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most important person in history, but you are the Creator and Savior of the
world. Lord Jesus, I need you. I have done wrong. Please forgive me of my sins
and come into my life. I ask you not just to be part of my life, but to guide me
to live according to the words I read in the Bible. Thank you for your mercy and
forgiveness. I am now committed to be your follower.
Amen.
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The Book of Jeremiah
Chapter 1
001:001 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of
the priests that
were in Anathoth
in the land of Benjamin:
001:002 To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of
Josiah the
son of Amon king of
Judah, in the thirteenth year of
his
reign.
001:003 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah king
of Judah, unto the end
of the eleventh year of Zedekiah
the
son of Josiah king of Judah,
unto the carrying away of
Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
001:004 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
001:005 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee;
and before thou
camest forth out
of the womb I sanctified thee, and I
ordained
thee a prophet unto the
nations.
001:006 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot
speak: for I am a
child.
001:007 But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child:
for thou
shalt go to all that I
shall send thee, and whatsoever I
command thee thou shalt speak.
001:008 Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee
to deliver
thee, saith the
LORD.
001:009 Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my
mouth. And
the LORD said unto me,
Behold, I have put my words in thy
mouth.
001:010 See, I have this day set thee over the nations
and over the
kingdoms, to root
out, and to pull down, and to destroy,
and
to throw down, to build, and
to plant.
001:011 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying, Jeremiah,
what seest thou?
And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.
001:012 Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen:
for I will
hasten my word to
perform it.
001:013 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second
time, saying,
What seest thou? And
I said, I see a seething pot; and
the
face thereof is toward the
north.
001:014 Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an
evil shall
break forth upon all
the inhabitants of the land.
001:015 For, lo, I will call all the families of the
kingdoms of the
north, saith the
LORD; and they shall come, and they shall
set
every one his throne at the
entering of the gates of
Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about,
and
against all the cities of
Judah.
001:016 And I will utter my judgments against them
touching all their
wickedness, who
have forsaken me, and have burned incense
unto
other gods, and worshipped
the works of their own hands.
001:017 Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and
speak unto
them all that I command
thee: be not dismayed at their
faces,
lest I confound thee before
them.
001:018 For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced
city, and an
iron pillar, and
brasen walls against the whole land,
against
the kings of Judah,
against the princes thereof, against
the
priests thereof, and against
the people of the land.
001:019 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall
not prevail
against thee; for I am
with thee, saith the LORD, to
deliver
thee.
002:001 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
002:002 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus
saith the
LORD; I remember thee,
the kindness of thy youth, the love
of
thine espousals, when thou
wentest after me in the
wilderness,
in a land that was not
sown.
002:003 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the
firstfruits of his
increase: all
that devour him shall offend; evil shall
come
upon them, saith the
LORD.
002:004 Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob,
and all the
families of the house
of Israel:
002:005 Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your
fathers found in
me, that they are
gone far from me, and have walked
after
vanity, and are become
vain?
002:006 Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought
us up out of
the land of Egypt,
that led us through the wilderness,
through
a land of deserts and of
pits, through a land of drought,
and
of the shadow of death,
through a land that no man passed
through, and where no man dwelt?
002:007 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to
eat the fruit
thereof and the
goodness thereof; but when ye entered,
ye
defiled my land, and made mine
heritage an abomination.
002:008 The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they
that handle
the law knew me not:
the pastors also transgressed against
me,
and the prophets prophesied by
Baal, and walked after things
that
do not profit.
002:009 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the
LORD, and with
your children's
children will I plead.
002:010 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and
send unto
Kedar, and consider
diligently, and see if there be such
a
thing.
002:011 Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet
no gods? but
my people have
changed their glory for that which doth
not
profit.
002:012 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be
horribly afraid,
be ye very
desolate, saith the LORD.
002:013 For my people have committed two evils; they have
forsaken me
the fountain of living
waters, and hewed them out
cisterns,
broken cisterns, that
can hold no water.
002:014 Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why
is he
spoiled?
002:015 The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and
they made his
land waste: his
cities are burned without inhabitant.
002:016 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have
broken the crown
of thy head.
002:017 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that
thou hast
forsaken the LORD thy
God, when he led thee by the way?
002:018 And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt,
to drink the
waters of Sihor? or
what hast thou to do in the way of
Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?
002:019 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy
backslidings
shall reprove thee:
know therefore and see that it is an
evil
thing and bitter, that thou
hast forsaken the LORD thy God,
and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
002:020 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst
thy bands;
and thou saidst, I will
not transgress; when upon every
high
hill and under every green
tree thou wanderest, playing the
harlot.
002:021 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a
right seed: how
then art thou
turned into the degenerate plant of a
strange
vine unto me?
002:022 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take
thee much soap,
yet thine iniquity
is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
002:023 How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not
gone after
Baalim? see thy way in
the valley, know what thou hast
done:
thou art a swift dromedary
traversing her ways;
002:024 A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth
up the wind
at her pleasure; in
her occasion who can turn her away?
all
they that seek her will not
weary themselves; in her month
they shall find her.
002:025 Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy
throat from
thirst: but thou
saidst, There is no hope: no; for I
have
loved strangers, and after
them will I go.
002:026 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is
the house of
Israel ashamed; they,
their kings, their princes, and
their
priests, and their
prophets.
002:027 Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a
stone, Thou
hast brought me forth:
for they have turned their back
unto
me, and not their face: but
in the time of their trouble they
will say, Arise, and save us.
002:028 But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee?
let them
arise, if they can save
thee in the time of thy trouble:
for
according to the number of thy
cities are thy gods, O Judah.
002:029 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have
transgressed
against me, saith the
LORD.
002:030 In vain have I smitten your children; they
received no
correction: your own
sword hath devoured your prophets, like
a
destroying lion.
002:031 O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I
been a
wilderness unto Israel? a
land of darkness? wherefore say my
people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
002:032 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her
attire? yet my
people have
forgotten me days without number.
002:033 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore
hast thou
also taught the wicked
ones thy ways.
002:034 Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the
souls of the poor
innocents: I
have not found it by secret search, but upon
all
these.
002:035 Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely
his anger shall
turn from me.
Behold, I will plead with thee, because
thou
sayest, I have not
sinned.
002:036 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way?
thou also
shalt be ashamed of
Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
002:037 Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine
hands upon thine
head: for the
LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and
thou
shalt not prosper in
them.
003:001 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go
from him, and
become another
man's, shall he return unto her again?
shall
not that land be greatly
polluted? but thou hast played the
harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith
the
LORD.
003:002 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see
where thou
hast not been lien
with. In the ways hast thou sat for
them,
as the Arabian in the
wilderness; and thou hast polluted
the
land with thy whoredoms and
with thy wickedness.
003:003 Therefore the showers have been withholden, and
there hath
been no latter rain;
and thou hadst a whore's forehead,
thou
refusedst to be ashamed.
003:004 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My
father, thou art
the guide of my
youth?
003:005 Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep
it to the
end? Behold, thou hast
spoken and done evil things as
thou
couldest.
003:006 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah
the king,
Hast thou seen that
which backsliding Israel hath done? she
is
gone up upon every high
mountain and under every green
tree,
and there hath played the
harlot.
003:007 And I said after she had done all these things,
Turn thou unto
me. But she
returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah
saw
it.
003:008 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby
backsliding Israel
committed
adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill
of
divorce; yet her treacherous
sister Judah feared not, but went
and played the harlot also.
003:009 And it came to pass through the lightness of her
whoredom,
that she defiled the
land, and committed adultery with
stones
and with stocks.
003:010 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah
hath not
turned unto me with her
whole heart, but feignedly, saith
the
LORD.
003:011 And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel
hath
justified herself more than
treacherous Judah.
003:012 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and
say, Return,
thou backsliding
Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not
cause
mine anger to fall upon you:
for I am merciful, saith the
LORD,
and I will not keep anger for ever.
003:013 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast
transgressed
against the LORD thy
God, and hast scattered thy ways to
the
strangers under every green
tree, and ye have not obeyed my
voice, saith the LORD.
003:014 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for
I am married
unto you: and I will
take you one of a city, and two of
a
family, and I will bring you to
Zion:
003:015 And I will give you pastors according to mine
heart, which
shall feed you with
knowledge and understanding.
003:016 And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied
and increased
in the land, in
those days, saith the LORD, they shall say
no
more, The ark of the covenant
of the LORD: neither shall it
come
to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither
shall
they visit it; neither shall
that be done any more.
003:017 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne
of the LORD;
and all the nations
shall be gathered unto it, to the name
of
the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither
shall they walk any more after
the
imagination of their evil heart.
003:018 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with
the house of
Israel, and they
shall come together out of the land of
the
north to the land that I have
given for an inheritance unto
your
fathers.
003:019 But I said, How shall I put thee among the
children, and give
thee a pleasant
land, a goodly heritage of the hosts
of
nations? and I said, Thou shalt
call me, My father; and shalt
not
turn away from me.
003:020 Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her
husband, so
have ye dealt
treacherously with me, O house of Israel,
saith
the LORD.
003:021 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping
and
supplications of the children
of Israel: for they have
perverted
their way, and they have forgotten the LORD
their
God.
003:022 Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal
your
backslidings. Behold, we come
unto thee; for thou art the LORD
our God.
003:023 Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the
hills, and from
the multitude of
mountains: truly in the LORD our God is
the
salvation of Israel.
003:024 For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers
from our
youth; their flocks and
their herds, their sons and their
daughters.
003:025 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion
covereth us: for
we have sinned
against the LORD our God, we and our
fathers,
from our youth even unto
this day, and have not obeyed the
voice of the LORD our God.
004:001 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD,
return unto me:
and if thou wilt
put away thine abominations out of my
sight,
then shalt thou not
remove.
004:002 And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth,
in judgment,
and in righteousness;
and the nations shall bless
themselves
in him, and in him
shall they glory.
004:003 For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and
Jerusalem,
Break up your fallow
ground, and sow not among thorns.
004:004 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away
the foreskins
of your heart, ye
men of Judah and inhabitants of
Jerusalem:
lest my fury come forth
like fire, and burn that none can
quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
004:005 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem;
and say, Blow
ye the trumpet in
the land: cry, gather together, and
say,
Assemble yourselves, and let
us go into the defenced cities.
004:006 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay
not: for I will
bring evil from
the north, and a great destruction.
004:007 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the
destroyer of the
Gentiles is on
his way; he is gone forth from his place
to
make thy land desolate; and thy
cities shall be laid waste,
without an inhabitant.
004:008 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and
howl: for the
fierce anger of the
LORD is not turned back from us.
004:009 And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the
LORD, that
the heart of the king
shall perish, and the heart of the
princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the
prophets
shall wonder.
004:010 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast
greatly deceived
this people and
Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have
peace;
whereas the sword reacheth
unto the soul.
004:011 At that time shall it be said to this people and
to Jerusalem,
A dry wind of the
high places in the wilderness toward
the
daughter of my people, not to
fan, nor to cleanse,
004:012 Even a full wind from those places shall come
unto me: now
also will I give
sentence against them.
004:013 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his
chariots shall be
as a whirlwind:
his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe
unto
us! for we are spoiled.
004:014 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness,
that thou
mayest be saved. How
long shall thy vain thoughts lodge
within
thee?
004:015 For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth
affliction from
mount Ephraim.
004:016 Make ye 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.
004:017 As keepers of a field, are they against her round
about;
because she hath been
rebellious against me, saith the LORD.
004:018 Thy way and thy doings have procured these things
unto thee;
this is thy wickedness,
because it is bitter, because it
reacheth unto thine heart.
004:019 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very
heart; my heart
maketh a noise in
me; I cannot hold my peace, because
thou
hast heard, O my soul, the
sound of the trumpet, the alarm of
war.
004:020 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the
whole land is
spoiled: suddenly
are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in
a
moment.
004:021 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the
sound of the
trumpet?
004:022 For my people is foolish, they have not known me;
they are
sottish children, and
they have none understanding: they
are
wise to do evil, but to do
good they have no knowledge.
004:023 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form,
and void;
and the heavens, and
they had no light.
004:024 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled,
and all the
hills moved
lightly.
004:025 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the
birds of the
heavens were
fled.
004:026 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a
wilderness, and
all the cities
thereof were broken down at the presence of
the
LORD, and by his fierce
anger.
004:027 For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall
be desolate;
yet will I not make a
full end.
004:028 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens
above be
black; because I have
spoken it, I have purposed it, and
will
not repent, neither will I
turn back from it.
004:029 The whole city shall flee for the noise of the
horsemen and
bowmen; they shall go
into thickets, and climb up upon
the
rocks: every city shall be
forsaken, and not a man dwell
therein.
004:030 And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do?
Though thou
clothest thyself with
crimson, though thou deckest thee
with
ornaments of gold, though
thou rentest thy face with
painting,
in vain shalt thou make
thyself fair; thy lovers will
despise
thee, they will seek thy
life.
004:031 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in
travail, and the
anguish as of her
that bringeth forth her first child,
the
voice of the daughter of Zion,
that bewaileth herself, that
spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul
is
wearied because of
murderers.
005:001 Run ye to and fro through the streets of
Jerusalem, and see
now, and know,
and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye
can
find a man, if there be any
that executeth judgment, that
seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
005:002 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they
swear
falsely.
005:003 O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou
hast stricken
them, but they have
not grieved; thou hast consumed them,
but
they have refused to receive
correction: they have made their
faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
005:004 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are
foolish: for
they know not the way
of the LORD, nor the judgment of
their
God.
005:005 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak
unto them;
for they have known the
way of the LORD, and the judgment
of
their God: but these have
altogether broken the yoke, and
burst the bonds.
005:006 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay
them, and a wolf
of the evenings
shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch
over
their cities: every one that
goeth out thence shall be torn in
pieces: because their transgressions are many, and
their
backslidings are
increased.
005:007 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children
have forsaken
me, and sworn by
them that are no gods: when I had fed them
to
the full, they then committed
adultery, and assembled
themselves
by troops in the harlots' houses.
005:008 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one
neighed
after his neighbour's
wife.
005:009 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the
LORD: and shall
not my soul be
avenged on such a nation as this?
005:010 Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make
not a full end:
take away her
battlements; for they are not the LORD's.
005:011 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah
have dealt very
treacherously
against me, saith the LORD.
005:012 They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not
he; neither
shall evil come upon
us; neither shall we see sword nor
famine:
005:013 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word
is not in
them: thus shall it be
done unto them.
005:014 Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts,
Because ye speak
this word,
behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire,
and
this people wood, and it shall
devour them.
005:015 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O
house of
Israel, saith the LORD:
it is a mighty nation, it is an
ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest
not,
neither understandest what
they say.
005:016 Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
005:017 And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy
bread, which thy
sons and thy
daughters should eat: they shall eat up
thy
flocks and thine herds: they
shall eat up thy vines and thy
fig
trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities,
wherein
thou trustedst, with the
sword.
005:018 Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I
will not make a
full end with
you.
005:019 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say,
Wherefore doeth
the LORD our God
all these things unto us? then shalt
thou
answer them, Like as ye have
forsaken me, and served strange
gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land
that
is not your's.
005:020 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish
it in Judah,
saying,
005:021 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without
understanding;
which have eyes,
and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
005:022 Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not
tremble at my
presence, which have
placed the sand for the bound of the
sea
by a perpetual decree, that it
cannot pass it: and though the
waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not
prevail;
though they roar, yet can
they not pass over it?
005:023 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious
heart; they
are revolted and
gone.
005:024 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear
the LORD our
God, that giveth
rain, both the former and the latter, in
his
season: he reserveth unto us
the appointed weeks of the
harvest.
005:025 Your iniquities have turned away these things,
and your sins
have withholden good
things from you.
005:026 For among my people are found wicked men: they
lay wait, as he
that setteth
snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
005:027 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses
full of
deceit: therefore they are
become great, and waxen rich.
005:028 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they
overpass the deeds
of the wicked:
they judge not the cause, the cause of
the
fatherless, yet they prosper;
and the right of the needy do
they
not judge.
005:029 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the
LORD: shall not
my soul be avenged
on such a nation as this?
005:030 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
005:031 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests
bear rule by
their means; and my
people love to have it so: and what
will
ye do in the end thereof?
006:001 O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to
flee out of
the midst of
Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and
set
up a sign of fire in
Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out
of
the north, and great
destruction.
006:002 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely
and delicate
woman.
006:003 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto
her; they
shall pitch their tents
against her round about; they
shall
feed every one in his
place.
006:004 Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go
up at noon.
Woe unto us! for the
day goeth away, for the shadows of
the
evening are stretched out.
006:005 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
006:006 For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down
trees, and
cast a mount against
Jerusalem: this is the city to be
visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
006:007 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she
casteth out her
wickedness:
violence and spoil is heard in her; before
me
continually is grief and
wounds.
006:008 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul
depart from
thee; lest I make thee
desolate, a land not inhabited.
006:009 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall
throughly glean the
remnant of
Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as
a
grapegatherer into the
baskets.
006:010 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that
they may hear?
behold, their ear
is uncircumcised, and they cannot
hearken:
behold, the word of the
LORD is unto them a reproach; they
have no delight in it.
006:011 Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am
weary with
holding in: I will pour
it out upon the children abroad,
and
upon the assembly of young men
together: for even the husband
with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is
full
of days.
