from all sides thereof, says the LORD.
49:33
And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation
for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.
49:34 The
word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning
of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
49:35
Thus says the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow
of Elam, the chief of their might.
49:36
And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four
quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall
be no nation where the outcasts of Elam shall not come.
49:37
For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies,
and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my
fierce anger, says the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have
consumed them:
49:38 And
I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes,
says the LORD.
49:39 But
it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity
of Elam, says the LORD.
50:1
The word that the LORD spoke against Babylon and against
the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
50:2
Declare all of you among the nations, and publish, and set
up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded,
Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken
in pieces.
50:3 For
out of the north there comes up a nation against her, which shall make her land
desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart,
both man and beast.
50:4
In those days, and in that time, says the LORD, the children
of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping:
they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
50:5
They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces in that
direction, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual
covenant that shall not be forgotten.
50:6
My people has been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused
them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone
from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place.
50:7
All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries
said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation
of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.
50:8
Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of
the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.
50:9
For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon
an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves
in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as
of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.
50:10
And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be
satisfied, says the LORD.
50:11
Because all of you were glad, because all of you rejoiced,
O all of you destroyers of mine heritage, because all of you are grown fat as
the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;
50:12
Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you
shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness,
a dry land, and a desert.
50:13
Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited,
but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goes by Babylon shall be astonished,
and hiss at all her plagues.
50:14
Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all
you that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she has sinned against
the LORD.
50:15 Shout
against her round about: she has given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her
walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon
her; as she has done, do unto her.
50:16
Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handles the
sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn
every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.
50:17 Israel
is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria
has devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has broken his
bones.
50:18 Therefore
thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king
of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.
50:19
And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he
shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim
and Gilead.
50:20 In
those days, and in that time, says the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought
for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found:
for I will pardon them whom I reserve.
50:21
Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and
against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, says the
LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded you.
50:22
A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
50:23 How
is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become
a desolation among the nations!
50:24
I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, O Babylon,
and you were not aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have striven
against the LORD.
50:25
The LORD has opened his armoury, and has brought forth the
weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the
land of the Chaldeans.
50:26
Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses:
cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.
50:27 Slay
all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their
day has come, the time of their visitation.
50:28
The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of
Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of
his temple.
50:29 Call
together the archers against Babylon: all you that bend the bow, camp against
it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work;
according to all that she has done, do unto her: for she has been proud against
the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
50:30
Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all
her men of war shall be cut off in that day, says the LORD.
50:31
Behold, I am against you, O you most proud, says the Lord
GOD of hosts: for your day has come, the time that I will visit you.
50:32
And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall
raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all
round about him.
50:33
Thus says the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and
the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives
held them fast; they refused to let them go.
50:34
Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name:
he shall thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and
trouble the inhabitants of Babylon.
50:35
A sword is upon the Chaldeans, says the LORD, and upon the
inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.
50:36
A sword is upon the liars; and they shall be foolish: a
sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
50:37
A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and
upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become
as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.
50:38
A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up:
for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
50:39 Therefore
the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell
there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for
ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
50:40
As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities
thereof, says the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of
man dwell therein.
50:41
Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great
nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
50:42 They
shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not show mercy: their
voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put
in array, like a man to the battle, against you, O daughter of Babylon.
50:43 The
king of Babylon has heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish
took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.
50:44
Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of
Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away
from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like
me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand
before me?
50:45 Therefore
hear all of you the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against Babylon; and
his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the
least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation
desolate with them.
50:46
At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved,
and the cry is heard among the nations.
51:1
Thus says the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon,
and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying
wind;
51:2 And
will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land:
for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.
51:3
Against him that bends let the archer bend his bow, and
against him that lifts himself up in his brigandine: and spare all of you not
her young men; destroy all of you utterly all her host.
51:4
Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans,
and they that are thrust through in her streets.
51:5
For Israel has not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God,
of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One
of Israel.
51:6 Flee
out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in
her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD's vengeance; he will render unto
her a recompence.
51:7
Babylon has been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made
all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations
are mad.
51:8 Babylon
is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so
be she may be healed.
51:9
We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake
her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reachs unto
heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
51:10
The LORD has brought forth our righteousness: come, and
let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
51:11
Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD has
raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon,
to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
51:12 Set
up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen,
prepare the ambushes: for the LORD has both devised and done that which he spoke
against the inhabitants of Babylon.
51:13
O you that dwell upon many waters, abundant in treasures,
yours end has come, and the measure of your covetousness.
51:14
The LORD of hosts has sworn by himself, saying, Surely I
will fill you with men, as with caterpillars; and they shall lift up a shout against
you.
51:15 He
has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and
has stretched out the heaven by his understanding.
51:16
When he utters his voice, there is a multitude of waters
in the heavens; and he causes the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth:
he makes lightnings with rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasures.
51:17 Every
man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image:
for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
51:18
They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their
visitation they shall perish.
51:19
The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former
of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is
his name.
