| 1:1 |
The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilki′ahHilkiah one of the priests who were in An′athothAnathoth in the land of Benjamin |
| 1:2 |
to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josi′ahJosiah the son of Amon king of Judah in the thirteenth year of his reign |
| 1:3 |
It came also in the days of Jehoi′akimJehoiakim the son of Josi′ahJosiah king of Judah and until the end of the eleventh year of Zedeki′ahZedekiah the son of Josi′ahJosiah king of Judah until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month |
| 1:8 |
BeDo not be afraid of them for I am with you to deliver you saysdeclares the Lord |
| 1:9 |
Then the Lord put forthout his hand and touched my mouth; andAnd the Lord said to me Behold I have put my words in your mouth |
| 1:11 |
And the word of the Lord came to me saying Jeremiah what do you see And I said I see aan rod of almond branch |
| 1:14 |
Then the Lord said to me Out of the north evildisaster shall breakbe forthlet loose upon all the inhabitants of the land |
| 1:15 |
For lobehold I am calling all the tribes of the kingdoms of the north saysdeclares the Lord; and they shall come and every one shall set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem against all its walls roundall aboutaround and against all the cities of Judah |
| 1:16 |
And I will utterdeclare my judgments against them for all their wickednessevil in forsaking me; theyThey have burnedmade incenseofferings to other gods and worshiped the works of their own hands |
| 1:17 |
But you girddress upyourself yourfor loinswork; arise and say to them everything that I command you Do not be dismayed by them lest I dismay you before them |
| 1:18 |
And I behold I make you this day a fortified city an iron pillar and bronze walls against the whole land against the kings of Judah its princesofficials its priests and the people of the land |
| 1:19 |
They will fight against you; but they shall not prevail against you for I am with you saysdeclares the Lord to deliver you |
| 2:3 |
Israel was holy to the Lord the firstfirstfruits fruits of his harvest All who ate of it becameincurred guiltyguilt; evildisaster came upon them saysdeclares the Lord |
| 2:4 |
Hear the word of the Lord O house of Jacob and all the familiesclans of the house of Israel |
| 2:8 |
The priests did not say Where is the Lord Those who handle the law did not know me; the rulersshepherds transgressed against me; the prophets prophesied by Ba′alBaal and went after things that do not profit |
| 2:9 |
Therefore I still contend with you saysdeclares the Lord and with your childrens children I will contend |
| 2:12 |
Be appalled O heavens at this; be shocked be utterly desolate saysdeclares the Lord |
| 2:15 |
The lions have roared against him; they have roared loudly They have made his land a waste; his cities are in ruins without inhabitant |
| 2:16 |
Moreover the men of Memphis and Tah′panhesTahpanhes have brokenshaved the crown of your head |
| 2:18 |
And now what do you gain by going to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile Or what do you gain by going to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphra′tesEuphrates |
| 2:19 |
Your wickednessevil will chastenchastise you and your apostasy will reprove you Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the Lord your God; the fear of me is not in you saysdeclares the Lord God of hosts |
| 2:20 |
For long ago youI broke your yoke and burst your bonds; andbut you said I will not serve YeaYes uponon every high hill and under every green tree you bowed down aslike a harlotwhore |
| 2:22 |
Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap the stain of your guilt is still before me saysdeclares the Lord God |
| 2:23 |
How can you say I am not defiledunclean I have not gone after the Ba′alsBaals Look at your way in the valley; know what you have done— a restiverestless young camel interlacingrunning herhere tracksand there |
| 2:24 |
a wild assdonkey used to the wilderness in her heat sniffing the wind Who can restrain her lust None who seek her need weary themselves; in her month they will find her |
| 2:25 |
Keep your feet from going unshod and your throat from thirst But you said It is hopeless for I have loved strangersforeigners and after them I will go |
| 2:26 |
As a thief is shamed when caught so the house of Israel shall be shamed: they their kings their princesofficials their priests and their prophets |
| 2:29 |
Why do you complaincontend againstwith me You have all rebelledtransgressed against me saysdeclares the Lord |
| 2:30 |
In vain have I smittenstruck your children; they took no correction; your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion |
| 2:31 |
And you O generation heedbehold the word of the Lord Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of thick darkness Why then do my people say We are free we will come no more to theeyou |
| 2:32 |
Can a maidenvirgin forget her ornaments or a bride her attire Yet my people have forgotten me days without number |
| 2:33 |
How well you direct your course to seek loverslove So that even to wicked women you have taught your ways |
| 2:34 |
Also on your skirts is found the lifeblood of the guiltless poor; you did not find them breaking in Yet in spite of all these things |
| 2:36 |
How lightlymuch you gadgo about changing your way You shall be put to shame by Egypt as you were put to shame by Assyria |
| 2:37 |
From it too you will come away with your hands uponon your head for the Lord has rejected those in whom you trust and you will not prosper by them |
| 3:1 |
If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another mans wife will he return to her Would not that land be greatly polluted You have played the harlotwhore with many lovers; and would you return to me saysdeclares the Lord |
| 3:2 |
Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see Where have you not been lainravished with By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers like an Arab in the wilderness You have polluted the land with your vile harlotrywhoredom |
| 3:3 |
Therefore the showers have been withheld and the spring rain has not come; yet you have the forehead of a harlotswhore; brow you refuse to be ashamed |
| 3:4 |
Have you not just now called to me My father thouyou artare the friend of my youth— |
| 3:5 |
will he be angry forforever ever will he be indignant to the end Behold you have spoken but you have done all the evil that you could |
| 3:6 |
The Lord said to me in the days of King Josi′ahJosiah: Have you seen what she did that faithless one Israel how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree and there played the harlot whore |
| 3:7 |
And I thought After she has done all this she will return to me; but she did not return and her falsetreacherous sister Judah saw it |
| 3:8 |
She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one Israel I had sent her away with a decree of divorce; yetYet her falsetreacherous sister Judah did not fear but she too went and played the harlot whore |
| 3:9 |
Because harlotryshe wastook soher lightwhoredom tolightly her she polluted the land committing adultery with stone and tree |
| 3:10 |
Yet for all this her falsetreacherous sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart but in pretense saysdeclares the Lord |
| 3:11 |
And the Lord said to me Faithless Israel has shown herself lessmore guiltyrighteous than falsetreacherous Judah |
| 3:12 |
Go and proclaim these words toward the north and say Return faithless Israel saysdeclares the Lord I will not look on you in anger for I am merciful saysdeclares the Lord; I will not be angry for everforever |
| 3:13 |
Only acknowledge your guilt that you rebelled against the Lord your God and scattered your favors among strangersforeigners under every green tree and that you have not obeyed my voice saysdeclares the Lord |
| 3:14 |
Return O faithless children saysdeclares the Lord; for I am your master; I will take you one from a city and two from a family and I will bring you to Zion |
| 3:16 |
And when you have multiplied and increasedbeen fruitful in the land in those days saysdeclares the Lord they shall no more say The ark of the covenant of the Lord It shall not come to mind or be remembered or missed; it shall not be made again |
| 3:19 |
I thoughtsaid howHow I would set you among my sons and give you a pleasant land a heritage most beauteousbeautiful of all nations And I thought you would call me My Father and would not turn from following me |
| 3:20 |
Surely as a faithlesstreacherous wife leaves her husband so have you been faithlesstreacherous to me O house of Israel saysdeclares the Lord |
| 3:21 |
A voice on the bare heights is heard the weeping and pleading of Israels sons because they have perverted their way; they have forgotten the Lord their God |
| 3:22 |
Return O faithless sons; I will heal your faithlessness Behold we come to thee;you for thouyou artare the Lord our God |
| 3:25 |
Let us lie down in our shame and let our dishonor cover us; forFor we have sinned against the Lord our God we and our fathers from our youth even to this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God |
| 4:1 |
If you return O Israel saysdeclares the Lord to me you should return If you remove your abominationsdetestable things from my presence and do not waver |
| 4:2 |
and if you swear As the Lord lives in truth in justice and in uprightnessrighteousness then nations shall bless themselves in him and in him shall they glory |
| 4:3 |
For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem: Break up your fallow ground and sow not among thorns |
| 4:4 |
Circumcise yourselves to the Lord; remove the foreskin of your hearts O men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire and burn with none to quench it because of the evil of your doingsdeeds |
| 4:6 |
Raise a standard toward Zion flee for safety stay not for I bring evildisaster from the north and great destruction |
| 4:7 |
A lion has gone up from his thicket a destroyer of nations has set out; he has gone forthout from his place to make your land a waste; your cities will be ruins without inhabitant |
| 4:8 |
For this girdput youon with sackcloth lament and wail; for the fierce anger of the Lord has not turned back from us |
| 4:9 |
In that day saysdeclares the Lord courage shall fail both king and princes;officials theThe priests shall be appalled and the prophets astounded |
| 4:10 |
Then I said Ah Lord God surely thouyou hasthave utterly deceived this people and Jerusalem saying It shall be well with you; whereas the sword has reached their very life |
| 4:13 |
Behold he comes up like clouds; his chariots like the whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles— woe to us for we are ruined |
| 4:14 |
O Jerusalem wash your heart from wickednessevil that you may be saved How long shall your evilwicked thoughts lodge within you |
| 4:15 |
For a voice declares from Dan and proclaims eviltrouble from Mount E′phraimEphraim |
| 4:17 |
Like keepers of a field are they against her roundall aboutaround because she has rebelled against me saysdeclares the Lord |
| 4:18 |
Your ways and your doingsdeeds have brought this upon you This is your doom and it is bitter; it has reached your very heart |
| 4:19 |
My anguish my anguish I writhe in pain Oh the walls of my heart My heart is beating wildly; I cannot keep silent; for I hear the sound of the trumpet the alarm of war |
| 4:20 |
DisasterCrash follows hard on disastercrash; the whole land is laid waste Suddenly my tents are destroyedlaid waste my curtains in a moment |
| 4:22 |
For my people are foolish; they know me not; they are stupid children; they have no understanding They are skilled wise—in doing evil butBut how to do good they know not |
| 4:23 |
I looked on the earth and lobehold it was wastewithout form and void; and to the heavens and they had no light |
| 4:24 |
I looked on the mountains and lobehold they were quaking and all the hills moved to and fro |
| 4:25 |
I looked and lobehold there was no man and all the birds of the air had fled |
| 4:26 |
I looked and lobehold the fruitful land was a desert and all its cities were laid in ruins before the Lord before his fierce anger |
| 4:28 |
For this the earth shall mourn and the heavens above be blackdark; for I have spoken; I have purposed; I have not relented nor will I turn back |
| 4:30 |
And you O desolate one what do you mean that you dress in scarlet that you deckadorn yourself with ornaments of gold that you enlarge your eyes with paint In vain you beautify yourself Your lovers despise you; they seek your life |
| 4:31 |
For I heard a cry as of a woman in travaillabor anguish as of one bringinggiving forthbirth to her first child the cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath stretching out her hands Woe is me I am fainting before murderers |
| 5:1 |
Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem look and take note Search her squares to see if you can find a man one who does justice and seeks truth; that I may pardon her |
| 5:3 |
O Lord do not thyyour eyes look for truth ThouYou hasthave smittenstruck them down but they felt no anguish; thouyou hasthave consumed them but they refused to take correction They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to repent |
| 5:4 |
Then I said These are only the poor; they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the Lord the lawjustice of their God |
| 5:5 |
I will go to the great and will speak to them; for they know the way of the Lord the lawjustice of their God But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds |
| 5:6 |
Therefore a lion from the forest shall slaystrike them down; a wolf from the desert shall destroydevastate them A leopard is watching against their cities; everyeveryone one who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many their apostasies are great |
| 5:7 |
How can I pardon you Your children have forsaken me and have sworn by those who are no gods When I fed them to the full they committed adultery and trooped to the houses of harlotswhores |
| 5:9 |
Shall I not punish them for these things saysdeclares the Lord; and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this |
| 5:11 |
For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been utterly faithlesstreacherous to me saysdeclares the Lord |
| 5:12 |
They have spoken falsely of the Lord and have said He will do nothing; no evildisaster will come upon us nor shall we see sword or famine |
| 5:14 |
Therefore thus says the Lord the God of hosts: Because theyyou have spoken this word behold I am making my words in your mouth a fire and this people wood and the fire shall devourconsume them |
| 5:15 |
Behold I am bringing uponagainst you a nation from afar O house of Israel saysdeclares the Lord It is an enduring nation; it is an ancient nation a nation whose language you do not know nor can you understand what they say |
| 5:16 |
Their quiver is like an open tomb; they are all mighty menwarriors |
| 5:17 |
They shall eat up your harvest and your food; they shall eat up your sons and your daughters; they shall eat up your flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; your fortified cities in which you trust they shall destroybeat down with the sword |
| 5:18 |
But even in those days saysdeclares the Lord I will not make a full end of you |
| 5:19 |
And when your people say Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us you shall say to them As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land so you shall serve strangersforeigners in a land that is not yours |
| 5:20 |
Declare this in the house of Jacob; proclaim it in Judah: |
| 5:22 |
Do you not fear me saysdeclares the Lord; Do you not tremble before me I placed the sand as the boundboundary for the sea a perpetual barrier whichthat it cannot pass; though the waves toss they cannot prevail; though they roar they cannot pass over it |
| 5:27 |
Like a basketcage full of birds their houses are full of treacherydeceit; therefore they have become great and rich; |
| 5:28 |
they have grown fat and sleek They know no bounds in deeds of wickednessevil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless to make it prosper and they do not defend the rights of the needy |
| 5:29 |
Shall I not punish them for these things saysdeclares the Lord and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this |
| 6:1 |
Flee for safety O people of Benjamin from the midst of Jerusalem Blow the trumpet in Teko′aTekoa and raise a signal on Beth hacche′rem;haccherem for evildisaster looms out of the north and great destruction |
| 6:2 |
The comelylovely and delicately bred I will destroy the daughter of Zion |
| 6:3 |
Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her; they shall pitch their tents around her; they shall pasture each in his place |
| 6:4 |
Prepare war against her; uparise and let us attack at noon Woe to us for the day declines for the shadows of evening lengthen |
| 6:5 |
UpArise and let us attack by night and destroy her palaces |
| 6:6 |
For thus says the Lord of hosts: HewCut down her trees; cast up a siege mound against Jerusalem This is the city whichthat must be punished; there is nothing but oppression within her |
| 6:7 |
As a well keeps its water fresh so she keeps fresh her wickednessevil; violence and destruction are heard within her; sickness and wounds are ever before me |
| 6:8 |
Be warned O Jerusalem lest I beturn alienated from you; in disgust lest I make you a desolation an uninhabited land |
| 6:9 |
Thus says the Lord of hosts: GleanThey shall glean thoroughly as a vine the remnant of Israel; like a grape gatherer pass your hand again over its branches |
| 6:10 |
To whom shall I speak and give warning that they may hear Behold their ears are closeduncircumcised they cannot listen; behold the word of the Lord is to them an object of scorn; they take no pleasure in it |
| 6:11 |
Therefore I am full of the wrath of the Lord; I am weary of holding it in Pour it out upon the children in the street and upon the gatherings of young men also; both husband and wife shall be taken the oldelderly folk and the very aged |
| 6:12 |
Their houses shall be turned over to others their fields and wives together; for I will stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land saysdeclares the Lord |
| 6:13 |
For from the least to the greatest of them everyeveryone one is greedy for unjust gain; and from prophet to priest everyeveryone one deals falsely |
| 6:17 |
I set watchmen over you saying GivePay heedattention to the sound of the trumpet But they said We will not givepay heedattention |
| 6:19 |
Hear O earth; behold I am bringing evildisaster upon this people the fruit of their devices because they have not givenpaid heedattention to my words; and as for my law they have rejected it |
| 6:20 |
ToWhat whatuse purposeto doesme is frankincense comethat tocomes me from Sheba or sweet cane from a distant land Your burnt offerings are not acceptable nor your sacrifices pleasing to me |
| 6:23 |
They lay hold on bow and spearjavelin; they are cruel and have no mercy; the sound of them is like the roaring sea; they ride uponon horses set in array as a man for battle against you O daughter of Zion |
| 6:24 |
We have heard the report of it; our hands fall helpless; anguish has taken hold of us pain as of a woman in travaillabor |
| 6:25 |
Go not forthout into the field nor walk on the road; for the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side |
| 6:26 |
O daughter of my people girdput on sackcloth and roll in ashes; make mourning as for an only son most bitter lamentation; for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us |
| 6:27 |
I have made you ana assayertester andof testermetals among my people that you may know and assaytest their ways |
| 6:28 |
They are all stubbornly rebellious going about with slanders; they are bronze and iron; all of them act corruptly |
| 6:29 |
The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed by the fire; in vain the refining goes on for the wicked are not removed |
| 6:30 |
RefuseRejected silver they are called for the Lord has rejected them |
| 7:3 |
Thus says the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your doingsdeeds and I will let you dwell in this place |
| 7:5 |
For if you truly amend your ways and your doingsdeeds if you truly execute justice one with another |
| 7:6 |
if you do not oppress the aliensojourner the fatherless or the widow or shed innocent blood in this place and if you do not go after other gods to your own hurt harm |
| 7:7 |
then I will let you dwell in this place in the land that I gave of old to your fathers for everforever |
| 7:9 |
Will you steal murder commit adultery swear falsely burnmake incenseofferings to Ba′alBaal and go after other gods that you have not known |
| 7:11 |
Has this house which is called by my name become a den of robbers in your eyes Behold I myself have seen it saysdeclares the Lord |
| 7:12 |
Go now to my place that was in Shiloh where I made my name dwell at first and see what I did to it forbecause of the wickednessevil of my people Israel |
| 7:13 |
And now because you have done all these things saysdeclares the Lord and when I spoke to you persistently you did not listen and when I called you you did not answer |
| 7:14 |
therefore I will do to the house whichthat is called by my name and in which you trust and to the place whichthat I gave to you and to your fathers as I did to Shiloh |
| 7:15 |
And I will cast you out of my sight as I cast out all your kinsmen all the offspring of E′phraimEphraim |
| 7:16 |
As for you do not pray for this people or lift up a cry or prayer for them and do not intercede with me for I dowill not hear you |
| 7:18 |
The children gather wood the fathers kindle fire and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven; andAnd they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke me to anger |
| 7:19 |
Is it I whom they provoke saysdeclares the Lord Is it not themselves to their own confusion shame |
| 7:23 |
But this command I gave them: Obey my voice and I will be your God and you shall be my people; andAnd walk in all the way that I command you that it may be well with you |
| 7:25 |
From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them day after day; |
| 7:26 |
yetYet they did not listen to me or incline their ear but stiffened their neck They did worse than their fathers |
| 7:30 |
For the sons of Judah have done evil in my sight saysdeclares the Lord; theyThey have set their abominationsdetestable things in the house whichthat is called by my name to defile it |
| 7:31 |
And they have built the high placeplaces of Topheth which is in the valleyValley of the sonSon of Hinnom to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I did not command nor did it come into my mind |
| 7:32 |