006:012 And their houses shall be turned unto others,
with their
fields and wives
together: for I will stretch out my hand
upon
the inhabitants of the land,
saith the LORD.
006:013 For from the least of them even unto the greatest
of them
every one is given to
covetousness; and from the prophet
even
unto the priest every one
dealeth falsely.
006:014 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of
my people
slightly, saying, Peace,
peace; when there is no peace.
006:015 Were they ashamed when they had committed
abomination? nay,
they were not at
all ashamed, neither could they
blush:
therefore they shall fall
among them that fall: at the time
that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
006:016 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and
see, and ask
for the old paths,
where is the good way, and walk
therein,
and ye shall find rest
for your souls. But they said, We
will
not walk therein.
006:017 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to
the sound of
the trumpet. But they
said, We will not hearken.
006:018 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O
congregation, what is
among
them.
006:019 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon
this people,
even the fruit of
their thoughts, because they have
not
hearkened unto my words, nor
to my law, but rejected it.
006:020 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from
Sheba, and the
sweet cane from a
far country? your burnt offerings are
not
acceptable, nor your
sacrifices sweet unto me.
006:021 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will
lay
stumblingblocks before this
people, and the fathers and the
sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and
his
friend shall perish.
006:022 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from
the north
country, and a great
nation shall be raised from the sides
of
the earth.
006:023 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are
cruel, and have
no mercy; their
voice roareth like the sea; and they ride
upon
horses, set in array as men
for war against thee, O daughter
of Zion.
006:024 We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax
feeble: anguish
hath taken hold of
us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
006:025 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way;
for the
sword of the enemy and
fear is on every side.
006:026 O daughter of my people, gird thee with
sackcloth, and wallow
thyself in
ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son,
most
bitter lamentation: for the
spoiler shall suddenly come upon
us.
006:027 I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among
my people,
that thou mayest know
and try their way.
006:028 They are all grievous revolters, walking with
slanders: they
are brass and iron;
they are all corrupters.
006:029 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of
the fire; the
founder melteth in
vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
006:030 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the
LORD hath
rejected them.
007:001 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
007:002 Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and
proclaim there this
word, and say,
Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of
Judah,
that enter in at these
gates to worship the LORD.
007:003 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
Amend your
ways and your doings,
and I will cause you to dwell in
this
place.
007:004 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple
of the LORD,
The temple of the
LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.
007:005 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your
doings; if ye
throughly execute
judgment between a man and his neighbour;
007:006 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless,
and the widow,
and shed not
innocent blood in this place, neither walk
after
other gods to your hurt:
007:007 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in
the land that
I gave to your
fathers, for ever and ever.
007:008 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
007:009 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and
swear falsely,
and burn incense
unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom
ye
know not;
007:010 And come and stand before me in this house, which
is called by
my name, and say, We
are delivered to do all these
abominations?
007:011 Is this house, which is called by my name, become
a den of
robbers in your eyes?
Behold, even I have seen it, saith
the
LORD.
007:012 But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh,
where I set
my name at the first,
and see what I did to it for the
wickedness of my people Israel.
007:013 And now, because ye have done all these works,
saith the LORD,
and I spake unto
you, rising up early and speaking, but
ye
heard not; and I called you,
but ye answered not;
007:014 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is
called by my
name, wherein ye
trust, and unto the place which I gave to
you
and to your fathers, as I have
done to Shiloh.
007:015 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have
cast out all
your brethren, even
the whole seed of Ephraim.
007:016 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither
lift up cry
nor prayer for them,
neither make intercession to me: for
I
will not hear thee.
007:017 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of
Judah and in the
streets of
Jerusalem?
007:018 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle
the fire, and
the women knead
their dough, to make cakes to the queen
of
heaven, and to pour out drink
offerings unto other gods, that
they may provoke me to anger.
007:019 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do
they not
provoke themselves to the
confusion of their own faces?
007:020 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine
anger and my
fury shall be poured
out upon this place, upon man, and
upon
beast, and upon the trees of
the field, and upon the fruit of
the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
007:021 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Put your
burnt offerings unto your
sacrifices, and eat flesh.
007:022 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded
them in the
day that I brought
them out of the land of Egypt,
concerning
burnt offerings or
sacrifices:
007:023 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my
voice, and I
will be your God, and
ye shall be my people: and walk ye
in
all the ways that I have
commanded you, that it may be well
unto you.
007:024 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear,
but walked in
the counsels and in
the imagination of their evil heart,
and
went backward, and not
forward.
007:025 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of
the land of
Egypt unto this day I
have even sent unto you all my
servants
the prophets, daily
rising up early and sending them:
007:026 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined
their ear, but
hardened their
neck: they did worse than their fathers.
007:027 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto
them; but they
will not hearken to
thee: thou shalt also call unto them;
but
they will not answer thee.
007:028 But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation
that obeyeth
not the voice of the
LORD their God, nor receiveth
correction:
truth is perished, and
is cut off from their mouth.
007:029 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it
away, and take up
a lamentation on
high places; for the LORD hath rejected
and
forsaken the generation of his
wrath.
007:030 For the children of Judah have done evil in my
sight, saith
the LORD: they have
set their abominations in the house
which
is called by my name, to
pollute it.
007:031 And they have built the high places of Tophet,
which is in the
valley of the son
of Hinnom, to burn their sons and
their
daughters in the fire; which
I commanded them not, neither
came
it into my heart.
007:032 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD,
that it
shall no more be called
Tophet, nor the valley of the son
of
Hinnom, but the valley of
slaughter: for they shall bury in
Tophet, till there be no place.
007:033 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for
the fowls of
the heaven, and for
the beasts of the earth; and none
shall
fray them away.
007:034 Then 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 be desolate.
008:001 At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring
out the bones
of the kings of
Judah, and the bones of his princes, and
the
bones of the priests, and the
bones of the prophets, and the
bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
008:002 And they shall spread them before the sun, and
the moon, and
all the host of
heaven, whom they have loved, and whom
they
have served, and after whom
they have walked, and whom they
have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not
be
gathered, nor be buried; they
shall be for dung upon the face
of
the earth.
008:003 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all
the residue
of them that remain of
this evil family, which remain in
all
the places whither I have
driven them, saith the LORD of
hosts.
008:004 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the
LORD; Shall
they fall, and not
arise? shall he turn away, and not return?
008:005 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back
by a
perpetual backsliding? they
hold fast deceit, they refuse to
return.
008:006 I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright:
no man
repented him of his
wickedness, saying, What have I
done?
every one turned to his
course, as the horse rusheth into
the
battle.
008:007 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her
appointed times; and
the turtle
and the crane and the swallow observe the time
of
their coming; but my people
know not the judgment of the LORD.
008:008 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the
LORD is with
us? Lo, certainly in
vain made he it; the pen of the
scribes
is in vain.
008:009 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and
taken: lo,
they have rejected the
word of the LORD; and what wisdom is
in
them?
008:010 Therefore will I give their wives unto others,
and their
fields to them that
shall inherit them: for every one from
the
least even unto the greatest
is given to covetousness, from
the
prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
008:011 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of
my people
slightly, saying, Peace,
peace; when there is no peace.
008:012 Were they ashamed when they had committed
abomination? nay,
they were not at
all ashamed, neither could they
blush:
therefore shall they fall
among them that fall: in the time
of
their visitation they shall be
cast down, saith the LORD.
008:013 I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there
shall be no
grapes on the vine,
nor figs on the fig tree, and the
leaf
shall fade; and the things
that I have given them shall pass
away from them.
008:014 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let
us enter
into the defenced cities,
and let us be silent there: for
the
LORD our God hath put us to
silence, and given us water of
gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
008:015 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a
time of
health, and behold
trouble!
008:016 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan:
the whole land
trembled at the
sound of the neighing of his strong ones;
for
they are come, and have
devoured the land, and all that is
in
it; the city, and those that
dwell therein.
008:017 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices,
among you,
which will not be
charmed, and they shall bite you, saith
the
LORD.
008:018 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my
heart is faint
in me.
008:019 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my
people
because of them that dwell
in a far country: Is not the LORD
in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me
to
anger with their graven images,
and with strange vanities?
008:020 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we
are not
saved.
008:021 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I
hurt; I am
black; astonishment
hath taken hold on me.
008:022 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician
there? why
then is not the health
of the daughter of my people recovered?
009:001 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a
fountain of
tears, that I might
weep day and night for the slain of
the
daughter of my people!
009:002 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place
of wayfaring
men; that I might
leave my people, and go from them! for
they
be all adulterers, an
assembly of treacherous men.
009:003 And they bend their tongues like their bow for
lies: but they
are not valiant for
the truth upon the earth; for they
proceed
from evil to evil, and
they know not me, saith the LORD.
009:004 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and
trust ye not in
any brother: for
every brother will utterly supplant,
and
every neighbour will walk with
slanders.
009:005 And they will deceive every one his neighbour,
and will not
speak the truth: they
have taught their tongue to speak
lies,
and weary themselves to
commit iniquity.
009:006 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit;
through deceit
they refuse to know
me, saith the LORD.
009:007 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I
will melt
them, and try them; for
how shall I do for the daughter of
my
people?
009:008 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh
deceit: one
speaketh peaceably to
his neighbour with his mouth, but
in
heart he layeth his wait.
009:009 Shall I not visit them for these things? saith
the LORD: shall
not my soul be
avenged on such a nation as this?
009:010 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and
wailing, and
for the habitations
of the wilderness a lamentation,
because
they are burned up, so
that none can pass through them;
neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl
of
the heavens and the beast are
fled; they are gone.
009:011 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of
dragons; and I
will make the
cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
009:012 Who is the wise man, that may understand this?
and who is he
to whom the mouth of
the LORD hath spoken, that he may
declare
it, for what the land
perisheth and is burned up like a
wilderness, that none passeth through?
009:013 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my
law which I
set before them, and
have not obeyed my voice, neither
walked
therein;
009:014 But have walked after the imagination of their
own heart, and
after Baalim, which
their fathers taught them:
009:015 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God
of Israel;
Behold, I will feed
them, even this people, with wormwood,
and
give them water of gall to
drink.
009:016 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom
neither they
nor their fathers
have known: and I will send a sword
after
them, till I have consumed
them.
009:017 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and
call for the
mourning women, that
they may come; and send for
cunning
women, that they may
come:
009:018 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing
for us, that
our eyes may run down
with tears, and our eyelids gush
out
with waters.
009:019 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How
are we
spoiled! we are greatly
confounded, because we have
forsaken
the land, because our
dwellings have cast us out.
009:020 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and
let your ear
receive the word of
his mouth, and teach your
daughters
wailing, and every one
her neighbour lamentation.
009:021 For death is come up into our windows, and is
entered into our
palaces, to cut
off the children from without, and the
young
men from the streets.
009:022 Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of
men shall
fall as dung upon the
open field, and as the handful after
the
harvestman, and none shall
gather them.
009:023 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory
in his wisdom,
neither let the
mighty man glory in his might, let not
the
rich man glory in his
riches:
009:024 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he
understandeth
and knoweth me, that
I am the LORD which exercise
lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth:
for
in these things I delight,
saith the LORD.
009:025 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I
will punish all
them which are
circumcised with the uncircumcised;
009:026 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of
Ammon, and
Moab, and all that are
in the utmost corners, that dwell
in
the wilderness: for all these
nations are uncircumcised, and
all
the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.
010:001 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto
you, O house of
Israel:
010:002 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the
heathen, and be
not dismayed at
the signs of heaven; for the heathen
are
dismayed at them.
010:003 For the customs of the people are vain: for one
cutteth a tree
out of the forest,
the work of the hands of the workman,
with
the axe.
010:004 They deck it with silver and with gold; they
fasten it with
nails and with
hammers, that it move not.
010:005 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not:
they must
needs be borne, because
they cannot go. Be not afraid of
them;
for they cannot do evil,
neither also is it in them to do
good.
010:006 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O
LORD; thou art
great, and thy name
is great in might.
010:007 Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for
to thee doth
it appertain:
forasmuch as among all the wise men of
the
nations, and in all their
kingdoms, there is none like unto
thee.
010:008 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the
stock is a
doctrine of
vanities.
010:009 Silver spread into plates is brought from
Tarshish, and gold
from Uphaz, the
work of the workman, and of the hands of
the
founder: blue and purple is
their clothing: they are all the
work of cunning men.
010:010 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living
God, and an
everlasting king: at
his wrath the earth shall tremble,
and
the nations shall not be able
to abide his indignation.
010:011 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have
not made the
heavens and the
earth, even they shall perish from the
earth,
and from under these
heavens.
010:012 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath
established the
world by his
wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by
his
discretion.
010:013 When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude
of waters in
the heavens, and he
causeth the vapours to ascend from
the
ends of the earth; he maketh
lightnings with rain, and
bringeth
forth the wind out of his treasures.
010:014 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every
founder is
confounded by the
graven image: for his molten image
is
falsehood, and there is no
breath in them.
010:015 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the
time of their
visitation they
shall perish.
010:016 The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is
the former of
all things; and
Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The
LORD
of hosts is his name.
010:017 Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant
of the
fortress.
010:018 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out
the
inhabitants of the land at
this once, and will distress them,
that they may find it so.
010:019 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but
I said, Truly
this is a grief, and
I must bear it.
010:020 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are
broken: my
children are gone forth
of me, and they are not: there is
none
to stretch forth my tent any
more, and to set up my curtains.
010:021 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not
sought the
LORD: therefore they
shall not prosper, and all their
flocks
shall be scattered.
010:022 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a
great commotion
out of the north
country, to make the cities of
Judah
desolate, and a den of
dragons.
010:023 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in
himself: it is
not in man that
walketh to direct his steps.
010:024 O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in
thine anger,
lest thou bring me to
nothing.
010:025 Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee
not, and
upon the families that
call not on thy name: for they
have
eaten up Jacob, and devoured
him, and consumed him, and have
made his habitation desolate.
011:001 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying,
011:002 Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak
unto the men of
Judah, and to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem;
011:003 And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God
of Israel;
Cursed be the man that
obeyeth not the words of this covenant,
011:004 Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I
brought them
forth out of the land
of Egypt, from the iron furnace,
saying,
Obey my voice, and do
them, according to all which I
command
you: so shall ye be my
people, and I will be your God:
011:005 That I may perform the oath which I have sworn
unto your
fathers, to give them a
land flowing with milk and honey,
as
it is this day. Then answered
I, and said, So be it, O LORD.
011:006 Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these
words in the
cities of Judah, and
in the streets of Jerusalem, saying,
Hear
ye the words of this
covenant, and do them.
011:007 For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in
the day that I
brought them up out
of the land of Egypt, even unto this
day,
rising early and protesting,
saying, Obey my voice.
011:008 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but
walked every
one in the
imagination of their evil heart: therefore I
will
bring upon them all the words
of this covenant, which I
commanded them to do: but they did them not.
011:009 And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found
among the men
of Judah, and among
the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
011:010 They are turned back to the iniquities of their
forefathers,
which refused to hear
my words; and they went after other
gods
to serve them: the house of
Israel and the house of Judah have
broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
011:011 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will
bring evil upon
them, which they
shall not be able to escape; and though
they
shall cry unto me, I will not
hearken unto them.
011:012 Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of
Jerusalem
go, and cry unto the
gods unto whom they offer incense:
but
they shall not save them at
all in the time of their trouble.
011:013 For according to the number of thy cities were
thy gods, O
Judah; and according
to the number of the streets of
Jerusalem
have ye set up altars to
that shameful thing, even altars
to
burn incense unto Baal.
011:014 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither
lift up a cry
or prayer for them:
for I will not hear them in the time
that
they cry unto me for their
trouble.
011:015 What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing
she hath
wrought lewdness with
many, and the holy flesh is passed
from
thee? when thou doest evil,
then thou rejoicest.
011:016 The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree,
fair, and of
goodly fruit: with
the noise of a great tumult he hath
kindled
fire upon it, and the
branches of it are broken.
011:017 For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath
pronounced evil
against thee, for
the evil of the house of Israel and of
the
house of Judah, which they
have done against themselves to
provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.
011:018 And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I
know it:
then thou shewedst me
their doings.
011:019 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to
the
slaughter; and I knew not that
they had devised devices
against
me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the
fruit
thereof, and let us cut him
off from the land of the living,
that his name may be no more remembered.
011:020 But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously,
that triest
the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for
unto thee have I revealed my
cause.
011:021 Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of
Anathoth, that
seek thy life,
saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD,
that thou die
not by our hand:
011:022 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold,
I will punish
them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and
their daughters
shall die by famine:
011:023 And there shall be no remnant of them: for I
will bring evil
upon the men of
Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.
012:001 Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with
thee: yet let me
talk with thee
of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the
wicked prosper?
wherefore are all they happy that deal very
treacherously?
012:002 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken
root: they grow,
yea, they bring
forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and
far from their
reins.
012:003 But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me,
and tried
mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the
slaughter, and
prepare them for the day of slaughter.
012:004 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of
every field
wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the
beasts are
consumed, and the birds; because they said, He
shall not see
our last end.
012:005 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have
wearied thee,
then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of
peace, wherein
thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how
wilt thou do in
the swelling of Jordan?
012:006 For even thy brethren, and the house of thy
father, even they
have dealt
treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a
multitude after
thee: believe them not, though they speak fair
words unto
thee.
012:007 I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine
heritage; I have
given the dearly
beloved of my soul into the hand of her
enemies.
