Jeremiah
1:1The words of Jeremiah the son of
Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: 1:2to whom the word of Yahweh came in
the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year
of his reign. 1:3It came also in the days of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the end of the eleventh
year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the carrying away
of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month. 1:4Now the word
of Yahweh came to me, saying, 1:5Before I formed you in the belly I
knew you, and before you came forth out of the womb I sanctified you; I
have appointed you a prophet to the nations. 1:6Then said I,
Ah, Lord Yahweh! behold, I don't know how to speak; for I am a child. 1:7But Yahweh said to me, Don't say,
I am a child; for to whoever I shall send you, you shall go, and whatever
I shall command you, you shall speak. 1:8Don't be
afraid because of them; for I am with you to deliver you, says Yahweh. 1:9Then Yahweh put forth his hand,
and touched my mouth; and Yahweh said to me, Behold, I have put my words
in your mouth: 1:10behold, I have this day set you
over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and
to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant. 1:11Moreover
the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what see you? I said, I
see a rod of an almond tree. 1:12Then said Yahweh to me, You have
well seen: for I watch over my word to perform it. 1:13The word of
Yahweh came to me the second time, saying, What see you? I said, I see a
boiling caldron; and the face of it is from the north. 1:14Then Yahweh said to me, Out of
the north evil shall break forth on all the inhabitants of the land. 1:15For, behold, I will call all the
families of the kingdoms of the north, says Yahweh; and they shall come,
and they shall set everyone his throne at the entrance of the gates of
Jerusalem, and against all the walls of it round about, and against all
the cities of Judah. 1:16I will utter my judgments against
them touching all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and
have burned incense to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own
hands. 1:17You therefore gird up your loins,
and arise, and speak to them all that I command you: don't be dismayed at
them, lest I dismay you before them. 1:18For,
behold, I have made you this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and
brazen walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against
the princes of it, against the priests of it, and against the people of
the land. 1:19They shall fight against you; but
they shall not prevail against you: for I am with you, says Yahweh, to
deliver you.
2:1The word of Yahweh came to me,
saying, 2:2Go, and cry in the ears of
Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I remember for you the kindness of
your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the
wilderness, in a land that was not sown. 2:3Israel
was holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase: all who
devour him shall be held guilty; evil shall come on them, says Yahweh. 2:4Hear you the word of Yahweh, O
house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel: 2:5thus says Yahweh, What
unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far
from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain? 2:6Neither said they, Where is Yahweh
who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who 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 none passed
through, and where no man lived? 2:7I brought
you into a plentiful land, to eat the fruit of it and the goodness of it;
but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an
abomination. 2:8The priests didn't say, Where is
Yahweh? and those who handle the law didn't know me: the rulers also
transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked
after things that do not profit. 2:9Therefore I
will yet contend with you, says Yahweh, and with your children's children
will I contend. 2:10For pass over to the isles of
Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if
there has been such a thing. 2:11Has a nation changed its
gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for
that which does not profit. 2:12Be astonished, you heavens, at
this, and be horribly afraid, be you very desolate, says Yahweh. 2:13For my people have committed two
evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and hewed them
out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. 2:14Is Israel a servant? is he a
home-born slave? why is he become a prey? 2:15The young
lions have roared on him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste:
his cities are burned up, without inhabitant. 2:16The
children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.
2:17Haven't you procured this to
yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by
the way? 2:18Now what have you to do in the
way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? or what have you to do in
the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River? 2:19Your own wickedness shall correct
you, and your backsliding shall reprove you: know therefore and see that
it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God,
and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies. 2:20For of old time I have broken
your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, I will not serve; for on
every high hill and under every green tree you did bow yourself, playing
the prostitute. 2:21Yet I had planted you a noble
vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate
branches of a foreign vine to me? 2:22For though
you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked
before me, says the Lord Yahweh. 2:23How can you
say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baals? see your way in
the valley, know what you have done: you are a swift dromedary
traversing her ways; 2:24a wild donkey used to the
wilderness, that snuffs up the wind in her desire; in her occasion who can
turn her away? all those who seek her will not weary themselves; in her
month they shall find her. 2:25Withhold your foot from being
unshod, and your throat from thirst: but you said, It is in vain; no, for
I have loved strangers, and after them will I go. 2:26As 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;
2:27who tell a stock, You are my
father; and to a stone, You have brought me forth: for they have turned
their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble
they will say, Arise, and save us. 2:28But 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, Judah. 2:29Why will you contend with me? you
all have transgressed against me, says Yahweh. 2:30In vain
have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword
has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. 2:31Generation,
see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? or a land of
thick darkness? why say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no
more to you? 2:32Can a virgin forget her
ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days
without number. 2:33How trimmest you your way to seek
love! therefore even the wicked women have you taught your ways. 2:34Also in your skirts is found the
blood of the souls of the innocent poor: you did not find them breaking
in; but it is because of all these things. 2:35Yet you
said, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I
will enter into judgment with you, because you say, I have not sinned. 2:36Why go you about so much to
change your way? you shall be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed
of Assyria. 2:37From there also shall you go
forth, with your hands on your head: for Yahweh has rejected those in whom
you trust, and you shall not prosper with them.
3:1They say, If a man put away his
wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, will he return to her
again? Won't that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the
prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me, says Yahweh. 3:2Lift up your eyes to the bare
heights, and see; where have you not been lain with? By the ways have you
sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the
land with your prostitution and with your wickedness. 3:3Therefore
the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you
have a prostitute's forehead, you refused to be ashamed. 3:4Will you not from this time cry to
me, My Father, you are the guide of my youth? 3:5Will he
retain his anger forever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, you
have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way. 3:6Moreover Yahweh said to me in the
days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has
done? she is gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree,
and there has played the prostitute. 3:7I said after
she had done all these things, She will return to me; but she didn't
return: and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. 3:8I saw, when,
for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had
put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her
sister, didn't fear; but she also went and played the prostitute. 3:9It happened through the lightness
of her prostitution, that the land was polluted, and she committed
adultery with stones and with stocks. 3:10Yet for all
this her treacherous sister Judah has not returned to me with her whole
heart, but only in pretense, says Yahweh. 3:11Yahweh said
to me, Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than
treacherous Judah. 3:12Go, and proclaim these words
toward the north, and say, Return, you backsliding Israel, says Yahweh; I
will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful, says Yahweh, I will not
keep anger forever. 3:13Only acknowledge your iniquity,
that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered
your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed
my voice, says Yahweh. 3:14Return, backsliding children,
says Yahweh; for I am a husband to you: and I will take you one of a city,
and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: 3:15and I will
give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with
knowledge and understanding. 3:16It shall come to pass, when you
are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, says Yahweh, they
shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of Yahweh; neither shall it
come to mind; neither shall they remember it; neither shall they miss it;
neither shall it be made any more. 3:17At that
time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of Yahweh; and all the nations
shall be gathered to it, to the name of Yahweh, to Jerusalem: neither
shall they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart. 3:18In 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 gave for an inheritance to your
fathers. 3:19But I said, How I will put you
among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the
hosts of the nations! and I said, You shall call me My Father, and shall
not turn away from following me. 3:20Surely as a
wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt
treacherously with me, house of Israel, says Yahweh. 3:21A voice is
heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the
children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have
forgotten Yahweh their God. 3:22Return, you backsliding children,
I will heal your backsliding. Behold, we are come to you; for you are
Yahweh our God. 3:23Truly in vain is the help that
is looked for from the hills, the tumult on the mountains: truly in
Yahweh our God is the salvation of Israel. 3:24But the
shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their
flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. 3:25Let us lie down in our shame, and
let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we
and our fathers, from our youth even to this day; and we have not obeyed
the voice of Yahweh our God.
4:1If you will return, Israel, says
Yahweh, if you will return to me, and if you will put away your
abominations out of my sight; then you shall not be removed; 4:2and you shall swear, As Yahweh
lives, in truth, in justice, and in righteousness; and the nations shall
bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory. 4:3For thus
says Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow
ground, and don't sow among thorns. 4:4Circumcise
yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men
of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire,
and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
4:5Declare you in Judah, and publish
in Jerusalem; and say, Blow you the trumpet in the land: cry aloud and
say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities. 4:6Set up a standard toward Zion:
flee for safety, don't stay; for I will bring evil from the north, and a
great destruction. 4:7A lion is gone up from his
thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth
from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid
waste, without inhabitant. 4:8For this gird you with sackcloth,
lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn't turned back from
us. 4:9It shall happen at that day, says
Yahweh, 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. 4:10Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh!
surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, You
shall have peace; whereas the sword reaches to the life. 4:11At that time shall it be said to
this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind from the bare heights in the
wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to
cleanse; 4:12a full wind from these shall come
for me: now will I also utter judgments against them. 4:13Behold, he shall come up as
clouds, and his chariots shall be as the whirlwind: his horses are
swifter than eagles. Woe to us! for we are ruined. 4:14Jerusalem,
wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall
your evil thoughts lodge within you? 4:15For a voice
declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim: 4:16make 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. 4:17As keepers of a field are they
against her round about, because she has been rebellious against me, says
Yahweh. 4:18Your way and your doings have
procured these things to you; this is your wickedness; for it is bitter,
for it reaches to your heart. 4:19My anguish, my anguish! I am
pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I can't hold my
peace; because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the
alarm of war. 4:20Destruction on destruction is
cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed,
and my curtains in a moment. 4:21How long
shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet? 4:22For my people are foolish, they
don't know me; they are foolish children, and they have no understanding;
they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. 4:23I saw the earth, and, behold, it
was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. 4:24I saw the mountains, and, behold,
they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth. 4:25I saw, and, behold, there was no
man, and all the birds of the sky were fled. 4:26I saw, and,
behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all the cities of it were
broken down at the presence of Yahweh, and before his fierce anger.
4:27For thus says Yahweh, The whole
land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end. 4:28For this shall the earth mourn,
and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed
it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it. 4:29Every city flees for the noise of
the horsemen and archers; they go into the thickets, and climb up on the
rocks: every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein. 4:30You, when you are made desolate,
what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck
you with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with paint, in
vain do you make yourself beautiful; your lovers despise you, they
seek your life. 4:31For I have heard a voice as of a
woman in travail, the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child,
the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her
hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul faints before the
murderers.
5:1Run you back and forth through the
streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places
of it, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks
truth; and I will pardon her. 5:2Though they say, As Yahweh lives;
surely they swear falsely. 5:3O Yahweh, don't your eyes look on
truth? you have stricken them, but they were 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. 5:4Then I said, Surely these are
poor; they are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law
of their God: 5:5I will get me to the great men,
and will speak to them; for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of
their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the
bonds. 5:6Therefore a lion out of the forest
shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard
shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be
torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, and their
backsliding is increased. 5:7How can I pardon you? your
children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had
fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in
troops at the prostitutes' houses. 5:8They were as
fed horses roaming at large; everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife.
5:9Shall I not visit for these
things? says Yahweh; and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as
this? 5:10Go up on her walls, and destroy;
but don't make a full end: take away her branches; for they are not
Yahweh's. 5:11For the house of Israel and the
house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, says Yahweh. 5:12They have denied Yahweh, and
said, It is not he; neither shall evil come on us; neither shall we see
sword nor famine: 5:13and the prophets shall become
wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done to them. 5:14Therefore thus says Yahweh, the
God of hosts, Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in
your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them. 5:15Behold, I will bring a nation on
you from far, house of Israel, says Yahweh: it is a mighty nation, it is
an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don't know, neither
understand what they say. 5:16Their quiver is an open tomb,
they are all mighty men. 5:17They shall eat up your harvest,
and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat; they
shall eat up your flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and
your fig trees; they shall beat down your fortified cities, in which you
trust, with the sword. 5:18But even in those days, says
Yahweh, I will not make a full end with you. 5:19It shall
happen, when you shall say, Why has Yahweh our God done all these things
to us? then shall you say to them, Like as you have forsaken me, and
served foreign gods in your land, so shall you serve strangers in a land
that is not yours. 5:20Declare you this in the house of
Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying, 5:21Hear now
this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don't
see; who have ears, and don't hear: 5:22Don't you
fear me? says Yahweh: won't you tremble at my presence, who have placed
the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can't
pass it? and though the waves of it toss themselves, yet they can't
prevail; though they roar, yet they can't pass over it. 5:23But this people has a revolting
and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. 5:24Neither say
they in their heart, Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both
the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the
appointed weeks of the harvest. 5:25Your
iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good
from you. 5:26For among my people are found
wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they
catch men. 5:27As a cage is full of birds, so
are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and grew
rich. 5:28They are grew fat, they shine:
yes, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they don't plead the cause, the
cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy
they don't judge. 5:29Shall I not visit for these
things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as
this? 5:30A wonderful and horrible thing is
happen in the land: 5:31the prophets prophesy falsely,
and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it
so: and what will you do in the end of it?
6:1Flee for safety, you children of
Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa,
and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem; for evil looks forth from the
north, and a great destruction. 6:2The comely and delicate one, the
daughter of Zion, will I cut off. 6:3Shepherds
with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against
her round about; they shall feed everyone in his place. 6:4Prepare you war against her;
arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe to us! for the day declines, for the
shadows of the evening are stretched out. 6:5Arise, and
let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces. 6:6For thus has Yahweh of Armies
said, Hew you down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem: this is
the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her. 6:7As a well casts forth its waters,
so she casts forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in
her; before me continually is sickness and wounds. 6:8Be
instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you; lest I make you
a desolation, a land not inhabited. 6:9Thus says
Yahweh of Armies, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a
vine: turn again your hand as a grape-gatherer into the baskets. 6:10To whom shall I speak and
testify, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they
can't listen: behold, the word of Yahweh is become to them a reproach;
they have no delight in it. 6:11Therefore I am full of the wrath
of Yahweh; I am weary with holding in: pour it out on the children in the
street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband
with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him who is full of days. 6:12Their houses shall be turned to
others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my
hand on the inhabitants of the land, says Yahweh. 6:13For from
the least of them even to the greatest of them everyone is given to
covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals
falsely. 6:14They have healed also the hurt of
my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. 6:15Were they ashamed when they had
committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could
they blush: therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time
that I visit them they shall be cast down, says Yahweh. 6:16Thus says Yahweh, Stand you in
the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way; and
walk therein, and you shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We
will not walk therein. 6:17I set watchmen over you,
saying, Listen to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will
not listen. 6:18Therefore hear, you nations, and
know, congregation, what is among them. 6:19Hear,
earth: behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their
thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law,
they have rejected it. 6:20To what purpose comes there to me
frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt
offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me. 6:21Therefore thus says Yahweh,
Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people; and the fathers
and the sons together shall stumble against them; the neighbor and his
friend shall perish. 6:22Thus says Yahweh, Behold, a
people comes from the north country; and a great nation shall be stirred
up from the uttermost parts of the earth. 6:23They lay
hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice
roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a
man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion. 6:24We have
heard the report of it; our hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of
us, and pangs as of a woman in travail. 6:25Don't go
forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy,
and terror, are on every side. 6:26Daughter 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 destroyer
shall suddenly come on us. 6:27I have made you a tester of
metals and a fortress among my people; that you may know and try
their way. 6:28They are all grievous rebels,
going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal
corruptly. 6:29The bellows blow fiercely; the
lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they go on refining; for the
wicked are not plucked away. 6:30Refuse silver shall men them,
because Yahweh has rejected them.