Therefore behold the days are coming saysdeclares the Lord when it will no more be called Topheth or the valleyValley of the sonSon of Hinnom but the valleyValley of Slaughter:; for they will bury in Topheth because there is no room elsewhere |
| 7:33 |
And the dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth; and none will frighten them away |
| 7:34 |
And I will makesilence toin cease from the cities of Judah and fromin 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 |
| 8:1 |
At that time saysdeclares the Lord the bones of the kings of Judah the bones of its princesofficials the bones of the priests the bones of the prophets and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be brought out of their tombs; |
| 8:2 |
andAnd they shall be spread before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven which they have loved and served which they have gone after and which they have sought and worshiped; andAnd they shall not be gathered or buried; theyThey shall be as dung on the surface of the ground |
| 8:3 |
Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family in all the places where I have driven them saysdeclares the Lord of hosts |
| 8:5 |
Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return |
| 8:6 |
I have givenpaid heedattention and listened but they have not spoken arightrightly; no man repentsrelents of his wickednessevil saying What have I done EveryEveryone one turns to his own course like a horse plunging headlong into battle |
| 8:7 |
Even the stork in the heavens knows her times; and the turtledove swallow and crane keep the time of their coming; but my people know not the ordinancerules of the Lord |
| 8:8 |
How can you say We are wise and the law of the Lord is with us But behold the falselying pen of the scribes has made it into a lie |
| 8:9 |
The wise men shall be put to shame; they shall be dismayed and taken; lobehold they have rejected the word of the Lord andso what wisdom is in them |
| 8:10 |
Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to conquerors because from the least to the greatest everyeveryone one is greedy for unjust gain; from prophet to priest everyeveryone one deals falsely |
| 8:13 |
When I would gather them saysdeclares the Lord there are no grapes on the vine nor figs on the fig tree; even the leaves are withered and what I gave them has passed away from them |
| 8:14 |
Why do we sit still Gather together; let us go into the fortified cities and perish there; for the Lord our God has doomed us to perish and has given us poisoned water to drink because we have sinned against the Lord |
| 8:15 |
We looked for peace but no good came; for a time of healing but behold terror |
| 8:17 |
For behold I am sending among you serpents adders whichthat cannot be charmed and they shall bite you saysdeclares the Lord |
| 8:18 |
My joy is gone; grief is beyondupon healingme; my heart is sick within me |
| 8:19 |
HarkBehold the cry of the daughter of my people from the length and breadth of the land: Is the Lord not in Zion Is her King not in her Why have they provoked me to anger with their gravencarved images and with their foreign idols |
| 8:21 |
For the wound of the daughter of my people is my heart wounded; I mourn and dismay has taken hold on me |
| 9:1 |
OOh that my head were waters and my eyes a fountain of tears that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people |
| 9:2 |
OOh that I had in the desert a wayfarerstravelers lodging place that I might leave my people and go away from them For they are all adulterers a company of treacherous men |
| 9:3 |
They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil and they do not know me saysdeclares the Lord |
| 9:4 |
Let everyeveryone one beware of his neighbor and put no trust in any brother; for every brother is a supplanterdeceiver and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer |
| 9:5 |
EveryEveryone one deceives his neighbor and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they commitweary iniquitythemselves andcommitting are too weary to repentiniquity |
| 9:6 |
Heaping oppression upon oppression and deceit upon deceit they refuse to know me saysdeclares the Lord |
| 9:8 |
Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceitfully; with his mouth each speaks peaceablypeace to his neighbor but in his heart he plans an ambush for him |
| 9:9 |
Shall I not punish them for these things saysdeclares the Lord; and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this |
| 9:10 |
TakeI will take up weeping and wailing for the mountains and a lamentation for the pastures of the wilderness because they are laid waste so that no one passes through and the lowing of cattle is not heard; both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled and are gone |
| 9:11 |
I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins a lair of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without inhabitant |
| 9:13 |
And the Lord says: Because they have forsaken my law whichthat I set before them and have not obeyed my voice or walked in accord with it |
| 9:14 |
but have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Ba′alsBaals as their fathers taught them |
| 9:15 |
Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will feed this people with wormwoodbitter food and give them poisonous water to drink |
| 9:16 |
I will scatter them among the nations whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them until I have consumed them |
| 9:17 |
Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skilfulskillful women to come; |
| 9:18 |
let them make haste and raise a wailing over us that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gushflow with water |
| 9:21 |
For death has come up into our windows; it has entered our palaces cutting off the children from the streets and the young men from the squares |
| 9:22 |
Speak: Thus saysdeclares the Lord: The dead bodies of men shall fall like dung upon the open field like sheaves after the reaper and none shall gather them |
| 9:23 |
Thus says the Lord: Let not the wise man gloryboast in his wisdom let not the mighty man gloryboast in his might let not the rich man gloryboast in his riches; |
| 9:24 |
but let him who gloriesboasts gloryboast in this that he understands and knows me that I am the Lord who practicepractices steadfast love justice and righteousness in the earth; forFor in these things I delight saysdeclares the Lord |
| 9:25 |
Behold the days are coming saysdeclares the Lord when I will punish all those who are circumcised butmerely yetin uncircumcisedthe flesh— |
| 9:26 |
Egypt Judah Edom the sons of Ammon Moab and all who dwell in the desert thatwho cut the corners of their hair; for all these nations are uncircumcised and all the house of Israel isare uncircumcised in heart |
| 10:1 |
Hear the word whichthat the Lord speaks to you O house of Israel |
| 10:3 |
for the customs of the peoples are falsevanity A tree from the forest is cut down and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman |
| 10:4 |
MenThey deckdecorate it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so that it cannot move |
| 10:5 |
Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field and they cannot speak; they have to be carried for they cannot walk BeDo not be afraid of them for they cannot do evil neither is it in them to do good |
| 10:6 |
There is none like theeyou O Lord; thouyou artare great and thyyour name is great in might |
| 10:7 |
Who would not fear theeyou O King of the nations For this is thyyour due; for among all the wise ones of the nations and in all their kingdoms there is none like theeyou |
| 10:13 |
When he utters his voice there is a tumult of waters in the heavens and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth He makes lightningslightning for the rain and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses |
| 10:14 |
Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols; for his images are false and there is no breath in them |
| 10:22 |
HarkA voice a rumor Behold it comes— a great commotion out of the north country to make the cities of Judah a desolation a lair of jackals |
| 10:24 |
Correct me O Lord but in just measurejustice; not in thyyour anger lest thouyou bring me to nothing |
| 10:25 |
Pour out thyyour wrath uponon the nations that know theeyou not and uponon the peoples that call not on thyyour name; for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him and have laid waste his habitation |
| 11:3 |
You shall say to them Thus says the Lord the God of Israel: Cursed be the man who does not heedhear the words of this covenant |
| 11:4 |
whichthat I commanded your fathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt from the iron furnace saying Listen to my voice and do all that I command you So shall you be my people and I will be your God |
| 11:5 |
that I may performconfirm the oath whichthat I swore to your fathers to give them a land flowing with milk and honey as at this day Then I answered So be it Lord |
| 11:8 |
Yet they did not obey or incline their ear but everyeveryone one walked in the stubbornness of his evil heart Therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant which I commanded them to do but they did not |
| 11:9 |
Again the Lord said to me ThereA isconspiracy revoltexists among the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem |
| 11:10 |
They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers who refused to hear my words; theyThey have gone after other gods to serve them; theThe house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant whichthat I made with their fathers |
| 11:11 |
Therefore thus says the Lord Behold I am bringing evildisaster upon them whichthat they cannot escape; thoughThough they cry to me I will not listen to them |
| 11:12 |
Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to whom they burnmake incenseofferings but they cannot save them in the time of their trouble |
| 11:13 |
For your gods have become as many as your cities O Judah; and as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to shame altars to burnmake incenseofferings to Ba′alBaal |
| 11:15 |
What right has my beloved in my house when she has done many vile deeds Can vowseven and sacrificial flesh avert your doom Can you then exult |
| 11:16 |
The Lord once called you Aa green olive tree fairbeautiful with goodlygood fruit; butBut with the roar of a great tempest he will set fire to it and its branches will be consumed |
| 11:17 |
The Lord of hosts who planted you has pronounceddecreed evildisaster against you because of the evil whichthat the house of Israel and the house of Judah have done provoking me to anger by burningmaking incenseofferings to Ba′alBaal |
| 11:18 |
The Lord made it known to me and I knew; then thouyou didstshowed show me their evil deeds |
| 11:20 |
But O Lord of hosts who judgestjudges righteously who triesttests the heart and the mind let me see thyyour vengeance upon them for to theeyou have I committed my cause |
| 11:21 |
Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the men of An′athothAnathoth who seek your life and say Do not prophesy in the name of the Lord or you will die by our hand— |
| 11:22 |
therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Behold I will punish them; theThe young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine; |
| 11:23 |
and none of them shall be left For I will bring evildisaster upon the men of An′athothAnathoth the year of their punishment |
| 12:1 |
Righteous artare thouyou O Lord when I complain to theeyou; yet I would plead my case before theeyou Why does the way of the wicked prosper Why do all who are treacherous thrive |
| 12:2 |
ThouYou plantestplant them and they take root; they grow and bringproduce forth fruit; thouyou artare near in their mouth and far from their heart |
| 12:3 |
But thouyou O Lord knowestknow me; thouyou seestsee me and triesttest my mindheart toward theeyou Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter and set them apart for the day of slaughter |
| 12:4 |
How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field wither For the wickednessevil of those who dwell in it the beasts and the birds are swept away because menthey said He will not see our latter end |
| 12:5 |
If you have raced with men on foot and they have wearied you how will you compete with horses And if in a safe land you fallare downso howtrusting what will you do in the junglethicket of the Jordan |
| 12:6 |
For even your brothers and the house of your father even they have dealt treacherously with you; they are in full cry after you; do not believe them not though they speak fairfriendly words to you |
| 12:7 |
I have forsaken my house; I have abandoned my heritage; I have given the beloved of my soul into the hands of her enemies |
| 12:8 |
My heritage has become to me like a lion in the forest; she has lifted up her voice against me; therefore I hate her |
| 12:9 |
Is my heritage to me like a speckledhyenas birdlair of prey Are the birds of prey against her roundall aboutaround Go assemble all the wild beasts; bring them to devour |
| 12:10 |
Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard; they have trampled down my portion; they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness |
| 12:12 |
Upon all the bare heights in the desert destroyers have come; for the sword of the Lord devours from one end of the land to the other; no flesh has peace |
| 12:13 |
They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns; they have tired themselves out but profit nothing They shall be ashamed of their harvests because of the fierce anger of the Lord |
| 12:14 |
Thus says the Lord concerning all my evil neighbors who touch the heritage whichthat I have given my people Israel to inherit: Behold I will pluck them up from their land and I will pluck up the house of Judah from among them |
| 12:16 |
And it shall come to pass if they will diligently learn the ways of my people to swear by my name As the Lord lives even as they taught my people to swear by Ba′alBaal then they shall be built up in the midst of my people |
| 12:17 |
But if any nation will not listen then I will utterly pluck it up and destroy it saysdeclares the Lord |
| 13:1 |
Thus says the Lord to me Go and buy a linen waistclothloincloth and put it onaround your loinswaist and do not dip it in water |
| 13:2 |
So I bought a waistclothloincloth according to the word of the Lord and put it onaround my loins waist |
| 13:4 |
Take the waistclothloincloth whichthat you have bought which is uponaround your loinswaist and arise go to the Euphra′tesEuphrates and hide it there in a cleft of the rock |
| 13:5 |
So I went and hid it by the Euphra′tesEuphrates as the Lord commanded me |
| 13:6 |
And after many days the Lord said to me Arise go to the Euphra′tesEuphrates and take from there the waistclothloincloth whichthat I commanded you to hide there |
| 13:7 |
Then I went to the Euphra′tesEuphrates and dug and I took the waistclothloincloth from the place where I had hidden it And behold the waistclothloincloth was spoiled; it was good for nothing |
| 13:10 |
This evil people who refuse to hear my words who stubbornly follow their own heart and have gone after other gods to serve them and worship them shall be like this waistclothloincloth which is good for nothing |
| 13:11 |
For as the waistclothloincloth clings to the loinswaist of a man so I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me saysdeclares the Lord that they might be for me a people a name a praise and a glory but they would not listen |
| 13:14 |
And I will dash them one against another fathers and sons together saysdeclares the Lord I will not pity or spare or have compassion that I should not destroy them |
| 13:21 |
What will you say when they set as head over you those whom you yourself have taught to be friends to you Will not pangs take hold of you like those of a woman in travaillabor |
| 13:25 |
This is your lot the portion I have measured out to you saysdeclares the Lord because you have forgotten me and trusted in lies |
| 13:27 |
I have seen your abominations your adulteries and neighings your lewd harlotrieswhorings on the hills in the field Woe to you O Jerusalem How long will it be before you are made clean |
| 14:1 |
The word of the Lord whichthat came to Jeremiah concerning the drought: |
| 14:3 |
Her nobles send their servants for water; they come to the cisterns; they find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are ashamed and confounded and cover their heads |
| 14:4 |
Because of the ground whichthat is dismayed since there is no rain on the land the farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads |
| 14:5 |
Even the hinddoe in the field forsakes her newborn calffawn because there is no grass |
| 14:6 |
The wild assesdonkeys stand on the bare heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no herbagevegetation |
| 14:7 |
Though our iniquities testify against us act O Lord for thyyour names sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against theeyou |
| 14:8 |
O thouyou hope of Israel its savior in time of trouble why shouldstshould thouyou be like a stranger in the land like a wayfarertraveler who turns aside to tarry for a night |
| 14:9 |
Why shouldstshould thouyou be like a man confused like a mighty manwarrior who cannot save Yet thouyou O Lord artare in the midst of us and we are called by thyyour name; do not leave us not |
| 14:10 |
Thus says the Lord concerning this people: They have loved to wander thus; they have not restrained their feet; therefore the Lord does not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins |
| 14:12 |
Though they fast I will not hear their cry and though they offer burnt offering and cerealgrain offering I will not accept them; butBut I will consume them by the sword by famine and by pestilence |
| 14:14 |
And the Lord said to me: The prophets are prophesying lies in my name; I did not send them nor did I command them or speak to them They are prophesying to you a lying vision worthless divination and the deceit of their own minds |
| 14:15 |
Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name although I did not send them and who say Sword and famine shall not come onupon this land: By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed |
| 14:16 |
And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem victims of famine and sword with none to bury them—them their wives their sons and their daughters For I will pour out their wickednessevil upon them |
| 14:17 |
You shall say to them this word: Let my eyes run down with tears night and day and let them not cease for the virgin daughter of my people is smittenshattered with a great wound with a very grievous blow |
| 14:18 |
If I go out into the field behold those slainpierced by the sword And if I enter the city behold the diseases of famine For both prophet and priest ply their trade through the land and have no knowledge |
| 14:19 |
HastHave thouyou utterly rejected Judah Does thyyour soul loathe Zion Why hasthave thouyou smittenstruck us down so that there is no healing for us We looked for peace but no good came; for a time of healing but behold terror |
| 14:20 |
We acknowledge our wickedness O Lord and the iniquity of our fathers for we have sinned against theeyou |
| 14:21 |
Do not spurn us for thyyour names sake; do not dishonor thyyour glorious throne; remember and do not break thyyour covenant with us |
| 14:22 |
Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain Or can the heavens give showers ArtAre thouyou not he O Lord our God We set our hope on theeyou for thouyou doestdo all these things |
| 15:3 |
I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers saysdeclares the Lord: the sword to slaykill the dogs to tear and the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy |
| 15:4 |
And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manas′sehManasseh the son of Hezeki′ahHezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem |
| 15:5 |
Who will have pity on you O Jerusalem or who will bemoangrieve for you Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare |
| 15:6 |
You have rejected me saysdeclares the Lord; you keep going backward; so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you;—— I am weary of relenting |
| 15:7 |
I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them; I have destroyed my people; they did not turn from their ways |
| 15:9 |
She who bore seven has languishedgrown feeble; she has swoonedfainted away; her sun went down while it was yet day; she has been shamed and disgraced And the rest of them I will give to the sword before their enemies saysdeclares the Lord |
| 15:11 |
SoThe letLord itsaid beHave O Lord if I have not entreatedset theeyou free for their good ifHave I have not pleaded withfor theeyou onbefore behalf of the enemy in the time of trouble and in the time of distress |
| 15:14 |
I will make you serve your enemies in a land whichthat you do not know for in my anger a fire is kindled whichthat shall burn for everforever |
| 15:15 |
O Lord thouyou knowestknow; remember me and visit me and take vengeance for me on my persecutors In thyyour forbearance take me not away; know that for thyyour sake I bear reproach |
| 15:16 |
ThyYour words were found and I ate them and thyyour words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart; for I am called by thyyour name O Lord God of hosts |
| 15:17 |
I did not sit in the company of merrymakersrevelers nor did I rejoice; I sat alone because thyyour hand was upon me for thouyou hadsthad filled me with indignation |
| 15:18 |
Why is my pain unceasing my wound incurable refusing to be healed WiltWill thouyou be to me like a deceitful brook like waters that fail |
| 15:20 |
And I will make you to this people a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you but they shall not prevail over you for I am with you to save you and deliver you saysdeclares the Lord |
| 16:3 |
For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place and concerning the mothers who bore them and the fathers who begotfathered them in this land: |
| 16:4 |
They shall die of deadly diseases They shall not be lamented nor shall they be buried; theyThey shall be as dung on the surface of the ground They shall perish by the sword and by famine and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth |
| 16:5 |
For thus says the Lord: Do not enter the house of mourning or go to lament or bemoangrieve for them; for I have taken away my peace from this people says the Lord my steadfast love and mercy declares the Lord |
| 16:6 |
Both great and small shall die in this land; theyThey shall not be buried and no one shall lament for them or cut himself or make himself bald for them |
| 16:7 |