012:008 Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the
forest; it crieth
out against me:
therefore have I hated it.
012:009 Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the
birds round
about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the
field, come to
devour.
012:010 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they
have trodden my
portion under
foot, they have made my pleasant portion a
desolate
wilderness.
012:011 They have made it desolate, and being desolate
it mourneth
unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man
layeth it to
heart.
012:012 The spoilers are come upon all high places
through the
wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the
one end of the
land even to the other end of the land: no
flesh shall have
peace.
012:013 They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns:
they have put
themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be
ashamed of your
revenues because of the fierce anger of the
LORD.
012:014 Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil
neighbours, that
touch the
inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to
inherit; Behold,
I will pluck them out of their land, and
pluck out the
house of Judah from among them.
012:015 And it shall come to pass, after that I have
plucked them out
I will return,
and have compassion on them, and will bring
them again,
every man to his heritage, and every man to his
land.
012:016 And it shall come to pass, if they will
diligently learn the
ways of my
people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as
they taught my
people to swear by Baal; then shall they be
built in the
midst of my people.
012:017 But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck
up and destroy
that nation,
saith the LORD.
013:001 Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a
linen girdle,
and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.
013:002 So I got a girdle according to the word of the
LORD, and put
it on my loins.
013:003 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying,
013:004 Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is
upon thy loins,
and arise, go to
Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the
rock.
013:005 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me.
013:006 And it came to pass after many days, that the
LORD said unto
me, Arise, go to
Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence,
which I
commanded thee to hide there.
013:007 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took
the girdle from
the place where
I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was
marred, it was
profitable for nothing.
013:008 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
013:009 Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I
mar the pride of
Judah, and the
great pride of Jerusalem.
013:010 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words,
which walk in
the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to
serve them, and
to worship them, shall even be as this girdle,
which is good
for nothing.
013:011 For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a
man, so have I
caused to cleave
unto me the whole house of Israel and the
whole house of
Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto
me for a people,
and for a name, and for a praise, and for a
glory: but they
would not hear.
013:012 Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word;
Thus saith the
LORD God of
Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine:
and they shall
say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that
every bottle
shall be filled with wine?
013:013 Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the
LORD, Behold, I
will fill all
the inhabitants of this land, even the kings
that sit upon
David's throne, and the priests, and the
prophets, and
all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with
drunkenness.
013:014 And I will dash them one against another, even
the fathers and
the sons
together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare,
nor have mercy,
but destroy them.
013:015 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.
013:016 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause
darkness, and
before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while
ye look for
light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and
make it gross
darkness.
013:017 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep
in secret
places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run
down with tears,
because the LORD's flock is carried away
captive.
013:018 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble
yourselves, sit
down: for your
principalities shall come down, even the crown
of your
glory.
013:019 The cities of the south shall be shut up, and
none shall open
them: Judah
shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall
be wholly
carried away captive.
013:020 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come
from the north:
where is the
flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
013:021 What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee?
for thou hast
taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not
sorrows take
thee, as a woman in travail?
013:022 And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come
these things
upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts
discovered, and
thy heels made bare.
013:023 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the
leopard his spots?
then may ye also
do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
013:024 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble
that passeth away
by the wind of
the wilderness.
013:025 This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures
from me, saith
the LORD;
because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in
falsehood.
013:026 Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy
face, that thy
shame may
appear.
013:027 I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings,
the lewdness
of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the
fields. Woe unto
thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made
clean? when
shall it once be?
014:001 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah
concerning the
dearth.
014:002 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish;
they are black
unto the ground;
and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
014:003 And their nobles have sent their little ones to
the waters:
they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with
their vessels
empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and
covered their
heads.
014:004 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no
rain in the
earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
014:005 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and
forsook it,
because there was no grass.
014:006 And the wild asses did stand in the high places,
they snuffed
up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there
was no
grass.
014:007 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against
us, do thou it
for thy name's
sake: for our backslidings are many; we have
sinned against
thee.
014:008 O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in
time of trouble,
why shouldest
thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a
wayfaring man
that turneth aside to tarry for a night?
014:009 Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a
mighty man that
cannot save? yet
thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we
are called by
thy name; leave us not.
014:010 Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have
they loved to
wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD
doth not accept
them; he will now remember their iniquity, and
visit their
sins.
014:011 Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this
people for their
good.
014:012 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and
when they offer
burnt offering
and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I
will consume
them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the
pestilence.
014:013 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets
say unto them,
Ye shall not see
the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but
I will give you
assured peace in this place.
014:014 Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets
prophesy lies in my
name: I sent
them not, neither have I commanded them, neither
spake unto them:
they prophesy unto you a false vision and
divination, and
a thing of nought, and the deceit of their
heart.
014:015 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the
prophets that
prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword
and famine shall
not be in this land; By sword and famine
shall those
prophets be consumed.
014:016 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be
cast out in the
streets of
Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and
they shall have
none to bury them, them, their wives, nor
their sons, nor
their daughters: for I will pour their
wickedness upon
them.
014:017 Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them;
Let mine eyes
run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for
the virgin
daughter of my people is broken with a great
breach, with a
very grievous blow.
014:018 If I go forth into the field, then behold the
slain with the
sword! and if I
enter into the city, then behold them that are
sick with
famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go
about into a
land that they know not.
014:019 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul
lothed Zion?
why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we
looked for
peace, and there is no good; and for the time of
healing, and
behold trouble!
014:020 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the
iniquity of
our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
014:021 Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not
disgrace the
throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.
014:022 Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles
that can
cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he,
O LORD our God?
therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou
hast made all
these things.
015:001 Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and
Samuel stood
before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast
them out of my
sight, and let them go forth.
015:002 And it shall come to pass, if they say unto
thee, Whither
shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the
LORD; Such as
are for death, to death; and such as are for the
sword, to the
sword; and such as are for the famine, to the
famine; and such
as are for the captivity, to the captivity.
015:003 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith
the LORD: the
sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the
heaven, and the
beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
015:004 And I will cause them to be removed into all
kingdoms of the
earth, because
of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah,
for that which
he did in Jerusalem.
015:005 For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem?
or who shall
bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?
015:006 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art
gone backward:
therefore will I
stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy
thee; I am weary
with repenting.
015:007 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of
the land; I
will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people since
they return not
from their ways.
015:008 Their widows are increased to me above the sand
of the seas: I
have brought
upon them against the mother of the young men a
spoiler at
noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it
suddenly, and
terrors upon the city.
015:009 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath
given up the
ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath
been ashamed and
confounded: and the residue of them will I
deliver to the
sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.
015:010 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a
man of strife
and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither
lent on usury,
nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one
of them doth
curse me.
015:011 The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy
remnant;
verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time
of evil and in
the time of affliction.
015:012 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
015:013 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to
the spoil
without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy
borders.
015:014 And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies
into a land
which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger,
which shall burn
upon you.
015:015 O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me,
and revenge
me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering:
know that for
thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
015:016 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and
thy word was
unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called
by thy name, O
LORD God of hosts.
015:017 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor
rejoiced; I sat
alone because of
thy hand: for thou hast filled me with
indignation.
015:018 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound
incurable, which
refuseth to be
healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a
liar, and as
waters that fail?
015:019 Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return,
then will I
bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou
take forth the
precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my
mouth: let them
return unto thee; but return not thou unto
them.
015:020 And I will make thee unto this people a fenced
brasen wall:
and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail
against thee:
for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver
thee, saith the
LORD.
015:021 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the
wicked, and I
will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.
016:001 The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,
016:002 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt
thou have sons
or daughters in
this place.
016:003 For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and
concerning the
daughters that
are born in this place, and concerning their
mothers that
bare them, and concerning their fathers that
begat them in
this land;
016:004 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall
not be lamented;
neither shall
they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon
the face of the
earth: and they shall be consumed by the
sword, and by
famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the
fowls of heaven,
and for the beasts of the earth.
016:005 For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the
house of mourning,
neither go to
lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my
peace from this
people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness
and mercies.
016:006 Both the great and the small shall die in this
land: they
shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor
cut themselves,
nor make themselves bald for them:
016:007 Neither shall men tear themselves for them in
mourning, to
comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup
of consolation
to drink for their father or for their mother.
016:008 Thou shalt not also go into the house of
feasting, to sit with
them to eat and
to drink.
016:009 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel; Behold, I
will cause to
cease out of this place in your eyes, and in
your days, the
voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the
voice of the
bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
016:010 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew
this people
all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath
the LORD
pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is
our iniquity? or
what is our sin that we have committed
against the LORD
our God?
016:011 Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your
fathers have
forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods,
and have served
them, and have worshipped them, and have
forsaken me, and
have not kept my law;
016:012 And ye have done worse than your fathers; for,
behold, ye walk
every one after
the imagination of his evil heart, that they
may not hearken
unto me:
016:013 Therefore will I cast you out of this land into
a land that ye
know not,
neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye
serve other gods
day and night; where I will not shew you
favour.
016:014 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the
LORD, that it
shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the
children of
Israel out of the land of Egypt;
016:015 But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the
children of Israel
from the land of
the north, and from all the lands whither he
had driven them:
and I will bring them again into their land
that I gave unto
their fathers.
016:016 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the
LORD, and they
shall fish them;
and after will I send for many hunters, and
they shall hunt
them from every mountain, and from every hill,
and out of the
holes of the rocks.
016:017 For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are
not hid from
my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
016:018 And first I will recompense their iniquity and
their sin
double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled
mine inheritance
with the carcases of their detestable and
abominable
things.
016:019 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my
refuge in the day
of affliction,
the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends
of the earth,
and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited
lies, vanity,
and things wherein there is no profit.
016:020 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?
016:021 Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them
to know, I will
cause them to
know mine hand and my might; and they shall know
that my name is
The LORD.
017:001 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron,
and with the
point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their
heart, and upon
the horns of your altars;
017:002 Whilst their children remember their altars and
their groves
by the green trees upon the high hills.
017:003 O my mountain in the field, I will give thy
substance and all
thy treasures to
the spoil, and thy high places for sin,
throughout all
thy borders.
017:004 And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from
thine heritage
that I gave
thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies
in the land
which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire
in mine anger,
which shall burn for ever.
017:005 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that
trusteth in man,
and maketh flesh
his arm, and whose heart departeth from the
LORD.
017:006 For he shall be like the heath in the desert,
and shall not
see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in
the wilderness,
in a salt land and not inhabited.
017:007 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD,
and whose hope
the LORD is.
017:008 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters,
and that
spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when
heat cometh, but
her leaf shall be green; and shall not be
careful in the
year of drought, neither shall cease from
yielding
fruit.
017:009 The heart is deceitful above all things, and
desperately
wicked: who can know it?
017:010 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins,
even to give
every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of
his doings.
017:011 As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth
them not; so he
that getteth
riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the
midst of his
days, and at his end shall be a fool.
017:012 A glorious high throne from the beginning is the
place of our
sanctuary.
017:013 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake
thee shall be
ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the
earth, because
they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of
living
waters.
017:014 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me,
and I shall
be saved: for thou art my praise.
017:015 Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of
the LORD? let
it come now.
017:016 As for me, I have not hastened from being a
pastor to follow
thee: neither
have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest:
that which came
out of my lips was right before thee.
017:017 Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil.
017:018 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but
let not me be
confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed:
bring upon them
the day of evil, and destroy them with double
destruction.
017:019 Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the
gate of the
children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in,
and by the which
they go out, and in all the gates of
Jerusalem;
017:020 And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD,
ye kings of
Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
that enter in by
these gates:
017:021 Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves,
and bear no
burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of
Jerusalem;
017:022 Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses
on the sabbath
day, neither do
ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as
I commanded your
fathers.
017:023 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear,
but made
their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive
instruction.
017:024 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently
hearken unto me,
saith the LORD,
to bring in no burden through the gates of
this city on the
sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to
do no work
therein;
017:025 Then shall there enter into the gates of this
city kings and
princes sitting
upon the throne of David, riding in chariots
and on horses,
they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and
the inhabitants
of Jerusalem: and this city shall remain for
ever.
017:026 And they shall come from the cities of Judah,
and from the
places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and
from the plain,
and from the mountains, and from the south,
bringing burnt
offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings,
and incense, and
bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house
of the LORD.
017:027 But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the
sabbath day,
and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of
Jerusalem on the
sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the
gates thereof,
and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem,
and it shall not
be quenched.
018:001 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
018:002 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and
there I will
cause thee to hear my words.
018:003 Then I went down to the potter's house, and,
behold, he
wrought a work on the wheels.
018:004 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred
in the hand of
the potter: so
he made it again another vessel, as seemed good
to the potter to
make it.
018:005 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
018:006 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this
potter? saith
the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are
ye in mine hand,
O house of Israel.
018:007 At what instant I shall speak concerning a
nation, and
concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to
destroy it;
018:008 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced,
turn from
their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do
unto them.
018:009 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a
nation, and
concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
018:010 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my
voice, then I
will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit
them.
018:011 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah,
and to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold,
I frame evil
against you, and devise a device against you:
return ye now
every one from his evil way, and make your ways
and your doings
good.
018:012 And they said, There is no hope: but we will
walk after our
own devices, and
we will every one do the imagination of his
evil heart.
018:013 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among
the heathen,
who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a
very horrible
thing.
018:014 Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which
cometh from the
rock of the
field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come
from another
place be forsaken?
018:015 Because my people hath forgotten me, they have
burned incense
to vanity, and
they have caused them to stumble in their ways
from the ancient
paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast
up;
018:016 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual
hissing; every
one that passeth
thereby shall be astonished, and wag his
head.
018:017 I will scatter them as with an east wind before
the enemy; I
will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their
calamity.
018:018 Then said they, Come and let us devise devices
against
Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor
counsel from the
wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come,
and let us smite
him with the tongue, and let us not give heed
to any of his
words.
018:019 Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the
voice of them that
contend with
me.
018:020 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they
have digged a pit
for my soul.
Remember that I stood before thee to speak good
for them, and to
turn away thy wrath from them.
018:021 Therefore deliver up their children to the
famine, and pour
out their blood
by the force of the sword; and let their wives
be bereaved of
their children, and be widows; and let their
men be put to
death; let their young men be slain by the sword
in battle.
018:022 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou
shalt bring a
troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take
me, and hid
snares for my feet.
018:023 Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel
against me to slay
me: forgive not
their iniquity, neither blot out their sin
from thy sight,
but let them be overthrown before thee; deal
thus with them
in the time of thine anger.
019:001 Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's
earthen bottle, and
take of the
ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the
priests;
019:002 And go forth unto the valley of the son of
Hinnom, which is by
the entry of the
east gate, and proclaim there the words that
I shall tell
thee,
019:003 And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings
of Judah, and
inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the
God of Israel;
Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the
which whosoever
heareth, his ears shall tingle.
019:004 Because they have forsaken me, and have
estranged this place,
and have burned
incense in it unto other gods, whom neither
they nor their
fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and
have filled this
place with the blood of innocents;
019:005 They have built also the high places of Baal, to
burn their
sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I
commanded not,
nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
019:006 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the
LORD, that this
place shall no
more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the
son of Hinnom,
but The valley of slaughter.
019:007 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and
Jerusalem in
this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before
their enemies,
and by the hands of them that seek their lives:
and their
carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the
heaven, and for
the beasts of the earth.
019:008 And I will make this city desolate, and an
hissing; every one
that passeth
thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of
all the plagues
thereof.
019:009 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their
sons and the
flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the
flesh of his
friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith
their enemies,
and they that seek their lives, shall straiten
them.
019:010 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of
the men that
go with thee,
019:011 And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of
hosts; Even so
will I break
this people and this city, as one breaketh a
potter's vessel,
that cannot be made whole again: and they
shall bury them
in Tophet, till there be no place to bury.
019:012 Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD,
and to the
inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:
019:013 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of
the kings of
Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all
the houses upon
whose roofs they have burned incense unto all
the host of
heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto
other gods.
019:014 Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD
had sent him
to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD's house;
and said to all
the people,
019:015 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Behold, I
will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil
that I have
pronounced against it, because they have hardened
their necks,
that they might not hear my words.
020:001 Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was
also chief
governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah
prophesied these
things.
020:002 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put
him in the
stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by
the house of the
LORD.
020:003 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur
brought forth
Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The
LORD hath not
called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.
020:004 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make
thee a terror to
thyself, and to
all thy friends: and they shall fall by the
sword of their
enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I
will give all
Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and
he shall carry
them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them
with the
sword.
020:005 Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this
city, and all
the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and
all the
treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the
hand of their
enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them,
and carry them
to Babylon.
020:006 And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine
house shall go
into captivity:
and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou
shalt die, and
shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy
friends, to whom
thou hast prophesied lies.
020:007 O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was
deceived; thou art
stronger than I,
and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily,
every one
mocketh me.
020:008 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence
and spoil;
because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and
a derision,
daily.
020:009 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor
speak any
more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning
fire shut up in
my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and
I could not
stay.
020:010 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every
side. Report,
say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for
my halting,
saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we
shall prevail
against him, and we shall take our revenge on
him.
020:011 But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible
one: therefore my
persecutors
shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they
shall be greatly
ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their
everlasting
confusion shall never be forgotten.
020:012 But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous,
and seest the
reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for
unto thee have I
opened my cause.