7:1The word that came to Jeremiah
from Yahweh, saying, 7:2Stand in the gate of Yahweh's
house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of Yahweh, all
you of Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship Yahweh. 7:3Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the
God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to
dwell in this place. 7:4Don't you trust in lying words,
saying, The temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh,
are these. 7:5For if you thoroughly amend your
ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and
his neighbor; 7:6if you don't oppress the
foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in
this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt: 7:7then will I cause you to dwell in
this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even
forevermore. 7:8Behold, you trust in lying words,
that can't profit. 7:9Will you steal, murder, and commit
adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after
other gods that you have not known, 7:10and come
and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We
are delivered; that you may do all these abominations? 7:11Is this house, which is called by
my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have
seen it, says Yahweh. 7:12But go you now to my place which
was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what
I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel. 7:13Now,
because you have done all these works, says Yahweh, and I spoke to you,
rising up early and speaking, but you didn't hear; and I called you, but
you didn't answer: 7:14therefore will I do to the house
which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I
gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh. 7:15I will cast
you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole
seed of Ephraim. 7:16Therefore don't you pray for this
people, neither lift up a cry nor prayer for them, neither make
intercession to me; for I will not hear you. 7:17Don't you
see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
7:18The children gather wood, and the
fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to
the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink-offerings to other gods, that
they may provoke me to anger. 7:19Do they provoke me to anger? says
Yahweh; do they not provoke themselves, to the confusion of
their own faces? 7:20Therefore thus says the Lord
Yahweh: Behold, my anger and my wrath shall be poured out on this place,
on man, and on animal, and on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of
the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched. 7:21Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the
God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat you
flesh. 7:22For I didn't speak to your
fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land
of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: 7:23but this
thing I commanded them, saying, Listen to my voice, and I will be your
God, and you shall be my people; and walk you in all the way that I
command you, that it may be well with you. 7:24But they
didn't listen nor turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels
and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and
not forward. 7:25Since the day that your fathers
came forth out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my
servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them: 7:26yet they didn't listen to me, nor
inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their
fathers. 7:27You shall speak all these words
to them; but they will not listen to you: you shall also call to them; but
they will not answer you. 7:28You shall tell them, This is the
nation that has not listened to the voice of Yahweh their God, nor
received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
7:29Cut off your hair,
Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare
heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
7:30For the children of Judah have
done that which is evil in my sight, says Yahweh: they have set their
abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it. 7:31They have built the high places
of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their
sons and their daughters in the fire; which I didn't command, neither came
it into my mind. 7:32Therefore, behold, the days come,
says Yahweh, that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of
the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter: for they shall bury in
Topheth, until there be no place to bury. 7:33The dead
bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the
animals of the earth; and none shall frighten them away. 7:34Then will I cause to cease from
the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth
and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of
the bride; for the land shall become a waste.
8:1At that time, says Yahweh, 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; 8:2and they shall spread them before
the sun, and the moon, and all the host of the sky, which they have loved,
and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which
they have sought, and which they have worshiped: they shall not be
gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung on the surface of the
earth. 8:3Death shall be chosen rather than
life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in
all the places where I have driven them, says Yahweh of Armies. 8:4Moreover you shall tell them, Thus
says Yahweh: Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall one turn away,
and not return? 8:5Why then is this people of
Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit,
they refuse to return. 8:6I listened and heard, but they
didn't speak aright: no man repents him of his wickedness, saying, What
have I done? everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong
in the battle. 8:7Yes, the stork in the sky knows
her appointed times; and the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane
observe the time of their coming; but my people don't know Yahweh's law.
8:8How do you say, We are wise, and
the law of Yahweh is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes
has worked falsely. 8:9The wise men are disappointed,
they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of
Yahweh; and what manner of wisdom is in them? 8:10Therefore
will I give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall
possess them: for everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to
covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest every one deals falsely.
8:11They have healed the hurt of the
daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no
peace. 8:12Were they ashamed when they had
committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could
they blush: therefore shall they fall among those who fall; in the time of
their visitation they shall be cast down, says Yahweh. 8:13I will utterly consume them, says
Yahweh: 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. 8:14Why do we sit still? assemble
yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be
silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water
of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh. 8:15We looked for peace, but no good
came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay! 8:16The snorting of his horses is
heard from Dan: at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole
land trembles; for they are come, and have devoured the land and all that
is in it; the city and those who dwell therein. 8:17For,
behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be
charmed; and they shall bite you, says Yahweh. 8:18Oh that I
could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me. 8:19Behold, the voice of the cry of
the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: isn't Yahweh
in Zion? Isn't her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with
their engraved images, and with foreign vanities? 8:20The harvest
is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. 8:21For the
hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay has taken
hold on me. 8:22Is there no balm in Gilead? is
there no physician there? why then isn't the health of the daughter of my
people recovered?
9:1Oh that my head were waters, and
my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain
of the daughter of my people! 9:2Oh that I had in the wilderness a
lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from
them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. 9:3They bend their tongue, as it
were their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land,
but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know
me, says Yahweh. 9:4Take you heed everyone of his
neighbor, and don't you trust in any brother; for every brother will
utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders. 9:5They will deceive everyone his
neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to
speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity. 9:6Your
habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know
me, says Yahweh. 9:7Therefore thus says Yahweh of
Armies, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how else should
I do, because of the daughter of my people? 9:8Their tongue
is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor
with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him. 9:9Shall I not visit them for these
things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as
this? 9:10For the mountains will I take up
a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a
lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through;
neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the sky
and the animals are fled, they are gone. 9:11I will make
Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities
of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant. 9:12Who is the
wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth
of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? why is the land perished and
burned up like a wilderness, so that none passes through? 9:13Yahweh says, Because they have
forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice,
neither walked therein, 9:14but have walked after the
stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers
taught them; 9:15therefore thus says Yahweh of
Armies, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people,
with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. 9:16I will
scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers
have known; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed
them. 9:17Thus says Yahweh of Armies,
Consider you, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and
send for the skillful women, that they may come: 9:18and 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. 9:19For a voice
of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly
confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down
our dwellings. 9:20Yet hear the word of Yahweh, you
women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your
daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation. 9:21For death is come up into our
windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from
outside, and the young men from the streets. 9:22Speak, Thus
says Yahweh, The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung on the open field,
and as the handful after the harvester; and none shall gather them.
9:23Thus says Yahweh, Don't let the
wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his
might, don't let the rich man glory in his riches; 9:24but let him
who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I
am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in
the earth: for in these things I delight, says Yahweh. 9:25Behold, the days come, says
Yahweh, that I will punish all those who are circumcised in their
uncircumcision: 9:26Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and
the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners of their
hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are
uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.
10:1Hear the word which Yahweh speaks
to you, house of Israel! 10:2Thus says Yahweh, "Don't
learn the way of the nations, and don't be dismayed at the signs of the
sky; for the nations are dismayed at them. 10:3For the
customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest,
the work of the hands of the workman with the axe. 10:4They deck
it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers,
that it not move. 10:5They are like a palm tree, of
turned work, and don't speak: they must be carried, because they can't go.
Don't be afraid of them; for they can't do evil, neither is it in them to
do good." 10:6There is none like you, Yahweh;
you are great, and your name is great in might. 10:7Who should
not fear you, King of the nations? for to you does it appertain; because
among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate,
there is none like you. 10:8But they are together brutish and
foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock. 10:9There is silver beaten into
plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of
the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their
clothing; they are all the work of skillful men. 10:10But Yahweh
is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his
wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to abide his
indignation. 10:11Thus shall you say to them, The
gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from
the earth, and from under the heavens. 10:12He has
made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom,
and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens: 10:13when he utters his voice, there
is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend
from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain, and brings
forth the wind out of his treasuries. 10:14Every man
is become brutish and is without knowledge; every goldsmith is
disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and
there is no breath in them. 10:15They are vanity, a work of
delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. 10:16The portion of Jacob is not like
these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his
inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name. 10:17Gather up
your wares out of the land, you who abide in the siege. 10:18For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I
will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress
them, that they may feel it. 10:19Woe is me
because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is
my grief, and I must bear it. 10:20My tent is
destroyed, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth from
me, and they are no more: there is none to spread my tent any more, and to
set up my curtains. 10:21For the shepherds are become
brutish, and have not inquired of Yahweh: therefore they have not
prospered, and all their flocks are scattered. 10:22The voice
of news, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the north country,
to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals. 10:23Yahweh, I know that the way of
man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps. 10:24Yahweh, correct me, but in
measure: not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing. 10:25Pour out your wrath on the
nations that don't know you, and on the families that don't call on your
name: for they have devoured Jacob, yes, they have devoured him and
consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
11:1The word that came to Jeremiah
from Yahweh, saying, 11:2Hear you the words of this
covenant, and speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem; 11:3and say you to them, Thus says
Yahweh, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man who doesn't hear the words of
this covenant, 11:4which I commanded your fathers in
the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the
iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I
command you: so shall you be my people, and I will be your God; 11:5that I may establish the oath
which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and
honey, as at this day. Then answered I, and said, Amen, Yahweh. 11:6Yahweh said to me, Proclaim all
these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem,
saying, Hear you the words of this covenant, and do them. 11:7For I earnestly protested to your
fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even
to this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice. 11:8Yet they didn't obey, nor turn
their ear, but walked everyone in the stubbornness of their evil heart:
therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I
commanded them to do, but they didn't do them. 11:9Yahweh said
to me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the
inhabitants of Jerusalem. 11:10They are turned back to the
iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they
are gone 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. 11:11Therefore thus says Yahweh,
Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they shall not be able to escape;
and they shall cry to me, but I will not listen to them. 11:12Then shall the cities of Judah
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem go and cry to the gods to which they
offer incense: but they will not save them at all in the time of their
trouble. 11:13For according to the number of
your cities are your gods, Judah; and according to the number of the
streets of Jerusalem have you set up altars to the shameful thing, even
altars to burn incense to Baal. 11:14Therefore
don't you pray for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them;
for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me because of their
trouble. 11:15What has my beloved to do in my
house, seeing she has worked lewdness with many, and the holy flesh
is passed from you? when you do evil, then you rejoice. 11:16Yahweh called your name, A green
olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult
he has kindled fire on it, and the branches of it are broken. 11:17For Yahweh of Armies, who
planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil of the
house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have worked for
themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Baal. 11:18Yahweh gave me knowledge of it,
and I knew it: then you shown me their doings. 11:19But I was
like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn't know that
they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the
tree with the fruit of it, and let us cut him off from the land of the
living, that his name may be no more remembered. 11:20But,
Yahweh of Armies, who judge righteously, who try the heart and the mind, I
shall see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause. 11:21Therefore thus says Yahweh
concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, You shall not
prophesy in the name of Yahweh, that you not die by our hand; 11:22therefore thus says Yahweh of
hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword;
their sons and their daughters shall die by famine; 11:23and there
shall be no remnant to them: for I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth,
even the year of their visitation.
12:1Righteous are you, Yahweh, when I
contend with you; yet would I reason the cause with you: why does the way
of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very
treacherously? 12:2You have planted them, yes, they
have taken root; they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit: you are near in
their mouth, and far from their heart. 12:3But you,
Yahweh, know me; you see me, and try my heart toward you: pull them out
like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
12:4How long shall the land mourn,
and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of those who
dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said,
He shall not see our latter end. 12:5If you have
run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend
with horses? and though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will
you do in the pride of the Jordan? 12:6For even
your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt
treacherously with you; even they have cried aloud after you: don't
believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you. 12:7I have forsaken my house, I have
cast off my heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the
hand of her enemies. 12:8My heritage is become to me as a
lion in the forest: she has uttered her voice against me; therefore I have
hated her. 12:9Is my heritage to me as a
speckled bird of prey? are the birds of prey against her round about? go
you, assemble all the animals of the field, bring them to devour. 12:10Many shepherds have destroyed my
vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my
pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. 12:11They have
made it a desolation; it mourns to me, being desolate; the whole land is
made desolate, because no man lays it to heart. 12:12Destroyers
are come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of
Yahweh devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the
land: no flesh has peace. 12:13They have sown wheat, and have
reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and
you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of
Yahweh. 12:14Thus says Yahweh against all my
evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people
Israel to inherit: behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and
will pluck up the house of Judah from among them. 12:15It shall
happen, after that I have plucked them up, I will return and have
compassion on them; and I will bring them again, every man to his
heritage, and every man to his land. 12:16It shall
happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by
my name, As Yahweh lives; even as they taught my people to swear by Baal;
then shall they be built up in the midst of my people. 12:17But if they will not hear, then
will I pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it, says Yahweh.
13:1Thus says Yahweh to me, Go, and
buy you a linen belt, and put it on your loins, and don't put it in water.
13:2So I bought a belt according to
the word of Yahweh, and put it on my loins. 13:3The word of
Yahweh came to me the second time, saying, 13:4Take the
belt that you have bought, which is on your loins, and arise, go to the
Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock. 13:5So I went,
and hid it by the Euphrates, as Yahweh commanded me. 13:6It happened
after many days, that Yahweh said to me, Arise, go to the Euphrates, and
take the belt from there, which I commanded you to hide there. 13:7Then I went to the Euphrates, and
dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hid it; and, behold, the
belt was marred, it was profitable for nothing. 13:8Then the
word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 13:9Thus says
Yahweh, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great
pride of Jerusalem. 13:10This evil people, who refuse to
hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone
after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this
belt, which is profitable for nothing. 13:11For as the
belt cleaves to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave to me the
whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, says Yahweh; that they
may be to me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a
glory: but they would not hear. 13:12Therefore
you shall speak to them this word: Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel,
Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall tell you, Do we not
certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine? 13:13Then shall you tell them, Thus
says Yahweh, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even
the kings who sit on David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets,
and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness. 13:14I will dash them one against
another, even the fathers and the sons together, says Yahweh: I will not
pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them. 13:15Hear you, and give ear; don't be
proud; for Yahweh has spoken. 13:16Give glory to Yahweh your God,
before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark
mountains, and, while you look for light, he turn it into the shadow of
death, and make it gross darkness. 13:17But if you
will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride; and
my eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because Yahweh's flock is
taken captive. 13:18Say you to the king and to the
queen-mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headdresses are come
down, even the crown of your glory. 13:19The cities
of the South are shut up, and there is none to open them: Judah is carried
away captive, all of it; it is wholly carried away captive. 13:20Lift up your eyes, and see those
who come from the north: where is the flock that was given you, your
beautiful flock? 13:21What will you say, when he shall
set over you as head those whom you have yourself taught to be friends to
you? shall not sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman in travail? 13:22If you say in your heart, Why
are these things come on me? for the greatness of your iniquity are your
skirts uncovered, and your heels suffer violence. 13:23Can the
Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do
good, who are accustomed to do evil. 13:24Therefore
will I scatter them, as the stubble that passes away, by the wind of the
wilderness. 13:25This is your lot, the portion
measured to you from me, says Yahweh; because you have forgotten me, and
trusted in falsehood. 13:26Therefore will I also uncover
your skirts on your face, and your shame shall appear. 13:27I have seen your abominations,
even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your
prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! you will
not be made clean; how long shall it yet be?
14:1The word of Yahweh that came to
Jeremiah concerning the drought. 14:2Judah
mourns, and the gates of it languish, they sit in black on the ground; and
the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. 14:3Their
nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns,
and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are
disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads. 14:4Because of
the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the
plowmen are disappointed, they cover their heads. 14:5Yes, the
hind also in the field calves, and forsakes her young, because
there is no grass. 14:6The wild donkeys stand on the
bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because
there is no herbage. 14:7Though our iniquities testify
against us, work you for your name's sake, Yahweh; for our backslidings
are many; we have sinned against you. 14:8You hope of
Israel, the Savior of it in the time of trouble, why should you be as a
foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for
a night? 14:9Why should you be like a scared
man, as a mighty man who can't save? yet you, Yahweh, are in the midst of
us, and we are called by your name; don't leave us. 14:10Thus says
Yahweh to this people, Even so have they loved to wander; they have not
refrained their feet: therefore Yahweh does not accept them; now will he
remember their iniquity, and visit their sins. 14:11Yahweh
said to me, Don't pray for this people for their good. 14:12When they fast, I will not hear
their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal-offering, I will
not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine,
and by the pestilence. 14:13Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh!
behold, the prophets tell them, You shall not see the sword, neither shall
you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place. 14:14Then Yahweh said to me, The
prophets prophesy lies in my name; I didn't send them, neither have I
commanded them, neither spoke I to them: they prophesy to you a lying
vision, and divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their
own heart. 14:15Therefore thus says Yahweh
concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, and I didn't send them,
yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and
famine shall those prophets be consumed. 14:16The 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 on them. 14:17You shall
say this word to them, Let my 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 wound. 14:18If I go
forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! and if I
enter into the city, then, behold, those who are sick with famine! for
both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no
knowledge. 14:19Have you utterly rejected Judah?
has your soul loathed Zion? why have you struck us, and there is no
healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of
healing, and, behold, dismay! 14:20We acknowledge, Yahweh, our
wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against
you. 14:21Do not abhor us, for your
name's sake; do not disgrace the throne of your glory: remember, don't
break your covenant with us. 14:22Are there any among the vanities
of the nations that can cause rain? or can the sky give showers? Aren't
you he, Yahweh our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you have made
all these things.