51:20 You
are my battle axe and weapons of war: for with you will I break in pieces the
nations, and with you will I destroy kingdoms;
51:21
And with you will I break in pieces the horse and his rider;
and with you will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;
51:22
With you also will I break in pieces man and woman; and
with you will I break in pieces old and young; and with you will I break in pieces
the young man and the maid;
51:23
I will also break in pieces with you the shepherd and his
flock; and with you will I break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen; and
with you will I break in pieces captains and rulers.
51:24
And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants
of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says the
LORD.
51:25 Behold,
I am against you, O destroying mountain, says the LORD, which destroys all the
earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon you, and roll you down from the rocks,
and will make you a burnt mountain.
51:26
And they shall not take of you a stone for a corner, nor
a stone for foundations; but you shall be desolate for ever, says the LORD.
51:27 Set
all of you up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare
the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni,
and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the
rough caterpillars.
51:28
Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes,
the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.
51:29 And
the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed
against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
51:30 The
mighty men of Babylon have ceased to fight, they have remained in their holds:
their might has failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwelling places;
her bars are broken.
51:31
One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to
meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken at every quarter,
51:32 And
that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the
men of war are affrighted.
51:33
For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The
daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor, it is time to thresh her: yet a
little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
51:34
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has
crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has swallowed me up like a dragon,
he has filled his belly with my delicates, he has cast me out.
51:35
The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,
shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,
shall Jerusalem say.
51:36
Therefore thus says the LORD; Behold, I will plead your
cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs
dry.
51:37 And
Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and
an hissing, without an inhabitant.
51:38
They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as
lions' whelps.
51:39 In
their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may
rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the LORD.
51:40
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like
rams with he goats.
51:41
How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole
earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
51:42 The
sea has come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
51:43 Her
cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwells,
neither does any son of man pass thereby.
51:44
And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth
out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow
together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
51:45
My people, go all of you out of the midst of her, and deliver
all of you every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.
51:46
And lest your heart faint, and all of you fear for the rumour
that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after
that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against
ruler.
51:47 Therefore,
behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon:
and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst
of her.
51:48 Then
the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for
the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, says the LORD.
51:49
As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at
Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
51:50
All of you that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not
still: remember the LORD far off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
51:51 We
are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame has covered our faces: for
strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD's house.
51:52
Wherefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I
will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded
shall groan.
51:53 Though
Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of
her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, says the LORD.
51:54 A sound
of a cry comes from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:
51:55 Because
the LORD has spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her
waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:
51:56
Because the spoiler has come upon her, even upon Babylon,
and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD
God of recompences shall surely requite.
51:57
And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her
captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual
sleep, and not wake, says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
51:58
Thus says the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon
shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the
people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
51:59 The
word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of
Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth
year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince.
51:60
So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come
upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.
51:61
And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon,
and shall see, and shall read all these words;
51:62
Then shall you say, O LORD, you have spoken against this
place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but
that it shall be desolate for ever.
51:63
And it shall be, when you have made an end of reading this
book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:
51:64 And
you shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that
I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
52:1 Zedekiah
was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years
in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
52:2 And
he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim
had done.
52:3 For
through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he
had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of
Babylon.
52:4 And
it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth
day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army,
against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.
52:5 So
the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
52:6
And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month,
the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of
the land.
52:7 Then
the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the
city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's
garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the
way of the plain.
52:8
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and
overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from
him.
52:9 Then
they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the
land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him.
52:10
And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before
his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
52:11
Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon
bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the
day of his death.
52:12
Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which
was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain
of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,
52:13
And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house;
and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he
with fire:
52:14 And
all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake
down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.
52:15
Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive
certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained
in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the
rest of the multitude.
52:16
But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of
the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.
52:17
Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the
LORD, and the bases, and the brazen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the
Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.
52:18
The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and
the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered,
took they away.
52:19 And
the basons, and the fire-pans, and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candlesticks,
and the spoons, and the cups; that which was of gold in gold, and that which was
of silver in silver, took the captain of the guard away.
52:20
The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brazen bulls that were
under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the brass
of all these vessels was without weight.
52:21
And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was
eighteen cubits; and a fastener of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness
thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.
52:22
And a capital of brass was upon it; and the height of one
capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the capitals round
about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto
these.
52:23 And
there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all the pomegranates upon
the network were an hundred round about.
52:24
And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest,
and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
52:25
He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge
of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king's person, which
were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the
people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found
in the midst of the city.
52:26
So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought
them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
52:27
And the king of Babylon stroke them, and put them to death
in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his
own land.
52:28 This
is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three
thousand Jews and three and twenty:
52:29
In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away
captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:
52:30
In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan
the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty
and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.
52:31 And
it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin
king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month,
that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the
head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison.
52:32 And
spoke kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were
with him in Babylon,
52:33
And changed his prison garments: and he did continually
eat bread before him all the days of his life.
52:34
And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of
the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days
of his life.