No one shall break bread for the mourner to comfort him for the dead; nor shall anyanyone one give him the cup of consolation to drink for his father or his mother |
| 16:9 |
For thus says the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will makesilence toin cease from 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 |
| 16:11 |
then you shall say to them: Because your fathers have forsaken me saysdeclares the Lord and have gone after other gods and have served and worshiped them and have forsaken me and have not kept my law |
| 16:12 |
and because you have done worse than your fathers for behold every one of you follows his stubborn evil will refusing to listen to me; |
| 16:13 |
thereforeTherefore I will hurl you out of this land into a land whichthat neither you nor your fathers have known and there you shall serve other gods day and night for I will show you no favor |
| 16:14 |
Therefore behold the days are coming saysdeclares the Lord when it shall no longer be said As the Lord lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt |
| 16:15 |
but As the Lord lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them For I will bring them back to their own land whichthat I gave to their fathers |
| 16:16 |
Behold I am sending for many fishers saysdeclares the Lord and they shall catch them; andAnd afterwardsafterward I will send for many hunters and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill and out of the clefts of the rocks |
| 16:17 |
For my eyes are uponon all their ways; theyThey are not hidhidden from me nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes |
| 16:18 |
AndBut first I will doubly recompenserepay their iniquity and their sin because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols and have filled my inheritance with their abominations |
| 16:19 |
O Lord my strength and my stronghold my refuge in the day of trouble to theeyou shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: Our fathers have inherited noughtnothing but lies worthless things in which there is no profit |
| 16:20 |
Can man make for himself gods Such are nonot gods |
| 17:2 |
while their children remember their altars and their Ashe′rimAsherim beside every green tree and on the high hills |
| 17:3 |
on the mountains in the open country Your wealth and all your treasures I will give for spoil as the price of your high places for sin throughout all your territory |
| 17:4 |
You shall loosen your hand from your heritage whichthat I gave to you and I will make you serve your enemies in a land whichthat you do not know for in my anger a fire is kindled whichthat shall burn for everforever |
| 17:5 |
Thus says the Lord: Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his armstrength whose heart turns away from the Lord |
| 17:9 |
The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately corruptsick; who can understand it |
| 17:10 |
I the Lord search the mindheart and trytest the heartmind to give every man according to his ways according to the fruit of his doingsdeeds |
| 17:11 |
Like the partridge that gathers a brood whichthat she did not hatch so is he who gets riches but not by rightjustice; in the midst of his days they will leave him and at his end he will be a fool |
| 17:13 |
O Lord the hope of Israel all who forsake theeyou shall be put to shame; those who turn away from theeyou shall be written in the earth for they have forsaken the Lord the fountain of living water |
| 17:14 |
Heal me O Lord and I shall be healed; save me and I shall be saved; for thouyou artare my praise |
| 17:16 |
I have not pressedrun theeaway tofrom sendbeing evilyour shepherd nor have I desired the day of disastersickness thouYou knowest;know thatwhat which came out of my lips; it was before thyyour face |
| 17:17 |
Be not a terror to me; thouyou artare my refuge in the day of evildisaster |
| 17:18 |
Let those be put to shame who persecute me but let me not be put to shame; let them be dismayed but let me not be dismayed; bring upon them the day of evildisaster; destroy them with double destruction |
| 17:19 |
Thus said the Lord to me: Go and stand in the BenjaminPeoples Gate by which the kings of Judah enter and by which they go out and in all the gates of Jerusalem |
| 17:21 |
Thus says the Lord: Take heedcare for the sake of your lives and do not bear a burden on the sabbathSabbath day or bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem |
| 17:22 |
And do not carry a burden out of your houses on the sabbathSabbath or do any work but keep the sabbathSabbath day holy as I commanded your fathers |
| 17:24 |
But if you listen to me saysdeclares the Lord and bring in no burden by the gates of this city on the sabbathSabbath day but keep the sabbathSabbath day holy and do no work on it |
| 17:25 |
then there shall enter by the gates of this city kings and princes who sit on the throne of David riding in chariots and on horses they and their princesofficials the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; andAnd this city shall be inhabited for ever forever |
| 17:26 |
And people shall come from the cities of Judah and the places roundaround about Jerusalem from the land of Benjamin from the Shephe′lahShephelah from the hill country and from the Negeb bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices cerealgrain offerings and frankincense and bringing thank offerings to the house of the Lord |
| 17:27 |
But if you do not listen to me to keep the sabbathSabbath day holy and not to bear a burden and enter by the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbathSabbath day then I will kindle a fire in its gates and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem and shall not be quenched |
| 18:6 |
O house of Israel can I not do with you as this potter has done saysdeclares the Lord Behold like the clay in the potters hand so are you in my hand O house of Israel |
| 18:8 |
and if that nation concerning which I have spoken turns from its evil I will repentrelent of the evildisaster that I intended to do to it |
| 18:10 |
and if it does evil in my sight not listening to my voice then I will repentrelent of the good whichthat I had intended to do to it |
| 18:11 |
Now therefore say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: Thus says the Lord Behold I am shaping evildisaster against you and devising a plan against you Return every one from his evil way and amend your ways and your doingsdeeds |
| 18:13 |
Therefore thus says the Lord: Ask among the nations whoWho has heard the like of this The virgin Israel has done a very horrible thing |
| 18:14 |
Does the snow of Lebanon leave the crags of Si′rionSirion Do the mountain waters run dry the cold flowing streams |
| 18:15 |
But my people have forgotten me; they burnmake incenseofferings to false gods; they havemade stumbledthem stumble in their ways in the ancient roads and haveto gonewalk into bypathsside roads not the highway |
| 18:16 |
making their land a horror a thing to be hissed at forforever everEveryone Every one who passes by it is horrified and shakes his head |
| 18:18 |
Then they said Come let us make plots against Jeremiah for the law shall not perish from the priest nor counsel from the wise nor the word from the prophet Come let us smitestrike him with the tongue and let us not heedpay attention to any of his words |
| 18:19 |
GiveHear heed to me O Lord and hearkenlisten to the voice of my pleaadversaries |
| 18:20 |
IsShould evilgood abe recompenserepaid forwith goodevil Yet they have dug a pit for my life Remember how I stood before theeyou to speak good for them to turn away thyyour wrath from them |
| 18:21 |
Therefore deliver up their children to famine; give them over to the power of the sword; let their wives become childless and widowed May their men meet death by pestilence their youths be slainstruck down by the sword in battle |
| 18:22 |
May a cry be heard from their houses when thouyou bringestbring the marauderplunderer suddenly upon them For they have dug a pit to take me and laid snares for my feet |
| 18:23 |
Yet thouyou O Lord knowestknow all their plotting to slaykill me Forgive not their iniquity nor blot out their sin from thyyour sight Let them be overthrown before theeyou; deal with them in the time of thineyour anger |
| 19:1 |
Thus saidsays the Lord Go buy a potters earthenearthenware flask and take some of the elders of the people and some of the seniorelders of the priests |
| 19:2 |
and go out to the valleyValley of the sonSon of Hinnom at the entry of the Potsherd Gate and proclaim there the words that I tell you |
| 19:3 |
You shall say Hear the word of the Lord O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem Thus says the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I am bringing such evildisaster upon this place that the ears of everyeveryone one who hears of it will tingle |
| 19:4 |
Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by burningmaking incenseofferings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents |
| 19:5 |
and have built the high places of Ba′alBaal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Ba′alBaal which I did not command or decree nor did it come into my mind; — |
| 19:6 |
therefore behold days are coming saysdeclares the Lord when this place shall no more be called Topheth or the valleyValley of the sonSon of Hinnom but the valleyValley of Slaughter |
| 19:8 |
And I will make this city a horror a thing to be hissed at; everyEveryone one who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters wounds |
| 19:9 |
And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters and everyeveryone one shall eat the flesh of his neighbor in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them |
| 19:12 |
Thus will I do to this place saysdeclares the Lord and to its inhabitants making this city like Topheth |
| 19:13 |
The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah—all the houses uponon whose roofs incenseofferings hashave been burnedoffered to all the host of heaven and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods—shall be defiled like the place of Topheth |
| 19:15 |
Thus says the Lord of hosts the God of Israel Beholdbehold I am bringing upon this city and upon all its towns all the evildisaster that I have pronounced against it because they have stiffened their neck refusing to hear my words |
| 20:3 |
OnThe thenext morrowday when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks Jeremiah said to him The Lord does not call your name Pashhur but Terror on everyEvery side Side |
| 20:4 |
For thus says the Lord: Behold I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends They shall fall by the sword of their enemies while you look on And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon; heHe shall carry them captive to Babylon and shall slaystrike them down with the sword |
| 20:6 |
And you Pashhur and all who dwell in your house shall go into captivity; toTo Babylon you shall go; and there you shall die and there you shall be buried you and all your friends to whom you have prophesied falsely |
| 20:7 |
O Lord thouyou hasthave deceived me and I was deceived; thouyou artare stronger than I and thouyou hasthave prevailed I have become a laughingstock all the day; everyeveryone one mocks me |
| 20:10 |
For I hear many whispering Terror is on every side Denounce him Let us denounce him say all my familiarclose friends watching for my fall Perhaps he will be deceived; then we can overcome him and take our revenge on him |
| 20:11 |
But the Lord is with me as a dread warrior; therefore my persecutors will stumble; they will not overcome me They will be greatly shamed for they will not succeed Their eternal dishonor will never be forgotten |
| 20:12 |
O Lord of hosts who triesttests the righteous who seestsees the heart and the mind let me see thyyour vengeance upon them for to theeyou have I committed my cause |
| 20:16 |
Let that man be like the cities whichthat the Lord overthrew without pity; let him hear a cry in the morning and an alarm at noon |
| 20:17 |
because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave and her womb forforever ever great |
| 20:18 |
Why did I come forthout from the womb to see toil and sorrow and spend my days in shame |
| 21:1 |
This is the word whichthat came to Jeremiah from the Lord when King Zedeki′ahZedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchi′ahMalchiah and Zephani′ahZephaniah the priest the son of MaMaaseiah asei′ah saying |
| 21:2 |
Inquire of the Lord for us for Nebuchadrez′zarNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is making war against us; perhapsPerhaps the Lord will deal with us according to all his wonderful deeds and will make him withdraw from us |
| 21:3 |
Then Jeremiah said to them: Thus you shall say to Zedekiah |
| 21:4 |
Thus you shall say to Zedeki′ah Thus says the Lord the God of Israel: Behold I will turn back the weapons of war whichthat are in your hands and with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and against the Chalde′ansChaldeans who are besieging you outside the walls; andAnd I will bring them together into the midst of this city |
| 21:6 |
And I will smitestrike down the inhabitants of this city both man and beast; theyThey shall die of a great pestilence |
| 21:7 |
Afterward saysdeclares the Lord I will give Zedeki′ahZedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people in this city who survive the pestilence sword and famine into the hand of Nebuchadrez′zarNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of their enemies into the hand of those who seek their lives He shall smitestrike them down with the edge of the sword; heHe shall not pity them or spare them or have compassion |
| 21:9 |
He who stays in this city shall die by the sword by famine and by pestilence; but he who goes out and surrenders to the Chalde′ansChaldeans who are besieging you shall live and shall have his life as a prize of war |
| 21:10 |
For I have set my face against this city for evilharm and not for good saysdeclares the Lord: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon and he shall burn it with fire |
| 21:12 |
O house of David Thus says the Lord: Execute justice in the morning and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed lest my wrath go forth like fire and burn with none to quench it because of your evil doingsdeeds |
| 21:13 |
Behold I am against you O inhabitant of the valley O rock of the plain saysdeclares the Lord; you who say Who shall come down against us or who shall enter our habitations |
| 21:14 |
I will punish you according to the fruit of your doingsdeeds saysdeclares the Lord; I will kindle a fire in her forest and it shall devour all that is roundaround about her |
| 22:2 |
and say Hear the word of the Lord O Kingking of Judah who sitsits on the throne of David you and your servants and your people who enter these gates |
| 22:3 |
Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien the fatherless and the widow nor shed innocent blood in this place |
| 22:5 |
But if you will not heedobey these words I swear by myself saysdeclares the Lord that this house shall become a desolation |
| 22:6 |
For thus says the Lord concerning the house of the king of Judah: You are aslike Gilead to me aslike the summit of Lebanon yet surely I will make you a desert an uninhabited city |
| 22:7 |
I will prepare destroyers against you each with his weapons; and they shall cut down your choicest cedars and cast them into the fire |
| 22:9 |
And they will answer Because they forsookhave forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God and worshiped other gods and served them |
| 22:10 |
Weep not for him who is dead nor bemoangrieve for him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away for he shall return no more to see his native land |
| 22:11 |
For thus says the Lord concerning Shallum the son of Josi′ahJosiah king of Judah who reigned instead of Josi′ahJosiah his father and who went away from this place: He shall return here no more |
| 22:13 |
Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness and his upper rooms by injustice; who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing and does not give him his wages; |
| 22:14 |
who says I will build myself a great house with spacious upper rooms andwho cuts out windows for it paneling it with cedar and painting it with vermilion |
| 22:16 |
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well Is not this to know me saysdeclares the Lord |
| 22:18 |
Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoi′akimJehoiakim the son of Josi′ahJosiah 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 majesty |
| 22:19 |
With the burial of ana assdonkey he shall be buried dragged and castdumped forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem |
| 22:20 |
Go up to Lebanon and cry out and lift up your voice in Bashan; cry out from Ab′arimAbarim for all your lovers are destroyed |
| 22:22 |
The wind shall shepherd all your shepherds and your lovers shall go into captivity; then you will be ashamed and confounded because of all your wickednessevil |
| 22:23 |
O inhabitant of Lebanon nested among the cedars how you will groanbe pitied when pangs come upon you pain as of a woman in travaillabor |
| 22:24 |
As I live saysdeclares the Lord though Coni′ahConiah the son of Jehoi′akimJehoiakim king of Judah were the signet ring on my right hand yet I would tear you off |
| 22:25 |
and give you into the hand of those who seek your life into the hand of those of whom you are afraid even into the hand of Nebuchadrez′zarNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chalde′ans Chaldeans |
| 22:28 |
Is this man Coni′ahConiah a despised broken pot a vessel no one cares for Why are he and his children hurled and cast into a land whichthat they do not know |
| 22:30 |
Thus says the Lord: Write this man down as childless a man who shall not succeed in his days; for none of his offspring shall succeed in sitting on the throne of David and ruling again in Judah |
| 23:1 |
Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture saysdeclares the Lord |
| 23:2 |
Therefore thus says the Lord the God of Israel concerning the shepherds who care for my people: You have scattered my flock and have driven them away and you have not attended to them Behold I will attend to you for your evil doingsdeeds saysdeclares the Lord |
| 23:4 |
I will set shepherds over them who will care for them and they shall fear no more nor be dismayed neither shall any be missing saysdeclares the Lord |
| 23:5 |
Behold the days are coming saysdeclares the Lord when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch and he shall reign as king and deal wisely and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land |
| 23:7 |
Therefore behold the days are coming saysdeclares the Lord when menthey shall no longer say As the Lord lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt |
| 23:8 |
but As the Lord lives who brought up and led the descendantsoffspring of the house of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them Then they shall dwell in their own land |
| 23:9 |
Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken within me; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man like a man overcome by wine because of the Lord and because of his holy words |
| 23:11 |
Both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in my house I have found their wickednessevil saysdeclares the Lord |
| 23:12 |
Therefore their way shall be to them like slippery paths in the darkness into which they shall be driven and fall; for I will bring evildisaster upon them in the year of their punishment saysdeclares the Lord |
| 23:13 |
In the prophets of Samar′iaSamaria I saw an unsavory thing: they prophesied by Ba′alBaal and led my people Israel astray |
| 23:14 |
But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of evildoers so that no one turns from his wickednessevil; all of them have become like Sodom to me and its inhabitants like Gomor′rahGomorrah |
| 23:15 |
Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets: Behold I will feed them with wormwoodbitter food and give them poisoned water to drink; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone forthout into all the land |
| 23:16 |
Thus says the Lord of hosts: Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you filling you with vain hopes; theyThey speak visions of their own minds not from the mouth of the Lord |
| 23:17 |
They say continually to those who despise the word of the Lord It shall be well with you; and to everyeveryone one who stubbornly follows his own heart they say No evildisaster shall come upon you |
| 23:18 |
For who among them has stood in the council of the Lord to perceivesee and to hear his word or who has givenpaid heedattention to his word and listened |
| 23:20 |
The anger of the Lord will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his mindheart In the latter days you will understand it clearly |
| 23:22 |
But if they had stood in my council then they would have proclaimed my words to my people and they would have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their doingsdeeds |
| 23:23 |
Am I a God at hand saysdeclares the Lord and not a God afarfar off away |
| 23:24 |
Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him saysdeclares the Lord Do I not fill heaven and earth saysdeclares the Lord |
| 23:27 |
who think to make my people forget my name by their dreams whichthat they tell one another even as their fathers forgot my name for Ba′al Baal |
| 23:28 |
Let the prophet who has a dream tell the dream but let him who has my word speak my word faithfully What has straw in common with wheat saysdeclares the Lord |
| 23:29 |
Is not my word like fire saysdeclares the Lord and like a hammer whichthat breaks the rock in pieces |
| 23:30 |
Therefore behold I am against the prophets saysdeclares the Lord who steal my words from one another |
| 23:31 |
Behold I am against the prophets saysdeclares the Lord who use their tongues and saydeclare Saysdeclares the Lord |
| 23:32 |
Behold I am against those who prophesy lying dreams saysdeclares the Lord and who tell them and lead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness when I did not send them or charge them; soSo they do not profit this people at all saysdeclares the Lord |
| 23:33 |
When one of this people or a prophet or a priest asks you What is the burden of the Lord you shall say to them You are the burden and I will cast you off saysdeclares the Lord |
| 23:39 |
therefore behold I will surely lift you up and cast you away from my presence you and the city whichthat I gave to you and your fathers |
| 24:1 |
After Nebuchadrez′zarNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken into exile from Jerusalem Jeconi′ahJeconiah the son of Jehoi′akimJehoiakim king of Judah together with the princesofficials of Judah the craftsmen and the smithsmetal workers and had brought them to Babylon the Lord showed me this vision: Beholdbehold two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the Lord |