15:1Then said Yahweh to me, Though
Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this
people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth. 15:2It shall happen, when they tell
you, Where shall we go forth? then you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh:
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
captivity, to captivity. 15:3I will appoint over them four
kinds, says Yahweh: the sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the birds
of the sky, and the animals of the earth, to devour and to destroy. 15:4I will cause them to be tossed
back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh,
the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem. 15:5For who will have pity on you,
Jerusalem? or who will bemoan you? or who will turn aside to ask of your
welfare? 15:6You have rejected me, says
Yahweh, you are gone backward: therefore have I stretched out my hand
against you, and destroyed you; I am weary with repenting. 15:7I have winnowed them with a fan
in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them of children, I have
destroyed my people; they didn't return from their ways. 15:8Their widows are increased to me
above the sand of the seas; I have brought on them against the mother of
the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to
fall on her suddenly. 15:9She who has borne seven
languishes; she has given up the spirit; her sun is gone down while it was
yet day; she has been disappointed and confounded: and the residue of them
will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, says Yahweh. 15:10Woe is me, my mother, that you
have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth!
I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet everyone of them
does curse me. 15:11Yahweh said, Most assuredly I
will strengthen you for good; most assuredly I will cause the enemy to
make supplication to you in the time of evil and in the time of
affliction. 15:12Can one break iron, even iron
from the north, and brass? 15:13Your substance and your
treasures will I give for a spoil without price, and that for all your
sins, even in all your borders. 15:14I will
make them to pass with your enemies into a land which you don't
know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, which shall burn on you. 15:15Yahweh, you know; remember me,
and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; don't take me away in your
longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered reproach. 15:16Your words were found, and I ate
them; and your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I
am called by your name, Yahweh, God of hosts. 15:17I didn't
sit in the assembly of those who make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone
because of your hand; for you have filled me with indignation. 15:18Why is my pain perpetual, and my
wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you indeed be to me as a
deceitful brook, as waters that fail? 15:19Therefore
thus says Yahweh, If you return, then will I bring you again, that you may
stand before me; and if you take forth the precious from the vile, you
shall be as my mouth: they shall return to you, but you shall not return
to them. 15:20I will make you to this people a
fortified 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 Yahweh. 15:21I will deliver you out of the
hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.
16:1The word of Yahweh came also to
me, saying, 16:2You shall not take a wife,
neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place. 16:3For thus says Yahweh concerning
the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and
concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who
became the father of them in this land: 16:4They shall
die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be
buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground; and they shall
be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be
food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth. 16:5For thus says Yahweh, Don't enter
into the house of mourning, neither go to lament, neither bemoan them; for
I have taken away my peace from this people, says Yahweh, even loving
kindness and tender mercies. 16:6Both great and 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; 16:7neither shall men break
bread 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. 16:8You shall not go into the house
of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink. 16:9For thus
says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease
out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth
and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of
the bride. 16:10It shall happen, when you shall
show this people all these words, and they shall tell you, Why has Yahweh
pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or
what is our sin that we have committed against Yahweh our God? 16:11Then shall you tell them,
Because your fathers have forsaken me, says Yahweh, and have walked after
other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have
forsaken me, and have not kept my law; 16:12and you
have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, you walk every one
after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don't listen to me:
16:13therefore will I cast you forth
out of this land into the land that you have not known, neither you nor
your fathers; and there shall you serve other gods day and night; for I
will show you no favor. 16:14Therefore, behold, the days
come, says Yahweh, that it shall no more be said, As Yahweh lives, who
brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; 16:15but, As Yahweh lives, who
brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all
the countries where he had driven them. I will bring them again into their
land that I gave to their fathers. 16:16Behold, I
will send for many fishermen, says Yahweh, and they shall fish them up;
and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from
every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
16:17For my eyes are on all their
ways; they are not hidden from my face, neither is their iniquity
concealed from my eyes. 16:18First I will recompense their
iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the
carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with
their abominations. 16:19Yahweh, my strength, and my
stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the
nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have
inherited nothing but lies, even vanity and things in which there
is no profit. 16:20Shall a man make to himself
gods, which yet are no gods? 16:21Therefore, behold, I will cause
them to know, this once will I cause them to know my hand and my might;
and they shall know that my name is Yahweh.
17:1The sin of Judah is written with
a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is engraved on
the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars; 17:2while their children remember
their altars and their Asherim by the green trees on the high hills. 17:3My mountain in the field, I will
give your substance and all your treasures for a spoil, and your
high places, because of sin, throughout all your borders. 17:4You, even of yourself, shall
discontinue from your heritage that I gave you; and I will cause you to
serve your enemies in the land which you don't know: for you have kindled
a fire in my anger which shall burn forever. 17:5Thus says
Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and
whose heart departs from Yahweh. 17:6For 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, a salt land and
not inhabited. 17:7Blessed is the man who trusts in
Yahweh, and whose trust Yahweh is. 17:8For he
shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the
river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green;
and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from
yielding fruit. 17:9The heart is deceitful above all
things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it? 17:10I, Yahweh, search the mind, I
try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to
the fruit of his doings. 17:11As the partridge that sits on
eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by
right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he
shall be a fool. 17:12A glorious throne, set on
high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary. 17:13Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all
who forsake you shall be disappointed. Those who depart from me shall be
written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of
living waters. 17:14Heal me, O Yahweh, and I shall
be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise. 17:15Behold, they tell me, Where is
the word of Yahweh? let it come now. 17:16As for me,
I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you; neither have I desired
the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was before your
face. 17:17Don't be a terror to me: you are
my refuge in the day of evil. 17:18Let them be disappointed who
persecute me, but let not me be disappointed; let them be dismayed, but
don't let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them
with double destruction. 17:19Thus said Yahweh to me: Go, and
stand in the gate of the children of the people, through which the kings
of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of
Jerusalem; 17:20and tell them, Hear you the word
of Yahweh, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates: 17:21Thus says
Yahweh, Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day,
nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem; 17:22neither
carry forth a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day holy, neither
do any work: but make the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers. 17:23But they didn't listen, neither
turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and
might not receive instruction. 17:24It shall
happen, if you diligently listen to me, says Yahweh, to bring in no burden
through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but to make the Sabbath
day holy, to do no work therein; 17:25then shall
there enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on 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 forever. 17:26They shall come from the cities
of Judah, and from the places round about Jerusalem, and from the land of
Benjamin, and from the lowland, and from the hill-country, and from the
South, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meal-offerings, and
frankincense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving, to the house
of Yahweh. 17:27But if you will not listen to me
to make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the
gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the
gates of it, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall
not be quenched.
18:1The word which came to Jeremiah
from Yahweh, saying, 18:2Arise, and go down to the
potter's house, and there I will cause you to hear my words. 18:3Then I went down to the potter's
house, and, behold, he was making a work on the wheels. 18:4When the vessel that he made of
the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another
vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. 18:5Then the
word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 18:6House of
Israel, can't I do with you as this potter? says Yahweh. Behold, as the
clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel. 18:7At what instant I shall speak
concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break
down and to destroy it; 18:8if that nation, concerning which
I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I
thought to do to them. 18:9At what instant I shall speak
concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
18:10if they do that which is evil in
my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good,
with which I said I would benefit them. 18:11Now
therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
saying, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a
device against you: return you now everyone from his evil way, and amend
your ways and your doings. 18:12But they say, It is in vain; for
we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the
stubbornness of his evil heart. 18:13Therefore
thus says Yahweh: Ask you now among the nations, who has heard such
things; the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing. 18:14Shall the snow of Lebanon fail
from the rock of the field? or shall the cold waters that flow down
from afar be dried up? 18:15For my people have forgotten me,
they have burned incense to false gods; and they have been made to
stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way
not built up; 18:16to make their land an
astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall
be astonished, and shake his head. 18:17I 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. 18:18Then 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. 18:19Give heed to me, Yahweh, and
listen to the voice of those who contend with me. 18:20Shall evil
be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how
I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from
them. 18:21Therefore deliver up their
children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and
let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain
of death, and their young men struck of the sword in battle. 18:22Let a cry be heard from their
houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a
pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet. 18:23Yet,
Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me; don't forgive
their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight; but let them
be overthrown before you; deal you with them in the time of your anger.
19:1Thus said Yahweh, Go, and buy a
potter's earthen bottle, and take of the elders of the people, and
of the elders of the priests; 19:2and go forth to the valley of the
son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim
there the words that I shall tell you; 19:3and say,
Hear you the word of Yahweh, kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem:
thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil
on this place, which whoever hears, his ears shall tingle. 19:4Because they have forsaken me,
and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other
gods, that they didn't know, they and their fathers and the kings of
Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents, 19:5and have built the high places of
Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal; which I
didn't command, nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind: 19:6therefore, behold, the days come,
says Yahweh, that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor The
valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter. 19:7I 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 hand of those who seek their life:
and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the sky, and
for the animals of the earth. 19:8I will make this city an
astonishment, and a hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be
astonished and hiss because of all the plagues of it. 19:9I will cause them to eat the
flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat
everyone the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, with
which their enemies, and those who seek their life, shall distress them.
19:10Then shall you break the bottle
in the sight of the men who go with you, 19:11and shall
tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Even so will I break this people
and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, that can't be made whole
again; and they shall bury in Topheth, until there be no place to bury. 19:12Thus will I do to this place,
says Yahweh, and to the inhabitants of it, even making this city as
Topheth: 19:13and the houses of Jerusalem, and
the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place
of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to
all the host of the sky, and have poured out drink-offerings to other
gods. 19:14Then came Jeremiah from Topheth,
where Yahweh had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of
Yahweh's house, and said to all the people: 19:15Thus says
Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring on this city and
on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it; because
they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.
20:1Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the
priest, who was chief officer in the house of Yahweh, heard Jeremiah
prophesying these things. 20:2Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the
prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of
Benjamin, which was in the house of Yahweh. 20:3It happened
on the next day, that Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks.
Then said Jeremiah to him, Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but
Magormissabib. 20:4For thus says Yahweh, 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 your eyes shall see it; and
I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall
carry them captive to Babylon, and shall kill them with the sword. 20:5Moreover I will give all the
riches of this city, and all the gains of it, and all the precious things
of it, yes, all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the
hand of their enemies; and they shall make them a prey, and take them, and
carry them to Babylon. 20:6You, Pashhur, and all who dwell
in your house shall go into captivity; and you shall come to Babylon, and
there you shall die, and there shall you be buried, you, and all your
friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely. 20:7Yahweh, you
have persuaded me, and I was persuaded; you are stronger than I, and have
prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocks me.
20:8For as often as I speak, I cry
out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because the word of Yahweh is made a
reproach to me, and a derision, all the day. 20:9If I say, I
will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there
is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am
weary with forbearing, and I can't contain. 20:10For I have
heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will
denounce him, say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my
fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him,
and we shall take our revenge on him. 20:11But Yahweh
is with me as an awesome mighty one: therefore my persecutors shall
stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly disappointed,
because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor
which shall never be forgotten. 20:12But,
Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the
mind, let me see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my
cause. 20:13Sing to Yahweh, praise you
Yahweh; for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of
evil-doers. 20:14Cursed be the day in which I was
born: don't let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed. 20:15Cursed be the man who brought
news to my father, saying, A man-child is born to you; making him very
glad. 20:16Let that man be as the cities
which Yahweh overthrew, and didn't repent: and let him hear a cry in the
morning, and shouting at noontime; 20:17because he
didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave,
and her womb always great. 20:18Why came I forth out of the womb
to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
21:1The word which came to Jeremiah
from Yahweh, when king Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchijah,
and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying, 21:2Please inquire of Yahweh for us;
for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon makes war against us: peradventure
Yahweh will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may
go up from us. 21:3Then said Jeremiah to them, Thus
shall you tell Zedekiah: 21:4Thus says Yahweh, the God of
Israel, Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your
hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon, and against the
Chaldeans who besiege you, without the walls; and I will gather them into
the midst of this city. 21:5I myself will fight against you
with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in
wrath, and in great indignation. 21:6I will
strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and animal: they shall die
of a great pestilence. 21:7Afterward, says Yahweh, I will
deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, even
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 who 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. 21:8To this
people you shall say, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I set before you the way
of life and the way of death. 21:9He who remains in this city shall
die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who
goes out, and passes over to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall live,
and his life shall be to him for a prey. 21:10For I have
set my face on this city for evil, and not for good, says Yahweh: it shall
be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with
fire. 21:11Touching the house of the king
of Judah, hear you the word of Yahweh: 21:12House of
David, thus says Yahweh, Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him
who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth
like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of
your doings. 21:13Behold, I am against you, O
inhabitant of the valley, and of the rock of the plain, says
Yahweh; you that say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter
into our habitations? 21:14I will punish you according to
the fruit of your doings, says Yahweh; and I will kindle a fire in her
forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.
22:1Thus said Yahweh: Go down to the
house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word, 22:2Say, Hear the word of Yahweh,
king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you, and your servants,
and your people who enter in by these gates. 22:3Thus says
Yahweh: Execute you justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is
robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence,
to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent
blood in this place. 22:4For if you do this thing indeed,
then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting on the
throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants,
and his people. 22:5But if you will not hear these
words, I swear by myself, says Yahweh, that this house shall become a
desolation. 22:6For thus says Yahweh concerning
the house of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to me, and the head
of Lebanon; yet surely I will make you a wilderness, and
cities which are not inhabited. 22:7I will
prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons; and they shall
cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire. 22:8Many nations shall pass by this
city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Why has Yahweh done
thus to this great city? 22:9Then they shall answer, Because
they forsook the covenant of Yahweh their God, and worshiped other gods,
and served them. 22:10Don't you weep for the dead,
neither bemoan him; but weep sore for him who goes away; for he shall
return no more, nor see his native country. 22:11For thus
says Yahweh touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned
instead of Josiah his father, and who went forth out of this place:
He shall not return there any more. 22:12But in the
place where they have led him captive, there shall he die, and he shall
see this land no more. 22:13Woe to him who builds his house
by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; who uses his neighbor's
service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire; 22:14who says, I will build me a wide
house and spacious chambers, and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling
with cedar, and painted with vermilion. 22:15Shall you
reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn't your father eat and
drink, and do justice and righteousness? then it was well with him. 22:16He judged the cause of the poor
and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh. 22:17But your eyes and your heart are
not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for
oppression, and for violence, to do it. 22:18Therefore
thus says Yahweh 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! 22:19He shall be buried with the
burial of a donkey, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem. 22:20Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and
lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers are
destroyed. 22:21I spoke to you in your
prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your manner from
your youth, that you didn't obey my voice. 22:22The wind
shall feed all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity:
surely then shall you be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.
22:23Inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes
your nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied shall you be when pangs
come on you, the pain as of a woman in travail! 22:24As I live,
says Yahweh, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the
signet on my right hand, yet would I pluck you there; 22:25and I will give you into the
hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of them of whom you
are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into
the hand of the Chaldeans. 22:26I will cast you out, and your
mother who bore you, into another country, where you were not born; and
there shall you die. 22:27But to the land whereunto their
soul longs to return, there shall they not return. 22:28Is this
man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel in which none
delights? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the
land which they don't know? 22:29O earth, earth, earth, hear the
word of Yahweh. 22:30Thus says Yahweh, Write you this
man childless, a man who shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall
a man of his seed prosper, sitting on the throne of David, and ruling in
Judah.
