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

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