| 24:5 |
Thus says the Lord the God of Israel: Like these good figs so I will regard as good the exiles from Judah whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chalde′ans Chaldeans |
| 24:6 |
I will set my eyes uponon them for good and I will bring them back to this land I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uprootpluck them up |
| 24:7 |
I will give them a heart to know that I am the Lord; and they shall be my people and I will be their God for they shall return to me with their whole heart |
| 24:8 |
But thus says the Lord: Like the bad figs whichthat are so bad they cannot be eaten so will I treat Zedeki′ahZedekiah the king of Judah his princesofficials the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land and those who dwell in the land of Egypt |
| 24:10 |
And I will send sword famine and pestilence upon them until they shall be utterly destroyed from the land whichthat I gave to them and their fathers |
| 25:1 |
The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoi′akimJehoiakim the son of Josi′ahJosiah king of Judah that was the first year of Nebuchadrez′zarNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon |
| 25:3 |
For twenty three years from the thirteenth year of Josi′ahJosiah the son of Amon king of Judah to this day the word of the Lord has come to me and I have spoken persistently to you but you have not listened |
| 25:5 |
saying Turn now every one of you from his evil way and wrongevil doingsdeeds and dwell upon the land whichthat the Lord has given to you and your fathers from of old and for ever; forever |
| 25:6 |
doDo not go after other gods to serve and worship them or provoke me to anger with the work of your hands Then I will do you no harm |
| 25:7 |
Yet you have not listened to me saysdeclares the Lord that you might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm |
| 25:9 |
behold I will send for all the tribes of the north saysdeclares the Lord and for Nebuchadrez′zarNebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon my servant and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations round about; I will utterlydevote destroy them to destruction and make them a horror a hissing and an everlasting reproach desolation |
| 25:12 |
Then after seventy years are completed I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation the land of the Chalde′ansChaldeans for their iniquity saysdeclares the Lord making the land an everlasting waste |
| 25:13 |
I will bring upon that land all the words whichthat I have uttered against it everything written in this book which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations |
| 25:14 |
For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands |
| 25:16 |
They shall drink and stagger and be crazed because of the sword whichthat I am sending among them |
| 25:18 |
Jerusalem and the cities of Judah its kings and princesofficials to make them a desolation and a waste a hissing and a curse as at this day; |
| 25:19 |
Pharaoh king of Egypt his servants his princesofficials all his people |
| 25:20 |
and all the foreignmixed folktribes among them; all the kings of the land of Uz and all the kings of the land of the Philistines Ash′kelonAshkelon Gaza Ekron and the remnant of Ashdod; |
| 25:24 |
all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the mixed tribes thatwho dwell in the desert; |
| 25:26 |
all the kings of the north far and near one after another and all the kingdoms of the world whichthat are on the face of the earth And after them the king of Babylon shall drink |
| 25:27 |
Then you shall say to them Thus says the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Drink be drunk and vomit fall and rise no more because of the sword whichthat I am sending among you |
| 25:29 |
For behold I begin to work evildisaster at the city whichthat is called by my name and shall you go unpunished You shall not go unpunished for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth saysdeclares the Lord of hosts |
| 25:31 |
The clamor will resound to the ends of the earth for the Lord has an indictment against the nations; he is entering into judgment with all flesh and the wicked he will put to the sword saysdeclares the Lord |
| 25:32 |
Thus says the Lord of hosts: Behold evildisaster is going forth from nation to nation and a great tempest is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth |
| 25:33 |
And those slainpierced by the Lord on that day shall extend from one end of the earth to the other They shall not be lamented or gathered or buried; they shall be dung on the surface of the ground |
| 25:34 |
Wail you shepherds and cry out and roll in ashes you lords of the flock for the days of your slaughter and dispersion have come and you shall fall like a choice ramsvessel |
| 25:36 |
HarkA voice—the cry of the shepherds and the wail of the lords of the flock For the Lord is despoilinglaying waste their pasture |
| 25:38 |
Like a lion he has left his covertlair for their land has become a waste because of the sword of the oppressor and because of his fierce anger |
| 26:1 |
In the beginning of the reign of Jehoi′akimJehoiakim the son of Josi′ahJosiah king of Judah this word came from the Lord : |
| 26:2 |
Thus says the Lord: Stand in the court of the Lords house and speak to all the cities of Judah whichthat come to worship in the house of the Lord all the words that I command you to speak to them; do not hold back a word |
| 26:3 |
It may be they will listen and every one turn from his evil way that I may repentrelent of the evildisaster whichthat I intend to do to them because of their evil doings deeds |
| 26:4 |
You shall say to them Thus says the Lord: If you will not listen to me to walk in my law whichthat I have set before you |
| 26:5 |
and to heedlisten to the words of my servants the prophets whom I send to you urgently though you have not heeded listened |
| 26:9 |
Why have you prophesied in the name of the Lord saying This house shall be like Shiloh and this city shall be desolate without inhabitant And all the people gathered aboutaround Jeremiah in the house of the Lord |
| 26:10 |
When the princesofficials of Judah heard these things they came up from the kings house to the house of the Lord and took their seat in the entry of the New Gate of the house of the Lord |
| 26:11 |
Then the priests and the prophets said to the princesofficials and to all the people This man deserves the sentence of death because he has prophesied against this city as you have heard with your own ears |
| 26:12 |
Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princesofficials and all the people saying The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and this city all the words you have heard |
| 26:13 |
Now therefore amendmend your ways and your doingsdeeds and obey the voice of the Lord your God and the Lord will repentrelent of the evildisaster whichthat he has pronounced against you |
| 26:16 |
Then the princesofficials and all the people said to the priests and the prophets This man does not deserve the sentence of death for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God |
| 26:18 |
Micah of Mo′reshethMoresheth prophesied in the days of Hezeki′ahHezekiah king of Judah and said to all the people of Judah: Thus says the Lord of hosts Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins and the mountain of the house a wooded height |
| 26:19 |
Did Hezeki′ahHezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death Did he not fear the Lord and entreat the favor of the Lord and did not the Lord repentrelent of the evildisaster whichthat he had pronounced against them But we are about to bring great evildisaster upon ourselves |
| 26:20 |
There was another man who prophesied in the name of the Lord Uri′ahUriah the son of Shemai′ahShemaiah from Kir′iathKiriath je′arimjearim He prophesied against this city and against this land in words like those of Jeremiah |
| 26:21 |
And when King Jehoi′akimJehoiakim with all his warriors and all the princesofficials heard his words the king sought to put him to death; butBut when Uri′ahUriah heard of it he was afraid and fled and escaped to Egypt |
| 26:22 |
Then King Jehoi′akimJehoiakim sent to Egypt certain men Elna′thanElnathan the son of Achbor and others with him |
| 26:23 |
and they fetchedtook Uri′ahUriah from Egypt and brought him to King Jehoi′akimJehoiakim who slewstruck him down with the sword and castdumped his dead body into the burial place of the common people |
| 26:24 |
But the hand of Ahi′kamAhikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah so that he was not given over to the people to be put to death |
| 27:1 |
In the beginning of the reign of Zedeki′ahZedekiah the son of Josi′ahJosiah king of Judah this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord |
| 27:2 |
Thus the Lord said to me: Make yourself thongsstraps and yoke bars and put them on your neck |
| 27:3 |
Send word to the king of Edom the king of Moab the king of the sons of Ammon the king of Tyre and the king of Sidon by the hand of the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedeki′ahZedekiah king of Judah |
| 27:6 |
Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnez′zarNebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon my servant and I have given him also the beasts of the field to serve him |
| 27:7 |
All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson until the time of his own land comes; thenThen many nations and great kings shall make him their slave |
| 27:8 |
But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnez′zarNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon I will punish that nation with the sword with famine and with pestilence saysdeclares the Lord until I have consumed it by his hand |
| 27:9 |
So do not listen to your prophets your diviners your dreamers your soothsayersfortune tellers or your sorcerers who are saying to you You shall not serve the king of Babylon |
| 27:10 |
For it is a lie whichthat they are prophesying to you with the result that you will be removed far from your land and I will drive you out and you will perish |
| 27:11 |
But any nation whichthat will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him I will leave on its own land to tillwork it and dwell there saysdeclares the Lord |
| 27:12 |
To Zedeki′ahZedekiah king of Judah I spoke in like manner: Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him and his people and live |
| 27:13 |
Why will you and your people die by the sword by famine and by pestilence as the Lord has spoken concerning any nation whichthat will not serve the king of Babylon |
| 27:14 |
Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are saying to you You shall not serve the king of Babylon for it is a lie whichthat they are prophesying to you |
| 27:15 |
I have not sent them saysdeclares the Lord but they are prophesying falsely in my name with the result that I will drive you out and you will perish you and the prophets who are prophesying to you |
| 27:16 |
Then I spoke to the priests and to all this people saying Thus says the Lord: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who are prophesying to you saying Behold the vessels of the Lords house will now shortly be brought back from Babylon for it is a lie whichthat they are prophesying to you |
| 27:18 |
If they are prophets and if the word of the Lord is with them then let them intercede with the Lord of hosts that the vessels whichthat are left in the house of the Lord in the house of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem may not go to Babylon |
| 27:19 |
For thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the pillars the sea the stands and the rest of the vessels whichthat are left in this city |
| 27:20 |
which Nebuchadnez′zarNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take away when he took into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon Jeconi′ahJeconiah the son of Jehoi′akimJehoiakim king of Judah and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem— |
| 27:21 |
thus says the Lord of hosts the God of Israel concerning the vessels whichthat are left in the house of the Lord in the house of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem: |
| 27:22 |
They shall be carried to Babylon and remain there until the day when I givevisit attention to them saysdeclares the Lord Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place |
| 28:1 |
In that same year at the beginning of the reign of Zedeki′ahZedekiah king of Judah in the fifth month of the fourth year Hanani′ahHananiah the son of Azzur the prophet from Gib′eonGibeon spoke to me in the house of the Lord in the presence of the priests and all the people saying |
| 28:3 |
Within two years I will bring back to this place all the vessels of the Lords house which Nebuchadnez′zarNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon |
| 28:4 |
I will also bring back to this place Jeconi′ahJeconiah the son of Jehoi′akimJehoiakim king of Judah and all the exiles from Judah who went to Babylon saysdeclares the Lord for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon |
| 28:5 |
Then the prophet Jeremiah spoke to Hanani′ahHananiah the prophet in the presence of the priests and all the people who were standing in the house of the Lord; |
| 28:6 |
and the prophet Jeremiah said Amen May the Lord do so; may the Lord make the words whichthat you have prophesied come true and bring back to this place from Babylon the vessels of the house of the Lord and all the exiles |
| 28:7 |
Yet hear now this word whichthat I speak in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people |
| 28:10 |
Then the prophet Hanani′ahHananiah took the yoke bars from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke them |
| 28:11 |
And Hanani′ahHananiah spoke in the presence of all the people saying Thus says the Lord: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnez′zarNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all the nations within two years But Jeremiah the prophet went his way |
| 28:12 |
Sometime after the prophet Hanani′ahHananiah had broken the yoke bars from off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: |
| 28:13 |
Go tell Hanani′ahHananiah Thus says the Lord: You have broken wooden bars but Iyou willhave makemade in their place bars of iron |
| 28:14 |
For thus says the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: I have put upon the neck of all these nations an iron yoke ofto servitudeserve toNebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnez′zar king of Babylon and they shall serve him for I have given to him even the beasts of the field |
| 28:15 |
And Jeremiah the prophet said to the prophet Hanani′ahHananiah Listen Hanani′ahHananiah the Lord has not sent you and you have made this people trust in a lie |
| 28:16 |
Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold I will remove you from the face of the earth This very year you shall die because you have uttered rebellion against the Lord |
| 28:17 |
In that same year in the seventh month the prophet Hanani′ahHananiah died |
| 29:1 |
These are the words of the letter whichthat Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders of the exiles and to the priests the prophets and all the people whom Nebuchadnez′zarNebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon |
| 29:2 |
This was after King Jeconi′ahJeconiah and the queen mother the eunuchs the princesofficials of Judah and Jerusalem the craftsmen and the smithsmetal workers had departed from Jerusalem |
| 29:3 |
The letter was sent by the hand of Ela′sahElasah the son of Shaphan and Gemari′ahGemariah the son of Hilki′ahHilkiah whom Zedeki′ahZedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnez′zarNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon It said: |
| 29:8 |
For thus says the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are among you deceive you and do not listen to the dreams whichthat they dream |
| 29:9 |
for it is a lie whichthat they are prophesying to you in my name; I did not send them saysdeclares the Lord |
| 29:10 |
For thus says the Lord: When seventy years are completed for Babylon I will visit you and I will fulfilfulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place |
| 29:11 |
For I know the plans I have for you saysdeclares the Lord plans for welfare and not for evil to give you a future and a hope |
| 29:13 |
You will seek me and find me; when you seek me with all your heart |
| 29:14 |
I will be found by you saysdeclares the Lord and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you saysdeclares the Lord and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile |
| 29:15 |
Because you have said The Lord has raised up prophets for us in Babylon— |
| 29:16 |
Thusthus says the Lord concerning the king who sits on the throne of David and concerning all the people who dwell in this city your kinsmen who did not go out with you into exile: |
| 29:17 |
Thus says the Lord of hosts Beholdbehold I am sending on them sword famine and pestilence and I will make them like vile figs whichthat are so badrotten they cannot be eaten |
| 29:19 |
because they did not heedpay attention to my words saysdeclares the Lord whichthat I persistently sent to you by my servants the prophets but you would not listen saysdeclares the Lord— |
| 29:21 |
Thus says the Lord of hosts the God of Israel concerning Ahab the son of Kolai′ahKolaiah and Zedeki′ahZedekiah the son of MaMaaseiah asei′ah who are prophesying a lie to you in my name: Behold I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrez′zarNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and he shall slaystrike them down before your eyes |
| 29:22 |
Because of them this curse shall be used by all the exiles from Judah in Babylon: The Lord make you like Zedeki′ahZedekiah and Ahab whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire |
| 29:23 |
because they have committeddone follyan outrageous thing in Israel they have committed adultery with their neighbors wives and they have spoken in my name lying words whichthat I did not command them I am the one who knows and I am witness saysdeclares the Lord |
| 29:24 |
To Shemai′ahShemaiah of Nehel′amNehelam you shall say: |
| 29:25 |
Thus says the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: You have sent letters in your name to all the people who are in Jerusalem and to Zephani′ahZephaniah the son of MaMaaseiah asei′ah the priest and to all the priests saying |
| 29:26 |
The Lord has made you priest instead of Jehoi′adaJehoiada the priest to have charge in the house of the Lord over every madman who prophesies to put him in the stocks and collarneck irons |
| 29:27 |
Now why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of An′athothAnathoth who is prophesying to you |
| 29:29 |
Zephani′ahZephaniah the priest read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet |
| 29:31 |
Send to all the exiles saying Thus says the Lord concerning Shemai′ahShemaiah of Nehel′amNehelam: Because Shemai′ahShemaiah had prophesied to you when I did not send him and has made you trust in a lie |
| 29:32 |
therefore thus says the Lord: Behold I will punish Shemai′ahShemaiah of Nehel′amNehelam and his descendants; heHe shall not have anyanyone one living among this people toand he shall not see the good that I will do to my people saysdeclares the Lord for he has talkedspoken rebellion against the Lord |
| 30:3 |
For behold days are coming saysdeclares the Lord when I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel and Judah says the Lord and I will bring them back to the land whichthat I gave to their fathers and they shall take possession of it |
| 30:4 |
These are the words whichthat the Lord spoke concerning Israel and Judah: |
| 30:6 |
Ask now and see can a man bear a child Why then do I see every man with his hands on his loinsstomach like a woman in labor Why has every face turned pale |
| 30:7 |
Alas thatThat day is so great there is none like it; it is a time of distress for Jacob; yet he shall be saved out of it |
| 30:8 |
And it shall come to pass in that day saysdeclares the Lord of hosts that I will break thehis yoke from off theiryour neck and I will burst theiryour bonds and strangersforeigners shall no more make servantsa servant of them him |
| 30:10 |
Then fear not O Jacob my servant saysdeclares the Lord nor be dismayed O Israel; for lobehold I will save you from afarfar away and your offspring from the land of their captivity Jacob shall return and have quiet and ease and none shall make him afraid |
| 30:11 |
For I am with you to save you saysdeclares the Lord; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you but of you I will not make a full end I will chastendiscipline you in just measure and I will by no means leave you unpunished |
| 30:16 |
Therefore all who devour you shall be devoured and all your foes every one of them shall go into captivity; those who despoilplunder you shall becomebe aplundered spoil and all who prey on you I will make a prey |
| 30:17 |
For I will restore health to you and your wounds I will heal saysdeclares the Lord because they have called you an outcast: It is Zion for whom no one cares |
| 30:18 |
Thus says the Lord: Behold I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob and have compassion on his dwellings; the city shall be rebuilt uponon its mound and the palace shall stand where it used to be |
| 30:19 |
Out of them shall come songs of thanksgiving and the voices of those who makecelebrate merry I will multiply them and they shall not be few; I will make them honored and they shall not be small |
| 30:20 |
Their children shall be as they were of old and their congregation shall be established before me; and I will punish all who oppress them |
| 30:21 |
Their prince shall be one of themselves; their ruler shall come forthout from their midst; I will make him draw near and he shall approach me for who would dare of himself to approach me saysdeclares the Lord |
| 30:24 |
The fierce anger of the Lord will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intentsintentions of his mind In the latter days you will understand this |
| 31:1 |
At that time saysdeclares the Lord I will be the God of all the familiesclans of Israel and they shall be my people |
| 31:3 |
the Lord appeared to him from afarfar away I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you |
| 31:4 |
Again I will build you and you shall be built O virgin Israel Again you shall adorn yourself with timbrelstambourines and shall go forth in the dance of the merrymakers |
| 31:5 |
Again you shall plant vineyards uponon the mountains of Samar′iaSamaria; the planters shall plant and shall enjoy the fruit |