23:1Woe to the shepherds who destroy
and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says Yahweh. 23:2Therefore
thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, against the shepherds who feed my
people: You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not
visited them; behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings, says
Yahweh. 23:3I will gather the remnant of my
flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring
them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and multiply. 23:4I will set up shepherds over
them, who shall feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed,
neither shall any be lacking, says Yahweh. 23:5Behold, the
days come, says Yahweh, that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and
he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and
righteousness in the land. 23:6In his days Judah shall be saved,
and Israel shall dwell safely; and this is his name by which he shall be
called: Yahweh our righteousness. 23:7Therefore,
behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that they shall no more say, As Yahweh
lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; 23:8but, As Yahweh lives, who brought
up and who led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country,
and from all the countries where I had driven them. They shall dwell in
their own land. 23:9Concerning the prophets. My heart
within me is broken, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like
a man whom wine has overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of his holy
words. 23:10For the land is full of
adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourns; the pastures of the
wilderness are dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not
right; 23:11for both prophet and priest are
profane; yes, in my house have I found their wickedness, says Yahweh. 23:12Therefore their way shall be to
them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall
therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation,
says Yahweh. 23:13I have seen folly in the
prophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel
to err. 23:14In the prophets of Jerusalem
also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies;
and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none does return from
his wickedness: they are all of them become to me as Sodom, and the
inhabitants of it as Gomorrah. 23:15Therefore
thus says Yahweh of Armies 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 ungodliness gone forth into all the land. 23:16Thus says Yahweh of Armies,
Don't listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you: they teach
you vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the
mouth of Yahweh. 23:17They say continually to those
who despise me, Yahweh has said, You shall have peace; and to everyone who
walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall come on
you. 23:18For who has stood in the council
of Yahweh, that he should perceive and hear his word? who has marked my
word, and heard it? 23:19Behold, the tempest of Yahweh,
even his wrath, is gone forth, yes, a whirling tempest: it shall
burst on the head of the wicked. 23:20The anger
of Yahweh shall not return, until he has executed, and until he have
performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days you shall
understand it perfectly. 23:21I sent not these prophets, yet
they ran: I didn't speak to them, yet they prophesied. 23:22But if they had stood in my
council, then had they caused my people to hear my words, and had turned
them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings. 23:23Am I a God at hand, says Yahweh,
and not a God afar off? 23:24Can any hide himself in secret
places so that I shall not see him? says Yahweh. Don't I fill heaven and
earth? says Yahweh. 23:25I have heard what the prophets
have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have
dreamed. 23:26How long shall this be in the
heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit
of their own heart? 23:27who think to cause my people to
forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor,
as their fathers forgot my name for Baal. 23:28The
prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let
him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? says Yahweh.
23:29Isn't my word like fire? says
Yahweh; and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces? 23:30Therefore, behold, I am against
the prophets, says Yahweh, who steal my words everyone from his neighbor.
23:31Behold, I am against the
prophets, says Yahweh, who use their tongues, and say, He says. 23:32Behold, I am against those who
prophesy lying dreams, says Yahweh, and do tell them, and cause my people
to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I didn't send them,
nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all, says
Yahweh. 23:33When this people, or the
prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying, What is the burden of Yahweh?
then shall you tell them, What burden! I will cast you off, says Yahweh.
23:34As for the prophet, and the
priest, and the people, who shall say, The burden of Yahweh, I will even
punish that man and his house. 23:35Thus shall
you say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, What has
Yahweh answered? and, What has Yahweh spoken? 23:36The burden
of Yahweh shall you mention no more: for every man's own word shall be his
burden; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of Yahweh of
Armies our God. 23:37Thus shall you say to the
prophet, What has Yahweh answered you? and, What has Yahweh spoken? 23:38But if you say, The burden of
Yahweh; therefore thus says Yahweh: Because you say this word, The burden
of Yahweh, and I have sent to you, saying, You shall not say, The burden
of Yahweh; 23:39therefore, behold, I will
utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave to
you and to your fathers, away from my presence: 23:40and I will
bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which shall
not be forgotten.
24:1Yahweh shown me, and, behold, two
baskets of figs set before the temple of Yahweh, 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 craftsmen and smiths,
from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. 24:2One basket
had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other
basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. 24:3Then said Yahweh to me, What see
you, Jeremiah? I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very
bad, that can't be eaten, they are so bad. 24:4The word of
Yahweh came to me, saying, 24:5Thus says Yahweh, the God of
Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard the captives of Judah, whom
I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good. 24:6For I will set my eyes on 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. 24:7I will give them a heart to know
me, that I am Yahweh: and they shall be my people, and I will be their
God; for they shall return to me with their whole heart. 24:8As the bad figs, which can't be
eaten, they are so bad, surely thus says Yahweh, So will I give up
Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem,
who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt, 24:9I will even give them up to be
tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be
a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall
drive them. 24:10I will send the sword, the
famine, and the pestilence, among them, until they be consumed from off
the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.
25:1The word that came to Jeremiah
concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the
son of Josiah, king of Judah (the same was the first year of
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon), 25:2which
Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah, and to all the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: 25:3From the
thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this
day, these twenty-three years, the word of Yahweh has come to me, and I
have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; but you have not
listened. 25:4Yahweh has sent to you all his
servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, (but you have not
listened, nor inclined your ear to hear), 25:5saying,
Return you now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your
doings, and dwell in the land that Yahweh has given to you and to your
fathers, from of old and even forevermore; 25:6and don't
go after other gods to serve them or worship them, and don't provoke me to
anger with the work of your hands; and I will do you no harm. 25:7Yet you have not listened to me,
says Yahweh; that you may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands
to your own hurt. 25:8Therefore thus says Yahweh of
Armies: Because you have not heard my words, 25:9behold, I
will send and take all the families of the north, says Yahweh, and I
will send to Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will
bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and
against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them,
and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
25:10Moreover I will take from them
the voice of mirth 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 lamp. 25:11This whole land shall be a
desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of
Babylon seventy years. 25:12It shall happen, when seventy
years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that
nation, says Yahweh, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans;
and I will make it desolate forever. 25:13I will
bring on 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. 25:14For many nations and great kings
shall make bondservants of them, even of them; and I will recompense them
according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands. 25:15For thus says Yahweh, the God of
Israel, to me: take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause
all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it. 25:16They shall
drink, and reel back and forth, and be mad, because of the sword that I
will send among them. 25:17Then took I the cup at Yahweh's
hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Yahweh had sent me: 25:18to wit, Jerusalem, and
the cities of Judah, and the kings of it, and the princes of it, to make
them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this
day; 25:19Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his
servants, and his princes, and all his people; 25:20and all
the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of the Uz, and all the
kings of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the
remnant of Ashdod; 25:21Edom, and Moab, and the children
of Ammon; 25:22and all the kings of Tyre, and
all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea;
25:23Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and
all who have the corners of their hair cut off; 25:24and all the kings of Arabia, and
all the kings of the mixed people who dwell in the wilderness; 25:25and all the kings of Zimri, and
all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes; 25:26and all the kings of the north,
far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world, which
are on the surface of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink
after them. 25:27You shall tell them, Thus says
Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Drink you, and be drunken, and spew,
and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among
you. 25:28It shall be, if they refuse to
take the cup at your hand to drink, then shall you tell them, Thus says
Yahweh of Armies: You shall surely drink. 25:29For,
behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and
should you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished; for I will
call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of
Armies. 25:30Therefore prophesy you against
them all these words, and tell them, Yahweh will roar from on high, and
utter his voice from his holy habitation; he will mightily roar against
his fold; he will give a shout, as those who tread the grapes,
against all the inhabitants of the earth. 25:31A noise
shall come even to the end of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with
the nations; he will enter into judgment with all flesh: as for the
wicked, he will give them to the sword, says Yahweh. 25:32Thus says Yahweh of hosts,
Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest
shall be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth. 25:33The slain of Yahweh shall be at
that day from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth:
they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be
dung on the surface of the ground. 25:34Wail, you
shepherds, and cry; and wallow in ashes, you principal of the
flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are fully
come, and you shall fall like a goodly vessel. 25:35The
shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to
escape. 25:36A voice of the cry of the
shepherds, and the wailing of the principal of the flock! for Yahweh lays
waste their pasture. 25:37The peaceable folds are brought
to silence because of the fierce anger of Yahweh. 25:38He has
left his covert, as the lion; for their land is become an astonishment
because of the fierceness of the oppressing sword, and because of
his fierce anger.
26:1In the beginning of the reign of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word from Yahweh,
saying, 26:2Thus says Yahweh: Stand in the
court of Yahweh's house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come
to worship in Yahweh's house, all the words that I command you to speak to
them; don't diminish a word. 26:3It may be they will listen, and
turn every man from his evil way; that I may repent me of the evil which I
purpose to do to them because of the evil of their doings. 26:4You shall tell them, Thus says
Yahweh: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set
before you, 26:5to listen to the words of my
servants the prophets, whom I send to you, even rising up early and
sending them, but you have not listened; 26:6then will I
make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the
nations of the earth. 26:7The priests and the prophets and
all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of Yahweh.
26:8It happened, when Jeremiah had
made an end of speaking all that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all
the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold
on him, saying, You shall surely die. 26:9Why have
you prophesied in the name of Yahweh, saying, This house shall be like
Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant? All the
people were gathered to Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh. 26:10When the princes of Judah heard
these things, they came up from the king's house to the house of Yahweh;
and they sat in the entry of the new gate of Yahweh's house. 26:11Then spoke the priests and the
prophets to the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy
of death; for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with
your ears. 26:12Then spoke Jeremiah to all the
princes and to all the people, saying, Yahweh sent me to prophesy against
this house and against this city all the words that you have heard. 26:13Now therefore amend your ways
and your doings, and obey the voice of Yahweh your God; and Yahweh will
repent him of the evil that he has pronounced against you. 26:14But as for me, behold, I am in
your hand: do with me as is good and right in your eyes. 26:15Only know for certain that, if
you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on
this city, and on the inhabitants of it; for of a truth Yahweh has sent me
to you to speak all these words in your ears. 26:16Then said
the princes and all the people to the priests and to the prophets: This
man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name of Yahweh
our God. 26:17Then rose up certain of the
elders of the land, and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,
26:18Micah the Morashtite prophesied
in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of
Judah, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Zion shall be plowed as a
field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as
the high places of a forest. 26:19Did Hezekiah king of Judah and
all Judah put him to death? Didn't he fear Yahweh, and entreat the favor
of Yahweh, and Yahweh repented him of the evil which he had pronounced
against them? Thus should we commit great evil against our own souls. 26:20There was also a man who
prophesied in the name of Yahweh, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath
Jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land
according to all the words of Jeremiah: 26:21and 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 Uriah heard it,
he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt: 26:22and
Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely, Elnathan the son of
Achbor, and certain men with him, into Egypt; 26:23and they
fetched forth Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king,
who killed him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of
the common people. 26:24But 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.
27:1In the beginning of the reign of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word to Jeremiah
from Yahweh, saying, 27:2Thus says Yahweh to me: Make you
bonds and bars, and put them on your neck; 27:3and send
them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the
children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by
the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of
Judah; 27:4and give them a charge to their
masters, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Thus shall
you tell your masters: 27:5I have made the earth, the men
and the animals that are on the surface of the earth, by my great power
and by my outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it seems right to me. 27:6Now have I given all these lands
into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the
animals of the field also have I given him to serve him. 27:7All the nations shall serve him,
and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land come: and
then many nations and great kings shall make him their bondservant. 27:8It shall happen, that the nation
and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of
Babylon, that nation will I punish, says Yahweh, with the sword, and with
the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his
hand. 27:9But as for you, don't you listen
to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your
soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, You shall
not serve the king of Babylon: 27:10for they
prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should
drive you out, and you should perish. 27:11But the
nation that shall bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon,
and serve him, that nation will I let remain in their own land,
says Yahweh; and they shall till it, and dwell therein. 27:12I spoke 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. 27:13Why will you die, you and your
people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as Yahweh has
spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? 27:14Don't listen to the words of the
prophets who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of
Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you. 27:15For I have
not sent them, says Yahweh, but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I
may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets who
prophesy to you. 27:16Also I spoke to the priests and
to all this people, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Don't listen to the words of
your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of Yahweh's
house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon; for they prophesy a
lie to you. 27:17Don't listen to them; serve the
king of Babylon, and live: why should this city become a desolation? 27:18But if they be prophets, and if
the word of Yahweh be with them, let them now make intercession to Yahweh
of Armies, that the vessels which are left in the house of Yahweh, and in
the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don't go to Babylon. 27:19For thus says Yahweh of Armies
concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases,
and concerning the residue of the vessels that are left in this city, 27:20which Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon didn't take, 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; 27:21yes, thus says Yahweh of Armies,
the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of
Yahweh, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem: 27:22They shall be carried to
Babylon, and there shall they be, until the day that I visit them, says
Yahweh; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.
28:1It happened the same year, in the
beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in
the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was of
Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of Yahweh, in the presence of the priests
and of all the people, saying, 28:2Thus speaks Yahweh of Armies, the
God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. 28:3Within two full years will I
bring again into this place all the vessels of Yahweh's house, that
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried to
Babylon: 28:4and I will bring again to this
place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives
of Judah, who went to Babylon, says Yahweh; for I will break the yoke of
the king of Babylon. 28:5Then the prophet Jeremiah said to
the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence
of all the people who stood in the house of Yahweh, 28:6even the
prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: Yahweh do so; Yahweh perform your words which
you have prophesied, to bring again the vessels of Yahweh's house, and all
them of the captivity, from Babylon to this place. 28:7Nevertheless hear you now this
word that I speak in your ears, and in the ears of all the people: 28:8The prophets who have been before
me and before you of old prophesied against many countries, and against
great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence. 28:9The prophet who prophesies of
peace, when the word of the prophet shall happen, then shall the prophet
be known, that Yahweh has truly sent him. 28:10Then
Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck,
and broke it. 28:11Hananiah spoke in the presence
of all the people, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Even so will I break the yoke
of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon within two full years from off the neck
of all the nations. The prophet Jeremiah went his way. 28:12Then the word of Yahweh came to
Jeremiah, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the bar from off the
neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying, 28:13Go, and
tell Hananiah, saying, Thus says Yahweh: You have broken the bars of wood;
but you have made in their place bars of iron. 28:14For thus
says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: I have put a yoke of iron on 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 animals of the
field also. 28:15Then said the prophet Jeremiah
to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah: Yahweh has not sent you; but
you make this people to trust in a lie. 28:16Therefore
thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will send you away from off the surface of the
earth: this year you shall die, because you have spoken rebellion against
Yahweh. 28:17So Hananiah the prophet died the
same year in the seventh month.
29:1Now these are the words of the
letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the
elders of the captivity, 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-mother, and the eunuchs, and the princes of Judah and
Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, and the smiths, were departed from
Jerusalem), 29:3by the hand of Elasah the son of
Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah
sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), saying, 29:4Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the
God of Israel, to all the captivity, whom I have caused to be carried away
captive from Jerusalem to Babylon: 29:5Build you
houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
29:6Take wives, and father sons and
daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to
husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply you there,
and don't be diminished. 29:7Seek the peace of the city where
I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to Yahweh for it;
for in the peace of it shall you have peace. 29:8For thus
says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: Don't let your prophets who are
in the midst of you, and your diviners, deceive you; neither listen you to
your dreams which you cause to be dreamed. 29:9For they
prophesy falsely to you in my name: I have not sent them, says Yahweh. 29:10For thus says Yahweh, After
seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform
my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. 29:11For I know the thoughts that I
think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give
you hope in your latter end. 29:12You shall call on me, and you
shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 29:13You shall
seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart. 29:14I will be found by you, says
Yahweh, and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from
all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says
Yahweh; and I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to
be carried away captive. 29:15Because you have said, Yahweh
has raised us up prophets in Babylon; 29:16thus says
Yahweh concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning
all the people who dwell in this city, your brothers who haven't gone
forth with you into captivity; 29:17thus says
Yahweh of Armies; Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and
the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that can't be eaten,
they are so bad. 29:18I will pursue after them with
the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them
to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an
object of horror, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach,
among all the nations where I have driven them; 29:19because
they have not listened to my words, says Yahweh, with which I sent to them
my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but you would
not hear, says Yahweh. 29:20Hear you therefore the word of
Yahweh, all you of the captivity, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to
Babylon. 29:21Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the
God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah
the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in my name: Behold, I will
deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall
kill them before your eyes; 29:22and of them shall be taken up a
curse by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, Yahweh make
you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the
fire; 29:23because they have worked folly
in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and
have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn't command them; and I
am he who knows, and am witness, says Yahweh. 29:24Concerning
Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall speak, saying, 29:25Thus
speaks Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, saying, Because you have sent
letters in your own name to all the people who are at Jerusalem, and to
Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,
29:26Yahweh has made you priest in
the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the house
of Yahweh, for every man who is mad, and makes himself a prophet, that you
should put him in the stocks and in shackles. 29:27Now
therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes
himself a prophet to you, 29:28because he has sent to us in
Babylon, saying, The captivity is long: build you houses, and dwell
in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them? 29:29Zephaniah the priest read this
letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet. 29:30Then came
the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah, saying, 29:31Send to
all them of the captivity, saying, Thus says Yahweh concerning Shemaiah
the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I didn't send
him, and he has caused you to trust in a lie; 29:32therefore
thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his
seed; he shall not have a man to dwell among this people, neither shall he
see the good that I will do to my people, says Yahweh, because he has
spoken rebellion against Yahweh.