020:013 Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he
hath delivered
the soul of the
poor from the hand of evildoers.
020:014 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not
the day wherein
my mother bare
me be blessed.
020:015 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my
father, saying, A
man child is
born unto thee; making him very glad.
020:016 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD
overthrew,
and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and
the shouting at
noontide;
020:017 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my
mother might
have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
020:018 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see
labour and
sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
021:001 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD,
when king
Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and
Zephaniah the
son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,
021:002 Enquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for
Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon
maketh war against us; if so be that the LORD
will deal with
us according to all his wondrous works, that he
may go up from
us.
021:003 Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:
021:004 Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I
will turn back
the weapons of
war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight
against the king
of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which
besiege you
without the walls, and I will assemble them into
the midst of
this city.
021:005 And I myself will fight against you with an
outstretched hand
and with a
strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in
great wrath.
021:006 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city,
both man and
beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
021:007 And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver
Zedekiah king of
Judah, and his
servants, and the people, and such as are left
in this city
from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the
famine, into the
hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and
into the hand of
their enemies, and into the hand of those
that seek their
life: and he shall smite them with the edge of
the sword; he
shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor
have mercy.
021:008 And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith
the LORD;
Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of
death.
021:009 He that abideth in this city shall die by the
sword, and by
the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and
falleth to the
Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and
his life shall
be unto him for a prey.
021:010 For I have set my face against this city for
evil, and not for
good, saith the
LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the
king of Babylon,
and he shall burn it with fire.
021:011 And touching the house of the king of Judah,
say, Hear ye the
word of the
LORD;
021:012 O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute
judgment in the
morning, and
deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of
the oppressor,
lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that
none can quench
it, because of the evil of your doings.
021:013 Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the
valley, and
rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come
down against us?
or who shall enter into our habitations?
021:014 But I will punish you according to the fruit of
your doings,
saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest
thereof, and it
shall devour all things round about it.
022:001 Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the
king of
Judah, and speak there this word,
022:002 And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of
Judah, that
sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and
thy people that
enter in by these gates:
022:003 Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and
righteousness,
and deliver the
spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and
do no wrong, do
no violence to the stranger, the fatherless,
nor the widow,
neither shed innocent blood in this place.
022:004 For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there
enter in by
the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of
David, riding in
chariots and on horses, he, and his servants,
and his
people.
022:005 But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by
myself, saith
the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.
022:006 For thus saith the LORD unto the king's house of
Judah; Thou
art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will
make thee a
wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.
022:007 And I will prepare destroyers against thee,
every one with his
weapons: and
they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast
them into the
fire.
022:008 And many nations shall pass by this city, and
they shall say
every man to his
neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus
unto this great
city?
022:009 Then they shall answer, Because they have
forsaken the
covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and
served them.
022:010 Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him:
but weep sore
for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see
his native
country.
022:011 For thus saith the LORD touching Shallum the son
of Josiah
king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father,
which went forth
out of this place; He shall not return
thither any
more:
022:012 But he shall die in the place whither they have
led him
captive, and shall see this land no more.
022:013 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by
unrighteousness, and
his chambers by
wrong; that useth his neighbour's service
without wages,
and giveth him not for his work;
022:014 That saith, I will build me a wide house and
large chambers,
and cutteth him
out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and
painted with
vermilion.
022:015 Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself
in cedar? did
not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and
then it was well
with him?
022:016 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then
it was well
with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.
022:017 But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for
thy
covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for
oppression, and
for violence, to do it.
022:018 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning
Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah king of
Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying,
Ah my brother!
or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him,
saying, Ah lord!
or, Ah his glory!
022:019 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass,
drawn and cast
forth beyond the
gates of Jerusalem.
022:020 Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice
in Bashan,
and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.
022:021 I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou
saidst, I will
not hear. This
hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou
obeyedst not my
voice.
022:022 The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy
lovers shall go
into captivity:
surely then shalt thou be ashamed and
confounded for
all thy wickedness.
022:023 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in
the cedars,
how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain
as of a woman in
travail!
022:024 As I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son
of Jehoiakim
king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I
pluck thee
thence;
022:025 And I will give thee into the hand of them that
seek thy life,
and into the
hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into
the hand of
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand
of the
Chaldeans.
022:026 And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that
bare thee, into
another country,
where ye were not born; and there shall ye
die.
022:027 But to the land whereunto they desire to return,
thither shall
they not return.
022:028 Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he
a vessel
wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and
his seed, and
are cast into a land which they know not?
022:029 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.
022:030 Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man
childless, a man that
shall not
prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall
prosper, sitting
upon the throne of David, and ruling any more
in Judah.
023:001 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter
the sheep of
my pasture! saith the LORD.
023:002 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel
against the
pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and
driven them
away, and have not visited them: behold, I will
visit upon you
the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.
023:003 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of
all countries
whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their
folds; and they
shall be fruitful and increase.
023:004 And I will set up shepherds over them which
shall feed them:
and they shall
fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall
they be lacking,
saith the LORD.
023:005 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I
will raise unto
David a
righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper,
and shall
execute judgment and justice in the earth.
023:006 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel
shall dwell
safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE
LORD OUR
RIGHTEOUSNESS.
023:007 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the
LORD, that they
shall no more
say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the
children of
Israel out of the land of Egypt;
023:008 But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which
led the seed
of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all
countries
whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in
their own
land.
023:009 Mine heart within me is broken because of the
prophets; all my
bones shake; I
am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine
hath overcome,
because of the LORD, and because of the words
of his
holiness.
023:010 For the land is full of adulterers; for because
of swearing
the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are
dried up, and
their course is evil, and their force is not
right.
023:011 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in
my house have
I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.
023:012 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as
slippery ways in the
darkness: they
shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I
will bring evil
upon them, even the year of their visitation,
saith the
LORD.
023:013 And I have seen folly in the prophets of
Samaria; they
prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
023:014 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an
horrible
thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen
also the hands
of evildoers, that none doth return from his
wickedness; they
are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the
inhabitants
thereof as Gomorrah.
023:015 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts
concerning the
prophets;
Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make
them drink the
water of gall: for from the prophets of
Jerusalem is
profaneness gone forth into all the land.
023:016 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto
the words of
the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they
speak a vision
of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of
the LORD.
023:017 They say still unto them that despise me, The
LORD hath said,
Ye shall have
peace; and they say unto every one that walketh
after the
imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come
upon you.
023:018 For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD,
and hath
perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and
heard it?
023:019 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in
fury, even a
grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of
the wicked.
023:020 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he
have
executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his
heart: in the
latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.
023:021 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I
have not
spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
023:022 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had
caused my people
to hear my
words, then they should have turned them from their
evil way, and
from the evil of their doings.
023:023 Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
023:024 Can any hide himself in secret places that I
shall not see
him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the
LORD.
023:025 I have heard what the prophets said, that
prophesy lies in my
name, saying, I
have dreamed, I have dreamed.
023:026 How long shall this be in the heart of the
prophets that
prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their
own heart;
023:027 Which think to cause my people to forget my name
by their
dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their
fathers have
forgotten my name for Baal.
023:028 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a
dream; and he
that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is
the chaff to the
wheat? saith the LORD.
023:029 Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD;
and like a
hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
023:030 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets,
saith the LORD,
that steal my
words every one from his neighbour.
023:031 Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the
LORD, that use
their tongues,
and say, He saith.
023:032 Behold, I am against them that prophesy false
dreams, saith
the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by
their lies, and
by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor
commanded them:
therefore they shall not profit this people at
all, saith the
LORD.
023:033 And when this people, or the prophet, or a
priest, shall ask
thee, saying,
What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then
say unto them,
What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the
LORD.
023:034 And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the
people, that
shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man
and his
house.
023:035 Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour,
and every one to
his brother,
What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath the
LORD spoken?
023:036 And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no
more: for every
man's word shall
be his burden; for ye have perverted the
words of the
living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.
023:037 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath
the LORD
answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken?
023:038 But since ye say, The burden of the LORD;
therefore thus saith
the LORD;
Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD,
and I have sent
unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden
of the LORD;
023:039 Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly
forget you, and I
will forsake
you, and the city that I gave you and your
fathers, and
cast you out of my presence:
023:040 And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon
you, and a
perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
024:001 The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of
figs were set
before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king
of Babylon had
carried away captive Jeconiah the son of
Jehoiakim king
of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the
carpenters and
smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to
Babylon.
024:002 One basket had very good figs, even like the
figs that are
first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which
could not be
eaten, they were so bad.
024:003 Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou,
Jeremiah? And I
said, Figs; the
good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil,
that cannot be
eaten, they are so evil.
024:004 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
024:005 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like
these good figs,
so will I
acknowledge them that are carried away captive of
Judah, whom I
have sent out of this place into the land of the
Chaldeans for
their good.
024:006 For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and
I will bring
them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull
them down; and I
will plant them, and not pluck them up.
024:007 And I will give them an heart to know me, that I
am the LORD:
and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they
shall return
unto me with their whole heart.
024:008 And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten,
they are so evil;
surely thus
saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king
of Judah, and
his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that
remain in this
land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:
024:009 And I will deliver them to be removed into all
the kingdoms of
the earth for
their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a
taunt and a
curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.
024:010 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the
pestilence,
among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I
gave unto them
and to their fathers.
025:001 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all
the people of
Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king
of Judah, that
was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon;
025:002 The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all
the people of
Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
025:003 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of
Amon king of
Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth
year, the word
of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have
spoken unto you,
rising early and speaking; but ye have not
hearkened.
025:004 And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants
the prophets,
rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor
inclined your
ear to hear.
025:005 They said, Turn ye again now every one from his
evil way, and
from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the
LORD hath given
unto you and to your fathers for ever and
ever:
025:006 And go not after other gods to serve them, and
to worship
them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your
hands; and I
will do you no hurt.
025:007 Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the
LORD; that ye
might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your
own hurt.
025:008 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because
ye have not
heard my words,
025:009 Behold, I will send and take all the families of
the north,
saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my
servant, and
will bring them against this land, and against
the inhabitants
thereof, and against all these nations round
about, and will
utterly destroy them, and make them an
astonishment,
and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
025:010 Moreover 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 candle.
025:011 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and
an
astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of
Babylon seventy
years.
025:012 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years
are
accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that
nation, saith
the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of
the Chaldeans,
and will make it perpetual desolations.
025:013 And I will bring upon that land all my words
which I have
pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book,
which Jeremiah
hath prophesied against all the nations.
025:014 For many nations and great kings shall serve
themselves of
them also: and I will recompense them according to their
deeds, and
according to the works of their own hands.
025:015 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me;
Take the wine
cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to
whom I send
thee, to drink it.
025:016 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad,
because of the
sword that I
will send among them.
025:017 Then took I the cup at the LORD's hand, and made
all the
nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:
025:018 To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and
the kings
thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation,
an astonishment,
an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
025:019 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his
princes, and
all his people;
025:020 And all the mingled people, and all the kings of
the land of
Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and
Ashkelon, and
Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
025:021 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
025:022 And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of
Zidon, and
the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,
025:023 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in
the utmost
corners,
025:024 And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings
of the mingled
people that
dwell in the desert,
025:025 And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of
Elam, and all
the kings of the Medes,
025:026 And all the kings of the north, far and near,
one with
another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the
face of the
earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after
them.
025:027 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith
the LORD of
hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue,
and fall, and
rise no more, because of the sword which I will
send among
you.
025:028 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup
at thine hand
to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD
of hosts; Ye
shall certainly drink.
025:029 For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which
is called by
my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be
unpunished: for
I will call for a sword upon all the
inhabitants of
the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.
025:030 Therefore prophesy thou against them all these
words, and say
unto them, The
LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his
voice from his
holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon
his habitation;
he shall give a shout, as they that tread the
grapes, against
all the inhabitants of the earth.
025:031 A noise shall come even to the ends of the
earth; for the LORD
hath a
controversy with the nations, he will plead with all
flesh; he will
give them that are wicked to the sword, saith
the LORD.
025:032 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall
go forth from
nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up
from the coasts
of the earth.
025:033 And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day
from one end of
the earth even
unto the other end of the earth: they shall not
be lamented,
neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung
upon the
ground.
025:034 Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow
yourselves in the
ashes, ye
principal of the flock: for the days of your
slaughter and of
your dispersions are accomplished; and ye
shall fall like
a pleasant vessel.
025:035 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor
the principal
of the flock to escape.
025:036 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an
howling of the
principal of the
flock, shall be heard: for the LORD hath
spoiled their
pasture.
025:037 And the peaceable habitations are cut down
because of the
fierce anger of
the LORD.
025:038 He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for
their land is
desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and
because of his
fierce anger.
026:001 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the
son of Josiah
king of Judah came this word from the LORD, saying,
026:002 Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the
LORD's house,
and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship
in the LORD's
house, all the words that I command thee to
speak unto them;
diminish not a word:
026:003 If so be they will hearken, and turn every man
from his evil
way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do
unto them
because of the evil of their doings.
026:004 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the
LORD; If ye will
not hearken to
me, to walk in my law, which I have set before
you,
026:005 To hearken to the words of my servants the
prophets, whom I
sent unto you,
both rising up early, and sending them, but ye
have not
hearkened;
026:006 Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and
will make this
city a curse to
all the nations of the earth.
026:007 So the priests and the prophets and all the
people heard
Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.
026:008 Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an
end of speaking
all that the
LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the
people, that the
priests and the prophets and all the people
took him,
saying, Thou shalt surely die.
026:009 Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the
LORD, saying, This
house shall be
like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate
without an
inhabitant? And all the people were gathered
against Jeremiah
in the house of the LORD.
026:010 When the princes of Judah heard these things,
then they came
up from the
king's house unto the house of the LORD, and sat
down in the
entry of the new gate of the LORD's house.
026:011 Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the
princes and
to all the people, saying, This man is worthy to die; for he
hath prophesied
against this city, as ye have heard with your
ears.
026:012 Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to
all the
people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this
house and
against this city all the words that ye have heard.
026:013 Therefore now amend your ways and your doings,
and obey the
voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of
the evil that he
hath pronounced against you.
026:014 As for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me
as seemeth
good and meet unto you.
026:015 But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to
death, ye shall
surely bring
innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this
city, and upon
the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the
LORD hath sent
me unto you to speak all these words in your
ears.
026:016 Then said the princes and all the people unto
the priests and
to the prophets;
This man is not worthy to die: for he hath
spoken to us in
the name of the LORD our God.
026:017 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land,
and spake to
all the assembly of the people, saying,
026:018 Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of
Hezekiah king
of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus
saith the LORD
of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field,
and Jerusalem
shall become heaps, and the mountain of the
house as the
high places of a forest.
026:019 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him
at all to
death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and
the LORD
repented him of the evil which he had pronounced
against them?
Thus might we procure great evil against our
souls.
026:020 And there was also a man that prophesied in the
name of the
LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who
prophesied
against this city and against this land according
to all the words
of Jeremiah.
026:021 And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty
men, and all
the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to
death: but when
Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and
went into
Egypt;
026:022 And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt,
namely, Elnathan
the son of
Achbor, and certain men with him into Egypt.
026:023 And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and
brought him
unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast
his dead body
into the graves of the common people.
026:024 Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of
Shaphan was with
Jeremiah, that
they should not give him into the hand of the
people to put
him to death.
027:001 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the
son of Josiah
king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD,
saying,
027:002 Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and
yokes, and put
them upon thy
neck,
027:003 And send them to the king of Edom, and to the
king of Moab,
and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus,
and to the king
of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which
come to
Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;
027:004 And command them to say unto their masters, Thus
saith the
LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your
masters;
027:005 I have made the earth, the man and the beast
that are upon the
ground, by my
great power and by my outstretched arm, and have
given it unto
whom it seemed meet unto me.
027:006 And now have I given all these lands into the
hand of
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts
of the field
have I given him also to serve him.
027:007 And all nations shall serve him, and his son,
and his son's
son, until the very time of his land come: and then many
nations and
great kings shall serve themselves of him.
027:008 And it shall come to pass, that the nation and
kingdom which
will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon,
and that will
not put their neck under the yoke of the king of
Babylon, that
nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the
sword, and with
the famine, and with the pestilence, until I
have consumed
them by his hand.
027:009 Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor
to your
diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to
your sorcerers,
which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not
serve the king
of Babylon:
027:010 For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you
far from your
land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.
027:011 But the nations that bring their neck under the
yoke of the
king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still
in their own
land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and
dwell
therein.
027:012 I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according
to all these
words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of
Babylon, and
serve him and his people, and live.
027:013 Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the
sword, by the
famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against
the nation that
will not serve the king of Babylon?
027:014 Therefore hearken not unto the words of the
prophets that
speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of
Babylon: for
they prophesy a lie unto you.
027:015 For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet
they prophesy a
lie in my name;
that I might drive you out, and that ye might
perish, ye, and
the prophets that prophesy unto you.
027:016 Also I spake to the priests and to all this
people, saying,
Thus saith the
LORD; Hearken not to the words of your prophets
that prophesy
unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the
LORD's house
shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon:
for they
prophesy a lie unto you.
027:017 Hearken not unto them; serve the king of
Babylon, and live:
wherefore should
this city be laid waste?
027:018 But if they be prophets, and if the word of the
LORD be with
them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of hosts,
that the vessels
which are left in the house of the LORD, and
in the house of
the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to
Babylon.