| 31:6 |
For there shall be a day when watchmen will call in the hill country of E′phraimEphraim: Arise and let us go up to Zion to the Lord our God |
| 31:7 |
For thus says the Lord: Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim give praise and say TheO Lord hassave savedyour his people the remnant of Israel |
| 31:8 |
Behold I will bring them from the north country and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth among them the blind and the lame the pregnant woman with child and hershe who is in travaillabor together; a great company they shall return here |
| 31:9 |
With weeping they shall come and with consolationspleas for mercy I will lead them back I will make them walk by brooks of water in a straight path in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel and E′phraimEphraim is my first bornfirstborn |
| 31:10 |
Hear the word of the Lord O nations and declare it in the coastlands afarfar offaway; say He who scattered Israel will gather him and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock |
| 31:13 |
Then shall the maidensyoung women rejoice in the dance and the young men and the old shall be merry I will turn their mourning into joy; I will comfort them and give them gladness for sorrow |
| 31:14 |
I will feast the soul of the priests with abundance and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness saysdeclares the Lord |
| 31:15 |
Thus says the Lord: A voice is heard in Ramah lamentation and bitter weeping Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children because they are notno more |
| 31:16 |
Thus says the Lord: Keep your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears; for yourthere workis shalla bereward rewardedfor saysyour work declares the Lord and they shall come back from the land of the enemy |
| 31:17 |
There is hope for your future saysdeclares the Lord and your children shall come back to their own country |
| 31:18 |
I have heard E′phraimEphraim bemoaninggrieving ThouYou hasthave chasteneddisciplined me and I was chasteneddisciplined like an untrained calf; bring me back that I may be restored for thouyou artare the Lord my God |
| 31:19 |
For after I had turned away I repented;relented and after I was instructed I smotestruck upon my thigh; I was ashamed and I was confounded because I bore the disgrace of my youth |
| 31:20 |
Is E′phraimEphraim my dear son Is he my darling child For as often as I speak against him I do remember him still Therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him saysdeclares the Lord |
| 31:21 |
Set up waymarksroad markers for yourself; make yourself guideposts; consider well the highway the road by which you went Return O virgin Israel return to these your cities |
| 31:22 |
How long will you waver O faithless daughter For the Lord has created a new thing on the earth: a woman protectsencircles a man |
| 31:26 |
ThereuponAt this I awoke and looked and my sleep was pleasant to me |
| 31:27 |
Behold the days are coming saysdeclares the Lord when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast |
| 31:28 |
And it shall come to pass that as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down to overthrow destroy and bring evilharm so I will watch over them to build and to plant saysdeclares the Lord |
| 31:30 |
But everyeveryone one shall die for his own sin;iniquity eachEach man who eats sour grapes his teeth shall be set on edge |
| 31:31 |
Behold the days are coming saysdeclares the Lord when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah |
| 31:32 |
not like the covenant whichthat I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt my covenant whichthat they broke though I was their husband saysdeclares the Lord |
| 31:33 |
ButFor this is the covenant whichthat I will make with the house of Israel after those days saysdeclares the Lord: I will put my law within them and I will write it uponon their hearts; andAnd I will be their God and they shall be my people |
| 31:34 |
And no longer shall each manone teach his neighbor and each his brother saying Know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least of them to the greatest saysdeclares the Lord; forFor I will forgive their iniquity and I will remember their sin no more |
| 31:36 |
If this fixed order departs from before me saysdeclares the Lord then shall the descendantsoffspring of Israel cease from being a nation before me for everforever |
| 31:37 |
Thus says the Lord: If the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth below can be explored then I will cast off all the descendantsoffspring of Israel for all that they have done saysdeclares the Lord |
| 31:38 |
Behold the days are coming saysdeclares the Lord when the city shall be rebuilt for the Lord from the towerTower of Hanan′elHananel to the Corner Gate |
| 31:39 |
And the measuring line shall go out farther straight to the hill Gareb and shall then turn to Go′ah Goah |
| 31:40 |
The whole valley of the dead bodies and the ashes and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east shall be sacred to the Lord It shall not be uprootedplucked up or overthrown anyanymore more for everforever |
| 32:1 |
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedeki′ahZedekiah king of Judah which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrez′zar Nebuchadnezzar |
| 32:2 |
At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard whichthat was in the palace of the king of Judah |
| 32:3 |
For Zedeki′ahZedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him saying Why do you prophesy and say Thus says the Lord: Behold I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon and he shall takecapture it; |
| 32:4 |
Zedeki′ahZedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chalde′ansChaldeans but shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon and shall speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye; |
| 32:5 |
andAnd he shall take Zedeki′ahZedekiah to Babylon and there he shall remain until I visit him saysdeclares the Lord; thoughThough you fight against the Chalde′ansChaldeans you shall not succeed |
| 32:7 |
Behold Han′amelHanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you and say Buy my field whichthat is at An′athothAnathoth for the right of redemption by purchase is yours |
| 32:8 |
Then Han′amelHanamel my cousin came to me in the court of the guard in accordance with the word of the Lord and said to me Buy my field whichthat is at An′athothAnathoth in the land of Benjamin for the right of possession and redemption is yours; buy it for yourself Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord |
| 32:9 |
And I bought the field at An′athothAnathoth from Han′amelHanamel my cousin and weighed out the money to him seventeen shekels of silver |
| 32:11 |
Then I took the sealed deed of purchase containing the terms and conditions and the open copy; |
| 32:12 |
andAnd I gave the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neri′ahNeriah son of Mahsei′ahMahseiah in the presence of Han′amelHanamel my cousin in the presence of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase and in the presence of all the JewsJudeans who were sitting in the court of the guard |
| 32:16 |
After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neri′ahNeriah I prayed to the Lord saying: |
| 32:17 |
Ah Lord God It is thouyou who hasthave made the heavens and the earth by thyyour great power and by thyyour outstretched arm Nothing is too hard for thee you |
| 32:18 |
whoYou showestshow steadfast love to thousands but dostyou requiterepay the guilt of fathers to their children after them O great and mighty God whose name is the Lord of hosts |
| 32:19 |
great in counsel and mighty in deed; whose eyes are open to all the ways of menthe rewardingchildren everyof man rewarding each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings; deeds |
| 32:20 |
whoYou hasthave shown signs and wonders in the land of Egypt and to this day in Israel and among all mankind and hasthave made thee a name for yourself as at this day |
| 32:21 |
ThouYou didstbrought bringyour thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders with a strong hand and outstretched arm and with great terror; |
| 32:22 |
andAnd thouyou gavestgave them this land which thouyou didstswore swear to their fathers to give them a land flowing with milk and honey; |
| 32:23 |
andAnd they entered and took possession of it But they did not obey thyyour voice or walk in thyyour law; theyThey did nothing of all thouyou didstcommanded command them to do Therefore thouyou hasthave made all this evildisaster come upon them |
| 32:24 |
Behold the siege mounds have come up to the city to take it and because of sword and famine and pestilence the city is given into the hands of the Chalde′ansChaldeans who are fighting against it What thouyou didstspoke speak has come to pass and behold thouyou seestsee it |
| 32:25 |
Yet thouyou O Lord God hasthave said to me Buy the field for money and get witnesses— though the city is given into the hands of the Chalde′ansChaldeans |
| 32:27 |
Behold I am the Lord the God of all flesh; isIs anything too hard for me |
| 32:28 |
Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold I am giving this city into the hands of the Chalde′ansChaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadrez′zarNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and he shall takecapture it |
| 32:29 |
The Chalde′ansChaldeans who are fighting against this city shall come and set this city on fire and burn it with the houses on whose roofs incenseofferings hashave been offeredmade to Ba′alBaal and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods to provoke me to anger |
| 32:30 |
For the sonschildren of Israel and the sonschildren of Judah have done nothing but evil in my sight from their youth; theThe sonschildren of Israel have done nothing but provoke me to anger by the work of their hands saysdeclares the Lord |
| 32:32 |
because of all the evil of the sonschildren of Israel and the sonschildren of Judah whichthat they did to provoke me to anger—their kings and their princesofficials their priests and their prophets the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem |
| 32:33 |
They have turned to me their back and not their face; andAnd though I have taught them persistently they have not listened to receive instruction |
| 32:34 |
They set up their abominations in the house whichthat is called by my name to defile it |
| 32:35 |
They built the high places of Ba′alBaal in the valleyValley of the sonSon of Hinnom to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech though I did not command them nor did it enter into my mind that they should do this abomination to cause Judah to sin |
| 32:37 |
Behold I will gather them from all the countries to which I drove them in my anger and my wrath and in great indignation; I will bring them back to this place and I will make them dwell in safety |
| 32:39 |
I will give them one heart and one way that they may fear me forforever ever for their own good and the good of their children after them |
| 32:40 |
I will make with them an everlasting covenant that I will not turn away from doing good to them; andAnd I will put the fear of me in their hearts that they may not turn from me |
| 32:42 |
For thus says the Lord: Just as I have brought all this great evildisaster upon this people so I will bring upon them all the good that I promise them |
| 32:43 |
Fields shall be bought in this land of which you are saying It is a desolation without man or beast; it is given into the handshand of the Chalde′ans Chaldeans |
| 32:44 |
Fields shall be bought for money and deeds shall be signed and sealed and witnessed in the land of Benjamin in the places about Jerusalem and in the cities of Judah in the cities of the hill country in the cities of the Shephe′lahShephelah and in the cities of the Negeb; for I will restore their fortunes saysdeclares the Lord |
| 33:3 |
Call to me and I will answer you and will tell you great and hidden things whichthat you have not known |
| 33:4 |
For thus says the Lord the God of Israel concerning the houses of this city and the houses of the kings of Judah whichthat were torn down to make a defense against the siege mounds and beforeagainst the sword: |
| 33:5 |
TheThey Chalde′ans are coming in to fight against the Chaldeans and to fill them with the dead bodies of men whom I shall smitestrike down in my anger and my wrath for I have hidden my face from this city because of all their wickedness evil |
| 33:9 |
And this city shall be to me a name of joy a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for them; theyThey shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for it |
| 33:11 |
the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride the voices of those who sing as they bring thank offerings to the house of the Lord: Give thanks to the Lord of hosts for the Lord is good for his steadfast love endures forforever ever For I will restore the fortunes of the land as at first says the Lord |
| 33:12 |
Thus says the Lord of hosts: In this place whichthat is waste without man or beast and in all of its cities there shall again be habitations of shepherds resting their flocks |
| 33:13 |
In the cities of the hill country in the cities of the Shephe′lahShephelah and in the cities of the Negeb in the land of Benjamin the places about Jerusalem and in the cities of Judah flocks shall again pass under the hands of the one who counts them says the Lord |
| 33:14 |
Behold the days are coming saysdeclares the Lord when I will fulfilfulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah |
| 33:15 |
In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring forthup for David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land |
| 33:18 |
and the Levitical priests shall never lack a man in my presence to offer burnt offerings to burn cerealgrain offerings and to make sacrifices for everforever |
| 33:22 |
As the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be measured so I will multiply the descendantsoffspring of David my servant and the Levitical priests who minister to me |
| 33:24 |
Have you not observed whatthat these people are saying The Lord has rejected the two familiesclans whichthat he chose Thus they have despised my people so that they are no longer a nation in their sight |
| 33:25 |
Thus says the Lord: If I have not established my covenant with day and night and the ordinancesfixed order of heaven and earth |
| 33:26 |
then I will reject the descendantsoffspring of Jacob and David my servant and will not choose one of his descendantsoffspring to rule over the seedoffspring of Abraham Isaac and Jacob For I will restore their fortunes and will have mercy uponon them |
| 34:1 |
The word whichthat came to Jeremiah from the Lord when Nebuchadrez′zarNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army and all the kingdoms of the earth under his dominion and all the peoples were fighting against Jerusalem and all of its cities: |
| 34:2 |
Thus says the Lord the God of Israel: Go and speak to Zedeki′ahZedekiah king of Judah and say to him Thus says the Lord: Behold I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon and he shall burn it with fire |
| 34:3 |
You shall not escape from his hand but shall surely be captured and delivered into his hand; youYou shall see the king of Babylon eye to eye and speak with him face to face; andAnd you shall go to Babylon |
| 34:4 |
Yet hear the word of the Lord O Zedeki′ahZedekiah king of Judah Thus says the Lord concerning you: You shall not die by the sword |
| 34:5 |
You shall die in peace And as spices were burned for your fathers the former kings who were before you so menpeople shall burn spices for you and lament for you saying Alas lord For I have spoken the word saysdeclares the Lord |
| 34:6 |
Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedeki′ahZedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem |
| 34:7 |
when the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left Lachish and Aze′kah;Azekah for these were the only fortified cities of Judah that remained |
| 34:8 |
The word whichthat came to Jeremiah from the Lord after King Zedeki′ahZedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to make a proclamation of liberty to them |
| 34:9 |
that everyeveryone one should set free his Hebrew slaves male and female so that no one should enslave a Jew his brother |
| 34:10 |
And they obeyed all the princesofficials and all the people who had entered into the covenant that everyeveryone one would set free his slave male or female so that they would not be enslaved again; theyThey obeyed and set them free |
| 34:13 |
Thus says the Lord the God of Israel: I myself made a covenant with your fathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt out of the house of bondageslavery saying |
| 34:14 |
At the end of sixseven years each of you must set free the fellow Hebrew who has been sold to you and has served you six years; you must set him free from your service But your fathers did not listen to me or incline their ears to me |
| 34:15 |
You recently repented and did what was right in my eyes by proclaiming liberty each to his neighbor and you made a covenant before me in the house whichthat is called by my name; |
| 34:17 |
Therefore thus says the Lord: You have not obeyed me by proclaiming liberty every one to his brother and to his neighbor; behold I proclaim to you liberty to the sword to pestilence and to famine saysdeclares the Lord I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth |
| 34:18 |
And the men who transgressed my covenant and did not keep the terms of the covenant whichthat they made before me I will make them like the calf whichthat they cut in two and passed between its parts— |
| 34:19 |
the princesofficials of Judah the princesofficials of Jerusalem the eunuchs the priests and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf; |
| 34:20 |
andAnd I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their lives Their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth |
| 34:21 |
And Zedeki′ahZedekiah king of Judah and his princesofficials I will give into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their lives into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon which has withdrawn from you |
| 34:22 |
Behold I will command saysdeclares the Lord and will bring them back to this city; andAnd they will fight against it and take it and burn it with fire I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without inhabitant |
| 35:1 |
The word whichthat came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the days of Jehoi′akimJehoiakim the son of Josi′ahJosiah king of Judah: |
| 35:2 |
Go to the house of the Re′chabitesRechabites and speak with them and bring them to the house of the Lord into one of the chambers; then offer them wine to drink |
| 35:3 |
So I took JaJaazaniah azani′ah the son of Jeremiah son of Habazzini′ahHabazziniah and his brothers and all his sons and the whole house of the Re′chabites Rechabites |
| 35:4 |
I brought them to the house of the Lord into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdali′ahIgdaliah the man of God which was near the chamber of the princesofficials above the chamber of MaMaaseiah asei′ah the son of Shallum keeper of the threshold |
| 35:5 |
Then I set before the Re′chabitesRechabites pitchers full of wine and cups; and I said to them Drink wine |
| 35:6 |
But they answered We will drink no wine for Jon′adabJonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us You shall not drink wine neither you nor your sons for ever; forever |
| 35:7 |
youYou shall not build a house; you shall not sow seed; you shall not plant or have a vineyard; but you shall live in tents all your days that you may live many days in the land where you sojourn |
| 35:8 |
We have obeyed the voice of Jon′adabJonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he commanded us to drink no wine all our days ourselves our wives our sons or our daughters |
| 35:9 |
and not to build houses to dwell in We have no vineyard or field or seed; |
| 35:10 |
but we have lived in tents and have obeyed and done all that Jon′adabJonadab our father commanded us |
| 35:11 |
But when Nebuchadrez′zarNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against the land we said Come and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chalde′ansChaldeans and the army of the Syrians So we are living in Jerusalem |
| 35:13 |
Thus says the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Go and say to the menpeople of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem Will you not receive instruction and listen to my words saysdeclares the Lord |
| 35:14 |
The command whichthat Jon′adabJonadab the son of Rechab gave to his sons to drink no wine has been kept; and they drink none to this day for they have obeyed their fathers command I have spoken to you persistently but you have not listened to me |
| 35:15 |
I have sent to you all my servants the prophets sending them persistently saying Turn now every one of you from his evil way and amend your doingsdeeds and do not go after other gods to serve them and then you shall dwell in the land whichthat I gave to you and your fathers But you did not incline your ear or listen to me |
| 35:16 |
The sons of Jon′adabJonadab the son of Rechab have kept the command whichthat their father gave them but this people has not obeyed me |
| 35:17 |
Therefore thus says the Lord the God of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I am bringing onupon Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evildisaster that I have pronounced against them; because I have spoken to them and they have not listened I have called to them and they have not answered |
| 35:18 |
But to the house of the Re′chabitesRechabites Jeremiah said Thus says the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the command of Jon′adabJonadab your father and kept all his precepts and done all that he commanded you |
| 35:19 |
therefore thus says the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Jon′adabJonadab the son of Rechab shall never lack a man to stand before me |
| 36:1 |
In the fourth year of Jehoi′akimJehoiakim the son of Josi′ahJosiah king of Judah this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord: |
| 36:2 |
Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and Judah and all the nations from the day I spoke to you from the days of Josi′ahJosiah until today |
| 36:3 |
It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evildisaster whichthat I intend to do to them so that every one may turn from his evil way and that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin |
| 36:4 |
Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neri′ahNeriah and Baruch wrote uponon a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord whichthat he had spoken to him |
| 36:5 |
And Jeremiah ordered Baruch saying I am debarredbanned from going to the house of the Lord; |
| 36:6 |
so you are to go and on a fast day of fasting in the hearing of all the people in the Lords house you shall read the words of the Lord from the scroll whichthat you have written at my dictation You shall read them also in the hearing of all the men of Judah who come out of their cities |
| 36:7 |
It may be that their supplicationplea for mercy will come before the Lord and that every one will turn from his evil way for great is the anger and wrath that the Lord has pronounced against this people |
| 36:8 |
And Baruch the son of Neri′ahNeriah did all that Jeremiah the prophet ordered him about reading from the scroll the words of the Lord in the Lords house |
| 36:9 |
In the fifth year of Jehoi′akimJehoiakim the son of Josi′ahJosiah king of Judah in the ninth month all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem proclaimed a fast before the Lord |
| 36:10 |
Then in the hearing of all the people Baruch read the words of Jeremiah from the scroll in the house of the Lord in the chamber of Gemari′ahGemariah the son of Shaphan the secretary which was in the upper court at the entry of the New Gate of the Lords house |
| 36:11 |
When Micai′ahMicaiah the son of Gemari′ahGemariah son of Shaphan heard all the words of the Lord from the scroll |
| 36:12 |
he went down to the kings house into the secretarys chamber; and all the princesofficials were sitting there: Elish′amaElishama the secretary Delai′ahDelaiah the son of Shemai′ahShemaiah Elna′thanElnathan the son of Achbor Gemari′ahGemariah the son of Shaphan Zedeki′ahZedekiah the son of Hanani′ahHananiah and all the princes officials |
| 36:13 |
And Micai′ahMicaiah told them all the words that he had heard when Baruch read the scroll in the hearing of the people |
| 36:14 |
Then all the princesofficials sent Jehu′diJehudi the son of Nethani′ahNethaniah son of Shelemi′ahShelemiah son of Cushi to say to Baruch Take in your hand the scroll that you read in the hearing of the people and come So Baruch the son of Neri′ahNeriah took the scroll in his hand and came to them |
| 36:16 |
When they heard all the words they turned one to another in fear; andAnd they said to Baruch We must report all these words to the king |
| 36:17 |
Then they asked Baruch Tell us please how did you write all these words Was it at his dictation |
| 36:19 |
Then the princesofficials said to Baruch Go and hide you and Jeremiah and let no one know where you are |
| 36:20 |
So they went into the court to the king having put the scroll in the chamber of Elish′amaElishama the secretary; and they reported all the words to the king |
| 36:21 |
Then the king sent Jehu′diJehudi to get the scroll and he took it from the chamber of Elish′amaElishama the secretary; andAnd Jehu′diJehudi read it to the king and all the princesofficials who stood beside the king |
| 36:22 |
It was the ninth month and the king was sitting in the winter house and there was a fire burning in the brazierfire pot before him |
| 36:23 |
As Jehu′diJehudi read three or four columns the king would cut them off with a penknifeknife and throw them into the fire in the brazierfire pot until the entire scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazierfire pot |
| 36:24 |
Yet neither the king nor any of his servants who heard all these words was afraid nor did they rendtear their garments |
| 36:25 |
Even when Elna′thanElnathan and Delai′ahDelaiah and Gemari′ahGemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll he would not listen to them |
| 36:26 |
And the king commanded Jerah′meelJerahmeel the kings son and Serai′ahSeraiah the son of Az′riAzriel el and Shelemi′ahShelemiah the son of Abdeel to seize Baruch the secretary and Jeremiah the prophet but the Lord hid them |
| 36:27 |
Now after the king had burned the scroll with the words whichthat Baruch wrote at Jeremiahs dictation the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: |
| 36:28 |
Take another scroll and write on it all the former words that were in the first scroll which Jehoi′akimJehoiakim the king of Judah has burned |
| 36:29 |
And concerning Jehoi′akimJehoiakim king of Judah you shall say Thus says the Lord You have burned this scroll saying Why have you written in it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land and will cut off from it man and beast |
| 36:30 |
Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoi′akimJehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit uponon the throne of David and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat by day and the frost by night |
| 36:31 |
And I will punish him and his offspring and his servants for their iniquity; I will bring upon them and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem and upon the menpeople of Judah all the evildisaster that I have pronounced against them but they would not hear |
| 36:32 |
Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the scribe the son of Neri′ahNeriah who wrote on it at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the scroll whichthat Jehoi′akimJehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; andAnd many similar words were added to them |
| 37:1 |
Zedeki′ahZedekiah the son of Josi′ahJosiah whom Nebuchadrez′zarNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah reigned instead of Coni′ahConiah the son of Jehoi′akim Jehoiakim |
| 37:2 |
But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land listened to the words of the Lord whichthat he spoke through Jeremiah the prophet |
| 37:3 |
King Zedeki′ahZedekiah sent Jehu′calJehucal the son of Shelemi′ahShelemiah and Zephani′ahZephaniah the priest the son of MaMaaseiah asei′ah to Jeremiah the prophet saying PrayPlease pray for us to the Lord our God |
| 37:5 |
The army of Pharaoh had come out of Egypt; andAnd when the Chalde′ansChaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news ofabout them they withdrew from Jerusalem |
| 37:7 |
Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Thus shall you say to the king of Judah who sent you to me to inquire of me Behold Pharaohs army whichthat came to help you is about to return to Egypt to its own land |
| 37:8 |
And the Chalde′ansChaldeans shall come back and fight against this city; theyThey shall takecapture it and burn it with fire |
| 37:9 |
Thus says the Lord Do not deceive yourselves saying The Chalde′ansChaldeans will surely staygo away from us for they will not staygo away |
| 37:10 |
For even if you should defeat the whole army of Chalde′ansChaldeans who are fighting against you and there remained of them only wounded men every man in his tent they would rise up and burn this city with fire |
| 37:11 |
Now when the Chalde′anChaldean army had withdrawn from Jerusalem at the approach of Pharaohs army |
| 37:13 |
When he was at the Benjamin Gate a sentry there named Iri′jahIrijah the son of Shelemi′ahShelemiah son of Hanani′ahHananiah seized Jeremiah the prophet saying You are deserting to the Chalde′ans Chaldeans |
| 37:14 |
And Jeremiah said It is falsea lie; I am not deserting to the Chalde′ansChaldeans But Iri′jahIrijah would not listen to him and seized Jeremiah and brought him to the princes officials |
| 37:15 |
And the princesofficials were enraged at Jeremiah and they beat him and imprisoned him in the house of Jonathan the secretary for it had been made a prison |
| 37:17 |
King Zedeki′ahZedekiah sent for him and received him The king questioned him secretly in his house and said Is there any word from the Lord Jeremiah said There is Then he said You shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon |
| 37:18 |
Jeremiah also said to King Zedeki′ahZedekiah What wrong have I done to you or your servants or this people that you have put me in prison |
| 37:20 |
Now hear Iplease pray you O my lord the king: let my humble plea come before you and do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the secretary lest I die there |
| 37:21 |
So King Zedeki′ahZedekiah gave orders and they committed Jeremiah to the court of the guard; andAnd a loaf of bread was given him daily from the bakers street until all the bread of the city was gone So Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard |
| 38:1 |
Now Shephati′ahShephatiah the son of Mattan Gedali′ahGedaliah the son of Pashhur Jucal the son of Shelemi′ahShelemiah and Pashhur the son of Malchi′ahMalchiah heard the words that Jeremiah was saying to all the people : |
| 38:2 |
Thus says the Lord: He who stays in this city shall die by the sword by famine and by pestilence; but he who goes out to the Chalde′ansChaldeans shall live; heHe shall have his life as a prize of war and live |
| 38:3 |
Thus says the Lord: This city shall surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon and be taken |
| 38:4 |
Then the princesofficials said to the king Let this man be put to death for he is weakening the hands of the soldiers who are left in this city and the hands of all the people by speaking such words to them For this man is not seeking the welfare of this people but their harm |
| 38:5 |
King Zedeki′ahZedekiah said Behold he is in your hands; for the king can do nothing against you |
| 38:6 |
So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchi′ahMalchiah the kings son which was in the court of the guard letting Jeremiah down by ropes And there was no water in the cistern but only miremud and Jeremiah sank in the miremud |
| 38:7 |
When E′bedEbed mel′echmelech the Ethiopian a eunuch who was in the kings house heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern—the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate— |
| 38:8 |
E′bedEbed mel′echmelech went from the kings house and said to the king |
| 38:9 |
My lord the king these men have done evil in all that they did to Jeremiah the prophet by casting him into the cistern; and he will die there of hunger for there is no bread left in the city |
| 38:10 |
Then the king commanded E′bedEbed mel′echmelech the Ethiopian Take threethirty men with you from here and lift Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies |
| 38:11 |
So E′bedEbed mel′echmelech took the men with him and went to the house of the king to a wardrobe ofin the storehouse and took from there old rags and worn out clothes which he let down to Jeremiah in the cistern by ropes |
| 38:12 |
Then E′bedEbed mel′echmelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah Put the rags and clothes between your armpits and the ropes Jeremiah did so |
| 38:14 |
King Zedeki′ahZedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and received him at the third entrance of the temple of the Lord The king said to Jeremiah I will ask you a question; hide nothing from me |
| 38:15 |
Jeremiah said to Zedeki′ahZedekiah If I tell you will you not besurely sure to put me to death And if I give you counsel you will not listen to me |
| 38:16 |
Then King Zedeki′ahZedekiah swore secretly to Jeremiah As the Lord lives who made our souls I will not put you to death or deliver you into the hand of these men who seek your life |
| 38:17 |
Then Jeremiah said to Zedeki′ahZedekiah Thus says the Lord the God of hosts the God of Israel: If you will surrender to the princesofficials of the king of Babylon then your life shall be spared and this city shall not be burned with fire and you and your house shall live |
| 38:18 |
But if you do not surrender to the princesofficials of the king of Babylon then this city shall be given into the hand of the Chalde′ansChaldeans and they shall burn it with fire and you shall not escape from their hand |
| 38:19 |
King Zedeki′ahZedekiah said to Jeremiah I am afraid of the JewsJudeans who have deserted to the Chalde′ansChaldeans lest I be handed over to them and they abusedeal cruelly with me |
| 38:22 |
Behold all the women left in the house of the king of Judah were being led out to the princesofficials of the king of Babylon and were saying Your trusted friends have deceived you and prevailed against you; now that your feet are sunk in the miremud they turn away from you |
| 38:23 |
All your wives and your sons shall be led out to the Chalde′ansChaldeans and you yourself shall not escape from their hand but shall be seized by the king of Babylon; and this city shall be burned with fire |
| 38:24 |
Then Zedeki′ahZedekiah said to Jeremiah Let no one know of these words and you shall not die |
| 38:25 |
If the princesofficials hear that I have spoken with you and come to you and say to you Tell us what you said to the king and what the king said to you; hide nothing from us and we will not put you to death |
| 38:27 |
Then all the princesofficials came to Jeremiah and asked him and he answered them as the king had instructed him So they leftstopped off speaking with him for the conversation had not been overheard |
| 39:1 |
In the ninth year of Zedeki′ahZedekiah king of Judah in the tenth month Nebuchadrez′zarNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and besieged it; |
| 39:2 |
inIn the eleventh year of Zedeki′ahZedekiah in the fourth month on the ninth day of the month a breach was made in the city |
| 39:3 |
WhenThen Jerusalem was taken all the princesofficials of the king of Babylon came and sat in the middle gate: Ner′galNergal share′zersar Sam′garezer ne′boof Sar′sechimSamgar Nebu sar sekim the Rab′ saris Ner′galNergal share′zersar ezer the RabmagRab mag with all the rest of the officers of the king of Babylon |
| 39:4 |
When Zedeki′ahZedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them they fled going out of the city at night by way of the kings garden through the gate between the two walls; and they went toward the Arabah |
| 39:5 |
But the army of the Chalde′ansChaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedeki′ahZedekiah in the plains of Jericho; andAnd when they had taken him they brought him up to Nebuchadrez′zarNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he passed sentence uponon him |
| 39:6 |
The king of Babylon slewslaughtered the sons of Zedeki′ahZedekiah at Riblah before his eyes; and the king of Babylon slewslaughtered all the nobles of Judah |
| 39:7 |
He put out the eyes of Zedeki′ahZedekiah and bound him in fetterschains to take him to Babylon |
| 39:8 |
The Chalde′ansChaldeans burned the kings house and the house of the people and broke down the walls of Jerusalem |
| 39:9 |
Then Nebu′zarad′anNebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile to Babylon the rest of the people who were left in the city those who had deserted to him and the people who remained |
| 39:10 |
Nebu′zarad′anNebuzaradan the captain of the guard left in the land of Judah some of the poor people who owned nothing and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time |
| 39:11 |
Nebuchadrez′zarNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon gave command concerning Jeremiah through Nebu′zarad′anNebuzaradan the captain of the guard saying |
| 39:13 |
So Nebu′zarad′anNebuzaradan the captain of the guard Nebushaz′banNebushazban the Rab′ saris Ner′galNergal share′zersar ezer the RabmagRab mag and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon |
| 39:14 |
sent and took Jeremiah from the court of the guard They entrusted him to Gedali′ahGedaliah the son of Ahi′kamAhikam son of Shaphan that he should take him home So he dweltlived among the people |
| 39:16 |
Go and say to E′bedEbed mel′echmelech the Ethiopian Thus says the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will fulfilfulfill my words against this city for evilharm and not for good and they shall be accomplished before you on that day |
| 39:17 |
But I will deliver you on that day saysdeclares the Lord and you shall not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid |
| 39:18 |
For I will surely save you and you shall not fall by the sword; but you shall have your life as a prize of war because you have put your trust in me saysdeclares the Lord |
| 40:1 |
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord after Nebu′zarad′anNebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah when he took him bound in chains along with all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon |
| 40:2 |
The captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said to him The Lord your God pronounced this evildisaster against this place; |
| 40:3 |
theThe Lord has brought it about and has done as he said Because you sinned against the Lord and did not obey his voice this thing has come upon you |
| 40:4 |
Now behold I release you today from the chains on your hands If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon come and I will look after you well; but if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon do not come See the whole land is before you; go wherever you think it good and right to go |
| 40:5 |
If you remain then return to Gedali′ahGedaliah the son of Ahi′kamAhikam son of Shaphan whom the king of Babylon appointed governor of the cities of Judah and dwell with him among the people; orOr go wherever you think it right to go So the captain of the guard gave him an allowance of food and a present and let him go |
| 40:6 |
Then Jeremiah went to Gedali′ahGedaliah the son of Ahi′kamAhikam at Mizpah and dweltlived with him among the people who were left in the land |
| 40:7 |
When all the captains of the forces in the open country and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedali′ahGedaliah the son of Ahi′kamAhikam governor in the land and had committed to him men women and children those of the poorest of the land who had not been taken into exile to Babylon |
| 40:8 |
they went to Gedali′ahGedaliah at Mizpah—Ish′maelIshmael the son of Nethani′ahNethaniah Joha′nanJohanan the son of Kare′ahKareah Serai′ahSeraiah the son of Tanhu′methTanhumeth the sons of Ephai the Netoph′athiteNetophathite Jezani′ahJezaniah the son of the MaMaacathite ac′athite they and their men |
| 40:9 |
Gedali′ahGedaliah the son of Ahi′kamAhikam son of Shaphan swore to them and their men saying Do not be afraid to serve the Chalde′ansChaldeans Dwell in the land and serve the king of Babylon and it shall be well with you |
| 40:10 |
As for me I will dwell at Mizpah to standrepresent for you before the Chalde′ansChaldeans who will come to us; butBut as for you gather wine and summer fruits and oil and store them in your vessels and dwell in your cities that you have taken |
| 40:11 |
Likewise when all the JewsJudeans who were in Moab and among the Ammonites and in Edom and in other lands heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and had appointed Gedali′ahGedaliah the son of Ahi′kamAhikam son of Shaphan as governor over them |
| 40:12 |
then all the JewsJudeans returned from all the places to which they had been driven and came to the land of Judah to Gedali′ahGedaliah at Mizpah; andAnd they gathered wine and summer fruits in great abundance |
| 40:13 |
Now Joha′nanJohanan the son of Kare′ahKareah and all the leaders of the forces in the open country came to Gedali′ahGedaliah at Mizpah |
| 40:14 |
and said to him Do you know that Ba′alisBaalis the king of the Ammonites has sent Ish′maelIshmael the son of Nethani′ahNethaniah to take your life But Gedali′ahGedaliah the son of Ahi′kamAhikam would not believe them |
| 40:15 |
Then Joha′nanJohanan the son of Kare′ahKareah spoke secretly to Gedali′ahGedaliah at Mizpah LetPlease let me go and slaystrike Ish′maeldown Ishmael the son of Nethani′ahNethaniah and no one will know it Why should he take your life so that all the JewsJudeans who are gathered about you would be scattered and the remnant of Judah would perish |
| 40:16 |
But Gedali′ahGedaliah the son of Ahi′kamAhikam said to Joha′nanJohanan the son of Kare′ahKareah You shall not do this thing for you are speaking falsely of Ish′maelIshmael |
| 41:1 |
In the seventh month Ish′maelIshmael the son of Nethani′ahNethaniah son of Elish′amaElishama of the royal family one of the chief officers of the king came with ten men to Gedali′ahGedaliah the son of Ahi′kamAhikam at Mizpah As they ate bread together there at Mizpah |
| 41:2 |
Ish′maelIshmael the son of Nethani′ahNethaniah and the ten men with him rose up and struck down Gedali′ahGedaliah the son of Ahi′kamAhikam son of Shaphan with the sword and killed him whom the king of Babylon had appointed governor in the land |
| 41:3 |
Ish′maelIshmael also slewstruck down all the JewsJudeans who were with Gedali′ahGedaliah at Mizpah and the Chalde′anChaldean soldiers who happened to be there |
| 41:4 |
On the day after the murder of Gedali′ahGedaliah before anyanyone one knew of it |
| 41:5 |
eighty men arrived from Shechem and Shiloh and Samar′iaSamaria with their beards shaved and their clothes torn and their bodies gashed bringing cerealgrain offerings and incense to present at the temple of the Lord |
| 41:6 |
And Ish′maelIshmael the son of Nethani′ahNethaniah came out from Mizpah to meet them weeping as he came As he met them he said to them Come in to Gedali′ahGedaliah the son of Ahi′kam Ahikam |
| 41:7 |
When they came into the city Ish′maelIshmael the son of Nethani′ahNethaniah and the men with him slewslaughtered them and cast them into a cistern |
| 41:8 |
But there were ten men among them who said to Ish′maelIshmael Do not killput us to death for we have stores of wheat barley oil and honey hidden in the fields So he refrained and did not killput them to death with their companions |
| 41:9 |
Now the cistern into which Ish′maelIshmael casthad thrown all the bodies of the men whom he had slainstruck down along with Gedaliah was the large cistern whichthat King Asa had made for defense against Ba′ashaBaasha king of Israel; Ish′maelIshmael the son of Nethani′ahNethaniah filled it with the slain |
| 41:10 |
Then Ish′maelIshmael took captive all the rest of the people who were in Mizpah the kings daughters and all the people who were left at Mizpah whom Nebu′zarad′anNebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedali′ahGedaliah the son of Ahi′kamAhikam Ish′maelIshmael the son of Nethani′ahNethaniah took them captive and set out to cross over to the Ammonites |
| 41:11 |
But when Joha′nanJohanan the son of Kare′ahKareah and all the leaders of the forces with him heard of all the evil whichthat Ish′maelIshmael the son of Nethani′ahNethaniah had done |
| 41:12 |
they took all their men and went to fight against Ish′maelIshmael the son of Nethani′ahNethaniah They came upon him at the great pool whichthat is in Gib′eon Gibeon |
| 41:13 |
And when all the people who were with Ish′maelIshmael saw Joha′nanJohanan the son of Kare′ahKareah and all the leaders of the forces with him they rejoiced |
| 41:14 |
So all the people whom Ish′maelIshmael had carried away captive from Mizpah turned aboutaround and came back and went to Joha′nanJohanan the son of Kare′ah Kareah |