30:1The word that came to Jeremiah
from Yahweh, saying, 30:2Thus speaks Yahweh, the God of
Israel, saying, Write you all the words that I have spoken to you in a
book. 30:3For, behold, the days come, says
Yahweh, that I will turn again the captivity of my people Israel and
Judah, says Yahweh; and I will cause them to return to the land that I
gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. 30:4These are
the words that Yahweh spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah. 30:5For thus says Yahweh: We have
heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. 30:6Ask now, and see whether a man
does travail with child: why do I see every man with his hands on his
loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? 30:7Alas! 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. 30:8It shall come to pass in that
day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will break his yoke from off your neck,
and will burst your bonds; and strangers shall no more make him their
bondservant; 30:9but they shall serve Yahweh their
God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them. 30:10Therefore don't you be afraid, O
Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I
will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity;
and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall
make him afraid. 30:11For I am with you, says Yahweh,
to save you: for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have
scattered you, but I will not make a full end of you; but I will correct
you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished. 30:12For thus says Yahweh, Your hurt
is incurable, and your wound grievous. 30:13There is
none to plead your cause, that you may be bound up: you have no healing
medicines. 30:14All your lovers have forgotten
you; they don't seek you: for I have wounded you with the wound of an
enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your
iniquity, because your sins were increased. 30:15Why cry
you for your hurt? your pain is incurable: for the greatness of your
iniquity, because your sins were increased, I have done these things to
you. 30:16Therefore all those who devour
you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, everyone of them, shall
go into captivity; and those who despoil you shall be a spoil, and all who
prey on you will I give for a prey. 30:17For I will
restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says Yahweh;
because they have called you an outcast, saying, It is Zion, whom
no man seeks after. 30:18Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will
turn again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have compassion on his
dwelling-places; and the city shall be built on its own hill, and the
palace shall be inhabited after its own manner. 30:19Out of
them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry: and
I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them,
and they shall not be small. 30:20Their children also shall be as
before, and their congregation shall be established before me; and I will
punish all who oppress them. 30:21Their prince shall be of
themselves, and their ruler shall proceed from the midst of them; and I
will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach to me: for who is he
who has had boldness to approach to me? says Yahweh. 30:22You shall be my people, and I
will be your God. 30:23Behold, the tempest of Yahweh,
even his wrath, is gone forth, a sweeping tempest: it shall burst
on the head of the wicked. 30:24The fierce anger of Yahweh shall
not return, until he has executed, and until he have performed the intents
of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand it.
31:1At that time, says Yahweh, will I
be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. 31:2Thus says Yahweh, The people who
were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I
went to cause him to rest. 31:3Yahweh appeared of old to me,
saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore
with loving kindness have I drawn you. 31:4Again will
I build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: again shall you
be adorned with your tambourines, and shall go forth in the dances of
those who make merry. 31:5Again shall you plant vineyards
on the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant, and shall enjoy
the fruit of it. 31:6For there shall be a day, that
the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim shall cry, Arise you, and let us go
up to Zion to Yahweh our God. 31:7For thus says Yahweh, Sing with
gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations: publish you,
praise you, and say, Yahweh, save your people, the remnant of Israel. 31:8Behold, I will bring them from
the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth,
and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her
who travails with child together: a great company shall they return here.
31:9They shall come with weeping; and
with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of
waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a
father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. 31:10Hear the
word of Yahweh, you nations, and declare it in the isles afar off; and
say, He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as shepherd
does his flock. 31:11For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob,
and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he. 31:12They shall come and sing in the
height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain,
and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to 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. 31:13Then shall the virgin rejoice in
the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their
mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their
sorrow. 31:14I will satiate the soul of the
priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness,
says Yahweh. 31:15Thus says Yahweh: A voice is
heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her
children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are
no more. 31:16Thus says Yahweh: Refrain your
voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work shall be
rewarded, says Yahweh; and they shall come again from the land of the
enemy. 31:17There is hope for your latter
end, says Yahweh; and your children shall come again to their own
border. 31:18I have surely heard Ephraim
bemoaning himself thus, You have chastised me, and I was chastised,
as a calf unaccustomed to the yoke: turn you me, and I shall be
turned; for you are Yahweh my God. 31:19Surely
after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I
struck on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I did
bear the reproach of my youth. 31:20Is Ephraim
my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I
do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will
surely have mercy on him, says Yahweh. 31:21Set up
road signs, make guideposts; set your heart toward the highway, even the
way by which you went: turn again, virgin of Israel, turn again to these
your cities. 31:22How long will you go here and
there, you backsliding daughter? for Yahweh has created a new thing in the
earth: a woman shall encompass a man. 31:23Thus says
Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Yet again shall they use this speech
in the land of Judah and in the cities of it, when I shall bring again
their captivity: Yahweh bless you, habitation of righteousness, mountain
of holiness. 31:24Judah and all the cities of it
shall dwell therein together, the farmers, and those who go about with
flocks. 31:25For I have satiated the weary
soul, and every sorrowful soul have I replenished. 31:26On this I
awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me. 31:27Behold,
the days come, says Yahweh, that I will sow the house of Israel and the
house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of animal. 31:28It shall happen that, like as I
have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and
to destroy and to afflict, so will I watch over them to build and to
plant, says Yahweh. 31:29In those days they shall say no
more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set
on edge. 31:30But everyone shall die for his
own iniquity: every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set
on edge. 31:31Behold, the days come, says
Yahweh, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with
the house of Judah: 31:32not 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 broke,
although I was a husband to them, says Yahweh. 31:33But this
is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those
days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their
heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my
people: 31:34and they shall teach no more
every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Yahweh;
for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of
them, says Yahweh: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I
remember no more. 31:35Thus says Yahweh, who gives the
sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars
for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that the waves of it roar;
Yahweh of hosts is his name: 31:36If these ordinances depart from
before me, says Yahweh, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from
being a nation before me forever. 31:37Thus says
Yahweh: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth
searched out beneath, then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for
all that they have done, says Yahweh. 31:38Behold,
the days come, says Yahweh, that the city shall be built to Yahweh from
the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner. 31:39The
measuring line shall go out further straight onward to the hill Gareb, and
shall turn about to Goah. 31:40The whole valley of the dead
bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook Kidron, to the
corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy to Yahweh; it
shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more forever.
32:1The word that came to Jeremiah
from Yahweh in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the
eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar. 32:2Now at that
time the king of Babylon's army was besieging Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the
prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of
Judah's house. 32:3For Zedekiah king of Judah had
shut him up, saying, Why do you prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahweh,
Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he
shall take it; 32:4and 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 see his eyes; 32:5and he
shall bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him,
says Yahweh: though you fight with the Chaldeans, you shall not prosper?
32:6Jeremiah said, The word of Yahweh
came to me, saying, 32:7Behold, Hanamel the son of
Shallum your uncle shall come to you, saying, Buy you my field that is in
Anathoth; for the right of redemption is yours to buy it. 32:8So Hanamel my uncle's son came to
me in the court of the guard according to the word of Yahweh, and said to
me, Please buy my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the land 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 Yahweh.
32:9I bought the field that was in
Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle's son, and weighed him the money, even
seventeen shekels of silver. 32:10I subscribed the deed, and
sealed it, and called witnesses, and weighed him the money in the
balances. 32:11So I took the deed of the
purchase, both that which was sealed, containing the terms and conditions,
and that which was open; 32:12and I delivered the deed of the
purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence
of Hanamel my uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses who
subscribed the deed of the purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the
court of the guard. 32:13I charged Baruch before them,
saying, 32:14Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the
God of Israel: Take these deeds, this deed of the purchase which is
sealed, and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel;
that they may continue many days. 32:15For thus
says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards
shall yet again be bought in this land. 32:16Now after
I had delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I
prayed to Yahweh, saying, 32:17Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, you have
made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your
outstretched arm; there is nothing too hard for you, 32:18who show loving kindness to
thousands, and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of
their children after them; the great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is
his name; 32:19great in counsel, and mighty in
work; whose eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of men, to give
everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
32:20who performed signs and wonders
in the land of Egypt, even to this day, both in Israel and among
other men; and made you a name, as in this day; 32:21and brought forth your people
Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a
strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror; 32:22and gave them this land, which
you did swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and
honey; 32:23and they came in, and possessed
it, but they didn't obey your voice, neither walked in your law; they have
done nothing of all that you commanded them to do: therefore you have
caused all this evil to come on them. 32:24Behold,
the mounds, they are come to the city to take it; and the city is given
into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword,
and of the famine, and of the pestilence; and what you have spoken has
happened; and, behold, you see it. 32:25You have
said to me, Lord Yahweh, Buy you the field for money, and call witnesses;
whereas the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans. 32:26Then came the word of Yahweh to
Jeremiah, saying, 32:27Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of
all flesh: is there anything too hard for me? 32:28Therefore
thus says Yahweh: 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: 32:29and the Chaldeans, who fight
against this city, shall come and set this city on fire, and burn it, with
the houses, on whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and poured
out drink-offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger. 32:30For the children of Israel and
the children of Judah have done only that which was evil in my sight from
their youth; for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger
with the work of their hands, says Yahweh. 32:31For this
city has been to me a provocation of my anger and of my wrath from the day
that they built it even to this day; that I should remove it from before
my face, 32:32because 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. 32:33They have turned to me the back,
and not the face: and though I taught them, rising up early and teaching
them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction. 32:34But they set their abominations
in the house which is called by my name, to defile it. 32:35They 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 to Molech; which I
didn't command them, neither did it come into my mind, that they should do
this abomination, to cause Judah to sin. 32:36Now
therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning this city, about
which you say, It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the
sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: 32:37Behold, I
will gather them out of all the countries, where I have driven them in my
anger, and in my wrath, and in great indignation; and I will bring them
again to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely: 32:38and they shall be my people, and
I will be their God: 32:39and I will give them one heart
and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of
their children after them: 32:40and I will make an everlasting
covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do
them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not
depart from me. 32:41Yes, 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. 32:42For thus says Yahweh: Like as I
have brought all this great evil on this people, so will I bring on them
all the good that I have promised them. 32:43Fields
shall be bought in this land, about which you say, It is desolate, without
man or animal; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans. 32:44Men shall buy fields for money,
and subscribe the deeds, and seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of
Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah,
and in the cities of the hill-country, and in the cities of the lowland,
and in the cities of the South: for I will cause their captivity to
return, says Yahweh.
33:1Moreover the word of Yahweh came
to Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the
guard, saying, 33:2Thus says Yahweh who does it,
Yahweh who forms it to establish it; Yahweh is his name: 33:3Call to me, and I will answer
you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don't know.
33:4For thus says Yahweh, the God of
Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of
the kings of Judah, which are broken down to make a defense against
the mounds and against the sword; 33:5while
men come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the
dead bodies of men, whom I have killed in my anger and in my wrath, and
for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city: 33:6Behold, I will bring it health
and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of
peace and truth. 33:7I will cause the captivity of
Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at
the first. 33:8I will cleanse them from all
their iniquity, by which they have sinned against me; and I will pardon
all their iniquities, by which they have sinned against me, and by which
they have transgressed against me. 33:9This
city shall be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory,
before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I
do to them, and shall fear and tremble for all the good and for all the
peace that I procure to it. 33:10Thus says Yahweh: Yet again
there shall be heard in this place, about which you say, It is waste,
without man and without animal, even in the cities of Judah, and in the
streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without
inhabitant and without animal, 33:11the voice
of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the
voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, Give thanks to Yahweh of
Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his loving kindness endures forever;
and of them who bring sacrifices of thanksgiving into the
house of Yahweh. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as
at the first, says Yahweh. 33:12Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Yet
again shall there be in this place, which is waste, without man and
without animal, and in all the cities of it, a habitation of shepherds
causing their flocks to lie down. 33:13In the
cities of the hill-country, in the cities of the lowland, 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 again pass under
the hands of him who numbers them, says Yahweh. 33:14Behold,
the days come, says Yahweh, that I will perform that good word which I
have spoken concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of
Judah. 33:15In those days, and at that time,
will I cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David; and he shall
execute justice and righteousness in the land. 33:16In those
days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely; and this is
the name by which she shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness. 33:17For thus says Yahweh: David
shall never want a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel; 33:18neither shall the priests the
Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to burn
meal-offerings, and to do sacrifice continually. 33:19The word
of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying, 33:20Thus says
Yahweh: If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the
night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season; 33:21then may also my covenant be
broken with David my servant, that he shall not have a son to reign on his
throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. 33:22As the host of the sky can't be
numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply the
seed of David my servant, and the Levites who minister to me. 33:23The word of Yahweh came to
Jeremiah, saying, 33:24Don't you consider what this
people has spoken, saying, The two families which Yahweh did choose, he
has cast them off? thus do they despise my people, that they should be no
more a nation before them. 33:25Thus says Yahweh: If my covenant
of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven
and earth; 33:26then will I also cast away the
seed of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his
seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will
cause their captivity to return, and will have mercy on them.
34:1The word which came to Jeremiah
from Yahweh, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and
all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion, and all the
peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of
it, saying: 34:2Thus says Yahweh, the God of
Israel, Go, and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus says
Yahweh, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of
Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire: 34:3and you
shall not escape out of his hand, but shall surely be taken, and delivered
into his hand; and your eyes shall see the eyes of the king of Babylon,
and he shall speak with you mouth to mouth, and you shall go to Babylon.
34:4Yet hear the word of Yahweh, O
Zedekiah king of Judah: thus says Yahweh concerning you, You shall not die
by the sword; 34:5you shall die in peace; and with
the burnings of your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so
shall they make a burning for you; and they shall lament you,
saying, Ah Lord! for I have spoken the word, says Yahweh. 34:6Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke
all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem, 34:7when the king of Babylon's army
was fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that
were left, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these alone
remained of the cities of Judah as fortified cities. 34:8The word that came to Jeremiah
from Yahweh, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the
people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them; 34:9that every man should let his
man-servant, and every man his maid-servant, who is a Hebrew or a
Hebrewess, go free; that none should make bondservants of them, to
wit, of a Jew his brother. 34:10All the
princes and all the people obeyed, who had entered into the covenant, that
everyone should let his man-servant, and everyone his maid-servant, go
free, that none should make bondservants of them any more; they obeyed,
and let them go: 34:11but afterwards 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.