027:019 For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the
pillars, and
concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning
the residue of
the vessels that remain in this city.
027:020 Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not,
when he carried
away captive
Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from
Jerusalem to
Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and
Jerusalem;
027:021 Yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel,
concerning the vessels that remain in the house of the LORD,
and in the house
of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem;
027:022 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there
shall they be
until the day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will I
bring them up,
and restore them to this place.
028:001 And it came to pass the same year, in the
beginning of the
reign of
Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in
the fifth month,
that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet,
which was of
Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of the LORD,
in the presence
of the priests and of all the people, saying,
028:002 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel, saying, I
have broken the
yoke of the king of Babylon.
028:003 Within two full years will I bring again into
this place all
the vessels of
the LORD's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon took
away from this place, and carried them to
Babylon:
028:004 And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah
the son of
Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that
went into
Babylon, saith the LORD: for I will break the yoke
of the king of
Babylon.
028:005 Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet
Hananiah in
the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the
people that
stood in the house of the LORD,
028:006 Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD
do so: the LORD
perform thy
words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again
the vessels of
the LORD's house, and all that is carried away
captive, from
Babylon into this place.
028:007 Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I
speak in thine
ears, and in the
ears of all the people;
028:008 The prophets that have been before me and before
thee of old
prophesied both against many countries, and against great
kingdoms, of
war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
028:009 The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the
word of the
prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known,
that the LORD
hath truly sent him.
028:010 Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off
the prophet
Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.
028:011 And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the
people, saying,
Thus saith the
LORD; Even so will I break the yoke of
Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon from the neck of all nations
within the space
of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah
went his
way.
028:012 Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the
prophet,
after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off
the neck of the
prophet Jeremiah, saying,
028:013 Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the
LORD; Thou hast
broken the yokes
of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes
of iron.
028:014 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel; I have
put a yoke of
iron upon the neck of all these nations, that
they may serve
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall
serve him: and I
have given him the beasts of the field also.
028:015 Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the
prophet, Hear
now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest
this people to
trust in a lie.
028:016 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will
cast thee from
off the face of
the earth: this year thou shalt die, because
thou hast taught
rebellion against the LORD.
028:017 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in
the seventh
month.
029:001 Now these are the words of the letter that
Jeremiah the
prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders
which were
carried away captives, and to the priests, and to
the prophets,
and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had
carried away
captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;
029:002 (After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen,
and the eunuchs,
the princes of
Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and
the smiths, were
departed from Jerusalem;)
029:003 By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and
Gemariah the son
of Hilkiah,
(whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to
Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon) saying,
029:004 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
unto all that
are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried
away from
Jerusalem unto Babylon;
029:005 Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant
gardens, and eat
the fruit of
them;
029:006 Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and
take wives
for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they
may bear sons
and daughters; that ye may be increased there,
and not
diminished.
029:007 And seek the peace of the city whither I have
caused you to be
carried away
captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in
the peace
thereof shall ye have peace.
029:008 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel; Let not
your prophets
and your diviners, that be in the midst of you,
deceive you,
neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to
be dreamed.
029:009 For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I
have not sent
them, saith the LORD.
029:010 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy
years be
accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good
word toward you,
in causing you to return to this place.
029:011 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,
saith the
LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an
expected
end.
029:012 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and
pray unto me,
and I will hearken unto you.
029:013 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall
search for me
with all your heart.
029:014 And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and
I will turn
away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the
nations, and
from all the places whither I have driven you,
saith the LORD;
and I will bring you again into the place
whence I caused
you to be carried away captive.
029:015 Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up
prophets in
Babylon;
029:016 Know that thus saith the LORD of the king that
sitteth upon
the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in
this city, and
of your brethren that are not gone forth with
you into
captivity;
029:017 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will
send upon them
the sword, the
famine, and the pestilence, and will make them
like vile figs,
that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
029:018 And I will persecute them with the sword, with
the famine, and
with the
pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to
all the kingdoms
of the earth, to be a curse, and an
astonishment,
and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the
nations whither
I have driven them:
029:019 Because they have not hearkened to my words,
saith the LORD,
which I sent
unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up
early and
sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD.
029:020 Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye
of the
captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon:
029:021 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
of Ahab the
son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which
prophesy a lie
unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver
them into the
hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he
shall slay them
before your eyes;
029:022 And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the
captivity of
Judah which are in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like
Zedekiah and
like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in
the fire;
029:023 Because they have committed villany in Israel,
and have
committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have
spoken lying
words in my name, which I have not commanded
them; even I
know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.
029:024 Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying,
029:025 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel, saying,
Because thou
hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people
that are at
Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah
the priest, and
to all the priests, saying,
029:026 The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of
Jehoiada the
priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD,
for every man
that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that
thou shouldest
put him in prison, and in the stocks.
029:027 Now therefore why hast thou not reproved
Jeremiah of Anathoth,
which maketh
himself a prophet to you?
029:028 For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon,
saying, This
captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and
plant gardens,
and eat the fruit of them.
029:029 And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the
ears of
Jeremiah the prophet.
029:030 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
029:031 Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus
saith the LORD
concerning
Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath
prophesied unto
you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to
trust in a
lie:
029:032 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will
punish Shemaiah
the Nehelamite,
and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell
among this
people; neither shall he behold the good that I
will do for my
people, saith the LORD; because he hath taught
rebellion
against the LORD.
030:001 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
030:002 Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying,
Write thee all
the words that I
have spoken unto thee in a book.
030:003 For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I
will bring
again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the
LORD: and I will
cause them to return to the land that I gave
to their
fathers, and they shall possess it.
030:004 And these are the words that the LORD spake
concerning Israel
and concerning
Judah.
030:005 For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice
of trembling,
of fear, and not of peace.
030:006 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail
with child?
wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a
woman in
travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
030:007 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is
like it: it is
even the time of
Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of
it.
030:008 For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the
LORD of
hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will
burst thy bonds,
and strangers shall no more serve themselves
of him:
030:009 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and
David their king,
whom I will
raise up unto them.
030:010 Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob,
saith the LORD;
neither be
dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from
afar, and thy
seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob
shall return,
and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none
shall make him
afraid.
030:011 For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save
thee: though I
make a full end
of all nations whither I have scattered thee,
yet I will not
make a full end of thee: but I will correct
thee in measure,
and will not leave thee altogether
unpunished.
030:012 For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is
incurable, and thy
wound is
grievous.
030:013 There is none to plead thy cause, that thou
mayest be bound
up: thou hast no
healing medicines.
030:014 All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek
thee not; for I
have wounded
thee with the wound of an enemy, with the
chastisement of
a cruel one, for the multitude of thine
iniquity;
because thy sins were increased.
030:015 Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow
is incurable
for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were
increased, I
have done these things unto thee.
030:016 Therefore all they that devour thee shall be
devoured; and all
thine
adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity;
and they that
spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey
upon thee will I
give for a prey.
030:017 For I will restore health unto thee, and I will
heal thee of
thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an
Outcast, saying,
This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
030:018 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again
the captivity
of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and
the city shall
be builded upon her own heap, and the palace
shall remain
after the manner thereof.
030:019 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and
the voice of
them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall
not be few; I
will also glorify them, and they shall not be
small.
030:020 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and
their
congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish
all that oppress
them.
030:021 And their nobles shall be of themselves, and
their governor
shall proceed
from the midst of them; and I will cause him to
draw near, and
he shall approach unto me: for who is this that
engaged his
heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD.
030:022 And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
030:023 Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth
with fury, a
continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of
the wicked.
030:024 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return,
until he hath
done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart:
in the latter
days ye shall consider it.
031:001 At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the
God of all the
families of
Israel, and they shall be my people.
031:002 Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left
of the sword
found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to
cause him to
rest.
031:003 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying,
Yea, I have
loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with
lovingkindness
have I drawn thee.
031:004 Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be
built, O virgin of
Israel: thou
shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and
shalt go forth
in the dances of them that make merry.
031:005 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of
Samaria: the
planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.
031:006 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon
the mount
Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the
LORD our
God.
031:007 For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for
Jacob, and
shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye,
and say, O LORD,
save thy people, the remnant of Israel.
031:008 Behold, I will bring them from the north
country, and gather
them from the
coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and
the lame, the
woman with child and her that travaileth with
child together:
a great company shall return thither.
031:009 They shall come with weeping, and with
supplications will I
lead them: I
will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters
in a straight
way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a
father to
Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
031:010 Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and
declare it in the
isles afar off,
and say, He that scattered Israel will gather
him, and keep
him, as a shepherd doth his flock.
031:011 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed
him from the
hand of him that was stronger than he.
031:012 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height
of Zion, and
shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat,
and for wine,
and for oil, and for the young of the flock and
of the herd: and
their soul shall be as a watered garden; and
they shall not
sorrow any more at all.
031:013 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both
young men and
old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and
will comfort
them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
031:014 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with
fatness, and
my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD.
031:015 Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah,
lamentation,
and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to
be comforted for
her children, because they were not.
031:016 Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from
weeping, and thine
eyes from tears:
for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the
LORD; and they
shall come again from the land of the enemy.
031:017 And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD,
that thy
children shall come again to their own border.
031:018 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself
thus; Thou hast
chastised me,
and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed
to the yoke:
turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art
the LORD my
God.
031:019 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and
after that I
was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea,
even confounded,
because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
031:020 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child?
for since I
spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still:
therefore my
bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have
mercy upon him,
saith the LORD.
031:021 Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set
thine heart
toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn
again, O virgin
of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.
031:022 How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding
daughter? for
the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall
compass a
man.
031:023 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
As yet they
shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities
thereof, when I
shall bring again their captivity; The LORD
bless thee, O
habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.
031:024 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in
all the cities
thereof
together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with
flocks.
031:025 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have
replenished
every sorrowful soul.
031:026 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was
sweet unto
me.
031:027 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I
will sow the
house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man,
and with the
seed of beast.
031:028 And it shall come to pass, that like as I have
watched over
them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and
to destroy, and
to afflict; so will I watch over them, to
build, and to
plant, saith the LORD.
031:029 In those days they shall say no more, The
fathers have eaten a
sour grape, and
the children's teeth are set on edge.
031:030 But every one shall die for his own iniquity:
every man that
eateth the sour
grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
031:031 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I
will make a new
covenant with
the house of Israel, and with the house of
Judah:
031:032 Not according to the covenant that I made with
their fathers
in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of
the land of
Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I
was an husband
unto them, saith the LORD:
031:033 But this shall be the covenant that I will make
with the house
of Israel; After
those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law
in their inward
parts, and write it in their hearts; and will
be their God,
and they shall be my people.
031:034 And they shall teach no more every man his
neighbour, and
every man his
brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall
all know me,
from the least of them unto the greatest of them,
saith the LORD:
for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will
remember their
sin no more.
031:035 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a
light by day,
and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by
night, which
divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The
LORD of hosts is
his name:
031:036 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith
the LORD,
then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation
before me for
ever.
031:037 Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be
measured, and the
foundations of
the earth searched out beneath, I will also
cast off all the
seed of Israel for all that they have done,
saith the
LORD.
031:038 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the
city shall be
built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of
the corner.
031:039 And the measuring line shall yet go forth over
against it upon
the hill Gareb,
and shall compass about to Goath.
031:040 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of
the ashes, and
all the fields
unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of
the horse gate
toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD;
it shall not be
plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.
032:001 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in
the tenth year
of Zedekiah king
of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of
Nebuchadrezzar.
032:002 For then the king of Babylon's army besieged
Jerusalem: and
Jeremiah the
prophet was shut up in the court of the prison,
which was in the
king of Judah's house.
032:003 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up,
saying, Wherefore
dost thou
prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I
will give this
city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and
he shall take
it;
032:004 And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out
of the hand of
the Chaldeans,
but shall surely be delivered into the hand of
the king of
Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth,
and his eyes
shall behold his eyes;
032:005 And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there
shall he be
until I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the
Chaldeans, ye
shall not prosper.
032:006 And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
032:007 Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle
shall come
unto thee saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for
the right of
redemption is thine to buy it.
032:008 So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the
court of the
prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me,
Buy my field, I
pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in
the country of
Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is
thine, and the
redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I
knew that this
was the word of the LORD.
032:009 And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's
son, that was in
Anathoth, and
weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of
silver.
032:010 And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it,
and took
witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.
032:011 So I took the evidence of the purchase, both
that which was
sealed according
to the law and custom, and that which was
open:
032:012 And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto
Baruch the son of
Neriah, the son
of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine
uncle's son, and
in the presence of the witnesses that
subscribed the
book of the purchase, before all the Jews that
sat in the court
of the prison.
032:013 And I charged Baruch before them, saying,
032:014 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Take these
evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is
sealed, and this
evidence which is open; and put them in an
earthen vessel,
that they may continue many days.
032:015 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel; Houses
and fields and
vineyards shall be possessed again in this
land.
032:016 Now when I had delivered the evidence of the
purchase unto
Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying,
032:017 Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven
and the earth
by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing
too hard for
thee:
032:018 Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and
recompensest
the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children
after them: the
Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, is
his name,
032:019 Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine
eyes are open
upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one
according to his
ways, and according to the fruit of his
doings:
032:020 Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of
Egypt, even
unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men; and hast
made thee a
name, as at this day;
032:021 And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of
the land of
Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand,
and with a
stretched out arm, and with great terror;
032:022 And hast given them this land, which thou didst
swear to their
fathers to give
them, a land flowing with milk and honey;
032:023 And they came in, and possessed it; but they
obeyed not thy
voice, neither
walked in thy law; they have done nothing of
all that thou
commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast
caused all this
evil to come upon them:
032:024 Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city
to take it; and
the city is
given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight
against it,
because of the sword, and of the famine, and of
the pestilence:
and what thou hast spoken is come to pass;
and, behold,
thou seest it.
032:025 And thou hast said unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy thee
the field for
money, and take witnesses; for the city is given into the hand
of the
Chaldeans.
032:026 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
032:027 Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is
there any
thing too hard for me?
032:028 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will
give this city
into the hand of
the Chaldeans, and into the hand of
Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon, and he shall take it:
032:029 And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city,
shall come
and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon
whose roofs they
have offered incense unto Baal, and poured
out drink
offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger.
032:030 For the children of Israel and the children of
Judah have only
done evil before
me from their youth: for the children of
Israel have only
provoked me to anger with the work of their
hands, saith the
LORD.
032:031 For this city hath been to me as a provocation
of mine anger
and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this
day; that I
should remove it from before my face,
032:032 Because of all the evil of the children of
Israel and of the
children of
Judah, which they have done to provoke me to
anger, they,
their kings, their princes, their priests, and
their prophets,
and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem.
032:033 And they have turned unto me the back, and not
the face:
though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet
they have not
hearkened to receive instruction.
032:034 But they set their abominations in the house,
which is called
by my name, to
defile it.
032:035 And they built the high places of Baal, which
are in the
valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their
daughters to
pass through the fire unto Molech; which I
commanded them
not, neither came it into my mind, that they
should do this
abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
032:036 And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God
of Israel,
concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered
into the hand of
the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the
famine, and by
the pestilence;
032:037 Behold, I will gather them out of all countries,
whither I
have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great
wrath; and I
will bring them again unto this place, and I will
cause them to
dwell safely:
032:038 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
032:039 And I will give them one heart, and one way,
that they may
fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children
after them:
032:040 And I will make an everlasting covenant with
them, that I will
not turn away
from them, to do them good; but I will put my
fear in their
hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
032:041 Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good,
and I will
plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with
my whole
soul.
032:042 For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought
all this great
evil upon this
people, so will I bring upon them all the good
that I have
promised them.
032:043 And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof
ye say, It is
desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of
the
Chaldeans.
032:044 Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe
evidences, and
seal them, and
take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in
the places about
Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in
the cities of
the mountains, and in the cities of the valley,
and in the
cities of the south: for I will cause their
captivity to
return, saith the LORD.
033:001 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah
the second
time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison,
saying,
033:002 Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD
that formed
it, to establish it; the LORD is his name;
033:003 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew
thee great and
mighty things,
which thou knowest not.
033:004 For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel,
concerning the
houses of this
city, and concerning the houses of the kings of
Judah, which are
thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;
033:005 They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is
to fill them
with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger
and in my fury,
and for all whose wickedness I have hid my
face from this
city.
033:006 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I
will cure them,
and will reveal
unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
033:007 And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the
captivity of
Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.
033:008 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity,
whereby they
have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their
iniquities,
whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have
transgressed
against me.
033:009 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise
and an honour
before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the
good that I do
unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for
all the goodness
and for all the prosperity that I procure
unto it.
033:010 Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard
in this place,
which ye say
shall be desolate without man and without beast,
even in the
cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem,
that are
desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and
without
beast,
033:011 The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the
voice of the
bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that
shall say,
Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for
his mercy
endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the
sacrifice of
praise into the house of the LORD. For I will
cause to return
the captivity of the land, as at the first,
saith the
LORD.
033:012 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this
place, which is
desolate without
man and without beast, and in all the cities
thereof, shall
be an habitation of shepherds causing their
flocks to lie
down.
033:013 In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of
the vale, and
in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and
in the places
about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah,
shall the flocks
pass again under the hands of him that
telleth them,
saith the LORD.
033:014 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I
will perform
that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel
and to the house
of Judah.