| 41:15 |
But Ish′maelIshmael the son of Nethani′ahNethaniah escaped from Joha′nanJohanan with eight men and went to the Ammonites |
| 41:16 |
Then Joha′nanJohanan the son of Kare′ahKareah and all the leaders of the forces with him took from Mizpah all the rest of the people whom Ish′maelhe thehad sonrecovered offrom Nethani′ahIshmael hadthe carriedson awayof captiveNethaniah from Mizpah after he had slainstruck Gedali′ahdown Gedaliah the son of Ahi′kamAhikam—soldiers women children and eunuchs whom Joha′nanJohanan brought back from Gib′eon Gibeon |
| 41:18 |
because of the Chalde′ans;Chaldeans forFor they were afraid of them because Ish′maelIshmael the son of Nethani′ahNethaniah had slainstruck Gedali′ahdown Gedaliah the son of Ahi′kamAhikam whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land |
| 42:1 |
Then all the commanders of the forces and Joha′nanJohanan the son of Kare′ahKareah and Azari′ahJezaniah the son of Hoshai′ahHoshaiah and all the people from the least to the greatest came near |
| 42:2 |
and said to Jeremiah the prophet Let our supplicationplea for mercy come before you and pray to the Lord your God for us for all this remnant—because for we are left with but a few of many as your eyes see us — |
| 42:4 |
Jeremiah the prophet said to them I have heard you; beholdBehold I will pray to the Lord your God according to your request and whatever the Lord answers you I will tell you; I will keep nothing back from you |
| 42:6 |
Whether it is good or evilbad we will obey the voice of the Lord our God to whom we are sending you that it may be well with us when we obey the voice of the Lord our God |
| 42:8 |
Then he summoned Joha′nanJohanan the son of Kare′ahKareah and all the commanders of the forces who were with him and all the people from the least to the greatest |
| 42:9 |
and said to them Thus says the Lord the God of Israel to whom you sent me to present your supplicationplea for mercy before him: |
| 42:10 |
If you will remain in this land then I will build you up and not pull you down; I will plant you and not pluck you up; for I repentrelent of the evildisaster whichthat I did to you |
| 42:11 |
Do not fear the king of Babylon of whom you are afraid; doDo not fear him saysdeclares the Lord for I am with you to save you and to deliver you from his hand |
| 42:16 |
then the sword whichthat you fear shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine of which you are afraid shall follow hardclose after you to Egypt; and there you shall die |
| 42:17 |
All the men who set their faces to go to Egypt to live there shall die by the sword by famine and by pestilence; theyThey shall have no remnant or survivor from the evildisaster whichthat I will bring upon them |
| 43:2 |
Azari′ahAzariah the son of Hoshai′ahHoshaiah and Joha′nanJohanan the son of Kare′ahKareah and all the insolent men said to Jeremiah You are telling a lie The Lord our God did not send you to say Do not go to Egypt to live there; |
| 43:3 |
but Baruch the son of Neri′ahNeriah has set you against us to deliver us into the hand of the Chalde′ansChaldeans that they may kill us or take us into exile in Babylon |
| 43:4 |
So Joha′nanJohanan the son of Kare′ahKareah and all the commanders of the forces and all the people did not obey the voice of the Lord to remain in the land of Judah |
| 43:5 |
But Joha′nanJohanan the son of Kare′ahKareah and all the commanders of the forces took all the remnant of Judah who had returned to live in the land of Judah from all the nations to which they had been driven— |
| 43:6 |
the men the women the children the princesses and every person whom Nebu′zarad′anNebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedali′ahGedaliah the son of Ahi′kamAhikam son of Shaphan; also Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch the son of Neri′ah Neriah |
| 43:7 |
And they came into the land of Egypt for they did not obey the voice of the Lord And they arrived at Tah′panhesTahpanhes |
| 43:8 |
Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah in Tah′panhesTahpanhes: |
| 43:9 |
Take in your hands large stones and hide them in the mortar in the pavement whichthat is at the entrance to Pharaohs palace in Tah′panhesTahpanhes in the sight of the men of Judah |
| 43:10 |
and say to them Thus says the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will send and take Nebuchadrez′zarNebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon my servant and heI will set his throne above these stones whichthat I have hidhidden and he will spread his royal canopy over them |
| 43:11 |
He shall come and smitestrike the land of Egypt giving over to the pestilence those who are doomed to the pestilence to captivity those who are doomed to captivity and to the sword those who are doomed to the sword |
| 43:12 |
HeI shall kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them and carry them away captive; andAnd he shall clean the land of Egypt as a shepherd cleans his cloak of vermin; and he shall go away from there in peace |
| 43:13 |
He shall break the obelisks of Heliop′olisHeliopolis which is in the land of Egypt; and the temples of the gods of Egypt he shall burn with fire |
| 44:1 |
The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the JewsJudeans thatwho dweltlived in the land of Egypt at Migdol at Tah′panhesTahpanhes at Memphis and in the land of Pathros |
| 44:2 |
Thus says the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: You have seen all the evildisaster that I brought upon Jerusalem and upon all the cities of Judah Behold this day they are a desolation and no one dwells in them |
| 44:3 |
because of the wickednessevil whichthat they committed provoking me to anger in that they went to burnmake incenseofferings and serve other gods that they knew not neither they nor you nor your fathers |
| 44:4 |
Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets saying Oh do not do this abominableabomination thing that I hate |
| 44:5 |
But they did not listen or incline their ear to turn from their wickednessevil and burnmake no incenseofferings to other gods |
| 44:6 |
Therefore my wrath and my anger were poured forthout and kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they became a waste and a desolation as at this day |
| 44:8 |
Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands burningmaking incenseofferings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to live so that you may be cut off and become a curse and a taunt among all the nations of the earth |
| 44:9 |
Have you forgotten the wickednessevil of your fathers the wickednessevil of the kings of Judah the wickednessevil of their wives your own wickednessevil and the wickednessevil of your wives which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem |
| 44:10 |
They have not humbled themselves even to this day nor have they feared nor walked in my law and my statutes whichthat I set before you and before your fathers |
| 44:11 |
Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will set my face against you for evilharm to cut off all Judah |
| 44:12 |
I will take the remnant of Judah who have set their faces to come to the land of Egypt to live and they shall all be consumed; inIn the land of Egypt they shall fall; by the sword and by famine they shall be consumed; fromFrom the least to the greatest they shall die by the sword and by famine; and they shall become an execrationoath a horror a curse and a taunt |
| 44:14 |
so that none of the remnant of Judah who have come to live in the land of Egypt shall escape or survive or return to the land of Judah to which they desire to return to dwell there; forFor they shall not return except some fugitives |
| 44:15 |
Then all the men who knew that their wives had offeredmade incenseofferings to other gods and all the women who stood by a great assembly all the people who dweltlived in Pathros in the land of Egypt answered Jeremiah: |
| 44:16 |
As for the word whichthat you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord we will not listen to you |
| 44:17 |
But we will do everything that we have vowed burnmake incenseofferings to the queen of heaven and pour out libationsdrink offerings to her as we did both we and our fathers our kings and our princesofficials in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; forFor then we had plenty of food and prospered and saw no evil disaster |
| 44:18 |
But since we left off burningmaking incenseofferings to the queen of heaven and pouring out libationsdrink offerings to her we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine |
| 44:19 |
And the women said When we burnedmade incenseofferings to the queen of heaven and poured out libationsdrink offerings to her was it without our husbands approval that we made cakes for her bearing her image and poured out libationsdrink offerings to her |
| 44:21 |
As for the incenseofferings that you burnedoffered in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem you and your fathers your kings and your princesofficials and the people of the land did not the Lord remember itthem Did it not come into his mind |
| 44:22 |
The Lord could no longer bear your evil doingsdeeds and the abominations whichthat you committed; thereforeTherefore your land has become a desolation and a waste and a curse without inhabitant as it is this day |
| 44:23 |
It is because you burnedmade incenseofferings and because you sinned against the Lord and did not obey the voice of the Lord or walk in his law and in his statutes and in his testimonies that this evildisaster has befallenhappened to you as at this day |
| 44:25 |
Thus says the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: You and your wives have declared with your mouths and have fulfilled it with your hands saying We will surely perform our vows that we have made to burnmake incenseofferings to the queen of heaven and to pour out libationsdrink offerings to her Then confirm your vows and perform your vows |
| 44:27 |
Behold I am watching over them for evildisaster and not for good; allAll the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by famine until there is an end of them |
| 44:29 |
This shall be the sign to you saysdeclares the Lord that I will punish you in this place in order that you may know that my words will surely stand against you for evilharm: |
| 44:30 |
Thus says the Lord 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 Zedeki′ahZedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrez′zarNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon who was his enemy and sought his life |
| 45:1 |
The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neri′ahNeriah when he wrote these words in a book at the dictation of Jeremiah in the fourth year of Jehoi′akimJehoiakim the son of Josi′ahJosiah king of Judah: |
| 45:3 |
You said Woe is me forFor the Lord has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning and I find no rest |
| 45:5 |
And do you seek great things for yourself Seek them not; for behold I am bringing evildisaster upon all flesh saysdeclares the Lord; butBut I will give you your life as a prize of war in all places to which you may go |
| 46:1 |
The word of the Lord whichthat came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations |
| 46:2 |
About Egypt Concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt which was by the river Euphra′tesEuphrates at Car′chemishCarchemish and which Nebuchadrez′zarNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoi′akimJehoiakim the son of Josi′ahJosiah king of Judah: |
| 46:4 |
Harness the horses; mount O horsemen Take your stations with your helmets polish your spears put on your coats of mailarmor |
| 46:5 |
Why have I seen it They are dismayed and have turned backward Their warriors are beaten down and have fled in haste; they look not back— terror on every side saysdeclares the Lord |
| 46:6 |
The swift cannot flee away nor the warrior escape; in the north by the river Euphra′tesEuphrates they have stumbled and fallen |
| 46:9 |
Advance O horses and rage O chariots Let the warriors go forthout: men of EthiopiaCush and Put who handle the shield men of Lud skilled in handling the bow |
| 46:10 |
That day is the day of the Lord God of hosts a day of vengeance to avenge himself on his foes The sword shall devour and be sated and drink its fill of their blood For the Lord God of hosts holds a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphra′tesEuphrates |
| 46:11 |
Go up to Gilead and take balm O virgin daughter of Egypt inIn vain you have used many medicines; there is no healing for you |
| 46:13 |
The word whichthat the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadrez′zarNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to smitestrike the land of Egypt: |
| 46:14 |
Declare in Egypt and proclaim in Migdol; proclaim in Memphis and Tah′panhesTahpanhes; Saysay Stand ready and be prepared for the sword shall devour roundaround about you |
| 46:15 |
Why hasare Apisyour fledmighty Whyones didface notdown yourThey bulldo not stand Becausebecause the Lord thrust himthem down |
| 46:16 |
YourHe multitudemade stumbledmany stumble and they fell and they said one to another Arise and let us go back to our own people and to the land of our birth because of the sword of the oppressor |
| 46:18 |
As I live saysdeclares the King whose name is the Lord of hosts like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea shall one come |
| 46:20 |
A beautiful heifer is Egypt but a gadflybiting fly from the north has come upon her |
| 46:21 |
Even her hired soldiers in her midst are like fattedfattened calves; yeayes they have turned and fled together; they did not stand; for the day of their calamity has come upon them the time of their punishment |
| 46:23 |
They shall cut down her forest saysdeclares the Lord though it is impenetrable because they are more numerous than locusts; they are without number |
| 46:24 |
The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame; she shall be delivered into the hand of a people from the north |
| 46:26 |
I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their life into the hand of Nebuchadrez′zarNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his officers Afterward Egypt shall be inhabited as in the days of old saysdeclares the Lord |
| 46:27 |
But fear not O Jacob my servant nor be dismayed O Israel; for lobehold I will save you from afarfar away and your offspring from the land of their captivity Jacob shall return and have quiet and ease and none shall make him afraid |
| 46:28 |
Fear not O Jacob my servant saysdeclares the Lord for I am with you I will make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven you but of you I will not make a full end I will chastendiscipline you in just measure and I will by no means leave you unpunished |
| 47:1 |
The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines before Pharaoh smotestruck down Gaza |
| 47:5 |
Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ash′kelonAshkelon has perished O remnant of thetheir Anakimvalley how long will you gash yourselves |
| 47:6 |
Ah sword of the Lord How long till you are quiet Put yourself into your scabbard; rest and be still |
| 47:7 |
How can it be quiet when the Lord has given it a charge Against Ash′kelonAshkelon and against the seashore he has appointed it |
| 48:1 |
Concerning Moab Thus says the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Woe to Nebo for it is laid waste Kiriatha′imKiriathaim is put to shame it is taken; the fortress is put to shame and broken down; |
| 48:2 |
the renown of Moab is no more In Heshbon they planned evildisaster against her: Come let us cut her off from being a nation You also O Madmen shall be brought to silence; the sword shall pursue you |
| 48:3 |
HarkA avoice A cry from Horona′imHoronaim Desolation and great destruction |
| 48:4 |
Moab is destroyed; aher crylittle isones heardhave asmade fara as Zo′arcry |
| 48:5 |
For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping; for at the descent of Horona′imHoronaim they have heard the distressed cry of destruction |
| 48:6 |
Flee Save yourselves BeYou will be like a wildjuniper ass in the desert |
| 48:7 |
For because you trusted in your strongholdsworks and your treasures you also shall be taken; and Chemosh shall go forth into exile with his priests and his princesofficials |
| 48:10 |
Cursed is he who does the work of the Lord with slackness; and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from bloodshed |
| 48:11 |
Moab has been at ease from his youth and has settled on his leesdregs; he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel nor has he gone into exile; so his taste remains in him and his scent is not changed |
| 48:12 |
Therefore behold the days are coming saysdeclares the Lord when I shall send to him tilterspourers who will tiltpour him and empty his vessels and break his jars in pieces |
| 48:15 |
The destroyer of Moab and his cities has come up and the choicest of his young men have gone down to slaughter saysdeclares the King whose name is the Lord of hosts |
| 48:16 |
The calamity of Moab is near at hand and his affliction hastens apaceswiftly |
| 48:17 |
BemoanGrieve for him all you who are roundaround about him and all who know his name; say How the mighty scepter is broken the glorious staff |
| 48:19 |
Stand by the way and watch O inhabitant of Aro′erAroer Ask him who flees and her who escapes; say What has happened |
| 48:20 |
Moab is put to shame for it is broken; wail and cry Tell it bybeside the Arnon that Moab is laid waste |
| 48:21 |
Judgment has come upon the tableland upon Holon and Jahzah and Meph′a ath Mephaath |
| 48:22 |
and Dibon and Nebo and Beth diblatha′im diblathaim |
| 48:23 |
and Kiriatha′imKiriathaim and Beth ga′mulgamul and Beth me′on meon |
| 48:24 |
and Ker′iKerioth oth and Bozrah and all the cities of the land of Moab far and near |
| 48:25 |
The horn of Moab is cut off and his arm is broken saysdeclares the Lord |
| 48:26 |
Make him drunk because he magnified himself against the Lord; so that Moab shall wallow in his vomit and he too shall be held in derision |
| 48:30 |
I know his insolence saysdeclares the Lord; his boasts are false his deeds are false |
| 48:31 |
Therefore I wail for Moab; I cry out for all Moab; for the men of Kir he′reshareseth I mourn |
| 48:32 |
More than for Jazer I weep for you O vine of Sibmah Your branches passed over the sea reached asto farthe asSea of Jazer; uponon your summer fruits and your vintagegrapes the destroyer has fallen |
| 48:33 |
Gladness and joy have been taken away from the fruitful land of Moab; I have made the wine cease from the wine presseswinepresses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; the shouting is not the shout of joy |
| 48:34 |
HeshbonFrom andthe Eleoutcry a′lehat cryHeshbon out;even to Elealeh as far as Jahaz they utter their voice from Zo′arZoar to Horona′imHoronaim and Eg′lathEglath shelish′iyahshelishiyah For the waters of Nimrim also have become desolate |
| 48:35 |
And I will bring to an end in Moab saysdeclares the Lord him who offers sacrifice in the high place and burnsmakes incenseofferings to his god |
| 48:36 |
Therefore my heart moans for Moab like a flute and my heart moans like a flute for the men of Kir he′res;hareseth thereforeTherefore the riches they gained have perished |
| 48:37 |
For every head is shaved and every beard cut off; uponOn all the hands are gashes and onaround the loinswaist is sackcloth |
| 48:38 |
On all the housetops of Moab and in the squares there is nothing but lamentation; for I have broken Moab like a vessel for which no one cares saysdeclares the Lord |
| 48:39 |
How it is broken How they wail How Moab has turned his back in shame So Moab has become a derision and a horror to all that are roundaround about him |
| 48:41 |
the cities shall be taken and the strongholds seized The heart of the warriors of Moab shall be in that day like the heart of a woman in her pangsbirth pains; |
| 48:43 |
Terror pit and snare are before you O inhabitant of Moab saysdeclares the Lord |
| 48:44 |
He who flees from the terror shall fall into the pit and he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare For I will bring these things upon Moab in the year of their punishment saysdeclares the Lord |
| 48:45 |
In the shadow of Heshbon fugitives stop without strength; for a fire hascame goneout forth from Heshbon a flame from the house of Sihon; it has destroyed the forehead of Moab the crown of the sons of tumult |
| 48:46 |
Woe to you O Moab The people of Chemosh isare undone; for your sons have been taken captive and your daughters into captivity |
| 48:47 |
Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the latter days saysdeclares the Lord Thus far is the judgment on Moab |
| 49:2 |
Therefore behold the days are coming saysdeclares the Lord when I will cause the battle cry to be heard against Rabbah of the Ammonites; it shall become a desolate mound and its villages shall be burned with fire; then Israel shall dispossess those who dispossessed him says the Lord |
| 49:3 |
Wail O Heshbon for Ai is laid waste Cry out O daughters of Rabbah GirdPut yourselveson with sackcloth lament and run to and fro among the hedges For Milcom shall go into exile with his priests and his princesofficials |
| 49:5 |
Behold I will bring terror upon you saysdeclares the Lord God of hosts from all who are roundaround about you and you shall be driven out every man straight before him with none to gather the fugitives |
| 49:6 |
But afterward I will restore the fortunes of the Ammonites saysdeclares the Lord |
| 49:10 |
But I have stripped Esau bare; I have uncovered his hiding places and he is not able to conceal himself His children are destroyed and his brothers and his neighbors; and he is no more |
| 49:11 |
Leave your fatherless children; I will keep them alive; and let your widows trust in me |
| 49:13 |
For I have sworn by myself saysdeclares the Lord that Bozrah shall become a horror a taunt a waste and a curse; and all her cities shall be perpetual wastes |
| 49:14 |
I have heard tidingsa message from the Lord and aan messengerenvoy has been sent among the nations: Gather yourselves together and come against her and rise up for battle |
| 49:15 |
For behold I will make you small among the nations despised among menmankind |
| 49:16 |
The horror you inspire has deceived you and the pride of your heart you who live in the clefts of the rock who hold the height of the hill Though you make your nest as high as the eagles I will bring you down from there saysdeclares the Lord |
| 49:17 |
Edom shall become a horror; everyEveryone one who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters |
| 49:18 |
As when Sodom and Gomor′rahGomorrah and their neighborneighboring cities were overthrown says the Lord no man shall dwell there no man shall sojourn in her |