34:12Therefore the word of Yahweh
came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, 34:13Thus says
Yahweh, 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
bondage, saying, 34:14At the end of seven years you
shall let go every man his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to
you, and has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you: but
your fathers didn't listen to me, neither inclined their ear. 34:15You were now turned, and had
done that which is right in my eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to
his neighbor; and you had made a covenant before me in the house which is
called by my name: 34:16but you turned and profaned my
name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom
you had let go free at their pleasure, to return; and you brought them
into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids. 34:17Therefore thus says Yahweh: you
have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother,
and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim to you a liberty, says
Yahweh, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will
make you to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
34:18I will give the men who have
transgressed my covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant
which they made before me, when they cut the calf in two and passed
between the parts of it; 34:19the princes of Judah, and the
princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of
the land, who passed between the parts of the calf; 34:20I will
even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those
who seek their life; and their dead bodies shall be for food to the birds
of the sky, and to the animals of the earth. 34:21Zedekiah
king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies,
and into the hand of those who seek their life, and into the hand of the
king of Babylon's army, who have gone away from you. 34:22Behold, I will command, says
Yahweh, 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 inhabitant.
35:1The word which came to Jeremiah
from Yahweh in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah,
saying, 35:2Go to the house of the
Rechabites, and speak to them, and bring them into the house of Yahweh,
into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink. 35:3Then I took Jaazaniah the son of
Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brothers, and all his sons, and
the whole house of the Rechabites; 35:4and I
brought them into the house of Yahweh, into the chamber of the sons of
Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the 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 threshold. 35:5I set before the sons of the
house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine, and cups; and I said to them,
Drink you wine. 35:6But they said, We will drink no
wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, You
shall drink no wine, neither you, nor your sons, forever: 35:7neither shall you build house,
nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any; but all your days you
shall dwell in tents; that you may live many days in the land in which you
sojourn. 35:8We have obeyed the voice of
Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he charged us, to drink
no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters; 35:9nor to build houses for us to
dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed: 35:10but we have lived in tents, and
have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded
us. 35:11But it happened, 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. 35:12Then came the word of Yahweh to
Jeremiah, saying, 35:13Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the
God of Israel: Go, and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, Will you not receive instruction to listen to my words? says
Yahweh. 35:14The words of Jonadab the son of
Rechab, that he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and
to this day they drink none, for they obey their father's commandment: but
I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; and you have not
listened to me. 35:15I have sent also to you all my
servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return
you now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and don't go
after other gods to serve them, and you shall dwell in the land which I
have given to you and to your fathers: but you have not inclined your ear,
nor listened to me. 35:16Because the sons of Jonadab the
son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father which he
commanded them, but this people has not listened to me; 35:17therefore thus says Yahweh, the
God of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring on Judah and on all
the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against
them; because I have spoken to them, but they have not heard; and I have
called to them, but they have not answered. 35:18Jeremiah
said to the house of the Rechabites, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God
of Israel: Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father,
and kept all his precepts, and done according to all that he commanded
you; 35:19therefore thus says Yahweh of
Armies, the God of Israel: Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man
to stand before me forever.
36:1It happened in the fourth year of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that this word came to
Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, 36:2Take a scroll of a book, and
write therein all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and
against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you,
from the days of Josiah, even to this day. 36:3It may be
that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do to
them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive
their iniquity and their sin. 36:4Then Jeremiah called Baruch the
son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words
of Yahweh, which he had spoken to him, on a scroll of a book. 36:5Jeremiah commanded Baruch,
saying, I am shut up; I can't go into the house of Yahweh: 36:6therefore go you, and read in the
scroll, which you have written from my mouth, the words of Yahweh in the
ears of the people in Yahweh's house on the fast-day; and also you shall
read them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities. 36:7It may be they will present their
supplication before Yahweh, and will return everyone from his evil way;
for great is the anger and the wrath that Yahweh has pronounced against
this people. 36:8Baruch the son of Neriah did
according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the
book the words of Yahweh in Yahweh's house. 36:9Now it
happened in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah,
in the ninth month, that all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people
who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before
Yahweh. 36:10Then read Baruch in the book the
words of Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh, in the chamber of Gemariah the
son of Shaphan, the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new
gate of Yahweh's house, in the ears of all the people. 36:11When Micaiah the son of
Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of
Yahweh, 36:12he went down into the king's
house, into the scribe's chamber: and, behold, all the princes were
sitting there, to wit, 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. 36:13Then Micaiah declared to them
all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of
the people. 36:14Therefore all the princes sent
Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to
Baruch, saying, Take in your hand the scroll in which you have read in the
ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll
in his hand, and came to them. 36:15They said
to him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their
ears. 36:16Now it happened, when they had
heard all the words, they turned in fear one toward another, and said to
Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words. 36:17They asked Baruch, saying, Tell
us now, How did you write all these words at his mouth? 36:18Then Baruch answered them, He
pronounced all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink
in the book. 36:19Then said the princes to Baruch,
Go, hide you, you and Jeremiah; and let no man know where you are. 36:20They went in to the king into
the court; but they had laid up the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the
scribe; and they told all the words in the ears of the king. 36:21So the king sent Jehudi to get
the scroll; and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe.
Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes
who stood beside the king. 36:22Now the king was sitting in the
winter-house in the ninth month: and there was a fire in the
brazier burning before him. 36:23It happened, when Jehudi had
read three or four leaves, that the king cut it with the penknife,
and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll
was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier. 36:24They were
not afraid, nor tore their garments, neither the king, nor any of his
servants who heard all these words. 36:25Moreover
Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that
he would not burn the scroll; but he would not hear them. 36:26The king commanded Jerahmeel the
king's son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of
Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Yahweh hid
them. 36:27Then the word of Yahweh came to
Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the scroll, and the words which
Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying, 36:28Take again
another scroll, and write in it all the former words that were in the
first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned. 36:29Concerning Jehoiakim king of
Judah you shall say, Thus says Yahweh: You have burned this scroll,
saying, Why have you written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall
certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from there
man and animal? 36:30Therefore thus says Yahweh
concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit on 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. 36:31I will
punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will
bring on them, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men of
Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they didn't
listen. 36:32Then took Jeremiah another
scroll, 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 to them many like words.
37:1Zedekiah the son of Josiah
reigned as king, instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah. 37:2But neither he, nor his servants,
nor the people of the land, did listen to the words of Yahweh, which he
spoke by the prophet Jeremiah. 37:3Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal
the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to
the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now to Yahweh our God for us. 37:4Now Jeremiah came in and went out
among the people; for they had not put him into prison. 37:5Pharaoh's army was come forth out
of Egypt; and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news
of them, they broke up from Jerusalem. 37:6Then came
the word of Yahweh to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, 37:7Thus says
Yahweh, the God of Israel, Thus shall you tell the king of Judah, who sent
you to me to inquire of me: Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to
help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land. 37:8The
Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall
take it, and burn it with fire. 37:9Thus says
Yahweh, Don't deceive yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely
depart from us; for they shall not depart. 37:10For though
you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and
there remained but wounded men among them, yes would they rise up every
man in his tent, and burn this city with fire. 37:11It
happened that, when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem
for fear of Pharaoh's army, 37:12then Jeremiah went forth out of
Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to receive his portion there,
in the midst of the people. 37:13When he was in the gate of
Benjamin, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son
of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he laid hold on Jeremiah the
prophet, saying, You are falling away to the Chaldeans. 37:14Then said Jeremiah, It is false;
I am not falling away to the Chaldeans. But he didn't listen to him; so
Irijah laid hold on Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes. 37:15The princes were angry with
Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan
the scribe; for they had made that the prison. 37:16When
Jeremiah was come into the dungeon-house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah
had remained there many days; 37:17Then Zedekiah the king sent, and
fetched him: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is
there any word from Yahweh? Jeremiah said, There is. He said also, You
shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon. 37:18Moreover Jeremiah said to king
Zedekiah, Wherein have I sinned against you, or against your servants, or
against this people, that you have put me in prison? 37:19Where now are your prophets who
prophesied to you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you,
nor against this land? 37:20Now please hear, my lord the
king: please let my supplication be presented before you, that you not
cause me to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.
37:21Then Zedekiah the king
commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard; and
they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers' street, until all
the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of
the guard.
38:1Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and
Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur
the son of Malchijah, heard the words that Jeremiah spoke to all the
people, saying, 38:2Thus says Yahweh, He who remains
in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence;
but he who goes forth to the Chaldeans shall live, and his life shall be
to him for a prey, and he shall live. 38:3Thus says
Yahweh, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the army of the
king of Babylon, and he shall take it. 38:4Then the
princes said to the king, Let this man, we pray you, be put to death;
because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city,
and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this
man doesn't seek the welfare of this people, but the hurt. 38:5Zedekiah the king said, Behold,
he is in your hand; for the king is not he who can do anything against
you. 38:6Then took they Jeremiah, and cast
him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king's son, that was in the court of
the guard: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was
no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire. 38:7Now when
Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king's house, heard
that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king then sitting in the
gate of Benjamin), 38:8Ebedmelech went forth out of the
king's house, and spoke to the king, saying, 38:9My 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 likely to die in
the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread
in the city. 38:10Then the king commanded
Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with you, and
take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die. 38:11So Ebedmelech took the men with
him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took
there rags and worn-out garments, and let them down by cords into the
dungeon to Jeremiah. 38:12Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said to
Jeremiah, Put now these rags and worn-out garments under your armholes
under the cords. Jeremiah did so. 38:13So they
drew up Jeremiah with the cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and
Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard. 38:14Then
Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet to him into the
third entry that is in the house of Yahweh: and the king said to Jeremiah,
I will ask you a thing; hide nothing from me. 38:15Then
Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I declare it to you, will you not surely put
me to death? and if I give you counsel, you will not listen to me. 38:16So Zedekiah the king swore
secretly to Jeremiah, saying, As Yahweh lives, who made us this soul, I
will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these
men who seek your life. 38:17Then said Jeremiah to Zedekiah,
Thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: If you will go
forth to 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 your
house. 38:18But 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. 38:19Zedekiah the king said to
Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews who are fallen away to the Chaldeans,
lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me. 38:20But Jeremiah said, They shall
not deliver you. Obey, I beg you, the voice of Yahweh, in that which I
speak to you: so it shall be well with you, and your soul shall live. 38:21But if you refuse to go forth,
this is the word that Yahweh has shown me: 38:22behold,
all the women who 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
familiar friends have set you on, and have prevailed over you: now
that your feet are sunk in the mire, they are turned away back. 38:23They 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. 38:24Then said
Zedekiah to Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and you shall not
die. 38:25But if the princes hear that I
have talked with you, and they come to you, and tell you, Declare to us
now what you have said to the king; don't hide it from us, and we will not
put you to death; also what the king said to you: 38:26then you
shall tell them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he
would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to die there. 38:27Then came all the princes to
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. 38:28So Jeremiah abode in the court
of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.
39:1It happened when Jerusalem was
taken, (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 besieged it; 39:2in the eleventh year of Zedekiah,
in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the
city), 39:3that all the princes of the king
of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, to wit, Nergal
Sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, with
all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon. 39:4It happened
that, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them,
then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the
king's garden, through the gate between the two walls; and he went out
toward the Arabah. 39:5But the army of the Chaldeans
pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and
when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment on him. 39:6Then the king of Babylon killed
the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon
killed all the nobles of Judah. 39:7Moreover he
put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to
Babylon. 39:8The Chaldeans burned the king's
house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls
of Jerusalem. 39:9Then Nebuzaradan the captain of
the guard carried away captive into Babylon the residue of the people who
remained in the city, the deserters also who fell away to him, and the
residue of the people who remained. 39:10But
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, who
had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at
the same time. 39:11Now Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard, saying, 39:12Take him, and look well to him,
and do him no harm; but do to him even as he shall tell you. 39:13So Nebuzaradan the captain of
the guard sent, and Nebushazban, Rabsaris, and Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag,
and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon; 39:14they sent,
and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guard, and committed him to
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him
home: so he lived among the people. 39:15Now the
word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the
guard, saying, 39:16Go, and speak to Ebedmelech the
Ethiopian, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold,
I will bring my words on this city for evil, and not for good; and they
shall be accomplished before you in that day. 39:17But I will
deliver you in that day, says Yahweh; and you shall not be given into the
hand of the men of whom you are afraid. 39:18For I will
surely save you, and you shall not fall by the sword, but your life shall
be for a prey to you; because you have put your trust in me, says Yahweh.
40:1The word which came to Jeremiah
from Yahweh, 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 the
captives of Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away captive to Babylon.
40:2The captain of the guard took
Jeremiah, and said to him, Yahweh your God pronounced this evil on this
place; 40:3and Yahweh has brought it, and
done according as he spoke: because you have sinned against Yahweh, and
have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come on you. 40:4Now, behold, I loose you this day
from the chains which are on your hand. If it seem good to you to come
with me into Babylon, come, and I will look well to you; but if it seem
ill to you to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land is
before you; where it seems good and right to you to go, there go. 40:5Now while he was not yet gone
back, Go back then, said he, 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 wherever it seems right
to you to go. So the captain of the guard gave him food and a present, and
let him go. 40:6Then went Jeremiah to Gedaliah
the son of Ahikam to Mizpah, and lived with him among the people who were
left in the land. 40:7Now when all the captains of the
forces who 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 to him men, and women, and children, and of the poorest
of the land, of those who were not carried away captive to Babylon; 40:8then they came to Gedaliah to
Mizpah, to wit, 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 the Maacathite,
they and their men. 40:9Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the
son of Shaphan swore to them and to their men, saying, Don't be afraid to
serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and
it shall be well with you. 40:10As for me, behold, I will dwell
at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans who shall come to us: but you,
gather you wine and summer fruits and oil, and put them in your vessels,
and dwell in your cities that you have taken. 40:11Likewise
when all the Jews who were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon, and
in Edom, and who 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; 40:12then all
the Jews returned out of all places where they were driven, and came to
the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer
fruits very much. 40:13Moreover Johanan the son of
Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were in the fields, came to
Gedaliah to Mizpah, 40:14and said to him, Do you know
that Baalis the king of the children of Ammon has sent Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah to take your life? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam didn't believe
them. 40:15Then Johanan the son of Kareah
spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Please let me go, and I will
kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: why should he
take your life, that all the Jews who are gathered to you should be
scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish? 40:16But
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, You shall
not do this thing; for you speak falsely of Ishmael.
41:1Now it happened in the seventh
month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed
royal and one of the chief officers of the king, and ten men with
him, came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they ate
bread together in Mizpah. 41:2Then arose Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah, and the ten men who were with him, and struck Gedaliah the son
of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and killed him, whom the king
of Babylon had made governor over the land. 41:3Ishmael
also killed all the Jews who were with him, to wit, with Gedaliah,
at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans who were found there, the men of war. 41:4It happened the second day after
he had killed Gedaliah, and no man knew it, 41:5that there
came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men,
having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut
themselves, with meal-offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring
them to the house of Yahweh. 41:6Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went
forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it
happened, as he met them, he said to them, Come to Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam. 41:7It was so, when they came into
the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them,
and cast them into the midst of the pit, he, and the men who were
with him. 41:8But ten men were found among
those who said to Ishmael, Don't kill us; for we have stores hidden in the
field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he stopped,
and didn't kill them among their brothers. 41:9Now the pit
in which Ishmael cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had killed,
by the side of Gedaliah (the same was who which Asa the king had made for
fear of Baasha king of Israel), Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it
with those who were killed. 41:10Then Ishmael carried away
captive all the residue of the people who were in Mizpah, even the king's
daughters, and all the people who remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the
captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam; Ishmael
the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to
the children of Ammon. 41:11But when Johanan the son of
Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, heard of all
the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done, 41:12then 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. 41:13Now it
happened that, when all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan the
son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, then
they were glad. 41:14So all the people who Ishmael
had carried away captive from Mizpah turned about and came back, and went
to Johanan the son of Kareah. 41:15But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah
escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the children of Ammon. 41:16Then took Johanan the son of
Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who 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 killed Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam, to wit, the men of war, and the women, and the children,
and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon: 41:17and they departed, and lived in
Geruth Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt, 41:18because of the Chaldeans; for
they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had killed
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor over
the land.