033:015 In those days, and at that time, will I cause
the Branch of
righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute
judgment and
righteousness in the land.
033:016 In those days shall Judah be saved, and
Jerusalem shall dwell
safely: and this
is the name wherewith she shall be called,
The LORD our
righteousness.
033:017 For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want
a man to sit
upon the throne of the house of Israel;
033:018 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man
before me to
offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do
sacrifice
continually.
033:019 And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,
033:020 Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant
of the day,
and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day
and night in
their season;
033:021 Then may also my covenant be broken with David
my servant,
that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and
with the Levites
the priests, my ministers.
033:022 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered,
neither the sand of
the sea
measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my
servant, and the
Levites that minister unto me.
033:023 Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
033:024 Considerest thou not what this people have
spoken, saying, The
two families
which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast
them off? thus
they have despised my people, that they should
be no more a
nation before them.
033:025 Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with
day and night,
and if I have
not appointed the ordinances of heaven and
earth;
033:026 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob and
David my servant,
so that I will
not take any of his seed to be rulers over the
seed of Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their
captivity to
return, and have mercy on them.
034:001 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD,
when
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the
kingdoms of the
earth of his dominion, and all the people,
fought against
Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof,
saying,
034:002 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and
speak to
Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD;
Behold, I will
give this city into the hand of the king of
Babylon, and he
shall burn it with fire:
034:003 And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but
shalt surely be
taken, and
delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall
behold the eyes
of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak
with thee mouth
to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.
034:004 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king
of Judah; Thus
saith the LORD
of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword:
034:005 But thou shalt die in peace: and with the
burnings of thy
fathers, the
former kings which were before thee, so shall
they burn odours
for thee; and they will lament thee, saying,
Ah lord! for I
have pronounced the word, saith the LORD.
034:006 Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words
unto Zedekiah
king of Judah in Jerusalem,
034:007 When the king of Babylon's army fought against
Jerusalem, and
against all the
cities of Judah that were left, against
Lachish, and
against Azekah: for these defenced cities
remained of the
cities of Judah.
034:008 This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from
the LORD, after
that the king
Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people
which were at
Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;
034:009 That every man should let his manservant, and
every man his
maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that
none should
serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his
brother.
034:010 Now when all the princes, and all the people,
which had
entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his
manservant, and
every one his maidservant, go free, that none
should serve
themselves of them any more, then they obeyed,
and let them
go.
034:011 But afterward they turned, and caused the
servants and the
handmaids, whom
they had let go free, to return, and brought
them into
subjection for servants and for handmaids.
034:012 Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah
from the LORD,
saying,
034:013 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a
covenant with
your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the
land of Egypt,
out of the house of bondmen, saying,
034:014 At the end of seven years let ye go every man
his brother an
Hebrew, which
hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath
served thee six
years, thou shalt let him go free from thee:
but your fathers
hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their
ear.
034:015 And ye were now turned, and had done right in my
sight, in
proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had
made a covenant
before me in the house which is called by my
name:
034:016 But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused
every man his
servant, and every man his handmaid, whom he had set at
liberty at their
pleasure, to return, and brought them into
subjection, to
be unto you for servants and for handmaids.
034:017 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not
hearkened unto me,
in proclaiming
liberty, every one to his brother, and every
man to his
neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you,
saith the LORD,
to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the
famine; and I
will make you to be removed into all the
kingdoms of the
earth.
034:018 And I will give the men that have transgressed
my covenant,
which have not performed the words of the covenant which they
had made before
me, when they cut the calf in twain, and
passed between
the parts thereof,
034:019 The princes of Judah, and the princes of
Jerusalem, the
eunuchs, and the
priests, and all the people of the land,
which passed
between the parts of the calf;
034:020 I will even give them into the hand of their
enemies, and into
the hand of them
that seek their life: and their dead bodies
shall be for
meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the
beasts of the
earth.
034:021 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will
I give into
the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek
their life, and
into the hand of the king of Babylon's army,
which are gone
up from you.
034:022 Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and
cause them to
return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take
it, and burn it
with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah
a desolation
without an inhabitant.
035:001 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD
in the days of
Jehoiakim the
son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,
035:002 Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak
unto them, and
bring them into
the house of the LORD, into one of the
chambers, and
give them wine to drink.
035:003 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the
son of
Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole
house of the
Rechabites;
035:004 And I brought them into the house of the LORD,
into the
chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of
God, which was
by the chamber of the princes, which was above
the chamber of
Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the
door:
035:005 And I set before the sons of the house of the
Rechabites pots
full of wine,
and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine.
035:006 But they said, We will drink no wine: for
Jonadab the son of
Rechab our
father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no
wine, neither
ye, nor your sons for ever:
035:007 Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor
plant
vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in
tents; that ye
may live many days in the land where ye be
strangers.
035:008 Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son
of Rechab our
father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all
our days, we,
our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;
035:009 Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither
have we
vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
035:010 But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and
done
according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
035:011 But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon came
up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to
Jerusalem for
fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear
of the army of
the Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem.
035:012 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
035:013 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Go and tell
the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not
receive
instruction to hearken to my words? saith the LORD.
035:014 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he
commanded his
sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they
drink none, but
obey their father's commandment:
notwithstanding
I have spoken unto you, rising early and
speaking; but ye
hearkened not unto me.
035:015 I have sent also unto you all my servants the
prophets, rising
up early and
sending them, saying, Return ye now every man
from his evil
way, and amend your doings, and go not after
other gods to
serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which
I have given to
you and to your fathers: but ye have not
inclined your
ear, nor hearkened unto me.
035:016 Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab
have performed
the commandment
of their father, which he commanded them; but
this people hath
not hearkened unto me:
035:017 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the
God of Israel;
Behold, I will
bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants
of Jerusalem all
the evil that I have pronounced against them:
because I have
spoken unto them, but they have not heard; and
I have called
unto them, but they have not answered.
035:018 And Jeremiah said unto the house of the
Rechabites, Thus saith
the LORD of
hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed
the commandment
of Jonadab your father, and kept all his
precepts, and
done according unto all that he hath commanded
you:
035:019 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God
of Israel;
Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before
me for ever.
036:001 And it came to pass in the fourth year of
Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah king of
Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from
the LORD,
saying,
036:002 Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein
all the words
that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against
Judah, and
against all the nations, from the day I spake unto
thee, from the
days of Josiah, even unto this day.
036:003 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all
the evil which
I purpose to do
unto them; that they may return every man from
his evil way;
that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
036:004 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah:
and Baruch
wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD,
which he had
spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
036:005 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut
up; I cannot
go into the house of the LORD:
036:006 Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which
thou hast
written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of
the people in
the LORD's house upon the fasting day: and also
thou shalt read
them in the ears of all Judah that come out of
their
cities.
036:007 It may be they will present their supplication
before the
LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great
is the anger and
the fury that the LORD hath pronounced
against this
people.
036:008 And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to
all that
Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the
words of the
LORD in the LORD's house.
036:009 And it came to pass in the fifth year of
Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah king of
Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed
a fast before
the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to
all the people
that came from the cities of Judah unto
Jerusalem.
036:010 Then read Baruch in the book the words of
Jeremiah in the
house of the
LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of
Shaphan the
scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the
new gate of the
LORD's house, in the ears of all the people.
036:011 When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of
Shaphan, had
heard out of the book all the words of the LORD,
036:012 Then he went down into the king's house, into
the scribe's
chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, even Elishama the
scribe, and
Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son
of Achbor, and
Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the
son of Hananiah,
and all the princes.
036:013 Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words
that he had
heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
036:014 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of
Nethaniah,
the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying,
Take in thine
hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears
of the people,
and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the
roll in his
hand, and came unto them.
036:015 And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read
it in our ears.
So Baruch read
it in their ears.
036:016 Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the
words, they
were afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will
surely tell the
king of all these words.
036:017 And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How
didst thou
write all these words at his mouth?
036:018 Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all
these words unto
me with his
mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.
036:019 Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide
thee, thou and
Jeremiah; and
let no man know where ye be.
036:020 And they went in to the king into the court, but
they laid up
the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all
the words in the
ears of the king.
036:021 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and
he took it out
of Elishama the
scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the
ears of the
king, and in the ears of all the princes which
stood beside the
king.
036:022 Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth
month: and
there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
036:023 And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read
three or four
leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire
that was on the
hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the
fire that was on
the hearth.
036:024 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their
garments, neither the
king, nor any of
his servants that heard all these words.
036:025 Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah
had made
intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but
he would not
hear them.
036:026 But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of
Hammelech, and
Seraiah the son
of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to
take Baruch the
scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD
hid them.
036:027 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah,
after that the
king had burned
the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at
the mouth of
Jeremiah, saying,
036:028 Take thee again another roll, and write in it
all the former
words that were
in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of
Judah hath
burned.
036:029 And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah,
Thus saith the
LORD; Thou hast
burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou
written therein,
saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly
come and destroy
this land, and shall cause to cease from
thence man and
beast?
036:030 Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king
of Judah; He
shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead
body shall be
cast out in the day to the heat, and in the
night to the
frost.
036:031 And I will punish him and his seed and his
servants for their
iniquity; and I
will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants
of Jerusalem,
and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I
have pronounced
against them; but they hearkened not.
036:032 Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to
Baruch the
scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of
Jeremiah all the
words of the book which Jehoiakim king of
Judah had burned
in the fire: and there were added besides
unto them many
like words.
037:001 And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned
instead of Coniah
the son of
Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made
king in the land
of Judah.
037:002 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people
of the land,
did hearken unto the words of the LORD, which he spake by the
prophet
Jeremiah.
037:003 And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of
Shelemiah and
Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet
Jeremiah,
saying, Pray now unto the LORD our God for us.
037:004 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the
people: for they
had not put him
into prison.
037:005 Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt:
and when the
Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they
departed from
Jerusalem.
037:006 Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet
Jeremiah
saying,
037:007 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus
shall ye say to
the king of
Judah, that sent you unto me to enquire of me;
Behold,
Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall
return to Egypt
into their own land.
037:008 And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight
against this
city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
037:009 Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves,
saying, The
Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not
depart.
037:010 For though ye had smitten the whole army of the
Chaldeans that
fight against
you, and there remained but wounded men among
them, yet should
they rise up every man in his tent, and burn
this city with
fire.
037:011 And it came to pass, that when the army of the
Chaldeans was
broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,
037:012 Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go
into the land
of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of the
people.
037:013 And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a
captain of the ward
was there, whose
name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the
son of Hananiah;
and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying,
Thou fallest
away to the Chaldeans.
037:014 Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away
to the
Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took
Jeremiah, and
brought him to the princes.
037:015 Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah,
and smote him,
and put him in
prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for
they had made
that the prison.
037:016 When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and
into the
cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
037:017 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out:
and the king
asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word
from the LORD?
And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou
shalt be
delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.
037:018 Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What
have I
offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against
this people,
that ye have put me in prison?
037:019 Where are now your prophets which prophesied
unto you, saying,
The king of
Babylon shall not come against you, nor against
this land?
037:020 Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the
king: let my
supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou
cause me not to
return to the house of Jonathan the scribe,
lest I die
there.
037:021 Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they
should commit
Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should
give him daily a
piece of bread out of the bakers' street,
until all the
bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah
remained in the
court of the prison.
038:001 Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah
the son of
Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of
Malchiah, heard
the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all
the people,
saying,
038:002 Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this
city shall die
by the sword, by
the famine, and by the pestilence: but he
that goeth forth
to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall
have his life
for a prey, and shall live.
038:003 Thus saith the LORD, This city shall surely be
given into the
hand of the king
of Babylon's army, which shall take it.
038:004 Therefore the princes said unto the king, We
beseech thee, let
this man be put
to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of
the men of war
that remain in this city, and the hands of all
the people, in
speaking such words unto them: for this man
seeketh not the
welfare of this people, but the hurt.
038:005 Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in
your hand: for
the king is not
he that can do any thing against you.
038:006 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the
dungeon of
Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the
prison: and they
let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the
dungeon there
was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the
mire.
038:007 Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the
eunuchs which
was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in
the dungeon; the
king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
038:008 Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house,
and spake to
the king saying,
038:009 My lord the king, these men have done evil in
all that they
have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into
the dungeon; and
he is like to die for hunger in the place
where he is: for
there is no more bread in the city.
038:010 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the
Ethiopian, saying, Take
from hence
thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the
prophet out of
the dungeon, before he die.
038:011 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went
into the house
of the king
under the treasury, and took thence old cast
clouts and old
rotten rags, and let them down by cords into
the dungeon to
Jeremiah.
038:012 And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah,
Put now these
old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the
cords. And
Jeremiah did so.
038:013 So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took
him up out of
the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
038:014 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah
the prophet
unto him into the third entry that is in the house of the
LORD: and the
king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a
thing; hide
nothing from me.
038:015 Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare
it unto thee,
wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee
counsel, wilt
thou not hearken unto me?
038:016 So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto
Jeremiah, saying, As
the LORD liveth,
that made us this soul, I will not put thee
to death,
neither will I give thee into the hand of these men
that seek thy
life.
038:017 Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the
LORD, the God
of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth
unto the king of
Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live,
and this city
shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt
live, and thine
house:
038:018 But if thou wilt 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 thou shalt
not escape out
of their hand.
038:019 And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am
afraid of the
Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me
into their hand,
and they mock me.
038:020 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee.
Obey, I
beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee:
so it shall be
well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.
038:021 But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word
that the LORD
hath shewed me:
038:022 And, behold, all the women that are left in the
king of
Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's
princes, and
those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee
on, and have
prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the
mire, and they
are turned away back.
038:023 So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy
children to the
Chaldeans: and
thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but
shalt be taken
by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou
shalt cause this
city to be burned with fire.
038:024 Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man
know of these
words, and thou shalt not die.
038:025 But if the princes hear that I have talked with
thee, and they
come unto thee,
and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what
thou hast said
unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will
not put thee to
death; also what the king said unto thee:
038:026 Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my
supplication
before the king, that he would not cause me to return to
Jonathan's
house, to die there.
038:027 Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and
asked him: and he
told them
according to all these words that the king had
commanded. So
they left off speaking with him; for the matter
was not
perceived.
038:028 So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison
until the day
that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was
taken.
039:001 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in
the tenth
month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army
against
Jerusalem, and they besieged it.
039:002 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the
fourth month, the
ninth day of the
month, the city was broken up.
039:003 And all the princes of the king of Babylon came
in, and sat in
the middle gate,
even Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim,
Rabsaris,
Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of the
princes of the
king of Babylon.
039:004 And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king
of Judah saw
them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth
out of the city
by night, by the way of the king's garden, by
the gate betwixt
the two walls: and he went out the way of the
plain.
039:005 But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and
overtook
Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken
him, they
brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to
Riblah in the
land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.
039:006 Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of
Zedekiah in Riblah
before his eyes:
also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles
of Judah.
039:007 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound
him with
chains, to carry him to Babylon.
039:008 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and
the houses of
the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.
039:009 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard
carried away captive
into Babylon the
remnant of the people that remained in the
city, and those
that fell away, that fell to him, with the
rest of the
people that remained.
039:010 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of
the poor of
the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave
them vineyards
and fields at the same time.
039:011 Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge
concerning
Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying,
039:012 Take him, and look well to him, and do him no
harm; but do
unto him even as he shall say unto thee.
039:013 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent,
and Nebushasban,
Rabsaris, and
Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, and all the king of
Babylon's
princes;
039:014 Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the
court of the
prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the
son of Shaphan,
that he should carry him home: so he dwelt
among the
people.
039:015 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah,
while he was shut
up in the court
of the prison, saying,
039:016 Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian,
saying, Thus saith
the LORD of
hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my
words upon this
city for evil, and not for good; and they
shall be
accomplished in that day before thee.
039:017 But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the
LORD: and thou
shalt not be
given into the hand of the men of whom thou art
afraid.
039:018 For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt
not fall by the
sword, but thy
life shall be for a prey unto thee: because
thou hast put
thy trust in me, saith the LORD.
040:001 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD,
after that
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from
Ramah, when he
had taken him being bound in chains among all
that were
carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which
were carried
away captive unto Babylon.
040:002 And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and
said unto him,
The LORD thy God
hath pronounced this evil upon this place.
040:003 Now the LORD hath brought it, and done according
as he hath
said: because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not
obeyed his
voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.
040:004 And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the
chains which
were upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with
me into Babylon,
come; and I will look well unto thee: but if
it seem ill unto
thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear:
behold, all the
land is before thee: whither it seemeth good
and convenient
for thee to go, thither go.
040:005 Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go
back also to
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king
of Babylon hath
made governor over the cities of Judah, and
dwell with him
among the people: or go wheresoever it seemeth
convenient unto
thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave
him victuals and
a reward, and let him go.
040:006 Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam to Mizpah;
and dwelt with
him among the people that were left in the
land.
040:007 Now when all the captains of the forces which
were in the
fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of
Babylon had made
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the
land, and had
committed unto him men, and women, and children,
and of the poor
of the land, of them that were not carried
away captive to
Babylon;
040:008 Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even
Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah, and
Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and
Seraiah the son
of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the
Netophathite,
and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and
their men.
040:009 And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of
Shaphan sware unto
them and to
their men, saying, Fear not to serve the
Chaldeans: dwell
in the land, and serve the king of Babylon,
and it shall be
well with you.
040:010 As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to
serve the
Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine,
and summer
fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and
dwell in your
cities that ye have taken.