| 49:19 |
Behold like a lion coming up from the jungle of the Jordan against a strongperennial sheepfoldpasture I will suddenly make themhim run away from her; andAnd I will appoint over her whomever I choose For who is like me Who will summon me What shepherd can stand before me |
| 49:20 |
Therefore hear the plan whichthat the Lord has made against Edom and the purposes whichthat he has formed against the inhabitants of Teman: Even the little ones of the flock shall be dragged away; surelySurely their fold shall be appalled at their fate |
| 49:22 |
Behold one shall mount up and fly swiftly like an eagle and spread his wings against Bozrah and the heart of the warriors of Edom shall be in that day like the heart of a woman in her pangsbirth pains |
| 49:23 |
Concerning Damascus: Hamath and Arpad are confounded for they have heard evilbad tidingsnews; they melt in fear they are troubled like the sea whichthat cannot be quiet |
| 49:24 |
Damascus has become feeble she turned to flee and panic seized her; anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her as of a woman in travaillabor |
| 49:25 |
How is the famous city isnot forsaken the joyfulcity cityof my joy |
| 49:26 |
Therefore her young men shall fall in her squares and all her soldiers shall be destroyed in that day saysdeclares the Lord of hosts |
| 49:27 |
And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben ha′dadhadad |
| 49:28 |
Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor whichthat Nebuchadrez′zarNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon smotestruck down Thus says the Lord: Rise up advance against Kedar Destroy the people of the east |
| 49:29 |
Their tents and their flocks shall be taken their curtains and all their goods; their camels shall be borneled away from them and men shall cry to them: Terror on every side |
| 49:30 |
Flee wander far away dwell in the depths O inhabitants of Hazor saysdeclares the Lord For Nebuchadrez′zarNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has made a plan against you and formed a purpose against you |
| 49:31 |
Rise up advance against a nation at ease that dwells securely saysdeclares the Lord that has no gates or bars that dwells alone |
| 49:32 |
Their camels shall become bootyplunder their herds of cattlelivestock a spoil I will scatter to every wind those who cut the corners of their hair and I will bring their calamity from every side of them saysdeclares the Lord |
| 49:33 |
Hazor shall become a haunt of jackals an everlasting waste; no man shall dwell there; no man shall sojourn in her |
| 49:34 |
The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedeki′ahZedekiah king of Judah |
| 49:35 |
Thus says the Lord of hosts: Behold I will break the bow of Elam the mainstay of their might; |
| 49:36 |
andAnd I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four quarters of heaven; andAnd I will scatter them to all those winds and there shall be no nation to which those driven out of Elam shall not come |
| 49:37 |
I will terrify Elam before their enemies and before those who seek their life; I will bring evildisaster upon them my fierce anger saysdeclares the Lord I will send the sword after them until I have consumed them; |
| 49:38 |
and I will set my throne in Elam and destroy their king and princesofficials saysdeclares the Lord |
| 49:39 |
But in the latter days I will restore the fortunes of Elam saysdeclares the Lord |
| 50:1 |
The word whichthat the Lord spoke concerning Babylon concerning the land of the Chalde′ansChaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet: |
| 50:2 |
Declare among the nations and proclaim set up a banner and proclaim conceal it not and say: Babylon is taken Bel is put to shame Mer′odachMerodach is dismayed Her images are put to shame her idols are dismayed |
| 50:4 |
In those days and in that time saysdeclares the Lord the people of Israel and the people of Judah shall come together weeping as they come; and they shall seek the Lord their God |
| 50:5 |
They shall ask the way to Zion with faces turned toward it saying Come let us join ourselves to the Lord in an everlasting covenant whichthat will never be forgotten |
| 50:6 |
My people have been lost sheep; theirTheir shepherds have led them astray turning them away on the mountains; fromFrom mountain to hill they have gone theyThey have forgotten their fold |
| 50:7 |
All who found them have devoured them and their enemies have said We are not guilty for they have sinned against the Lord their true habitation of righteousness the Lord the hope of their fathers |
| 50:8 |
Flee from the midst of Babylon and go out of the land of the Chalde′ansChaldeans and be as hemale goats before the flock |
| 50:9 |
For behold I am stirring up and bringing against Babylon a companygathering of great nations from the north country; andAnd they shall array themselves against her; fromFrom there she shall be taken Their arrows are like a skilled warrior who does not return empty handed |
| 50:10 |
Chalde′aChaldea shall be plundered; all who plunder her shall be sated saysdeclares the Lord |
| 50:11 |
Though you rejoice though you exult O plunderers of my heritage though you arefrolic wantonlike as a heifer atin grassthe pasture and neigh like stallions |
| 50:12 |
your mother shall be utterly shamed and she who bore you shall be disgraced LoBehold she shall be the last of the nations a wilderness a dry land and a desert |
| 50:13 |
Because of the wrath of the Lord she shall not be inhabited but shall be an utter desolation; everyeveryone one who passes by Babylon shall be appalled and hiss because of all her wounds |
| 50:14 |
Set yourselves in array against Babylon roundall aboutaround all you thatwho bend the bow; shoot at her spare no arrows for she has sinned against the Lord |
| 50:15 |
Raise a shout against her roundall aboutaround; she has surrendered; her bulwarks have fallen; her walls are thrown down For this is the vengeance of the Lord: take vengeance on her; do to her as she has done |
| 50:17 |
Israel is a hunted sheep driven away by lions First the king of Assyria devoured him and now at last Nebuchadrez′zarNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has gnawed his bones |
| 50:19 |
I will restore Israel to his pasture and he shall feed on Carmel and in Bashan and his desire shall be satisfied on the hills of E′phraimEphraim and in Gilead |
| 50:20 |
In those days and in that time saysdeclares the Lord iniquity shall be sought in Israel and there shall be none; and sin in Judah and none shall be found; for I will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant |
| 50:21 |
Go up against the land of Meratha′imMerathaim and against the inhabitants of Pekod SlayKill and utterlydevote destroythem afterto themdestruction saysdeclares the Lord and do all that I have commanded you |
| 50:24 |
I set a snare for you and you were taken O Babylon and you did not know it; you were found and caught because you stroveopposed against the Lord |
| 50:25 |
The Lord has opened his armory and brought out the weapons of his wrath for the Lord God of hosts has a work to do in the land of the Chalde′ansChaldeans |
| 50:26 |
Come against her from every quarter; open her granaries; pile her up like heaps of grain and destroydevote her utterlyto destruction; let nothing be left of her |
| 50:27 |
SlayKill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter Woe to them for their day has come the time of their punishment |
| 50:28 |
HarkA theyvoice They flee and escape from the land of Babylon to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God vengeance for his temple |
| 50:29 |
Summon archers against Babylon all those who bend the bow Encamp roundaround about her; let no one escape RequiteRepay her according to her deeds; do to her according to all that she has done; forFor she has proudly defied the Lord the Holy One of Israel |
| 50:30 |
Therefore her young men shall fall in her squares and all her soldiers shall be destroyed on that day saysdeclares the Lord |
| 50:31 |
Behold I am against you O proud one saysdeclares the Lord God of hosts; for your day has come the time when I will punish you |
| 50:32 |
The proud one shall stumble and fall with none to raise him up and I will kindle a fire in his cities and it will devour all that is roundaround about him |
| 50:33 |
Thus says the Lord of hosts: The people of Israel are oppressed and the people of Judah with them; allAll who took them captive have held them fast; they refuse to let them go |
| 50:35 |
A sword uponagainst the Chalde′ansChaldeans saysdeclares the Lord and uponagainst the inhabitants of Babylon and uponagainst her princesofficials and her wise men |
| 50:36 |
A sword uponagainst the diviners that they may become fools A sword uponagainst her warriors that they may be destroyed |
| 50:37 |
A sword uponagainst her horses and uponagainst her chariots and uponagainst all the foreign troops in her midst that they may become women A sword uponagainst all her treasures that they may be plundered |
| 50:38 |
A drought uponagainst her waters that they may be dried up For it is a land of images and they are mad over idols |
| 50:39 |
Therefore wild beasts shall dwell with hyenas in Babylon and ostriches shall dwell in her; sheShe shall benever peopledagain nohave morepeople fornor everbe nor inhabited for all generations |
| 50:40 |
As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomor′rahGomorrah and their neighborneighboring cities saysdeclares the Lord so no man shall dwell there and no son of man shall sojourn in her |
| 50:42 |
They lay hold of bow and spear; they are cruel and have no mercy The sound of them is like the roaring of the sea; they ride uponon horses arrayed as a man for battle against you O daughter of Babylon |
| 50:43 |
The king of Babylon heard the report of them and his hands fell helpless; anguish seized him pain as of a woman in travaillabor |
| 50:44 |
Behold like a lion coming up from the junglethicket of the Jordan against a strongperennial sheepfoldpasture I will suddenly make them run away from her; and I will appoint over her whomever I choose For who is like me Who will summon me What shepherd can stand before me |
| 50:45 |
Therefore hear the plan whichthat the Lord has made against Babylon and the purposes whichthat he has formed against the land of the Chalde′ansChaldeans: Surely the little ones of their flock shall be dragged away; surely their fold shall be appalled at their fate |
| 51:1 |
Thus says the Lord: Behold I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon against the inhabitants of Chalde′a;Leb kamai |
| 51:3 |
Let not the archer bend his bow and let him not stand up in his coatarmor of mail Spare not her young men; utterlydevote destroyto destruction all her hostarmy |
| 51:4 |
They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chalde′ansChaldeans and wounded in her streets |
| 51:5 |
For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken by their God the Lord of hosts; but the land of the Chalde′ansChaldeans is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel |
| 51:6 |
Flee from the midst of Babylon; let every manone save his life Be not cut off in her punishment for this is the time of the Lords vengeance the requitalrepayment he is rendering her |
| 51:7 |
Babylon was a golden cup in the Lords hand making all the earth drunken; the nations drank of her wine; therefore the nations went mad |
| 51:9 |
We would have healed Babylon but she was not healed Forsake her and let us go each to his own country; for her judgment has reached up to heaven and has been lifted up even to the skies |
| 51:10 |
The Lord has brought forthabout our vindication; come let us declare in Zion the work of the Lord our God |
| 51:13 |
O you who dwell by many waters rich in treasures your end has come; the thread of your life is cut |
| 51:16 |
When he utters his voice there is a tumult of waters in the heavens and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth He makes lightningslightning for the rain and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses |
| 51:17 |
Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols; for his images are false and there is no breath in them |
| 51:22 |
with you I break in pieces man and woman; with you I break in pieces the old man and the youth; with you I break in pieces the young man and the maidenyoung woman; |
| 51:24 |
I will requiterepay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chalde′aChaldea before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion saysdeclares the Lord |
| 51:25 |
Behold I am against you O destroying mountain saysdeclares the Lord which destroys the whole earth; I will stretch out my hand against you and roll you down from the crags and make you a burnt mountain |
| 51:26 |
No stone shall be taken from you for a corner and no stone for a foundation but you shall be a perpetual waste saysdeclares the Lord |
| 51:27 |
Set up a standard on the earth; blow the trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations for war against her; summon against her the kingdoms Ar′aratArarat Minni and Ash′kenazAshkenaz; appoint a marshal against her; bring up horses like bristling locusts |
| 51:30 |
The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting; they remain in their strongholds; their strength has failed; they have become women; her dwellings are on fire; her bars are broken |
| 51:32 |
the fords have been seized the bulwarksmarshes are burned with fire and the soldiers are in panic |
| 51:34 |
Nebuchadrez′zarNebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he has filled his bellystomach with my delicacies; he has rinsed me out |
| 51:35 |
The violence done to me and to my kinsmen be upon Babylon let the inhabitant of Zion say My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chalde′aChaldea let Jerusalem say |
| 51:36 |
Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you I will dry up her sea and make her fountain dry; |
| 51:38 |
They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl like lions whelpscubs |
| 51:39 |
While they are inflamed I will prepare them a feast and make them drunk tillthat they swoonmay awaybecome andmerry then sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake saysdeclares the Lord |
| 51:40 |
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter like rams and hemale goats |
| 51:45 |
Go out of the midst of her my people Let every manone save his life from the fierce anger of the Lord |
| 51:48 |
Then the heavens and the earth and all that is in them shall sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers shall come against them out of the north saysdeclares the Lord |
| 51:49 |
Babylon must fall for the slain of Israel just as for Babylon have fallen the slain of all the earth |
| 51:50 |
You thatwho have escaped from the sword go standdo not stand still Remember the Lord from afarfar away and let Jerusalem come into your mind: |
| 51:51 |
We are put to shame for we have heard reproach; dishonor has covered our face for aliensforeigners have come into the holy places of the Lords house |
| 51:52 |
Therefore behold the days are coming saysdeclares the Lord when I will execute judgment upon her images and through all her land the wounded shall groan |
| 51:53 |
Though Babylon should mount up to heaven and though she should fortify her strong height yet destroyers would come from me uponagainst her saysdeclares the Lord |
| 51:54 |
HarkA avoice A cry from Babylon The noise of great destruction from the land of the Chalde′ansChaldeans |
| 51:55 |
For the Lord is laying Babylon waste and stilling her mighty voice Their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is raised; |
| 51:56 |
for a destroyer has come upon her upon Babylon; her warriors are taken; their bows are broken in pieces; for the Lord is a God of recompense; he will surely requiterepay |
| 51:57 |
I will make drunk her princesofficials and her wise men her governors her commanders and her warriors; they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake saysdeclares the King whose name is the Lord of hosts |
| 51:58 |
Thus says the Lord of hosts: The broad wall of Babylon shall be leveled to the ground and her high gates shall be burned with fire The peoples labor for noughtnothing and the nations weary themselves only for fire |
| 51:59 |
The word whichthat Jeremiah the prophet commanded Serai′ahSeraiah the son of Neri′ahNeriah son of Mahsei′ahMahseiah when he went with Zedeki′ahZedekiah king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign Serai′ahSeraiah was the quartermaster |
| 51:60 |
Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evildisaster that should come upon Babylon all these words that are written concerning Babylon |
| 51:61 |
And Jeremiah said to Serai′ahSeraiah: When you come to Babylon see that you read all these words |
| 51:62 |
and say O Lord thouyou hasthave said concerning this place that thouyou wiltwill cut it off so that nothing shall dwell in it neither man nor beast and it shall be desolate for ever forever |
| 51:63 |
When you finish reading this book bindtie a stone to it and cast it into the midst of the Euphra′tes Euphrates |
| 51:64 |
and say Thus shall Babylon sink to rise no more because of the evildisaster that I am bringing upon her and they shall become exhausted Thus far are the words of Jeremiah |
| 52:1 |
Zedeki′ahZedekiah was twenty one years old when he became king; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem His mothers name was Hamu′talHamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah |
| 52:2 |
And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord according to all that Jehoi′akimJehoiakim had done |
| 52:3 |
SurelyFor because of the anger of the Lord thingsit came to suchthe apoint pass in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence And Zedeki′ahZedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon |
| 52:4 |
And in the ninth year of his reign in the tenth month on the tenth day of the month Nebuchadrez′zarNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem and they laid siege to it andAnd they built siegeworks againstall around it round about |
| 52:5 |
So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedeki′ah Zedekiah |
| 52:7 |
Then a breach was made in the city; and all the men of war fled and went out from the city by night by the way of a gate between the two walls by the kings garden whileand the Chalde′ansChaldeans were roundaround about the city And they went in the direction of the Arabah |
| 52:8 |
But the army of the Chalde′ansChaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedeki′ahZedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him |
| 52:9 |
Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath and he passed sentence uponon him |
| 52:10 |
The king of Babylon slewslaughtered the sons of Zedeki′ahZedekiah before his eyes and also slewslaughtered all the princesofficials of Judah at Riblah |
| 52:11 |
He put out the eyes of Zedeki′ahZedekiah and bound him in fetterschains and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon and put him in prison till the day of his death |
| 52:12 |
In the fifth month on the tenth day of the month—whichthat was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadrez′zarNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon—Nebu′zarad′anNebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard who served the king of Babylon entered Jerusalem |
| 52:14 |
And all the army of the Chalde′ansChaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down all the walls roundaround about Jerusalem |
| 52:15 |
And Nebu′zarad′anNebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive some of the poorest of the people and the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon together with the rest of the artisans |
| 52:16 |
But Nebu′zarad′anNebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen |
| 52:17 |
And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the Lord and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the Lord the Chalde′ansChaldeans broke in pieces and carried all the bronze to Babylon |
| 52:19 |
also the small bowls and the firepansfire pans and the basins and the pots and the lampstands and the dishes for incense and the bowls for libationdrink offerings What was of gold the captain of the guard took away as gold and what was of silver as silver |
| 52:20 |
As for the two pillars the one sea the twelve bronze bulls whichthat were under the sea and the stands which Solomon the king had made for the house of the Lord the bronze of all these things was beyond weight |
| 52:22 |
UponOn it was a capital of bronze; theThe height of the one capital was five cubits; aA network and pomegranates all of bronze were uponaround the capital round about And the second pillar had the likesame with pomegranates |
| 52:23 |
There were ninety six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were a hundred upon the network roundall aboutaround |
| 52:24 |
And the captain of the guard took Serai′ahSeraiah the chief priest and Zephani′ahZephaniah the second priest and the three keepers of the threshold; |
| 52:26 |
And Nebu′zarad′anNebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah |
| 52:27 |
And the king of Babylon smotestruck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath So Judah was carriedtaken captiveinto exile out of its land |
| 52:28 |
This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadrez′zarNebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three3023 thousand and twenty three JewsJudeans; |
| 52:29 |
in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrez′zarNebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight832 hundred and thirty two persons; |
| 52:30 |
in the twenty third year of Nebuchadrez′zarNebuchadnezzar Nebu′zarad′anNebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the JewsJudeans seven745 hundred and forty five persons; all the persons were four thousand and six hundred4600 |
| 52:31 |
And in the thirty seventh year of the captivityexile of Jehoi′achinJehoiachin king of Judah in the twelfth month on the twenty fifth day of the month Evil mer′odachmerodach king of Babylon in the year that he becamebegan kingto liftedreign upgraciously thefreed headJehoiachin of Jehoi′achin king of Judah and brought him out of prison; |
| 52:32 |
andAnd he spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat above the seats of the kings who were with him in Babylon |
| 52:33 |
So Jehoi′achinJehoiachin put off his prison garments And every day of his life he dined regularly at the kings table; |
| 52:34 |
asand for his allowance a regular allowance was given him by the king according to his daily needneeds until the day of his death as long as he lived |