42:1Then 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 to the greatest, came near, 42:2and said to Jeremiah the prophet,
Let, we pray you, our supplication be presented before you, and pray for
us to Yahweh your God, even for all this remnant; for we are left but a
few of many, as your eyes do see us: 42:3that Yahweh
your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the thing that
we should do. 42:4Then Jeremiah the prophet said to
them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray to Yahweh your God according
to your words; and it shall happen that whatever thing Yahweh shall answer
you, I will declare it to you; I will keep nothing back from you. 42:5Then they said to Jeremiah,
Yahweh be a true and faithful witness among us, if we don't do according
to all the word with which Yahweh your God shall send you to us. 42:6Whether it be good, or whether it
be evil, we will obey the voice of Yahweh our God, to whom we send you;
that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of Yahweh our God. 42:7It happened after ten days, that
the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah. 42:8Then called
he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were
with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, 42:9and said to them, Thus says
Yahweh, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your
supplication before him: 42:10If 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 to you.
42:11Don't be afraid of the king of
Babylon, of whom you are afraid; don't be afraid of him, says Yahweh: for
I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand. 42:12I will grant you mercy, that he
may have mercy on you, and cause you to return to your own land. 42:13But if you say, We will not
dwell in this land; so that you don't obey the voice of Yahweh your God,
42:14saying, 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: 42:15now therefore hear you the word
of Yahweh, O remnant of Judah: Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of
Israel, If you indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to
sojourn there; 42:16then it shall happen, that the
sword, which you fear, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and
the famine, about which you are afraid, shall follow hard after you there
in Egypt; and there you shall die. 42:17So shall
it be with all the men who 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 on
them. 42:18For thus says Yahweh of Armies,
the God of Israel: As my anger and my wrath has been poured forth on the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath be poured forth on you, when
you shall enter into Egypt; and you shall be an object of horror, and an
astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and you shall see this place no
more. 42:19Yahweh has spoken concerning
you, remnant of Judah, Don't you go into Egypt: know certainly that I have
testified to you this day. 42:20For you have dealt deceitfully
against your own souls; for you sent me to Yahweh your God, saying, Pray
for us to Yahweh our God; and according to all that Yahweh our God shall
say, so declare to us, and we will do it: 42:21and I have
this day declared it to you; but you have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh
your God in anything for which he has sent me to you. 42:22Now therefore know certainly
that you shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in
the place where you desire to go to sojourn there.
43:1It happened that, when Jeremiah
had made an end of speaking to all the people all the words of Yahweh
their God, with which Yahweh their God had sent him to them, even all
these words, 43:2then spoke Azariah the son of
Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying to
Jeremiah, You speak falsely: Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, You
shall not go into Egypt to sojourn there; 43:3but Baruch
the son of Neriah sets you on against us, to deliver us into the hand of
the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death, and carry us away captive to
Babylon. 43:4So Johanan the son of Kareah, and
all the captains of the forces, and all the people, didn't obey the voice
of Yahweh, to dwell in the land of Judah. 43:5But Johanan
the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the
remnant of Judah, who were returned from all the nations where they had
been driven, to sojourn in the land of Judah; 43:6the men,
and the women, and the children, and the king's daughters, and every
person who 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; 43:7and they came into the land of
Egypt; for they didn't obey the voice of Yahweh: and they came to
Tahpanhes. 43:8Then came the word of Yahweh to
Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying, 43:9Take great stones in your hand,
and hide them in mortar in the brick work, which is at the entry of
Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah; 43:10and tell them, Thus says Yahweh
of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar
the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne on these stones
that I have hidden; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them. 43:11He shall come, and shall strike
the land of Egypt; such as are for death shall be given to death,
and such as are for captivity to captivity, and such as are for the sword
to the sword. 43:12I will kindle a fire in the
houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away
captive: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd
puts on his garment; and he shall go forth from there in peace. 43:13He shall also break the pillars
of Beth-shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods
of Egypt shall he burn with fire.
44:1The word that came to Jeremiah
concerning all the Jews who lived in the land of Egypt, who lived at
Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Memphis, and in the country of Pathros,
saying, 44:2Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the
God of Israel: You have seen all the evil that I have brought on
Jerusalem, and on all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are
a desolation, and no man dwells therein, 44:3because of
their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that
they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, that they
didn't know, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers. 44:4However I sent to you all my
servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Oh, don't
do this abominable thing that I hate. 44:5But they
didn't listen, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to
burn no incense to other gods. 44:6Therefore my wrath and my 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 it is this day.
44:7Therefore now thus says Yahweh,
the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why commit you this great evil
against your own souls, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and
suckling, out of the midst of Judah, to leave you none remaining; 44:8in that you provoke me to anger
with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of
Egypt, where you are gone to sojourn; that you may be cut off, and that
you may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth? 44:9Have 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 committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets
of Jerusalem? 44:10They are not humbled even to
this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my
statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers. 44:11Therefore thus says Yahweh of
Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will set my face against you for
evil, even to cut off all Judah. 44:12I 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; in the land of
Egypt shall they fall; they shall be consumed by the sword and by the
famine; they shall die, from the least even to the greatest, by the sword
and by the famine; and they shall be an object of horror, and an
astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach. 44:13For I will
punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem,
by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; 44:14so that
none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to
sojourn there, shall escape or be left, to return into the land of Judah,
to which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall
return save such as shall escape. 44:15Then all
the men who knew that their wives burned incense to other gods, and all
the women who stood by, a great assembly, even all the people who lived in
the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying, 44:16As for the word that you have
spoken to us in the name of Yahweh, we will not listen to you. 44:17But we will certainly perform
every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense to the
queen of the sky, and to pour out drink-offerings to 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 food, and were
well, and saw no evil. 44:18But since we left off burning
incense to the queen of the sky, and pouring out drink-offerings to her,
we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the
famine. 44:19When we burned incense to the
queen of the sky, and poured out drink-offerings to her, did we make her
cakes to worship her, and pour out drink-offerings to her, without our
husbands? 44:20Then Jeremiah said to all the
people, to the men, and to the women, even to all the people who had given
him who answer, saying, 44:21The incense that you burned in
the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your
fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, didn't
Yahweh remember them, and didn't it come into his mind? 44:22so that Yahweh could no longer
bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations
which you have committed; therefore is your land become a desolation, and
an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day. 44:23Because you have burned incense,
and because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed the voice
of Yahweh, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his
testimonies; therefore this evil is happened to you, as it is this day. 44:24Moreover Jeremiah said to all
the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of Yahweh, all Judah who
are in the land of Egypt: 44:25Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the
God of Israel, saying, You and your wives have both spoken with your
mouths, and with your hands have fulfilled it, saying, We will surely
perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of the
sky, and to pour out drink-offerings to her: establish then your vows, and
perform your vows. 44:26Therefore hear the word of
Yahweh, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by
my great name, says Yahweh, that my name shall no more be named in the
mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, As the Lord
Yahweh lives. 44:27Behold, I watch over them for
evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah who are in the land of
Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an
end of them. 44:28Those who escape the sword shall
return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, few in number; and
all the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn
there, shall know whose word shall stand, mine, or theirs. 44:29This shall be the sign to you,
says Yahweh, that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that
my words shall surely stand against you for evil: 44:30Thus says
Yahweh, Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of
his enemies, and into the hand of those who seek his life; as I gave
Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,
who was his enemy, and sought his life.
45:1The word that Jeremiah the
prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he wrote these word in a
book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah, king of Judah, saying, 45:2Thus says Yahweh, the God of
Israel, to you, Baruch: 45:3You did say, Woe is me now! for
Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning, and I
find no rest. 45:4Thus shall you tell him, Thus
says Yahweh: Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that
which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land. 45:5Seek you great things for
yourself? Don't seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh,
says Yahweh; but your life will I give to you for a prey in all places
where you go.
46:1The word of Yahweh which came to
Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations. 46:2Of Egypt:
concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt, which was by the river
Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon struck in
the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah. 46:3Prepare you the buckler and
shield, and draw near to battle. 46:4Harness the
horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets;
furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail. 46:5Why have I
seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones
are beaten down, and have fled apace, and don't look back: terror is on
every side, says Yahweh. 46:6Don't let the swift flee away,
nor the mighty man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they
stumbled and fallen. 46:7Who is this who rises up like the
Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers? 46:8Egypt rises
up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers: and he
says, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy cities and
the inhabitants of it. 46:9Go up, you horses; and rage, you
chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, who handle the
shield; and the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow. 46:10For that
day is a day of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, a day of vengeance,
that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour and
be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh
of hosts, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates. 46:11Go up into Gilead, and take
balm, virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain do you use many medicines; there
is no healing for you. 46:12The nations have heard of your
shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for the mighty man has stumbled
against the mighty, they are fallen both of them together. 46:13The word that Yahweh spoke to
Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come
and strike the land of Egypt. 46:14Declare you in Egypt, and
publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say you, Stand
forth, and prepare you; for the sword has devoured round about you. 46:15Why are your strong ones swept
away? they didn't stand, because Yahweh did drive them. 46:16He made many to stumble, yes,
they fell one on another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our
own people, and to the land of our birth, from the oppressing sword. 46:17They cried there, Pharaoh king
of Egypt is but a noise; he has let the appointed time pass by. 46:18As I live, says the King, whose
name is Yahweh of Armies, surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like
Carmel by the sea, so shall he come. 46:19You
daughter who dwell in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for
Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without
inhabitant. 46:20Egypt is a very beautiful
heifer; but destruction out of the north is come, it is come. 46:21Also her hired men in the midst
of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they
are fled away together, they didn't stand: for the day of their calamity
is come on them, the time of their visitation. 46:22The sound
of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and
come against her with axes, as wood cutters. 46:23They shall
cut down her forest, says Yahweh, though it can't be searched; because
they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable. 46:24The daughter of Egypt shall be
disappointed; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the
north. 46:25Yahweh of Armies, the God of
Israel, says: Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt,
with her gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, and those who trust in him: 46:26and I will deliver them into the
hand of those who seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; and afterwards it
shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, says Yahweh. 46:27But don't be afraid you, Jacob
my servant, neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from
afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall
return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid. 46:28Don't be afraid you, O Jacob my
servant, says Yahweh; 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 I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you
unpunished.
47:1The word of Yahweh that came to
Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before that Pharaoh
struck Gaza. 47:2Thus says Yahweh: Behold, waters
rise up out of the north, and shall become an overflowing stream, and
shall overflow the land and all that is therein, the city and those who
dwell therein; and the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land
shall wail. 47:3At the noise of the stamping of
the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the
rumbling of his wheels, the fathers don't look back to their children for
feebleness of hands; 47:4because of the day that comes to
destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper
who remains: for Yahweh will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the
isle of Caphtor. 47:5Baldness is come on Gaza;
Ashkelon is brought to nothing, the remnant of their valley: how long will
you cut yourself? 47:6You sword of Yahweh, how long
will it be before you be quiet? put up yourself into your scabbard; rest,
and be still. 47:7How can you be quiet, seeing
Yahweh has given you a charge? Against Ashkelon, and against the
sea-shore, there has he appointed it.
48:1Of Moab. Thus says Yahweh of
Armies, the God of Israel: Woe to Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim
is disappointed, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down. 48:2The praise of Moab is no more; in
Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off
from being a nation. You also, Madmen, shall be brought to silence: the
sword shall pursue you. 48:3The sound of a cry from Horonaim,
desolation and great destruction! 48:4Moab is
destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard. 48:5For by the ascent of Luhith with
continual weeping shall they go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they
have heard the distress of the cry of destruction. 48:6Flee, save
your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness. 48:7For,
because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you also
shall be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and
his princes together. 48:8The destroyer shall come on every
city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and the
plain shall be destroyed; as Yahweh has spoken. 48:9Give wings
to Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and her cities shall become a
desolation, without any to dwell therein. 48:10Cursed be
he who does the work of Yahweh negligently; and cursed be he who keeps
back his sword from blood. 48:11Moab has been at ease from his
youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from
vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste
remains in him, and his scent is not changed. 48:12Therefore,
behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will send to him those who pour
off, and they shall pour him off; and they shall empty his vessels, and
break their bottles in pieces. 48:13Moab shall
be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their
confidence. 48:14How say you, We are mighty men,
and valiant men for the war? 48:15Moab is laid waste, and they are
gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the
slaughter, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies. 48:16The calamity of Moab is near to
come, and his affliction hurries fast. 48:17All you
who are round about him, bemoan him, and all you who know his name; say,
How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod! 48:18You
daughter who dwells in Dibon, come down from your glory, and sit in
thirst; for the destroyer of Moab is come up against you, he has destroyed
your strongholds. 48:19Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by
the way, and watch: ask him who flees, and her who escapes; say, What has
been done? 48:20Moab is disappointed; for it is
broken down: wail and cry; tell you it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid
waste. 48:21Judgment is come on the plain
country, on Holon, and on Jahzah, and on Mephaath, 48:22and on
Dibon, and on Nebo, and on Beth Diblathaim, 48:23and on
Kiriathaim, and on Beth Gamul, and on Beth Meon, 48:24and on
Kerioth, and on Bozrah, and on all the cities of the land of Moab, far or
near. 48:25The horn of Moab is cut off, and
his arm is broken, says Yahweh. 48:26Make you
him drunken; for he magnified himself against Yahweh: and Moab shall
wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision. 48:27For wasn't Israel a derision to
you? was he found among thieves? for as often as you speak of him, you wag
the head. 48:28You inhabitants of Moab, leave
the cities, and dwell in the rock; and be like the dove that makes her
nest over the mouth of the abyss. 48:29We have
heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; his loftiness,
and his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart. 48:30I know his wrath, says Yahweh,
that it is nothing; his boastings have worked nothing. 48:31Therefore will I wail for Moab;
yes, I will cry out for all Moab: for the men of Kir Heres shall they
mourn. 48:32With more than the weeping of
Jazer will I weep for you, vine of Sibmah: your branches passed over the
sea, they reached even to the sea of Jazer: on your summer fruits and on
your vintage the destroyer is fallen. 48:33Gladness
and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab;
and I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses: none shall tread
with shouting; the shouting shall be no shouting. 48:34From the
cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz have they uttered their
voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath Shelishiyah: for the waters
of Nimrim also shall become desolate. 48:35Moreover I
will cause to cease in Moab, says Yahweh, him who offers in the high
place, and him who burns incense to his gods. 48:36Therefore
my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my heart sounds like pipes for
the men of Kir Heres: therefore the abundance that he has gotten is
perished. 48:37For every head is bald, and
every beard clipped: on all the hands are cuttings, and on the loins
sackcloth. 48:38On all the housetops of Moab and
in the streets of it there is lamentation every where; for I have broken
Moab like a vessel in which none delights, says Yahweh. 48:39How is it broken down!
how do they wail! how has Moab turned the back with shame! so shall
Moab become a derision and a terror to all who are round about him. 48:40For thus says Yahweh: Behold, he
shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab. 48:41Kerioth is taken, and the
strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that
day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. 48:42Moab shall
be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against
Yahweh. 48:43Fear, and the pit, and the
snare, are on you, inhabitant of Moab, says Yahweh. 48:44He who
flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who gets up out of the
pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring on him, even on Moab,
the year of their visitation, says Yahweh. 48:45Those who
fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon; for a fire is
gone forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and has
devoured the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous
ones. 48:46Woe to you, O Moab! the people
of Chemosh is undone; for your sons are taken away captive, and your
daughters into captivity. 48:47Yet will I bring back the
captivity of Moab in the latter days, says Yahweh. Thus far is the
judgment of Moab.