040:011 Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab,
and among the
Ammonites, and in Edom, and that were in all the countries,
heard that the
king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah,
and that he had
set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the
son of
Shaphan;
040:012 Even all the Jews returned out of all places
whither they were
driven, and came
to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto
Mizpah, and
gathered wine and summer fruits very much.
040:013 Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
captains of
the forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to
Mizpah,
040:014 And said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that
Baalis the
king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah
to slay thee?
But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them
not.
040:015 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah
in Mizpah
secretly saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay
Ishmael the son
of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it:
wherefore should
he slay thee, that all the Jews which are
gathered unto
thee should be scattered, and the remnant in
Judah
perish?
040:016 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan
the son of
Kareah, Thou shalt not do this thing: for thou speakest
falsely of
Ishmael.
041:001 Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that
Ishmael the son
of Nethaniah the
son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the
princes of the
king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah
the son of
Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread
together in
Mizpah.
041:002 Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the
ten men that
were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of
Shaphan with the
sword, and slew him, whom the king of Babylon
had made
governor over the land.
041:003 Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with
him, even with
Gedaliah, at
Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there,
and the men of
war.
041:004 And it came to pass the second day after he had
slain
Gedaliah, and no man knew it,
041:005 That there came certain from Shechem, from
Shiloh, and from
Samaria, even
fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and
their clothes
rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings
and incense in
their hand, to bring them to the house of the
LORD.
041:006 And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from
Mizpah to
meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it came to pass,
as he met them,
he said unto them, Come to Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam.
041:007 And it was so, when they came into the midst of
the city, that
Ishmael the son
of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the
midst of the
pit, he, and the men that were with him.
041:008 But ten men were found among them that said unto
Ishmael, Slay
us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of
barley, and of
oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them
not among their
brethren.
041:009 Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the
dead bodies of
the men, whom he
had slain because of Gedaliah, was it which
Asa the king had
made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: and
Ishmael the son
of Nethaniah filled it with them that were
slain.
041:010 Then Ishmael carried away captive all the
residue of the
people that were
in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all
the people that
remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the
captain of the
guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam: and
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away
captive, and
departed to go over to the Ammonites.
041:011 But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
captains of
the forces that were with him, heard of all the evil that
Ishmael the son
of Nethaniah had done,
041:012 Then they took all the men, and went to fight
with Ishmael the
son of
Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are
in Gibeon.
041:013 Now it came to pass, that when all the people
which were with
Ishmael saw
Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of
the forces that
were with him, then they were glad.
041:014 So all the people that Ishmael had carried away
captive from
Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan the son
of Kareah.
041:015 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from
Johanan with
eight men, and went to the Ammonites.
041:016 Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
captains of
the forces that were with him, all the remnant of the people
whom he had
recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from
Mizpah, after
that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam,
even mighty men
of war, and the women, and the children, and
the eunuchs,
whom he had brought again from Gibeon:
041:017 And they departed, and dwelt in the habitation
of Chimham,
which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt,
041:018 Because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid
of them,
because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the
son of Ahikam,
whom the king of Babylon made governor in the
land.
042:001 Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan
the son of
Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people
from the least
even unto the greatest, came near,
042:002 And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we
beseech thee, our
supplication be
accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the
LORD thy God,
even for all this remnant; (for we are left but
a few of many,
as thine eyes do behold us:)
042:003 That the LORD thy God may shew us the way
wherein we may walk,
and the thing
that we may do.
042:004 Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have
heard you;
behold, I will pray unto the LORD your God according to your
words; and it
shall come to pass, that whatsoever thing the
LORD shall
answer you, I will declare it unto you; I will keep
nothing back
from you.
042:005 Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true
and faithful
witness between us, if we do not even according to all things
for the which
the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.
042:006 Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we
will obey the
voice of the LORD our God, to whom we send thee; that it may
be well with us,
when we obey the voice of the LORD our God.
042:007 And it came to pass after ten days, that the
word of the LORD
came unto
Jeremiah.
042:008 Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and
all the captains
of the forces
which were with him, and all the people from the
least even to
the greatest,
042:009 And said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, the God
of Israel,
unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him;
042:010 If ye will still abide in this land, then will I
build you,
and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you
up: for I repent
me of the evil that I have done unto you.
042:011 Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye
are afraid;
be not afraid of him, saith the LORD: for I am with you to
save you, and to
deliver you from his hand.
042:012 And I will shew mercies unto you, that he may
have mercy upon
you, and cause
you to return to your own land.
042:013 But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land,
neither obey
the voice of the LORD your God,
042:014 Saying, No; but we will go into the land of
Egypt, where we
shall see no
war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have
hunger of bread;
and there will we dwell:
042:015 And now therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye
remnant of
Judah; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; If ye
wholly set your
faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn
there;
042:016 Then it shall come to pass, that the sword,
which ye feared,
shall overtake
you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine,
whereof ye were
afraid, shall follow close after you there in
Egypt; and there
ye shall die.
042:017 So shall it be with all the men that set their
faces to go
into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by
the famine, and
by the pestilence: and none of them shall
remain or escape
from the evil that I will bring upon them.
042:018 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel; As mine
anger and my
fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants
of Jerusalem; so
shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when
ye shall enter
into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and
an astonishment,
and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see
this place no
more.
042:019 The LORD hath said concerning you, O ye remnant
of Judah; Go
ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you
this day.
042:020 For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent
me unto the
LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and
according unto
all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare
unto us, and we
will do it.
042:021 And now I have this day declared it to you; but
ye have not
obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any thing for the
which he hath
sent me unto you.
042:022 Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die
by the sword,
by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye
desire to go and
to sojourn.
043:001 And it came to pass, that when Jeremiah had made
an end of
speaking unto all the people all the words of the LORD their
God, for which
the LORD their God had sent him to them, even
all these
words,
043:002 Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and
Johanan the son of
Kareah, and all
the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou
speakest
falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent thee to say,
Go not into
Egypt to sojourn there:
043:003 But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on
against us, for
to deliver us
into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they might
put us to death,
and carry us away captives into Babylon.
043:004 So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
captains of the
forces, and all
the people, obeyed not the voice of the LORD,
to dwell in the
land of Judah.
043:005 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
captains of the
forces, took all
the remnant of Judah, that were returned from
all nations,
whither they had been driven, to dwell in the
land of
Judah;
043:006 Even men, and women, and children, and the
king's daughters,
and every person
that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had
left with
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and
Jeremiah the
prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.
043:007 So they came into the land of Egypt: for they
obeyed not the
voice of the
LORD: thus came they even to Tahpanhes.
043:008 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in
Tahpanhes,
saying,
043:009 Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them
in the clay in
the brickkiln,
which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in
Tahpanhes, in
the sight of the men of Judah;
043:010 And say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts,
the God of
Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king
of Babylon, my
servant, and will set his throne upon these
stones that I
have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion
over them.
043:011 And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of
Egypt, and
deliver such as are for death to death; and such as are for
captivity to
captivity; and such as are for the sword to the
sword.
043:012 And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the
gods of Egypt;
and he shall
burn them, and carry them away captives: and he
shall array
himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd
putteth on his
garment; and he shall go forth from thence in
peace.
043:013 He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh,
that is in the
land of Egypt;
and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians
shall he burn
with fire.
044:001 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all
the Jews which
dwell in the
land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at
Tahpanhes, and
at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,
044:002 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Ye have seen
all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all
the cities of
Judah; and, behold, this day they are a
desolation, and
no man dwelleth therein,
044:003 Because of their wickedness which they have
committed to
provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to
serve other
gods, whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor
your
fathers.
044:004 Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the
prophets, rising
early and
sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable
thing that I
hate.
044:005 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear
to turn from
their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.
044:006 Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured
forth, and was
kindled in the
cities of Judah and in the streets of
Jerusalem; and
they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.
044:007 Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of
hosts, the God
of Israel;
Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your
souls, to cut
off from you man and woman, child and suckling,
out of Judah, to
leave you none to remain;
044:008 In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works
of your hands,
burning incense
unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither
ye be gone to
dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and
that ye might be
a curse and a reproach among all the nations
of the
earth?
044:009 Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your
fathers, and the
wickedness of
the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their
wives, and your
own wickedness, and the wickedness of your
wives, which
they have committed in the land of Judah, and in
the streets of
Jerusalem?
044:010 They are not humbled even unto this day, neither
have they
feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set
before you and
before your fathers.
044:011 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God
of Israel;
Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut
off all
Judah.
044:012 And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have
set their
faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they
shall all be
consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they
shall even be
consumed by the sword and by the famine: they
shall die, from
the least even unto the greatest, by the sword
and by the
famine: and they shall be an execration, and an
astonishment,
and a curse, and a reproach.
044:013 For I will punish them that dwell in the land of
Egypt, as I
have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by
the
pestilence:
044:014 So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are
gone into the
land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that
they should
return into the land of Judah, to the which they
have a desire to
return to dwell there: for none shall return
but such as
shall escape.
044:015 Then all the men which knew that their wives had
burned
incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a
great multitude,
even all the people that dwelt in the land of
Egypt, in
Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
044:016 As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in
the name of
the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.
044:017 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth
forth out of
our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and
to pour out
drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and
our fathers, our
kings, and our princes, in the cities of
Judah, and in
the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty
of victuals, and
were well, and saw no evil.
044:018 But since we left off to burn incense to the
queen of heaven,
and to pour out
drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all
things, and have
been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
044:019 And when we burned incense to the queen of
heaven, and poured
out drink
offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship
her, and pour
out drink offerings unto her, without our men?
044:020 Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the
men, and to the
women, and to
all the people which had given him that answer,
saying,
044:021 The incense that ye burned in the cities of
Judah, and in the
streets of
Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and
your princes,
and the people of the land, did not the LORD
remember them,
and came it not into his mind?
044:022 So that the LORD could no longer bear, because
of the evil of
your doings, and
because of the abominations which ye have
committed;
therefore is your land a desolation, and an
astonishment,
and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this
day.
044:023 Because ye have burned incense, and because ye
have sinned
against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD,
nor walked in
his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his
testimonies;
therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at
this day.
044:024 Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and
to all the
women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that are in the
land of
Egypt:
044:025 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
saying; Ye
and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and
fulfilled with
your hand, saying, We will surely perform our
vows that we
have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of
heaven, and to
pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will
surely
accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.
044:026 Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all
Judah that dwell
in the land of
Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name,
saith the LORD,
that my name shall no more be named in the
mouth of any man
of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying,
The Lord GOD
liveth.
044:027 Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not
for good: and
all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be
consumed by the
sword and by the famine, until there be an end
of them.
044:028 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall
return out of
the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant
of Judah, that
are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn
there, shall
know whose words shall stand, mine, or their's.
044:029 And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the
LORD, that I will
punish you in
this place, that ye may know that my words shall
surely stand
against you for evil:
044:030 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give
Pharaohhophra king of
Egypt into the
hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them
that seek his
life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the
hand of
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that
sought his
life.
045:001 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto
Baruch the son
of Neriah, when
he had written these words in a book at the
mouth of
Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah king of
Judah, saying,
045:002 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch:
045:003 Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath
added grief
to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.
045:004 Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith
thus; Behold,
that which I have built will I break down, and that which I
have planted I
will pluck up, even this whole land.
045:005 And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek
them not: for,
behold, I will
bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but
thy life will I
give unto thee for a prey in all places
whither thou
goest.
046:001 The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the
prophet
against the Gentiles;
046:002 Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho
king of Egypt,
which was by the
river Euphrates in Carchemish, which
Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of
Jehoiakim the
son of Josiah king of Judah.
046:003 Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.
046:004 Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and
stand forth
with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the
brigandines.
046:005 Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned
away back? and
their mighty
ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and
look not back:
for fear was round about, saith the LORD.
046:006 Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man
escape; they
shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river
Euphrates.
046:007 Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose
waters are moved
as the
rivers?
046:008 Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are
moved like
the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the
earth; I will
destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
046:009 Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and
let the mighty
men come forth;
the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle
the shield; and
the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.
046:010 For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a
day of
vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the
sword shall
devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk
with their
blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice
in the north
country by the river Euphrates.
046:011 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the
daughter of
Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt
not be
cured.
046:012 The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry
hath filled
the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty,
and they are
fallen both together.
046:013 The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the
prophet, how
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land
of Egypt.
046:014 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and
publish in
Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee;
for the sword
shall devour round about thee.
046:015 Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood
not, because
the LORD did drive them.
046:016 He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon
another: and they
said, Arise, and
let us go again to our own people, and to the
land of our
nativity, from the oppressing sword.
046:017 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but
a noise; he
hath passed the time appointed.
046:018 As I live, saith the King, whose name is the
LORD of hosts,
Surely as Tabor
is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the
sea, so shall he
come.
046:019 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish
thyself to go into
captivity: for
Noph shall be waste and desolate without an
inhabitant.
046:020 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but
destruction cometh; it
cometh out of
the north.
046:021 Also her hired men are in the midst of her like
fatted
bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away
together: they
did not stand, because the day of their
calamity was
come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
046:022 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for
they shall
march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers
of wood.
046:023 They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD,
though it
cannot be searched; because they are more than the
grasshoppers,
and are innumerable.
046:024 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she
shall be
delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
046:025 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith;
Behold, I will
punish the
multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their
gods, and their
kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust
in him:
046:026 And I will deliver them into the hand of those
that seek their
lives, and into
the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,
and into the
hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be
inhabited, as in
the days of old, saith the LORD.
046:027 But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be
not dismayed, O
Israel: for,
behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy
seed from the
land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return,
and be in rest
and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
046:028 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the
LORD: for I am
with thee; for I
will make a full end of all the nations
whither I have
driven thee: but I will not make a full end of
thee, but
correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee
wholly
unpunished.
047:001 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the
prophet against
the Philistines,
before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
047:002 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out
of the north,
and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the
land, and all
that is therein; the city, and them that dwell
therein: then
the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of
the land shall
howl.
047:003 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his
strong
horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of
his wheels, the
fathers shall not look back to their children
for feebleness
of hands;
047:004 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the
Philistines,
and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that
remaineth: for
the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the
remnant of the
country of Caphtor.
047:005 Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off
with the
remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
047:006 O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be
ere thou be
quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
047:007 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given
it a charge
against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he
appointed
it.
048:001 Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the
God of Israel;
Woe unto Nebo!
for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and
taken: Misgab is
confounded and dismayed.
048:002 There shall be no more praise of Moab: in
Heshbon they have
devised evil
against it; come, and let us cut it off from
being a nation.
Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the
sword shall
pursue thee.
048:003 A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim,
spoiling and great
destruction.
048:004 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a
cry to be
heard.
048:005 For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping
shall go up;
for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry
of
destruction.
048:006 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in
the
wilderness.
048:007 For because thou hast trusted in thy works and
in thy
treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go
forth into
captivity with his priests and his princes
together.
048:008 And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and
no city shall
escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be
destroyed, as
the LORD hath spoken.
048:009 Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get
away: for the
cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell
therein.
048:010 Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD
deceitfully, and
cursed be he
that keepeth back his sword from blood.
048:011 Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he
hath settled on
his lees, and
hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel,
neither hath he
gone into captivity: therefore his taste
remained in him,
and his scent is not changed.
048:012 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the
LORD, that I will
send unto him
wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and
shall empty his
vessels, and break their bottles.
048:013 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the
house of Israel
was ashamed of
Bethel their confidence.
048:014 How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the war?
048:015 Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities,
and his chosen
young men are
gone down to the slaughter, saith the King,
whose name is
the LORD of hosts.
048:016 The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his
affliction
hasteth fast.
048:017 All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all
ye that know
his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, and the
beautiful
rod!
048:018 Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down
from thy
glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come
upon thee, and
he shall destroy thy strong holds.
048:019 O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and
espy; ask him
that fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What is done?
048:020 Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl
and cry; tell
ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,
048:021 And judgment is come upon the plain country;
upon Holon, and
upon Jahazah,
and upon Mephaath,
048:022 And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Bethdiblathaim,
048:023 And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmeon,
048:024 And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all
the cities of
the land of Moab, far or near.
048:025 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is
broken, saith the
LORD.
048:026 Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself
against the
LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall
be in
derision.
048:027 For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he
found among
thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for
joy.
048:028 O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and
dwell in the
rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides
of the hole's
mouth.
048:029 We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is
exceeding proud) his
loftiness, and
his arrogancy, and his pride, and the
haughtiness of
his heart.
048:030 I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but it shall
not be so; his
lies shall not
so effect it.
048:031 Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry
out for all
Moab; mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.
048:032 O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the
weeping of
Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to
the sea of
Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits
and upon thy
vintage.
048:033 And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful
field, and
from the land of Moab, and I have caused wine to fail from the
winepresses:
none shall tread with shouting; their shouting
shall be no
shouting.
048:034 From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and
even unto
Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto
Horonaim, as an
heifer of three years old: for the waters also
of Nimrim shall
be desolate.
048:035 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith
the LORD, him
that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense
to his gods.
048:036 Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like
pipes, and mine
heart shall
sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because
the riches that
he hath gotten are perished.
048:037 For every head shall be bald, and every beard
clipped: upon
all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
048:038 There shall be lamentation generally upon all
the housetops of
Moab, and in the
streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like
a vessel wherein
is no pleasure, saith the LORD.
048:039 They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down!
how hath Moab
turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a
dismaying to all
them about him.
048:040 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as
an eagle, and
shall spread his wings over Moab.
048:041 Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are
surprised, and the
mighty men's
hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart
of a woman in
her pangs.
048:042 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people,
because he
hath magnified himself against the LORD.
048:043 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon
thee, O
inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.
048:044 He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the
pit; and he
that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare:
for I will bring
upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their
visitation,
saith the LORD.
048:045 They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon
because of
the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a
flame from the
midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of
Moab, and the
crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
048:046 Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh
perisheth: for
thy sons are
taken captives, and thy daughters captives.
048:047 Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in
the latter
days, saith the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
049:001 Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD;
Hath Israel no
sons? hath he no
heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad,
and his people
dwell in his cities?
049:002 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the
LORD, that I will
cause an alarm
of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites;
and it shall be
a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be
burned with
fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that
were his heirs,
saith the LORD.
049:003 Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye
daughters of
Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by
the hedges; for
their king shall go into captivity, and his
priests and his
princes together.
049:004 Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy
flowing valley, O
backsliding
daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying,
Who shall come
unto me?
049:005 Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the
Lord GOD of
hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be
driven out every
man right forth; and none shall gather up him
that
wandereth.
049:006 And afterward I will bring again the captivity
of the children
of Ammon, saith
the LORD.
049:007 Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts;
Is wisdom no
more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their
wisdom
vanished?
049:008 Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of
Dedan; for I
will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will
visit him.
049:009 If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not
leave some
gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till
they have
enough.
049:010 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his
secret places,
and he shall not
be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled,
and his
brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.
049:011 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve
them alive; and
let thy widows
trust in me.
049:012 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose
judgment was not
to drink of the
cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he
that shall
altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go
unpunished, but
thou shalt surely drink of it.
049:013 For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that
Bozrah shall
become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all
the cities
thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
049:014 I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an
ambassador is sent
unto the
heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against
her, and rise up
to the battle.
049:015 For, lo, I will make thee small among the
heathen, and
despised among men.
049:016 Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the
pride of thine
heart, O thou
that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that
holdest the
height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy
nest as high as
the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence,
saith the
LORD.
049:017 Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that
goeth by it
shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues
thereof.
049:018 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and
the neighbour
cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there,
neither shall a
son of man dwell in it.
049:019 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the
swelling of
Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will
suddenly make
him run away from her: and who is a chosen man,
that I may
appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will
appoint me the
time? and who is that shepherd that will stand
before me?
049:020 Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he
hath taken
against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against
the inhabitants
of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall
draw them out:
surely he shall make their habitations desolate
with them.
049:021 The earth is moved at the noise of their fall,
at the cry the
noise thereof
was heard in the Red sea.
049:022 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle,
and spread his
wings over
Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the
mighty men of
Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
049:023 Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and
Arpad: for they
have heard evil
tidings: they are fainthearted; there is
sorrow on the
sea; it cannot be quiet.
049:024 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to
flee, and
fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her,
as a woman in
travail.
049:025 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
049:026 Therefore her young men shall fall in her
streets, and all the
men of war shall
be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of
hosts.
049:027 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of
Damascus, and it shall
consume the
palaces of Benhadad.
049:028 Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of
Hazor, which
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the
LORD; Arise ye,
go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east.
049:029 Their tents and their flocks shall they take
away: they shall
take to
themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and
their camels;
and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every
side.
049:030 Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye
inhabitants of Hazor,
saith the LORD;
for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken
counsel against
you, and hath conceived a purpose against you.
049:031 Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that
dwelleth
without care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor
bars, which
dwell alone.
049:032 And their camels shall be a booty, and the
multitude of their
cattle a spoil:
and I will scatter into all winds them that
are in the
utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity
from all sides
thereof, saith the LORD.
049:033 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a
desolation
for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man
dwell in it.
049:034 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the
prophet against
Elam in the
beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah,
saying,
049:035 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will
break the bow of
Elam, the chief
of their might.
049:036 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from
the four
quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those
winds; and there
shall be no nation whither the outcasts of
Elam shall not
come.
049:037 For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before
their enemies, and
before them that
seek their life: and I will bring evil upon
them, even my
fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will send
the sword after
them, till I have consumed them:
049:038 And I will set my throne in Elam, and will
destroy from thence
the king and the
princes, saith the LORD.
049:039 But it shall come to pass in the latter days,
that I will
bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.
050:001 The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and
against the
land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
050:002 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and
set up a
standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel
is confounded,
Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are
confounded, her
images are broken in pieces.
050:003 For out of the north there cometh up a nation
against her,
which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell
therein: they
shall remove, they shall depart, both man and
beast.
050:004 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD,
the children
of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together,
going and
weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
050:005 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces
thitherward,
saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a
perpetual
covenant that shall not be forgotten.
050:006 My people hath 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
restingplace.
050:007 All that found them have devoured them: and
their adversaries
said, We offend
not, because they have sinned against the
LORD, the
habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of
their
fathers.
050:008 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth
out of the
land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the
flocks.
050:009 For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up
against Babylon an
assembly of
great nations from the north country: and they
shall set
themselves in array against her; from thence she
shall be taken:
their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert
man; none shall
return in vain.
050:010 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her
shall be
satisfied, saith the LORD.
050:011 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye
destroyers of
mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at
grass, and
bellow as bulls;
050:012 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that
bare you shall
be ashamed:
behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a
wilderness, a
dry land, and a desert.
050:013 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be
inhabited,
but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by
Babylon shall be
astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
050:014 Put yourselves in array against Babylon round
about: all ye
that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath
sinned against
the LORD.
050:015 Shout against her round about: she hath given
her hand: her
foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is
the vengeance of
the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she
hath done, do
unto her.
050:016 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that
handleth the
sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing
sword they shall
turn every one to his people, and they shall
flee every one
to his own land.
050:017 Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have
driven him away:
first the king
of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this
Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
050:018 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God
of Israel;
Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I
have punished
the king of Assyria.
050:019 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation,
and he shall
feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied
upon mount
Ephraim and Gilead.
050:020 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD,
the iniquity
of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and
the sins of
Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will
pardon them whom
I reserve.
050:021 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even
against it, and
against the
inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy
after them,
saith the LORD, and do according to all that I
have commanded
thee.
050:022 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
050:023 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder
and broken!
how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
050:024 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also
taken, O
Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also
caught, because
thou hast striven against the LORD.
050:025 The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath
brought forth the
weapons of his
indignation: for this is the work of the Lord
GOD of hosts in
the land of the Chaldeans.
050:026 Come against her from the utmost border, open
her storehouses:
cast her up as
heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of
her be left.
050:027 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the
slaughter: woe
unto them! for
their day is come, the time of their
visitation.
050:028 The voice of them that flee and escape out of
the land of
Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God,
the vengeance of
his temple.
050:029 Call together the archers against Babylon: all
ye that bend
the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape:
recompense her
according to her work; according to all that
she hath done,
do unto her: for she hath been proud against
the LORD,
against the Holy One of Israel.
050:030 Therefore shall her young men fall in the
streets, and all her
men of war shall
be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.
050:031 Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud,
saith the Lord
GOD of hosts:
for thy day is come, the time that I will visit
thee.
050:032 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and
none shall
raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it
shall devour all
round about him.
050:033 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of
Israel and the
children of
Judah were oppressed together: and all that took
them captives
held them fast; they refused to let them go.
050:034 Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is
his name: he
shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to
the land, and
disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
050:035 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD,
and upon the
inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her
wise men.
050:036 A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote:
a sword is
upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
050:037 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their
chariots, and
upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and
they shall
become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and
they shall be
robbed.
050:038 A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be
dried up: for
it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their
idols.
050:039 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the
wild beasts
of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell
therein: and it
shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither
shall it be
dwelt in from generation to generation.
050:040 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the
neighbour cities
thereof, saith
the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither
shall any son of
man dwell therein.
050:041 Behold, a people shall come from the north, and
a great
nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of
the earth.
050:042 They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are
cruel, and
will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and
they shall ride
upon horses, every one put in array, like a
man to the
battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.
050:043 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of
them, and his
hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of
a woman in
travail.
050:044 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the
swelling of
Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them
suddenly run
away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I
may appoint over
her? for who is like me? and who will appoint
me the time? and
who is that shepherd that will stand before
me?
050:045 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that
he hath taken
against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed
against the land
of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the
flock shall draw
them out: surely he shall make their
habitation
desolate with them.
050:046 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth
is moved, and
the cry is heard among the nations.
051:001 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up
against Babylon,
and against them
that dwell in the midst of them that rise up
against me, a
destroying wind;
051:002 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall
fan her, and
shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be
against her
round about.
051:003 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his
bow, and
against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and
spare ye not her
young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.
051:004 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the
Chaldeans, and
they that are
thrust through in her streets.
051:005 For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of
his God, of
the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin
against the Holy
One of Israel.
051:006 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver
every man his
soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of
the LORD's
vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.
051:007 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's
hand, that made
all the earth
drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine;
therefore the
nations are mad.
051:008 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl
for her; take
balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
051:009 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not
healed: forsake
her, and let us
go every one into his own country: for her
judgment
reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the
skies.
051:010 The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness:
come, and let
us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
051:011 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the
LORD hath
raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device
is against
Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance
of the LORD, the
vengeance of his temple.
051:012 Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon,
make the watch
strong, set up
the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the
LORD hath both
devised and done that which he spake against
the inhabitants
of Babylon.
051:013 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant
in treasures,
thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
051:014 The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying,
Surely I will
fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift
up a shout
against thee.
051:015 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath
established the
world by his
wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his
understanding.
051:016 When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude
of waters in
the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the
ends of the
earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and
bringeth forth
the wind out of his treasures.
051:017 Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every
founder is
confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is
falsehood, and
there is no breath in them.
051:018 They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time
of their
visitation they shall perish.
051:019 The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is
the former of
all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD
of hosts is his
name.
051:020 Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for
with thee will
I break in
pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy
kingdoms;
051:021 And with thee will I break in pieces the horse
and his rider;
and with thee
will I break in pieces the chariot and his
rider;
051:022 With thee also will I break in pieces man and
woman; and with
thee will I
break in pieces old and young; and with thee will
I break in
pieces the young man and the maid;
051:023 I will also break in pieces with thee the
shepherd and his
flock; and with
thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and
his yoke of
oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces
captains and
rulers.
051:024 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the
inhabitants of
Chaldea all
their evil that they have done in Zion in your
sight, saith the
LORD.
051:025 Behold, I am against thee, O destroying
mountain, saith the
LORD, which
destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out
mine hand upon
thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and
will make thee a
burnt mountain.
051:026 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a
corner, nor a
stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever,
saith the
LORD.
051:027 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the
trumpet among the
nations, prepare
the nations against her, call together
against her the
kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz;
appoint a
captain against her; cause the horses to come up as
the rough
caterpillers.
051:028 Prepare against her the nations with the kings
of the Medes,
the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the
land of his
dominion.
051:029 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every
purpose of
the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land
of Babylon a
desolation without an inhabitant.
051:030 The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight,
they have
remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became
as women: they
have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are
broken.
051:031 One post shall run to meet another, and one
messenger to meet
another, to shew
the king of Babylon that his city is taken at
one end,
051:032 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds
they have
burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
051:033 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel; The
daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to
thresh her: yet
a little while, and the time of her harvest
shall come.
051:034 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured
me, he hath
crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed
me up like a
dragon, he hath filled his belly with my
delicates, he
hath cast me out.
051:035 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon
Babylon, shall
the inhabitant
of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants
of Chaldea,
shall Jerusalem say.
051:036 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will
plead thy cause,
and take
vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and
make her springs
dry.
051:037 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace
for dragons,
an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
051:038 They shall roar together like lions: they shall
yell as lions'
whelps.
051:039 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I
will make them
drunken, that
they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep,
and not wake,
saith the LORD.
051:040 I will bring them down like lambs to the
slaughter, like rams
with he
goats.
051:041 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of
the whole
earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among
the nations!
051:042 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered
with the
multitude of the waves thereof.
051:043 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a
wilderness, a
land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass
thereby.
051:044 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will
bring forth out
of his mouth
that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations
shall not flow
together any more unto him: yea, the wall of
Babylon shall
fall.
051:045 My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and
deliver ye every
man his soul
from the fierce anger of the LORD.
051:046 And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the
rumour that
shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year,
and after that
in another year shall come a rumour, and
violence in the
land, ruler against ruler.
051:047 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do
judgment upon
the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be
confounded, and
all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
051:048 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is
therein, shall
sing for
Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from
the north, saith
the LORD.
051:049 As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to
fall, so at
Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
051:050 Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand
not still:
remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your
mind.
051:051 We are confounded, because we have heard
reproach: shame hath
covered our
faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries
of the LORD's
house.
051:052 Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the
LORD, that I will
do judgment upon
her graven images: and through all her land
the wounded
shall groan.
051:053 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and
though she
should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall
spoilers come
unto her, saith the LORD.
051:054 A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great
destruction
from the land of the Chaldeans:
051:055 Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and
destroyed out of
her the great
voice; when her waves do roar like great waters,
a noise of their
voice is uttered:
051:056 Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon
Babylon, and
her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken:
for the LORD God
of recompences shall surely requite.
051:057 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise
men, her
captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall
sleep a
perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose
name is the LORD
of hosts.
051:058 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of
Babylon shall
be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with
fire; and the
people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the
fire, and they
shall be weary.
051:059 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded
Seraiah the son
of Neriah, the
son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the
king of Judah
into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign.
And this Seraiah
was a quiet prince.
051:060 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that
should come upon
Babylon, even
all these words that are written against
Babylon.
051:061 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest
to Babylon, and
shalt see, and
shalt read all these words;
051:062 Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken
against this
place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither
man nor beast,
but that it shall be desolate for ever.
051:063 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of
reading this
book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the
midst of
Euphrates:
051:064 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and
shall not
rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall
be weary. Thus
far are the words of Jeremiah.
052:001 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he
began to reign,
and he reigned
eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's
name was Hamutal
the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
052:002 And he did that which was evil in the eyes of
the LORD,
according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
052:003 For through the anger of the LORD it came to
pass in Jerusalem
and Judah, till
he had cast them out from his presence, that
Zedekiah
rebelled against the king of Babylon.
052:004 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his
reign, in the
tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that
Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon came, he and all his army,
against
Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts
against it round
about.
052:005 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year
of king
Zedekiah.
052:006 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the
month, the
famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for
the people of
the land.
052:007 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of
war fled, and
went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate
between the two
walls, which was by the king's garden; (now
the Chaldeans
were by the city round about:) and they went by
the way of the
plain.
052:008 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the
king, and
overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army
was scattered
from him.
052:009 Then they took the king, and carried him up unto
the king of
Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave
judgment upon
him.
052:010 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of
Zedekiah before his
eyes: he slew
also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
052:011 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the
king of Babylon
bound him in
chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him
in prison till
the day of his death.
052:012 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the
month, which
was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,
came
Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, which served the king
of Babylon, into
Jerusalem,
052:013 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's
house; and
all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great
men, burned he
with fire:
052:014 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were
with the captain
of the guard,
brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round
about.
052:015 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard
carried away captive
certain of the
poor of the people, and the residue of the
people that
remained in the city, and those that fell away,
that fell to the
king of Babylon, and the rest of the
multitude.
052:016 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left
certain of the
poor of the land
for vinedressers and for husbandmen.
052:017 Also the pillars of brass that were in the house
of the LORD,
and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the
LORD, the
Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them
to Babylon.
052:018 The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the
snuffers, and the
bowls, and the
spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith
they ministered,
took they away.
052:019 And the basons, and the firepans, and the bowls,
and the
caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups;
that which was
of gold in gold, and that which was of silver
in silver, took
the captain of the guard away.
052:020 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen
bulls that were
under the bases,
which king Solomon had made in the house of
the LORD: the
brass of all these vessels was without weight.
052:021 And concerning the pillars, the height of one
pillar was
eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it;
and the
thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.
052:022 And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the
height of one
chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon
the chapiters
round about, all of brass. The second pillar
also and the
pomegranates were like unto these.
052:023 And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a
side; and all
the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about.
052:024 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the
chief priest,
and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the
door:
052:025 He took also out of the city an eunuch, which
had the charge
of the men of
war; and seven men of them that were near the
king's person,
which were found in the city; and the principal
scribe of the
host, who mustered the people of the land; and
threescore men
of the people of the land, that were found in
the midst of the
city.
052:026 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took
them, and brought
them to the king
of Babylon to Riblah.
052:027 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them
to death in
Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away
captive out of
his own land.
052:028 This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried
away captive:
in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:
052:029 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he
carried away
captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:
052:030 In the three and twentieth year of
Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan
the captain of
the guard carried away captive of the Jews
seven hundred
forty and five persons: all the persons were
four thousand
and six hundred.
052:031 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth
year of the
captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month,
in the five and
twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach
king of Babylon
in the first year of his reign lifted up the
head of
Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of
prison.
052:032 And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne
above the throne
of the kings
that were with him in Babylon,
052:033 And changed his prison garments: and he did
continually eat
bread before him
all the days of his life.
052:034 And for his diet, there was a continual diet
given him of the
king of Babylon,
every day a portion until the day of his
death, all the
days of his life.