49:1Of the children of Ammon. Thus
says Yahweh: Has Israel no sons? has he no heir? why then does Malcam
possess Gad, and his people well in the cities of it? 49:2Therefore, behold, the days come,
says Yahweh, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah
of the children of Ammon; and it shall become a desolate heap, and her
daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel possess those who
did possess him, says Yahweh. 49:3Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid
waste; cry, you daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth: lament, and
run back and forth among the fences; for Malcam shall go into captivity,
his priests and his princes together. 49:4Why glory
you in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? who trusted
in her treasures, saying, Who shall come to me? 49:5Behold, I will bring a fear on
you, says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, from all who are round about you;
and you shall be driven out every man right forth, and there shall be none
to gather together the fugitives. 49:6But
afterward I will bring back the captivity of the children of Ammon, says
Yahweh. 49:7Of Edom. Thus says Yahweh of
Armies: Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent?
is their wisdom vanished? 49:8Flee you, turn back, dwell in the
depths, inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau on
him, the time that I shall visit him. 49:9If
grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if
thieves by night, wouldn't they destroy until they had enough? 49:10But I have made Esau bare, I
have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide
himself: his seed is destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbors; and
he is no more. 49:11Leave your fatherless children,
I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me. 49:12For thus says Yahweh: Behold,
they to whom it didn't pertain to drink of the cup shall assuredly drink;
and are you he who shall altogether go unpunished? you shall not go
unpunished, but you shall surely drink. 49:13For I have
sworn by myself, says Yahweh, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a
reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities of it shall be
perpetual wastes. 49:14I have heard news from Yahweh,
and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, Gather
yourselves together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle. 49:15For, behold, I have made you
small among the nations, and despised among men. 49:16As for
your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in
the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill: though you should
make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there,
says Yahweh. 49:17Edom shall become an
astonishment: everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall
hiss at all the plagues of it. 49:18As in the
overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says
Yahweh, no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn
therein. 49:19Behold, he shall come up like a
lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I
will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will
I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and
who is the shepherd who will stand before me? 49:20Therefore
hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Edom; and his
purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely
they shall drag them away, even the little ones of the flock;
surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them. 49:21The earth trembles at the noise
of their fall; there is a cry, the noise which is heard in the Red Sea. 49:22Behold, he shall come up and fly
as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah: and the heart of
the mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her
pangs. 49:23Of Damascus. Hamath is
confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil news, they are melted
away: there is sorrow on the sea; it can't be quiet. 49:24Damascus has grown feeble, she
turns herself to flee, and trembling has seized on her: anguish and
sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail. 49:25How is the city of praise not
forsaken, the city of my joy? 49:26Therefore her young men shall
fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be brought to silence in
that day, says Yahweh of Armies. 49:27I will
kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the palaces of
Ben Hadad. 49:28Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of
Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon struck. Thus says Yahweh:
Arise you, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east. 49:29Their tents and their flocks
shall they take; they shall carry away for themselves their curtains, and
all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry to them, Terror on
every side! 49:30Flee you, wander far off, dwell
in the depths, you inhabitants of Hazor, says Yahweh; for Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon has taken counsel against you, and has conceived a purpose
against you. 49:31Arise, go up to a nation that is
at ease, that dwells without care, says Yahweh; that have neither gates
nor bars, that dwell alone. 49:32Their camels shall be a booty,
and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter to all winds
those who have the corners of their hair cut off; and I will bring
their calamity from every side of them, says Yahweh. 49:33Hazor shall be a dwelling-place
of jackals, a desolation forever: no man shall dwell there, neither shall
any son of man sojourn therein. 49:34The word
of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the
beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, 49:35Thus says Yahweh of Armies:
Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might. 49:36On Elam will I bring the four
winds from the four quarters of the sky, and will scatter them toward all
those winds; and there shall be no nation where the outcasts of Elam shall
not come. 49:37I will cause Elam to be dismayed
before their enemies, and before those who seek their life; and I will
bring evil on them, even my fierce anger, says Yahweh; and I will send the
sword after them, until I have consumed them; 49:38and I will
set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from there king and princes, says
Yahweh. 49:39But it shall happen in the
latter days, that I will bring back the captivity of Elam, says Yahweh.
50:1The word that Yahweh spoke
concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the
prophet. 50:2Declare you among the nations and
publish, and set up a standard; publish, and don't conceal: say, Babylon
is taken, Bel is disappointed, Merodach is dismayed; her images are
disappointed, her idols are dismayed. 50:3For out of
the north there comes up a nation against her, which shall make her land
desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they are fled, they are gone, both
man and animal. 50:4In those days, and in that time,
says Yahweh, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of
Judah together; they shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek Yahweh
their God. 50:5They shall inquire concerning
Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, Come you, and join
yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that shall not be
forgotten. 50:6My people have 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. 50:7All who found them have devoured
them; and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have
sinned against Yahweh, the habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh, the
hope of their fathers. 50:8Flee out of the midst of Babylon,
and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats
before the flocks. 50:9For, behold, I will stir up and
cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north
country; and they shall set themselves in array against her; from there
she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of an expert mighty man; none
shall return in vain. 50:10Chaldea shall be a prey: all who
prey on her shall be satisfied, says Yahweh. 50:11Because
you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder my heritage, because
you are wanton as a heifer that treads out the grain, and neigh as
strong horses; 50:12your mother shall be utterly
disappointed; she who bore you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be
the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. 50:13Because of the wrath of Yahweh
she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate: everyone who
goes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues. 50:14Set yourselves in array against
Babylon round about, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no
arrows: for she has sinned against Yahweh. 50:15Shout
against her round about: she has submitted herself; her bulwarks are
fallen, her walls are thrown down; for it is the vengeance of Yahweh: take
vengeance on her; as she has done, do to her. 50:16Cut off
the sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle in the time of
harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn everyone to his
people, and they shall flee everyone to his own land. 50:17Israel is a hunted sheep; the
lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and
now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones. 50:18Therefore thus says Yahweh of
Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and
his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria. 50:19I will
bring Israel again to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan,
and his soul shall be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead. 50:20In those days, and in that time,
says Yahweh, 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 leave as a remnant. 50:21Go up
against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the
inhabitants of Pekod: kill and utterly destroy after them, says Yahweh,
and do according to all that I have commanded you. 50:22A sound of
battle is in the land, and of great destruction. 50:23How is the
hammer of the whole earth cut apart and broken! how is Babylon become a
desolation among the nations! 50:24I have laid a snare for you, and
you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren't aware: you are found, and
also caught, because you have striven against Yahweh. 50:25Yahweh has opened his armory,
and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation; for the Lord, Yahweh
of Armies, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldeans. 50:26Come against her from the utmost
border; open her store-houses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her
utterly; let nothing of her be left. 50:27Kill all
her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day
is come, the time of their visitation. 50:28The voice
of those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in
Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, the vengeance of his temple. 50:29Call together the archers
against Babylon, all those who bend the bow; encamp against her round
about; let none of it escape: recompense her according to her work;
according to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud
against Yahweh, against the Holy One of Israel. 50:30Therefore
shall her young men fall in her streets, and all her men of war shall be
brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh. 50:31Behold, I
am against you, you proud one, says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies; for your
day is come, the time that I will visit you. 50:32The proud
one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up; and I will kindle
a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all who are round about him. 50:33Thus says Yahweh of hosts: The
children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together; and
all who took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go. 50:34Their Redeemer is strong; Yahweh
of Armies is his name: he will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may
give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. 50:35A sword is on the Chaldeans,
says Yahweh, and on the inhabitants of Babylon, and on her princes, and on
her wise men. 50:36A sword is on the boasters, and
they shall become fools; a sword is on her mighty men, and they shall be
dismayed. 50:37A sword is on their horses, and
on their chariots, and on all the mixed people who are in the midst of
her; and they shall become as women: a sword is on her treasures, and they
shall be robbed. 50:38A drought is on her waters, and
they shall be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are
mad over idols. 50:39Therefore the wild animals of
the desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall
dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it
be lived in from generation to generation. 50:40As when
God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says
Yahweh, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn
therein. 50:41Behold, a people comes from the
north; and a great nation and many kings shall be stirred up from the
uttermost parts of the earth. 50:42They lay hold on bow and spear;
they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and
they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle,
against you, daughter of Babylon. 50:43The king
of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands wax feeble: anguish
has taken hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail. 50:44Behold, the enemy shall
come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong
habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is
chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will
appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who can stand before me? 50:45Therefore hear the counsel of
Yahweh, that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has
purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they shall drag them
away, even the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their
habitation desolate over them. 50:46At the
noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles, and the cry is heard
among the nations.
51:1Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will
raise up against Babylon, and against those who dwell in Lebkamai, a
destroying wind. 51:2I will send to Babylon strangers,
who shall winnow her; and they shall empty her land: for in the day of
trouble they shall be against her round about. 51:3Against
him who bends let the archer bend his bow, and against him
who lifts himself up in his coat of mail: and don't you spare her
young men; destroy you utterly all her host. 51:4They shall
fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her
streets. 51:5For Israel is not forsaken, nor
Judah, of his God, of Yahweh of Armies; though their land is full of guilt
against the Holy One of Israel. 51:6Flee out of
the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; don't be cut off in her
iniquity: for it is the time of Yahweh's vengeance; he will render to her
a recompense. 51:7Babylon has been a golden cup in
Yahweh's hand, who made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of
her wine; therefore the nations are mad. 51:8Babylon is
suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so
be she may be healed. 51:9We would have healed Babylon, but
she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go everyone into his own
country; for her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the
skies. 51:10Yahweh has brought forth our
righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our
God. 51:11Make sharp the arrows; hold firm
the shields: Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes;
because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it: for it is the
vengeance of Yahweh, the vengeance of his temple. 51:12Set up a
standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the
watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that
which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon. 51:13You who dwell on many waters,
abundant in treasures, your end is come, the measure of your covetousness.
51:14Yahweh of Armies has sworn by
himself, saying, Surely I will fill you with men, as with the
canker-worm; and they shall lift up a shout against you. 51:15He has made the earth by his
power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his
understanding has he stretched out the heavens: 51:16when he
utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he
causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes
lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.
51:17Every man is become brutish
and is without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his
image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
51:18They are vanity, a work of
delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. 51:19The portion of Jacob is not like
these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe
of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name. 51:20You are my
battle-axe and weapons of war: and with you will I break in pieces the
nations; and with you will I destroy kingdoms; 51:21and with
you will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; 51:22and with
you will I break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein; and with
you will I break in pieces man and woman; and with you will I break in
pieces the old man and the youth; and with you will I break in pieces the
young man and the virgin; 51:23and with you will I break in
pieces 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
governors and deputies. 51:24I will render to Babylon and to
all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion
in your sight, says Yahweh. 51:25Behold, I am against you,
destroying mountain, says Yahweh, which destroy all the earth; and I will
stretch out my hand on you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will
make you a burnt mountain. 51:26They shall not take of you a
stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but you shall be desolate
for ever, says Yahweh. 51:27Set 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 Ashkenaz: appoint
a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough
canker-worm. 51:28Prepare against her the nations,
the kings of the Medes, the governors of it, and all the deputies of it,
and all the land of their dominion. 51:29The land
trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon do
stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant. 51:30The mighty men of Babylon have
forborne to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their might has
failed; they are become as women: her dwelling-places are set on fire; her
bars are broken. 51:31One post shall run to meet
another, and one messenger to met another, to show the king of Babylon
that his city is taken on every quarter: 51:32and the
passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men
of war are frightened. 51:33For thus says Yahweh of hosts,
the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at
the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest
shall come for her. 51:34Nebuchadrezzar the king of
Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty
vessel, he has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw
with my delicacies; he has cast me out. 51:35The
violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon, shall the inhabitant of
Zion say; and, My blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem
say. 51:36Therefore thus says Yahweh:
Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will
dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry. 51:37Babylon
shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a
hissing, without inhabitant. 51:38They shall roar together like
young lions; they shall growl as lions' cubs. 51:39When they
are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that
they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says Yahweh.
51:40I will bring them down like
lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats. 51:41How is
Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon
become a desolation among the nations! 51:42The sea is
come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves of it.
51:43Her cities are become a
desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells,
neither does any son of man pass thereby. 51:44I will
execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his
mouth that which he has swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow any
more to him: yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall. 51:45My people,
go you out of the midst of her, and save yourselves every man from the
fierce anger of Yahweh. 51:46Don't let your heart faint,
neither fear for the news that shall be heard in the land; for news shall
come one year, and after that in another year shall come news, and
violence in the land, ruler against ruler. 51:47Therefore,
behold, the days come, that I will execute judgment on the engraved images
of Babylon; and her whole land shall be confounded; and all her slain
shall fall in the midst of her. 51:48Then the
heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for joy over
Babylon; for the destroyers shall come to her from the north, says Yahweh.
51:49As Babylon has caused the slain
of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the land. 51:50You who have escaped the sword,
go you, don't stand still; remember Yahweh from afar, and let Jerusalem
come into your mind. 51:51We are confounded, because we
have heard reproach; confusion has covered our faces: for strangers are
come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh's house. 51:52Therefore,
behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will execute judgment on her
engraved images; and through all her land the wounded shall groan. 51:53Though Babylon should mount up
to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet
from me shall destroyers come to her, says Yahweh. 51:54The sound
of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the
Chaldeans! 51:55For Yahweh lays Babylon waste,
and destroys out of her the great voice; and their waves roar like many
waters; the noise of their voice is uttered: 51:56for the
destroyer is come on her, even on Babylon, and her mighty men are taken,
their bows are broken in pieces; for Yahweh is a God of recompenses, he
will surely requite. 51:57I will make drunk her princes
and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men; and
they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up, says the King, whose
name is Yahweh of Armies. 51:58Thus says Yahweh of hosts: The
broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates
shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the
nations for the fire; and they shall be weary. 51:59The word
which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of
Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the
fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief chamberlain. 51:60Jeremiah wrote in a book all the
evil that should come on Babylon, even all these words that are written
concerning Babylon. 51:61Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When
you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words, 51:62and say, Yahweh, you have spoken
concerning this place, to cut it off, that none shall dwell therein,
neither man nor animal, but that it shall be desolate forever. 51:63It 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 the Euphrates: 51:64and you
shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of
the evil that I will bring on her; and they shall be weary. Thus far are
the words of Jeremiah.
52:1Zedekiah was twenty-one 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. 52:2He did that which was evil in the
sight of Yahweh, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. 52:3For through the anger of Yahweh
did it happen in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his
presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. 52:4It happened 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 encamped against it; and they built forts against it round
about. 52:5So the city was besieged to the
eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 52:6In 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. 52:7Then a breach was made in the
city, 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 against the city round about;) and they
went toward the Arabah. 52:8But 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. 52:9Then they
took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the
land of Hamath; and he gave judgment on him. 52:10The king
of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he killed also all
the princes of Judah in Riblah. 52:11He put out
the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and
carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death.
52:12Now in the fifth month, in the
tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king
Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem: 52:13and he burned the house of
Yahweh, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every
great house, burned he with fire. 52:14All the
army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down
all the walls of Jerusalem round about. 52:15Then
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the poorest
of the people, and the residue of the people who were left in the city,
and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue
of the multitude. 52:16But Nebuzaradan the captain of
the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vineyard keepers and
farmers. 52:17The pillars of brass that were
in the house of Yahweh, and the bases and the brazen sea that were in the
house of Yahweh, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried all the
brass of them to Babylon. 52:18The pots also, and the shovels,
and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and all the vessels of
brass with which they ministered, took they away. 52:19The cups,
and the fire pans, and the basins, and the pots, and the lampstands, and
the spoons, and the bowls-that which was of gold, in gold, and that which
was of silver, in silver,-the captain of the guard took away. 52:20The two pillars, the one sea,
and the twelve brazen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon
had made for the house of Yahweh. The brass of all these vessels was
without weight. 52:21As for the pillars, the height
of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits did
compass it; and the thickness of it was four fingers: it was hollow. 52:22A capital of brass was on it;
and the height of the one capital was five cubits, with network and
pomegranates on the capital round about, all of brass: and the second
pillar also had like these, and pomegranates. 52:23There were
ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were one
hundred on the network round about. 52:24The
captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the
second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold: 52:25and out of the city he took an
officer who was set over the men of war; and seven men of those who saw
the king's face, who were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain
of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the
people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city. 52:26Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. 52:27The king of Babylon struck them,
and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was
carried away captive out of his land. 52:28This is
the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year
three thousand twenty-three Jews; 52:29in the
eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem
eight hundred thirty-two persons; 52:30in the
three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty-five persons:
all the persons were four thousand and six hundred. 52:31It
happened 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; 52:32and he spoke kindly to him, and
set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,
52:33and changed his prison garments.
Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his
life: 52:34and for his allowance, there was
a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a
portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.
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